Chapter 355 My Little Bird...Flew Away
The excruciating pain struck, but Huali was oblivious, and simply scrambled to Yanxi's side.
"Little bird..." she began, her voice trembling and broken.
Yan Xi's lips trembled, as if he wanted to speak, but blood kept oozing out.
"Don't...don't speak." Karin instinctively reached out to touch him, but her fingertips hovered in the air, unable to fall.
That's so tragic...it's really too tragic!
The once stunningly beautiful mermaid now had her face covered in fine bloodstains.
The deep wound, exposing the bone, stretched from the shoulder and neck down to the blood-soaked clothes.
Almost... not a single piece of intact skin or flesh could be found.
Yan Xi's long, silver-blue curly hair was stuck to her face with congealed blood. She lay there quietly, like a doll that had been completely torn apart and discarded.
A sharp pang of sorrow surged through Huali's nose and into her eyes. She couldn't understand how things had suddenly turned out this way.
At this moment, all language seems pale and futile.
Huali knelt beside Yanxi and carefully pressed her face against his, "Don't...don't be afraid, little bird...don't be afraid."
"I'll save you right now... It doesn't matter if you're barely clinging to life..."
"I...I can save you!"
Huali hurriedly removed the wooden card that was floating at the top, and mobilized her newly recovered power, trying to infuse the healing power into Yanxi's body.
The next second, however, it was violently bounced back!
"Wha...what happened?"
Huali tried again. Twice in a row, it was like throwing a stone into the sea.
After a brief moment of stunned silence, her voice involuntarily trembled with tears, "...Why...is it not possible?"
Yan Xi had anticipated this outcome.
This body has been controlled by the boundary ring for too long, and is no longer a "container" that can be repaired, but an irreversible "nothingness"!
Huali's mind went completely blank.
Her gaze slowly fell on Yan Xi's bare, bony wrist.
...Boundary ring?!
Black Boundary Ring!
Even in such a dire situation, this thing still had no intention of letting him go and kept tightening its grip!
"It's because of it...it's because of it!" A fierce hatred erupted in Karin's eyes!
It wasn't an accident! It wasn't the price! It was this damned shackle!
Without any hesitation, an unprecedented frenzy erupted in the girl's eyes!
It's all global...it's all headquarters!!
"Give it back..."
Give me back my little bird!!!
With her spiritual power gathering frantically, Huali suppressed the metallic taste in her throat and condensed all her strength into an incomparably sharp blade of light, slashing fiercely at the boundary ring!
Zheng—
A chilling sound of shattering echoed—
With a strike imbued with the absolute will of both the young girl and the Heavenly Dao, the shackles that had imprisoned Yan Xi for a thousand years finally snapped.
The bonds and protections of the world have been completely exhausted!
The immense backlash caused Huali to arch her back and spit out another mouthful of blood.
Her chest heaved violently, but she immediately scrambled to her feet and looked at Yan Xi, "It's...it's okay now, Little Bird, hang in there!"
Huali continuously enveloped Yanxi with vibrant green light, but... it was all in vain.
"...What's wrong? Why can't it work?"
The despair that penetrated to the bone began to cloud Huali's mind.
Why isn't severing the boundary ring working?
What went wrong? Why isn't it working?
Huali tried again and again, her tears falling in large drops onto Yanxi's face, mingling with their blood and spreading into a pool of despairing water.
In Yan Xi's eyes, there was also an unspeakable sorrow.
He didn't want it to be like this.
He clearly didn't want his beloved girl to bear these burdens, but... in the end, he still couldn't do it...
He was ultimately... too weak.
The words he wanted to say weighed a ton, yet he couldn't utter a single syllable. His power of words had long since dissipated, and even the right to speak had been taken away from him.
Looking at Huali's bloodshot eyes and her desperate, bewildered expression, Yanxi felt an overwhelming pang of heartache.
Do you think you're a hero?
Do you really think a headquarters that has existed for tens of millions of years is so easy to deal with?
You're killing everyone!
【Karin, you'll regret this.】
Qi Ran's words were like a venomous snake, tearing at Hua Li's heart at that moment.
Huali wept uncontrollably.
She regretted it! She regretted it!!!
If... if she hadn't said these things back then, would things have turned out differently now?
Little bird, her little bird wouldn't...
Karin was trembling all over.
What should she do...?
Endless self-blame almost overwhelmed Kaori.
On the ground, tears streamed continuously from Yan Xi's beautiful eyes, which were always brimming with various emotions.
Love and self-reproach, longing and reluctance, transformed into pale pink pearls, dripping onto the cold pebbles with a soft, delicate sound.
In the end, however, he could only use his last bit of strength to lightly touch Huali's face with his fingers.
Under the girl's stunned gaze, he silently opened his lips, wanting to point in the direction of the Abyss.
But before the finger could be fully raised, it seemed to have lost all support, and as the half-soul shattered completely, it fell heavily and helplessly to the ground.
In the end, they didn't even have time to say a silent "goodbye".
"A little...bird? A little bird? A little bird?!"
"No, little bird!!!" Karin cried out in terror, futilely grabbing his drooping hand.
I watched helplessly as the last glimmer of light in his deep, ocean-like eyes was completely extinguished.
Without any external force, Huali coughed up a mouthful of blood.
The sounds and colors of the entire world vanished with Yan Xi.
Even perception becomes blurred and distant.
She stared blankly at the pale, still face before her, unable to comprehend what had happened or react in any way.
That's too fast!
All of this happened so fast!
The little bird was just in her arms... but... but what happened to her little bird?
In this extreme emptiness and numbness, a soft yet irresistible pale blue light suddenly emanated from within Yan Xi's body.
His body, starting from the edges, gradually turned into tiny, shimmering dust particles, slowly dissipating.
"No...no!" Karin suddenly came to her senses.
She frantically hugged Yan Xi, trying to stop the dissipation process with her own body.
"I was wrong! I was wrong!"
Karin burst into tears, sobbing incoherently, "I shouldn't have been so presumptuous, thinking that cutting off contact would solve everything!"
"I shouldn't have thought that the universe, which has existed for millions of years, could be easily defeated!"
"I should have listened to Qi Ran, I should have been more careful... I was wrong!! I was wrong! Please... please!"
However, no matter how much she cried out, the body in her arms continued to become lighter and more transparent little by little.
final--
With a hoarse voice that prevented her from crying, Huali lowered her head tremblingly and pressed a cold and desperate kiss onto Yanxi's unresponsive lips.
She looked up at the water-type card that had suddenly flown to her side, her eyes bloodshot, empty and bewildered.
As the body in his arms completely transformed into pale blue specks of light and soared into the sky—
The fifth star on the water-type card is lit.
But her little bird... flew away.
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