Twenty years of life in another world can easily change a person’s personality and habits.
At the very least, Ye Shaohua didn’t recognize him at first glance, and Feng Liyun didn’t have time to explain.
The anxious voice of the White Tiger King echoed in his ears, “Feng Liyun, something’s happened in the Abyss of Magical Beasts! It might be related to that otherworldly aura on you. Come quickly!”
Feng Liyun’s expression changed. He glanced at Ye Shaohua and left her with only one sentence before departing, “Wait for me to return.”
That look was too profound. Ye Shaohua felt a familiar pang but couldn’t quite place it.
“What’s going on?” Only after confirming that the person inside had truly left did Noland dare to enter. He looked at the open window with lingering fear, “Who was that just now?”
Ye Shaohua remained silent for a moment before slowly shaking her head, “I don’t know.”
Perhaps… she was mistaken?
In a single night, half of the top experts from the Magic Continent went to the edge of the Abyss of Magical Beasts and never returned.
System 008, which was handling spatial malfunctions, also hadn’t returned.
Ye Shaohua threw herself into her magical training. Based on her understanding of the system and missions, she knew she wouldn’t live long in this world, especially since even 008 found the task difficult. She couldn’t afford to slack off.
This suddenly rising young girl once again disappeared from the public eye, retreating into seclusion.
Meanwhile, Ye Jin, having foreseen the events in the book, predicted the journey of Dean Ryan and others to the Abyss of Magical Beasts and helped them avoid several disasters.
In just over a year, rumors of a prophet, said to appear once every ten thousand years, began to spread across the Magic Continent.
Ye Jin not only climbed into the top fifty rankings but also became a mysterious and revered prophet in the eyes of many.
“A prophet?” Ye Shaohua chuckled ambiguously when she heard Noland gossiping about it during her emergence from seclusion.
Noland felt a chill from her smile but, given their familiarity, brushed it off, “So, Shaohua, when are you going to challenge the Magic Tower?”
Having not entered for over a year, she had dropped to the 121st rank.
During this time, many students had graduated, and fresh blood had entered. These newcomers had almost forgotten the once dazzling 3S-level genius, only remembering the frequently spotlighted Ye Jin.
“I won’t challenge it yet. I need to go home first,” Ye Shaohua had often sent Kali back with items over the past year.
She had also frequently returned to train the Ye family. Her time in this world was limited, and only by making them strong could she truly help them and complete her mission.
Her frequent absences from the academy were why many no longer held high hopes for her. Talent alone doesn’t guarantee success without effort.
Two years had passed, and the beast invasion was approaching. The second mission was about to begin.
“Sorry, Miss Ye, all teleportation arrays on the Magic Continent have been unusable for the past six months,” the array administrator said upon seeing Ye Shaohua, “And the edges of the Beast Forest are chaotic right now. I think…”
Before he could finish, Ye Shaohua thanked him and left.
She directly purchased a flying beast from the Magic Guild to depart.
“Miss Ye, you’re out of seclusion?” Unexpectedly, Ye Jin, Aileen, and Gu Hong were at the Magic Guild. Over the past year, Gu Hong had risen to the fifth rank due to several graduations ahead of him and his considerable strength.
Ye Jin had recently become the vice-president of the Magic Guild.
Even the former Grand Elder of the Ye family was now a member of the Magic Guild.
In a hurry to return to Cangyun City, Ye Shaohua merely glanced at them and left without a word.
Noticing her direction towards Cangyun City, Ye Jin lowered her eyes and chuckled lightly, “What a pity. I wanted to tell her that I predicted a beast riot in the Beast Forest today, possibly involving a Saint-level beast.”
“Why tell her?” The former Grand Elder of the Ye family nodded in agreement, increasingly convinced of his decision to leave Cangyun City. The moment had finally arrived, “She probably doesn’t even know you’re the once-in-ten-thousand-years prophet.”
Aileen could sense the tension between Ye Jin and Ye Shaohua. However, given Ye Shaohua’s reclusive nature over the past year, she had truly been forgotten. Weighing her options, Aileen chose not to warn Ye Shaohua about the impending beast invasion.
Ye Jin turned, “Let’s go and see.”
