Heavenly Palace Small City, White Tiger Captain garrison.
The Council Hall was brightly lit. Lin Yi sat upright in the main seat, a Spirit Scroll spread across his palm as he rapidly reviewed the intelligence Lei Kun had delivered.
The Spirit Scroll recorded the manpower distribution, core combat strength, resource strongholds, and, most importantly, backers of several hundred major factions in Heavenly Palace Small City.
After returning from the Glazed Empress, Lin Yi had no intention of wasting time.
He would directly pick three factions that had most heavily targeted the White Tiger Captain and move against them. He would avenge their past oppression while also using this battle to establish the authority of the Law Enforcement Meta-Supervisor.
But he needed to proceed steadily. Before truly making a move, he had to understand these factions inside and out, especially their backgrounds, lest he kick an iron plate and suffer a setback in the gutter.
His gaze swept through the information in the Spirit Scroll, and Lin Yi's brows gradually furrowed.
He had not known until he looked. The waters of Heavenly Palace Small City ran far deeper than he had anticipated.
On the surface, at least twenty-odd factions appeared to fight independently, yet all of them were actually connected to peak Emperor Realm figures.
Some had been founded by direct disciples of Great Emperors, while others were secretly supported by peak Emperor Realm cultivators.
To put it plainly, these factions were the vanguard troops of those peak Emperor Realm bigshots exploring the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm. They gathered intelligence and resources, seized strongholds, and scouted paths and built bridges for those behind them.
He could not afford to provoke such factions at this stage.
The deterrence of peak Emperor Realm cultivators was far beyond what he, a newly appointed Law