Kid, I'll Be Waiting for You in the Future

The imperial palace.

Once Ye Zhuo entered seclusion, he ignored worldly affairs for decades.

According to the original timeline, the Empress would never have relinquished her ambitions for supremacy in her remaining years.

But because of Ye Zhuo, she began trying to balance firmness with gentleness.

The world remained the same world; only people changed beneath the bright moon.

Heroes could only influence an era. Only time could determine eternity.

The Empress often stood outside Demon God Palace, gazing at it.

Sometimes, she could see the two sisters, Tatsumaki and Fubuki, floating in midair and shouting insults at each other.

Occasionally, she would also see Princess Taiping and Shangguan Wan'er standing before the pavilion, filled with deep concern.

Yet she herself never stepped inside again.

The realm and its people were still waiting for her. How could she stop here?

She could seek immortality and the Dao after death. She refused to believe that the people would not offer her a little worship!

The Empress believed she had not treated the people poorly in this life!

In the blink of an eye, several decades passed. Once the Youth-Restoring Pill's ten-year effect wore off, the Empress, who possessed no cultivation, began to age normally.

Yet thanks to the pill's previous effects, even after aging into her seventies, she looked no older than forty.

She lay on her sickbed.

The Empress stared beyond the palace as footsteps drew nearer and nearer.

The Thousand Ox Guards had come to take her life.

She could also hear the clinking of chains by her ears. Black and White Impermanence had come to claim her soul.

"We ask Your Majesty to place the realm and its people first. Abdicate in favor of the worthy and return the throne to the Li clan!"

Everyone knelt on the