prynovel Chapter 74 : Chapter 74
Chapter 74 : Chapter 74
Chapter 74: Mu Xiying Gets Taken Advantage Of by Xiao Xuan! The Human Race Goes Extinct Five Thousand Years Later!
However, when Mu Xiying heard Xiao Xuan’s words, genuine shock crossed her face for the first time.
She could only barely make out the fissure in that temporal passage.
“You can’t sense it? Could it be because I possess the Soul Destroyer aptitude?”
“The reason I was able to perceive scenes from the future last time was because I touched this Time Rift with my soul.”
“Perhaps only Soul Destroyers can sense it?”
Xiao Xuan was puzzled as well after hearing that.
If even Mu Xiying could not sense it, then how was he sensing it?
“Is that so? But then why didn’t the other Soul Destroyers notice it? Imperial Capital University has Soul Destroyer powerhouses at the Peak of the Martial Thearch Realm!”
“Or perhaps they can sense it too!”
After hearing Xiao Xuan’s words, Mu Xiying looked at him thoughtfully.
“That... I really don’t know.”
Xiao Xuan let out a bitter laugh.
But inwardly, he was full of doubt. Could it be because of his Scavenger Trait?
Yes, perhaps only a heaven-defying trait like the Scavenger Trait could accomplish something like this.
“No matter what, just as last time, come closer to me and let us see whether you can go back with me this time as well!”
Mu Xiying looked at Xiao Xuan seriously.
“All right!”
Xiao Xuan nodded without hesitation.
Then he took a few steps toward Mu Xiying.
Even so, the two of them were still a meter apart.
“Closer! Why are you standing so far away?”
Mu Xiying frowned.
“Ahem... I’m coming.”
Xiao Xuan looked a little embarrassed, then stepped forward again.
He came to stand directly in front of Mu Xiying, so close that they were almost face-to-face.
This seemed to be the closest Xiao Xuan had ever been to Mu Xiying.
At that moment, her already breathtaking face struck his vision even more directly.
It was so striking that he could not help staring.
And under Xiao Xuan’s fixed gaze, Mu Xiying did not know why, but her heart gave a slight tremor.
A heart that had not stirred in ten thousand years seemed to beat once.
BZZZ!!!
At that very moment, she instantly felt her soul being pulled out of her body.
Her body lost consciousness at once and fell toward Xiao Xuan.
Seeing that, Xiao Xuan hurriedly reached out and caught Mu Xiying in his arms.
As she watched Xiao Xuan hold her body, Mu Xiying seemed to feel, through their connection, the warmth of his embrace.
“A girl looks much prettier when she isn’t always so cold.”
As Xiao Xuan looked at Mu Xiying sleeping in his arms, he could not help muttering softly.
Mu Xiying’s soul, suspended in the void, naturally heard those words.
“How long are you planning to keep holding me? If you don’t hurry, the passage is going to close!”
She could not help urging him.
“I’m coming, I’m coming!”
When Xiao Xuan heard her voice, he looked up and saw Mu Xiying’s soul, then gave an embarrassed laugh.
He slowly sat down cross-legged and settled Mu Xiying in his arms.
But just as he was about to send his soul out of his body, he suddenly remembered something!
“Oh, right. Supreme Will, upgrade all the traits on my Nanotech Battle Armor and my weapon to High Silver!”
The moment the thought occurred to him, Xiao Xuan hurriedly spoke to the system.
Once they were upgraded, his future self would also have powerful weapons to use.
【Command accepted. Beginning upgrade!】
A notification quickly rang out.
In that instant, Xiao Xuan felt the Nanotech Battle Armor and weapon linked to his soul feed back a level of power far greater than before.
He opened both status panels and took a look.
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Equipment: Silverwing Nanotech Battle Armor
Level: Seventh Rank, High Grade
Base Size: Within 3 meters
Base Weight: 200,000 tons
Base Stats: Seventh Heaven of the Martial Emperor Realm
Traits:
【Defense Enhancement! Silver】 (Battle armor defense *5000%; 100 million / 10 billion)
【Flight! Silver】 (Can fly. Base speed *2500%; 100 million / 10 billion)
【Invisibility! Silver】 (Conceals the user’s form! Cultivators who do not exceed the base value by ten minor realms cannot detect the armor’s user; 100 million / 10 billion)
【Self-Repair! Silver】 (Can devour various forms of Energy Matter to repair battle armor damage. With sufficient materials, restoration speed reaches 10 full suits per second! 100 million / 10 billion)
【Size Change! Silver】 (With sufficient materials, the armor can change size up to 10,000 times its base size; 100 million / 10 billion)
【Lightning Power! Silver】 (Lightning-type attacks *5000%)
【Flame Power! Silver】 (Fire-type attacks *5000%)
【Flame Absorption! Silver】 (Fire-element absorption rate *10000! Can absorb fire-attribute items to raise its grade! Rank cap: Peak Tenth Rank)
【Lightning Absorption! Silver】 (Lightning-element absorption rate *10000! Can absorb lightning-attribute items to raise its grade! Rank cap: Peak Tenth Rank)
...
