Chapter 242

"Sining is going to break through today; would you like to go take a look?" Chu Ruoyan said gently.

The women of the harem were truly good to Li Sining. After all, Li Sining was their sister-in-law and Li Chen's most doted-upon younger sister, with a limitless future.

They also remembered all of Li Sining's important days.

Now, Li Sining was truly showered with thousands of favors.

Some time ago, she had already taken the Heavenly-Grade Essence-Breaking Pill.

According to Li Chen, as long as she felt the sensation, she could prepare for the breakthrough herself without needing to follow any experience.

After all, she was the only one cultivating this technique so far.

Li Sining was no longer the cultivation novice she was at the beginning; she had been initiated for quite some time.

"Good, I will go take a look right now." She was his younger sister after all, and Li Chen was certainly very concerned.

When he arrived at the Heaven-Performing Dai Wuchang with Chu Ruoyan, it was already surrounded by people.

Not to mention these women of the May Tian Ce Dynasty, even the Empress of the Sassan Dynasty, Alisha and her sister, had come.

The two of them could be said to be doing quite well here; it couldn't be said that they were familiar with the other women, but there were no conflicts either.

Seeing Li Chen appear, the consorts bowed respectfully and continued to watch Li Sining's breakthrough.

Li Chen saw Li Sining sitting cross-legged in the center of the field, her body surrounded by a layer of faint purple light, and a rich fluctuation of spiritual power permeated the air.

Her brows were slightly furrowed; she was clearly making an all-out effort to break through the bottleneck.

The surrounding spectators held their breath, afraid of disturbing her.

Suddenly, a violent energy fluctuation erupted from Li Sining's body, and the purple light instantly became dazzling, as if it were about to shroud the entire Heaven-Performing Dai Wuchang.

Above her back, a huge halo gradually emerged, within which lightning faintly flickered, emitting a "crackle" sound.

As the halo rotated, a powerful aura emanated from Li Sining's body, and the surrounding air seemed to be stirred by this power, forming ripples visible to the naked eye.

Boom!

With a loud bang, Li Sining's body shook violently, the halo above her head instantly expanded, and the purple light became even more brilliant.

Immediately after, a low dragon roar came from the sky, as if a giant dragon were circling in the clouds.

Everyone looked up and saw a huge dragon shadow looming in the nine heavens, with lightning entwined around it, its momentum magnificent.

This fluctuation made Empress Alisha somewhat unable to understand, and seeing Mu Qingrou beside her, she also had a look of disbelief.

Only those at the Sage Realm like them knew that only a normal breakthrough to the Heavenly Abyss Realm would have this kind of posture. Li Sining was only breaking through to the Soul Spirit Realm, still a long way from the Heavenly Abyss Realm; how could there be such a heaven-and-earth anomaly?

Could it be that Li Sining had some heaven-defying cultivation talent that could trigger resonance?

Considering she was Li Chen's younger sister, this made Alisha and Mu Qingrou feel relieved.

If she weren't Li Chen's younger sister, Mu Qingrou would have taken her as her closing disciple no matter what.

Just then, among the crowd of consorts, Li Sining's eyes suddenly opened, and a trace of purple electric light flashed in them.

Her aura reached its peak at this moment, and her whole person seemed to have been reborn, the spiritual power fluctuation on her body being several times stronger than before.

She stood up slowly, exhaled a breath of turbid air, and a satisfied smile appeared on her face.

"She succeeded!" Chu Ruoyan said excitedly, her eyes full of gratification.

When she first entered the palace, she was the only one in Li Chen's harem, and it was Li Sining who kept her company, so she had the best relationship with Li Sining.

Now seeing Li Sining succeed in her breakthrough, she was also very happy.

Li Chen also revealed a smile, walked up, and patted Li Sining on the shoulder: "Not bad, the breakthrough went very smoothly."

The surrounding spectators also expressed their congratulations one after another, and the Empress of the Sassan Dynasty, Alisha and her sister, also walked up and said with a smile: "Congratulations to Princess Sining for a successful breakthrough; your future achievements will be limitless."

Li Sining expressed her thanks to the consorts, then looked at Li Chen with a grin and said triumphantly: "Brother, my strength has improved quite a bit now! You can't look down on me anymore in the future!"

Li Chen didn't spoil her too much and directly said: "Good, then let the two of us have a match right now, let me see how your strength is."

Li Sining immediately indicated that she was hungry and would go eat first, then ran away.

This made the nearby consorts beam with joy; it seemed Li Sining also knew how 'heavy' Li Chen's hand was.

When Li Chen usually sparred with the consorts, he would always make them feel pain and fear, but without hurting them.

This made the consorts in the harem know Li Chen's prowess.

Li Sining had already fled, and next was Li Chen's round of randomly grabbing people.

Alisha and her sister were standing the closest, so naturally, they couldn't escape.

Other consorts looked at them and Li Chen leaving with envious eyes, but they weren't in a hurry; it probably wouldn't be long before a palace maid summoned them.

Qingqiucheng in the eastern part of the May Tian Ce Dynasty.

"What? Li Chen wants me to go to my fief? Is he even worthy?"

Seeing the imperial edict brought by Li Chen's men, Li Yu was furious.

Even the late Emperor didn't make me go to my fief; what right do you, Li Chen, have?

Actually, it was only because he was on his own turf that Li Yu dared to be so arrogant; if he were in front of Li Chen, he wouldn't dare to say these things.

His trusted aide, Zhao Changgong, glanced at the edict, his brows furrowed, and said: "Your Highness, it seems His Majesty is dissatisfied with your performance in this southern expedition."

