"That really was hard on you." I couldn't help being startled. Doing the same thing for more than a decade and taking in countless kinds of information and intelligence truly had to be exhausting. Not to mention how vast the Nine Heavens was—even if the jade tablet immortals swept through everything in an instant, their minds would still turn into a pot of porridge.
"You could come back at any time, and no one had received an order to stop. Who would dare casually revoke an order like that? Of course everything kept running." Li Zhier grumbled.
I couldn't help feeling guilty. "It was my fault for keeping you here for more than a decade. Come with me this time when I go up to attain the Dao."
Li Zhier nodded, but still said, "It wasn't really being locked up. It's not like I couldn't go out and have fun. I made plenty of good friends in the women's corps. We're all family, so we occasionally visited one another, didn't we? Besides, I manage your Imperial Study, so I have quite a bit of power. Plenty of officials have to keep an eye on the information in my head. That's a cushy post."
"Then you didn't sell the information to them?" I asked with a laugh.
"What kind of person do you take me for? How could I do something like that?" Li Zhier rolled her eyes at me. Seeing that I'd provoked her, I couldn't help laughing. "I thought you wouldn't get angry. I was only joking. Come to think of it, has there been any intelligence worth knowing about over these past years?"
"Intelligence has a shelf life. You only just came back, so it's all useless now, all right? If I'd known you'd drag it out until