CHAPTER 296: EARTH AFTER THE AGE OF SPIRIT RECOVERY

Hearing her words, Tian Yongheng slightly shifted his gaze towards her.

Her information materialized in his eyes.

[Yao Qiuyue: Ninth Stage of Void Refinement Realm.

Dormant Great Encompassing Divine Roots. Inheritor of the Immortal Sovereign. Heavenly Yin Meridians. Otherworldly Soul. Successor of the Ice Mystic Holy Land. A transmigrator who crossed over into the Second Great Mortal World from the Myriad Worlds, acquiring the body of a girl with the same name as hers and becoming a disciple of the Ice Mystic Holy Land. In her past life, she was born on planet Earth of the same universe as you during the Age of Spirit Recovery. She was accepted as the disciple of an extraterrestrial Human Race expert hiding on earth, and later on created one of the most powerful assassination organizations of that time. However, she was killed by another Chosen One, leading to her transmigration. She suspects you’re a transmigrator and related to her past life’s senior sister.]

[Current favorability: 2-Star]

He first saw this back at the Isle of Heavenly Demons, encountering numerous transmigrators, most of whom were from different worlds or universes from the Myriad Worlds.

Only Yao Qiuyue was stated to be someone from the exact same world as his own before his death.

He suspected that this so-called Age of Spirit Recovery was probably after his death, marked by the appearance of someone like Ye Fan and their conversation he listened to before dying in his past life.

Thus, he specifically only sent a voice transmission to Yao Qiuyue that time, wanting to know what happened after his death.

And now... It seemed that she really knew someone who was close to him back on earth.

"Apologies, perhaps that was too presumptuous a question to ask."

Seeing that he didn’t reply for a long time, Yao Qiuyue quickly apologized, not wanting to offend this seemingly invincible figure.

He had defeated a real Immortal God, after all!

That too without any effort!

"It’s alright. I was just lost in thought for a moment."

Silence ensued for a moment before he continued, "As for your question...

On which year did you transmigrate from earth to the Second Great Mortal World? Can you tell me about what the world was like?"

There it was.

The question that dispelled all her doubts in an instant.

[Yao Qiuyue’s favorability towards you has increased.]

[Current favorability: 3-Star]

Yao Qiuyue breathed a sigh of relief, speaking softly, "2073. It was the Age of Spirit Recovery, or so they used to call it. When Spirit Qi revived on earth and Immortal Cultivation became possible.

Although... I wasn’t truly that great of a cultivator. I was merely at the Qi Condensation Realm, leading an assassination organization which at the time was one of the most powerful on global scale. It was because the strongest experts on earth had only reached the Foundation Establishment Realm at that time. I don’t know the situation now, but one or two Golden Core cultivators must have emerged by now at the very least."

As if remembering something, she continued, her voice containing slight malice.

"However, there’s a chance higher experts might have emerged since before the Age of Spirit Recovery fully started in 2023, some cultivators at the Acupoint Opening Stage had emerged. I was also killed by one such individual, he had already attained the Foundation Establishment Realm by 2073 and was one of the strongest individuals on the global scale."

Tian Yongheng nodded slightly at her words. This matched the system’s description.

A Chosen One had indeed emerged on earth.

"What about the global powers? Those superpower countries and organizations?"

He asked again.

Encountering someone from the same world as him, he naturally wanted to talk more and know all about what happened after his death.

The system also mentioned something about extraterrestrial Human Race experts.

Did that mean that aside from earth, other planets also had Immortal Cultivators, and that too way before the Spirit Qi revival happened on earth?

This question appeared in his mind, but he suppressed it for the time being.

Yao Qiuyue nodded, "At the beginning of the Age of Spirit Recovery, from 2023-2030, the situation was still under control, and the Immortal Cultivation World, with the strongest being at most a few pinnacle Acupoint Opening Stage cultivators, operated in the dark, hidden from the eyes of the general public except for those billionaires and high status individuals.

But as the Spirit Qi continued to increase, earth also began to experience various changes and strange phenomena. The oxygen levels began to rise, other lifeforms began to mutate, and even the ozone layer which had been greatly damaged started to heal on its own incredibly fast. Naturally, these changes could no longer be hidden as more and more Immortal Cultivators emerged and ancient inheritances were unearthed. Scientists were puzzled, trying to figure out the reason behind these things.

