The not especially spacious East Brilliance Pavilion held just the right amount of warmth.
Every wisp of wind here, every sensation against the skin, was tended to by dedicated attendants.
Ensuring that the Emperor would not be distracted by any trivial matter was their greatest contribution to the Great Qi Empire.
The Emperor of Qi was seated.
Jiang Wang bowed.
Li Zhengshu stood quietly to one side without speaking.
Qiu Ji stood guard outside the pavilion doors. There were no superfluous sounds in the distance.
Even the lamplight in the room knew its place, not daring to flicker in the slightest.
Times spent waiting were best suited for cultivation. Jiang Wang found himself thinking for no reason.
But it was only a thought, after all.
The meaning of time was difficult to measure at this moment.
Who knew how long had passed before, after another page turned—
"In the third month of that year, the Crown Prince shot Dragon Fox."
The Emperor's voice seemed to descend from the ninth heaven—so close, yet so distant.
Jiang Wang understood in an instant and immediately continued, "The Grand Ancestor deemed it inauspicious and banished him to Green Hills. He then established Shang Hua."
History Knife Chisels the Sea, compiled by the great scholar Sima Heng of Diligent Academy, was the most comprehensive historical masterpiece recording the histories of the world's states since the new beginning of the Dao Calendar, and was recognized throughout the world as trustworthy history.
Sima Heng traveled the world, visited old sites in every region, traced the past to the present, and gathered old accounts, secret histories, and the scattered words of famous figures through the ages...
The histories of every state, local chronicles from every region, tales passed from mouth to mouth, changes in climate, the shifting of