prynovel Chapter 77 : Chapter 77
Chapter 77 : Chapter 77
Chapter 77: Xiao Xuan at the Peak of the Supreme Realm! Devouring All Humanity!! Ying'er!!
“Four thousand years ago? How is that possible?”
Mu Xiying’s pupils contracted violently.
That was right. What she had asked was when Xiao Xuan, who had crossed through time with her back then, had actually arrived.
And there was nothing wrong with Xiao Xuan’s answer. When he arrived, he had not, as in that first stowaway crossing, ended up five thousand years in the future. Instead, he had arrived only a thousand years later, in the year 4025!
“What is going on?”
“What do you mean by four thousand years ago? What are you talking about?”
“And Xiao Xuan... was the destruction of the human race really because of you?”
Looking at the demonized Xiao Xuan before her, Su Qingwu could not help asking through tearful eyes. She had imagined that Xiao Xuan might still be alive, might even have become one of the strongest beings in existence. She had even guessed that he might have become a demon who hunted humans.
But now that the truth was right in front of her, she still found it impossible to accept.
“That is... a very long story.”
Hearing that, Xiao Xuan let out a faint sigh.
...
...
Time returned to the year 3025!
In the instant after Xiao Xuan and Mu Xiying entered the rift of time together—
...
BZZZ!!
The world spun around him.
At once, Xiao Xuan felt his mind fall into chaos.
“Kill! Kill! Kill!!”
Only that single thought was roaring wildly inside his head, as though his mind had been seized by some terrible madness.
Fortunately, Xiao Xuan began suppressing that voice with all his strength.
And while he suppressed it, the years passed one after another.
At last, after several hundred years, he finally suppressed that voice completely and regained control of his body.
But the moment he regained the right to use it, he was stunned.
He was floating above a human city.
And in his hand, his demonic blade was slaughtering humans in a frenzy.
At the same time, boundless memories poured into his mind.
He learned of the battle he had fought Ouyang Xun several hundred years earlier, and he also learned of Mu Xiying’s death.
At that moment, the killing intent he had spent centuries suppressing nearly erupted again.
Fortunately, he still retained his reason and quickly calmed himself.
Then he continued sorting through his memories.
Back then, after handing his weapon and battle armor over to Su Qingwu and Gu Xuan, he had left with what remained of his sanity, together with Mu Xiying and Mu Long and Su Qian.
He found an immortal-cultivation-type Subterranean Cavern. After settling Mu Long and Su Qian there, he sealed the entrance to that cavern.
He himself then returned to Earth, found a hidden place, and entered seclusion to suppress the demonic power inside him, which had already gone completely out of control.
The Light-Dark Blade Demon Body itself had an enormous flaw.
It required an extremely stable balance between Light Power and Darkness Power.
At first, those two forces had naturally been in balance.
But Xiao Xuan had forgotten one thing.
The demonic body he had taken from Tian Ji.
That was the purest Dark Demon Body.
Once the two constitutions were activated at the same time, the dark side instantly devoured the light side, forcing him into complete demonization.
And suppressing that was extremely difficult.
Yet who could have known that nine hundred years later, the Shadow Demon Cavern would open?
That cavern was the first Twelfth-Rank Subterranean Cavern on Earth. The instant it opened, endless Darkness Power shrouded the entire planet!
Xiao Xuan, who had only just managed to suppress everything, instantly fell into demonization again.
And after demonizing, the first thing he did was search for the Shadow Demon Cavern.
In his completely demonized state, Xiao Xuan saw himself as the supreme ruler of the Dark World.
For the Shadow Demon Cavern to dare use Darkness Power to cover Earth was simply asking to die!
When he found the Shadow Demon Cavern, the Shadow Demon Sovereign happened to be leading a large number of Demon Emperors and Demon Kings, preparing to invade Earth and bring it completely under their rule.
Unfortunately for them, before they could even step out, Xiao Xuan blocked them at their own doorstep and began a mad slaughter.
In only a few exchanges, Xiao Xuan, who had at that point reached the Demon Emperor Realm, killed the Shadow Demon Sovereign across realms.
Just as the demonized Xiao Xuan was preparing to wipe out all of humanity, some fools came looking for trouble.
Long Jue, Gu Xuan, and several other Martial Gods, together with a large number of Martial Saints and Martial Thearchs, had come to exterminate the Shadow Demon Cavern.
