Legend of the Great Sage Chapter 1668 - Tally Stick

The Elder of Heavenly Tomes was talking about the gods, immortals, and emperors, but his expression was no different from an attendant receiving customers. His master had already arranged everything, specially sending an old caretaker to invite the esteemed guests, but it was not like he knew all the customs and manners for aristocratic clans. As such, he only passed on a simple notice to let them know.

When the heavenly emperor sent out invitations, who dared to be absent?

Chao Tianjiao and Li Liehuo could only answer “yes” with their heads lowered.

Chao Tianjiao’s gaze towards Li Qingshan became mixed. Let alone them, divine generals, even proper gods of the heavenly palace could not necessarily earn the heavenly emperor’s good graces. The master who had fallen into her lap possessed an extraordinary status in the heavens. Even when the Zhenwu Emperor met him, he had to treat him politely. He was probably one of the close subjects of the heavenly emperor.

Li Qingshan was no longer the same as them anymore. When he went up to the heavens this time, he only needed to lower his head to the heavenly emperor slightly. If he did that, he would probably earn a status no less than the Elder of Heavenly Tomes’.

Sigh, power is everything in the cultivation community. As it turns out, even the heavens aren’t any different. As long as you’re powerful enough, so what if you fall as a demonfolk? Murder, arson, and enlisting bandits—this kid really does know what he’s on about!

Li Liehuo sighed, but he struggled to accept this. Just how many of his colleagues had been slaughtered by demonfolk outside Black Cloud city? And how many more fellow disciples had Li Qingshan killed in the city? It was actually all being made a matter of the past now, and he had even become the heavenly emperor’s honoured guest.

However, Li Qingshan neither looked at them nor the Elder of Heavenly Tomes. Instead, his eyes were fixed on the tally stick in the Elder of Heavenly Tomes’ hand. “What is this?”

The Elder of Heavenly Tomes’ eyes lit up, and he chuckled. “This is a tally stick bestowed by the heavenly emperor.”

A tally stick was a tally wielded by envoys. Regular tally sticks could represent kings and the lords of countries, while this tally stick represented the heavens.

“I’m asking you, what is it!?” Li Qingshan asked again.

“Li Qingshan, don’t tell me you don’t even know what a tally stick is!” Chao Tianjiao said impatiently. She thought Li Qingshan was actively trying to stir trouble again.

Li Qingshan continued to question closely, so she glanced at the tally stick carefully again. However, the tally stick was far too ordinary, even crude. It was just a speckled, yellow bamboo pole, only three metres long, and it was engraved with some extremely simple designs.

A bronze bear head was embedded at the top of the bamboo pole. It was possible to tell that the craftsman tried his best to make it seem valiant and vicious, but the end result seemed slightly foolish. Under the bronze bear head

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