Chapter 495: Manghuang Realm
"My Mo Tianfan, rest assured. No matter what, I won't let anything happen to you. Besides, you're just a person from outside this realm, not some heart-stealing demon."
In the inner hall of the Gu family, in the Northern Desert of the Great Wei Dynasty.
Gu Qingwan, dressed in a long palace gown, appearing like a graceful young maiden, whispered intimately to the slightly slender youth beside her in the candlelight, their noses almost touching. Though seemingly in the bloom of youth, she had, in fact, been the Matriarch of the Gu family for over sixty years, her powerful bloodline ability continuously preserving her youthful appearance.
Time rewound to fifteen minutes prior.
After receiving news from the imperial court, Gu Qingwan prepared to follow the Great Wei Dynasty's directive to conduct memory searches on the younger generation within her family. In this world, there was no concept of privacy; no matter how unwilling one might be, family law was paramount, and the soul-searching operation was enforced without exception. Realizing his secret was about to be exposed, Mo Tianfan, who had transmigrated into a junior member of the Gu family and was embroiled in an improper relationship with the Matriarch, decided to take a desperate gamble, revealing the truth directly to Gu Qingwan.
"I'm merely a traveler passing through this world..." When she heard Mo Tianfan say this, for some reason, her heart suddenly felt much lighter.
Because they constantly had to participate in life-and-death struggles against evil spirits, the aristocratic families always upheld the principle of "strength reigns supreme," with status never differing simply due to gender; everything was determined by power. Especially for lower-tier families like the Gu family, who were often on the front lines of battle, their internal relationships were more akin to comrades-in-arms sharing life and death than strictly adhering to generational hierarchy or rigid social norms. Yet, even so, Gu Qingwan had always harbored a subtle, unspeakable awkwardness deep down regarding this romance that spanned several generations. Now, knowing Mo Tianfan's true situation, she surprisingly cast aside her inner concerns.
"Thank you." Mo Tianfan, pulling her into a hug, knew he had gambled correctly this time, and the joy in his heart was practically overflowing.
Having become the Matriarch's lover, he finally didn't have to flee for his life like other transmigrators possessing members of aristocratic families, forced to become fugitives. Furthermore, escaping under the pursuit of numerous experts was an even more daunting task; having witnessed the power of Divine-level experts, he estimated that most transmigrator group members possessing aristocratic bodies would be unable to escape their fate. Before abandoning their bodies and becoming part of the Void Worm, those with full Fourth Tier combat power might have had a sliver of hope for escape. But after soul transmigration and rebirth, before their strength had fully recovered, that was simply a wild fantasy.
Feeling the gentle touch on his hair, Mo Tianfan couldn't help but sigh at his own luck, that under the guidance of fate, he had ended up with the Matriarch of his own family.
"If it were possible, would you be willing to explore the myriad worlds with me?" he asked deeply.
"Mmm!" A blush bloomed on Gu Qingwan's face.
...
After a moment of tenderness.
"You speak of a universe, is it truly that vast?"
"Of course! The planet where our Manghuang Realm is located isn't even a speck of dust compared to the entire universe," Mo Tianfan declared with great confidence. This was his pride as a modern man.
The ancestors of the aristocratic families had named the world they inhabited the Manghuang Realm. Some of them had once entertained thoughts of exploring the world's end, but unfortunately, the vast wilderness occupied by evil spirits alone prevented them from realizing their ambition of traversing the entire world. Thus, even to this day, they found it difficult to grasp the full extent of the Manghuang Realm.
"Oh, right, you just said that an extremely powerful monster has arrived in our world?"
Mo Tianfan's words, while completely overturning Gu Qingwan's worldview, also brought her one question after another.
"Calling him a monster isn't quite right, actually. He's really the most powerful person on our planet, just with a very eccentric personality. The Manghuang Realm is so vast, the chances of encountering him should be very small..."
Gu Qingwan could tell that Mo Tianfan's words weren't entirely truthful, but the joy of a massive weight lifted from her heart, coupled with the sweetness of their love, led her to ignore these small, discordant interludes.
"Between lovers, a difference of a century or two isn't really a problem." This was the only thought left in her mind now.
...
"What are you making?" Inside Hanluo City, Lu Yuesheng watched the vast number of parts floating before Bai Mo, unable to suppress her curiosity, and asked him.
"A telescope."
"With such a complex structure, I'd believe you if you said you were building a missile launch pad. We're both from Earth, so how can there be such a huge difference?"
Looking at these intricate parts, she recalled the arduous years she had spent working with her craftsmen to painstakingly set up a firearm production line. As an ordinary girl who knew next to nothing about the principles of firearms, only that such things existed, she had painstakingly used vast sums of money to invite several master craftsmen, providing them with the general direction and letting them handle the implementation.
It was like a blind man carrying a lame man across the road, slowly progressing with the industrialization research in an ancient society.
Yet now, seeing Bai Mo accomplish micron-level processing akin to modern precision machinery on Earth, almost entirely by himself, realizing the entire production process alone, her inner world was undoubtedly in collapse.
"Have I been farming fake land all these years?"
...
"Did all those things really happen on Earth half a year after I transmigrated?" Lu Yuesheng, her heart full of indignation, asked about this matter once again.
Ever since she learned of Earth's immense changes from Bai Mo a few days ago, she had frequently asked this question, only to be ignored by him almost every time.
"It was a huge loss... though it's also possible I would have died in a tsunami." She tried to comfort herself with such reasoning, to quell the disappointment in her heart over not having received the benefits of Earth's spirit qi outburst.
In this current world, apart from the Bloodline Houses, ordinary people had very few opportunities to acquire supernatural power; it was nowhere near like the Spirit River Autumn, which distributed grand gift packages.
"..." Bai Mo ignored Lu Yuesheng, who was constantly adding drama to herself.
"I have another question, why are you making a telescope?"
"To see how big this world is." Only when asked this did he finally respond.
"I used to think you were a demon traveling the world collecting souls. I never imagined you'd have such a sophisticated hobby."
"The last person who spoke to me in that tone was kicked to the Moon."
...
The conversation between the two abruptly ceased.
Although Bai Mo didn't explicitly mention what he had done on Earth or how Earth had changed, Lu Yuesheng could easily guess that he must have had some truly extraordinary experiences.
"He's very powerful, maybe he can take me back?
If I could go back, would I choose to return or stay here?
If I just left, would all my current efforts have been for naught?
..."
She suddenly felt a little scared..
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