Phoenix was stunned. After a moment of surprise, she reacted and rushed towards Chen Xiao.
Ya Ya realized what was happening at that moment, cried out in surprise, and rushed over. The two girls quickly knelt down beside Chen Xiao.
"Chen, Chen Xiao..." Ya Ya panicked.
Phoenix, not bothering to speak to Ya Ya, reached out and cupped Chen Xiao's face, trying to lift his head. But as soon as her hand touched him, Chen Xiao suddenly let out a muffled groan, raising his hand to push Phoenix's hand away. Phoenix immediately felt a strong force slam into her, knocking her to the side and rolling on the ground. When she struggled to get up, she saw Chen Xiao holding his head in his hands, roaring to the sky, letting out a wild howl!
At this moment, on Chen Xiao's face, on his skin, crimson lines slowly emerged from beneath his skin, forming patterns like flames. These patterns varied in depth and were constantly changing, often appearing, disappearing, and then reappearing...
And so, Chen Xiao's face changed repeatedly like a ghost, his expression as if he were in extreme pain and struggling desperately for something.
"Chen Xiao!" Phoenix was stunned. Just as she was about to pounce, Chen Xiao suddenly swung his hand back and let out a difficult groan: "Don't come any closer... Ah!!!! Ah!!!!"
With a howl, countless tiny orbs of light suddenly appeared in the air around Chen Xiao. These orbs seemed to materialize out of thin air all at once, covering an area of tens of meters around him... some on trees, some on rocks, some on branches, and some on leaves...
As Chen Xiao's howls grew increasingly frantic, a loud "pop" was heard... as if one of the light orbs had suddenly exploded, which then seemed to trigger a chain reaction, with countless light orbs bursting in quick succession!
In an instant, the surrounding night was illuminated by this dense burst of light!
Without a sound, countless clusters of light exploded, containing an immeasurable amount of energy. The surrounding trees, rocks, branches, leaves, and vegetation of all heights were instantly reduced to dust in the instant of the explosion!
An invisible force tore everything around it to shreds and crushed it into powder!
The phoenix was stunned!
With a deafening roar, even the dilapidated brick house in the distance crumbled instantly in a flash of light. Amidst a cloud of dust resembling smoke, Xiao Qing and Zhang Xiaotao cried out in alarm. The two girls practically stumbled out of the house, everything inside—the iron pot, the stove, the buckets—had been reduced to countless fine dust particles!
"Chen Xiao!!"
"What's wrong with him?!"
"ah!!!"
The girls rushed to Chen Xiao's side. Fortunately, the violent explosion did not harm the girls; it only completely destroyed the surrounding environment, including the plants, rocks, and houses!
Then, very quickly, something even stranger happened!
The four girls rushed to Chen Xiao's side, but suddenly they were horrified to find that everything around them had turned into dust. Countless dust particles began to spin rapidly, forming a huge vortex around them. The vortex seemed to be a void, spinning rapidly, and above the vortex, there seemed to be some images, which were initially very blurry, but then gradually became clear.
The dust particles in the vortex quickly dissolved into the gradually clearing image, and then it was as if...
as if……
"What...what is this...?"
Phoenix was the bravest; she was the first to stand up, standing beside Chen Xiao, staring in disbelief at their surroundings…
The vortex still existed, but it grew thinner and thinner, until it seemed to shroud the group of people in a light veil. But beyond this hazy veil, a new "scene" appeared!
"Outside" is still the back mountain, but its appearance is completely different!
It's as if... as if this layer of "light veil" is like a...
A 360-degree movie screen?!
A strange feeling arose in the phoenix's heart.
...
In the middle of the valley stood a house, but it wasn't the brick house the girls had seen earlier; it was a wooden cabin built entirely of wood. In front of the cabin was a green lawn, clearly the surrounding trees had been cut down by humans.
Looking further to the side, the vegetation was completely different from before. Some trees appeared to be in different locations, some were gone, and some ancient trees that were hundreds of years old had become saplings...
This place...this place seems to have been rebuilt by God!!
Phoenix instinctively reached out, her fingers touching the "veil." She felt a chilling coldness that made her immediately pull her fingers back, but then she saw the "veil" seem to slowly ripple...
The ripples caused everything in the distance to appear somewhat distorted.
Just as the girls were about to scream, a figure suddenly appeared "outside"!
A long-haired woman slowly walked out of the wooden house. She was wearing a very simple robe, which seemed to be the kind of robe that the Xiao family used for practicing martial arts. Her long, black hair was casually tied up with a thin ribbon. Her face was somewhat blurry when viewed through the light gauze, but there was no doubt that she was beautiful!
She simply stepped out, her steps light and graceful, her every move revealing her unparalleled elegance. Then, she sat on the grass in front of the door, hugging her knees with both hands, her head gently resting on her knees, and with a light laugh, she called out to the distant woods.
"Brother Tian?"
In the distance, a tall and imposing figure strode out of the woods. The man wore a loose-fitting jacket, had a full beard, and looked quite rugged. He carried a short knife at his waist and walked with great strides, like a lion full of energy!
But when the girls saw the bearded man, they were all stunned!
"Uncle Tian... Uncle Tian?!" The girls exclaimed in unison.
After they gasped in surprise, they instinctively covered their mouths.
Strangely enough, the man and woman were just outside the veil, only a few dozen steps away from everyone, yet it seemed as if no one could hear their exclamations, or even see them!
Beyond the veil, the beautiful woman stood up. She looked at Lao Tian and gently smoothed her long hair. Although the girls couldn't see her expression clearly, they could vaguely sense that her beautiful eyes seemed to be filled with tenderness.
"I've thought about it for a long time, and there are some things I want to tell you... Tian, I believe now that in this world, only you are the best to me, and only you will never hurt me... If I told you now that I'm willing to stay here with you, in this mountain, in this little wooden house, and spend the rest of my life with you, would you be willing to stay with me?"
Beneath the light gauze, Old Tian, with his full beard, seemed to suddenly stiffen!
The two stared at each other for a long time. The woman's body trembled slightly, and even the girls watching seemed to feel that the hopeful emotion in the woman was gradually fading.
Finally, they heard Lao Tian's voice.
"I'm...I'm sorry, I can't..."