Chapter 160: The Terrifying Purple Moon Creature (First Update)

The world inhabited by the blonde fairy race was defined by themselves as a flat earth under a dome-shaped sky.

It was not a large world, bounded by spatial barriers.

It was somewhat akin to a pocket dimension, yet the world had no master, let alone any deities.

Forests existed within that world, but the vegetation was predominantly composed of vines.

Among these vines, a particular variety of thorny briars stood out. Some of these thorns were immensely strong, with their branches intertwining and reaching high into the clouds.

These thorny vines were called "Elf" by the fairies, and they were also regarded as their mothers.

Consequently, the fairy race referred to themselves as the Elf race.

The fairies were born from the blossoms of these thorny vines. Their birth required no sexual reproduction, and their gender was exclusively female.

In that world, the primeval fairy race was the most flourishing of all, with their population at its peak exceeding ten million.

They lived on the wind and drank the dew, while feeding on the nectar of various vines and wildflowers, as well as the fruits of trees.

Their stature was petite, and their physical strength was extremely feeble. However, as time passed and the thorny vines they revered as mothers grew, stronger individuals began to emerge among their race.

Although these individuals shared the same size as the other fairies, their power was far greater.

It was only natural that these powerful individuals became the priestesses, elders, and even queens of the tribe.

They possessed long lifespans, and even the weakest among them could live for around a thousand years.

The prosperity of the entire fairy race expanded alongside the Elf briars, spreading across the entire world.

During this period, they encountered numerous plants and animals, all of which were ordinary, mindless life forms.

Toward these creatures, the fairy race extended the utmost goodwill, living in harmony with them.

One must know that many parts of their world had initially been barren wastes, but with the expansion of the briars and vines, the entire world gradually brimmed with vitality.

With no threats and no food crises, they lived a peaceful and carefree life for a very, very long time.

Yet, this prolonged era of peace eventually came to an end.

For when the thorny vines grew and spread to a forested region on the continent, the fairy race finally encountered their natural predator.

It was a species of giant eagle.

These eagles were not particularly large; many were merely the size of common hawks from the Blue Planet.

However, to fairies no larger than a thumb, these eagles were colossal.

Initially, upon encountering these giant eagles, the naive little fairies tried to approach them in ignorance. Predictably, this contact brought heavy casualties to the fairy race.

These giant eagles devoured their people, and as if gaining some benefit from consuming the fairies, the eagles began to launch competitive attacks against the fairy race.

The early fairies knew nothing of combat. Even with their ability to control the Elf vines, their initial encounters ended in widespread and catastrophic defeats.

From that moment on, the conflict between the Elf fairies and the giant eagles escalated into a protracted war that lasted tens of millions of years.

Through relentless combat, the Elf fairies evolved from being ignorant, timid, and kind-hearted to gradually mastering the art of fighting and ruthlessly slaughtering these giant eagles.

Of course, the ultimate outcome was not entirely unfavorable.

Because the thorny vines were formidable and every little fairy possessed the ability to control them, whenever the giant eagles attacked, they could utilize these powerful briars to resist or annihilate the invaders.

The giant eagles also possessed intelligence, and after suffering losses, they naturally grew much more cautious.

Thus, both sides initiated an extremely long-lasting war within the shared confines of their world.

The reproduction rate of the giant eagle race was significantly lower than that of the fairies, but they flew much faster and possessed diverse, formidable abilities, meaning that whenever the fairies dealt with them, they always paid a heavy price.

Thus, the tug-of-war and confrontation between the two sides continued unabated until the day the Purple Moon descended.

The blonde fairy remembered the day of the Purple Moon's descent with absolute clarity.

At that time, she was leading nearly ten thousand of her clansmen in a battle against a flock of a hundred giant eagles.

Right in the center of the battlefield, under the cover of night, a purple moon suddenly appeared.

The miraculous celestial phenomenon of the purple moon caused both sides to freeze in astonishment for a moment.

Yet it was only for a moment; no one paid further heed to the purple moon, merely dismissing it as an unexpected and ordinary astronomical event.

Yet it was precisely because of this negligence that, amidst the combat, certain individuals from both factions began to grow increasingly ferocious and devoid of reason.

According to past patterns, the giant eagles would typically withdraw after securing a certain number of fairy corpses, awaiting the next engagement.

This time, however, due to the appearance of the purple moon, both sides began to exhibit signs of madness and bloodlust.

In the slaughter, every life form cast aside all fear of death, and amid the battle, every living creature began to mutate.

The bodies of the giant eagles grew larger, and their abilities to breathe lightning or flames grew increasingly potent.

