As the Empress Dowager's first adopted daughter, Saintess Junnuo had a rather complicated relationship with her... Strictly speaking, Saintess Junnuo was actually a clanswoman of the Empress Dowager.
Whether it was the previous Empress Dowager or the current one, both belonged to an extremely special branch of the Nether Clan, as did Saintess Junnuo.
This branch possessed a bloodline similar to those in great tribes that had inherited the special status of ritual priests... This was also why Junnuo could become the saintess of the Nether Great Holy Land.
Because both the previous and current Empress Dowagers had actually been saintesses of the Nether Great Holy Land.
As everyone knew, the saintess of a holy land with a Sacred Emperor would serve that emperor for life.
The current Empress Dowager had only been elevated from saintess to Empress Dowager after the previous generation fell. This meant that if the current one also died unexpectedly, Saintess Junnuo would become the next one.
An Empress Dowager... in waiting.
That was why Saintess Junnuo's relationship with the current Empress Dowager was so complicated.
Saintess Junnuo naturally would not choose to make her move in Nether Heaven. That would incur the Empress Dowager's displeasure and worsen the already extremely delicate relationship between them.
Therefore, making her move in the outside world was the most suitable choice.
As for Young Master Luo's identity as the student of an Azure Emperor Legacy bearer, Saintess Junnuo did not care much... It was merely the Azure Emperor Legacy. There were quite a few souls of Azure Emperor Legacy bearers in the Ninth Prison.
Moreover, by reading the memories of those souls, aside from certain core matters involving the Azure Emperor's origin grand dao, the Ninth Prison had collected most of the Azure Emperor's cultivation arts and secret