Abundant Martial Arts Virtue
Chapter 548 - 432: The Time Thief (Part 1)

Chapter 548: Chapter 432: The Time Thief (Part 1)

Click, click.

The clock on the wall moved slowly.

Xiao Baihong sat outside the obstetrics and gynecology clinic on a long bench, with one leg crossed over the other, idly fiddling with her fingers.

As she moved, the hospital’s fountain was blown about by the wind, its spray reaching the potted plants inside the schoolyard’s fence across the street.

School was out for vacation.

The children’s potted plants had been left unattended, on the brink of withering away.

The fountain’s water trickled down, thoroughly drenching them and bringing them back to life.

"This is so boring."

Xiao Baihong yawned and muttered to herself.

Previously, Wu Xiaode had summoned her to this era, asking her to take Shen Feixue away to avoid being affected by the battle between him and the Demon.

So she had brought Shen Feixue to the hospital.

——She wasn’t sure when would be the best time to head back.

Xiao Baihong was pondering this when she suddenly noticed that a sound by her ear had vanished.

She paused, looked up and saw that the clock on the wall had stopped moving.

The "click" sound it had been emitting had also disappeared.

The waiting room fell silent.

Xiao Baihong indifferently withdrew her gaze.

——It was just a broken clock, but she felt as though she had been startled.

Startled...

She suddenly had an uneasy feeling and immediately stood up to look around.

She saw that nurses and patients who were walking in the corridor were frozen in mid-stride, immobile.

She looked out the window to see the water from the fountain suspended in midair, cars on the street were stuck in place, and pedestrians on the road as well as birds in the sky all remained in their original positions.

The entire world had fallen into a deathly silence.

Xiao Baihong’s expression gradually became serious as she murmured softly,

"Making such a big commotion... I wonder if he won or not..."

Suddenly.

A voice came from the wall:

"Win? The fact that he could still be holding his own against the Demon this long without losing is a very impressive feat already."

"Who’s there?"

Xiao Baihong raised an eyebrow and looked towards the wall.

She then saw a tiny figure appear on the stopped clock.

It was a little girl dressed in a green skirt.

The little girl was roughly the size of a thumb, with pointed ears, wearing boots, and holding a short wand in her hand.

"Hello there, Xiao Baihong. I dare say you, as an individual of the human race, have never dealt with us before, but with the situation being so urgent, we must meet now," the little girl said hurriedly.

Xiao Baihong was taken aback and blurted out, "Alien?"

The little girl suddenly looked annoyed and shook her head,

"I’m the tree spirit Chris, a faithful ally of Wu Xiaode, attendant of the Ning Shen Temple in the Inner World, protector of the Chaos Tree, scholar of the Abyss Demon Art, a fashionable fairy incarnation,"

she said, then slightly bowed in a gesture of respect.

Upon hearing the name Wu Xiaode, Xiao Baihong had an idea of what was going on, but having never encountered such beings before, she couldn’t help asking,

"How am I supposed to believe you?"

Chris waved her wand and the Void immediately showed layers of illusions.

They all depicted scenes of Wu Xiaode and Chris together, clearly showing they were old acquaintances.

"But... these could be faked," Xiao Baihong shrugged.

"Time is not on our side, I don’t have much leisure to persuade you; you don’t have to believe me, you just have to make a choice,"

said the tree spirit Chris, tapping the pristine white wall with her wand.

Instantly, two doors appeared on the wall.

One was a red door, and the other was a blue door.

"Make your choice, Xiao Baihong,"

tree spirit Chris said.

"This world has been designated a halted parallel universe, it will soon disappear, and the people here will be directly transferred back to an altered worldline."

"Some might experience memory discrepancies, and a very few will remember what has happened,"

"Everyone will be returned to roughly this morning."

"Everything will start anew."

"This is because the monster that caused the parallel world is at this moment this morning, battling Wu Xiaode."

Xiao Baihong was silently shocked.

A battle that reversed time, returning the world and all living beings to a moment in the past to start over.

All of this happened without a whisper—

Ordinary people didn’t even have the chance to notice.

Xiao Baihong asked in a deep voice,

"So what is the meaning of these two doors?"

Chris flew into the air, pointing with her wand at the two doors,

"If you enter the blue door, you will be directly returned to the future Epoch, and you needn’t bother about what happens here anymore."

"What about the red one?" Xiao Baihong asked.

——If they really had such power, killing me would just take a moment, so why bother deceiving me?

"I need someone to take me to find Little Wu, and it absolutely can’t be someone who pops up suddenly, a stranger; luckily, you appear at that point in time," Chris replied.

"Why are you looking for him?" asked Xiao Baihong.

Chris’s expression turned solemn and she earnestly said, "This is indeed something you need to know."

"After the Epoch-spreading catastrophe had dissipated, the Demons, to avoid such an event from happening again, stole away the corpse of time."

"Now the opportunity has come—"

"—Little Wu is with the guardian of that corpse, and they’re both within Shen Xiujun!"

At this point, an excited blush tinted Chris’s cheeks:

"This means that, after such a long wait, we finally have a chance to reclaim time."

"Is this matter that important?" Xiao Baihong asked.

"Of course! Or else, with the Demons wreaking havoc across the timeline and being able to summon one another, there’s no way to defeat them!"