"Good. Your courage is commendable. Attendants, bestow a bottle of Fountain of Youth Water upon him." The Lu Old Empress Dowager sat expressionlessly behind the curtain and dictated her order.
A eunuch attendant immediately brought forth a wooden tray and presented a bottle of Fountain of Youth Water to Supervising Secretary of the Ministry of War Yan Feng Ninth Generation.
Yan Feng Ninth Generation promptly kowtowed in thanks, but there was no further word on appointing him to an official post and sending him to war.
He felt that he had not Cultivated the Mind well enough, and the Empress Dowager had seen through him.
Still, this outcome was acceptable enough.
Next time, though, he would have to visit the monks and Taoists and learn more methods for calming his mind, until his head held only a single thought.
In his momentary excitement just now, the thoughts buried in his heart had surfaced.
Just then, a report suddenly came from outside.
"Reporting to the Empress Dowager, an envoy from the Great Millet People stationed in the capital requests an audience."
"Summon him."
Before long, everyone saw a brown-haired, blue-eyed white man with a high nose and deep-set features stride arrogantly into the hall with an attendant in tow.
"Sir Clenso, envoy of the Great Millet People, pays respects to the Holy Empress of the Heavenly Dynasty," said the white man, cupping his hands.
"Envoy, why have you not knelt? Do not violate court etiquette before the hall," the Ceremony Official reminded him.
"No, no. We westerners kneel only to God, never to kings," the Great Millet envoy said, shaking his head.
"But the Great Tooth People's envoy has already knelt."
"They are losers, incompetent fools, so they may kneel whenever they please. We, however, are victors." The Great Millet envoy