Chapter 303

Five hundred years later, after twelve generations of monarchs, the dynasty ultimately could not escape decline.

In the past, powerful demons would secretly support the new emperor's ascension to the throne, but this time they did not receive their assistance.

Inside the warehouse, two orbs of light were gazing intently at a painting.

“Moonlight,” the red dumpling said, its voice steady yet hoarse.

After a long while, the white light ball finally responded, "Hmm."

"Your Majesty..." Lingluo paused, "Do you think Your Majesty has been reincarnated? Will we still be able to find Her Majesty?"

She transformed into human form, with only a single velvet flower adorning her hair.

The velvet flower's original color was no longer discernible; even with her meticulous care, it had become a thing of the past.

Even after so long, she still feels the helplessness she felt that day when she mentions the Empress.

Like the Empress, they were butterflies trapped in the cage of fate, unable to escape, like a yellow flower struck down in the rain.

"Moonlight, I feel like I'm about to leave too. I haven't eaten a chicken thigh in five hundred years. I used to crave it a few hundred years ago, but in recent years I just don't find it tasty."

"...Then let's go."

“It’s not that one is leaving, it’s that one is leaving just like the Empress,” Lingluo added.

"Yes, I know."

“You must survive, no matter what. Enough, there’s no point in saying more.” As Lingluo spoke, her expression suddenly changed. “My heavenly lightning is coming, Moonlight. This time, I’m really leaving.”

She walked away quickly, but stopped just before disappearing, turned back to Yuehui and advised, "Don't feel guilty anymore. If Her Majesty knew, she would be sad too. If you've thought it through, you should go too."

"Moonlight... farewell." She left with her eyes lowered, not waiting for a reply.

A sudden clap of thunder on the horizon snapped Yuehui back to reality.

She stared intently at the painting, and after sealing it away, a book suddenly fell to the ground. She bent down to pick it up, and the cover showed several small animal figures.

This is--

The booklet that the Empress often read back then was treasured by Linlang for a long time.

...a dazzling array.

Linlang followed the Empress to her death after the Empress's burial. She couldn't understand why she had to personally bury that thousand-year-old Taoist priest, when the Empress clearly no longer resented them.

Just as she was about to reach out and open it, a series of thunderclaps came from the horizon. She paused, and it took her a moment to react.

This is Lingluo's tribulation lightning.

But Lingluo has been eating and drinking for five hundred years, and the rest of the time she has been protecting the dynasty, so how could she have attracted heavenly lightning?

"She did it on purpose," Yuehui murmured to herself, looking down.

Only if Lingluo herself didn't want to live anymore would she do this.

What about yourself?

Yuehui hugged the booklet tightly and took a jade-white hairpin from her hair.

She wanted to wait and see if she could meet the reincarnation of the goddess.

As times changed, the dynasty eventually perished in the long river of history, yet it became one of the most mysterious and unpredictable dynasties in the historical panorama.

And all the mysterious origins seem to stem from that fortunate young empress dowager.

A woman in a moon-white cheongsam walks down the street with an umbrella, stopping in front of a large screen in front of a bustling commercial street.

It shows that an archaeological team has found the most mysterious mausoleum of the young empress dowager.

"It's Su Lingwu's! It's said that she was stunningly beautiful, innocent, and incredibly lucky! Two emperors cherished her, but it was as if she had traded her life for this fortune, as she died at the young age of twenty."

"History has portrayed her in such a fantastical way, but I don't think we should believe everything we hear. After all, she was just an ordinary person. It's better to wait for her reconstruction to come out before making any further comments."

"A beauty? Ha, what a load of nonsense. How good-looking could an ancient person be? I don't think she's even as beautiful as that woman in the cheongsam!" He had barely finished speaking when he whistled at the moonlight, "Beautiful lady!"

Upon hearing this, Yuehui turned her head to look. Her face was gentle, but the cold light in her eyes could freeze a person.

"How dare you speak so presumptuously about Her Majesty!"

As soon as she finished speaking, the man suddenly felt pain in both knees, and he knelt down with a thud, kowtowing repeatedly.

The people around him were so frightened that they cleared a large area. Some people stepped forward to stop him, but he somehow had the strength to hold off four or five people all by himself, and kept kowtowing until his head was bleeding profusely.

As he was being helped onto the stretcher by the ambulance, he stared in terror at one spot, muttering as if possessed, "This servant deserves to die, this servant deserves to die, this servant deserves to die..."

It wasn't until the ambulance drove away that someone belatedly opened their photo album, looked at the video they had unintentionally recorded, and asked in confusion, "Did you see the woman in the cheongsam just now?"

"No."

"Strange, that man suddenly mentioned a woman in a cheongsam, saying that the most famous empress dowager of the dynasty was no match for her, and then he knelt down!"

"This is terrifying to think about! Did he offend something?"

A young man's eyes lit up, "Could it be a ghost?"

Among the crowd was a man dressed as a Taoist priest. When the ambulance siren sounded, he quickly packed up his stall and ran away, ignoring the customers shouting "Master" behind him.

"My goodness! I, a nobody, actually saw such a powerful demon! I couldn't even discern its cultivation level! I have no regrets in this life! No regrets in this life! I wonder how strong someone protected by such a powerful demon must be!"

The customer was left speechless, muttering "You're crazy" before searching for another fortune-telling stall.

Yuehui's figure stood in the crowd, and the crowd automatically parted to form a circle around her, but no one noticed anything amiss until she disappeared and everything returned to normal.

Upon returning to the tomb, she indeed saw a group of people digging. Her eyebrows twitched as she was about to kill them, but she stopped herself.

We cannot act rashly before finding the Empress.

Suddenly, the situation changed, and everyone seemed to be bewitched, packing their things and leaving.

After three years, the tomb still hadn't reached the entrance and was eventually ordered to be shut down until technology was more advanced enough to resume the project.

As time passed, the planet became sparsely populated, and humans had long since migrated to other interstellar realms. This tomb has still not been seen by anyone.

Every construction project is accompanied by strange and unusual occurrences!

Yuehui stood guard before Lingwu's tomb, using his thousand years of cultivation to calculate when he would be able to meet her again.

Everyone said that the empress's soul had vanished, but she didn't believe it.

She will wait, she will keep waiting, and this belief is what has sustained her until now.

But in the end, tears streamed down her face, and she knelt before the coffin as if resigned to her fate.

They still couldn't escape their fate.

She dispersed all her spiritual power throughout the tomb, protecting the safety of its occupant.

After a long while, a black cat landed lightly. It curled its tail, closed its eyes, and took over the role of the previous great demon guarding the tomb.