booktalesy Chapter 51 : Chapter 51
Chapter 51 : Chapter 51
Chapter 51: Gu Xuan, Five Thousand Years Later! Hundreds of Millions of Descendants!!
The young man cried out in anger the moment he saw Xiao Xuan.
“Who are you?”
But the instant Xiao Xuan saw him, he frowned.
“Damn it, I’m Gu Xuan!”
Gu Xuan was utterly speechless.
At that, Xiao Xuan’s eyes widened.
What the hell? Gu Xuan?
How was he still connected to this brat?
His expression changed abruptly. Had this brat actually had his way with him?
At that thought, Xiao Xuan felt his backside clench.
But very quickly, all of his memories concerning Gu Xuan surged up.
It turned out that when Gu Xuan had first entered the sect, he had cultivated the Evil-Repelling Sword Manual in order to raise his Sword Dao quickly.
That was right, the very one that required a man to castrate himself before practicing it.
Fortunately, what he had cultivated was a modified version.
Even so, the side effects remained. Before reaching major completion, it would cause his estrogen levels to explode.
A handsome young man had turned directly into a stunning beauty.
That was why Gu Xuan had always worn a mask, and why he had started liking men.
Thankfully, less than two years after entering Imperial Capital University, he had cultivated the art to major completion and recovered.
Of course, by then the embarrassment alone had been enough to kill a man.
The first thing he had done afterward was go apologize to Xiao Xuan and explain the reason. After all, he had pestered Xiao Xuan for a full two years.
Although Xiao Xuan had been speechless after learning the truth, he had not taken it too seriously. Aside from being a little disgusting, Gu Xuan had been fine in every other respect.
As time passed, the two of them had gradually become friends.
Of course, perhaps because of lingering aftereffects, Gu Xuan later grew into an incorrigible womanizer.
He had even married seven or eight wives!
By now, Gu Xuan had not only become a Martial God-level powerhouse, but his clan population had also reached several million.
It counted as a long-established great clan.
As for Xiao Xuan, he was still alone.
“Damn. Five thousand years as a bachelor—I really did have absurd self-control.”
At this moment, Xiao Xuan was impressed with himself.
Five thousand years, and he had not found a single partner.
He was starting to suspect that maybe the real gay one was not Gu Xuan at all, but himself.
“What are you here for? Why are you in such a panic? Are you marrying another wife again?”
Xiao Xuan stopped and looked at Gu Xuan in exasperation.
“My God, the outside world is in complete chaos, and you still do not know anything? You are far too reclusive, brat. Or are you still clutching Senior Mu’s photo every day and indulging in erotic fantasies? But that cannot be right. Senior Mu sent you a message this time. You should have seen it.”
Hearing Xiao Xuan’s words, Gu Xuan could not help complaining.
“Bullshit. Since when did I ever like Mu Xiying?”
Xiao Xuan rolled his eyes.
From what he remembered, Mu Xiying had always been cold toward him. He had no interest in that.
Still, he opened his Smartwatch for once.
BUZZ!!
Mu Xiying’s projection appeared instantly.
In the projection, Mu Xiying briefly explained that all of humanity’s powerhouses would soon be leaving Earth.
As for the reason, she only said that in a hundred years, Earth would face a world-ending crisis so terrifying that even she could not resolve it.
Xiao Xuan frowned at once.
“Humanity’s powerhouses are leaving? Then what about Earth?”
He could not help asking.
“We can only abandon it. We cannot save that many people. All we can do is save as many as we can.”
Gu Xuan spoke.
Xiao Xuan fell silent.
A world-ending crisis. If even Mu Xiying had said she could not resolve it, then it truly was hopeless. He understood her temperament. If there had been even a thirty percent chance of victory, she would never have chosen to flee.
“It looks like this time, there really is big trouble. By the way, besides telling me this, did you come for something else too?”
Xiao Xuan sighed, then looked at Gu Xuan.
“Heh, Brother Xiao, you really do understand me. You also know that my clan has too many people.”
I may be a Martial God, but my family is simply too large. The quota they gave me is not even enough to take everyone from my great-grandchildren’s generation, let alone my thirty-eighth generation descendants!
So I wanted to ask whether you could speak to Mu Xiying and get me some more slots.
“Also, you are all alone anyway. You will not use your quota, so you might as well give it to me too, right?”
Gu Xuan gave Xiao Xuan a fawning smile.
Xiao Xuan rolled his eyes at once.
“As for my quota, I do not really care. But forget asking Mu Xiying. With her temperament, even if I went to beg her, it would probably be useless.”
He spread his hands, indicating there was no point.
