After meeting the Emperor and Empress, Li Yao was arranged to bathe and change clothes. Then, his family went to the Empress Dowager's palace and had a meal with her.
Throughout the entire process, Li Yao appeared slightly reserved and unfamiliar, yet also a little curious and dependent on the Empress. As expected, no one thought much of it and assumed that this was normal for Li Yao.
Li Yao then received a pile of rewards.
That night, the Empress personally changed Li Yao's clothes and asked, "My son, do your injuries still hurt?"
Upon hearing this, Li Yao said, "It doesn't hurt anymore, Mother. My master soaked me in some comfortable water, and the pain has subsided."
The Empress looked at Li Yao's body, still bearing the visible scars of her old wounds, and her eyes instantly welled up with tears. She hugged Li Yao, sobbing, "It's all my fault. I should have protected you. I should have recognized that it wasn't yours. If... if it weren't for me, how could you have ended up among the common people, how could you have suffered like this? Waaah, I'm so incompetent, my child, waaah!"
Seeing the Empress crying so hard she almost collapsed, Li Yao quickly patted her arm and said, "Master said Mother didn't do it on purpose. A bad person replaced me, and Master avenged me."
The Empress cried for a while before finally falling asleep in Li Yao's arms.
At night, Li Yao pretended to roll over and escape the Empress's embrace, then used her mental power to hypnotize the Empress into a deep sleep. She then returned to her spatial dimension, donned an invisibility cloak, and teleported to the Emperor's bedchamber.
She poured about half a 100ml test tube-shaped glass bottle with a cap into it, then sealed the cap and silently moved the bottle next to the emperor's pillow.
Then, Li Yao used her mental power to scan the guard on the rooftop. Seeing him begin to survey his surroundings, Li Yao quickly teleported back to the Empress's bedroom, hurriedly placed the same bottle of spiritual spring water beside the Empress's pillow, and then returned to her spatial dimension to quickly change her clothes before silently lying back in bed. She then dispelled her mental power.
About 15 minutes later, someone indeed came and gently woke the Queen.
Li Yao pretended to turn over and continue sleeping. The Empress got up and returned a short while later, rummaging through the pillow before leaving the room again.
Li Yao pretended to be asleep, secretly using her mental power to watch the Emperor and Empress in the next room. The Emperor was holding two bottles of spiritual spring water, turning them over and over.
The two discussed how to use the spiritual spring water, and then summoned the imperial physician to examine it. They were busy all night, but in the end, it was the emperor's secret guard who came out and drank a drop.
A few breaths later, the guard said with great joy, "Your Majesty, my old injuries and ailments have been healed. I am now full of energy, my physical strength has returned to its peak, and my internal strength has doubled."
This time, Li Yao used less spiritual energy, so the guards didn't notice. She was also curious about how her martial arts internal energy would react to the spiritual spring water, and she was surprised to hear that her internal energy had doubled.
The Emperor was also surprised to hear this. The imperial physician also said that there was no poison in the drink. After thinking for a while, the Emperor tilted his head back and drank his share, asking the Empress to wait and see how he would react.
Seeing that the Emperor drank it directly without diluting it with water, Li Yao guessed that it would stink to the heavens.
Sure enough, after a cup of tea, the emperor clutched his stomach and went to the toilet, and then the entire latrine emitted a strong stench.
Then the eunuch announced that the emperor wanted to take a bath and ordered the palace servants to prepare water.
Amidst the chaos of war, the emperor missed his court sessions.
It wasn't until Li Yao was woken up by her nanny in the morning and sat at the table waiting for breakfast that the Emperor came out from another room.
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