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

Since the fall of the Northern Dipper Dynasty and the ascension of the Feathered God Dynasty, she has searched extensively throughout the myriad realms. After many twists and turns, it seems she is about to return to the Northern Dipper again.

this day,

The Empress arrived near a life-giving region adjacent to the Big Dipper Starfield.

This is not the Big Dipper, but a medium-sized ancient star with life that was connected to the Big Dipper by an ancient star path.

The monastic civilization was not particularly prosperous, but its history was long.

As usual, she stopped here and, just like before, used the same secret technique to trace back the ancient imprints of this place, trying to find any possible clues related to that person.

However, unsurprisingly, they still came up empty-handed.

But just as she was preparing to leave for the next place...

boom……

Suddenly, a barely perceptible surge of extreme energy, separated by countless light-years, mixed with Buddhist power and a profound, unfathomable aura of seven-colored divine light, appeared.

It came from the location of the Big Dipper's Burial Emperor Star, across the endless and distant starry sky!

Although the fluctuations were extremely weak by this point, they were still faintly sensed by the Empress, who had discussed the Dao with Duan De once and whose cultivation had improved.

"A Vajra Pestle? A primordial spirit body..."

Upon initial, slight perception, the Empress's gaze narrowed, and she instantly discerned the source of the fluctuation.

Having cultivated the Vajra Pestle for so long, she naturally knew that it was left behind by Amitabha Buddha, one of the great emperors who attained enlightenment in the early ancient times.

She was also quite familiar with the Daoist principles contained within the other seven-colored divine light that was contending with the Vajra Pestle.

As her thoughts raced, she recalled that the woman must have been someone she had met several times in the past, and whose soul she had searched in the Demon Emperor's tomb.

Of course, the reason she was so impressed with him was precisely because of that soul search, which allowed her to learn about his "connection" with her master...

"After more than a thousand years, has it still not chosen to self-proclaim itself?"

The Empress's thoughts were in turmoil, and she was about to withdraw her attention.

In this great era of enlightenment, although the number of quasi-emperors and even cultivators at the level of enlightenment has sharply decreased due to turmoil and her personal reasons,

However, fluctuations of this level still occasionally occur in some corners of the universe over the years.

She rarely cared about such things.

Because for her, it no longer meant anything.

Normally, this time would be no exception, even if one of the people who fought in that great battle was someone they "knew".

But the other party is her brother, her master?

Since none of these are true, why should she care?

Yes, she did indeed protect Chi Xuan and her clan from the Supreme Being during the turmoil of the past, but it was also due to Tan Lin's arrangement.

Otherwise, whether or not to take action might really depend on his mood.

However, when a wisp of her divine sense finally followed the source of the fluctuation and glanced at the Big Dipper from afar, and "saw" the location of the battle, the lonely gaze under the ghost mask suddenly froze!

Wait... what's that...?

Akaxia River!

The battle took place at Chixia River!

Seeing this, the Empress narrowed her eyes slightly, falling into deep thought for the first time because of the fighting between others.

Back then, during the destruction of the Feathered Divine Dynasty in Beidou, and even in the earliest search for a master after the turmoil, she practically turned the entire Beidou region upside down, except for those few forbidden zones.

The result was exactly the same as in previous years: all efforts were in vain.

After all, with such a grand retrospective campaign in the outer realms over the years, how could she possibly overlook the place of origin that she shared with her master?

That was a place she had searched for from the very beginning, of course.

However, her explorations of Chixia River on those occasions, whether it was the deserted stone village due to turmoil or the ancestral abyss of the Xiang family, were perfectly normal.

The only slight surprise was that the bottom of the Ancestral Abyss did indeed have some special features, but they had nothing to do with his master.

However, this time, it seems to be different from any of the previous times...

What is the "gloomy" field that now shrouds the entire Chixia River?

When did it appear?

And then there's Chi Xuan, who almost got engaged to her master, now fighting against outsiders...

What does this mean?

Is it a coincidence?

still is……

Watching from afar, the Empress's mind was filled with thoughts, and her emotions were stirred, causing a slight fluctuation.

The changes in Chixia River must have occurred within the last sixty years.

Otherwise, she couldn't have been unaware of those explorations in Beidou.

"Could it be... he..."

As her thoughts wandered, suddenly, an idea rose uncontrollably from the depths of the Empress's heart.

However, as she pondered this, the missing elements caused the timeline to fall apart.

However, that was not another impulse that could suppress or dispel the thoughts that arose in her mind because of this discovery.

Regardless of what happened, she had to investigate it herself!

clatter……

With this thought in mind, the Empress no longer hesitated. Her figure flickered and disappeared from the spot, taking a step towards the direction of the Crimson Cloud River in the Big Dipper Star Region!

Splash...

The starry sky receded beneath her feet, and countless stars transformed into streams of light.

