When Li Chen, through Hu Ze's Avatar, advised Hu Meiniang to attribute the unborn child to one of the demon women under her command, he was, in fact, already showing kindness.
He knew that if any other palace maid or consort became implicated, Hu Meiniang would inevitably kill her to silence her and cut off any future trouble. With a demon woman she could control, there would still be room to maneuver, so he refrained from encouraging her to harm the innocent.
As for everything else, Li Chen could not concern himself with it all. He was now controlling Hu Meiniang through words and schemes, using her as his puppet, but he still could not manipulate her as precisely as a marionette on strings.
Once the child in Hu Meiniang's womb was born, the Puppet Dao would have a chance to sink its fingers into the Great Qian Dynasty's Deification System and Dao of Fortune. Sacred Capital City's sacred spirit grand formation was tightly bound to the emperor's exalted status. This amounted to the operating privileges of a management system ultimately falling under the control of an invading Trojan horse.
Li Chen could do a great deal with this child, but only if he was born safely and succeeded to the title of Great Qian Emperor.
Li Chen could see that Emperor Kangping was no blessed ruler. His cultivation had never been high, yet he bore supreme dragon aura comparable to the Primordial Spirit Realm.
For cultivators in the Primordial Spirit Realm or Nascent Soul Realm, this dragon aura was a potent tonic. For low-level cultivators, however, it was a terrible poison.
This, too, was an ingenious arrangement left behind by Great Qian's Sacred Ancestor. Originally, it had been intended to spur the Dragon Sons and Grandsons to cultivate diligently