Empress's First Mobile Phone

In the early morning, dazzling sunlight spilled across the curtains, and the faint, gentle warmth of dawn slowly shone into the room.

Long Yue stirred her sleepy eyes. Still half-asleep, she wrapped her arms around the "body pillow" beside her, her palm habitually stroking back and forth over it.

However, she soon began to sense that something was off. The sensation beneath her hand was not the soft pillow she knew, but something firm...

Long Yue slowly opened her eyes and was met with a handsome face wearing a helpless, wry smile.

"Good morning, Empress. Could you let go of this Venerable now?"

"Mm...?"

Not fully awake yet, Long Yue froze. Looking down, she realized that she had somehow wrapped herself around Demon Supreme's arm. One leg was draped over him, while her hand rested on his chest.

What she had been touching was not a soft pillow—it was Demon Supreme's body!

"D-Demon Supreme! Who told you to get so close to this Empress?!"

"You really took advantage of this Empress being asleep to secretly do something to me, didn't you?!"

Coming back to her senses, Long Yue's pretty face flushed red. She instinctively swung a fist at Lin Fan.

Lin Fan raised his hand and steadily caught the delicate fist flying at him, looking utterly innocent.

"Empress, everything requires evidence. Before acting, you should also distinguish right from wrong."

"This Venerable did nothing to you. You were the one who crossed the boundary line last night and insisted on squeezing over here."

"Because you were hugging this Venerable, not only could I not get up, I was forced to sleep at the very edge of the bed. I was practically about to fall off."

As he spoke, Lin Fan turned and glanced at the empty edge of the bed beside him. Half his butt was already hanging off the mattress.

Seeing Lin Fan on the verge of falling from the bed, then looking at the spacious empty space behind herself, Long Yue's face immediately flushed with embarrassed shame.

Clearly, the one who had crossed the boundary line last night was not Demon Supreme, but her...

And she had nearly hit him because of it...

"S-Sorry, this Empress wrongly blamed you..."

Long Yue hurriedly moved aside and apologized with a reddened face.

Back in the Immortal Realm, whenever she occasionally needed sleep, she liked to hug a cool, soft pillow to drift off. Last night, she seemed to have accidentally treated the Demon Supreme beside her as a body pillow out of habit.

She had only confidently declared last night that she absolutely would not cross the line. This was truly humiliating...

"Ding-dong."

At that moment, the doorbell rang outside, breaking the awkwardness in the room.

Long Yue's brows knit together as she warily looked toward the door.

"Demon Supreme, it sounds like someone has come!"

"Oh, that should be the delivery I ordered yesterday."

Lin Fan did not think much of it as he got up and opened the door.

Sure enough, a courier holding a package stood outside.

"Hello, are you Mr. Lin? This is your delivery."

"Alright, thank you."

Lin Fan thanked him, took the package from the courier, and immediately hurried into the living room to open it.

Before long, two brand-new mobile phones were sitting on the table.

"What is this thing?"

Long Yue leaned closer and examined the phones on the table over and over, her eyes filled with curiosity and confusion.

With her thousand years of experience, she still could not tell what the objects before her were.

"This is called a mobile phone. It's an indispensable tool in this era."

"For people in this world, they can go without anything else, but they cannot go without a mobile phone!"

Lin Fan picked up one of the phones, his eyes full of nostalgia.

After several hundred years, holding a mobile phone again still felt so familiar...

"Is this thing really that important?" Long Yue asked curiously.

"Of course. This Venerable will give you a simple demonstration."

Lin Fan turned on the phone and took a photo of Long Yue, who stood before him in a cute set of Pikachu pajamas.

Long Yue looked utterly baffled. Seeing Lin Fan holding up the phone and aiming it at her, she could not help frowning slightly, her expression turning wary.

"What are you doing to this Empress?"

"Taking a picture~"

Lin Fan smiled faintly and held the finished photo out in front of Long Yue.

Long Yue looked closely, and her expression instantly changed in shock.

"Th-This is this Empress?!"

