Parallel World: Kunlan Mountain
"I know! Stop shaking me!" Chu irritatingly answers.
"We passed your test. Can we get what we came to get?" Chu asks Phoenix while shoving happy clingy Guo away from him, yet half-heartily.
"I keep my word. One of you step up and collect the water from my pond." Phoenix responds.
"From your pond? Isn't pure water supposed to come from the river?" Guo questions.
"This pond is directly connected to the river. Nobody is allowed inside the river." Phoenix states.
"Guo, go fill up the crystal jar leader has given you." Chu prompts and Guo happily agree.
"Now you may leave my domain. Whether purity remains effective, it is your problem. From the look of it, you are already aware of that." Phoenix said while eyeing Guo who happily secure the small crystal jar protectively.
"Yes, we are aware of that. Thank you again for your generous help. We will never forget it." Chu sincerely said while kowtowing and Guo follows his lead and did the same toward the mystic phoenix guardian.
"Now, Leave." Phoenix demands and both Guo and Chu find themselves back to where they were resting atop of Kunlan mountain and Ice Forest is nowhere to be seen.
"Let's go back Guo." Chu said, and without a word he mummified poor Guo again and let his thread carry him down the mountain.
Guo didn't mind at all and kind of feels secure too because he doesn't trust himself to not trip and fall, which might spill the pure water.
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Haixing: Outside Timeless Forest
"Darling! Darling!?" Demon Queen calls while tapping Lin Jing cheeks who is currently unconscious.
When Zhu Hong couldn't find Lin Jing anywhere after defeating Kun Peng, she started to panic. Luckily, she saw a blue-blackish glow on the bottom of the waterfall which came from the Forgetful Lily. She had dived in and rescued both the flower and drowning Lin Jing and teleported out of the Timeless Forest. Sadly, she doesn't have enough power left to directly teleport them to Da Qing's house. The farthest her remaining power could teleport them is outside the forest.
Zhu Hong starts to worry when Lin Jing is not breathing at all.
"Darling? Lin Jing?!" while pounding onto Lin Jing chest hardily causing Lin Jing to wake up.
*Choking sound and vomiting*
"Darling!" Zhu Hong helps Lin throw out water but Lin Jing faints afterward, but at least he is breathing now.
"Hey, don't faint on me again! Damn it...I don't have enough energy to carry him either " Zhu Hong frustratingly said, feeling warned out.
While gazing the flower "This better work or I will bloody murder that cursed fox!"
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Parallel World: Dragon City
Wang Zheng? Can you hear me? Zhao Yunlan telepaths while meditating.
......
Wang... can you hear me? Zhao Yunlan tries again but still he couldn't reach her. Since Zhao Yunlan has been trying to connect with anyone before, he thought of trying to connect with one single person, perhaps that will make the connection stronger and be able to reach the other recipient.
Wang... can you hear m- Zhao Yunlan meditation states is abruptly disrupted when he feels a sharp breakout of dark energies couple miles from the house.
"Little angel, they are here!" Zhao Yunlan worriedly said making little angel alert.
"Who is here?" Little Angel asks.
"Tengu. While meditating I felt their energies a couple of miles from here. I think they found out that we are hiding here." Zhao Yunlan explains while casting additional spell onto the house to make it invincible from being detected.
"What are we going to do, master. Master Wei's current condition is easy to be kidnap" Little angel worriedly replies while looking sadly at their sleeping beauty.
"I have enough power to attack them, but I prefer to stay hidden as long as we can. I don't think they know our coordinate yet." Zhao Yunlan hastily explains and steps out from the room and puts a barrier on it so nobody can get in unless it is broken by Zhao Yunlan himself.
"Wow... master. Your power is really strong now." Little angel chirps seeing how easily his master can cast such a high-level spell without breaking a sweat. It's quite impressive.
"What about others?" Little Angel worriedly asks, thinking of their housemates.
"I'm worried about them too, especially Shen Wei and Yezun. They look exactly like our leader." Zhao Yunlan confesses while searching for the house.
"Chief Zhao?!" Zhao Yunlan shouts while running down the steps.
"What is happening? Is something wrong with your Shen Wei?" Chief Zhao Yunlan worriedly asks, and others gather around hearing the shouting.
"What's going on?" Yezun asks while coming down the stairs and Shen Wei is behind him with a puzzled look.
Little angel, go double check to see it all opening are lock shut. Zhao Yunlan telepathically orders.
Ok master!
"Where Da Qing?" Zhao Yunlan asks seeing other three in the living room now.
"He went outside to buy something" Chief Zhao said warily.
"Please call him back here now. Danger is outside." Zhao Yunlan demands making others worried and not understanding what is going on.
"Hey, calm down first. Tell us what is going on?" Shen Wei asks seeing their guest is agitated.
