On Earth, it was a warm season. In the city where birds were chirping and flowers were blooming, lively background music was playing in the garden-like campus.
A young man in sportswear was jumping forward as if there were springs under his feet. He was wearing huge headphones and bouncing a basketball in his hand.
It was obvious that he was very skilled. Even if the basketball was three to five meters away from him, it would always bounce back to his hand.
On the way, people of his age kept greeting him, indicating that he was an outgoing and popular sunny boy.
The camera cut to a quiet and elegant building not far away. A quiet and calm girl was practicing her dance to the accompaniment of a slightly mournful song.
Her soft body, her pitiful expression, and her light footsteps made her look like an angel who had fallen to the earth with broken wings.
The camera switched again. Outside of the campus, a scoundrel was running crazily under the pursuit of dozens of brawny men. It was quite a mess.
The camera switched again. A kung fu expert and a shooting expert showed up one after another. They were all young, energetic, and carefree handsome guys and girls.
Suddenly, the bright sky dimmed. Dark clouds were rolling, as if a gargantuan monster had swallowed the entire Earth.
Countless citizens raised their heads and looked at the sky in bewilderment.
The five young men and women sensed something wrong, too. They looked up at the sky at the same time as if they were attracted by fate.
Just as they raised their heads, five shining meteors suddenly drilled out of the dark clouds. They whizzed through the air and landed precisely on the bodies of the five boys and girls.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
BOOM! BOOM! When the five cameras were focused on one picture, the extremely shocked expressions of the five young men and women could be seen clearly.
A solemn and old voice echoed next to their ears. "A long, long time ago, we drove the devil out of this world, but we failed to annihilate it completely.
"The devil lurked at the edge of the cosmos, recuperating and growing stronger. Today, it is finally coming back.
"My strength is running dry. Brave young men, the mission of protecting Earth depends on you. Remember, you must protect Earth. You must destroy the devil. The name of the devil is … Vulture Li Yao!"
"Wow!"
Li Yao abruptly woke up from his nightmare, feeling a lingering fear in his heart. Cold sweat dripped down his back, and every strand of muscle in his body unconsciously twitched.
"What a terrible nightmare.
"Luckily … it doesn't feel like a strange dream. It's just the result of my recent imagination."
Rubbing his cold cheeks hard, he took more than ten deep breaths. When he raised his eyes, he discovered that he was in a dark cabin. It was not until then that Li Yao finally remembered that he had left the Ancient Sages Sector and was on his way back to the Tian Yuan Realm.
He made a gesture casually. Immediately, dozens of 3D light beams were unfolded around him, displaying the deep, boundless sea of stars around the starship in front of his eyes. In the "cosmos" at the end of the bed was a very familiar, dreamlike planet that was gradually enlarged.
That was his hometown, the Tianyuan Planet!
"He's finally back!"
Li Yao wiped the cold sweat off his forehead and let out a long sigh of relief.
The bumpy journey to the Ancient Sages Sector had been delayed for three and a half years because he had lost his way once in the dark nebula.
Over the past three and a half years, the Xing Yao Federation had undergone drastic changes, and he hadn't seen Ding Ling Dong for a long time, either!
After the starship entered the range of the Spiritual Nexus of the Tian Yuan Realm, virtual meetings could be held without any delay, and the tedious reports and summaries could be carried out.
After Li Yao really arrived on the Tianyuan Planet, the summary reports about the Ancient Sages Sector would all be completed, and the rest of the formalities would be taken care of by other staff.
He only wanted to empty his mind and take a good rest.
In the suburb of Binhai City, a famous resort on the Tianyuan Planet, in a private manor with a peaceful environment and pleasant scenery, Li Yao and Ding Ling Dong hugged each other hard, unwilling to let go of each other for a long time.
Although the two of them could communicate with each other through spiritual crane messengers, Ding Ling Dong still gave herself three days off when she learned that Li Yao was coming back so that she could spend time with Li Yao.
Right now, other than the thousands of birds flying on the ocean, there were only the two of them in the spacious manor.
Li Yao looked at Ding Ling Dong, who had been the Supreme Speaker of the Federation for four years and was now more experienced than before. He couldn't help but have mixed feelings.
His wife was becoming more and more like an empress who ruled over the world. She was full of aura!
"Seriously. I knew that nothing good would come out of your trip. You promised that you would find the Ancient Sages Sector in half a year and build the space gate, but you delayed it for more than three years!"
Ding Ling Dong punched Li Yao's chest with her fists. "Why do I feel that your legs are like clockwork? You can't stay at home and run out of the house all the time. Also, you are nowhere to be seen after you run away!"
