Mythical Three Kingdoms

Chapter 1712: Chapter 1630: The Cause and Effect (Part 2)

Therefore, Diao Chan’s restrained nature returned once again. Lyu Bu took her for a thorough tour around Australia and finally concluded that people might have lived on this continent, but in the past decade or so, they had all perished.

Diao Chan used her brains to ponder and concluded they might have been exterminated by those marsupials, as there were surprisingly many with Inner Qi Separation among them. Lyu Bu encountered more than a dozen, and they even attacked him aggressively.

As a result, naturally, the marsupials were defeated in less than five moves. Of course, there were stronger marsupials and those that came in groups, but none could change the fact that Lyu Bu was simply too strong.

Even if fewer than twenty marsupials surrounded Lyu Bu, they would at most leave him bedraggled. After all, the biggest issue with the marsupials was that many had Inner Qi Separation, but none had reached the Ultimate Inner Qi Manifestation; most couldn’t even defeat Red Hare.

Although the meat of these marsupials was very coarse and tasted terrible, even when seasoned with spices, it was still barely edible.

However, considering the meat of creatures with Inner Qi Separation was highly nutritious, Lyu Bu ate all that he could, and what he couldn’t eat he made into jerky to feed the Great Kun, who was never picky.

Recently, the Great Kun had grown even bigger. The food it ate couldn’t possibly outweigh its growth, so maybe the meat was mainly used to break through limits, while the plankton in the ocean were for physical growth?

Alright, that’s not important. What’s important is that after learning that they’re in the Mortal World, Lyu Bu had to start looking for a way home, since no matter what, Diao Chan was considered Wang Yun’s adopted daughter. Even if she wasn’t before, she was when she married Lyu Bu.

After the Wang Family was exterminated, in Diao Chan’s mind, only she was left to perform sacrifices for Wang Yun and the Wang Family of Taiyuan. As for Wang Ling and Wang Chen, unfortunately, Diao Chan never had the chance to hear news about them.

Originally, after returning to Bingzhou, Diao Chan intended to sort out the relationships among the aristocratic families of Bingzhou, hoping to find an heir for the Wang Family; she couldn’t let the Wang Family become extinct. But as a female and not a legitimate daughter, she couldn’t inherit them.

Unfortunately, at that time, Lyu Bu was busy fighting with the Foreign Clans, and Diao Chan was hesitant to get involved. Although Hu Zhao, Zang Hong, and others were capable, the war was intense, and Diao Chan didn’t want to trouble them.

Part of the reason Diao Chan wasn’t anxious back then was that Lyu Bu had jumped out of the Central Plains’ quagmire and secured assurance of his safety, so Diao Chan wasn’t in a rush, but fate is unpredictable.

First, the Two Xuanyuan Cauldrons emerged, impacting Diao Chan with an immortal aura. Though she survived, it took her a while to recover, and after she did, Lyu Bu ended up possessed by the Millennia-Old Belief. Diao Chan had no heart for family matters.

Eventually, Lyu Bu ascended, and Diao Chan couldn’t continue the Wang family line on time. Now that Lyu Bu claimed he was still in the Mortal World, after some adjustments, Diao Chan erupted.

She needed to continue the Wang family line; she couldn’t let her adoptive father’s family die out. It’s a major human moral issue. With several years of ongoing troubles, Diao Chan decided not to wait any longer. If she continued to wait, who knew what more troubles would arise?

Thus, Lyu Bu was sent off to find a way home. However, the Pacific Ocean is vast, and Lyu Bu was on the East Coast of Australia. Theoretically, it was challenging to know the Central Plains were over sixty degrees to the northwest. On this endless sea, without a reference point, deviating by even 0.1 degrees over such a distance could result in missing by hundreds of miles; Zixu had deviated by this much before.

Luckily, Lyu Bu had a slight advantage over Zixu in that, compared to Zixu’s half-baked geography knowledge, Lyu Bu had none. In his mind, he didn’t care whether the sun rose in the east or south.

This made Lyu Bu’s way of finding the route simpler: fly. He randomly picked a stick and threw it, and then started flying. After flying for two hours, he would fly back.

Even with Red Hare’s incredible speed, with a distance of nearly 20,000 miles, flying at twice the speed of sound would still take over two hours to return.

This speed was outrageous; even for Lyu Bu, flying like this was exhausting. Did you see that time he chased Ma Chao from Bingzhou to Jingzhou? It took him almost half a day, meaning with ultra-long-distance travel, even Red Hare couldn’t sustain such a pace.

Traveling at several times the speed of sound for long periods, whether human or horse, consumed a significant amount of Inner Qi; Red Hare’s Inner Qi couldn’t support such demands.

Realistically, moving towards the South Blue for two hours in the correct direction was feasible for Red Hare, but Lyu Bu and Red Hare lacked direction.

Therefore, during the initial search for a way home, both Lyu Bu and Red Hare struggled. They had no quick solution and could only gradually explore.

Eventually, Lyu Bu brought Diao Chan along, building a small hut on the head of the Great Kun. Although it was just stones thrown together, Lyu Bu’s strength made it almost immune to wild winds and rains, so he set out with Diao Chan and Red Hare.

Since the Great Kun understood human ways, it was reluctant to return. After a while of thinking with its massive brain, it realized with Lyu Bu there was nothing to fear. Though the journey was a bit dilly-dallying, it didn’t matter because Lyu Bu didn’t know the way. Riding on the Great Kun, they first traveled along the junction of Oceania and the Asian plate, later entering the southern edge of the Malay Peninsula.

By following the correct path, it didn’t take long before the Great Kun reached the South Blue. At that point, the Great Kun dared not move further upon sensing the same authoritative presence it had felt at the edge of Qingzhou—Nanhua was here.

Speaking of which, Nanhua was also unfortunate. After Lyu Bu ascended to the ’Heavenly Realm’, he believed his inability to ascend was due to a lack of power to break the mortal world’s shackles. So, he used up centuries of savings to arrange things in Onion Ridge.

The reason for setting it there was because there’s a saying that Onion Ridge is Mount Buzhou’s projection in the Mortal World. Naturally, he wasted his savings and failed; to break space, you need a talent related to it like Lyu Bu and Zhao Yun have.

Without such talent, you can’t hit space, and if you can’t hit space, to shatter it, you need at least a hundred Divine Lyu Bu with Millennia-Old Belief; otherwise, it’s nonsense.

Could Nanhua’s centuries of savings equate to a hundred Lyu Bu with Millennia-Old Belief? What a joke, of course he failed, so Nanhua had to return alone.

Experiencing this, having burned everything and expecting divine equipment but ending up with common equipment, Nanhua had no one to complain to and had to obediently act as Chen Xi’s spiritual advisor.

At that time, Gan Ning had sent word back that he was going to battle the Kushan. Although Chen Xi couldn’t determine the Kushan’s current strength, it was still a complete empire; even if it was the Han Empire during Emperor Ling’s time, if Chen Xi were to integrate it, there’d be no pressure to fight the three factions.

Thus, Chen Xi sent Nanhua off, reasoning that since you had no hope of Ascending, let me tell you, Lyu Bu ascended with Millennia-Old Belief; maybe you can gain the people’s will?

In the end, Chen Xi convinced Nanhua by Proving the Way with Strength. Nanhua thought it through, too: after all these years, in the end, Lyu Bu ascended, he attained enlightenment? What a joke, that guy broke through the barriers to ascend forcefully.

Well then, if he could ascend, indeed, not only ghosts fear evildoers, gods do too. Should I try this method, perhaps benefit from the cause and effect? Uh, maybe it’s best not to.