Who is spreading rumors that my filial piety towards them has changed?

"Was it Father who laid a hand on Mother? But the Autumn Festival is just around the corner!"

Chu Mingkong wasn't sure if it was time to change the empress. The Thousand Autumns Festival was similar to the festival Chu Mingkong celebrated in his previous life to mark the founding of the country. However, the Thousand Autumns Festival commemorated the birthday of the dog emperor, but the meaning was not much different.

The empress died before the Autumn Festival, turning a national celebration into a national mourning. It's quite ugly. Surely they wouldn't choose this time?

Chu Mingkong suspected that Empress Pei's previous poisoning of the emperor might have been discovered, so this was a punishment for her.

But if it really comes down to the time in that story where they have to "exchange the sacrifice," Chu Mingkong does have a solution.

If the emperor wants to change his empress, shouldn't he first find a suitable "replacement"? Not just anyone can become empress.

Chu Mingkong went straight to... and... did that to the dog emperor's prospective empress.

Since the prospective empress has unexpectedly lost her virginity, Empress Pei's safety can naturally be temporarily guaranteed.

It's despicable and shameless, but the effect is indeed good.

"Alright, you've rested enough. Let's go see the Empress. I want to confirm that extreme Yin power again."

Chapter Sixty-Nine: The Emperor's Extreme Yin Power

Jin Yu tidied her clothes and transformed back into the dignified and beautiful imperial princess. Compared to the worry between her brows these past two days, she now regained her radiance, all because Chu Mingkong was by her side.

On her way to the Empress's bedchamber, she controlled her expression to avoid revealing her joy and arousing suspicion.

But this princess has a lot of ideas. Just now, while chatting with Chu Mingkong in bed about her mother's healing, she overlooked one aspect—didn't her mother cultivate an extremely yang cultivation technique...?

But what if, in the unlikely event that Chu Mingkong is unable to strengthen the suppression of the Abyss Injury in a short period of time, and the Empress Dowager is in dire need of help and can only ask Chu Mingkong for assistance?

When the Empress Dowager's injury heals, she will say to her, "Jinyu, your lover is really good in bed..." Just thinking about it makes her furious. Or should she take the initiative and say to the Empress Dowager, "Empress Dowager, I will make Chu Lang generously accommodate you this time."

That doesn't seem to work either; either way, it all seems too strange!

Jin Yu's pretty face changed color from blue to purple, which perfectly concealed her joy. Chu Mingkong, who was hiding beside her, looked at her expression with great confusion.

Amid Jin Yu's silence and the palace maids' greetings, Chu Mingkong shook off his dejection and returned to the Empress's palace.

Although they hadn't exchanged information before leaving, Empress Pei was clever enough not to mention to the female physicians that her condition had improved, thus maintaining her previous state of suffering.

"I'll stay with Mother. You all go out."

Jin Yu said coldly, her distrustful gaze sweeping over the several imperial physicians of varying qualifications. Although they offered advice, they knew that without a diagnosis, they would lack credibility and had no choice but to entrust the Empress to Princess Jin Yu's care.

The room fell silent. Chu Mingkong appeared and set up a soundproof barrier. Only then did Jin Yu speak to ask:

"Mother, after Mingkong treated you just now, have your limbs deteriorated again?"

Empress Pei shook her head. She was indeed much better now. Her eyes, which had been listless due to her discomfort, lingered between her daughter Jinyu and Chu Mingkong.

This mature and beautiful woman kept recalling the memory of being trapped in the closet by that bastard Chu Mingkong. At that time, she was inside the closet, while Jin Yu was pinned outside the closet door and subjected to a barrage of abuse and humiliation by him.

Just now, he and Jinyu must have gone to cultivate using that Harmony Technique again...

"I'm feeling better, Jinyu, you don't need to worry so much. I don't want you to fall ill again before I've fully recovered, then who will take care of you?"

Jin Yu's eyes instinctively looked towards Chu Mingkong, as if she wanted to point at him and say, "Him~", but Jin Yu was unaware that her mother knew everything about her affairs, and had even witnessed the whole thing, treating it as a secret.

Chu Mingkong waited for the mother and daughter to chat for a few minutes before joining the conversation:

"Your Majesty, do you know who bestowed this extremely Yin power upon you? Is it the one who has been secluded behind closed doors?"

"This Empress..."

