Chapter 80: Three Rebirths

Just then, a voice suddenly came from within the white space, saying to them, "You've finally arrived. I've been here for far too long!"

The voice sounded somewhat immature, but Mo Qi was able to instantly recognize that the other party must be the Heavenly Dao of this world.

"What? Is the Heavenly Dao some kind of baby?" Mo Qi found it somewhat amusing.

The voice paused for a moment upon hearing this, before replying somewhat defiantly, "Although I am indeed a relatively immature Heavenly Dao, I have many powerful brothers and sisters who are all very mature!"

"They're so mature, why don't you let them help you?" Mo Qi, still holding Mo Xiu intimately, raised an eyebrow after hearing these words.

A look of curiosity appeared on Mo Xiu's face, as if she really wanted to know what kind of answer the other party would give her.

Unexpectedly, the seemingly childish Tiandao suddenly burst into tears.

"No, no, why are you crying all of a sudden? We didn't say anything!" Hearing the crying, Mo Xiu was momentarily at a loss, feeling as if they were bullying a child.

Mo Qi, on the other hand, seemed more ruthless, saying directly to Tiandao, "Alright, stop crying. If you keep making noise, we won't help you anymore. You dragged us in here, so you must have something to ask of us, right?"

As expected, the crying stopped abruptly after Mo Qi said that, and then she continued to say to them, "I didn't want to cry either, you were the ones who made me angry first!"

"I'm already in such a terrible state, corrupted by evil things, isolated, with no way to contact my brothers and sisters, and you still say these things about me!"

The voice of Heaven rang out again, though it was no longer crying, it still revealed a sense of grievance.

"You said you've been corrupted, what happened?" Having caught the information in the language of the Heavenly Dao, Mo Qi finally became serious and began to ask earnestly.

What followed revealed to Mo Xiu and Mo Qi that, just as the legends said, countless worlds truly do exist.

Each world possesses a different Heavenly Way, and the characteristics of each Heavenly Way are also different.

Of course, that's not the point.

The key point is that the Little Heavenly Dao they are currently talking to is in charge of more than just this one world. Below the cultivation world, there is another connected plane, which is the apocalypse where Mo Xiu is located.

The world doesn't always run smoothly. Even an ordinary person's life isn't always a simple routine of working at sunrise and resting at sunset; they will encounter hardships. How much more so a world, with its countless variables.

Some worlds may simply perish on their own, while others will be corrupted by filth. The sources of this filth are varied, and Mo Qi does not wish to delve excessively into matters of higher dimensions.

What he's more curious about now is why the Heavenly Dao of a small world would ask him for help.

No, it wasn't just him; judging from what he said, it seemed he was asking for help from both him and Mo Xiu.

“Let’s just get straight to the point. We already know about these difficulties, so why us?” Mo Xiu asked first.

Upon hearing this, the Heavenly Dao hesitated for a moment before saying, seemingly in despair, "That's because you don't belong to this world. I've heard that those who come here like you must be gods!"

This isn't the first time I've restarted the world; I'm almost at my breaking point. Until I discovered you, Nameless Demon Lord, or rather, I should now call you Mo Qi.

Every time the world restarts, the power and talent of all cultivators will be weakened, but you will remain unaffected.

I tried to seek your help separately a few times before, but I couldn't do it at all; I was too weak then. Your primal power was too strong, so I couldn't contact you in an ordinary way, and the world still headed towards its end.

Later, I finally thought of giving other cultivators enlightenment, or even letting them have the memories of their previous lives, so that they could help me.

But after several attempts, you still failed to awaken.

It wasn't until I grew weaker and weaker, and the cultivation world became riddled with holes, with even demonic energy flowing down to the lower realm and causing problems, that I suddenly discovered the existence of Mo Xiu.

"Thanks to my divine intervention, I can sense the Daoist couple marks on you. Your bonds are deep; perhaps seeing Mo Xiu will unleash your potential, allowing you to fully awaken and save this world!"

"So your ascension was intentional. You wanted to use the power of my ascension to send me to the lower realm to meet Mo Xiu."

Mo Qi immediately grasped the key to the matter. When he heard Tian Dao say that he and Mo Xiu were actually Daoist partners long ago and had a deep bond, he was not surprised at all, and even had a feeling that it had been so all along.

According to the will of Heaven, he and Mo Xiu are actually from outside the realm.

Having been a cultivator for so many years, Mo Qi absorbed this information very quickly. He didn't know his original identity, nor did he care much about the "god" the other party mentioned.

He was easily content as long as he was with Mo Xiu. But as the Heavenly Dao said, if they didn't save these worlds, they might repeat the same mistakes and cause the world to be destroyed.

When the nest is overturned, no egg remains intact; wouldn't that also ruin the blissful days he and his Daoist partner could enjoy together?

He could still sense the weakness of the Heavenly Dao. To repeatedly restart a world already on the verge of complete destruction, he must have reached his limit.

"That's right. When I used all my strength to send you to the lower realm, I became even weaker. Because of my weakness, there were more flaws in the two worlds, and a passageway that could connect them appeared."

Mo Xiu knew that the connecting passage that the Heavenly Dao pointed to should be the passage that he and Mo Qi had walked through together.

That place is very likely the location where the Heavenly Dao was weak back then, causing demonic energy to enter the lower realm, and then expanding outwards when things got worse.

However, receiving too much information at once left Mo Xiu feeling somewhat confused. When he turned to look at Mo Qi, his eyes still held a hint of bewilderment.

Seeing this, Mo Qi kissed Mo Xiu's forehead reassuringly and whispered to him, "Don't think so much, it doesn't matter. No matter how many worlds we go through, we will be together."

"Hmm..." Mo Xiu nodded upon hearing this, and for some reason thought of the point in her life when she died, which made her feel a little uncomfortable.

What Mo Xiu didn't know was that Mo Qi had awakened far more memories than he did. Among the scenes of them together in his mind were those from the apocalypse.

If Heaven restarts the world time and time again to prevent it from collapsing.

After he traveled through time, in order to truly save Mo Xiu from her tragic fate, he reset that place more than once.

The person in his arms seemed to have a natural attraction to him, even though Mo Xiu had said that they hadn't had much interaction before his rebirth. But what the other person didn't know was that, even so, he had still fallen hopelessly in love with him.

A single meeting was enough to touch my heart. But the first encounter was too fleeting, and the long years have only deepened my longing for him.

Unfortunately, without Mo Xiu's help and care at that time, and without those fortuitous opportunities, his overly powerful divine sense made it difficult for him to control his body, which led to him living a truly miserable life during those years.

When he learned of Mo Xiu's death, he was still struggling to survive at the Shanhe Base, slowly cultivating. Upon learning of his beloved's death, he was almost driven mad.

When he found the body, it was already in pieces and nothing was left. That was the most devastating moment in Mo Qi's memory.

So he disregarded everything, even knowing that his physical body couldn't withstand such a secret technique, and burned his divine soul to save Mo Xiu.

This was Mo Qi's first time reshaping time in the apocalypse, but unfortunately, his control over the secret technique was not good enough, and the time reversal was too late. By the time he was reborn, it was too late to stop Mo Xiu's death.

He could only frantically try to protect his body, like a madman.

So, he tried a second time. This time, he succeeded. But something went wrong; after the secret technique was performed, he lost his previous memories, remembering that the person he was reborn as was Mo Xiu.