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

"The late Empress Dowager really hasn't changed much in personality. She's confident, composed, and frank... It's a pity I didn't see her buttocks just now, otherwise I could have judged whether she came with good or bad intentions."

......

Balan and his group were traveling around the capital under the stars and moon.

During this time, Queen Ba and Balan were unknowingly pressured by their ancestor to give birth. It was not said explicitly, but the intention was practically written all over their faces.

"Qingling, Lan'er, have you made any plans to have an heir?"

—You should consider having children.

"In the current Sword Emperor Dynasty, are there still any male sword cultivators with decent talent?"

—You will have a hard time finding qualified male sword cultivators in the short term, or even within the next hundred years.

"The Zuo family has produced two sword immortals in one go. Fortunately, Qiu Chi and Dong Lu have partially left the Zuo family. Considering their relationship with Ming Kong, they can also be considered my granddaughters-in-law. Besides Lan'er, who else in the Ba family has the potential to reach the sword immortal realm within a hundred years?"

—The royal family should set an example in terms of family strength, especially in terms of the talent pool of future generations. The Zuo family has far surpassed the Ba family!

"I wonder what kind of talent the two young ladies of the Zuo family would have in swordsmanship if they were to marry Mingkong and have children while they were already sword immortals! Even if they couldn't match their parents, I imagine they wouldn't be too bad off."

—You two know what I mean.

Balan and Ba Qingling felt extremely ashamed and under immense pressure throughout the journey.

They had no complaints about Chu Mingkong, except that he was a bit excessive when it came to women. They could hardly find any other faults with him. As for his strength, there was no need to talk too much about it. Just his control over the power of extreme Yin made him a force to be reckoned with.

But they had only known Chu Mingkong for a short time, less than a month since they first met. It seemed a bit too radical for them to suddenly start talking about this kind of thing.

Moreover, he was already married, and the engagement was arranged by the late emperor himself. Even if it was for the sake of having a descendant and not involving feelings, it would be a bit strange for him to suddenly interfere.

Having slept with someone else's husband, how am I supposed to face Zuo Qiuchi and Zuo Donglu in the future? I'll feel incredibly guilty every time I see them.

Given Ba Qingling and Ba Lan's current status and position, they could disregard the words of any elder in the family, but they dared not take the words of this ancestor lightly!

"Hmm? This feeling is... Could it be that what Mingkong said was true, that it really has endured?" The Sword Empress stared in surprise in the direction of the Sword Emperor Palace.

"Ancestor, what's wrong?" Ba Qingling asked.

"I've thought of something strange. I'll ask Mingkong about it later. You don't need to worry about it."

This unexpected incident dampened her enthusiasm for having a child.

On the way back, the female sword queen communicated with Yun Nongyu through their souls, asking if there was a way to meet and make contact with the will of "Su Nu Jue Xian".

She had read "The Unfettered String of the Plain Girl" for so long, but never had the chance to see the "beauty in the book" in person. Now she had finally met such a girl with natural Taoist charm. Unfortunately, there was only one such girl. They could only manifest themselves by borrowing Yun Nongyu's body.

The female sword queen naturally wanted to seek help from Yun Nongyu, just to satisfy her curiosity.

Yun Nongyu was also somewhat troubled. She said:

"Your Majesty, you can try to prevent your consciousness from immediately returning to the Sword Emperor Scripture and leave it in my body for the time being. When Lady Su Nu manifests later, you should be able to indirectly hear her words."

However, this requires Su Nu's consent. Not everyone is willing to expose their thoughts to others. Even the two streams of scripture consciousness, Xuan Nu and Su Nu, do not interfere with each other in most cases.

The female sword emperor nodded with pleasure. She told her two descendants to go back and rest first, saying that she was going back to the "Sword Emperor Scripture" and then they parted ways.

After they split up, Ba Qingling asked Ba Lan:

“Balan, our ancestor said she has returned to the Sword Emperor Scripture. Isn’t this a form of pressure? If things don’t progress, she’ll stop communicating with us.”

"That should be true? So our ancestors meant we should hurry?" Balan was uncertain.

......

Yun Nongyu returned to her room and had just finished communicating with Su Nu, asking her to manifest in her body, when Chu Mingkong arrived at her room.

Su Nu pointed to the bed and calmly commanded Chu Mingkong, "Lie down and detoxify!"

"Detoxification? What detoxification?" The will of the Sword Emperor Scripture wondered, puzzled.