She remembered this beast invasion would be perilous, but a savior would appear. The Saint-level beast would die, leaving behind a magic core. She intended to seize the core unnoticed.
Cangyun City was too small, lacking even a fourth-level mage.
When the beasts surged forward like an army, panic and the desire to flee gripped everyone.
“Lance, take the children out of the city first. Our Ye family has two forbidden spells that can protect you,” Duke Ye stood at the city gates, watching the crumbling defensive barrier with a grim expression, “All members of the Ye family, we must buy time for those behind the walls. If anyone wishes to retreat and leave with Lance, I won’t stop them!”
Kali wiped the sweat from her face, her body radiating the green light of a fourth-level warrior, “I won’t leave!”
Behind them were tens of thousands of Cangyun City’s inhabitants. Beneath their feet was the city wall, and on their shoulders was the weight of responsibility.
“I won’t leave either,” a young Ye family member stepped forward calmly, his gaze resolute, “If it weren’t for the young lady, my family would have perished last year! She always said the future of the Ye family in Cangyun City lies with us! Even if I die on this wall today, I want to prove to her that we can do it! The Ye family never surrenders!”
At that moment, Cangyun City’s defensive barrier shattered. The first to charge out was the small but determined Ye family.
Wherever they passed, beast corpses littered the ground.
The panicked mages and warriors, seeing the Ye family’s bravery, found their fleeing hearts steadied. Everyone had loved ones to protect. Though the beasts were terrifying, the desire to protect made even the most fearsome enemies seem less daunting.
Yes, they might not be as powerful as the beasts. They might not know fireball or wind-walking spells, but they could wield swords and blades!
They could save their comrades!
They could buy time!
One person might not be enough, but together, they were a force!
They weren’t overwhelmingly strong; some were merely city guards with slightly better physical abilities.
Yet, this battle made Cangyun City realize how formidable the Ye family had become in just two years.
Even third-level beasts struggled to breach the city.
“You ants dare to stop me?” Just as Cangyun City’s inhabitants saw a glimmer of hope, a massive black bear, three zhang tall, appeared in the sky, “Today, I’ll flatten this city. Go tell the Magic Guild and the Holy Temple they can’t stop me.”
A beast that could speak human language was at least a Saint-level creature, capable of controlling a domain.
Even Kali felt despair, her face ashen.
The second elder, covered in blood, returned to the Ye family’s backyard, where a group of children under ten waited, “Everyone, head to the ancestral hall… Young… young lady, why are you back? You must leave!”
He saw Ye Shaohua standing in the center, but instead of joy, fear filled his face.
Meanwhile, outside the city walls.
Ye Jin and her group had arrived on fourth-level beasts.
They nearly perished under the Saint-level beast’s paw, saved only by Lance’s forbidden spell scroll.
Seeing this, Kali’s eyes turned red, “Lance, what do you think you’re doing? The Duke told you to use that to save the city’s children, and you used it on this traitor?!”
“Miss Kali, Brother Lance didn’t mean to. He only used it because I was in danger,” Ye Jin stared at the Saint-level beast, her eyes wide. This wasn’t the Saint-level beast described in the book!
The Grand Elder was equally stunned. Having lived a previous life, he knew this beast was stronger—far stronger—than the one from before!
“Ye Jin is more useful than those people,” Lance frowned, “She’s a prophet.”
Kali exploded in anger. While the Ye family fought desperately to buy time for the city, Lance had let their comrades die in vain and used the forbidden spell on Ye Jin!
The Saint-level beast watched them like a spectator amused by clowns, not intervening but casually waving its hand, crushing another Ye family youth.
All their efforts seemed like a cruel joke.
Kali could no longer contain herself. She gathered all her energy into her hands, unleashing a power far beyond her normal capacity, and hurled it at Ye Jin and her group.
Ye Shaohua, following the second elder, stepped onto the city wall. She removed her robe and draped it over the fallen youth.
Then, under everyone’s gaze, she turned to Kali and said softly, “Kali, come back.”
Finally, she looked at the Saint-level beast in the sky, knowing it was likely the creature that had annihilated the Ye family in the original storyline. She smiled faintly, “If the Magic Guild and the Holy Temple can’t stop you, how about me?”
