Chapter 339 – Failure to Save Earth, a World-Destroying Battle!

Chapter 339: Failure to Save Earth, a World-Destroying Battle!

In the Real World, Su Xing furrowed his brow tightly at what he saw.

“As expected, entering Earth with such fanfare… these cultivators were detected by the Red Moon after all!”

Though the Red Moon had not yet revived, it was only a few decades away from resurrection, and its power had likely already recovered considerably.

Its perception could not be underestimated!

Even Su Xing himself, after advancing to the immortal level, had never made a move on Earth. He had even gone so far as to constantly conceal his own karmic secrets, all to prevent being discovered by the Red Moon!

But now, these three Golden Immortals and one Supreme Unity Golden Immortal were clearly brimming with arrogance, believing that an unrevived Red Moon was far from being their match!

“But going there so brazenly is bound to attract the Red Moon’s attention!”

“Even if they manage to slay the Red Moon afterward… it will likely trigger a bloodbath!”

Su Xing’s brow was tightly knit. No matter what, Earth was his homeland—his family and friends were here.

If these outside cultivators waged war against the Red Moon, the terrifying scale of such a battle would inevitably bring catastrophic disaster upon Earth!

Su Xing’s original plan had been for the three Golden Immortals to coordinate with the Supreme Unity Golden Immortal for a swift strike—a direct decapitation operation against the Red Moon.

Only then could losses be minimized!

“But from the looks of it, these Golden Immortals in the simulation clearly don’t care about civilian lives!”

Su Xing felt somewhat helpless. His simulated self had surely tried to persuade these immortals, but as a mere True Immortal, he clearly lacked the authority to speak—he couldn’t even catch the Supreme Unity Golden Immortal’s attention…

“Even if they defeat the Red Moon, all life on Earth will be devastated, won’t it?”

Su Xing was starting to regret his choice. Calling upon cultivators from the Three Thousand Worlds to resolve the Red Moon crisis was no different from driving out a tiger only to invite a wolf… or even inviting the wolf right through the front door!

The best approach, without a doubt, was for Su Xing to handle it himself… eliminating the Red Moon at the lowest possible cost!

“Sigh, so be it… let me see how things unfold next!”

Su Xing decided to observe first, turning his gaze to the simulation panel.

【The moment the heavens and earth turned blood-red, every living being on Earth felt an instinctive sense of dread…】

【This was the overwhelming crush of absolute divine authority! To say nothing of Class Users and ordinary people—even you felt discomfort under this oppressive force.】

【Upon sensing this pressure, the other three Golden Immortals’ expressions shifted slightly. Even that Supreme Unity Golden Immortal’s face grew solemn.】

【Though the Red Moon had not yet revived, this pressure was unmistakably at the chief god level—equivalent to the might of a Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm powerhouse!】

【The three Golden Immortals simultaneously turned their gazes toward the Supreme Unity Golden Immortal.】

【That Supreme Unity Golden Immortal gritted his teeth and decided to strike immediately, engaging the Red Moon head-on!】

【And you became their guide…】

【At this moment, across all of Earth, including every street and alley of Great Xia, wandering and lost Class Users were everywhere.】

【Their eyes were crimson red, as if they had lost all reason, mindlessly roaming through the streets…】

【Seeing this scene, your heart lurched with shock. Disregarding the decapitation mission against the Red Moon, you deployed spatial techniques and went to find your family and friends.】

【Fortunately, Jin Congxue, Luo Shuying, Yu Yan, and the others all bore the soul imprints you had left on them, giving them a degree of resistance against the Red Moon’s contingency. Thus, they had not lost their minds.】

【You rescued your parents, your sister, and all your close friends into the spirit field grotto-heaven.】

【But there were simply too many out-of-control Class Users—you couldn’t save everyone… Meanwhile, the several Golden Immortal realm powerhouses urged you to quickly lead them to where the Red Moon was hiding.】

【Left with no choice, you could only lead the three Golden Immortals and that Supreme Unity Golden Immortal toward the Slaughter Battlefield!】

【Without a doubt, you beheld that crimson moon…】

【Upon the Slaughter Battlefield, countless alien races had begun rioting… launching frenzied assaults upon Demon-Sealing Pass.】

