Through Fire or Stone

Zhen Xi felt the world fall away as the energy of the sudden blast to the back of his head began to suffuse with the rest of his body.

Before his eyes, the desert and stars began to warp...and merge....and disa...ppear....

'I feel...warm...'

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"Gah! What the fuck?! Where...whoa..."

One minute, Zhen Xi was in the middle of a desert, surrounded by pigs, cacti, sand, stars and a caravan.

The next, he found himself standing before a mountain with an elaborate looking building carved right into the side of it, with a massive stone door entrance flanked by statues of boar riding warriors.

When he craned his neck upward to stare at the sky, he found it to be covered in smoke, ash and moving constellations of golden stars that seemed to be swim through the aforementioned smoke and ash as if it was the most natural thing in the universe.