After failing the imperial examination, he began to wield immense power after entering the palace!

Xue Wanwan lowered her head, her voice sincere and firm:

"Your Majesty, rest assured, when my father was framed and imprisoned, it was Your Majesty who saved his life."

"I could never repay this life-saving grace, even if I were to die a thousand deaths."

"Wanwan will absolutely not utter a single word about this matter."

When she said this, Xing's eyes were full of sincerity and gratitude.

Consort Xie looked at her and nodded slightly.

"Alright, I believe you."

"Next, prescribe some medicine to nourish and strengthen the body for both me and him."

"It is imperative to ensure that both I and he are in optimal physical condition."

"I must ensure... that nothing goes wrong."

Upon hearing this, Xue Wanwan's almond-shaped eyes trembled slightly.

She knew what the Empress meant by "absolutely foolproof".

It's about making sure you can get pregnant.

She opened her mouth as if to say something, but ultimately nodded.

"Yes, Wanwan understands."

"Wanwan, go and prepare the medicine."

As she stepped out of the palace gate, she paused slightly.

Prepare fertility-enhancing medicine for the Imperial Concubine, and help her find a surrogate father from a fake eunuch...

This kind of thing would be a capital offense punishable by the extermination of nine generations of one's family in any dynasty or era.

But she had no choice.

The Xue family had long been tied to Consort Xie.

With Consort Xie gone, the Xue family will not survive either.

Therefore, she had no choice but to do as she was told, and she had no choice but to go down this path to the bitter end.

"Hopefully, everything goes well!"

……

Consort Xie leaned back on the soft couch and closed her eyes for a while.

"Shuangqiu, starting today, secretly send a few more people to protect Gao Jin."

"We absolutely cannot allow him to make any mistakes."

Leng Shuangqiu heard it clearly.

She lowered her head, a complex emotion flashing in her phoenix eyes.

"Yes, Your Majesty."

As she reached the door, she couldn't help but look back.

In the flickering candlelight, Consort Xie's profile was as beautiful as jade, with the corners of her lips slightly upturned.

I wonder what he's thinking?

She sighed inwardly and closed the palace door.

……

Outside Chengqian Palace.

Li Fan had just stepped out of the palace gates and was preparing to return to the Eastern Depot.

He took a deep breath of the night air to clear his mind.

The matter of sperm donation is now a done deal.

Now, it remains to be seen when Consort Xie will make her arrangements.

To be honest, he felt both excited and nervous.

His expectation was that once Consort Xie became pregnant, he would be completely bound to her.

Before the child was born, Consort Xie would not only not kill him, but would also have to protect him at all costs.

The scary thing is that if this matter is exposed, he will be doomed.

The thought of cuckolding the emperor is chilling.

"Forget it, let's just take it one step at a time."

He had just reached the corner of a corridor when a sinister voice suddenly drifted out from the shadows.

"Xiao Gaozi..."

Li Fan paused and turned around.

There stood Hai Gonggong, his hands behind his back, beside the pillar, his eyes gleaming coldly in the moonlight.

"Grandpa Hai".

Li Fan bowed slightly, speaking respectfully.

What are you doing here?

Hai Gonggong's lips curled into a sinister smile.

"We've come to see you because there's good news."

"Another prisoner has arrived at the dungeon."

"This person used to be a sixth-rank martial artist, but later he committed a crime and had his meridians severed, thus crippling his martial arts."

"But there is still a lot of internal energy remaining in his dantian."

"If you use the Azure Emperor Wood Transformation Technique to absorb his inner energy, you can break through to the seventh rank in one fell swoop."

Li Fan's heart stirred.

He is currently at the peak of the eighth rank, only half a step away from the seventh rank.

If one could absorb the residual internal energy of a sixth-rank martial artist, it would indeed be possible to break through in one fell swoop.

But he also knew that Grandpa Hai wasn't that kind-hearted.

That old bastard wished he were dead from the very beginning.

The purpose of absorbing internal energy is to cause conflict between different types of internal energy within the body, ultimately leading to the body exploding and death.

He just wanted to die quickly.

But Li Fan didn't care.

Anyway, every time Eunuch Hai made him absorb internal energy, it was to help him become stronger.

This is the kind of person who "lifts a stone only to drop it on their own foot."

"Alright, thank you, Eunuch Hai. Please lead the way."

The smile on Hai Gonggong's lips deepened.

"Let's go."

He turned around and walked towards the prison.

The thin figure flickered in and out of the moonlight, like an old snake lurking in the shadows.

……

Heaven Prison.

In a prison cell.

A disheveled man was chained to the wall with thick iron chains, his body covered in wounds.

His eyes were closed, and his face was ashen; he looked like he had been crippled in martial arts and imprisoned for a long time.

But Li Fan could sense that there was indeed a not weak amount of internal energy remaining in this person's dantian.

Like a flame that is about to go out, though weak, it is still burning.

"He's the one."

Grandpa Hai stood at the cell door and gestured with his lips towards the inside.

"Go ahead, Xiao Gaozi."

Li Fan nodded and walked into the cell.

He squatted down, placed his right hand on the man's dantian, and activated the Azure Emperor Wood Transformation Technique.

A warm internal energy surged from the man's body, flowing down his arm and into his dantian.

It's like a stream flowing into a riverbed, or a flame thrown into a pile of firewood.

That internal energy surged within him, colliding, merging, and transforming with his own internal energy.

The pure Yang constitution came into play at this moment.

The internal energies of different attributes, under the refinement of pure Yang power, quickly transformed into pure Yang-attribute internal energy, which flowed into the dantian.

"boom!"

Li Fan felt as if something in his dantian had been ignited.

The internal energy surged like a tide, wave after wave impacting the barriers of the meridians.

"Snap!"

It looked like something had broken.

The barrier of the eighth rank collapsed with a roar.

The internal energy surged forth like a burst dam, unstoppable.

Rank 7!

Li Fan opened his eyes, a glint of light flashing in them.

He clenched his fist and felt that the internal energy in his body was several times stronger than before.

My lower abdomen was burning hot, and the vital energy in my meridians surged like a river.

The strength of a seventh-rank martial artist is not even in the same league as that of an eighth-rank martial artist.

One punch could shatter a bluestone slab.

"Grandpa Hai, I've broken through."

Li Fan stood up, cupped his hands in a respectful gesture towards Eunuch Hai, and spoke in a deferential tone.

Standing at the cell door, Hai Gonggong had witnessed the entire scene unfold.

"Not bad, not bad."

"Little Gao, your martial arts talent is indeed quite good."

Li Fan smiled and cupped his hands in thanks: "It's all thanks to Eunuch Hai's excellent guidance."

Grandpa Hai chuckled twice and said nothing more.

He turned around and walked out of the cell.

"Suck it in, suck it in."

"If you take a few more, you'll be dead."

"The drawbacks of the Azure Emperor's Wood Transformation Technique are no joke."

"When the different types of internal energy within your body clash..."

"Now you know what it means to be worse than dead."

He stepped out of the prison and disappeared into the moonlight.

Li Fan went outside and took a deep breath of the cold night wind.

It took him less than ten days to go from having no foundation to the seventh rank.

This speed is astonishing even in the entire martial arts world.

But he knew that wasn't enough.

He wanted to kill Eunuch Hai, so he had to be at least a third-rank official, or even a second-rank official.

The road ahead is still long.

But at least, he's already on his way.

"The day I master my divine skills, you'll be the first one to die!"