【Everyone noticed the anomaly of that red moon. Its scarlet, blood-like moonlight seemed capable of devouring everything.】

【The three Golden Immortals struck the instant they laid eyes on the Red Moon, each unleashing their techniques and supernatural arts in an all-out assault…】

【And upon the Slaughter Battlefield, high-level red-eyed aliens began gradually appearing—Emperor-level and Saint-stage aliens started emerging one after another.】

【You fought like a madman on the battlefield. Those Emperor-level and Saint-stage aliens were crushed like ants beneath your hand.】

【Yet no matter how the three Golden Immortals attacked, that red moon seemed entirely unaffected…】

【Even when the Red Moon was shattered, it would reconstitute itself within mere hours!】

【And so, after one full day, that Supreme Unity Golden Immortal finally confirmed it—the Red Moon above the Slaughter Battlefield was merely a projection, not the Red Moon’s true body!】

【He asked you whether you could guess where the Red Moon was truly hiding…】

In the Real World, Su Xing furrowed his brow deeply at this.

“That red moon was actually just a projection, not the real body?”

“Then where is the Red Moon’s true body?”

Su Xing quickly thought of one location—the Endless Abyss!

That abyss lurking in the deepest depths of the American dungeon—perhaps that was where the Red Moon’s true body was hiding!

“How cunning of the Red Moon… the one on the Slaughter Battlefield was nothing but a decoy?”

Su Xing murmured to himself. Anyone’s first instinct would be to assume that the red moon on the Slaughter Battlefield, constantly absorbing the aura of slaughter, had to be the true body.

But who would have guessed that the Red Moon was this crafty—sending only a projection to absorb the power of slaughter while its real self hid away?

“Then let’s make a trip to the Endless Abyss!”

Su Xing took a deep breath. With three Golden Immortals and one Supreme Unity Golden Immortal attacking together, this time they would surely slay the Red Moon!

【In just two short days, nearly one-third of Earth’s Class Users had been lost… Over half of the human race had died at the hands of rioting, maddened Class Users.】

【At such a critical juncture, you naturally did not hesitate, decisively leading them toward the Endless Abyss…】

【You cut through all opposition along the way, reaching the hundredth floor of the Endless Abyss in barely an hour.】

【Here, red-eyed aliens rivaling immortals had begun to appear…】

【But even this could not halt your advance!】

【And so, after one full day, you had reached past the nine hundredth floor of the Endless Abyss!】

【The red-eyed aliens appearing here were truly terrifying, some even possessing Mystic Immortal realm strength!】

【Fortunately, these red-eyed aliens were few in number and were swiftly dealt with by the three Golden Immortals…】

【But the Supreme Unity Golden Immortal’s expression grew grave, because something was off about these red-eyed aliens’ power!】

【These several dozen red-eyed aliens comparable to the Mystic Immortal realm were in a weakened state!】

【At their full power, these would be dozens of alien second-class Divine Sovereigns rivaling Golden Immortal-stage immortals!】

【You surmised that these red-eyed aliens might be survivors from the great war with Luo Tian in ages past… They had not truly perished alongside the Red Moon, but had instead been secretly gathering strength to revive.】

【But even in their weakened state, these red-eyed aliens were still far from being your match.】

【At this point, even that Supreme Unity Golden Immortal dared not be careless. He refrained from attacking, instead quietly restoring his strength.】

【And after a grueling day and night of battle between you and the other three Golden Immortals, you finally reached the very bottom of the Endless Abyss!】

【When the heavy stone door was pushed open, you beheld that familiar scene—within an ancient formation, those crimson eyes appeared once more.】

【Upon seeing this formation, the Supreme Unity Golden Immortal let out a breath of relief. Clearly… this was where the Red Moon had been hiding!】

【The Supreme Unity Golden Immortal performed divination calculations, then deployed his techniques. The formation before them began to break apart… Then the ground began to tremble, as if some great terror was about to emerge!】

【Sensing that abyss-like aura, the three Golden Immortals’ expressions shifted. Clearly, a battle of this magnitude was beyond your ability to participate in…】

【Thus, the Supreme Unity Golden Immortal told you to leave first and return to Earth.】

【And you, also worried about the safety of humanity, turned back the way you came, returning to Earth.】

In the Real World, Su Xing frowned slightly at this.

