After Xu Jiaorong finished speaking, the others began to voice their positions one after another.0

Their stances were remarkably aligned. After all, the two great secret societies had gone too far this time. Their audacity had caused such a stir that no one dared oppose the proposal openly. A full-scale investigation was inevitable, and thus, everyone naturally agreed with Xu Jiaorong’s call for decisive action.0

Although everyone present held a high-ranking position within the Daoist Mansion, all of them had climbed up from the bottom. They understood the danger of the secret societies as well as Qi Xuansu’s message about both internal and external causes. The two were inseparable, and to address only one was insufficient.0

But for these officials, probing the external causes was acceptable; the internal ones, not so.0

Thus, their consensus was to suppress the secret societies. The question was how.0

At last, Chen Shuhua, who had remained silent until now, spoke. “Since everyone agrees that suppressing secret societies is necessary, there’s no need to debate that further. What we should...0