Only My Way

Night was about to fall.

Looking into the distance, one could already see the sun slowly descending, its boundless light gradually being obscured.

The red glow of the sunset had long since replaced the golden sunlight.

At this moment.

Temporary houses, or rather, a base camp, had been constructed by the construction golem slaves, specializing in concrete work. It was a large, luxurious fortress-like structure, emphasizing grandeur and visibly strong defenses.

Compared to the concrete-laying golems.

Ling Wuyuan and Bai Jingshu were progressing slower. They were still engraving runes to solidify the structure and setting up array barriers to prevent external forces and intruders.

With their continuous efforts, the fortress, originally made of ordinary stone and wood, already possessed hardness and toughness comparable to many special metals. Even [Qi Nourishment Realm cultivators] would find it very difficult to cause effective damage, making it resistant to physical attacks, fire, and water…

And those array barriers, set up around the area and completely enveloping a radius of one mile, besides concealing the surrounding environment to prevent outsiders from discovering the fortress and forming a special defensive shield, their most important function was to exert a certain degree of influence on the internal environment, such as adjusting the air and eliminating internal insects… Well, for Xi Xianlan and the other two, these small functions were extremely important.

Even.

Ling Wuyuan clearly noticed that Bai Jingshu had completely delegated the defense aspects to him, wholeheartedly focusing on repeatedly adjusting the insecticidal, temperature-regulating, and light-adjusting functions of the array barriers.

Obviously.

In her mind, the priorities were completely different from what Ling Wuyuan thought…

To be honest.

While this could be considered a form of trust.

This kind of trust still left Ling Wuyuan somewhat speechless.

Fortunately, his attainments in array barriers were indeed sufficient to handle this issue, not to the point of being flustered or unable to cope…

However.

While Ling Wuyuan was busy setting up the array barriers, Wu Yanlian would occasionally bother him, trying to get his attention, such as occasionally poking his back with her finger, asking him when dinner would be ready… which also left him a bit speechless.

"Soon, soon…"

After appeasing the super glutton in front of him once again, Ling Wuyuan saw Wu Yanlian, like a salted fish who had lost her dreams, sulkily finding a tree, lying on a branch, silently gazing at the night sky above.

Of course.

From her mouth.

She was still complaining about Ling Wuyuan:

"Despicable!"

"You actually dare to be perfunctory with me… I even prepared a room for you. I will definitely complain to Sixth Sister via the communication token later, saying that you've let me down…"

Listening to these rambling remarks.

Ling Wuyuan could only say that he was somewhat helpless about the situation.

However, she didn't dwell on the issue for too long, and the topic quickly shifted to some aspects that Ling Wuyuan found extremely strange and bizarre.

"You know, this sunset scene is actually a bit peculiar and beautiful. It's quite nice to look at occasionally, but it feels a bit strange when you think about it. The sun actually falls… It really defiles the sanctity of the sun. The sun should be eternally unfallen, it should be forever sacred and supreme…"

Looking at the sunset scene, as someone who lived in the outside world.

Someone who completely couldn't understand what sunrise and sunset or sunset and sunrise were.

For Wu Yanlian, the sun and the moon should be eternally unchanged, hanging high at the top of the sky, they should be the most noble things in the world, and they shouldn't fall at all. That was an insult to sanctity and supremacy!!

In these aspects, for people living in the main spacetime of the outside world, the sanctity of the sun and the moon could almost be said to be unparalleled.

Even the so-called gods were often less than a fraction of the supreme sun and moon!!

Precisely because of this.

Even though Wu Yanlian called the three celestial bodies in the [Dragon Beast Sea Ridge] that could provide light and heat to all things the sun, that was actually just a habit in terms of nomenclature. It was simply because their existence had somewhat similar functions and shapes to the sun in her cognition, so for convenience, she directly applied the title to them.

In fact.

In her heart.

Those three things that looked like the sun couldn't be considered the real sun at all. At best, they were just some kind of pseudo-objects.

On these matters.

Although Ling Wuyuan could understand her thoughts and ideas, listening to her words, Ling Wuyuan felt more speechless. He didn't know how to explain and popularize things, because even if he said many things himself and explained them, Wu Yanlian probably wouldn't understand them at all.

Planets, stars, planetary rotation…

These were all things that humans in the main spacetime of the outside world couldn't understand, like some kind of Arabian Nights.

It would truly poke at their knowledge blind spots and worldview blind spots.

In their eyes.

These natural phenomena all belonged to things that didn't conform to basic cognition, all specific rules derived from the special environment of the secret realm, without any universality, and were some kind of heresy in a sense.

Humans often only believe what they want to believe, even in these matters.

Things that seriously violated everyone's basic cognition were really, really hard for everyone to accept.

Furthermore… Ling Wuyuan was now just a guy quietly laying concrete. What was the point of being so knowledgeable, even popularizing knowledge about the natural environment of the secret realm?

So, although he was a bit speechless, Ling Wuyuan didn't respond, just diligently laying concrete while silently listening to Wu Yanlian's soliloquy.

Listening to her complaining that the sunset and sunrise scene was beautiful but full of various irrationalities, listening to her complaining that the moon and the sun were not only different in size and not a whole, but even the number was not the same…

Listening to Ling Wuyuan, he felt a bit of a headache…

However, he finally restrained his desire to complain, and amidst her incessant chatter, successfully completed the entire arrangement of the array barriers, and then, in the face of her excited expression, proudly announced:

"Tell me, what dishes do you want to eat?"

Instantly eliciting cheers from Wu Yanlian:

"Yay!!"

"It's finally time to eat!!"

That was an extremely impatient attitude.

Faced with the temptation of food, even the sun and the moon were no longer the focus of her attention.