As an Elder of the Righteous Path and the Northern Region's leading voice, Empress Dowager Guo naturally could not join the younger generation in bathing and ordering male models once the chaos ended. Unlike Mei Conggao, she did not have something seriously wrong with her head.
Once the Academy's seal had been set up, Empress Dowager Guo returned to Qilin Cave, where Ye Ci was, to discuss plans for the world's future. Yellow Qilin True Person, Monk Wuxin, and Lu Wuzhen accompanied her.
These five, along with the absent Xie Jinhuan and Qixia True Person, would be the seven leading figures of the entire world for the next century, jointly overseeing the Cultivation Dao and the mortal world. By convention, such meetings should have been held at Stormwatch Tower, but Ye Sheng was holding up the Great Cauldron to fill a gap in the formation. Now that A Piao was out, repairing that small flaw would not have been a problem, but in terms of cost, making Little Ye endure another six months or a year until the spiritual charm settled was clearly more economical than spending vast resources repairing a toe. After all, Ye Ci would only be sightseeing if he came out; staying in Qilin Cave in seclusion would even let him cultivate faster. Thus, Ye Ci's circumstances remained completely unchanged. He was still standing beneath the toe, doing hard labor.
As for the meeting's specifics, they largely concerned dividing their respective jurisdictions. Ye Ci also assigned tasks: over the next century, each person was to train several successors, to prevent a gap between generations in the Righteous Path, and so on.
Empress Dowager Guo had little objection to any of this. Once they finished discussing the plans, she left Qilin Cave to relay the news to her