Abandoned Princesses
Body Forging Potions

That day, Qiao Rong conversed with Consort Shu. They laughed a lot considering Qiao Rong's childhood. Concubine Shu felt that there was nothing strange about her daughter, her memory was exactly the same as the real Qiao Rong.

After Consort Shu left, Qiao Rong began to grind and mash up the herbs he had bought at the Chi Yuan Pharmacy. Chu Yue who saw that from the side only fell silent while observing Qiao Rong. To be honest, he had already received many unnatural things like before.

The herbs were further processed by Qiao Rong and put into several small glass bottles. "Ah.. Finally!" Qiao Rong began to relax his achy body.

"What is Your Majesty?" Chu Yue asked in confusion.

"Ah this.. It is an excellent herb for the body. Take this, pour it while you shower later, then use it to cultivate." Chu Yue received one bottle that Qiao Rong offered.

"Ah. so it is. Thank you Your Majesty." Chu Yue received the bottle happily. With the potion, perhaps he could rise to the next level. He could be better able to protect Qiao Rong if something unwanted happened.

"What's that banquet? I never saw the recipe in the room of the Book of Yin Yang." After Chu Yue came out, Li Junyan appeared. He had only seen such a potion.

"of course. The Book of Yin Yang that had thousands of recipes would not have it. This is a Body Forging Potion. The recipe was passed down by itself from Sect Leader Wuling." Qiao Rong said proudly. The potion that his adoptive father had indeed made many people curious because it could increase cultivation speed by at least three times than it should.

Li Junyan snorted. "Based on arrogance." Then he entered back into the room of the Yin Yang Book.

Qiao Rong simply smiled and paid no heed to Li Junyan. He was getting ready to eat. During his closed-door cultivation yesterday, he had not eaten for three days. Although as a cultivator, he rarely felt hungry from absorbing energy.

The ladies came and served food. Only this time Li Wenhua got a very complete dinner. She was very grateful because her second life was as a royal princess. Fortunately, Li Wenhua was indeed born in a family of officials, so of course he had manners when eating.

Li Junyan came out after seeing so much food. His eyes lit up to see some good food such as lotus root fried in sauce, sweet sour meat, and many other side dishes.

"Oh, I just found out that spirits eat." Qiao Rong said in a mocking tone. Li Junyan was eager to put on her pouting face, yet she could not help but stomach her eager to devour those foods.

"While spirits never feel hungry, we also have worldly desires know, huh!" Li Junyan snorted, but he immediately picked up the chopsticks to eat those foods.

After making sure his stomach was full, Qiao Rong asked the maids to prepare hot water for a bath.

Qiao Rong began to undress and entered into a large wooden bathtub that could hold his entire body. Ah apparently like this the bathtub of the royal family, her inner.

Qiao Rong did not forget to put the contents of one small bottle of Body Forging Potions into his bathtub. Then he started cultivating.

About two hours later, Qiao Rong was finished. Now, it seemed like Qiao Rong had reached the level of the Early Earth. Just now Qiao Rong wanted to get out of the bathtub, suddenly the water around him moved and enveloped him. Qiao Rong was quite confused. He was trying to figure out what was wrong, but everything seemed to be fine.

Suddenly, a dragon from the water gushed out from his right hand. Qiao Rong could be said to be extremely shocked. He had never seen such a protective spirit.

"Honor, Master. My name is Lan Long. Your protective spirit." The little dragon continued to swirl in his right hand. Qiao Rong was at a loss as to what sort of reaction he should have.

"Ahhh, it's lucky that you were chosen by the Water Dragon King. It seems your luck is indeed very big." With what Li Junyan added, Qiao Rong became even more confused.

"Indeed you humans are too arrogant. When a protective spirit appears, it means that there has been a spirit that has chosen you as its master. Since you have been directly chosen by the Water Dragon King, I believe he definitely saw your potential. Protective spirits live in different dimensions, in the spirit dimension, of course they have their own hierarchy and position. They chose master as one of their paths of manifestation to the real world."

Qiao Rong nodded and began to look at the Lan Long that was in his hands. This cute little dragon the Water Dragon King? He began to doubt it.

However, Long Lan seemed to read her thoughts, "Hey, just because my spirit manifestation form is small, does not mean that I am weak. My true form is very big know. I've chosen you as my Master, don't make me regret it, little boy." Lan Long then disappeared by herself along with the water that stopped moving around her.

Qiao Rong was offended. A kid? He felt annoyed, but after all, Lan Long was his guardian spirit. With a protective spirit like Lan Long, Qiao Rong felt he could directly challenge the Crown Prince. The dragon against the tiger, of course he won.

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"Chu Yue, that Consort Wu, is the Emperor very dear?" Qiao Rong asked Chu Yue who was beside him.

"Ah, in fact Consort Shu was more beloved by the Emperor, but Consort Wu had raised Prince Qin, so Consort Shu who did not have a son would certainly lose her position. Not to mention—.." Chu Yue stopped for a moment.

"Not yet..?" Qiao Rong was getting curious. At the very least, he should know the weakness and strength of the enemy before going to war. It wasn't good to drag Consort Wu and the Emperor into his reckoning action with Princess Lan later on.

"Because His Majesty's protective spirit hasn't appeared yet.. The Emperor increasingly ignored Consort Shu." Ah so it is, Inner Qiao Rong. "But the Crown Prince born of Empress Li is still invincible to Prince Qin, which is why Consort Wu's standing has still not increased." Qiao Rong listened carefully.

"That Prince Qin.. does he love Princess Lan very much?"

"No Your Majesty, you could say they are very different one hundred and eighty degrees. Prince Qin was very kind and was even ashamed of the treatment of his mother and sister. Prince Qin was the son of Consort Liu who died in childbirth. Then was raised by Consort Wu after being raised a child." Qiao Rong smiled, befriending a tame wolf cub does indeed seem like the safest option.

Chu Yue then took the tea for Qiao Rong. But just when the tea was placed by Chu Yue on the table, there was a very familiar smell that Qiao Rong smelled.

He immediately shifted the cup from the table until it broke into pieces. The tea inside was splattered.

"W-why.. Her Highness.. I'm sorry." Chu Yue was surprised, she guessed, she had offended Qiao Rong and immediately approached to clean up the remains of the cup.

However, before Chu Yue wanted to touch him, Qiao Rong immediately shouted for Chu Yue to put away her hand. After seeing clearly, it was only then that Chu Yue realized, there was a kind of extremely small worm that was at the bottom of the cup.

"Heh. so cruel. Can't kill me, then poison me with the Gu worm." Qiao Rong smiled. He had expected this to come sooner or later. But he did not expect that they would be that cruel by using the Gu worm.

"Look at this, Chu Yue." Qiao Rong took that Gu worm with a spoon. "This little worm once exposed to skin contact will enter and tear the organs, sucking blood dry to evolve." Chu Yue shuddered at hearing that. Fortunately, Li Wenhua was very familiar with the Gu worm. The worm gives off a certain smell, only a trained person can recognize it.

"Pardon me Your Majesty, I have been negligent. But-but I swear, I don't know at all about this." Chu Yue spoke while trembling. How could he have the heart to do such a terrible thing to Qiao Rong who had been with him for seven years.

"Sure, I believe you. Maybe Princess Lan felt really upset that time." Qiao Rong laughed sinisterly. "Chu Yue, make me a new cup of tea. We have a gift for Princess Lan."

What he received today, he would return many times over.