Ninefold Path to Emperorhood

For three years, Ye Chen has been unable to cultivate. His fiancée publicly breaks off their engagement, his cousin crushes his handwritten notes underfoot, and his family banishes him to the woodshed. On the night of the full moon, the empress in the painting opens her eyes. “I am Luo Qinghan, sealed away for three thousand years. Your mother was my disciple.” In a single night, his crippled meridians become a supreme physique. In three months, he forms a golden core. But this is only the beginning. The empress’s nine seals are scattered across the Nine Provinces. Each one he breaks brings him closer to the truth. And at the end of that path lies a secret sealed away for three thousand years: The kind-hearted Luo Qinghan is as cold as ice. The wicked Luo Qinghuan hides a knife behind her smile. Two empresses, one body. One wants to save his mother, the other wants to set the world ablaze. His mother has spent sixteen years holding the seals in place with her life. He must gather all nine before she can hold out no longer. From Qingyang City to the far northern ice fields, from White Robe Palace to Fengtian Hall in the commercial capital. Nine seals, nine truths. In this life, whoever lays a hand on my mother, I will wipe out their entire family.