"You killed Zu Kun?"
"Of course. I'm an assassin—hundred-percent success rate."
"Even though the Divine Dragon Qi Blast Zu Kun used at the end was extremely powerful, it still couldn't beat my Popo Bombs."
"No wonder your world ended up being destroyed. I have a feeling that Zu Kun might have been the protagonist of your world."
"Impossible, absolutely impossible! That kid just happened to have a lightning-bolt scar on his forehead. How could he possibly be the protagonist? If anyone had to be the protagonist, it would definitely be me, Li Heihei!"
In the void, Yu Xian steered the Somersault Cloud, casually bantering back and forth with Li Heihei. In just a few sentences, though, he had completely broken her composure.
"Wait, could it be... that kid really was the protagonist?" Li Heihei fell silent for a moment before asking in a hushed voice.
Yu Xian nodded. "High probability... After all, your stories always give me a strong sense of déjà vu. It's so weird."
"..."
Li Heihei instantly sank into depression.
After all, when that world was destroyed, her elder sister, the Eagle Witch, had died, and her senior sister, the Clam Witch, had died as well.
If the world had truly been destroyed because she killed its protagonist, wouldn't that mean she was the real culprit behind the destruction of her world?
Seeing Li Heihei quiet down, Yu Xian did not bother saying anything more. Steering the Somersault Cloud toward a world ahead, he was just about to pull the entire world straight into the Zhen Realm when he suddenly froze.
The next instant, he teleported into the world's interior. With Yu Xian's Power, he could now enter any world at will without relying on any Transcendence-grade items, all without worrying about bursting those worlds apart.
A battlefield of monsters.
Yu Su'an held his girlfriend, Lenora, tears streaming uncontrollably from his eyes.
This was a war between humans and monsters. No one knew where the monsters had come from, but they emerged in an endless tide, attacking all living beings and extinguishing every sign of life.
It was as though the world itself were committing suicide.
Naturally, humanity refused to sit by and await death. They launched counterattacks, and every citizen became a soldier.
It was under these circumstances that Yu Su'an had met Lenora, a fellow recruit from the 1,601,024th class. In this war-torn era, love was remarkably simple: once you knew someone was the one, they were worth entrusting your entire life to, faithful unto death.
Yet just a few hours ago, Lenora's squad had been surrounded by monsters. Yu Su'an had led his unit to reinforce them, but in the end, they were still a step too late, watching helplessly as a monster's barb impaled Lenora through the chest.
"Captain, we have to pull back immediately, or more monsters will swarm in and we won't be able to leave either!" shouted Yu Su'an's teammate, Zhang Shou.
Yu Su'an clung tightly to Lenora, as if trying to merge her corpse into his own body. In the end, he simply could not bring himself to let go, and spoke up: "You guys go. I'm staying behind to keep her company. She's always been terrified of being alone; I can't leave her here."
"Holy crap."
Suddenly, Yu Xian's voice rang out.
He had not expected that the moment he arrived, the first thing he would hear would sound like a line straight out of a brainless romance drama.
"Who are you? Hands in the air!"
The rest of the teammates were startled, raising their guns one after another to aim at Yu Xian, who had materialized out of thin air.
Immediately after, their expressions grew peculiar—especially Zhang Shou's. Having known Yu Su'an for over twenty years, he thought this man who had appeared from nowhere looked far too much like Yu Su'an.
"Are you... Yu Su'an? Did you come back from the future to save Lenora?" Zhang Shou immediately let his imagination run wild, staring at Yu Xian and guessing.
The next moment, Yu Su'an, kneeling on the ground while clutching Lenora, snapped his head up to stare at Yu Xian, his eyes filled with hope.
Yu Xian looked at Yu Su'an. Meeting his gaze, he answered, "Uh... I'm just an innocent bystander passing through. Would you believe that?"
"What do you mean by that? Have you stopped loving Nora?!" Yu Su'an flared up with rage, genuinely believing Yu Xian was his future self, and yelled demanding an answer.
Yu Xian took out a love-flavored candy, popped it into his mouth, and then said with utter seriousness, "I love her!"
"Then where's the medicine you brought back from the future to save her life? Where's the resurrection medicine?!" Zhang Shou pressed urgently.
Yu Xian looked speechlessly at them and countered, "When did I ever say I was this guy back from the future? My name is Yu Xian. I just came by to see what version of me exists in this world."
"Parallel universe theory?" Zhang Shou caught on immediately.
Yu Su'an lowered his head, clutching the already cold Lenora. His mood plunged back to rock bottom. The tears that had halfway stopped began flowing anew. Staring down at Lenora in his arms, he was enveloped in utter despair.
"Then Yu Xian, is there any way you can help Captain? As you can see, Captain loves Nora dearly. I'm sure in your world, there must be a Nora as well, and you love her too, right?" Zhang Shou whispered to Yu Xian.
Looking at the face that was seventy percent identical to Zhang Shou's, Yu Xian sighed helplessly. Though not his actual buddy, he had to admit this Zhang Shou had a personality remarkably similar to his Zhang Shou—the sort of guy who seemed careless on the surface but was actually deeply sentimental.
Simply put, this guy had a bit of a savior complex—not the hypocritical kind, but a torch-style martyr who would burn himself to illuminate others.
"Fine, then!"
After a moment's thought, Yu Xian decided to do his daily good deed.
He raised his hand and, under everyone's watchful eyes, snapped his fingers. Instantly, wherever the sound reached, the deceased humans returned to life one after another.
Most humans in this world were beings without souls who possessed only spiritual sparks. For him, resurrecting them took nothing more than a thought; as for why he snapped his fingers, it was purely to show off.
Zhang Shou and the others stared in utter shock at the resurrected crowd. These people had just revived and were still in a state of confusion. The members of Yu Su'an's squad hurried over to the familiar faces among the revived, checking on their condition.
"Could you... be a god?" Zhang Shou's eyes widened as he came to his senses and looked at Yu Xian.
Yu Xian glanced speechlessly at Yu Su'an, who was already locked in a passionate kiss with Lenora, and finally nodded. "To you guys, probably not much different from a god. By the way, do you want to be the protagonist?"
"The protagonist?" Zhang Shou blinked, stunned.
The next instant, Yu Xian broke into a mischievous grin and bestowed upon Zhang Shou the initial ability that his own Zhang Shou had first acquired.
"All right, drama's over. Time to beat it."
Having completed his prank, Yu Xian vanished in a flash.
Emerging from the world, he proceeded to sweep the entire world into the Zhen Realm. There was nothing fundamentally wrong with the world itself; it had merely been affected by Quan Juehua, causing an issue with the world's Heavenly Dao rules that flipped it from humanity flourishing into humanity being eradicated.
After pulling it into the Zhen Realm, however, he casually corrected that world's Heavenly Dao. In a few decades, monsters would grow fewer and fewer, and the world would return to normal.
"Huh?"
"You seem a little different."
Looking at the returning Yu Xian, Li Heihei keenly sensed that some kind of change had taken place in him.
However, even though she was a Mighty One, she had been sealed right after stepping across the threshold into that realm. Thus, she could only vaguely sense something without being able to put her finger on what had actually changed.
Yu Xian smiled. "Keep telling your story."
Steering the Somersault Cloud, he continued forward toward the next world.
Chapter 743