Chapter 580: Chapter 580: No Consorts in the Six Palaces
Chapter 580: No Concubines in the Six Palaces
Many ministers desired to offer their daughters to the Emperor, girls from aristocratic families all aimed to marry the Emperor.
However, the Emperor favored only the Empress, creating a scenario of no concubines in the six palaces. The Empress Dowager tried to force the Emperor to marry her niece, but the Emperor strongly disregarded her.
The ministers were dissatisfied, but the power of the Emperor grew stronger and stronger, and no one could force him.
Originally handsome, the Emperor became even more stunningly beautiful after his cultivation, resembling a Heavenly God. He attracted not only the daughters of aristocratic families in the mortal world but also caught the attention of a female cultivator surnamed Qi, who wished to become his Cultivation Couple.
This female cultivator surnamed Qi had some karmic ties with the Empress. Her mother fell in love with the father of the Empress but was rejected since the father loved another female cultivator.
To win over the father of the Empress, she schemed for the Empress’s mother to drink Spirit Water.
Spirit Water could be considered a beneficial thing; drinking the corresponding Spirit Water could greatly provoke the awakening of a corresponding Spirit Root. For instance, drinking Golden Spirit Water could awaken the Metal Spirit Root, and drinking Wood Spirit Water could awaken the Wood Spirit Root.
However, since it forcibly induces the Spirit Root, the energy required for such induction naturally comes from the mother’s body, thus greatly harming the mother.
If the mother is a mortal, there’s hardly any chance of survival; after giving birth to a baby with a Spirit Root, the mother would die.
If the mother is a cultivator, her life might be spared, but her own Spirit Root could become weaker or even vanish because of the induced baby’s Spirit Root.
Essentially, it’s almost as if the mother’s Spirit Root is exchanged for the baby’s Spirit Root.
Therefore, the method of inducing a baby’s Spirit Root by drinking Spirit Water is not accepted by the mothers.
However, the water that the mother of the female cultivator surnamed Qi schemed for the mother of the Empress to drink was not any ordinary Spirit Water but a mixture of five kinds of Spirit Waters.
One kind of Spirit Water could harm the mother; after the Empress’s mother drank the Five Spirits Water, the result could easily be imagined. Her body couldn’t withstand it; she risked her life to give birth to her daughter but ultimately succumbed.
The father of the Empress later killed that female cultivator, but a great mistake had already been made. Not only did he lose his beloved, but his daughter also ended up with the mixed Five Spirits Roots!
The father of the Empress felt sorry for his daughter, fearing that men might abandon her after becoming powerful, hence he instructed his daughter not to pass the Cultivation Methods to the Emperor.
But how could he have imagined that his daughter loved the Emperor so deeply, she disregarded everything else?
However, the Emperor loved the Empress, and it was for her he embarked on the path of cultivation. Thus, no matter what the female cultivator surnamed Qi said, he would never give up his Empress to be with that female cultivator.
In her rage, that female cultivator resorted to harming the Empress—she damaged the Empress’s Dantian, destroyed her cultivation, and severely injured her.
The Empress was injured, which greatly enraged the Emperor. Despite his cultivation being inferior to the female cultivator surnamed Qi, he fought fiercely with her.
In the end, by taking advantage of the female cultivator surnamed Qi’s reluctance to kill him, he used a mutual destruction technique and viciously killed the female cultivator Qi.
Upon learning that the female cultivator surnamed Qi had ruined his daughter, the father of the Empress deeply regretted that when he had killed the mother of the Qi cultivator, he did not eliminate all threats, which cursed his daughter in the end.
He left his daughter to search for Spiritual Medicine to save her.
The Emperor wanted to revive the Empress, but the Empress originally had low cultivation, now lost her cultivation, and suffered irreversible severe injuries. He feared that if he left, the Empress could be murdered by others.
Therefore, he spent all his wealth to refine this palace, traveling with the Empress everywhere, hoping to find the Spiritual Medicine that could heal the Dantian and revive the Empress.
Every time he found a medicine, he planted it in the Imperial Palace’s back garden to ensure that when needed, it could be immediately harvested and used.