Raising Gu

After hearing that, how could Meng Haoran of the Xinghua Village Meng Family fail to grasp what Baili Shouxi, an elder of the Sixth-Rank Cultivation Family Baili Family, was implying?

Deep within the Chaoge Immortal Palace, in the capital of the Great Yu Immortal Dynasty, the radiant empress enjoyed the highest honor before others. Yet she knew that everything she possessed came from the Ninth Old Yu Emperor. His health was now poor, and he often had to enter seclusion and consume vast quantities of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures to ease his pain and injuries.

Whether inside or outside the Chaoge Immortal Palace, everyone in the Great Yu Immortal Dynasty who revered or feared her, including the cultivation family powers, did so because of the Ninth Old Yu Emperor beside her. If he suddenly died before she had fully established her own power, she would have no moral claim to inherit the throne.

After all, throughout the hundred thousand years since the founding of the Great Yu Immortal Dynasty, there had never been a precedent for a woman becoming emperor.

The Great Yu Immortal Dynasty had endured for a hundred thousand years, with nine Yu Emperors ascending the throne in succession.

There had also been brief vacancies in the imperial succession.

Until a suitable Yu Emperor was chosen, the reigning empress or an empress dowager held the dynasty's imperial authority. Even so, none had clung to the power of the throne or claimed credit for herself. Once the court ministers selected a suitable Yu Emperor to inherit it, those empresses and empress dowagers willingly handed over their authority.

Thus, in the long history of the Great Yu Immortal Dynasty, there had never been anyone quite like the current empress.

The predicament she faced was extraordinarily difficult.

She had to