"Is your former self still alive?"
Li Yue drew a deep breath and asked solemnly.
Great Tang was terrifying beyond measure.
Heavenly Khan Li Shimin.
Li Yuanba, invincible beneath heaven.
Military God Li Jing.
Xue Rengui, who pacified the Heavenly Mountains with three arrows.
Poet Immortal Li Bai.
And Qin Qiong, Yuchi Gong, Cheng Yaojin, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Yuan Tiangang, Li Chunfeng... a host of other outstanding figures.
How terrifying must Wu Zetian have been to claim the imperial throne as a woman within such a formidable fortune dynasty?
Of course—
He had no way of knowing the specifics.
In Blue Star's history, Wu Zetian had usurped the throne and established Wu Zhou, becoming the first female emperor in all history, and the only one.
But in the Great Tang of the Endless Void, Li Shimin, Li Yuanba, and the others had never died. How could Wu Zetian possibly have usurped the throne?
Yet Wu Zhao was the genuine Great Tang Empress!
He had already asked Heavenly Venerable Minglou about this.
This Heavenly Venerable had lived a long time and knew many secrets, including some matters concerning Great Tang.
"She probably isn't alive."
"But even if she has fallen, she still won't disappear completely."
"I can sense it."
"She exists in several places within the Endless Void."
"Though all those states are very unusual, she does indeed exist."
Wu Zhao answered.
Li Yue marveled inwardly.
He did not know whether this was a terrifying ability possessed by every Dao Ancestor, or only by a handful of the truly most fearsome ones.
They could fall, yet never disappear completely?
He did not believe the terrible enemy that had destroyed Great Tang would allow such a thing.
There was only one possibility—
Even that terrible enemy, who could destroy Great Tang