“Zhu Xiaxia Gracia, don’t be afraid. I won’t hurt you.”
“Who are you! If you don’t come out, I’m leaving.”
Zhu Xiaxia had no time to beat around the bush with random people.
She needed to save Zhu Qiu, right now, immediately.
“You don’t need to worry about who I am. In any case, I can help you.”
‘Can help me?’
As if! Zhu Xiaxia wasn’t stupid. She directly shot back:
“Why should I trust you? A thing that doesn’t even dare to show its face says it can help me. Do you think I’m that easy to fool?”
“Believe it or not, I can help you anyway.”
Zhu Xiaxia was speechless.
She wanted to drag out this inexplicable voice and see what kind of person was hiding in the shadows talking secretly.
She looked at the ice mountain far ahead of her.
‘This voice seemed to be coming from that direction.’
‘Just try it and find out.’
Saying that, Zhu Xiaxia quickly chanted and conjured a large fireball, aiming it at the ice mountain, ready to launch at any moment.
“I don’t care who you are anymore. Hiding, are you? I’ll blast you out now.”
“Young lady, violence can’t solve problems.”
“I wouldn’t be so sure.”
As Zhu Xiaxia grew the fireball larger and larger, the voice began to panic.
“Don’t be impulsive. Fire magic can’t solve your daughter’s problem, but I can.”
“If you really wanted to help, you would have come out long ago. Why would you hide and sneak around? I think you have ulterior motives. Tell me who you are right now and appear before me, or else my fireball will blow you and the ice mountain to pieces!”
“Stop! Put away the magic and I’ll come out.”
Zhu Xiaxia snorted lightly.
Seeing the other side compromise, she also took a step back and withdrew the magic.
“Spit it out. My daughter is in danger right now; there’s no time to waste.”
“Of course I know, but before that, allow me to introduce myself. I am the island spirit of this island. If you find the name awkward, you can call me Xiao Bing.”
“Island spirit? Xiao Bing? So you’re not a person, just an island?”
“That’s right. Let me assure you first, your daughter will be fine for a short while, because what I’m going to say next is a bit long and complicated, so I’ll say this first to put your mind at ease.”
Although the island spirit said that, Zhu Xiaxia couldn’t be reassured at all.
She just wanted to make Zhu Qiu’s fever go down quickly.
“Make a long story short. What I need is fast, fast, and faster.”
“Got it. Since you need it fast, I won’t explain the unimportant things about me.”
“Let’s get to the point. The reason your daughter Zhu Qiu Gracia has a fever is because two forces are fighting inside her—”
“Stop, stop, stop!”
Zhu Xiaxia interrupted directly.
“I already know all this. Tell me the solution quickly.”
The island spirit was a bit surprised, but didn’t say much more:
“Since you know, let me first explain what these two forces are.”
“Stop! Don’t explain yet. The situation is urgent. I need the direct solution, the method, understand!”
Zhu Xiaxia was almost furious.
She started forming a fireball in her hand again, aiming at the ice mountain.
“Alright, alright, alright. Let’s talk about the method first, the method first.”
The island spirit compromised without hesitation.
“That’s more like it.”
She withdrew the magic.
A few seconds later, the ice surface at the center of the lake suddenly shattered.
The broken ice chips fell into the lake water under gravity and disappeared.
Then, from the center of the broken ice area, a small ice platform rose, on which rested a glittering object.
“Zhu Xiaxia Gracia, this is what you want.”
Zhu Xiaxia hurried forward and took a closer look.
It was a small blue spherical ice ball.
“Xiao Bing, first explain to me what this is.”
“This is the essence of my entire island. I named it ‘Ice Crush Heart-Cooler’. Whoever takes it, no matter how chaotic the forces inside their body, with the help of this Ice Crush Heart-Cooler, they will coexist peacefully. And your daughter’s high fever is exactly due to the imbalance of forces. With this, the fever will naturally go away, and she will soon return to normal.”
Zhu Xiaxia pinched the “Ice Crush Heart-Cooler” in her hand and examined it carefully for a while, but still felt uneasy.
“How do I know if what you said is true?”
“Everything I said is true. I swear by this entire Sky Island.”
“Then why are you helping me?”
“Because of loneliness.”
“Loneliness?”
“Yes. All these years, only you would come to this place and often take care of us lonely island spirits. I didn’t want to see you sad because of this, so I wanted to help you. I originally planned to joke around a bit more, but since you didn’t fall for it, I became honest.”
“That’s it? Nothing more?”
“Right. If even half of my words were a lie, I’ll let you tear this place apart. The island spirit is bound to the island’s body. If the island is gone, I’ll die too. I’m staking my life on it. Still don’t believe me?”
“I believe you.”
As soon as the words left her mouth, Zhu Xiaxia immediately fed the “Ice Crush Heart-Cooler” to Zhu Qiu.
She processed information very quickly.
Based on the information from the conversation, she could already tell that Xiao Bing was sincere.
After Zhu Qiu took the “Ice Crush Heart-Cooler”, the redness on her face visibly faded, and her tightly furrowed brows relaxed a lot.
Zhu Xiaxia touched her forehead again to confirm; the temperature had returned to normal.
“Xiao Bing, thanks to you this time. I’m sorry for my reckless behavior earlier. I apologize.”
Zhu Xiaxia bowed toward the ice mountain.
“You know, as a mother, seeing her daughter in danger feels awful in the heart. That’s why I…”
“I know, I didn’t take it to heart.”
“I still feel sorry. But now that my daughter is better, I can listen to the ‘feeling’ you were about to talk about earlier.”
“Okay, then I’ll continue.”
“This child has the Sword Power of the Holy Light origin, and also the Sword Power of the Darkness origin, which are the so-called Holy Sword and Demon Sword.”
“I understand the Holy Sword, but the Demon Sword? I remember the Demon Sword is the Demon King’s weapon, right? How could it appear in my daughter?”
“You remember correctly. The Demon Sword is the Demon King’s weapon. But I am an island spirit, and I can see clearly the information inside a person on the island, just like having a Penetrating Eye. There’s absolutely no mistake.”
Xiao Bing was very certain.
“As for why the power of the Demon Sword is in your child, that’s a question for you as a mother.”
“But I guess this kid has only had the Demon Sword’s power for a short time, at most less than a month. If it had been there earlier, the Holy Sword and Demon Sword, these two completely opposing forces, would have been at odds long ago.”