Why Struggle for the Throne?
The meeting with the Liang Kingdom family was a great success, and the Liang Kingdom emperor and princess were very satisfied with Zhuo Ning.
Next, we will accompany them to the Celestial Dynasty.
Once the Emperor of the Liang Kingdom formally submits to the Immortal Emperor of the Blazing Sun Immortal Kingdom, it signifies that Liang Kingdom has officially become a part of the Blazing Sun Immortal Kingdom.
On the way back Yi Xuan was worried that something else might happen.
The result was calm and uneventful.
According to Zhuo Ning, any problems that occurred with the people sent to receive the Liang Kingdom family before they entered Blazing Sun would not affect the relationship between the two countries.
After all, the staff here can be changed at any time.
Therefore, if Zhuo Ning really can't make it, the Blazing Sun Immortal Kingdom has more than one alternative plan, so it won't affect this reception.
However, if problems arise after the meeting ends and they enter Blazing Sun, it will not only displease the Liang Kingdom family but also greatly damage Blazing Sun's reputation.
How could a guest run into trouble within their own country?
What a joke!
Therefore, the high-ranking officials of the Immortal Kingdom could sit idly by and watch Zhuo Ning be captured and imprisoned by the Clear Wind Pavilion, but they could not allow any problems to arise within the territory of the Blazing Sun Liang Kingdom family.
Even the impulsive Fourteenth Prince dared not act rashly after learning that Zhuo Ning had successfully met with him.
Along the way, Zhuo Ning also explained to Yi Xuan the real reason why he wanted to fight for the throne.
This was what the Immortal Emperor told him personally after he returned to the Immortal Kingdom!
He was the only son of the Immortal Emperor!
Isn't that strange?
The Immortal Emperor, who had nearly two hundred children, actually claimed that Zhuo Ning was his only son!
Originally, five hundred years ago, the Immortal Emperor stood out among many competitors and only discovered this after succeeding to the Immortal Emperor.
Because he forcibly increased his strength during his struggle for the Immortal Emperor, his foundation was damaged, resulting in a greatly shortened lifespan.
Mingming, as Mahayana master, was able to possess a lifespan of five thousand years.
But he, who was only a thousand years old, only had a lifespan of a little over five hundred years left.
Moreover, according to the diagnosis of the royal ancestor, he must abstain from sex to ensure his lifespan of five hundred years; otherwise, his lifespan will be shortened!
How could an Immortal Emperor, who had not yet realized his ambitions, be told that he only had five hundred years left to live?
But the matter was already settled. If there were a solution, why would the royal patriarch have stood idly by?
Helpless, the old immortal Immortal Emperor could only do his best to manage his immortal kingdom within his limited lifespan.
However, as the Immortal Emperor, his task was not only to govern the Celestial Kingdom, but also to ensure the continuation of the royal bloodline.
But having sex will shorten your lifespan!
In this desperate situation, the old immortal Immortal Emperor came up with a solution that was hardly a solution at all.
He selected a member of the royal family with exceptional talent to help him produce an heir.
Since they're all of royal blood, there shouldn't be much difference!
Whenever he needed to have sex, the Immortal Emperor would cast an illusion on his concubines beforehand, and then have his substitutes do it for him.
And you know what? This stand-in has quite the potential to be a stud, getting one pregnant concubine after another.
Later on, it became almost unstoppable, and the Immortal Emperor had more and more offspring. Even looking at the entire history of the Blazing Sun Immortal Kingdom, it was very rare for him to have so many offspring.
If you walk by the river often enough, you're bound to get your shoes wet.
No matter how much he cherished his life, the Immortal Emperor was still just a human being; he wasn't a true god.
Humans are controlled by desires, and even when they know that there is an abyss behind those desires, it does not stop them from trying them one after another.
One night, after drinking, the Immortal Emperor, without using his powers to dispel the smell of alcohol, barged directly into a palace maid's room.
After their lovemaking, no one expected that the palace maid would become pregnant.
Ten months later, Zhuo Ning came into this world.
He became one of only two rather unique individuals among the many princes.
As for the other one, it's the eldest prince, because he wasn't the old emperor's biological son either.
However, it is common knowledge that he is not the emperor's biological son, because his biological father was the old emperor's full brother.
He tragically died in an accident.
The old emperor and his brother were very close, so he treated his only son as his own. When he ascended the throne, he directly added the son to his own branch of the family genealogy, thus officially making him his son.
As for Zhuo Ning, his only biological son, the Immortal Emperor didn't actually care that much.
After all, the immortal kingdom was his true love, and power was his ultimate pursuit.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have risked damaging his physical health to seize the throne.
After this incident, the old emperor once again devoted himself to the development of his immortal kingdom.
Under his leadership, the Blazing Sun Immortal Kingdom grew increasingly powerful.
This led to a very difficult time for Zhuo Ning and his mother in the Heavenly Palace.
A palace maid, through an unexpected turn of events, gained the emperor's favor and gave birth to a prince.
If the old emperor only had this one son, that would be fine; the mother's status would rise with her son's, and the status of both mother and son in the palace would naturally increase steadily.
But the old emperor had more than two hundred sons and daughters.
Well, Zhuo Ning's son is neither indispensable; having him more or less makes no difference.
Sure enough, not long after, Zhuo Ning's mother passed away from depression.
Only Zhuo Ning, still a child, was left to tread carefully in the Heavenly Palace.
Good fortune never comes in pairs, but misfortunes never come singly.
Soon, Zhuo Ning was confirmed to have low Spirit Root.
This made Zhuo Ning's life in the Heavenly Palace even more difficult.
The old emperor had no interest in the harem to begin with, his mother was a palace maid who died young, and now it has been determined that he does not have the aptitude for cultivating immortality.
With all these factors combined, even the palace maids and eunuchs in the Heavenly Palace could bully him.
This was also a major reason why he later switched to Martial Dao and left the Blazing Sun Immortal Kingdom.
As the Immortal Emperor's time was drawing to a close, he had no choice but to begin preparing for the succession.
At this moment, no one expected it, not even the Immortal Emperor himself.
He, who had devoted his entire life to the immortal realm, actually had selfish thoughts in his final days.
He thought of Zhuo Ning, his only child.
In his youth, he felt that since they were all of royal blood, it didn't matter whether they were his own son or not, as long as they were qualified successors who could lead the immortal kingdom to continue to prosper.
But as death drew near, the Immortal Emperor finally revealed the truest side of his humanity!
When the Immortal Emperor was choosing a contender for the throne, he discovered that he could not bear to entrust everything he had created to someone who had nothing to do with him.
Even though the two of them share the same blood.
Therefore, driven by personal motives, the Immortal Emperor added Zhuo Ning's name to the final list.
This shocked the royal family and the entire government.
Zhuo Ning only learned these things from the Immortal Emperor himself after returning to the Immortal Kingdom.
"So, you're planning to help the old Immortal Emperor seize the throne?"
Although Yi Xuan's question was calm, he felt very uneasy inside.
When dreams meet reality, everything feels so ironic.
The image of Zhuo Ning, who once resented the cultivation world and wanted to find a new path through Martial Dao to crush all cultivators, now seems like a scene from a dream.
Under the immense temptations and allure of a celestial realm, his former ideals were likely shattered long ago.