Yang Ge did not care what the martial world said about him.
Yang Tiansheng cared very much!
He had taken part in the events at Road Pavilion and Yangzhou. No one knew better than him what had actually happened.
Now, right before his eyes, the story had been twisted beyond even its own mother's recognition. How could Young Master Yang possibly stomach that?
You slander me when I do bad things, and you still slander me when I do good things. Do you really think I'm made of clay?
Going all out, Yang Tiansheng mobilized the Bright Cult's forces throughout Jiangzhe to publicize every last detail of the Yangzhou corruption case. He made his position perfectly clear: anyone who came to stir up trouble in Yangzhou now was a running dog of those filthy officials!
Thanks to the Bright Cult...
The Jiangzhe martial world, already buzzing over Chain Wharf's protector, Dong Ping the "Eight-Armed Arhat," breaking away to establish his own faction, was set ablaze by this ferocious flurry of moves!
Almost every martial artist with any knowledge of the martial world was privately wondering... how had the Bright Cult climbed into bed with the imperial court?
Could the Bright Cult finally be abandoning the grand enterprise of rebellion to take up the new task of building a beautiful society in Great Wei?
That would certainly be news you might not hear once in a hundred years!
Thanks to him, Yang Ge's stubbornly defiant declaration spread throughout the martial world alongside his new alias, "Yang Erlang."
Many people now knew that an Embroidered Uniform Guard Thousand-Household Commander named Yang Erlang had brought down the Long Wind Gang and more than half the corrupt officials in Yangzhou Prefecture in one fell swoop.
For a time, countless spectators heading to Hangzhou for