"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
Li Yue bowed respectfully, then took out the jade box and opened it.
"Your Majesty, that person just said this drop of blood was Taboo Blood and wanted Wu Zhao to merge with it. What is wrong with it?"
"And this Chaos Bead contains Saint Tang's legacy. Is there a serious problem with that as well?"
His voice was solemn.
With a Taboo Existence involved, he dared not be careless in the slightest.
Such an existence stood supreme above all, and was scheming against him. Naturally, he had to exercise the utmost caution.
"It is Taboo Blood."
"As for what is wrong with it, I cannot tell."
"I am merely a thought."
"You can take it to the Old Daoist. He has seen much and knows much, and was born when the Endless Void first opened."
"Perhaps he can discover something."
"As for the legacy within the Chaos Bead, His Majesty left it behind."
"This object was formed from a wisp of His Majesty's thought. Within this Endless Void, even a Taboo Existence could not tamper with it. You may rest assured."
Wu Zetian examined it and answered.
Then—
Her gaze turned to Wu Zhao.
Looking at this peerlessly magnificent "self," who so closely resembled her in her youth, she sighed.
"Looking at you is like looking at my former self."
"Though you were once a wisp of my thought, you have now been reborn as an entirely new living being."
"Only karma remains between us. We share no other connection."
"You are you, and I am I."
"From this day onward, you are Wu Zhao, and I am Wu Zetian."
"I never imagined..."
"...that the character I created on a whim back then would one day truly give rise to someone with 'the sun and