Survival in Sequences: Eighteen Years Old, Slaying Monsters Like Horses

In the winter of the second year of the new era, when the first snow fell, Xu Si was leading Xu Wujiu on a stroll on the platform outside the palace.

The little one had its big, dark eyes wide open and was so quiet, unlike a baby who had just turned one month old.

Xu Wuyou was held in Jiao Jiao's arms, his little fists clenching Jiao Jiao's clothes, his little face buried in Jiao Jiao's neck, occasionally letting out a cat-like whimper.

"Brother." Xu Miaomiao walked out from behind the pillar, the silver mark between her eyebrows shining slightly in the moonlight.

"It seems Earth's energy level has increased again," she said, her gaze fixed on the World Tree's canopy.

Xu Si hummed in response, without looking up.

He had sensed it long ago.

Since he opened the Gate of Return to Nothingness, Earth's energy levels have been surging upwards as if they had been set on fire.

And it seems that the opportunity for each other to advance their own small world has also arrived.

"Is Yi-yi about to advance to the next level?" Xu Miaomiao walked to his side and teased Xu Wujiu. Her voice was soft, but it carried a rare solemnity.

Xu Si finally stopped.

He looked down at Xu Wujiu, who was fast asleep in his arms. The little guy still had a little drool on the corner of his mouth, and his breathing was long and carefree.

"Yes, it'll be soon," he said.

Spring of the third year of the New Era.

When Jiao Jiao was heavily pregnant again, Earth's energy level finally approached that critical point.

The first to notice were not Xu Si, but Gu Ke and Sola.

During that period, the two companion trees of the World Tree almost simultaneously stopped supplying nutrients to the outside world.

The coca vines no longer glowed, and the buds of Sora stopped growing. As if by prior arrangement, the two miniature World Trees slowly withdrew their roots from the deepest part of Earth, shrinking inch by inch back to their original bodies, and even their leaves curled up.

"It has begun." Gu Ke's voice came through his roots, deep and resonant.

"We've been waiting for this day for too long." Sora, unusually, didn't argue. The treetop turned towards the sky, where a very faint halo of light was gathering.

"Has it been a long time?" Gu Ke felt it hadn't been that long.

"I was just using an example!"

"For example, which one? Why did you hit him?"

……

Xu Si stood on the platform outside the palace, holding Xu Wujiu in his arms.

The little one seemed to sense something too. He didn't cry or fuss, but just stared intently at the increasingly bright sky above him with his big, dark eyes.

"Jiao Jiao, take the children inside," Xu Si said.

Jiao Jiao didn't ask any more questions. She took Xu Wujiu from Xu Si's arms, then took the hand of the mischievous Xu Wuyou, and turned to enter the depths of the palace.

Xu Miaomiao and Su Su followed behind her. Just before entering the door, they glanced back at Xu Si, as if they wanted to say something, but in the end they just nodded.

"Brother, I'll stay too." Xu Miaomiao walked to the door but then turned back.

"No need, you protect them," Xu Si said.

Xu Miaomiao pursed her lips and then left.

As a creator, she naturally knows how violent the impact of world advancement on the planet's surface will be.

Fortunately, he had already notified all the residents of Earth to take precautions.

"One by one," Xu Si said.

"I'm here." Yi Yi's voice was soft but exceptionally clear, coming all the way up from the deepest part of the Earth's core, as if the entire planet was responding.

"Are you ready?"

"Yes, I've been waiting for this day for a long time. I'll give you a surprise when it happens!"

"Let's begin." Xu Si was also curious about what the surprise was.

Then, the sky cracked open.

No one expected that the first step for the small world to advance into the middle world would be "hatching".

Xu Si had witnessed the regression of a middle world and had even personally created one, but he had never actually experienced a small world advancing to a middle world.

The light blue atmosphere surrounding Earth resembles a gently cracked eggshell, with countless cracks stretching for thousands of miles starting from the poles.

Each crack emitted a blinding white light, like countless silver snakes slithering across the sky, cutting the entire firmament into millions of irregular fragments.

"Everyone, don't look up! Stay where you are! Be careful!" Xu Si's voice echoed throughout every settlement on Earth.

But people are still people; the more you try to prevent them from looking up, the more people will be tempted to peek.

Then they witnessed a scene they would never forget.

The naivety cracked.

It was even more shocking than a bizarre descent into the world.

Beyond the rift lies a bottomless black void, within which wisps of faint gray mist carry an aura that sends shivers down one's spine.

