However, this could not be said to the outside world. The excuse for going out was to patrol the realm and deliver justice to the common people.
Anyway, she was now highly skilled in martial arts and had brought dozens of equally skilled eunuchs and palace maids with her when she roamed the land. She had no need to worry about accidents.
What truly worried Ding Yun.
Was that something might happen to her son after she left.
Therefore, before leaving, Ding Yun not only left most of the skilled eunuchs and palace maids to protect him but also specifically taught him the Innate Skill and Indestructible Vajra Divine Skill, which she had not taught him before, and fed him the Innate Pill and Vajra Pill.
In addition, she even asked Yue Li Chang E for another Poison Dispelling Pill that could make one immune to all poisons and fed it to him.
Only then did she leave the imperial palace with peace of mind.
Of course, although Ding Yun was outside, she still cared about the imperial court. It wasn't that she was reluctant to give up power, but mainly because she was worried that her son, being young, would be bullied.
Or be tricked.
So, she naturally had to keep a close eye on things.
Several years later, when the plans of some virtual rulers were completely accomplished, the reforms were fully stabilized, and Ji Ding had completely secured the throne, Ding Yun finally withdrew her hidden agents, stopped watching, and went on a relaxed tour.
...
As time passed.
Regardless of the changes in the outside world, the members of the red envelope group continued to increase. Sometimes one per year, sometimes two per year, and sometimes one every two years, with no discernible pattern. However, the first piece of advice all group members received upon joining was to beware of the Nine-Tailed Demon Queen and the Dark Night Empress.
Over time, the Dark Night Empress and the Nine-Tailed Demon Queen.
Had not spoken in the group again.
There were discussions about the process. Some worried if it was a misunderstanding, some thought they knew they couldn't trick anyone anymore, so they stopped talking, and some suspected they were secretly preparing some conspiracy.
However, because the matter was too long ago and they had been inactive for a long time, many new members began to question Ding Yun and the others, thinking that they were ostracizing those two group members for some reason.
Finally, Ding Yun and the others were too lazy to give advice.
Let them be.
Later, the atmosphere in the group gradually changed.
From Ding Yun and the others being reluctant to send red envelopes out of concern for the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox Queen, they began to send them frequently, sometimes dozens a day. The red envelope group became prosperous due to the new members.
Some old members, tempted and genuinely needing to trade items that were not very precious in other worlds but very precious in their own, also joined.
To accumulate more resources for themselves and their descendants.
They were at most more cautious than the newcomers.
In the end, only Ding Yun, Yue Li Chang E, and Ci An Empress did not participate because they only grudgingly trusted each other and had nothing they truly desired. Even the frequency of private red envelope transactions between the three of them was very low.
And as the transactions between the people in the group continued without any problems, everyone only felt the benefits.
They didn't discover any downsides at all.
Let alone the newcomers, even the old group members had long since let down their guard. They clicked on red envelopes in the group without any hesitation, even starting to doubt the truthfulness of Ding Yun's description. They wondered if she had obtained something good and didn't want others to get it.
Ding Yun did not offer any defense against this. Let them be. After all, she no longer needed the red envelope group.
However, thirty-four years later.
Among the forty-five members of the red envelope group, one member's avatar suddenly went black. A few seconds later, the black avatar even shattered and disappeared, and a new message appeared in the group.
【The world belonging to Princess An Ping has been destroyed...】
Then, the entire group, as if infected with a virus, and as if Pandora's Box had been opened, the avatars of the group members one after another gradually turned black, and the group messages continuously indicated that the world belonging to such-and-such had been destroyed.
This change sent chills down Ding Yun's spine.
She had guessed that the Nine-Tailed Demon Queen might not be so simple and might have other plans, but she truly did not expect her to be so powerful.
To be able to lock onto and invade the worlds of group members using only this red envelope group.
Although she could do it too, she really didn't expect the loophole in this golden finger she was testing to be so large.
Fortunately, Ding Yun had always been cautious, and her Supreme Spirit Refining Technique had the effect of erasing world imprints. It could even erase world imprints.
Let alone world aura.
Therefore, whether it was the red envelopes she sent or received, the world aura they contained was erased by her. The other party had no way to link to her through the red envelopes. So, although Ding Yun was shocked by the situation in the group, she was not worried that the other party could invade her through the red envelope group.
Unfortunately, she could only protect herself.
She could not find a way to save those group members and their worlds in such a short time. Therefore, she could only watch as the number of group members continuously decreased, turning into dust one by one.
In the end, Ding Yun thought that she, Yue Li Chang E, and Ci An Empress would all survive, because the three of them had not received any red envelopes from other group members since that incident. At most, they would only trade among themselves.
Theoretically speaking, their coordinates should not have been leaked.
Therefore, the probability of survival would naturally be extremely high.
However, Ding Yun was quickly proven wrong, because not long after, Ci An Empress's avatar also turned black and turned into dust. Finally, only three group members remained in the entire group: the Nine-Tailed Demon Queen, Yue Li Chang E, and Ding Yun, the逍遥太后 (Xiaoyao Empress Dowager).
Since she no longer held regency.
Her group name was automatically changed to Xiaoyao Empress Dowager.
【Xiaoyao Empress Dowager】: Yue Li Chang E, you and the Nine-Tailed Demon Queen are in league, you are definitely in league. If Ci An Empress was not lying, it must have been you who leaked her coordinates, or the red envelope you sent her was problematic, otherwise, she would absolutely not have turned to dust...
With the demise of Ci An Empress, Ding Yun could no longer guess that Yue Li Chang E was problematic. Even some of the things Yue Li Chang E had said before began to re-emerge in Ding Yun's mind, becoming irrefutable evidence.
For example, she said that the Nine-Tailed Demon Queen was the first to appear in the group, and she was the second to join. There was no problem with this, and the third person to join could testify.
But if all the previous group members were also eliminated by the two of them in this way.
Then the new member joining would naturally be the third one.
Because there were only two of them left in the group.
One was a demon, and the other was an immortal. No matter which one carelessly exposed their ambition, there would be room for maneuver, and they could find ways to continue sending red envelopes and so on, which would surely allow everyone in the group to receive red envelopes.
Thus determining the coordinates of the group members' worlds to capture them.
Truly horrifying to think about!