But Jia Li soon regretted standing so close to this fellow.
The black-headed sheep held a silver staff in its hand. Its hooves, which had been standing atop what looked like an enormous corn-shaped broodmother, took a light step forward into empty air.
In an instant,
the air beneath its hooves seemed to ripple with an invisible wave that slowly spread outward.
As the black cat and the teddy dog's hearts gave a sudden, heavy thump, the countless cells that made up their bodies seemed to be affected by innumerable unknown ions, which bounced and refracted wildly between their nerve cells.
Their minds and souls, along with their bodily tissues, shuddered violently again and again under the influence.
Their minds went blank, as if they had suffered severe concussions, while an unimaginable supernatural phenomenon unfolded within the microscopic worlds of their bodies.
Under the effects of this unknown assault, some nerve cells that should have been peanut-shaped in the microscopic realm seemed to be twisted and crushed countless times. They kept changing shape.
These cells changed from peanuts into walnuts, then from walnuts into pods, before shifting into other shapes.
If ordinary low-level creatures had faced such an attack, their bodily cell structures would have collapsed in an instant, dissolving into a puddle of mush.
But by Academic World standards, Xixido and Jia Li had both reached the level of Royal Academicians, comparable to legendary creatures. Their cells possessed an unparalleled, terrifying strength. That was why, even as the countless cells in their bodies were twisted and crushed in wave after wave of terrifying ionic attacks, their most basic cellular structures remained intact.
The price they paid, however, was the blankness of their minds and thoughts—the symptom of their nerve cells being paralyzed.
The fat cat and the teddy dog