Heavenly Star - Chapter 227

Chapter 227

Chapter 227 There’s someone here!

There was light, water, wind, plants, animals . If you didn’t look up at the sky, it would be no different from the purest of nature . But the dark sky told them that this was another world completely . There was no sun, no moon, no stars . Where the light came from and where the water flowed from was unclear . There was no night . The only way to tell time was from instinct, and Nan-er’s reminders .

Judging from the width and length of the Death Abyss, this world shouldn’t be that big, perhaps only a few thousand meters . Although there were animals, there probably wouldn’t be people here . He didn’t believe that anyone could have fallen down here like he and Ning Xue did and survive . Plus, in such a small world, if there was really someone here, two years would be far too long for them not to have discovered him and Ning Xue already .

The world was so big that it held every wonder . That was what Ye Wuchen thought as he observed this world .

Two years . Ning Xue hadn’t grown taller, fatter or thinner . Even her white hair hadn’t grown longer . The dress she wore was still that same mysterious white princess dress, without a speck of dust or signs of wear and tear . He no longer had doubts about her true identity, but he was unwilling to care . No matter who she was, how much her other identity was shocking, she would always be his Ning Xue .

“Perhaps it’s not so bad to be here forever . That way I’ll never have to worry about someone taking her from me . I don’t have the strength to protect her any more . ” Ye Wuchen told himself . Ning Xue’s other identity meant that certain things he didn’t want to see occur would eventually happen . If anything, this world was the perfect hiding place from all that .

Thinking about this, he quietly tightened his arms around Ning Xue . Ning Xue also responded in kind .

Before them was a forested area . Each tree’s trunk was incredibly thick . Occasionally you can see several fruit trees sprouting fruits that couldn’t be found outside . This was also where Ning Xue picked fruit every day . Ye Wuchen felt the skinny little shoulder supporting him start to tremble, her breathing became heavy . He hurriedly lightened his weight and said with concern, “Xue, let’s go sit in the woods for a bit . ”

The moment he stepped into the woods, Ye Wuchen’s body stiffened . He stopped dead .

“Big bro?” Ning Xue looked up, confused . He was staring straight ahead, unresponsive .

After a long time, he finally spoke . “Take me over there so we can sit down . ”

The two of them sat down, leaning against a big tree . The short walk left Ye Wuchen sore and weak . Taking a few deep breaths, he called out softly, “Xiang Xiang, come on out . ”

A light streaked past, a small figure appearing within the white light and floating near Ye Wuchen . Standing on his shoulder, she began to murmur in high-pitched “yi-ya-yi-ya” tones, words that neither of them could understand .

“Go pick a fruit, a blue one . ” Ye Wuchen extended his finger to poke her, giving her a direct order . This being with a terrifying history, terrifying strength, enough to defeat even Tong Xin, had now fallen to the point where she could only help pick fruit . She had helped out with work like this quite a few times in the past few days .

The tiny girl scrunched up her mouth and made some dissatisfied sounds, but couldn’t disobey her master’s orders . All she could do was bottle up her poutiness and follow the scent . Her current power had dropped to the lowest level . Although she could still pick up a fruit as large as her body, that was about all she could accomplish .

“Xue, have you been to the opposite side of these woods?” Ye Wuchen suddenly asked .

“The other side?” Ning Xue shook her head, “I haven’t . I’ve always been afraid of getting lost, so I’ve been too scared of walking too far . Did you find something there, bro?”

Ye Wuchen nodded and sunk into thought . Ning Xue opened her small mouth, but didn’t disturb him .

“Naner, have you felt something?” Ye Wuchen closed his eyes and asked with his mind .

“Huh? No . ” Naner responded quickly enough .

“Really?” Ye Wuchen’s brows furrowed in confusion .

Naner was silent for a moment before speaking again with certainty, “There’s nothing special here . Have you found something?”

“I haven’t . ” Ye Wuchen said . His eyes flashed, “But something has discovered me . ”

“Ah?” Naner was completely befuddled .

“Yiya! Yiya! Yiya…”

Right then, Xiang Xiang flew back . In her voice was an obvious note of panic . Ye Wuchen and Ning Xue turned their heads at the same time and found that she was flying through the air frantically . On the ground behind her chased a wild boar .

Xiang Xiang could fly in both her miniature female form and her dragon fox form, but could go no higher than two meters . After the huge drop in her power, she wasn’t quite as daring as usual…or perhaps she was already cowardly and was frightened often . When a scary boar appeared in the middle of the road, her first reaction was to turn tail and run . Seeing Xiang Xiang trying to escape, the boar had chased after her, mostly out of animalistic instinct .

