Ah Chun: Ascending The Heavens 209 Was It All A Dream?

Ah Chun closed the menu and pressed the button at the side like she was told. She had decided to order something called a cheeseburger and french fries.  These were strange words she had never read or heard before but did seem to be a kind of food. While she was waiting for the woman in black clothes to return, Ah Chun heard a disturbance coming from the main dining room.

"Everyone down on the ground! Otherwise, I will blow all of you up along with me!" A man yelled.

Ah Chun frowned. What was going on? She opened the door of her private room to see a man waving an object around in his hand and some weird contraption strapped to his chest. She walked out of the room and towards the man, no fear was seen in her eyes. The man saw the little girl walking up to him and his eyes turned cold. "Stay the fuck back or I will blow you up along with me!" 

Ah Chun ignored the man. She did not feel any spiritual power coming from this man so she felt no fear that this man could harm her. The man, on the other hand, sneered at the little girl. The derangement in his eyes multiplied as he laughed maniacally. "Since you do not belong to this world let me send you back!!"

*Click*

*Boom!*

That was all Ah Chun heard when she suddenly felt her body being ripped apart. Pain coursed through her mind as she felt her own body burning. She did not even get a chance to scream as everything went black…

"Ahh!" Ah Chun woke up, sweat dripped from her forehead. She looked at where she was and felt a sudden burst of confusion. The room she was in was very familiar to her. Rundown mud walls, a leaking roof, a bed made out of straw and only a small stove in the middle of the room. 

"What's going on… Uhg so hungry..." Ah Chun's stomach rumbled. Ah Chun's body stiffened, she felt like everything she had just been through was a dream.  She looked down at her little arms that were dark-skinned and skinny to the point that her skin stuck to her bones. What was worse was that she could not feel her cultivation at all! There was not an ounce of spiritual power within her body! 

Ah Chun tried her best to send her senses inward but she was not even able to do that! She could not even feel the flow of spiritual power in the air! Ah Chun felt scared how did this happen? No matter how strong an illusion is, it would never be able to remove your sense of Spiritual Qi! The only reason one could not sense Spiritual Qi at all was if their meridians had not been opened yet.

Ah Chun's thoughts were interrupted as a soft knock came from the door. "Little Chun are you in it's me Li Chen Bao." 

Ah Chun was confused at first but then the smell of meat drifted under the door. Ah Chun's saliva flooded her mouth as she let out an audible gulp. Her stomach rumbled loudly from the scent of the meat. She slowly got up off the floor and walked towards the door and opening it.  Standing before her was Li Chen Bao "Miss Li, how can I help you?" 

"Little Chun, I heard that my bratty little brother came over and harassed you. Here's a bit of demonic beast meat. It's not much but it was all I could sneak over to you. It should be enough for at least a meal tonight. I wish I could have gotten you more but I would have been discovered by everyone else." Li Chen Bao felt a bit bad. She hated how the people in the village treated such a little girl.

"No this is fine Miss Li thank you very much." Ah Chun smiled. A feeling of deja vu overwhelmed Ah Chun. She felt that she had had this conversation before with Li Chen Bao. 

"It is only a small matter. I wish I could have given you more. I will not stay. If the others find me missing they will certainly come to find me and  I do not want them taking away the meat I gave you so hurry up and eat it just in case. I see you later, bye Little Chun!" Li Chen Bao smiled before running off. 

Ah Chun stood there for a few seconds still dumbfounded at what was going on. "Is this real or is this all fake? If it's real then I have returned to the day before I met mother. If it's fake then I am in some kind of illusion. But no Illusion is able to take away someone's Spiritual Qi to the point that even their meridians were not even opened yet! Never mind opened meridians just my cultivation base alone was something that could not be taken away so easily!" Ah Chun's stomach rumbled again due to the smell of meat that now filed the entire mud hut. "I will eat first. If I recall correctly, there should be mushrooms that I found that day."

Ah Chun, looked around and sure enough, there was a handwoven basket with mushrooms inside. She quickly started a fire and put a pot of water on the fire to a boil. Ah Chun then cleaned the mushrooms off and tossed them in the pot along with the meat. While the food cooked Ah Chun got lost in thought. "If I am truly back in the past, then the strange world I was in before I woke up here must have something to do with it. It is either that or I had an extremely long dream. But so far everything is somewhat the same. Except why was I sleeping? If I recall correctly I only cried that day." Ah Chun went to scratch her head in frustration. But she felt a sharp pain on the back of her head and a warm damp spot. Ah Chun looked at her hand to see a bit of blood on it. "When did I get this injury?" She never remembered getting hurt before. In her memories, she had only sat on the bed and cried before Li Chen Bao arrived.  

Ah Chun was truly confused. Somethings were the same while other things were not. Ah Chun remembered the words of the crazed man before she woke up here. "Since you do not belong to this world let me send you back… Did that mean that the strange world was indeed a real place? If that was the case then that crazed man was something like a guardian of that world?" Ah Chun shook her head. "It does not matter. As of now, I am back to before I started cultivating. Meaning tomorrow I should be meeting up with Mother. If I do not meet up with her then this world may be different from the last. I will eat and sleep for tonite and get up early tomorrow. If all goes to what I remembered then I should meet a ranked five demonic beast tomorrow. A Wind Chasing Tiger." As Ah Chun closed her eyes. A thought came to her mind. "If I do not meet mother tomorrow then I will need to find a way to open my meridians… I will deal with it when the time comes. Time to sleep..."  

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