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

Let's begin with the people who harmed her brother in the past...

As thoughts raced through his mind, Li Qingjue composed himself, forcibly suppressing the hopeless search and the agonizing resentment. Then, his serene gaze turned toward a certain direction in the universe.

That is the direction of the ancient, primordial star.

It was also the place where she learned from her master... no, Tan Lin, that her brother had perished after being taken away by the Feathered God Dynasty and sacrificed his blood to the Immortal Ascension Cauldron.

"Let's start there..."

With this thought in mind, she took a step forward, and chaotic energy filled the air as her figure disappeared into the starry sky.

In an instant, outside the ancient star.

hum...

The void rippled, and Li Qingjue's peerless immortal figure appeared.

She looked down at the azure star below.

Having reached her current level of cultivation, what she sees is naturally different from that of other cultivators of this era.

It is easy and obvious to see that this star is covered with Dao traces both inside and out, and is also sealed by powerful field array patterns.

However, although under her insightful understanding of the Emperor's Law, most of these fields were essentially useless,

However, some of the traces were of unknown origin, which she found somewhat troublesome.

It makes sense, though. If this place were so easy to "enter and exit," then during the previous turmoil, the Celestial Venerable of Immortality and the others wouldn't have had to linger outside the ancient star for even a moment.

Swish!

Her gaze swept across the landscape, and she immediately spotted the immortal land of Kunlun, with its myriad dragon-head peaks rising majestically. Such a terrain could be described as a masterpiece of creation.

Under her gaze, she was startled to see the Feathered Divine Dynasty cultivators who were still sealed in their original locations.

Among them was the emaciated, disheveled, and filthy-faced Emperor who had ascended to heaven.

Tan Lin came here silently long ago, stole the Immortal Ascension Cauldron, and casually sealed it, leaving them unable to move or meditate to this day. They have long been tortured beyond recognition.

After the turmoil subsided, the cultivators of the ancient star of Yuhua and the divine dynasties of the Big Dipper did not fail to launch a series of "breaking the restrictions" rescue measures.

But without exception, they all ended in failure.

Unfortunately, the time between the seal placed by that Great Perfection Golden Body and its subsequent imminent destruction was too short; the seal itself hadn't diminished much with the passage of time.

Unless an emperor-level figure intervenes, it would take hundreds of thousands of years to break through this barrier easily.

Now, three hundred years later...

The cultivators of the Divine Dynasty here were all on the verge of mental collapse, and some of them were even on the verge of exhaustion.

Li Qingjue's gaze was cold and unwavering, showing no change in expression, yet this look was more unsettling than ever before.

clatter……

After some effort, she was able to enter the ancient star and arrive above the Immortal Ascension Ground. She slowly raised her hand and, as if casually, pressed it down.

At this moment, there was nothing particularly earth-shattering or awe-inspiring that seemed to transcend the realm.

It was just a simple palm strike.

But the moment her palm touched down, the entire ancient star trembled slightly!

thump...

The entire Immortal Ascension Ground trembled as if it were wailing!

Below, in that sealed-off area.

With their cultivation sealed, the Feathered Emperor and the others belatedly raised their heads.

At that moment, boundless fear and despair welled up in their cloudy eyes.

They saw a colossal, chaotic hand covering the heavens and the earth, swirling with the energy of creation and carrying a will that transcends all paths, slowly descending.

"Do not!!!"

"Your Majesty, spare me! Spare me!!"

"..."

"What wrong have we done?! We have no grudge against each other, why are you doing this to us..."

The desperate pleas for mercy and screams echoed throughout the heavens and earth.

None of them could have imagined that this great emperor of the world was actually the sister of one of the 100,000 geniuses they had gathered from across the universe by any means necessary.

I don't know how the mistake was made.

Logically speaking, among the relatives of those prodigies, anyone with even a modicum of cultivation potential was forcibly taken away as scraps to be used in the blood sacrifice to the Immortal Ascension Cauldron.

The rest are those who don't even qualify to be scraps.

Transporting such worthless people wouldn't even cover a fraction of the cost of interstellar travel.

These people either took their targets away and then handed them over to local "cultivators" to kill them and clean up the mess,

Either they were too young or too few in number to bother with a major undertaking, so when they took their people away, they hastily fabricated a "reason" for conscription, leaving the people unaware of the true reason for their lives.

After all, these kinds of people will never be able to come into contact with the truth in their entire lives.

Therefore, even if there are any hidden dangers, they shouldn't be able to threaten the Feathered Divine Dynasty, which has the foundation of a Great Emperor...

But who could have predicted it?

"How could this be? Our Divine Dynasty, with its millennia of meticulous planning, is the legitimate descendant of the Heavenly Court, yet it has come to such a state..."

With destruction imminent, the Emperor, now in his twilight years, was ashen-faced and utterly dejected.

He couldn't understand it.

He really couldn't understand it...

At that moment, a vague and ambiguous sentence suddenly came to mind: when the Immortal Ascension Cauldron was stolen, the man in blue robes who had sealed them but had not personally ended their lives spoke.

Boom...

In their recollection, the chaotic giant hand above their heads pressed down slowly, without pausing for a moment, as if deliberately slowing down the process.

bang...

The next moment,

When the Empress's jade-like hand pressed down completely, it was as if a string of bubbles had been crushed.

