Chapter 135: Born for this era, above everything else

The world is always so unfair. Before the recovery of spiritual energy, humans were divided into different levels based on talent, family background, and wealth, with many people unable to reach the starting point of some people even after a lifetime of hard work.

After the recovery of spiritual energy, this has not changed.

Those with power still have power, those with wealth still have wealth, but on this basis, they are divided into those who have awakened superpowers, those who have obtained treasures from the cosmos, and ordinary people.

And superpowered individuals who have awakened superpowers, and holders of treasures from the cosmos, are also divided into three, six, and nine grades based on the level of awakened superpowers and the strength of the treasures obtained from the cosmos.

So people like Gu Che, Lu Jing, Shen Mo, and Lin Ruoxi appeared among humans.

But even so, Heaven still felt it wasn't enough. These geniuses in the eyes of ordinary people were so mediocre in His eyes. He was dissatisfied, so He created existences like Ye Xuan.

Just ten days after obtaining the character template from the cosmos, he autonomously comprehended the Wangquan Sword Intent, and in just a few months, he surpassed the template itself, possessing power above the template.

Later, he obtained the recognition of the Fire Light Shadow Stone from the Armor Hero world, could summon the Flame Dragon Armor, and in just a few months since the recovery of spiritual energy, he had reached Stage Six, which many people in the future might not even dare to imagine in their dreams.

Even in this Da Xia that does not believe in gods, more and more people are willing to call him "God."

He is too strong, not just in strength, but also in talent and luck; he seems to be born for this era.

If there is really one person among humans in the future who can become the "omniscient and omnipotent" god in their understanding, then that person must be Ye Xuan.

In the past, human understanding of Ye Xuan's strength mostly came from the internet, but now, being on the battlefield, they finally understood what kind of strength the other party possessed.

The Azure Dragon phantom standing above the sky, the terrifying pressure that seemed to suppress everyone and no mutated creature dared to resist, the incomprehensible power that killed countless mutated creatures in an instant...

Seeing it with one's own eyes is far more shocking than seeing it in a video.

Time flowed slowly in the blood-stained smoke.

Fear spread in the beast horde.

Under that strike of Ye Xuan, even the mutated creatures outside the range felt the threat of death; no matter what they were doing in the previous second, biting, roaring, fighting—no matter what they were doing, they all froze in place at this moment.

Their muscles tensed, their pupils contracted, and instinctive whimpers squeezed out of their throats.

Then—run.

No hesitation, no resistance, not even the slightest—they all made the most correct judgment based on their own instincts as beasts.

Claws dug up rubble, scales scraped against ruins, huge bodies collided as if crazy, scrambling to flee outward, trampling on each other, and even willing to break the spines of their own kind, just to be further away from that figure.

The battlefield suddenly quieted down.

The Tianshu Academy soldiers who came to support gripped their weapons tightly, but they no longer had a target to swing at; some looked around blankly, as if they couldn't believe the war had ended.

Some slowly knelt to the ground, trembling fingers stroking the cold corpses of their companions; more just stood dazed, watching the backs of those mutated creatures disappear at the end of the ruins.

It's over.

The war in Qingshan County ended completely at this moment.

As the final cleanup work unfolded, the gates of the shelter slowly rose, and the survivors walked out of the dark underground space, supporting each other. Their eyes were not yet accustomed to the blinding morning light, but they all greedily looked up at the long-lost sky.

It had only been one night, but for them in the shelter, it felt like a year had passed.

Gu Che, Shen Mo, and Lin Ruoxi did not participate in the aftermath work.

They came to Ye Xuan's side, stood behind him, looking at the gradually brightening dawn in the east, the morning breeze carrying the smell of smoke brushing across their clothes.

"Did Su Mengyao tell you?"

After a long silence, Gu Che suddenly spoke.

The communication network of Qingshan County had long been actively cut off, and except for the Tianshu Academy, no one outside knew what happened here.

The reason for blocking the network was also to avoid the spread of unnecessary panic, not to let the people of other cities fall into fear of mutated creatures, and not to let the people in the shelters be guided by the emotions of others on the internet, causing loss of control and making extreme behaviors.

As for avoiding influence and preventing themselves from bearing responsibility, that was even more impossible.

After all, the Tianshu Academy members of Qingshan County had all died in battle, so who could come out to bear the responsibility?

The Yunshan City Tianshu Academy, after receiving the request for aid from the Qingshan County Tianshu Academy, dispatched superpowered teams to support at the first time, and after receiving the request for increased support, arranged for more people to go to the Qingshan County Tianshu Academy. They didn't do anything wrong.

It's just that everyone underestimated the strength of those Stage Three mutated creatures in this beast horde.

By the time the reinforcements arrived, Qingshan County had already fallen.

Even so, the Director of Yunshan City would still bear responsibility, and must bear responsibility.

So Gu Che was really just curious.

Curious about how Ye Xuan knew about the situation in Qingshan County.

He even felt that it might not have been Su Mengyao who told him.

Because according to what Wang Shouguo, the Director of the Imperial Capital Tianshu Academy, had told him in the past about Zhong Lao's attitude toward mutated creatures, he actually didn't hope for overly powerful forces to rush to suppress them at the first time before the beast horde occurred.

Excessive protection would hinder the growth of civilization, just like if parents always shelter their children from the wind and rain, the children will never learn to walk on their own.

A country is even more so.

If even a country is enjoying the protection of one person, then for the people within this country, do they believe in the country itself, or that person?

A god above the country—Zhong Lao neither hoped that this person was himself, nor did he hope that this person was Ye Xuan.

The Deep Sea King of Bibo City indeed required him and Ye Xuan to take action, but a beast horde like Qingshan County should have been a battle solved by these Stage Three superpowered individuals.

Death is painful, but those who survive will carry the will of the dead and become stronger; if every crisis relies on another powerhouse to solve it, then Da Xia will never truly grow.

Wang Shouguo's thoughts on this point were the same as Zhong Lao's.

So he didn't hope to use Ye Xuan's power to quell the war in Qingshan County; Su Mengyao might have known what happened in Qingshan County, but she might not have told Ye Xuan.

Ye Xuan did not answer, his gaze still lingering on the skyline, where a ray of sunlight was piercing through the clouds and falling on the ground.

(End of chapter)