The only thing Anji could not understand was how Liu Guiya missed the obvious signs. Was she unable to sense this corruption? Then again, Anji still had no idea what this strange energy pressure was. Her closest guess was poison. It affected the Emperor like slow poison, but she had no idea what it was. The only hint she had was when Liu Guiya explained that it would turn a high-level cultivator berserk on contact directly. Yet, she was unable to detect it when it was inside a non-cultivator's body.
What was this exactly?
Neither the Empress nor the Emperor knew what Anji was looking at. However, her golden eyes seemed to be looking through the Emperor rather than at him. It was eerie, but mystic cultivators were often not very human. This had to be one of those moments.
"The ancestral hall only holds the ashes of previous royal family members of the direct bloodline," the Emperor explained nervously. "We don't hide anything else. Is there something wrong?"
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