“Spare me, brother. I was wrong. I was j-just playing around, really. I was never going to hit you for real. You gotta believe me!” Du Xingsun wailed.
“Du Xingsun, the world you just experience wasn’t my world. It was a test I made for you and you disappointed me so.”
What Du Xingsun saw was an illusion conjured through the Staff of Origin, while in reality, they never left this place.
Li Mo held no expectation regarding Du Xingsun’s moral conduct. One small test was enough to lay it all bare.
Li Mo left Du Xingsun bound by the Immortal Binding Rope and sealed the time-space rupture. Wang Huan would have no hope of getting in for at least two years.
Hum~
Whoosh~
He was about to go hope through another earth qi jade when the Staff of Origin flashed. An origin light shot from it and landed not a hundred meters away.
‘So close!’
Coming over from shock, Li Mo was there in a single step, entering the newly formed time-space rupture.
A time-space rupture made by the Staff of Origin had to contain an origin fragment. Compared to the average time-space rupture, this type was by far more important and dangerous.
The last origin light flew for hours from the Staff of Origin, attracting countless experts into a bitter fight. This time was far safer, turning into a time-space rupture the instant it left the Staff of Origin.
‘My luck has turned for the best.’
Hum~
Li Mo found himself on a mountain.
He could see bushes and lush grass around. Li Mo was halfway to the top, when he heard the sound of battle. He rushed to the source.
Nearby, a pretty, immortal-like, general woman was on horseback, fighting against a cute youth stepping on fire-wind wheels and wielding a fire tipped spear.
The general sent a five-colored light from her palm like lightning, hitting the cute youth.
The youth seeing he couldn’t beat her, ran holding his face.
Li Mo knew who they were in a flash.
The fire wind wheel user wielding a fire tipped spear was no other than Nezha. While the general who launched the five-colored attack was precisely Du Xingsun’s gorgeous wife, Deng Chanyu.
This world wasn’t large. He reckoned the origin fragment had to be on either one of them.
Li Mo looked around noticing how small the place was.
Deng Chanyu’s charming voice broke his scouting of the place, seeing her charging over.
“Ha!”
At fifty meters between them, Deng Chanyu threw the Five Colored Stone at him.
Deng Chanyu’s Five Colored Stone flew faster than a bullet, reaching him in a blink. Li Mo activated Celestial Eye realising a half a meter glow that made the Five Colored Stone vanish.
Li Mo dodged, and the Five Colored Stone reappeared once out of the Celestial Eye’s range. It flew a hundred meters behind him and hitting a mountain top with a bang. The next thing he saw was the top vanishing completely.
“Who are thou? State thy name!”
Deng Chanyu rode towards Li Mo.
Li Mo took out his incomplete magic weapon.
Clang~
The magic weapon and her long saber clashed a few times then Deng Chanyu reigned in her horse, preparing to shoot the Five Colored Stone again.
Li Mo may be in the mid fourth level, but he was still far beneath Nezha, unable to take this attack just as well. And the Celestial Eye’s Nullify ability was now on cooldown.
“Take my Gold Immortal magic treasure!”
Li Mo shouted, throwing his rectangle magic weapon. His shout managed to scare Deng Chanyu into falling back a few steps. Tacking this chance, Li Mo entered the Earth Fist’s stance, Guard.
The magic treasure plopped on the ground. Deng Chanyu knew that was no Gold Immortal magic treasure.
She’d been had!
“Ha!” Deng Chanyu growled, shooting the stone.
Li Mo stood still as a rock.
Clang!
With a loud bang, Li Mo felt the world spinning. He wobbled a few times then planted into the ground, out like a light.
‘Gods damn it! This word is just too small, making Guard lose most of its power…’
This was the last thing going through his mind as he blanked.
Guard linked the user to the earth. The bigger the earth, the stronger the Guard. On Earth, Deng Chanyu’s Five Colored Stone wouldn’t even budge him even if it were twice as strong.
While this place, it was just too damn small!
The next thing Li Mo knew, he was all tied up and thrown on the ground like a rock.
“Take my blade! Stop running!”
They were still halfway up the mountain and Deng Chanyu was once again fighting with Nezha. They clashed for a dozen times before the Five Colored Stone hit Nezha’s face just like before, and making him flee just the same.
Li Mo saw it clearly now. Nezha’s face sported five extra black and blue spots…
‘Just how long was I out?’
For these two to have always been fighting, it went to show this world was even simpler than Du Xingsun’s. It only resumed to one thing just like the Battle of Changban did.
As long as no one butted in, this world’s script would be put on hold. When someone did enter, the script would resume. It would finish then start all over again. On and on and on.
Because of human intervention, the world’s scrip would also alter, yet the characters of the play reacted normally. When the variable was removed, the character would fall back to their scripted behavior.
Nezha ran but Deng Chanyu didn’t chase. She rode over to Li Mo picked him up like a pup then rode down the mountain.
The result? Deng Chanyu went for a long time but couldn’t for the life of her get off the mountain. This world was just that small. The foot of the mountain didn’t even exist. She then went back up to the original spot and dumped Li Mo there.
Not long after, a shout came from the sky. Deng Chanyu faced it with her saber, “Who goes there?”
Nezha, on his fire wind wheels, wielding his fire tipped spear, fell from the sky with a black and blue face.
“I am the one those gents calleth Nezha, und’r minist’r Jang. Thee alas wench, how dareth thee picketh up a weapon! Thee hadst bett’r did stay in thy chamb’rs than showeth such shameful behavi’r. Thy weapon wonneth’t holp thee from landing in mine hands. Wend backeth to thy campeth and calleth thy gen’ral!”
Deng Chanyu roared in reply, “Art thee the coystrill who is’t did harm mine own fath’r? Taketh mine own sab’r!”
Deng Chanyu went and fought Nezha on horseback again.
Ten clanging moves later, Nezha left with another black bruise on his face.
Seeing Deng Chanyu approaching again, Li Mo felt a painful headache coming.
‘Gods damn it! I’m stuck in a loop!’
Deng Chanyu hoised Li Mo on the horse then ‘rode’ down the mountain…
