You don't want your secret to be revealed by others, right?
Chapter 628 - 628: 122, Ready 2

After a long silence, the Empress slowly sat up and murmured, "So... we don't need to meet anymore, since both of us know it's fake."

"Fake?"

Lin Yue reached out and grabbed her wrist, speaking calmly, "It's true I'm not the reincarnation of Xiahou Shou, but the promises I made to you back then weren't deceptions. I won't forget the times you've helped me."

The Empress was startled, remained silent for a moment, and then asked, "Are you willing to take me away?"

Lin Yue smiled and said, "Even if I'm a fake prince and you're not my birth mother, even if I were a real prince, you would still just be a puppet empress used to stabilize the Human Clan's fortunes. Why worry about such trivial prejudices?"

The Empress stayed silent for a long while before slightly turning her head and murmuring, "At least formally I am the empress, don't be too insolent..."

"Understood."

Lin Yue smiled, "As your son, I obey."

The Empress felt something strange, hurriedly got up to leave Lin Yue's side, and quickly changed into her robes.

The rustling sound of dressing echoed in the darkness. The Empress got off the bed, looked at Lin Yue once more before leaving, and said, "If you have matters to discuss, wait for me at the Lake Heart Pavilion of Yao Shen Lake."

"Understood, Your Majesty, take care on your way," Lin Yue said with a smile.

The Empress softly spat at him, and with a flick of her sleeve, dispersed the lingering scent in the room before leaving.

"Women are truly strange..."

Lin Yue shook his head slightly, then began to look within himself.

Within his heart floated droplets of pitch-black pure liquid, a total of eighteen drops, which were to his surprise the initially refined Taichu Divine Power.

"Eighteen drops of Taichu Divine Power... if I get the chance to kill the Twelfth Prince, it would be more than enough."

Lin Yue pondered to himself, "Next, I need to find Seventh Sister to learn the Heart Medicine Detoxification Method. Once I've mastered it, I'll seek help to restrain the Third Prince, and then I can begin."

...

The next day.

Seventh Princess Mansion.

The Seventh Princess, with her hair tied up and dressed in simple hemp clothing, worked as usual in the fields within the mansion, casually using spells to speed the growth of Spirit Plants.

Lin Yue watched for a while and then flicked his finger, sending forth a dense aura of Vitality Phase that seeped into an unripe Spirit Plant, causing it to gradually start growing.

"Vitality Phase?" The Seventh Princess took a glance and was surprised, "Brother, when did you learn the basics of this technique?"

She mastered the way of life and death, of decay and prosperity, one part of which was the Vitality Phase. Normally, it was just an ordinary path, but when combined with the Withering Death Silence, it became the Heavenly Reversal Path.

Naturally, she recognized the mystery contained within Lin Yue's maneuver.

"I just recently learned it," Lin Yue added silently to himself, having just learned it. Isn't that right?

It was just a special kind of path. With the realm heights he had from mastering the basics of the Ultimate Path, he could easily see the subtleties.

Given ten days or half a month, he could genuinely learn this path that makes dead wood blossom.

"Brother, you've already mastered several outlines of the Heavenly Reversal Path, haven't you?"

The Seventh Princess curiously asked, "Until now, you haven't reached Harmonization, are you aiming for the Ultimate?"

"The Dao Heart isn't sufficient yet." Lin Yue shook his head slightly and continued, "I'm here today to ask Sister Qiuhe to teach me. I want to quickly learn the Heart Medicine Detoxification Method you used against the Twelfth Prince."

"Now?" The Seventh Princess was taken aback.

Lin Yue asked in confusion, "Is there something wrong?"

"It'll be very difficult."

The Seventh Princess shook her head, "That Heart Medicine Detoxification Method essentially functions based on Heart Phase, which is precisely why it's exceedingly hard to cultivate."

Lin Yue slightly furrowed his brow.

The cultivation regarding Heart Phase was quite mysterious, unlike other common cultivation methods.

In fact, the Heart Phase cultivation method didn't really require absorbing the Essence of Heaven and Earth.

It placed more emphasis on the internal and the spirit of the mind.

"Brother's ability to grasp the basics of several paths is indeed astonishing and admirable."