Li Yao scratched his hair, somewhat embarrassed. Hearing Ding Ling Dong's words, he did not know how he should tell her that he wanted to go to the center of the cosmos.
Ding Ling Dong observed his face. Seeing that he was hesitating, she couldn't help but raise her eyebrow. "What's wrong? Is there something on your mind?"
"Yes … There is something very weird that I don't know how to tell you."
Li Yao looked at the surging ocean, where white bubbles were being stirred up, and hesitated.
"Just say it!"
Ding Lingdang said, "We are good brothers and we are loyal to each other. Do you have anything that even I don't know about?"
Li Yao's heart suddenly palpitated, as if a hole had appeared in his chest, and a golden sunlight was shining on his heart directly. He mumbled, "Yes. If I can't even trust and rely on my own wife, who can I trust in the entire universe?
"Alright. Then, I'll tell you exactly what it is!"
Li Yao summoned his courage and grabbed Ding Ling Dong's hands. Looking at her solemnly, he said slowly, "Honey, in fact, the secret has been hidden in my heart for a long time. I've been meaning to tell you the truth, but I didn't know how to say it, fearing that you would look at me differently after you learned the secret. But since you are so considerate today, I can't hold myself back anymore.
"I hope that you won't be rash after you hear what I'm going to say next. You must stay calm!"
"… Alright. I'll try to stay calm and not be rash. Go ahead."
Ding Ling Dong took a deep breath and bit her lips hard. "Who is the woman?"
Li Yao was dazed for a long time. "… Well, I'm afraid that you've misunderstood me. There is no second woman in this. I mainly want to tell you everything about Earth."
Li Yao held Ding Ling Dong's hands, and the two of them took a walk on the beach. Looking at the seagulls flying freely in the sky, Li Yao told her everything he knew about Earth and all his speculations.
Even though he had already condensed the story and omitted most of the unnecessary details, it still took him more than an hour to finish the whole twisted and bizarre story.
Ding Ling Dong listened quietly the whole time. Even at the most soul-stirring moment, she did not scream out of impulse. In the end, it was Li Yao who was more or less surprised. "Honey, why have you been so calm the whole time? Are you not dumbfounded at all?"
"If it were somebody else, I would've been 'dumbfounded'."
Ding Ling Dong opened her hands and said, "But the things that happened to 'Vulture Li Yao' are perfectly normal no matter how strange they are. Also, in such a case, all the uncanny things in your past have reasonable explanations. I'm actually greatly relieved!"
His wife was indeed a heroine, and she had seen such an earth-shattering scene. Even such an exaggerated matter couldn't scare her!
Li Yao secretly raised his thumb for Ding Ling Dong in his heart and asked, "Then, what do you think about the fact that I am actually an 'earthling'?"
"You are not exactly an earthling, are you?"
Ding Ling Dong said again. "You are obviously a native of the Heaven's Origin Sector, but your brain received a message from Earth when you were just born. In the vast universe where the Cultivators have lived for forty thousand years, such things are very common!
"Besides, I don't think that your original identity matters at all. Does it matter whether you are an earthling or a native of the Heaven's Origin Sector? What matters is how you know yourself and how you treat the people around you and the whole world.
"At the very least, for me, the person that I like is only 'Li Yao', and the person that I want to spend the rest of my life with is only 'Li Yao'. It has nothing to do with whether you are an earthling, a native of the Heaven's Origin Sector, a native of the Federation, or a native of the Imperium.
"Whether you are an earthling, a native of the Heaven's Origin Sector, the dominator of three Sectors, or a Mr. Nobody, it doesn't matter. All that matters is that you are Li Yao!"
Li Yao felt that his heart was about to melt. He was so moved that he could not say anything for a long time. "Honey …"
Ding Ling Dong smiled sweetly. This time, it was her turn to hold Li Yao's hand tightly and drag him forward. "In fact, I am truly happy that you are willing to share such a great secret with me.
"You know that I am a simple-minded person. The schemes and plans that you have conjectured are all messy. I am neither capable of figuring out the answers nor interested in complicating them. All I know is that you are my husband. So, I will spare no effort to support you and fight by your side to the end!
"Stop hesitating. Judging from everything in the past, I believe that you must be righteous. If you are really going to destroy Earth, it means that it must be the right thing to do.
"Then, I will certainly support you. The entire Xing Yao Federation will support you. Right now, we may not be a match for the Imperium or the Holy League, but it shouldn't be too difficult for us to destroy a tiny Earth, right?
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