"Master, please stop teasing me. Besides, I truly believe being your book boy is far better than being a mortal emperor," An Yun said earnestly. It was the truth. Since following the Master, his cultivation had improved every year.
"An Yun." The Master sighed. "You focus only on cultivation and forget some things. Only those who have experienced trials can break through heart demons when ascending. If this Emperor can save the Great Yu Dynasty, her karmic merit will help purify her heart demons, making her future ascension easy. However…"
The Master smiled. "An Yun, what do you think? Should I create some tribulations for this Emperor?"
An Yun was slightly stunned. "Ah? What kind of tribulation?"
The Master put down his chess piece, seemingly thinking. "I remember we once visited a realm where a woman was heartbroken over a man. I intervened to help her. Do you remember that, An Yun?"
"I remember. You made a deal for her pure energy and helped her punish the unfaithful man," An Yun recalled. she remembered almost everything the Master did.
The Master smiled faintly. "Women are easily swayed by emotion. This Divine Physician Emperor is doing well now. What if I set up an emotional tribulation for her? Women love easily, don't they? I want to see how she reacts if she falls in love."
An Yun was surprised. "Master, who would you choose as her partner?" An Yun never refused the Master’s decisions. she always believed the Master was absolutely right.
"What if I go personally?" The Master grinned. "I’ve been bored lately, and my cultivation has stalled. Perhaps going down to play with people will help."
"But Master, you cultivate the Path of No Emotion," An Yun said.
"The Path of No Emotion is actually full of emotion. The Path of Much Emotion is the most ruthless. Because I am emotionless, I can act with much emotion. Moreover, I am curious about her face beneath the mask," the Master laughed softly. "An Yun, my curiosity about this girl is the key to my bottleneck."
The Master never feared being called ruthless. If something benefited her cultivation, she did not hesitate. To her, it was merely deceiving a girl. If she resisted, her Dao heart was strong, and her tricks would fail. If she was deceived, it was her tribulation, unrelated to her.
"If Master has decided, I have no objections," An Yun said. He always obeyed. In his heart, the Master was omnipotent. Deceiving a mere cultivator was nothing.
Zhu Yanyi did not know someone planned to deceive her, even her feelings.
Even if she knew, she would only sneer. Her heart belonged only to Yan Aohan. Even if she was absent, the Purple-Gold Red String between them would prevent her from caring for other men. Thus, the Master’s plan would never succeed.
Of course, Zhu Yanyi did not know this, nor did she have time to care. She was thinking about other matters.
The five hundred pots of flowers and plants sent by the Emperor were not wasted. Zhu Yanyi gathered useful items and discovered a hidden piece around the Emperor. This piece had remained inactive. To control it, she needed to make it move.
Only when it moved could she control everything.
Zhu Yanyi pondered how to trigger this hidden piece.
After thinking, she had no idea. She shook her head. If there was no solution now, she would filed it away without dwelling.
Zhu Yanyi cultivated the Heart Dao, so she followed her heart. If there was a method, good. If not, she would not obsess. A year ago, she might have obsessed, but since Yan Aohan occasionally guided her, she no longer did.
Since the hidden piece could not be found for now, she ignored it. Currently, the members of the Dagger Squad were ready. Zhu Yanyi planned to refine pills to change their constitutions and increase their cultivation.
She had already started this. The first ten people sent to the Emperor had already undergone constitution changes and cultivation boosts.
Zhu Yanyi called Fu Huai and Xuanyuan Cheng over. She threw a bottle of pills to them. "One each. It changes your constitution. If you endure the pain, your cultivation will increase by at least twenty years. There are one hundred pills here. Distribute them first. Come back for more until everyone has one."
Fu Huai and Xuanyuan Cheng were stunned, their eyes full of joy. "Your Majesty, is this real? Can we eat them?"
"Yes. You two can eat first. I will guard you. However, changing your constitution and expanding meridians will cause pain. You must endure it," Zhu Yanyi said calmly.
No constitution change is painless. Without pain, it is not a change.
Fu Huai smiled. "We are prepared." He opened the bottle, took a pill. Xuanyuan Cheng did the same. Without hesitation, they swallowed them and sat cross-legged to meditate.
As Zhu Yanyi said, they soon felt pain throughout their bodies. The feeling of bones being remolded was indescribable. In one word, it was painful yet joyful.
After the pain, they found their internal energy had truly increased. Fu Huai gained thirty years, and Xuanyuan Cheng gained thirty-five years.
"This medicine is excellent." Fu Huai looked at the pills like a wolf seeing mutton.
"Stop looking. You cannot eat more. Medicine only works once. I have changed your constitutions, so the pills will have no effect the second time. Take the rest to distribute to your subordinates. Make them take them on the spot, and guard them well," Zhu Yanyi said calmly.
"Yes." Fu Huai and Xuanyuan Cheng straightened up. This was serious business. They did not dare delay. They hurriedly took the pills to find people.