Chapter 4: Understanding the Situation

Hurriedly, she was taken to the hospital, but before they even arrived, she woke up. This time, her memories returned completely. She hadn’t expected that by creating the Wheel of Time and reversing time to return to the past, she would actually be reborn more than a century ago, and that she would begin anew without her memories.

If it hadn’t been for that earthquake news, she probably wouldn’t have awakened her memories. Without that, what purpose would her return serve?

“You’re awake! How are you? Are you in pain anywhere? You must tell Mommy if anything hurts,” Zhou Qi anxiously asked upon seeing her daughter awake.

“Mom, I’m fine,” Mu Yin shook her head at her mother in this life.

“That’s good, but still, let’s go to the hospital for a check-up. Why did you suddenly faint?” Zhou Qi breathed a sigh of relief but remained uneasy, not ready to leave.

“There’s no need, Mom. I was just scared and fainted,” Mu Yin quickly stopped her. She was genuinely fine—her sudden awakening was simply the shock of her memories breaking free.

“Are you really alright?” Zhou Qi frowned at her daughter.

“I truly am,” Mu Yin nodded firmly.

“Alright then,” Zhou Qi relented, seeing her daughter’s insistence. Besides, a full examination at the hospital at this time might not help. “A Song, let’s go home.” They were riding a motorcycle, with Mu Yin wedged between her parents.

“Alright.” Mu Song, who had overheard the whole exchange, nodded.

Upon returning home, her older brother Mu Shao came out to meet them. “How is it? Is A Yin alright?”

“A Shao, I’m fine!” Mu Yin poked her head out, waving to the little boy and to her cousins emerging from the other side.

“Really no problem?” Mu Qin looked at her.

“No problem,” Zhou Qi replied.

“That’s good,” Mu Tong nodded. “What did the doctor say?”

“We didn’t go to the hospital. She woke up as we reached the nearby hill,” Mu Song answered.

“Why not get checked at the hospital? Sudden fainting needs attention,” Dong Feng frowned slightly.

“She insisted,” Zhou Qi replied, while Mu Yin smiled and ran to her grandparents.

“I’m fine, just got scared.”

“So A Yin is actually so timid,” Zhang Yi, holding his daughter, looked at Mu Yin.

“Hehe,” Mu Yin could only laugh awkwardly. How could she explain that she wasn’t really timid, but her mind had been overwhelmed by a surge of memories? She couldn’t, so she just accepted it.

The next day at school, Lily rushed over after class. “I heard you fainted yesterday—are you alright?”

“Yes, are you really okay?” Bai Ling came running too. The three had entered elementary school in the same grade and were in the same class.

“I’m fine, what could be wrong?” Mu Yin thought, good news never spreads, but bad news travels fast. How did everyone know? Then she remembered—it wasn’t a weekend, so her sudden absence must have been reported by the teacher.

After a day at school, Mu Yin returned home and went straight to her room to carry out the plan she’d devised the night before.

She had succeeded in coming back, bringing her special abilities with her. Even the time-space gear she’d crafted before her rebirth was still with her. But her powers, depleted by overuse, had been reduced to their lowest level—Grade One. Before her death, she’d been at the highest grade. As for the time-space gear, it was unusable due to the enormous energy it required.

After the end times, a small portion of humanity awakened supernatural abilities. Despite the apocalypse, the world hadn’t yet reached its final decline, so things still developed rapidly. The highest grade for abilities was Grade Nine. It seemed few, but in the end, only a handful ever reached it. Unfortunately, they all perished in the final battle against the aliens.

Humanity eventually uncovered the aliens’ plot. There were plenty of clever people; aside from her own accidental discovery, others had vague suspicions. Guided by her, they soon uncovered the aliens’ scheme, but it was already too late.

They managed to capture many aliens, but a few escaped, taking with them the primordial energy and fleeing Blue Star, which was ultimately destroyed.

Now, none of that had happened yet—everything was still possible. Yet there was a major problem: all energy was still sealed inside the planet’s core, not yet released. Blue Star was already in a period of declining magic, slightly better than a hundred years later, but still lacking the energy needed for her to regain her peak.

Moreover, the most crucial issue was that even if she reached the highest grade, all the aliens were at Grade Nine or higher. She alone could not drive them all away.

Why was the highest grade for Blue Star humans only nine, while aliens could surpass that? Mu Yin, once a peak ability user, knew the answer: genetic limitations. The humans’ genes capped them at Grade Nine, but the aliens’ genes were superior, allowing them to exceed this limit. This explained why, even when the remaining survivors desperately intercepted the aliens, hundreds against one, some still managed to break through.

Her task, then, was to release the primordial energy ahead of time, so humanity could evolve sooner and stand a chance. It was now 1998, eight years before the aliens would return to their planet via satellite. Time was running out.

First, she needed to find a way to release the core’s primordial energy. Heaven only knew—there wasn’t even a direct channel to the planet’s core. She’d have to raise her abilities first, and the core’s temperature was no trivial matter, not to mention the multiple layers of magma surrounding it.

So, for now, she would have to focus on cultivation. She’d also need to find allies. It was only after the apocalypse that she realized this world was full of hidden mysteries. The so-called monsters, ghosts, and demons dismissed as superstition for nearly two centuries were actually real.

There were also Eastern cultivators, Western magicians, and other beings. They all concealed their powers, only revealing themselves after the apocalypse, and even provided cultivation techniques for newly awakened ability users.

If one were to ask the difference between ability users, cultivators, and magicians—well, cultivators depended on spiritual roots, magicians on mental power, while ability users relied on soul or physical attributes.

Elemental or special types, like her creative abilities, were soul-based; otherwise, she would not have been able to reincarnate with her powers intact. Physical mutation types, on the other hand, depended on the body—speed, strength, even shape-shifting.

Mu Yin’s cultivation method was not the commonly used “Evolution” technique, but one she crafted herself after her abilities grew stronger, tailored perfectly to her uniqueness. She called it “Creation.” She had invented it in the apocalypse, when she had reached Grade Eight; switching at that point had limited results. Now, however, she could start with it from the beginning.