Chapter 1 Eternal (1)
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【You have gained a total of 100,000,000 Godhood Value points. Your journey to godhood is now 60% complete.】
Cold Moon never expected her showdown with Bel would result in such an enormous amount of Godhood Value. Progress was far faster than she had imagined!
No doubt this had something to do with the fact that the television station had gone global with the live broadcast.
With the System’s help, Cold Moon injected her consciousness into Lin Nan’s body, effectively merging the two of them into one—Lin Nan was Cold Moon, and Cold Moon was Lin Nan.
Thus, all the shock and adoration the audience felt for Lin Nan at their TVs and streaming platforms were racked up by the System and culminated in unexpectedly massive data.
If possible, she was dying to stir up some more trouble to keep that Godhood Value soaring.
But considering the System had warned her about not overriding the ecological balance of this world to prevent total collapse, Cold Moon tinged with restraint and reluctantly shelved her plans for more chaos.
At this moment, with the power of having defeated the otherworldly invaders behind her, Bureau Director Lin’s reputation was skyrocketing. So when she and the bl**d Moon Team stepped into the core of the Floating City control center, there was hardly anyone brave enough to stop them.
When they finally reached the innermost area of the control center, Lady Rong Ji felt a pang in her heart at the sight before her.
Inside a massive glass chamber about five meters in diameter, Fu Yetian hung there, head down, suspended in a transparent liquid, multiple black tubes connected to his spine. From a distance, he looked like a modern-day crucified Jesus.
“Do you all understand what we’re about to do?” Cold Moon asked, having found some instructions regarding the control center in Director Lin’s memories.
The source of the city’s levitation power, of course, was Fu Yetian. This power was transmitted to the city’s perimeter via an array he had set up two years ago, generating a floating force opposing gravity to maintain balance.
If they severed the link between Fu Yetian and the control center, the excess energy collected over the past two years would only keep the Floating City running for another five minutes.
Once that time was up, the Floating City would come crashing down like a rock.
Thus, they had to complete the swap between Bel and Fu Yetian within five minutes.
Lady Rong Ji had no time for tears; she could only grieve after she fully rescued Fu Yetian.
Although the bl**d Moon Team was made up of elites, even they hesitated in the face of modern technology.
In this situation, Cold Moon had to step in personally.
Without going into too many details, Cold Moon, with everyone’s assistance, managed to precariously complete the swap within the five-minute mark.
Lady Rong Ji held the still-dazed and wet Fu Yetian in her arms, tears streaming down her face.
“Thank you, my Lord, for your grace,” she kept repeating.
Cold Moon shook her head. “No need to thank me.”
If all went well, Bel would replace Fu Yetian as the main power source of the Floating City until his life ran out or until technology advanced to create a replacement power source.
Then Fu Yetian woke up.
His last memory was from two years ago when Cold Moon had utterly defeated him.
So when he found himself cradled in Lady Rong Ji’s arms and saw Cold Moon standing before him, he exploded with rage.
“Rong Ji, what are you up to this time? Switched sides for some fame?”
He was filled with skepticism and anger toward her, just like in the past.
Cold Moon didn’t aim to meddle in their emotional tangle, but given how much effort Rong Ji had put in to give Fu Yetian another chance at life, it felt wrong to not say something as he woke up in such a state.
“Fu Yetian, did you know it’s been two years since our last deadly showdown in this world?”
“What?” Fu Yetian was clearly taken aback.
Cold Moon briefly recounted the situation.
When Fu Yetian noticed Bel lying in the cultivation chamber behind him, he finally came to grasp the scenario.
“So, you’re scared Bel would harm me, and that’s why you intentionally distanced yourself?”
Rong Ji lowered her head and quietly murmured, “Yes.”
In front of her beloved, she acted like a school kid who’d committed a grave error, afraid that one more word would set off Fu Yetian and make all her years of suffering and effort go to waste.
“d*mn it! Why didn’t you tell me this earlier? Why suffer alone!”
Fu Yetian, clad only in a thin layer of clothes, clutched Rong Ji tightly, his voice bursting forth from the depths of his heart.
“Curse it! I dream of the day we first met almost every night!
The more I love you, the more I hate the later version of you.
Had I known it would be like this, I’d have killed myself at Bel’s hands long ago instead of enduring all this torment.”
Lady Rong Ji cried, “Stop saying such foolish things. As long as you’re alive, what does it matter how much I’ve endured?”
She expected Fu Yetian to turn into a stereotypical male protagonist of some soapy drama, causing chaos for a few episodes before finally accepting Lady Rong Ji’s love, and she was mentally prepared for a lot of tapping him on the shoulder.
But surprisingly, hmm, that was quick…
Looks like Fu Yetian had never truly forgotten about Lady Rong Ji, the one who made him betray the Heavenly Sword Sect in pursuit of her.
Good ending!
Great, she’d done a good deed!
But now, she had to figure out how to tidy up things for Director Lin. If she just left, leaving her human body hanging around alone, how would that impact Lin Nan, who could never regain today’s splendor?
Wouldn’t she fall into depression? Who knows?
After all, she’d promised the System not to interfere excessively with the operation of the Small World.
The Small World was unlike the vast expansive higher-level planes; it had low capabilities for correction and stable operation, and a major upheaval that it couldn’t absorb could lead to its collapse.
If the Small World were a fishbowl with a delicate ecosystem, then the Asking Dao Continent was like a rich pond with a robust ecological balance.
And the reason why the System could easily transport Cold Moon and others from the Asking Dao Continent to the Small World was that the Small World acted as a subsidiary plane of the larger one, while the Small Caves were just a notch above. They could have their own civilization and development track, but were easily influenced by outside factors.
So, the fact that the modern Small World could develop to where it was now amidst all those major planes was quite an achievement.
If it could continue thriving, there might even be a chance to evolve into a pond-level higher plane.
Therefore, if Cold Moon simply dropped Lin Nan and left the Small World, it became difficult to ensure that Lin Nan wouldn’t experience some changes after tasting the heights only to plunge back to the depths.
Even if there was a mere one percent chance her human counterpart would descend into the path of devilry and focus purely on the pursuit of power, she had to stay to eliminate that hazard.
