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

But her tone now carried an indescribable solemnity:

"Please do not discuss today's events with outsiders; this will provide potential protection for everyone involved."

After saying that...

She said goodbye, glanced at Tan Lin one last time, and then left without lingering.

whoosh...

Her figure transformed into a streak of black light, soaring into the sky and instantly disappearing into the vast snowstorm and the horizon.

They headed straight for Zhongzhou, towards the ancient road gateway where the Qishi Mansion was located.

She left resolutely, without looking back.

rustling... rustling...

Three years ago, when we parted, the first snow of winter fell on this land.

Now we are separated again, and another winter has arrived, but it is already late winter.

Everything is quietly reviving, spring is returning to the earth, and it's not so... cold anymore.

Standing there, Xiang Li stared in the direction she had disappeared, speechless for a long time.

The other person's words made him thoughtful, as if confirming some of the questions he had been pondering for the past three years.

He looked down at Tan Lin beside him.

The little guy tilted his head back, wearing that half-cold bronze mask.

On the right half of his face, which was visible, his pure eyes gazed in the direction where the future empress had left, his small brows slightly furrowed.

Perhaps recalling some fragmented memories, he reached out his small hand and touched half of the mask on his face, a hint of confusion and reminiscence flashing in his eyes that was completely out of character for his age.

The wind and snow continue, and the Akagawa River remains desolate.

A chance encounter began in silence and ended in the same silent way.

Only the half of the bronze mask on Tan Lin's face seemed to still retain a trace of the warmth of his fingertips.

Under the state of "All Causes Perspective".

He saw that the thread belonging to Li Qingjue had turned from dark to light.

Just now, during the time Li Qingjue and he were embracing, the color of this medium-red line, which was between light and dark red, seemed to have deepened a little more.

Furthermore, within the only remaining deep crimson light spot in the Soul Pearl barrier, a considerable number of fireflies suddenly appeared, illuminating approximately one-twentieth of the entire light spot.

Including the remaining fireflies, they can fill 30% of the area of ​​this deep scarlet light.

……

The snow fell silently, accumulating a thick layer among the reddish mountains.

This should be the last heavy snowfall of the entire winter.

Three days after Li Qingjue left, Xiang Li took Tan Lin's little hand and returned to the ancient stone village along the same path they had come from.

The clansmen who had previously crowded into the alleyways to catch a glimpse of Tan Lin had long since dispersed, but now that they saw the two return, another group surged out.

Let's leave aside the gossip among the clansmen for now.

Return to the quiet room next to the ancestral hall.

Xiang Li stood in front of the door for a long time, looking down at the half of Tan Lin's cold bronze mask, hesitant to speak.

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Chapter 82 Achieving Enlightenment in this Lifetime Will Prove to Be a Hundred Million Difficulties

"Get some rest. Don't dwell on what happened that day..."

Xiang Li escorted Tan Lin to the quiet room, released her small hand, left after saying those words, and then departed.

In the end, he still didn't say what he wanted to say.

The karma this child carries is probably many times more astonishing than he originally anticipated.

Behind the door of the quiet room, Tan Lin didn't speak, but simply watched the other person's figure disappear.

In my sight, after going out for a while, the other person's figure seemed to be much more hunched over than before.

Da...da...

After Xiang Li left, three clan servants who had been assigned to look after his daily life emerged from the shadows and stood like three door gods in different directions outside the quiet room.

Compared to the time he was brought back from the snow valley, he still has some privacy now.

Otherwise, these attendants who take turns on duty would not just stay outdoors, but would be responsible for both indoor and outdoor duties.

click...

The door closed, and the quiet room returned to silence.

Tan Lin reached out her little hand again and touched the half of the mask on her face.

The bronze was cold, yet even after two or three days, it seemed to still retain the warmth of the future empress's fingertips.

At this moment, fragmented images in Tan Lin's mind seemed to be drawn back by his subjective consciousness, one by one.

There was the blood raining down when the training tower collapsed, and deep within those ruins, a graceful young female disciple kowtowed three times to him as a farewell...

Unfortunately, those fleeting images were too fast to capture.

He is far from having fully awakened all the memories of his previous three lives.

Thoughts wander.

A moment later, Tan Lin walked to the bronze mirror in the room and silently looked at himself in the mirror.

The face in the mirror, half youthful and half obscured by bronze, looked somewhat eerie.

Suddenly, he raised his hand and slowly removed half of the mask.

At less than four years old, he already had the frame of a six or seven-year-old. His eyebrows and eyes showed signs of handsomeness, and deep in his eyes, there was a calmness that was incongruous with his age, despite his childishness.

“Li Qingjue…”

He whispered the name.

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Time flies.

Two and a half years later, Tan Lin was just six years old.

For the past two years, he has not stepped out of the meditation room.

He spent most of his time sleeping and dreaming, which reduced his time for cultivation.

Under intense dream conditions, his past life wisdom had awakened most of the memories from his first life of cultivation after transmigrating.

And worth mentioning.

More than two years ago, he rekindled the red thread between himself and Li Qingjue, and he has begun to gradually earn "firefly income".

Especially since the other party embarked on the ancient path in the past two years, and no one knows what they did, many complicated or dark side lines have emerged on that main line of cause and effect.

These side stories, after being indirectly accumulated, also gave rise to some sparks for him.