“So, exactly how much combat power does the Red Moon still possess right now?”

Su Xing ran some rough calculations.

Based on his estimation, the Red Moon was still decades away from full revival. Its strength was far below its peak—not even one-tenth of its former power!

“But even so… the Red Moon right now is probably not something an ordinary Golden Immortal can challenge!”

“Its strength should be below Supreme Unity Golden Immortal but above the Golden Immortal realm? At the very least… it probably possesses the combat power of an early-stage Golden Immortal, right?”

Su Xing estimated that if the Red Moon went all out regardless of cost, it should be capable of erupting with power rivaling the Golden Immortal realm!

“Tsk tsk, after all, a starving camel is still bigger than a horse!”

“But from the looks of things… that Supreme Unity Golden Immortal should be confident in handling the Red Moon!”

Su Xing thought as much. The key question now was—how much would Earth suffer in this battle?

His heart uneasy, Su Xing turned his gaze to the simulation panel.

【When you returned to Earth, the entire planet had undergone earth-shattering changes!】

【In just three to five days, over two-thirds of the human race had perished. Among the Twelve Domains especially, nearly ninety percent of humans had slaughtered each other to death!】

【Within your perception, all deceased Class Users had been converted into killing energy, becoming nourishment for the Red Moon…】

【The sky grew ever redder, and even the earth had faintly turned a shade of blood-red!】

【Only Great Xia, thanks to preparations you had made in advance—gathering high-ranking Class Users ahead of time—had not suffered catastrophic losses…】

【You could not save everyone. In this time of crisis, you decided to save your own nation first!】

【You returned to Great Xia, leading a contingent of lucid Class Users while continuously distributing Clear Mind Pills and deploying techniques to stabilize their emotions.】

【At the same time, you placed several hundred thousand high-ranking Class Users into the spirit field grotto-heaven to prevent further rioting!】

【Those affected were almost exclusively Class Users. The ordinary people could only feel terror in the face of the Red Moon…】

【However, for Class Users, killing ordinary people was far too effortless!】

【Over the next week, you stayed busy within Great Xia, doing everything you could to save as many civilians as possible.】

【At the same time, you kept a constant watch on the Endless Abyss…】

【As the Supreme Unity Golden Immortal battled the Red Moon, the entire Endless Abyss had been reduced to a war zone.】

【The thousand layers of the Endless Abyss, with a colossal unexplored surface rivaling several planets, continuously collapsed throughout this battle.】

【Over a thousand layers of the Endless Abyss were battered down to mere dozens, the rest completely shattered!】

【And as the Endless Abyss fell, countless terrifying alien races crawled out from the depths, arriving in America…】

【In an instant, all of America became a living hell!】

【High-ranking Class Users all lost themselves to madness, while low-ranking Class Users and ordinary people were nothing but ants before the alien races, utterly powerless to resist.】

【Great Xia, on humanitarian grounds, dispatched a squad of lucid Class Users to provide support, but it was a mere drop in the bucket…】

【At first, only alien races below Heavenly King-stage poured out, but eventually, even Legendary and Emperor-level alien races descended upon American soil…】

【In just one short month, across the ocean, all of America along with dozens of surrounding smaller nations had completely fallen!】

【And after that month passed, the battle between the Supreme Unity Golden Immortal and the red-eyed aliens continued!】

【At this level of power, a single battle lasting decades was entirely possible!】

【You knew full well that what you would face next was not only the alien races from across the ocean — the riots among humanity were equally dire!】

【Thus, Xia’s military used absolute measures to swiftly consolidate all Class Users within Great Xia’s borders, while refusing entry to Class Users from other regions.】

【And you personally cleansed the karmic ties to the Red Moon from all of these Class Users.】

【Thus, one year passed…】

【Simulation Year Eight. The interior of Great Xia was largely stable, but the price paid was truly devastating!】

【Nearly half of all Class Users had perished, and the surviving half remained in a perpetually unstable state…】

