Shrouding the Heavens: The Years as the Female Emperor's Strictest Master

As if knowing she had been watching, the other party's gaze swept directly toward her.

"Rest assured, this is not possession... Before you, eight successive diagram-holding maidens of Spring Autumn Pavilion became vessels for our temporary residence..."

The other party first exposed her concerns and doubts, then spoke bluntly:

"We will only control this shell of yours for three jiazi. Once the time comes, we will naturally return control to you. By then, we will continue sleeping here and await our next awakening."

Three jiazi...

Hearing that, though Gu Qingying remained unwilling, circumstances were stronger than her. She had no choice.

For the next nearly two hundred years, no matter what they did with her body, she could only watch helplessly, like a puppet on strings.

Thinking of this, another doubt arose within her.

Since they had already done this eight times, did the diagram-holding maidens of past generations truly bear no resentment afterward?

There had not even been a single word left behind for posterity, nor had anyone made it public...

"As compensation, there is a Demi-Divine Medicine in this ancestral land. You may take eighty percent, while the remaining twenty percent shall be given to the master and disciple outside the cave."

As she spoke, the radiance in one eye of the divine soul's immortal phantom shifted, its golden pupil becoming suffused with violet.

"Furthermore, you must have already made some guesses. The divine spirits within the Nine Heavens Mysterious Maiden Diagram originally consisted of only one naturally formed by the Dao Artifact itself. Yet one hundred thousand years before you took charge of the maiden diagram, there came to be eight divine spirits."

Tianling took command of the divine soul's consciousness. An even more suffocating air of nobility and majesty surrounded the immortal phantom as she looked