“Brother Xiao, you cannot just leave the descendants of your godsons to die! At least go and try. After all, you are Senior Mu’s only little brother!”
Hearing Xiao Xuan’s words, Gu Xuan immediately began to plead.
Xiao Xuan’s face darkened at once. Only now did he remember that Gu Xuan’s sons really were all his godsons.
Moreover, they were all quite filial toward him as their godfather.
They came to visit him every year during holidays and festivals.
“You brat, I suspect that when you made those rascals acknowledge me as their godfather back then, you were already planning for this.”
Xiao Xuan could not help glaring at Gu Xuan.
Gu Xuan chuckled, showing no awareness whatsoever that he had been exposed.
“All right, I will ask. Taking everyone is definitely impossible, so give me a number.”
Xiao Xuan was helpless.
“One million! Just one million! Sigh, there is no help for it. I can only take the direct line descendants with the closest blood ties!”
Gu Xuan hurriedly said.
Xiao Xuan was completely speechless.
One million, and that was only the direct line? This bastard truly knew how to sire children.
“Heh, I knew you treated me best, Brother Xiao! Then I will wait for your good news!”
Gu Xuan grinned.
After saying that, he bade Xiao Xuan farewell. Unlike a loner like Xiao Xuan, he had far too many family members.
He had to hurry back and take everything useful with him.
“You little bastard. You smashed my door and ran off without paying for it.”
Watching Gu Xuan fly away on his sword, Xiao Xuan was both speechless and thoughtful. It had been a long time since he had gone to the Imperial Capital. He wondered how Uncle Mu and Aunt Su were doing.
With that thought, he left his cultivation room.
In the next moment, Xiao Xuan boarded a tenth-tier fighter craft and headed toward the Imperial Capital at tremendous speed.
Over the past few months, Xiao Xuan had been consolidating his strength.
Combined with his original memories, he had already mastered most of this body’s power.
The Imperial Capital!
At present, the Imperial Capital was called Divine Phoenix City.
It had been named after the manifested form of the cultivation art Mu Xiying practiced.
Its diameter spanned hundreds of thousands of kilometers, and its population had reached a staggering three quadrillion.
Not only were there many people, the city’s overall strength was also astonishingly formidable.
Xiao Xuan went straight to a manor within Divine Phoenix Palace.
The moment he landed, he saw an old man pruning an eleventh-tier spirit fruit tree.
Any one of the fruits on that tree would be enough to drive the outside world into a frenzy.
Yet here, there was an entire orchard of them.
“Uncle Mu!”
Looking at the old man’s back, Xiao Xuan slowly called out.
The old man quickly turned around at the sound.
“Xiao Xuan?”
When he saw Xiao Xuan, Mu Long, who looked nearly sixty, was struck with disbelief.
“You brat, the world is ending and only now have you finally decided to come back!”
Mu Long directly laughed and cursed at him.
“Sorry, Uncle Mu. There has just been too much to deal with in Xiao City.”
Xiao Xuan said apologetically.
With Mu Long’s talent, under normal circumstances, it would have been impossible for him even to become an Innate Realm expert.
But then again, he had an Empress for a daughter.
Back then, Mu Xiying had given Mu Long an Aptitude Pill. Later, she had even left the formulas for all kinds of Aptitude Pills and Comprehension Pills to her past self.
Through studying the various alchemy notes Mu Xiying had left behind, that earlier Mu Xiying had also raised her pill-refining skill rapidly.
Mu Long and Su Qian had now both reached the Martial Saint Realm. Of course, in actual combat, any Martial Thearch who had reached that level through their own ability could kill them in an instant, because their talent was too poor.
Still, they were Martial Saints in the end. Their lifespans were long, and that was enough.
Mu Xiying had kept them in the Imperial Capital precisely so she could protect them better.
“Forget it. It is good that you came back. I will notify Ying’er and have her return so we can all eat together.”
Mu Long did not continue teasing Xiao Xuan and instead said so with a smile.
“No need. I’m back.”
But right at that moment, a calm voice came from the void.
In the next instant, space twisted all around them.
Mu Xiying tore through space and arrived.
Five thousand years had passed, yet Mu Xiying was still breathtakingly beautiful.
Only now, the aura around her had become incomparably domineering.
That lofty, world-overlooking presence felt as though it could tread heaven and earth beneath her feet.
“Sister Ying, long time no see!!”
When Xiao Xuan saw Mu Xiying, he smiled and greeted her.
Of course, he had not expected Mu Xiying to answer him.
For most of the past several thousand years, whenever she saw him return, she would do little more than glance at him before ignoring him. She was not especially warm even toward Mu Long and Su Qian.
