Chapter 362

One hundred and seventieth page: Goddess Airline Project

(Xiao Kai’s perspective)

Rarely stepping out of the Jewel, the Old Lady pointed at the pitch-black sky.

“Piu!”

A glowing small sphere shot out from her fingertips, leaving a luminous trail as it rushed towards the sky. Though not as dazzling as the White Sun, it still dispersed the surrounding darkness like a flare.

“I can only shoot this high. Marking complete. Now it’s your turn. I’m off.”

She patted my shoulder and hurriedly slipped back into the Jewel in my hand.

After discussing the details with the Old Lady, we decided to implement several plans that could quickly approach the Heaven’s Path Core.

I don’t know how effective these will be, but they’re definitely faster than walking.

“That means I might lose!”

With adequate mental preparation, I greeted the Spatial Jewel in my hand.

“Oh, I’ve got a firm grip!”

The Old Lady inside the Jewel responded while fumbling with the bed.

“Megami Mod!!”

Like a special effects hero transforming, I shouted out the embarrassing transformation line with great flair.

Divine power suddenly surged within me, gathering towards the ring on my finger. My body was covered in a magical girl-like white light, and my once stable form began to change from♂ to♀. As softness increased, bodily functions greatly improved. This was a goddess body surpassing human limits. The divine power coursing through my veins filled me with immense strength.

“Very good! Very good indeed! Not only am I not reverting, but the recovery speed of divine power is incredibly fast!”

My divine power remained at full capacity. It seems the rule here isn’t to keep people at a specific time; otherwise, my transformation would have been undone.

This gave me some ideas to verify.

I was wearing women’s clothing left by the Old Lady inside the Jewel, including a simple white shirt. I unbuttoned the collar and pinched the button between my thumb and index finger, turning it into fine powder.

Her delicate hands, free of calluses, had more strength than pliers. I wanted to split the button in half, but instead, it crumbled into dust.

Is this the power of a Kamen Rider?

But it didn’t affect the experiment. The next second, the shirt returned to its original state, even with the powdered button back in place.

“As expected, not just humans, everything in this space maintains its best condition.”

Complete objects in this space are protected by the rules. Before our arrival, the only thing existing here was the visible yet unreachable White Sun, the core mechanism carrying the Heaven’s Path.

Clearly, this rule serves the Heaven’s Path.

Witnessing the experiment, the Old Lady in the Jewel came to the same conclusion.

“The Heaven’s Path and Lord Hái chose different ways to fight time. With his immortal body, Lord Hái resets his personality every few decades to ensure his emotional spirit doesn’t collapse. Time has almost no effect on the pure ideal of the Heaven’s Path. Without emotions, it only needs to maintain its container. This rule keeps the container always fresh.”

“What kind of container can hold the Heaven’s Path? That must be something incredible. What exactly it is, we’ll find out when we get there.”

The Old Lady sighed, “Compared to humans, the Heaven’s Path is closer to a supercomputer. Only such an emotionless system can survive for so long in this hellhole… Although I have a fragment of the Heaven’s Path within me, you shouldn’t think I can endure this place for a year. That’s why I want to give up my soul sooner.”

The Heaven’s Path is the central system maintaining world balance. Even a momentary shutdown could cause catastrophic consequences. It can’t reset itself like Lord Hái does, and emotions are lethal to it. Only becoming a cold machine can sustain operation for millennia.

Looking at the distant White Sun, I felt a twinge of sadness.

“Mom, don’t say that. Maybe there’s a way to take you out too.”

Being stuck in this space forever is too cruel for sentient beings.

“Alright, I said I can’t leave once I enter! Are you going to throw again? I’m almost tearing the sheets apart!”

“Huff, then I’m going to do it!”

Taking a deep breath, I gripped the Spatial Jewel tightly, slightly twisting my body and lifting my left leg. I swung my arm like a baseball pitcher, creating a whistling sound.

“Ha!”

I threw the Jewel toward the White Sun with all my might. The tremendous kinetic energy provided by the goddess mode made the tiny glass bead seem capable of breaking the sound barrier (though that was impossible).

At the moment I released the Jewel, the Old Lady pulled me back into the Jewel, which continued flying forward.

Indeed, this plan is called the “Goddess Airline Project.”

Essentially, I’m throwing myself!

Inside the Jewel, gravity remains constant but is affected by external disturbances. However, the flight is relatively stable, with no noticeable shaking until landing.

“Xiao Kai~ Oh my! My daughter’s charm is amazing! Mom really likes it. Take off your clothes so I can check them!”