"Yeah. Besides he can defend himself." Yezun replies confidently.
"No, he will not be able defeat the enemies. They have powers that can kill him quite easily. Please just call him to come back as soon he can. I had put on an extra barrier around the house already. I will explain everything afterward." Zhao Yunlan states and Yezun didn't wait a second longer, he already dial his husband number asking to return promptly.
"He said he will be here in few minutes." Yezun answers back.
"Good. "Are Dr. Chen and Guo still inside sleeping?" Zhao Yunlan asks.
"Yes." Shen Wei replies, feeling worried.
"Hey, what's going on?" Da Qing asks while arriving.
Seeing Da Qing arrive safely, everyone releases sigh of relief.
Little angel?
All set, master Yunlan.
Thank You. Please guard Xiao Wei's room.
Ok.
"Zhao Yunlan? Explain what is going on." Chief Zhao demands.
"I'm afraid our enemies already know that we are hiding in this world. I felt their presence a couple of miles from here. I don't think they know the exact location yet. I have made your house invincible from their detection. I don't know how long that will fool them. I would fight but with Xiao Wei and you guys, I don't want to take risks. Please stay inside the house and don't leave. If they see anyone of you, they will take you as mistake because you guys resemble people they know from our world."
"The hell! We can't hide forever. We have responsibilities outside." Chief Zhao groans in frustration.
"Don't worry. We will be leaving soon. When they sense our energies disappearing, they will follow us into our world, and everyone here should be safe."
"How are you going to do that?" Yezun asks.
"I'm sure our leader already knows about others chasing us here. He will bring us back. I would like to thank you for putting up with us for over a week. I wish I could repay you all for your kindness. Is there anything that you wish for me to do within short notice?" Zhao Yunlan inquires.
Master Yunlan, we are being called back! Little angel telepaths.
"I sincerely apologize but I don't have time anymore. We are being called back. Thank You, everyone for everything again. If our faith crosses again, I will make sure to repay you." Zhao Yunlan bows and runs upstairs to Shen Wei.
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Parallel World: Haixing
"Wang Zheng! Bring Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei back now!" Yezun shouts.
"But-" Wang Zheng words got cut off.
"Please do it now. Other Tengu are already over there to capture them!" Da Qing urgently states while reading message send by Leader's lefthanded man.
"Okay! Sang back me up."
It took Wang about half hour to bring back everyone. It took longer than sending them off because she had to make sure to bring them back together. Fortunately, she didn't need to overexert this time.
"Da Ge and Yezun Ge!" Zhao Yunlan excitedly yells when they arrive back to Da Qing's house. Shen Wei is securely carried by Zhao Yunlan.
"Didi!" Da Qing happily hugs his dear brother "I miss you guys so much!"
"Welcome back Yunlan didi. How is Shen Wei?" Yezun smiles and asks.
"He has been sleeping the entire time we were over there. But little Angel said that their condition didn't deteriorate further."
"Hmm. That's good. We got most of the ingredients and are waiting for others to arrive. I didn't want to bring you guys back yet but somehow Tengu found out about you guys. I didn't want to take a chance.
"I know, Yezun Ge. I felt their energies while meditating."
"Okay. that's for now. Yunlan didi, take Shen Wei to the room for resting and please change out of these shameless robes!" Da Qing roars embarrassedly and Wang has been hiding behind Sang while blushing.
"Da Ge~~ This are the normal clothes they were wearing. Fine, I will go change to our regular robes." Zhao Yunlan pouts and leaves carrying unconscious Shen Wei with him.
Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei have been wearing long sweatpants and long sleeve shirts, but it is considered too revealing in Shadow world. After all, everyone wears a couple layers of robes and barely show their exact physique.
"Normal??! What kind of world had they teleported into... I think I'm going to faint" Da Qing whispers in shock but Yezun just pat his wife to calm him down "there ... there... there".
"Someone helps!" Chu shouts from outside.
"They are back!" Yezun said happily and opened the door just to see Chu carrying unconscious Lin Jing and Zhu Hong and Guo carrying huge Forgetful Lily.
"Wh-"
"Later, just help me carry this guy. What kind of dwarf weight this heavy." Chu grumbles and Yezun chuckles while helping Chu.
Finally, everyone is back where they belong and both Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan escape the danger in nick of time with the help of Wang Zheng.
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A/N: 2/2 Look.... 👀👀👀I know what I promise you guys... but as you see even with two chapters updates at once, it pretty long and still didn't get a chance to make Shen Wei awake yet. So please don't kill me for breaking the promise 😣😣😣. Believe me when I say that I really tried hard to fit in very much awake Shen Wei... I hope two update at once will appease you all for breaking my promise ~~😅💦💦