79: Bengbu Live! My teammates are fighting against the gods, and I am taking care of the kids in the fantasy world?

【 Illusion of Joy · Ten Thousand Years 】

Thousands of years flowed by like water.

Gu Yanci had grown accustomed to this eternal, tranquil happiness.

He watched his descendants become great figures across the stars.

He watched the civilization he personally created flourish and prosper.

Only a sense of fulfillment remained in his heart.

Until this day.

He was holding his most beloved great-grandson.

Sitting in the garden, he recounted his heroic epic of “conquering the Seven Emotions Worlds” in his youth.

The child, delicate and pure as jade, with only unadulterated joy in his eyes,

looked up with an innocent face,

and asked a question that was enough to overturn this world:

“Great-grandfather, what do ‘sorrow’ and ‘wrath’ feel like? Why did you have to defeat them?”

The smile on Gu Yanci’s face froze for the first time.

He opened his mouth, but found he couldn’t answer.

How could he explain light to someone who had never seen darkness?

How could he describe sweetness to a soul that had never tasted bitterness?

In this World of Joy,

pain, sorrow, anger... these words were merely meaningless syllables.

In this moment of speechlessness,

his Dao Heart, as a 10th-tier Humanity God Lord,

trembled violently, like a string plucked to its extreme!

Something was wrong!

His “Dao” was to protect and embrace “humans” with their seven emotions and six desires, their strengths and weaknesses!

Not these perfect “puppets” before him, who only knew how to smile, not how to cry,

and didn’t even understand what “sadness” was!

The moment this thought arose,

the world before his eyes,

like a perfect painting,

developed a barely perceptible crease.

His great-grandson’s innocent and pure smiling face in his arms,

for one ten-thousandth of a second,

transformed into a blank mask with blurred features,

and a bizarrely upward-curving mouth!

The illusion flashed and vanished.

But the biting coldness,

for the first time, penetrated the warm bed of ten thousand years of happiness, piercing deep into his divine soul!

...【 World of Joy · Central Square 】

At the same time Gu Yanci’s Dao Heart developed a crack,

the battle outside had already erupted!

“We can’t let him fight alone!”

Ye Liuli cried out sharply.

The pressure of a 9th-tier powerhouse unleashed without reservation!

“—Eternal Night Divine Kingdom!”

Endless shadows swept out from her, centered on her,

turning an area of ten thousand li into an absolute night without light, without sound,

and even without laws!

She tried to use her Divine Kingdom

to forcibly sever Su Ke Ke’s connection with this World of Joy!

“Sister Liuli won’t be able to hold on much longer!”

In Star Gazing Goddess Lingxi’s eyes, stars flickered and faded.

She actually began to burn her future destiny!

“—Future Observation · Unique Flaw!”

At the cost of a hundred years of her future luck,

she pried open a law-based crack in Su Ke Ke’s seemingly perfect Happiness Field, a crack that existed for only one ten-thousandth of a second and was absolutely undefendable!

“Now!”

Cang Xuan and Ye Qiong moved simultaneously!

Cang Xuan brought his two fingers together, pointed at Ye Qiong, and low-roared:

“Karma Grafting · Inevitable Stab!”

Ye Qiong’s figure transformed into an un-targetable wraith,

condensing his lifelong cultivation and will onto a pitch-black dagger.

Following that fleeting flaw, he stabbed towards Su Ke Ke’s heart!

This was the Joint Squad’s ultimate attack, with all their trump cards revealed and flawless coordination!

However, facing all this,

Su Ke Ke didn’t even turn her head.

She just looked at Xi Xi,

with that compassionate tenderness on her face,

and gently sighed.

With this sigh,

the entire World of Joy came alive.

The darkness in the Eternal Night Divine Kingdom was dispelled by countless golden flowers blooming out of thin air, emitting light.

The flaw, which Ling Xi had sacrificed her future to create, was gently smoothed over by a force so tender it was irresistible.

Ye Qiong’s god-slaying stab, imbued with inevitable karma,

just as it was about to touch Su Ke Ke,

transformed into a myriad of flying,

colorful light feathers, symbolizing blessings and joy.

The Joint Squad’s strongest attack

couldn’t even make her glance sideways.

Despair.

It spread through the hearts of Liuli and the others.

Just then, Xi Xi spoke.

Her voice was no longer a pure roar,

but carried a hint of trembling, a profound sorrow that struck the soul.

“Stop it... Mom.”

She looked at Su Ke Ke.

The golden-red divine flames in her eyes gradually faded.

In their place,

was endless confusion and questioning.

“You created this perfect world, without pain, without sorrow, only eternal happiness... but is this truly ‘love’?”

Xi Xi reached out, pointing at the Joint Squad members who were fighting valiantly but futilely,

and then at Gu Yanci, who wore a strange smile in the Illusion of Joy.

“Isn’t love... watching him fall, but believing he can get back up himself?”

“Isn’t love, when he cries, feeling that bitterness with him?”

“Isn’t love, respecting his choices, even if those choices bring pain?”

Her voice grew louder and louder,

finally transforming into a deafening accusation!

“You preemptively prevented all the mistakes we might make, all the hurts we might suffer!”

“What you gave us isn’t love, it’s a ‘sterile box’ that will never break!”

“You’re not loving us at all; you’re just satisfying yourself... satisfying your twisted desire for control over a ‘perfect creation’!”

“Tell me, Su Ke Ke!”

“In your eyes, are Vivi and I... truly your children, or are we your ‘toys’ that must never change?!”

When the last word fell,

the entire world plunged into dead silence.

Su Ke Ke’s unchanging,

compassionately gentle, Mother Mary-like expression,

for the first time... lost control.

That tenderness was slowly fading.

In its place,

was a bottomless coldness,

like a supreme creator

indifferently looking at the clay figures he had molded.

Xi Xi’s repeated questions about “love”

were like the most fundamental emotional storm.

Not only did they impact Su Ke Ke’s divine heart,

but the ripples of law they stirred up

also affected Gu Jianghan in the Sea of Concepts.

He was not moved by these words.

Rather, he detected that this extremely pure

emotional energy, mixed with anger and sorrow,

was like a key

gently prying open a corner deep within his own concept, a corner that had been sealed for endless ages.

There, a profoundly thick setting collection lay dormant.

Now, the sealed chains,

because of this strong resonance from the outside,

emitted a barely perceptible, crisp sound, symbolizing loosening.

‘Interesting...’

A flicker of genuine curiosity passed through Gu Jianghan’s eyes.

‘This drama seems to have some connection to a forgotten ‘past’ of mine.’

He was no longer content with mere observation.

He decided to personally add a not-too-small “footnote” to this drama.

He extended his fingertip.

A wisp of higher-dimensional ‘joy’ light flicked gently.

Without alarming anyone, silently,

it merged into the laws of the Illusion of Joy.

He did not attack the illusion.

Instead, he intercepted a segment of Gu Yanci’s deepest, most authentic memory.

That was the scene in the World of Wrath where the Joint Squad,

to protect him when he was injured,

Ye Liuli and Ling Xi, covered in blood, back to back, fought to the death.

He disguised this memory

as an incredibly real “nightmare”

and sent it to the “Holy Father” who had enjoyed ten thousand years of peace.