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

Issues in Chapter 882
As for making them his concubines like Siqi, Jianyi, and Xianlong, that would also be inappropriate.

He had eight Daoist partners and twenty to thirty thousand concubines. Before this, he valued and loved them differently, and their cultivation levels were also different, so their statuses were also different.

But this was in private. In name only, his Daoist partners were of equal status, and his concubines were of equal status, only addressing each other as sisters based on their cultivation levels.

There was nothing wrong with that originally!
Although among his eight Daoist partners, the Ruthless Empress had the highest cultivation level and was always far ahead, the others were not bad either. With his help, they were not far behind the Ruthless Empress. Moreover, Xia Qinghuang, Jiang Qianxi, Kong Lin, and Xin Hua married him when he was still weak and had deep feelings for him.

As for his concubines, before he spared no effort to cultivate a group of Immortal Emperors, the vast majority of them were at the True Immortal or Immortal King level.

As for those below the True Immortal level? They are extremely rare. Only those with outstanding talent and comprehension, who are qualified to become his concubines and willing to become his concubines, but whose cultivation time is not long, will have a cultivation level lower than that of a True Immortal.

Regardless of their cultivation level, as long as they are not rejected by him and can continue to cultivate with him in yin and yang, they will definitely be able to break through to the Immortal King level in the future with his help, and not just any Immortal King, but the Emperor Light Immortal King.

Therefore, since his Daoist partner and his concubines were nominally of equal status, no major problems arose.

However, after he spared no effort to cultivate a group of Immortal Emperors, the situation changed.

Although a Quasi-Immortal Emperor also has the character "Immortal" in his name and belongs to the realm of Immortal Dao, he has already begun to transcend and is no longer a being on the same level as a True Immortal or Immortal King.

Even though he had already broken through to the half-step Hunyuan realm, he had no confidence whatsoever in helping all his concubines break through to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm.

Perhaps hundreds of thousands of years later, when he breaks through to the Primordial Chaos Realm, his concubines will be able to ignore all restrictions and bottlenecks, and break through to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor Realm as long as they engage in Yin-Yang dual cultivation with him enough times.

But it's only a possibility, not a certainty, and he can't guarantee it.

In addition, among his one or two hundred concubines at the Quasi-Immortal Emperor level, more than one hundred have forged their own paths, and fifty or sixty of them are Quasi-Immortal Emperor Dao Ancestors.

They can continue to cultivate Yin and Yang with him. Even if he doesn't have much time or energy to devote to them, they can still break through to the Immortal Emperor level in a few hundred thousand to a few million years.

It would be even more inappropriate to treat them as concubines after they break through to the Immortal Emperor realm and become the supreme beings of all heavens, nominally placing them on the same level as the concubines of those at the Immortal King realm.

Although he will definitely be able to break through to the Primordial Chaos Realm in the future, once he breaks through to the Primordial Chaos Realm, his concubines who have already broken through to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor Realm but have not yet found their own path may also break through to the Immortal Emperor Realm. However, this will be extremely difficult. He simply cannot help all his concubines break through to the Immortal Emperor Realm. In fact, let alone the Immortal Emperor Realm, he may not even be able to help them break through to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor Realm.

As the saying goes, a dragon does not dwell with a snake. If he does not change and elevate the status of his concubines who have cultivated to the level of Quasi-Immortal Emperor and Immortal Emperor, and instead nominally place them on the same level as those concubines who have reached the Immortal King realm, it would be tantamount to humiliating them.

This was true for his concubines, and even more so for the Snow Emperor, and for the quasi-immortal emperor female cultivator with whom he was about to engage in yin-yang dual cultivation.

His concubines were, after all, trained by him. Without him, they wouldn't have been able to break through to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm, let alone have a great chance of breaking through to the Immortal Emperor realm. They probably wouldn't even have been able to break through to the True Immortal or Immortal King realm.

Even if he doesn't change or elevate their status because of their cultivation level, they wouldn't dare to complain about him, much less betray him.

Although Xue Di, Lian Zu, Xuan Su, and others could not break through to the Immortal Emperor level on their own, they had already broken through to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor level before engaging in Yin-Yang dual cultivation with him. They were second only to the Immortal Emperor level above the heavens, and naturally they had their own pride and perseverance.

If he were to make them his concubines, they would have the same status and position as his twenty or thirty thousand concubines. Even if he were confident that they would fall for him after practicing Yin-Yang dual cultivation with him, and that they would become infatuated with him after several such cultivations, he would still be confident that they would be attracted to him.

But they only fell in love with him; they did not lose themselves or their personalities, and they still had the ability to think independently.

Even if they loved him dearly, they would never agree to become one of his 20,000 or 30,000 concubines, and would most likely have the heartache of severing all ties with him.

At most, she would seek him out a few times when she longed for the taste of dual cultivation with him, or when her cultivation level was stuck and she couldn't break through. In the meantime, she would also break through the stuck cultivation level.

Therefore, if he did not want to turn away Xue Di, Lian Zu, and others, he certainly could not tell them that he wanted to take them as concubines.

He could neither marry them as his Daoist companions nor as his empresses, nor take them as concubines. So how should he arrange things for them?
Li Daoming couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

After a moment's thought, Li Daoming had an idea: He hadn't considered so much before, and directly took all the women besides his eight Daoist partners as concubines, which was actually not very reasonable!

It's just that they can all cultivate Yin and Yang with him, and they don't have any bottlenecks before breaking through to the Emperor Light Immortal King. However, their own aptitude, comprehension, and talent are not very high. If they don't rely on him, most of them have no hope of breaking through to the Emperor Light Immortal King. Even if they have a chance of breaking through to the Emperor Light Immortal King, they basically have little chance of breaking through to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor.

Moreover, he would spend more time and energy on a few of them, except for a few who were more valued and favored by him, while he would treat the rest equally.

Above them are Xia Qinghuang, Jiang Qianxi, Kong Lin, Xin Hua, the Ruthless Empress, Ye Yixian, Ye Yunxian, and Ye Liuxian, who are in charge of selecting and managing people.

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This allowed them to get along harmoniously without major conflicts, and even if there were, he didn't need to intervene.

But something that is not reasonable is simply not reasonable. Those who cultivate should naturally be judged by their aptitude, comprehension, talent, potential, and cultivation strength.

He shouldn't ignore their differences and take them all as concubines, nominally placing them on equal footing, but instead assigning them different statuses based on their varying aptitudes, comprehension, talent, potential, and cultivation levels.

Of course, they are the ones who follow the rules, while he is the one who makes them.

If there are any exceptionally beautiful women who he likes and values, he may naturally disregard all restrictions and elevate their status.

Furthermore, he also had ideas on how to classify them into different levels and positions based on their aptitude, comprehension, talent, potential, and cultivation strength:

At the very top, naturally, was his Daoist partner, who could be treated as an equal with him, and also his empress.

There's not much to say about this type. Either they married him when he was weak and lived a life of mutual support and deep affection, or they had enough talent, comprehension, and cultivation to gain his attention.

(End of this chapter)