1 Jan 3038
With a single step, Xenos disappeared from space and arrived on top of his home planet.
He arrived in the Corinth Province, governed by the Fitzgerald Family. As soon as he arrived, he used space rules to alter his surroundings and disappeared from people's eyes.
When he looks around at all the architecture, everything changes. Buildings and vehicles are futuristic, nothing like they were in 2020.
After observing for a while, Xenos releases his spiritual sense to scan the whole continent to understand the changes. The world has changed significantly; 12 families control the continent; people use virtual-based communication and currency.
Cars and other vehicles are still present, but they are futuristic—able to fly and have teleportation technology—only used by the rich. Every area has teleportation lines used by ordinary people, and for longer journeys, they use trains.
Seeing all the changes, he mumbled, "The world has changed a lot."
After having a basic understanding of the world's current structure, Xenos travelled to the Ministry of Home Affairs in Corinth Province. With some manipulation, he successfully registered as Xenos Baig—born in Hyderabad city in 3010. Similarly, he travelled to other ministries and used his power to buy houses, lands, businesses, money, and other necessities.
Xenos stood up after having a good Hyderabadi biryani and watching some dramas in his new villa. Cracking his neck, he said, "Looks like it's time to plan everything."
Xenos went directly to his study room and released a barrier to conceal everything that going to happen; as he was sitting on a chair, he released space-time rules to look at the alternate timeline again to gain in and out of the apocalyptic event.
First, he tried to figure out the enemy; among 12 hidden families, 6 families had already allied with the demon apostles, but this is the future; at present, only two central families (Von Hohenberg and Volkov family) and the old fogies who are one step in the grave from 4 hidden families ( Bjork-N, Ishikawa-S, Tanaka-E and Garcia-W) are transformed into demon disciples.
Von Hohenberg and Volkov's family are totally controlled by the hidden apostle, and they control every descendant. Still, when it comes to the 4 families, only the old fogies are controlled.
The third hidden demon apostle seems inside the concealed gate. This is why the federation was not able to find him, and he was able to open the tier 0 gate before his due.
3 demonic apostles are connected; the other will know if one dies.
Second, the world will have been sealed by the devil lord. Since Earth is a mortal world, the will is not robust. Before it was sealed, it played a trick in releasing massive providence energy so that new talent would be born to save the planet. Still, unfortunately, the devil lord, sensing it, has already contaminated the providence with misfortune.
Due to the contamination, all the genius born are either crippled, will die or are unlucky and surprisingly, except for one, all the four genius are from the hidden families where the old fogies are corrupted.
Well, this is what you call misfortune.
I need to take these four as my disciple and change their future. The fifth person who has received the providence is something amiss about her.
The time aura she released indicates that she has been reincarnating for a long time; I need to meet her in person to understand it.
Third, regarding the devil lord's backup plans, he seems keen on destroying humanity. I think this is partly due to me, and another reason is the fear of humanity's rise. Since Earth is the only place Humans are born, I have never seen any human race outside of Earth, even in the True universe.
The devil lord not only created a space gate on Earth but also in space, and he has a weaken the wall of known and unknown sectors in case the human prevails from both the space gate on Earth and the space. Not only that, he stationed planet devourer outside the universe.
"Man... the devil lord went to great lengths to destroy humanity ahh."
With a sigh, he thought the fourth and final task: to lead humanity back to the true universe and regain the position of the dominant race.
Although I have never seen the human race outside Earth, I have read some ancient texts that indicate that humans lived long ago in the true universe. It seems that due to their dominant position and talent to evolve, all the races united to kill the human race.
Thankfully, not many know about it, so I was able to pass as a new species at the beginning of the journey.
Xenos looked at the four tasks. "now that I have a basic understanding, I need to setup a base of operation."
In the next movement, Xenos disappeared from his house and reappeared above Earth in space. He then travelled deeper into space, reaching the core layer.
After reaching the core layer, he waved his hand to collect all the earthly particles in that layer to create a land.
Seeing the large land mass, Xenos thought, "I think this much land mass is sufficient for now to create a sect for my disciples."
With another wave of hand, the land was divided into 6 layers: the bottom layer is for the city, the fifth layer is for outer disciples, the fourth layer is for inner disciples, the third is for core disciples, and the second is for sect elders. The final layer is for the sect leader's hall and residence.
After finishing the basic setup, he created residences for all disciples and elders with facilities for alchemy, weapon refinement, beast shelter, formation building, herb valley, library and many others and finally he created formation around the land to protect the sect from radiation and installed spiritual energy devouring array.
After completed everything, Xenos arrived at the sect leader hall, where all the meetings would occur, and sat in the chair.
"I never expected to actually create a sect; now that I think about it, my dream was to become a cultivator in the year 2020; it was at the time I got to know the world called webnovel, I have thought that cultivation is a fantasy, but after space warp, I got to know it's real, I have forgotten everything about it as I was busy saving my life."
"Hmm... looks like I can act like sect master in those stories."
After coming out of his thoughts, he said, "Now that everything is ready, it is time to bring the four kids born from the providence of the world will."
Xenos then used soul capture technique to bring the souls of the four future disciples.
In the northern region, one of the buildings of the Bjork family, Valdir Sigrún Bjork, is meditating in the room with frustration.
"Whatever I do, I cannot even reach tier 9 martial cultivation. Is it really because I was born without talent"
He felt more worried, remembering all the ridicule from family members and the pressure of being the son of the patriarch.
