Bang! Zhao Guangyi slammed his fist onto the desk, which instantly collapsed with a crack.
Hearing the noise outside, Eunuch Qiu hurried in.
"Your Majesty?" Eunuch Qiu carefully stepped forward, picked up a sheet of paper from among the broken wood, and addressed him respectfully.
He knew Zhao Guangyi's fury must have been caused by this letter. When a minister had submitted it earlier, tucked inside a memorial, he had already known that things might be taking an unfortunate turn.
Sure enough, Zhao Guangyi was clearly enraged.
Although Eunuch Qiu did not know exactly what the letter contained, he knew it could not be anything good.
In fact, when he had picked up the letter just now, his cultivation would naturally have allowed him to read the whole thing at a glance. But Zhao Guangyi had not yet spoken, so he dared not sneak a look without permission.
"Outrageous! Outrageous!" After pacing back and forth several times with his hands on his hips, Zhao Guangyi roared again, "The Taixuan Sect is arrogance itself! Do they really think I fear them?"
"The Taixuan Sect?" Eunuch Qiu looked momentarily stunned. He had not expected this matter to involve the Taixuan Sect. That truly made it difficult to handle.
He also knew that Zhao Guangyi was speaking in anger. Given the Taixuan Sect's strength, the Imperial Court really could do little to it. Not only did it control most of the Jianghu and Wulin, but quite a few factions within the court were connected to it as well.
If they were to move against the Taixuan Sect, merely pruning away those peripheral forces would severely sap the strength of both the Central Plains' Wulin and the Imperial Court.
When that happened, neither Khitan nor Li Jiqian in the west would let such a