What Do You Mean I Have To Comprehend Dao As A Mortal God?

So today I learned that the life of a Mortal God is also never peaceful...

I’m not the only one facing assassination attempt, but the other Mortal Gods were also facing the same thing.

I was more fortunate because my country is smaller in size and had a tighter grip on who enters and leaves the country, coupled with the fact that I had relocated to a private island as well which made it harder for foreign actors to try anything like this.

With this fact, I’m actually more surprised that there wasn’t a Mortal God somewhere who decided to throw a tantrum or something and just went ahead to wipe out a country...

Then again... I guess the other Mortal Gods from the surrounding countries would be there to stop them if they did something like that.

The summit continued after lunch like nothing happened, even though I’m pretty sure everyone was aware of the attempted assassination.

I thought for sure that they would cancel the whole thing and then have the place on lock down but that didn’t happen.

It was only later that I learned that it would have been worse to cancel it because it would mean admitting to wasting three Mortal Gods’ time and that would have been a worse outcome.

I did notice that they beefed up the security and the entire venue was basically packed with it when we returned to the hall where the summit was being held.

Once again, I was stuck in between the two Mortal Gods and they showed even less interest in what was being discussed than earlier.

Diana had just outright decided to take a nap right there which would probably not have been a problem except for the fact that she had decided to use my shoulder as a pillow instead.

So I was just stuck sitting there with her leaning against me while her arm wrapped around mine like it was her pillow.

Siti was using her phone with one hand while still rubbing my thigh with her other hand like it was the most normal thing in the world. Not that I had anything to complain about since I was also doing the same on her thigh as well.

"I can’t get used to this..." I whispered, looking at the politicians continuing to bicker at the round table in front of me.

At least they were now being more fair in their terms and taking us seriously instead of trying to take advantage of us like before, especially since they’ve been doing that for the past few years.

But Siti seemed to have the wrong idea of what I was talking about as she looked down at my hand that was resting on her thigh.

"Mmmm~ No need to rush, Qing. I’m enjoying it~ You can rub me faster if you want. Or even rub me deeper, I don’t mind~"

I shook my head and nodded at the table in front of us, "I meant that. That’s what I’m not used to."

She looked at the current representative that was talking about Mana Crystal prices and the only thing she could say was ’Oh’, right before she went back to tapping on her phone again and completely losing interest.

Honestly... I really want to leave right now but I was worried that those two representatives might get ideas and try to suppress the others again if I wasn’t around, so I stayed here despite how boring it was.

I mean... I guess it was a little interesting to see how these deals were being made and how they kept talking about maintaining ’economic stability’, ’technological advancements’ and ’peace’ in the region. Yet everyone could see all the backstabbing deals and stuff that was being thrown out in front of them and just pretending not to see it.

It would have been funny if it wasn’t ironic and also the fact that I was also affected by whatever was happening here.

Seeing that both Siti and Diana were just doing their own things anyway, I decided I should just follow their lead and do the same myself.

I closed my eyes and focused on myself, sending my consciousness to my soul space and waking up in the middle of my courtyard.

I guess I’ll just mediate for a bit and--

A loud knocking sound came from the gate of the wall surrounding the courtyard.

Wait... A gate? Since when did I have a gate? Last I checked the courtyard was surrounded by a wall with no other entry points.

I frowned a little at the sight of the gate and cautiously went over to it.

I still remember how I almost died trying to create that purple palace and that woman showing up in that image to blast me away from it.

The knock came again from the door and I cautiously opened a crack to peek through it, wondering who it might be on the other side.

Nothing prepared me to see the confused form of Diana on the other side and the chestnut skinned woman gasping in surprise at seeing me as well.

"Qing?! What are you doing here?!" She gasped.

I narrowed my eyes at her, "I should be asking you that question instead... Do you even know where this is?"

"Oh wait... What? This isn’t a dream? Damn... I thought I finally managed to lucid dream for once... I thought I could at least get tied up-- Ahem... Where is this?"

I opened the door the rest of the way, "I’m more curious how you got here to begin with..."

She accepted my invitation and hopped through the gate, which drew my attention to the space behind her which I realised now had a path leading out and... Stairs? Stairs that were going down.

She turned, intending to answer my question but I held up my hand to stop her.

"Sorry, wait a moment..."

I walked outside to look down at the stairs, only to realise that this courtyard of mine was now on some kind of raised plateau and the stairs extended downwards all the way until it disappeared into a cloud of thick fog.

I turned back to look at Diana who was still standing at the doorway, "Did you walk up these stairs?"

She blinked at me, clearly not understanding my question before she came over to look over the edge of the cliff.

"Oh... I think... I think I had a feeling I was walking up something just now. When I felt conscious of myself again, I was already standing in front of the gate. I thought this was part of my dream so I just went to try and open it and when I found it was locked, I just knocked on the door and there you were. Wait a minute... Am I in your dream then? Did you also fall asleep? Is this part of your powers? This is so cool!"

She fired off several questions even before I had a chance to speak.

I managed to get her to stop by raising my hand again, "Wait a minute... You just... Found yourself here?"

She nodded, "Yeah. I know I fell asleep and then I found myself here right afterwards. So what is this place? Is this your dream world or something?"

I scratched my head, "Umm... It’s not that simple but... I don’t really know how to explain it either... This is like my personal world in my consciousness. A world inside my mind if you will..."

Diana looked around the space with eyes wide and full of wonder, "Ohhh~ Like one of those inner worlds or something?! That’s so cool! I’ve read about them in novels!"

"Yeah... So I’m quite surprised you somehow managed to end up here... Although I guess this wouldn’t be the first time someone came here... Maybe it’s related to the fact that you’re a Mortal God..."

"That’s cool~ I didn’t even know I could do this. This never happened when I slept together with Siti before~"

I have a lot of questions about that but I swallowed them for now.

She then sniffed the air before turning to me, "I’ve been wondering but... Is there like... An ocean in here?"

"I’m surprised you could figure that out... Apparently there is one."

"’Apparently’?"

I gestured in the direction of where the sea had formed in my soul space, "It appeared not too long ago. This space... It is evolving with me constantly. Things change and appear over time. The sea only appeared yesterday night and wasn’t here before that."

She followed alongside me and her brows furrowed a little, "Wait... Are you telling me... It appeared after... After we had sex?"

I paused, "I... Didn’t think of that... Wait... Your powers are tied to the myth around Nagas, right?"

She nodded, "That’s right. In other words... I’m tied to water. Oh wow... How lewd, Qing. Are you some kind of God of sex or something? You get stronger by sleeping with other people? Ahahaha! This is funny!"

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There’s no way, right?