With her current cultivation level, traversing star fields, even traveling from the edge of the universe to the other side of the starry sky, would only take her a breath.

Wow!

After a few snaps of the fingers,

Her figure had already appeared outside the Big Dipper Starfield, high in the sky above the Southern Region of the Eastern Wilderness where the Crimson Cloud River was located.

The 1421st year of the Devouring Heaven Calendar.

Thus, the Empress returned to Beidou. However, because someone was involved, she remained silent and did not immediately attract the attention of the heroes of the five regions of Beidou, thus preventing them from being terrified.

But by the time she arrived, the brief battle had already ended.

The sky surrounding the Crimson Cloud River still held traces of the chaotic energy and shattered laws of the great battle, and the land was a scene of utter devastation.

Both sides in the battle, Chi Xuan and the Buddhist female quasi-emperor wielding the Vajra Pestle, had disappeared without a trace.

The wave that traveled across countless light-years earlier was the final, most intense strike of their collision.

But this did not stop her from venturing deeper into the ancestral abyss to find out what was going on.

rustling... rustling...

Upon arriving at the scene, she stood in the sky, her divine sense sweeping across the entire Chixia River and the surrounding hundreds of millions of miles of territory like a tidal wave.

At close range, she directly "saw" the eerie "twilight" field that enveloped the Crimson Cloud River for thousands of miles, causing all things to wither.

I caught glimpses of that strange halo, a blend of inky black and shimmering white, flashing by occasionally.

In the end, before her figure even entered the abyss, her gaze had already pierced through layers of "twilight" and chaotic field rules, landing on the deepest part of the Ancestral Abyss.

There, in the blurred vision, stand two colossal monuments, one imbued with overwhelming fist energy, the other radiating eternal immortal light.

As for more?

Because of the unique nature of this place, even for her, being from the outside world, she wouldn't gain much without personally exploring it thoroughly.

After all, if it were truly so easy to learn everything, those beings that have always resided within the several forbidden zones of life in the Big Dipper, even in their self-imposed isolation,

But that wisp of divine thought used for "duty" shouldn't have failed to notice anything clearly over these sixty years.

However, based solely on what has already been observed and perceived, the Empress has already managed to glean some "clues."

clatter……

In her analysis, she proceeded swiftly and decisively, without rashly breaking through the peculiar aura of twilight that enveloped the area.

Instead, it directly entered the aura of twilight, seemingly untouched by any calamity.

quickly,

Crimson Cloud River, at the bottom of an endless abyss.

The light here was dim, filled with a chilling atmosphere; that peculiar space grew even stronger.

A halo of light, interwoven with inky black and shimmering white, occasionally flowed through the abyss.

The empress stood at the bottom of the abyss, her black dress appearing particularly lonely in the pervasive twilight.

Da...da...

Wearing simple, flat shoes, she moved lightly, arriving at the edge of the abyss.

Then, her eyes, hidden beneath the ghost mask, fixed intently on what lay ahead.

Before her stood the colossal monument of supreme fist intent, towering into the sky.

The monument exudes a powerful, overwhelming aura, as if an invincible being once stood here, leaving behind an indomitable fighting spirit before storming the path to immortality.

Even after countless years, that fist intent can still shake people's hearts. At close range, it makes even ordinary quasi-emperors tremble with fear.

From the Empress's position, through this colossal monument, one can observe the scenery at the end of this abyss.

She had come down before and knew that there was more space behind this giant monument.

For example, at this moment, a divine light is projected here and eternally enters our eyes.

It was a boundless projection of a portal, seemingly flowing with a pure and vast aura of immortality, forming a stark contrast with the nearby stone tablet of fist intent.

Yet they coexist in a strange way, as if they were the two poles of Yin and Yang, jointly suppressing this place.

In her memory,

There should have been a large space between these two steles.

Whether it was a misperception or not, it seemed that when she first descended upon the Big Dipper,

What one would "see" in a fleeting glance through the twilight with divine sense would be a hazy, ethereal light source floating in the distance.

In the hazy light, one could vaguely discern a human figure sitting cross-legged, emanating a strange aura of life and death.

If nothing unexpected happens, this should be the closest she has come to the result in her thousand-year search.

However, at this moment,

When she finally arrived, there was nothing between the two monuments in front of her.

Only the dense, almost solidified twilight continued to flow slowly, along with the unchanging aura emanating from the two giant steles.

There's nothing there!

Gone was the light source I'd glimpsed earlier, and the hazy outline was gone...

wow...

She was naturally unaware of it.

For not far in front of her, an invisible, undetectable crimson mist was dissipating, completely obscuring something before she arrived.

They finally made a slight discovery, only to find nothing.

unconsciously,

The Empress stood there, silent for a long time.

Her stunning face, hidden behind the mask, concealed her expression.

Only those eyes, lonely for a thousand years, now seemed to hold an endless storm, staring intently at that empty area.

a moment,