【Over sixty percent of civilians had died in this catastrophe…】

【But compared to other nations, Great Xia’s situation could already be considered exceptionally good.】

【By your calculations, this disaster had reduced Earth’s entire population by ninety percent in just one to two years!】

【And of the remaining ten percent, over eighty percent were survivors within Great Xia’s borders…】

【This was, naturally, because Great Xia had you holding the line.】

【But the alien races from across the ocean had also begun gradually encroaching upon the rest of Earth.】

【So you chose to act at this juncture — while ensuring Great Xia’s safety, you ventured to other regions to exterminate the alien races.】

【Thus, another two years passed.】

【Year Ten. Earth was largely stabilized, and the vast majority of alien races had been eradicated by you.】

【During this period, the Advent Cult had colluded with the alien races, inflicting considerable losses upon humanity… and during this time, Old Dog Dragon was slain by you!】

【All who survived felt the relief of having narrowly escaped death.】

【The battle from two or three years ago had become everyone’s nightmare. Those who lived through it believed the war was over…】

【The price paid was the extinction of over ninety-three percent of the world’s population. Of three continental plates, two had been completely lost… the ocean now covered over ninety percent of Earth’s surface…】

【But only you knew that the fighting was far from over!】

【Because the outcome that determined life and death had always been the battle between that Supreme Unity Golden Immortal and the Red Moon!】

【Yet this was a battle you could not participate in… Whenever you rode your sword to the entrance of the Abyss to observe, you could feel the terrifying battle fluctuations emanating from its depths.】

【The situation remained at this stalemate, and in the blink of an eye, another three years passed…】

In the Real World, Su Xing’s expression grew somewhat unnatural as he read this.

“Sigh, even if we can uproot the Red Moon… isn’t this price far too steep?”

“All life on Earth! Humanity — the vast majority has been wiped out… How is this much different from being completely overrun by the alien races…”

Su Xing had anticipated this long ago. A battle between apex powerhouses was bound to devastate an entire lesser chiliocosm.

But Su Xing had still held out hope for a swift decapitation strike that would minimize losses.

Now, looking at the results, that had been unrealistic…

“And this is with the battlefield being in the Endless Abyss… If the battle had taken place on Earth itself, the entire world’s Great Dao would have long since fractured and the world shattered to pieces!”

“In the eyes of these Golden Immortals, the Red Moon had to be eliminated. Let alone sacrificing one lesser chiliocosm and ten billion lives… even if it cost a hundred billion lives, they would likely still make the same choice!”

Su Xing felt a deep sense of powerlessness. To those apex cultivators, Earth was nothing more than a battlefield.

But for Su Xing, it meant something entirely different… This was his homeland!

“I can only hope the Red Moon is dealt with soon! It’s already dragged on too long… Surely nothing unexpected will happen?”

Su Xing murmured to himself.

In his view, with one Supreme Unity Golden Immortal taking action and three Golden Immortals providing support, eliminating the Red Moon shouldn’t be a major problem.

Unless some other force intervened…

At this thought, an ominous premonition rose in Su Xing’s heart.

“Surely… they can deal with the Red Moon, right?”

Su Xing’s brow furrowed deeper and deeper as his gaze turned to the simulation panel.

【Simulation Year Thirteen. That battle still continued, but you had no choice but to seek an alternative path for humanity’s future.】

【You began constructing a shelter within the spirit field grotto-heaven, making preparations to relocate all of humanity inside…】

【The entire spirit field grotto-heaven was a circular plane with a radius of a thousand zhang (3.33 km), covering an area of roughly three hundred-plus square kilometers.】

【If cost were no concern and population density ignored, it might be possible to fit roughly half of Great Xia’s remaining people inside.】

【But this was undoubtedly a massive undertaking!】

【Fortunately, you had prepared in advance… The entire population migration effort took a full seven years!】

【Year Twenty. One day, an ominous premonition arose in your heart, as though something momentous was about to occur…】

【One month later, a Golden Immortal arrived in Great Xia in a haggard state.】

【He had come to notify you to leave Earth as soon as possible!】

【Upon hearing this, you hurriedly asked him for details, but all he said was that the Advent Cult had made its move!】

