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

This dispelled her hesitation. Out of the corner of her eye, she glanced at Chu Mingkong's handsome face. Putting aside his scoundrel behavior, Empress Pei thought that he was indeed quite good-looking.

With his handsome appearance, dashing demeanor, and robust physique, Chu Mingkong possessed both the nobility of a prince and the fortitude of a frontier soldier. In the capital, a place teeming with refined and elegant young men who revered literature and metaphysics, Chu Mingkong's temperament was quite unconventional.

However, it is indeed very popular with women, especially slightly older mature women, who no longer chase after romantic and refined scholars like young girls, and regard delicate and fragile faces as elegant and charming.

Chu Mingkong pushed open the door and walked straight in. Because of the Annihilation Domain, the little palace maid next to him didn't even notice what was happening.

"Empress Pei, do you prefer your own phoenix-patterned quilt, or the one with the dragon pattern?" Chu Mingkong asked cautiously.

Actually, Chu Mingkong was somewhat worried after not getting a definite answer from Empress Pei, but at this moment he felt his intelligence had been greatly enhanced. Asking that kind of question would have given Empress Pei a chance to hesitate and refuse, so, following the principle of skipping it, the question Chu Mingkong was asking now was essentially the same as "What brand of pen case do you like?" (referring to a pen cap, to cover the pen tip that might leak ink).

Regardless of which type of bedding she prefers, it implicitly means she agrees to the subsequent arrangements. However, if Empress Pei truly does not wish to accept it, she can still directly refuse on this issue.

Empress Pei was no longer a naive young girl like Jin Yu; especially having lived in the palace for so many years, she could discern the truth in many of her words at a glance. Her beautiful eyes narrowed slightly as she gazed at Chu Mingkong for a moment. Chu Mingkong felt uneasy under her gaze. The mature and beautiful empress turned her face away.

"They're all bedding, made by the same tailor using the same brocade, what's the difference?"

Chu Ming felt relieved, which allowed him to play the role of a coercive and forceful occupant without any worries.

He remembered that he had previously replaced his bed with an ice jade bed, so he immediately took it out and placed it in the room, then took out the dragon-patterned quilt and spread it on top. The ice jade bed exuded a comfortable chill, and clear, clean snow water seeped from the bed from time to time. The snow water quickly made the high-quality, light-textured quilt wet and sticky to the bed surface. However, Chu Mingkong had experienced this ice jade bed before, and it felt more comfortable than he had imagined.

Chu Mingkong gently placed the graceful and voluptuous Empress Pei on the ice jade bed. At first, Empress Pei felt the coldness and her jade hands recoiled, but she quickly adapted and relaxed.

"Let me think of what lines I should have at this moment..."

He had just thought of the classic phrase "shouting until his throat is hoarse" when Empress Pei knew he was about to act silly and interrupted him with a single sentence:

"boring!"

Chu Mingkong wisely shut his mouth. He mobilized the icy spiritual energy and exhaled it from his mouth. The room was as if it were a world of ice and snow, and snowflakes began to fall. Soon, the surroundings were covered in a silvery white, and the luxurious decorations were covered in white, which had a sense of "only you and I are left in the vast world".

The chilling aura also froze Empress Pei's dark robes, turning them a translucent light color. It was as if Empress Pei was wearing a transparent veil, revealing her beautiful and graceful curves. Her fragrant breasts and jade-like mounds were faintly visible, and her slender waist could be encircled with one hand. Beside her was a plump and round, alluring peach. She was a stunningly beautiful and seductive woman, and Chu Mingkong was filled with lust and fantasies.

Chu Mingkong gently pulled apart the beautiful empress's knees, revealing her noble and delicate paradise before him. Just as Chu Mingkong bent down, ready to make his move, Empress Pei suddenly pulled on Chu Mingkong's arm. Chu Mingkong was surprised, and although he had the strength to resist, he still followed the beautiful empress's wishes and was pulled down onto the ice jade bed.

"You unfilial bastard from a barbaric land, you only deserve to submit to my rule!" The sweet rebuke quickly turned into a sound of suppressed pain.

Chu Mingkong's gaze fell on a certain spot, and he sighed inwardly, "This is truly a second time in jail, and another time with blood on the line."

Amidst the white snow, snowmelt flowed intermittently from the ice jade bed, and within the snowmelt, gurgling blood flowed.

......

In the emperor's palace, the emperor returned to his room and found that the bedding on his dragon bed was gone. He angrily shouted:

"Takamaru, come in! Go and ask the palace maid in charge of household affairs what happened today. Why are the bedding on my imperial bed missing?! Can't she even handle such a small matter?!"

The little eunuch scurried in, repeatedly agreeing:

"Yes, this servant will go and summon the palace maids for today. But this shouldn't be the case; this servant personally supervised the palace maids as they prepared the Emperor's bed today..."

Watching it himself? Could someone have stolen his bedding?

Suddenly, the emperor's face turned green, and he was furious.

"You bastard!! Find that bitch for me!"

