Xia Xiang is the most special child in the Xia Lan Xing De family. Because she is a rare light-type elemental warrior, she could not stay in the Xia household to grow up. Since birth, she has grown...
"In twenty minutes, the giant blade wind will blow back, and you will die here."
Xia Xiang turned around and saw a group of people who were only up to her chest. They had young faces and looked to be only eight or nine years old.
Some were curious, some were disgusted, and some were worried. They all lined up in a single file behind the person who had just spoken.
"Warriors, twenty minutes to go! Prioritize rescuing your kinsmen who are still alive and with all body parts intact!" The person who had spoken earlier seemed to be their leader, and he was speaking to the group with his back to her.
"Yes," the group replied loudly.
"Remember this: regardless of whether the rescue is successful or not, everyone must evacuate to the adjacent Willow Leaf Building in twenty minutes," the man said, pointing to the rows of buildings.
"Yes, Alliance Leader." After saying that, the group of people calmly headed towards the mountain of corpses and sea of blood.
"What are you still standing here for? Get out of here!" The alliance leader turned around and saw Xia Xiang standing there, and said sternly.
"Isn't there no one in Feng Shikong? Who are you?" Xia Xiang asked, trying to control her slightly trembling voice.
"Heh—" The person called the leader sneered with a childish face and ran towards the mountain of corpses and sea of blood, shouting at Xia Xiang, "This place can't accommodate you. If you don't want to die, get out of here."
He saw the same expression on her face as those of the superhumans, but the superhumans were all dead, because they died in this hopeless place.
Xia Xiang remained standing in the same spot, looking at the rather old cross-sections of the buildings called Willow Leaf Buildings, and a terrifying thought suddenly popped into her mind.
Could it be that she blocked it just now, causing that giant blade of wind to split and deviate from its original trajectory, destroying both buildings at the same time?!
Could it be that she indirectly caused the deaths of these people?
Buzz—
Xia Xiang felt her tinnitus was getting worse; she could hear distant sounds less and less clearly. Those desperate cries for help, painful groans, and anxious shouts seemed to be buried in the deep sea, becoming increasingly indistinct.
"Retreat quickly—last minute countdown!" The alliance leader's voice pierced through the noise and reached Xia Xiang's ears.
"Retreat! Retreat now!"
"Help me, help me!" The other members of the rescue team continued their rescue efforts, some even carrying two people on their backs or with one person under each arm, making their already short bodies even more hunched over.
"Retreat—" the leader of the Wind and Space Alliance roared hoarsely, but the others still helped each other and didn't abandon anyone. "Quickly hide in the gaps in the wind, be careful to avoid them!"
The sound of the wind was like the Grim Reaper's scythe slicing through the sky, lashing at those who had scorned his life.
"Vertical...wind?" Xia Xiang turned around, staring in shock at the countless powerful forces.
Then I turned my head to look at the crowd of people who were still dispersing behind me. Most of them were still on the wind's predetermined path.
Xia Xiang's hands glowed with white energy as she opened her arms and carefully pushed the two wind blades away, placing them on their adjacent tracks.
"Pfft—" Xia Xiang's energy was consumed rapidly, and her blood surged upwards, causing her to spit out a mouthful of blood, which fell into the barren land.
She wasn't being stubborn; she just felt that if Huai'an couldn't interfere too much with time and space, then Huai'an's power certainly wouldn't work either, so she used her own energy instead.
Who knew the energy would be used up so quickly?
Seeing that there was no way to escape, the group behind could only raise their protective shields, using their meager strength to prevent themselves, their teammates, and the people behind them from being torn to pieces by the wind, leaving no trace of their bodies.
But the expected pain did not come. Instead, they saw the woman who was taller than them but very weak-willed, standing upwind.
And that devastating wind blade—was pushed away.
After the giant blade wind left, Xia Xiang, exhausted, knelt on one knee. The group behind her continued their orderly rescue efforts, and the leader of the Wind Time Alliance could only walk towards Xia Xiang's direction.
Xia Xiang mobilized Huai An's energy to repair her internal injuries, and the missing jade scroll reappeared in front of her.
[The balance of good and evil in the wind-time-space realm has crossed the critical point, resetting the countdown by 24 hours.]
Upon seeing this line of text, Xia Xiang's blood rushed to her head, and she fainted.
The leader of the Feng Shi Kong Alliance, who had just walked over, had no choice but to call for help to carry her to the downwind side and let her lean against the wall of the Willow Leaf Building.
"You all go back. I'll wait here for her to wake up," said the leader of the Feng Shi Kong Alliance, standing in front of Xia Xiang.
——
Perhaps the shock before she fell into a coma was too great, because she was still restless even in her coma. She woke up after only a short while.
"You should leave now," the leader of the Wind and Space Alliance earnestly advised. "There is no place for you here."
"What exactly happened here?" Xia Xiang asked, wiping the dried blood from the corner of her mouth with her fingertips.
"The spacetime order of the wind dimension has been severely disrupted. Such giant blade winds occur every thirty minutes. Our ancestors initially tried to find a way to control the wind, but it was all in vain, and they paid a heavy price for it."
"Finally, a scientist found another solution: to hide in the gaps in the wind. But the gaps in the wind are quite narrow, only large enough for our current size. So we changed our genes, and each of us can only grow to this size now, like insects hiding in a wooden fence."
"Today must have been an accident. Although we've figured out the patterns of the wind blades, there are still occasional winds that don't play by the rules," the Wind Time Alliance Leader said with a smile.
His youthful voice calmly recounted their predicament, evoking a bitter feeling in the listener.
"Why don't you live underground?" Xia Xiang asked, somewhat puzzled.
“The wind blades have taken away all the moisture, and the soil is severely sandy and will collapse soon,” the Wind and Space Alliance Leader explained. “Even if you go further down, you will be affected by the vibrations caused by the wind, and there is no safe place in the gaps.”
"I'm sorry, it's all my fault today," Xia Xiang said sadly. "It's all because I blocked the wind randomly, which caused it to split and crash into the willow...willow leaf tower, which is why your compatriots lost their lives."
The leader of the Wind and Space Alliance was silent for a moment, then tugged at the corner of his mouth and said, "It's alright. We, who have been forgotten by the gods, have a different view of life. Those compatriots who died will be reborn in another world."
Xia Xiang felt a tightness in her chest when she saw the magnanimous expression on his face.
"Once you've recovered, leave quickly and get out of this time and space. Also, tell your people from that time and space never to come here again," said the leader of the Wind Time and Space Alliance. "By the way, my name is Ting Feng. What's your name?"
"Hello, Tingfeng, my name is Xia Xiang, nice to meet you." Xia Xiang nodded, then closed her eyes and leaned against the wall to rest, waiting for the next wind blade. "You should go back now, be careful."
"Goodbye," Tingfeng said.
Xia Xiang: Goodbye
She wanted to see where the wind blade ended and where it began, and whether, perhaps, it could be salvaged.
Soon, the wind blades returned—
Xia Xiang stood on the path of the wind blades, enveloping herself in the right amount of energy, allowing herself to be propelled away by the wind blades—