After it was over, just leave—by then, the world is vast and the seas are wide, they might never meet again. Does she think of herself as a little demon or something? Does it even matter?

　　Seeing Emily Brooks still fiddling with her watch, Gavin Carter tentatively asked, “I’ve just come down from cultivating in the mountains. Now… what exactly is the situation?”

　　Emily Brooks looked up at him, then suddenly grinned: “Little brother, you seem pretty tough, huh? Not willing to bow to others, all about seeking the Dao, women are all skeletons and so on…”

　　Gavin Carter said, “What kind of tricks are you up to now?”

　　Emily Brooks stretched lazily, unabashedly showing off her graceful figure: “You know, big sis is tired tonight. It’d be best if someone gave me a massage, pounded my shoulders or something… For every five minutes, I’ll answer one question.”

　　Gavin Carter stared at her speechlessly for a while. “Fine.”

　　Emily Brooks almost twisted her own waist in surprise.

　　Wasn’t he supposed to be all about seeking the Dao? Wasn’t he supposed to never bow to others? Wasn’t he supposed to think anyone who touched her was a scoundrel?

　　Gavin Carter snapped his fingers, and suddenly two little white misty fists appeared on Emily Brooks’s shoulders, thumping away to give her a shoulder massage.

　　Emily Brooks: “…You can even do this… How many more tricks do you have?”

　　Gavin Carter: “…Why is such a low-level spell even considered a new trick to you?”

　　Emily Brooks scratched her head.

　　In ancient times, there were many stories of scholars entering the mountains and meeting fox spirits. Logically, someone like Gavin Carter, just out of the mountains and entering human society, should feel like a scholar encountering a wondrous fairyland.

　　But now Emily Brooks felt that she was more like the clueless scholar, witnessing the fox spirit’s marvelous magic.

　　So who’s the real fox spirit here?

　　Actually, at this moment, Gavin Carter was having similar thoughts.

　　He, a human, was using magic and marveling at human technology.

　　Meanwhile, a fox spirit was showing off technology, yet looked completely puzzled by magic.

　　The world really is strange.

Chapter 5 Everyone’s Stories

　　The two of them looked at each other, both expressionless, while the two little white misty fists tirelessly pounded away at her shoulders. The scene was a bit comical.

　　“You’re just a little demon fresh out of the mountains—where did you get all these spells and elixirs?” Emily Brooks finally couldn’t help but ask.

　　“Just because I’ve only just come down from the mountain doesn’t mean I didn’t spend a long time cultivating there.”

　　“So you mean you’re pretty accomplished in cultivation?”

　　“I never said I was a little demon.”

　　Emily Brooks gave him a once-over and curled her lip.

　　Maybe he did have some skills—not just the basic healing spells she’d assumed—but all the spells he used were low-level, so what was he so proud of?

　　Forget it, everyone fresh out of the mountains is this confident. Reality will teach him soon enough.

　　But Gavin Carter countered, “Why do you know so few spells? That’s odd. With your talent, you should have a bunch of spells at your disposal even without studying much.”

　　Emily Brooks replied lazily, “There are a few, but I haven’t studied them much. I’ve squeezed out all my strength just to practice a bit, but haven’t really mastered any… I just learned a few as special tricks.”

　　Gavin Carter: “…”

　　Emily Brooks walked past him and stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, gazing at the neon lights outside, her eyes a bit hazy.

　　After a long while, she finally spoke softly: “It’s only been a little over two hundred years since humans arrived on Canglong Star, but the changes have been earth-shattering. There are many divine descendants as confused as you, some even refusing to accept this technological shift to this day. The relationship between humans and divine descendants has gone from a honeymoon phase to hostility, and this is part of the reason.”

　　Before, she hadn’t dared to openly admit she was a demon too, but now it seemed both sides had tacitly acknowledged each other’s identities, so she finally laid it all out.

　　Speaking of just two hundred years being enough to turn the world into this, it might seem unbelievable to the natives, but Gavin Carter could accept it. After all, he’d once passed through Earth and knew well that his homeland had gone from “ancient” to “modern” in just a little over a hundred years.

　　But one strange word caught his attention: “Divine descendants…”

　　“Haven’t you sensed the faintly inscribed form of the Azure Dragon when comprehending the Dao?” Emily Brooks said. “Canglong Star, divine descendants—they’re all named after that. We believe the Father God is the transformed form of an Azure Dragon, and we are all dragon god’s bloodline—though humans say that’s nonsense based on genetic analysis.”

　　No genetic analysis was needed; Gavin Carter knew that was nonsense.

　　How could there have been a divine dragon on this planet in ancient times? Dinosaurs, maybe… If they could sense Daoist laws, it was probably because his own spiritual energy had left its mark.

　　He wasn’t a dragon… but there was indeed some connection. Like today, when he emerged from seclusion and the Azure Dragon appeared in the clouds—that was a classic example.

　　It wasn’t surprising that others would perceive a dragon image from his “Dao laws.”

　　He was already starting to analyze the situation of this world.

　　Emily Brooks was saying, “There are all kinds of divine descendants—after all, the dragon has nine sons, each different… Humans just call us all kinds of demon clans, that’s all.”

　　“Are humans the invaders?”

　　“No,” Emily Brooks said. “They were a human immigrant fleet that got lost after accidentally entering an interstellar wormhole, losing their original destination and contact with their home planet, wandering in search of a new place to settle. At that time, Canglong Star was also facing an alien invasion. This human fleet helped us drive off the invaders, and so they stayed and developed here.”