Shrouding the Heavens: The Years When I Was the Female Emperor's Strictest Master

Chi Xuan was still shaken and asked,

"If I'm not mistaken, she should be Gu Qingying, the current Divine Maiden Who Holds the Scrolls of Spring Autumn Pavilion.

I heard that when the Xiang Family of the Southern Region was attacked by cultivators from the Feathered Immortal Dynasty of the Central Plains, she once showed herself..."

At that point, she did not continue. Instead, she changed the subject and softly said to Chi Xuan,

"It's late. Don't overthink things. Go back and rest."

With that, she took the somewhat dazed Chi Xuan by the hand and turned toward the pavilion.

Yet the moment she stepped through its doors, she could not help glancing from the corner of her eye toward Dao-Unifying Cliff, then up at the cold, solitary moon high in the sky after the storm.

She knew that, because of this, her younger sister had likely thought of that senior brother again today.

Tonight was destined to be a sleepless night.

The moonlight was silent, and the Clear Radiance was lonely.

Outside the Chi Family's mountain gates in the Heavenly Lake Mountains, within the void,

the figure of "Gu Qingying" slowly emerged.

Several aged figures behind her watched her.

At this point, she took one final look at the Chi Family grounds, lying dormant beneath the night like a crouching dragon.

Her gaze drifted into the distance, lingering especially for a moment at the location of Dao-Unifying Cliff, now hidden from view beneath that great formation. Then she no longer felt any attachment.

Tap...

She lightly touched the void with her jade foot and took a step forward. A fissure split open before her, and her figure vanished.

The Heavenly Lake Mountains, stretching for hundreds of thousands of miles, returned to silence.

Between heaven and earth, only the