Meng Zhao felt a measure of curiosity. He did not think the Emperor was all that muddleheaded; rather, he was very interested in the Imperial Clan's martial strength.
If this were truly an age of declining Dharma, the imperial dynasty and its clan would naturally not possess much strength. To rule the world, they would have to rely more on prestige and laws than on the martial power of the Imperial Clan alone.
Yet the Tianyuan Kingdom still had soil in which martial arts could grow. That meant the Imperial Clan should also hold some extraordinary power.
When he asked, Zhou Zhihan did not hide anything.
The current Imperial Clan was the Jiang Clan. It was said that thirty-six martial arts scriptures, each profound enough to rival the workings of creation, were hidden within the clan. They had all been gathered from defeated enemies during the old conquest of the world, then compiled and integrated.
Among them, the highest-ranked—and the one only members of the Emperor's direct bloodline could cultivate—was the "Pacify the World" cultivation art. Its name was Pacify the World. It contained a mighty principle and bearing of conquering the world and ruling the Eight Desolations; no ordinary person could cultivate it.
This cultivation art could be called an Imperial Masterpiece. Yet even the Emperor's descendants could only master eighty or ninety percent of it. The final ten or twenty percent could never be cultivated unless one ascended the throne and became the reigning Emperor. This was also one limitation of Pacify the World.
Although Imperial Masterpieces sounded formidable and domineering, almost no one had ever seen one used in battle. Thus, when the strengths of the world's martial artists were ranked, the reigning Emperor was generally excluded.
If Shi Luohan truly fought the current Emperor, it was