The Crown Prince slowly rose to his feet, slowly took a step, then abruptly stopped. "To dare commit such an utterly bottomless act—even a first-rank Imperial Prince should be executed without mercy! I am entering the palace. Now!"
"Please calm yourself, Your Highness!" Eastern Chief immediately dropped to his knees. "Your Highness must not enter the palace at this time!"
"Why?" The Crown Prince's eyes were filled with crazed light.
Eastern Chief said, "His Majesty's fury is certainly no less than Your Highness's. If Your Highness can guess who did it, how could His Majesty fail to do so? Why must Your Highness go and touch this bad luck while His Majesty is in the height of his rage?"
He was right.
At the summit of the nine Golden Bridges, His Majesty the Immortal Emperor's rage was beyond anything words could describe.
A Great Character Poster had been plastered across the entire city overnight. The upper ranks knew of it, common peddlers knew of it—everyone in the city knew.
Under the banner of exposing the truth, this Great Character Poster branded the Crown Prince as Haoyuan Sect flesh and blood. The one it insulted was the Immortal Emperor himself! No man could possibly endure such humiliation, much less The Emperor.
But the Immortal Emperor had also been a supreme monarch who had fought his way out through the cracks of political schemes. How could the Crown Prince's self-restraint compare to his?
He sat in Xian De Hall with a dark expression, waiting quietly for reports.
Very soon, the reports arrived...
First, every Great Character Poster in the city had been collected. Not a single one had been missed.
Second, the person who had distributed the Great Character Posters had been identified. He was Zheng Su, a traitor from Haoyuan Sect.