The Ascended Emperor, along with all the Ascended Divine Dynasty cultivators sealed within the surrounding Immortal Ascension Lands, regardless of their cultivation level or social status, were all subject to this chaotic hand.

Without even a chance to resist, they exploded together, turning into a sky full of blood mist, their bodies and souls annihilated!

Boom! !

Even the surface of the land they stood on was completely erased, countless original field array patterns collapsed, leaving behind a bottomless, enormous palm print.

The palm print had smooth, mirror-like edges and retained terrifying imperial laws that lingered for ten thousand years.

After doing all this, Li Qingjue withdrew his hand, as if he had only done a trivial matter.

She stood in the void of the ancient star, scanning this land of immortality that had once been stained with her brother's blood, and the coldness in her eyes suddenly paused slightly.

Then, she stood there for a long time without turning around and leaving. As she slowly fell, a trace of reminiscence appeared in her eyes, as if she had seen something familiar.

at the same time,

boom!!!

Even though the disturbances within the Immortal Ascension Ground were shielded by layers of array patterns, they still caused a violent earthquake and the sky to lose its color when they reached the outside world.

Rumble...

The vast, ancient planet trembled, as if a sleeping giant was turning over.

Countless mountains shook, boulders rolled down, rivers changed course, and plains cracked open.

hold head high!

Roar!

Awooo...

Countless birds and beasts, from the weakest insects and rats to the most powerful and savage creatures, were plunged into extreme panic and agitation at this moment.

They seemed to sense a primal fear of destruction emanating from the deepest recesses of their genes.

In the instant the commotion erupted, they instinctively fled desperately in a direction away from Kunlun and away from the epicenter!

Whoosh!

Splash...

In the sky, a dark, dense flock of birds, like apocalyptic clouds, blotted out the sun and emitted mournful, piercing cries as they blindly rushed in all directions.

On the ground, the beast tide surged, dust billowed into the sky, and countless beasts trampled, smashing ancient trees and flattening hills along the way, even venturing into turbulent rapids and dangerous shoals, all in an effort to get further away from that terrifying source.

This apocalyptic scene is strikingly similar to the cataclysmic upheaval that occurred millions of years ago.

The "Great Flood," caused by countless extraterrestrial "meteorites" falling from the sky, wiped out the vast majority of civilizations and life on the ancient planet.

Panic, like a plague, swept across the entire ancient star in an instant.

Just before the commotion erupted...

The Hualong Cave area, located in Anhui Province within the territory of the later Huaxia Kingdom.

A group of "people" dressed in simple animal skins and holding crude stone tools were gathered in an open space outside a cave, processing the prey they had hunted during the day.

They included both men and women, were relatively hunched but strong, had wheat-colored skin, and their facial features were quite similar to those of later humans. They were the "Homo sapiens" of Hualong Cave, who lived in the Middle Paleolithic period.

Suddenly, the earth trembled violently!

"Ooh!"

"Ho...ho..."

The crowd panicked instantly, and the stone tools and prey in their hands fell to the ground.

They looked in panic at the violently shaking mountain, and at the distant smoke and dust billowing in the direction where countless beasts were running rampant, their eyes filled with primal fear and bewilderment.

"The sky...the sky has collapsed?!"

"An earth dragon! It's an earth dragon turning over!"

"Quick! Get inside the cave! Hide!"

"You can't go into the cave..."

The chaotic shouts were expressed using extremely simple syllables and gestures.

Some fled to flat, distant lands, while others, in a panic, scrambled back to their relatively sturdy caves, huddled in the deepest recesses, trembling like frightened young animals.

The elders prostrated themselves on the ground, kowtowing towards the source of the noise, uttering indistinct prayers, beseeching the mysterious power that governs everything to quell their anger.

At the same time, similar scenes were taking place in various corners of the ancient planet's many continental plates.

In Neanderthal settlements in what later became known as "Europe," in early Homo sapiens tribes in Africa, and among primitive human groups around the world...

Unable to comprehend this sudden, seemingly destructive upheaval, they could only attribute it to "divine wrath" or "natural disaster," attempting to succumb to fear, avoidance, and prayer in the most primal ways.

In fact, this fear of unknown catastrophes seems to be etched deep into their genes.

They were unaware, of course, that millions of years ago, this planet was not so "barren".

At that time, the essence of heaven and earth was abundant, and the cultivation civilization was also flourishing, with its own inheritance, and there was no shortage of powerful cultivators, demons, and ancient races.

There are even legends that this star is an extremely important ancient origin that once gave birth to an incredible civilization.

however,

Everything changed in a cataclysmic event that affected the entire star field and even all the heavens and myriad realms.

It was at the end of the mythological era, and the upheaval involved many supreme beings such as the ancient Heavenly Court Emperor and the Source Emperor.

Those supreme gods, for some supreme purpose, orchestrated a heaven-defying scheme.

An unimaginable being, with supreme power, moved mountains and overturned seas, drawing upon the very origin of the universe, forcibly relocating countless dragon veins of creation from the depths of the starry sky, creating the awe-inspiring terrain of "Ten Thousand Dragons Paying Homage to the Immortals."

It fell on this star and formed...

The cataclysmic changes that swept across the land lasted for countless years.