Jiang Bai was completely bewildered by his question and stood there dumbfounded, unsure how to answer.

Chu Nian secretly rejoiced: This is a life-or-death question!

Just now, she had intended to deal with Yang Feijian herself. Fortunately, Jiang Bai intervened and dealt with Yang Feijian very skillfully, instead of her having to do it. This made the young emperor admire Jiang Bai even more, rather than her.

Thus, the entanglement between Jiang Bai and the young emperor is likely to deepen, and their chances of getting entangled with him will decrease significantly.

If things continue like this, she'll really have far fewer worries!

The young emperor's eyes reddened, and he was almost crying. He grabbed Jiang Bai's arm and shook it, asking, "Grand Tutor, why aren't you saying anything? Answer me quickly, who is closer to me, you or the Empress Dowager?"

Jiang Bai had just caught a glimpse of Chu Nian's gloating expression and initially wanted to shift the blame to the Empress Dowager, saying that she had forbidden him from telling the Emperor. However, seeing the young Emperor's expression, he couldn't bear it and said, "This humble subject is the Emperor's subject and also his teacher, so naturally I am closer to the Emperor. As for the Empress Dowager, she is the Emperor's mother..."

Before he could finish speaking, the young emperor, already excited by the first half of his words, interrupted him, saying, "The Grand Tutor is right. Even if the Empress Dowager is not my biological mother, she is still the one who raised me. I will treat her with utmost respect from now on." He thought to himself with great excitement: So the Grand Tutor is only showing such respect and courtesy to the Empress Dowager because of me.

It must be said that at this time, the young emperor was full of unrealistic and naive fantasies about people and things.

After everyone returned to the palace, the emperor immediately issued an edict: the Marquis of Weiwu's mansion was raided, and Baili Xi, Zhang Lie, and several masterminds of the assassination plot by the Jixuan Sect were all sentenced to beheading. The others were all exiled to the border, either to serve in the army or to do hard labor.

Perhaps sensing that some of his actions were burdening Chu Nian, Jiang Bai stopped bothering Chu Nian after Baili Xi and the others were beheaded.

Chu Nian felt that the child had become much more mature than before. She didn't know what had made him so mature, to the point that Chu Nian felt his personality had changed drastically.

In the decades that followed, the young emperor studied Xuan Qi under Jiang Bai. It is estimated that he was truly exceptionally talented, having already reached sainthood at the age of twenty. However, he had no interest in matters of men and women and was unable to have any children. So he found a child of a member of the royal family and made him crown prince.

At the age of sixty, he abdicated directly to the Crown Prince and was brought into the Xuan Yuan Sect by Jiang Bai, becoming the new sect leader of the Xuan Yuan Sect.

After abdicating, Chu Nian was also separated from Baili Nian's physical body. At that time, this body was already over seventy years old, but because of her profound magical power, she remained as young as ever. However, once the mission was completed, her soul would still be taken away.

On the way to the next world, Chu Nian saw the same immortal mountain she had seen before, but this time she didn't hear anyone speaking. Instead, she saw a desk with a pen hanging above it.

Good heavens, was she seeing things? How could she see that pen, which was clearly unused, standing there by itself, writing something on the desk?

There used to be someone living on this sacred mountain, always talking incessantly; now that person is gone, but the pen is still there, writing something on its own…

Before she could think it through, Chu Nian had already fallen into a new body. As a flood of the original owner's memories rushed into her mind, Chu Nian keenly sensed that this world was full of energy factors that she was extremely familiar with—spiritual power.

She should be able to use this world to enrich her spiritual strength.

But before she could even feel happy, she heard a strange wind whistling in her ear.

Chu Nian immediately recognized the sound of the whip cracking. Instinctively, she tilted her head, and the tip of the whip grazed past her ear, narrowly missing her head.

When she opened her eyes, she found herself squatting in a crowd.

Judging from the tattered clothes and bloodstains on these people, they must have been in a major battle, and were captured and forced to squat here by the victorious side.

As for the opposing and victorious side, Chu Nian discovered that they not only dressed strangely, but also had different appearances. Some had tentacles on their heads, some had blue bodies, and some had hairy faces...

The woman whipping her was tall and thin, with a normal, even quite beautiful, appearance, except for a miniature speaker attached to her throat. Chu Nian quickly determined, using her powerful mental abilities, that the woman's throat was injured and she couldn't speak normally, so she had an external speaker to project her voice.

She probably didn't expect Chu Nian to be able to dodge her whip, and she was looking at Chu Nian with some surprise while holding the whip.

The original owner of this body was named Wang Nian, and lived in the interstellar era commemorated by the Star Era Calendar.

From the discovery of extraterrestrial life on Earth to the present day, countless interstellar wars have taken place, and hundreds of millions of years of growth and evolution have occurred. Now, the entire Milky Way galaxy is under the rule of Earthlings. The traces of Earthlings are found throughout the entire interstellar space.

This world has abundant spiritual energy. Controlling mechs, close combat, and many other superpowers all rely on spiritual energy. Because of this energy, Earthlings have a much longer lifespan than in the past, generally exceeding five hundred years.

Although Earthlings still mature physiologically at the age of twenty, the amount of knowledge and skills required in this interstellar world cannot be mastered in just twenty years. In addition, with the extension of lifespan, the childhood and adolescence of Earthlings have also been greatly extended.

Currently, humans on Earth don't truly graduate from their studies until they are one hundred years old, so one hundred years old is considered adulthood. Starting from kindergarten at age three, humans spend a full ninety-seven years in school, learning survival skills in the interstellar world. University life begins at age eighty and takes twenty years to graduate.

The original owner had just graduated from university. From the time she was a few years old and started school, she set her own goals under her mother's guidance, and carried out her mental strength cultivation, mecha learning, combat training, and the stimulation and development of her superpowers step by step.

This led her to play the role of a top student at school at a young age, being adored by countless boys like Snow White in a fairy tale. This inevitably made her somewhat arrogant and conceited.

She also has an older sister, Wang Si. Because Wang Si was rather rebellious, her mother always felt that she wasn't ambitious enough. Disappointed with her, she focused all her energy on raising Wang Nian, and thus gave Wang Si less care and guidance.

The female protagonist, Wang Si, is just as proud and arrogant as Wang Nian. She feels that her mother looks down on her, so she sees no need to curry favor with her. As a result, the relationship between the mother and daughter grows increasingly cold.