Tian Wu Hall, Kunning Palace.
Lu Yang and Empress Xiao were discussing the Dao. Before their eyes, streams of Divine Illumination abruptly transformed into a sea of gorgeously radiant flowers that spread throughout the hall.
A delicate floral fragrance drifted through the vast palace, refreshing the heart and mind, mingled with the sound of spring water like mountain streams. As time passed, the sea of flowers slowly gathered toward the center, until it finally formed a wondrous flower that bloomed gradually, flowing with a brilliance too dazzling to behold.
Lapis Lazuli Wondrous Flower!
This was a Wei Earth Dao art from the Four Treasuries Dao Canon. It perfectly complemented Empress Xiao's Hundred Flowers Palace divine ability, and she had carefully selected it and painstakingly mastered it.
The Dao art's purpose was simple.
As long as one immersed one's soul within the wondrous flower, the speed of refining Gold Nature would increase dramatically, compressing what originally required one or two years into one or two days.
Back when Emperor Jiayou had still been Crown Prince, Empress Xiao had relied on this Dao art to earn his favor. Yet the Lapis Lazuli Wondrous Flower, which had once handled Emperor Jiayou with consummate ease, now revealed signs of being difficult to sustain under Lu Yang's ravaging.
In the end, he cultivates the Supreme Fruit Position.
Though both involved refining Gold Nature, she had succeeded after circulating her Dao art only a few times for Emperor Jiayou. Yet Lu Yang still could not refine it.
Only after she had drained her dharma power dry, reduced even the divine ability of Hundred Flowers Palace to listlessness, and left herself utterly exhausted did Lu Yang barely manage to refine a thread of Gold Nature. It was as though he were deliberately toying with her, leaving her