Yun Nongyu sensed something was wrong. They had originally agreed that Su Nu would try to communicate with the late emperor first, but when Su Nu saw Chu Mingkong, she immediately put everything else aside!

Chapter 77 Can we ask Su Nu to stop first?

Perhaps incorporating the wisdom from "The Maiden's Broken String," the Maiden's incarnation indeed "changed her skin," and her clothing underwent a noticeable change.

Building upon the original one-piece celestial robe, a high-slit skirt now cascades down from the waist. Its color is indescribable; at first glance, it appears as a noble and elegant translucent gold, but upon closer inspection, it seems almost flesh-colored. The semi-transparent skirt blends seamlessly with the skin of her jade-like legs, making it difficult to distinguish in the light—it's as if you can see something, yet also as if you can't see anything at all. The patterns on the celestial robe are even more mysterious, evolving from simple natural forests to include mythical birds and beasts, both enigmatic and ancient.

Several pearl chains dangled from the veil covering her face, revealing exquisite patterns on the thin, silky fabric.

"Lady Su Nu, what did you gain from that Qin Jing?" Chu Mingkong was half-dragged and half-forced to the bedside by her.

Su Nu was still as "disobedient" as ever. She loosened Chu Mingkong's clothes, one hand caressing his heart, while the other slender hand moved slowly down along the center of his pectoral muscles, brushing over the angular lines of his abdominal muscles, and further grasping the root of the problem.

Using Yun Nongyu's unique talent, Su Nu captured Chu Mingkong's numerous thoughts and saw many chaotic ideas, from humans to snakes, and then to many strange sexual behaviors, which were somewhat beyond Su Nu's understanding of reproductive behavior.

Deep within Su Nu's consciousness, or rather, deep within Yun Nongyu's consciousness, the Sword Empress's will was somewhat disheveled; she had no time to ponder why Su Nu's will in the Qin Jing was that of such a woman.

The Sword Empress's will urgently communicated with Yun Nongyu:

Could you please ask Su Nu to stop?

Yun Nongyu was also in a dilemma. Su Nu seemed much gentler than Xuan Nu, but in fact, Xuan Nu was easier to talk to than Su Nu.

When Lady Su Nu gets engrossed in curing stubborn ailments, she won't listen to anyone for a while...

"Could we perhaps sever our sensory connection with Su Nu?" The Sword Queen frowned in embarrassment. Her palms were empty, yet it seemed as if she were holding the hilt of her disciple's greatsword.

[The current control is in Lady Su Nu's hands...]

"Is he really that deeply affected by Slutna? Not a single normal image appears in his mind." Su Nu's gaze was calm, completely ignoring some irrelevant voices. Her gaze slowly rose from Chu Mingkong's dark purple heart, staring into his eyes.

During their eye contact, Chu Mingkong roughly guessed what was going on; it must have been Su Nu using Yun Nongyu's precognitive abilities.

But he couldn't be entirely blamed for his wild thoughts. Su Nu had just come up and started to rub salt into his troubles, making it difficult for him to face the matter with a calm mind.

"This was an accident. If Lady Su Nu had let go of your hand, the scene you saw would have been much purer..."

"is it?"

Su Nu let go, her cool little hand releasing the heat. Her bright eyes continued to gaze at him, her gaze like a tranquil lake shimmering in the moonlight at night, devoid of any lust.

Her ethereal face drew closer to Chu Mingkong, her nose almost touching his, and her scrutinizing gaze put considerable pressure on him.

"Why are the thoughts I see still the same as before?" She checked the images brought by the premonition several times, but there was no change.

"It will take some time to cool down; the sage mode doesn't just appear out of nowhere."

Chu Mingkong abandoned his thoughts of proving himself. Since Su Nu said she would cure his illness, Chu Mingkong seized the opportunity to ask:

"Lady Su Nu, there is something I would like to ask for your help with. The Abyss Wound is suppressing my Five Elements cultivation foundation. Could you please resolve this issue?"

Upon hearing that a new problem had arisen, Su Nu began to take his words to heart, no longer selectively listening to a few words and then ignoring him, focusing only on his physical condition.

“Your cultivation is very strong, and your physical body is exceptionally well-tempered. How did this heart injury suppress your Five Elements cultivation? Tell me.”

This problem has actually existed for quite a long time. The wound of the extreme abyss has been preventing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth from being refined into his body. However, at the time, he felt that the power of extreme yin was enough, and he had also made progress in his spiritual cultivation, so he didn't pay much attention to the basic five elements cultivation.

