Spacetime Law Shakes the Forbidden Palace

Lu Tiancong had gleaned crucial information from Lin Su's remarks.

What about His Majesty the Emperor?

Naturally, he could glean it as well.

And he understood it even more directly, because he had always been part of the game.

Lin Su ringing the Emperor's Shock Bell today and forcibly releasing Deng Hongbo amounted to little. But when he entered Zhengde Hall, used the Azure Wood Token of the literary path as a pretext, and refused to kneel, he had sounded an alarm for His Majesty. Matters of ritual were a tremendous affair in Feudal Society, yet to a man harboring grand ambitions, they were still ultimately hollow.

It was not as if Lin Su had never knelt before His Majesty in the past.

Kneeling again now would not have been some insurmountable hurdle.

If he had not wanted to arouse His Majesty's wariness, kneeling would neither tear a strip of skin nor cost him a chunk of flesh. Putting on an act would also have been perfectly reasonable.

But today, he stopped pretending.

When someone who had long disguised himself as harmless to man and beast suddenly stopped pretending and began acting forcefully before His Majesty, what did that mean?

It meant the time to lay his cards on the table was drawing near!

That was His Majesty's conclusion!

And that conclusion was terrifying!

Zhengde Hall was already empty.

His Majesty slowly spoke. "What do you make of today's events?"

His voice was soft, as though he were speaking to himself.

Yet he knew someone would answer, for while no one else knew, he did: there was one person within Zhengde Hall, the one he truly trusted.

However, after he asked the question, it truly became self-talk. There was no reply.

His Majesty raised his gaze toward the wall behind