The Emperor, with more men than women, made me his mistress.

Thinking about it, Yue Li got up, dressed, and left the room.

When Feng Chuan and Feng Yan, who were waiting outside the room, saw Yue Li come out, they quickly bowed and said, "Greetings to the Princess."

"Hmm, where is the Prince?" She needed to inform Jin Chenyuan before going out.

"Your Highness, the Prince has been summoned by the head of the farm," Feng Chuan reported.

Fearing that Yue Li might need to speak with Jin Chenyuan, Feng Chuan asked, "Does the Princess Consort have something to discuss with the Prince? The Prince instructed before leaving that if the Princess Consort needs anything, he should have this servant inform her."

"It's nothing serious. I just plan to go up the mountain. There's no need to inform your prince."

Isn't it convenient for her to move around now that Jin Chenyuan isn't here?

Feng Chuan and Feng Yan were stunned when they heard Yue Li's words. The princess was planning to go up the mountain but didn't want to inform the prince. Wasn't this a big deal?

Seeing Yue Li reach the courtyard gate, Feng Chuan and Feng Yan quickly followed and asked, "How many people will the Princess take up the mountain? We will organize the manpower right away."

"Yes, Your Highness, you can't go up the mountain alone. There are such big wild boars on the mountain, it's too dangerous." Feng Yan felt a wave of fear when he thought about the two wild boars that Your Highness and her group killed when they went up the mountain to pick watermelons this morning.

Hearing the words of the two people behind her, Yue Li stopped and turned to look at them, saying, "I'm not bringing anyone with me up the mountain this time, so you don't need to worry about my safety. Also, when the prince returns, tell him that I have some things to take care of on the mountain. I'll be staying for about five or six days. Tell your prince not to worry about my safety; I'll be back in five or six days."

After saying that, ignoring the shouts of the two people behind her, Yue Li quickly left the manor gate after leaving the courtyard where they lived, and headed straight up the mountain along the path she had taken that morning.

As soon as the princess finished speaking, she disappeared from their sight. Feng Chuan and Feng Yan chased her all the way to the gate of the manor but did not see her. For a moment, the two looked at each other in bewilderment.

Feng Chuan was sweating profusely with anxiety. "Why did the princess walk so fast? What should we do now? There are so many wild animals on the mountain. It will be very dangerous for the princess to go up the mountain alone."

Feng Yan was much more composed than Feng Chuan. Seeing the situation, he said, "Now we must quickly report to the Prince that the Princess went up the mountain alone. Otherwise, if something really happens to the Princess, it's a small matter if we lose our lives, but it would be a big deal if our families were implicated."

"Yes, yes, you're right. Let's go, let's report this to the Prince immediately." Feng Chuan, upon hearing Feng Yan's words, seemed to have found his pillar of support and quickly echoed.

After saying that, the two did not delay and immediately began searching for Jin Chenyuan in the manor.

At this moment, after reaching the foot of the mountain and finding no one around, Yue Li channeled her spiritual power into her feet and quickly arrived at the edge of the mountain's central perimeter.

Remembering the wild boars, deer, pheasants, and rabbits they had found in the middle of the village when they were carrying watermelons that morning, Yue Li was in a hurry to cultivate and had no mood to provoke those things. So she used the same method as before, when she was in the back mountain of Qingshan Village, and took out an invisibility talisman from her space. Then she activated her spiritual power to stick the invisibility talisman on her body. Instantly, the person who was just standing there disappeared.

After becoming invisible with the help of the invisibility talisman, Yue Li immediately used her spiritual power to fly over the bushes. Although she could not fly yet, as long as there was a foothold, she could use it to fly over.

Moreover, very few people come to the middle part of this mountain, so the shrubs there grow lush and green, some even taller than a person, but there isn’t even a narrow path that can only be passed by one person at a time.

The reason they were able to conduct their reconnaissance in the central area for so long at noon was because the guards brought by Jin Chenyuan cleared the way ahead.

I stepped over the bushes, passed by patches of lush, fragrant wildflowers, and quickly passed a pack of wolves, a few wild boars, and a herd of deer.

Standing atop a small, abruptly raised hill, Yue Li looked around at her surroundings, closed her eyes, and sensed the concentration of spiritual energy in the area, though she had no idea where she was in the mountain.

However, Yue Li felt that the concentration of spiritual energy here was already much higher than that of the mountain behind Qingshan Village.

After thinking it over, Yue Li decided not to go any further inside.

After all, she didn't come here to absorb the spiritual energy in the air, but rather to use it to refine the spiritual essence liquid in the space.

She took out the meditation cushion she often used, found a relatively flat spot on the hilltop, put the cushion down, sat cross-legged on it, closed her eyes, and first absorbed some of the spiritual energy in the air to replenish the spiritual energy that had been depleted in her dantian.

To prevent the spiritual energy in the dantian from being used up too much, so that when taking the spiritual marrow liquid later, one will not be able to withstand the large amount of spiritual energy that suddenly surges into the body.

After a quarter of an hour, Yue Li opened her eyes, took out a jade bottle containing spirit essence liquid from her space, and just like before, she only dripped a drop of spirit essence liquid into her mouth before quickly sealing the jade bottle and storing it in her space. She then began to absorb the large amount of spiritual energy that surged into her body.

Her rank was too low to withstand too much spiritual energy at once, not to mention that spiritual essence liquid was not as good as spirit stones.

The method of absorbing spirit stones is that as long as you hold the spirit stone in your hand, you can slowly absorb the spiritual energy inside the spirit stone into your body.

However, the Spirit Marrow Liquid directly ingests spiritual energy into the body, where it is guided and refined by the body's spiritual power. If this exceeds the individual's tolerance, the spiritual energy will run rampant in the meridians, potentially damaging the meridians and internal organs, or even causing the body to explode and die at any time.

Therefore, compared to the gentle absorption of spirit stones, the absorption method of spirit marrow liquid is more brutal.

While Yue Li was wholeheartedly absorbing the spiritual essence liquid on the mountain, the hot spring resort at the foot of the mountain was in an uproar.

The story begins when Feng Chuan and Feng Yan found Jin Chenyuan in his study.

Although Jin Chenyuan accompanied Yue Li to the manor, the official business he had been dealing with was packed up in boxes and brought along by Qingyun and the others.

So after taking a nap with Yue Li and seeing that she hadn't woken up yet, Jin Chenyuan went to a study he had specially built in the center of the lotus pond at this hot spring resort to handle official business.

Just as Jin Chenyuan had finished dealing with some official business and was about to go to their courtyard to see if Yue Li had woken up, Qingyun reported that Feng Chuan and Feng Yan had come looking for him.

Rubbing his wrist, which was a little sore and numb from handling official business, Jin Chenyuan asked in confusion, "Why aren't they staying by A-Li's side? What are they doing here?"

"Let them in." Jin Chenyuan said this in a very bad tone. After all, he had gone to the palace to ask for these people to serve Yue Li, but now these two people had come to him instead.

Qingyun, who was guarding the door of the study, was also very puzzled. He looked at the two people whose faces had turned pale after hearing their master's words and said, "You can go in."