"I don’t think you’re joking..."
Agunas’s shadowy figure helplessly flicked its tail and said, as Qi Xiaoshuang looked at Feng Yuan with a puzzled expression, "By the way, aren’t you playing games today?"
"Big Cat is on autopilot; I can’t be bothered to log in today."
Seeing Feng Yuan’s lazy demeanor, Qi Xiaoshuang thought for a moment and said,
"Are you tired? Why don’t you go rest in my brother’s room? He’s out on a date and definitely won’t be back soon."
"No need, but don’t you need to start getting ready?"
Feng Yuan looked at Qi Xiaoshuang with some confusion. Today Qi Chen and Dou Yanlan had arranged to go shopping for travel necessities. After all, if it were a normal trip, it wouldn’t matter, but given this trip was clearly going to be problematic, both Qi Chen and Dou Yanlan felt the need to prepare some items in advance.
With some resignation, Qi Xiaoshuang said,
"My brother said he would buy things for me, and my mom also said she would prepare stuff. Honestly, I’m not a child anymore."
Feng Yuan smiled and said,
"In the eyes of the elders, you’re always a child."
"Tsk, such a respected elder sir, how long do you plan to keep up this persona?"
"Well, not sure, but I guess not much longer."
Feng Yuan stretched and yawned, saying that at present, his appearance was quite inconvenient in certain situations. There was nothing he could do about it. After some thought, Qi Xiaoshuang asked,
"Do you have any recording equipment that isn’t affected by temporal correction?"
"I don’t think so, what do you need that for?"
Feng Yuan lay on the sofa, tilting his head up in confusion as he looked at Qi Xiaoshuang, who had walked around to his side. Qi Xiaoshuang said with regret,
"I want to keep a memento. Didn’t you say that after this is over, the whole of Calien might undergo drastic changes?"
"That’s true... but something unaffected by temporal correction..."
Feng Yuan tried to recall while Agunas’s shadow flicked its tail and said,
"Bring the recording device to me, I can bestow upon it the property of transcending time."
"That’s one solution."
Feng Yuan scratched his head, saying he initially overcomplicated matters. As a Divine Beast with the Authority of Time, even if such an item didn’t exist, enabling an object to be unaffected by time was still quite simple. Otherwise, the Land of Time Tranquility would have vanished in the chaos of temporal currents long ago.
Hearing Agunas’s suggestion, Qi Xiaoshuang hurriedly ran back to her room, and after a moment, she carefully cradled out a portable video camera. Agunas, becoming more solid, blessed the camera and then looked at both Qi Xiaoshuang and Feng Yuan,
"Bring out anything else that needs to be imbued with the property of transcending time."
"Do you think I need anything?"
Feng Yuan complained, and Qi Xiaoshuang thought for a moment before saying,
Agunas flicked its tail and reverted to a shadowy figure once more. Feng Yuan picked up the portable camera, looked at it, and handed it to Qi Xiaoshuang, saying,
"You still need to take good care of this thing. Just because it’s unaffected by time doesn’t mean it can’t be destroyed. The material is still the same as before; it’ll probably break if you drop it."
Glancing at Feng Yuan, Qi Xiaoshuang hugged the camera tightly and said,
"I’ll definitely take good care of it!"
On the departure day, Qi Chen and the others said goodbye to Qi Chen’s mother. Seeing Ah Mu saddled with heaps of luggage, Feng Yuan smiled and said to Qi Chen,
"You’re surely mistreating Ah Mu~"
"I have no choice, there’s too much luggage..."
Qi Chen, with a travel bag taller than himself on his back, said helplessly. As they prepared, the number of things to take kept increasing. If Feng Yuan hadn’t asked whether they were planning to travel or move, they would probably have prepared even more. All that luggage clearly wasn’t something the two of them could carry, so they had no choice but to entrust it to Ah Mu.
Qi Xiaoshuang looked at Feng Yuan, who was empty-handed, and asked,
"Aren’t you taking anything?"
"I have things; they’re all with Big Cat~"
"So you’re using Big Cat as a suitcase..."
Qi Xiaoshuang silently looked at the Big Cat trailing right behind Feng Yuan. Feng Yuan smiled and said,
"Almost ready, it’s a shame Big Cat isn’t a traveler bear kind of spirit beast, otherwise, we could carry even more~"
"You really know how to take advantage..."
