Lu Yanhua was summoned by the lord for the crime of indiscriminately killing innocent people.
Not long after, she was in a stretched limousine belonging to 'Li Zhengguo', arriving at the base entrance to participate in the esper mission of the day.
Seeing the two people in the car, Tian Jing's eyes curved. Good, good, a complete capture.
Seeing Tian Jing holding a potted plant, Lu Yanhua's eyebrows flickered slightly. She asked 'Li Zhengguo' beside her in a low voice, "Is it her?"
"Yes, Sister Lu, please do your best. If I don't get her, I'm not human."
"Don't worry."
...
The stretched limousine led the way out of the base.
The minivan carrying espers and the large transport truck followed closely behind, exiting the base.
Today's mission was to go to a factory area heavily guarded by high-level zombies to retrieve some essential production machinery.
As soon as they got out of the car, Tian Jing said she wanted to find a place to bury the potted plant she was holding.
This potted plant had been with her for many years, but a small pot was too confining. She planned to return it to nature.
'Li Zhengguo' hesitated for a moment before agreeing, "Ten minutes."
"Thank you."
Tian Jing thanked him sincerely and turned to leave.
"Wait a moment."
Lu Yanhua walked up to her, "This potted plant of yours looks very familiar."
Tian Jing took a step back, "What do you mean? I carried it into the base, and many people can testify."
Lu Yanhua carefully sensed the aura of the potted plant but found nothing. "I'm sorry, I was mistaken."
Tian Jing gave her a sideways glance and quickly turned away, "You're wasting my time."
A few minutes later, she returned, while 'Li Zhengguo' waited nervously.
'Li Zhengguo' assigned several high-level espers, each selecting four people to form a small team.
He led Lu Yanhua and the three newly joined espers to form a team.
The espers looked at Tian Jing's appearance and knew immediately.
'Li Zhengguo' waved his hand, "Let's go, gather here in an hour."
They entered the factory area and then the factory building.
Within a few rounds, Lu Yanhua had dealt with the high-level zombies in this factory.
The rest were left for Tian Jing and the others to handle.
The three of them leisurely chopped away, and occasionally a few would leap towards Lu Yanhua and 'Li Zhengguo'.
Finally, all the zombies in this factory were dealt with.
The hypocritical 'Li Zhengguo' revealed his true nature.
"Sister Lu, I want her now."
"Okay."
Lu Yanhua unleashed her skill, "Thousand Threads" (Qian Si Wan Lü), intending to entangle the three new espers who weren't very agile.
However, no matter how she used it, the three people opposite could easily dodge it.
Impossible!
She had been at the peak of level nine for over a year, preparing to break through to another level.
She was the highest-level esper in all the bases in the apocalypse.
How could she be dodged by these three level six or seven espers?
No, that esper with mental abilities was only level six. Even if he felt it was useless to use his mental abilities against her, he shouldn't have been able to dodge her skill so easily.
With so many strange occurrences, she stopped attacking.
"Who exactly are you? What level espers are you?"
Tian Jing smiled charmingly, "We are who we are. As for our levels, we are all level nine."
Lu Yanhua's eyes narrowed. Three people had already reached level nine. She was too arrogant; she should have fought harder long ago to break through to another level.
"Peak of the Great Perfection?"
"No, all low tier."
Lu Yanhua smiled with relief. "All low tier? Three minor grades lower, even if all three of you attacked together, you still couldn't beat the Great Perfection."
Tian Jing was even more relieved than her. This Lu Yanhua, who had become decadent in power, had only reached the Great Perfection by now.
Her domain skill was subtly unleashed.
It enveloped the entire factory building.
Freeze!
"Brother Zheng, quickly alter 'Li Zhengguo's' memory. As for Lu Yanhua, she must die."
Otherwise, 'Tian Jing' would never be able to establish herself in any base.
An hour passed, and the disheveled espers, carrying, holding, and hugging the machinery they had plundered, rushed to the assembly point.
