Miracle Formula of Legend

Anyone who believed they could control their own fate had, from the very beginning, merely been prey to desire.

Mu Xiao did not want to let the advantageous mindset of rebirth take root in his consciousness. That would only make him excessively complacent and cause him to overlook the importance of life. Even with rebirth, this was still a cruel, real world. Once he died, he would truly be dead.

Only by truly possessing unparalleled combat power could one truly control one's own fate.

Yet no one understood this world's predicament better than he did, nor the vortex the entire human race was trapped in. He had to quickly integrate into this reborn world and fight for a chance at survival.

He quickly calmed down, corrected his mindset, and decided to begin by strengthening his body.

Mu Xiao roughly sorted through the memories applicable to the present and thought, Most of the precious potions in the later stages of the world had to be made personally, and some of the raw materials were extremely difficult to obtain. This world has not yet reached the late apocalypse. Perhaps I can find finished potions...

Having thought of this, he immediately issued a series of commands to the intelligent computer—Xixi.

Mu Xiao had fought in the new age of the apocalypse for too long and had completely lost track of time. He even felt as though he had been reborn into a stranger's body. Yet the memories of the two timelines' Mu Xiao blended together seamlessly. The familiar yet unfamiliar sensation was strange, but using the Optical Brain also felt deeply familiar. He understood the broad structure of this world and clearly knew which online commercial company was the most famous in the Earth Federation, so he quickly found what he needed.

The light screens surrounding him were filled with data images of various potions. If anyone had been beside him, they would surely have heard him muttering nonsense such as "raw materials for the Double-S Antibody Drug," "one of the primary stock solutions for the S-Rank Psychic Drug," and so on.

"Ah..." Mu Xiao sighed. "If I had foreseen the world's upheaval back then and directly bought the raw materials for finished enhancement drugs, I might have entered the depths of the Divine Domain hidden on the moon long ago."

Time was pressing. The apocalypse would erupt in less than nine hours. He put aside that thought and seriously selected suitable medicinal materials.

Although Mu Xiao remembered the formulas for many high-grade enhancement drugs, the materials were outrageously expensive. They were simply beyond what he—or rather, the Mu Xiao of this timeline—had saved up.

"Selling this property would probably be too late... This really is the only money I can use." Mu Xiao looked at the credit balance displayed by the bank under "his" name. It was around three hundred thousand, which was actually a considerable fortune for someone living in this world.

Mu Xiao also knew that his former self had indeed been a nice guy. This money had been saved for marriage. As for the intended bride, she happened to be the original model for the intelligent computer's holographic beautiful girl—his former self's girlfriend. Unfortunately, they had broken up just the day before yesterday.

As the reborn Mu Xiao, he understood this clearly as well. He did not intend to get overly involved in his former self's affairs. After all, time diluted everything. Besides, they had never met again after the apocalypse. Perhaps she had died long ago. Having lived two lives, his state of mind had changed twice. He was neither extreme nor weak, but calm and rational.

Before his rebirth, Mu Xiao had endured endless bloody slaughter. There had been countless women used to vent his desires, and the memories of that so-called girlfriend had completely vanished into the river of history. With no feelings left in his heart, their relationship naturally became unfamiliar as well.

"I've already broken up with my girlfriend, so it doesn't matter if I use this money. What matters most is that I am me now, not who I was before..."

Mu Xiao chattered to himself, but his fingers were anything but slow. He rapidly tapped the light screen, selecting a series of medicinal ingredients. Moments later, he had spent all his savings on the materials required for a simplified version of the S-Rank Physique Enhancement Drug.

In such a cutting-edge technological era, every industry naturally operated with great efficiency, especially renowned corporate groups. Thus, the medicinal ingredients and tools Mu Xiao had ordered would all be delivered within half an hour.

"They should arrive around nine o'clock.

Next, I need to prepare more escape routes." While waiting for the delivery, Mu Xiao directly used the intelligent computer to download the city terrain of his current region, as well as a world map of the entire Earth Federation. He marked important locations that might later be compared with the positions from the late apocalypse, allowing him to search for certain treasures.

Since he was at the beginning of this world's history, there were places Mu Xiao might not fully understand. After all, he had grown powerful in the Evolution World during its later era, and the late-stage environment was worlds apart from the early-stage environment. He wanted the maps for reference.

After gathering all the information, he stored everything in a miniature Optical Brain, then disconnected it from the network and carried it with him. The miniature Optical Brain was a communication device no bigger than two fingers, and it was also an intelligent computer. Simply put, it combined a phone and computer into one, shrinking the size without losing any functions.

As for why Mu Xiao disconnected the Optical Brain from the network?

That was because shortly after the apocalypse erupted, a terrifying, immense electromagnetic wave would spread from the moon and cover Earth. It would severely affect the network system, paralyzing it, and would also generate a virus that spread to every network-connected Optical Brain, causing every machine connected to the network to become paralyzed as well.

Mu Xiao unfolded the miniature Optical Brain, and a half-meter-wide light screen sprang out like a solid display. He then opened the information stored within it, and one paper-like light screen after another floated around him...

"There shouldn't be any problems now." Mu Xiao checked the Optical Brain once more, confirmed that nothing was wrong, and prepared to shut it down and modify the tools he would need next. But at that moment, he noticed that one city map happened to be the place where he currently was, and the city's name seemed rather familiar to him...

A memory surfaced uncontrollably.

"The City of Magic, later known as the Magic Capital..." A faint layer of sweat appeared on Mu Xiao's forehead, and fear colored his expression. "Isn't this her territory? Not to mention me now—even if there were a thousand or a hundred versions of my former self at Veteran Evolution Level, none would be her match..."