The moment they saw Xiao Xuan, they naturally mistook him for the Shadow Demon Sovereign.
Long Jue had never seen Xiao Xuan in his fully demonized state. Even the Thunderflame Frenzy Saber had been passed on to him by Su Qingwu.
And the moment the demonized Xiao Xuan saw Long Jue, the memory of Long Jue saving Ouyang Xun back then was stirred up again.
Without the slightest hesitation, he attacked.
His strength far surpassed that of the Shadow Demon Sovereign. At the cost of grievous injury, he defeated Long Jue and directly devoured him!
His original injuries healed immediately as well.
The Martial Gods of the other nations were horrified and fled in all directions.
Unfortunately, before they could even escape the cavern, Xiao Xuan killed and devoured all of them as well.
Only Gu Xuan, with the Thunderflame Frenzy Saber in hand, managed to exchange a few moves with Xiao Xuan.
And even that was only because Xiao Xuan had held back.
Even so, that was all.
Xiao Xuan did not kill Gu Xuan. He merely crippled him and locked him away.
After that, he took all the Shadow Demons, who had been frightened into submission by him, and rushed out onto Earth, beginning a frenzied slaughter.
But after he had slaughtered for several decades, the soul of the Xiao Xuan from the past crossed over.
The two souls began fighting over control of the body.
Of course, calling it a struggle for control was not quite accurate.
It was really devouring.
The Xiao Xuan from the past devoured the soul that belonged to that era.
For some unknown reason, the soul of the past Xiao Xuan was weaker by an unknown margin than the soul of the future demonized Xiao Xuan, and yet it seemed to be that soul’s natural nemesis.
It had no room to resist whatsoever.
As time wore on, several hundred years later, it was finally devoured completely.
Once Xiao Xuan regained control of that body, the effects of demonization became completely ineffective against him.
He did not understand the reason, but that was simply the truth.
Unfortunately, after several hundred years of slaughter, the human race had already been massacred almost to extinction.
And all geniuses with Silver-grade talent or above had been completely devoured by Xiao Xuan through the Dark Demon-Devouring Body!
His constitution had evolved directly to the level of a high-grade Gold trait.
His realm had also reached the Fifth Layer of the Supreme Realm.
And with a talent that, taken as a whole, had already reached the level of a Peak Gold Talent, his strength had become unimaginably terrifying!
When Xiao Xuan saw that humanity had nearly been exterminated by his own hand, he had no choice but to find a way to remedy it.
Even though he had not personally done it, he still chose to make up for it.
He began issuing orders to every Shadow Demon: they were not allowed to kill humans. Instead, they were to send them into several high-rank caverns that Xiao Xuan had already cleared out and raise them there.
Of course, he also had to give those Shadow Demons some reward.
So he personally led them in wiping out many Eleventh-Rank caverns.
He even began keeping many powerful caverns in captivity, so they could serve as food for the Shadow Demons.
Only then would they do their work properly.
From that day onward, Earth was swept once more by catastrophe.
Only this time, the humans who were captured were being protected.
Because after that massacre, the top human powerhouses had all been killed by the Shadow Demons under Xiao Xuan’s command!
Humanity no longer possessed the strength to protect itself.
If Xiao Xuan did not protect them, they truly would have been exterminated before long.
And because of that, the humans on Earth who had never been discovered all believed that the entire human race had been captured by the Shadow Demons.
And that they alone were the survivors.
Little did they know that the real survivors were living quite well inside those top-rank caverns.
The strongest among them had even reached the late stage of the Martial God Realm.
And that was everything that had happened over the last four thousand years after Xiao Xuan crossed over!
Xiao Xuan explained all of it.
However, because Gu Xuan and Su Qingwu were present, he did not mention that both he and Mu Xiying had crossed over from the past!
He only said that his consciousness had fallen into demonization, and that he had only gradually begun to awaken a thousand years earlier.
As for Mu Xiying, she had not truly died back then either. What she had left behind was her soul. Xiao Xuan had merely hidden it in a place capable of nourishing souls.
It was only recently that she had revived completely.
Though she had also lost part of her memory.
After hearing the full chain of events, Su Qingwu fell silent.
Her feelings as she looked at Xiao Xuan were indescribably complicated.
