The Dragon Virtue Hall was vast and level, its floor paved with a layer of black jade. Under the candlelight at its sides, its faint mysterious black sheen looked unfathomably mysterious.
Nine towering mysterious black pillars stood majestically, supporting the enormous palace.
At the very center stood a proud golden-jade staircase, nine meters high and long.
Atop the golden-jade staircase sat a five-meter-long mysterious black couch.
The couch was covered in thick fur rugs, and before it hung a thin veil of black gauze, drifting softly like a dream or illusion!
Through that thin black gauze, one could only vaguely make out the scene within.
A woman clad in a black-and-mysterious flowing imperial robe sat upon the couch.
Her black-and-mysterious imperial robe was embroidered with stars, sun and moon, mountains and rivers, plants and trees. At its center, nine mysterious black divine birds soared and danced.
She wore a black-and-mysterious imperial crown, while her meticulously arranged green silk hair cascaded down her back like a waterfall.
This woman was Xia Mingyue, Emperor of the Great Xia Dynasty!
On Xia Mingyue's exquisite, fair face, her beautiful eyes were deep and clear as pools of water, seemingly capable of seeing through all things beneath heaven.
Her skin was like jade, and her flawless white legs appeared and disappeared beneath her black-and-mysterious imperial robe.
Xia Mingyue held a memorial in both hands and examined it carefully.
The contents of the memorial were, astonishingly, everything concerning Lu Xuan's life.
From the Lu Family Pharmacy in Azure Cloud County to all that had occurred along his journey to White Path Prefecture, everything was recorded within.
"Lu Xuan, the man the Li Family has taken notice of?"
"Martial talent without equal in all ages?"
"Suspected to be an Outer Strength Grandmaster!"
"At only twenty years old,