Two years later, the firefly in that tiny speck of light, which had only become a deep crimson dot, grew by another 20%, reaching half the size of the entire speck.

Tan Lin secretly compared it to the accumulation process of his first Soul Bead Firefly after coming to this world, and could only say that the current speed was terrifying.

Furthermore, ever since he truly showed his face to the clansmen here two years ago, the causal link between him and the entire Xiang clan has become much stronger.

Of the additional 20% of fireflies, some also came from this generation's race.

Xiang Li and many elders of the clan initially resisted all objections to keep it a secret, but later, after some clan members learned of Tan Lin's pure physique and bloodline, the entire clan rallied to support him.

They used all the resources of the clan, along with various rare and precious medicines, to continuously cleanse and transform the latter, solidifying his foundation.

Therefore, in this life, only six years after his birth, Tan Lin's indestructible golden body has already begun to truly manifest its wonder.

Having learned the secret techniques of the Undying Golden Body lineage from Xiang Li, he had actually considered it not long after his cultivation advanced to the peak of the Sea of ​​Wheels.

Perhaps we don't need to wait until we achieve a minor level of mastery in the Immortal Realm and the Golden Body of the Dao Severing Realm before going back to rebuild the previous secret realm.

Because he knew that, for various reasons, the indestructible golden body of later generations was no longer suitable for cultivation, suppressed by the Great Dao, and even difficult to cultivate to the Four Extremes Secret Realm.

However, with this secret method, one can cultivate only a single secret realm and still possess incredible abilities comparable to those of ancient sages, and even create a small world secret realm between heaven and earth.

He wanted to start studying it before that.

However, he then thought of something else.

If I am truly a human emperor from ancient times, then when all my past lives' wisdom is fully awakened in the future, with that soul's status, I will naturally be able to achieve twice the result with half the effort.

Furthermore, it can be combined with the Tao of the previous life, mutually verifying each other and drawing inferences from one instance to another, so there is no need to waste too much time on this beforehand.

However, considering the importance of the foundation of cultivation at the beginning of one's journey, it is crucial for one's future path.

For the past two years, whenever he woke up from his dream, Tan Lin would use secret methods to polish his mind again and again.

A towering building rises from the ground; its foundation is of utmost importance.

After breaking through the Dao Palace Secret Realm, he was not in a hurry to improve his realm. Instead, he focused on consolidating the foundation for his Dao attainment in this life, striving to reach the strength of Ye Fan's Holy Body in his later life.

He wanted to reach the pinnacle of his combat power before touching the forbidden realm of gods when he soon entered the Four Extremes Secret Realm.

Just like the beginningless world of later generations, every time they advance to a minor realm, they will be subjected to a heavenly tribulation to cleanse themselves.

Normally, the tribulations of heaven would only begin to descend after ordinary geniuses entered the Immortal Platform Secret Realm, but this was not his first life of cultivation, so how could he be satisfied with this?

His starting point in this life was already very high.

He possesses the innate ability to open the Sea of ​​Suffering and the indestructible golden body, making him a physique capable of challenging even the Great Emperor after achieving mastery.

While the geniuses of the outside world are only six years old and have just begun their cultivation, not yet embarking on the path of cultivation, he is already a cultivator in the Dao Palace Secret Realm.

However, he would not deliberately ignore the thick black lines connecting the Soul Pearl barrier to the forbidden zones and outer realms.

If one wishes to attain enlightenment in this lifetime, especially with an indestructible golden body, the difficulty may even be greater than in the ancient times.

To break free from the shackles that prevent one from becoming an emperor due to their indestructible golden body.

Facing potential attacks from supreme beings like the Carefree Celestial Venerable and others, as well as the Underworld and the Eternal Celestial Venerable, who are old rivals of the Undying Golden Body lineage, and forcibly breaking through the pressure of myriad paths to become an Emperor, the road he needs to travel in this life is still very long.

First of all, one must never reveal one's past life identity before attaining enlightenment unless absolutely necessary.

Otherwise, even with the Empress supporting him in this life, his chances of achieving enlightenment are slim.

The only saving grace was that he discovered through the Soul Pearl that someone had publicly confirmed the news that the Immortal Emperor was still alive, which was very gratifying.

The Nirvana site in the universe is a place where the Immortal Emperor's rebirth process is extremely arduous, and the time required for the completion of the rebirth will likely be prolonged.

At that time, the Undying Daoist and the Undying Heavenly Blade should have no time to interfere with his and the Empress's tribulations to attain enlightenment.

"This life is so difficult..."

A sigh escaped my lips.

On the couch, Tan Lin broke out of his meditative state.

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Chapter 83 Who says that the lineage of the Undying Golden Body cannot become an Emperor?

Quiet room.

Despite his感慨 (feelings of deep emotion), Tan Lin remained completely unmoved.

The six-year dream, especially after most of the thousands of years of memories from his first life of cultivation were awakened, elevated the level of his soul's cognition and the intensity of his state of mind through those past wisdom experiences.

"call……"

He let out a long sigh, slowly finished his practice and stood up, his cultivation aura seemingly rising.

With the abundant resources provided by the Xiang clan, even without using secret techniques to refine him, his blood and energy grew increasingly powerful.

Beneath the divine silkworm robe, his skin was as smooth and lustrous as jade, and a faint golden divine light flowed around him with every gesture.

At such a young age, his physical strength was already far greater than that of cultivators in the Four Extremes Secret Realm.