The summons had come from the Southern Office of Pacification and Investigation of the Brocade Guard. The Brocade Guard was divided into Northern and Southern Offices and was one of Great Chu's highest intelligence agencies. Whatever the Northern Office did, the Southern Office had direct ties to the imperial family.
That was why Tang Changsheng felt so certain. If Mingde, the Son of Heaven, had wanted him to do something, he would have said so when they last met. He would never have gone through all this...
So was someone in the imperial family displeased with him and trying to put him in his place?
Well, he was not so easy to bully. No one could deal with him at their leisure.
He might have acted modestly before the Son of Heaven of Great Chu and people like Elder Yuan, but Tang Changsheng was a Grade A ability user—a man whose power alone could rival a nation!
That power was his own. No one could take it from him.
As the ancients said, when an ordinary man flew into a rage, blood splashed ten paces; one man could be the match of an entire nation!
Even the Son of Heaven of Great Chu had only presumed to lecture someone like Tang Changsheng as an elder. Elder Yuan, too, had treated him courteously in hopes of winning him over...
If some junior member of the imperial family truly thought he was easy to bully, they were sorely mistaken!
Tang Changsheng needed only submit this Conscription Order to the Three Elders Council, and it would immediately cause a tremendous uproar. Even the Son of Heaven of Great Chu would be unable to protect whoever was responsible...
The reason was simple. Whether they belonged to the Three Elders or the Fifth Watch, the