Chapter 1061: Bureaucratic Nonsense
Within the royal palace of the Yu Kingdom, a princess ennobled by the Great Xuan Court stood before the Queen Dowager of the Yu Kingdom and demanded whether the latter was plotting a rebellion.
It was a scene that was absurd, almost comical, yet entirely real.
Back in the final years of the Wei Dynasty, Emperor Tianbao had yet to abdicate. Acting on the Daoist Order’s behalf, the Holy Xuan’s junior sister came to demand his immediate abdication. When the emperor refused, she seized him by the collar and struck him thrice in the chest. Those were rougher days for the Daoist Order, when it was part of the Jianghu.
That was when these three punches at the emperor became a long-standing Daoist anecdote often used to mock imperial authority.
Of course, ever since Great Sage Ziji assumed leadership, few dared bring up that tale. With his formidable cultivation and four immortal objects in hand, it would take the Holy Xuan to lay a finger on him, let alone three punches.
That ridiculous story surfaced in Qi Xuansu’s mind just then.
Truth be told, it had been quite some time since Qi Xuansu had fought. The last time was his brief clash with Wu Guangbi at the Dragon Palace. But that fight was over in a single exchange.
Accustomed to fights, Qi Xuansu’s fists felt somewhat itchy.
He steadied his breathing to gauge his current strength. The Soul-Returning Incense had temporarily reduced his cultivation to the Xiaoyao stage. But that should be enough.
That was because Qi Xuansu was a manmade Banished Immortal, whose strength surpassed even that of natural-born Banished Immortals before ascending to the Longevity stage.
His true identity as a manmade Banished Immortal was a classified secret. That was because only two of them existed across the entire Daoist order. For centuries before their emergence, there had been none at all.
Though it might have seemed like many already knew this secret, the people limited to such knowledge were all senior Daoist leaders, whom the personnel from the Poluo Daoist Mansion scarcely even met, much less were able to pry secrets from.