Run away?

She had not yet fully awakened and evolved, so this was undoubtedly the best opportunity to escape. But he could escape for a while—what about afterward? Unless he stopped living in this world, there would still be a chance of encountering her...

"Cowering and scraping out a miserable existence is not my nature." Mu Xiao steadied himself. He understood that she had not yet awakened into that terrifying final boss, so he should have an opportunity to do certain things.

Mu Xiao's fear of her stemmed from his knowledge of the reborn world. Especially now that he was in the same place as her, that fear felt all the more real.

She was a terrifying hidden aberration. New Human powerhouses had once tried to capture, kill, and study her evolutionary genes, but she had instead killed every one of them. Only when famous powerhouses from the moon joined forces did they prepare to gather their strength and kill her.

That led to the grandest classic battle of all time. Mu Xiao had participated in it back then, and before the great battle began, no one on Earth even knew what kind of evolved being she was.

In the end, more than half the powerhouses who participated in that battle were wiped out, while Mu Xiao himself was gravely wounded and nearly died.

She was a mysterious existence. Only after Mu Xiao entered the moon did he learn her true identity.

"She is the protagonist of this world. I probably won't be able to kill her in advance..." Mu Xiao pondered for a while and felt it would be best not to provoke her. After all, she was an existence above all "Kings."

But in the very next second, he rejected his own thought, because he instinctively recalled information about her.

"It seems someone once revealed a BUG Bloodline formula. One of its ingredients is her blood..." Mu Xiao's eyes shone brilliantly like stars. "And this world has not yet fallen. Many materials that went extinct in the early apocalypse can be bought directly. It might not be impossible to make it, unlike before. If I can create the Miracle Formula developed through the research of countless people, it will undoubtedly be the best guarantee of my strength to survive in this world!"

This was a genetic bloodline formula deduced by a group of monstrous geniuses on the moon, but no one had ultimately succeeded. The formula was like something useless and was deliberately or inadvertently leaked. If it could be successfully made, a human who consumed it would gain the power of a god, though no one knew what ability that would be. The time and effort required to create this formula were not something an ordinary person could achieve in a short time.

For one thing, some of the ingredients it contained had already gone extinct during the early apocalypse. Even the moon's advanced technology could not cultivate them in large quantities. Various methods were required to produce a single precious ingredient, and the synthesis success rate was extremely low. For another, precious materials could not withstand repeated consumption, making the formula virtually impossible to complete.

Moreover, the most despairing part was that one of the formula's ingredients required her blood. But by the time this happened, she had already become a fully matured world-class powerhouse. The major powers of the entire world could not kill her, so an individual trying to kill her was nothing more than a fantasy.

Even if one did not try to kill her and only attacked and injured her to collect blood, one had to be prepared to be killed instantly. Even after successfully collecting her blood, one still needed to refine her original blood, because her fully matured blood contained genes that had already matured and were only suited to her. It might not suit anyone else...

Blood was required to trigger the formula's effects, but her blood before and after mutation was different. After her mutation, her body no longer contained human blood, but another type of high-grade energy substance. How many chances would there be to successfully collect her blood, and how much time would be needed for such a task? Besides, her whereabouts were elusive and uncertain, making her difficult to find.

Therefore, obtaining this bloodline formula was undoubtedly a colossal undertaking, one that was almost impossible to succeed in.

Rather than spend so much time on it, it would be better to directly increase one's strength. Thus, many New Humans called it the BUG Bloodline. Furthermore, after Earth's people underwent evolution through the great disaster, they harbored deep hatred toward the people of the moon. They felt that the moon had released this formula merely to send everyone to their deaths. It was exceedingly sinister and vicious...

Although many people thought so, the formula did contain a certain evolutionary logic. It was not entirely fraudulent; no one had simply managed to collect all the materials.

But Mu Xiao was at the beginning of the new world's history, a period no one else had ever experienced. After all, not everyone could encounter the miracle of rebirth. Thus, standing before the beginning, Mu Xiao possessed an incomparably great advantage. He could directly obtain finished materials and avoid the complicated, tedious processes of cultivating medicinal ingredients, collecting blood, refining it... turning what had once been impossible into the greatest possibility.

"I don't know whether this bloodline even exists. If it doesn't, won't I be throwing away my life?" Mu Xiao quickly calmed down and weighed the pros and cons.

But when Mu Xiao thought of how she was not yet that terrifying existence, the odds of obtaining her blood seemed high. Yet he soon faced two difficult problems. The first was the required medicinal ingredients. Most of them were still extremely expensive in this era, far beyond what Mu Xiao could afford.

The second problem was that her location was unknown, making it impossible to collect her blood.

"If my memories are correct, she awakened in a Lawyer Building in the Magic Capital. That means that if I find this Lawyer Building, I can find her location." After carefully sorting through his thoughts, Mu Xiao roughly deduced where she had appeared just before the apocalypse erupted.

"Let fate decide everything! If she truly appears in the Lawyer Building as my memories indicate, that undoubtedly means this unknown formula exists. If she does not appear at the destination, then it proves the formula may not be correct..." Mu Xiao did not deny his desire for the Miracle Formula, nor did he want this heaven-sent opportunity to slip away before his eyes and leave him with endless regret.

In truth, leaving everything to fate was also an act of helplessness. If she did not appear, he could not find her exact location in a single day. Moreover, her current identity was that of an ace agent, and ordinary people had no way of coming into contact with her true identity...