Chapter 182: The Spiritual World
Ye Wuchen and Ning Xue headed out from the lost shrine while Tong Xin guarded in their front. Sure enough, the tiny fox immediately came out, and was still aiming for Ye Wuchen.
The ash black breath around Tong Xin’s body surged up. In a split second, it congealed into a chain in the air, soft and long with ash black highlights. It wound around the tiny fox that was chasing after him, and at the same time the Punishment from Heaven Blade in her hand followed closely behind to pierce through the white figure.
The tiny fox had transformed into a white oppressive shadow, whistling out like a flying white dragon. It directly struck against the chain that was formed by the power of darkness and death. Black and white, the two curtains of light collided, bursting with a sound of explosion, as heaven and earth suddenly resonated with the light. The ground violently trembled, dust and rocks flew everywhere, even the leaves of distant trees gracefully dropped down like droplets of rain.
Where Tong Xin’s was standing exactly in front of Ye Wuchen as she resisted against the attacking, but they were still being pushed back by this frantic power. Ye Wuchen was afraid of Ning Xue getting hurt, with his back facing Tong Xin, he hugged Ning Xue in his arms and firmly held onto his position.
The speed demonstrated by the tiny fox was definitely the fastest that Ye Wuchen had ever seen, even faster than Tong Xin. Escaping was simply impossible.
The tiny fox seemed to almost refuse getting tangled with Tong Xin, its black eyes stared firmly at Ye Wuchen. This time, Tong Xin did not allow any opportunity for it use its speed. Her hands holding the Punishment from Heaven Blade, abruptly hit its body, her body blindly follow suit with its so that their bodies stuck to each other, stalling it. To compare her attacks with the powers of death and darkness with her ability to fight an enemy closely, they were similarly astonishing.
“Nan-er, do you know anything about where this tiny fox came from?” Ye Wuchen asked in his head. The Heavenly Fire Dragon’s hint, the Lost Shrine, and also this tiny fox with a dragon tail, all of them were so strange. And all these things were quite the hallucinatory characters, so Nan-er might know them.
“……”
“Nan-er!?”
“Ah? Ah? Are you calling me, master? I’m sleeping…” Nan-er finally responded, Ye Wuchen even vaguely heard the sound of her yawning.
She fell asleep so fast… Ye Wuchen was caught speechless. A while ago when against the Cursed Thunder Wolf, she was still awake. In a very short while though, she was already sleeping like the dead that such huge commotion did not even wake her. He turned around to look at the tiny fox, and asked, “Do you know about the lost shrine, and that tiny fox?”
“Tiny fox… Yi? Is that a fox? Ah… Ah—”
Nan-er’s intense and unintelligible cry of fear continued on for a long time, causing unrest to Ye Wuchen’s sea of consciousness. It was the first time Ye Wuchen had heard of such an exaggerated voice from her. Knowing that she must have remembered something, he immediately asked, “Nan-er, are you remembering something about this tiny fox? Tell me…”
“Very alike! Truly alike! Aside from it being smaller than that time, it is very much alike! Snowy white body, white dragon tail, it seems very much like that dragon fox… The leader of the Southern Empire and Northern Empire were fought because of this dragon fox. That’s why they fought for very very long… Until finally, primal chaos ruptured but the dragon fox was nowhere to be found. Even with the powers of the leader of Southern Empire and Northern Empire, they weren’t able to find it.”
Ye Wuchen, “!!”
“They look very much alike, but this dragon fox is clearly very much smaller, and much weaker than that dragon fox, so it must not be the same one…” Nan-er mumbled to herself in a low voice. “Still, it must have already disappeared long time ago, if it existed, no matter where it was, the leader of the Southern Empire and Northern Empire would have been able to find it. During those days, they must have accidentally killed it during their war, so it must… Ah, oh! The things that followed, Nan-er can’t remember them. Although that tiny fox is very alike and very powerful, it shouldn’t be the one. Nan-er must have remembered incorrectly.”
“Why would the Southern Empire and Northern Empire quarrel about this dragon fox?” Ye Wuchen suddenly asked.
“I also don’t know.”
The Lost Shrine…...
Lost…...
Could a God-Level be so powerful? A few days ago, Xue Feiyan demonstrated her powers to him. She had made the water of the South Heaven River stop flowing, then made snow float everywhere in the sky. Within a minute, she was able to completely freeze everything within his sight.
Tong Xin, with strength exceeding God-Level, but this tiny fox had the strength to contend against Tong Xin. When they collided, the result was catastrophic. For the sake of not involving Ye Wuchen and Ning Xue, Tong Xin tried her best not to put to collided with it, but just tangle very closely with it. Blocking it with the Punishment from Heaven Blade, it was unable to break away from her. Gradually, she discovered that this tiny fox’s power was quickly weakening. Before, it had attacked her continuously, to shake her off, but gradually it only struck back occasionally. This time, it was using its tiny body to evade from her blade, while continuously retreating back.
Being at a disadvantage, the tiny fox eventually stopped holding back. Flinging its long dragon tail, it blocked off Tong Xin’s Blade, dispersing dirt from the ground. Immediately, its body flickered a white light… Tong Xin was about to press closely to it, but her eyes were dazzled as the extremely blinding white light flash past her.
Within the white light, the body of the tiny fox rapidly expanded, and in an instant, it grew multiple times bigger. Its height had reached Tong Xin’s waist and still expanding as it grew more and more imposing. The terrifying aura brought a stifling sensation to Tong Xin, slowing down her movements.
