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

Having just survived his tribulation of enlightenment and before his final leap to unite with the will of Heaven, he was at his weakest point when the Carefree Celestial Venerable reappeared, attempting to seize his body!

Fortunately, he had anticipated the tribulation that would follow his path to enlightenment and had prepared a backup plan, so he wasn't caught off guard. Perhaps, in the eyes of the Carefree Celestial Venerable, he wasn't the most appealing prey, and he never went all out to achieve ultimate sublimation.

In the stalemate, unwilling to simply dissolve his body and feign death to begin his next life, he weighed his options and ultimately only consumed a portion of the crimson light points as fuel, using the extraordinary power of his soul orb to frighten away the Carefree Celestial Venerable…

'But unexpectedly, after the jackals left, tigers and leopards appeared. The Undying Emperor launched a dark attack, piercing through his very body with a single strike…'

'Left with no other choice, he activated the Soul Pearl again, undergoing a process of self-destruction and reincarnation, feigning death to escape. His body, essence, origin, Dao fruit, and fragments of his primordial spirit were all devoured by the Undying Emperor and his ilk.'

'However, since the Soul Pearl's energy had already been depleted, it was already a great blessing that it could provide him with the means to free himself.'

The crimson light has faded; although reincarnation is still possible, the subsequent process of unraveling the mysteries of the womb can no longer be completed…

Moreover, the process of disintegration was tortuous, the Soul Pearl's energy was insufficient, and its ability to protect the true soul was limited. Only a wisp of the original soul, carrying the pearl and key memories, escaped.

The remaining parts of the true soul, along with the primordial spirit of that previous life, were either shattered and disappeared on the spot by the methods of the Undying Emperor, or fell into his hands...

An incomplete true soul, coupled with reincarnation, brought even more unexpected events. Unable to unravel the mysteries of the womb, he found himself no longer truly himself. This led him to activate the Soul Pearl with his last remaining thought, halting the reincarnation process.

……

In the void and coldness, Tan Lin, who had already remembered most of his past, fell silent.

Ultimately, his current predicament stems from his excessive greed and lack of decisiveness at crucial moments.

But at that time, he was only a hair's breadth away from achieving enlightenment, so who could give up so easily?

The previous life of "Covering the Sky" was just a novel, but now he was in the real world!

Anything can happen at any time.

Logically speaking, although the Immortal Emperor embarked on the path to immortality by bathing in the essence and blood of ancient emperors and undergoing continuous transformation and rebirth, he was not yet a true emperor when he was attacked.

For the Immortal Emperor, ambushing him was not cost-effective; on the contrary, it would easily expose his purpose and make him a target of public criticism!

This was one of the reasons he chose to continue his path to enlightenment at that time.

But the fact is, this phoenix did indeed make its move!

Therefore, there are only two possibilities.

Firstly, when he used the extraordinary power of the Soul Pearl to frighten away the Carefree Celestial Venerable, he revealed a trace of the Soul Pearl's secret, which was discovered by the Venerable.

Or perhaps, during his three lifetimes of "reincarnation" and growth, he inadvertently revealed something unusual, which ultimately led to him being targeted...

"Perhaps when I encountered that old bastard Xiaoyao, I should have decisively disintegrated my body immediately... but I was just one step away from achieving enlightenment, how could I be willing to disintegrate my body like that?!"

"A moment of foresight is priceless..."

For those about to attain enlightenment, the ultimate leap is no less significant than the desire of celestial beings and ancient emperors to become immortals.

"Difficult, how difficult it was in the Primordial Era..."

Tan Lin's remnant soul sighed deeply. Only by truly experiencing the tribulation of attaining enlightenment, without anyone of the same level to watch over and help him, could one understand how difficult it was for the two Holy Emperors Taiyin and Taiyang in the past!

As his thoughts drifted, he slowly calmed his mind.

Fortunately, unlike other cultivators, his key memories were all contained within the Soul Pearl, not within his Sea of ​​Consciousness and Primordial Spirit.

Otherwise, if the Undying Emperor, the Carefree Celestial Venerable, and others had glimpsed more profound secrets during the gaps between the shattered primordial spirit and true soul in his sea of ​​consciousness, he probably wouldn't have survived the day of his birth, even if he were to be reincarnated...

Regret gradually faded, and peace settled in.

Having lived three lifetimes and undergone long periods of trials, Tan Lin's Dao heart is not lacking.

In the void, the loneliness of being alone for so long, with no one to perceive the limitations of the outside world, if he had been at the beginning of his transmigration, he would probably have gone crazy by now.

The right thing to do is to face the current situation calmly.

As for the past?

When the conditions are right, there will be a reckoning.

After clearing his mind, he began to focus his attention on studying the current situation.

And the first to bear the brunt was naturally the Zhuyin Soul Pearl that protected his remaining soul from perishing!

His intuition told him that the root cause of his remnant soul's awakening yet inability to perceive the external environment was most likely this precious pearl.

"The causal light spots are full... and the color of these light spots seems to have deepened a bit..."

Tan Lin carefully observed the differences between the Soul Bead and the one before he lost consciousness, and frowned slightly:

"After my fall, was the Human Emperor's Palace not suppressed and destroyed by those enemies, but instead continues to generate a large number of causal points?"

When a person dies, it's like a lamp going out; the cause and effect naturally dissipate.

Based on his previous experience of reincarnation after death, the karmic threads of his past lives would dim after death, although crimson spots would still appear, but the efficiency would be less than one-tenth of what it was in his previous life...

