As the blue barrier drew closer and closer, Li Xiaoya grew intensely nervous, and beads of sweat appeared on his forehead. The Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma rammed the barrier harder and harder, making guaji-guaji cries. The sight pained Li Xiaoya, but he was utterly helpless.
"Don't be nervous. My master won't take your life!" Seeing how frightened Li Xiaoya was, the girl could not help reassuring him.
"Oh, okay!" At her words, Li Xiaoya relaxed a little and forced a smile.
"Guaji!" The Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma suddenly let out a loud cry that left Li Xiaoya's ears ringing. With a muffled thump, dazzling five-colored light burst from its body as it slammed into the blue barrier. The barrier caved outward deeply, and the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma kept charging against it. As it pushed forward, the indentation deepened, looking from outside like a bulge poked out of a balloon with a finger. After charging for a while, the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma stretched the barrier into a long stalk, and the two remained locked in a stalemate.
"Master! It's getting away! Be careful!" the girl cried.
"Hmph! The Water-Controlling Nine-Palace Pearl is a Spirit Treasure with both offensive and defensive capabilities. Freezing is its offensive attribute, while its defense relies on flexibility. Even a sentient being that has assumed a physical form cannot break through it by ramming without the sharpness of metal!" the young woman said calmly.
Sure enough, just as the young woman finished speaking, the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma could no longer hold out, as though proving her words. With a soft thump, the blue barrier brightened slightly and bounced it back. It struck the opposite wall and rebounded again. After bouncing several more times, it slammed into Li Xiaoya.
"Ow!" Li Xiaoya screamed. The space was too small for him to dodge, and the impact sent him flying. He struck the barrier with a thump, feeling as though his entire body had been knocked apart. His stomach churned, and he spat out a great mouthful of fresh blood. The Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma's rebound carried such tremendous force that, had the barrier not cushioned it several times already, Li Xiaoya suspected he would have been killed outright.
The Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma bounced onto the ground, sprang back up, then dropped against the barrier with a plop and lay motionless.
Though it took time to describe, everything happened in an instant. Only a few breaths passed between the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma rebounding and Li Xiaoya coughing up blood and collapsing.
"Master! Will he be all right?" the girl exclaimed.
"It's fine! It's playing dead again," the young woman reassured her with a smile.
"I meant that person. Will he be all right?" the girl explained, making it clear that she meant Li Xiaoya.
"He'll be fine! I'll just treat him again in a moment!" The young woman paused, then answered helplessly.
As they spoke, the blue barrier had already shrunk until it enclosed Li Xiaoya snugly, its surface pressing against his body.
"Hey, hey! What am I supposed to do now?" Li Xiaoya asked with difficulty. He felt that his luck today could not have been worse. He had been seriously injured twice in a row, and now he seemed about to be squeezed into a ball. "Urgh!" No sooner had he spoken than he helplessly spat out another mouthful of blood.
"Don't worry! I'm only shrinking it a little to make that little creature easier to catch." As the young woman spoke, she stopped moving her hands, took two steps forward, and reached her jade-white hand toward the barrier. An unbelievable sight unfolded: her snowy hand slipped into the barrier as though entering water, sending ripples across its surface. In an instant, it was inside. The blue barrier that the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma had been unable to break through seemed not to exist for her hand.
Li Xiaoya stared, dumbstruck, forgetting the pain in his body for a moment.
The young woman's hand suddenly darted toward the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma like lightning, but it sprang up from the ground. Li Xiaoya saw a white blur rush toward him. There was no time even to react as he watched it shoot straight at him.
At that moment, Li Xiaoya had only one thought: If it hits me again, I really am done for! He reflexively closed his eyes to endure the blow.
Yet he felt no impact at all. Relieved once more, he opened his eyes and found the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma suspended in midair, only half a foot away. Its chubby little legs and strange five-colored tail flailed without stopping, as though an invisible rope were pulling it backward.
When the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma dodged her grasp, the young woman had shown no surprise. She merely beckoned toward it from a distance with her jade-white hand, holding it fast and drawing it slowly toward her.
The Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma cried guaji-guaji wildly, as though it knew escape was impossible. Its voice brimmed with mournful cries that stirred pity in anyone who heard them. Though they had only spent half a day together, its adorable 모습 as it babbled guaji-guaji kept replaying in Li Xiaoya's mind. He could not help reaching out to stroke it. "Guagua~~!"
"What are you doing? Don't..." Before the young woman could finish-
Li Xiaoya's hand had already touched the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma. The instant he made contact, dazzling five-colored light blazed from it, so piercing that he could not keep his eyes open. But the light vanished almost immediately. Li Xiaoya hurriedly opened his eyes and saw that the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma had disappeared from midair without a trace.
"What did you do to Guagua?" Li Xiaoya shouted in furious agitation.
The girl in palace attire and the young woman were also stunned by what had happened. When the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma's light flared, their unusual cultivation had protected their eyes from its glare, so they had seen everything clearly. After that brilliant burst of light, the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma had simply vanished.
"We didn't do anything! It just disappeared like that!" the girl blurted in protest.
"You must have done it! Otherwise, how could it have disappeared?" Li Xiaoya was still trapped inside the blue barrier. He angrily hurled accusations and curses at them while kicking its surface with all his strength. Somehow, he suddenly no longer felt oppressed or afraid.
The young woman said nothing. Blue light flashed in her eyes as she scanned the surroundings, but she found nothing unusual. Lowering her head in thought, she muttered to herself, "How could the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma have disappeared? It shouldn't be able to break through the Water-Controlling Nine-Palace Pearl's protective barrier, and I didn't sense any disturbance from it breaking through...
"Huh! How did your injuries heal?" the girl suddenly exclaimed beside her.
Startled by her words, Li Xiaoya stopped cursing and kicking the barrier. He felt the place where he had been struck in disbelief and said in astonishment, "That's right! How did my injuries suddenly heal?"
At those words, a spark of inspiration flashed through the young woman's mind, and a suspicion arose in her heart. Indeed! The Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma had not escaped the Water-Controlling Nine-Palace Pearl's protective barrier, nor did it possess the ability to turn invisible. It had only disappeared after this boy touched it. Could it be...
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