Chapter 4637 - The Guide

Tianming quickly calmed himself.

He had already noticed that Zi Zhen and Moran were nowhere beside him.

My lifebound beasts, my totems, the Grand-Orient Sword; everything that belonged to me came in. Even my lifebound space remained unchanged.

But anything external to me didn't seem to make the trip.

He approached the Gravekeeper. Here, he actually stood slightly taller than the old man.

Looking at the Gravekeeper's snow-white hair, Tianming asked respectfully, "Senior, why can't I see my two lovers? They were beside me the entire time in the Real World Dock."

The Gravekeeper studied him with a gentle smile.

"They have never entered the Realm of Worldgazing. Even if they stand beside you, they do not exist in this world."

The answer gave Tianming even more to ponder.

Those who had never entered the Realm of Worldgazing simply did not exist here...

That alone shattered his earlier projection theory.

The Gravekeeper continued, "Once they enter even a single time, you'll always be able to see them whenever they're nearby, regardless of which state they're in."

Tianming nodded thoughtfully. Everything here fascinated him, but most of his questions still had no answers. So he set them aside for now.

"Can I bring my two lovers into the Realm of Worldgazing?"

"Of course." The Gravekeeper smiled. "You can do it yourself."

Tianming blinked. "I can? How?"

"Return to the Real World Dock. Just as I did with you, hold their hands and have them contemplate the Origin. That will bring them here."

So that was all it took.

Thinking back, the Gravekeeper truly hadn't done anything besides touching him.

So I can already become someone else's guide? Tianming thought.

He nodded respectfully. "Then, Senior, let me give it a try."

The Gravekeeper merely smiled, patient as ever.

Tianming focused his thoughts and the world transformed in response.

A deep rumble echoed around him as the sky, mountains, valley, clouds, flowers, and grass gradually faded until they disappeared entirely, replaced by the endless void returned.

This time, however, the colossal figure of the Gravekeeper was gone.

Only boundless emptiness surrounded him.

Beside him stood Zi Zhen and Moran, both waiting anxiously. Relief filled their eyes when Tianming returned.

Seeing them eased his own heart.

After confirming that nothing else had changed, he asked, "What did you see just now?"

Zi Zhen replied, "The moment you reached out, both you and the Gravekeeper vanished. Only a blurry mass of light remained."

Moran added, "It was like you had entered another world."

Tianming nodded.

"So while I'm in the Realm of Worldgazing, I don't appear within the Real World Dock. Yet according to the Gravekeeper, once someone has entered the Realm of Worldgazing, they'll still be visible there even after returning to the Real World Dock... Then what state am I in over there?"

He decided not to dwell on it.

Instead, he shared everything the Gravekeeper had told him.

Both women listened in astonishment.

"So the Realm of Worldgazing is another real world?" Zi Zhen asked. "And we can enter it just by holding hands?"

Moran and her forty-nine sisters also found it hard to believe.

"Then let me take you there," Tianming said. "Seeing is believing."

He extended both hands.

Knowing how important this was, neither woman hesitated. Curiosity overcoming all else, they took a deep breath and followed his instructions.

Immediately, something miraculous happened.

Their world changed.

As the sacred female voice echoed through the heavens, they too felt themselves embraced by countless hands, wrapped in incomparable warmth as they entered the entirely different Realm of Worldgazing.

Two graceful figures appeared within the valley where the Primordial God-Emperor's tomb rested.

One was a petite girl with purple hair, whose first instinct was to survey her surroundings with wary vigilance.

The other wore a dark green dress. Tall and elegant, she quietly admired everything around her with equal parts curiosity and wonder.

Like Tianming before them, both were amazed by the Realm of Worldgazing.

Tianming patiently repeated the Gravekeeper’s explanation.

Moran gazed around in amazement, covering her lips. "So the Realm of Worldgazing and the Real World Dock both exist simultaneously... They're both real worlds."

Zi Zhen crouched upon the grass, gently brushing the blades as the breeze passed through them. "It really is real. It feels a little like the wondersky realms, yet completely different."

The comparison came naturally, but the difference was fundamental.

Only one’s caeli entered the wondersky realm, while upon entering the Realm of Worldgazing, their bodies vanished entirely from the Real World Dock.

They were truly traveling between two separate worlds.

Throughout the entire process, the white-haired Gravekeeper simply watched from the side with a gentle smile, never interrupting.

"I never imagined I'd become a guide so soon," Tianming thought with emotion.

Walking over to Moran, he gently took her hand. It felt just as soft and warm as it had when they had been mortals.

The sensation lingered pleasantly.

Yet when he concentrated, he could still sense the starlight flowing beneath her skin. Her essence remained a hundred-thousand-meter body of middlekin astrons.