What he found even harder to understand was Ji Qingyi.
With dual cultivation using a cauldron, as long as one kept it within proper bounds, it would do the cauldron no harm. The cauldron might even draw in the other party's vital yang and use it to nourish herself.
Given Ji Qingyi's status as the current dynasty's Princess, even if Li Chenliang wanted her badly, he wouldn't dare do something so short-sighted after marrying her.
Even if he didn't care about Ji Qingyi's status as a Princess, he would still have to consider the current Emperor's dignity.
In the royal family, where one had no say in one's own marriage, a man like Li Chenliang was already considered a good match.
If she obeyed fate and married him, it seemed there would be nothing wrong with that.
Lu Yang couldn't understand why Ji Qingyi would resist, or why the Empress had acted against Ji Qingyi's maternal family.
Lu Yang shook his head, casting all the tangled thoughts from his mind.
He realized that he still knew far too little about Princess Ji Qingyi.
He simply didn't have enough information to make a judgment about what to do next.
And so, after going around in circles, he could only turn his attention back to the old woman.
"Granny, I guessed right, didn't I?" Lu Yang's eyes shone.
The old woman now looked at Lu Yang with a trace of wariness and estrangement.
It wasn't only brute strength that made people feel fear.
The old woman had lived for several centuries and seen the ways of the world. She knew that even in the Nine Provinces World, where might was revered, a person with a mind as cunning as a demon's could sometimes be every bit as dangerous as a Venerable Tier