Having many children brings many blessings; the struggle for power begins with marriage.

Hearing Lu Chen's "praise," Qi Shi felt ashamed and didn't know what to say.

He never expected that the Qi family would come up with such a bizarre tactic to save their lives. Originally, in order to preserve the Qi family's bloodline, he planned to persuade Qi Hongguang to surrender to the Great Xia Dynasty and then pledge allegiance to Lu Chen.

As it turned out, Qi Hongguang had already run away.

Lu Chen stopped and released his divine sense to investigate the entire Qingyun Dynasty. He discovered that most of the dynasty's fortune was concentrated in the belly of the pregnant woman from earlier.

To fully acquire the fortune of the entire Qingyun Dynasty, the only option is to wait for the pregnant woman to give birth to the child, and then wait until the child grows up to be able to speak and voluntarily pledge allegiance to him.

Of course, he could also forcibly strip the Qingyun Dynasty of its fortune by killing the pregnant woman. In that case, the Qingyun Dynasty's imperial fortune would directly enter his body.

However, Lu Chen clearly couldn't bring himself to kill a pregnant woman.

Moreover, by doing so, he would lose a great deal of the dynasty's fortune.

It's just a few years, and he can afford to wait that long.

For the next year, Lu Chen's imperial avatar stayed in the Qingyun Dynasty. In order to gather information about the outside world, especially about the Yunhua Palace, Lu Chen sent out many spies.

However, the universe is too vast. Although Lu Chen sent out many spies, the intelligence was rather mixed, and there was almost no useful information.

However, there is one piece of information that is quite important to the Great Xia Dynasty: ever since the Heavenly Mystery Woman revealed the news of the impending calamity, the entire universe has been thrown into turmoil.

In order to combat the great calamity, more and more emperors frantically expanded their dynasties, attempting to use the dynasty's fortune to help them escape the calamity.

This intelligence is important to the Great Xia Dynasty because, as a newly established dynasty, the Great Xia Dynasty would inevitably be attacked once the emperors learned of its existence.

Now, the situation in Great Xia has become even worse.

Lu Chen also felt a sense of urgency because of this news. In order to obtain more rewards from the system, he had been working hard for the past year, but without any results.

Of his wives and concubines, only Empress Tianhong and Chu Yuqin were pregnant.

What puzzled him even more was that a year had passed since Empress Tianhong and Chu Yuqin became pregnant, yet neither of their bellies showed any signs of pregnancy and remained the same size as normal people.

If he hadn't examined both of their bodies multiple times, he would have suspected that his child had been aborted.

This also made Lu Chen realize that it was indeed not an easy thing for the Great Emperor to have an offspring.

The Imperial Palace of the Qingyun Dynasty.

Empress Tianhong, dressed in a long red dress, stood on the roof of the magnificent palace, gazing into the deep universe, a hint of weariness in her beautiful eyes.

Over the past year, the child in her womb has been frantically absorbing her killing power, causing her body to become increasingly weak and her strength to decline.

Originally, she planned to replenish her killing power by slaughtering people of the Qingyun Dynasty, but Lu Chen did not allow her to do so. Because she was dissatisfied with Lu Chen's various restrictions on her, she did not allow Lu Chen to touch her body for a year.

Lu Chen could only see her when he was examining her body.

Lu Chen had hinted to her many times that he wanted to have something happen between them, but she pretended not to understand his hints.

As Lu Chen's contracted spirit, she was well aware of any filthy thoughts Lu Chen might have, but the thought of this man constantly controlling her made her feel somewhat uncomfortable.

Under these circumstances, she naturally wouldn't let Lu Chen touch her body.

But precisely because of this, her killing power could not be replenished, and her strength declined even faster.

Sensing that her cultivation had become somewhat unstable, Empress Tianhong knew she couldn't continue like this.

This child's talent is too extraordinary; he stayed in her womb for a year and was still not fully developed.

No one knows how long Lu Chen's child will stay in her womb. If it stays for thousands of years, her cultivation level will probably drop to the Saint Realm, or even below the Saint Realm.

With a great calamity approaching in ten thousand years, if her strength is not increasing but instead rapidly declining, she probably won't be able to survive the calamity.

She had to come up with a plan. Lu Chen wouldn't let her kill people indiscriminately, so if she wanted to regain her strength, the only way was to kill Lu Chen's undeveloped offspring.

This method is currently the only way to quickly restore strength.

Although she was still somewhat dissatisfied with Lu Chen, she had no choice but to do so in order to regain her strength.

Thinking of this, Empress Tianhong's figure flashed, and the next moment, Empress Tianhong's beautiful figure appeared in Lu Chen's cultivation chamber.

Upon sensing Empress Tianhong's aura, Lu Chen immediately opened his eyes.

"What's wrong, Honghong?"

Empress Tianhong glanced coldly at Lu Chen without saying a word.

Lu Chen looked at Empress Tianhong with a puzzled expression. He knew that Empress Tianhong had some issues with him over the past year and did not want to be controlled by him.

That's why Empress Tianhong almost never takes the initiative to contact him. Every time he says he wants to check her body and see how the baby in her belly is developing, Empress Tianhong will take a long time to show up.

Why did the Rainbow Empress come to find me today?

Lu Chen didn't think about matters between men and women. After all, Empress Tianhong was an emperor and could easily control her desires.

Perhaps in the eyes of Empress Tianhong, matters between men and women were simply a waste of her time, and Lu Chen had long since given up on the idea of ​​doing that kind of thing with Empress Tianhong again.

Anyway, he has plenty of women, so even if he can't touch Empress Tianhong, it won't affect his state of mind.

Seeing that Empress Tianhong remained silent, Lu Chen continued, "Has something happened outside?"

Empress Tianhong said calmly, "I need your help in my cultivation."

Upon hearing this, Lu Chen's face immediately showed an expression of disbelief.

He never expected that Empress Tianhong would take the initiative to seek him out for cultivation.

After Lu Chen came to his senses, just as he was about to do something, Empress Tianhong suddenly waved her hand and used spatial teleportation. The two of them instantly arrived at Empress Tianhong's palace.

Although Lu Chen has many women, even if he can't do "that kind of thing" with Empress Tianhong, it won't have much of an impact on him.

However, Empress Tianhong was, after all, an empress, and Lu Chen still harbored some thoughts of conquering her again. But because of Empress Tianhong's indifference over the past year, he temporarily suppressed those thoughts.

Now that Empress Tianhong has taken the initiative to bring it up, Lu Chen's desire for her was instantly ignited. The thought of conquering Empress Tianhong again made Lu Chen's heart burn with passion.

Lu Chen didn't mince words; he said directly, "Okay, but I..."

Before Lu Chen could finish speaking, Empress Tianhong waved her hand again, and Lu Chen's clothes instantly disappeared.

The red dress of the Rainbow Empress gradually faded away.

The next moment, Empress Tianhong appeared in front of Lu Chen, their noses touching. Then, she pushed Lu Chen's chest with her slender hand, and Lu Chen fell onto the soft couch.

Empress Tianhong then took the initiative to pin Lu Chen down. (End of Chapter)