booktalesy Chapter 575, Rootless Duckweed
Chapter 575, Rootless Duckweed
The light drew closer and closer, its outline becoming clearer and clearer—it was a colorful island.
In stark contrast to the desolate and silent black island where Hua Changxi was located, the colorful island was lush with vegetation, with winding streams, and flowers, birds, insects and fish living in their own places, forming a self-contained world, teeming with quiet yet vibrant life.
In the center of the island sat a beautiful and adorable Nascent Soul.
The nascent soul was fair and tender, radiating a warm and gentle light, making it approachable to look at; this contrasted sharply with the black nascent soul beside Hua Changxi, which was surrounded by a cold and aloof aura.
Hua Changxi was shocked and involuntarily held her breath, widening her eyes to see more clearly.
The black nascent soul is also watching.
Both the human and the infant revealed curiosity and curiosity about the colorful island and the Jade Snow Nascent Soul in their eyes.
Yu Xue's Nascent Soul also discovered the black island, as well as Hua Changxi and the black Nascent Soul on the island.
Yu Xue Nascent Soul merely glanced at Hua Changxi, his gaze focusing on the black Nascent Soul.
The two Nascent Soul cultivators gazed at each other from afar, separated by the void.
One is as warm and smooth as white jade, the other is as dark and inky as ink; one stands in the bright light of blooming flowers, the other is curled up in desolate loneliness, seemingly living in two completely different worlds.
Yu Xue's nascent soul scrutinized her for a moment, her delicate brows slowly furrowing, and the faint smile on her lips quietly vanishing.
Immediately afterwards, a hint of undisguised disgust flashed across its eyes. It raised its small hand to cover its mouth and nose, as if it had smelled something unbearable. Then, without hesitation, it urged Rainbow Island to retreat.
The movement was swift and decisive, as if fleeing, as if afraid of being contaminated by the black island.
This disdain was fully reflected in the black nascent soul's clear, mirror-like eyes and magnified infinitely, becoming a fuse that probed straight into the black flame in its heart.
The next second, the black flames flickered wildly.
A devastating aura suddenly erupted from its small body.
"Boom!"
The black nascent soul pushed forward with both hands, and a fireball, larger than any of the previous ones, condensed out of thin air, carrying a world-destroying force, and slammed into the colorful island.
The fireball tore through the void, trailing thick black smoke, and crashed heavily into the light shield surrounding the colorful island.
The light shield trembled violently, but it did not break.
Jade Snow Nascent Soul clearly did not expect the black Nascent Soul to suddenly attack, but reacted extremely quickly, forming a sword with its fingers almost at the same time the fireball hit.
A condensed, multicolored sword beam shot out, precisely piercing through the second incoming fireball. Its momentum had not yet dissipated, and it tore through the void, striking the black island heavily.
"Hey~"
The black island was struck by a terrifying force and flew backward like a leaf caught in a gale.
The island trembled violently, and Hua Changxi collapsed to the ground, watching helplessly as the radiant island rapidly shrank from view.
The colorful light faded away inch by inch, and the void was once again swallowed by boundless darkness.
Fortunately, the faint white light lingered above the black island, casting wisps of dim light that prevented them from falling into absolute darkness.
Hua Changxi steadied herself and slowly turned her head to look at the black nascent soul.
It remained standing in the same spot, facing the direction where the colorful island had disappeared, motionless.
His small back was ramrod straight, and deep within his dark eyes, the anger had not yet dissipated, and another layer of emotion slowly rose from the depths of his eyes.
The emotion was extremely faint yet profound, hidden deep within the pupils. Unless one's perception was one with it, Hua Changxi would hardly be able to detect it.
It was a deep sadness.
Intense yet silent.
Hua Changxi's eyes welled up with tears. Looking at the Nascent Soul at this moment, she seemed to see herself in many different scenarios.
In the void, there is no direction, no reference. The black island, like a rootless duckweed, drifts alone in the boundless darkness, not knowing where it will drift to or when it will stop.
Hua Changxi got up and sat down next to the black nascent soul. She didn't speak, but simply stood beside it and looked into the empty void.
The void stretches endlessly, and the passage of time seems to lose its meaning here.
After drifting for an unknown period of time, a deep, muffled hum suddenly came from the distant horizon.
The black nascent soul suddenly raised its head, its dark, abyss-like eyes staring straight at the source of the sound, its small back taut like a fully drawn bow.
Hua Changxi sensed her anxiety and panic immediately.
The buzzing sound grew closer and denser, approaching from afar, as if some enormous creature was crushing everything in the darkness as it moved forward.
Hua Changxi looked in the direction of the sound, his pupils contracting sharply—in the distance, a rapidly spinning gray vortex was rolling toward them.
The vortex, formed by some unknown force, was a hazy gray mass, carrying countless pebbles and unidentified debris. Its rapidly spinning edges were like invisible blades, carving deep and shallow ripples into the void wherever it passed.
Before the air currents even reached it, the black island had already begun to shake.
Hua Changxi's heart tightened, and she turned to look at the Nascent Soul. His dark eyes were filled with anxiety and unease, and she herself felt the same fear.
Long before the island began to wander in the void, she had tried to use spiritual power or divine sense to control its movement.
Unfortunately, they all failed.
As danger loomed, the two, one big and one small, could only watch helplessly as the gigantic gray maw drew ever closer.
"Bang bang bang~"
The storm finally hit.
The island seemed to have been slammed down by an invisible giant hand, trembling violently. Hua Changxi slipped and fell heavily to the ground, and the black nascent soul was also thrown out.
Gray shockwaves carrying countless pebbles roared past both sides of the island, crashing against its edges like a dense rain, creating a series of dull thuds.
The black earth beneath their feet began to crack at an accelerated rate, with fissures spreading wildly across the rock surface like a spider web.
The entire island trembled under this tyrannical force, as if it would shatter into countless fragments at any moment and be buried in this bottomless darkness.
Hua Changxi gripped a protruding rock ridge tightly on the ground, his knuckles turning white, his ears filled with the roar of the storm and the mournful sound of rocks shattering.
She didn't know how long this ordeal lasted, only that every breath felt like an eternity.
Finally, the gray vortex, trailing its afterimage, gradually receded into the distance, the buzzing sound gradually thinning and fading into the distance, until it finally disappeared completely at the end of the void.
The black island gradually stabilized, the tremors subsided, and the cracks stopped spreading.
Hua Changxi lay on the ground panting heavily, and it took her a long time to struggle to get up.
When she saw the scene before her, her heart sank to the bottom.
The black island was ravaged, with crisscrossing cracks covering the ground. In some places, it had completely shattered and sunken, and the edges had been sheared off.
At first glance, the entire island appears to be almost half the size.
The exposed, jagged edges looked as if they had been brutally torn apart by some ferocious beast, leaving behind a shocking scene of devastation.
Hua Changxi and the black Nascent Soul exchanged a glance, their eyes filled with lingering fear.
What if we encounter another whirlpool?
The thought pierced my mind like an icicle.
Given the island's current dilapidated state, let alone another storm of the same magnitude, even a slightly larger gust of air would be enough to completely destroy it.
At that time, the Nascent Soul, having lost its foothold, and she will be cast into the boundless void like dust, drifting and sinking until they completely dissipate into this unknown darkness. (End of Chapter)