Volume One: The Father God Descends

Chapter One: The Immortal Emperor Who Can’t Keep Up with the Times

“Sir, please scan your face over here.”

In the coffee shop, the waitress looked at the young man in Hanfu before her with a smile, little stars twinkling in her eyes.

These days, it’s quite common for people to wear all kinds of traditional costumes on the street, and everyone is used to it. But most people appreciate the beauty of girls in Hanfu more; men usually don’t get much praise.

But this one in front of her—so handsome...

He even had long hair, jet-black like satin, tied behind him, truly looking as if he’d stepped out of a period film.

“Beep!” The soft sound of the facial recognition device snapped the waitress out of her daze—face scan failed.

The young lady quickly said, “Sir, could you blink?”

“……” Gavin Carter blinked.

In fact, he didn’t even know why he had to “be photographed” just to pay. Seeing everyone else acting like it was perfectly normal, he put away his silver coins in confusion and followed along.

“Beep.” Still failed.

The young lady’s expression changed slightly: “Sir... do you not have a face? Uh, I mean...”

Gavin Carter didn’t take offense, just smiled and said, “Maybe I don’t have a face, but you’re very pretty.”

Whatever the young lady had wanted to say was forgotten by that one sentence. She beamed, “Maybe the device isn’t working well. Would you like to scan a code instead?”

Gavin Carter: “……”

Forget scanning my face, why scan my horse? Don’t people in this era not ride horses when they go out?

I don’t even have a horse...

A slender, fair hand reached out from the side, the watch on her wrist lightly swiping past the device: “I’ll pay for this one.”

With a “beep,” the young lady quickly entered the amount, but her eyes showed a hint of disappointment—so this handsome guy already had a female companion...

She sneaked a glance at the woman who scanned the code, and her lips quickly pouted.

Ugh... how is she so pretty too.

Gavin Carter tilted his head slightly, looking at the woman who had inexplicably paid for him.

The woman wore a women’s business suit, the standard attire of a professional, intellectual and elegant. At this moment, she smiled sweetly, with a hint of playful curiosity: “In such a hurry to leave? Am I annoying you?”

Do we know each other?

Gavin Carter naturally understood she was giving him a way out, and smiled slightly: “Not at all... then shall I sit a while longer?”

“Too bad I’m annoyed with you.” The woman lazily brushed past him: “Don’t be so reckless next time. Goodbye.”

A fragrant breeze swept by as the woman strolled out.

Gavin Carter watched her back, thoughtful.

He had just come out of seclusion and knew almost nothing about this world, needing a whole new process of adaptation. The first hurdle was not even understanding how to pay... This woman seemed to have noticed his awkwardness and deliberately helped him out?

But her words, “Don’t be so reckless next time,” seemed to have a deeper meaning. Others might think he’d offended a beauty and blown a date, but to Gavin Carter, it sounded like a hidden warning.

Could not knowing how to pay get you in trouble?

Maybe this woman mistook him for some kind of outsider and was intentionally protecting him...

A faint, strange light flickered in Gavin Carter’s eyes, and the woman’s back gradually changed in his vision.

Behind that graceful figure, a faintly furry tail appeared.

A demon?

So she thought he was a newly arrived demon in the human world?

Or maybe she wasn’t sure, but just acted on a whim.

“Bro, you even managed to blow your date with Emily Brooks?” Someone nearby was paying and teased him gloatingly: “Wearing a full set of traditional clothes to a date, and dawdling over the bill—I really don’t know what you were thinking. No wonder she said you were reckless.”

Gavin Carter smiled at him, then turned to look outside again, but the beauty was already gone.

Emily Brooks? Sounds like a bit of a celebrity...

He strolled out the door, looking up at the city’s neon lights at night, finding the world truly fascinating.

He had hidden on this planet to recuperate for a long time... Originally, this was just a remote planet not even suitable for habitation, but after coming out of seclusion, the world had become completely unrecognizable.

Cities had sprung up, humanity was thriving, he could sense the presence of cultivators, and even demons mingling among them...

It was as if waking from a dream to find the world utterly changed.

The joy of living long is just this—you get to see everything... Even “demons” like Emily Brooks are actually different from what he’d seen before.

She didn’t seem to be an animal who cultivated and transformed into a human, but rather a person who naturally retained some animal traits—a special kind of humanoid race. Half-demon? Beastkin? He didn’t know what they called themselves.

Gavin Carter was very interested in the changes on this planet, because in a sense, it should count as his planet.

Unknowingly, night had deepened and the streets had emptied.

Gavin Carter strolled along the roadside, admiring the city’s nightscape. Occasionally, someone would drive by in a chubby hovercar, and Gavin Carter would watch them go by, full of interest.