Secret Records of the Leader of the Beichen Sword Sect-Chapter 975 - 501: Omen

What the hell...

Tie Dan stood up, looking around, seeing only piles of treasure as tall as mountains, and not a single person in sight. He glanced at the half piece of Jade remaining in his hand.

Could someone really pull a sleight of hand right under his nose and take the Jade away? Moreover, what was taken was precisely the untouched half. Could it be that he calculated wrong earlier? That the Jade Pendant is unrelated, but this piece of Jade is the real monster?

Or is this Jade really some kind of sensor? Because he had let his Primordial Spirit remain outside for too long just now, connecting to different channels?

You know, it’s entirely possible, since quantum communication works on the same principle. If you cast a line into the abyss, sooner or later, something will crawl up along the fishing line...

"Rumble" 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

At this moment, the treasure vault door opened, and a team of eunuchs filed in, carrying countless gold and silver vessels and exotic beast materials, as if preparing for a banquet. Tie Dan thought for a moment and decided not to squat there any longer. He stashed the half piece of Jade into his clothing, cast a seemingly real yet illusionary spell, transforming into a bottle, blending in to slip out of the treasure vault.

The eunuchs remained oblivious, carrying Tie Dan along with the heap of materials, sending them to the Prince Mansion’s back kitchen for preparation. Meanwhile, music and dancing could still be heard from the mansion, hosting a grand banquet for officials even at this late hour, as if the commotion caused by the Imperial Music Bureau was trivial.

However, Tie Dan indeed threw a talisman earlier to blow up the Prince Mansion. Though intercepted by experts and failed to make a sound, the outside of the Prince Mansion was already under martial law, with numerous Divine Generals and Heavenly Army guarding all sides of the palace walls. The Bright Mirror Treasure shone its spotlight in all directions, ensuring not even a fly could enter.

Though he was already inside...

Tie Dan contemplated briefly, then gave up thinking further. In this situation, he couldn’t possibly stealth his way out of the palace, and being trapped inside would inevitably lead to a fight, so he decided not to flee. Besides, no matter how he calculates, he always miscalculates and hits roadblocks, so why not just mess around?

Didn’t that eunuch say they wanted to kill their masters, with a time limit too? Then why not kill until dawn and see what happens?

Thus, Tie Dan remained still, transformed into a bottle, and sat beside a platter pretending to be a jug, allowing the eunuchs to carry him into the palace, directly into the venue. In the Forbidden Palace’s square of the Prince Mansion, tables were set up to invite the gathered officials to dine.

Tie Dan could also see that tonight’s banquet in the harem hosted the upper class, while gathered here were the officials with less than two thousand stones, who were not originally qualified to attend.

Yet, in recent days, they fled with the court due to continuous ordeals, and with the Demon Sect experts infiltrating Jiangdu to commit crimes, the officials flocked to the palace for protection under the guise of "protecting the Holy Emperor." The palace had no choice but to prepare a late-night meal for them.

But the distance was already quite close, and Tie Dan could see the Forbidden Army guarding the gate, all already Nascent Soul God Generals, estimating that now only a palace gate stood between him and the ’masters,’ who could reach the Immortal Emperor’s throne with a single charge.

But the question is, would storming in and killing the Immortal Emperor actually accomplish anything?

Earlier, Tie Dan would have drawn his sword and charged out. But now, Tie Dan realized that both the Immortal Emperor and Generals, the Immortal Palace before him, were merely facades, actors onstage. The way the eunuch described it, the so-called ’master’ should be the mysterious Sky Demon Company behind the scenes. Would it end up with him being used as a tool, gaining nothing again... hmm?

Tie Dan sharply turned his head and made eye contact with a small official among the dining officials, who was staring at him, dumbfounded.

The small official, startled, glanced around to find that the Forbidden Army eunuchs seemed not to notice Tie Dan, then hurriedly averted his gaze, pretending to see nothing!

Yet, Tie Dan had already flickered forward to stand before him.

The small official, sweating profusely under Tie Dan’s intense gaze, knelt to the ground, drinking and eating in a state of panic, almost choking in his haste, doing a terrible job of pretending.

Tie Dan squinted at him, squatted down, and tugged at the Seal on the other’s waist for a glance. A copper seal and yellow ribbon, a four hundred stones small official...

"What’s your position?"

The small official shivered, looked at the group gobbling down food and drink around them, and knew he couldn’t keep up the pretense. He had no choice but to brace himself and whisper,

"I, I’m, Taibo Minister, under Tai Chang, duties include sacrificial divination and calculating auspicious times..."

"Oh? Sacrifice?"

Tie Dan’s eyes brightened, taking out the half piece of Jade from his chest,

"Do you recognize this? Is it under your jurisdiction?"

Taibo Minister glanced, quickly pointing to the left,

"The Grand Ancestral Temple welcomes gods and sacrifices to ancestors, the ritual tools are for reporting to the Heavenly Human, this item should be asked of the High Priest!"

The two glanced at the old man on the left, already asleep with his head in the soup bowl.

Tie Dan stared at him,

"Even broken like this you can recognize it! I just ask you! What happened when Empress Liang entered the palace?"

Taibo Minister, sweating buckets, quickly pointed to the right,

"Recording national histories, documenting auspicious events and disasters, this matter should be asked of the Imperial Historian!"

The two looked at the old man on the right, drunk and passed out in his own vomit.

Tie Dan raised a fist and shook it,

"Do you know what my fist governs? Come on, ask it."

Taibo Minister felt like crying,

"I-I don’t know, my whole family did Taibo so I did Taibo, but they never taught me, I really don’t know..."

Tie Dan turned to look at the other small officials, ignoring him, seizing the moment to gorge on meat and wine, like they were starving ghosts reincarnated,