Clouds pooled like a sea around them, billowing and surging whenever a breeze passed.
Overhead the sky was scrubbed clean—so blue it seemed transparent. On all sides stretched boundless heavens; below, a rolling ocean of cloud rose and fell. Jagged ridgelines coiled like dragons. A true hermit's paradise—just looking at it made the heart feel wide.
"It's beautiful…" Xue Nu and the others breathed, unable to hide their awe.
"If you like it, good. From today on, this is home," Goku said with a faint smile.
"It's lovely," Nongyu admitted, scanning the sheer cliffs, "but where would anyone actually live?"
"If I say it can be lived in, it can." Goku flicked his sleeve. Divine light washed the whole peak—
—and before their eyes, paths and terraces unfolded out of bare rock, circling the mountain; in moments an untouched, natural-looking immortal estate had taken shape.
The women stood stunned. This was beyond human hands.
"As you've seen… Goku-daren is a god," the High Priestess said softly, eyes full of reverence.
"A god…" They all stared at him. "Goku—are you really…?"
"More or less." He brought them down onto a jade-paved platform. "I'll have someone explain."
With a sweep of his hand, Saeko, Yuriko, and a few dozen other peerless beauties appeared across the terraces.
The newcomers left Xue Nu and the rest momentarily speechless.
"Fill them in," Goku told Yuriko—and in the next heartbeat he'd vanished.
"Typical Goku," Saeko sniffed. "Drop the mess on us and run."
High on the peak, Goku glanced down at the suddenly crowded terraces and grinned.
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He arrived in the Goddess's realm—no longer an empty void, but a dreamlike divine temple.
The Goddess stood in the hall, serene, perfect, a soft smile on her lips. "So soon, we meet again."
"Hey, Goddess—miss me?" Goku quipped. Her presence always hit like a first sight of spring.
"Do you plan to pull me into your harem as well?" she asked mildly, every movement heartbreakingly graceful.
"I won't lie—tempting."
"I have boundless compassion for mortals," she said evenly. "But I have no romance."
"That's the tragedy of a born Sovereign," Goku sighed. "Guard order. Sleep forever. Doesn't that feel… empty?"
"I grew used to it long ago." She seemed carved from moonlight, violet robes floating, a sanctity that made the air hush—beautiful beyond the world, and somehow unbearably sad.
"If you're that bored, train with me." Goku smiled. High-order rule sigils spun to life around him, evolving, deducing life and death.
"May I?" For the first time her eyes brightened; with those laws, she could take a step higher.
"Of course. Who knows—maybe you'll be my ally one day." Goku sat, the Dimensional God-orb rising from his brow to hover, shedding seven-colored radiance with an unquestioned, sovereign might.
Even a Sovereign couldn't help a flicker of desire at the sight. The Goddess crushed it in an instant and quietly seated herself beside him. The supreme laws leaking from the bead were beyond her reach—but the high-order patterns around Goku were enough to immerse in.
The temple filled with sigils—five phases revolving, life and death deduced—thunder roared, fire soared. Space itself began to waver under the pressure; then a rosy glow fell like a veil and calmed everything.
Days slipped by. A month was gone.
The light gathered back into their bodies; the realm stilled.
Goku rose. The Goddess opened her eyes. "You're leaving?" For a heartbeat, reluctance warmed her voice. Two people in silence, training side by side—her long habit of solitude had eased without her noticing.
"It's Yue'er's birthday today," Goku said. "I have to go." He hesitated. "Come down with me? A walk through the human world?"
Temptation flickered—then she shook her head. "The mortal realm's suffering… I can't bear to see it."
"You make life hard on yourself. You're a Sovereign—if something needs doing, do it."
"Everyone has a fate—birth, age, sickness, death. I have no right to interfere."
Goku rolled his eyes. "You're exhausting, you know that? Anyway—next time." He lifted a hand and was gone.
Her sigh drifted through the empty hall. How long until then…?
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Their immortal mountain shimmered—clouds forever wreathing it, cranes wheeling past a fixed rainbow. In a bright room full of perfume and warmth, Ji Fei lay pale and sweating, teeth clenched against the waves of pain.
"Where is he?" Ya Fei fretted, glancing to the door. "Of all times…"
"We can't wait," Shizuka said, turning grave. "We'll have to deliver the baby."
"You can?" The women stared.
"Well, I'm a surgeon, not OB," Shizuka hedged, tapping her chin, "but I can try—"
"You muddlehead," someone hissed. "Stand aside before you make it worse."
"Goku!" Relief burst across every face as he appeared without a sound. If he was here, there would be no mishaps.
He went straight to Ji Fei. Xue Nu met his eyes. "Tell us what you need. Should we step out?"
"No need." He set a hand on Ji Fei's rounded belly. Milk-white light blossomed under his palm—
—and to their collective shock, a tiny infant, wrapped in that glow, rose gently free, placed safe into Goku's waiting hands.
"I've… never seen that method," Xue Nu managed, half dazed. "Definitely not something a human could do."
"Hey, watch it," Goku said over his shoulder. Xue Nu's lips curved. "That was a compliment."
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