Having children earns benefit, start competing for dominance in the world by marrying a wife

As the Empress Tianhong, she could naturally control her desires between men and women.

But ever since she became pregnant with Lu Chen's child, the child in her body had been crazily absorbing her Power of Slaughter, which led her to have to seek Lu Chen for cultivation to avoid her Cultivation State from regressing.

However, even with continual Dual Cultivation with Lu Chen, her cultivation state was still difficult to improve, plunging her into a vicious cycle.

Moreover, after experiencing the evil Qi from killing Lu Chen's Life Seed, her impetus for killing became less strong, instead she wanted to keep killing Lu Chen's Life Seed.

Exterminating the Life Seed not only accumulated evil Qi but also gave her a kind of vengeful pleasure.

Over time, she gradually indulged in this act.

In the beginning, whenever her cultivation state fluctuated, she would seek out Lu Chen for Dual Cultivation.

But lately, even without any fluctuation in her cultivation state, she would still go to seek Lu Chen for Dual Cultivation.

The thought that she was tricked by Lu Chen made Empress Tianhong want to get revenge on him, and to do so, she needed to kill Lu Chen's Life Seed.

To kill Lu Chen's Life Seed, she needed Dual Cultivation, and during Dual Cultivation, she felt like she was tricked by Lu Chen again, thus intensifying her desire for revenge.

And so, she needed more Dual Cultivation for revenge.

In this way, a vicious cycle took form.

Hearing Empress Tianhong's reminder, Lie Hongyun was slightly puzzled, now not understanding its meaning.

However, Lie Hongyun still respectfully said, "Thank you for the reminder, Senior."

Empress Tianhong looked Lie Hongyun over again and then said, "You have an aura familiar to me. Have you been to the Outer Domain?"

Lie Hongyun replied, "Indeed, in my past life I had been to the Outer Domain and had fallen there."

Empress Tianhong fell into deep thought, feeling that she had seen Lie Hongyun somewhere before but could not remember.

At this moment, Lie Hongyun, looking at Empress Tianhong, suddenly felt an overwhelming familiarity, as if she had met her somewhere before.

How strange; why did she also have this feeling?

At that moment, Empress Tianhong released her Divine Thought, probing Lie Hongyun's body and examining whether they had any karma between them.

After probing, she discovered nothing between them, nor was there any karma.

Lie Hongyun knew Empress Tianhong was investigating her; she, too, checked to see if there was any karma between them. Like Empress Tianhong, she concluded that they had no karma.

Perhaps it was just because they both followed the Slaughter Path that they felt such affinity.

As Lie Hongyun thought this, Empress Tianhong suddenly said, "No…"

Hearing these unexpected words from Empress Tianhong, Lie Hongyun paused before asking, "What has Senior discovered?"

Empress Tianhong said, "It's impossible that there's no karma between us."

Lie Hongyun did not understand; how could there be no karma between them when they'd had no relation?

Empress Tianhong continued, "The karma between you and me is too clean; you and he have a bond of marriage, and so do I with him. Therefore, it's impossible for our karma to be this clean."

Lie Hongyun suddenly realized.

Yes! Even if they had no relation in their past life, in this life, because of Lu Chen, they already intersected, so there couldn't be no karma at all.

No karma meant only one thing: their karma had been severed, thus resulting in no visible karma.

If they were unfamiliar in their past lives, why sever karma?

If karma was severed, it meant one of them did it. Why would one sever their karma?

Empress Tianhong said, "It seems we did have an encounter in our past lives. Due to the severance of karma, I've forgotten who you are."

After severing karma, both parties gradually forget each other until that person vanishes from memory entirely.

Both women were puzzled; one as a Great Emperor mastering slaughter, the other following the Unfeeling Tao—how did their paths cross, and why did they choose to sever their karma?

Generally, a Great Emperor severs karma because it can't be resolved in the present, risking backlash to sever it.

Although a Great Emperor has the ability to sever karma, it isn't without cost; the backlash from severing karma could severely injure a Great Emperor, depending on the karma's size.

If it's minor karma, even severing shouldn't cause severe backlash. Given a Great Emperor's power, such karma would be easily resolved without needing to sever it.

At this time, within the vast bedchamber, the two women faced each other, each wanting to know what their connection was in the past life.

After a long pause, Empress Tianhong finally said, "Since we've severed karma, let's not mention the past."

Even though they didn't know why they severed their karma, they must have had compelling reasons back then, possibly the best choice for them.

The past was bygone; now they faced a new beginning, there's no need to dwell on what happened in the past.

Lie Hongyun said, "You're right, Senior."

Empress Tianhong continued, "Alright, you can go about your business. How you choose is entirely up to you."

Though Empress Tianhong said this, she knew inside, Lie Hongyun had no choice; soon, Lu Chen's harem would gain another woman.

Having reached Lu Chen's grasp, that rascal wouldn't let go; though he seemed not to trouble her, it was mere appearance.

Having been with Lu Chen for years, Empress Tianhong knew him well; she saw Lie Hongyun as the next toy for Lu Chen.

Possibly discovering Lie Hongyun's past relation with her, Empress Tianhong felt somewhat pitiful for Lie Hongyun's coming ordeal.

Lie Hongyun didn't linger in Empress Tianhong's bedchamber; after a respectful bow, she left.

Upon leaving the bedchamber, Lie Hongyun gazed at the edge of the celestial domain; she wasn't in a hurry to decide, even though Empress Tianhong mentioned that Dual Cultivation with Lu Chen would benefit her. She intended to wait a bit longer to observe.

She wanted to first assess the state of the Daxia Dynasty.