The Decaying World

A few minutes later.

The car screeched into the corner of a parking lot.

A golden light flashed inside the car, and Ding Luo of the Divine Race transformed into a phantom, flying toward the school.

Her speed was far greater than the hovercar's.

The surrounding city buildings blurred past like fleeting shadows.

A dozen or so seconds later, inside the school, Ding Luo formed a golden spear in one hand and pierced the nether-energy monster on the ground.

It exploded into countless wisps of black smoke.

The monster was dealt with easily, but her expression remained grim.

"Where is the Guardian?! Why didn't they show up!?" she raged directly through her mark.

"We... we never received any report... Sorry, Luo, the alarm system might have malfunctioned," came the reply from a nearby Guardian through the mark.

Hearing this, Ding Luo's expression turned even darker.

She said no more, merely glancing down through the layers of earth at her little brother, Lin Hui, who was squeezed into a crowd underground.

Turning around, she sped back toward the location of her physical body.

Lin Hui seemed to sense something and looked up in the direction she had departed.

He was, of course, aware of the changes outside and recognized Ding Luo's Divine Race form. However, this was just a simple nether-energy monster cleanup. Aside from the monster being a bit too weak, nothing else seemed out of the ordinary.

Once the monster was eliminated and the all-clear was given, everyone came out from their hiding places and quickly resumed their normal classes.

The attack caused some damage to the surface facilities, but there were no other casualties.

Everyone soon began to forget about the incident.

Time slowly passed.

Lin Hui's main body stopped challenging others and instead began to focus on his cultivation with a new approach.

'If a single world can have someone who leads an era and manifests a Time String, then won't multiple worlds have even more of them?'

'If one world is in a stable era with no opportunities for a Time String to appear, then I'll just switch to another world.'

With this idea in mind, he began to formulate a plan to continuously switch between worlds to practice the Great Yin Yang Time Reversal Sword Technique.

And just then...

BANG.

The door to the Ding family's home was slammed shut.

Lin Hui, who was already home from school, was playing cards with his second brother. Hearing the noise, they both turned to look at the door.

They saw their older sister, Ding Luo, standing there in the doorway with her long hair down, wearing a purple skirt suit and black stockings, her head bowed.

The evening sunlight slanted in, dyeing half of her body a faint red.

"Yiran, Ding Lin, come here for a second."

Ding Luo didn't come in, but first called out her two younger brothers' names.

The two of them put down their cards and walked over.

"What's wrong, Sis?" Ding Yiran asked, confused.

"Come here, let me give you a hug." Ding Luo reached out and gently pulled her brother into her arms.

Normally, she was always careful to stop this guy from taking advantage of her, but this time, she didn't seem to care at all.

She let her brother press close against her chest. This uncharacteristic behavior made Ding Yiran forget about trying to cop a feel; he suddenly felt that something was wrong.

"Wait, Sis, what are you doing? Why are you acting like this? Don't scare me!"

Without answering him, Ding Luo let him go and looked at Lin Hui.

"Come here."

Lin Hui blinked, stepped forward, and was also pulled into a hug.

It lasted for a full several minutes.

Only then did Ding Luo release him.

"Something came up at the company. I might have to go on a business trip, to a place that's very far away..." Ding Luo said softly, looking at her two brothers.

"Seriously? It's just a business trip. Do you have to be so dramatic?" Ding Yiran said, relieved.

"I just... suddenly can't bear to leave you all. Because this time, I'm going very far away, and for a very long time," Ding Luo said with a forced smile.

"We can still communicate, right? Worst case, we can just buy tickets to come see you later," Ding Yiran said nonchalantly.

"It'll be very expensive. The price for interstellar communication fluctuates a lot, and it's not stable," Ding Luo said quietly.

"How long will you be gone?" Lin Hui asked, getting to the heart of the matter.

"Probably... measured in years. I'm not sure myself..." Ding Luo said bitterly.

"Like second brother said, worst comes to worst, we'll work, save up, and come see you together. Don't worry," Lin Hui said with a small smile.

"Mm, I'm not worried... That's what Mom and Dad said, too. Actually..." Ding Luo trailed off, but she didn't say what she was about to.

"Alright, let's not talk about this. Come on, I ordered a lot of food, it'll be delivered soon. The three of us can have a small hot pot. It's been a long time since we all ate around the pot together," Ding Luo said with a smile.

Ding Yiran agreed, and the three of them started to clean up and prepare.

About ten minutes later, the food arrived. They all pitched in and made a quick hot pot.

That evening, they watched a newly released horror movie together. Ding Yiran was so scared he kept trying to squeeze into his sister's arms.

It took a few smacks from Ding Luo to get him to settle down.

After showering that night, they all returned to their own rooms.

"Good night."

"Sis, when are you leaving?" Lin Hui asked.

"Tomorrow. Tomorrow morning." The faint smile on Ding Luo's face vanished.

"Are you really okay?" Lin Hui asked again. "If you really don't want to go, can't you refuse?"

"I can't... I can't refuse. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to find a post with such good benefits," Ding Luo sighed.

This transfer wasn't sudden. In fact, she had anticipated it during several previous tests.

She just hadn't expected it to come so soon.

"I see," Lin Hui nodded.

In truth, he had more or less guessed her situation, but he couldn't interfere.

She was of the Divine Race; her identity in this family was, after all, just a shell.

Now, standing in front of their respective bedroom doors, Ding Luo and Lin Hui's eyes met.

"After I'm gone, you and your brother will have no one to keep you in line. Don't go too wild. You have to eat properly... and rest on time every day," Ding Luo said softly, lowering her head.

