“So over the past two hundred years, the god-blooded have gradually been pushed out, and their living space has shrunk?” Gavin Carter was a bit surprised. Could cultivators really not compete with human technology?

“It’s actually a bit more complicated… It’s always difficult for different races to coexist in permanent peace, let alone civilizations from different planets. This isn’t something that can be explained in a few words—you’ll have to learn slowly.” Emily Brooks said, “Anyway, now that you have a watch, you can just search for most information directly.”

“How do I search?”

“Press the button in the middle of the watch, and a virtual light screen will appear.”

Gavin Carter was taken aback. “And then?”

Emily Brooks put on a stern face. “Artificially-intelligent dummy, just call out to it and it’ll tell you it’s there, then you can just ask your question.”

“…Why does that sound a bit like calling the local earth god to come out?”

“Ha!” Emily Brooks laughed. “Now that you mention it, it does sound a bit like that—they’re both for getting information. Of course, if it’s inconvenient to speak, you can also type in your search.”

Gavin Carter opened the virtual screen and stared blankly at the dazzling array of icons.

This… is way more than just one earth god…

He’d always been the one playing tricks with his spells, so now that he finally saw Gavin Carter looking dazed, Emily Brooks found a rare sense of superiority and was quite pleased. “Right now, this watch is bound to my account, so I won’t give you most of the permissions. Once you have your own identity and open an account, you’ll be able to use more complete functions. It’ll be dawn soon, and we can handle that then. For now, give me a script.”

Gavin Carter pulled his thoughts away from the screen. “A script?”

“Didn’t I say? We need to establish your file from childhood. People don’t just pop out of rocks, right? At the very least, you need a plausible backstory. Tell me your real situation first, and I’ll see how to adapt it.”

Gavin Carter shook his head. “My real situation is useless. No matter how you adapt it, it can’t go into the records. Might as well just make something up.”

“Getting cocky, are you?” Emily Brooks said with disdain. “How strange could a monkey coming out of the mountains be? Your master is a real immortal? Opened a cave mansion and all the immortals came to pay respects, and the celestial maiden lives in your bed?”

Gavin Carter replied sincerely, “You’re actually not that far off…”

Emily Brooks couldn’t help but laugh. “Alright, alright. Honestly, making up a story isn’t hard, but I want to see what you’re hiding. We’re not stupid, so don’t try to dodge the question.”

Of course, Gavin Carter knew that Emily Brooks was probing him. That was to be expected. As they spent more time together, he couldn’t just let her keep guessing about his origins.

Anyway, he wasn’t planning to lie. As long as he told her, it was up to her whether she believed it.

“Actually, I’m an Immortal Emperor…”

“If you want an English name, you could go with Sindy.” Emily Brooks rolled her eyes. “Cut the nonsense. Start from your childhood.”

Knew it.

If he really wanted to claim to be an Immortal Emperor, he could just show his power, but what was really needed was a life story from childhood—not that…

“As for my childhood…” Gavin Carter thought for a moment. “That’s a very distant story… As far back as I can remember, I was… in modern terms, a crown prince. But it wasn’t called that back then, since there was no precedent. Even though I was the eldest son, my right to inherit wasn’t that secure…”

Emily Brooks gave him a sidelong glance, her eyes dangerous.

Gavin Carter continued, “After my father died, a few of my brothers couldn’t beat me, so they just sang pretty well… so I succeeded the throne.”

Emily Brooks grabbed a pillow from the bed and threw it at him. “So you were the Monkey King too, huh!”

Gavin Carter said slowly, “It wasn’t called king back then… it was called ‘hou’.”

Emily Brooks burst out laughing. “So monkeys have BL stories too? You were the ‘hou’, was your king handsome?”

Gavin Carter fell silent, speechless.

Ignorance is truly scary.

That ancient Earth culture was so distant that Emily Brooks really didn’t know it. There weren’t many people left who studied the ancient history of the mother planet, let alone a little fox from this planet. But no matter the culture, with the way Gavin Carter was spouting nonsense, only a fool would believe him.

“Forget it.” Emily Brooks unexpectedly felt a bit better and couldn’t be bothered to listen to his nonsense anymore. “We’re just acquaintances anyway. If you don’t want to tell me, I won’t force you… Actually, I can pretty much guess where you’re from. Judging by your appearance and age, you’re obviously one of the young god-blooded left behind after the human-god war twenty-four years ago, when the god-blooded retreated from the northern continent.”

Gavin Carter actually thought she was talking about herself. Twenty-four was exactly her age; bone age could be seen at a glance.

That was why she was willing to help—she felt they were not only of the same race, but also shared the same fate.

But how did she become a human lady…

Everyone has their own story. Who would easily reveal theirs?

Gavin Carter knew that the reason he dared to say whatever he wanted about his own story was precisely because no one would believe him. If there was even a chance the other person might believe it, he probably wouldn’t say it.

It really wasn’t a good story.

Chapter Six: Descendants and Offspring

Emily Brooks suddenly laughed again. “Since you won’t tell me, I’ll just make up the story myself.”

Gavin Carter asked curiously, “Why are you so happy about making up a story?”

“Who’s happy?” Emily Brooks put on a stern face. “Stories like this are hard to make up. For example, you have to avoid things like school experience, or else you’ll have to bribe the school and so on—there are lots of details like that. It’s enough to give me a headache, so what’s there to be happy about?”