Palace of Eternal Faith

The most important palace complexes of the Great Han Dynasty royal family were Weiyang Palace and Changle Palace.

Many palaces in the Weiyang Palace were used by men and were under the control of the emperor, while Changle Palace was the harem area, including Anle Palace and Changxin Palace.

The Empress Dowager's residence, Changxin Palace, is located in the Changle Palace area and is not far from Anle Palace.

Princess Dou traversed the wind and waves, leaping and bounding as if running.

In just a short while, she saw the brightly lit Changxin Palace.

"Princess Dou has arrived!"

Princess Dou stopped her spellcasting and stepped into the main hall, immediately drawing shouts from several eunuchs and prompting palace maids to quickly bow in respect.

"It is already late. May I ask what brings the Princess here?"

Before Princess Dou even entered the main hall of Changxin Palace, a voice came from inside the hall first, and then the Empress Dowager slowly walked out.

Royal families are not like ordinary people who go to bed as soon as it gets dark. For many members of the royal family, there is no difference between night and day, except that there is an extra matter of lighting lamps at night.

The main hall of Changxin Palace was brightly lit, and the Empress Dowager was clearly not letting her guard down.

"I just missed my sister, so I came to visit!"

Princess Dou chuckled.

She glanced at the main hall and saw hundreds of bamboo scrolls spread out inside. She knew that the Empress Dowager must be creating a cultivation manual specifically for the new emperor.

"Sister, there's no need to rush. The Divine Ability Realm is the starting point for the latter three realms. It's quite difficult to leap from the middle three realms to the latter three realms. His Majesty is still young, so it's not surprising that he might take a few years to break through to the Divine Ability Realm," said Princess Dou.

"The sooner Che'er has the ability to defend himself, the sooner it will be good!"

The Empress Dowager didn't care about Princess Dou's spying.

A tailor-made product is a custom-made item; even if others copy it completely, they will find it difficult to replicate the same practice.

Few people can cultivate upwards on their own. This involves various necessities such as weapons, Law Artifact, elixirs, cultivation sites, and cultivation manuals. Trying to be proficient in everything will inevitably lead to wasting time.

The Empress Dowager's support helped the new emperor reduce his required training time.

Others need to painstakingly craft weapons and search for Law Treasure, but the new emperor doesn't.

Others need to seek fortuitous opportunity and find places to cultivate, but the new emperor does not.

Others need to exhaust their resources to find the elixir suitable for their cultivation, but the new emperor does not.

Others need to study day and night, seek out renowned teachers, and engage in discussions with like-minded individuals, but the new emperor does not.

Having eliminated all the difficulties in cultivation, the new emperor only needed to be fed with knowledge and skills. As long as the new emperor could cultivate, the other party could quickly advance in cultivation.

However, the hurdle of the Divine Ability Realm is no longer something that can be overcome simply by the Empress Dowager arranging everything.

She calmly responded to Lady Dou, but inwardly she couldn't help but sigh.

"You never come to my door without a reason," the Empress Dowager said. "Princess, please speak plainly. I need some time to think things over!"

"Quiet contemplation is very taxing on the mind, sister, don't harm your health," Princess Dou advised.

"If you still care about me, send back the physician named Yi Shuo who serves by my side," the Empress Dowager said. "I've been helping His Majesty with meditation and spiritual practice, which has been quite taxing on my body. Only Yi Shuo's acupuncture can make me feel a little better!"

"Yi-shuo is Yi-li's daughter. Her father is involved in the gourd case and is a major connected person. The matter is still under investigation..."

So does that mean my life isn't a life?

The Empress Dowager questioned him, which made Princess Dou sigh.

On one hand, the Empress Dowager hoped to use the gourd to refine elixirs; on the other hand, the Empress Dowager needed Yi Shuo, who was involved in the case, to give her acupuncture to refresh her mind. This truly put Princess Dou, who was in charge of the gourd case, in a dilemma.

"I have already sent someone to find Chunyu Tiying and to have her reinstated and allowed to enter the palace as soon as possible," Princess Dou assured her.