At this moment, a military staff officer in charge of intelligence interjected: "I think there might be another reason. Don't you think the Wang Wang Shizi of Zhennan is strangely calm?" As he spoke, he took out some intelligence.

It was impossible for him to know about the memorial the Wang Wang Shizi of Zhennan wrote to Li Chen, but he still understood other things.

For example, the abnormal contrast in the behavior of the Wang Wang Shizi of Zhennan's son, Xu Zifeng, in the Imperial Capital, who had started speaking well of his father everywhere.

After hearing about the betrayal of the Ji family, the Wang Wang Shizi of Zhennan had arrested many members of the Ji family.

As a result, after one imperial edict from Li Chen, the Wang Wang Shizi of Zhennan released them all.

According to the staff officer, the Wang Wang Shizi of Zhennan seemed to be laying out a plan, perhaps aimed at the Third Imperial Wang Wang Shizi, to make the Third Imperial Wang Wang Shizi be careful.

Li Yu thought for a moment and said: "You mean, the Wang Wang Shizi of Zhennan is fanning the flames for Li Chen to deal with me? If I don't agree to go to my fief, he will have an excuse to make things difficult for me."

The more Li Yu thought about it, the more he felt that this possibility was very high.

He knew what kind of person the Wang Wang Shizi of Zhennan was; after being stood up by him last time, he had been enduring it, probably just waiting to unleash a big move.

What Li Yu didn't expect was that the Wang Wang Shizi of Zhennan would actually use his own tactics to deal with him.

Last time, Li Yu had gained the help of the Second Group Army after acting like brothers, and together they fought the Wang Wang Shizi of Zhennan.

!

The Wang Wang Shizi of Zhennan was probably planning the same thing this time.

If he refused to go be a vassal king, he would be beaten before long, but if he agreed, wouldn't he lose his military power?

Without military power, he would have no way to continue seeking the throne, and wouldn't even be able to keep his status.

One must know that Li Yu had offended too many people, and these people all wanted him dead; how could he agree?

Regardless of whether this was the Wang Wang Shizi of Zhennan's idea or not, Li Yu counted it against him.

Just as Li Yu was thinking of countermeasures, a soldier came to report that the Second Wang Wang Shizi, Li Xian, had arrived outside the palace.

Because when the two of them cooperated, they always relied on subordinates to pass information.

Li Yu was afraid that Li Xian would play some tricks, so he demanded that Li Xian come to Qingqiucheng to see his trump card, otherwise, there would be no way to talk, and Li Xian agreed.

With Li Yu's permission, Li Xian brought his men into the palace.

The two brothers hadn't seen each other for many years; ever since they left the Imperial Capital, one had been in a sect, and the other in an army camp.

When the Crown Wang Wang Shizi died suddenly, they hid far away, not daring to go back at all, fearing the old Emperor's punishment.

But in just these few years, the entire May Tian Ce Dynasty had changed; the old Emperor died suddenly, Li Chen became Emperor, and the May Tian Ce Dynasty had two epic victories, increasing the territory.

And the two of them were still running around for the throne.

The moment Li Yu and Li Xian's eyes met, there was an instinctive hostility and an inexplicable sense of vicissitudes.

Having competed for so many years, their relationship was not good to begin with, but they just didn't expect to meet in this way.

This time when Li Xian came, he was followed by quite a few experts.

Among them was a powerful master from the hidden sect, the Returning Void Boundless Sect.

His strength was unknown; he was just sent by the female cultivator Li Xian was currying favor with to protect him for a journey.

The appearance of this powerful master easily made Li Yu have no doubt that the Returning Void Boundless Sect had already helped Li Xian.

As for how powerful the Returning Void Boundless Sect was, the secular world certainly didn't know, but Li Xian's backer, the Heaven-Crying Sword Tomb, had some understanding.

That was a sect that had been passed down from ancient times to the present, and it was said to be one of the few sects capable of ascending.

To put it in more high-end terms, they were the so-called 'Immortal Sects', sects with magic treasures bestowed by immortals.

They were what Li Chen called the Immortal-Worshipping Clan, the die-hard fans of the Immortal Clan.

Li Chen even speculated that the World-Suppressing Copper Coffin might also be in the Returning Void Boundless Sect.

Because according to the investigation of the ruins of that ancient beast-taming sect by the imperial court and the Nine Abyss Holy Domain, it could be determined that that beast-taming sect was an Immortal-Worshipping Clan in the past.

Besides the people from the Returning Void Boundless Sect, some of the people around Li Xian were swindled from the Wang Wang Shizi of Jing'an's son, Li Yang.

Looking at this posture, it seemed as if there were a lot of sects supporting Li Xian.

These sects only needed to send a representative to follow Li Xian to give people this illusion.

As for there being no Sage Realm experts in the team, that was also easy to understand; which Sage Realm expert had nothing to do and could listen to your command? Do you think you are Li Chen?

Without any pleasantries, Li Xian walked in and sat in the secondary seat of the palace.

After all, this was Li Yu's territory; no matter how bold Li Xian was, he couldn't directly snatch Li Yu's seat.

The two of them were also too familiar with each other; now they had put down all hatred to deal with Li Chen first. As long as Li Chen didn't die, they would never be able to become Emperor.

After chatting for a bit, Li Xian saw the edict in Li Yu's hand and curiously asked what it was.

Although they were cooperating, Li Xian still had more schemes; as an imperial prince, he still recognized an imperial edict.

"Take it and see for yourself."

As he spoke, Li Yu threw the edict over and brought up the matter of the Wang Wang Shizi of Zhennan.

He looked at Li Xian, his appearance seeming to say: What do you think I should do?

Li Xian finished reading carefully and knew what had happened.

He said: "You should just agree."

(End of chapter)