Finding her harbor, Xiang Xiang dove into Ning Xue’s arms, not daring to stick her head out again . The boar also came to a stop at a distance, glaring at them .

Most of the animals in the border area of these woods were small and weak . Rarely were there ever boars . Ning Xue had glimpsed them once or twice . Unlike this encounter, each time Ning Xue hadn’t even been scared away when the boar itself was already fleeing . Ning Xue sheltered Xiang Xiang in her hands, whispering to her, “Xiang Xiang, don’t be afraid . The boar won’t bite you . ”

Only then did Xiang Xiang peek her tiny head out of Ning Xue’s hands, peering at the boar nervously . How the mighty had fallen; in the past, she’d be able to kill even a fearsome tiger from a hundred meters away .

Ye Wuchen’s situation wasn’t so different from hers .

After a moment of stillness, the boar saw that they weren’t moving and began to step forward with its short little legs . It approached a few steps and, seeing that they hadn’t moved, pawed its front leg in a threatening motion, hot air spurting from its nose . Approaching bit by bit, it was prepared to attack at any moment .

Ning Xue immediately got nervous . She leaned instinctively closer to Ye Wuchen but remembered his physical condition and stood in front of him instead to protect him . Ye Wuchen extended a hand to block her off, shaking his head . “Go, Naner,” he said in his mind .

A bright golden light shone from between Ye Wuchen’s brows, the Nan Huang sword shooting out in the light, making a golden arc in the air before landing before the boar . It jumped back, yowling, and immediately turned to run away . Just like that, it disappeared .

Only then did Ning Xue and Xiang Xiang sigh a breath of relief . Ye Wuchen took the sword back, raising his head and laughing at himself, “Never thought I’d be backed into a corner like this by a wild boar . ”

“Big bro, you’re going to get better . You’ll be as strong as you were in the past,” Ning Xue comforted him in a soft voice, leaning against his shoulder . Back then he walked alone amidst armies of hundreds and thousands, dyed with the blood of countless, suffering heavy wounds . Yet she hadn’t been hurt at all . Back then they were surrounded by the flash of swords and spears, but she wasn’t afraid at all . His arms were always the safest, warmest place for her . Even when they fell down the abyss, she remained safe by his side .

When he could protect her no longer, she would use her own two hands, her own skinny shoulders, to protect him instead .

After a long rest, Ye Wuchen finally managed to recover a tiny bit of strength . He stood up, one hand against a tree, “Xue, let’s go inside and take a look . ”

“Inside?” Ning Xue was surprised at first, but came to his side without hesitation . With all the strength she could muster, she helped him along . The two of them, one tall and one short, started to walk into the woods one step after another .

As he walked forward, the subtle sensation he had felt earlier came closer . He became more and more certain that it wasn’t just his imagination .

What could it be?

Could it be…

Even with Ning Xue’s support, Ye Wuchen would start panting after just a hundred meters of walking . Although his body was mostly healed already and wasn’t wounded much inside or out, his current situation was even worse than someone who had just recovered from a terrible disease . Nevertheless, he persisted . The two of them rested and walked, approaching the depths of the unknown bit by bit .

One day, two days…

Their speed was basically glacial . A turtle could probably make more distance than they had in three days . At the two day mark, they had made almost ten li in the forest, but were still trapped inside of it . They hadn’t encountered any threatening beasts . The biggest one they met was still the boar from two days ago .

The sensation was getting closer and clearer .

“Hold on, Master . Stop walking!”

Ye Wuchen frowned, stepping back, and pulling Ning Xue back as well . Ning Xue glanced up at him . Eyes narrowed, Ye Wuchen asked, “What’s ahead?”

“It’s a transparent single-direction energy barrier, very strong . If you go in, there’s no coming out . ” Naner shouted .

“Energy barrier? What’s it made of?”

“I don’t know . There shouldn’t be anyone here . How could there be such a neat barrier…ah, there’s someone there! Someone there!” Naner started yelling, shocked . Just as she began to shout, Ye Wuchen saw that not too far away, there was a figure, most of its body blocked from view by the overlapping shadows of trees .

There was someone here…at the bottom of Death Abyss! At the bottom of a fall that would shatter even a god’s body, there was someone living here!

In that moment, Ye Wuchen’s heart was filled with tumultuous waves . Ning Xue’s mouth was open as well, full of surprise .