Dragon Raja: Lu Mingfei's Dimensional Gate

The wall is slowly healing after the puncture.

The wall heals itself as you walk, as if it had never been pierced at all.

"How is it? Can we get out?" The blonde girl was a little tired. She had been attracted by the golden light earlier and, having also failed to find the exit, she came in Lu Mingfei's direction.

“It has no effect.” Lu Mingfei shook his head.

During the time it took him to stab the wall.

The countdown to the dimensional gate has ended, and it can now be opened.

He could easily open the dimensional portal and leave this godforsaken place, abandoning the commission he had already accepted and ignoring it all.

He couldn't do that; he could have saved her, but he chose not to, because it would torment his conscience.

Entering the dimensional gate is a last resort; after some detours, the blonde girl should be sent back.

The client, Shen Ping, looks noticeably thinner now. Entering the dimensional gate will take time, and it's not fixed; it could be a few weeks or a few months. By then, the client might be skin and bones, and in the worst-case scenario, he might even die of depression.

Chao Shui leaned weakly against the cave wall. "I might not be able to get out. If you can, please give this to him."

She took out an ordinary-looking stone she had found in the cave and handed it to Lu Mingfei.

Lu Mingfei looked at it but didn't accept it. "You still need to give this to him yourself."

He sensed that the connection between himself and the two evil spirits had been severed. There were two possibilities: either the evil spirits were destroyed or they had left this small world.

The two evil spirits flew in different directions, making it virtually impossible to eliminate them without warning.

In other words, they may have found a way out.

“I have a way to find the exit.” Lu Mingfei walked towards the nearest eight-foot-tall man.

Weak and stubborn, Chao Shui leaned against the wall and followed behind Lu Mingfei.

The two walked to a fork in the road, and Chao Shui suddenly stopped and called out to Lu Mingfei.

"Did you hear anything?"

Listen closely and you'll hear a faint breeze blowing, so faint that you can't even tell where it's coming from; it seems to come from all directions, or even from the cave itself.

"Asami! Where are you?" The boy's voice came from the other side of the fork in the road.

"It's Shen Ping! He's come in too..."

Upon hearing this voice, the weakened Chao Shui instantly perked up, cupping her hands to her mouth and shouting, "Shen Ping, I'm here—"

As Lu Mingfei was puzzled, he also heard a voice.

"Mingfei, are you here too? The exit is this way, hurry up and come over."

If it were Liu Yanyan's voice, it would definitely be fake, but this is Reigen Arataka's voice.

"Here, the exit is here, let's hurry over." Chao Shui called out to Lu Mingfei in a friendly manner.

Finding an exit was naturally a relief, but Lu Mingfei, with the mindset that both sides were paths trodden by evil spirits, decided to give it a try and walked across.

Unlike the previous comfort, the air here seemed much colder, making Chao Shui shiver all over.

Lu Mingfei handed his suit jacket to Chaoshui.

The passageway seemed very long; they walked for a long time without seeing the end.

Moreover, the temperature was getting lower and lower, and even the light was getting dimmer. The plants on the cave walls seemed to be shrouded in a thick curtain, blocking the light they emitted.

The sound he had just heard was clearly not far away, but he couldn't find the exit, which aroused Lu Mingfei's suspicion. Moreover, Reigen Arataka's call seemed to be getting closer and closer, but the distance did not decrease.

He sensed something was wrong; if he continued walking, he might encounter the "true owner" of the cave.

He quickly turned around and took another route.

"Shen Ping, you big idiot..."

The blonde girl gazed longingly at the empty space ahead, clutching a small stone in her hand.

This familiar scene set off alarm bells in Lu Mingfei's mind; he was being haunted by evil spirits.

His telekinetic power is strong, so his resistance to evil spirits is also strong. If evil spirits want to dismantle his power, they have to wear him down little by little. A narrow and dimly lit passageway is the best opportunity.

Although Asamizu is an ability user, he is not strong.

"Mingfei, what are you looking at? Maybe this blonde girl is starving." Reigen Arataka walked calmly through the dark mist, one hand in his pocket.

"Asami!" Shen Ping rushed out from behind Reigen Shinryo and pounced on the girl.

His haggard face was exactly the same as when Lu Mingfei left.

As if waking from a dream, Asami gazed at the boy who had reappeared before her.

"Mr. Reigen, why isn't Mob here?" Lu Mingfei asked.

"Hey, extra, he's gone to school. I thought it was some kind of evil spirit incident, but it's just a missing person case. You guys stumbled into this cave and have been lost for days." Reigen Arataka took out his flip phone with a bald guy as the screen saver, turned on the flashlight, and walked deeper into the cave.

"Hurry up and catch up, or several days could pass if you're even a little late."

Lu Mingfei hesitated for a moment, then raised his hand and threw a punch at Shen Ping beside him, hitting Shen Ping before Chao Shui could intercept it.

"What are you doing? Were you lying to me all this time?" Chao Shui's hair condensed into the shape of a sharp blade. Despite her weakness, she was still full of murderous intent as she glared at Lu Mingfei.

"..." Lu Mingfei did not respond, but simply stared at Shen Ping, who had been hit by him.