That was chaos.

"My God... what is that...?"

"Why is it like this outside...?"

"Is something really going to happen?!"

In the northern suburbs of Los Angeles, Zhou Wan and Kaochang were standing on the edge of a field when the ground beneath their feet suddenly began to tremble slightly.

The trembling wasn't intense, but it caused an inexplicable palpitation, as if something was rising from the depths of the earth.

"Sister Wan, it's so noisy! I can't stand up..." Sausage plopped down on the ground, her face pale.

"Don't panic, the commander is here, everything will be alright." Zhou Wan said this, but her fingers unconsciously clenched the hem of her clothes.

Their concerns did not last long.

Because the earth really moved.

Centered on the World Tree, a visible emerald green light wave spread out in all directions.

Endless energy and life flowed along the light waves to every corner of Earth. Wherever the light waves passed, vegetation grew wildly, rivers surged, and the Earth's crust, like a crumpled and then unfolded blanket, continuously widened, pushed further, and rose higher between mountains and plains.

That was energy sucked from the crack.

Earth grew larger again.

The World Tree is transforming from a planet's "guardian" into its "heart."

Xu Si stood on the platform outside the palace, his star-like eyes piercing through layers of the earth's crust, reaching the deepest part of the earth's core.

He saw it.

Yi Yi's consciousness was no longer attached to the roots of the World Tree, but had transformed into a semi-transparent emerald green humanoid figure, which was slowly rising towards the surface.

Xu Si now knew what the surprise Yi Yi had mentioned was.

"Long time no see." Xu Si's voice came from the palace platform, with a faint smile on his face.

He never expected that the first one to complete the transformation would be this little girl, Yi Yi.

The humanoid phantom hovered atop the World Tree canopy, gazing at Xu Si across the void.

A translucent emerald green light flowed slowly around her, like countless tiny leaves swirling in the wind, or like streams bathed in moonlight, silently encircling, entwining, and taking shape around her slender silhouette.

A bright smile immediately spread across her face, impossible to hide.

"Surprised?" She looked up, and her face gradually became clear in the halo of light.

Xu Si was taken aback.

It was a face that was both strange and familiar.

The reason I say it's familiar is because that face is about 70% similar to Yi Yi's.

The reason he seemed unfamiliar was that from a certain angle, one could vaguely see a trace of Xu Miaomiao from back then, a touch of Jiao Jiao's gentleness, and even a hint of his own calmness.

"You..." This girl was clearly doing this on purpose.

Xu Si's starry eyes narrowed slightly.

"I thought you would like it." Yi Yi raised her chin, her long emerald green hair spreading in the wind like a waterfall of vines hanging from the top of the World Tree canopy.

"No matter what you're like, I'll love you!"

Xu Si didn't answer, he just looked into her eyes.

Those were crystal-clear turquoise pupils, yet deep within them were embedded an extremely fine ring of golden lines, like the rings of a world tree compressed into a pair of eyes.

"Hehe." Yi Yi laughed.

That smile seemed to illuminate the entire planet Earth for a fleeting moment.

"That's more like it." She lightly touched the top of the World Tree canopy with her toes, and like a weightless leaf, she floated towards Xu Si.

Before the person even landed, the two trees that grew alongside them erupted in chaos.

"Big brother! She she she she she—" Sora's canopy shook violently, and the tender buds at the ends of the branches sprouted and grew rapidly, as if someone had pulled out a handful of hair, and the whole tree was trembling.

"Shut up and protect the roots!" Gu Ke's voice came from underground, unusually trembling.

"That's world consciousness? That really is world consciousness? She's become the real World Tree!" Sora clearly wasn't going to shut up.

"What are you so shocked about? Isn't this something we should have known a long time ago?" Gu Ke said irritably.

Aren't you shocked?

"Shut up! Get back to work! This time we're really going to strike it rich!"

……

The moment they landed, Earth's transformation accelerated dramatically.

Centered on the World Tree, the emerald green light waves no longer spread out in concentric circles, but instead seemed to be suddenly pulled out from the depths of the earth by some force, exploding in all directions at the same time.

The gray-black chaotic energy emanating from the cracks in the sky, which had been greedily seeping inward, was now transformed into the purest energy by the wave of light, sweeping across the entire planet Earth again and again.

The grass and trees are growing, and all things are rejoicing.

Those humans who had not yet advanced to the next level felt a call from the next level.

Those who had already awakened their sequences were now all experiencing an upgrade in their sequences.

