The Shining Star Above The Heaven

Chapter 1160 - 1160: I Will Not Just Stand Behind You

Angelica's voice was laced with worry. Her expression mirrored it as she touched Aldrian's cheek.Aldrian kept looking at her face, which at this moment seemed to overlap with countless different versions of her from past lives. Those faces layered over one another until, at last, they aligned with the face of her first life as Angelica Celestine before returning to normal.

Aldrian smiled warmly at her and held the hand that rested on his cheek.

Receiving no answer, Angelica grew more worried.

"What's wrong? Why are you crying? Please don't make me worry," she said.

Aldrian did not answer immediately. Instead, he brought her hand closer and kissed it.

"Nothing. I'm just glad that you came into my life," he said, which made her cheeks redden. She became speechless from embarrassment.

"Why are you suddenly saying something like that? I'm really serious. Why are you suddenly crying? I've never seen you cry before. Please don't scare me," she said as she kept trying to look into his eyes, searching for anything he might be hiding.

Aldrian wiped his tears with one hand, then gave her a smile that showed everything was fine.

"How long have we been in this position?" he asked instead.

Angelica looked confused. "Well, more than an hour."

Aldrian nodded. Although the visions of Angelica's past lives felt like countless years to him, in reality only a short time had passed.

Angelica felt frustrated as Aldrian still did not clearly answer her question. But she was stunned when he suddenly hugged her tightly. Their naked bodies pressed against each other again, and she felt his lips softly touch her forehead.

It was a kiss filled with love and reassurance.

She blinked a few times, then heard his voice, warm yet firm.

"I love you, my dear. I love you. From now on, you don't have to bear anything alone. You have me, your husband. Your matters are my matters. You don't need to dwell on the unpleasant experiences of your past lives. I will give you the happy life you have always deserved. In this life, you will experience something different. Our future will be filled with happiness."

"My dear wife. Although I don't know what kind of challenges we will face in the future, I will always be with you. I will become your strongest shield and your strongest spear. The one you can always rely on."

"I'm yours, just as you are mine."

Angelica, who had been silently listening to his words, could not help but feel warmth spreading through her heart. She did not know why, but she felt a sense of relief. It was the kind of relief that came when someone finally said the words she had long hoped to hear.

She could no longer control her emotions.

Tears gathered in her eyes, then fell as she could no longer hold them back. She only wanted to cry in his embrace.

She nodded and returned the hug, wrapping her arms tightly around him as if she never wanted to let go.

Her earlier worry for him had already been forgotten.

Aldrian felt the wetness on his chest as her tears soaked into him, but he simply let her be. He continued holding her, feeling the warmth of her body and the overwhelming emotions that seemed to flow into his very soul.

This was the feeling that had accumulated across countless lives.

Aldrian gently stroked her hair while placing soft kisses on her head. They remained like that for several minutes until Angelica slowly lifted her head and looked at his face, her eyes still red from crying.

"You don't have to be my strongest shield and spear. You don't have to be the one who carries all the burden alone. I'm your wife. I will become strong enough to be the shield and spear for myself and for our family. I will not just stand behind you, looking at your back and always depending on you. I will stand beside you."

Her voice was filled with conviction and determination.

Aldrian could not help but smile as he remembered the Angelica Celestine of the past. She was never the type to give up or wait for others to save her. She possessed a strong heart and unwavering determination, even when she had to face many gods alone and ultimately sacrifice herself.

'Yes, that was just like her. This was Angelica Celestine.'

Aldrian nodded. "I know. You are a strong woman, after all. I only said that because I want you to understand how precious you are to me."

Angelica's cheeks reddened again, but she showed a bright smile. They continued looking into each other's eyes before their lips met.

The kiss began filled with love and warmth, then slowly deepened, growing more intense. Their tongues met, and their bodies began to respond, revealing the desire for each other.

After kissing for more than two minutes, Aldrian was already hard again and Angelica knew it. When their lips separated, Angelica spread her legs as she brought her lips close to his ear.

