Chapter 4061 - First a Home, Then a Nation

Even though the whole day felt a bit haphazard, wasn’t chasing after what one loved the main pursuit of life? As the light song and dance echoed throughout the air, Moran drowned in her instinctual desire. Her delicate eyes had been deeply imprinted on Tianming's mind. They were the only ones within the Ninedragon Imperial Tomb.

The mood was heavy and dense as he gently catered to her, completely different from his far rougher approach with Zi Zhen. He was worried about hurting Moran’s sensitive heart. As they blended together like two universes, she tightly hugged him and whimpered as if she was worried that he would leave her.

Perhaps she really didn't have much of a sense of security at all, unlike Zi Zhen, who was much brasher and callous. But her delicate nature was what made her charming in her own way. She felt like a bunch of snow in his hand, and he was worried that the slightest carelessness would make her melt.

As their voices echoed throughout the ship, something suddenly occurred to Tianming. Nervously, he asked, "What about your elder sisters? Can they feel this, too?"

"My sisters are a part of me. How can they not feel it?" she softly complained.

"That means... I'm in all fifty of you right now?"

"Yes. Don't worry, they love you just like I do. You can treat them like extensions of me. They’re individually incomplete, after all."

"No! Why would I hesitate? What I meant to say is that you should let them out for me to indulge in separately!"

Moran didn't know what to say to that.

***

The Sun never sets. The world belonged to Tianming, and it seemed to feel his joy. Home was a place where one could truly lose themselves. He had done the same thing when it came to Feiling and Jiguang, and now it was Moran's turn. They were all beautiful women, but in their own unique ways. Moran's edge was having a whole dance troupe with her. The moment he crossed that line, he learned truly how alluring she was.

He finally felt light and free. That was the most important part when it came to affirming their relationship. With the line crossed, he had gained a certain responsibility and mutual affirmation. Tianming no longer hesitated, while Moran and her sisters truly took him up to be their life's purpose and meaning. They knew where their future lay.

First a home, then a nation. The Tianming Dynasty had formed right along Tianming's side. Moran fully unlocked her hidden talents with a look of resolve in her eyes.

After their bonding, her combat capabilities seemed to have grown. Her entire vibe was also far less restrained, like a little fish that had begun swimming in a far bigger pond using all kinds of different styles.

***

After some time, Ji Ji finished absorbing enough nova source to return to peak condition. Since Tianming didn't dare to squander too much time in the Upper Star Ruin, he eventually put an end to his imperial lifestyle. "We're a bit short on time for now, but I'll make it up to you."

Moran bit her lip and said, "What... whatever... It's not like I.... But still...."

Tianming understood what she meant. She didn't have that strong a desire for the act in itself in the first place. What she had truly needed was proper assurance of their relationship, while the one who was truly relishing in the act itself was him.

"Let's return to the Lower Star Ruins." Tianming called Ji Ji back.

"I sucked away too much nova source from the Sun. If I explode and need to recover again, it'll turn back into an infinitum-class world," Ji Ji said.

"That fast?" Tianming said.

"Of course. My current size is massive. It'll only take a few times for me to suck the Sun dry."

"You sound like some old vampirish crone that's sucking all the life out of my adolescent Sun...."

"How dare you?!" Ji Ji's spiritform pulled his hair in frustration. After a while, it said, "Have you thought about making the Sun reach the maniverse class? It's a bit too weak right now."

"How would I do that?"

"There are many Middlekin Star Ruins, but it's difficult to get enough energy from middlekin stars alone. Ideally, you should just end a maniverse-class world and let the Sun absorb it. If that doesn't work, a dozen fortuna-class worlds should do it. However, you'd be killing even more people like that," Ji Ji said without a hint of emotion.

"There’s only cosmic gods in maniverse-class worlds, so even if we have to kill them all, it wouldn't be that many people...." Tianming didn't really mind if the ones to die were from the Eightpart Pantheons. "Even though I'm stronger, thanks to my omnisentient threads, I'm still not confident in being able to take down a maniverse-class world with my own abilities. I think we shouldn't expose the Sun just yet."

That was why he wanted to deal with things in the Lower Star Ruins first, including Lingfeng and Feiling's matters. "We should go back." He returned to the Ancestral Void Ark with Moran through the Myriadpath Celestial Formation.

***

"Has anything happened recently?" Tianming asked when he returned to the ark, immediately suppressing Qingyu and Zi Zhen's questions.

"Nothing, for now." Qingyu gave them an odd look before slipping away. Her brother's intimate affairs were far too complicated for her.

Only Tianming, Moran, and Zi Zhen were left in the room, building up quite an awkward atmosphere. Tianming cleared his throat and pulled both of them toward him, one arm around each. "Both of you are now my beloved concubines, so you’re sisters to each other. To get rid of any awkwardness, why don't the two of you join hands to challenge Us and work on some team building?"

"No way!" Zi Zhen shook off Tianming's hand and snapped, "I'm going to train in seclusion!"

Not long after she stormed off, Moran also ran away after seeing the look on his face. Those two would always be so awkward when they met, knowing well how they had to work together to cross an uncrossable divide. Everyone else knew, Tianming included—what good was a Galactic Emperor who couldn't handle his harem?

When they were gone, Tianming looked deep in the ark and said, "With the drama in the harem settled, it's about time I went about fulfilling my duties to my dynasty!"