Chapter 12: The World-Ending Crisis! The Cosmic Evil God!!

“What exactly is going on? I already returned to five thousand years in the past, so why have I come back again? Am I truly fated to be unable to save the human race?”

At that moment, Mu Xiying was filled with grief.

But she clearly remembered dying in the future.

“Wait... could it be that after I die in the future, I return to the past?”

A bold thought suddenly surfaced in her mind.

But very quickly, she shook her head. She could not gamble on that.

Even if she had been granted a new life, she still could not gamble like that.

After all, if she lost the gamble, then everything would be over.

“First, I need to see whether anyone is still alive!”

“The Evil God’s aura has actually vanished? Could it have gone dormant?”

Yet everything around her left Mu Xiying deeply puzzled.

Still, she cautiously spread her divine sense and began to search.

However, the moment she mobilized her divine sense, she abruptly discovered that it was just a trace stronger than it had been before she was killed!

“What is going on?”

Mu Xiying frowned. At her level, she could perceive even the slightest change in her power with absolute clarity.

“Could it be that traveling to the past and then returning again gave me this increase?”

Mu Xiying guessed, though she was not certain.

She rose slowly into the air and began searching the surrounding area.

But before long, she saw an intact city in the distance.

She was so incredulous that she even thought she was hallucinating.

Back then, in her final battle against that Evil God, they had all but flattened the entire land.

How could a city possibly still exist here?

Shocked, she hurried over at once.

Very soon, she discovered that it was Supreme Xuanfeng City, once one of the three great main cities of the human race.

“Xuan Feng, come out and see me!”

Mu Xiying immediately gave a low shout.

Her vast voice instantly blanketed the enormous main city, whose diameter stretched for hundreds of thousands of kilometers.

Very quickly, large numbers of human experts shot into the sky.

At their head was a middle-aged Martial Artist whose entire body surged with the power of wind!

“Xuan Feng pays his respects to Your Majesty the Empress!”

The middle-aged man respectfully knelt in the void before Mu Xiying.

“We pay our respects to Your Majesty the Empress!”

All around him, every Martial God- and Martial Saint-level expert respectfully knelt as well.

“Give me the latest Smartwatch!”

Mu Xiying said coldly.

At her words, Xuan Feng froze for a moment, but then quickly removed his own Smartwatch, unlocked all of its permissions, and handed it to Mu Xiying.

Mu Xiying turned it on and checked the time first.

“8025?”

But the moment she saw that year, Mu Xiying’s pupils contracted violently.

It was actually the year 8025, which meant one hundred years before the Evil God’s Revival!

In other words, she had gained a full additional hundred years.

Perhaps, with a hundred years, she might have a chance to grow strong enough.

Then, as though thinking of something, she immediately searched for Blackwater City from five thousand years earlier.

【Blackwater City: Founded in 2775 CE by the Blackwater Grandmaster. It was also the birthplace of the great Empress!

In 2899 CE, a Fourth-Tier Beast Tide appeared for the first time and was slain by the Seventh City Lord.

In 3025 CE, a Fifth-Tier Beast Tide appeared for the first time and was slain by a mysterious expert who had mastered both ice and fire!

Later scholars estimated that there was a ninety percent chance that this mysterious expert was none other than the Empress herself, newly awakened at the time!

Her younger brother, Xiao Xuan—the future Martial Emperor of the human race—also made exceptionally distinguished contributions in that battle.

Although he was only in the Vitality Realm, he still killed several Third-Tier Ferocious Beasts in the Innate Realm!

At the 3025 Martial College Entrance Exam, Xiao Xuan displayed formidable combat talent and successfully achieved an excellent placement of thirty-eighth in Shanhe Province.

He was then successfully admitted to Nanhai University for further study!

In 3033 CE, Xiao Xuan graduated and returned to Blackwater City, where he took up the post of City Lord.

At the end of the following year, a Sixth-Tier Subterranean Cavern appeared in Blackwater City for the first time.

Xiao Xuan, then in the Martial King realm, suppressed it single-handedly. In the same year, Blackwater City advanced to a Sixth-Tier city.

