Many descendants

The attendant knelt down with a thud and said to Feng Jue, "That mechanical bird was broken. I only found out from the craftsman after I had already sent it out."

"What's going on?" He made all these mechanical birds by hand; if they were broken, he would have cleaned them up long ago.

The attendant added, "It was Princess Nanxu. She came to see you the other day, but you weren't there, so she went to the Mechanical Pavilion. Not only the mechanical bird, but also the scorpion stone machine that you had just assembled was broken by her. The craftsmen are repairing it now."

"Nan Xu...it seems she's still too idle." Feng Jue looked at the mechanical bird in the sky, "But she can make broken mechanical birds fly up into the sky."

The conversation suddenly stopped because he saw a person sitting on the mechanical bird.

Su Yan seemed to sense something, looked down, and met his gaze.

Su Yan smiled and waved to him, "Goodbye, Young Master Feng—"

Feng Jue's eyes widened instantly, filled with astonishment.

Su Yan piloted the mechanical bird and flew towards the high sky outside Sanbang City.

"This, this, this... how is this possible?!" The attendant was utterly incredulous when he saw Su Yan sitting on the mechanical bird.

"Someone come here!" Feng Jue watched as the mechanical bird carried Su Yan further and further away until it gradually disappeared from sight.

"Your Highness." A masked man in gray robes, exuding a chilling aura, suddenly appeared.

"Order the Feng Department to investigate this Miss Su."

"Yes."

……

"Mom, I want to race the mechanical bird and see who flies faster!" Manman flapped her chubby wings, which had only a few feathers and were still covered in down.

Su Yan didn't want to discourage her, so she laughed and said, "Silly girl, it's so much bigger than you. If you want to compare, you have to wait until you grow to be the same size as it."

"How could Manman grow up to be this big?"

"Haven't you seen your father's true form?"

"I've seen it. Grandma said that in the Phoenix Clan, the males are more beautiful than the females, and Dad is the most handsome in the Phoenix Clan."

"Hahaha, your dad is handsome. Mom likes him a lot too." Su Yan stroked Manman's ahoge (cowlick).

"Does Mother like Father more, or Uncle Pei, Uncle Zong, and Uncle Zi more?"

"..." What a terrible question!

Stroking her tuft of hair, she said, "Mother prefers Manman."

"Really?" Manman fluttered her little wings happily. "You like Manman the most, right?"

"Yes." Su Yan looked at her happy little face and piloted the mechanical bird to fly away into the distance.

The mechanical bird flew and stopped frequently across the mortal world, traveling everywhere. Manman followed Su Yan and saw many of the world's landscapes.

Finally, they arrived at the Heavenly Dao Barrier between the mortal world and the Dao Realm.

Su Yan released a portion of her ultimate power and entered the barrier without any hindrance.

Once inside the barrier, they discovered there was another space inside.

However, it is extremely dangerous here, as spatial rifts can appear at any time.

The mechanical bird's mount was quickly torn to pieces by the spatial rift blade.

Su Yan quickly put Manman into the system space, turning herself into a guinea pig to narrow down her target.

"Xiaomei, it's so dangerous in here."

[The host can open the system map; the warning routes on it should be usable.]

Su Yan opened the system, and a crooked, safe route appeared. However, it seemed that she hadn't left the barrier within a kilometer, and there were still many skeletons on the ground.

Countless people have died here.

Su Yan clasped her hands together, then used her Yuan Power to create a pit with her claw, burying the remains in it so that these people could rest in peace.

[The host is kind-hearted.]

[Just doing it casually, I only walked twenty meters and encountered five skeletons. With such a large-scale barrier, how many people must have died?]

At the end of life, if one can pass through this barrier, they will enter another world. Even if they fail, they will simply be buried. Therefore, this barrier is also called the Heavenly Tomb.

What about the people on the other side?

They cannot touch the barrier. To them, the mortal world, though separated only by a barrier, is harder to cross than ascending to heaven. It must be a rule of heaven established to protect the survival and reproduction of humanity in the mortal world.

But humanity still wants to defy the laws of nature, seeking the Dao and immortality.

Yes. Humans actually have their own path to longevity; the cycle of reincarnation is probably better than eternal life.

[Not necessarily.] Su Yan thought to herself. She wanted this one lifetime, not reincarnation. Otherwise, why would she bind herself to the system? There would always be an obsession that she couldn't let go of for this lifetime.

Therefore, Heaven allows humans to enter the barrier to test their resolve and whether it is strong enough to withstand the dangers on the path of cultivation.

[Do you have a past?]

[Yes. Isn't the host about to go there soon?]

"But I'm not human," Su Yan replied.

Xiao Mei [...]

【Hahaha~ Xiaomei, you haven't always thought of me as a human, have you?】 Although her soul is human, her body is that of a rat, or you could say a rat demon.

Xiaomei replied: "The soul is more important than the body."

Su Yan picked up a storage bag, put it into her spatial storage, and then buried the remains. [Souls? Where did these people's souls go?]

The soul's final resting place is the ethereal realm; all the dead go there.

[Then why did I come to the Beast World after I died, instead of the Void Realm?]

[Xiao Mei has not yet unlocked the data memory of this partition.]

Okay, remember to let me know when you find out.

Su Yan continued walking forward.

Suddenly, a bright yellow hue appeared in her eyes as the system map spread.

He ran a little faster, and when he got there, he was stunned.

It was a rotting skeleton that had been cleaved in two by a spatial rift blade.

The lower body and upper body were not far apart, and there was a ravine formed by a spatial rift blade on the ground.

He was holding a storage bag in his upper hand.

Su Yan pulled out the storage bag and found that the owner's recognition mark on it had been erased, which was obviously done intentionally by the other party.

Su Yan thought for a moment and then opened the storage bag.

Inside were secret letters, memorials, various seals, phoenix robes and crowns, and so on. But what attracted Su Yan the most was a letter written in blood.

"—I am Empress Feng Zhongyan of the Yun Kingdom. I was teleported to the Heavenly Tomb by the tribal chief Kungang and King Weijie of the Weiyang Kingdom using a secret teleportation technique. Their wolfish ambitions are worthy of destruction and execution. I am summoned by Heaven and hereby abdicate in favor of Feng Jue, son of King Wen'an. I earnestly hope that the new ruler will not fail my expectations and that the world will be unified! Feng Zhongyan's final words at the Heavenly Tomb."

"Xiao Mei, this is the will. It's to pass the throne to that man disguised as a woman, Feng Jue, isn't it?"

Yes. Would you like to send it back to him, host?

[How many points?] Su Yan was a little reluctant to help, but since she had already opened and seen it, she felt a little guilty if she didn't help.

【1 point!】 Xiao Mei pronounced those three words a little too tightly.

Su Yan laughed out loud. "Okay, then you can take it to him."

He immediately put the items he had poured out of the storage bag back in, and wrapped the corpse that had been split in two by the spatial rift blade in an animal skin blanket and put it into the storage bag as well.

Xiao Mei sent the storage bag to Feng Jue, who was far away in Sanbang City.

At this point, all the corpses along her safe route were gone, and she had reached the end of the barrier.