But he also speculated that if in his new life, he were to light a lantern in the outhouse and reveal his identity to the entire universe, those hidden threads of cause and effect would probably re-emerge.

"So, how long have I been asleep?"

Tan Lin fell into deep thought.

But in an instant, his remnant soul's expression changed slightly!

Wow!

Inside the Zhuyin Soul Pearl, the crimson dots suddenly seemed to come alive, resembling fireflies flickering with an unusual crimson light.

hum...

Immediately, the Soul Pearl trembled slightly, and the countless points of light converged towards its core. The points of light merged and condensed, and then…

boom!!!

A crimson hue filled Tan Lin's entire consciousness.

The interplay of light and shadow.

As the crimson glow that had enveloped Tan Lin's senses faded, the sounds and noises of the external environment swept over him.

rustling... rustling...

Wheel and wheel...

"Get out of the way!!"

"Hurry! Hurry..."

"Get out of the way..."

"The people from the Feathered Divine Dynasty have arrived..."

The long-lost sound of the wind rustling through the vegetation, the dust swirling in the air, the clatter of cart wheels rolling over the bluestone slabs, and the panicked words of the people in the surrounding low-lying areas.

The Feathered Divine Dynasty?

Could this place already be a desolate ancient place?

How did it get attached to a ring?

Wait... it's made of bronze, could it be such a coincidence?

This girl is...

The outside world was filled with flickering light and shadow.

The feeling of being in another world was something Tan Lin was still adjusting to.

Of course, he was now multitasking, with part of his attention focused on observing the changes in the Zhuyin Soul Beads.

The Soul Pearl is his most precious treasure for survival in this world, and he cannot afford to lose it!

This item was indispensable for his subsequent reincarnations!

As for living a second life on his own?

Sorry, let's not even talk about whether he has the ability or the opportunity.

His primordial spirit and part of his true soul from his previous life have all dissipated, his Dao fruit and cultivation have long since been destroyed, and his essence and origin have been completely divided up by others. It is estimated that they have all been digested by now.

If this wisp of remnant soul were to be separated from the Soul Pearl, it might just vanish into nothingness in the next moment.

Wait... what about his causal link?

In the void, Tan Lin stared at the now empty Zhuyin Soul Pearl, its crimson light spot gone, his brows furrowed.

No, it is not empty.

To be precise, there was still a point of light flickering inside the Soul Orb.

But compared to the previous densely packed spectacle, this single point of light was, in Tan Lin's view, negligible.

However, what he should pay attention to is that if the previous Soul Bead Barrier and Causal Point were light crimson, then now they are a deep crimson that is almost dark!

"This is……"

After studying it for a while, Tan Lin suddenly had an idea.

wow...

next moment.

That deep crimson light actually ignored the barrier and swam out from the Soul Pearl, landing in the palm of his transparent remnant soul.

Followed by.

Whoosh!

He seems to have triggered the power that comes with the transformation of the Soul Orb—[Perspective of All Causes]!

In Tan Lin's "eyes," the level of vision kept rising, rising, and rising again...

Ultimately, it formed a center with its own remnant soul, from which countless causal lines, glowing with a faint crimson light yet tinged with gray, extended.

An invisible crimson mist swirled around his remnant soul, and one end of all these threads was faintly connected to the Soul Pearl of All Causes.

In his view, these lines were like anchor points, allowing him to clearly define his current location.

Based on his observations of the surrounding environment, he deduced that he was currently in the southern part of the Eastern Wilderness of the Big Dipper.

As his thoughts wandered, Tan Lin did not exit the [Perspective of All Causes] state.

At this moment, a faint, deep crimson dial was clearly visible on the surface of the Soul Pearl, emitting a dim, warm glow that his remnant soul felt.

The current scale is 1.

The entire dial has a total of 365 engravings, and the remaining 364 are not lit.

shuh...

Tan Lin's gaze shifted slightly, looking outwards along those causal lines.

Among them, several thick, dark lines caught his eye the most.

One of them extends westward, with branches in all directions connecting to it.

In his perception, Tan Lin knew that the line most likely pointed to the Human Emperor Palace he had built in his previous life, located in the Central Plains, which had stood for hundreds of thousands of years after his death.

Even today, it indirectly provides him with a greatly discounted causal link.

However, this complex and obscure cause-and-effect relationship served as a wake-up call for Tan Lin:

"As expected, although the Human Emperor's Palace still maintains its lineage, it has likely undergone changes..."

With his thoughts in turmoil, Tan Lin looked at the other end of the other thickest causal lines.

These lines exude a deep malice; they are black lines of evil. One connects to the forbidden zone of the Reincarnation Sea, one leads to the outer realm, and the other two are in other forbidden zones.

It is worth mentioning that, whether it is the complex causal lines or the evil black lines, if they can be maintained, they can all generate causal points.

However, those causal points are obscure and extremely complex. To become a usable crimson point, they need to undergo time to settle and shrink. It takes about five light points to merge into one light crimson point.

As for the current depth of the crimson spots, he doesn't know exactly how many he needs.

"What a pity. If the Soul Pearl had possessed this ability in its previous life, avoiding misfortune and seeking good fortune would have been a piece of cake, and it wouldn't have ended up in this state..."

"The most urgent task is to find a way to repair this remnant soul and then reincarnate it. Of course, in the meantime, we need to accumulate more karma points..."

In the void, Tan Lin slowly exited the state of [All Causes Perspective].

He has already discovered that activating this [Perspective of All Causes] consumes the crimson light.

In just a short while, the light from the deep crimson spot dimmed almost imperceptibly.

Although it is slow, it is still relative to the level of deep crimson causal points.