[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-just-maxed-out-and-you-want-me-to-be-a-puppet-":3,"chapter-i-just-maxed-out-and-you-want-me-to-be-a-puppet--i-just-maxed-out-and-you-want-me-to-be-a-puppet--chapter-93":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","I Just Maxed Out, and You Want Me to Be a Puppet Emperor?",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2336532,4569,"Chapter 93: Who cares how I understand it, as long as I","i-just-maxed-out-and-you-want-me-to-be-a-puppet--chapter-93",93,"\u003Cp>Li Chen’s words made Wu Nanzhi stick out her tongue, feeling she had said something wrong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Chen told her not to mind, perhaps he had just misseen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because Li Chen had only met the Crown Princess a few times, his impression of her was still from years ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that aura could not be fake; an ordinary woman could never possess such a presence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He still remembered that when he was searching for Lin Yue’e, she had mentioned seeing the Crown Princess’s maid at the Teaching Bureau.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So Li Chen thought that if Lin Yue’e had not misjudged, the person who had just passed by the distant pavilion might indeed be the Crown Princess.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if the Crown Prince’s mansion had fallen on hard times, it could never come to the point where the Crown Princess herself had to become a courtesan to support the family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So what was the Crown Princess’s purpose in appearing here? How deep were the roots of this Teaching Bureau? Was there a close connection between them?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This place seemed shrouded in too many mysteries, but Li Chen was not interested.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At his level, he only wanted some amusement; complicated matters were too much trouble to consider.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Being emperor didn’t mean he had to handle every single thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he did everything himself, what use would the government offices be? What use would the Ministry of Justice be?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every department of the imperial court had its own duties.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had cultivated to this level to enjoy himself, not to suffer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, he was not particularly close to the Crown Prince.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to Lin Yue’e’s investigation, the Teaching Bureau fell under the Ministry of Rites, whose Minister was aligned with the Second Imperial Prince, who had long been scheming within it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Second Imperial Prince had already returned to the capital, but his whereabouts were unknown—most likely he was inside the Teaching Bureau.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So the Crown Princess’s purpose in coming to the Teaching Bureau was most likely to meet the Second Imperial Prince.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This also explained why the Crown Princess’s maid had repeatedly entered and exited the place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Yue’e had naturally joined the investigation into the Crown Prince’s death, but her approach differed from Pang Jin’s.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that would happen several days later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Li Chen left the Teaching Bureau with Wu Nanzhi, night had already fallen; he casually said, “Want to come to my place?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the best moment for Wu Nanzhi to learn Li Chen’s true identity, but she refused.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was curious about his identity, and knew his family must be in government service.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But she had a feeling that if she actually went to Li Chen’s home, she might never leave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This guy clearly wasn’t the type to let her go—she’d felt this since their first date yesterday.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because this man openly said he wanted to support her and asked her to give herself to him—his intentions were too obvious, leaving her overwhelmed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This made Wu Nanzhi wonder: would Li Chen say the same thing to every woman? Like the one she’d seen on Matchmaking Mountain last time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In truth, Li Chen only acted this way toward her; this tactic wouldn’t work on Chu Ruoyan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Li Chen returned to the palace, the sky was already dark.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, he was studying the “Imperial Dragon Sacred Scripture” given to him by his fifth brother, Li Ran.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The imperial family of the previous dynasty had a fondness for studying such sinister cultivation methods.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The “Imperial Dragon Sacred Scripture” consisted of five volumes; Li Chen had obtained the first one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even without collecting all of them, based on the partial content and annotations, Li Chen could judge:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To a beginner, this was clearly a sinister dual-cultivation technique.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It could rapidly enhance one’s cultivation base by plundering others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When perfected, the body would be protected by divine grace; with this divine grace, one could not only resist external attacks and injuries but also repel all dark arts and curses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the benefit Li Ran had mentioned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the highest level, one could even alter another person’s consciousness through sexual union.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was said the founding emperor of the previous dynasty had seized the empire with the aid of seven powerful women.