A year and two months later, the Qi State royal palace.
A commoner was guilty of no crime, yet possessing a jade made him guilty. After returning with the Open Heaven Seal and the Four Symbols Seal, Meng Qi had proposed using their inheritances to unite with some and oppose others, drawing most Dharmakaya masters to his side and suppressing King Zhuang of Chu and the others, who held grudges against him. This was to prevent the five Dharmakaya masters, including King Zhuang of Chu, from joining forces to attack Qi Land. They had no Yuanshi Golden Chapter as a guide, after all, and did not know that he and Duke Huan of Qi had already obtained it. No matter how they cultivated the Open Heaven Seal and the Four Symbols Seal, they could at most comprehend similar techniques from them; they could never truly master them.
Duke Huan of Qi had thought the same, but the Open Heaven Seal and the Four Symbols Seal belonged to Meng Qi, so he could not make the decision on his own. He had to wait for Meng Qi to bring it up.
The first to benefit was naturally Emperor Wu of Han, with whom Meng Qi had reached a verbal agreement to cooperate. After a private deal, the menacing King Zhuang of Chu and the other Dharmakaya masters fell apart, their alliance crumbling from within. Now, places such as Jinguang Cave were on edge, their situation rather difficult.
In a quiet room somewhere in the palace, Meng Qi sat cross-legged. Strange colors shimmered all around him. At times, galaxies spun within his apertures; at times, rays of light shot out and coalesced into the Apricot Yellow Small Banner; at times, purple smoke formed a bell; at times, black and white became a