The legendary Fourth Highness had been born beneath the Qilin's gaze and raised under the personal tutelage of two Philosophers. He possessed Qilin Blood, knew fate through the Heavenly Heart, and, from the day he entered the world, had been called the child Heaven bestowed upon Great Tang.
The Heavenly Principles Academy had entrusted its hopes to him, making the unfettered leap of entrusting him with the "Book of Changes." And as this Fourth Highness truly became the first person in a thousand years to master the "Book of Changes," it might, as if in a dream, signify the completion of the "Heaven-Qilin-Book of Changes" framework for observing the world.
It was certainly enough to prove that "Haotian's Conveyance of Intent" stood firm as bedrock, and it also meant that Great Tang's spear had grown sharper still.
It also meant... that while the Two Heavens Theory was still struggling to hatch, its opponent had already donned divine armor.
This was precisely what countless people now worried about even more-even if the Heavenly Principles Academy painstakingly completed its proof of the "Two Heavens Theory," how many strained arguments and loopholes would it contain?
Could it truly hold its ground before the "Heavenly Changes"?
But this anxious concern would not last much longer. The news first emerged from the Ministry of Rites, before the Ministry of Personnel notified every capital official qualified to attend court: Philosopher Zhu Wen had obtained an audience with His Majesty and said that in three days, bitter cold would freeze every pond in the Divine Capital, and the results of the "Two Heavens" would be seen. The grand court deliberation would be held that day.
Chapter 553: Court deliberation
Three days passed in the blink of an eye.
As though bearing out the truth of that rumor,