The two had returned to the mountaintop, the same place where they had previously placed the stone portal. This was a plaza over 100 square meters in size, and a portal four meters long and five meters wide sat in one corner of the plaza.
The spot Fang Bie chose this time was the opposite corner of the plaza. In his hand, he held 14 blocks of stone that had just been smelted and restored in the Furnace.
"Yinsen, if you notice anything wrong, smash the portal immediately!" Fang Bie instructed with a grave expression.
Yinsen stood next to the portal holding an Iron Pickaxe. With the pick aimed at a stone block, he could destroy the intact portal in a very short amount of time the moment Fang Bie gave the order.
Fang Bie first built a 4x5 portal just as before, then took out the Stone Pickaxe he had used at the entrance and tapped the portal gently.
A strange sound emerged, identical to the one made by the previous portal. Only then did Fang Bie slowly let out a sigh of relief; the portal had been opened successfully!
Then, his nerves tightened once again. Unlike last time, the moment the gate opened, he felt a disturbance in space.
He quickly drew his Iron Sword and signaled to Yinsen not far away. Just as he was about to speak, a young man rushed straight out of the gate and collided head-on with Fang Bie!
"Ouch!" Both of them instinctively clutched their heads. After the hard impact, Fang Bie felt as if he had slammed into a solid rock, his entire forehead buzzing.
Yinsen's Iron Pickaxe had already swung down, shattering one of the stones of the portal. The portal, which had been emitting brilliant and dazzling colors, lost its luster in the blink of an eye and was shut down.
"Ouch! Teacher, why is there a person in the cave you found?" The young man in front of him also rubbed his head and slowly stood up.
Only now did Fang Bie have the chance to carefully observe the young man who had just walked out of the portal. Even if his body suffered pain, it didn't matter; it would recover quickly.
Yinsen had also put away his tool, picked up his Iron Sword, and walked back to Fang Bie's side, cautiously guarding in front of him.
"You brat, you ran too fast for me to warn you. It's obvious you stumbled into a portal!" An old man with white hair and beard appeared out of nowhere beside the youth and slapped him on the head. "Wake up! These two seem to have ill intentions!"
Looking at this pair of old and young, an inexplicable sense of déjà vu washed over Fang Bie. Why did this combination feel so familiar?
"Teacher, you hit my head again! I'll get stupid if you keep hitting me!" The youth replied unhappily, then suddenly turned his head. "Teacher? How do you suddenly have a body?"
"How could I suddenly have a body? Are you seeing things..." The old man stopped mid-sentence, cutting himself off. He realized that at some point, he had already been standing on the ground. His originally illusory and hollow body seemed to have been forcibly filled in by some rigid rule!
"Who are you people!" Hearing their baffling conversation, Fang Bie finally spoke up.
The young man in front of him looked quite heroic, dressed in a short, tight-fitting martial outfit, clearly someone who practiced martial arts.
Upon seeing the two, his brows twitched, and he muttered, "Holy cow, did I travel back? Why is there a foreigner wearing glasses?"
However, his voice was very soft, and no one heard it except for the old man beside him. He quickly cupped his hands in a traditional salute.
"I am Xiao Yan, a Dou Zhe who stumbled into this place. May I ask, where is this?" Although Xiao Yan was prepared to speak English to this person who looked like a foreigner, he ultimately held back and saluted politely.
Fang Bie raised a hand to stop Yinsen from asking questions. Now was not the time for him to ask; answering was the priority.
To say he wasn't nervous would be a lie; his back was already soaked with sweat. Although both people in front of him had kind eyes, the moment the other party mentioned his name, Fang Bie fully recalled where his strange sense of déjà vu came from.
A guy carrying an old man and calling himself Xiao Yan—there could only be that one Flame Emperor.
Fang Bie wasn't particularly shocked. After meeting Tony Stark, he had already guessed that the next world might be one he was familiar with.
Sure enough, this youth with the protagonist's destiny had breezed in, leaving his nerves extremely taut.
Unlike Tony, both of them were ordinary people, and in a world like this, they couldn't stir up much trouble.
Xiao Yan was a practitioner of authentic Dou Qi, a so-called Dou Zhe. He could manipulate Dou Qi, a special power beyond the reach of ordinary people, which meant he had the ability to pose a life-threatening danger to them. Fang Bie couldn't help but be concerned.
"My name is Fang Bie, and I am the master of this place. As for this place, it is called My World!" Fang Bie said truthfully. As for how the two wanted to interpret that, that was their business.
"Cough, cough!!" Just as both sides were in a standoff, a crisp coughing sound interrupted their next move.
"Oh no!" Xiao Yan thought to himself. Rushing into this world so suddenly had made him forget the person he was holding. After the standoff, the woman lying on the ground had now awakened.
Fang Bie took the initiative to show goodwill. A protagonist like Xiao Yan was a relatively positive character; if he didn't provoke him, he generally wouldn't attack bystanders like himself.
He gently put away his Iron Sword and pointed to the woman lying on the ground. "Is this woman someone you brought with you?"
"A wounded person I brought back out of a moment of soft-heartedness," Xiao Yan replied with a wry smile.
"Her condition is very bad. Pale face, purple lips—these are symptoms of excessive blood loss!" Yinsen had also put away his Iron Sword and crouched down to look at her face.
"Then... can she be saved?" Fang Bie asked with some hesitation. He had already guessed the scene unfolding before him.
It wasn't that he was overly sharp; it was just that the woman's attire was too similar to the scenes described in the book.
Fang Bie recalled the records in the book: fair skin, beautiful features, icy skin and jade bones, elegant and luxurious—especially the phoenix hair accessory formed by her hair piled high, which highlighted her peerless beauty!
With such a green youth and such a luxurious beauty, Fang Bie now knew her origin and the timing of the youth before him.
A youth arriving at the Magical Beast Mountain Range, just at the time of the battle between Yun Yun and the Amethyst Winged Lion King. The person lying on the ground was none other than the Sect Leader of the Misty Cloud Sect.
"This time period is truly quite subtle..." Fang Bie thought to himself.
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