Chapter 245: The Legend of the Empty Island

Suppressing her disdain for the absurd strength of the Fox-eared Little Loli, Vilyric scanned the surroundings of the empty space and finally looked at the somewhat anxious Miss Ming Lian Xin.

“Okay, can you tell me what’s currently going on? What exactly happened while I was in the inner valley, and where did Miss Xiao Kong, who was with you, go?”

“This…”

After glancing at the fox-shaped jade pendant that had been hanging at Vilyric’s waist, Ming Lian Xin hesitated for a long while. Only when the Priestess had begun to frown did she finally speak carefully.

“Miss Vilyric, you are the fabled chosen one, aren’t you?”

“Wasn’t it me asking you the questions…?”

Shaking her head in amusement, Vilyric wasn’t truly angry; instead, she responded ambiguously.

“Indeed, some have referred to me that way, and not just one or two, but honestly, I still don’t quite understand what the term ‘chosen one’ means.”

“Is it really you? Have you seen the young lady…?”

“?”

“N-no, it’s nothing. Sorry, I misspoke.”

For some reason, the girl suddenly looked downcast, her fluffy triangular fox ears drooping weakly. But soon, she lifted her head again, forcing a smile at the Priestess, and her manner of address unconsciously shifted.

“Please excuse me, Miss Vilyric; let me take you to see Her now.”

“Mm?”

Seeing Ming Lian Xin suddenly fly in the opposite direction, Vilyric glanced back at the distant battlefield, where chaos reigned, and couldn’t help but feel curious.

“Don’t you need to help fight?”

But the Fox-eared Girl simply responded without looking back.

“There’s no need. The Evil Demons are scavengers spawned from the Ancient Spirit Realm under the influence of ‘Destruction’. As long as the causal connection with that source remains uncut, they can never truly disappear. Our task here is not to annihilate every Evil Demon.”

At this point, she turned back to gesture.

“Please follow me; your time and strength shouldn’t be squandered on this.”

“Oh…”

Though the other party never directly answered the initial questions, Vilyric, having inferred enough, followed behind the Fairy Envoy as they approached the massive flying ship, which was the so-called Lingyin Fairy Island, in the lower section.

Like when she operated the crystal barrier in the Valley of Mirrors before, Ming Lian Xin took out the fox-shaped token and directed a beam of light towards the Fairy Island. Soon, a larger and more powerful beam, nearly several meters in diameter, projected from above, enveloping the two girls.

“Ah, please don’t be nervous; this is the guiding light to help us ascend to the Fairy Island. It’s completely harmless to the body.”

Seeing the Fox-eared Girl hurriedly explain as if she remembered something, Vilyric merely nodded, not resisting.

The warm light bathed her body, bringing the familiar sensation of weightlessness.

“Ascend… to the Fairy Island.”

Though the process and outcome were not as formal as she had imagined, they had indeed reached this point.

Everything was ready, and Lingyin Fairy Island had arrived as expected in the Ancient Spirit Realm. Having defeated the Taotie in the inner valley, she undoubtedly possessed the qualification agreed upon.

As the light covered everything in front of her, when it dissipated again, the Priestess found herself standing in an old-fashioned and elegant interior.

“…”

Looking around at the ancient and refined furnishings, which were far from the anticipated sci-fi style, for a moment Vilyric even had the illusion that this truly was a secluded place of a fairy family, not the interior of a large spaceship.

But Ming Lian Xin remained beside her, and the energy fluctuations in the air, distinctly different from those on the surface of the Ancient Spirit Realm, along with the special environmental suppression near the “Nameless Demon Lord” ancient tomb in the Endless Ruins Sea, all proved to the Priestess that this was indeed the rightful domain.

Now back on the Fairy Island, the Fox-eared Girl seemed to relax a lot. After confirming the surroundings once again, she slightly bowed to Vilyric, repeating the gesture a third time.

“Please follow me.”

Opening the ordinary wooden door, which was not some high-tech automated product, the two of them stepped out in succession, walking along the elegant garden path outside.

The sky here was similarly a clear blue, even housing a peacefully suspended warm sun that brought light and heat, causing Vilyric to once again question whether this was truly the interior of a spaceship.

However, since her spiritual points were somewhat suppressed here, and out of respect for her host, the Priestess did not attempt to explore the external situation with her mind but casually asked the Fox-eared Girl beside her as they walked.

“By the way, the room we were just in wasn’t very large. If we need to bring 100 people up here every time the Four Saints Selection Tournament ends, that space shouldn’t be sufficient, right?”

While the number of participants in past tournaments had been limited, it wasn’t hard to understand the situation if one made an inquiry. Ming Lian Xin didn’t seem surprised by Vilyric’s curiosity, responding with a smile.

“That room is an internal channel specifically used by a small number of Lingyin people when they come down to the lower realm. It can be used anytime, but its capacity is very limited. The winners of the Selection Tournament take a different temporary route, which is quite far from here.”

“By the way, the sky and the sun we see now are all formed through environmental mimicry. Miss Vilyric should have seen the true appearance of the Fairy Island before, right?”

“Mimicry, huh…”

Definitely as expected.

Nodding thoughtfully, the Priestess continued the conversation.

“Previously, I heard your sister Ming Lian Yun mention that due to certain restrictions, the vast majority of the Lingyin people cannot freely go to the outside world most of the time. But this is clearly a… uh, spaceship, right? How would such a situation occur?”

“A spaceship… huh, that’s a fresh and fitting term. Well, although these are secrets that aren’t allowed to be disclosed to the beings of the lower realm casually, there’s nothing to hide from the chosen ones selected by the young lady. Since we still have some distance to our destination, I’ll give you a brief explanation.”

As she kept walking, the Fairy Envoy thought for a moment and then asked in return.

“Miss Vilyric, I’ve heard you are an outsider who came from another world; now that you’ve witnessed this scenery, what do you think is the essence of Lingyin Fairy Island?”

“Uh… a super spacecraft from some unknown higher-dimensional world, transporting here with its crew? Due to some reason, they can’t return to their original world, so they can only stay here?”

“Pfft~”

The Fox-eared Girl immediately covered her mouth and chuckled.

“What higher-dimensional world spacecraft? We Lingyin people are beings born and raised in the Ancient Spirit Realm! We have simply been living in the sky since birth.”

“Speaking of which, due to the personal reasons of the young lady, the Fairy Island indeed wandered through some other worlds before the great war erupted. It even visited the unblocked Primordial Land for a stroll, and I hear that the local beings who’ve witnessed it recorded it as some kind of giant creature.”

“Let me think… I think it was called ‘Abyss Star’; what a peculiar name. Those people sure have an imagination~”

   

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