The morning light is faint, passing through the light mist that lingers all year round over the core area of Star Dou Forest, casting soft mottled light pillars in the forest. The air is filled with an indescribable rich breath of life, mixed with the fragrance of soil, grass, and countless rare herbs. This is the holy land of the forest, the paradise of the Soul Beast Clan, and the home where they have been guarded and inhabited for generations by the Emerald Swan Clan.
She stretched her slender and graceful neck and gently combed the feathers on her back that were carved like the finest jade and were flowing with luster. She was a Emerald Swan with fifteen thousand years of cultivation. She was in her youth and loved by the ancestor Bi Ji. Like most of the tribe, she was gentle in nature and hated fighting. She had pure and powerful life attributes and was one of the most respected healers in the forest.
At this moment, she was returning from a forest clearing where "Moonlight Dew Herb" grew. Last night, a herb there matured, and the escaping Moonlight Essence attracted several nearby Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts to fight restlessly. She was ordered to go and comfort them, and guide them to absorb their essence peacefully to avoid unnecessary casualties. This is a common occurrence for her, and it is also her responsibility.
Just as she was about to flap her wings and return to her habitat near Lake of Life, an extremely weak but unusually abrupt breath fluctuation was captured by her keen sense of life.
The fluctuation came from the southeast, close to the edge of the core area. The fluctuation was very weak and intermittent. It was more like a denial of "life", a cold, silent "withering" that seemed to drag everything into eternal nothingness. At the same time, the fluctuation was mixed with an extremely thin trace of weakness, as if it could completely collapse at any time.
Is it a Soul Beast that I have never seen before? And he was severely injured and came here? Maybe he was even eroded by the poisonous miasma?
Her heart immediately lifted. She is kind-hearted by nature and has instinctive compassion for any life that is injured or in need of help. Although the aura made her instinctively feel a little vigilant and uncomfortable, the perception of "seriously injured and on the verge of death" overwhelmed everything. In Star Dou Core area, especially within the protection range of ancestor Bi Ji, few Soul Beast will take the initiative to attack Emerald Swan Clan. This is a long-standing tacit understanding and respect.
"We must go and see..." She chirped in a clear voice, and the life fluctuations containing comfort and goodwill gently swayed with the sound. She turned her direction, flapped her wings gracefully, and flew towards the source of the breath fluctuations. The breeze brought by her wings contained the refreshing breath of life.
Soon, she flew to the edge of that area. The air here had a faint sweet smell of putrefaction, and dark-colored poisonous grasses and poisonous mushrooms grew on the ground, which was incompatible with the vitality in other places in the core area. The "withered" and weak atmosphere came from under the shadow of a huge stone covered with dark green moss.
She lowered her height, converged her wings, and landed lightly on a clean piece of Rock. She carefully found out the Mental Power, mixed with her own pure life breath, like the gentlest water, spreading towards the shadow, trying to explore the specific situation of the injured existence, and convey her goodwill.
The information fed back made her even more worried.
The existence in the shadow has an extremely weird shape, like a dark, sticky mass of Yuni that is constantly squirming slightly, but the surface seems to be covered with an extremely dim, almost falling-off layer with strange patterns and chaotic aura. When it reaches its extreme, the fire of life is as weak as a candle in the wind, and the core is filled with a turbulent flow of energy that scares her, as if it will explode at any time. The weird "withering" feeling is emanating from the core of this "thing".
"The injury is too severe... and the condition is so weird. Is it some kind of Soul Beast that I have never seen before? It can't even maintain its form..." Cuiling thought in her heart, with even more pity in her eyes. In such a state, if she is not treated in time, she may not be able to survive for more than an hour or three. Although the aura makes her uncomfortable, it is even more tenacious at this moment.
She no longer hesitated. Although the "thing" had a strange shape and an unfamiliar smell, it was her instinct to save lives and heal the wounded. She chirped softly, her voice softer. "Don't be afraid, I'm here to help you."
