A heavily guarded Great Li ferry voyaged across the continent, escorted by several military ferries.
At the bow stood a sword-carrying woman and a tall old man. The sea stretched wide, its blue-green waves reaching ten thousand miles like a sheet of green crystal.
Zhu Su, a female Sword Immortal, had endured setback after setback. After several rounds of seclusion, she had finally reached the Immortal Realm.
The old man went by Su Kan. He usually served as a carriage driver for the Great Li imperial family, had an ordinary relationship with the new National Teacher, and had even taken a sword strike from Ning Yao.
When King Huai Song Changjing brought a boy and a girl back to the capital, Su Kan had been assigned to watch Wang Zhu in secret.
He had once been the chief deity of the Zhan Kan Department under the Jade Pivot Institute of the ancient Heavenly Court, only one rank below the Twelve High Positions.
The Zhan Kan Department also oversaw executions. Countless members of the Flood Dragon Kind had once seen him as they would a heavenly tribulation.
If Wang Zhu proved impossible to raise up and was judged useless, Su Kan would personally "carry out the sentence." As for who would reap the benefits, that would naturally be Cui Dongshan in his youthful guise. The resulting karma and Heaven's Disdain would fall on Su Kan, an "old god," while Cui Dongshan could swagger away untouched.
And Su Kan, a Thunder Department deity, had been perfectly willing. If he could behead another True Dragon after ten thousand years, why wouldn't he?
The Embroidered Tiger had even picked the execution site for Su Kan: the height beside the sea in Old Dragon City.
When the time came, Su Kan would descend in his