Chapter 509 Do you think this is right?
After the palace maid Yu Ling left, Emperor Zhaowu Qin Han sat there for a while before getting up and heading to his own bedchamber.
There are several side halls in Fengning Palace. Wang Yushi always rests in the last one, and she basically never goes into the "bedroom" that was chosen according to feng shui.
But today she went in and was very surprised to see that the back of the emperor, who was starting to hunch over as he walked. She had only been gone for a few months, so how could Emperor Zhaowu have aged so much?
Emperor Zhaowu laboriously took off his boots, and as soon as he raised his head, he saw the spirited woman.
"Yu Shi... is that you?"
What happened to your eyes?
"...I can't see very clearly, maybe my eyes are playing tricks on me!"
"You're only this year..."
Wang Yushi stopped after saying half a sentence. She remembered that she had come back to settle scores with him, not to offer him comfort.
"Am I not even thirty yet? Hehe..."
Emperor Zhaowu chuckled self-deprecatingly, "The Fountain of Life is not the legendary divine medicine; it... is a kind of magic potion that can make you feel like you're in paradise, but in the end, it's all just a fleeting dream!"
"What you drank back then... might not have been the real Fountain of Life!"
"...Whether it is the real Fountain of Life or a fake one, the sacred artifact of the sea race is so precious that even with so many benefits I have offered, I cannot obtain a single drop. Do I have any other choice but the Holy Temple?"
Wang Yushi thought of the "good wine" she had drunk, and then of the big bottle that Xi Ya had given to Qin Mo. Her eyes twitched repeatedly; it was filled with "incomparably precious" liquid.
"You kidnapped Yu Yan and Qing Ning to force me to come back?"
"Force you to come back? You mean... you don't plan to come back?" Emperor Zhaowu's tone became sharp.
Wang Yushi continued to ask noncommittally, "Why did you capture my sister? What do you need to use my family as leverage for blackmail?"
"To blackmail? Do I need to blackmail? I possess the whole world, the entire realm belongs to me, and I can take whatever I want. Why would I need to blackmail?"
Emperor Zhaowu jumped up like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, shouting angrily, but his eyes kept flickering, wandering uncertainly over Wang Yushi.
Wang Yushi immediately felt annoyed. Emperor Zhaowu was not the kind of foolish ruler. Everything he did had its purpose. If he confiscated his own property, he could explain it by his financial difficulties. But if he arrested the two people closest to him, who was he trying to deal with?
Wang Yushi turned to leave. She had already sensed the location where her sister and Qing Ning were being held captive, so she decided to release them first.
“Yu Shi...”
Wang Yushi stopped in her tracks, but did not turn around.
"Although the Fountain of Life did not heal my body, it did make me a complete man. Therefore, I have come up with a method that is sure to be effective, and it is even possible that I may be able to return to my former state."
Wang Yushi turned around and saw Emperor Zhaowu with a burning gaze.
If Wang Yushi only felt annoyed when she saw him before, now she felt utterly disgusted.
Tell me!
Emperor Zhaowu took out an ancient book and handed it to Wang Yushi. His hand trembled incessantly, revealing his inner longing.
"The Dongxuanzi?"
After seeing the title of the book, Wang Yushi blushed slightly, because she had seen a handwritten copy of this classic text in the Imperial Library, and had even practiced it herself just a few days ago.
The Dongxuanzi is a secret manual of dual cultivation treasured by the Great Xia Imperial Family. Originally, only Emperor Zhaowu could access it, and even Wang Yushi did not have the authority to look at it. Therefore, the so-called Taoist secret manuals circulating in the market are all incomplete versions.
Wang Yushi casually flipped through the book and found that it was indeed the original, and it was very different from the handwritten copy she had seen, or rather, the handwritten copy was an abridged version of "Dongxuanzi".
Wang Yushi roughly understood Emperor Zhaowu's meaning. She no longer felt disgusted and annoyed, but only felt deep contempt.
"What do you want to do?" Wang Yushi finally asked, but her tone was extremely cold.
“Yu Shi… As long as we complete the seventh skill, I can recover. Then I will return the Imperial Treasury to you, and the Imperial Guard to you. I… can give you anything.”
"The seventh technique? Qin Han... are you crazy?"
"Yu Shi... Although the seventh technique will cause you some hardship, I will compensate you. The whole world belongs to me, and it also belongs to you. What use is cultivation to you?"
Looking at the sincere-looking Emperor Zhaowu, Wang Yushi wondered how she could have been so foolish as to agree to conceal his physical secret in this way.
Was it because she was afraid of being silenced? How could Wang Yushi, a member of the suicide squad, be threatened like this?
There was only one reason: Emperor Zhaowu's refined image had bewitched her. A patriotic, people-loving, elegant, and witty young man had suddenly become a heartbroken and dejected person. This human tragedy touched the kind of goodness hidden deep in Wang Yushi's heart.
But what has become of that once kind-hearted crown prince?
The seventh technique in the Dongxuanzi is called "Transplanting Flowers and Grafting Trees," which compares a woman to a furnace or cauldron. Through a special method, the cultivation and vitality of the furnace or cauldron are extracted and transferred to another person. The higher the realm of the furnace or cauldron, the more vitality the man receives.
However, this method of cultivation requires the sincere cooperation of the furnace and cauldron, and cannot be forcibly taken. Moreover, the entire process is irreversible and uncontrollable, causing great damage to the woman's body. At best, she will lose all her cultivation; at worst, she will be seriously injured and die.
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