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

The girl, small in stature, wobbled as she stood up.

Having never had a proper name since birth, all she really wanted at this moment was to see her brother one last time!

That was her only family in the world!

Why won't you grant her even this trivial request?

What gives these people the right to stop her?

That's her brother!

crack...

Suddenly, she stumbled and fell heavily onto the muddy ground.

Given her current condition, she won't be able to get up for a while after this fall, and no matter how stubbornly she struggles, it's useless.

The human body has its limits, let alone her, who is just a mortal.

There is no possibility of even a miracle.

Splash... splash...

The rain was still falling, and it was getting heavier.

In the mud, the cold rain and filth easily seeped through her already soaked clothes, and the biting cold made her shiver uncontrollably.

But even colder than the body was the heart, which held only a sliver of hope, only to be ruthlessly trampled upon.

My brother... is dead...

She didn't believe what the people from Yandu said that day.

She thought she had to see it with her own eyes, she had to see her brother, even if it was just a piece of his clothes, a broken bronze mask.

Inside the barrier of the post station.

Captain Haug, surrounded by a group of White Feather soldiers, watched the girl as if she were a source of amusement.

Of course, the real show is yet to come; this is just an appetizer.

Splash...

The rain blurred the girl's vision, making it impossible to distinguish between tears and rain. Hatred and anger intertwined deep within her heart, while despair and grief, like a cold tide, overwhelmed her.

In the pouring rain, she felt that she might really be going to see her brother, and it seemed like there was a strange voice saying something in her ear.

The three villagers who brought her here have already left.

There was no one around.

She was hallucinating...

However, the sound in her ear seemed to grow louder and louder over time. It had appeared when she was whipped and fell down, but at the time she was only thinking about getting into the post station and didn't listen carefully at all.

After all, with her malnourished body, tinnitus and auditory hallucinations were quite normal, and she was already used to it.

But this time, the auditory hallucination was somewhat unusual.

Splash...

The tattered bundle in his arms fell apart, and half of the dry food given to him by the villagers, as hard as a rock, rolled into the mud.

The rusty bronze ring that her brother had left her also fell out, becoming even more inconspicuous in the muddy water.

……

Chapter 3 Crisis Emerges (3.2K)

Inside the ring, there was nothingness and chaos.

Seeing that the girl seemed to ignore his earlier voice, Tan Lin's remnant soul gradually realized that due to the initial changes in the Zhuyin Soul Pearl, his connection with the outside world had only been established intermittently and still needed time to be consolidated.

Suddenly.

He no longer bothered to communicate with the young empress. Suddenly, a thought struck him, and the deep crimson light from the Soul Pearl flew back into his palm.

Wow!

The [Perspective of All Causes] is now open!

At this moment, on the Soul Pearl barrier, apart from the causal lines that had dimmed as he disintegrated, there was nothing else.

A brand new, slender, glowing thread quietly sprouted and silently connected when his soul transmitted a message to the girl's mind, and many faint causal points had already been generated.

In just a short while, nearly half of the Soul Bead power consumed by the first use of [All Causes Vision] has been replenished!

This discovery invigorated Tan Lin, who thought to himself that she truly lived up to her reputation as the Empress of later generations; the causal points she provided him from just one person were already so considerable!

As the deep crimson light grew stronger, the warm glow that nourished his remnant soul became even more intense, and the excruciating pain from the tearing apart of his invisible true soul was also greatly reduced.

In the void invisible to the naked eye, a faint glow, the kind that only the primordial spirit of a Sendai cultivator would emit, inexplicably appeared around his remnant soul body.

Although he had already perished and his Dao fruits and cultivation were all gone, he was, after all, a person who was about to attain the Dao in his previous life. He proved the Dao in the Big Dipper and left his Dao mark in the world.

His true soul was not extinguished. After connecting with the outside world, he could easily mobilize a portion of the power of the Dao traces with a thought.

Using the Soul Pearl space as a head altar, he was helped to reunite his primordial spirit!

However, since the true soul is now incomplete, the reconstituted primordial spirit is also incomplete, and it is doubtful how well it can be restored in the end.

Fortunately, he was mainly focused on the next life and didn't dwell on these things...

In fact, once the barrier to perception with the outside world disappeared, he could briefly "return" as the Human Emperor by following the traces of his past life in this world, as long as he wished.

However, such a return is destined to be fleeting. Once the time limit is over, it is uncertain whether his remaining soul will completely disappear.

He still has hope of reincarnation and rebirth, so there's no need for him to do something that would dig his own grave.

……

Time passed slowly.

The feeling of regaining a sliver of power gradually lifted Tan Lin's spirits.

After three lifetimes of cultivation, he quickly reassembled his incomplete primordial spirit, which was at the first level of immortality.

Even without a physical body, he can easily suppress so-called dragon-transforming geniuses and ordinary half-step Immortal Platform experts with his remnant soul alone!

