Chapter 2715

Chapter 2715: Gaia’s True Identity

"Come with me. Gaia wants to meet you," Supreme General Tian said.

Yuan smiled; he’d been waiting to hear those words for quite some time.

"About time..."

He turned to look at the others and said, "You guys can continue training on your own now. If you have any questions, you know where to find me."

After saying that, he left the training hall with Supreme General Tian.

"Anything I should know before meeting with Gaia?" Yuan asked as they walked.

"Gaia may not be a ruler, but she is the most important person in this entire world, so you will treat her as such. I don’t care if you disrespect me, but I will not tolerate any disrespect for her," replied Supreme General Tian.

"So Gaia really is a woman, huh?" Yuan muttered after hearing how Supreme General Tian addressed her.

Although Mei Feng had addressed Gaia as ’her’ before, she could’ve said that to confuse him and keep Gaia’s identity a secret.

"Do you have an issue with Gaia being a woman?"

"Of course not."

Eventually, they arrived at Supreme General Tian’s office, which occupied an entire building.

"Gaia is here?" Yuan muttered as they approached the entrance.

Supreme General Tian said nothing and simply led him inside.

However, instead of taking Yuan to his actual office, he brought him down to the basement, where a single teleportation platform stood.

"Get on."

Once they were both standing on the platform, Supreme General Tian verified his identity using his fingerprints and a retinal scan.

The teleportation device activated shortly after, teleporting them to an unknown location.

After being teleported, Yuan found himself standing on a floating path that stretched toward a circular island in the distance, all of it surrounded by a vast world of myriad colors and flickering stars.

They were clearly in a dimension of its own, detached from the real world, akin to a cultivator’s personal world in the Nine Heavens.

Without a word, Supreme General Tian continued forward, following the floating path toward the island.

Eventually, they reached it, where a lone building stood among several trees beside a large pond.

Standing before the pond with her back facing the path was a slender figure in black robes—a black-haired woman.

Yuan raised an eyebrow upon seeing her, as he didn’t even need to see her face to tell her identity.

"Yu Rou?" Yuan called out to her.

Supreme General Tian immediately stopped and turned to Yuan, eyes wide, as if he’d just seen a ghost.

"H-How do you know her name?" he asked.

Yu Rou turned around and said, "We’ve met before. In the hospital."

"What?! Don’t tell me you snuck out here and met him?!" Supreme General Tian exclaimed in disbelief.

Yu Rou shrugged, not bothering to elaborate.

She focused her gaze on Yuan and said, "Although you have yet to defeat the Void Hunter, due to the circumstances, I’ve decided to let you meet with Gaia."

Yuan looked around and asked, "So, where’s Gaia? I don’t sense any other presence besides you two in this place."

"...You’re already looking at her."

"What?"

Yuan stopped looking around and slowly turned to face Yu Rou with a dumbfounded expression.

"You...? You’re Gaia?" he asked for confirmation, sounding a bit dazed.

Yu Rou nodded.

"That’s right. You don’t believe me?"

"I thought you were the Chief of Operations..."

"I’m not foolish enough to reveal my true identity to someone as suspicious as you," she said, shaking her head.

"Anyway, before we get into why I summoned you, let’s hear why you wanted to meet with me in the first place."

"..."

Yuan fell silent, a puzzled expression appearing on his face.

"What’s wrong?" Yu Rou asked.

"I wanted to meet you because you asked me to find you..." Yuan eventually responded.

"What?" Yu Rou muttered, raising an eyebrow, clearly confused by his words.

"I asked you to find me? When? How? I certainly don’t recall doing such a thing."

"You contacted me through the system when I was at Gaia’s Sanctum trying to clear the 40th floor of Endless Assault, telling me to find you. Hell, you even specifically granted me permission to use Eternal Essence."

Yu Rou’s face only became more puzzled after hearing that.

"If I wanted to speak with you, I wouldn’t have waited until now to call for you. In fact, I wasn’t even aware of your existence until watching your performance during the drill. Most importantly, I do not have the authority to send direct messages to someone through the system, so you must’ve been mistaken."

"You can’t? Even though you’re the creator of Gaia’s System?"

"It may be named after me, but I didn’t create the system. I merely helped spread it," she said, leaving Yuan speechless.

Yuan rubbed his eyes after finally getting a grasp of the situation.

"In other words, the true creator of the system is the Eternal you’ve been communicating with—the same one who told you about the invasion that would happen in the future."

"Eternal? I’m not familiar with that term," Yu Rou said. "And you’re misunderstanding something. I don’t communicate with anyone. I merely receive guidance and prophecies from the universe. It’s a one-sided conversation, with me being nothing more than the receiver."

"Well, I’m sorry to burst your bubble, but the universe is not communicating with you, and there is a real person—an entity called Eternal behind those messages, and there is more than one of them out there. As a matter of fact, some of them are likely behind the invasion as well."

"I don’t know what they’ve told you, but Eternals have a habit of manipulating humans to do their bidding."

"..."

Yu Rou fell silent as she digested everything Yuan had revealed so far.

"And where did you acquire such information? The confidence in your voice... you speak as if you’re experienced on this subject."

"I acquired such information through first-hand experience, as I have had several encounters with these Eternals," he said solemnly.