Luck taken away? It doesn't matter, I quietly become a god

"What's wrong with that?" Duan Yuyan gave him a profound look, as if to say, "You're still too young." He lowered his voice and said, "If Crown Prince Shenfeng were to unfortunately... cough cough, I mean if, Rong Shu, please don't hit me! As the old saying goes, 'The weather is unpredictable,' and until the very end, who knows what the outcome will be?"

"Furthermore, even if the princes have no selfish motives, what about their maternal families? What about the forces supporting them? It's impossible that they have absolutely no selfish motives, is it?"

"Back then, when the news of the Divine Wind Empress's tragic death spread, the entire Central Continent was shaken. Major clans within the Divine Wind Dynasty, and even forces located in the other two great dynasties, all began selecting eligible women from their clans, hoping to send them into the palace..."

"At that time, Emperor Shenfeng was deeply grieving the loss of his Empress. He rejected all the petitions urging him to expand his harem and, finding some pretexts, punished several of the most vocal aristocratic families. Only then did the situation gradually calm down, but..."

Lu Zhuo was somewhat dissatisfied: "Just what? A little joke? Can you stop acting like a storyteller and being so mysterious?"

Duan Yuyan rolled her eyes at him and cleared her throat: "Since then, every now and then, the still young Crown Prince Shenfeng would catch a cold and cough every few days, or he would accidentally fall into the water while strolling in the garden."

"And the trip outside the palace was fraught with unexpected events; either the carriage went out of control, nearly causing a crash and killing everyone, or there were various assassination attempts and poisonings..."

When there are more unexpected events, it's no longer a coincidence.

Even Feng Qianli could see the problem: "Isn't this too obvious? So many coincidences, is someone trying to kill the young Crown Prince of Shenfeng?"

"It's not just that some people want it, it's that countless people do!" Duan Yuyan shook his head and sighed.

"Emperor Shenfeng has been furious, investigated, and killed batch after batch of ill-intentioned people, but he still couldn't stop the overwhelming malice directed at the young prince. The young prince is still young and could easily die prematurely. At that time, let alone expanding the harem, we'll probably have to choose a successor."

"At that time, even the six great families, and even some reclusive families like the Chu family, were involved. News of several collateral relatives dying suddenly would come out from time to time."

"Moreover, it's not just people; the Nightmare Clan also wants the young prince dead. Once the young prince is dead, no one in the Divine Wind Dynasty will be able to wield the divine artifact, the Sun Chasing Bow."

In the end... after weighing all the factors, Emperor Shenfeng finally compromised and relented, and from then on, the palace had about a hundred more concubines.

Moreover, a selection of concubines was held every three years until the palace was filled with three thousand concubines. At this point, the civil and military officials would become restless and submit memorials, subtly suggesting that the Divine Wind Emperor take fewer concubines.

Rong Shu asked, "And then what?"

Duan Yuyan shrugged: "After that, Emperor Shenfeng began to visit the harem. One prince and princess after another were born. Where there are many people, there will be conflicts and disputes."

“The young prince is the darling of the Divine Wind Emperor and has been recognized as the master of a divine artifact. Now that a new prince or princess has been born in the palace, deliberately targeting the young prince is tantamount to continuing to pluck the dragon’s whiskers. Some officials who were originally only afraid of the dynasty’s bloodline being cut off and were only loyal to the dynasty will not ignore it.”

"As a result, the concubines, princes, and princesses turned on each other and started fighting amongst themselves, frequently resulting in deaths..."

"In the year with the highest record, eighty imperial concubines either died of illness or were deposed, six princes and three princesses died young, and as many as thirty-seven unborn imperial offspring were miscarried!"

Rong Shu's eyelids twitched.

She could roughly guess that behind so many deaths, there was probably the deliberate indulgence and instigation of the Divine Wind Emperor.

Isn't everyone trying to target the Crown Prince?

Don't they all want to have a harem?

Don't they all want imperial offspring so they can plot for the throne in the future?

Okay.

The grand stage of the palace awaits you; if you're capable, come and join us.

Not tough enough? Gone?

Well, that's just bad luck. Be careful in your next life!

"...This, this is too terrifying!" Lu Zhuo stopped fanning himself, feeling a chill run down his spine as he listened to such stories on Junque Mountain.

Xing Xue tilted her head: "Could it be that the concubines in the palace can fight each other?"

Duan Yuyan shook his head: "Those palace concubines are all mortals. Even if they have spiritual roots, they have to have their spiritual roots removed in advance, and they will never be able to cultivate in their entire lives."

"This is the ancestral rule of the Divine Wind Dynasty. Apart from the Divine Wind Empress, all palace concubines and maids must be selected from ancestors who possessed spiritual roots but were not allowed to cultivate."

"The origin of this ancestral rule is that there was once a Divine Wind Emperor who almost died in the bed of a palace concubine, who was only a Golden Core cultivator..."

"Gradually, in the following generations, unless the Divine Wind Emperors did not have many offspring, they would generally only marry one Empress, and at most take a few concubines who were not of high rank."

This is where it differs from the mortal dynasties.

In the cultivation world, regardless of gender, anyone with spiritual roots can cultivate for immortality.

As long as they are clear-headed, none of them are willing to give up their cultivation potential and enter the palace as ordinary concubines for a short period of a hundred years, thus limiting their lives.

Cultivation families typically do not easily give up on promising juniors and choose to send them to the palace for a bleak future.

Therefore, those who could be sent to the palace were those with poor cultivation aptitude or whose lifespan was nearing its end. Knowing that they had no hope of breaking through, they abandoned their cultivation to enter the palace and contribute to their families.

However, the imperial offspring born to such concubines usually do not have high cultivation aptitude and are difficult to compare with the imperial offspring born to the Divine Wind Empress.

As a result, the successive emperors of the Divine Wind Dynasty were basically all succeeded by their legitimate sons or princesses.

Feng Qianli raised his hand: "I have another question. Why doesn't the Divine Wind Empress just call herself Empress like in the Mortal Dynasties?"

Lu Zhuo: "Idiot, because among the successive Divine Wind Emperors, there were also princesses who inherited the throne, so naturally there were also male Divine Wind Empresses!"

……hiss!

Feng Qianli, a man from the mountains, was stunned; he had seen too little of the world.

"The three of you can forget about becoming male concubines in the palace. The next Divine Wind Emperor will definitely be a man, my fifth senior brother." Rong Shu's gaze darted back and forth between the three men with amusement.

"No, no, my master said, a wise person doesn't fall in love..."

"Pah! Who wants to be a male concubine?!"

"Exactly! Who would want a male concubine?! Don't tell such terrifying stories, okay?!"