Aizen King and the King of Fighting Landlords

The formation absorbed the residual energy of the coronal storm, repairing the areas weakened by the impact of battle. The will of the Kingdom of Zhou to protect His Majesty the Emperor endured.

The core systems of the two Emperor's Guardians regained autonomous function. Sensing Zhou Nan's command, they continued to stand guard over the barrier with the majestic bearing of epic statues.

The outside world had just passed through the darkest, quietest hour before dawn. Search and rescue efforts were still proceeding in a tense yet orderly manner. Many more tents had appeared in the mountaintop camp, and the team members who had rotated off duty were resting. Qin Luming took a long detour to avoid being seen by the others and carried the unconscious beautiful girl into his tent.

Qin Luming's tent was spacious enough to sleep three people with room to spare. He kicked off his shoes and sat cross-legged beside her, switched on the overhead light, and watched its glow fall across her face. Then he hurriedly turned it off and lit a fireproof candle that would go out if tipped over.

Qin Luming studied the girl before him carefully. He clasped his hands and rubbed them together nervously, leaned forward and then rocked back a few times, before touching his slightly warm cheeks.

Fairy Jiang. That was the name Qin Luming had given her.

At the time, he had been coming up with a name for the heroine of his novel. Zuozuo had been slicing ginger, Caicai had been peeling garlic, and Qin Luming had thought of a name like Ginger Garlic, which he found adorable. But then he thought Ginger Mulberry sounded pretty good after a slight shift in pronunciation.

Dream of the Red Chamber had been playing on television, which made him think of Crimson Pearl Fairy. Ginger and crimson sounded similar, so Qin Luming had ultimately decided on the name "Fairy Jiang."

Divine Ash Sky Aizen Great Bright King had not been Qin Luming's creation.

Qin Luming's novel was called "Life Experience with a Fairy Girlfriend." He had only come up with that title after deciding that the heroine would be named Fairy Jiang.

Qin Luming had always hoped that the adorable heroine from his novel would come into reality. Now that his wish had come true, he was at a loss instead.

Even a little embarrassed.

After all, writing a novel and indulging in fantasies was one thing. There had been no burden at all. He could describe her adorableness without restraint and talk about how much he liked her.

Reality was different!

Looking at the breathtakingly beautiful girl before him, Qin Luming scratched his hair again. He only hoped that she had not learned about the story and plot of "Life Experience with a Fairy Girlfriend."

"Bug, what are you thinking about?"

Qin Luming had been lost in wild thoughts when he suddenly heard the girl's voice. He quickly turned to look at her, froze for a moment, and said, "What did you call me?"

"Bug."

Qin Luming opened his mouth. "Why are you calling me a bug?"

"In your novel, didn't I call you a bug?" The girl looked at Qin Luming with slight confusion. "Isn't that what you liked to be called? ...I remember you wrote it like this: Her moist lips parted slightly, and the syllables she uttered were filled with arrogant command. Chongzi. She seemed to truly believe that everyone before her was nothing more than bugs, rather than deliberately trying to insult anyone."

Qin Luming covered his face and rubbed his hair. So embarrassing. He nearly wanted to dig a hole and bury his head in it. Why had he written something like that? He looked like some pervert who enjoyed being insulted.

"Bug."

"Wait... stop calling me bug. Are you really Fairy Jiang?" Qin Luming raised a hand and took a deep breath to calm himself down. Regardless of how he had written things in the novel, he needed to seriously confirm her identity and how all this had happened.

The girl slowly sat up, smoothing her skirt with both hands. She turned to examine Qin Luming. Her clear black-pearl eyes, as though freshly washed with water, made him feel that if he met her gaze, she would see through every pure, filthy, and evasive thought in his heart.

"We have already signed a contract." Fairy Jiang frowned. "Of course I am. My private name is written on it."

"Then... you're also the Di... Deeply Licking, Love-whatever King?" Qin Luming truly had not heard it clearly. Besides, in his novel, Fairy Jiang was a powerful being who had accidentally arrived in the world of Earth. He had never established how she had come to Earth or what her original identity was, because the focus had only been on daily life.

"Divine Ash Sky Aizen Great Bright King." Fairy Jiang's brows seemed as though they could never relax once they furrowed. "Since you are merely an ordinary bug, I forgive your disrespect."

Qin Luming had already given up on making her stop calling him a bug. It seemed that, just as he had written, everyone was a bug in Fairy Jiang's eyes.

"Then how did we sign a contract? Did you exist to begin with, or were you created by my novel?" Qin Luming asked curiously. "What effect and purpose does our contract have?"

"You are merely a bug. How could you possibly create a God King?" Fairy Jiang looked at Qin Luming calmly.

Qin Luming took a deep breath. Being called a "bug" in real life was not cute at all!

"Then why would you, as a God King, sign a contract with a bug? I'm not admitting that I'm a bug. I just think your arrogance isn't quite so justified in light of the facts. One is a God King who signed a contract with a bug, and the other is a God King summoned by a bug. What's so impressive about that?" Qin Luming said indignantly.

"God Kings are naturally nothing remarkable, but I am the Divine Ash Sky Aizen Great Bright King. How could I be compared to ordinary God Kings? The only God King capable of matching me is one with the title King of Fighting Landlords." Fairy Jiang spoke dismissively, paying no attention to the provocation in Qin Luming's tone.

"What?" Qin Luming thought he had misheard. "King of Fighting Landlords? You mean fighting as in fighting, land as in land, and lord as in landlord? That King of Fighting Landlords?"

"Mm."

