The Yinglong Warship stopped for only an hour, during which people boarded but none disembarked. Then it rose again, heading in the direction of Jade Capital.0

Shortly after liftoff, an Assistant Palace Master of Zhenjing Courtyard approached Qi Xuansu and Zhang Yuelu, speaking with a cordial tone. “Deputy Hall Master Zhang, Superintendent Qi, the Imperial Preceptor requests your presence.”0

Zhang Yuelu and Qi Xuansu exchanged a glance.0

Qi Xuansu had assumed that the first Deputy Grand Master he would meet would be either the Heavenly Preceptor, who was Zhang Yuelu’s elder, or the Earthly Preceptor, the head of the Quanzhen Sect and his superior. He never would have imagined that he would first meet the Imperial Preceptor, whom he had virtually no connection with.1

If one insisted there was any connection between him and the Imperial Preceptor, it was nothing but bad karma. From the second major Jiangnan case to the Anchor the Monkey operation, he had been involved in them all.0

Regardless of how Qi Xuansu felt, he did not dare (nor could he) refuse the Imperial Preceptor’s summons. Never mind that the man could crush him with...0