Volume 5, Chapter 277 – I Don’t Want to Be an Imperial Consort (Part 5)

“Understood? Good, then hurry up and handle this matter!”

After Chief Steward Zhong finished speaking, he patted Prefect Dong’s shoulder, then called out to his subordinates: “Depart, return to the capital!”

“My lord, you’ve had a long and tiring journey. Please come inside and rest first. This humble official hasn’t even fulfilled his duties as a host yet!”

Prefect Dong politely invited.

“No need. This eunuch must return to report to His Majesty! By the way, tell that Qi Huang that on the first day of next month, I will personally come to escort her to the capital. If she cannot be found, then let the entire Honghua Sect disappear along with her.”

Chief Steward Zhong said lazily from inside his sedan chair.

“Yes! Respectfully seeing off Lord Zhong.”

Prefect Dong bowed respectfully.

Watching Chief Steward Zhong’s entourage disappear into the distance, Dong Yu suddenly burst into tears: “My Qi Huang-meimei! My Qi Huang-meimei!”

“Don’t make a fool of yourself here!”

Prefect Dong scolded with disgust, then ordered the nearby servants: “Quickly take him inside.”

Several family guards followed the order and carried Dong Yu inside.

“Madam, let’s go back!”

Prefect Dong took a deep breath before addressing his wife, whose face looked extremely grim.

“Husband, what should we do?”

Once inside, looking at their son throwing a tantrum in the courtyard, Madam Dong asked with a glimmer of hope.

“What should we do? Of course we follow the imperial edict. Do you think you can compete with His Majesty for a person?”

Prefect Dong replied helplessly.

“But that’s the girl our son likes!”

Madam Dong glanced at her son rolling around on the ground.

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“Yes! Father! I like Qi Huang-meimei, and Qi Huang-meimei likes me too. How can I just hand her over to someone else? I’m not a person with a twisted taste!”

Dong Yu also took the opportunity to state his position.

“Heh, if you don’t hand her over to His Majesty, then you can prepare to hand over your father’s head to His Majesty instead.”

Prefect Dong laughed bitterly at himself.

“That immortal old dog emperor, already half-buried in the ground, yet he still has the shamelessness to harm fifteen or sixteen-year-old girls.”

Dong Yu, having no other option, could only curse violently to vent his hatred.

“Shut up, you unfilial son! How dare you disrespect His Majesty! If outsiders heard this, you’d kill our entire family.”

Prefect Dong sternly reprimanded.

Dong Yu was greatly startled, knowing that his father usually doted on him and had never spoken such harsh words.

“Can you show some masculine backbone? Don’t cry and wail over a woman, what kind of behavior is that? If this Qi Huang is gone, then she’s gone. Isn’t Cheng Hongling still there? If you have the ability, go pursue her. If you really can’t win her over, at worst wait until she cultivates another doppelgänger. As long as you have the capability, why worry about not having opportunities?”

Prefect Dong then offered guidance.

Dong Yu was stunned for a moment, and the gloom on his face instantly dissipated by more than half: “That’s right, a cultivator can supposedly cultivate ten doppelgängers. Why should I hang myself on one tree?”

“Qi Huang-meimei! I’m sorry, it’s not that Brother Yu is heartless, it’s just that I can’t fight against that dog emperor. I can only send you to him. I hope you won’t blame me.”

Having figured it out, Dong Yu began mumbling to himself.

On the other side, Qi Huang had been in closed-door cultivation for three days. Although her divine sense was powerful, the Qi-Leaking Powder she had been poisoned with this time was truly excessive. It had now spread to every corner of her body, and some had even fused with her flesh and blood, making the investigation process quite tedious and laborious.

It took a full five days for Qi Huang to isolate the Qi-Leaking Powder and the flesh contaminated by it, then create a physical body for her Earth Soul… that is, Huang Di.

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With this, Qi Huang’s third doppelgänger was completed, and the Qi-Leaking Powder in her body was completely eliminated, which also meant she could resume cultivation.

Of course, after Qi Huang’s divine sense broke through to the Divine Realm, she could cultivate three more doppelgängers. Currently, with Huang Di added to the previous brainless Heavenly Surge Soul “Huang Tian”, she only had two, so she could cultivate one more, though there was no necessity for it.

As for Huang Tian ¹ this is the male soul that was posing as Huang Qi, different from the previously mentioned female soul “Huang Tian” , that was cultivated when she was in the Incarnation Realm, so it didn’t need to be counted.

Huang Di, having obtained a body, curiously looked around, breathing the free air.

“By the way, Second Brother! I have a question I want to ask you. Do any of those female spiritual souls in the Sea of Consciousness have feminization abilities?”

Qi Huang asked uneasily. Although she had never seen them, she currently had no margin for error.

“No, only that Cheng Ling can manipulate Feminization Qi. I’m absolutely certain of this.”

Huang Di answered without hesitation.

