Inside the sunlit pine carpenter’s shed, First Founder Gu Mu held two items in his calloused hands that made the entire Central Star-Cluster’s spiritual ley-lines hum like ten thousand plucked harp strings!
In his left hand rested a square, four-by-four-inch block of warm, golden-green primordial mulberry heartwood attached to a braided carpenter’s ink-line:
The authentic, hundred-thousand-year-old [Supreme Gu Clan Ancestral Seal & Primordial Carpenter’s Ink-Marker] (Peak Rank-9 / Half-Step Rank-10 Divine Founding Heirloom)!
Out on the tribunal dais fifty yards away, Corrupt Patriarch Gu Tianba stared at that glowing four-inch wooden block on the live sky-screen and let out a hoarse, despairing shriek:
“The... the real [Supreme Gu Clan Ancestral Seal]! It was hidden inside old Gu Mu’s leather tool belt all along!”
In the VIP gallery, Sect Gambler Elder Qian gasped aloud, explaining to the ten million buzzing spectators around the plaza:
“No wonder Patriarch Gu Tianba and his ancestors could never activate more than forty percent of the Central Star-Cluster’s Ten-Thousand-Star Shelter Array over the past eighty thousand years! The solid-gold seal that Gu Tianba wears on his waist is just a counterfeit replica forged by Butler Gu Gui! Only the real [Supreme Gu Clan Ancestral Seal & Carpenter’s Ink-Marker] carved by First Founder Gu Mu himself holds 100% administrative control over the spiritual veins, star-gates.