In the northern suburbs of Los Angeles, Zhou Wan knelt on the edge of a field, her fingers digging deep into the soil.

The sequence core within her body suddenly throbbed violently, as if something had been awakened from the depths of the earth, flowing upstream along her fingertips and rushing into her limbs and bones.

"Sister Wan? Sister Wan, what's wrong?" Sausage was so frightened that her face turned pale, and she scrambled over to her.

"I...I think..." Zhou Wan raised her head, her pupils shimmering with a faint emerald green light.

She felt as if a dried-up riverbed that had accumulated throughout the winter was suddenly filled with spring floods. The core, which had been stagnant at Sequence 5 for a long time, began to spin, expand, and transform wildly at this moment.

"I'm about to advance!" she gritted her teeth, veins bulging on her forehead, her clothes instantly soaked with sweat.

At the same time, cries of surprise rang out from the city guard camp, in the fields, and inside and outside the stone houses in the resettlement area.

"My sequence is moving! Moving!"

"Me too! I feel like I'm about to break through!"

"What's going on? What happened?"

Yue Lengshu stood at the entrance of the government affairs hall, his old leg shaking so badly he could barely stand.

The sequence core within his body, which had almost never moved, began to react now, faint yet undeniable, like a mute bell that had been struck for thirty years suddenly humming.

"Old Yue!" Wu Pian stumbled over from the other end, his face flushed.

"Your sequence too..."

"It moved! Damn it, it's been so many years since it moved. I thought this was how it would be for the rest of my life!" Wu Pian was surprised and delighted, but also felt a little uneasy.

"It's an ascension! Earth is ascending!" Yue Lengshu looked up at the sky, his eyes, which had been tormented by the apocalypse for half his life, now shining with a terrifying light.

"What Xu Si said is true, Earth is going to become a medieval world!"

"The Middle Ages..." Wu Pian murmured repeatedly, as if he had been hit hard by something.

Above the World Tree canopy, Yi Yi's figure became increasingly solid.

The translucent emerald green light began to transform into solid flesh and blood, first the outline of bones, then the meridians, muscles, and skin, layer by layer, as if sculpted from the inside out by an invisible hand.

"Almost there...almost there..." She gritted her teeth and slowly formed an ancient and complex hand seal in front of her chest.

The entire World Tree lit up at the same time, and countless lights rose from the leaves, like millions of fireflies taking off at the same time, converging into a emerald green pillar of light that pierced through the sky and swallowed her whole.

Within the pillar of light, Yi Yi's figure was undergoing its final transformation.

The commotion surrounding Earth's ascension is growing louder and louder.

The ground began to crack and then heal, and visible energy ripples spread outward from the tree roots. Wherever they passed, even the energy concentration in the air seemed to be accelerated, soaring wildly.

City of Fire

More and more people came out of the house, looking up at the emerald green pillar of light that stretched from the sky to the ground, like ants looking up at a thunderstorm.

"This must be a miracle..."

"Only the Chief of Staff could have done that!"

……

The city guards tried their best to maintain order, but the crowd was already out of control.

It was like a pilgrimage, or a sacrifice.

Xu Miaomiao stood at the entrance of the palace, and twelve law patterns silently lit up. The law of creation transformed into a semi-transparent barrier, firmly protecting the children and all non-combatants.

"Sister-in-law, it's alright." She turned her head to look at Jiao Jiao, whose face was pale, and said in a soft but firm voice.

"I know!" Jiao Jiao believed Xu Si just as much as anyone else.

boom--

The sky split open for the third time.

This time, the rift was no longer confined to the two poles, but erupted from the zenith directly above the top of the World Tree, as if someone had cleaved the entire sky with an unimaginable giant axe from outer space.

The dark gray chaotic energy poured down from the crack, but it no longer brought destruction as before. Instead, the moment it touched Earth's atmosphere, it was assimilated, absorbed, and transformed by the emerald green light emanating from it, becoming the purest nourishment for the new world.

Seeing this, Xu Si instantly understood.

Chaos represents both death and rebirth.

Yi Yi, standing in the beam of light, suddenly opened her eyes.

Golden patterns spread out like tree rings in those emerald green pupils, and his aura surged so much that even Xu Si slightly turned his head away.

Is this what complete world consciousness is?

Even Xu Si felt its grandeur and magnificence.

In that previous middle world, if the world consciousness hadn't perished, he wouldn't have had any chance of infiltrating it.