Where the Hell Did This Send Me?

Night fell, and Tuntun made his way to Mu Chen's place with practiced ease. Without even thinking, Mu Chen knew this little bastard had come looking for food.

He really treated him like a meal ticket.

"Little bastard Tuntun, why don't you go ask your big boss Yaoyao for something to eat?" Mu Chen teased.

"?"

Tuntun looked at him as if he were an idiot. Didn't he know big boss had nothing to eat?

There was only wine to drink there; he simply could not find any other food. If he asked Yaoyao for wine, big boss would probably pluck him bald.

Mu Chen, on the other hand, had plenty to eat. To Tuntun, he was a perfectly qualified meal ticket.

And everything was made by Mu Chen, so the taste was beyond question. He had become addicted to it. Hunting in the wild was fine too, but he could still tell which was better.

"Tuntun, can't you speak human language, or do you just disdain speaking it?" Mu Chen asked curiously.

There were many Source Beasts that could speak human language. There was no reason the Innate Sacred Beast Ancestral Taotie could not, especially since Tuntun's intelligence was no worse than a human's.

He did not take human form because he possessed an incomparably powerful body, but if all he did was roar and howl, he was not exactly easy to understand.

It seemed that even by the end of the story, Tuntun had never spoken a single word. Other than roaring, he rarely even communicated by carving words onto stone slabs.

"Awoo."

Tuntun raised his head and paused his meal. He thought things were fine this way. Why did he need to speak human language?

Whenever there was a fight, he could just charge right in. There was no need to waste words.

Mu Chen did not know whether to laugh or cry. Tuntun truly was a purebred Source Beast.

After Tuntun finished eating, he could not be bothered to leave. He lay down and went to sleep right on the table beside the bed. Back at Su Youwei's home, he was often too lazy to leave after eating as well.

Mu Chen shook his head and turned off the lights. He had only recently broken through to the Qi Nourishing Realm, so a little proper rest was in order.

Buzz.

As Mu Chen and Tuntun slept soundly, an incredibly ancient ripple spread out. It was an indescribable antiquity, as though it had come from the very dawn of heaven and earth.

Ripples appeared throughout the room's space at that moment. Yet the change did not awaken Mu Chen or Tuntun, and not even anyone else in the general's residence noticed it.

The Space Ancestral Symbol within Mu Chen's body seemed to be affected by that ripple, beginning to flicker with silvery radiance.

The next second, Mu Chen and Tuntun vanished. Only the lingering warmth on the bed and table proved that they had been in the room moments ago.

Drip.

At dawn, mist shrouded the forest, turning everything hazy and blurring one's vision. Dew gathered into droplets on the leaves and fell onto Mu Chen's nose.

"Hm?"

The cold, damp sensation made Mu Chen abruptly open his eyes. He looked around with uncertainty and alarm.

"???"

"...There's no Source Qi?"

"Holy shit, where the hell did this send me? Is this still Cangxuan Heaven?" Mu Chen was utterly bewildered. He had gone to sleep and woken up in such an unfamiliar place. Anyone would be confused.

Using his divine soul perception, he discovered that what flowed through heaven and earth was not Source Qi, but an unfamiliar and strange energy—at least, it was completely unfamiliar to him.

"Awoo?"

Tuntun woke up, equally bewildered. Where was this place? This energy was far too unfamiliar, and its quality was inferior to Source Qi.

"Tuntun, you're here too!" Mu Chen looked at Tuntun. It seemed there were only the two of them.

"Mu Chen, what is going on? How did we end up on the Heaven Xuan Continent?" Little Marten's astonished voice rang out.

This was indeed not Source Qi, but Yuan Force. As a native of the Heaven Xuan Continent, he was all too familiar with this energy.

He had thought he would never return, yet he had come back here so quickly.

He also knew this definitely had something to do with Mu Chen. This fellow truly was strange. Heavenly Demon Martens were quite adept with spatial power, but even they could not cross between worlds.

However, now that they had arrived on the Heaven Xuan Continent, it seemed there was finally hope for him to regain his physical body.

"You're asking me? I don't know either... Wait, there's some information in my mind." Mu Chen calmed himself. He truly had no idea what was happening.

The Heaven Xuan Continent?

Of course he recognized it. The Ancestral Stone and Ancestral Symbol on him had both come from this world. But the question was, why had he suddenly arrived here?

This unexpected development made him uneasy. Until he figured it out, he would not be at ease.

A moment later, Mu Chen opened his eyes, his expression somewhat strange.

There was not much information in his mind. He could return, but when that would happen was uncertain.

If he died in this world, then he would truly die.

While he was in this world, time would pass extremely slowly on the Heaven Origin World side. There was a time difference, so he did not have to worry about returning to find that world completely changed.

As for how he had come here, Mu Chen had some guesses. But he had no idea why he had been brought here.

"Tuntun, don't worry. This is another world. A year or two may pass here while only a few days pass over there. Yaoyao will be fine," Mu Chen said, comforting the agitated Tuntun.

Since they were here, they might as well make the best of it. The Heaven Origin World was too far away, and they could not return on their own.

Tuntun's beastly eyes flickered. He nodded his little head and jumped onto Mu Chen's head. There really was no need to worry about big boss. He still could not defeat her.

Yaoyao could handle even Primordial Realm experts, and there were currently no experts above the Primordial Realm in the Black Abyss.

However, the Heaven and Earth Yuan Force of this Heaven Xuan Continent provided him with far less improvement than the energy of that other world.

Mu Chen felt the same way. To advance by the same minor realm, he had to absorb several times more Heaven and Earth Yuan Force than Heavenly Source Qi. This would undoubtedly make his cultivation progress much slower.

There was nothing to be done about that. After all, the Heaven Origin World was on a much higher level than the Heaven Xuan Continent. Within the Great Thousand World, the Heaven Xuan Continent was merely a lower plane.

He did not need to replace the Source Qi in his Qi Mansion. There was no need. He only needed to conceal it a little, and ordinary people would not notice. But old monsters might detect that the energy in his body was different.

Since Source Qi was more powerful than Yuan Force, disguising and transforming it into Yuan Force would not be difficult.

The main problem was that he was too weak right now. Otherwise, he would not have to worry about this. After Mu Chen explained it to Tuntun, Tuntun indicated that it was no problem at all.

"By the way, Little Marten, are you familiar with this place?" Mu Chen asked.

Little Marten looked around, shook his head, and said helplessly, "I know this is the Eastern Xuan Region, but I've never been here before, so I don't know much about it."

"What use are you?"

Mu Chen said disdainfully. He also knew Little Marten was not lying. Heavenly Demon Martens truly were unfamiliar with the Eastern Xuan Region, especially since the Yuan Sect was quite hostile toward them.

If he had not been pursued by experts because of the Ancestral Stone, Little Marten probably would never have come here. This should have been where the Ancestral Stone fell.

"Brother Lin Dong, will this spiritual medicine help Father's injuries?"

A clear, light voice rang out. It sounded like a young girl's, while Mu Chen noticed the name Lin Dong—the Son of Fortune of this continent, the future Martial Ancestor.

However, the Ancestral Stone was with him. Lin Dong would basically be unable to reach that level.

Without the Ancestral Stone, Lin Dong's father's injuries could not be healed either. This counted as the butterfly effect caused by him.