A Daughter of the Lin Family Comes of Age, Her Strength Uproots Mountains, Her Spirit Overwhelms the World

"Is it real?"

Ever since dinner, the Emperor had kept muttering the question, asking it at least several dozen times. Each time, the old eunuch answered earnestly. From time to time, he would disappear briefly, then return with another answer, his manner unfailingly respectful and serious.

By nightfall, the Emperor would normally have selected a consort and gone to bed, yet he was still pacing back and forth in the imperial study. At times he unfolded maps; at times he read memorials. He had especially reviewed the archived documents concerning the northern border several times.

When the old eunuch entered the imperial study again, the Emperor immediately asked anxiously, "Is it real?"

The old eunuch respectfully replied, "Your Majesty, it is indeed real. It has been confirmed again and again. Both the boulder and the weeping willow were genuine, without the slightest falsehood. This old servant had strongmen smash the boulder apart, then had them chop the willow to pieces with blades and axes. Both were carefully weighed on large scales—twenty-one times in succession, using twenty-one different sets of scales. It is true. Absolutely true."

"...Born with divine strength? Truly born with divine strength?"

The Emperor still could not believe it and asked once more.

This time, the old eunuch said nothing. He knew the Emperor was not truly expecting an answer.

Sure enough, after pacing about the study for a long while, the Emperor said as he walked, "That Lin Ruhai—no, Minister Lin—has truly caused me no end of trouble. His direct bloodline possesses such inborn divine strength, yet he never revealed a word of it. This should have been an unparalleled fierce general—no, even calling him an unparalleled fierce general would be belittling him. A person like this should exist only in myths and legends, at the very