The communication teleportation array duty hall within the Luoyi Imperial Palace had two sections. One handled ordinary message exchanges.
The other was an emergency contact channel for ministers and trusted aides sending secret memorials and urgent reports to the Emperor, with dedicated personnel stationed there.
However, ever since Yu He took over the Secret Directorate, the guards on duty here had been replaced.
When the Storage Ring and token sent by Yu He appeared together in the duty hall, the eunuch on watch, who had been staring wide-eyed at the communication teleportation array, suddenly sprang to his feet.
A Bloodfire Token of the highest rank.
According to the old ancestors' instructions, once this token appeared, if the message was delayed by even a single breath, it would cost him his head.
It was as if springs had been fitted beneath the duty eunuch's feet. He snatched up the Storage Ring, held high the Bloodfire Token with the words "Urgent Beyond Measure" practically leaping from its surface, and shot into the air, racing toward East Arrival Pavilion like lightning.
Flying was forbidden within the Imperial Palace. Even movement Secret Arts were prohibited, and the grand formations suppressed them.
But this duty eunuch was an exception.
In an instant, the guards hidden throughout the Imperial Palace were alerted.
The consecrated experts who had been about to seize this rule-breaking eunuch immediately backed down upon seeing the Bloodfire Token.
He vaulted over five palace walls in succession, heedlessly smashing through the warning barriers of three palaces along the way, startling the concubines and palace maids inside into furious outrage.
In just one breath, the duty eunuch delivered the Bloodfire Token and special Storage Ring to the entrance of East Arrival Pavilion.
"Bloodfire Token, urgent beyond measure!" The duty eunuch crashed down from the