CRACK! CRACK! CRACK! The sound of whipping echoed, followed closely by the resounding blast of a bugle.
Situ Lei, in military attire, stood on a war chariot. His left hand clung to the front railing, while his right hand held up a flag embossed with the Situ Family crest. Behind the chariot were the memorial tablets of the ancestral heads of the Situ Family, retrieved from the Grand Temple.
Indeed, Situ Lei possessed the Sword of the Son of Heaven and a complete set of imperial regalia. However, Cheng State had been established less than a year ago. Not only his soldiers, but even Situ Lei himself felt that all the decorative regalia, including the so-called Sword of the Son of Heaven and Dragon Robes, were merely burdensome.
Situ Lei remembered a saying his father often used when punishing his sons:
"A turtle in a pond pretends to be the Divine Turtle."
