Chapter 395: Blood Moon Netherworld, the Eleventh Land

If it were Gu Yuan from twenty years ago, hearing this function, he might have brightened up.

But now…

"No interest."

Gu Yuan took a sip of tea and lightly spat out three words.

【Eh?】

Xiao Ai's voice glitched; that human-like tone was filled with bewilderment and incomprehension.

Gu Yuan ignored its bewilderment, set down his teacup, and lightly tapped his fingers on the stone table, as if talking to himself.

"Speaking of which, while sorting through the memories of the Youquan Immortal King, I came across something interesting."

"Among them, there is a set of coordinates for a world called… Blood Moon Netherworld. Do you have any impression of it?"

Gu Yuan's tone was calm, but the four words 'Blood Moon Netherworld' made the usually lively Xiao Ai fall silent instantly.

【……】

"Why aren't you speaking? Weren't you just cheerful? Is it because you don't like to talk?"

Gu Yuan lifted his teacup, leisurely watching the clouds roll and unfurl outside the bamboo grove,

"I remember, before I entered seclusion, you pushed a blind box list that seemed to include a world called Blood Moon Netherworld, right?"

"Later I asked you, and you said… the signal source was lost?"

"Xiao Ai, shouldn't this radar be upgraded? A top-tier world, just said lost and lost—this capability is inadequate."

【……background……data……searching……】

The system's voice sounded again, but it reverted to that cold, dry, even slightly staticky mechanical tone.

It seemed to want to switch back to its original mode to conceal its panic.

The curve of Gu Yuan's mouth grew more pronounced.

"Don't search." Gu Yuan cut off its stalling, "I'll answer for you."

"That Blood Moon Netherworld wasn't lost; it was merely… snatched away by someone else first, right?"

"The one who reaped it came from above Sanqian Zhou… the Five Great Immortal Kings of the Immortal Realm, correct?"

"They probably didn't know where they got this world's name; plus, Grandfather took over forty major states, so he conveniently slaughtered this unfortunate world and brought it back as military merit to offset debts."

With each sentence Gu Yuan spoke, the system's silence deepened a notch.

"You detected Immortal King-level power interference, knowing this world was no longer something I could handle—or you thought it had already been dealt with—so you lied about the signal loss and deleted it from the task list."

"Is that right, Xiao Ai?"

In the bamboo grove, a dropped pin could be heard.

Only the rustling of wind through bamboo leaves remained, as if providing accompaniment to this awkward silence.

【……】

After a long while.

Long enough for Gu Yuan to finish his second cup of tea.

That cold mechanical sound then rang again, its voice hoarse like a program error.

【……information match 97.8%. Host's deduction confirmed.】

It admitted.

This broken system finally admitted it.

Gu Yuan laughed.

He leaned back in the stone chair, crossed his legs, exuding utter leisure.

"That's more like it; be frank, and we can have a proper chat."

He paused, shifted his tone, and his eyes grew sharp, as if they could pierce endless void to stare at the system's illusory core.

"So now we can talk about your true purpose."

"From the dark turmoil of the Profound Heaven Continent, to the evil god sacrifices of the Twilight Divine Realm, then to the Burial Emperor Star Domain, Wan Yao Senior's Ten Thousand Medicines Great World, the Great Yin Divine Dynasty's Extinction Source Plan—every world you've assigned me has been on the brink of collapse and contamination."

"Your task isn't to send me on vacation."

"You want me to act as a firefighter, to set things right, to fix the worlds that organizations like Zang Tian Ge have ruined."

Gu Yuan's voice was calm, because he had long suspected these things.

"Your very existence is to counter the Extinction Source."

"Is that right?"

This time, the system did not stay silent.

【……Yes.】

A simple syllable, yet it contained the information of acquiescing to everything.

"Interesting."

Gu Yuan's fingers lightly tapped his knee,

"A system tasked with repairing worlds, yet it chose me—a host who plucks clean and leaves nothing growing in his wake."

"Don't you think your choice is fundamentally problematic?"

【……The host's selection is based on the highest priority match of the myriad heavenly causal laws, with no error.】

The system's voice regained some fluency, as if striving to defend itself,

【……Although the host's conduct is somewhat unrestrained, the results show that every world the host has conquered has seen a fundamental improvement in civil continuity and source stability.】

"Put bluntly, although I carted off all the valuables, at least I didn't let the world be utterly destroyed, so you had to grit your teeth and accept it, right?"

Gu Yuan hit the nail on the head.

【……That can be understood this way.】

Little Ai fell silent again for a moment, then spoke cautiously.

【Host... didn't you forget? Little Ai is actually the Myriad Heavens Migrant Worker System; it's not meant for your vacation.】

Now it was Gu Yuan's turn to feel embarrassed.

This made him suddenly realize… it really was the case.

The system admitted defeat too quickly at the start, leaving him unable to react now.

"Cough cough, that's not important."

Gu Yuan gave a dry cough twice, shifted the topic, and said, "I brought this up mainly to talk to you about the Blood Moon Netherworld."

【... Please go ahead, host~】

Little Ai's voice became a bit lighter again; obviously 'defeating' Gu Yuan had also lifted its mood.

"Based on the memories I obtained from the Immortal King of the Quiet Spring, I discovered something interesting… the fools of the Sanqian Zhou Immortal Realm took a world deeply contaminated by Extinction Source Power and dragged it back as a trophy."

【!!!】

In his mind, the system's originally cheerful voice cut off abruptly.

"How come?" Gu Yuan raised an eyebrow, his tone laced with undisguised mockery, "You don't know?"

【Warning! Major anomaly detected! Reconnecting to the Myriad Heavens Causality Line…… fetching underlying data across worlds…… performing deep deduction……】

The system had no time to answer Gu Yuan's teasing.

After a moment, that harsh noise gradually subsided.

【... Data matching complete.】

Little Ai's voice was unprecedentedly grave, even faintly revealing a hint of human-like horror.

【The information provided by the host…… is confirmed true. Twenty-one years ago, the Immortal Realm's expeditionary force indeed brought the Blood Moon Netherworld, along with its hidden Extinction Source Power, through an interworld channel into the Immortal Realm proper.】

【The Blood Moon Netherworld has been officially named the 'Eleventh Land' by the Primordial Immortal Realm and incorporated into its territory.】

【According to calculations, at most a hundred years, that Extinction Source Power will completely fuse with the Eleventh Land's heavenly dao, then use it as a springboard to silently begin eroding the heavenly dao laws of the entire Primordial Heavens.】

The system's voice carried an extreme gravity.

The consequences of a top-tier great world having its inner defenses breached by Extinction Source Power are far more terrifying than ten or a hundred Great Yin Divine Dynasties combined!