Big Cat blinked its eyes as it moved its wings to the front of its head, seemingly content with helping Feng Yuan carry things. Qi Xiaoshuang glanced at Big Cat and said irritably,
"You’re totally led astray by this guy, who uses a scholar’s owl cat as a travel bag?"
"And you’re nodding... He’s bullying you, you know."
Big Cat looked at Qi Xiaoshuang and shook its head as if to disagree. Seeing Qi Xiaoshuang’s somewhat angry expression, Qi Chen helplessly said,
"If Big Cat doesn’t mind, why are you?"
"Enough about that, do you have all your stuff?"
Qi Chen asked Feng Yuan again to confirm, since he wasn’t quite sure whether Feng Yuan had really checked his luggage. Feng Yuan waved his hand and said,
"I’ve got everything, and if I forgot something, can’t I just buy it?"
Agunas’s shadow looked at Feng Yuan speechlessly and swished its tail, saying,
"You, I’m not going to help you come back for things."
Feng Yuan took out the Dark Ancient Book and spun it in his hand before putting it away again, looking smugly at Agunas’s shadow and saying,
"With a portable store and money, what’s there to worry about forgetting?"
"That’s forced buying and selling..."
Agunas’s shadow didn’t quite know what to say about Feng Yuan’s straightforward method of taking goods and leaving money.
The three of them chatted as they took the bus to the meeting point.
"Yo~ you’re here so early~"
Outside the high-speed rail station, at the travel group’s meeting spot, Feng Yuan called out to a man sitting on the ground who was explaining something to a Flame Wolfhound. The man looked up with a puzzled expression, then, recognizing Feng Yuan and the group, he said with some surprise,
"You guys are joining this trip too?"
"Yeah~ won it in a raffle~"
"What a coincidence."
Yang Hongzhi smiled, and seeing Najia behind Feng Yuan, he scratched his head and said,
"I didn’t expect to meet you guys here; I didn’t bring the clothes I bought for Najia."
Najia shyly hid behind Feng Yuan and sneakily glanced at Yang Hongzhi. Qi Chen walked up to talk, and Qi Xiaoshuang thoughtfully looked from Feng Yuan to Yang Hongzhi.
"Too bad there’s no such thing as a Space Gate for transportation."
On the high-speed train, Feng Yuan said with some regret. After all, it was a cross-regional trip, and even with the fastest means of transport provided by the travel company, it still required two days to reach the destination. Qi Chen glanced at Feng Yuan and said,
"Who do you think has the ability to find a Space Series Divine Beast to help open the door?"
While there are many spirit beasts with space abilities in this world, only God Beasts with space abilities can open a Space Gate connecting two regions. Even Drudgeon, who mastered Lost Magic, couldn’t achieve spatial transfer between regions. Agunas had the ability to open a Space Gate between regions only because of the Golden Tome Page.
"Thinking about wasting four days just going back and forth makes me feel uncomfortable~"
Qi Chen glanced at Xiao Ji, who was curiously moving around beside Feng Yuan, and said,
"I think it’ll be uncomfortable for it later on."
"After we arrive at the station, we’ll be boarding the ship directly, and we’ll have to spend most of the day on it. If I remember correctly, it really hates water, doesn’t it?"
Hearing Qi Chen’s words, Xiao Ji stood on end and warily looked at Feng Yuan. Petting Xiao Ji’s head, Feng Yuan said helplessly,
"You little one, if you don’t like water, just stay in the room, no one said you had to play in the water. Besides, you’re not going to get scared on a ship, are you?"
Xiao Ji suddenly put on a smiley face and rubbed its head in Feng Yuan’s palm. Pomiti curiously looked around while sitting atop Big Cat’s head. Dreaming Dragon Baby stayed by Pomiti’s side like a guard, while Najia seemed to be communicating with Yang Hongzhi.
While waiting to board the ship, Feng Yuan ran aside and shouted toward the sea at the harbor. Najia looked at the sea and seemed rather downcast. Yang Hongzhi tried everything but couldn’t cheer Najia up, so he quickly ran to find Feng Yuan. Looking at Najia, Feng Yuan said with some confusion,
"What’s wrong with you?"