Chapter 246: Waiting for Someone

Even with what Shen Lian said, the Empress did not look particularly agitated. She remained calm, like a lake at night, which did not have any ripple.

Since she was injured previously, the path to attain Dao had become a blind alley. As such, she gave up and handed her power to her children. She began to seek insight from Buddhism, and her previously sharp eyes had become soft. She looked like a sanctimonious lady in Buddhism, and she no longer carried the air of an emperor.

The Empress spoke slowly, "Shen Lian, I know that there is no free lunch in the world. Immortality, or the wishes of the masses for a region of thirty thousand miles – what do I need to do to get that?"

What she subsequently said broke the image she had been let out all these whiles. She spoke slowly as if none of this mattered. Her domineering aura had now turned into the real aura of the emperor. She was at ease.