A loud collision sounded when the long dragon tail violently smashed against Tong Xin’s hands, sending the Punishment from Heaven flying out of her hands. The fluctuation of the energy made Tong Xin’s entire body feel numb, and she subconsciously retreated. The tiny fox turned from being passive, to aggressive. Its body wildly advanced forward, colliding into Tong Xin’s body. Tong Xin firmly braced herself for a short moment, until she was knocked, her body gouging a deep ditch in the ground.
Tong Xin did not stop. She turned her body around to go back and maneuvered her for the Punishment from Heaven to fly back to her hand. Using her fastest speed, she keep off the tiny fox at bay, her blade aiming for its neck… With sharp sound, she completely pierced through empty space, while the tiny fox had strangely disappeared.
Three words appeared in Tong Xin’s mind—Void Evasion!
Just like it had disappeared in a flash, the tiny fox reappeared in front of Ye Wuchen without any prior indication. It transformed into a white light then launched at his body, at such a close distance and such fast speed, he basically had no time to react.
“Don’t hurt my brother!!”
The moment before he lost his consciousness, a very loud yell resounded in his ears. That moment, Ning Xue’s speed was unclear even to Tong Xin. She had thrown herself in front of Ye Wuchen’s body to hug him, using her back to shield against that white light, but her consciousness similarly dissipated…
Their bodies did not fly off, but remained in their original spot. At the same time they were completely shrouded by the white light, the tiny fox had disappeared, as if also completely drowned out by the cloud of white light. Step by step, Tong Xin approached. Standing in front of this white cloud of light, she stared blankly ahead.
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White colored world, above, below, left, right, ahead, behind… Everywhere was white. In this white empty space, her hair and clothes almost blended into it.. She loved white, but this time, her heart was anxious.
“Brother, where are you? What is this place? Brother…”
“Brother… Where are you? Answer Xue-er please…”
She walked forward for very long time, the boundless world, continued to repeated itself. A voice then resounded from the bottom of her heart, making her halt her steps.
“W-who are you? Are you talking to me?”
“Ah? You are calling me the punished Light and Life Angel? That’s a weird name, but I am not, my name is Ning Xue… It is the name given by brother…”
“My brother… I am looking for him, he must be here. Can you tell me how to find him?”
“......”
“Why don’t you speak anymore? Can you please tell me what this place is first?”
“Spirit Void? What a strange name, I don’t know why I am here, but I am able to feel that brother must be here. I don’t know why I have this feeling. Oh right, why are you here in this strange place? Were you also suddenly brought here?”
“Ah? You say you are the one who brought me here?”
In the white world, a small white shadow appeared in front of her. Pointed ears, black eyes, long dragon-like tail, and a snowy white body that fused together with the surrounding world. It was the tiny fox which she had held in her arms before.
“It’s you… Why did you bring me here? Where is brother, you must quickly tell me…”
The tiny fox’s body slowly floated midair as a cloud of gentle white light flooded out of its body. It that light, the tiny fox’s body started to quickly transform. The long tail was gone. The body, four limbs, and the head started to drastically transform. From a tiny fox, little by little it transformed into a small person. When the transformation completed, the gentle light covering its body had faded away, and a petite person appeared, quietly floating in the air.
Her height was only twenty centimeters long. Her body glimmered, a thin layer of snowy white fluorescent light scattered around her body. Looking closely, she was delicately slender. Her hair, similar to Ning Xue, was a snowy white. Even her age was just slightly different from Ning Xue, but her small face was so incomparably adorable. A small woolen cloth covered her body, with petite snowy white shoulders and legs exposed. Bright and clean feet were incomparably delicate, the tips of her toes naturally hung down as she quietly floating. The long hair seems almost as if it was being caressed by the wind, gently fluttering behind her back.
“You-you are the tiny fox? Are you really the tiny fox??”
“Wow! So amazing, so adorable…… Can you come closer ? I want to hug you.”
“Can you tell me your name?”
“Dragon Fox? That is a strange name, it also sounds unpleasant to the ears… Ah? You also think it sounds unpleasant? Then let us replace it with a better name. Oh… right, your body was sweet smelling, can I call Xiang Xiang from now on?”
[note: “xiang” means fragrant, so she just doubled it.]
“Heehee, that’s great. I will call you Xiang Xiang in the future. Your body is really fragrant, I really want to smell it everyday. But, Little Xiang Xiang, can you tell where brother is? Can you release me and brother? If I’m not able to see brother, I will be really scared. if brother is not able to find me, he will definitely be worried. So, please?”
“Are you asking me why I am so concerned about brother? Because… He is my brother, the closest, most awesome, and best person in the whole world. I do not wish to be apart from him.”
“......”
“Xiang Xiang, why are you not speaking anymore. Release brother first, and I’ll play with you here, how about that?”
“Ah? You want to take possession of his body? Possessing his body… What will happen to it?”
“No… I don’t want that! You cannot snatch away brother’s body, you cannot! You cannot! Or else, I will surely die from sadness, you cannot!”
“Your powers will diminish? N-no matter the reason, you must not snatch away brother’s body. No, you must not!”
“If you really need to do it, can you…… use my body instead? We have the same white skin and white hair, I must be the more suitable than brother. All right?”
“......”
Translated by:
Fatty_Uncle
Edited by:
seriouspotato patrick_father_of_dragons