Thousand Faces felt genuinely saddened by his ill-starred fate. He felt he might not make it to the other side.
Who could have imagined that he would become embroiled in something so momentous when he had only come to assassinate the Prince of Jiujiang?
But then Thousand Faces reconsidered. Perhaps this was his chance to truly soar to greatness, even to rise above the Imperial Court.
What if he seduced Emperor Yongchang as the Princess Consort of the King of Jiujiang? What if she then conceived Emperor Yongchang's child?
Would he have a chance to place his own child on the throne then?
Then he thought of his identity as a member of the Dragon Aiders Lineage.
He was not fighting alone.
Success was not impossible.
Not to mention that, from the look of things, the mysterious Dao Lord behind the princess consort might support him too.
Thinking of it that way, Thousand Faces even felt his blood begin to boil.
Of course, Thousand Faces had not overlooked the biggest problem:
Could he get pregnant?
This truly was the question of the century.
Thousand Faces himself did not know.
The Myriad Forms True Scripture was indeed wondrous beyond measure, but Thousand Faces had no experience yet with whether it could give him a child.
Nor did any of his predecessors have experience in this regard.
In his use of the Myriad Forms True Scripture, Thousand Faces had already surpassed his predecessors and blazed a trail no one had walked before.
"Princess Consort, I know this is hard for you. It is hard for me too, and it was hard for the Celestial Master. We must all force ourselves to bear the hardship."
Nanny Zhou patted Thousand Faces's delicate shoulder, sharing the Princess Consort of the King of Jiujiang's sorrow.
"Think