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

This person is extraordinary; it wouldn't be a loss to form a good connection with him.

At least she promised the Dharma Protector, so her reincarnation in this life should be secure, and there are karmic connections in the future... Hmm, thinking about it this way, it seems like she actually came out ahead?

Duan De's small eyes lit up again as he began to calculate the gains and losses.

But soon, his expression changed, and he covered his head.

"Hiss... Time's up! I'd better hurry!"

He dared not delay, and quickly climbed into the coffin and lay down, forming a strange hand seal with his hands in front of his chest.

He began to mutter incantations, reciting the secret incantation about "slaying me" from the "Crossing Tribulation Heavenly Skill".

Inside the cave, dense dragon energy began to converge on him, and the Daoist patterns on the coffin and tomb lit up one by one, emitting a hazy glow.

Duan De's aura began to become unpredictable, sometimes as powerful as a celestial being descending to earth, and sometimes as weak as a candle flickering in the wind.

His face showed a constantly changing expression, sometimes pain, sometimes confusion, sometimes sudden realization...

Finally, all his emotions subsided, and his eyes became empty and deep, as if he had seen through the eternal cycle of reincarnation.

"cut!"

A deep, resonant shout rang out.

The three blurry reincarnation marks between Duan De's eyebrows suddenly shone brightly, and the fourth illusory mark began to slowly condense.

At the same time, countless points of light rose around him, representing the memories, emotions, and experiences of this incarnation of "Duan De"...

Like colorful snowflakes, they drifted out from his chubby body and disappeared into the memory crystal in the coffin and tomb, where they were sealed and stored.

His aura rapidly declined, eventually becoming as pure and faint as that of a newborn infant.

Then, she slowly closed her eyes.

The lid of the Nine-Colored Divine Golden Coffin flew up automatically and closed perfectly.

The Daoist patterns on the tomb gradually faded, returning to their ancient and somber appearance.

Inside the cave, only the dragon's aura continued to flow slowly, as if nothing had ever happened.

However, he was no longer present.

……

In the year 1401 of the Devouring Heaven Calendar, the star region where the original Undying Golden Body Ancestral Star was located.

The stars have long since disappeared from view here.

As far as the eye could see, there was only a boundless, broken continent floating in the cold universe and the remnants of stars that seemed to have drifted in from nowhere.

Huge rock slabs twisted and fractured, former mountains and rivers turned into cosmic dust, and fragments of the star's core emitted a dim afterglow, like phosphorescent lights drifting in a cemetery.

In the void, some terrifying fragments of Dao principles and turbulent energy still remain, as if telling the story of an earth-shattering war that once broke out here, a war powerful enough to destroy a star field.

This is the true ancestral land of the lineage of the immortal golden body from countless ages ago.

In some ancient era whose exact timeline is unknown, an unknown and terrifying catastrophe struck.

This once glorious ancient star was completely destroyed, and the surrounding star system was also severely damaged, turning it into a desolate ruin.

The empress's figure appeared silently in the center of this ruin.

She stood on the cold, hard remnants of a star, her white robes fluttering slightly in the empty cosmic wind.

Beneath the ghost mask, a pair of clear eyes quietly scanned the surroundings, as if trying to pierce through eternity and see the scene of this place in the past.

She was searching, searching for any clues or traces that might be related to that person.

wow...

Upon arriving at this place, the Empress gently raised her hand, her fingertips swiping once more, unleashing a time-space magic that began to rewind time across billions of miles of this land.

This time, she went back much further and deeper.

A hazy light and shadow appeared, reflecting the changes this star field had undergone over the long years.

It depicts a star in its complete form, an ancient star larger and more vibrant than most life-bearing planets in the universe.

The land was dotted with blessed lands and even sprawling secular cities. Golden-bodied cultivators soared through the skies and disappeared into the earth, their vital energy surging to the heavens, reaching a peak of glory.

Fragments of the lineage of immortal golden bodies that lived and thrived here, contending with the myriad races of the starry sky.

There are images of those who have achieved the highest level of physical cultivation bathing in the blood of their enemies, protecting their people, and their might shaking the universe...

Then, the image suddenly became blurry, chaotic, and filled with destruction and despair.

Endless darkness descended, terrifying energy erupted, stars crumbled, and continents sank.

Countless lives were instantly reduced to ashes. The cultivators of the Undying Golden Body lineage roared and charged into the darkness, but like moths drawn to a flame, they perished one after another...

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Chapter 308 Empress: Come out, or die! (6K long chapter, please subscribe!)

rustling... rustling...

The interplay of light and shadow depicts the scene of the destruction of the ancestral star of the indestructible golden body, a moment filled with tragedy and grandeur.

As the secret technique activated and time reversed, more images and shadows emerged after the area was reduced to ruins.

The Empress's gaze was fixed on the scenes before the collapse.

She tried to find even the slightest trace related to that person, or any unusual, slightly more specific clue.

However, no.

In the scene, after this place collapsed, cultivators of the Undying Golden Body lineage rose up like sparks across the universe over countless years, eventually arriving at this place.

These people have very different auras; they are definitely not the same person.

The darkness that initially caused this place to collapse is also blurred and indistinct.

