The Heaven-shattering: I and Wu Shi compete for the throne

Chapter 680 Seclusion, Expected

Because she felt that the ruthless empress would definitely not escape Li Daoming's clutches in the future, and that he would succeed in his schemes, and that she, along with Xia Qinghuang, Jiang Qianxi, Kong Lin, and Xin Hua, would cultivate with him.

Although she will definitely be very angry and indignant at first, she will get used to it after experiencing it a few times.

By then, the news of her marriage to Li Daoming will naturally reach others, and she will move into the Ninth Heaven. There is no need to persuade her now.

Soon, the three suppressed their inner turmoil and thoughts, and instead teased the ruthless empress, even probing what had happened to make her change her attitude so quickly, from wanting to tear Li Daoming to pieces to being willing to marry him.

However, the ruthless empress found it difficult to speak, and Li Daoming interjected with jokes, managing to brush off all three of them.

While joking and trying to gather information, they also discussed some serious matters.

For example, the arrangements for their wedding five thousand years later; how to bestow certain benefits exclusively reserved for the emperor and empress upon the ruthless empress; for example…

Li Daoming didn't chat with the Ruthless Empress, Ye Yixian, Ye Yunxian, and Ye Liuxian for long before leaving with them to prepare for their grand wedding five thousand years later.

As for the ruthless empress?

She naturally went into seclusion to consolidate her newly achieved cultivation level.

Although she broke through to become an emperor, she did not truly break through to become a quasi-immortal emperor. Her physical body, primordial spirit, and Dao fruit had not yet reached the level of a quasi-immortal emperor. She could only be considered to have entered the quasi-immortal emperor realm on one side, and was only a half-step quasi-immortal emperor.

She needs to spend a lot of time and energy to completely resolve the conflict between the Sixth Secret Realm and the Five Great Secret Realms, as well as the conflict between her physical body and primordial spirit, and to cultivate her physical body, primordial spirit, and Dao Fruit to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor level before she can be considered to have truly broken through to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor level.

Before she truly broke through to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor level, her cultivation realm was always unstable, and her physical body and primordial spirit would continue to be injured. She needed to expend most of her mental energy to stabilize her unstable cultivation realm and to use profound techniques to restore the injuries to her physical body and primordial spirit.

Otherwise, she could fall into the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm at any time, and then be reduced to ashes by the intense internal conflict and the vast power of the Quasi-Immortal Emperor, resulting in her death and the dissipation of her Dao.

Therefore, her most important task now is to go into seclusion to cultivate and comprehend the Dao, stabilize her realm, and strive to truly break through to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm as soon as possible. As for everything else, it is secondary.

However, marrying Li Daoming was a different story!

After she married Li Daoming, she was able to cultivate Yin and Yang with him. During this time, Li Daoming would not help her resolve the conflict between the Sixth Secret Realm and the Five Great Secret Realms, or between her physical body and primordial spirit.

However, in the union of Yin and Yang, endless creation can be performed, restoring the damage to her physical body and primordial spirit, and merging with her mind and spirit, elevating her realm, allowing her to perfect her Dao fruit at a higher level, more easily stabilize her realm, and truly break through to Quasi-Immortal Emperor more quickly.

Therefore, marrying Li Daoming would be entirely beneficial to the ruthless empress.

As Li Daoming, Ye Yixian, Ye Yunxian, and Ye Liuxian left, the Ruthless Empress activated the magic array that Li Daoming had set up earlier, calmed her mind, and immersed herself in her own body.

She began to comprehend and resolve the conflicts between her sixth secret realm and the five great secret realms, as well as her physical body and primordial spirit, cultivating a powerful physical body and primordial spirit to perfect her Dao fruit.

At this moment, she needs to use most of her mental energy to suppress the conflict between the sixth secret realm and the five great secret realms, as well as the conflict between her physical body and primordial spirit.

However, she has already broken through the King Realm and ascended to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor Realm. Even if only a small part of her mind can be used to comprehend the Dao and cultivate, and to perfect her own Great Dao, her cultivation progress is much faster than before the breakthrough.

Moreover, with the conflict between the Sixth Secret Realm and the Five Great Secret Realms, as well as a portion of her physical body and primordial spirit, completely resolved, the mental exertion she needed to suppress the intense conflict within her body gradually decreased.

This allowed her to focus more on enlightenment and cultivation, perfecting her own Dao Fruit, which accelerated her progress. However, even so, eliminating the intense conflicts between the Sixth Secret Realm and the Five Great Secret Realms, as well as her physical body and primordial spirit, and cultivating her physical body, primordial spirit, and Dao Fruit to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor level, would not be something she could do in a short time; it would take at least two or three hundred thousand years.

Time flies, and nearly five thousand years have passed in the blink of an eye.

The Ruthless Empress's Dojo, inside a palace!

"Whoosh!" The ruthless empress suddenly opened her eyes, her gaze flowing and sparkling like the starry sea of ​​the universe, within which countless profound truths emerged.

At this moment, sensing her own condition, the ruthless empress's cold and indifferent expression softened slightly.

She had been in seclusion for nearly five thousand years. Although her cultivation and strength had not improved much, she was still a long way from truly breaking through to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor level.

However, her condition is much better than before. Although there is still intense conflict within her body, constantly tearing and disintegrating her physical body and primordial spirit, it does not have a significant impact on her. She can now control her body surface, and cracks and bloodstains will no longer appear.

Moreover, her cultivation level has stabilized, and as long as there is no extreme life-or-death battle, she will not be at risk of losing her cultivation level.

After contemplating her own state for a while, the ruthless empress's thoughts gradually drifted away:

As the five-thousand-year deadline approached, she could clearly see the arrangements made by Li Daoming, Ye Yixian, Ye Yunxian, and Ye Liuxian through the protective array patterns in her secluded cultivation room.

Her wedding to Li Daoming will begin in less than a day.

"Today is my wedding day, I am going to marry Li Daoming!" the ruthless empress murmured.

She was slightly lost in thought at the moment, and she couldn't quite describe her feelings!
Joy, longing, anticipation, confusion, worry, hesitation... perhaps all of these.

Undeniably, she had fallen for Li Daoming. She wanted to marry the person she loved, and naturally, she felt joy, longing, and anticipation.

However, Li Daoming was too lustful, and she was very dissatisfied and displeased with his debauchery with Xia Qinghuang and his many concubines.

Although she made many demands of him, and he agreed to them all, she wondered if he would really abide by them in the future. This made her worried.

Overwhelmed by a mix of emotions, she felt somewhat lost. What should she do next?
"Sigh!" After a long while, the ruthless empress sighed softly, erasing the complicated thoughts in her heart.

She had already arranged to marry him, and today she was to marry him. Now that things had come to this, what other choice did she have? Could she possibly back out at the last minute?
If she dared to back out at the last minute, she had no doubt that Li Daoming would seal her cultivation and force her to marry him.

Even if Ye Yixian, Ye Yunxian, and Ye Liuxian saw it, they wouldn't step in to stop it.

This is different from when she was bullied and taken advantage of by Li Daoming and had no choice but to agree to marry him. That was when he was in the wrong and went too far, so they would naturally support her in changing her mind.

She agreed to marry him, and had five thousand years to back out. But just before the wedding, she had everything prepared and was about to back out at the last minute. That would mean she was in the wrong and had gone too far.

They had always hoped that she would marry him along with them. Under these circumstances, if Li Daoming tried to force her to marry him, they would at most offer a few words of advice, urging her to marry him and telling him not to use force.

(End of this chapter)