FENG YU JIU TIAN [VOLUME ONE]

Chapter One

Chapter One.

Feng-ming died.

He never expected that his life would be so short.

Usually at 19 years old, one would prospect at building a life rather than having it end so prematurely. However, in his case he was fated to see a truck hurtling towards a small boy who crossed the road while completely oblivious to the incoming danger.

Without hesitation, Feng-ming secured the child in his embrace.

The force of the truck's impact immediately sent him up in the air, like an angel falling from grace. As the moment of his surreal air suspension passed, all he could hear was the noise of passer-bys running towards the pair.

At that moment, he knew he was dead.

Where do dead people go?

Once Feng-ming was separated from his physical body, he reached a void, a completely empty space between the living and the dead world.

No-one could see or hear him scream. It was like he was trapped in a cold detached nightmare.

Alone and isolated, his morale dropped to the point of despair, but suddenly, his ears perked at what he thought was a noise.

"You should still be here? Am I right?" The voice was unfamiliar, Feng-ming couldn't associate it with anyone he might have known when he was alive, but this voice was clearly addressing him.

"Me?" Feng-ming answered a bit frightened. "Are you talking to me? Who are you? Are you God? Or are you also a ghost?"

The voice chuckled: "No, I'm not God nor am I a ghost. I'm standing at the door of the void."

Feng-ming's wisped his head around to check; out towards the far distance of his emptiness, he spotted a middle-aged man and in that man's arms was the young boy he had risked his life to save.

The mysterious man's mouth ever so slightly, "I'm actually a sorcerer, I possess supernatural abilities. To repay your kindness of saving my child's life, I can help you gain a life again."

"Are you for real?" Feng-ming was genuinely surprised.

"Yes." The man nodded. "Today's alignment between this world and another's is perfect, allowing me to open a time-space portal from our world. I will find you another recently deceased body, which you can assume its identity. Of course, I will select a corpse that is in much better condition than your own after the accident."

"So are you saying, I have no other choice but to enter a different time and space?"

"That's correct. This is a rare opportunity. You are very fortunate to have made my acquaintance; I am your only hope in casting this portal to a different realm, where you will be able to live once more. If you were to linger in this void more than 12 hours, your soul will slowly dissipate and cease to exist."

"Then my luck is pretty good today, I thought all dead people are reincarnated."

"My offer only stands as you've fortunately died while rescuing my child, on a day coinciding with a rare stability between our world and another. Have you decided?"

"What is there to even think over?"

"Well then, we'll commence."

"Wait!"

"You have something you want to ask me?"

"If you have to find a corpse, can't I at least make a choice?"

"What is your request?"

Feng-ming shot the middle-aged man an exasperated look.

"Of course, I'd at least want to be in the place of a good person, it would be awesome if it was a young-master."