"Of course!" Lin Xiaosu said. "And undoing this technique is extremely simple. Just reverse the process!"
"Reverse the process?" His Majesty murmured, either unfamiliar with the modern term or pondering how to put it into practice.
"Karmic Misalignment causes one side to decline as the other rises. The person bound to you has gained such overwhelming influence that Your Majesty's... affinity with the Imperial Seal has weakened. Your Majesty might temporarily strip him of his authority and see whether your affinity with the Imperial Seal returns."
Affinity with the Imperial Seal!
Those words seemed inexplicable.
Yet within His Majesty, shock surged like towering storm waves.
Others might not immediately understand what Lin Xiaosu meant, but he did!
He meant control over the Imperial Seal!
Ever since the Crown Prince had taken up residence in the Eastern Palace, something had gone wrong with his Imperial Seal. He could no longer control it or unleash its immense power.
This was an emperor's greatest fear.
If anyone discovered that he could not control the Imperial Seal, his kingdom would be in peril.
That was precisely why he so rarely attended court and left the Crown Prince to oversee affairs of state.
It was a helpless choice. Compared with the fate of the Great Wilderness Kingdom, the Crown Prince monopolizing power was actually a minor matter.
However great the Crown Prince's influence at court, at least these countless miles of mountains and rivers still had a master surnamed Hong.
Without the Crown Prince, the entire dynasty might well have been destroyed.
Now, looking at the matter from another angle, he suddenly felt its bitter irony.
If the Crown Prince had engineered this from the beginning...
Then everything was unfolding exactly as the Crown Prince wished.
In his current physical condition, he could not hold