Conversely, the bodies of the little fairies beneath the purple moon were also undergoing transformation, and the thorny vines were changing right along with them.

Fairy Elder Rosie, who was far away at the rear of the battlefield overseeing command, was utterly dumbfounded by the scene unfolding before her.

The terrifying changes in her clansmen and the giant eagles filled her with profound dread, and her orders were no longer heeded.

Overwhelmed by tension, she had no choice but to order the few remaining rational clansmen on the fringes of the purple moon's radiation to retreat.

Thus, the invasion of the Purple Moon officially began.

Once the purple moon vanished, the mutated giant eagles and mutated fairies began an indiscriminate assault on all surrounding life.

The catastrophe brought by this onslaught was far more terrifying.

Initially, both the fairies and the giant eagles could barely resist and eliminate these localized mutated life forms.

However, as time wore on, and as more regions of the world fell under the radiation of appearing purple moons, the number of mutated creatures across the world multiplied exponentially.

In the end, faced with the worsening crisis of purple moon monsters emerging within various domains, the two bitterly hostile races of fairies and giant eagles actually formed an alliance.

The Queen of the Fairy race and the King of the Giant Eagles reached a pact, joining forces to resist the Purple Moon.

Yet, in the end, everything ended in failure.

The blonde fairy still remembered that final, terrifying battle atop the thorn-clad royal palace that pierced the clouds.

During the final battle, the perimeter of the thorn palace was entirely surrounded by mutated female fairies and giant eagles.

Inside the palace, the Fairy Queen and the Eagle King, alongside the last remaining hundreds of thousands of their people, were completely trapped.

Every fairy and giant eagle bore injuries, and their entire bodies exhibited various stages of contamination.

This was true for the Fairy Queen and just as true for the mountain-sized Eagle King.

The Fairy Queen's sanctified body, stretching a thousand meters tall, was covered from top to bottom with countless horrifying eyeballs, while the mountain-like body of the Eagle King was overgrown with countless fleshy tentacles.

These eyeballs and tentacles relentlessly eroded the sanity of the two rulers, yet even so, neither of them gave up; instead, enduring their agony, they issued a final, suicidal attack command to all their surviving kin.

The blonde fairy Rosie was also heavily contaminated at the time, but her remaining sanity allowed her to hold on until the very end, facing this ultimate battle alongside her queen and her people.

Every fairy and giant eagle harbored a will to die in that moment, hoping to be devoured by the surrounding monsters rather than transformed into creatures like them.

Yet, in this final battle, even suicide became an extravagant hope.

For by now, the Purple Moon had long since radiated the entire world. In the final battle, the sun had vanished entirely, and the purple moon in the sky had grown almost as vast as the fairies' entire world.

The Purple Moon manifested the appearance of an immensely colossal celestial body.

Yet this celestial body looked far more like a giant eye.

The bizarrely mutated fairies and giant eagles besieging the palace in that final battle were merely cannon fodder; all sorts of grotesque, native entities of the Purple Moon were everywhere.

Bloodthirsty, greedy, and yearning as they were, they merely surrounded the location and did not immediately launch an attack on the thorn palace.

At first, all the fairies and giant eagles were filled with confusion.

Ultimately, however, after wave upon wave of terrifying pillars of light descended from the colossal purple moon in the sky, every fairy and giant eagle plunged into utter despair.

For within those pillars of light appeared even more horrifying entities.

They were colossal purple orbs of light, and no one could see what manner of life forms existed within them.

Yet one thing could be confirmed: far more terrifying creatures indeed resided inside those orbs.

For although these orbs of light appeared small compared to the Purple Moon, each one was as vast as a star.

There were thirteen such orbs of light, hanging quietly beneath the Purple Moon, revolving like stars orbiting a sun.

The world fell completely silent in that instant.

The moment these light orbs appeared, the Fairy Queen and the Eagle King felt as though time and space had frozen.

Every living creature was rendered utterly incapable of movement.

Then, as if dividing up spoils of war, the light orbs simply flickered for a fraction of a second, and the Eagle King and Fairy Queen dissolved into two beams of light that melted into two of the orbs and vanished.

Following that, the remaining eleven orbs of light divided up all the other life forms within the palace.

Rosie was naturally drawn into one of the orbs. In the fleeting instant she was pulled toward the giant star like a beam of light, Rosie's final lingering consciousness caught a glimpse of something.

The world that had birthed and nurtured her was being torn apart right before her eyes by countless tentacles reaching from the Purple Moon to pierce the heavens and the earth.

The continents split apart; the world collapsed downwards.