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But according to records, only that founding emperor had reached that level; all subsequent emperors of the previous dynasty had encountered setbacks—none even reached the Saint Realm, let alone the highest level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Li Ran could find all five volumes, Li Chen might try cultivating to the highest level, because his way of reading books was unusual—he had his own understanding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These techniques were like arithmetic problems; his method of calculation differed from others’, yet his results were always correct—that was the extraordinary nature of his enlightenment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was also why, without a master, he could still cultivate to this level through self-study.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His whole approach was abstract cultivation: don’t ask how I cultivate, just ask whether I’ve reached max level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If I can cultivate it, doesn’t that prove my method works?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So when guiding Li Sining’s cultivation, Li Chen didn’t care how she understood the techniques—he only cared about the outcome.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In truth, Li Chen’s cultivation method was based on his innate talent surpassing that of the technique’s original author.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Generally, the authors of cultivation techniques wrote them based on their own cultivation process.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But his own cultivation physique, the elixirs he had consumed, the great opportunities he had encountered—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He couldn’t possibly write all that down, and others couldn’t replicate it exactly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All great cultivators who reached the pinnacle had their own unique legendary experiences.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So later generations studying their techniques would become confused.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They’d think: I followed the instructions exactly, so why can’t I break through?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If lucky, they’d encounter a special opportunity and awaken, finally understanding what they’d been missing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If unlucky, they might be stuck at that realm for life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was why some techniques could only be perfected by their original authors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The emperors of the Tian Ce Dynasty were no different; the founding emperor had reached the Saint Realm’s peak, and the second emperor had followed the first’s method.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps he received guidance from the founding emperor; though not as powerful, he at least reached the Saint Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After that, it got worse and worse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because they simply copied the founding emperor’s technique, adding their own “idiotic” annotations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This caused each later emperor to cultivate more chaotically than the last.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Second Imperial Prince didn’t cultivate this technique; instead, he found a Saint Realm master, allowing his talent to flourish—he had already reached the Observing Heaven Realm at such a young age.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Entering the Heavenly Abyss Realm was just a matter of time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Chen was even more extreme: he had only read the founding emperor’s original technique; he never looked at the annotations added by later emperors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the time, Li Chen had thought: How dare you write annotations when your cultivation is so low?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If you could even understand it, why haven’t you reached the Saint Realm?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This kid didn’t even follow the founding emperor’s logic—he cultivated in his own abstract way, and somehow succeeded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In other words, Li Chen’s current cultivation level was at least equal to that of the Tian Ce Dynasty’s founding emperor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After finishing the “Imperial Dragon Sacred Scripture,” night had fallen; just as Li Chen was about to summon Chu Ruoyan, a eunuch came to report that Ji Lianyu wished to see him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Chen had expected Ji Lianyu would come again, but he hadn’t expected it so soon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was Lin Yue’e working that hard? Was it too deliberate?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he saw Ji Lianyu’s slightly apologetic expression, Li Chen knew it must be Xu Zifeng causing trouble again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What, has Zifeng been arrested again?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Chen put down the book, told Ji Lianyu to sit beside him, and began preparing hot dishes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes, Your Majesty. Zifeng has always been combative since childhood.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, she was growing more accustomed to it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This child is really a handful—he gives me no peace.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Xu Zifeng knew Li Chen said that, he’d be furious enough to spit blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What kind of thing is that! Are you my father? Do I have to make you worry less?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1383,"2026-06-20T21:59:17.413Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","8f8fe889b595293fea7543c0ba6f8bcaeea8cc749385fc9672dbcaec5f4fb917","i-just-maxed-out-and-you-want-me-to-be-a-puppet--chapter-94","i-just-maxed-out-and-you-want-me-to-be-a-puppet--chapter-92",766,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-just-maxed-out-and-you-want-me-to-be-a-puppet--cover.jpg"]