Chapter 558. A Fantasy (1/2)
The little divine stone had found another black pearl and delivered it up to its master using a small kitten’s paw. When it saw that her attention was taken up by the barrier and was full of curiosity, it reminded her, “It looks like we’ve arrived at the barrier of the Dragon King’s Palace.”
“Barrier? Isn’t that a term that only appears in the stories about gods and heroes?” Yu Xiaocao took the black pearl in passing and stuffed it into her bulging pouch as she asked in an astonished manner.
“Then do you think that I, this divine stone, should only appear in the stories about legends and not appear before you ah?” The little divine stone rolled its eyes at her so hard that its eyes almost rolled out of its head.
Yu Xiaocao scratched the back of her head and chuckled sheepishly, “What you say makes sense! Also, me transmigrating over to here is also something that science cannot explain.”
“Science? Pffftt——” The little divine stone snorted disdainfully. Science was only something that those bored human mortals came up with in order to describe the world around them in a flawed manner. What atheism, it was all such bull...fart, ahem ahem! Alright, it didn’t really matter what the humans believed. None of it had any impact on it. It needed to keep its mouth shut in order to avoid getting censored. Hold one’s tongue, hold one’s tongue!
In the little divine stone’s eyes, every independent realm, that is, what the novels described as separate dimensions, had three layers to it that housed different beings. This particular realm was truly too lowly and it must have been created by the Goddess of Spirits on a whim in her early days. The human world had very little spiritual energy so there were very few people who could cultivate here. From the last time it visited the God of Thunder and Goddess of Lightning here, the so-called upper layer here, if compared to the realm that it originally lived in, could only be considered a small place full of small fry.
The little divine stone used its tiny claw to gently push at the barrier and discovered that with its current level of spiritual energy, it was very easy for it to open. This barrier was truly quite trash!
“I, this divine stone, am able to send you through the barrier. Do you have any interest in exploring around the palace of the Dragon King?” The little divine stone’s golden eyes glanced at Xiaocao as it asked arrogantly.
Explore around the palace of the Dragon King? Yu Xiaocao shrunk back and refused without even thinking about it. One must forgive her for being gutless. After all, she was currently on her second chance of life and didn’t want to lose it for a moment of curiosity. She was quite satisfied with her current state of life now!
The only thing she knew about the Dragon King came from stories like ‘Nezha Conquers the Dragon King’ and ‘Journey to the West’. Who knew what kind of tempers the dragon king, his daughters, sons, and grandchildren had? In fact, when she first arrived at the capital, she had been rejected and isolated by all of the noble young maidens. How could the realm of the dragon king be any different? It was possible she might even die without knowing what had happened to her!
The little divine stone snorted disdainfully when it saw how cowardly and cautious she was. However, it did have to admit that with its current powers, it was able to do whatever it wanted in the mortal realm but it may not be able to protect Xiaocao completely in a more godly realm. It wasn’t necessarily a bad thing that it had a cowardly master to follow.
“Eh? Who are you guys? How come I’ve never seen you guys before?” Suddenly, before Xiaocao’s eyes, an adorable little face appeared in the ocean waters. The creature had large, doe-like eyes, a pointy chin, long violet hair, and two little horns at the top of its head——the horns resembled a young deer’s antlers that had just sprouted.
Yu Xiaocao looked at this young maiden with horns on her head and saw that her large eyes were filled with curiosity and good will. Xiaocao revealed a brilliant smile and replied, “I am...a pearl diving girl and I’m swimming in the ocean to gather pearls!” As she talked, she showed the other girl her pouch full of pearls.
“Pearl diving girl? Ah! Then aren’t you a mortal from the human world?” The young maiden looked quite excited and went forward to get closer but ended up getting repelled by the barrier.
“Just what is going on here?” The smile on Yu Xiaocao’s face didn’t waver one iota but she was inwardly quite furious at the little divine stone. This girl’s sudden appearance absolutely had to do something with the stone.
The little divine stone laughed sheepishly, [Earlier, when this divine stone opened up the barrier, you didn’t want to go in so I had to seal it again. Perhaps the method I used to seal it is different from the methods used in that world, so...this is why something like this has happened.]
Yu Xiaocao frowned and silently asked the stone, “Are you sure the barrier you put up works ah? What if the fish and shrimp that have reached a higher state in the Dragon King’s world secretly come over and cause problems for humans here? Wouldn’t I become the criminal who has harmed all of the people here?”
The little divine stone’s voice was filled with displeasure as it replied, [You actually dare to doubt this divine stone’s abilities! Let me tell you ah, even if the old barrier between the worlds gets broken, this divine stone’s barrier won’t!]
“Eh? Is this the legendary kitten? Kittens can swim in the water ah? Its fur is golden and shining and it’s so small. How adorable ah!” The young maiden with horns saw a tiny golden kitten using its paw to knock on the barrier between their worlds in a quite furious manner. The glowing excitement in her eyes deepened perceptibly.