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

Chapter Sixty-Six: Divine Embryo Descends from Heaven

This day.

Just as the attention of most cultivators and Daoist forces in the Five Domains of the Big Dipper was still drawn to that fleeting glimpse of a clear, illusory image that annihilated the Holy Spirit in the Eastern Wilderness Central Region and the Southern Region.

The true form of that illusory figure had already activated the Soul Pearl of All Causes, initiating its next life and being born into the world.

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In the Southern Region, three thousand miles northwest of the ancient Yan Kingdom, lies an unnamed valley.

This place had an extraordinary name a thousand years ago, but it has long been lost to the passage of time.

This place was once the place where Gu Qingying's younger brother, who died young, passed away, and it was also the burial place of her spirit pet, the cloud leopard, who had accompanied her for a thousand years and finally "passed away" when the training tower collapsed.

rustling... rustling...

It was deep winter, and heavy snow, like goose feathers, had been falling for nine days and nine nights.

The heavy snow completely covered the valley, turning it into a silver-white wonderland, and the surroundings were utterly silent, creating a snow-covered valley isolated from the world.

The thick snow buried all traces of the past, and the biting cold sealed off the land, making it a place rarely visited by people, and even birds and beasts were rarely seen.

however.

In the dead silence of this cold winter, at the very heart of the valley.

A spot where the snow had slightly piled up exuded a vibrant life force that seemed out of place in the otherwise desolate environment.

Beneath the snow layer in this area is not some cold permafrost.

It was a halo of light shrouded in chaotic energy.

Enveloped in a barrier formed by a halo of light, an infant was sleeping peacefully.

He looked no different from any other newborn baby, except that he was more exquisitely beautiful with radiant skin.

However, for a few brief moments, the area below the navel of the body seemed to emit a faint golden glow, but it was fleeting.

Born of nature and nurtured by the heavens, and having created the Sea of ​​Bitterness on its own, this child is destined to be an extraordinary and unparalleled being.

Undoubtedly, this is the innate divine embryo that Tan Lin transformed into after activating the Zhuyin Soul Pearl to reincarnate!

As predicted at the last moment, the miraculous reincarnation of the Soul Pearl after its transformation was different from before.

But he never expected that the activation of the Soul Pearl would directly deplete the fireflies in two deep crimson light spots, twice as much as in the previous life!

Moreover, in this world, it is not conceived from the essence and blood of its parents, but is truly "born and nurtured by nature".

It is the purest bloodline of the first generation of immortal golden bodies, without father or mother, a child of heaven and earth.

At this moment, this divine embryo is newly born, fragile and pure.

The fetus is currently extremely weak. Even though Tan Lin's wisp of soul no longer possesses any of his former cultivation or aura, the fetus will still be unable to fully support it in a short period of time, thus preventing the awakening of all consciousness.

After four lifetimes of accumulation, the three and a half deep scarlet marks in the depths of his soul were completely restored after his successful reincarnation.

The accumulated wisdom of four lifetimes makes its spiritual charm extraordinary.

However, if that were all, this extraordinary divine embryo could actually bear it completely.

The key point is that he attained enlightenment in his previous life!

Even if one sacrifices everything before reincarnation, the soul's status remains.

Even the wisdom and spiritual essence of the past life are condensed into a crimson mark deep within the soul in this life.

But attaining the Dao is attaining the Dao. As long as the memories are not lost, if the insights into the Great Dao of that level are released all at once in an instant in the unopened mind of the embryonic body, only one thing will happen...

My brain just exploded!

Fortunately, the transformed Zhuyin Soul Pearl is truly extraordinary.

There was no need for him to worry at all; the memories of his divine embryo, which he could not bear at the moment, had all been confined within the Soul Pearl barrier.

At this moment, Tan Lin is like a blank sheet of paper, retaining only his subconscious from his previous life.

However, as time went on, his soul and mind were maturing at a rate ten times faster than that of an ordinary infant.

He's dreaming.

He was born in a hospital, the air thick with the smell of disinfectant, via cesarean section…

Those guys in white coats, their smiles are really weird...

……

Before transmigrating, fragments of bizarre memories from his first life flickered in Tan Lin's currently bewildered mind, in the form of dream experiences.

That was the process of his past life memories being passively dissipated and slowly merging with his current life, which was like a blank sheet of paper.

This process may take ten or twenty years, and it can only be completed gradually as the physical body's cultivation grows and the soul becomes more stable.

Of course, if he had already transformed into a dragon and opened up the Immortal Platform before this, expanding his sea of ​​consciousness to a considerable extent, he could also actively accept everything that was restrained by the Soul Pearl Barrier.

But that's a story for another time.

At this moment, the newborn baby's brain is not capable of thinking much; it simply follows its life instincts, seeking warmth within the halo of light in the freezing cold, and falls into a deep sleep.

rustling... rustling...

Outside, the heavy snow showed no signs of stopping; in fact, it was falling even heavier.

He lay enveloped in a warm, chaotic halo of light, his body unconsciously absorbing the essence of heaven and earth to nourish himself in his sleep.

