Wei Hu was somewhat disappointed, but she did not force the issue. After so many years of keeping Linghu Lan trapped here, she had no choice but to reach out and pull her daughter, asking her to recognize Linghu Lan as her godmother.
This time, Linghu Lan did not refuse. She smiled and took the little girl's hand, stroked her hair, and listened with a smile as the little girl called her godmother.
The fox spirit was finally at ease. She passed away peacefully. Her life had been full of ups and downs. She had been a saintess, a religious leader, and had ended one dynasty and started a new one. She had no regrets.
The little girl's name was Wei Rui. She sat gracefully on the emperor's throne, her bright green eyes wide open as she looked at Linghu Lan.
Linghu Lan nodded to her.
The courtiers knelt down and shouted "Your Majesty!"
A new era has begun.
In the years that followed, Linghu Lan spent her days practicing martial arts, reading books, and teaching Wei Rui how to be an emperor. Wei Rui was very clever; she seemed to know that Linghu Lan would leave one day. She learned things quickly and worked hard to appoint people she trusted, slowly building her own sphere of influence so that she wouldn't appear to be a puppet emperor who seemed easy to bully.
After some time, Linghu Lan gave the Xuan Tian Token she had to Wei Rui. The two Xuan Tian Tokens together could be opened, and inside were martial arts manuals from other regions. Back then, the Imperial Preceptor destroyed the foreign demonic sect for these manuals, but he did not know that the manuals had been taken to the Central Plains by the protectors of the foreign demonic sect.
This martial arts manual is an extremely remarkable internal energy cultivation method. It is unknown which genius created it. Linghu Lan was able to resume her martial arts training thanks to it. Wei Rui is now at the right age, and if she cultivates this technique, she will also be able to protect herself in the future.
She would leave sooner or later, and since Wei Rui had called her "godmother," she naturally had to make proper arrangements for everything for Wei Rui.
Time flies when you're in the palace.
Three months later, Linghu Lan was staring blankly in the direction of the Great Snow Mountain as usual when Wei Rui suddenly asked, "Godmother, are you thinking of leaving?"
Linghu Lan almost laughed. "How did you know?"
“Mother said that you would leave sooner or later, and told me not to try to keep you when you left.”
Linghu Lan paused for a moment, then said, "Hmm! Will you listen to your mother?"
"Yes! I'll listen to my godmother too." Wei Rui tilted her head.
Linghu Lan couldn't help but smile. "You're a good child, and you'll be a good emperor."
Wei Rui breathed a slight sigh of relief. As the first emperor of the new dynasty, she had no experience to draw upon. "They all say that the emperors of the previous dynasty were tyrannical, but I think I am much better than them."
“I think so too.” Linghu Lan stroked her hair and smiled.
Wei Rui blushed slightly as she looked at her kind face. No one treated her like a child anymore, and she didn't really want her godmother to leave.
I'm so conflicted!
Not many days later.
After leaving court as usual, Wei Rui went to Linghu Lan's palace, but did not see Linghu Lan. Instead, he found a letter with eight characters written on it: "Water can carry a boat, but it can also capsize it."
Wei Rui looked at the letter, but she didn't understand what was so special about those few words. She only knew that her godmother had left, and without saying goodbye. Her godmother must have gone to find that man. But, not even a fly could fly across the border between the outer regions and the Central Plains. How could she go back?
Thinking of this, Wei Rui became somewhat anxious and shouted, "Send envoys to the Central Plains!"
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