The Imperial Token was recorded in detail in the Imperial Authority Records compiled by the Rites Registry. As the lord of a main city, how could Lord Cui not know what the Imperial Token looked like?
How could he not know what it meant!
Thus, after sizing it up briefly, he immediately knelt. No one could forge the Imperial Token. It was a symbol of the imperial clan.
Could the other party be a Special Envoy from the Eastern Continent?
That was probably the only possibility. Otherwise, there was no explaining how the Imperial Token had appeared in the hands of someone with a different surname.
Chief Lyu was struck as if by lightning. His body went weak, and with a "thud," he knelt as well. Seeing this, the two soldiers of the Garrison Command behind him, along with the two officials watching the excitement, also knelt.
"This lower official did not know the Special Envoy had arrived. Please forgive this humble servant for the crime of disrespect."
"Heh! The crime of disrespect? Chief Lyu, this isn't merely the crime of disrespect. If I hadn't taken out the Imperial Token today, wouldn't I have been dragged to Execution Street and beheaded?"
"You secular officials, granted authority by the supreme Female Emperor, govern countless masses, while Immortal Sect lineages guard your flanks, yet every one of you are people who trim your sails to the wind. Am I still the instigator of the Beast Tide now?"
This question was extremely sharp.
To possess the Imperial Token meant being someone personally chosen and valued by the Female Emperor. What did "as if the emperor herself had arrived" mean?
You dared say he colluded with the Beast Clan and brought chaos to the heartland of the Northern Continent?
Then it would not be