Xu Tianran Pressures Ju Zi for an Heir Again; Ju Zi Finally Decides to Use Yuhao

When the Inner Court urged the Empress to use the Pregnancy-Test Soul Guidance Ring again, she was reviewing the battle reports from Heaven Soul.

Silver-blue patterns of light flowed along the ring's surface, beautiful to the point of cruelty. She had managed to delay the first two with military affairs and physical discomfort, but this one was different. The Inner Court and the remnants of the Holy Spirit Cult had added monitoring patterns to it. Besides basic physical monitoring, it would also detect whether she had been involved with anyone other than Xu Tianran.

Ju Zi looked at it and suddenly felt like a Soul Tool laid out on an operating table.

She did not smash it, but she still did not put it on. She tucked the ring into her sleeve, chaired the military council as usual, and gave orders as usual. She was gentle, precise, dangerous, as though nothing had happened.

Late that night, the military tent finally fell silent.

Ju Zi opened the deepest box. Inside were three things: the Pregnancy-Test Soul Guidance Ring, a Soul Guidance concealed weapon Huo Yuhao had modified for her back at Sun Moon Academy, and a record of spiritual fluctuations she should have disposed of long ago.

That record was old. It was only a trace of fluctuation Huo Yuhao had left behind during a Soul Tool experiment many years ago, not even a complete sample. But when someone was driven to the edge of a cliff, even a single thread could look like a path to survival.

What if she could create the possibility of a "Huo Yuhao's child"?

Even if it was only enough to make the imperial family believe it. The thought was filthy, so filthy that Ju Zi despised herself. She despised Xu Tianran touching her, and