We Agreed On Experiencing Life, So Why Did You Immortals Become Real? - Chapter 429: This Inner Palace Will Certainly Become Lively in the Future!New 5 days ago After Sili became Xiao Mo's personal maid and gained Xiao Mo's trust, she followe
After Sili became Xiao Mo’s personal maid and gained Xiao Mo’s trust, she followed Xiao Mo around every day.
At first, Sili indeed didn’t quite understand palace affairs but before long, after consulting palace maid Yang’er a few times, Sili quickly mastered all the duties then Sili discovered that Master’s life this time was truly too difficult.
Master really had become a puppet emperor. From dawn to dusk, he had nothing proper to do except cultivate and read books.
Xiao Mo had nothing to do, so naturally Sili didn’t have much to do either. However, even though Xiao Mo was a figurehead, Sili still felt proud of her master.
Not to mention anything else, Master had only been cultivating for about a year, yet he had already reached the twelfth layer of Qi Refinement realm perfection and was about to establish his foundation.
Ordinary people who wanted to establish their foundation, even those with good talent, needed three or four years.
Master’s cultivation talent would be sufficient to become a direct disciple even if placed in a top-tier sect. However, for an emperor to establish his foundation, how could that be easy?
Cultivation itself was an act of defying heaven.
Moreover, he was an emperor.
In Sili’s view, if Master didn’t abdicate his imperial position and forcibly cultivated while remaining emperor, that wouldn’t just be defying heaven, it would be stealing heavenly secrets!
Sili didn’t quite understand why Master wanted to remain in the palace instead of going to other sects.
Unable to figure out the reason, Sili stopped thinking about it.
When the time came, she would find an opportunity to bring Master out of the imperial palace and head to the Western Region.
As long as they returned to the Western Region, everything would be easy to handle.
So what if it was Ten Thousand Swords Sect?
Could Ten Thousand Swords Sect’s reach extend into her Western Region?
While taking care of Xiao Mo, Sili also went to Lingxin Palace every two days to report Xiao Mo’s situation to the Empress Dowager.
When going to the Empress Dowager’s palace, Sili would use chest bindings to wrap herself again, then after returning would untie them, and then tell Xiao Mo about matters in Lingxin Palace.
These scheming palace affairs weren’t particularly important to Sili.
If Master wished it, Sili felt she could kill all those people, then leave with Master, or return this Zhou Kingdom to Master. However, that woman in the National Preceptor’s Manor made Sili temporarily not dare to have any such thoughts.
During these days, through Sili’s inquiries and oblique questioning of Xiao Mo, she learned that the veiled woman in the National Preceptor’s Manor was just an inner disciple of Ten Thousand Swords Sect, serving as Zhou Kingdom’s National Preceptor by order of Ten Thousand Swords Sect.
But in reality, Sili knew very clearly that she couldn’t possibly be just an ordinary inner disciple.
Others might not know, but she had fought against her. How could she not know?
Which inner disciple was at the Ascension realm?
And in this world, Ascension realm sword cultivators could be counted on one hand.
Among them, female Ascension realm sword cultivators, in this entire world, there was only one.
This person was none other than the Ten Thousand Swords Sect Master, Jiang Qingyi, but why would Ten Thousand Swords Sect Master Jiang Qingyi appear in the Zhou Kingdom’s imperial palace?
And willingly serve as a National Preceptor?
Sili truly couldn’t understand it no matter how she thought about it but a woman’s intuition told Sili.
This Jiang Qingyi definitely had unusual feelings toward her master. However, Jiang Qingyi’s emotions toward Master were very strange.
She seemed to want to get close to Master, yet also somewhat rejected him, always maintaining distance. Where was the decisiveness characteristic of a sword cultivator?
But it must be admitted that Ten Thousand Swords Sect Master Jiang Qingyi was truly teaching Master genuine techniques.
Just as Master had said, Jiang Qingyi was indeed cold on the outside but warm on the inside, sharp-tongued but soft-hearted.
Verbally, she criticized Master’s cultivation, but actually cared deeply, afraid Master would take even the slightest wrong path.
In any case, in Sili’s view, the one she needed to be most careful of was her.
As for the two consorts who would enter the palace in the future.
Sili had never taken these two people seriously.
One was the daughter of the Minister of Rites.
One was a princess of the Qin Kingdom.
Both were just mortals.
She had plenty of ways to deal with them.
As for Sili’s thoughts, Xiao Mo couldn’t read minds, so naturally knew nothing of them.
He still cultivated every day and read books daily. However, Xiao Mo felt that this “Sili” was indeed quite useful.
She was clever and perceptive, had good judgment, and handled matters decisively.
Of course, Xiao Mo also knew that the premise for finding her increasingly pleasing to the eye was that she was truly loyal to him.