Perhaps because she had just thought of those embarrassing things, Empress Pei subconsciously wanted to distance herself and avoid the situation. She picked up the titles that indicated the difference in status between ruler and subject, superior and inferior. However, saying two-word titles was really tiring, so she decided to save her energy.

After a soft sigh, she continued:

"I don't know. I woke up to find myself like this. The Emperor hasn't said anything to me since he woke up. I've tried to see him, but he's always refused."

"My father won't see me either. He sent a eunuch to tell me to leave, fearing that the illness would affect me."

Chu Mingkong nodded and tried to sense the extreme Yin power on Empress Pei's body. This extreme Yin power was different from the aura he sensed from the Abyss.

Because the extreme Yin energy on Empress Pei's body is imperceptible, just as others cannot sense Chu Mingkong's aura.

Could it be that the refined Yin power can eliminate the perception of all outsiders? And this "outsider" also includes people who also possess Yin power, such as him.

Chu Mingkong had previously thought that the power of extreme yin could obliterate a person's aura, and that only those who also possessed the power of extreme yin could sense it. It seems that the actual situation is somewhat different.

However, this effect seems to be limited to perception. Jin Yu and the imperial physicians couldn't even see the black veins, while he could at least see them, but he couldn't perceive them at all unless he actually absorbed that extreme yin power into his hands.

It's fortunate that we can still see her. If we couldn't even see her, then perhaps when he was playing with "Lady Baili," or even just now during the massage therapy, the dog emperor might have been hiding in some corner watching his beautiful wife being... carefully treated by him.

The fact that the emperor was able to refine the power of extreme yin was something Chu Mingkong had not fully anticipated. His current state could not be considered as refining the power of extreme yin; he had merely forcibly harmonized it through the cultivation method of male and female yin and yang.

His relationship with this extremely Yin power is just like his relationship with his master, Zuo Qiuchi. The reason he can act recklessly towards Zuo Qiuchi is simply because Zuo Qiuchi is too lazy to resist.

...So to what extent did the emperor's mastery of the power of extreme yin reach?

"Your Majesty, do you think the person who poisoned you wanted you dead, or did they want to torture you?"

"Faced with this power, my extreme yang energy is completely ineffective, I can't even circulate my energy... If they wanted to kill me, I would have died long ago. They probably just want to torture me, and this power has also sealed my ability to sever my tendons and commit suicide. They don't want me to die."

The most beautiful woman in the heavens remained calm, her tone neither angry nor sad, perhaps she had long anticipated her fate.

Chu Mingkong remained silent, offering no response for a moment. If that were truly the case, then it would be a good thing if the extreme Yin power within her was not completely removed. Otherwise, if the dog emperor were to come and remove the extreme Yin power from the empress and find it gone, that would be a major problem.

To eliminate this worry, the solution is to take the Empress away to Xiling, and with the addition of the extremely yang energy from the baby pheasant, there should be no problem completely curing Empress Pei.

"Chu Mingkong, are you planning to take your close relatives and friends out of the capital?"

Chu Mingkong didn't hide anything, nodding frankly and asking, "How did you guess?"

"Empress Dowager Zhen has been kidnapped. Besides you, who else would be so audacious as to oppose the Sword Profound Sect..."

In Empress Pei's heart, Chu Mingkong was a wicked brat who dared to defy her and break into her house. Only he had the guts to do that.

"Take Jinyu with you. She's of no use staying in the capital. She might be sent to some corner of the country for a political marriage someday."

Chu Mingkong felt that Empress Pei's sudden words were meant to tell him that she would not leave the capital and that he should not try to take her away.

"Doesn't Your Majesty intend to accompany Jinyu outside for a look around?"

"Don't go."

Chapter Seventy: Mother, do you want to go with Chu Lang...?

Chu Mingkong couldn't quite understand why she was unwilling to leave, but judging from Empress Pei's previous attitude towards poisoning the emperor, she probably really wanted to kill him.

When it comes to persuading people about this kind of thing, some people can be persuaded while others cannot. You can sense this after just a short time getting to know them. Empress Pei was the latter; her attitude and will in this matter were firm.

"Mother..."

Jin Yu sat by the window and embraced the haggard, mature woman. Jin Yu knew nothing about the affairs of the palace, but she could sense something was wrong from her mother's attitude. Staying would be extremely dangerous, and the source of this threat was not some hidden assassin, but rather the master of the Tianji Empire.

