Modern Cultivation : The Strongest Couple Bonded by Vampire System

"I don't want to think about it now, Alex, just let me be for now," MingYue said while still sobbing. She often acted cold and uncaring, but the moment the wall cracked open, the dam burst out.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

Her feelings as a five-year-old, forced to cultivate, no playtime, no social time. Barely spending time with her own family. Every day was cultivate, cultivate, cultivate.

More treasures to absorb, more secret techniques to learn, more things to practice.

It was all never-ending. Every day was so monotonous that she was forced to push all her feelings and emotions down.

A realization then came to her: since when did she start to let her feelings come out?

She looked up once more, looking at Alex's eyes, which were still emotionless. "So this is all because of you, Alex."

"Me? What do you mean?"

"Since I met you, I started learning about your life, seeing your family, your bond. I realized that was what I wanted.

If I never saw that, how could I have known how miserable my life was?

Am I not deserving of that kind of life? Tell me, Alex, did I do something wrong to deserve this kind of life?"

"MingYue, you know that's not how the world works. If everyone got what they deserved, the world would never be like this."

"I know, I know… but then… what justifies this? Why must I be the one that hurts…"

MingYue put her head on his chest and started sobbing. No more words came out from her lips because even though she knew what Alex said was the truth.

Alex instinctively moved his hand to her hair and started combing through it gently. He also didn't say anything, knowing that any more words would be meaningless.

The moment passed for the couple in silence. Alex should have checked his army's situation; he also needed to talk with Ying Xue to gather more information on the situation of the rift, but right now, it all didn't matter.

Somehow, his priorities had shifted, and MingYue was the most important one. This made him wonder what was the basis of this change.

Emotion? But he was emotionless now.

'Is it really true? Some emotions are really carved into someone's soul? However, if I list them based on time and intensity, MingYue should not be number one.

But here I am, prioritizing my time for her instead of preparing to save my family.

Or maybe it's the situation? I deem it more necessary to do this for now.'

Alex then started filtering out the information they got from the pendant. It didn't differ much from what he got from the Dragari King, but this one gave out more context.

After his father realized what had happened was related to the opening of the dungeon in their world, he decided to go after the reality. When he arrives in MingYue's world and finds out about the rift, Edward quickly links it to the invasion.

He spent tons of time learning about its origin. On Blue Jewel planet in ancient times, before the rift appeared, humans were under the suppression of two races: one was the youkai, and the other was immortal, or they called them Gods.

Each period, a new genius would appear, creating weapons to fight against them. Some acted like spies, fawning at them, looking for any clue to gain their strength; others used external materials like youkai and god corpses to create formidable weapons.

This resulted in the birth of strong weapons, but in the end, it was not enough. When the holder died, the weapon was picked up by their enemy instead, making them stronger.

Things only started to change after someone invented cultivation. But even this was not simple; the cultivation took several generations to improve to the current state that Alex knew of, and the one responsible for it was Xue's ancestor, Feng Xue's brother.

Wielding this power, Feng Xue's brother pushed back the youkai and Gods. He created many traps, used their arrogance against them, and finally ended up almost winning. But in the end, the leader of the Gods, Zeus, told them the truth with a gloating smile.

Despite the situation, in reality, Gods were a celestial race that ran away to this planet. They then created a strong barrier, protecting it from outside invasion. But some passed through, fighting hard against them, eliminating all the invaders.

Unfortunately, some survived, and they were bred with humans and beasts, resulting in the birth of the Youkai race.

With the death of Zeus, the protection barrier disappeared. The survivors of the Youkai race then opened a portal to their world, allowing their army to invade the planet.

Some of the invaders were species Alex knew: kobolds, goblins, and even Dragari. They were monsters that often appeared in the dungeon.

The Xue ancestor then sacrificed his life to recreate the barrier, but since his ability and knowledge were limited at that time, he could not completely close the current portals that had opened on the planet.

The ancestors gathered them all at one point, fusing them into a huge rift. He then cast another barrier on it, limiting the strength of those that could enter their planet.

Edward met MingYue's parents when he was looking for the history of the Blue Jewel planet. They helped him when he was wounded because of an ambush from his opponent in the Zephyr clan.

Afterward, they started becoming closer. Edward, who was looking for more comrades, decided they could be trusted. He shared with them everything he knew and brought them on a journey together.

Afterward, everything progressed as they knew. Alex's father then made a plan to visit beyond the rift.

This decision came since he realized that no matter what he did, there was no chance for him to defeat the Dragari King without heavily wounding his own soul.

In the end, he chose to use his limited life to scout and explore the truth. As for MingYue's parents, they had their own situation.