When the Female Emperor Was Her Strictest Master: Chapter 60

Chapter 66: A Divine Embryo Descends from Heaven

This day.

Just as the attention of the vast majority of cultivators and Dao lineages across the Five Regions of the Big Dipper remained fixed on the fleeting Clear Radiance Phantom at the border between the Central Region and Southern Region of Eastern Wasteland—a phantom that had slain a Saint Spirit.

The true body behind that phantom had long since activated the All-Causes Soul Pearl, opened the next lifetime, and been born into this world.

Southern Region, three thousand li northwest of Ancient Yan Kingdom, in an unnamed valley.

A thousand years ago, this place had an extraordinary name, but it had long since vanished into the river of time.

This was where Gu Qingying's younger brother, who had died young, underwent Dao Dissolution. It was also where the Cloud Leopard, the spirit pet that had accompanied her for a thousand years and ultimately "passed away in meditation" when the Drill Tower collapsed, was buried.

Rustle... rustle...

It was deep winter. Goose-feather snow had fallen without pause for nine days and nine nights.

The heavy snow had completely buried the valley, leaving it blanketed in silver. The surrounding world was utterly silent, forming a Snow Valley cut off from the outside world.

The thick snow further concealed every trace of the past. Bone-piercing cold sealed off heaven and earth, leaving the place devoid of human tracks, with even birds and beasts rarely seen.

Yet.

Amid the deathly stillness of winter, at the very heart of the valley.

A small rise in the snow was radiating a vigorous vitality utterly out of place with the desolate surroundings.

Beneath the snow there was no frozen earth.

There was only a halo suffused with Chaos Qi.

Within the barrier formed by that halo, an