Director of the Celestial Surveillance

The person before Li Huowang wore an enormous mask that nearly covered his entire upper body. Beneath it, two legs in green trousers stuck out, looking utterly incongruous.

"This is the Director of the Celestial Surveillance of Later Shu. You can call him Palmtar. Since you've come to help, you naturally ought to get acquainted with the locals."

After introducing the man, Xuanpin pointed at Li Huowang. "This is the one I told you about."

Li Huowang sized the man up, then gave a Daoist salute with equal parts curiosity and confusion. "Li Huowang of Qingfeng Temple greets you, Senior. May I ask which sect you belong to?"

Only one word popped out from behind the mask. "Nuo."

"Nuo? Nuo Opera?" Li Huowang could not help but be astonished. As far as he knew, Great Nuo referred to this mad world, did it not?

Great Nuo had gone mad, yet people still worshipped him? Worshipping him was one thing, but he could even grant someone the position of Director of the Celestial Surveillance? Could a mad Great Nuo still lend others his power?

Was Great Nuo a Ruler of Fate? Or was Great Nuo the legendary Great Ruler of Fate? Or, like Qingqiu's Eternal Heaven, was he a god they had imagined into being?

After pondering for a while, Li Huowang asked the person before him again, "Can Great Nuo still grant power to others?"

Yet Palmtar, wearing the enormous mask, did not answer. He merely gave a slight shake of his head.

Just then, Xuanpin's voice sounded beside Li Huowang's ear. "You'd best not ask that. No matter where you are, asking someone that so directly is extremely rude, especially when you've only just met."

Li Huowang let the matter drop upon hearing that. He had merely asked in