Chapter 690 — The Ties of Past and Present Lives

If that was how it would be, it would rather not grow stronger at all. Such a future was not the future it wanted; it simply wanted to stay by Shi Jin's side.

Xiaoji, Yaya, Qi... every one of the pets kept recalling, striving to remember, refusing to let themselves forget, and all the while, through their mental link, ceaselessly calling Shi Jin awake.

With the Empress, that pillar of support, lost, and Shi Jin sunk into an unknown state, their hearts and wills had in this moment reached a peak. No matter what, they wanted to wake Shi Jin and put an end to their forgetting of him.

Without Shi Jin, they would all lose the meaning of their lives—so Shi Jin must not come to harm.

So what if it was cosmic level? At worst they would not break through. All they needed was Shi Jin.

Countless powerful mental thoughts attached themselves to Shi Jin. Within the world of memory, Shi Jin, eyes closed, suddenly sensed something.

Shi Jin, who had also been ceaselessly calling out to his pets, suddenly saw a beam of dawn break through, piercing the memory world of time and space.

Shi Jin and Chaoneng Zhao slightly raised their heads and saw the beam. The latter wore a startled expression; the former smiled faintly.

"Found you."

"Don't worry, I'm fine." Shi Jin spoke slowly, reaching out his hand and, following the beam, tore open the memory world of the previous life, tearing open a passage back to reality.

Seeing this, Chaoneng Zhao's feelings were shocked and complicated. Never had he imagined that Shi Jin—whom even a cosmic-level being like himself could not wake—and this mysterious place that could trap even a cosmic-level being, would be torn open so easily.

"This power..." the Empress murmured.

"As long as my pets are here, no place can hold me." Shi Jin said, "Let's go. Whatever happens, we go back first and talk later."

At this moment, watching Shi Jin break free of the memory world of his previous life and successfully return to reality, the Empress was briefly stunned, then stepped in after him. Though her memories had not been fully recovered, perhaps she now knew what it was she was looking for.

At the same moment, in the outside world.

As Shi Jin and the Empress slowly opened their eyes, every one of Shi Jin's pets wore an expression of delighted surprise. Seeing that Shi Jin had finally awakened, they wept for joy and rejoiced through their tears, crying out in delight one after another.

Yet with this awakening of Shi Jin and the Empress, Shi Jin had also completed the most magnificent transformation of his life.

Threads of cosmic origin force swirled around him. When he opened those star-like pupils, his own power finally broke through the shackles of the super-god level, crossing in one breath the threshold of cosmic level.

In that moment, the starry power of the entire universe seemed to cheer, celebrating the birth of a new Cosmic Emperor.

"I made you worry." After waking, Shi Jin paid no mind to his own rank, but smiled at Eleven and the others. This breakthrough to cosmic level was thanks not only to the Empress, but even more to the help of these little ones.

Becoming cosmic level was the achievement of everyone's efforts together.

"Ying!!!" Eleven and the others cheered and leaped—wonderful!!

Shi Jin had finally returned!

And they could all feel that the contract bond between them and Shi Jin had grown even more solid. This time, surely, they would not forget Shi Jin.

Though they had been frightened badly before, now joy swiftly surged into their hearts.

Rejoice! From this day forth, their beast tamer, Shi Jin, is the Emperor of the Seventh Universe!!!