The two major espionage organizations of the imperial court and the largest intelligence organization of the martial arts community, like bulls stabbed in the rear, let out a bellow and charged, mobilizing full force to search the entire world!
Troves of people from the three major organizations wielding magnifying glasses, inch by inch, searched along the 800-li canal route from Jiangzhe to Luting County. Every martial artist, mule and horse caravan, and groups of more than twenty individuals passing by the canal at that time were subject to the scrutiny of the three organizations.
Many innocent martial artists were questioned by the people from Xiu Yi Wei in the morning, only to have the men from the Western Factory turn up at noon. With much persuasion, they managed to send away the Western Factory officers, but then the people from the Western Factory showed up again at night...