The Seventh Princess said, "But the Heart Phase method isn't about the rules of Heaven and Earth, but is a cultivation method, and the core of cultivation. It's something that must be founded from the very beginning."

Lin Yue could not help but frown.

"The best time to cultivate Heart Phase methods is before the Primordial Spirit is condensed, at least before transforming the Saint Heart."

The Seventh Princess observed Lin Yue and said, "From what I see, brother's Dao Heart Realm seems to have reached the Saint Heart Level, correct?"

Lin Yue nodded slightly.

"Then there's no hope." The Seventh Princess shook her head slightly.

She sighed and said, "It's the most fundamental cultivation method. Why can Heart Phase transform into poison? Why can it become an antidote? It's about 'the heart's sincerity turns into spirit.' The form of the heart can become reality, influencing the real world only with enough immersion and purity of heart and intent."

Lin Yue furrowed his brow slightly in thought.

Although he hadn't studied Heart Phase related methods, he had encountered them, and indeed cultivation placed great emphasis on the mind and spirit.

Moreover, the Second Prince once mentioned he possessed a perceptive heart suited to cultivating Heart Phase methods, but unfortunately, it was too late.

"After transforming the Saint Heart, it becomes nearly impossible to cultivate the Heart Phase method."

The Seventh Princess shook her head, "Especially if you intend to learn the Heart Medicine Detoxification Method, brother, your heart doesn't have a genuine love for pharmacology and medicine, so how could you reach the level of Heart Medicine?"

Lin Yue pondered for a while and asked, "Is there truly no way?"

"Nothing is absolute." The Seventh Princess said, "If you switch to studying pharmacology and medicine now and gradually immerse yourself, after a long period you might get started, but it would take at least several decades."

"Several decades?"

Lin Yue couldn't help but shake his head slightly.

Forget decades, even ten years felt a bit long.

For some reason, he had a nagging sense of unease, as if the current peace was fragile, liable to collapse at any moment, which unsettled him.

Therefore, it's best to succeed as quickly as possible, reaching Harmonization in a few years.

Yet this Heart Phase method posed a fundamental issue in cultivation, not easy to solve.

Much like some people never learning the Martial Arts, Heart Phase methods also represented an obscure path of cultivation.

The cultivation method was foundational.

This was evident from the three essential requirements to Prove and Transcend:

Perfect Dao, perfect Dao Heart, and a perfect cultivation method.

Thus, the cultivation method was also an extremely crucial component, with the Dao Heart and Dao being intangible, while the cultivation method was the cultivator's reality-based foundation.

Like Lin Yue, whose foundation was the Ancient God's Way, with concurrent practice in Martial Arts.

He was completely unfamiliar with the way of Heart Phase.

Naturally clueless.

"Brother is eager to learn the Heart Medicine Detoxification Method, is it to deal with the Twelfth Prince?"

The Seventh Princess couldn't help but ask.

"...Yes." Lin Yue nodded slightly, "Did not Prince Cheng set up an array against Sister Qiuhe, doesn't Sister Qiuhe wish to seek revenge?"

"Is it some subordinate of his you're dealing with, or..." The Seventh Princess frowned.

"...Of course, it's dealing with him personally," Lin Yue said frankly.

"You intend to deal with him personally?"

The Seventh Princess looked at him in surprise, "Do you know his level of power? Hundreds of years ago, he had already succeeded in Harmonization, and his Dao Heart and Dao are perfect; he's merely refining his own cultivation method."

Lin Yue nodded slightly and said, "I know."

The Seventh Princess shook her head, "You don't understand, at the time, I could restrain him only because he was unwilling to kill the two of us, unwilling to bear such heavy guilt, which is why he didn't use the Ancient Divine Power he refined. If he had used it, every living thing within a hundred miles would have perished, and we would have also been doomed."

"I understand." Lin Yue nodded.

"If you understand this, why do you still plan to deal with him?" The Seventh Princess frowned, "You haven't even reached Harmonization yet, you're just a Great Cultivator..."

Before she could finish, she saw Lin Yue suddenly flash his eyes, meeting hers, and in an instant, a spark erupted, and she felt as if she had glimpsed the changes of chaos and the origin of all things.

"You... What is this..." The Seventh Princess was shocked as she looked at Lin Yue.

"Sister Qiuhe, I trust you, and you can trust me too," Lin Yue said softly.