strictlysupreme Chapter 259 All Returned to the Cave
Chapter 259 All Returned to the Cave
Lu Wu's spirit finally stirred. He turned his head slightly to look at Xiao Jiu's large head. A hint of kindness appeared in his majestic expression. He raised his sharp tiger claws, concealing their sharp points, and his heavy tiger paws landed on Xiao Jiu's head.
Xiao Jiu closed her pure black eyes, then opened them again. The light of daylight spread across the seabed, shining like sunlight, turning the dark seabed into daylight.
Lu Wu smiled slightly, patted Xiao Jiu's head again, and then turned to see Ning Xiaoxi wrapped in mermaid clothing.
What kind of eyes were those!
Ning Xiaoxi became so engrossed in it that she lost track of time!
When the mountains and rivers it once protected began to bleed, it chose a spirit among the human race to fight alongside him and stop the demons. After the Demon Emperor was killed, the human race began to establish itself. It only wanted to protect the mountains and rivers, but it was feared. In the end, a cup of Luoshen Drink caused it to lose its physical body, and its soul fled here. It only managed to preserve its soul by merging with the Western Source, but this also trapped it, preventing it from roaming the skies any longer.
As Ning Xiaoxi looked through Lu Wu's eyes at what had happened a thousand years ago, the little beast inside the cave suddenly opened its eyes, and the energy of life and death began to circulate within the cave. The Nine Domains, carrying fragments of the pink bead, climbed to the highest branch of the Three Mulberry Tree.
As if sensing something, the rising starlight around Lu Wu suddenly stopped. Amidst the golden light, celestial music lingered, and phoenixes sang in harmony. It then transformed into a stream of light and rushed directly into Ning Xiaoxi's forehead.
The Three Mulberry Tree began to grow in a daze, its spirit crystals being consumed rapidly. The little beast slammed its paw onto the trunk of the Three Mulberry Tree, its black and white auras constantly shifting. Lu Wu's divine soul, carrying boundless majesty, crashed onto the Three Mulberry Tree. Spirits ran around the tree, phoenixes landed on its branches, and various colorful spirit trees surrounded the Three Mulberry Tree, encircling the little beast's little nest as well.
A small silver dragon rose up from the dragon vein and coiled around the three mulberry trees. Jiuyu sat on the highest branch, opened his eyes, and endless joy shone through his pure black eyes.
Dragons, phoenixes, and luan birds circled around the three mulberry trees, whose trunks continued to grow, and in a trance, it seemed as if fruits were beginning to take shape.
Lu Wu's eyes shone with a soft light, enveloping the entire cave, echoing the Northern Source in the center of the necklace in the sky. The bluish-white light nourished the souls, demon cores, and remnants of souls within the cave.
The source of the West is Lu Wu's eyes, and now they have been incorporated into her cave.
Ning Xiaoxi, feeling dizzy, was carried by the mermaid onto Xiao Jiu's enormous body.
As Lu Wu's soul departed, Xiao Jiu's eyes closed, the sunlight faded, night fell, and darkness returned.
The sudden darkness made Ning Xiaoxi open her eyes. The previous magnificent scene was gone. Xiao Jiu's languid body lay coiled on the cold seabed, and endless sorrow permeated its surroundings.
The mermaid swam to Xiao Jiu's head, but the head was too big, and even with Ning Xiaoxi in tow, it didn't rise above its eyelids.
Slightly lifting its eyelids, Xiao Jiu looked weakly at Ning Xiaoxi before it. Now, it was probably the longest-surviving being in this world, wasn't it? It had witnessed the fall of gods and humans, the transformation of mountains and rivers, the changing of oceans into mulberry fields, the sacrifice of divine beasts to the heavens and earth, the rise of demons, the bloody carnage of demon sacrifices, and the smoky chaos of humans slaughtering demons. Was there anything it hadn't seen?
It watched this world grow strong and prosperous, watched this world run rampant with demons, watched this world begin to decline, watched the gods and beasts disappear, and watched the demons vanish. Would it have to spend the endless years to come alone?
Suddenly, the mermaid surrounding Ning Xiaoxi was replaced by Lu Wu's divine soul. His enormous body, radiating a bluish-white light, stood opposite Xiao Jiu and raised a tiger's paw, placing it on Xiao Jiu's forehead. The mermaid returned to the dragon vein of the cave, enveloped in bluish-white light, its phantom enjoying the immense pleasure.
A faint fluctuation of demonic energy appeared, and a strange and beautiful rune appeared on Xiao Jiu's forehead. It seemed that all light and all colors were contained within that beautiful rune. Finally, all the light converged into white, and all the colors converged into black. The black and white pattern circled and rotated, forming a circular pattern that locked onto Xiao Jiu's forehead. Its slender body began to shrink, eventually becoming no more than three feet long and as thick as a finger.
The tiger's paw flipped over, and Xiao Jiu curled up in its palm.
Lu Wu brought Xiao Jiu back to the cave. As soon as Xiao Jiu entered, it suddenly opened its eyes wide, feeling a strange and magical pressure that made it feel like its body was about to crack. Lu Wu placed it on a branch of a mulberry tree, and drops of sap dripped freely from the branch, seeping into its body and gently nourishing its almost broken form.
The little silver dragon climbed up and stared straight at Xiao Jiu. It recognized her, but they had never interacted before. Were they companions now?
Xiao Jiu's body gradually adapted to the pressure inside the cave, feeling somewhat weak and powerless. She tilted her head to glance at the little silver dragon, then suddenly widened her eyes, "Bing Yi?"
The little silver dragon jumped around happily a few times, its short legs looking somewhat comical.
Xiao Jiu's body was too limp; her head tilted and didn't come back up, flipping over and revealing Jiu Yu sitting atop the highest branch. Her black eyes suddenly turned white. "Black Dragon?"
Nine Domains glanced at it arrogantly, its black robes billowing slightly.
The dragon had wrapped its head all around its neck, making it a little breathless. Seeing its discomfort, the little silver dragon raised its paw and gently nudged it, turning its head back around.
Its weak neck couldn't support its head, so it drooped onto the branch and then against the tree root, where the little animal lay in its nest with its eyes still open.
"chaos?"
Xiao Jiu recalled the slap she received in the North Sea. At that time, she knew that Chaos was in the North and thought it had its eye on her spirit crystal mine, which was why it slapped her away. But it turned out that Chaos was hiding with Ning Xiaoxi and was doing this for her benefit.
The little beast looked down on its limp, pathetic state and closed its eyes.
Xiao Jiu's body slid down the trunk of the three mulberry trees to the ground, where she collapsed beside her little nest. The little silver dragon jumped down happily, and Jiu Yu also slid down.
Xiao Jiu's head and neck were still too soft to turn easily. It glanced left, then right, then looked up at the tree, satisfied, and closed its eyes.
The mermaid who replaced Lu Wu's soul led Ning Xiaoxi upstream.
The ruins still remain, and the afterimage of Xiao Jiu's enormous body lingers at the edge of the ruins. Ning Xiaoxi turns around, where there are still remnants of demonic power, fluctuations of spiritual power, and the illusion of the existence of spiritual source. That is the only memory that Lu Wu left for this world.
As for how long this illusion can last, what does it matter to her?
A faint smile appeared on Ning Xiaoxi's lips. With the spiritual source gone and without the support of spiritual power, not only would demons be unable to grow stronger, but the Celestial Masters would also decline. This once wonderful world would eventually return to ordinariness.