With a slap on his face, he said, "No, I can't be thinking like that; I need to concentrate; hard work triumphs over all."
Just as he was about to restart to cultivate, his body fell backwards, losing consciousness, and the soul left the body.
In the southern region, the Ishikawa family has a lunar cave, which the patriarch specially created for his daughter.
Inside Cave, a 16-year-old girl sitting cross-legged trying to control the ice burst occurring from her body; she has been suffering since she was a child, trying to overcome this phenomenon but is helpless when even the whole family tries to find out the reason.
"ahh.. it is happening again, this time it is more dangerous. I was able to control it when I was young with some meditation, but as the years went by, it became much harder and harder."
After 2 hours, Kori Takashi Ishikawa could finally control the eruption from her body.
"it was hazardous; I don't think I will be able to control it next year."
With a panic-looking face," I really want to live an everyday life; is it that difficult?"
Just as she was pondering about her life choices, her body lost consciousness, and her soul left.
In the eastern region, the Tanaka family, 15 years old, Misaki Aira Tanaka, is practising her martial arts with a wooden dummy.
" even after practising harder than others, I can still not achieve basic tier 8 martial cultivation; at my age, everyone has reached tier 7."
"is it because I don't have talent, as they say."
Coming out of negative thoughts, she returns to practising to break through tier 8 in martial cultivation.
As she was practising, she lost consciousness and fell to the ground; her soul left.
In the western region, the Garcia family's outer region, you can see an 18-year-old man walking quietly with herbs in his pouch towards his home.
As he was walking, he could hear a whisper from passersby.
" hey, isn't this kid Maximo Hermes Garcia?"
"yeah, he is the youngest son born from the concubine."
"Didn't I hear he was born with the best talent among his siblings? What is doing here-outskirt?"
"Man.. are you new in town?"
"Yes, I just came from Sakura town."
"Sakura town from the eastern region?"
"yeah, so what happened?"
"It happened two years ago when this kid was still famous; he was known for his alchemy, but suddenly, his little sister fell ill."
" he and his family tried everything but still were not able to cure her, so the kid used forbidden alchemy technique to use his lifeforce to heal his sister; now, his sister is still comatose, and he was basically crippled."
"due to this, the family, enraged by his decision, had exiled him from the family, and now he lives with his comatose sister in the mountain."
Mexico didn't even bother with them and went back to the mountain after selling some herbs to get money for her sister's treatment.
After half an hour, he finally reached home, a small hut created from wood with a single room, where his little sister resided.
After checking on his sister and feeding her a healing potion, Mexico came outside his home, lit a fire and sat in front.
Just as he was preparing what to do for tomorrow, he fell on the side. His soul has left his body.
Suddenly, Kori, Valdir, Maximo, and Misaki are transported inside the sect hall. They become vigilant and cautious about this unexplainable phenomenon. Just a few seconds ago, they were at home and suddenly arrived here. They look at the surroundings.
The interior of the hall was grander. Its seemingly endless arched ceiling was supported by colossal stone pillars etched with glowing ancient scriptures. Silver and crystal chandeliers cast an ethereal glow across the pristine marble floor. They mirrored the surroundings like glass, creating an atmosphere of grandeur and reverence.
At the far end, a raised platform housed the sect leader's throne, crafted from polished black jade and embroidered with the symbol of a soaring dragon. Surrounding it was the council of elders' chairs, made of fine mahogany and adorned with royal blue cushions, each armrest sculpted into the shape of various beasts.
Towering arched windows filtered sunlight and moonlight through stained glass, painting the floor in red, gold, and green hues. Tall obsidian incense burners shaped like twisting dragons filled the air with the calming scent of sandalwood and lotus, enhancing the gathering's meditative focus.
While searching for an answer, they heard a sound:" So you are kids who have taken the divine weapon and activated time reversal?"
Hearing the sound, they turned towards its source, which they had subconsciously ignored before; on the sect leader's throne, a person was sitting lazily with one hand on his face, looking down at them.
As soon as they saw him, they were struck in awe by his appearance. His golden-purple eyes were most striking.
As soon as their minds registered him, they subconsciously felt unknown fear from his presence. They knew the being in front of them was of a different class.
Maximo, with fear but firm resolution, walks forward. " Senior, my name is Maximo. Can you please let me know why you brought us here?"
Just as he was waiting for a response, which he didn't get, before he could speak again, the person raised his hand, and then four weapons appeared in front of them.
A hammer appeared in front of Valdir, a katana-type sword appeared in front of Kori, warrior gloves for Misaki, and Pill Furnace for Maximo.
Seeing the four weapons in front of them, they were shocked and moved back.
Then they hear, "Touch the weapon, and you will know the answer."
Hearing him, hesitating to touch or not, Mexico was the first to reach out for his weapon, followed by Kori, Valdir, and Misaki.
As soon as the four of them touch their weapon, they start to receive memories of themselves and the future: death, the space gate, monster breakouts, the demonic Apostal, the betrayal of their families, the fight between the Federation and the demonic Apostal, and finally, human extinction.
Meximo was the first one to snap out, then others, seeing his sister and him dying, his family betrayal and the annihilation of humans; he looked at the being in front of humans.
He asked, "What was that?" the other three also waited for the response with pale expressions.
The being looked at them and said, "The future."
From the Author:
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