Inside the palace, the enemy is the emperor, who holds absolute control over the palace. The danger is immense, and just thinking about it is suffocating. The enemy has an unparalleled advantage, whether in the open or in the shadows.

Empress Pei ignored Jin Yu, who grew impatient and annoyed, and called her name again:

"Mother!"

Empress Pei sighed softly, raised her hand to stroke her daughter's cheek, her eyebrows drooping as she looked at her helplessly:

"You don't need to persuade me. Just go with Chu Mingkong. I know about how you privately call him 'Chu Lang, Chu Lang.' You're just someone who likes new things and fun. Go outside..."

Jin Yu remained silent for a long time before she pursed her lips and said willfully:

"Mother, you wait, I'll do everything I can to get Chu Lang to come and take you out!"

Empress Pei, knowing Jin Yu's weakness, asked softly:

"So you mean you want Chu Mingkong to go into danger?"

"..."

Jinyu was speechless. Her little mouth seemed to want to say something but stopped, as if she wanted to refute her mother's words, but she found that she couldn't think of anything to say in response.

Chu Mingkong pulled up a chair and sat down in front of the bed. This time, he skipped the formalities and greetings. He gently took Empress Pei's hand, pulled up the sleeve of her undergarment, and discovered that the black marks that had just been removed had spread back.

Perhaps because they had only recently "regrown," these dark veins were lighter than before, and in his hand, Chu Mingkong could feel Empress Pei's arm trembling slightly.

She was enduring the pain while chatting with Jinyu, not wanting Jinyu to notice, so she kept enduring it!

Chu Mingkong gave Empress Pei a deep look. The woman noticed Chu Mingkong's gaze but pretended not to see it and ignored his stare.

His gaze returned to the black netting, a thorny thought lingering in his mind:

"I was foolish just now. The key is the black bands wrapped around the phoenix on its back. Otherwise, the 'branches' extending to the limbs will grow back no matter how many times they are removed. If you really want to remove them, you have to pull them out of the roots on your back in one go."

An idea popped into Chu Mingkong's mind: could he feed Empress Pei something to help suppress her pain?

He recalled the ferocious beasts and yin beings in the Abyss, whose enemies were everything within their perception range, even those of their own kind who possessed extreme yin power. This situation was somewhat similar to the one Chu Mingkong had encountered recently, where he was unable to sense the extreme yin power emanating from Empress Pei.

Aside from his own extreme Yin power, he rejects and is hostile to all other powers, which is why others cannot perceive him.

Following this line of thought, Chu Mingkong's extreme Yin power should also be able to counteract the dog emperor's extreme Yin power, right?

Chu Mingkong drew a line on his fingertip, and a drop of blood containing extremely yin power overflowed. This drop of blood had a strong corrosive and toxic effect on any object it came into contact with.

He was a little apprehensive: "Your Majesty, try touching it."

Empress Pei tried to raise her hand, but the re-emerging black veins tugged at her nerves, and for a moment, her beautiful face was almost distorted by the discomfort.

She handed over control to Chu Mingkong: "You take charge."

Chu Mingkong nodded in understanding, took her soft hand in his, and gently touched the blood bead with his fair and translucent fingers. Seeing that she was safe and sound, he breathed a sigh of relief.

His blood is also a powerful weapon. Chu Mingkong had previously tried biting his tongue to bleed and using the highly insulting method of spitting to deal with his enemies.

However, those belonging to the category of "himself" will not be harmed by his blood. Normally, this category of "himself" refers only to Chu Mingkong himself, but the extremely yin power on Chu Mingkong's body has a rather special refining method. It is entirely dependent on the cultivation of a man and a woman, or rather, on the suppression and refining by a woman.

Then the scope of "himself" must include these girls who helped him suppress the extreme yin power.

Chu Mingkong felt that this process could be understood as a joint-stock company. Chu Mingkong injected sperm into them... injected money into them as shares, and took over their equity. If this wasn't what he called his own people, then what was?

However, Empress Pei's situation is rather special. Chu Mingkong has never actually invested in her. The closest he came was just a fleeting attempt, which ultimately failed.

However, Jin Yu had once obtained a wisp of the essence of extreme Yin power from Empress Pei, and then, while cultivating with Chu Mingkong, she also sent him Empress Pei's extreme Yang power.

Chu Mingkong was overjoyed for a long time. He cultivated with Jin Yu once and gained two more strands of extremely yang golden thread to suppress his injuries.