Sure enough, Mu Xiying slowly looked at Xiao Xuan.
“Daughter, Xiao Xuan rarely comes back. Shall we all have a meal together? After all, are we not about to leave Earth?”
Seeing this, Mu Long hurriedly spoke with a smile.
He was afraid Xiao Xuan would feel pressured.
“It really has been a long time. Then let us eat together.”
What left Xiao Xuan—and even Mu Long at his side—completely bewildered was that Mu Xiying actually smiled faintly and agreed.
She had even smiled.
Both Xiao Xuan and Mu Long were stunned.
“Come. Were we not going to eat?”
But Mu Xiying ignored their reactions and left directly.
Xiao Xuan and Mu Long exchanged a glance, then followed after her.
As a woman, Su Qian naturally cared about her appearance much more than Mu Long did.
Even after five thousand years, she still looked only a little over thirty, and in fact even younger than she had five thousand years ago.
The family sat together and talked for a long time. Most of it was Mu Long and Su Qian asking Xiao Xuan how he had been recently.
Mu Xiying, meanwhile, simply ate quietly and said little.
“Ying’er, are we really going to leave Earth? What exactly happened? Do we truly have to abandon so many ordinary people?”
At last, Mu Long could not hold back anymore.
Over this period of time, many of his old friends had been frantically trying to ask him about the situation.
“You old man, Ying’er must have her reasons for doing this. Why ask so many questions?”
Su Qian immediately snorted at Mu Long.
“Ahem, I was only asking. Ying’er, do not take it to heart. Just do whatever you think is best.”
Mu Long hurriedly said the same.
“I had already intended to tell you about this.”
But Mu Xiying suddenly spoke.
Everyone froze for a moment and quickly listened attentively.
“Several years ago, humanity’s astronomers detected an immensely powerful mass of energy in outer space rapidly flying toward Earth.”
At its current speed, it could arrive in as little as a hundred years.
The intensity of that energy mass far exceeds my own power. Moreover, it has destroyed every planet along its path.
We do not know whether it is merely passing by Earth or whether Earth itself is its target. What we do know is that if it reaches Earth, Earth will have only one possible outcome: destruction.
That is why I had humanity begin preparing an evacuation plan in advance.
Of course, these ships were originally meant to search for a second home for humanity.
“Unfortunately, the preparations were rushed, and resources are limited. We can only take away a little over one billion people.”
Mu Xiying told them the course of events, half truth and half lie.
Xiao Xuan frowned immediately. This truly was a world-ending crisis.
“I have already made the arrangements. The four of us will all board my Divine Phoenix. With me there, all of you will be somewhat safer.”
Mu Xiying’s next words left Mu Long and the others stunned.
Why was Mu Xiying so completely different today from before?
“Oh, right, Sister Ying. There is something I wanted to ask you.”
Xiao Xuan nodded, then spoke somewhat awkwardly.
“You want to ask me for more slots for Gu Xuan, do you not?”
Mu Xiying’s words instantly left Xiao Xuan dumbfounded.
“Sister Ying, your foresight is uncanny. He just came to beg me to ask you for one million extra spots. I was at a loss too. I only thought I would ask. If it cannot be done, I will simply tell him no.”
Xiao Xuan said helplessly.
“He already applied before, asking whether his family allocation could be raised to one million. I refused him. But since you have spoken, tell him to make his preparations.”
Mu Xiying’s next words left Xiao Xuan stunned.
“Then many thanks, Sister Ying.”
Hearing that, Xiao Xuan smiled at once.
After the meal, Xiao Xuan chatted a little longer with Mu Long and the others.
He even spoke quite a bit with Mu Xiying.
The two of them exchanged more words today than they had in the previous five thousand years combined.
That was not an exaggeration.
When the sky had fully darkened, Xiao Xuan left Divine Phoenix City and sped toward Xiao City at tremendous speed.
BOOM!!!!
But just as Xiao Xuan had reached the halfway point, a terrifying jet-black beam shot down from the sky.
“Not good!!”
The terrifying power made Xiao Xuan’s expression change drastically in an instant.
But by the time he wanted to dodge, it was already too late.
BOOM!!
In a split second, the terrifying force slammed directly into him and engulfed him whole.
That overwhelming power frantically ravaged Xiao Xuan’s flesh.
At the same time, his entire body was hurled toward the earth at a horrifying speed.
RUMBLE—!!!!!
With an earth-shaking explosion, the ground within several thousand kilometers collapsed inward crazily.
The terrifying shockwave flattened everything within ten thousand kilometers.
A gigantic crater, dozens of kilometers deep and reaching all the way to the magma layer, appeared upon the earth.