“When Xiao first released me and I learned that he was Xiao Xuan, my feelings were much the same as yours.”
“But I quickly understood one thing. Xiao’s demonization was originally caused by the human race’s failure to act!”
“If those so-called high-ups and powerhouses like Long Jue had actually protected our human geniuses, how could things ever have reached this point?”
“Besides, everything was done by Brother Xiao after he had demonized. It had nothing to do with him.”
“If the same thing had happened to me, and the ones who died were you... then I would wipe out everyone in the world as well.”
At that moment, Gu Xuan finally spoke slowly.
Boundless killing intent surged from him at once.
That killing intent condensed into a terrifying saber-and-sword intent that burst out from his body.
Even Mu Xiying’s pupils contracted when she felt it.
Gu Xuan’s killing intent was actually this terrifying?
How many beings had he killed to condense something like that?
Su Qingwu was stunned by those words.
What Gu Xuan had said did not seem wrong.
If Xiao Xuan had not completely demonized back then, then the ones who would have died would have been Xiao Xuan and Mu Xiying.
And later on, she, Gu Xuan, and their families would have died as well.
But what had Xiao Xuan actually done wrong?
He had only killed someone who wanted to kill him, and that person had attacked him by ambush and broken the rules.
And in that sort of situation, if she had been the one with the power, perhaps she might have done exactly the same thing as Xiao Xuan.
“Enough. Talking about it any more is pointless. Earth no longer has much time left.”
“What we should be doing now is figuring out how to leave Earth.”
At that moment, Xiao Xuan spoke directly.
“Leave Earth? What do you mean?”
Su Qingwu was bewildered.
“Brother Xiao foresaw that in a hundred years, an incomparably terrifying existence will arrive on Earth. When that time comes, Earth and the human race will be completely destroyed.”
“That is why, thousands of years ago, he handed down the technology he found in a technological cavern to humanity.”
“He wanted them to develop spaceships capable of leaving Earth as quickly as possible.”
“Unfortunately, up to now, they have only managed to build the second-echelon spacecraft described in that technology.”
Gu Xuan explained.
To those humans, Gu Xuan was an existence like a savior.
Because Xiao Xuan had already completely demonized and could no longer recover, he was no longer suited to stand before humanity.
Gu Xuan, as a former Martial God and a current Supreme Realm expert, had become the most suitable candidate.
In the story he told humanity, he had fought Xiao Xuan for several hundred years, and in the end the two of them signed a pact. The Shadow Demon Race would help humanity rebuild its homeland.
As for Gu Xuan, he became a subordinate of the demon race and endured humiliation for the greater good!
And those spacecraft became something Gu Xuan demanded humanity build, supposedly so they could escape Earth and escape the rule of the Shadow Demons.
Because of that, every human worked with extraordinary zeal.
Even though many people harbored doubts, humanity had already fallen completely under Gu Xuan’s control. Anyone who questioned too much would be punished.
There was no helping it.
Only by doing that could humanity be united in purpose.
If even humanity’s own interior was unstable, how could they possibly survive and grow?
“What is your strength now? Even I can no longer see through you!”
After hearing about the Evil God, Mu Xiying frowned and looked at Xiao Xuan in confusion.
“My strength?”
Hearing that, Xiao Xuan slowly looked toward his own attribute panel.
...
Name: Xiao Xuan
Race: Human
Dragon Blood: 80 million (Seventh Layer of the Supreme Realm)
Dragon Soul: 999.99 million (Peak of the Supreme Realm)
Cultivation Arts: Bloodthirsty Demonic Art (Peak Eighth Tier! Combat power *2100%), Dark Divine-Demon Art (Peak Twelfth Tier! Great Completion, 3500%), Divine-Demon Soul-Tempering Art (Peak Twelfth Tier! Great Completion, 3500%), Nine Heavens Divine Thunder Art (Peak Twelfth Tier! Great Completion, 3500%)
Martial Techniques: Demon God Void-Severing Slash (Peak Twelfth Tier! Great Completion, 3500%), Divine Thunder Demon Flash (Peak Twelfth Tier! Great Completion, 3500%), Divine-Demon Body (Peak Twelfth Tier! Great Completion, 3500%), Soul Blood Domain (Peak Twelfth Tier! Great Completion, 3500%)
...
