[Ding! Congratulations Host for completing your first task.] Rewards:
Cultivation Tower for Earthlings.
Mystery Reward (Not opened yet).
Great Mist Formation (Can work for 100 years).
Huai looked at the people and the four S-Rank Awakeners who were already looking at him. Huai smiled slightly; all of the humans were happy now, although they had lost many people, but still, they won at last. All of this was just because of this otherworldly being who saved them...
Huai looked at the four S-Rank Awakeners. Although they were happy, still a deep sadness was lingering in their eyes. They had lost their friends...
Huai said, "Don't worry about them, they'd come back soon."
These words confused them even more. What does it mean? What does it mean that they'll come back? Huai didn't say anything more and took out six Resurrection Cards... and waved his hand.
A beautiful mist appeared in front of him, and those six cards vanished in thin air. Six different bodies took shape in the mist. Everyone knew them; they were those six S-Rank Awakeners who died before: Park Ji-Hoon, Elena, Amira, Kento, Alistor, and Isabella. Then their souls came back from the deep underworld and merged with those newly created bodies...
They opened their eyes to see the beautiful person in front of them. After they died, their souls were taken to the underworld, but just before their judgment, a hand—a hand that they'd never forget—tore through the underworld and took their souls away... and they came back to life.
What was happening? But when they looked at this otherworldly being, they knew everything. They knew exactly what had happened. This person was the one who saved them. They bowed together towards Huai. "Thank you, Your Highness, for your mercy."
Huai waved his hand; a gentle force swept by, and all of them stood up and became straight. "Don't worry, you deserve it." A gentle smile still lingered on his face.
He looked at the other people, who were amazed by the scene before them. They all knew how terrifying this being was. The four S-Rank Awakeners looked at Huai in reverence. They never imagined in their wildest dreams that Huai would help their friends resurrect.
At this moment, in the Association Tower, every official was happy. They thought Huai had already helped them to ward off the evil that invaded Earth, so he'll definitely give them all the resources from those thousands of spaceships and space pouches scattered throughout the war zone. That'd make them more and more rich...
Huai looked at the headquarters of the Global Awakeners Association and waved his hand. A gentle force swept by, and all the high-ranking members of the Association came in front of him in a few seconds. There were thousands of them. They felt fear for the first time in their lives; they didn't know what this being wanted to do.
Huai spoke, "You, as the heads of the Global Awakeners Association, never did your work in times of adversity. You embezzled money that was not for your own; you took the resources of humans that they earned themselves. So, from today onwards, you don't need to have any powers. I'm taking the powers that you have and removing the consciousness that made those bold ideas to embezzle people's resources."
Just by saying this, Huai waved his hand and all those powers flew out of those thousands of people. Even their consciousness was removed; they were now just like idiots.
Huai released them, then looked at the S-Rank hunters. "Don't let fools like them control you again. From now on, you ten will be the pillars of humanity. In just a few years, your powers will be updated to SS-Rank..." Huai passed down all the powers he took from those corrupted officials.
Then Huai took out the Cultivation Tower, and a huge tower with 11 floors appeared in the void. Huai put that tower in the place of the headquarters of the Association and said to humanity:
"This is the Cultivation Tower. Everyone is allowed to go there to cultivate. There are countless opportunities in that tower: martial techniques, cultivation techniques, and even weapons and medicine of different grades. This tower will help you reach the level of Galaxy Sovereigns. In this tower, there are many floors. Each floor can accelerate time by 10 times, so the 1st floor has 10× time acceleration, the 2nd floor has 20×, up to 110× in the 11th floor... You can cultivate there for reaching those realms soon."
Huai then took out the Mist Formation and set it around the Earth... then looked at everyone and said:
"This formation is called the Great Mist Formation. It can hide Earth for around 100 years. In these 100 years, try to reach a level from where you can look down upon other races... The universe has countless races that want to destroy you, eat you, or enslave you. Like this time, the race that invaded you came from a distant galaxy called the Nether Galaxy and the race is called the Nether Wraiths. You only have these 100 years to develop until you'll face these kinds of wars again. Until then, do your best."
Ananya felt something was off but didn't know what it was. But Liang Wei looked at Huai and asked curiously, "Your Highness! You are still here, right? No matter who'd come to invade Earth will have to face you, don't they?"
Huai looked at them but didn't say anything. Everyone now knew something was off. Why did this divine being not reply to the question? Huai stretched his hand and looked at the cliff top where Qingqing was, and a gentle force swept through.
Qingqing was watching everything from this cliff; she was already 7-8 years old. When she saw Huai kill those invaders, she felt really happy; she even jumped and clapped. Now she was waiting for Huai to come back when a gentle force swept by her and took her towards Huai. Huai took her in his arms and looked at her with a genuine smile.