Only the young master, the dissolute fop, was there.
Seeing them, the young master waved his hand, "Quickly load up and return."
...
After the roar of the car engines faded, Tian Jing retracted her domain.
"Bang bang bang."
As the domain shrunk smaller and smaller, Lu Yanhua, frozen within the domain, turned into a bloody mist in an instant.
When the domain was lifted, amidst the bloody mist, a crystal core, green and crystal clear, gleamed.
Tian Jing extended a vine from her hand and wrapped it around the crystal core.
"Here."
'Tian Jing' waved her hand, "You, you need it more than I do."
"No, I don't need it anymore. We're leaving."
"Leaving?"
'Tian Jing' felt a wave of disappointment. Had the time for departure come so soon?
"Yes!"
Tian Jing nodded. "I'm going back to my third life. That is my world."
"You must be well. No matter when, don't give up your life easily."
'Tian Jing's' eyes were filled with tears as she accepted the crystal core. "Okay, I understand."
Using her domain to transport the two of them away from the factory area, they met up with Xiao Qing, who had been waiting for a long time. The two people and one tree bid farewell to 'Tian Jing'.
There was no need for goodbyes; goodbyes meant never seeing each other again.
Watching the two disappearing figures, 'Tian Jing' clutched the crystal core in her hand and quickly left the area.
She would never go back to Zhengyang Base again.
...
After traversing thousands of mountains and rivers, they finally found the breeding cemetery area.
Passing through this area and heading south, familiar mountains and rivers appeared before their eyes.
Li Zhengguo shouted happily, "Kushan, I'm back."
Outside the formation, Xiao Qing waited anxiously.
After the red substance was torn open, Tian Jing, holding Xiao Qing wrapped in her domain, successfully entered the formation.
Li Zhengguo followed closely behind.
The thick fog was still present.
While waiting for the sun to shine directly, Tian Jing repeatedly instructed Xiao Qing.
"I really can't guarantee you can leave with us. If you are left behind, you might be trapped in this formation forever."
Xiao Qing flapped its branches, "I'm not afraid. Aren't there trees here too?"
This was also something that brought Tian Jing a sliver of comfort.
The dense fog dispersed.
The two people and the tree quickly entered the maze.
Using their warm blood and the opened golden lock, they opened the round cover and entered the center.
Xiao Qing chose to follow Tian Jing, riding in the white tomb.
Li Zhengguo, carrying the golden lock and a bottle of fresh blood, held a fake arm carved from wood with palm lines and jumped into the black tomb.
The couple nodded at each other across the distance and simultaneously placed their handprints on the stone door.
The scene turned from dark to bright, and space was transformed.
"Xiao Qing? Xiao Qing?"
Tian Jing couldn't feel the weight on her back and quickly called out for Xiao Qing.
"Tiantian, Tiantian."
Hearing his wife's call, Li Zhengguo happily ran over from the side, "Wife, look, look, my limbs are all intact."
Limbs intact?
Tian Jing immediately felt her own abilities. She was still level three low tier.
"Brother Zheng, your abilities?"
Li Zhengguo paused. He was so happy that his limbs were intact, but what about his abilities?
Her husband's expression made Tian Jing understand. She comforted him.
"Perhaps, when we returned to our world, our abilities couldn't come back, and Xiao Qing didn't come along either."
"But, you experienced having abilities and being a zombie, it was a good feeling, right?"
Li Zhengguo nodded, "Yes, it was a very good experience. Let's go, let's go home."
"Home?"
Tian Jing raised an eyebrow. "Aren't we looking for the private vault?"
"Yes, yes, let's look for the private vault."
The couple walked hand in hand along the road beneath their feet and soon reached the side of a busy street.
The bustling scene on the wide street stunned the couple.
This? This?
This atmosphere felt at least like the late 1990s.
Had they been gone for so many years?