"By then, you'll definitely be very powerful."
Jiang Yiner was a little embarrassed, but she was Immortal Jiang, and generally did not display such girlish bashfulness.
"It's not that I'm unhappy. I was thinking, I've stayed in the palace for so long without a break, and I don't know how things outside have been going-did Yong Ji leave the capital long ago?"
"Long ago." Guessing what the young man might care about, Jiang Yiner had been keeping an eye on things. "But he has a wedding coming up, so he'll be back."
"Yes, that much I knew."
"Actually, lots of people have left the capital. Nothing major has happened in the Divine Capital lately. It's all been a prelude to the Feather-Scale Trial," Jiang Yiner said. "There's only one thing more important than the Feather-Scale Trial... come late spring, this generation's Qilin Sons will undergo the Qilin Blood Test."
Her words drew Pei Ye's thoughts back to the Divine Capital from afar. He turned his head. "That's even more important than the Feather-Scale Trial?"
"Of course. The Feather-Scale Trial is held every three years, after all, but the Qilin Blood Test happens only once in an emperor's reign." Jiang Yiner also gazed toward the Palace City in the distance. "Once the youngest Qilin Son has turned six, all the True Blood heirs will undergo a selection before the Qilin Sacred God, and the position of Crown Prince will be decided."
"Does everyone accept that?"
"Of course." Jiang Yiner looked at him in slight surprise. "What subject of Great Tang wouldn't accept the Qilin's divine choice? The reigning Sage saved Great Tang from the brink of destruction. They say that was also because the Qilin had already chosen him in his youth."
"Mm."
"Whoever the Qilin chooses is Great Tang's unquestionable