
Entering the Intersection of the Underworld Road, Yan Xu found the ground around him shaking. Not only that, the laws of space and time began to change, from the beginning of emptiness into a time that he did not know.
The barren land that was only surrounded by black darkness, had now turned into a sight that Yan Xu knew so well.
"This ... Earth?"
Yan Xu could not help but feel a sense of shock that he had thought for so long would never happen in Xuanyuan realm.
In a region that he was very familiar with, everything almost looks the same if the building that stands firmly has now been destroyed as if there is a world war.
Walking straight, Yan Xu scanned the entire ruined building while saying, "This is my hometown. You could say, this region was my residence while living on Earth. Only, what happens after my death? The qi energy that shouldn't exist, I can feel it coming from the core of the earth coming to the surface."
Not far from there, Yan Xu saw a man and a woman who were fighting monsters. The group of monsters had various forms and came out through a portal.
"Xihe, you go first. I'll buy some time and call for reinforcements right here!" said the man.
"No! They were all still busy handling the frontlines in the other regions. If we both fall, the last line of defense of mankind will be destroyed!" the woman named Xihe immediately rejected the idea of a man, which Yan Xu knew that the woman did not want the man to die.
"If you want to die together, wouldn't you rather stab each other," Yan Xu said with a crooked smile.
He used a soul-chasing technique and immediately slashed at the monsters coming out of the portal using energy swords.
Yan Xu's arrival was right in front of the foreign man and woman, making them brandish a strangely shaped sword towards him.
Yan Xu only put on a flat face, not having a single sense of enmity radiated yet he had an inexplicable strange aura.
"Who are you?!" ask the man who immediately stood in front of the woman.
"Do you not know manners?" yan Xu asked, frowning.
'I've saved you both, at least show some of the friendliness of the Earthlings to a stranger like me!' yan Xu complained inwardly.
Seeing Yan Xu's resistance, the man grew more cautious but his arm was immediately lowered by the woman called Xihe.
"We are the inhabitants of the Earth. My name is Lan Xihe and she is Yan Shen. Right now, there is an ordeal that is sweeping the planet. You don't look like you're hostile towards us, so can we assume this meeting never happened?" said Lan Xihe trying to mediate.
'Lan ... Xihe?!'
When the name was mentioned, Yan Xu felt a tightness in his chest.
'What is this?! Since when have I and Master been together to face the crisis on Earth?!'
Yan Xu looked back at the man's face, finally he remembered that his original appearance as Yan Shen, was indeed like the man in front.
He had long since had the face of Yan Xu and often used disguise techniques, making him forget about the face of the figure of Yan Shen himself.
Although he was certain that this was one of the illusions made by Shang Yin and the unknown Zhuge, Yan Xu continued to follow their game because his body subconsciously said so.
"Unfortunately can't be," getting a bit of an idea of what's going on here, Yan Xu guessed that these two people were the main key to the ordeal in question.
She preferred to be with the two of them, although somehow she felt annoyed to see the woman named Lan Xihe always clinging to the man who was next to her.
Yan Shen who was listening to that, frowned and said, "Do you also want to unite our world with yours? Don't dream! Although it must die—"
"No, not to that extent. You misunderstand me, seriously, is there only bad thoughts in your brain about other people?!" sela Yan Xu's.
Somehow, even though it was himself, Yan Xu felt that the similarities between the two of them were questionable.
"Keep, what do you want?" yan Shen asked looking coldly at Yan Xu.
Yan Xu clenched both of his hands while saying, "Let me join the two of you. Instead, I will help you in the face of this disaster. In the meantime, there are so many things I want to ask you about this world and what has happened."
"I don't feel a single bit of sincerity in every word of yours, just throw away the pity and hypocrisy on your face! Cheih!— act kindly to us, won't make you look like a trustworthy person."
"In that case, should I act cruelly first until you agree?" reply Yan Xu with a deep voice.
"Just try— aiya! Xiez! You this why the hell suddenly hit my head?!— aaa— aaahhh, s-sick!— aiya!"
Lan Xihe immediately pulled out Yan Shen's eardrum and said, "We accept your proposal. However, there is a special condition for you because we both do not know each other."
As usual, Yan Xu knew that Lan Xihe also wanted to refuse but this time was not the right thing for them. He could still gauge Yan Xu's ability level and it would be more advantageous for the two of them to allow him to help, compared to being an enemy of that stranger.
"Alright, I accept your terms," replied Yan Xu smiling faintly.
