While Zhang Yu's avatar traveled abroad, his true body had remained in secluded cultivation. Within the jade cup, mystic grain transformed into wisps of clear qi that drifted into his body.
Just as he entered meditation, his heart suddenly stirred. It seemed Heaven's mechanisms had responded. He opened his eyes and sensed for a moment, discovering that this was precisely when the court deliberation had concluded. If nothing unexpected had happened, there should already have been a verdict on the matter of vindicating the Profound Method.
He looked outside. After a while, the voice of the duty officer came in from beyond the hall. "Guardian of Rectitude, news from the court deliberation has arrived."
Zhang Yu swept his sleeve and opened the doors of the great hall. "Come in."
A divine duty officer entered carrying a jade disc in both hands. He raised it above his head and presented it. "Guardian of Rectitude, this was sent by order of Superior Yusu."
Zhang Yu fixed his gaze upon it, and the jade disc flew before him of its own accord. He took it in hand and instructed, "You may leave first."
The divine duty officer bowed deeply, then respectfully withdrew.
As Zhang Yu's consciousness turned within, he immediately learned all that had transpired in the Profound Court. From this moment onward, the Profound Court acknowledged that the methods established by Feng and Gao in the past were not orthodox methods. Only the method he upheld was the orthodox method, and he had been granted leave to blaze a path toward the upper realm of the Profound Method.
Though the Profound Court had reached its decision, the matter would not be proclaimed outright. It first had to be conveyed to the garrisons of every prefecture and lodge in the Inner and Outer