Du Fei took the wrapped item and the spear and walked along the shoreline for two hours before arriving at the dimension door.
“Give them to me.”
Du Fei was looking around as he inched towards the entrance when he heard Li’s jumping before him.
Du Fei jerked in fear, then relaxed seeing it was just Li Mo and gave him the items.
“Don’t speak a word of what happened when you get back.”
“I know!”
Li Mo’s figure vanished.
Du Fei waited a moment then jumped in the dimension door.
The instant he touched it, Du Fei’s nerves unwound.
Outside, Lei Fei was buck naked and unconscious on the ground, with no one else from the team having returned yet.
Du Fei was amazed by Lei Fei’s appearance.
He took a moment to think and chose to go back in.
With Lei Fei knocked out and no one else around, it was best to drag things out inside to avoid others’ suspicion.
Back in the Battle of Changban, Du Fei didn’t stray too far.
Around four hours later, Wang Huan returned in a sorry and bloody state. He was followed by Xin Xiaowei and Ao Jiuxiao moments later.
Then came Ying Mei. She wasn’t Chinese, but Japanese. And this wasn’t her real name either. Her real occupation was a kunoichi(T/N: female ninja), wearing black clothes and a crying mask. The only thing her appearance led to believe was her gender, while making it impossible to surmise her age and appearance.
The final one to arrive was Su Haoyang.
Unlike the wretched states Xin Xiaowei, Ao Jiuxiao, and Ying Mei were in, Su Haoyang’s armor was only a bit dusty. There weren’t even battle scars on it.
And that was the truth of it. Su Haoyang didn’t disappear among the soldiers but wandered to a secluded meadow far from them and holed himself underground, waiting for the test to finish.
Crack~
Once all team members left the Battle of Changban, the dimension door sported several cracks.
Thunderstruck Enterprise’s men gave Lei Fei immediate attention and then brought back the whole team to the training facility.
The only people left in the pine forest were ten guards around the dimension door.
Three days later, Li Mo, who was hiding nearby, used the Staff of Origin one more time.
He now recovered enough of his spiritual qi to use it again.
“The divination is botched and luck won’t be with me in there. I can only risk using the Staff of Origin. I just hope it won’t catch the attention of those universe’s savages.”
The Staff of Origin flashed weakly and a faded world appeared before Li Mo, the Battle of Changban.
“Cao Cao!”
Li Mo’s next target of possession changed from Zhao Yun to Cao Cao
In a flash, Li Mo’s consciousness entered Cao Cao.
Complete control!
A time-space rupture’s source was closely related to the Staff of Origin. This allowed controlling any intelligent creature within the rupture through the staff.
Though it had great limitations. With Li Mo’s spiritual qi, he could control Cao Cao and Zhao Yun for an hour at most before his consciousness would leave by itself.
The target couldn’t fight against the control, to the point he didn’t even realize he wasn’t himself anymore.
With Du Fei and the rest leaving, the Battle of Changban was reset.
Zhao Yun was killing his way through the army and Lady Mi hugged A’dou, hiding behind a mud wall nearby the dried well.
The main script of the Battle of Changban didn’t change, only some minor details.
Time-space rupture was a fragment of an era, not true history. No matter what happened inside, it would never affect what came to pass in history books.
The first time Thunderstruck Enterprise discovered the time-space ruptures they took them for game instances for this particular reason.
Li Mo sent down an order through Cao Cao, “Fetch me Azure Blade and Heaven-reliant Sword!”
Heaven-reliant Sword was held by Cao Hong before him, but Azure Blade had yet to arrive.
Xia Houen kneeled, “Your Highness, I don’t know why, b-but Azure Blade is gone. I have wronged, Your Highness!”
Xia Houen was the man in charge of Azure Blade.
‘Azure Blade is gone?’ Li Mo frowned.
Regardless of what was taken out, the script didn’t change, but some details did. Just how Xia Houen was asking for the punishment that never occurred in history.
A scout reported, “Your Highness, Zhao Yun’s spear has snapped in two. He was swarmed by our troops and was stabbed to death!”
Li Mo’s heart throbbed as he roared, “Cao Hong!”
“Here!”
“There is a blue stone twenty miles to the northwest. Leave the sword there and come back to report.”
“Understood!”
Cao Hong left with Heaven-reliant Sword.
Li Mo was now waiting for the hour to pass and to return to his body.
Back to his normal self, he easily dodged Thunderstruck Enterprise’s guards and entered the dimension door.
Li Mo went to the blue stone and found Heaven-reliant Sword.
‘Finally.’ Li Mo sighed.
Heaven-reliant Sword wasn’t a simple sword, but a treasure, forged through a combination of rare metals. Weapons were split in different grades, common, uncommon, treasures, sacred, immortal, and imperial. The higher its grade the stronger it was. In the case of an imperial weapon, a slight touch would cause the destruction of all life in a galaxy.
Li Mo, however, didn’t go to so much trouble over just a treasure sword. He needed the Heaven-reliant Sword to refine his body.
He passed through the dimension door and returned to the real world.
Crack~
The dimension door behind collapsed.
When a time-space rupture’s ‘valuables’ were taken out, it would crumble. Cang Qing’s abode was the same and the Battle of Changban was no different.
‘Someone already took Azure Blade.’ Li Mo understood at once.
He descended the mountain and turned on his phone. He had a dozen unanswered calls and one message. He ignored them and called Du Fei.
Du Fei had finished training and was returning home after signing an NDA with Thunderstruck Enterprise.
After Li Mo inquired some, Du Fei recalled, “Now that you mention it, I seem to remember Ao Jiuxiao had a wrapped rectangle box on his back.”
The Azure Blade!
