Chapter 647 - 647: L-Rank Reward
Chapter 647 - 647: L-Rank Reward
For the next few years, Su Jiyai devoted herself entirely to changing the fate of countless planets.She traveled endlessly between worlds, some ravaged by plague, others suffocating under chaos, and everywhere she went, she left behind a trace of hope.
Her days blurred into nights, her years into fleeting moments of relentless work.
Her primary mission was twofold: to restore devastated planets and to perfect a cure for the half-zombies who existed in a painful limbo between life and death.
Creating vaccines had long been her strength, yet the antidote for half-zombies eluded her.
No matter how many experiments she conducted, something was always missing.
Each failure haunted her, yet she refused to stop.
Finally, after two years of exhausting research and endless travel across dimensions, her perseverance bore fruit.
Not only did she succeed in rescuing sixty-seven planets, but she also achieved what had once seemed impossible: she created the cure that could turn half-zombies fully human again.
When Rui Wang saw her young son, who had long been trapped in the half-zombie state, begin to recover, breathe, smile, and look like a normal child again, she broke down in tears.
The joy in her eyes reflected the gratitude of countless others whose lives Su Jiyai had changed.
By the end of the fourth year, however, Su Jiyai faced a different kind of challenge. She was pregnant.
The realization forced her to slow down for the first time in years. Traveling between dangerous worlds was no longer safe, not for her or the child she carried.
Reluctantly, she entrusted some of her work to Qin Feng, who had always stood by her side, and shifted her focus to safer missions.
Qin Feng, on the other hand, had been building an empire of his own. After everything returned normal on Earth, he had founded a powerful weaponry company.
His deep connections with Liu Feng, the current president, allowed him to supply advanced weaponry directly to the military. His designs were revolutionary.
Under his guidance, the nation's defense capabilities grew stronger than ever, earning him both respect and fear from allies and rivals alike.
Yet even as success surrounded him, Qin Feng's thoughts remained with Su Jiyai. He worried constantly.
By his own calculation, her baby was due in eight months, but because of her constant travel through dimensions, where time flowed differently in each realm, it became nearly impossible to determine how far along she truly was.
Days in one world could mean months in another. Uncertain and anxious, Qin Feng could only choose to wait and prepare for every possible scenario.
To ensure her safety, he carried a special nanobot developed by Qiang Zhi, one of their most brilliant allies.
Over the past three years, Qiang Zhi had become completely engrossed in robotics, combining Su Jiyai's vast medical knowledge with his own mechanical genius.
Together, they created a self-operating nanobot capable of assisting in childbirth and emergency treatment.
The small device could analyze vital signs, manage internal bleeding, and even perform precise surgical procedures on its own.
It was, without a doubt, one of the most groundbreaking inventions of the century.
As news of his innovation spread, Qiang Zhi's fame grew rapidly. People across the world began to refer to him as "the mind behind the nanobot revolution."
But fame wasn't what changed him the most; it was his sense of identity. He later changed his name to Su Zhi, a decision that deeply touched Su Jiyai.
It was then that he learned the reason behind the surname "Su." Years ago, when Anna had first arrived on Earth, she had chosen the surname Su as a way to start anew.
She had wanted her children to carry that name, a symbol of both her past and her hope for the future.
Though Su Jiyai had never changed her name officially, she realized that through her actions, she had already honored her mother's wish.
Time flowed quickly, and in the fourth year, Su Jiyai gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl.
The news brought immense joy to everyone around her, especially Qin Feng.
Yet the birth also led them to a difficult decision: Qin Feng would undergo the vampire transformation ritual.
For years, Su Jiyai's grandfather had tried to persuade her to turn Qin Feng into a vampire.
Messages had been sent through Jake, who frequently traveled between worlds using Xi Ping's power, but Su Jiyai had always refused.
She wanted Qin Feng to remain human, to live a normal, mortal life. But as time passed and she saw signs of aging in him while she remained unchanged, fear took root in her heart.