"What's going on? Why...why am I not bleeding? Why am I a cloud of black mist?" Shen Ping asked in horror, lifting his body that had been defeated by Lu Mingfei.

Chao Shui looked back upon hearing the sound and saw Shen Ping dissipating.

"What happened? How did you become like this? Did he turn you into this?"

Shen Ping stared at his dissipating self and suddenly realized, "Quick, run! There's an evil spirit deep inside. She created me. You can't defeat her!"

After Shen Ping disappeared, Lu Mingfei and Asamizu focused their attention on Reigen Arataka, who was walking forward on his own.

"Not knowing that it was created, possessing an independent personality, it has finally appeared—a monster!" Asamizu stood ready, assuming a fighting stance.

The monster is a rumor circulating on the island that can replace the original owner and live on in the original owner's identity.

"But why aren't they afraid of having their shadows stepped on?" Chaoshui wondered.

“This is an illusion created by an evil spirit using black mist as raw material. It’s not a real monster. I think I know who the evil spirit in here is.” Lu Mingfei walked towards Reigen Arataka, who was going deeper into the area.

“Mr. Reigen, only those with abilities can enter this place. Even if you were once possessed by Mob’s energy, you still cannot enter here, let alone Shen Ping, who is just an ordinary person. So you should understand what you are now, right?” Lu Mingfei did not want to attack Reigen Arataka, even if it was an illusion.

Reigen Arataka turned his head and smiled sinisterly, "Since that's the case, I won't pretend anymore. You..." He suddenly laughed, "Well done. Well, I didn't want to lead you there either, but that voice was more seductive than a con artist's."

After saying that, Reigen Arataka smiled and disappeared into the air.

Lu Mingfei rushed into the black mist amidst Chao Shui's astonished gaze.

A chilling wind suddenly blew through the black mist, and then golden light flashed. The mournful howls and battle-filled roars intertwined, and soon the black mist dissipated.

Lu Mingfei straightened his tie as he emerged from the dissipating black fog, followed by a little girl with her head down. Her white dress was spotless, and her long, black hair covered half her face, revealing only her delicate chin and small lips.

"Who is this?"

“One of my evil spirits.”

"Are you a spirit master?"

"That's it."

Lu Mingfei put Sadako, who had lost her mind but was now subdued again, into a spirit storage bottle.

As Sadako searches for an exit, the further she gets from Lu Mingfei, the weaker their connection becomes, until finally she even forgets why she came and where she is going.

She happened to wander into an unclaimed land brimming with energy. Her evil nature led her to absorb this energy, and she quickly became lost in the devouring process, once again transforming into the fearsome urban legend, Sadako.

Although Sadako has become much stronger, she has gone through a process of losing her mind, transforming from a domesticated evil spirit into a wild evil spirit and then back into a domesticated evil spirit.

Lu Mingfei is now worried that the Eight-Foot Master is the same way.

Just as he returned to the fork in the road, the entire cave began to shake and tremble, as if an earthquake had struck.

“I remember now, there was a tremor here before you came in.” Chao Shui squatted on the ground with her hands behind her head, waiting for the aftershocks to subside.

"In other words, the trembling means that an entrance has opened and we can get out." Lu Mingfei understood another layer of meaning.

It's currently unknown how long this entrance will remain open. What might be an hour or two for the outside world is just a few seconds for those inside. He needs to leave this place as quickly as possible.

Lu Mingfei used his telekinesis to support the weakened Chao Shui and rushed towards the possible entrance.

He suddenly felt a suffocating palpitation, a tremendous sense of crisis that made him stop in his tracks and look in the other direction.

In such a short time, it's impossible for an eight-foot-tall man to become this strong.

The sound of hard-soled shoes hitting the ground echoed in the cave, followed by a beam of light piercing the darkness.

"Mingfei, is that you?" A young male voice drowned out the footsteps.

He recognized the voice and felt as if he had been saved. "Mob, it's me. I'm so glad you've come. I knew I shouldn't have said I wouldn't go back if things didn't work out. You haven't come to see me for so long."

"I'm sorry, I've been quite busy lately. My relationship with my friends is pretty good, but my master... he encountered some issues, so he forgot about it," Shigeo Kageyama explained.

"You guys still have time to chat, but I'm starving," Chaoshui protested.

Lu Mingfei and Shigeo Kageyama walked away.

How did you get in?

"I've opened a passage. Mingfei is quite remarkable. It took me a lot of effort to open this passage for such a large creature." Shigeo Kageyama humbly led the two to the exit he had created.

Standing outside the exit was Reigen Arataka, constantly checking his watch, with a small, emerald-green dimple floating in mid-air. Shen Ping stood beside him, looking at the three of them with surprise.

The two people outside the cave moved at lightning speed, as if they were on double speed.

The three left the cave one after the other.

Reigen Shinryu checked on Lu Mingfei and Asahi, and determined that Asahi was probably exhausted from not eating for a long time, while Lu Mingfei was fine.

"How long do you think you've been here, Mob?" Reigen Arataka asked, holding up his watch.

"About a minute."

"Luckily, only half an hour has passed here." He breathed a sigh of relief.

“But I was only in the cave for a total of ten minutes.” Lu Mingfei was very confused.

“You’ve been missing for many days,” Reigen Arataka explained.