Getting a Sugar Mommy in Cultivation World!!

Under the natural moonlight, Andis sorted a stack of papers before her on the table.

As she worked, the frown on her face never eased. With each paper she passed, it only deepened.

Over the course of thirty years, Andis had changed significantly. She no longer had an air of youth around her. Despite her young appearance, she held a deep, mature vibe.

She had started wearing dark gothic makeup that made her look completely different from how she used to appear.

The indifference in her eyes had been replaced by bone-deep arrogance and pride. She held herself like the goddess she thought she was.

Woosh!

A gust of wind entered the room, flickering the thin curtains and shining pale white moonlight all around; the decorations hung at the window also chimed upon being disturbed.

But not a single paper moved from the table; everything on the table stayed in its place as it was, besides a feather lightly placed in the corner.

It moved, catching Andis's attention. She raised her eyes and saw it flying up before fluttering in the direction behind her.

Still determined to see where it was going, she slowly turned around and saw it landing a few meters away at the feet of a person who should not have been there.

In fact, no one apart from the woman herself was allowed inside this room. The moment she saw the feet, a flicker of coldness flashed through her eyes.

She raised her head, about to lash out at the person who infiltrated her private room without permission—

Instead, she froze… not because she did not recognize the person standing before her but because she knew the man.

She had seen him a long time ago, but she never could get his face out of her head. After all, she was the person who liberated her from her previous life; he was the person who made her break free from the shackles people called marriage.

"The last I saw you, I never thought we would ever meet again, much less me coming to see you like this." Noah met her eyes and stepped forward; he walked around her, walking past the table.

Andis remained seated, but her gaze followed his figure. "You remember when you asked me what the difference is between that goddess people worshiped and the helpless me whom people used and threw as they pleased?"

She looked at Noah's back as he stood at the edge of the window from the towering city hall, looking over the entire city, and continued without waiting for a response, "The answer had always been power—power to change people's fate, power to sway their wills."

"Well now I am no different from her; I am also the goddess they worship and admire."

Noah suddenly chuckled, causing her to frown and stare at his back.

"Goddess, you are…" As he spoke, his eyes swept over the city below, looking at each corner. The cracked places, the broken people, and a failed society. "The false goddess of a ruined kingdom who sees the crown of bones as a jewel of divinity."

Noah traced his fingers on the edge of the wooden railings; his touch left a glowing trace that faded away with time.

"You spent decades trying to find the answers to a simple question that you still got wrong. The reason the woman named Goddess Ana was revered as a goddess was not because of her power, nor was she worshipped for being the woman who saved them from the beast tide."

"If that had been the case, why is no one from the righteous sect treated the way she is?"

Noah's hands paused as his gaze pierced through the darkest corners of the city and landed on a group worshiping the broken statue of goddess Ana in secret.

"Goddess Ana had compassion and the charisma to bring the people together and command the masses without lifting a sword." Noah slowly turned around while speaking, "Something you were never able to achieve—"

Zheng!

His fingers caught the sharp spearhead aimed at his eye only a hair's breadth away before it could pierce.

Ignoring the spear as if it were a child's toy, Noah gazed at the woman wielding it across from him, her gaze filled with hatred and the pain of betrayal.

"I worshiped you, the person who saved me. The person who gave me the direction, but now you are here belittling me." Andis bellowed loudly and stomped her feet on the ground, her cultivation fully flaring in the air.

Spinning the spear in her hands, she struck the ground, producing a loud metallic hum sound.

"You were the one who abandoned me, left me to fend on my own, leaving me with nothing but riddles!" She struck Noah once only for him to swat the attack from the back of his hand, but Andis was too enraged to care; she continued to attack over and over again.

"You don't get to judge me!" Lowering her stance, she thrust the spear once more, but this time a phantom of a whale appeared on the spear, lunging at Noah, trying to swallow him whole.

"Abandoned you? You were never my responsibility to begin with. I saved you because you were in need of help, and I was there."

Ka–Chank!

Noah's hand turned into a claw as he caught the spear with it. He snapped his wrist, breaking it into fragments, and the phantom of the whale above him faded as well.

"And despite all of that, I gave you a chance. A path to achieve something greater… a way to become better than all these people, but you…" Noah stepped forward while the woman looked on in shock, finally beginning to understand how significant the gap between them truly was. "You were never meant for it."

Andis lowered her head in defeat when Noah stepped in front of her without saying a word; clearly, she was ready for whatever fate he had in mind for her.

"It's a good thing that I was not planning on leaving the fate of this city in your hands without knowing whether you were ready or not."

But Noah seemed to have other plans; he never stopped in front of her and walked right past her.

Andis raised her head in confusion only to be shocked when she saw the world around her change.

Not just her room; the scene outside her window morphed. Butterflies were flying everywhere, and before she knew it, the day turned into the night, and the broken city was restored to its peak glory state.

The church was still there, and the orphans of the city still had a roof over their heads.

The room she was standing in was not the living quarters on the highest floor of the city hall, but it was a broken hut filled with rags and hay.

Xu Shang was gone, but the city no longer was hers; she was nobody, just an ordinary woman with a pitiful past.

Andis blinked and blinked again; she looked around like she woke up from some kind of a dream.

Then she felt something warm sliding down her cheeks and reached out to touch it only to feel the wetness of the tears she had thought were gone dry years ago.

She looked back, and Noah was not there anymore; the man who came into her life like a storm just left like a silent breeze.

Wiping her tears, Andis walked out of the broken home she was living in and decided to walk around the city and take in everything that was different from what she remembered.

She realized that the city lord was someone who had been appointed by the Empire after Xu Shang passed away.

Only five years had passed since Yin Qi left the city and the new city lord came into power, and she was a figure of the past whom no one recognized now.

She also never cultivated and became an immortal; her entire cultivation base was gone.

If it had been before, she would have been devastated and angry, but now…

Out of the blue, Andis paused and turned her attention towards a rundown building. She slowly enters the place and glances around calmly.

Then she paused and looked straight ahead; in front of her was the radiant stature of the gallant goddess Ana.

Seeing the goddess, she no longer felt jealousy, inferiority, or hatred, but quite the contrary, she felt at peace.

While she walked up to the front bench and sat down to pray to the goddess among other people, Noah watched it all happen from the sky with no emotions on his face.

He let out a small huff and closed his eyes.

By the time he reopened it, Noah was no longer floating in the sky, but he was standing in the middle of an empty room with two other people beside him.

"Looks like you finally decided to leave." Noah raised his gaze from the wooden floor and acknowledged the presence of the old monk standing before him with a warm, welcoming smile on his face.