"She's Qingqing, Lu Qingyue. I'm going to give her a power that's going to help her awake the first SSS-Rank superpower on Earth. From now on, she'll be the Young Lord of humanity on Earth until she reaches a level where she can surpass you ten pillars. From then on, she'll take the position of Earth Protector. I'm leaving Earth to her..."
Everyone felt pain just by hearing those last words. What do you mean by leaving Earth? Aren't you going to stay on Earth?!
Huai looked at Qingqing and put his major powers into Qingqing and sealed it so that she can get this power little by little until she reaches his level. Qingqing's eyes were teary. She looked at Huai, put her both hands to the cheeks of Huai and said, "Pretty Gege! Pretty Gege, where are you going? Why don't you stay here? Waaaaaaaaaah..."
She started crying uncontrollably. Huai felt helpless, but he couldn't do anything about it. He needs to die; that's what his destiny is. Huai took Qingqing and came to Lu Sheng. He then put Qingqing in Lu Sheng's arms and waved his hand; Qingqing fell asleep.
He looked at Sheng and said, "Take care of her. Don't let her know what's going to happen..."
Lu Sheng, puzzled, asked Huai, "Huai! What are you going to do? Don't do anything stupid..." He didn't know why, but he felt a pain in his heart, something giving him pain that he hadn't felt for a long time.
Huai didn't say anything and flew towards the place where he was standing. From the start to now, already 14 minutes were gone... he only had a minute to live. Huai looked at humanity, Earth, and everything around him, then he sighed a deep breath.
He said, "Today I exhausted the last bit of power I had. I only had 15 minutes to use that power. Already 14 minutes are gone; I only have a single minute left to live..."
His voice was deep, but those words made every living being on Earth feel heavy. Don't know when, but Lu Sheng's eyes started watering... drops after drops of tears started flowing out of his eyes. Not just him, even those S-Rank Awakeners, A-Rank Awakeners, and even up to those F-Rank ones—all of their eyes were moist.
They all felt pain in their hearts. They all knew why Huai didn't answer that question before. They all knew why they felt something was wrong. Huai looked at them and smiled gently, saying, "I'll give you a last gift."
Huai waved his hand, and the last bit of power that he had was divided into countless small fragments, then reached every living human and merged with them. They all felt the change in themselves, but they didn't care about that at all in this moment... they all were looking at Huai with teary eyes.
But in just a few seconds, Huai's body started cracking. He still had that gentle smile on his face. Huai looked at the sleeping Qingqing in Lu Sheng's arms... she was the only happiness for him in this world. Huai's whole body shattered, and countless fragments were merged with Earth's core.
The world changed. The sky started getting dark, the law of heaven appeared above Earth, and a sad atmosphere appeared as if Earth had lost its most beloved child. The sky covered in clouds and started weeping for a continuous 3 months.
People of Earth also wept for their hero. The hero of humanity—a guy who was ignored for 33 years for his weakness—but that guy saved Earth and gave them everything they have now.
Soon, the ten S-Rank hunters took charge of humanity, and with the help of A-Rank and other hunters, stabilized the situation. The Cultivation Tower became the main plaza for Earth. Countless new phantoms of the Cultivation Tower started appearing around Earth so that each country could enter the tower through those phantoms and didn't need to travel far.
Qingqing woke up after a few days, but when she found out Huai was missing, she started crying and asked her mother and father, but they still didn't tell her anything about Huai. Lu Sheng didn't know why, but his heart was heavy—so heavy that he hadn't felt it before. He didn't love Huai, but why was he feeling like that now?
As for the ten S-Rank Awakeners, they built ten towers around the Earth, each taking over a tower to take care of the Earth. Soon, they entered the Cultivation Tower and got their corresponding cultivation techniques and martial arts that'd help them reach the height of Galaxy Sovereigns. Now they knew just how far they were from reaching that level. But they still knew that the Cultivation Tower would help them reach that level soon. Inside the time tower, 1st level, 10 days inside is only 1 day outside. They can use this time to cultivate to a level where they can use the 2nd level and more.
The whole Earth started cultivating fully. They didn't know what changed between them, but they knew one thing for sure—that Huai changed their destiny by giving them those fragments that changed their cultivation talent.
While Earth was celebrating its victory and cultivating peacefully, in a distant planet called Blue Star, in a courtyard on a mountain peak, a guy was sitting in his chair looking at the moon, admiring its beauty...
The night breeze brushed past his long black hair, and for a moment, his light brown eyes flickered with a memory of a world far away.
[Ding! Mystery Reward Opening... Congratulations Host. You have obtained: Reincarnation of the Eternal Sect Leader.]
He took a sip of his tea and whispered to the wind, "It's time to start again."