The Max-Level Boss Just Wants to Be a Slacker [Apocalypse] – CH80

Chapter 80: Three Rebirths 

At that moment, a voice suddenly echoed through the white space.

“You’ve finally arrived. I’ve been waiting here for a very, very long time!”

The voice sounded somewhat childish, but Mo Qi immediately recognized who it was.

It had to be the Heavenly Dao of this world.

“Oh? Could it be that the Heavenly Dao is actually a baby?” Mo Qi said with a faint smile.

The voice paused for a moment, then replied somewhat stubbornly:

“Well… compared to others, I am indeed a rather young Heavenly Dao. But I have many powerful brothers and sisters! They’re all very mature!”

“If they’re so mature, why didn’t you ask them to help you?” Mo Qi raised an eyebrow, still holding Mo Xiu close in an intimate posture.

Curiosity also appeared on Mo Xiu’s face, clearly interested in what answer the Heavenly Dao would give.

Unexpectedly, the childish-sounding Heavenly Dao suddenly burst into loud sobbing.

“W-wait, why are you crying all of a sudden? We didn’t even say anything!” Mo Xiu said awkwardly, suddenly feeling as if they were bullying a child.

Mo Qi, however, remained far more merciless.

“Alright, stop crying. If you keep making noise, we won’t help you anymore. You dragged us in here, so you must be asking for our help, right?”

Sure enough, as soon as Mo Qi said that, the crying abruptly stopped.

“I don’t want to cry either! You were the ones who made me angry first!

I’m already miserable enough! I’ve been contaminated by something bad and cut off from my brothers and sisters. I can’t even contact them anymore, and yet you still say things like that to me!”

Although it had stopped crying, the Heavenly Dao’s voice was still full of grievance.

“You said you were contaminated. What does that mean?” Mo Qi asked seriously, catching the key point in its words.

What followed revealed a truth to both Mo Xiu and Mo Qi.

Just as legends say, there truly are countless worlds.

Each world has its own Heavenly Dao, and every Heavenly Dao has a different personality.

But that wasn’t the main point.

The important part was that the young Heavenly Dao speaking to them didn’t only govern one world.

Below the cultivation world was another connected plane—the apocalyptic world where Mo Xiu once lived.

The operation of a world could never be perfectly smooth. Even an ordinary person’s life wouldn’t simply consist of working at sunrise and resting at sunset without obstacles.

A world was the same—it contained countless variables.

Some worlds would gradually head toward destruction on their own. Others would be contaminated by corruption.

The source of that corruption could vary. Mo Qi had no interest in exploring the details of such higher-dimensional matters.

What interested him more was:

Why would the Heavenly Dao of a small world ask him for help?

And not just him.

From what it said, it seemed to be asking both him and Mo Xiu for help.

“Let’s get straight to the point,” Mo Xiu said first.
“We already know the world is in trouble. But why us?”

The Heavenly Dao hesitated for a moment before speaking as if giving up.

“That’s because… you two originally didn’t belong to this world.

I once heard that people like you who come from outside worlds are called higher gods.

This isn’t the first time I’ve restarted the world. I’m almost unable to hold on anymore.

Until I discovered you—the Nameless Demon Lord, or rather, now I should call you Mo Qi.

Every time the world restarts, all cultivators’ strength and talent become weaker.

But you are never affected.

In the earlier cycles I tried to approach you directly for help, but I couldn’t. I was too weak back then, and your original power was too strong. I couldn’t contact you in normal ways, and the world still ended in destruction.

Later I finally thought of giving hints to the other cultivators. I even let them keep their memories from before rebirth so they could help me.

But after several attempts… you still didn’t awaken.

As I grew weaker and the cultivation world became riddled with damage, demonic energy even leaked into the lower world and caused the apocalypse.

That’s when I suddenly discovered Mo Xiu.

Fortunately, I’m the Heavenly Dao, so I could sense the Dao-companion mark between the two of you.