In its connection with the dragon vein, the Golden Crow Phoenix Body's purity was shattered, directly severing its link with the dragon vein!

Chapter 137 Saliva Archery (8.6/18)

To be honest, Chu Mingkong really wanted to maintain this connection like he did with Zhi'er Baobao back then, and bring the Empress out of the capital with him. However, his master's wife's rational help calmed him down, and he did not repeat that absurd thing.

"Are you alright?" Chu Mingkong took a deep breath to calm his turbulent emotions.

This was probably the first time he had engaged in sexual intercourse with a woman without practicing the "True Scripture of Union." The feeling was no different, yet something was different. Previously, the connection to the cultivation method had always been there, serving as an "excuse." But now, he and Empress Pei understood perfectly well that they were doing this purely for the sake of the matter at hand.

"Hmm..." Empress Pei nodded gently. Her face was as beautiful as a peach blossom, full of tenderness and spring-like charm. She maintained a calm and composed demeanor, as if the eye-rolling and dazedness she had just experienced had never happened.

She was draped in the palace dress that had transformed into a see-through gauze skirt, her graceful and sexy body vaguely visible. Her fragrant skin was as white as snow, smooth as cream, and the pale red on her face was breathtakingly beautiful.

Chu Mingkong found a new dress for her in the wardrobe. The Empress's palace dress was exceptionally complicated and cumbersome to wear, and with limited time, Chu Mingkong could only dress her simply. However, the drawbacks of not dressing her carefully were significant. Empress Pei's ample, round, and proud breasts bulged, seemingly about to burst through the dress at any moment. Her ivory-white, slender legs were barely concealed, revealing alluring thighs with every step.

Up close, the stunningly beautiful empress exuded a captivating fragrance, which Chu Mingkong had been inhaling deeply for quite some time, still feeling intoxicated.

“Normally, you should rest a little longer at times like this, but I’m taking you away now. Time is of the essence. The emperor must have sensed that your primordial yin body is missing.”

"I'm fine. Just do as you wish. Just don't get caught after you've done your petty theft."

She finished speaking calmly and was about to walk when her legs became numb and tingly, as if they didn't belong to her. Previously, Chu Mingkong had used his internal energy to nourish and restore her body, but this time, without Chu Mingkong's support, she found it much harder to bear. She could barely walk steadily, and her mind was still a little dizzy. Only her lips, which hadn't been disciplined by Chu Mingkong's big stick, could still stubbornly maintain their composure.

Chu Mingkong chuckled softly and pulled her into his arms.

"Don't move, I'll hold you. You need to recover quickly, so you won't be able to hold me tightly later."

Chu Mingkong already had a general plan in mind, but he hesitated for a moment about whether to use the paper note to request help, and decided to postpone this action. If he used the paper note directly now, given the emperor's level of vigilance, he might immediately detect the faint spiritual energy fluctuations in the message transmission, thus prematurely exposing his location.

If all else fails, we can use paper notes to contact them. Master and the others should be waiting near the capital. Once the message is sent via paper notes, they should be able to provide immediate support.

"call......"

Chu Mingkong glanced out the window, then helped Empress Pei tighten her clothes to prevent a splatter of milky white snowflakes on his face when he jumped.

"Get ready to leave, you really need to hold on tight to me later."

Outside the window, the phantom of the dragon vein darted about, bringing back the scene of the day Empress Pei was stolen. A few scattered dragons and snakes were watching the movements below, and phantoms of the dragon vein were already entering and leaving several palaces to track down the Empress.

We haven't found the Empress's palace yet, but it will be soon.

Several days later, upon seeing the same apocalyptic scene of the palace that had shocked him so much when he first saw it, Chu Mingkong felt calm. It was as if these past few days had been frozen in time, only now continuing, returning to that very moment.

Chu Mingkong picked up Empress Pei, leaped out of the palace, and jumped to the roof of the highest point of the palace.

At present, those dragon vein phantoms are frantically searching through the alleys and houses of the palace, neglecting places like rooftops, which gave Chu Mingkong a place to stay. It's like when there is a raging flood, only the rooftop can provide refuge, but this is only temporary.

Climbing all the way to the top of the towering tower by the lake in the garden, Chu Mingkong took out the palace map and showed it to Empress Pei:

"Empress Pei, please take a look at the exact locations of these places and what's there."

Although Chu Mingkong had wreaked havoc in the palace and acted as a womanizer several times, there were still many places he hadn't been to, and he couldn't recognize them just by looking at the map. Moreover, some blank spaces on the map were clearly left for builders to freely explore, and some of these places had become gardens or squares, further increasing the difficulty for Chu Mingkong to identify them.

Of these many "weaknesses," he was uncertain about at least three, because they were located near the blank areas on the map.

Right now, Chu Mingkong has two weak points nearby.

When Empress Pei first saw the palace map, she was a little confused. After a while, she gradually grasped the outline and matched it with the palace in her mind.

She pointed to a circled spot on the map with her slender finger, then pointed in a direction and said:

"This place on the map corresponds to a huge stone carving over there, which has the four characters 'filial piety, brotherly love, loyalty and trustworthiness' engraved on it."

