Unlike the three major intelligence organizations—sinister, vicious groups that lived by the blade—the three great commerce associations of Yuzhou had always focused solely on business and acquiring resources, rarely involving themselves in the feuds and disputes between the major powers.
Thus, after learning that the three intelligence organizations had been annihilated overnight, the leadership of the three commerce associations adopted a very pragmatic attitude: since the future unification of Yuzhou was inevitable, they should just go with the flow.
They also happened to notice the Ling Family's unusual nature and understood that this was bound to be the superpower that would dominate the realm's future. And so, after the higher-ups of the three associations conferred, today's secret meeting came to be.