"Go ahead, my love," she said softly and sensually.

Aldrian smiled as he adjusted his spear toward her slit, then entered it with one powerful thrust.

"Ahhh~" she moaned.

After that, the erotic sounds followed, and for the next few hours, Aldrian truly gave her a level of pleasure she had never felt before, not even when he took her virginity.

Aldrian and Angelica stayed inside their bedroom for three days before Aldrian finally stepped out, leaving behind the disheveled bed, soaked with juices, and Angelica lying there dead tired, her body covered in sweat and dried cum.

Aldrian, who did not seem tired at all, continued his activities that day with a refreshed mind and body.

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For the next week, Aldrian's activities did not vary much from what he normally did. He brought his knight order to several worlds for battle, freed more of his followers who were still trapped inside the time-stopping formation, liberated many other worlds using his own power, and so on.

He had already freed billions of worlds from the devils, and their presence in the inner realm of the First Heaven was almost completely wiped out.

Within that week, many of the powers that had attended his wedding had already returned to their home worlds, while others chose to stay.

King Darius also decided to return, as he could not leave his kingdom for too long. However, seeing that his daughter still wished to remain in the Ancient Blue Gate World, he allowed her to stay and left a group of royal guards to protect her. He and Prince Martis returned with part of their group, as Aldrian teleported them back.

Queen Revania had also already gone back to take care of her kingdom.

At this time, Aldrian's real body was within the territory that once belonged to the six-headed hydra, Vargus. He floated in space, and not far from him was a small world that he had just freed from the devils.

However, his attention was not on that world. Instead, he focused on what lay before him, the region that separated the inner realm and the outer realm of the First Heaven. The world near him was the closest one in this area to the outer realm.

The inner and outer realms were divided by a dark nebula, forming a massive barrier that surrounded the inner realm. From where he stood, Aldrian could still see the other side, as the nebula did not entirely block his view.

At a glance, the region of the nebula seemed normal aside from its dark color. However, deep within it, there existed a gravitational force powerful enough to crush even cultivators at low Immortal Foundation stage.

At this moment, the only ones who could pass this barrier were, naturally, him and all of his followers who had been freed from the time-stopping formation. That was because they were cultivators above Immortal foundation stage.

They could easily pass through this barrier, as they were able to release their cultivation seals, and they would not be thrown into the Second Heaven since he had already rewritten the heavenly laws of the First Heaven.

In the ancient time, before the First Heaven was invaded by those invaders, everything from the inner realm could not cross into the outer realm, and vice versa.

But, the interference of those invaders, especially Tarius and his followers, weakened the heavenly laws of the First Heaven. This caused the natural order to be affected, and as time passed, holes began to form in the barrier, allowing the heaven and earth energy from the inner realm to seep into the outer realm.

The outer realm, which originally had thin heaven and earth energy, gradually benefited as it slowly became richer in that energy.

Since then, countless beings in the outer realm gained power that they could not have imagined before the weakening of the barrier.

However, this also brought consequences. With the barrier weakened, the influence of the devils could also slip out from the inner realm and spread across the outer realm.

Although not as numerous as in the inner realm, the devils were still able to spread their influence through various methods throughout the outer realm.

Fortunately, after he made the entire First Heaven his domain, the barrier was strengthened and restored to its state before the invasion.

However, even though the barrier had already been repaired, the situation in the outer realm had already changed too drastically compared to before the invasion. With the heaven and earth energy now far richer than it once was, every aspect of the outer realm had already adapted to this new state over countless years.

It would be extremely difficult to return it completely to its original condition unless he could alter the entire reality of the outer realm, which was something he did not yet possess the power to do.

That was why he decided to leave the outer realm as it was and let it develop naturally in its current state.

'Speaking of the outer realm, I think it is a good time for me to visit Earth. I am truly curious how my followers reached that place.'

A faint smile appeared on his face.

'Better to bring Sylphia. No… I think I will bring all my wives to take a look.'