The location was obscured by lush, dense vegetation, making it impossible to see by sight, but fortunately it wasn't too far away.

Chu Mingkong immediately released his senses to take in the surrounding environment. He indeed found a large, yellowish-brown stone with the words "filial piety, brotherly love, loyalty, and trustworthiness" engraved on it. On the back was an abridged text, which was basically a story of royal figures praising filial piety.

He nodded: "I see it. Where's the other one?"

"It's a pavilion in the lake."

Chu Mingkong looked over and saw that the direction Empress Pei was pointing to was a tranquil, mirror-like lake in the garden. In the center of the lake was a pavilion from which one could see the entire lake.

"That pavilion in the middle of the lake?"

"It's not the pavilion in the middle of the lake; if the location on the map is correct, it's the pavilion beneath the lake!"

"A pavilion under the lake?" Chu Mingkong had never heard of such a thing before, but he quickly realized that he was ignorant.

The senses were extended again, and there was another pavilion underwater in the lake, but it was smaller than the normal pavilion, and there were various other miniature buildings nearby.

Empress Pei, knowing that time was of the essence, explained succinctly:

"At different times of the year, the view from the pavilion in the middle of the lake is different each time, as if there is another world in the water, and you are a person in the world, looking down at the small world at the bottom of the lake."

Wow! This is just like the bonsai at the bottom of those fishponds! This garden has so many intricacies. In this respect, it is indeed much more profound than the Western Chu King's Mansion, I have to admit.

Empress Pei pointed out all the "weaknesses" that Chu Mingkong could not confirm, and then said nothing more, leaving him space to think.

She explained quickly, but in just a short while, the dragon vein phantom had already covered the sky and sun, dragons and snakes intertwined on the ground, and giant dragons bowed their heads in the sky. Even the tall tower beneath their feet was gradually being targeted by the dragon vein phantom.

The dragon vein represents the essence of a nation, and should be magnificent and inviting. But now, paired with the oppressive red clouds in the sky, it looks like a chaotic dance of demons.

What troubled Chu Mingkong was how to choose the shortest order and route of attack.

The last time he attacked his weakness, his whereabouts were detected in an instant. If it drags on, even the Annihilation Domain might not be able to stop him from running rampant.

Moreover, we also have to take these dragon vein phantoms into account. If a weakness is broken, these things will definitely swarm over.

In order to delay the time when the Annihilation Domain is discovered, we may have to use it sparingly and temporarily exchange it for the Colorless Shadow.

Chu Mingkong took out a Dustless Talisman that contained not a drop of spiritual energy and placed it into Empress Pei's breast. The Dustless Talisman was firmly held in place.

What is this?

"I'll use these mystical talismans to ensure my luck," Chu Mingkong prayed to himself. "It doesn't matter if I'm unlucky in the gacha draws later; I can use up my good fortune in advance!"

Although Empress Pei didn't understand what Chu Mingkong meant by "drawing cards," she could still grasp a few words in a sentence, and she looked down on him.

"You still have any sense of morality?"

"..." Chu Mingkong paused for a moment, "I won't argue with you anymore. I'll interrupt you when we get back. I'm about to start running around, so I'll finish as soon as possible. Prepare yourself mentally."

Before he could finish speaking, Chu Mingkong had already withdrawn his Annihilation Domain and concealed his presence with a colorless shadow. However, he still sensed several gazes focused on him, as if they had noticed him, but were not yet certain.

If I were to use my spiritual power now, I'd probably be exposed in an instant.

Chu Mingkong didn't use his spiritual power; he only relied on his physical strength to shove, and the tower beneath his feet shattered. He and Empress Pei in his arms leaped into the sky.

"Let me touch your tongue, don't mind."

Before the mature and voluptuous Empress Pei could react, she noticed that Chu Mingkong had put his finger into her mouth and lightly scraped it across her soft, fragrant tongue, leaving his finger covered in glistening saliva.

The beauty in his arms looked at him with a mixture of shame and anger, but Chu Mingkong ignored her, thinking to himself, "Jin Yu needed to drink the Golden Crow Jade Marrow to have any effect, but Empress Pei can use it directly." Then he took out two hunting arrows and smeared them with Empress Pei's saliva.

"Look at my precise urine stream splitting technique."

Chu Mingkong drew his bow and shot an arrow, turning around as if looking back at the moon, and fired at the royal garden behind him.

Two arrows flew out unremarkably, but after traveling more than ten meters, they transformed into a dazzling golden crow and phoenix, like the setting sun, and fell precisely to two weak points!

The entire palace was suddenly shaken by an apocalyptic dragon roar, deafeningly loud, and the lake trembled like a shattered mirror!

Chu Mingkong was certain that the dragon's roar when the first weakness was destroyed was indeed a sound of pain. Now that the destruction of these two weaknesses had affected the dragon vein, it probably meant that all the weaknesses that his master's wife had circled on the map had to be destroyed!

The master's wife certainly doesn't lie, she just won't tell him everything...