Anyway, physical problems can be solved by relying on the Abyss Transformation.

However, after talking with the late emperor, Chu Mingkong felt that he still had to make up for these seemingly insignificant things. They might not be needed now, but Chu Mingkong absolutely could not be "a little short" at some point in the future.

"What is your current level of Five Elements cultivation?"

"At the mid-stage of the eighth rank, after healing my heart injury, my Five Elements cultivation even made a slight progress. However, it stopped progressing soon after. I feel that the wound from the Abyss has become more and more integrated with me, reducing my capacity to contain the Five Elements spiritual energy, just like how the Abyss can hardly contain the Five Elements spiritual energy."

The power of extreme Yin can be used to cultivate and practice in the extreme abyss.

The Divine Soul Realm can be cultivated in conjunction with Feng Ying and Yun Han. When they returned from the East Sea, they risked their lives to open up their Divine Soul cultivation, which can complement Chu Mingkong's cultivation of the Divine Soul.

The demonic fetus body he acquired long ago could be considered an aid to his soul cultivation, but its effects were limited. Thinking about it now, perhaps its greatest use was to relieve his master's wife of constantly watching over his infantile body?

On the contrary, the most basic Five Elements cultivation became an incongruous existence, and it seemed that there was not much difference between cultivating it and not cultivating it. However, this was largely because Chu Mingkong's Five Elements cultivation was already very high before he suffered the injury from the Abyss. As long as he healed his injuries and restored his original strength, there were only a few people who could threaten him single-handedly.

Su Nu pondered for a moment. This was an area that interested her, and soon an idea for how to approach it came to mind.

"This Abyss Wound is indeed a treasure; it can affect the whole body and cause so many complications for you."

The wisdom of the "Classic of Plain Girls" records many cases that can be cured by the divine power of the Plain Girls without exception. They are easy and boring, and not even worth the Plain Girls's effort to understand the illness. Chu Mingkong is an exception. He has rare troubles all over his body, inside and out, but he survives by being lively and tenacious.

Behind the veil, those beautiful eyes regarded Chu Mingkong as a precious treasure.

"..." Chu Mingkong didn't want to complain.

"Bear with the pain." The elegant and refined woman gently pushed his body, placing her knees on either side of his waist and hips.

A semi-transparent skirt hung down in front of him, like a screen, casting alluring shadows of his plump thighs. A towering pillar shadow appeared in the middle, supporting him and Su Nu.

[Is there any way for me to return to the Sword Emperor Scripture?] The female Sword Emperor immediately sensed something was wrong. She had ruled the Sword Emperor Dynasty for many years and had never experienced having a sword pointed at her.

Moreover, this person is Mingkong, who calls her "Grandma". This is not how one should acknowledge their ancestors!

[...] Yun Nongyu remained silent, powerless and unable to help. She had tried to communicate with Su Nu several times, but Su Nu was no longer listening.

"What are you going to do?" Chu Mingkong sensed something was wrong.

"You said that your cultivation of the Five Elements improved slightly during the initial harmonization process, right?" Su Nu said.

"That's it."

“My healing power comes from the power of extreme yang. I will cultivate with you in harmony, using the Pure Maiden Technique to draw the power of extreme yang from your body, causing your healed injuries to become unbalanced again. Then you will have to rebalance them again, and so on, until your five elements cultivation is perfected.”

"..."

Chu Mingkong felt that somewhere on the Su Nu Tian Yi, the strange fabric quietly dissolved according to her will, and touched Chu Mingkong's skin without any obstruction.

Behind the veil, the shadow of the tower gradually disappeared, swallowed up by the oppressive sky.

The two's spiritual meridians connected, and the Su Nu Gong (素女功) began to operate under Su Nu's guidance, slowly drawing away the extreme yang energy from Chu Mingkong's body.

The long-lost wound to his heart began to spread again, and the excruciating pain, like that of an old friend, swept over Chu Mingkong's mind, causing him to gasp for breath.

The expression beneath the veil of the maiden remained largely calm, her eyes gently and tenderly observing his reaction as she absorbed his extreme yang energy.

They did something somewhat cruel with a gentle demeanor.

"Tell me if you can't take it anymore, and I'll help you heal your injuries."

Deep within her consciousness, the Sword Empress's face stiffened, turning from blue to purple, her lips tightly pressed together, and a rare blush appeared on her majestic and noble face.

How long will it take to finish?

[One or two hours.] Yun Nongyu could only express her unhappiness; she was already used to similar situations.