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

Chapter 714 Lu Chen's First Seclusion

After spending another day in blissful intimacy with Mu Zixuan, Lu Chen finally let Mu Zixuan leave Fengyun Palace.

After Mu Zixuan left, Lu Chen soaked alone in the bathtub, with the system interface in front of him.

[Saint-level Puppet Technique: Saint-level Puppet Technique, with four levels. Upon reaching perfection, the puppet's strength and perception become 100% synchronized with the host's. Within this universe, distance can be ignored, allowing the puppet to travel anywhere.]

Upon seeing the effects of the Puppet Technique, Lu Chen was taken aback. His first thought was to use the puppet to investigate the situation in the Purple Sun World. He had originally planned to wait for the people from the Black Dragon Holy Land to arrive before investigating the Purple Sun World, but he didn't expect the system to reward him with the Puppet Technique, which could ignore distance, so soon.

but……

He felt he had lost out by exchanging half the fortune of the Tianchen World for a Saint-level puppet technique.

By the way, he can receive rewards for both conceiving a sub-world and giving birth to a sub-world.

The system's current reward is only for Mu Zixuan conceiving the sub-world. Once she gives birth to the sub-world, she will receive another reward.

He remembered that when Chu Yuqin was pregnant with the child world last time, she was rewarded with the Formless Sand needed to repair the Tianchen World. Compared to the Saint-level Puppet Technique, the Formless Sand was nothing.

Mu Zixuan received such a great reward for conceiving the child world this time. When Mu Zixuan brings the child world into existence, will she receive an even better reward?

Thinking of this, Lu Chen felt a little excited. He had consumed half of the Tianchen World's fortune, so he should at least get something good in return.

Since absorbing half of the fortune of the Tianchen World, the cultivators in the Tianchen World have become increasingly unlucky, with their failure rate in breaking through to higher levels becoming extremely high. However, this has not had a significant impact on ordinary people.

Lu Chen strongly suspects that the Tianchen World has been replenishing its own fortune by absorbing the personal fortune of those cultivators, which is why the cultivators in the Tianchen World are becoming weaker and weaker.

Of course, this was just Lu Chen's guess; he had no evidence.

Lu Chen then closed the system interface, quickly finished taking a shower, and then went to an underground palace in the royal palace.

Over the years, the palace has been renovated, and a huge palace now exists below it. The main purpose of these palaces is for his wives, concubines, or children to use in seclusion.

Lu Chen used his wives, concubines, and children more often, but he himself never used them. His previous cultivation methods all involved gaining cultivation through women, so there was no need for him to go into seclusion to cultivate.

In order to quickly master the puppetry technique, he plans to go into seclusion for further cultivation.

Since the system upgrade, he can no longer cultivate his skills through women. The system's explanation is that the speed of improvement through women is not as fast as that of self-cultivation.

When Lu Chen entered the underground palace, the maids there looked at him in surprise. Their emperor had actually come to the underground palace on his own initiative today?

What is Your Majesty doing in the underground palace?

It's not like he was going to do *that* with some concubine, but then that concubine stopped coming upstairs, so he came down to find her himself, intending to make love in the underground palace.

The underground palace was similar to the one above, resplendent in gold and brightly lit, not dim at all.

The industry of the Great Xia Dynasty has now reached a certain level, and the light bulbs produced have improved in all aspects. As something used by the emperor, it is naturally even more luxurious.

Lu Chen walked through the corridor of the underground palace and arrived at the underground Fengyun Palace. He then said to the maid guarding the Fengyun Palace, "I am going into seclusion to cultivate. Unless there is something important, no one is allowed to disturb me."

Upon hearing Lu Chen's words, the maid was taken aback at first, but quickly recovered and said, "Yes...yes, Your Majesty!"

His Majesty's decision to go into seclusion is huge news! Everyone in the palace knows what kind of person Lu Chen is, and now he actually says he's going into seclusion!

Did the sun rise in the west today?

Ignoring the shocked gazes of the maids, Lu Chen walked straight into the Fengyun Palace. After closing the palace doors, he began to cultivate the Saint-level Puppet Technique.

Soon, the news of Lu Chen's seclusion spread throughout the entire Yancheng Imperial Palace. Upon hearing that Lu Chen was going into seclusion, his wives and concubines were all stunned, and they quickly gathered together.

Inside the Fengyun Palace, the women looked at each other.

Mu Zixuan asked, "Sister Chu, why did His Majesty suddenly decide to go into seclusion? Has something happened?"

Chu Yuqin said, "I don't know either. Chen'er went to the Underground Wind and Cloud Palace without telling me."

"It seems you were the last woman he saw before he went into seclusion. Didn't he mention his seclusion to you?"

After thinking for a moment, Mu Zixuan replied, "No, he didn't say anything to me."

At this point, the women looked at each other again. Chu Yuqin then looked at Bai Qingqing, who was Lu Chen's personal maid. Surely she knew something.

"Little Sister Bai, you should know why Chen'er is in seclusion, right?"

Bai Qingqing shook her head and said, "I don't know either."

Yelü Nanyan said, "Why didn't Your Majesty even tell Little White Sister? Could it be that something really happened and Your Majesty didn't want us to worry, so you didn't tell us?"

Upon hearing this, the women's faces showed worry.

After all, Lu Chen was someone who never went into seclusion to cultivate in the past. His cultivation method was to cultivate with his wives and concubines. This sudden seclusion caught everyone off guard.

The key point is that he didn't say anything before he went into seclusion, nor did he ask the maids to tell them anything, so it's impossible for them not to worry.

Chu Yuqin thought about Lu Chen's identity for a moment, then said, "Let's not overthink it. Perhaps Chen'er just wants to go into seclusion. It should be nothing serious."

Chu Yuqin thought that Lu Chen was, after all, the son of the Great Emperor. Before his reincarnation, he was a cultivation maniac who didn't care about feelings or touch women. Now he was just going into seclusion, so there was no need for them to be so nervous.

Upon hearing Chu Yuqin's words, Wang Qingci said, "Sister Chu is right. Alas, I wonder how long His Majesty's seclusion will last this time."

Wang Qingci thought to herself that Lu Chen hadn't visited her in a long time. Although she knew it wasn't her fault, it was just that it wasn't her turn yet. But it was almost her turn, and Lu Chen had gone into seclusion. How could she live without Lu Chen?

Zhou Youyou whispered, "Is His Majesty really going into seclusion for a hundred years?"

Xiao Wenyao chimed in, "That's hard to say. I've heard that cultivators with higher levels of cultivation often go into seclusion for a hundred years at a time."

Chu Qingli said, "What will we do if he really goes into seclusion for a hundred years?"

……

Seeing the worried expressions on the faces of Lu Chen's wives and concubines, Chu Yuqin was speechless. Lu Chen had only just gone into seclusion, and they were all already wondering when he would finish.

They're not usually very enthusiastic; they always start begging for mercy after a short time in bed. Now, they're starting to worry that Lu Chen's seclusion is going on for too long.

(End of this chapter)