Just as Yu Xian was about to get up and deal with the nuisance outside, Shui Yuetian spoke first: "Zhi'er, they're too loud."
The bodyguard standing by immediately turned and headed outside the shop. Once out front, he cracked his neck, then suddenly lashed out with a kick. The noisy pig-headed beastman was instantly sent flying.
Quite literally flying.
In the blink of an eye, the pig-headed beastman vanished past the horizon.
There was serious technical skill behind that kick. If Yu Xian had done it, the beastman would at best have detonated on the spot, his body blown to pieces.
Launching someone clean into the distance without taking their life the way Zhi'er did was truly no simple feat.
Next, Zhi'er kicked away one pig-headed beastman per blow. Within moments, every single troublemaker had been booted into the sky, and the world was finally quiet.
"Fish God, please don't be angry. Don't stoop to the level of those pigheads—they're just not right in the head," Shui Yuetian said to Yu Xian.
She didn't deny having a favorable impression of Yu Xian.
In truth, anyone who had watched that film would hardly think poorly of him, but the underlying reason was his strength.
Yu Xian was a genuine Star-rank powerhouse, a terrifying existence who had advanced to the Star Rank less than a year after coming into contact with supernatural power.
Whenever anyone encountered a genius like that, four words inevitably sprang to mind: a rare commodity to cherish.
As long as one got on his good side, who knew—a blink of an eye later, you might find yourself with a Li-rank friend. A few more blinks, and there was no telling what unfathomable realm Yu Xian might have reached.
As the saying went, when you are strong, the whole world is your friend.
Except for fools with poor brains like those pig-headed beastmen, most Transcendents would naturally lean toward befriending Yu Xian. After all, being his enemy was far too dangerous.
With the pig-headed beastmen out of the way, Yu Xian and the others began sampling the restaurant's specialty dishes.
Overall, it was awful.
Completely, utterly, textbook dark cuisine.
Yu Xian took a single bite and stopped eating entirely. Little Nora, on the other hand, refused nothing and found every single dish delicious.
This was mainly because Little Nora possessed peculiar taste buds. Perhaps because its diet primarily consisted of dragons, it shared a trait with the dragon clan: it could stomach the food of almost every race, and if food was truly scarce, it could even sustain itself on dirt.
In the end, not a scrap of food went to waste—it all ended up in Little Nora's belly.
After finishing the meal, Shui Yuetian seized the chance to invite Yu Xian to stay as a guest among the Sea Clan, but he declined on the pretext of having other matters to attend to.
The group left the shop, and after walking together for a short distance, Shui Yuetian took the initiative to bid Yu Xian farewell. From there, each went their separate way.
Yu Xian led the two little ones weaving through the crowd. Once the pedestrians thinned out, he casually wrapped himself and the two youngsters in a bubble, vanishing the very next second.
***
Earth.
Yu Xian, Little Nora, and Little Huangquan appeared out of thin air inside his home.
Nangong Wanwan, who was kneeling on the floor wiping the tiles with a rag, immediately stood up upon seeing Yu Xian. "Proprietor."
"Mm, carry on with what you were doing," Yu Xian said with a nod.
He had not been away for particularly long, and since Nangong Wanwan had kept the place spotless, the house had hardly changed at all.
"Big Brother, what kind of place is this?" Little Nora took the opportunity to ask.
Yu Xian slumped onto the sofa and smiled. "This is your big brother's home. From now on, you can treat it as your own. Over there is the fridge, and over that way is a cold room. If you want anything to eat, you can ask her to make it for you."
As he spoke, he pointed toward Nangong Wanwan, who had resumed wiping the floor.
"Awesome! We're home!" Little Nora cheered excitedly upon hearing this. "Then Big Brother, can I have my own room?"
Yu Xian chuckled. "Of course you can. Wanwan, take Little Nora and Little Huangquan to pick their rooms."
"Understood, Proprietor. Young Master, Young Miss, please follow me," Nangong Wanwan said, rising and placing her rag into the nearby bucket before addressing the two little ones.