"Could this be a projection stone that records people and scenes? No! Projection stones can't record images this realistically!"

On the Immortal-Demon Continent, there was a kind of disposable treasure called a projection stone. By activating it with spiritual power, one could imprint the image before them within it. However, the recorded image had no color whatsoever, only a vague, blurry silhouette.

Yet the photograph before her was vivid and crystal clear—even the expression on her face had been captured in perfect detail!

Seeing Long Yue's stunned expression, Lin Fan could not help smiling smugly.

"A projection stone can't compare to this."

As he spoke, Lin Fan enlarged and rotated the photo on the phone, then even edited a pair of cat ears onto it right in front of her.

"Th-this...! Is this still this Empress? How did I become one of the Monster Race...?"

Long Yue stared at the image of herself with cat ears, utterly shocked.

She had never seen a "projection stone" that could alter an image!

"Taking pictures is only the most basic function of a phone. It can even let people thousands of miles apart communicate by voice."

Lin Fan took out two old SIM cards he had prepared and inserted them into the phones. Then, he used one phone to call the other.

Very soon, the other phone began to ring and vibrate.

"Empress, try pressing that green button on the screen."

"Oh..."

Following Lin Fan's instructions, Long Yue picked up the other phone and pressed the answer button on the screen.

The next second, Lin Fan's voice came through from the other end:

"Hello, hello~"

"I can hear you!"

"This thing actually has the function of a voice transmission stone too?!"

Hearing the voice coming from the phone, Long Yue was immensely shaken.

But Lin Fan was not done yet. Before her eyes, he turned on the flashlight, then opened the music player and randomly selected a song.

When the melodious singing flowed from the phone, Long Yue stood completely frozen in place.

In just a few short minutes, she had been shocked several times over.

This utterly inconspicuous object actually possessed so many functions!

There were countless magical treasures in the Immortal Realm, but their functions were generally quite singular. Even across the entire Immortal Realm, she had never seen any treasure that gathered such a wealth of functions into one!

Even the Immortal Realm's most renowned master craftsmen might not have been able to invent such a magical treasure!

It was unbelievable that such a thing had actually come from the hands of a mortal!

"What this Venerable demonstrated was merely the phone's most basic functions. It can do far more than this—you'll learn the rest gradually in the future."

"Those were only its most basic functions?!"

Long Yue instinctively held the phone in both hands, her eyes filled with amazement and reverence.

"The mortal who invented this must be someone truly extraordinary!"

"Can this Empress meet him?"

As she spoke, Long Yue looked at Lin Fan with eager anticipation.

Lin Fan revealed an awkward expression.

"Uh... that might not be possible..."

"Is that so? What a pity..."

Upon hearing that, sadness and regret appeared on Long Yue's face.

If such a talented person could be recruited under her command to serve the Immortal Realm, how wonderful would that be...

"Demon Supreme, here, take it back."

Reluctantly, Long Yue offered the phone in her hands back to Lin Fan.

If she could keep such a richly functional treasure by her side and bring it back to the Immortal Realm for some study, perhaps it could even help the future development of artifact refinement there...

Lin Fan did not take the phone she offered. Instead, he gently shook his head.

"This Venerable already said that phones are essential in this world. This phone was specifically for you."

"For... This Empress?! Such a precious thing...?"

Long Yue's expression changed in shock, and she even briefly wondered whether she had misheard him.

Lin Fan did not think much of it.

"This really isn't that precious. It's only a thousand-yuan phone."

"Both our spiritual power reserves are nearly depleted, so we can't use voice transmission to contact each other. Having phones will make it easier for us to stay in touch later."

"Th-then, thank you..."

Long Yue looked gratefully at Lin Fan. The corners of her lips could not stop curling upward, and her eyes sparkled as she looked at the phone in her hands, as though a child had just received some incredible treasure.

Lin Fan did not know whether to laugh or cry.

But thinking about it, this was the Empress's first phone in her life. He had been just as happy when he got his first phone back then, so a little excitement was only natural...