Chapter 6211: Chu Emperor Worships Heaven!
The Chu Emperor had a burly build and a resolute face. His black robe embroidered with golden dragon patterns accentuated his domineering bearing, while the nine-bead imperial crown atop his head displayed his supreme authority.
Following beside the Chu Emperor was a beautiful young woman dressed in a phoenix crown and rosy robes. She walked half a step behind him, following closely. Every movement, every frown and smile, revealed elegance and dignity.
This woman was none other than the current Empress of Chu.
She was not a disciple of Chu's Five Great Families and Seven Sects. Her family was merely an obscure little lineage within Chu's Imperial Authority Eighteen Provinces.
In her early years, after becoming Empress, she had also wanted to support her family and help it rise, turning it into one of Chu's "new Five Great Families."
But she had still underestimated the power and methods wielded by the current "Five Great Families" in the imperial capital. The moment she had this idea, the Five Great Families had immediately launched a countermeasure.
Although no one knew what had happened afterward, the Empress's family had been almost completely massacred. Only a few seed fighters had survived, clinging to life.
If not for the Empress, those seed fighters would probably have been slaughtered to the last.
After that incident, the Empress had become gloomy and dispirited. She no longer concerned herself with the struggles for supremacy within or beyond Chu, spending her days cultivating inside the imperial palace.
"Heh heh."
Led by the Chu Emperor, the Empress, the various princes, the imperial clan's relatives, and more than a hundred imperial clan fighters proceeded toward the top of the Heavenly Dao Platform in a grand procession.
Amid the melodious and pleasant music was the weight