In the frigid lands, after my exile, I began to slay demons and monsters.

Chapter 305 The Dilemma of Darkness

【Xiao Xi, Xiao Xi!】Tuanzi’s voice rang in her ears, vast and distant.

Ning Xiaoxi, immersed in boundless loneliness, showed no reaction whatsoever; the look of despair on her face became even clearer.

[Xiao Xi, Xiao Xi! Wake up, wake up!] The illusory figure of Tuanzi jumped on Ning Xiao Xi's knees. Because her consciousness was withdrawn, its body began to become unstable and could no longer add weight to itself as before. It could only anxiously spin around in circles.

Inside the cave, Jiuyu suddenly opened his eyes, a hint of anger in his dark gaze. His soft body could now lie down quite comfortably, but moving around was still difficult.

His eyes were filled with icy anger, and an invisible wave emanated from the Nine Domains, spreading throughout the entire cave space with a "bang!"

"boom!"

Ning Xiaoxi suddenly came to her senses, her eyes bright and lively, yet carrying a hint of doubt.

[Xiao Xi, you're finally awake!] Tuanzi's body began to solidify, and it gained weight as it landed on Ning Xiao Xi's knees.

Ning Xiaoxi shook her head, sensing something amiss in the cave. She saw Jiuyu slumped against its little nest, looking somewhat weak. Ning Xiaoxi quickly straightened its body, and looking at its pale face and tightly closed eyes, a strange feeling stirred within her.

What just happened?

[It's the Darkbewitching Sea Beast, over there.]

Following the direction indicated by Tuanzi's arm, Ning Xiaoxi saw a deserted island in the darkness.

"Is that a sea monster?" Ning Xiaoxi wasn't sure. It was unlike any sea monster she had ever seen before; it looked more like an island.

"Yes, its appearance is also designed to deceive people." Tuanzi said with lingering fear, not expecting to see this kind of sea monster that only lives in the deep sea near the coast.

The Darkbeard Sea Beast is enormous, resembling a moving island, with a body length exceeding one hundred meters. Its body is covered with a layer of jet-black scales that emit an eerie glow. These scales, like meticulously polished obsidian, shimmer with an unsettling light under the refraction of the seawater, as if they can devour all the surrounding light.

Its eyes were enormous and empty, devoid of any light, like endless black holes. Staring into them felt as if one's soul would be sucked in, sinking into an abyss of darkness and loneliness. If one didn't know they were the eyes of a bewitching sea monster, one would only mistake them for a cave on an island.

Its tentacles are numerous and slender, like twisted black ropes, covered with mysterious runes and suckers that shimmer with a faint blue light. These suckers flicker like will-o'-the-wisps in the darkness, as if beckoning to their prey. Most of the time, these tentacles are coiled around its body, using the dim light to attract prey, while some float in the seawater, like seaweed swaying on an island.

Ning Xiaoxi swam lightly and slowly to the side of the Dark Bewitching Sea Beast. She had hardly ever encountered any major crises, but this time she had been caught off guard without anyone noticing. All she wanted to do was vent her anger.

It possessed no divine consciousness, no intelligence, and no demonic blood; it merely drifted in the sea driven by instinct.

The ability to plunge me into despair and loneliness solely on instinct is truly frightening.

"Indeed, I couldn't wake you up. If you don't wake up, you'll become its food." Tuanzi also felt embarrassed, never expecting that after surviving so many storms, she almost lost her life to this little sea monster.

Ning Xiaoxi stretched out her hand and lightly flicked her five fingers in the seawater, one, two, three, four, as if her five fingers were dancing in the seawater, and strange waves surged along her fingers towards the dark sea beast.

The undulating seawater began to change and separate, the clear white sea salt was separated out, and other colored impurities were also separated out. The seawater, purer than mineral water, gathered together to form a large, pure water mass. The water mass grew larger and larger, and more and more seawater was expelled.

In the deep, dark sea, a transparent, pure mass of water was constantly expanding its territory, slowly drifting towards the bewildering sea beast.

The tentacles of the bewitching sea monster touched the edge of the water mass, making a gentle touch, probing a little in before abruptly withdrawing. There were no conditions inside for the sea monster to survive; it was too pure.

The water mass moved slowly, expanding as it approached.

More and more of the Darksea Beast's tentacles touched that pure expanse. Instinctively, it began to try to push the water clump away. The tentacles that had been coiled around its massive body began to converge in this direction, but its tentacles were only touching a clump of water. Although the boundary was clear, it was still water, and it could only sense that it was not a place where it could live, but it could not push it away.

The water clump slowly began to devour the tentacles; they could no longer simply retract to avoid them, as the water clump had gotten too close.

This time, the Darkbeard seemed to truly sense the danger. Its massive body began to move slowly. Since it couldn't push it away, it would just have to avoid it.

When Ning Xiaoxi saw the Dark Bewitching Sea Beast move, her eyes narrowed slightly, and she quickened the pace of her fingertips.

The water sphere's movements quickened in sync with Ning Xiaoxi's finger movements, its expansion and movement accelerating.

The Dark Sea Beast moves very slowly; its body is not suited for movement. If it weren't for the waves in the sea that propel it, it might never have moved an inch in its entire life.

Gradually, the water mass enveloped all the protruding tentacles, and then began to spread up its body, gradually enveloping it.

In the pure water, its tentacles became sluggish and its body stiffened. There, the obsidian-like shimmering light on its scales began to disappear, turning dull and lifeless.

Ning Xiaoxi's fingers moved so fast they left afterimages; only her palm remained steady, as if her fingers had vanished.

The water mass moved faster and faster, soon completely enveloping the Dark Sea Beast.

A pure, colorless mass of water enveloped the Darkbewitching Sea Beast, a hint of doubt flashing in its empty eyes. Then, gurgling sounds began to emanate from it, and it found it difficult to breathe.

Once the dull scales lose their luster, the smoothness on the scales disappears, and cracks appear. When the cracks cover the entire scale, that scale withers and falls off.

Slowly, the scales of the Darkbeard Sea Beast fell like rain in the pure water. Cracks on the black scales pierced through the armor plates, splitting a scale into several pieces. For a moment, the rain of black scales was a spectacular sight.

The Dark Sea Beast finally realized that it was in a very dangerous situation. It began to wave its tentacles, trying to find its enemy, but all around it was water, and there was no enemy to be found!

The "glug glug!" sound grew louder and louder, and the tentacles moved faster and faster, stirring up waves within the water mass.