In 3054 CE, a Seventh-Tier Subterranean Cavern appeared in Blackwater City for the first time!

During the battle, Xiao Xuan, then serving as City Lord, successfully broke through to the Martial Emperor realm and resolved that disaster.

In 3125 CE, the seventh Seventh-Tier Subterranean Cavern appeared in Blackwater City!

Martial Emperor Xiao Xuan was defeated and fell in battle while fighting a peak Seventh-Tier Ferocious Beast!

Her Majesty the Empress, already in the Martial Saint realm, flew into a rage, returned to Blackwater City, annihilated the Subterranean Cavern, and uprooted Blackwater City itself, taking it to her fief for protection!

From that day on, Blackwater City was fully merged with the Supreme Imperial City.】

However, once all of Blackwater City’s records had been pulled up, Mu Xiying’s expression changed slightly.

Naturally, there was much more recorded than this, but what Mu Xiying focused on most was everything related to Xiao Xuan.

Because the greatest change seemed to lie with him.

“He actually ended up reaching the Martial Emperor realm? Weren’t Xiao Xuan’s talent Traits only Blue?”

Even Mu Xiying was somewhat astonished.

But very quickly, after she pulled up Xiao Xuan’s later battle videos and records, she understood at once.

Xiao Xuan actually possessed more than ten Blue talent Traits!

Especially Gigantification. He could actually change his size at will. That was simply absurd.

That was already a Divine Ability-Type Trait, was it not?

Were Traits with abilities like that not supposed to exist only at Gold rank or above?

Mu Xiying was filled with doubt.

But none of that meant much anymore. Even if Xiao Xuan’s talent was extraordinary, what of it?

Blue talents reaching the Martial Emperor realm were already the limit.

Above the Martial Emperor realm, there were still many major realms before one could reach the Supreme realm.

And the calamity the human race faced now was one that even an ordinary Supreme could not solve.

Much less a mere Martial Emperor.

“No matter what, the heavens have given me a hundred years, so I must treasure them well. A hundred years... the chance of breaking through may be slim, but I still have to gamble on it!”

Mu Xiying’s gaze turned profound.

In the next instant, without paying any attention to the human experts present, Mu Xiying shot straight into the sky and sped toward the heavens at extreme speed.

Very soon, she broke through the atmosphere and flew directly toward the sun.

More than a month later, she had already entered the depths of the sun and gone into secluded cultivation.

This was the hottest place she could find, the most suitable place for cultivating her Divine Phoenix Undying Art.

And while Mu Xiying was cultivating, deep in the starry sky, a mass of black fog raced toward Earth at a terrifying speed.

Time passed, year after year.

Before long, a full century had slipped by.

And at last, that mass of black fog arrived within the Solar System.

But by then, Earth had already descended completely into chaos.

Humanity had detected that mass of black fog several years earlier.

But because it had been so far away, they had been unable to calculate its size accurately.

Yet after it entered the Solar System, everyone discovered in horror

that the black fog was actually far larger than present-day Earth itself.

After six thousand years of Spiritual Energy Revival, Earth’s diameter had already reached a terrifying one hundred million kilometers.

What kind of scale was that?

It was ten thousand times the diameter of old Earth!

And if measured by volume, it was a staggering trillion times greater.

Yet this black fog was even larger than Earth itself.

One could well imagine how enormous it truly was.

Just when the entire human race thought Earth was about to be swallowed by the black fog,

the sun revolving around Earth suddenly burst forth with boundless radiance.

“SCREEECH!!”

From within that blazing light, a Flame Divine Phoenix surged out.

The Flame Divine Phoenix slowly spread its vast wings of fire. With a span of ten million kilometers, those enormous fiery wings blotted out heaven and earth.

“It is the Empress, it is Her Majesty the Empress! Wonderful, Her Majesty has come out of seclusion!”

“With Her Majesty here, we are safe!”

“Ever since Her Majesty the Empress stepped into the Martial God realm, she has always been the strongest of the human race. Now that thousands of years have passed, Her Majesty will definitely be able to deal with this mere black fog!”

