He couldn't simply get up and leave, so this was the next best thing.
The upside was that it was just as impressive, giving him a bit of that "shattering the void" feeling.
Stepping through the laboratory's front door, Fu Qian naturally appeared in the bookstore in Shangjing the next moment. He gazed out the window, savoring the memory of the old professor's bearing.
If he had a choice, though, he'd definitely prefer to remain seated and vanish on the spot. That would be far more stylish.
Unfortunately, after a closer look, Fu Qian realized that the Anywhere Door system Red Moon had given him clearly used the bookstore as its sole hub.
For example, although the chairs at the academy looked almost identical, they were missing the spike used for drawing blood.
In the end, just as on his last visit to Leaf Island, the only way back was through the front door.
Why had he needed to come back at all?
For one thing, he'd already finished what needed doing at the academy, including the physical examinations for Liu Shuang, Miss Wen, and Professor Lisha.
And so far, things looked fairly optimistic. None of the three seemed to have been affected by the reverse contamination from the previous mission.
The process had even yielded an extra discovery: there were now more possibilities to explore regarding the Blood Order project and the Ji Clan's Next Patriarch.
By the time the group outing was over, the Burial Scroll's time limit had long since expired. There wasn't much point in staying there any longer. The young people could each do their best from here on out.
As for why he'd come back—Fu Qian's gaze fell on a few points of light on the horizon.
It had been the dead of night