Chapter 19: The Great Thief Chu Liuxiang
Dream Dao Attainment, Opening Scheme Against Cultivators
Dream-Making Expert
“I hear you have the Exquisite Pagoda, bestowed by an Immortal, transcendent and unmatched. My heart yearns for it beyond words.”
“Tonight, I shall tread the moonlight and take it.”
“You are ever refined and understanding, and surely will not make me journey there and back for nothing.”
…
The Imperial Palace of the State of Liao.
Before the assembled civil and military officials, the Emperor of Liao furiously flung a sheet of gold foil onto the Golden Throne Hall.
A minister picked it up and read it, and was greatly shocked, seething with righteous anger. “What a treasonous villain, to dare sneak into the imperial palace and humiliate His Majesty.”
“This is utterly lawless.”
“Your Majesty, I beg you to immediately order the imperial guards into the palace to defend the court. We must ensure this rebel dies without a burial place!”
“Shut up!”
The Emperor of Liao grew even more furious. Backhanding the sword from the waist of a guard in the golden hall, he pointed it wrathfully at the assembled ministers. “None of you play dumb with Us. Confess honestly — who stole Our Exquisite Pagoda and dared leave a message insulting Us!”
“Do you take Us for the likes of Zhao Ming'an of the State of Song!”
The more the Emperor of Liao thought about it, the angrier he became. Unlike Zhao Ming'an, who had been fully awake when Lin Qi’s avatar, the Saint of Thieves Chu Liuxiang, directly snatched away the Son of Heaven's Sword.
The Exquisite Pagoda passed down through the Liao imperial line had been stolen silently while the Emperor of Liao slept.
Leaving behind only this near-insulting sheet of gold foil.
In the Emperor of Liao’s view, there was absolutely no one capable of such methods except the other cultivation clans within the State of Liao, clans that were also Immortal cultivation families.
And the cultivation clans of Liao had the motive as well.
Because unlike the State of Song, where the ruler and his ministers were harmonious and the great cultivation clans kept to their own waters without crossing into each other’s, in Liao it was popular for the emperor’s seat to rotate — this year it came to my house.
Court coups broke out from time to time. None of the great cultivation clans yielded to another. Everyone wanted to try what sitting on the dragon throne felt like.
Anyhow, the meat rotted in the pot regardless. Every Liao court coup knew its limits.
So no cultivator came to interfere.
Watching the Emperor of Liao draw his sword in the Golden Throne Hall, making no distinction between black and white, simply certain they had stolen the Exquisite Pagoda.
With such a massive black pot fastened onto their heads.
The ministers from cultivation clans were instantly displeased as well. They exchanged glances, and someone stepped forward. “Your Majesty means to say the Exquisite Pagoda has already been lost?”
“What else!”
The Emperor of Liao roared. “You people grow more and more insolent by the day. Do you truly think Our sword is not sharp enough?”
Seeing the emperor so aggressive, one who refused to submit simply drew his own sword as well, raging. “My sword is not without its edge either!”
“Hey, stop, stop.”
“No one be rash.”