At last, she accepted the inevitable. Together, they returned to the vampire realm. Under Kevin's supervision, the ritual was conducted in absolute silence.
Dark energy surged through Qin Feng's veins, and his body trembled violently.
For hours, his life hung in the balance, but when he finally opened his eyes, an aura unlike anything the vampire world had ever seen radiated from him.
To everyone's astonishment, Qin Feng had directly awakened as a Celestial Vampire Lord, a rank that usually took centuries to achieve. Whispers spread like wildfire.
Even Kevin, who had always been regarded as the most powerful among them, found himself in disbelief.
Was there something beyond the Celestial rank? The possibility intrigued him deeply, and for the first time in centuries, Kevin felt the spark of ambition rekindle in his chest.
After that, he stopped pestering Su Jiyai. Instead, he focused on his own cultivation, eager to reach a realm that perhaps existed beyond comprehension.
Still, when he saw his great-grandchildren... two tiny beings wrapped in silk and radiating faint traces of power, his heart swelled with pride. He even hinted, half-jokingly and half-seriously, that he wanted to raise one of them himself.
Su Jiyai, of course, ignored him. Her priorities had shifted completely.
She now had four main goals: rescuing her mother, saving the remaining planets, protecting her children, and managing her estate, the vast lands and properties she had accumulated across the state.
The income from those alone could sustain her for an eternity in any realm.
Yet even as she achieved so much, she couldn't help but wonder: What would be left for her after completing all these missions? Perhaps she would travel freely, without a purpose... simply to see the worlds she had once fought to save.
After her twins were born, Su Jiyai finally made one of the most difficult decisions of her life. She chose to stop trying to resurrect her mother with her own hands.
Though she had restored Anna's body, the soul remained missing. Without it, Anna would never truly awaken.
Determined to bring her mother back completely, Su Jiyai turned to the one thing she had always avoided using... her L-rank reward. She requested that it be used to retrieve her mother's soul.
Two days later, the reward was granted. But what the system informed her made her stunned.
The two small boxes she always had since her orphanage, the ones she had always guarded instinctively, contained fragments of her parents' souls.
The revelation hit her like a thunderbolt.
It turned out her parents had anticipated their deaths long ago. Knowing they might never meet her again, they had placed portions of their souls within the boxes, preserving their essence.
The boxes were gifts from Ruby, who had once warned Anna and Jacob about the dangers ahead.
She had advised them to use a soul box, a rare artifact capable of preserving fragmented souls.
Even if their physical bodies were destroyed, the soul fragments within could slowly rebuild themselves, given enough time.
Overwhelmed with emotion, Su Jiyai gently opened the two boxes. The lighter, bluish one carried a soft glow... it was her mother's. The other, darker one belonged to her father.
With trembling hands, she placed the blue box near Anna's still body and carefully unsealed it.
At first, there was no visible reaction. But had there been a celestial master present, they would have witnessed a tiny, translucent figure, no larger than a finger, slip from the box and merge into Anna's chest.
A faint ripple of energy followed. Su Jiyai's breath caught as she saw her mother's fingers twitch ever so slightly.
For a fleeting moment, joy consumed her. Anna's eyelids fluttered weakly before settling again.
Su Jiyai waited, but the awakening never came. Her smile faded as realization struck her...she had made a miscalculation. The soul fragment, though present, was too weak.
Moments later, the system confirmed her fears: [The soul was too small to fully awaken your mother. But since you had used her L-rank reward, the admin promised to provide a soul-strengthening serum to help restore it. Once injected, it would take half a month for the soul to stabilize and merge completely.]
Su Jiyai exhaled in relief and gratitude. She accepted the vial when it appeared before her and gently administered the serum into Anna's body.
A faint glow pulsed from within, and her mother's complexion visibly improved.
"How long would it take for my mother to wake up?" Su Jiyai asked softly.
[Half a month.]
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