PS: My Windows 8 system crashed, costing me a lot of time. I typed this chapter on a borrowed computer, so there can only be one update today. My apologies...
Dong Zhuo had his reasons for moving the capital in such frantic haste, as though a dead man were rushing to be reincarnated. There were all sorts of reasons. Yet the most direct one was that he had obtained something extraordinary. What extraordinary object could so directly and decisively influence the decision of our Grand Chancellor Dong? In this world, there was likely nothing besides the "Imperial Seal of the Realm." On the night Yin Kuang and the others escorted the young emperor toward Luoyang, Taige Rui and the others from Western God Academy also arrived at Hulao Pass. They first used the seal imprint of the Imperial Seal of the Realm to lure out Dong Zhuo's most important adviser, Li Ru. After that, at dawn, Taige Rui presented this "auspicious treasure" to Chancellor Dong. When Dong Zhuo saw the Imperial Seal of the Realm gleaming beneath the rising sun and radiating its captivating luster, his eyes widened as if a man who had not touched a woman for ten years had suddenly seen a peerless naked beauty laid out before him. He lunged straight for it!
Afterward, Taige Rui put his silver tongue to work. He concocted a highly legendary, mythological tale about how he had obtained the Imperial Seal of the Realm, claiming that "an immortal in the mountains had bestowed it upon him," and the like. In the end, he bluntly declared that Dong Zhuo was the true Son of Heaven chosen by the heavens, that the Imperial Seal of the Realm falling into his hands was the decree of fate, and that refusing it would