"I know..." Lin Hui nodded.

A long silence followed.

It lasted until Ding Yiran also opened his bedroom door and came out.

Only then did Ding Luo turn, close her door, and go to rest.

The night passed without a word. The next morning, when Lin Hui and Ding Yiran got up, they found that Ding Luo had already left.

A small note was taped to her bedroom door. A final farewell.

「Thousands of kilometers from the Ding residence, high up in the sky.」

Ding Luo's figure flickered and appeared, looking at the two members of the Guiding Divine Army who had been waiting for her.

"Let's go."

"Don't worry, it's just a normal transfer. Your current state is no longer suitable for continuing your work in the Human Realm. A newcomer will take over as the city's Guardian," one of the Divine Army members, clad head-to-toe in golden armor, said in a deep voice.

"The person replacing me... will they be taking over my physical body?" Ding Luo paused before asking.

"Yes. She will use your human identity to continue the mission until sixty years from now, when the handover period begins," the other Divine Army member nodded.

"..." Ding Luo gave a bitter smile. She looked back in the direction of the home where her two brothers lived, the last thread of attachment in her heart now forced deep down, hidden away.

"Let's go. Sorry to trouble you both."

"Mm."

The two flanked her on the left and right, as if to prevent her from escaping, and flew up into the sky with her, accelerating.

As the three of them moved faster and faster, there was a sudden FWOOSH.

A golden ring flashed in front of them.

The ring appeared and vanished in an instant, and in that same brief moment, the three figures were gone.

After Ding Luo left, Ding Yiran returned to school to prepare his graduation thesis.

Lin Hui, on the other hand, began preparing for the upcoming college entrance exams.

Meanwhile, as the young girl Lin Yuexiu accelerated her Swordsmanship Cultivation, her constitution began to show extraordinary qualities.

CLANG CLANG CLANG!

In the courtyard, Lin Hui and Lin Yuexiu exchanged blows like lightning, clashing more than ten times in a single second.

Finally, the Longsword was knocked from Lin Yuexiu's hand, flying through the air and embedding itself precisely in a nearby wall.

"Your progress is very fast... You've completed the Nine-Section Swift Sword. Next up is the Qingfeng Swordsmanship..." Lin Hui's expression was complex. He could faintly sense a strange, wondrous aura coming from her.

Ever since she began practicing the sword technique, he had noticed that the concentration of the golden aura produced by Lin Yuexiu's body had begun to increase.

Previously, one cluster of it could shorten his time by a year; now, one cluster could shorten it by three. The frequency was the same, but the quality had improved dramatically.

Clearly, this golden aura was strongly correlated with Lin Yuexiu's own constitution, spirit, and strength.

Another point was that Lin Yuexiu's constitution had truly surprised him.

He had seen many children with special constitutions, but none had astonished him as much as the girl before him.

It wasn't her comprehension, but her physical stamina.

Lin Yuexiu's stamina seemed to be free-flowing and endless. No matter how long she sparred with him at full strength, she acted as if it was nothing. Even if she was exhausted to the point of collapse, she would lie down for five minutes and get right back up, good as new.

Her vitality was simply inhuman.

At first, he thought she might have some connection to the Source Calamity within her, but after a careful examination, he found no trace of it.

The complexity of this girl's physical structure far exceeded that of an ordinary human. She seemed to be able to continuously absorb energy particles from the surrounding Void and convert them for her own use.

No wonder he could absorb the golden aura from her to boost his own vitality.

"How are you feeling now?" Lin Hui couldn't help but ask as he looked at Lin Yuexiu.

"Very good..." Lin Yuexiu replied.

Lin Hui was shaken, but in truth, she was just as shaken.

Previously, worried about implicating Lin Hui, she hadn't told the truth and had only been casually practicing the Swordsmanship he taught her.

But she never expected that just by practicing casually, as if for fun, she would see such results in such a short time.

She could now clearly feel a massive increase in her physical stamina, speed, and strength.

The degree of enhancement was comparable to the various Cultivation Techniques within the Divine Race.

The crucial point was that with her half-god constitution, she didn't dare practice the Divine Race's Cultivation Techniques, because the fluctuations of Divine Power would surely attract assassins. Moreover, this was the Human Realm; it was hard to find a place to absorb Endless Divine Power.

Even if she had a Cultivation Technique, she wouldn't be able to practice it, let alone the fact that she didn't have one to begin with.

Therefore, this Swordsmanship, which she had originally thought was just a simple physical exercise, now gave her a sliver of unexpected hope.

"Teacher, this Swordsmanship of yours... what is the highest level of strength it can reach?"

A trace of anticipation in her heart, Lin Yuexiu couldn't help but ask.

The Cultivation Techniques of the Divine Race could fully leverage their advantages to unleash terrifying destructive power; they were the optimal Dharma Gates for developing the might of one's bloodline. Some of the more formidable ones, when practiced to their peak, could even destroy stars.

She had heard there were even stronger ones, but those were restricted resources. She didn't know exactly how strong they were, but being able to destroy stars was already terrifying enough.

"Strength? I'm not sure about its strength either. But just keep practicing for now. I feel that you are a very good match for this school of Swordsmanship," Lin Hui explained.

'I haven't even applied any Dharma Seals to her yet. If I were to stack various acceleration methods on top of that, the amount of golden aura she'd produce would be unimaginable.'

Looking at Lin Yuexiu, for the first time, Lin Hui felt like he was looking at a little hen that could lay golden eggs.

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