Bai Lan was very excited to be emperor for the first time, just like when she first obtained Heavenly Tier Cultivation Method. She wanted to thoroughly study this profession.
The True Lord Cannon Fodder was serving as the Imperial Advisor for the first time, was also very excited. He took off his coarse gray robe and put on a set of fine silk and satin. He was so engrossed in serving as the Imperial Advisor in the Human Realm that he had long forgotten about the great task of dealing with the Child of Destiny and the Daughter of Destiny.
They've already become emperors, wouldn't it be a waste not to make some reforms? The two hit it off immediately and began to implement sweeping reforms, including appointing more female officials and establishing schools.
On the other hand, Bai Lan cooperated with the system's reform plan to build new water conservancy and agriculture, develop foreign trade, and create the Research and Manufacturing Bureau to produce things that had never appeared in this era. Their thinking had long been subtly changed by Bai Lan.
However, this excitement only lasted for seven or eight weeks before Bai Lan lost interest in becoming emperor.
Once any hobby becomes a profession, the daily grind will gradually erode any remaining love for it.
Bai Lan always acted as she pleased. If she didn't want to be emperor anymore, she would quit the very next day. But a country cannot be without a ruler for a day, so she randomly selected a virtuous and talented person from among the court officials to succeed her, while she herself retired behind the scenes and became the retired emperor.
Time flies, and Bai Lan can finally relax and spend her days leisurely in the palace.
But leisurely times always come to an end. As bad news came one after another, the old generals who had fought alongside her in battles across the land also grew old, and the trusted civil officials who guarded the rear for her also fell ill.
Countless people who had fought alongside him for half his life were growing old before his eyes. Even knowing that they had no regrets about dying peacefully in their old age, Bai Lan could not suppress the sadness in his heart.
She even considered using elixirs to prolong their lives, but even so, it would only extend their lives by ten or twenty milliseconds. In any case, they would eventually die.
Several dozen days later, Bai Lan, who was already quite old, looked at the rows of tombstones in front of her, her heart filled with mixed feelings.
Familiar faces are passing away one by one, while the foundation he built and the dynasty he established are growing and flourishing step by step.
But now that she was leaving, feelings of relief and reluctance gradually took root in Bai Lan's heart like tree roots.
Human lifespan is short; after a hundred years, it is time to be buried. This is their destiny. The world will inevitably unite after a long period of unity and then fall after a long period of unity. The dynasty that one has created with one's own hands will also face destruction after a hundred or a thousand years. This is inevitable.
A cultivator's lifespan can be extended, and extended again.
One day, she will Ascend to Immortality and live as long as the heavens.
As her heart gradually calmed down, Bai Lan, who had been immersed in sorrow, slowly came back to her senses.
Only those with unwavering faith can wholeheartedly aspire to the Great Dao; if even a trace of distraction remains, they will surely perish under the tribulation of lightning when they attempt a breakthrough in the future.
If she had used Divine Ability Mystical Technique to prolong their lives, thus creating more karma with mortals, then she would never have been able to overcome this inner demon tribulation.
"Su, Su?" The system looked at Bai Lan, who remained silent for a long time, with a puzzled expression.
Bai Lan suddenly opened her eyes. "Load save file."
In an instant, time rewound a hundred years to the time when Bai Lan first set foot on this land, back to before she was first reincarnated.
Bai Lan simply watched silently as the smoke in front of her dissipated, without uttering a word.
She was naturally reluctant to part with it, but more than that, she was focused on cultivating immortality, reloading her save file, and turning back time to a point before the beginning of her life. This was the most effective way to sever ties with the past.
"This, this is a save file? So sudden!?" The system hadn't even reacted yet; it was still immersed in being the imperial advisor.
Bai Lan nodded. "It was bound to happen sooner or later."
"..." The system sighed, "It feels like the memory is completely empty."
While Bai Lan Bai Lan himself became emotional.
"Just think of it as a trip. You don't have any illnesses like depression, right?" Bai Lan looked at the system and asked doubtfully.
"That's true." The system quickly cheered up. "I don't understand the Mortal Tribulation in your cultivation world. It's so strange and painful to see people separated by death, but... never mind, this system will still do a data migration and seal away the memories of the past hundred years. We can bring them out to look at them when we want to."
For the past hundred years, Bai Lan has been playing the role of a mortal, even deliberately aging year by year, immersing herself in tribulations. However, she has not forgotten to entrust the system to send people to collect information about the cultivation world, including the current situation of Long Aotian and Bai Ling.
The system nodded and began retrieving data. Without her interference, Long Aotian had broken through to the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm in recent years, while Bai Ling had also found rare and heavenly materials and earthly treasures to repair her Spirit Root and broken through to the Tribulation Crossing stage Soul stage within a hundred years.
Both of them have amassed a whole bunch of different harems on their respective paths, embarking on paths that are far from being protagonists, like weeds that keep growing back in the spring breeze, making them extremely difficult to kill.
However, the two people have one thing in common: they are all searching Bai Lan and hunting down Bai Lan without prior arrangement.
Unfortunately, reloading their save file shattered their dreams.
This was ultimately just a dream that Long Aotian and Bai Ling had. They themselves didn't even know the contents of the dream. Overnight, they were transported back to a hundred years ago, and they were back to the days when they were oppressed by Bai Lan, one in Xue'er's hands and the other in He Gui's hands.
"My informant reports that Long Aotian has obtained a total of 170 fortuitous opportunity in the past hundred years, but they are all roughly the same as those on the list of fortuitous opportunity the Child of Destiny, so there's nothing special to pay attention to. Bai Ling, on the other hand, accidentally fell into a place rich in fire spiritual energy, ate an unknown spiritual fruit, and thus developed Spirit Root." The system circled a cave abode on the map, then clicked its tongue twice. "It's like a creation of the Heavenly Dao."
Bai Lan was not surprised at all, and even wanted to laugh, "Si, let's go pick this spiritual fruit now. I want to see how many more fortuitous opportunity Heavenly Dao can send us."
"Oh, right, there's also the casualty situation you asked me to keep an eye on." The system slapped its forehead, then furiously typed on the keyboard again, before highlighting a few names: " Nan Xianshi's Sound Transmission Talisman went dark in the 87th year. She died unexpectedly while on a training trip. Qiu Tian's Sound Transmission Talisman went dark in the 93rd year. He died in the battle against the Corpse Refining Sect and was once again refined into Corpse Puppet."
Bai Lan's expression flashed. "Mark these time periods; we'll need to pay close attention to them then."
"Collect!" The system quickly entered operation mode.
Even if her people die by accident, Bai Lan will still bring them back to life and continue fighting.