Nodding, Lan Xihe continued, "First, can you defeat the monsters and close the dimensional portal that is there first?" he pointed towards the portal not far from them.
There the lizard-like monsters with weapons in their hands came out.
Without replying, Yan Xu immediately finished off every lizard human with his energy sword slash. He also used the divine sword technique to seal the portal tightly.
Drenched in the blood of human lizards all over his body, Yan Xu turned towards them. However, the two people had already disappeared as he had just distracted her for a moment.
Yan Xu smiled wryly and slightly felt nostalgic with Lan Xihe's old tricks that she had always used to trick her.
As he recalled, indeed their facial differences were only on the color of the hair and before the skin of his face was beautified because he was not a cultivator like them.
Yan Xu began to spread his divine consciousness, yet it could not be used as if something had refused him to do that.
A system notification window appeared in front of him.
[Who are you? You have entities that come from this planet, but you are not part of them.]
"Oh? Did the system already exist on Earth when the dimensional portal had just opened?" Yan Xu did not care about the question regarding his identity, he only gave a question as well as a random innuendo to the system of bastards that he had hated all along.
[Who are you?]
Unfortunately, like a broken object, the system continued to question Yan Xu's identity.
Yan Xu smiled crookedly and said, "I am your mother!"
[.....]
There's no answer. Yan Xu frowned as he patiently waited for the upcoming question.
It had been a while, yet the system still had no response back.
"Did you get a malfunction so you couldn't answer?"
[You ... very annoying.]
"Oh? Did ya? I take that as a compliment and thank you."
A few seconds passed, Yan Xu was still patiently waiting for another answer.
...
Five minutes had passed, finally a longer answer could be seen on his system window.
[Keep aside your useless innuendo. Now, I'm going to explain a little bit about what's happening on Earth.]
Long story short, the System begins to explain what really happened on Earth.
By the time Yan Shen was 21 years old, the energy of the shield protecting Earth from other worlds had been exhausted. It makes a big change, as dimensional portals open in different parts of the world, the emergence of monsters and how humans are powerless against those who have received the blessing to combat creatures from other worlds.
Seeing the imbalance between the forces that persist with the invaders, making some of the gods who govern the universe give a special opportunity to a human being. They let the humans ask for the one thing that can make humans have a chance to put up resistance and protect their world.
The man asked for a system. That way, the creation of a system window that spread throughout humans on Earth. With the help of the system, they all gain strength as well as weapons to survive.
Unfortunately, despite the mercy of the gods, there was still no free cake that fell from the sky. The man will receive the nickname as the maker of the system and his memory will be erased because talking to the gods is a taboo, it is also to cover their existence from the creatures of his creation.
If the man remembers that he is the one who made the system exist on Earth, its existence will disappear. More precisely, he will rise to become a god who rules the universe, along with the gods who once granted his request.
Why did that happen? Of course, because the demand is made by the system, it makes the human beings become grateful and adds divinity to the maker. The more divinity that accumulates, the system maker will get a chance to rise to become one of the gods that govern the universe.
Not out of reason, humans are storing these memories into the system, so the system itself malfunctions as if it has a personality.
If the system senses a malfunction, it means that the maker is most likely dead, someone close to it has triggered it.
So the System must inform him of the memory, so that the maker will not disappear from the world.
...
After knowing the situation clearly, Yan Xu was suddenly drawn into a black hole.
Now, the situation has changed. So, the previous estimate of where the two people were the main key was wrong.
Actually, triggering the malfunction of the system itself is an important key to the next stage.
Even though Yan Xu found some strange information, he continued on that journey until the truth about Xuanyuan's world was that Earth had won various invasions from otherworldly beings.
As a reward of their success in surviving, the entire world that once invaded them would unite with Earth and cause a cataclysmic explosion in the universe. However, the explosion will not affect humans who really play an important role as the savior of the world.
That's where all the lies of man are revealed. Those who only had hidden intentions and led to unkindness, had become dust that served as the shaper of Xuanyuan realm
Meanwhile, Xuanyuan realm alone would be inhabited by those who purely fought just to survive and protect the people closest to him.
Those who managed to survive, finally got the designation 'First Man' in Xuanyuan world and buried the secret about Earth in order to avoid chaos.
Be it Yan Xu— Yan Shen who had changed his name— or Lan Xihe was one of the many first humans to successfully master the cultivation method while being helped by the system.
That was the beginning of Xuanyuan world history and how there could be a system and the creation of cultivation in that world.