Chapter 543: Register of the Martial World (9)
Beijing, Forbidden City.
A heavy silence filled the air. As if the entire palace compound had been abandoned.
And indeed, most of the elite warriors had long since departed to Mount Zhongnan in service of the new emperor.
Yet inside the palace walls, the golden roofs remained veiled beneath semi-translucent tiles, casting a blurred, water-stained glow over the entire skyline.
It wasn’t a formation.
It was the ripple of power from living martial masters.
Hundreds of imperial elites who had gone north to repel the invasion of the Demonic Clans had now returned.
They were the power that preserved the Ming Empire within the chaotic martial world. The imperial court had truly become a fortress of monsters.
Deep within lay a garden in full bloom with five-colored flowers.
A scene that defied the worsening famine outside. Near the Forbidden City’s Palace of Benevolence, it was said to be the most secretive path in the empire.
Because it led directly to the residence of the Grand Empress Dowager of the Ming Dynasty.
Step, step.