The moment Cao Jinxing finished speaking, the doors and windows on all four sides of the office burst open!
Outside in the courtyard, Chen Gui stood solemnly with his treasured saber in hand. Three personal guard captains and eighty guards surrounded the entire office, leaving no gaps!
Beyond the main gate, the clatter of armor and weapons rang out continuously. The two elite forces, the Valiant Cavalry Battalion and the Iron Cavalry Battalion, were assembling, their weapons aimed squarely at the nine people inside!
"Heh!"
Toghto sneered and tore off his Ming army armor, revealing the fitted clothing of a Mongolian noble beneath. He declared loudly, "One move short. It seems you were prepared all along. But swallowing Mongolia's strongest Thirteen Wings with this handful of men is nothing but a pipe dream! Did you think I never considered what to do if this failed?"
From behind his waist, he took out a strangely shaped horn. It was over a foot long, gilded, and sheathed in silver on both sides, seemingly made from a human shinbone.
"A shinbone horn..."
Chen Gui made no attempt to hide his disgust. "The Vajra Sect is a barbarian sect, all right-savages who eat raw flesh and drink blood! Even if you brought Padmasambhava's bones today, you would still die!"
Toghto sneered twice without arguing.
This bone had not been taken from a murder victim. It was the shinbone of Phags-pa, the founding patriarch of the Vajra Sect, known as the Buddha's Son of the Western Heaven and the Great Treasure Dharma King.
Phags-pa had been the first imperial preceptor of the Mongol Yuan dynasty, the fifth leader of the Tibetan Sakya School, and the founder of Mongolian Esoteric Buddhism.
He had created the Vajra Sect's supreme cultivation art, the Commentary on the Mahavairocana Sutra,