"No!"

Just as Wyatt Barnes’ face changed drastically and anxiety burned in his chest, it was as if he suddenly thought of something. He immediately looked toward Lainey Don, eyes blazing, and asked:

"Lainey, before you left Flame-Yellow Star, did you dismantle the ’super nukes’ Willy Rivera had planted all over the planet?"

In Wyatt Barnes’ view, Lainey Don had known about this back then.

Logically, seeing that he hadn’t returned for so long, Lainey Don should have helped him take care of it.

Besides, Flame-Yellow Star wasn’t just his previous life’s hometown "Earth"; it was also the cultivation origin planet of the Don Sect behind Lainey Don.

No matter from which angle you looked at it, Lainey Don shouldn’t have just stood by.

"I... after you’d been gone a day and still hadn’t come back, I followed you out."

Facing Wyatt Barnes’ burning gaze, Lainey Don looked a bit embarrassed. "I searched for a few days and finally found you here... Then I guarded you while you comprehended your Divine Ability, acting as your Protector and watching over you until now."

Whoosh!

Hearing Lainey Don’s words, Wyatt Barnes’ face changed again, regret flashing in his eyes.

He regretted having sunk so deeply into that "epiphany" state and missed his chance to save Earth!

"Alright, I’ll stop messing with you."

Just as Wyatt Barnes’ expression shifted again, Lainey Don couldn’t help but let out a snicker, the embarrassment on her face vanishing in an instant.

"In fact, from the day you left Flame-Yellow Star until now, only ten days have passed."

Lainey Don said.

Obviously, when she said earlier that Wyatt Barnes had been standing in space for five years, she’d just been teasing him.

Almost the moment Lainey Don’s voice fell, Wyatt Barnes suddenly came back to his senses.

"You..."

He stared at Lainey Don, pointing a finger at her, but after a long "you..." he still couldn’t get a full sentence out, clearly quite stirred up.

Which was understandable.

A moment ago, he’d thought Earth had already been destroyed because of his mistake.

Now Lainey Don was saying she’d just been joking, that his "epiphany" for the Green Lotus Thirteen Swords hadn’t taken five years at all, only ten days...

"Enough, stop ’you-you-you-ing’... hurry up and go deal with those troublesome things!"

Lainey Don shook her head with a smile.

Since she’d met Wyatt Barnes, this was the first time she’d seen him lose his composure like this, and for a moment she lost the mood to keep joking with him.

Right now, Wyatt Barnes was equal parts angry and helpless.

After all, just now he had really believed that comprehending the Green Lotus Thirteen Swords in epiphany had cost him a full five years...

"Don’t pull this kind of joke again."

Rolling his eyes at Lainey Don in exasperation, Wyatt Barnes flickered once and shot off in the direction of the "solar system" where Earth was.

It didn’t take long before he returned to the solar system and to Earth.

Just as Wyatt Barnes had told his past-life agent, "Willy Rivera."

If he wanted to root out Willy Rivera’s "death warriors," it really wasn’t hard. As long as he was willing to patiently spend some effort, it would be easy to dig them all out...

And that was exactly how it went.

Wyatt Barnes extended his Divine Sense. After a careful search, it took only one day and one night to find all the "death warriors" Willy Rivera had trained and kill them, leaving no loose ends!

The death warriors Willy Rivera had cultivated had innocent blood on their hands—tons of it.

So Wyatt Barnes felt no pressure at all in killing them.

After slaughtering all of Willy Rivera’s death warriors, Wyatt Barnes then retrieved the super nukes Willy had had people hide all over Earth and hurled every last one of them into the boundless void of space.

After leaving behind mushroom clouds one after another, they vanished completely from this world.

"Flame-Yellow Soul, Heath Dragonsmith... it really is ’Instructor Dragonsmith’!"

After destroying the super nukes Willy Rivera had left behind, the first thing Wyatt Barnes did upon returning to Earth was investigate one of the two big Superpowered Soldier organizations on Earth—the "Flame-Yellow Soul," a Superpowered Soldier group under H Kingdom.

The result was, he discovered:

The leader of the Flame-Yellow Soul organization Willy Rivera had mentioned was actually his former instructor, Heath Dragonsmith!

Confirming that the Flame-Yellow Soul’s leader was indeed his former instructor, "Heath Dragonsmith," Wyatt Barnes didn’t linger anywhere else. With a single flicker, he returned to H Kingdom.

With his current strength, going at full speed, he could circle the globe in the time of a single breath.

So returning to H Kingdom was nothing but a thought.

"My motherland... I, Wyatt, am back again!"

Returning to H Kingdom, standing high in the void and gazing down over the great rivers and mountains of his homeland, Wyatt Barnes’ eyes gradually grew distant and hazy...

Memories of his previous life, bit by bit, surged into his heart.

