The Azure Feather Patrol Office was built predominantly in white, yet it gave no impression of brightness. Instead, it felt exceptionally cold and severe.
They went around the screen wall and passed through the corridors.
This office occupied an enormous area, but its design was deliberately constricting, scarcely allowing anyone to see beyond ten paces. Sightlines were obstructed everywhere.
And there were countless hidden vantage points for sentries to peer from.
In the short stretch of road he had walked alongside Huyan Jingxuan, Jiang Wang had already felt at least ten gazes scrutinizing him.
At this point, they arrived at an open courtyard.
After walking under such oppression all the way here, seeing the free vault of sky above this square courtyard gave him an urge to fly out at once.
Ahead stood an open hall, much like a courtroom for trying convicts, except there were no instruments of torture within, nor anyone holding Authority-Crushing Staffs.
There was no rain in the sky, yet water dripped from the flying eaves like a curtain.
The droplets struck duckweed in the white stone water channel that circled the courtyard.
The style here did not much resemble the grasslands.
Huyan Jingxuan passed through the curtain of rain. "His Majesty thinks you are a talent, and Lord Tu Hu has expectations of you as well, so I am willing to consider your feelings—Gu Shiyi is openly using you. What do you think?"
Jiang Wang stood right in the courtyard, beneath this exposed night sky, and did not follow him forward. "If Gu Shiyi needs to convey something to Lord Huyan through me, and Lord Huyan also needs to learn something through me, then I do not think it is any great matter for me to be the messenger."
Huyan Jingxuan turned around from behind