A loser… no, the Empress put away her expression and waved her hand, calling out Yingzi.
“Send a few Xunwei to Return City and keep an eye on anyone coming out of that Teleportation Array.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
The Xunwei were the army that Li Xunxian had cultivated exclusively for herself since becoming Empress. Among them, Yingzi was her most trusted person and the leader of the Xunwei.
After Yingzi left, Li Xunxian reverted from her Empress demeanor, pouting and muttering.
“Hmph, Master too. I don’t know where she’s run off to all these years. The most important thing is about to start, and she still hasn’t returned…”
“Pfft! Luo Mingmei, you immortal old flat-chested little girl, don’t you dare come see me!!”
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A thousand years ago, at the Immortal Sect, inside Luoxia Peak.
Luo Mingmei came to celebrate one of her newly accepted disciples successfully breaking through to the Foundation Establishment Realm. She specially came to foster the bond between master and disciple.
“Master! You have them too!”
Li Xunxian’s face flushed bright red as she covered her chest, defensively watching her master, who was staring intently at her own chest.
“Ahem… Your master really has them…”
Upon hearing Li Xunxian’s words, Luo Mingmei’s expression dimmed considerably. When it came to the same thing, she really was inferior to her disciple. After coming to the bathhouse and bathing together, she discovered that her disciple not only had good cultivation talent but was also exceptionally gifted in other aspects! As they say, if you can’t see your toes when looking down, that’s a beauty of the world! And her? It could only be described as a clear view, flat as a plain. If there were even a little bit, it wouldn’t be completely nothing.
“You do have some, right?”
Li Xunxian looked at her small master, and her shyness faded quite a bit, replaced instead by guilt.
“It’s okay, Master. Being small is also cute.”
Her master really was… completely flat. If she hadn’t confirmed earlier through their honest interactions that the other was a girl, she would have doubted her master’s true gender. Having been born in the royal family, she had seen all sorts of things. Her second brother had done this kind of thing many times. Her father had quite a few headaches and outbursts over her second brother’s page boys.
“S-small… is being small really cute?”
Luo Mingmei grabbed Li Xunxian’s arm, looking at her with hopeful eyes.
“Of course!”
Li Xunxian comfortingly pulled her small master into her ample embrace.
Is being small really that cute? Probably. She remembered that her eldest brother seemed to like that type, so perhaps some people really did find it cute.
“Get lost, get lost!”
Luo Mingmei pushed her disciple away and vanished from the bathhouse in a flash.
“Your master has some urgent business. After you finish bathing, take the storage bag I left by the edge of the bath. Inside are resources I prepared for you. Once your junior brother breaks through to Foundation Establishment, I’ll take you both to register for the Sect Competition!”
The voice echoed in the empty bathhouse hall. Li Xunxian looked at her empty arms with a mixture of amusement and exasperation. Her master really was… impulsive. She had inexplicably dragged her from the cultivation room to here, then inexplicably left. Li Xunxian shook her head and enjoyed the huge bath alone.
On the other side, Luo Mingmei, in a rush, returned to a palace at the highest point of Luoxia Peak. This was her residence in Luoxia Palace. As soon as she returned, she took out a small Formation Disc from her bosom and placed it on the ground. Then spiritual power surged from her fingertips, flowing like water into the Formation Disc. With the infusion of Luo Mingmei’s Golden Core Stage spiritual power, the Formation Disc grew larger! More and more Array Runes appeared, gradually completely isolating the palace where Luo Mingmei was, so that not a trace of aura could leak out.
After the Formation Disc fully activated, Luo Mingmei took out a Stone Slab. She likewise infused it with spiritual power. The Stone Slab began to turn transparent, expand, and finally float in the air, transforming into a huge screen. A woman’s figure appeared on the screen along with a voice.
“Mingmei, have you done everything your master instructed?”
The woman’s voice was cold, and due to the screen, her specific features couldn’t be seen clearly, only that she had long pink-white hair.
“Of course! I have done everything Master instructed! Master, when can I go back? I miss you!”
The woman on the screen showed no reaction to Luo Mingmei’s coquettishness, her voice still as cold.
“You cannot return for now. You must stay there and continue teaching those two from the Longyuan Empire.”
“Oh…”
Upon hearing her master refuse her, Luo Mingmei’s entire face drooped.
“But Master, what’s the use of me taking these two disciples here? Master, aren’t you cultivating the Enlightenment of True Self Method? How can you so accurately know that these two would appear here?”
Although the process involves experiencing countless timelines, it cannot observe future events. This divination method seems more like the All Things Are Self Method recorded in the sect’s scriptures. That one seems to have the ability to predict the future, right? Could Master have changed cultivation methods?
“Don’t overthink. Whatever I tell you to do, just do it.”
The woman on the other side seemed to know what Luo Mingmei was thinking and directly interrupted.
“Instead of wasting time thinking about these things, you’d better focus on cultivation. Logically, even if your talent is inferior to mine, you shouldn’t still be at Golden Core after several hundred years.”
“Ahhh, Master, I really am working hard!”
Luo Mingmei was about to cry. To be reasonable, being able to reach Golden Core in a few hundred years already made her a genius, okay! It’s not like everyone can reach Nascent Soul in a few hundred years like you, Master!
“Forget it. You won’t listen anyway. Just obediently do as I say.”
The woman on the screen sighed softly, then instructed Luo Mingmei again.
“Your master doesn’t not care about you, but the method I cultivate…”
“Mm-hmm, Master, you don’t need to explain. I understand!”
Luo Mingmei’s mournful little face immediately brightened into a smile as she looked at the indistinct face on the screen.
“It’s good that you understand. In the future, you too will have to be like this. No one can avoid it. Only by cultivating Emotionless can one avoid it.”
After saying this last sentence, the floating transparent screen fell back down and turned back into a Stone Slab.
Luo Mingmei lowered her head, put away the Formation Disc and Stone Slab, and threw herself onto the bed.
Master… seems to be getting more and more rational, to the point of having almost no emotions. She didn’t understand why her master had become like this. Clearly, when her master first found her back then, she wasn’t like this.