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

Time flies, and a few years have passed in the blink of an eye.

Over the past few years, the Heavenly Fire Dynasty has sent many people to the Chaos Star Sea.

Mu Zhengqing did not tell the Tianhuo Clan members why they came to the Chaos Star Sea until they saw Lu Chen. Only then did they understand why their emperor had sent them to this seemingly desolate star field.

With the addition of experts from the Heavenly Fire Dynasty, the fortune of the Heavenly Chen World has become even stronger, and the cultivation speed of the cultivators in the Heavenly Chen World has become faster and faster.

Most importantly, Lu Chen appointed these powerful figures from the Heavenly Fire Dynasty as instructors at the Cultivation Academy. With the addition of these experts, the students at the Cultivation Academy improved their cultivation faster, and the overall strength of the Great Xia Dynasty also increased rapidly.

However, it was precisely because of these powerful figures in the Heavenly Fire Dynasty that the cultivation academies established by those cultivation sects gradually declined.

The official academy instructors of the Great Xia Dynasty all have the Returning Void Realm, and some are even half-saints. In contrast, the strongest cultivators in the previous cultivation sects were only at the Nascent Soul Realm. Cultivators in the Tianchen World are naturally more willing to join the official cultivation academy.

Lu Chen's actions further weakened the strength of the cultivation sects. Now, the cultivation sects can only pin their hopes on recruiting students who graduate from cultivation academies. After all, as long as the benefits are sufficient, some people will still join them. However, this also increases the pressure on the major cultivation sects.

Attracting talent, especially cultivators from cultivation academies, is impossible without incurring significant costs, which invisibly increases the pressure on various cultivation sects.

In order to earn more spirit stones to keep their sects running, all cultivation sects now have no choice but to cooperate with the Great Xia Dynasty.

There's no way around it. Nowadays, whether it's the world of mortals or the world of cultivators, the Great Xia Dynasty controls the economic lifeline. To do business and earn spirit stones, you can't bypass the Great Xia Dynasty. As a result, the Great Xia Dynasty's control over the internal cultivator sects is even more solid.

Only those sects and factions with mental problems would think of opposing the Great Xia Dynasty.

Because of Su Hanyan, the Mi Xian Sect has developed quite well in recent years, especially the cultivation academy it established, which has become the largest among sect cultivation academies.

However, as the Great Xia Dynasty has established more and more official cultivation academies in recent years, and with the Heavenly Fire Clan's experts serving as instructors in these official academies, the number of students enrolled in the Misty Immortal Sect's cultivation academy has been decreasing.

The elders of the Mixian Sect also saw the predicament of the Mixian Sect Cultivation Academy, so they thought of asking Su Hanyan to talk to Lu Chen to see if they could borrow one or two powerful members of the Tianhuo Clan to teach at the Mixian Sect Cultivation Academy.

In the eyes of the elders of the Mixian Sect, their sect leader was the woman of Emperor Xia, and Emperor Xia had always treated his woman very well. Moreover, the Mixian Sect's growth and expansion over the years was inseparable from Lu Chen's support.

If Su Hanyan were to take the initiative to approach Emperor Xia, he might grant their request.

The elders' thoughts infuriated Su Hanyan. What did these guys from the Misty Immortal Sect take her for? They always made her, the sect leader, go to Lu Chen whenever something happened.

Although she was indeed Lu Chen's woman, she had to make huge sacrifices every time for the benefit of the Mi Xian Sect, which seemed to those guys in the Mi Xian Sect as a matter of course.

Although she was the sect leader and did have this responsibility, the thought of those people always telling her to find Lu Chen whenever they had a problem made her feel like she was being sold.

But then again, she's no different from someone who sells herself now.

At this moment, inside the purple smoke and sand tent, Su Hanyan sat cross-legged on a soft couch, looking at the student statistics table of the Misty Immortal Sect's cultivation academy in her hand, her expression very serious.

Inside the room, wisps of smoke rose from the purple incense burner, filling the entire room.

The aroma of the smoke could refresh the mind and relax people, but Su Hanyan was still frowning and couldn't feel happy at all.

The number of outstanding students enrolled by the Mixian Sect has been decreasing recently. In fact, any cultivation academy will not lack students, because many mortals also want to cultivate immortality and become cultivators.

However, most mortals do not have the aptitude for cultivation, and cultivation academies cannot recruit mortals as students. The students recruited by cultivation academies are naturally cultivators with cultivation talent.

Nowadays, cultivators with cultivation talent will definitely consider the official cultivation academy of the Great Xia Dynasty first when choosing an academy. It would be fine if the official cultivation academy of the Great Xia Dynasty limited the number of students it could enroll, since there are already three worlds in the Chaos Star Sea and there are still quite a few cultivators. No matter what, the Misty Immortal Sect can still get a share of the profits.

However, in recent years, the number of official cultivation academies in the Great Xia Dynasty has increased significantly, with several academies in almost every state. Even if a sect-based cultivation academy like the Misty Immortal Sect is located in an imperial city like Black Dragon City, it is difficult for it to compete with the official cultivation academies of the Great Xia Dynasty for students.

Thinking about this, Su Hanyan felt a headache coming on. Did she have to go looking for that bastard again?

Su Hanyan didn't really want to trouble Lu Chen. In the beginning, she chose to become Lu Chen's woman in order to obtain more cultivation resources from him.

After Su Hanyan fell in love with Lu Chen through cultivation, she became somewhat disgusted with this kind of exchange of benefits. She was worried that Lu Chen might think that she was only offering herself up to him to get something from him, which would only lead to her scorn.

Moreover, she was worried that as she made more and more demands, Lu Chen might grow to hate her.

Thinking of this, Su Hanyan's hand holding the enrollment form fell limply onto the soft couch, and she couldn't help but sigh.

The next moment, a familiar voice rang out in the room, "What trouble have you run into? Why are you sighing like that?"

"A beautiful woman should smile more; frowning doesn't look as good."

Hearing that familiar voice, Su Hanyan remained seated on the soft couch, her gaze not turning in the direction from which the voice came.

She was all too familiar with that sleazy voice.

Seeing that Su Hanyan ignored him, Lu Chen sat down on the soft couch and said with a smile, "If you have any difficulties, you can come to me."

Su Hanyan hesitated for a moment, but ultimately did not speak. She simply said, "It's nothing serious."

As soon as she finished speaking, Su Hanyan stretched out her legs and lay stiffly on the soft couch, looking completely at ease, and said, "Your Majesty, please continue with your work."

Su Hanyan wasn't stupid. She didn't believe that Lu Chen didn't know what problems the Misty Immortal Sect was facing. This guy must be waiting for her to ask him for help so he could make some underhanded demands.

He wanted her to speak up, but she refused, since she wasn't planning on asking him for help with this matter anyway.

Once a person develops feelings, they will care about what the person they like thinks of them. Su Hanyan didn't care before, but now she doesn't want Lu Chen to look down on her anymore.

Seeing Su Hanyan lying motionless, waiting for him to pounce on her, Lu Chen chuckled. (End of Chapter)