However, just as he was preparing to further reunite and strengthen his primordial spirit, his expression suddenly hardened.

"This is……"

hum...

In the [Perspective of All Causes], the thickest, darkest lines on the Soul Pearl barrier have somehow become brighter, though not completely bright, they still emit a faint crimson glow.

And those causal lines connect to the forbidden zone, the Central Plains, and the outer reaches of Mars!

"how is this possible?"

The sudden change filled Tan Lin with apprehension and uncertainty.

Wow!

Soon, one of the causal lines connecting the forbidden zone underwent a transformation!

It turns out that a branch line split off from it!

Tan Lin's gaze shifted, spotting the anchor point at the end of the branch line, which quickly moved closer and closer to him...

A sudden sense of foreboding arose in his mind, and he realized something was wrong. He decisively severed his connection with the Dao traces of the outside world.

He never expected that even after tens or even millions of years had passed, from the Primordial Capital to the Desolate Ancient Era, the Carefree Celestial Venerable, the Undying Emperor, and others would still be paying attention to everything he had left behind in this world in his previous life.

What did he guess from the few flaws he revealed back then?

"It seems that the Human Emperor's Palace lineage has survived to this day, and these old fogies must have put in a lot of effort. They're trying to use this as bait to catch me, a fish that may never reappear?"

Tan Lin's thoughts raced, and he immediately understood many key points:

"If it weren't for the changes in the Soul Pearl, I'm afraid I would have unknowingly fallen into the trap set by these old dogs, and I would no longer be able to personally contact or connect with anything from my past life, including the Dao traces..."

At this moment, he noticed outside that a gray-robed Taoist priest holding a jade bottle quietly entered the teahouse from the rain.

None of the cultivators in the teahouses noticed anything!

"Whose henchman is this? Or is it a Daoist incarnation?"

Tan Lin's remnant soul looked solemn.

At first glance, he thought it was the Daoist incarnation of the Carefree Celestial Venerable, but upon closer inspection, he realized it didn't seem so.

Having slept for nearly a million years, he had no idea whether the successor "Yun Gen" had succeeded in possessing him after the initial failure.

He was a little unsure.

However, he would not risk communicating with the young empress again in any way.

Even if the other party is the opportunity for him to recover his remnant soul, and is very likely to serve as a bridge for him to indirectly connect with the outside world for a considerable period of time, if the other party dies now, he will only stand by and watch.

Besides, the other party is unlikely to die...

"Grandpa, if I give you this, can you teach me how to cultivate?"

Just as Tan Lin was racing through his thoughts, the situation outside changed again.

The girl with pigtails, her body covered in blood and mud, appeared before the gray-robed Taoist priest at some point. He picked up the divine source from the box and handed it to her.

"Oh?"

Under the awning, a rare look of surprise appeared on the Taoist's face, which was as still as an ancient well.

When he appeared here, the surrounding monks treated him as if he were invisible, but the child actually noticed him.

Surprised, he didn't take the divine source, but instead stared at the other party.

Its whole body was filthy, except for a pair of large, black, gem-like eyes that were clear and bright, spotless even under the tear stains.

He could see through the complex emotions in the other person's eyes, such as hope, pleading, and resentment, and even figure out their true thoughts.

This made him even more surprised.

At the age of eight or nine, he not only understood the principle that possessing a treasure is a crime, but also, unintentionally or intentionally, found the only possible way out in this deadly situation surrounded by wolves and tigers.

Furthermore, they use transactions to obtain means for achieving certain goals or forms of hatred in the future.

If the other party weren't truly a mortal, with no secrets in his eyes, he would have seriously doubted their origins.

But this is also good. Since it is a matter of chance and he is still a mortal, we can try out that "new method" on him.

"Tsk tsk tsk, what a promising talent with discerning eyes and an extraordinary mind..."

As he spoke, he actually took the divine source, placed it into the jade bottle in his palm, and then casually took out a booklet and handed it to the girl.

Swish!

shuh...

All around, greedy and burning gazes followed the movement of the divine source.

The many cultivators inside the teahouse glanced at the Feathered Divine Dynasty soldiers opposite them, who seemed indifferent to the matter.

They guessed what the other side was thinking: they wanted to see a spectacle of wild dogs fighting over food, and they even suspected that the divine source would eventually return to the other side's hands.

But the divine source is so captivating that even knowing there's a pit ahead, people still flock to jump in!

It should be understood that the holy sons and daughters of many holy places, and the sons and daughters of noble families, before they came of age, possessed only a few pieces of divine essence.

boom……

Suddenly, several cultivators inside the teahouse attacked the Taoist priest and the girl almost simultaneously.

Divine patterns appeared on their navels, revealing their formation and materialization.

Bang!

Click... Click...

Amidst the crisscrossing divine light, the entire teahouse was already torn to pieces.

"Nobleman, hand over the stuff... Ah!!!"

puff!

Puff... Puff...