However, he is now facing a perilous situation.

Born and raised by nature in this life, he lacked the protection of his parents and community in his childhood. How could he, so frail, survive?

The chaotic aura surrounding his body, lacking any source of replenishment, was visibly fading and would eventually dissipate, at which point he would face the harsh cold of the outside world.

Is this life, which has only just begun, about to end?

The faint glow remaining within the Soul Orb was insufficient for his subconscious to activate it and thus immediately reincarnate.

The excessive losses after the transformation of the treasure, as well as the unexpected birth of a divine fetus in this world, somewhat disrupted his established plans.

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at the same time.

Deep within the forbidden grounds of the Spring and Autumn Pavilion in the southern part of the Eastern Wilderness.

In a quiet room filled with spiritual energy, "Gu Qingying" sat cross-legged with her beautiful eyes closed.

At this moment, the body is dominated by the twin souls of Tianling and Princess Shencan.

Meanwhile, Gu Qingying's primordial spirit, which would be deprived of control of her body for three cycles of sixty years in the years to come, slept silently in a corner on the edge of the Sendai.

She seemed to be dreaming too.

I am currently immersed in a long and hazy dream.

In my dream, the mountains were covered in snow, and the world was a silvery white.

A blurry figure, yet one that felt familiar and dear to her, as if she had longed for it for a thousand years, stood at the edge of the snow-covered field.

The other person walked towards her step by step, their figure gradually shrinking until they slowly transformed into a child. Finally, the other person stood in the distance, calling out to her repeatedly.

The voice was childlike and full of affection:

"elder sister……"

"elder sister……"

elder sister……

The voice seemed to have traveled through the ages, carrying endless longing and a touch of indescribable sorrow.

"Is it really 'Qinghan' (清寒)?"

Gu Qingying's dream consciousness struggled forward in a daze, trying to see the figure clearly and attempting to communicate with the figure that made the voice.

But no matter how hard she tried, the figure remained blurry, and she could never close the distance between them.

The call was always just the simple word "sister," with no other information.

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Chapter Sixty-Seven: What have you done to me?

In her dream, a profound sadness and sense of powerlessness enveloped Gu Qingying's hazy consciousness.

After an unknown amount of time, the dream receded like the tide.

Gu Qingying's primordial spirit "awakened".

She still had lost control of her body; the throbbing from the calls in her dreams penetrated to her very bones, piercing her heart and leaving her unable to calm down for a long time.

Why would I have such a dream?

Her brows furrowed slightly as she fell into deep thought.

In fact, she had had similar dreams before, but the strangest one this time dates back to a thousand years ago, not long after her younger brother, Gu Qinghan, passed away.

During that time, her mind was never at peace.

Whenever she falls asleep, she always dreams of her younger brother, or her father, Zhaotian Wuzhu, asking her if Qinghan is still well.

My thoughts are wandering.

In a corner of Sendai, Gu Qingying slowly opened her eyes, a complex and unfathomable emotion flashing in her beautiful eyes.

After sitting quietly for a while.

She hesitated for a moment, but ultimately used her divine sense to transmit a thought to the celestial figure radiating a purple-gold halo at the core of the altar:

“Master, I have some thoughts in my heart and wish to go to the place where my deceased brother passed away to pay my respects. I hope you will grant my request.”

She's good at choosing her timing.

Based on recent observations, after this patriarch took over her physical body, he did not rush to go out and about, but instead spent long periods of time meditating.

This should be a usable gap...

Gu Qingying thought to herself.

And indeed, that proved to be true.

After a moment of silence on Sendai, Tianling's divine sense fluctuated slightly, and then a thought carrying a hint of languor and indifference was transmitted:

"can."

"However, you have three hours to return. The Eastern Wilderness has been quite turbulent lately. The fleeting appearance of that wisp of clear light recently may have lingering effects. Do not cause any unnecessary trouble."

After these words were conveyed, Tianling and Princess Shencan's souls relinquished control of their physical bodies.

"Thank you, Master."

Hearing this, Gu Qingying was secretly pleased and responded respectfully.

She could vaguely sense it.

Since the appearance and disappearance of the illusory figure that resembled the Human Emperor, the Patriarch's mood has been somewhat low and lonely, and he is unusually easy to talk to now.

wow...

A long-lost feeling of unity between the soul and the body welled up within me.

Gu Qingying suppressed a strange surge of emotion deep within her heart.

She rose gracefully and then quietly left the forbidden area of ​​Chunqiu Pavilion without alerting anyone.

Soon, she arrived outside the jurisdiction of Chunqiu Pavilion, then transformed into a faint stream of light and soared into the valley she had visited a few months ago to bury the remains of her spirit pet, the cloud leopard.

That place seemed to have an invisible connection with her.

It was there that my father, Zhao Tianwu, entrusted his son to me years ago.

His younger brother, Huadao, was also there.

She regarded the clouded leopard, who was like a reincarnation of a poor and destitute man, as both his birthplace and final resting place were there.

…………

At this very moment, in the snow valley.