Your bond is extremely deep. I thought that if you met Mo Xiu, it might awaken your potential completely and allow you to save this world!”

“So the ascension before was intentional,” Mo Qi immediately grasped the key point.

“You wanted to use the power from my ascension to send me to the lower world so I could meet Mo Xiu.”

Hearing that they had long been Dao companions with a deep bond didn’t surprise Mo Qi at all.

In fact, it felt strangely natural.

But what surprised him more was that, according to the Heavenly Dao, both he and Mo Xiu were originally outsiders to this world.

Having been a cultivator for so many years, Mo Qi accepted this information quickly.

He didn’t know what his true identity originally was, nor did he care much about being called a “higher god.”

As long as he could stay with Mo Xiu, he was already satisfied.

But as the Heavenly Dao said, if they didn’t save these worlds, everything might collapse again.

And if the nest were overturned, how could the eggs remain intact?

That would also ruin the peaceful life he wanted to share with his Dao companion.

Mo Qi could clearly sense the Heavenly Dao’s weakness.

Restarting a world on the brink of destruction again and again must have pushed it to its limit.

“That’s right,” the Heavenly Dao continued.

“When I used all my strength to send you to the lower world, I became even weaker.

Because of that weakness, both worlds developed more cracks, and a passage connecting them appeared.”

Mo Xiu immediately realized the passage the Heavenly Dao referred to was the tunnel he and Mo Qi had traveled through earlier.

That place was probably where the Heavenly Dao’s weakness first allowed demonic energy to leak into the lower world. Over time, the breach expanded.

However, the amount of information they had received was overwhelming.

Mo Xiu still felt somewhat confused.

When he turned to look at Mo Qi, his eyes showed a trace of bewilderment.

Mo Qi gently kissed his forehead in reassurance.

“Don’t think too much about it. None of it really matters. No matter how many worlds we go through, we’ll always be together.”

“…Mm.” Mo Xiu nodded softly.

But somehow he suddenly remembered the moment of his death in his previous life, and his heart felt uncomfortable.

What Mo Xiu didn’t know was that Mo Qi had awakened far more memories than he had.

Among the scenes flashing through Mo Qi’s mind were many moments where they had lived together in the apocalypse.

If the Heavenly Dao had restarted the world again and again to prevent its destruction—

Then after Mo Qi crossed into that world, he had also reset time more than once in order to truly save Mo Xiu from his tragic fate.

The person in his arms seemed to have a natural pull on him.

Mo Xiu had said that before his rebirth they barely knew each other.

But what Mo Xiu didn’t know was that even with only that brief meeting, Mo Qi had already fallen hopelessly in love with him.

Just one encounter had carved itself deep into his heart.

Their first meeting had been too brief, and the long years that followed only deepened his longing.

Unfortunately, back then he didn’t have Mo Xiu’s help or those lucky opportunities.

His powerful divine sense had been too difficult to control, leaving him unable to properly command his own body.

Those years had been extremely miserable for him.

When he learned of Mo Xiu’s death, he had still been struggling to survive in Shanhe Base, slowly cultivating.

When he heard the news of the death of the person he loved, he nearly went mad.

By the time he found the body, it was already torn apart and barely recognizable.

That moment became the most devastating memory in Mo Qi’s life.

So he acted recklessly.

Even though he knew his body couldn’t withstand such a forbidden technique, he burned his own soul in order to bring Mo Xiu back.

That was the first time Mo Qi reversed time in the apocalypse.

Unfortunately, his control over the secret technique was poor. Time rewound too late.

By the time he was reborn at that point in time, it was already impossible to prevent Mo Xiu’s death.

All he could do was act like a madman, desperately trying to protect his corpse.

So there came the second attempt.

This time he succeeded.

But something went wrong.

After the secret technique was used, he lost his memories of the previous timeline.

Instead, the one who remembered the rebirth… became Mo Xiu.

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