Chapter 1 I Fell on Earth Like This Back Then...

Looking at the impact crater still emitting waves of heat, Vivian, in her tattered clothes, sighed leisurely, "So that's how I fell to Earth back then... I really don't have any memory of it."

Hao Ren glanced at Vivian, who had regained her memories. "It seems you were in a daze for a while after landing on Earth. You probably wandered to the northern tundra, since your earliest records in the journal were from there."

Vivian smiled, looking down at the clothes on her body. She didn't know where they came from, but they certainly weren't her original attire. Her original appearance was based on the rebel's appearance on the Godslayer's ship, but the dress she was wearing now was clearly different from those rebellious bastards' style. It might have been obtained on Planet Purgatory. Despite the protection of magical power, crossing the dimensional portal from an alien planet and falling to Earth, while also experiencing the intense burning of the atmosphere, this dress was already like a beggar's outfit, looking really shabby.

"Did you bring clothes?" she pointed to her body. "I need to change."

"Oh, of course," Hao Ren took out Vivian's usual clothes from his dimensional storage. "I came prepared for everything..."

...

A moment later, the two stood shoulder to shoulder on the plain, looking up at the huge crack that almost covered the entire sky.

The Mesopotamian gods were wrapped in a translucent energy bubble, flying away through the gate along with a large pile of fragmented architectural ruins. Around them, a large number of small space cracks also opened one after another, and a large group of creatures with half-human, half-wolf appearances were ejected in a comatose state, scattered in every corner of the earth.

"No wonder werewolves are so widely distributed in the world. So they were randomly scattered when they crossed over..." Vivian said softly. "Ah, I see the vampires... Did one of them fall into the crater I made?"

"So, when you woke up, you saw a vampire splattered in front of you, and then you thought you were a vampire too?"

"I couldn't help it, I was young and ignorant at the time," Vivian smiled shallowly. "It was the first time I saw a humanoid creature that looked exactly like me, so of course my first reaction was that they should be my compatriots—at that time, my life form was still unstable, so I subconsciously solidified in that direction."

"Luckily you didn't complete the solidification on Planet Purgatory. Otherwise, it would have been fine if you had turned into a human, but if you had accidentally turned into a tentacle monster on that planet, that would have been the end."

The crack in the sky looked slightly smaller than before. Some of Yggdrasil's large tentacles were gradually leaving the earth. Although there were still many "landing pods" being ejected to the ground, it was clear that this unloading process was nearing its end. The rumbling thunder was a little weaker than before, and the energy sparks in the sky were also fading. Where these anomalies faded, the sky became stable and transparent again, and the twinkling stars could be vaguely seen.

The "descent" lasted all day, and now night had fallen.

On the earth, the animals that could escape had already escaped, and those that could not escape died in large numbers in the environment of high temperature and radioactive energy. The distant jungle was still burning fiercely, and the strong wind fueled the fire, making several nearby mountain peaks burn red. Some unfortunate dream plane exiles who fell into the sea of fire and whose bodies were not strong enough ended their short journeys to another world in a coma, and even those who survived temporarily would die in large numbers in the following days—dying on this planet they could not adapt to.

Yggdrasil was powerless to do anything about this. As a trans-spatial fortress, she had already sent the passengers to the destination selected by the selection program, and the fate of these exiles was their own problem.

Only a small number of passengers remained on Yggdrasil's Asgard continent. They were the Norse gods of the future.

The huge tentacles between heaven and earth slowly retracted. Hao Ren looked at the rift in the sky, the fire in the distance, and the gradually disappearing Nine Realms, and gently let out a breath: "So this is what the first day of the mythical age was like."

"Yes, this is the first day of the mythical age."

"Speaking of which, is my journey back in time coming to an end?" Hao Ren turned his head and looked at the "vampire girl" standing beside him. He suddenly felt a sense of unreality. He had actually reached this point, finding Vivian, who first descended on Earth ten thousand years ago. Was this the end of this journey? Was this the last backtracking? Was there nothing else?

Vivian looked into Hao Ren's eyes and suddenly smiled brightly: "That's right, this is the last stop. It's the end of your journey, and it's also the starting point of me as an individual, Vivian Ansessta."

Hao Ren blinked his eyes blankly and looked around: "But what about the 'battlefield' you mentioned? The battlefield in the deepest level of the consciousness space?"

"You are standing in its center, but these past illusions are temporarily blocking your view... Want to see it? The true appearance of the deepest part of this consciousness space?"

Hao Ren felt that he was ready, so he nodded firmly: "Let me see it."

Vivian nodded softly, and then everything in the world collapsed with a bang.

The sky shattered and collapsed like glass, and the distant mountains and forests burning with fire also fell like sandcastles. All colors flowed away with this rapid change, and darkness surged from all directions, replacing the previously colorful "real world" in a few breaths.

