CH 20

Chapter 20 — A Kindled Plan, The Next 10,000 Years!

“Information on world history retrieved successfully …”

Lu Sheng looked toward the newly slid out information.

“Year 1 M.C., the northern part of the Ancient Eagle Kingdom, the eastern and southern part of the Ancient Lion Kingdom, the western part of the Ancient Dragon Kingdom … Earth cracked and hordes of otherworldly creatures crawled out the chasm …”

“Hum …”

When he read the first line of the world’s history, Lu Sheng’s brain seemed to be struck by a heavy hammer, and it shook more than once.

Lu Sheng suspected that he had misread it and came closer to read word by word.

“Year 34 M.C., the world’s first martial artist with Qi was born in the Ancient Dragon Kingdom, and the World Martial Alliance was formed contemporarily in the same year …”

“Year 42 M.C., martial cultivation system through classification was established. Mr. Yang Qianhe of the Ancient Dragon Kingdom, became the first Level 5 Martial Artist of the World Martial Alliance …”

“Year 104 M.C., …”

Lu Sheng was lost, and he slumped to the ground. He was usually either calm, happy, or even angry when faced with situations, but this time his face was colored with utter disbelief and stupefaction.

He looked through the first few hundred years of this world’s history and found that they overlapped highly with what he had learned in his history class.

The time, the historical figures, the historical events … they were ditto, exactly the same.

The information on the years 310 to 315 even gave him an illusion as if he was flipping through newspapers of recent years.

Lu Sheng finally got an unbelievable, unbelievable conclusion: This world, and the one he has been living in … were one and the same!

The information he just flipped through was not any history of another world and its martial civilization, but … it was the future of the world!

10,000 years into the future!

“Year 11024 M.C., this will be the year when things go terribly wrong. That is to say, the world I’m living in now will go extinct with all intelligent life ceasing to exist in 10,000 years. Perishing under the overwhelming assault of the black fog, and the endless tides of foreign beasts …”

Lu Sheng’s face turned pale, he couldn’t accept this result.

Just a minute ago, he was still expressing silent mourning for the demise of this powerful civilization.

And a minute later, he realized that he was mourning for the future of his own civilization.

“It may not be, it may not be the same, it may just be a coincidence, it may be a parallel world …”

Lu Sheng consoled himself and tried to calm himself down.

He needed more facts to verify.

Lu Sheng tried to zoom in on history, looking for clues from smaller traces.

But at this time, the Optical Mind prompted, “Insufficient authority, ‘visitor’ cannot access query.”

Lu Sheng frowned slightly and spoke, “Generate user ID.”

“Please provide a genetic blood sample.”

The advanced technological invention, the Optical Mind, required a genetic blood samples to create a user ID-it was simply remarkable.

Lu Sheng didn’t know if it would work in the Dream World, but he bit his index finger and dropped a drop of blood on the groove in the middle of the Optical Mind.

After Lu Sheng dropped blood on it, the Optical Mind went silent for more than 10 minutes.

When Lu Sheng was beginning to suspect if the thing was dead, the device finally issued a crisp “drop” sound.

But it wasn’t the prompt to notify the successful creation of a new user ID, but—

“Human genetic blood sample detected, ‘Fireseed’ program initiated …”

“Connecting to Fireseed Repository 1359 …”

“Connection successful.”

“Permission granted-”

The next moment, in front of Lu Sheng’s eyes, a large message popped up.

[Name: Lu Sheng].

[Gender: Male].

[Lifespan: 297 M.C. – June, 334 M.C.].

[Martial Prowess: Level 4 Martial Artist].

[Available Authority: Level 2].

[…].

At the top of this message was a picture of himself.

On the photo was a handsome looking, stalwart middle-aged man with a face that Lu Sheng was incomparably familiar with.

This person was none other than himself.

Lu Sheng calmly continued to read down, about his biography.

[… Graduated from Baihe Third High School in Baihe City, enrolled in Baihe Martial Arts University. Placing first in the school and the 23rd place in Baihe City that year …].

[Three years later he graduated from Baihe Martial Arts University and joined the military. Later he served in the Tiannan Military Division …].

[He died on the battlefield in the Southern War Zone on August 334 at the age of 37. Never Married.] [Highest military rank: Lieutenant].

[Battle Merit: Obtained first class battle merit 3 times. Second-class merit 5 times. Third-class merit 12 times.].

[No outstanding contributions.].

“That is to say, I will die at the age of 37, dying in a battlefield with foreign beasts. I will only ever be a Level 4 Martial Artists, according to my historical evaluation …”

At the bottom of the profile there was another character history rating, which was marked – two stars.

It corresponded exactly to Lu Sheng’s level 2 authority in the Fireseed Repository.

Lu Sheng took a deep breath and his eyes became incomparably complicated.

It was hard for him not to believe that this was the future he was about to face.

Because the “Lu Sheng” on the profile had the exact same life path as he did until he was eighteen.

Even the sudden surge in strength more than two hundred days before the college entrance examination was recorded.

In front of the heft of history, his advancement from a mediocre talent to genius did not even cause a ripple to it.

To be precise, even after the metamorphosis, the huge Fireseed Repository did not even consider him a “genius”.

Because in the world’s 10,000 years of history, genius a hundred, no a thousand times better than him … the ones that could be considered geniuses were simply far too many to count.

Leaving a legacy that was remembered throughout eras, eons, and even ages to come—those legends were only few and far between.