“That’s wonderful! This way, I can sleep when I want to sleep and eat when I want to eat in the future, without fearing being turned into a pure woman.”

Qi Huang said excitedly. Ever since being possessed by that feminization mask, she didn’t know how long it had been since she had slept normally. Though this wasn’t necessary for cultivators, she still missed it greatly.

“Speaking of this, I suddenly remembered that when Cheng Ling used her feminization power, she said she was drawing it from within this body, so I think that power might still be in your body.”

Huang Di made a conjecture.

“Is that so? No wonder that woman said before that there was something of hers in my body. Could she have been referring to this Feminization Qi?”

Qi Huang was somewhat surprised. She immediately looked inward at her body but found no abnormal power.

“This is strange. Where exactly is that power hidden?”

Qi Huang was puzzled.

“It seems I need to find an opportunity to have a good sleep and see what secrets that woman has.”

Qi Huang decided thus, but now wasn’t the time. She had many things that needed to be done immediately. First was finding those medicinal ingredients for her main body, second was helping that cat girl Yaoyao get a larger spatial container to accommodate her kin. Both of these required seeking help from the proprietress of the Golden Fortune Auction House.

Having made up her mind, Qi Huang once again absorbed Huang Di back into her Sea of Consciousness. After all, she had cultivated this third doppelgänger only for detoxification, so it was better not to expose it too much. The reasons were, first, naturally to be more secretive, and second, she didn’t want the balance between male and female souls in her Sea of Consciousness to be disrupted again.

After Qi Huang finished everything, she came out of seclusion. Because her adoptive father had also moved to the Honghua Sect, the family had already moved out of the Orchid Courtyard and found a new courtyard house to live in.

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As soon as Qi Huang reached the main hall, she heard shocking news, that Prefect Dong had brought a group of constables requesting an audience, claiming he wanted to handle some kind of household registration for her.

“Does this guy have brain problems? What household registration does a doppelgänger need?”

Qi Huang asked her family.

“Who knows what madness he’s having?”

Cheng Hongling snorted coldly.

“He wouldn’t be trying to make a move on our Little Huang, would he? After all, with an official identity, he could then formally marry her!”

Jiang Linian, being thoughtful, guessed roughly what was happening, though she had the wrong target.

“That’s possible! But I won’t agree to it. What right does a mere prefect have to set his sights on our Little Huang? Even if the emperor came, I’d have to think it over.”

Cheng Yuan shook his head firmly, little knowing his words would prove prophetic.

“Then why do you always tell him you have no objections?”

Jiang Linian couldn’t help but mock.

“Those are just polite words, not to be taken seriously!”

Cheng Yuan explained, then looked at Qi Huang with some concern: “Little Huang, remember, what father said were just polite words. You absolutely cannot agree to him. With your qualifications, marrying into imperial relatives in the future wouldn’t be a problem.”

“Father, what are you thinking? You know what my identity is.”

Qi Huang shook her head helplessly, then asked uncertainly: “But if I don’t agree, will he still help me with the household registration?”

“Would you sell yourself for the sake of an identity?”

Cheng Hongling’s eyebrows shot up.

“What are you thinking? I just don’t want to see you all in difficulty.”

Qi Huang was immediately speechless.

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“There’s no difficulty. Although having an official identity would indeed be good for you, wanting to exchange your lifelong happiness for it, where in the world is there such a good deal?”

Cheng Yuan said decisively.

The family reached a unanimous decision before welcoming Prefect Dong’s group inside.

Qi Huang casually glanced over and indeed found that Young Master Dong had come along. She wasn’t surprised, as a simp, how could he possibly miss such a great opportunity?

“Brother Cheng, I won’t hide it from you, I’ve come this time to handle household registration for your second daughter.”

After some brief pleasantries, Prefect Dong, who had been absent-minded, spoke with difficulty.

“Brother Dong, you know my second daughter’s identity. Can she really be registered in our Cheng family’s household? Won’t this bring you any trouble?”

Cheng Yuan confirmed.

“Of course! Of course! After all, this is an order personally given by His Majesty.”

Prefect Dong said awkwardly.

“His Majesty? Really? Such a small matter actually alarmed His Majesty?”

Cheng Yuan was astonished.

Qi Huang was also unexpected. She felt she was indeed excellent, but not to the point where an emperor would come courting, right?

“How is this a small matter? This is His Majesty’s family affair.”

Prefect Dong said vaguely.

“What family affair?”

Cheng Yuan asked in confusion, then exchanged glances with several equally bewildered family members.

“Congratulations, Brother Cheng! Felicitations, Brother Cheng! Your second daughter has caught the eye of the current emperor. He has personally selected her as an imperial consort. She can enter the palace to serve His Majesty on an auspicious day!”

Prefect Dong gritted his teeth and forced a smile of congratulation. For him, this was truly treating a funeral as a celebration.