Traits:
【Dark Demon-Devouring Body! Gold】 (A powerful talent that evolved into a high-grade Gold trait after devouring countless geniuses! Once activated, both Darkness Power and the physical body can be increased by 300 times!)
【Earth Sovereign! Gold】 (A trait that can only condense after ruling Earth for a thousand years. Unfortunately, Earth is not very strong now, so the strength of this trait is not particularly great. While on Earth, overall combat power *1000%)
...
At that moment, Xiao Xuan’s attributes were overflowing in every aspect!
With all those powerful Peak Twelfth-Tier cultivation arts and martial techniques, Xiao Xuan’s strength had already become extremely terrifying!
Even his realm had completely reached the Peak of the Supreme Realm!
Of course, his body’s realm was slightly weaker than his soul.
That was because his soul possessed a talent that allowed him to strengthen it by devouring the souls of others.
And over the last four thousand years, Xiao Xuan had devoured the souls of countless Other Races, so the strength of his soul far surpassed that of his body.
However, after reaching the Peak of the Supreme Realm, he discovered that he seemed to have reached the current limit of a high-grade Gold trait.
To break through above the Supreme Realm, even raising all of his traits to Gold would probably still not be enough.
Unless he obtained a Dark Gold trait.
At the same time, he had also gained a trait that Mu Xiying had once possessed:
【Earth Sovereign】
Unfortunately, present-day Earth was covered in wounds and far weaker than it had been in the era when Mu Xiying controlled it!
After all, Xiao Xuan had no interest in developing the demon race.
As for humanity, the fact that it had reached its current state at all was already quite good.
So taken as a whole, his combat power was actually still far below Mu Xiying’s from before.
Not to mention the Evil God.
“Compared to it, I am still not on the same level at all!”
“The stronger I become, the more clearly I can feel the despair you faced when confronting it back then.”
Xiao Xuan looked at Mu Xiying helplessly.
“Just what kind of existence is that Evil God? Even you are no match for it, Xiao Xuan?”
After hearing that, Su Qingwu could not help asking.
“No one knows what kind of existence it is.”
“But one thing is certain. The moment it descends upon Earth, Earth’s end will arrive.”
“All right. This is not the time to talk about that.”
“Gu Xuan, take Qingwu and start preparing the human evacuation plan!”
“I’ll help Ying’er merge with her body first!”
Xiao Xuan spoke slowly.
But the moment he said that, Mu Xiying shot him a surprised glance.
What had this brat just called her?
He really had no respect for seniority!!
Su Qingwu still wanted to say something, but after opening her mouth, she ultimately failed to speak.
“All right.”
Gu Xuan nodded and directly led away the somewhat unwilling Su Qingwu.
“I’m sorry. It was all because of the useless pride of my past self that things developed to this stage.”
Only after the two of them left did Mu Xiying look at Xiao Xuan and speak apologetically.
Honestly, after learning what the Mu Xiying of this timeline had done back then, she felt deeply frustrated as well.
Why had she done something so foolish?
When Xiao Xuan heard someone as proud as Mu Xiying actually apologize, he was taken aback.
Then he smiled faintly.
“This was not really the fault of your past self.”
“It was Ouyang Xun’s fault.”
“These events were not recorded in my Nanotech Battle Armor.”
“Because they happened later.”
“Back then, we had been hiding inside Imperial Capital University the whole time, so Ouyang Xun naturally would not come in person.”
“But he bribed two students from Imperial Capital University.”
“When you and I were not paying attention, they abducted Aunt Su and Uncle Mu.”
“And they directly blocked the communication talismans I had given them.”
“After all, he was a peak Martial Saint. He had plenty of ways to do something like that.”
“He gave you a choice.”
“Either you die, and he lets Aunt Su and Uncle Mu go.”
“Or you keep hiding, and he kills the two of them.”
“Back then, you did not dare let me know, because once I knew, I would definitely have tried to save Uncle Mu and Aunt Su.”
“So you left.”
“But you were not unprepared either.”
“Following the secret art you had left for yourself, you created a Death-Substitute Puppet.”
“So the one who died back then was not your real self.”
“But as you know, that Death-Substitute Puppet had one fatal flaw.”
“It required a part of the original person’s soul to be infused into it.”
“And once that was done, the original self would fall into slumber, and only someone using an extremely powerful soul-repairing pill could wake her up.”
