The eunuch in the cold palace: You get the Nine Yang Divine Skill right from the start!

"Your Majesty, you have finally shown me your favor."

"Hmm~"

Shen Mo woke up with a start and opened his eyes to find a stunningly beautiful woman lying in his arms.

The woman had fair and radiant skin, with an unusual blush on her face. Her figure was plump and mature, exuding a gentle and charming allure that one might have possessed after long confinement in the palace.

Her eyes were unfocused as she stared blankly at Shen Mo, a bewildered smile still lingering on her lips.

"Where is this?"

Shen Mo's head suddenly jolted.

A flood of memories rushed into his mind, and he suddenly realized that he had transmigrated, his soul transmigrating to the Great Qian Imperial Palace and possessing the body of a eunuch with the same name.

The original owner was coerced by the head eunuch into coming to serve Consort Li, who had been demoted to the Cold Palace.

The Cold Palace was a forbidden area for the royal family.

The area is perpetually shrouded in yin energy, with a lingering, chilling aura that refuses to dissipate!

The original owner only had the first level of body refinement cultivation, and couldn't withstand the invasion of the cold and dampness, which led to his sudden death. This allowed him to take over the body.

At this moment, that bone-chilling cold still lingered in my abdomen, causing excruciating pain as if being stabbed with a knife!

"The chill within my body is deadly, and now I've offended the Imperial Concubine. Either one of these could be a death sentence!"

Shen Mo felt a chill in his heart, filled with despair.

Others who transmigrate start out as noble families or wealthy young masters, but when it comes to me, I'm a lowly eunuch in the cold palace, a dead end from the very beginning.

Shen Mo clenched his fists tightly, his heart filled with resentment.

Are we just going to accept our fate like this?

Is there absolutely no way out?

"Congratulations, host, on awakening the Martial Arts Proficiency System!"

"The system is being activated for the first time, and you are rewarded with a random martial arts manual. Would you like to claim it now?"

A mechanical notification suddenly rang in his mind, and Shen Mo felt an overwhelming sense of joy, as if he had been given a lifeline. He quickly muttered to himself, "Claim!"

A golden light appeared out of thin air and poured into his body from the top of his head. The complete method of a top-notch martial arts internal skill was imprinted deep in his mind.

"This cultivation technique is actually... the Nine Yang Divine Skill!"

Shen Mo's pupils contracted sharply, and his heart trembled violently.

Everyone knows that this technique is extremely yang, strong, and domineering. Perhaps... it can suppress the cold and yin energy within the body?

There's no time to lose!

Shen Mo immediately began cultivating according to the mental cultivation formula.

Before long, the lingering cold energy in his abdomen was slowly refined and transformed into warm currents that flowed and nourished his meridians.

Even more outrageous, the Nine Yang Divine Skill was like a starving beast. Not satisfied with refining the cold energy in its body, it actively absorbed the Yin energy of the surrounding cold palace and transformed it all into pure internal energy.

Half an incense stick later.

Shen Mo suddenly opened his eyes, feeling his five senses become incredibly sharp, and his whole body was filled with inexhaustible strength.

Breakthrough!

He directly entered the second level of Body Refinement!

"The Nine Yang Divine Skill can actually be cultivated using the cold air of the Cold Palace? Doesn't that mean the Cold Palace, which everyone else avoids like the plague, has become my perfect cultivation ground?"

Shen Mo was overjoyed.

While overjoyed, he vaguely noticed that a certain part of his body was itchy during cultivation. Logically speaking, as a castrated eunuch, he should no longer have this sensation.

"ah!!"

A startled cry abruptly interrupted Shen Mo's thoughts.

Li Zhaoxue woke up.

She hurriedly wrapped her arms around herself against the wall, her eyes filled with terror, shame, and anger as she stared at him: "Who are you? Why are you in my room?"

"My name is Shen Mo. I am a eunuch on duty in the Cold Palace. I was forced by Steward Wu to come and serve you. I have offended Your Majesty."

Shen Mo's mind worked extremely fast. Without hiding anything, he recounted the whole story.

Right now, he and Consort Li are in the same boat.

Furthermore.

The person behind Steward Wu was probably only trying to humiliate and suppress Consort Li, not really wanting to take her life; otherwise, someone would have come in to catch them in the act long ago.

"Manager Wu..."

After a period of panic, Li Zhaoxue gradually calmed down and realized that there was something wrong with her dinner. Not long after eating, she became drowsy and lost consciousness.

Upon further consideration of Manager Wu's background, I immediately guessed who was behind it all.

Seeing Li Zhaoxue's uncertain expression, Shen Mo quickly reminded her, "Your Majesty, I am a person without any roots, and my life and death are not worth mentioning, but if this matter reaches His Majesty's ears..."

These words are both a reminder and a warning. In other words, it means: Your Majesty, you don't want His Majesty to find out about this, do you?

"shut up!"

Li Zhaoxue's face turned deathly pale instantly.

Once this matter becomes public, the emperor will not investigate the details at all; he will simply order the deaths of her and the little eunuch before him without warning.