Of course, most of his memories were still of those years of military service back in his homeland...

"Blood Wolf, Wind Wolf’s death doesn’t really have much to do with you... Even if you’d been a bit more careful back then, even if he didn’t die, he’d have ended up a vegetable, paralyzed in bed. For Wind Wolf, that would’ve been even more painful than death!"

Back when he decided to retire, Wyatt still remembered every word Instructor Dragonsmith said as clear as day.

Blood Wolf was his "codename" during his service in H Kingdom’s most elite Wolf Fang Special Operations Unit.

Of course, once he chose to retire and decided to leave Wolf Fang, that codename no longer belonged to him, because someone had taken his place and become the new "Blood Wolf."

Wyatt also remembered that when he first brought up retiring, Instructor Dragonsmith had tried his best to persuade him to stay.

But he still insisted on leaving, because he just couldn’t get over that hurdle in his heart.

If it weren’t for that little mistake of his, that comrade of his wouldn’t have died...

"If Wind Wolf hadn’t died back then, even if he’d been paralyzed in bed, turned into a vegetable... with Earth’s current medical technology, waking him up wouldn’t have been impossible."

Thinking of this, Wyatt felt his guilt surge even stronger.

Back then, it was precisely because of a small personal mistake he made during an SSS-level cross-border mission that led to his comrade "Wind Wolf" sacrificing his life, that he chose to retire in self-blame and leave Wolf Fang.

Whoosh!

No one knew when, but Wyatt snapped out of his memories of the past. With a single thought, his whole person vanished once more from the skies above H Kingdom.

When he revealed himself again, he was already outside a fully enclosed base.

This base sat deep in a vast mountain range, sealed up like an iron bucket.

Normally, if the base didn’t actively open up, not only could a single fly not get in, even those top-tier Superpowered Soldiers on Earth nowadays could forget about forcing their way inside.

And even if they did get in, they might not make it out alive.

Because inside this base, there was no shortage of Earth’s top-tier Superpowered Soldiers.

"Th-this... who is this guy?!"

Right as Wyatt appeared outside the fully enclosed base, inside the base, a group of staff in charge of daily surveillance work also spotted Wyatt, who seemed to have appeared out of thin air, on the monitoring screens in front of them.

And as they stared at Wyatt on the screens, one by one their faces went blank, eyes filled with shock and utter disbelief.

The reason these monitoring staff were so stunned was mainly because the way Wyatt had appeared was just too terrifying!

"H-how did he appear?"

"He... he can actually fly? And he seems to have been hovering there in midair for a while now... Even top Wind System Superpowered Soldiers couldn’t just stand in midair like that, so easily, for so long without any kind of flight device, right?"

"Is he using some kind of invisible flight apparatus?"

"Impossible! I just scanned him... there’s not a single piece of tech on him! He doesn’t even have... a ’communication device’!"

"No comms device, and he’s wearing ancient robes... don’t tell me he’s some actor from a film crew who got lost and wandered over here?"

"Film crew? Have you ever seen anyone shooting a movie who can hover in midair that long with nothing to support them?"

...

A moment later, the spacious monitoring room turned as noisy as a vegetable market.

Countless gazes full of shock, confusion, and disbelief were fixed on the screen, on that purple-clad young man standing in midair, strikingly handsome.

It was as if he had some special kind of magic about him that drew their eyes.

"I just noticed his face... he’s so handsome!"

"Too handsome! And did you guys notice? His aura is otherworldly, like an immortal descending to the mortal world... Compared to him, those so-called male stars hyped up for their insane looks are just pretty shells with nothing inside."

...

The few young women in the monitoring room all turned into "hungry wolves" at that moment, eyes shining as they stared at the purple figure on the screen.

And just as everyone in the monitoring room had their gazes glued to that purple figure hovering in the air on the screen—

"I’m looking for Heath Dragonsmith, Instructor Dragonsmith!"

A voice, carrying some strange kind of power, clearly rang in the ears of every single one of them.

"That voice... where did it come from?"

Everyone in the monitoring room couldn’t help freezing for a moment.

"His mouth just moved... was that him talking?"

At this moment, a male staff member pointed at the purple figure on the screen, his expression slightly dazed as he spoke.

"He’s talking? But... where he is, there’s no loudspeaker... and no kind of sound transmission equipment at all!"

The other staff in the monitoring room were completely dumbfounded.

"Heath Dragonsmith... isn’t that the leader? H-how could he be calling the leader ’Instructor’?"

At the same time, the supervisor of the monitoring room, who was a member of the Superpowered Soldier organization "Soul of Yanhuang," couldn’t help but freeze as well.

"I’m looking for Heath Dragonsmith, Instructor Dragonsmith!"

At the very same moment, everyone throughout the entire base clearly heard that voice.