240 Where is This? (2/2)

Now that they exited the carriage, they could see that what surrounded them was not a trans-dimensional tunnel, unlike what they had expected. Instead, it was a long grassy plane. Above them was the blue sky, spotted with beautiful cotton-like clouds and a sun that shone strongly down upon them.

When they turned around they just managed to get a glance at a spatial tear in the fabrics of reality, leading to a blue expanse with many stars all around, both above, beneath and to the sides.

The carriage returned to this spatial tear shortly after they stepped out, and then the spatial tear closed itself, leaving the four alone in the grassy expanse, unaware of what exactly to make of themselves.

”This is the Demon Phoenix Continent?” Xue Wei asked tentatively, but he was answered with questioning glances from the other experts in the group.

”You ask me, but who can I ask?” Bai Tianyi asked, perplexed. He truly had no clue. In fact, none of them did.

”This could just as well be a part of Chang'an for all that I know,” Hei Gou said hesitatingly. ”I am sure that such a vast grassy expanse could be anywhere.”

”Well, we will get no answers by staying here,” Lin Xiao finally said, looking as lost as the others. ”We ought to start moving. The question is just, which way?”

The four experts looked at one another, hesitating. Where should they go?

”In the end, it does not matter,” Xue Wei finally came to a decision. He might not be the strongest in their group, but when it came to making the final decisions, he was no doubt the best suited.

”Let us just walk forward,” Xue Wei said and began walking through the grassy expanse. ”No matter what way we walk, we cannot know the result, so this is relying heavily on luck.”

The other three could say nothing to this conclusion. He was completely correct.

They moved forward, but not at a leisurely pace. They flew as fast as they could to get out of the vast expanse as soon as possible.

Unfortunately, this grassy field was much bigger than they had expected. After flying for a full two hours, they still could not see the edge of the field. Where there had previously been no beasts, beasts started appearing, but all of them were of lower intellect, being Fierce Beasts.

Xue Wei was puzzled. On Chang'an, the Fierce Beasts had all avoided him as much as they could, but here they seemed curious about him.

At first, when a Cloud Leopard appeared, Xue Wei and the others stopped in their tracks, ready to fight, but the leopard just glanced at them curiously. It appeared to be especially curious when it looked at Xue Wei before it nodded its head and left again.

This was a scene that happened again and again. More and more beasts came to see Xue Wei, and he started to feel like a monkey in the zoo. All the Fierce Beasts in the vast field seemed to rush towards him just to get a glance at him.

Not knowing whether to laugh or to cry, Xue Wei looked at them too. There were races of Fierce Beasts he had never seen before, but it was clear that none of them were Primordial Beasts.

”Oh look, now it is a bird-type beast!” Lin Xiao said to the others and pointed at the sky. He did rightfully so, as a majestic eagle with a wingspan of three meters was flying in the air above them, looking down on Xue Wei with curiosity in its eyes before it screeched and flew away again.

”This is quite fun.” Bai Tianyi grinned as he looked around them. ”Over there is a rather ferocious-looking rabbit!” he said as he pointed into the distance where a white rabbit with fangs and blood red eyes was seated, looking at them with a vibrating nose.

Xue Wei felt quite unsettled. What had caused all these beasts to show such curiosity towards him?

But they did not stop moving forward, continuing at top speed. Soon, they suddenly saw a human cultivator not far away from them.

”Halt!” the cultivator called out loudly. Xue Wei and the others stopped in their tracks. They were not willing to insult someone right after arriving. They had already lived a life being chased as convicts. They did not want to experience that again as soon as they came to this new place.

”Oh, it is just a group of two-eyed idiots,” the person muttered. Xue Wei heard that thanks to his sharp hearing and was startled.

When he took in the appearance of the person in front of him, he quickly blinked a few times to ensure that what he saw was indeed correct, and then he looked at the others, who also looked with utter perplexity at the person in front of them.

Where they had two eyes, this person had a third in the middle. All three were red like blood, looking extremely eerie.

”What's wrong?!” the person asked, feeling insulted when he saw their gawking expressions. ”Have you never seen a three-eyed expert before?”

”No...” Xue Wei answered honestly. ”Could you perhaps tell us what the name of this continent is?”