Everything, absolutely everything, met its end.

All of Rosie's memories concluded right there.

This was the entirety of what she could recall, yet recounting it all filled Ji Yu with an overwhelming sense of crisis.

Light orbs as massive as stars, a purple moon expanding like a sun to blanket the world and extending terrifying tentacles to tear it apart—all of this seemed far too horrifying to Ji Yu in his current state.

Stars?

Considering the current manifestation of the pocket dimension within the Blue Planet, Ji Yu suspected those stars might simply be the manifested forms of divine-level life forms.

As for the Purple Moon that tore the world apart, to be honest, Ji Yu had no idea how to even comprehend it.

The more he knew, the more Ji Yu felt it might not actually be a good thing.

How blissful ignorance was! At least then, Ji Yu would not feel such crushing pressure.

And now.

Looking at the blonde fairy Rosie before him, Ji Yu remained silent for a long time.

The pressure was too great, too heavy. Ji Yu even began to doubt whether he truly possessed the capability to contend against the Purple Moon.

After a prolonged silence.

Ji Yu finally managed to slowly calm his heavy heart.

For there was a saying in this world that human effort could accomplish anything; without fighting to the end, who could know the outcome?

At the very least, the current situation on the Blue Planet still offered a glimmer of hope.

And Ji Yu was the absolute core of that glimmer of hope.

Ji Yu had no retreat, and the Blue Planet even less so.

Facing the Purple Moon was like fighting with one's back to the water; there was simply no room for choice.

Regardless of the outcome, Ji Yu now had to strive and do everything within his power.

Turning his gaze back to the blonde fairy, Ji Yu said no more.

Since the situation was already largely understood, there was no need for further questioning.

Subsequent cooperation or detailed inquiries would be handed over to the little deer by Ji Yu.

After all, the little deer needed to grow up as quickly as possible, and such growth encompassed not only physical form and life level, but also mindset.

Therefore, Ji Yu intended to let the little deer handle the communication and coordination with the blonde fairy himself.

Allowing the little deer to recognize the cruelty of reality in advance would also accelerate his growth.

Fairy Elder Rosie was still experiencing a low ebb of emotion from recounting her own story and did not speak immediately.

Looking at her, Ji Yu felt a sense of sympathy, yet he offered no further words.

With these thoughts settled, Ji Yu fell silent.

He raised his gaze toward the sky above the pocket dimension, and with a single thought, he transported himself and the little fairy to the spatial barrier at the upper reaches of the dimension.

The spatial barrier was intangible, presenting a hazy expanse of white mist.

Ordinary creatures could neither see through the world beyond the barrier nor pierce across it.

Unlike ordinary creatures, however, the little deer, as the master of the pocket dimension, could naturally see right through the conditions outside the spatial barrier.

At this moment, what lay beyond the spatial barrier was a pitch-black starry sky.

Because the little deer's pocket dimension was located high above the side of the Blue Planet facing away from the sun, the view outside was naturally pitch black.

Amidst this darkness, Ji Yu naturally caught sight of the moon.

Viewed from here, the light reflected by the moon at this moment showed no abnormalities.

Yet, in the night beneath the Blue Planet, what all living creatures beheld was the Purple Moon.

From this, Ji Yu rapidly deduced a conclusion.

The moon itself was normal, but the projection of the Purple Moon overshadowed the normal reflected moonlight down on the Blue Planet.

The Purple Moon was a mysterious phenomenon, akin to a projection.

To verify his hypothesis while still harboring hesitation, Ji Yu suddenly instructed the little deer to pass through the spatial barrier, instantly appearing in the vacuum of space just outside the Blue Planet's orbit.

The moment he entered outer space, Ji Yu felt a sensation of weightlessness.

Yet intense though this weightlessness was, it did not affect the little deer's state.

The universe was freezing cold, and the various radiation rays were extravagantly intense.

Yet at this moment, the frigid vacuum and even the cosmic rays failed to inflict the slightest harm upon the little deer, who was enveloped in a legendary state.

An unfathomable light shone around the little deer's body; this was the characteristic manifestation of elemental transformation.

In this state, the little deer required no respiration, nor could it be harmed by a single trace of cosmic radiation.

Out in the cosmos, no objects existed beside the little deer; emptiness and darkness constituted everything.

The pocket dimension possessed no physical manifestation amidst the starry sky; it existed in a special state within the folds of space near the Blue Planet, while simultaneously projecting a starlight-like radiance into the sky of the Blue Planet.

This radiance could only be witnessed from within the Blue Planet; outside in outer space, nothing whatsoever existed.