Covering the Sky: The Years I Was the Empress's Strictest Master

The power of the moon and the sun?

Li Qingjue recognized the source of this energy. The cultivation method that her master had initially taught her to open up the sea of ​​suffering was the "Yin Yang Great Grinding Scripture".

After she entered the Spring of Life, she used her divine power to condense divine patterns in the Sea of ​​Bitterness, which formed a tiny yin-yang millstone that drew upon the yin and yang energies between heaven and earth.

"What a coincidence..."

Li Qingjue's eyes flickered slightly.

She began to intentionally operate the millstone within the Sea of ​​Bitterness, causing it to slowly rotate, seemingly merging with this world in an invisible way.

The heavy pressure that had been looming over her petite figure then dissipated.

"This……"

This discovery surprised her. Suddenly, a thought flashed through her mind, and as her heart surged, she felt as if goosebumps had risen all over her body.

She is no longer the ignorant girl she was half a year ago, who had not yet embarked on the path of cultivation and was completely clueless about the Dao.

She had a profound understanding of just how profound the "Yin Yang Great Grinding Scripture" that her master had taught her was. It was many times more advanced than the cultivation methods practiced by those cultivators who were robbed and killed in the deep mountains and forests.

It knows all the ancient secrets and understands the ancient divine script...

It possesses many incredible abilities...

And yet, I feel so familiar with this place!

Over the past six months, one thing after another has accumulated, and now Li Qingjue has finally pieced them together and suddenly has an answer to the question of his master's identity.

Could my master be the Human Emperor?

'The Human Emperor is the only person in history, and to this day, to have successfully attained enlightenment through cultivating both the Yin and Yang energies!'

She had heard this phrase from countless passing cultivators over the past few months, and she was almost tired of hearing it, but she had never thought about it deeply before today.

Because she felt that those legendary, great figures were too far removed from her.

However, she did not expect that the Human Emperor was actually right beside her.

Her lingering soul resided in her bronze ring.

"What exactly did Master go through back then to end up in such a state..."

Recalling how ethereal and transparent Tan Lin's remnant soul was, Li Qingjue felt a pang of heartache for no apparent reason.

……

A flurry of thoughts surged through Li Qingjue's mind, and his steps suddenly slowed.

She stopped outside the stone forest, the unusual fluctuations in the Yin and Yang energies around her alerting her.

Something seems to have emerged from the woods...

Bang!

Just as this thought crossed my mind, a boulder in the stone forest, shaped like a calf, suddenly exploded.

Splash...

Amidst the swirling rubble, a foul gust of wind swept in, followed by a lithe, tall figure rushing towards her.

Through the rubble, Li Qingjue saw an ancient beast with two horns of different colors.

The beast had the body of a jackal and the head of a wild ox; it was truly bizarre. The saliva dripping from the corner of its mouth directly corroded the rocks in the forest, creating countless tiny holes like honeycombs.

Whoops!

The beast was incredibly fast, and its aura was far stronger than hers, at least reaching the Divine Bridge realm, and possibly even the Other Shore realm...

There's no way to avoid it!

With just one glance, Li Qingjue determined his own predicament.

Boom!

thump... thump...

Li Qingjue's heart pounded wildly. Despite the sudden attack, she remained calm and composed, at least her mind was clear for the moment.

Months of solitary survival in the vast mountains, coupled with Tan Lin's harsh teachings, had long since forced her to suppress her instinct for fear.

………………

at the same time.

They were in the same world, six thousand miles away, in the deepest part of the earth.

There lies a vast underground palace whose exact location is unknown even to the soldiers who once followed the Emperor in his campaigns across the land.

This enormous underground palace is buried deep within a natural underground passageway, with the Nine Nether Jade as its foundation, seemingly isolated from this world, leaving the disciples of the Human Emperor's Palace who came to search for it with nothing.

Perhaps those people would subconsciously think that what they are looking for should be at the top level, or at the core of that quasi-royal array diagram?

Hey!

The floor tiles, made of a single piece of amethyst crystal, were suddenly trampled on at this moment.

The brick surface still retains the yin and yang energies of yesteryear, which have now condensed into frost, and a crisp sound echoes in the palace.

The dome is studded with countless fragments of stars to replace the natural light.

The towering palace walls stretched out like undulating mountains, and each pillar required a hundred people to encircle. The bas-reliefs on the pillars depicted flowers, birds, fish, insects, and ancient human ancestors. Everything in the palace was extremely magnificent.

The jade disc, ten thousand feet long, is made of Xuan Yuan stone as its base and is inlaid with divine gold, second only to the nine great immortal golds.

Wow!

The crimson mist lingering around Tan Lin's remnant soul slowly dissipated as he released the [Barrier of All Causes].

As long as he merges with that fragment of true soul left here, it will surely trigger the Xuanxiao Nine True Soul-Slaying Array that has already been set up outside the tower.

At this point, there's no need to hide anymore.

The difficulty lies in how to obtain that fragment of the true soul and then leave safely, ignoring the external magic array's restrictions.

Fortunately, it seems that the ancient princess from prehistoric times has already solved this problem for him.