“In theory, the moment that version of you died, the puppet’s AI core would automatically send me a message, and I would go revive you.”
“It’s just that...”
Xiao Xuan looked at Mu Xiying and sighed.
The reason he had never been told in advance was simple.
If Xiao Xuan had known, then with his personality, he would definitely have chosen to go himself rather than let Mu Xiying take the risk.
But Mu Xiying had been extremely confident in her Death-Substitute Puppet.
As long as Xiao Xuan received the message and went to wake her up, nothing should have gone wrong.
The moment she heard that, Mu Xiying could not help feeling dark lines gather across her forehead.
“Except before my Death-Substitute Puppet had even fully died, the paired Jade Talismans between us had already sent out a distress signal.”
“And when you arrived, you happened to see the me who had just died, so you directly demonized and fought Ouyang Xun.”
“Then after the battle was over and you left, by the time you discovered the message, the real me had already died?”
By the time Mu Xiying said that much, her face had already gone dark.
“Well... not completely dead.”
“It was just that your soul had fallen completely silent. I still managed to save it and seal it away!”
“Over the years, I also used all kinds of heavenly treasures to raise its strength.”
“It is just that once a Death-Substitute Puppet dies, if the soul is left incomplete, surviving even one extra second is extremely dangerous.”
“And yet your soul actually lasted seven or eight hours.”
“In theory, you should definitely have died, but your constitution is special.”
“So not only did you not die, your body even kept cultivating on its own.”
“The only flaw was that it had no consciousness.”
Xiao Xuan explained helplessly.
“And I did not demonize because I was mentally weak!”
“It was mainly because the two demonic constitutions erupted at the same time.”
Xiao Xuan hurriedly added an explanation for himself.
But after hearing that, Mu Xiying no longer wanted to say another word.
How had both her past self and this brat managed to be so unreliable?
“Where is the body?”
Mu Xiying took a deep breath and asked.
BZZZ!!!
Xiao Xuan did not waste words. He simply waved his right hand lightly.
In the next instant, a beautiful figure with a vacant gaze and a dull expression flew out from a space behind his divine throne.
That person was none other than Mu Xiying herself!
And her realm was equally terrifying.
It had also reached the Peak of the Supreme Realm!
Unfortunately, even after reaching the Peak of the Supreme Realm, because her soul was incomplete, she was still like a walking corpse.
“Because she has no consciousness of her own, she obeys anyone’s orders.”
“So I had no choice but to seal her inside a formation.”
“Even Gu Xuan does not know she exists!”
“Maybe that is why, after you crossed over, you did not enter her body directly.”
Xiao Xuan explained.
“Thank you. If not for you, I might already have died for real.”
After hearing that, Mu Xiying did not complain. Instead, she thanked him sincerely.
“If you had not trusted me that much back then, you probably would not have died either.”
Xiao Xuan gave a bitter laugh.
Mu Xiying said nothing further. She flew straight out of the woman she had been possessing and instantly entered her original body.
Because the two had originally been one and the same, it took only a moment.
Mu Xiying completely took control of all the talents and power in that body.
However, although this body had also reached the Peak of the Supreme Realm, it was still far, far weaker than the body she had cultivated for herself in the previous timeline.
Even so, the fact that she could reclaim her own body was already an unexpected joy.
“What do you plan to do next? Leave on a spacecraft again, like last time?”
Mu Xiying looked at Xiao Xuan and asked.
“No. The spacecraft are for ordinary people.”
“We can just teleport.”
“I have already tried it!”
“At my current strength, if I go all out, a single teleport can carry me more than a hundred light-years!”
“With a distance that vast, the Evil God is most likely incapable of catching us.”
“As long as we can find a new home and continue cultivating until we break past the Supreme Realm, our odds will be much better.”
“And at the very least, we can run farther away and keep hiding.”
“One day, we will grow strong enough to kill it.”
Xiao Xuan slowly laid out his plan.
Hearing that, Mu Xiying’s eyes lit up at once.
Xiao Xuan’s teleportation had already become that powerful?
A single jump could cover more than a hundred light-years?
That was a light-year.
One light-year was ten trillion kilometers!
No matter how fast the Evil God was, it could never catch up to teleportation.
It seemed Xiao Xuan truly was the one who could change everything in the future.
Perhaps the reason she had been able to go back was to protect him until he had fully grown!