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

Lu Chen took a step and instantly arrived at the Imperial Study in the palace.

At this moment, Ji Yunmeng sat in front of the imperial desk, looking at the memorials in front of her with a worried expression. The desk was piled high with memorials, most of which came from the border.

Upon seeing Lu Chen arrive, Ji Yunmeng immediately said, "A Heavenly Realm Spiritual Warrior has entered the Borderlands."

Upon hearing this, Lu Chen frowned slightly.

He walked a few steps to the imperial desk, then casually picked up a folded booklet from it, opened it, glanced at it, and fell silent upon seeing its contents.

Seeing that Lu Chen remained silent, Ji Yunmeng asked, "You should have already broken through to the King Realm, right?"

When Lu Chen broke through a few months ago, he made such a big commotion, and the pressure emanating from him made her unable to move. In her opinion, Lu Chen must have broken through to the King Realm.

Lu Chen snapped out of his daze, put down the folding book in his hand, and said, "I have indeed broken through to the King Realm."

Hearing Lu Chen's answer, Ji Yunmeng finally breathed a sigh of relief.

With Lu Chen, a King Realm expert, around, those Heaven Realm experts from the outer regions are no longer a threat.

However, Ji Yunmeng was not completely at ease.

Currently, the outer regions can only send Heavenly Realm experts into the borderlands. If the restrictions are completely removed, those outer region forces will send even stronger people into the borderlands, and there may be King Realm experts among them.

Lu Chen, a mere King Realm cultivator, cannot defeat so many King Realm forces; in the end, the Great Zhou will still perish.

After all, the Great Zhou captured so many disciples from foreign forces. Most importantly, they entered the borderlands to search for ancient inheritances. If they entered the ancient ruins and found that the inheritances were no longer there, they would definitely suspect that the ancient inheritances had fallen into the hands of the Great Zhou royal family.

The Great Zhou is in a very dangerous situation. Now they can only pray that the border restrictions will not completely dissipate in the near future. As long as they can stop the experts above the King Realm, they can hold on for a few more days.

At this moment, Ji Yunmeng glanced at Lu Chen.

Could Lu Chen's ability to break through to the King Realm in such a short time be related to the bead he obtained last time?

If Lu Chen can continue to break through and reach the King Realm, then perhaps they can still be saved.

If Lu Chen stops at the King Realm and his realm still doesn't improve after the borderland restrictions disappear, then they'll have to figure out how to save their lives.

At this moment, Ji Yunmeng asked, "Can your cultivation level still improve rapidly?"

Lu Chen laughed and said, "You think breaking through is as easy as drinking water? It's not that easy."

Upon hearing Lu Chen's answer, Ji Yun thought for a moment and realized that it made sense. Although she didn't know how Lu Chen had broken through to the King Realm, he must have consumed a lot of resources to achieve that breakthrough.

Now, all the spiritual energy in the entire Great Zhou has been drained by Lu Chen, which is why Lu Chen was able to break through to the King Realm.

If Lu Chen wants to break through again, the spiritual energy in the entire borderland might not be enough.

Seeing Ji Yunmeng's worried expression, Lu Chen comforted her, "You don't need to worry too much. We'll deal with whatever comes our way. If we can't win, I'll take you away from the borderlands."

He possessed the Nine Heavens Mysterious Cloud Boat. Although he looked down on the flying boat, it was still quite useful for escaping.

Seeing that Lu Chen didn't seem worried at all about the disappearance of the border barrier, Ji Yunmeng guessed that Lu Chen might still have a trump card to save his life.

Thinking of this, Ji Yunmeng's anxiety lessened somewhat.

Now she can only rely on this man.

She used to dream of becoming an empress, but after actually ascending to the throne, she realized that this position was not so easy to hold.

To be honest, she now wants to hand over the throne to Lu Chen, then ignore everything else and focus solely on raising the child.

She wanted to be the emperor; what she wanted was the emperor's power.

As a result, after becoming emperor, she felt the pressure of the emperor's obligations before she even enjoyed the power.

On the contrary, Lu Chen not only doesn't have to fulfill any obligations, but also possesses power surpassing that of the emperor.

The current Great Zhou Dynasty, strictly speaking, is Lu Chen's Great Zhou Dynasty. Whatever Lu Chen says goes, and even she, the emperor, cannot resist.

Forget about resisting; in front of Lu Chen, she was nothing more than a plaything.

This made her truly understand that as long as one's own strength is sufficient, all identities are merely symbols; only those with weak strength resort to conspiracies and tricks.

Unfortunately, it's too late for her to understand all this now; the mess that was once the Great Zhou Dynasty is now in her hands.

The fortune of the Great Zhou Dynasty is now concentrated on her, and a large part of the reason she was able to break through to the Heavenly Realm is due to the fortune of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

If the Great Zhou Dynasty declines, her strength will also drop, and her realm may fall to the Earth Realm. Therefore, she can only hold on, unless she is willing to accept the consequences of her realm falling.

But as someone who has experienced the power of the Heavenly Realm, how could she willingly give up such strength?

Lu Chen then said, "Alright, I'll go check out the border first."

Upon hearing this, Ji Yunmeng immediately asked, "What do you plan to do?"

Lu Chen thought for a moment, then said, "Don't they want to enter the ancient ruins? Then let them in, provided they can actually get in."

Ji Yunmeng said, "If they enter the ancient ruins and find that the ancient inheritance has disappeared, they might suspect that we obtained the ancient inheritance."

"Aren't you afraid that after the restriction disappears, those powerful figures from the outer realms will attack you and force you to hand over that bead?"

Hearing this, Lu Chen said dismissively, "We'll have to wait until they enter the ancient ruins to see."

Lu Chen knew that most people couldn't enter the ancient ruins. The strange power outside the ancient ruins was something ordinary people couldn't touch. By the time those people entered the ancient ruins and found that the ancient inheritance was gone, they didn't even know when it had happened.

Seeing that Lu Chen didn't care at all, Ji Yunmeng stopped talking.

At this moment, Lu Chen turned around and walked out of the Imperial Study.

Watching Lu Chen's departing figure, Ji Yunmeng sighed softly.

She felt utterly pathetic to be an empress, having to rely on Lu Chen for everything.

It's all that bastard's fault for stealing that bead.

She had a premonition that if she obtained that bead, she would definitely be able to break through to a higher realm, and then perhaps she wouldn't need Lu Chen anymore. Maybe she could protect the Great Zhou Dynasty on her own.

After leaving the capital, Lu Chen arrived at a mountain forest and took out the Nine Heavens Mysterious Cloud Boat from the system space.

The moment the Nine Heavens Mysterious Cloud Boat was released, a violent spiritual aura enveloped the entire capital region, and the sky darkened, forming a huge vortex of black clouds that pressed down as if the sky were about to collapse.

Lu Chen hadn't expected that simply releasing the Nine Heavens Mysterious Cloud Boat would cause such a commotion.

He then channeled spiritual energy into the Nine Heavens Mysterious Cloud Boat and took control of it.

The Nine Heavens Mysterious Cloud Boat is over a thousand feet long, and has many rooms on board, resembling a mobile palace.

Just by controlling the Nine Heavens Mysterious Cloud Boat, Lu Chen felt that his spiritual energy was almost completely depleted.

Lu Chen thought for a moment. It was normal for a magic weapon that could travel 100,000 miles a day to consume more spiritual energy. It seemed that he could not use the Nine Heavens Mysterious Cloud Boat at will for the time being.

Lu Chen quickly stored away the Nine Heavens Mysterious Cloud Boat and flew towards the northern border of the Great Zhou Dynasty. (End of Chapter)