Chapter 577: An Audience with the Emperor!

At Asher Jauncy's side stood an elderly man in a purple robe, his beard and hair completely white. There was something oddly soft and effeminate about him, a chill that didn't belong on a human body. Yet Asher still spared him a few extra glances. The old man looked warm and approachable, smiling as if he had never harbored a single ill thought in his life. But beneath that genial mask lurked power so deep it was impossible to measure at a glance. At the very least, he stood at the Half-Step Martial...