Just then,
A cool, clear voice rang out from outside the hall:
"Bring out the Heng Yu Furnace..."
Everyone turned around and saw four women enter the hall together.
They were Taihua, Xuanji, Huayue, and Yuwen Qingshuang, the four empresses who had accompanied Great Emperor Heng Yu throughout his cultivation journey and remained by his side.
Taihua wore a white robe, her bearing ethereal. Having lived in the world for many years, become a mother, and then sealed herself away for many more, there was now a trace of time's sediment in her brows.
Xuanji still wore a pale blue gown, gentle and dignified, though several strands of white hair had appeared at her temples.
Huayue wore a golden dress, noble and elegant. The willful unruliness of her girlhood had long vanished from her eyes.
Yuwen Qingshuang, who came from the Yuwen God Race, a branch related to the Jiang Family by marriage, wore an apricot-colored gown today. She was gentle and tranquil, while the innocence and liveliness of her jade-like face had faded away.
Back then, Great Emperor Huan Yu had been troubled by worldly desires. When he severed his distracting thoughts, he had also cut away the mire of romance that had dragged him ever deeper.
Those countless threads of fate and romantic entanglements had, after he divided his soul in two, become bound to the incarnation formed from his distracting thoughts.
Yet the few confidantes he had already met in those years had always remained at his side, never abandoning him.
These four were no longer the young women who had competed on the Emperor's Road. They had all become mothers, and over the years, each had borne one child for Great Emperor Huan Yu.
"Your Majesties, what is this..."
The elders were stunned. They clearly had