【You were puzzled — you had already eradicated the Advent Cult… But you quickly realized he meant the Advent Cult of the Three Thousand Worlds!】

【The one who had acted was perhaps Blood Three! Or perhaps some other cadre with Supreme Unity Golden Immortal-level power.】

【Regardless, Earth could no longer be stayed upon…】

【So you did everything in your power to take as many humans as possible, then piloted the Flowing Cloud Golden Light Vessel toward the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm…】

【In the blink of an eye, one month passed!】

【Upon arriving at the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm, you swiftly relocated the humans to the vicinity of White Emperor City.】

【You then prepared to return to Earth to bring back the remaining humans…】

【However, when you piloted the Flowing Cloud Golden Light Vessel to the space beyond Earth, you witnessed that horrifying scene…】

【An Amalgamated Beast whose body dwarfed Earth several times over was tearing the entire planet apart as casually as eating cotton candy.】

【This was the first time you had seen this sky-blotting Amalgamated Beast from outside Earth.】

【Fury blazed in your heart, and you poured everything you had into a single sword strike. All three thousand six hundred strands of Protective Sword Aura erupted at once… This was the ultimate strike capable of killing a Mystic Immortal realm cultivator!】

【Yet this strike left nothing more than a hairline wound on the Amalgamated Beast.】

【The beast fixed its planet-sized eyes upon you, as though it had noticed your presence…】

【A breath from its nostrils instantly shifted the surrounding planets from their orbits.】

【Then it tore a rift through the void, turned, and burrowed into the rift, vanishing from sight!】

【The great Earth, along with the countless lesser worlds surrounding it, had all been devoured!】

【Having failed to save Earth, you could only choose to depart as quickly as possible and return to the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm.】

【Year Twenty-Three. From the Celestial Secrets Pavilion, you learned the outcome of that battle!】

【Two Golden Immortals along with the Supreme Unity Golden Immortal had perished in combat, and the Red Moon’s whereabouts were unknown…】

【Upon hearing this, you fell silent. Such an enormous price had been paid, yet the result was nothing but uncertainty.】

Su Xing stared at the cold text before him, as though he could feel the countless joys and sorrows contained within.

“Earth… in the end, it couldn’t be saved…”

“But at least a portion of Earth’s humans survived…”

Su Xing clenched both fists tightly and murmured:

“Strength. In the end, it always comes down to strength!”

“If I possessed Grand Luo Golden Immortal cultivation right now, I wouldn’t need to fear that Red Moon at all…”

“This operation’s failure may partly be because my voice carried too little weight… but the overconfidence of those apex cultivators was equally fatal!”

Su Xing shook his head lightly. Fortunately, this was only a simulation. Though saving Earth had failed, he had gained no small amount of experience and lessons from it.

“Right now, there are more important matters! Things with Qingyunzi absolutely cannot go wrong!”

“While there’s still enough time… I need to focus on cultivation!”

Su Xing had merely been making an attempt — saving Earth would have been ideal, but if that proved impossible, prioritizing his own strength was paramount!

With this thought, Su Xing turned his gaze to the simulation panel.

【With your True Immortal realm status, you were already more than capable of carving out territory in the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm and becoming a regional overlord.】

【So you expended some resources, paying several million spirit stones to purchase a plot of land near White Emperor City, where you settled the majority of Earth’s survivors.】

【Year Twenty-Five. You sought out the Celestial Secrets Pavilion, informed them of the matter concerning Qingyunzi, and presented your credentials…】

【Year Thirty. You met with Fairy Ziling and accompanied her to the Azure Cloud Sect.】

【Atop Three Immortals Peak, you offered the Ruyi Visualization Diagram as the price in exchange for two cups of Dao-Enlightenment Tea.】

【Afterward, you chose not to remain in the Azure Cloud Realm to cultivate, but instead returned to the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm!】

【The Red Moon’s fate remained unknown, but battles between alien races and human cultivators continued ceaselessly…】

【You assumed a new identity, joined the frontlines at Celestial Demon City, and became a Myriarch in the fight against the alien races…】