Once inside, the Old Lady clung to me, trying to rub against me. She leered at my chest and tried to bury her face in it. I pushed her away with control.

It’s not about gender; anyone would be uncomfortable with such behavior.

“Mom, please behave yourself!”

She wriggled and continued to be unreasonable.

“You won’t hug your son, but you won’t hug your daughter either? Let me smell you!”

“Are those words appropriate for a parent?”

“As a mother, liking your daughter is fine, right?”

“But you can’t be inappropriate with your daughter!”

“Since we can’t leave, let Mom help you lose your virginity!”

“Stop! Your words are dangerous, stop!”

“It’s true. In this space, the hymen will heal… Unfortunately, Xiao Kai, you’ll always be a goddess of purity!”

“I don’t mind that sort of thing!”

“You don’t feel Mom’s love? Mom is heartbroken.”

“Your twisted love scares me!”

“Ahh! We’re landing. Prepare for impact.”

The Old Lady clung to the bedsheet, and despite my intense reaction, I was thrown upward by the impact and then slammed back onto the bed.

“Huff, that scared me…”

I sat up and asked, “How far did we fly?”

It felt like a long time, probably over ten thousand meters.

The Old Lady had marked the previous position. She floated to the glass dome above and looked back at the direction we came from.

“Let me see… Hmm, not bad. About three kilometers! Throwing a glass bead three kilometers by hand, Xiao Kai, your output is too extreme!”

As she spoke, she clung to me again.

Does the goddess mode’s attraction work on her too?

“Only three kilometers? Shorter than expected. The ground here is flat, and gravity is strange. If I were in the real world, I could throw it farther… Not enough. It feels like we haven’t approached much.”

Faster than walking, but not enough to reach the core.

“Mom, can’t you shoot the beads like marking?”

“No, what you see as the White Sun is actually liquid divine power surrounding the Heaven’s Path Core. It radiates constantly. The closer you get, the higher the concentration. Because the rule won’t poison, but moving in a space filled with divine power is still uncomfortable.”

No wonder she never wants to leave the Jewel.

I asked, “Does the divine power interfere with spells?”

The Old Lady shrugged, “Outside, the divine power concentration is too high. Casting spells is like swimming in silicone oil. You can’t cast them properly. Shooting the flare to ten meters is already my limit. How far do you think I can shoot the Jewel? Better to throw it by hand! Of course, I can’t throw it three kilometers.”

The Old Lady reclined on my chest, looking very relaxed, but I couldn’t laugh.

“Do I have to throw it slowly?”

“Magic can’t be used. I’m just a fragile beauty. Such things rely on a reliable daughter.”

“Beauty is beauty, but I don’t agree with fragile. If you’d pull your hand out of my skirt, that would make sense.”

“Don’t be so formal. No one else knows about this anyway… Ouch!”

I couldn’t help but hit my mother, which was sinful. Next time, I’ll hit her again.

I asked, “If you can’t use magic, can you teach me spells quickly?”

“Please, do you think magic is easy? Before using magic, you need solid theoretical knowledge. Xiao Kai, you who can only rub light bulbs, have no chance… Wait! I have an idea!”

Seemingly having an idea, the Old Lady suddenly sat up and turned around.

“Xiao Kai, can you still expel divine power?”

“Your wording is disgusting, but…”

I extended my right index finger and shot a laser flashlight at the glass dome.

“…Something like this is possible.”

The brightness was impressive, making me proud, but the Old Lady was unimpressed.

“What? Just this? There’s no damage? And the amount isn’t much? Try harder. Increase the intensity tenfold and I can execute my plan!”

Her dismissive attitude was hard to bear.

“Ten times! My divine power reserves are low!”

“There’s an inexhaustible supply of high-purity divine power here. Even if you expel all your divine power in one second, it will recover in the next! Try again!”

I was uneasy and cautiously asked, “…If I can do it, what do you plan to do?”

“Just try. Shoot it out fully!”

With Mom’s encouragement, I carefully cupped my palms and struck a pose like launching a chi blast.

“Ha!”

A much thicker beam of divine power shot out from my palm. Then, the Old Lady placed a spell array around my hand.

Or maybe a magic circle?

The divine power through the array transformed into a raging flame and was directly expelled from the Jewel, like the engine of a jet fighter. Using this thrust, the Jewel performed Brownian motion in the air.

Though uncontrollable, a clean energy (divine power) propulsion system was successfully launched!