A woman—an incomparably beautiful woman—was reclining on a jade couch, her beauty surpassing anything I had ever seen in my life. Her cheeks glowed with a spring-like radiance, her cherry lips were a vivid red, and she gazed at me with a look that was half-resentful, half-joyful. Draped in a veil as thin as a cicada’s wing, her jade-like breasts and fair thighs were clearly visible. That enchanting figure, so perfectly proportioned, her nearly naked body stirred my imagination endlessly. Especially the natural, warm fragrance emanating from her body—it made it utterly impossible for me to restrain myself, and a surge of desire shot straight to my lower abdomen...

  “Ford, you’re here!” the woman said sweetly.

  I nodded, reaching up to wipe away the nosebleed that was gushing out, and while I could still keep my mind clear, I asked in a trembling voice, “Beautiful lady, who are you? How did I end up here?”

  As soon as I spoke, I realized how abrupt I sounded. Although the woman before me was charming and beautiful, there was a luminous grace in her every glance, a noble bearing. The two completely different, yet strangely blended, temperaments made my heart stir inexplicably.

  “Hehe, Ford, just as you see, you are in the Jade Fragrance Paradise!”

  “But how did I get here?”

  “Jade Fragrance Paradise, known to the world as a land of pleasure, actually exists in everyone’s heart. Each person’s nature is different, so the paradise in their heart changes accordingly. This is your paradise!”

  I stared at the woman in shock. Her words made me dizzy. Was I dreaming? But everything before me felt so real, the alluring fragrance so clearly lingering around me—how could I...

  As if she could see into my heart, the woman smiled.

  People often say: a backward glance and a smile can launch a hundred charms. But this woman before me—her charms numbered not in the hundreds, but in the thousands!

  “Ford, I know you have many questions in your heart, so today I brought you to your paradise to explain everything. In fact, I wanted to welcome you here long ago, but your obsessions were too strong, and I couldn’t fully capture your consciousness...”

  I can’t remember what she said after that, because I was already captivated by her enchanting presence, forgetting everything else.

  “Ford!”

  With a low, commanding call, the woman snapped me out of my reverie. My face flushed red, and I chuckled sheepishly. She seemed to understand the reason for my embarrassment. With a graceful turn, her thin veil fluttered, revealing her exquisite form before my eyes for just a fleeting moment. She changed her pose, slightly concealing her endless allure, making her even more enticing.

  The nosebleed I had just managed to stop gushed out again at her slightest movement. I hurriedly wiped it away, thinking to myself: If this keeps happening a few more times, I’ll bleed to death...

  “Ford, listen to me. I am one of the three creator gods of this world, named Evan Grant. Thousands of years ago, to prevent a war between the gods of the Immortal Realm and the Netherworld, I exhausted my life force. But I was unwilling to let go, and as my life was ending, my resentment condensed into a divine relic, which you know as the Nine-Colored Rainbow Divine Pill.”

  “What!” I exclaimed, my mouth agape, staring at her in a daze, my mind thrown into chaos.

  Yesterday, someone had mentioned this to me, but I never imagined that... that... I must be dreaming!

  “That’s right, you are indeed dreaming right now, but all of this is real!” Evan Grant seemed to see through my thoughts, smiled slightly, and continued, “Ford, the Nine-Colored Rainbow Divine Pill was formed from my condensed resentment, extremely fierce. Two thousand years ago, the founder of the Buddhist sect, Maitreya, used supreme power to lessen my resentment, but to completely eliminate it would require nine cycles of reincarnation.”

  “I know, I know!” I blurted out. “That, uh, the Demon Realm Lord, right?”

  “Hehe, looks like you know a bit. That’s right, the first cycle of the Nine-Colored Rainbow Divine Pill was with the leader of the human world’s Demon Realm, Morgan Earl. His death triggered the six-hundred-year War of the Realm Gods. After that, the Divine Pill went through seven more cycles, and you are the ninth, the one to finally dispel my resentment.”

  “I’m the ninth? Then shouldn’t I...” I stared at Evan Grant in shock, blurting out my question.

  “That’s right, you should have died. But after eight cycles, the pill’s fierce energy was almost completely gone, and you were already on the brink of death. Instead of killing you, the energy saved your life, and that’s when I entered your consciousness.”

  “So the Holy Temple is...”

  “That’s right, the Holy Temple only saw you as the ninth cycle’s vessel, but didn’t expect you to turn misfortune into blessing and become the final holder of the Nine-Colored Rainbow Divine Pill.”

  “Wait, wait!” I shook my head repeatedly. My mind was truly blank at this point. Evan Grant’s words were just too much to take in. I took two steps back, standing there in a daze. After a while, I suddenly laughed.

  I really am unusually lucky—not only did I come back from the dead, but I also gained such a beautiful creator goddess inside my body. Even if it’s just a dream, how many people could ever experience such boundless fortune?

  Thinking of this, I grinned foolishly. Seeing my idiotic smile, Evan Grant seemed to guess what I was thinking, her cheeks flushing even redder, her expression even more alluring.

  “Ford, through these nine cycles, I have regained life. But this life exists only within your body—no one else can see me. And, since you are the vessel for my life, you have also gained all the energy of my existence. In other words, you have inherited my power!”