Immediately, she opened her elegant long beak, and a stream of pure, soft, and vibrant emerald green light, like real water, slowly flowed out of her mouth and shrouded the strange existence in the shadow of the boulder. This is the life-nourishing light she is best at, which can gently replenish vitality, relieve pain, and soothe the soul. She controls the intensity of the light flow, for fear that too violent life energy will cause conflict.
The emerald green light flow, like a lighthouse in the dark night, and like a mother's gentle hand, slowly approaches, and is about to touch the silent, dark black "Yuni" covered with broken armor...
However, at the moment when the light of life, which contains endless kindness, is about to fall -
Changes occur suddenly!
The "Yuni" that seemed to have been completely silent and was about to collapse, covered with broken armor, suddenly "exploded" without any warning!
It's not standing up, not flying, but an extremely weird explosion of terror that bursts out from within! In the center of "Yuni", a darkness that is so deep that it seems to be able to swallow all light and life suddenly blooms!
A thread as thin as a hair, but as fast as lightning, dark purple and almost black in color, with a point of destructive aura condensed to the extreme that instantly froze her soul, burst out from the mass. At a speed that she could not understand and had no time to react, it ignored the life shield that naturally circulated on her body. It penetrated with incomparable accuracy into her chest and abdomen, which was slightly open due to the use of the healing light, and whose defense was relatively weak!
"Tsk--!"
There was a sound that was so slight that it could almost be ignored, like water droplets dripping into boiling oil.
Her body stiffened suddenly, and all her movements, all her thoughts, and all her perceptions were completely frozen at that moment.
She lowered her head in confusion and disbelief, looking at her chest.
There, there was no blood and no wounds. But an unprecedented, cold "nihility" instantly exploded from the place where "Xiliu" was pierced, sweeping across her whole body! She felt no pain, only a coldness and emptiness in which everything was silent, as if the meaning of life itself was being quickly extracted and erased.
The vast and pure vitality in her body, her vibrant Soul Power that is envied by countless Soul Beasts, and even her proud soul Origin, are all "reducing into nothingness" at an unstoppable speed that makes her soul shudder!
"Why... what..."
A confused and broken thought arose in her rapidly dimming consciousness.
She obviously came to save him...
What she releases is the purest and gentlest light of life, without any malice...
He could even sense the chaos and weakness at the core of that thing, and her healing light could clearly...
Why... attack her?
Those originally clear and gentle emerald eyes were now filled with incomprehensible confusion, deep sorrow, and a trace of... the last attachment to the vibrant forest in front of her that she loved so much.
She could feel that her life force was passing away at an unprecedented speed. That power was overbearing, weird, and full of absolute "dead silence". It formed the most extreme conflict with the pure life force in her body, and in the conflict, it quickly disintegrated her vitality in an almost crushing manner.
She tried to mobilize Soul Power, tried to call her tribe, and tried to convey the final warning to Lake of Life not far away...
But everything was too late. The power had invaded her core, her consciousness quickly blurred, and her body began to tremble uncontrollably. The feathers that were originally as bright as emerald quickly lost their luster and became gray and dim.
"No... can't... die here..." The last vague thought supported her, she used her last strength, raised her head, and faced the direction of Lake of Life, and let out a weak, but full of endless sorrow and unwillingness, a final cry.
"Yo--!"
The cry suddenly stopped.
The last spark of light in her eyes was completely extinguished. Her elegant and slender neck hung down feebly, and her body, which was once filled with the brilliance of life, slipped softly from Rock like an emerald kite with its string broken, and fell heavily on the damp, moss-covered ground below.
When she landed, the last breath of life on her body completely dissipated. Only the area on her chest where "Xiliu" was pierced, the surrounding feathers showed an extremely unnatural, dim gray-purple color, as if eroded by invisible force.
Until she died, her beautiful eyes were still slightly open, reflecting the mottled morning light over the forest, but they no longer had any sparkle.
Among them, there is only endless, incomprehensible... confusion.