"Have you thought this through? The Empress Dowager's decline is inevitable, and in the future, it will be you and me who take charge of the harem," the Empress Dowager warned. "If anything happens to me, you and the Empress will not be able to hold your positions in the harem, let alone control the factions involving Huang-Lao Daoist School!"

"Sister is right!"

Before the matter of the great monk at the Zhang residence could even be discussed with the Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager had already given Princess Dou a thorough reprimand.

Speaking to the level of the Empress Dowager is already an extremely stern warning.

If it weren't for her continued fear of the Empress Dowager, Princess Dou knew very well that the Empress Dowager would definitely go to the imperial prison to forcibly release the person.

"Since you say so, sister, then I will go all out and give up my sworn sisterhood," Princess Dou assured.

"You can guarantee that Yi Shuo won't suffer any losses," the Empress Dowager said with a slightly softened expression. "You need to know why I chose Yi Shuo to perform the acupuncture, and why the other imperial physicians couldn't do it. This might even include Chunyu Tiying."

"It's the same as acupuncture, but is Yi Shuo really that good?" Princess Dou asked, puzzled.

"She's different," the Empress Dowager shook her head. "Many imperial physicians emphasize precision, meticulousness, and accuracy in acupuncture, which leads even highly skilled physicians to resort to shortcuts when it comes to controlling the needles. But Yi Shuo is completely different!"

"Oh?"

"Besides being precise, meticulous, and accurate, Yi Shuo's acupuncture technique also possesses the unique ability to 'break through protective barriers,'" the Empress Dowager said. "Her cultivation is profound, Law Power surpasses that of ordinary physicians by several times. Her acupuncture can pierce through our protective Law Power and reach our acupoints directly. This ability is of little use to ordinary people, but it is extremely important to us cultivators!"

"You dare let her get injections in a place like this?"

"Why wouldn't you dare? When you were a teenager, you let the imperial physicians do whatever they wanted with you. Now that you've cultivated so much, why are you suddenly afraid?"

In order to arrange the new emperor's spiritual practice, the Empress Dowager clearly took a dangerous path.

Princess Dou felt she wasn't on the verge of death, and she absolutely wouldn't let the physician's silver needles puncture her orifices.

If done correctly, this can refresh the mind and dispel fatigue and illness; if done incorrectly, it can ruin one's cultivation.

When she was young, Princess Dou entrusted her life to the physician, but now that she has reached this level of cultivation, she obviously no longer trusts physicians whose cultivation and strength are inferior to her own, and she will not entrust her life to these low-level cultivators.

"I haven't been sick for many years since I achieved success in my cultivation, so I don't need a physician at all!"

Princess Dou gave a dry laugh and quickly rejected the Empress Dowager's suggestion to share medical officers.

"To be honest, I had important business to discuss with my sister at Changxin Palace this night," Princess Dou quickly changed the subject.

"Oh?"

"Sister, you don't know, a powerful cultivator has arrived in Chang'an City these past two days..."

Princess Dou quickly spoke up about the matter, including the Empress Dowager's arrangements.

The fact that the message came from the Empress Dowager meant that it had been verified by the Empress Dowager's spirit and had been approved by her.

Even the Empress Dowager herself was completely baffled by the origins of this great cultivator, let alone Princess Dou.

"This kind of powerful cultivator..."

Upon hearing the news relayed by Princess Dou, the Empress Dowager's expression changed slightly.

A cultivator who can be treated with such respect by the Empress Dowager must possess Tongtian abilities, and such cultivators are rare in the Three Realms.

Many schools of thought from the Hundred Schools of Thought period have become obsolete by today. Excluding those that were granted amnesty by the imperial court, the rest have either been eradicated or defeated, and most have disintegrated and are no longer able to reunite.

Among these people, there are still some minor masters, such as Rogue Person, Qingxuzi, the Five Ghosts of Western Yunnan, and the Wandering Swordsman Guo Jie.

However, these minor experts, whether at the Divine Ability Realm or the Sole Self Realm, are no longer worthy of the imperial court's serious attention.

For the Empress Dowager to send Princess Dou to pay a personal visit, the visitor's cultivation must have at least reached the True Self, and they must possess extraordinary strength.

And the remaining sources of such people are extremely limited.

The Empress Dowager touched a bell at her waist, and felt inexplicably nervous.