Ability was indeed important, but sometimes, no matter how capable a person was, the premise had to be loyalty. However, Sili wasn’t entirely without “flaws.”
When she served Xiao Mo tea and water, every time she bent over, Xiao Mo could see the delicate and magnificent snow-capped mountains.
Every time she changed Xiao Mo’s clothes or had close contact with Xiao Mo, those two snowy peaks would occasionally touch Xiao Mo.
She even often spilled water on her collar when drinking, the thin fabric clinging directly to those towering snowy mountains.
Her face would also frequently show a faint blush, looking extremely alluring. However, with two consorts about to enter the palace, Xiao Mo knew he must control himself.
Not to mention the Empress Dowager would irregularly have female officials inspect Sili’s purity.
So although Xiao Mo knew her intentions and knew she very much wanted to advance, he turned a blind eye to it all.
As time passed day by day, the date of Xiao Mo’s wedding ceremony drew ever closer.
Invitation after invitation had already been sent out from the Zhou Kingdom’s imperial palace.
Although the wedding ceremony had been postponed twice before.
Xiao Mo knew that the wedding ceremony would ultimately arrive.
Seven days before the wedding ceremony, all the Zhou Kingdom’s feudal lords, as well as envoys from kingdoms and nations friendly with Zhou Kingdom and representatives from mountain sects, all arrived at the Zhou Kingdom’s capital.
As the Zhou Kingdom’s ruler, even if just a figurehead, Xiao Mo had to personally receive them.
So from morning to evening, Xiao Mo was receiving envoys from various nations and sects, without a moment’s time to cultivate.
To be honest, Xiao Mo felt that what Fairy Jiang had said before wasn’t without merit.
Never mind that tens of thousands of years ago that Great Qin emperor established the rule that emperors’ cultivation cannot exceed Foundation Building.
Even without this rule.
Emperors dealt with state affairs every day and had to engage in scheming and power games with ministers. How much time could they spend on cultivation?
Unless it was an emperor with extremely exceptional talent, otherwise how high could an ordinary emperor’s realm go?
Even if some emperors’ realms were indeed high, that was because they spent most of their time on cultivation.
Moreover, once emperors became obsessed with cultivation, they would hand state affairs to their subordinate ministers and stop managing anything.
These emperors would even seize resources from across the nation for cultivation, no longer treating the common people as their subjects but as nourishment for cultivation.
What use was it for such emperors to have high realms?
The common people would only suffer unbearably and because these emperors had long lifespans, the common people would suffer for thousands or even tens of thousands of years, unable to see an end.
Besides receiving envoys, Xiao Mo also needed to walk around and check various wedding arrangements for any improprieties.
Additionally, Xiao Mo needed to review documents sent from Lingxin Palace.
Although the wedding ceremony was jointly hosted by the Ministry of Rites and the Empress Dowager’s Lingxin Palace, and the decisions they made would be final even if Xiao Mo refused.
No matter what, the Ministry of Rites and Lingxin Palace still needed Xiao Mo to go through the motions, so their reputation would sound better, at least making outsiders think “everything was decided by His Majesty.”
In summary, Xiao Mo truly felt that this one wedding was more tiring than ten years of cultivation.
Of course, perhaps it was also because regarding the two women he was marrying, he didn’t have much feeling for them.
If it were a woman he truly liked, he probably wouldn’t feel so tired. However, sometimes Xiao Mo also felt somewhat dazed in his heart.
Everything felt unreal.
Because aside from those false experiences in the Book of a Hundred Lives, Xiao Mo had never had a lover from beginning to end yet now, he was about to marry.
And marrying two at once.
This was something Xiao Mo had never imagined.
Four days before the wedding, most guests had arrived at the capital.
Lingxin Palace and the Ministry of Rites no longer needed to send documents over for Xiao Mo to go through the motions.
So for some unimportant matters in the inner palace, Xiao Mo would have Sili handle them.
When he had free time, Xiao Mo would sit alone at the Dao Inquiry Platform in a daze.
The Dao Inquiry Platform, for Xiao Mo, had originally been a cultivation place to deceive others but gradually, this place truly became a place where Xiao Mo could calm his mind.
Coming to the Dao Inquiry Platform and sitting on the stone bricks, Xiao Mo would gradually detach from the complex and noisy reality, finding a bit of tranquility.
Soon, the date arrived at the third day before the wedding.
The entire imperial palace was busy to the point of flying.
Originally Sili still had the mind to flirt in front of Xiao Mo but now, Sili was so busy her head was spinning, her feet not touching the ground.
She just couldn’t understand it.
Clearly wedding ceremonies were extremely simple matters.
Why did this mortal realm make it so troublesome?
What use were all those formalities and etiquette?