This underground palace, which he used to cultivate in seclusion in the Eastern Wilderness, was not only his base for monitoring the movements of many ancient races, but also his secret rendezvous with that ancient princess when he was not training his troops.

That's right, it's the ancient princess who was ruthlessly suppressed and captured by him with her high cultivation level in the past, between the border between Zhongzhou and Donghuang.

In fact, if his soldiers hadn't acted on their own initiative afterward, he probably wouldn't have had any further involvement with them.

This place later became a repository of many memories for the two of them.

At the time, he thought this incident had "caused him great trouble," but now it seems to have been a blessing in disguise.

For now, we just need to keep a close eye on the movements of those lines in the penalty area, and then decide whether to stay or leave.

rustling... rustling...

Tan Lin continued deeper into the underground palace without stopping for a moment.

He already had a premonition that the fragment of the true soul was most likely in that place.

He soon entered the inner hall.

The dusty throne of the human king hangs on the nine-tiered platform, and the bronze lamp trees lined up on both sides of the platform are covered with an unknown amount of dust.

However, the lamp oil in the lamp, refined with the essence and blood of the ancient Fallen Feather royal family, has never dried up.

The further you go in, the more stagnant and iron-like the air becomes.

Only the Yin coldness that occasionally drifts out from the depths of the earth, and the Yang essence fire, flow through the gaps in the palace, forming a magnificent mist where the two poles intertwine.

When he built this Enlightenment Palace, he used seven Taiyin Star Cores and seven Taiyang Star Cores, which were buried deep beneath the palace's passageway. Combined with his self-created Yin-Yang Great Millstone Array, it gradually became a secret place suitable for him to cultivate Taiyin and Taiyang together.

wow...

Finally, Tan Lin's remnant soul stopped, floated up on the spot, and silently gazed at a painting hanging on the east stone wall of the inner palace.

The scroll itself is made of excellent material, or rather, it is a powerful artifact that has survived for millions of years without showing any signs of aging.

His deep gaze was fixed on the painting, and he slowly raised his hand to gently stroke the figure in the painting.

The person in the painting is naturally the ancient princess. She has purple hair and wears purple clothes, with a sash woven from stars around her waist. She has a proud figure, and a divine halo shines behind her, making her appear even more noble and sublime.

His face was hidden behind a wisp of mist, only a pair of noble yet smiling golden eyes pierced through time, as if gazing at Tan Lin in front of the painting.

hum...

As they gazed into each other's eyes for a while, the ancient princess's golden eyes seemed to come alive, as if they were watching a play of light.

Tan Lin was not surprised by this.

He knew that it was just the gods in the painting playing tricks.

"Come out... Haven't you had enough of staying here for nearly a million years?"

Tan Lin said calmly.

He was not speaking to the deity in the painting.

rustle……

As soon as he finished speaking, the scroll suddenly began to move without any wind. The light mist that had been obscuring the faces of the figures in the painting slowly flowed and eventually peeked out from the painting.

The light mist has no specific form; it seems to be just a flowing "gas," an invisible gas.

But this wisp of energy, the moment it was released, slowly disappeared into Tan Lin's remnant soul body.

Unlike soul slag, this is an irreversible phenomenon; when the two meet, they will inevitably merge.

next interest.

boom……

Tan Lin's remnant soul solidified rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Meanwhile, the fluctuations of the primordial spirit contained within the Soul Pearl also increased exponentially in a short span of time!

In an instant, it leaped past the fourth, fifth, and sixth levels of the Immortal Realm, finally settling at the Great Sage level of primordial spirit strength!

In mid-air, feeling the power he had lost gradually return, Tan Lin's face remained as calm as a still well.

This amount of power is negligible compared to his peak.

Unfortunately, his original essence and blood essence from his previous life had been devoured by the Supreme Beings, and the primordial spirit he had just reassembled was also incomplete. Otherwise, if the conditions were right, he could have reshaped his physical body using his primordial spirit and original essence.

"Could you... take me with you?"

Finally, just as Tan Lin was about to leave, the deity in the painting revealed a trace of divine consciousness.

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Chapter 18 I Disgraced My Master (3.2K)

Deep within the underground palace, as Tan Lin's primordial spirit grew stronger, time and space seemed to freeze.

"Could you take me with you?"

The woman in the painting seemed to come alive, pleading with Tan Lin for a sliver of her wish.

However, at this moment, Tan Lin had no time to pay attention to him.

Wow!

The crimson mist, invisible to the gods in the painting, suddenly surged violently around Tan Lin's remnant soul.

Within the Soul Pearl Barrier, a deep crimson light spot fell into Tan Lin's palm.

With a slight thought, he suddenly activated the power of the Soul Pearl.

The [Perspective of All Causes] is now open!

The interplay of light and shadow elevates the overall aesthetic, elevating it further...

Tan Lin's eyes grew even deeper.

hum...

Connected to the barrier of the Soul Pearl of All Causes, all the threads of cause and effect once again appeared in his field of vision.

Sure enough, it was almost exactly as he had predicted.

The mysterious movements of the fusion of the true soul fragments instantly attracted the attention of the Xuanxiao Nine True Soul-Slaying Array in the outside world.