Chapter 539: Register of the Martial World (5)
The honored guest from Mount Wudang who had come to deliver the imperial decree, Supreme General Hyeok Ryeon-mu Jeong, had anticipated that the acting leader of the Divine Sword Sect would be present at Wudang.
It was only natural.
At present, Seomye of the Jeong Family was the most critical figure in the martial world. Every agency under the imperial court's intelligence network had their eyes on him.
Not just the Dongchang and the Golden Imperial Guards—rumor had it that even the retired Grand Empress had built a small tower of documents regarding Seomye of the Jeong Family.
A person who had become a symbol of chaos.
Someone riding the raging torrent of time, altering the essence of martial cultivation itself.
A man whose unique martial arts techniques, like the seventy-two supreme techniques of Shaolin, continued to multiply endlessly.
Not only his enmities and personal relationships, but even things as minute as his washing habits or trivial gestures—nothing was dismissed as unimportant.
Even with the collapse of various government offices, the observation never ceased. The imperial court’s eyes continued to scrutinize those who moved the world. That is what made the Ming an empire.
‘I was aware of his movements, of course...!’
But before facing Jeong Yeon-shin, she simply needed a moment to steel her mind and body.
Even if the storm diviners of the Howling Wind School had foreseen the coming tempest, having the full brunt of it suddenly swallow one whole was a different matter entirely.