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In True Dragon City, inside the Dragon King Temple, after an extremely complicated sacrificial ritual, Fang Wenshan began his habit of muttering to himself.
"Your Highness the True Dragon may not know this, but the imperial court suffered a crushing setback at the Luojia Mountain ruins. The losses were devastating, and to make matters worse, a Forbidden Item comparable to a high-grade Third-Rank cultivator was lost."
"The imperial court was enraged by this. They sent another squad of the Imperial Guards. I hear that this time, the leader is Zhu Lianqing, the chief eunuch of the palace, a peak Principal Fourth-Rank existence—stronger even than Ji Xian, the previous commander of the Imperial Guards."
The temple priest overheard this and knitted his brows, secretly startled.
He knew Zhu Lianqing's name very well. Zhu Lianqing had grown up alongside Emperor Wenchang, spending more than fifty years in the chambers of Empress Wen, the Crown Prince's Thirty-Three Heavens, and now the Wenchang Pavilion.
More than a decade ago, he had already advanced to become a peak Principal Fourth-Rank grand cultivator. In recent years, there had been rumors that the imperial clan had been searching for a Daoism Cultivation foundation for him. Supposedly, they had already achieved some results, and he was very likely to formally advance into an Earthly Immortal of the Upper Three Ranks soon.
Whether it was true or not remained unknown.
What exactly happened at Luojia Mountain that made Emperor Wenchang bring out this chief eunuch?
The temple priest pondered in secret.
He did not dare ask. Although he was the chief temple priest of the many Dragon