Little Huangquan looked up at Yu Xian. He patted her head and smiled. "Go on. This is your home now, too. No need to be so reserved."
"I want to pick a big room!" Little Nora shouted happily as it followed Nangong Wanwan.
Yu Xian smiled as he watched the two little ones leave with Nangong Wanwan, only turning his gaze toward the window a moment later. He had quietly left quite a few spatial bubbles in Crescent Bay, and sure enough, he could now clearly sense them across the distance.
This perception was an inherent ability of the spatial affinity.
It was somewhat akin to quantum entanglement; the instant the thought crossed his mind, he could sense the coordinates of the bubbles faster than the speed of light.
Moreover, he could easily distinguish the differences between these coordinates. For instance, the bubbles left in the Ancient Cosmos Dragon's world felt completely different from those placed on Earth.
To make an analogy, if Earth's coordinates started with the number 1, then the Ancient Cosmos Dragon's world started with a 2, and the Martial Ultimate Zombie King's world started with a 3.
Crescent Bay's coordinates also began with a 1. So long as one wasn't brain-dead, telling the difference was child's play.
"Crescent Bay really is in the same universe as Earth. It's just almost on the opposite side of the cosmos. Which means... space within the Abyss is extraordinarily chaotic, even stranger than I imagined," Yu Xian murmured to himself, staring out at the azure sky.
He had entered the Abyss through the Abyss rift on Earth, only to arrive in the world where the Ancient Cosmos Dragon resided. Then, after sailing through the Abyss for a considerable time, he had reached Crescent Bay.
Given the distance covered by the spaceship's spatial jumps, he should have long exceeded the dimensions of the entire universe, yet after circling around, he had wound up back in his original cosmos.
It was utterly incredible, running entirely counter to intuition, logic, and common sense.
Yu Xian could only deduce from his limited knowledge that the Abyss itself was flawed and its internal space profoundly distorted, giving rise to such bizarre phenomena.
"Right, I need to make some preparations at home first."
Yu Xian didn't dwell on the matter any further. Recalling that a peeping tom was still lurking on Earth, he reached out a hand. A bubble rapidly expanded from his fingertip, thoroughly enclosing the three-mu Chinese-style estate in the blink of an eye.
Layer upon layer of bubbles covered the estate in succession, while the Art of Grotto-Heaven was applied across every layer, forging a super barrier that boasted both formidable defensive strength and top-tier concealment.
This way, he would no longer have to worry about anyone spying on him.
Even so, he anticipated that he would probably be hitting the news headlines again tomorrow.
"Just who is this peeping tom?"
Yu Xian lay on the sofa, staring at the ceiling as he muttered to himself.
Two things were certain. First, the peeping tom actually had very limited knowledge of him, with most of their information derived from news reports.
This was evident from the filled-in portions of the film.
Certain parts were entirely made up of the tall tales Zhang Shou had spun during interviews. When reporters asked Yu Xian about the same things, he had forced a strained smile and played along, confirming Zhang Shou's boasting just to save his friend face.
And the peeping tom had taken it all as gospel truth.
As a result, that bastard had treated Zhang Shou's brags as actual events and spliced them into the movie.
Clearly, prior to his defeat of Edward, the peeping tom had known almost nothing about him. The person had only begun digging into his background after the fact, and only then had the sudden inspiration struck to upload his private life and exploits onto Crescent Bay's network to make a quick buck.
From this, Yu Xian could deduce that this individual rarely spent time on Earth under normal circumstances.
Crescent Bay was vastly more prosperous than Earth, and its supernatural resources were infinitely richer. In all likelihood, the peeping tom preferred staying in Crescent Bay.
The person might even have a regular job there.
This single factor alone ruled out seventy to eighty percent of the people on Earth.
The rest would be those Transcendents who frequently traveled to the Abyss. Compared to searching for a needle in a haystack in Crescent Bay, investigating suspects on Earth would actually be far easier.
Chapter 228