The moment Liang Yi heard that an imperial edict had arrived, he knelt to receive it.
All the officers and soldiers defending the city knelt atop the walls, their movements perfectly uniform.
"This humble subject awaits the edict."
Su Mo looked at Eunuch Ji without speaking or moving. He did not kneel, but simply stood atop the wall, watching quietly.
He would not kneel to the emperor. The emperor was not worthy of his kneeling.
Seeing that Su Mo had not knelt, Little Girl did not kneel either.
Eunuch Ji did not seem to have expected Su Mo to kneel. Instead, he unfurled the imperial edict in his hands and proclaimed:
"By the mandate of Heaven, the emperor decrees: chaos looms over the realm, and the Snow Domain is in peril. Liang Yi, governor of Snow City, is hereby commanded to obey the Peerless Marquis and act upon his orders."
"The Peerless Marquis's words shall be as my own decrees. Wherever the Peerless Marquis stands..." Eunuch Ji paused briefly, glanced at the white-robed, white-haired Su Mo, and continued reading.
"...it shall be as though I am there in person!"
Su Mo stared intently at Eunuch Ji, his brows furrowing.
He could no longer make any sense of what the emperor intended to do.
Since the emperor wanted his Confucian Dao foundation, he should have been obstructing what Su Mo wanted to do now, forcing him to seek him out in the Imperial City.
Yet this edict ordered Liang Yi to obey him.
Moreover, the words "wherever the Peerless Marquis stands, it shall be as though I am there in person" granted immense authority. The emperor had not even attached any conditions to them.
Was the emperor trying to make him lower his guard so that he could find another opportunity