Down on the blood-jade VIP stage of Banquet Moon #1. Second Uncle Gu Yin drew a short ceremonial dagger from his boot and lunged frantically at the thick spirit-copper power cable of his tripod-mounted Capital Master Broadcast Camera!
“Cut the feed! Smash the projector crystal!” Golden Heir Gu Wuji roared beside him, firing a blast of golden star-qi at the stage’s auxiliary signal tower while shouting into his lapel microphone to the ten million guests eating hotpot overhead:
“Fellow Daoists, do not be deceived by Gu Changsheng’s cheap street theater! Those twenty naked men scrubbing pots in the dishwashing tubs are paid actors hired by the Frost-Pine branch to slander my Second Uncle! Our Galactic Main Hall has cared for the thirty-six branch systems with saintly benevolence for eighty thousand years—we have never poisoned a single bowl of soup or harmed a single branch child!”
CLANG—SPARK!
Second Uncle Gu Yin’s dagger struck the spirit-copper power cable of the broadcast camera—and bounced right off as a warm, golden-silver Domestic Shield Rune flashed along the wire!
Up on the porch of the [Galactic Flying Courtyard], Gu Changsheng rested one palm on the open lid of [Dad’s Care-Package Upgrade Box]. Meanwhile, sixteen-year-old Ye Xiao and Grandpa Yao linked [Dad’s Plot-Spoiler Notebook], Headmaster Hong’s [Blood-Jade Contract], Chief Envoy Gu Biao’s master scroll. The hundred-thousand-year-old [Original Mortal Carpenter’s Genealogy Book] directly into the Galactic Capital’s central sky-screen grid!