Even her entire family will be implicated!

Seeing Li Zhaoxue's excited reaction, Shen Mo breathed a sigh of relief, then said meaningfully:

"Your Majesty, we've never met before tonight, have we?"

"That's right, we've never met."

Li Zhaoxue immediately understood and nodded inwardly, amazed at how insightful and meticulous this little eunuch was.

No wonder, simple-minded and foolish people wouldn't have survived this long.

"Your Majesty, may I borrow your hand?"

Shen Mo took the initiative to extend his palm, and Li Zhaoxue, though full of doubts, still hesitated before extending her fair wrist.

next moment.

Li Zhaoxue clearly felt the dull pain that had accumulated in her body gradually dissipate, replaced by a tingling, warm current flowing through her entire body.

This malevolent chill is relatively lenient towards women; even without cultivation, they won't perish within three to five years. However, they will be eroded by the yin energy day and night, suffering endless torment.

Taking advantage of this touch, Shen Mo absorbed the lingering cold energy from the Cold Palace within her body, thus completely stabilizing his cultivation at the second level of Body Refinement.

Unfortunately, Li Zhaoxue had only been in the cold palace for a short time, and the amount of coldness accumulated in her body was not much, so she was unable to break through.

"Your Majesty, only by living is there hope!"

"That's all I have to say. I'll take my leave now."

Before leaving, Shen Mo offered a sincere word of comfort.

After all, they had shared a passionate encounter, and he couldn't bear to see this stunning beauty fall into despair. After all, there were quite a few concubines in history who had spent their time in the cold palace and eventually rose again.

Li Zhaoxue was slightly taken aback upon hearing this.

He took a serious look at the young eunuch in front of him for the first time, and then nodded emphatically.

Outside the gates of the Cold Palace.

The head eunuch Wu De was on patrol with two trusted eunuchs when they spotted Shen Mo walking out of courtyard number 29 from afar.

"stop!"

Wu De, with his fingers delicately poised, quickly stepped forward to block his path.

Shen Mo paused, forcing a smile: "Eunuch Wu, I have not failed you."

"Your small frame is much stronger than others," Wu De said with a sinister smile, his eyes filled with suspicion.

He knew all too well the frigid air of the Cold Palace, and the depletion of vital energy from eating with the palace servants meant that even a lowly eunuch at the first level of body cultivation would be unable to withstand the corrosive cold air afterwards.

They had already calculated the time and planned to send someone to drag Shen Mo's body out and bury it at dawn.

"Father-in-law, could it be that his constitution is the same as Chu Juji's back then?" a trusted aide whispered.

Wu De suddenly realized and immediately remembered that person.

Chu Ju-ki!

A famous eunuch from the previous dynasty, he also entered the palace after reaching the first level of body refinement. However, he was not affected by the yin energy of the cold palace and continued to cultivate until he broke through to the Blood Moving Realm. In the end, he was exceptionally recruited by the Eastern Depot and became someone that countless eunuchs in the cold palace envied and looked up to.

"That's actually quite possible!"

A glint flashed in Wu De's eyes as he silently calculated that if Shen Mo truly possessed such a special physique, killing him so early would be a waste of talent.

The palace was lonely, and many concubines who had lost power and lived alone would secretly slip him money so that he could find handsome young eunuchs to keep them company in the courtyard.

Doing this kind of work is bad for your health; eunuchs in the Cold Palace always die young. If Shen Mo can really withstand the cold...

"Little Mozi, from today onwards, you'll have your own room, and your meals will be upgraded as well." Wu De smiled, his face full of wrinkles, and patted his shoulder, feigning intimacy.

Shen Mo secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

My life is safe for now.

"Thank you for your help, Father-in-law."

"Alright, go back and rest."

Shen Mo turned and left, but before he had gone far, he heard two trusted eunuchs whispering behind him.

"Li Gui has only been in the cold palace for a little over a month, and she can't stand the loneliness anymore?"

"What do you know? This was secretly ordered by Her Majesty the Empress!"

Before Wu De could speak, another confidant preemptively showed off. As soon as he finished speaking, Wu De suddenly turned his head, his face turning frighteningly gloomy.

"Father-in-law, I..."

"You bastard, who gave you the right to spout nonsense?"

A seemingly light palm strike landed on the eunuch's shoulder, and the man immediately bled from all seven orifices, collapsing to the ground lifeless.

The remaining trusted eunuchs were so frightened that they immediately knelt down and begged for mercy.

Wu De's tone was indifferent, devoid of any emotion: "You can eat whatever you want, but you can't say whatever you want. Got it?"

Shen Mo dared not stop. He could guess what was behind him without turning around, and a cold sweat instantly broke out on his back.

It turns out that the one who secretly ordered the humiliation of Consort Li was actually the Empress!

Can I truly extricate myself from this treacherous power struggle within the harem? Or will I thrive in this situation and be successful in all aspects?

Shen Mo was unaware of this; he simply looked up at the inky black night.

That's fucking dark!