Chapter 30

• With displeasure, the minister rose to his feet, took a glance at Zhang Ruochen behind him and said, “Ninth Prince, won’t you bow down to Empress Chi Yao?”
• “Rather than her, I only worship heaven and earth, as well as my parents.”
• After these words, Zhang Ruochen went through the Imperial Ancestral Temple and the secret door. Then he walked step by step along the stone ladder behind the door toward the Savage God’s Pool.