Could they be eaten?
Sili often cursed in her heart while helping Xiao Mo manage the inner palace.
Another two days passed.
The day before the wedding arrived.
After today, would come the grand ceremony.
Because all matters were properly prepared and only needed final inspection, which only required Sili to do.
So Xiao Mo once again found some leisure and came to the Dao Inquiry Platform.
At the Dao Inquiry Platform, Xiao Mo didn’t know what he should do.
He currently had little mind for cultivation.
Never mind that the Book of a Hundred Lives hadn’t prepared the sixth life yet.
Even if the sixth life opened, Xiao Mo wouldn’t want to enter the Book of a Hundred Lives today.
Xiao Mo just wanted to quietly be by himself, enjoying his final “single” life.
So Xiao Mo sat on a stone bench in a daze, feeling the spring breeze, looking at the white clouds drifting in the azure sky.
Xiao Mo recalled every event that had happened since coming to this world.
Recalled every scene in the Book of a Hundred Lives that was extremely blurry yet still deeply etched in his bones.
Before he knew it, Xiao Mo slowly closed his eyes and entered a state of comprehending the Dao.
Xiao Mo felt that everything between heaven and earth had disappeared.
Xiao Mo forgot time, forgot his surroundings, even forgot himself.
It was as if Xiao Mo had merged into this heaven and earth.
Without Xiao Mo’s awareness, his dao heart grew increasingly calm, and his spiritual power gradually emanated.
Dark clouds unexpectedly drifted across the originally azure blue sky, blocking the sun.
Just at this moment, a fragrant breeze blew past, gently brushing Xiao Mo’s nose, suppressing Xiao Mo’s emanating spiritual power.
“Hmph!”
A woman let out a cold snort.
Sword qi invaded Xiao Mo’s body.
Xiao Mo felt a stabbing pain and only then came back to his senses.
He slowly opened his eyes and saw the veiled, graceful National Preceptor Jiang standing before him.
“His Majesty is truly so leisurely. At a time like this, he still has the mood to comprehend the Dao here, and almost even attempted Foundation Building!”
The woman’s cold voice entered Xiao Mo’s ears.
“Attempting Foundation Building in the imperial palace, does His Majesty not want his life?”
Xiao Mo shook his head with a bitter smile, “It truly was an accident. I didn’t expect to gradually enter the Dao.”
“Hmph.”
Jiang Qingyi snorted coldly again, then stepped forward and sent three strands of sword qi into Xiao Mo’s body.
“I’ve used three strands of sword qi to seal three of Your Majesty’s spirit apertures. These three strands of sword qi can suppress Your Majesty’s realm for a period of time, but during these days, Your Majesty should still be careful and temporarily not cultivate.”
“Understood.” Xiao Mo nodded. “Thank you, Fairy Jiang.”
“What’s there to thank?”
Jiang Qingyi turned her head away and raised her fair little chin.
“However, His Majesty is clearly about to marry, yet is still slacking off here. I see Your Majesty’s personal maid with the excellent figure is so busy she can’t even stop for a moment.”
“Indeed, Sili has worked hard. After this matter concludes, I will naturally give her some rewards. I won’t let her work in vain.”
Xiao Mo answered, then folded his sleeves and raised his head, falling into silence.
“Why does it feel like His Majesty carries some sorrow about tomorrow’s wedding?”
Jiang Qingyi glanced at Xiao Mo, her tone carrying some mockery.
“Could it be His Majesty isn’t looking forward to tomorrow’s wedding? Whether it’s that Yan Ruxue or that Qin Mujiu, they’re both rarely seen in this world, women of peerless beauty. If I were His Majesty, I’d probably already be thinking about how to make merry with the two imperial consorts night after night.”
“That’s one way to put it.” Xiao Mo folded his sleeves and raised his head to look outside the imperial palace. “However, one of them is being used as her family’s sacrifice, the other is for an alliance between two nations. Even though Mujiu seems very cheerful and lively, do they truly want to marry me?”
“Who says they don’t want to!” Jiang Qingyi said through gritted teeth in a low voice. “They very much want to in their hearts!”
“What did Fairy Jiang say?” Xiao Mo didn’t hear clearly.
“Nothing.”
Jiang Qingyi’s tone carried displeasure.
“What I mean is, Your Majesty is neither Yan Ruxue nor Qin Mujiu. How would you know they truly don’t want to enter the palace? Even if they don’t want to enter the palace, so what? The situation is already set. Does Your Majesty still want to change it?”
“True.” Xiao Mo smiled. “No matter what, in the future, this quiet imperial palace will ultimately become livelier.”
“Isn’t that right?”
Jiang Qingyi’s eyes narrowed, her gaze like a sword.
“This inner palace will certainly become lively in the future!”
