Apart from the elite experts of the Tang Imperial Court, several prestigious families, who had recently begun to repair relations with the imperial family, had also made their intentions known.
Previously, following an imperial decree, the Clan Chief of the Jingxiang Fang Clan, Fang Jingsheng, had led his forces to aid Bashu. This time, he personally set out northward to the Old Capital Chang'an to pay respects to the emperor.
As for the Cangzhou Ye Clan, although Ye Moquan claimed he was old and frail, with lingering injuries from the battle in Jinzhou preventing him from traveling westward in person, the current clan chief, Ye Wei, together with several clan elders, went to Chang'an as a gesture of allegiance.
Meanwhile, from the Qingzhou Ye Clan, their renowned military representative, Ye Jiong—a Great Scholar of the Divine Archer Realm at the summit of the Eighth Heavenly Layer—led his loyal elite northwestern bound.
