Chapter 3: Shocked Fang Yuan!
"Huh!"
Fang Yuan exclaimed in shock when he looked around. The last moment he remembered was sleeping on the ground. Since there were no beds in the house and it was nighttime, the family decided to make do with the ground. Chen Haoxi would buy beds and other items for the house the next day.
But after he fell asleep, he found himself in a different environment. He didn't know whether it was a dream, so he pinched his hand and nodded after finding no difference whatsoever. He was in reality.
Fang Yuan was floating in mid-air, and the sky was adorned with endless blinking stars. Suddenly, a ray of light emerged and tore through the calmness of the sky.
"Argh!"
Fang Yuan immediately clutched his head and groaned in pain. He felt like someone had cut through his soul.
The pain was so intense that he wanted to sleep but was unable to. The light slowly started getting bigger, and soon, a familiar item appeared before Fang Yuan. The pain also receded, with its intensity no longer being at a dangerous level. He could bear to look forward without groaning or struggling.
He looked in shock since it seemed similar to the broken pagoda he had picked up for his sister, which was gifted back to him earlier in the night.
It wasn't exactly similar, but the cracks and the similar patterns made him feel like it was the Broken Pagoda. It was a single-floor pagoda, with the top nowhere to be found.
The edges around the pagoda that were painted in gold had now turned color. It was replaced by blood red, which gave a familiar sensation to Fang Yuan. There were numerous inscriptions imprinted on it, and the beasts designed on it seemed to come alive.
Fang Yuan felt his already trembling soul tremble even more when he mistakenly looked into the eyes of the dragon on the pagoda. He immediately moved his eyes away and took repeated deep breaths to calm down his pounding heart.
The broken pagoda he was gifted had no inside and was open, but before him was a closed gate, waiting for someone to open it up and step inside.
'Open the door and enter!
Suddenly, an idea appeared in Fang Yuan's head. Not finding anything wrong, he proceeded forward. He only had to think of walking and appeared right before the gate.
He then pushed the door open but found that it was locked. A confused expression appeared on his face since he was confident that the door was waiting for him to open it.
His eyes suddenly fell on the keyhole near the handle. He frowned since he had never seen anything like that key. He again tried to push the door open, but it remained unbudged.
Fang Yuan suddenly had an idea. He tried to channel whatever Qi he could and then tried to push the door open.
Rumble!
The next moment, a rumbling sound rang in the area, shaking everything. The door finally budged and was getting pushed open.
The door emitted a long, low groan, as it had seen a movement like that after numerous years. Time seemed to have left its mark on the material as the door gradually detached from its hinge.
The hinge had rusted, no longer being able to bear that weight.
Slam!
The next moment, the doors crashed to the ground, creating a loud sound. Before Fang Yuan could understand what was happening, a white light enveloped him and sucked him inside the pagoda.
Once he left the scene, the area returned to calm. The door, hinges, handles, and other items slowly disintegrated, and what was left of the pagoda's entry was an open entrance.
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Fang Yuan looked in shock at the scene before him. There was a space portal wide and high enough for ten of them to pass at once.
It was the first time for Fang Yuan to see anything like that in person. He had only seen space portals in movies. At the same time, a piece of information also appeared in his head, telling him about the pagoda.
The broken pagoda Fang Yuan had found from garbage turned out to be a high-level artifact with extraordinary abilities. The space portal before him could teleport him to any random space-time, while the pagoda also had a set space that Fang Yuan could use as his storage.
Fang Yuan didn't understand much of what the information meant by teleporting to another space-time, but when he heard about the space storage, his eyes lightened up in shock.
Storage items were extremely expensive, with even the worst item costing several ordinary spirit stones.
The Qingtian continent followed a specific set of currency in spirit stones. The spirit stones had two levels, low-level and ordinary-level. Below low-level spirit stones were spirit coins.
One thousand spirit coins equaled one low-level spirit stone, and one hundred low spirit stones equated with one ordinary spirit stone.
But the space inside the pagoda was 1000 cubic meters, which was bigger than the house he lived in. Fang Yuan couldn't help but get the idea of selling the pagoda. It would immediately improve the lives of his family.
The idea took residence in Fang Yuan's mind when suddenly, the space portal before him turned active, and a suction force appeared out of nowhere.
The next moment, Fang Yuan was sucked inside the space portal. Following that, a timer of two hours appeared above the space portal.
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The Fang residence,
Fang Tian and Chen Haoxi were discussing something when they suddenly sensed a strange energy. It disappeared as quickly as it had appeared, so they returned to their discussion.
In Fang Yuan's room, he was asleep on the ground. But if someone were to touch him, they would feel no pulse or heartbeat. It was as if Fang Yuan had died.
(Chapter End.)
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A/N: The first world has already been set and outlined, but for the worlds after that, you can comment on what world to explore.
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