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"Qintian Monitor Qi Yu, greets the two Highnesses and all the high officials present."

Dressed in spotless white, Qi Yu approached the golden throne room and saluted the high seat where King Huai and the Crown Prince were seated, as well as all the civil and military officials gathered around.

With the extraordinary status of the Qintian Monitor, even when facing numerous officials and the powerful nobles of Da Xia, including the current Crown Prince, there was no need to perform the grand bowing ceremony.

"My lord, there is no need for such formalities," the Crown Prince said warmly.

Qi Yu, the youngest disciple of the Tower Supervisor of the Qintian Monitor, had been sent. They had expected the Qintian Monitor to send anyone, but to their surprise, it was the seventh disciple of the Tower Supervisor.

Qi Yu had a slender physique and delicate features with clear, distinct eyes, black and white. He looked up to the high seat and said, "My teacher has sent me here to follow the commands of your Highness and your Lordship."

King Huai nodded slightly and briefly recounted the matter at hand. At the end, he said, "I shall ask the seventh disciple of the Tower Supervisor to discern whether the words spoken by Gu Chen are true or false."

Qi Yu nodded faintly, his clear gaze turning toward Gu Chen.

Gu Chen also scrutinized Qi Yu, having heard of the renown of the Qintian Monitor; after all, the reputation of "one Monitor and two Departments" of Da Xia had spread far and wide. Gu Chen from the Mingjing Department had learned about that long ago, but this was truly the first time he had encountered someone from the Qintian Monitor.

Curiosity about the enigmatic Tower Supervisor of the Qintian Monitor, who was said to reside on the highest floor of the Star Gazing Platform, was very strong in Gu Chen's mind.

Swift and decisive in his actions, Qi Yu looked at Gu Chen and asked directly, "Did you intentionally cause the deaths of Cao Zhen, Liang Xu, and Zhuo Zhibin?"

At that moment, Uncle Dingyuan and the Marquis of Wuwei were watching Gu Chen with cold, mocking smiles.

Gu Chen remained silent for a long while before finally opening his mouth to say, "I did not."

"A mouthful of lies!" Uncle Dingyuan rebuked.

Marquis of Wuwei said, "I ask the seventh disciple of the Tower Supervisor to use the Qi Watching Skill to ascertain the truth."

The Qi Watching Skill allowed one to see a person's energy and the pull of their destiny; whether Gu Chen was lying or not would be clear upon using the Qi Watching Skill.

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Qi Yu nodded slightly, and a strange light flickered in his clear eyes. In that moment, Gu Chen seemed to become transparent before him, his body enveloped in colors, while countless fine threads above his head connected him to the heavens and earth.

These threads linking earth and heaven represented Gu Chen's fate, indicating his future.

Once the Qi Watching Skill is sufficiently mastered, one could manipulate these threads with their mind to know what the future holds for the person before them.

But in the next moment, just as Qi Yu was about to look deeper, he suddenly saw a blur before his eyes, followed by a muffled groan. An endless burst of purple light shone before him, like a purple sun exploding in his vision.

"How can this be?!"

Qi Yu's eyes widened in shock. What had he seen in Gu Chen?

An expanse of purple energy!

Endless streams of purple energy rose straight from the top of Gu Chen's head to the sky, obscuring the threads that represented his fate. At the highest point, the purple energy coalesced into a true dragon, its teeth and claws bared, exuding an air of tremendous dignity and fear, its eyes looking down on Qi Yu from above.

"Purple energy reaching to the sky, nobility beyond words, a true dragon's fate?"

Qi Yu's heart was filled with extreme astonishment; he never imagined he would see such a fate on Gu Chen.

He couldn't believe it; a true dragon's fate, something rare over a thousand years, was right before his eyes.

In the presence of someone with a true dragon's fate, the Qi Watching Skill was utterly ineffective. It wasn't a lack of skill on his part; even if his senior fellow disciples had come instead, they too would have seen nothing on Gu Chen.

At this moment, Qi Yu was perplexed. Why had his teacher sent him here?

Logically, when someone with a true dragon's fate appeared in the lands of Jiuzhou, even in Tiandu, the Tower Supervisor of the Qintian Monitor should have been the first to know.

And if that were so, he would not have been sent, because coming here would be fruitless, revealing nothing.

The level of a true dragon's fate is too high, only the Heavenly Staring Technique might penetrate it somewhat.

Especially considering the rich and potent magnitude of Gu Chen's purple energy, soaring into the sky, even among those with a true dragon's fate, it's incredibly rare—ranking at the very top.

And there is no fate more noble than a true dragon's fate; among all destinies, it is foremost.

Of course, even with the same true dragon's fate, each individual has their unique aspects; it doesn't mean that having the fate of a true dragon definitely denotes the position of an Emperor.

Purple energy, revered among destinies for its nobility, suggests great wealth and high status for those whose fate contains even a strand of it.

In Qi Yu's eyes, all the officials gathered possessed purple energy to varying degrees.

Yet, in comparison to other nobles, King Huai and the Crown Prince were distinct.

The fates of both King Huai and the Crown Prince were true dragon's fates, abundant with purple energy. Fierce purple energy formed a true dragons above their heads, but the intensity of their purple energy was somewhat lacking compared to Gu Chen's.

But different from Gu Chen, within the purple energy of King Huai and the Crown Prince, there were threads of gold; a regal purple-golden fate represented the sovereign.

Of course, not all emperors will have a true dragon's fate; the previous generation's Emperor was such a case.

That Da Xia prospered so greatly was due to this generation producing two individuals with true dragon's fates, the Xia Emperor and King Huai; it was hard for Da Xia not to thrive.

Compared with King Huai and the Crown Prince, Gu Chen's fate indicated that he would stand at the pinnacle of Jiuzhou in the future, but he was not the Emperor.