Within the Great You realm, Shun Xin, the current emperor of Great You, could be said to live each day in constant dread.
His position as emperor of Great You was exceedingly stifling. Although his imperial grandfather had abdicated to recuperate from illness, above his head still stood the Supreme Court, formed by several former emperors.
The Supreme Court consisted of You Emperors from every generation who had cultivated to Manifest Divinity. Among them were several extraordinarily gifted and formidable figures. Even his father, the former crown prince, had joined it. And though he had become emperor, the actual authority in his hands was not great.
First, the old emperors of the Supreme Court held the power to supervise him, the newly appointed emperor. Second, the operational focus of the entire Great You Dynasty no longer rested on the emperor, but on the Child of the Dao Artifact—the Dragon Extinguisher Dao Artifact.
The Dragon Extinguisher Dao Artifact's spirit, the Child of the Dao Artifact, was a mighty existence possessing the strength of an Ultimate True Immortal. It was also the gift the Emperor You had left to the Great You Dynasty.
The Child of the Dao Artifact was born with extraordinary wisdom. Fair and selfless, it neither delighted nor raged, neither grieved nor resented. Entrusting it with the handling of affairs and the issuing of decrees left no loopholes whatsoever. Even if dozens of Great You Dynasties were handed to it, it could govern them all in immaculate order.
Great You's upper echelon understood this clearly. They directly left the management of state affairs to the Child of the Dao Artifact. As for their sole task: cultivation—cultivating desperately, making full use of the resources Great You had amassed to break through into the ranks of immortals and gods.
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