This hovercraft is quite fun—no wheels, floating half a foot above the ground, not slow at all, and pretty stable. There’s not a trace of spiritual energy fluctuation, yet it already has the flavor of a flying artifact. Compared to the roaring cars he saw on Earth before his seclusion, this was much more interesting.

When he arrived, he got out and pressed some unknown button. With a “pop,” the hovercraft turned into a ping-pong-ball-sized little sphere, which he casually put into his bag.

No need for a parking spot at all.

Gavin Carter found it even more amusing.

Humanity was developing things more and more similar to those of cultivators, but by a completely different path.

He remembered seeing everyone holding something called a “cell phone” and talking across thousands of miles. Gavin Carter had thought that the communication treasures of the cultivation world had already been outdone by mortals.

Unfortunately, he had only passed by in a hurry back then and hadn’t stayed, which made the gap even worse now.

He had no idea how far communications had developed by now. Maybe “divine sense over ten thousand miles” was nothing special anymore?

“Sir, you’re wandering outside in the middle of the night. Please cooperate with our inspection and show your ID.” Two patrol officers approached him.

Gavin Carter: “……”

Of course, he wouldn’t pick a fight with the police for no reason, so he quickly vanished.

Maybe this city wasn’t as peaceful as it seemed, with police still patrolling at night… He thought for a moment and decided to find a hotel to stay in and figure things out in the morning.

“Sir, please show your ID to check in.”

Why do you need an ID just to stay at an inn? Gavin Carter said helplessly, “I forgot to bring it. Could you make an exception?”

“No, sir. You’re so handsome, but even if we used someone else’s ID, we couldn’t fool a spot check.”

“……”

“Oh, right, sir, you can use facial recognition.”

“Forget it, goodbye.”

“Heehee, sir, you sound so refined and old-fashioned—it’s really cute. How about staying in my room instead?”

Gavin Carter fled in panic.

After wandering around, he saw a bar that seemed to be open all night. Gavin Carter breathed a sigh of relief—surely bars didn’t require ID!

“Sir, your glass of plain water… Ten yuan, please pay first, thank you.”

“No, sir, we respect your love for Hanfu, but cosplay should at least be a bit more realistic. What’s with trying to pay in silver?”

“Selling silver? Sir, please behave yourself…”

“Uh, wait… Actually, maybe it’s not impossible. How much for a night?”

“Oh, you just want to exchange silver for regular currency? Sir, we use Daxia coins here. Which country are you from? Don’t make that face—it’s Daxia coins, not ‘Big Fool’ coins.”

“Oh, right, sir, we don’t have Daxia coins either, since everyone uses virtual payments now and hardly anyone carries real money. I suggest you go to the bank to exchange it in the morning…”

While they were bickering, the sound of footsteps erupted outside, and a group of police officers rushed in.

“You there, your behavior is extremely suspicious. Get down, hands on your head…”

Gavin Carter vanished again.

The police gasped and turned to the bar counter. “Pull up the surveillance footage.”

On the monitor, the spot where Gavin Carter had just been was completely empty—there was nothing there at all.

The police looked at each other. After a while, someone asked, “What did that guy look like?”

After a pause, someone else said, “Strange, what did we come here for? I forgot.”

“Hey, officer, here for a drink?”

“We still have to patrol. Weird, weren’t you the ones who pressed the alarm?”

“Nope.” The barmaid scratched her head. “Strange, didn’t it feel like there was someone really odd just now, who didn’t even know what currency was… Wait, why am I talking about currency?”

The Forgetting Spell—within moments, all memory of Gavin Carter would vanish from these people’s minds, leaving no aftereffects.

Hidden in the shadows, Gavin Carter quietly slipped away, flashing all the way to the foot of a small hill on the outskirts before stopping, feeling rather speechless.

Erasing these little incidents wasn’t hard, but Gavin Carter realized that he, a dignified Immortal Emperor, was actually unable to take a single step in this city!

Was he going to have to rely on invisibility and transformation to get by from now on? Or just crash through everything, beating up anyone who tried to stop him?

He knew nothing about this new world—he didn’t know if there was anything here that could threaten him, and his injuries weren’t fully healed either, so he couldn’t be too reckless.

It seemed the best course was to find a local cultivator to communicate with first… Gavin Carter suddenly remembered Emily Brooks, who had helped him out at the coffee shop.

A humanoid creature lurking in the human world.

Or maybe she was the true native of this planet?

As he was thinking this, a surge of energy suddenly came from the mountain nearby.

Gavin Carter turned to look and immediately saw a graceful figure shoot out from a brightly lit villa halfway up the mountain.

The full moon hung low outside the mountain. She leapt down from the mountain, and from Gavin Carter’s perspective, the figure and the moon overlapped, like a fox spirit jumping into the moon.

Emily Brooks.

Chapter Two: The Fox Spirit Blending into the Mortal World

Although the distance was still far and the light and shadows were chaotic—an ordinary person might not be able to see clearly at all—for Gavin Carter, it was no different from looking at her up close.

At this moment, Emily Brooks was completely different from the template he’d seen in the coffee shop.

Back then, she was intellectual, elegant, and poised—a classic high-level professional woman. Her speech seemed casual and lazy, but in reality, it carried a sense of distance, a teasing from above.