Humans, with our frail bodies not suited for such high oxygen environment, should have been nearly extinct, however, that didn’t happen. It was because the Spirit Qi was also gradually strengthening our bodies, reducing the impurities of many from years of sedentary lives and modern, impure food consumption while also making us far stronger than our ancestral counterparts. In the end, everyone had no choice but to accept that it was truly the Age of Spirit Recovery, whether if it aligned with science or not.

By 2050, the existence of Immortal Cultivators and the cultivation world had already been revealed with the appearance of Qi Condensation Realm cultivators, who were nearly immune to all known diseases and could do unimaginable feats, one individual at the Qi Condensation Realm even killed a mutated blue whale that was about to become a Demon Beast on live television, carrying its body of nearly 200 tons on his shoulder without any effort.

Research on Spirit Qi and Immortal Cultivation became the main focus of nearly all research centers around the world, as it was a path truly leading towards immortality and advancement to a higher level civilization.

The nuclear powers, United Nations, North Atlantic Alliance, and other global forces, understanding the situation, established the Immortal Cultivation Union, and all countries in the world became its members with no exception. They distributed the emerging resources, researched cultivation techniques and combat arts alongside other legacies to create a force of Immortal Cultivators and establish order in the increasingly chaotic world."

At that moment, Yao Qiuyue’s expression slightly stiffened, as if remembering some unpleasant memories.

Tian Yongheng didn’t speak, letting her continue and listening quietly.

"However... in the year 2056, a spaceship, specifically a Dharma Artifact of at least Rank-3 from what I know now, arrived right above earth. It was hidden by a special formation, and even satellites which had been upgraded to the level of Rank-1 Dharma Artifacts specifically used to monitor the outer space didn’t detect it approaching earth. From it emerged a Foundation Establishmen cultivator and dozens of Qi Condensation cultivators, and we finally learned that intelligent life truly existed outside earth, not in theory, but in reality.

And it was even a group of humans, from a civilization far more advanced than us in both technological and Immortal Cultivation terms. They came from a nearby star system, having sensed the rising Spirit Qi in our solar system, and had no good intentions whatsoever despite being of the same Human Race, wanting to make us earthlings submit to them and act as their slaves. That was when the terror of Foundation Establishment Realm was truly revealed to us.

That Foundation Establishment cultivator was like a living nuclear weapon, an atomic bomb that could walk and talk, a seemingly casual strike of his capable of annihilating several miles in an instant. Earth’s strongest Immortal Cultivators had to spend their utmost efforts to drive them away, with over a hundred of Qi Condensation cultivators in the mid to late stages combining their might with the power of a spiritually enhanced nuclear weapon to severely injure him, who seemed to be in the later stages of Foundation Establishment Realm.

Even then, the Foundation Establishment cultivator wasn’t completely thwarted off, and realizing that was the extent of what we could do, he fully unleashed his power. Had a group of Acquired Realm cultivators not arrived at that time, we would have truly been finished.

That Foundation Establishment cultivator and his group turned out to be from another star system experiencing the Age of Spirit Recovery, although theirs started over a thousand years earlier, leading to them having strength that overwhelmed us. On the other hand, those Acquired Realm cultivators were also attracted to the Age of Spirit Recovery occurring on several star systems simultaneously, and revealed they had been traveling on their spaceship Dharma Artifact for over 3 decades.

They were from a faction that ruled the entire Milky Way Galaxy, called the Starry Sky Pavillion, which was also the leader of the Galactic Alliance consisting of several powerful Human Race Void Refinement Realm civilizations and powers, with the Profound Divine Hall being the strongest among them.

With their arrival, earth was also accepted as a member of the Galactic Alliance before they left some resources that could allow a few Foundation Establishment cultivators to emerge on earth quickly after talking with the world leaders, going away to visit the civilization of that Foundation Establishment cultivator and his group.

But... They arrived a bit too late. That Foundation Establishment cultivator had already unleashed his ultimate move by then."

Yao Qiuyue’s gaze became a bit heavy, recalling the terrifying scene from her mind.

"That day, the entire Mount Everest sunk several meters deep."