After staring blankly for a while, Qin Luming pressed hard against his cheeks to suppress his wild laughter, lest he show disrespect toward this "King of Fighting Landlords."

If an Aizen Great Bright King could be mentioned in the same breath as the King of Fighting Landlords, why did the grand-sounding Aizen Great Bright King suddenly not seem all that impressive?

"My mother was the Aizen King, the first-generation Aizen King. She was also the commander of the Divine Kingdom in the first Divine Kingdom War, the divine punishment against Sky Cloud Divine Realm. She was injured while fighting Lin Jiangxian, a powerful expert of Sky Cloud Divine Realm, but she also exiled Lin Jiangxian to your world." Fairy Jiang spoke as though recounting nothing more than history, with no emotion in her voice. "The Aizen King's domain artifact, the Pure Grace Divine Bow, was also lost in that war... This directly led to her suffering another crushing defeat at the hands of the King of Fighting Landlords, who came to challenge her before she had fully recovered her strength."

"Then why is your mother the Aizen King while you're the Aizen Great Bright King...? Shouldn't you be the Aizen Little Bright King?" Qin Luming asked, unable to understand.

"I'm stronger than her."

That was actually the reason? Qin Luming could tell from Fairy Jiang's tone that she seemed to have neither respect nor affection for her mother. It was as though theirs was merely an objective mother-daughter relationship, with no bond beyond that.

"Originally, I had no way of coming to this world. But because of you, a passage was established between your world and the Divine Kingdom, allowing me to descend smoothly." Fairy Jiang spread her palm, and the staff that had disappeared when she fell from the sky appeared in her hand again. It was much smaller now, compact enough to fit inside the tent and more suited to her height.

So it had been because of him that she had been summoned over... Qin Luming began to understand the sequence of events a little.

Qin Luming had previously considered that if people from another world came to Earth, some sort of passage must have been created. Whether it was the world of a novel or the Divine Kingdom that Fairy Jiang claimed existed regardless of whether he wrote about it, it was the same.

"What about me caused it?" Qin Luming asked eagerly. His attention had shifted away from the beautiful girl who had been the object of a young man with no experience in love's fantasies. At last, someone had appeared who could answer some of the mysterious phenomena he had encountered.

Zhou Nan should originally have been able to provide some answers as well, but Zhou Nan seemed far less approachable than Fairy Jiang. Zhou Nan only wanted to capture Qin Luming, castrate him, and make him write novels. His Majesty the Emperor was indifferent to everyone else's affairs.

Fairy Jiang did seem more patient than Zhou Nan. Although her identity sounded even more exalted, she slightly raised her head and gave Qin Luming a look reserved for bugs. "Do you know what divine particles are?"

Qin Luming shook his head. Of course he knew what particles were, but divine particles did not sound like a scientific term.

"If I divide a bug into one hundred pieces, what does it become?" Fairy Jiang asked.

"A dead bug." When she asked that question, Qin Luming glanced at her again. The bug she meant was actually him, wasn't it?

"What if you keep dividing it until every part can no longer be divided?"

"Then those are particles. At the beginning of the last century, our world had a definition for that. People called photons, electrons, protons, neutrons, and so on elementary particles, believing they could no longer be divided. But later, people discovered that protons, neutrons, and the like had complex structures of their own." Qin Luming paused. Could the "divine particles" Fairy Jiang spoke of actually be not some mystical theological concept, but something with a certain scientific meaning?

"Divine particles are the state reached when matter has been divided until it can no longer be divided. At that point, this indivisible matter possesses divinity. It can combine into any world, any phenomenon, any space. Even a single divine particle can appear at any point along the axis of time. It can also exist in any two places at the same time, and those two places may be infinitely distant from each other in terms of spacetime, separated by infinite time." Fairy Jiang looked at Qin Luming, who seemed so astonished that he might display the structure of his throat to her, and was somewhat puzzled. "You're actually surprised. To be surprised, you must understand at least part of what I mean. It seems you aren't a stupid bug."

"Th-this is a little like concepts in our scientific community: quantum theory, quantum effects, time crystals, and so on..." Qin Luming was not as ignorant as Fairy Jiang thought. If a physical quantity had a smallest indivisible basic unit, then that quantity was quantized, and that smallest unit could be called a quantum. The microscopic world in a quantum state truly could be called the world of gods. The scientific community could only explore it with difficulty, attempting to touch the unknown that resembled a divine domain.

Qin Luming even suspected that Fairy Jiang's claims might be another perspective for explaining and studying the microscopic world.

"When the novel you wrote in this world created a character matching my image, it produced fluctuations in divine particles. I and the image of the character in your novel became two positional manifestations of the same entity. I was in the Divine Kingdom, and I was also in your novel." Fairy Jiang looked at the staff in her hand. "Do you understand?"

"I don't understand the principle, but I understand the phenomenon... Why is the Summoning Contract the publishing contract I signed for my novel?" Qin Luming continued.

"In your eyes, it is a publishing contract for a novel. But the divine particles composing it can express another contractual state. You simply cannot interpret it, so you can only see one form of its manifestation." Fairy Jiang pointed to her eyes. "For example, you are currently wearing clothing suitable for bugs to protect their soft bodies. But I can see that the form of this clothing consists of a few strips of cloth binding the vulnerable parts of your body. The form of clothing I see is not an illusion, but a recombination of divine particles."

Qin Luming instinctively hugged himself. Th-this basically meant that everyone could be wrapped up tightly in the middle of winter, wearing thermal underwear, yet in Fairy Jiang's eyes, they could all become dressed in bikinis? And it was not even an illusion?

This ability was kind of interesting.