Then, in the next instant, the darkness receded like a tide, and Hao Ren found himself standing on an endless desert. Beneath his feet was yellow sand that stretched endlessly into the distance, and the sky was a chaos. He could not see the sun, moon, or stars, nor could he see any celestial bodies that could be regarded as a source of light—that turbid sky was just slowly churning, and the unknown light filled the entire space.

Hao Ren looked up for a long time before finally determining that the chaotic sky was nothing else—but another desert hanging upside down.

This whole world was a desert!

"This is your... deep consciousness space?"

Seeing this desolate and chaotic world, Hao Ren could not hide the surprise in his heart, and he couldn't help but ask.

"Are you surprised because it's desolate?" Vivian of course saw Hao Ren's emotions, and she laughed, "Don't worry, it's not like this under normal circumstances. It's just that in order to compete with that thing for dominance, I have to concentrate all my energy on fighting, which turned the consciousness space into this appearance—although it looks a little desolate, this is the most 'economical' form, and such a desolate world of mind can also effectively avoid pollution..."

As Vivian spoke, she led Hao Ren forward. They climbed up a sand dune, and Hao Ren asked halfway, "The battle you mentioned..."

He found that Vivian in front of him looked calm and breezy, and couldn't help but wonder if the battle in the depths of the consciousness space that the other party had mentioned several times before had already ended.

"I said, this is a battle that is difficult to describe in words. Before you backtrack to the last step, it will never be determined, and it is in a state before the decisive battle, but when you find my last piece of fragment, the result of this battle will be instantly clear—"

They climbed to the highest sand dune, and Hao Ren glanced down, and suddenly his breath stagnated.

The yellow sand was stained with blood, and under the sand dune was a battlefield that had completely turned crimson. Countless indescribable and strange wrecks fell on the battlefield. Their limbs were bizarre, just like children's random graffiti, and then randomly pieced together.

But these twisted monsters were not the protagonists of the battlefield. What really made Hao Ren gasp was the... Vivians between these monsters.

They were covered in blood, but they didn't seem to be dead. These Vivians, suspected of being evil thought bodies, stood in every corner of the battlefield, just like wax figures in a terrifying wax museum. When Hao Ren looked at them, they also raised their eyes and turned their heads at the same time, looking at Hao Ren in unison.

Those were dozens of pairs of emotionless eyes.

"Holy crap?!"

"Don't be nervous," Vivian laughed. "They are no longer harmful."

"These are all evil thought bodies?" Hao Ren looked at those Vivian mass-produced machines in disbelief. "You said they are all... not harmful? Then why do I still feel so scared looking at them?"

"Uh, it does look a little scary, but you'll get used to it," Vivian said with a dry smile. "Now their activities are under my control, because the 'source' that caused them to lose control has been dealt with by me."

As soon as Hao Ren heard the word "source," he immediately perked up, because the culprit of the whole incident was it—the source of pollution in Vivian's soul, the mental virus, the negative energy aggregate, the dark side of the Force, anyway, whatever you call it, although strange things were mixed in in the end, but this thing is almost the same if you really want to describe it, anyway, it was it that caused the blackening of Vivian's soul, the birth of the evil thought bodies, and also caused this time-space chaos incident—it has been dealt with?!

"What does that thing look like?" Hao Ren asked impatiently.

Vivian didn't speak, but raised her finger and pointed to the center of the battlefield.

Hao Ren saw that thing: it stood quietly in the very center of blood and corpses. The surrounding monsters and evil thought bodies were obviously existing to protect it. Its image made Hao Ren a little disappointed, because Hao Ren originally thought that such a thing that caused a huge incident would have a hideous and terrifying appearance, but in fact—

It was just a dark red crystal, more than one person tall, half a meter thick, nothing more.

"This... is the culprit that caused your split and slumber?" Hao Ren came to the center of the battlefield, looking at the crystal pillar while saying with some disappointment, "It doesn't look anything special..."

"Don't be deceived by its appearance, because this is my spiritual realm. Everything must appear in a form in order to be observed by you. It has this image not because it looks like this, but because I don't have much imagination."

Hao Ren was listening with a serious face, when suddenly he slipped and almost bumped into the pillar: "Don't admit this matter so nonchalantly!"

"What's so embarrassing to admit," Vivian said with a matter-of-fact expression. "That dog isn't here."

Could it be that you, old lady, have now degenerated to the point of only maintaining your majesty in front of a husky?

Hao Ren had no idea how to continue the conversation in this situation, so he had to forcibly concentrate his attention on the red crystal pillar in front of him. He curiously stroked its surface: "What exactly is this thing?"

"I'm not too sure, but I studied it a little before and found this..."

As Vivian spoke, she pointed her finger on the surface of the crystal pillar.

The next moment, the crystal pillar suddenly lit up, and then, like some kind of holographic projection device, a huge three-dimensional picture appeared above it.

It was an unfamiliar starry sky.

"Holy crap, a star chart?"