What Iron Maiden said about the Bloodthirsty Storyteller once commanding the world sounded like bragging.
But given their talent for bewitching people, perhaps they really had achieved some towering heights in the past.
At the very least, in Zi Yu's eyes, certain mysterious forces in the martial world truly did flow like undercurrents, pushing the development of the martial world's landscape.
For example, more than two hundred years ago, there had been an emperor who died young. While still in his prime, he had hanged himself together with his empress. Before doing so, he issued an imperial decree declaring that he would pass the throne to a eunuch named Li Jin, claiming that Li Lunzhuan was his father reincarnated. Thus, every imperial consort in the harem was to be left to his eunuch father.
If such a thing got out, even storytellers who loved making up wild tales would find it absurd. It was practically as if the emperor had been possessed.
There were many such cases of "possession" in the martial world. Looking back on them carefully now, could they have been something like the Bloodthirsty Storytellers "commanding the world"?
The affair of the emperor and Eunuch Li Jin caused no small commotion, especially because Li Jin actually accepted the claim. He even proclaimed that he was cultivating a divine art, one capable of regrowing a dragon root.
The emperor's princes and descendants, along with those generals and ministers, were not pushovers either. How could they allow a eunuch to run amok? They immediately wanted to kill him on the spot.
What made Eunuch Li Jin terrifying was that he truly possessed divine skills. No general or imperial guard master could defeat him, and with years of preparation behind him, he actually succeeded in suppressing those people.
That eunuch