Those were the Nanotech Battle Armor’s attributes. The Thunderflame Frenzy Saber’s attributes were not much different. Only traits such as Armor-Piercing had changed.
After seeing that, Xiao Xuan stopped hesitating and directly activated his soul power.
BZZZ!!
In the next instant, his soul left his body as well.
“What kind of posture is that?”
Looking at Xiao Xuan below, Mu Xiying could not help complaining.
“Wasn’t it you, Sister Ying, who told me to stay closer?”
Xiao Xuan gave a grin.
Mu Xiying was speechless.
“I didn’t expect that after your strength improved, you would become so glib.”
After tossing that remark at Xiao Xuan, Mu Xiying turned and flew toward that golden Time Rift, vanishing into it in an instant.
“That is because you never really got to know me before.”
Looking at her departing figure, Xiao Xuan spoke slowly, then rushed in as well. He too disappeared into the rift of time.
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Year 6025!!
Above what had once been the Huaxia Imperial Capital!
BZZZ!!
A Time Rift slowly opened.
In the next moment, a translucent soul flew out from within it.
That soul was Mu Xiying.
But the moment Mu Xiying emerged, she immediately realized something was wrong.
“Wait. Why am I in soul form this time?”
Her brows knitted tightly as she felt the condition she was in.
Then she looked down toward the ground.
At once, she discovered that beneath her lay a city of ruins.
And across those ruins wandered large numbers of beings with blood-red demonic aura surging from their bodies.
“The Blood Demon Race? Them?”
“Didn’t they already appear two thousand years ago? Why weren’t they wiped out by me!?”
The moment Mu Xiying saw those members of the Blood Demon Race, her expression changed.
She had only just mentioned the Blood Demon Race to Xiao Xuan earlier.
“Could something have gone wrong with this version of me?”
Mu Xiying’s expression grew extremely grave.
“I only have my soul left now. My strength has dropped drastically, so I need to be careful.
“I absolutely cannot let those Blood Demon Race creatures discover me, or I will have to waste soul power dealing with them.
“I need to find a human city as quickly as possible and figure out what exactly happened!”
Mu Xiying herself was not a soul-type talent user. With only her soul remaining, her strength would be reduced by an enormous amount.
Let alone a Supreme—even a somewhat stronger Martial God could kill her.
With that in mind, she concealed all of her aura and sped into the distance at high speed.
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...
On Earth, 400,000 kilometers west of the former site of the Imperial Capital, there was an utterly inconspicuous Sixth-Rank Subterranean Cavern.
On that day, a small team emerged from the cavern.
At their head was a female warrior clad in damaged battle armor, with a greatsword strapped to her back.
Behind her followed more than a dozen young people.
“Remember this. We came out this time to search for supplies, so you must stay close to me!”
“This is your first time coming out, and you are still unfamiliar with the outside world.”
“Even if you run into Ferocious Beasts, you must never lure them in the direction of home! Understood?”
“Even if it costs you your lives!”
The female warrior looked at the group sternly.
“Understood, Teacher Luo Ya!”
The youths all nodded seriously.
Then, under Luo Ya’s lead, the group cautiously headed toward the nearest city.
After arriving in the city, they did not waste time searching for so-called food, because they would not find any.
They were not lacking food anyway, and this city had been abandoned for at least several hundred years.
No food could possibly have lasted that long.
They had come to search for the remains of warriors who had died in the city. Those warriors carried not only weapons, but battle armor as well.
In this Era of Extinction, powerful weapons and battle armor could no longer be manufactured. They could only be obtained through scavenging.
Yet just as they had found several badly damaged suits of battle armor and were happily preparing to return, an unexpected change occurred!
“Hahaha! Humans! It has been a long time since I last ate humans!”
Suddenly, a humanoid demon with black skin leaped out from nowhere.
Its body was covered in sharp spikes.
It looked especially savage.
“This is bad! A Shadow Demon! Run—I’ll hold it off!”
Luo Ya’s expression changed drastically, and she hurriedly shouted to the students behind her.
“Hahaha! Run? Do you think you can?”
“I told you there were still humans left. We just didn’t know where they were hiding!”
“Relax. Once they get a proper taste of the Shadow Demon Race’s methods, they will definitely talk!”
...
Unfortunately, in the next moment, seven or eight members of the Shadow Demon Race stepped out from the surrounding corners and surrounded everyone in the center.
“Even if I die, I will never let you capture us!!!!”
Luo Ya, who stood at the front, let out a cold snort. The moment she finished speaking, she prepared to detonate the explosives on her body.