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The moment they saw Mu Xiying, the human race on Earth erupted in jubilation.

In their eyes, as long as Mu Xiying acted, humanity would be completely safe.

“SCREEECH!!”

In the next moment, Mu Xiying, transformed into a Flame Divine Phoenix, charged directly toward the endless black fog.

But in the very next instant, a supremely malevolent eye slowly opened within the boundless black fog.

“BUZZ!!!”

Suddenly, a streak of black light shot forth from that eye.

The black light struck Mu Xiying, who had transformed into the Flame Divine Phoenix, as well as Earth behind her.

In a single instant, that endless black radiance completely engulfed both Mu Xiying and Earth.

The two vanished utterly from the universe.

This time, even after cultivating for another hundred years, Mu Xiying still died beneath that world-ending eye-beam just as she had in her previous life, without the slightest chance to resist.

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3025 CE! Blackwater City!

“BUZZ!!!”

All of a sudden, a mysterious ripple spread through the air.

Mu Xiying, who had been lying in bed, abruptly opened her eyes.

She sat up at once and looked around.

“I... came back again?”

Mu Xiying was stunned.

She hurriedly checked the time.

Only ten hours had passed since she had returned to the future again.

The night outside was already gradually giving way to dawn.

“But even if I come back, what can I do?”

In the next instant, however, Mu Xiying knitted her brows tightly.

That eye had been simply too terrifying.

She had not possessed the slightest ability to resist it.

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration struck her.

“Wait. What if I make all the future cultivation arts, martial skills, and the like public, and also organize all the future dangers and opportunities in advance and submit them to the authorities? Would that allow the human race to develop rapidly?

By then, the human race five thousand years later might become even stronger. And with five thousand years of time, they would certainly be able to refine all the top cultivation arts into something even more powerful.

“As long as I can be reborn a few more times, perhaps there will be a chance to resolve this entire crisis!”

At that thought, Mu Xiying’s eyes lit up.

The plan seemed highly workable.

But very soon, she frowned.

“No. If I were to bring out all those cultivation arts right now, there would only be one possible result waiting for me.I would be targeted by other nations. And then my parents, Xiao Xuan, and even my younger self in this era would all be in mortal danger. And besides, those in power might simply keep those top cultivation arts for themselves. The cultivation arts that ordinary civilians could access would still remain the weakest!”

Mu Xiying quickly rejected her own idea.

Then... should she leave all of these things to the Mu Xiying of this era?

After thinking about it, Mu Xiying believed that her Soul from the future had temporarily returned and borrowed the body of her present self in this era.

Once she returned to the future, the Mu Xiying of this era would awaken.

And then she would continue living her own life.

As long as Mu Xiying left the materials behind for her, then once the Mu Xiying of this era became strong enough, she would be able to make those powerful cultivation arts and records public!

But how was she supposed to leave those things behind for the Mu Xiying of this era?

Should she store them on a hard drive and leave a letter?

That was risky, because Mu Xiying did not know whether, after she went back, the Mu Xiying of this era would wake up immediately or only after a long time!

She might even remain unconscious for another ten hours before waking.

During that period, if the hard drive and letter fell into someone else’s hands, the consequences would be troublesome.

She needed to find someone she could trust.

“My parents? They truly can be trusted.”

And my younger self in this era would trust them completely as well!

But I am about to go to the Imperial Capital. My parents have lived in Blackwater City all their lives. They probably would not come with me.

“Although I could make them give up their jobs and all their connections and come to the Imperial Capital with me, still...”

Countless thoughts ran through Mu Xiying’s mind.

“Sister Ying, are you awake? Get up, it is time for breakfast!”

At that moment, Xiao Xuan’s voice came from outside the door.

But the instant she heard that voice, Mu Xiying’s eyes lit up at once.

“Of course, there is still Xiao Xuan! In the future, he becomes a Martial Emperor, and his talent is more than strong enough. As long as I make sure he stops hiding and lets all of his strength erupt, getting into Imperial Capital University will not be a problem at all!”

“Then, when I travel to the future again, I can have him safeguard the materials for me for a while!”