The absolute power that had controlled the Dao Court for hundreds of years vanished.
On this day, all of Tianwu City fell into tremendous turmoil. The order Emperor Jiayou had issued before summoning the hundred officials became his final imperial decree:
The Imperial City Bureau is to place the entire city under martial law.
This had originally been Emperor Jiayou's decree to disperse the Imperial City Bureau's forces, making it easier to suppress them at any moment. Yet now, it became Lu Yang's gilded signboard.
After all, Emperor Jiayou and the Three Dukes had retired from the world without leaving a single word behind. Naturally, the standard had to be the imperial decree he had issued before doing so. Not to mention that, right before his retirement, he had praised Lu Yang before all the civil and military officials, calling him "loyal and devoted to the state." What more was there to say?
Righteousness was all on Lu Yang's side.
That day, the Incense Fire Gods under the Imperial City Bureau poured out in full force, beginning to detain All-Heaven Department officials throughout the city who were "suspected of assassinating Emperor Jiayou."
At the same time, inside the Crown Prince's residence in Tianwu City.
Emperor Jiayou's eldest legitimate son, the current Crown Prince Wu Longxing, paced anxiously around his study, his face filled with confusion and terror over the future.
"How could this happen? How could this happen?"
His imperial father had been assassinated, and the Three Dukes had retired from the world.
It should have sounded like a rather pleasing turn of events. Yet after Crown Prince Longxing learned the details of the assassination, he had nearly rolled his eyes and fainted on the spot.
The reason was simple:
"The assassin shouted that he did it for