How to Identify Someone from the Immortal Court

"Dou Ying, you're close to the Grand Empress Dowager. Do you know what the people of the Immortal Court actually look like?"

In the Palace of Peace and Happiness, he had to be meek and deferential, but Weiyang Palace was the new emperor's domain.

He sat on the dragon throne, while the sword he had just used to practice martial arts lay on the dragon desk, along with a pill box.

The new emperor glanced at the pill box and casually questioned Dou Ying, the court's new chancellor.

The new chancellor, Dou Ying, was the Grand Empress Dowager's nephew and one of the Three Excellencies whose appointments she had strongly recommended in the court's latest deliberations. He was related to her by blood.

He was another high-ranking official who had risen through nepotism.

One interesting thing about Dou Ying was that he belonged to the Grand Empress Dowager's branch of the family, yet he often fell out with her. Nevertheless, he was the most outstanding member of the Dou family and had inherited it.

Dou Ying headed the main family, so even if the Grand Empress Dowager couldn't stand him, she still had to support him.

With that sort of relationship between them, it was much easier to get news of the Grand Empress Dowager out of Dou Ying.

"Your Majesty, I have never seen anyone from the Immortal Court either, but I heard the Grand Empress Dowager say that by the time we see someone from the Immortal Court, we ourselves will already be members of it," Dou Ying said.

"You mean?"

"The people of the Immortal Court are extremely skilled at concealing their identities," Dou Ying said. "They seek out the most convenient terms for gaining control. Once they make an offer, it is nearly impossible to refuse.