Chapter 540 - 303: A World Apart

Chapter 540: Chapter 303: A World Apart

’My parents... they’ve been turned into Demons.’

’It’s almost the same as being dead.’

’But there’s still hope.’

Lu Cang looked over at Kumironi. She was the most powerful Healing Mage he knew, someone who could even bring the dead back to life.

His parents had only been turned into Demons; they weren’t truly dead.

’That means there should be more room to maneuver.’

’Maybe... they can still be saved.’

’No, they can definitely be saved. I can still obtain a Divine Talent powerful enough to warp the Rules of the world. I can still make a wish...’

’I’m strong. There’s so much I can do.’

’If I can’t do it now, then I’ll just have to become stronger.’

"Yes, this is my hometown."

"Kumironi..."

Lu Cang bit his lip, his voice tinged with a choked sob.

But in the next instant, Kumironi saw Lu Cang forcibly calm his expression.

He had readjusted his composure.

Grave and earnest, Lu Cang pleaded with Kumironi, "Kumironi, I’m begging you, please help me."

Kumironi said, "Mm... No matter what trouble you’ve run into, Lu Cang, I’ll help you."

"So, you don’t have to be like this."

Lu Cang looked up.

Amidst the pain and despair, he found a sliver of comfort.

’I’m so glad I know Kumironi.’

"What do you need me to do?"

Lu Cang looked at the two Demons in his hands.

Since he was asking for Kumironi’s help, there was no reason to hide anything.

"These are my family."

"They... seem to have been turned into Demons for some Special reason."

"Kumironi, can you change them back?"

Lu Cang’s emotions had calmed.

But in the process, he had frozen Time again and again.

He had used the frozen Time to calm his own emotional turmoil.

’The more complex the situation, the more important it is not to panic... I have to calm down and find a solution, not just make a scene.’

’Getting overly emotional when I should be solving the problem will only make things harder to resolve.’

"I... I’ll try."

Lu Cang nodded.

He placed the two Slimes on the ground.

The two Slimes were still attacking Lu Cang with all their might, trying to devour him with their slime.

It was a pity that Lu Cang’s current strength was far beyond what two Slimes could possibly challenge.

Kumironi placed her hands on the two Slimes, and a verdant green light flowed into the two Demons’ bodies.

"Their structure... is completely that of a Demon."

There wasn’t a single trace of anything human.

If Lu Cang hadn’t said so, Kumironi would never have thought they were people.

Kumironi glanced at Lu Cang, then looked back at the two Demons before her.

"I... need some time."

Lu Cang nodded silently.

"Okay... In that case, I’ll go take a look around."

Lu Cang tilted his head back and glanced at the sky.

The sky was pure black. There was no moon, no stars, and even the atmosphere was incredibly thin.

It was nothing like the sky he remembered from his time on Earth.

This might mean that Earth wasn’t originally in the Abyss of the Sea.

Instead, something had moved it here.

Lu Cang’s gaze shifted toward a specific direction outside Earth, within the Abyss of the Sea.

’Luo Mo.’

That was the direction where Luo Mo was.

The culprit who had turned his parents into Demons.

The moment he thought of the name, killing intent surged within Lu Cang.

But he gritted his teeth and suppressed his murderous rage.

’Stay calm. Don’t fall into madness...’

’First, find a way to restore my parents. I can’t get my priorities wrong.’

This was the first time since coming to the Otherworld that he had felt such a fire of rage burning in his heart.

Even when strange things had happened before, Lu Cang had felt that most of it didn’t concern him, or that others had their reasons.

The fight for Reincarnation? Everyone was just scrambling for that sliver of opportunity.

Aertemi? The person she’d wanted to capture was Kumironi; he just happened to be there and ruined her plan.

The destruction of the Secret Sea, Saint One’s killing intent...

None of it had ever been deliberately aimed at him.

He had really just been an innocent bystander who happened to get swept up in it all.

Although it had all ultimately threatened him, Lu Cang had only felt disgust, annoyance, and bad luck—never much actual anger.

If he had to put a finger on it...

...perhaps it was because no one had ever truly harmed him. In the end, Lu Cang even felt a sense of pity for the enemies he defeated and the opponents he killed.

But now, for the first time, Lu Cang was incandescent with rage.

The people he treasured most.

Had been turned into Demons.

Lu Cang wanted nothing more than to go kill that bastard right now.

BANG!

A Giant Wave erupted from the sea’s surface, and Lu Cang, who had just been pacing heavily in the water, vanished.

Kumironi stared in the direction where Lu Cang had disappeared.

From the surging tide, Kumironi could feel Lu Cang’s suppressed fury.

"Little Lu Cang..."

...

SWOOSH!

In the blink of an eye.

Lu Cang had already arrived back in Shanghai...

From his high vantage point in the sky, he looked down on the entire city, only to discover that Shanghai was completely gone.

It wasn’t like Qingdao, where the buildings were intact and Demons roamed everywhere.

Instead... it was a field of ruins.

Swathes of buildings had collapsed, as if some Level 4 Reincarnators had fought a great battle here.

The reason Lu Cang came here was because this was the place where he had crossed over.

His last memory was of being at the Shanghai airport, when he suddenly heard a deafening explosion, followed by a blinding flash of fire.

When he opened his eyes again, he had crossed over.

’Oh, no, I should say I was teleported.’

’God knows why I turned into a child, but this place was the end of my previous life.’

Seeing Shanghai in such a disastrous state, Lu Cang immediately extended his Perception to the other provinces of China, while also spreading it to foreign countries, carefully observing the situation in each nation.

The people of Guangzhou had also all been turned into Demons.

The buildings were still fine, with basically no major damage.

Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Henan, Sichuan...

Lu Cang’s Perception swept over all the major provinces and cities, discovering that they were all basically the same as Qingdao—streets filled with Demons.

SWOOSH!

With a single thought, Lu Cang crossed a distance of over a thousand kilometers, teleporting from Shanghai to Guangzhou.

[Tier Five Root Magic: Spatial Transfer]

He could still use Magic on Earth as usual.

This was no anti-magic zone.

The Elements were also abundant.

Lu Cang casually grabbed a Demon from Guangzhou, a pig-headed humanoid, and held it in his hand. Information about it flowed into his mind.

This Demon had also been a person.

With a thought, Lu Cang flicked his fingers, and six different Cores shot out from his hand!

BANG!

In an instant, the six Cores shot through the bodies of numerous Guangzhou Demons like six streaks of Flying Light. Information flooded into Lu Cang’s mind like an ocean current.

These Demons... were all people...

Everything pointed to the same Source—Luo Mo.

Lu Cang stood still, gazing into the distance. He stopped Time for a moment, and then with another thought, he arrived in Zhejiang. The Demons in Zhejiang were the same—all transformed from people.

Moving like this, Lu Cang traveled through all of China’s major cities in just five minutes.

With the exception of Shanghai, which was destroyed,

all the other cities were in the same state.

And it wasn’t just China.

India, Japan, France, the United States...

Every country on Earth had suffered the same fate.

Even the people at the research stations in the Antarctic had been turned into Demons.

Lu Cang deduced the timing. It had all happened two months ago, during the Life Moon in February.

Lu Cang saw the last records left behind by humanity.

"January 28, 2026. The sun and moon have vanished. The entire sky has gone completely dark."