PFFT!!
But in the next instant, a streak of black light flashed by. A member of the Shadow Demon Race instantly drove the black blade on its arm through Luo Ya’s chest, and at the same time pierced the liquid explosives on her body, rendering them useless on the spot.
After coughing up a mouthful of blood in agony, Luo Ya fell unconscious.
“And you still wanted to kill yourself in front of us?”
The Shadow Demon sneered disdainfully.
When the young people saw their teacher skewered in the air, their faces went deathly pale, and every one of them trembled uncontrollably.
Only despair remained in their eyes.
BZZZ!!
Yet at that moment, an invisible fluctuation suddenly spread from the sky.
BOOM!!
In the next moment, a terrifying force slammed into the center of the group.
That terrifying power instantly engulfed everything within a hundred-meter radius!
When the explosion finally subsided, only a meteor crater remained where everyone had been standing.
Inside the crater lay a group of unconscious youths.
And in the sky above, Mu Xiying’s soul began searching the smart devices on those young people.
However, after finding them, she discovered that none of them could connect to the network!
And in their locally stored data, there was not a single record left.
It seemed that everything had been wiped clean in order to prevent leaks.
“So it looks like humanity’s basic information systems have completely collapsed.”
“But as long as there are still living people, that is enough!”
“If there are people alive, then someone should still remember at least some of what happened!”
Mu Xiying drew a deep breath.
She had already spent three full days searching this area!
And after all that time, she had found only these few people!
That alone was enough to show just how dire humanity’s situation had become.
With that thought, she descended directly in front of the young people, placed a hand on each of their heads, and began a Soul Search.
Soul Search was something she had once learned from a cultivator in an immortal cultivation-type Subterranean Cavern.
After she refined and improved it, as long as she did not force the search, it would cause no harm.
But after searching through the memories of those warriors, her expression grew heavier and heavier.
The history of the human race recorded in Luo Ya’s memory was incomplete, but it was enough for Mu Xiying to grasp the general situation.
From the year 3025 onward, the number of Subterranean Caverns appearing on Earth had continued to increase.
That was no different from the previous cycles.
But several hundred years later, a divergence gradually appeared!
She herself, who should have risen to become the strongest expert of the human race, never appeared!
Even Xiao Xuan seemed to have vanished without a trace as well.
As for why the two of them disappeared, Luo Ya did not know. The breaks in the historical record were simply too severe.
And with the appearance of Earth’s first World-Destroying Calamity, the countdown to humanity’s end began!
Year 3958 CE!
Earth saw the emergence of its first Twelfth-Rank Subterranean Cavern: the Shadow Demon Race Subterranean Cavern!
After the Shadow Demon Race appeared, humanity’s powerhouses were driven back again and again!
At that time, the strongest expert of the human race, Long Jue, led several Martial Gods and hundreds of Martial Saints to suppress it.
But what awaited them was death!
No one knew what had happened in the process, but the result threw everyone into despair.
They all died. Not a single one survived.
From that day onward, the Shadow Demon Race began expanding madly and slaughtering the human race without restraint.
In less than a thousand years, humanity’s population had dropped to less than one ten-thousandth of what it had once been.
After that, Luo Ya’s memories contained little more than the surviving humans’ desperate struggle to stay alive.
As for which powerful Subterranean Caverns appeared on Earth and which mighty experts emerged, she knew nothing at all.
When survival itself was already a problem, how could they possibly pay attention to such things?
They were not even qualified to know.
“As long as Xiao Xuan and I do not die, something like this should be impossible.”
“The talent Xiao Xuan has shown this time is hardly inferior to mine.”
“Even if he is slightly weaker than me, a mere Shadow Demon Sovereign at the First Layer of the Supreme Realm would absolutely not be his match!”
“But I remember that in the previous cycles, the Shadow Demon Sovereign could not defeat Long Jue at all. Could it be that some unexpected change occurred because of the anomaly involving Xiao Xuan and me?”
Mu Xiying frowned deeply.
She could also feel that the power she had used was extremely difficult to recover.
Because she did not possess a soul-type talent, once her soul was depleted, she could only rely on cultivating soul-type cultivation arts and converting Spiritual Energy into soul power.
But without a physical body to serve as a medium, recovering soul power had become extraordinarily difficult.
“I do not have any suitable materials for now, so I should first borrow a human body.”
“If humanity’s problems are not solved soon, the human race may go extinct before the Evil God even arrives!”
Mu Xiying let out a sigh.
Then her gaze fell upon Luo Ya on the ground. Powerful flames burst from her fingertips. The flames enveloped Luo Ya’s body and began repairing her injuries.
Very quickly, Luo Ya’s injuries were completely healed.
Then, with a thought, Mu Xiying instantly rushed into Luo Ya’s body.