Tearing Off All Pretenses, the Emperor Ying Takes Action

With the dust settled, Qin Yang sat in the pavilion, taking desultory gulps of tea. When he had faced off against the Illusory Sea Great Elder, he had not even dared to sweat, afraid the other man would see through him. In truth, he had been quite nervous, nowhere near as calm as he appeared.

Things would not unfold according to his plans, just as neither the Yin Emperor nor the Emperor Ying could make everything develop entirely according to their own plans.

He had stayed at the Heavenly Order Guard in the beginning merely as insurance. Within Li Capital, the Heavenly Order Guard was the safest place for him. Yet he still had not expected the Illusory Sea Great Elder to dare infiltrate the Heavenly Order Guard's offices directly.

And he had actually managed to get in.

The door knockers above the gates of official residences, beast heads holding rings in their mouths—ordinary people only knew them as an ancient tradition. Setting aside their heritage and culture, door knockers were, at most, decorations.

As for the legends concerning door knockers in ancient times, there was no need to mention them for now. But ever since Great Ying rose to power, the door knockers on the gates of every important residence in Li Capital had all been transformed from Illusory Sea's Illusory Beasts.

This had been the bottom line that allowed the Illusory Sea Clan to remain when the Emperor Ying had dominated the world.

These Illusory Beasts had also been incorporated into the Divine Dynasty's system. Some Divine Dynasty artifacts had even been modeled after them. Ordinary people did not know of these Illusory Beasts, and after the Illusory Sea Clan had shut itself away year-round, its name nearly becoming legend, even the people in those offices might not