Jie teaches the Immortal Sweeping Heaven’s Cultivation of All Heavens

Zhao Wentian: "You are all my new people, therefore, I think you should know my identity..."

Liu Tong and Liu Heng exchanged a glance.

The two were not surprised when Zhao Wentian suddenly revealed his identity to them.

After all, the emperor's sons had all died, and he had to find someone from the imperial clan to inherit the throne.

Zhao Wentian was a member of the imperial clan who was closest to the emperor in blood.

Based solely on his status as the son of the former crown prince, he was more qualified to ascend the throne than other members of the imperial clan.

Qi Mingcheng was extremely surprised and in a daze.

Why do all my friends have secrets?

Liu Heng and Liu Dong are men disguised as women. Zhao Wentian was stopped by the former crown prince. Xu Ruofeng had long since sided with Zhao Wentian and was working for him...

Qi Mingcheng: "What about Cheng Yifeng and the others..."

Zhao Wentian: "Cheng Yifeng is too rigid, and like him, he's a royalist. Cheng Yiyun is spoiled rotten by his mother; asking him to help me will only make things worse."

Qi Mingcheng: "..."

Indeed, those two are not suited to know such a secret.

Since Zhao Wentian dared to reveal his identity, he was confident that Qi Mingcheng and Liu Heng would help him.

Indeed, Liu Heng would not let go of the opportunity to revitalize the Cen State Duke's Mansion.

What merit is greater than the merit of following the emperor?

As for Qi Mingcheng...

He was loyal and devoted to his friends, and Zhao Wentian was his childhood friend.

And since his two other friends have joined, can he refuse?

The emperor suffered such a blow that his health deteriorated, and he was in danger of dying at any moment.

Ministers and members of the imperial family urged the emperor to quickly appoint an heir, but the emperor was frustrated because he really did not want to pass the throne to an outsider.

At this time, Zhao Wentian's adoptive father returned to Beijing from out of town and exposed Zhao Wentian's true identity.

As the son of the former crown prince, isn't Zhao Wentian the obvious heir to the throne?
The emperor did not want to pass the throne to Zhao Wentian, after all, Zhao Wentian's father was the emperor's enemy.

The emperor was worried that Zhao Wentian would retaliate against him after taking power.

He had his trusted confidants kill Zhao Wentian.

But none of the assassins sent by the emperor returned alive.

Liu Heng and Qi Mingcheng stayed by Zhao Wentian's side to protect him.

Even without Liu Heng lifting a finger, those assassins were no match for Qi Mingcheng.

When the Duke of Qi learned that his son had chosen Zhao Wentian, he sighed and then used illness as an excuse to withdraw from the court, staying at home and refusing to leave.

The Marquis of Zhenyuan made the same choice as him.

The emperor's confidants are becoming fewer and fewer.

As the tide had turned, the court officials urged the emperor to appoint Zhao Wentian as crown prince.

The emperor held his breath and refused to stand, and then suffocated himself.

When Zhao Wentian ascended the throne, Cheng Yixue naturally became the empress.

Qi Mingcheng was saddened to learn that Cheng Yixue had become Empress, but he was also happy for her.

Many days have passed since Cheng Yixue got married, and a lot has happened in that time.

Qi Mingcheng's mind was drawn away by those things, and his feelings for Cheng Yixue gradually faded without him realizing it.

He thought that one day he would completely forget Cheng Yixue.

Xu Ruofeng was the biggest contributor to Zhao Wentian's ascension to the throne, and he also received the greatest reward.

He did not inherit the title of Marquis of Zhenyuan, after all, he had an older brother.

The emperor bestowed upon him the title of Duke, a rank even higher than that of Marquis of Zhenyuan.

Cheng Yishuang became the Duchess of the State.

Because of Empress Cheng Yixue, the two Cheng brothers were promoted.

However, Cheng Yifeng was more favored by the emperor.

Cheng Yilu was so jealous she was almost going crazy.

She had previously used underhanded tactics to successfully get involved with Zhang Beichen and join the Duke of Jing's mansion. As a result, Zhao Wentian rose to power.

Her most despised half-sister became the empress, while the Duke of Jing's family was disliked by Zhao Wentian because they were the maternal family of the former emperor's empress and had betrayed the former crown prince.

She lost her title in the Duke's mansion and was reduced to the wife of a commoner.

From now on, you must bow to Cheng Yixue and Cheng Yishuang when you see them.

Oh, given her status, she's not even qualified to see Cheng Yixue.

How could the proud and arrogant Cheng Yilu accept this?
Look at Cheng Yixue and Cheng Yilu, two successful and powerful husbands, and then look at Zhang Beichen, who still philanders even after being demoted to a commoner...

Cheng Yilu's mental state completely collapsed.

In the end, she suffocated herself to death.

Zhao was terrified after Cheng Yixue became empress.

After all, Cheng Yixue's own mother and younger brother were killed by her.

Fearing that Cheng Yixue would retaliate against her son and daughter, Zhao committed suicide one day.

Upon receiving the news, Cheng Yixue simply said, "I know."

Zhao is dead, and the revenge for my mother and brother has been avenged.

She wouldn't hold a grudge against Cheng Yiyun.

Although this older brother is a bit slow-witted, he's been pretty good to her.

As for Cheng Yilu, she knew her.

Doing nothing would be the greatest punishment for Cheng Yilu.

Not long after Zhao Wentian ascended the throne, the palace held a selection of imperial concubines.

Cheng Yixue hosted the talent show while suppressing her heartache.

If Zhao Wentian were just an ordinary person, or an official, or even a prime minister, she would not have tolerated him.

You should know that she resolutely broke up with Qi Mingcheng because he had another woman.

But Zhao Wentian was no ordinary person; he was the emperor.

The emperor is destined not to have one woman, but to have three palaces and six courtyards.

Cheng Yixue couldn't act as willfully as Zhao Wentian, nor did she have the right to act as willfully as an emperor.

What she needs to do now is to secure her position as empress, ensure her son grows up healthy, and allow him to inherit the throne in the future.

She is no longer the lively and principled girl from the Cheng family; she has evolved into a qualified and virtuous empress.

Qi Mingcheng sighed deeply at Cheng Yixue's change.

They've all changed!

Under Madam Qi's arrangement, Qi Mingcheng married another wife, a perfectly respectable and well-bred lady.

After marriage, she was the epitome of a virtuous wife, so virtuous that she arranged for a maid to serve Qi Mingcheng when she was unwell.

Qi Mingcheng refused.

He is not a lecherous person, nor is he addicted to that kind of thing.

Out of respect for his wife, he would sleep with her on the first and fifteenth of each month, and spend the rest of the time alone in his study.

He spent all that time cultivating his internal energy.

As his cultivation deepened, Qi Mingcheng increasingly felt the allure of internal energy.

Apart from matters of the court, Qi Mingcheng devoted all his attention to cultivation, becoming a martial arts fanatic.

Because of his passion, his internal energy cultivation has made great progress, and he is now at the level of a second-rate master in the novel "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils".

Keep in mind that he has only been cultivating for a few years.

Time flies, and more than 20 years have passed in the blink of an eye.

Several of them were already close to fifty years old.

A new round of succession struggles is already showing signs.

Zhao Wentian has more sons than the late emperor, now having more than ten sons ranging in age from their twenties to three years old.

Cheng Yixue gave birth to two sons: the eldest prince and the eighth prince.

The eldest prince has already been named crown prince. (End of this chapter)