The true source of the chaos is difficult to ascertain, suggesting that some force is interfering with the reversal of time.

The Empress once again glimpsed many ancient secrets, but failed to find what she truly desired.

Undeterred, she continued to rewind time, focusing on the primordial era, especially the desolate and ancient period, meticulously deducing the events...

But the result remained the same.

Not only that, but even the traces left from the destruction of the ancestral star of this place, which was destroyed in the distant past, have long been erased by time and completely disrupted by that unknown calamity.

All she could see were vague fragments and scattered pieces of information, which were impossible to piece together into a coherent clue.

Only when going back to a certain period in prehistoric times,

She vaguely "saw" it.

It seemed that an extremely dim, almost vanished stream of light came from the other side of the universe, lingered for a long time, and then disappeared.

The aura emanating from that stream of light was none other than her master's past life... the Suiren Emperor.

But that's all.

"Is that all...?"

The Empress slowly withdrew her hand, a barely perceptible hint of weariness and disappointment flashing in her eyes.

The series of historical retraces over many years, especially those concerning ancient times, special places, and histories disrupted by terrifying forces,

This took a huge toll on her mental and physical health, and there were also invisible backlashes accumulating against her.

However, she is currently at her peak, with abundant energy and vitality, so these costs and backlashes have not yet manifested.

But she didn't stop.

She walked slowly through the desolate ruins, treading over the shattered mountains and rivers long since turned to dust, brushing against the occasional drifting, icy meteorites.

shuh...

Her divine sense meticulously swept through every inch of space, not missing any trace of abnormal energy residue or Dao imprint.

……

Time passed day by day.

The empress stayed here for several years.

Over the years, she has searched almost every corner of this vast, ruined star field, retracing the passage of time countless times.

They even went so far as to expend even more resources and employ more powerful secret techniques in an attempt to salvage some information that had been completely buried from the deepest part of the river of time.

However, the results were always meager.

Apart from that stream of light, and some broken inheritance marks and battle traces of the Undying Golden Body lineage, there were no other valuable discoveries.

It seems that the person's possible connection to this place is limited to this one lifetime, and there are no other clues.

The Empress stood silently in the center of the ruins, gazing at the boundless starry sky. Her lonely figure appeared particularly cold and desolate in the deathly star field.

"Where...are you...? Is there any chance of you returning...?"

Thoughts drifted, and a barely audible sigh dissipated in the cold cosmic wind.

It is worth mentioning that,

Because of her prolonged stay in this place, and especially because of her later undisguised use of secret techniques to rewind time and space, causing fluctuations in the Dao principles,

This had already alarmed the powerful figures in the nearby star systems, and even more so...

It's not too far from here, just across a sea of ​​stars from the Ancestral Star of the Overlord!

Overlord Ancestral Star

A dark purple, enormous, and domineering ancient star of life.

This star and the long-decayed, immortal ancestral star once shared a node on an ancient road in the distant past.

They were sworn enemies, and fought each other for countless years.

Later, the ancestral star of the Undying Golden Body mysteriously collapsed, but the ancestral star of the Overlord Body remained indestructible since ancient times, passing down to the present day.

Moreover, it grew increasingly powerful, becoming a hegemon in this star field and even the entire myriad realms, its fame resounding.

Even without taking into account the possibility of a fully-developed Overlord Body existing within the Ancestral Cave, no other cosmic power outside of the forbidden zones would dare to provoke them.

however,

At this moment, the entire Ancestral Star of Overlord Body was in a state of panic!

The news that the Empress had descended upon the ruins of the Undying Golden Body Ancestral Star had already swept across the entire Hegemon Body Ancestral Star like a storm several years ago.

And it spread throughout the entire human race and even the ancient road of all races, and across all the heavens and myriad realms!

"It's...it's the Devouring Emperor! The current emperor who attained enlightenment through the 'Chaotic Body'!"

She went to the ruins of the ancestral star of the immortal golden body!

"That place collapsed long ago, what...what was she doing there?"

"I heard that she and that person who fought to the death to protect her and attain enlightenment in the chaos were 'fellow disciples'? Rumor has it that these two are disciples of the Suiren Emperor from another generation?"

Is this a trip to pay respects? Or... to search for something?

"Is that so? I've also heard that this current emperor's brother was once a first-generation Holy Body..."

"hiss……"

"Is that so?"

"Where did you get this information, fellow Daoist?"

"..."

"What are you looking for? The ancestral star of the Undying Golden Body lineage is long gone. What could it possibly have left behind?"

"Could she be trying to 'get an explanation' for the immortal golden-bodied cultivators who perished at the hands of the Overlord Body lineage in the past? After all, there were a few fateful duels between the two sides back then that weren't exactly 'fair'..."

"Watch your words! Do you want to die?! How dare we openly discuss what happened back then? Let's get away from this ancestral star of the Overlord Body first..."

"..."

Throughout the myriad realms, countless cultivators were abuzz with discussion due to the Empress's lingering presence for several years and her increasingly obsessive behavior, causing widespread unrest.

The ancient families and powerful figures, especially those whose lineages were adjacent to the ancestral star of the Overlord Body, were terrified and unable to eat or sleep.