Chapter 1174: Wish

In the endless desert of Xizhou in Natlan, it was already dusk.

The orange-yellow sun burned the endless desert, so that even the monsters and animals living in the desert chose to hide under the sand and wait for the night to fall.

In such a barren land without vitality, there was a swaying and slender figure walking in the sand.

This was a tall woman wearing a silk gauze skirt, with scars all over her body and long black curly hair tending to wheat-colored skin.

On her back was a petite, seven or eight-year-old curly-haired girl who seemed to be severely malnourished and had a very weak breath.

"Sister... I'm so thirsty..."

Xu Ning heard her sister's weak call of pain, bit her dry lower lip, and forced her almost exhausted body to have some strength.

"Qing'er, hold on a little longer, we will be at the tribe soon."

She endured the burning pain from the sand under her feet and encouraged her sister with a hoarse voice.

But even if the physical pain could be endured, the pain and sadness in her heart still made Xu Ning feel almost collapsed.

She fled from the tribe with her sister, and it has been the fourth day in the desert so far.

The great famine that has not been seen in a century has caused hundreds of people in the tribe to starve to death every day.

Even though her cultivation has reached the third level of the body refining realm, she still cannot rely on spiritual energy to ensure that she does not need to eat.

The monsters and wild animals around the tribe have long been hunted and killed. Under the torment of hunger, her father actually asked her to send her underage sister to be cannibalized...

As soon as Xu Ning recalled this, she stumbled and fell into the yellow sand.

The gentle smiles of her parents in the past flashed in her mind. Xu Ning, who fell into the sand, wanted to cry, but because of severe dehydration, even tears could not drip.

Wiping the dust on her face, Xu Ning looked to the north and tried her best to stand up again with her sister on her back.

She learned from an elder in the tribe who was captured and sent to serve at the border of Beizhou that there was a Spark Column in Beizhou that would protect all those who were suffering.

She used to be not interested in this beautiful description like a fairy tale, and just thought that the elder had gone crazy after serving for a long time.

After all, the Western Desert was extremely short of both materials and cultivation resources.

Strength was respected, and the strong preyed on the weak, which had always been the tradition of the Western Desert.

The tribal chiefs appointed by the sects and the state palace therefore never concealed the division of the disaster relief grain and cultivation resources sent by the Zhongzhou court, and it was not their turn for mortals and casual cultivators to get them.

Xu Ning was not interested in anything about equality and uniting to resist exploiters.

The only thing that made her remember the most was that everyone in Beizhou could have enough food and eat meat every meal.

Now, that absolutely fictitious and vague fairy tale is her only hope.

Xu Ning didn't know how far Beizhou was from her tribe.

But she only knew one thing, that is, if she wanted to survive with her sister, she had to go north.

The blazing sun in the sky was reluctant to set, and Xu Ning, who was climbing the sand dunes, had an illusion that today's sun seemed to represent the lives of her and her sister.

Once the sun sets, their lives will also come to an end.

The endless desert sand dunes made Xu Ning's heart shrouded in despair, and her body was finally on the verge of collapse.

"Sister... Sister... Thirsty... Hungry..."

Hearing her sister's weak whisper in her ear, it seemed that she wanted to return to the Desert Witch God before her.

After several days of torment, Xu Ning finally couldn't bear it anymore and choked up.

"Qing'er, I, I saw an oasis...

"It's right in front of us, we're almost there... The lake is so blue, so clear, and there are so many small fish. We can eat fish tonight..."

Xu Ning felt her sister's vitality gradually leaving her, and her vision gradually became blurred.

Ignoring the dryness in her throat, she tried her best to tremble and tell her expectations in her heart, hoping that her sister could stay with her for a while longer.

Like a monologue, Xu Ning never got a response from her sister again.

After climbing up the sand dune, she was finally completely exhausted, lost her balance and rolled down the edge of the sand dune with her sister.

"I'm sorry, Qing'er..."

There are countless people who died in the desert in order to escape to the North State every day in the West State.

The cruel but fair Desert Witch God will devour all lives equally. This is the concept that the mortals of Natlan in the West State have been instilled with since childhood.

But this time is different from the past.

The Desert Witch God...

is afraid.

"Plop! "

Just before Xu Ning closed her eyes and was about to die, she heard the sound of falling into the water.

When she opened her eyes, she found that she was actually immersed in a vast ocean.

The endless hunger and fatigue disappeared, and the wounds on her body disappeared. She didn't even feel the feeling of drowning in the water.

Like her, floating in this deep blue ocean with eyes wide open, there was also her sister Xu Qing.

Xu Ning did not hesitate to hold her lost sister tightly.

Although her heart was full of confusion and puzzlement, Xu Ning, who regained consciousness, knew that something beyond their imagination must have happened to her and her sister.

Sure enough, before she could comfort her sister, a strange situation occurred.

A small strange instrument with a strange shape, many legs, and a deep blue body slowly emerged from the bottom of the ocean in front of them as if it were alive.

"-ńˇ."

Never heard before, indescribable words sounded from the reflective circular hole at the front of this instrument.

But for some reason, Xu Ning felt that she could sense what the other party meant.

"Are you asking...my wish?"

"."

After getting what seemed to be a positive answer, Xu Ning didn't think too much, but said straightforwardly:

"I hope that my sister and I will no longer be hungry...no, I hope that everyone in Xizhou and Natland will no longer be hungry."

The painful memories caused by famine in the tribe came to mind. This was Xu Ning's only wish at this moment.

“...ú°.

"ó.

"üü."

The voice was still unintelligible, but Xu Ning could vaguely feel that the other party seemed to really agree to help her realize this wish, and it was not difficult.

But the other party also told her that all wishes would have an equal price.

"May I ask what you need me to do? As long as you can realize this wish, you can take away all my life span."

Xu Ning gritted her teeth and said in a deep voice.

But her sister tightened her grip on her hand and shook her head crazily at her.

This time, this very strange instrument was silent for a long time.

He seemed to be considering Xu Ning's words.

Just when Xu Ning was feeling uneasy, the device finally made an indescribable voice again:

"ó, ńü′, ň."

"You mean... you will be leaving here soon, I just need to find someone for you?

"Please tell me what that person looks like, and I will definitely help you get rid of that person!"

Xu Ning instinctively thought that the other party wanted her help in revenge.

After all, in the Western Desert, this kind of hiring of people to commit murders is not uncommon.

However, what surprised Xu Ning was that the instrument made a sharp explosion, as if she was dissatisfied with her arrogance.

"!ó!"

"What you mean is that you must not hurt him. After seeing him, please ask him to be willing to... go home from the bottom of his heart?"

Xu Ning racked her brains to guess what the other party meant, and she got a definite answer:

"."

The next second, Xu Ning suddenly felt the world around him spinning.

The endless ocean around her disappeared like a mirage, and she returned to the desert of Xizhou once again, which had entered night.

But before her eyes, a blue lake that shouldn't appear in the desert was quietly reflecting the night light of the starry sky.

"Qing'er!"

"Sister, I, I'm here!"

The call was answered by the petite loli next to her. Xu Ning turned around and saw that her sister was looking at her in confusion.

The next second, tears welled up from her eyes.

Xu Ning quickly stepped forward and hugged her sister tightly into her arms.

And at the same time as the two resurrected Natlan sisters embraced each other with tears of joy...

The "lake" behind them continued to shrink, and eventually disappeared into nothingness.

It's like completely disappearing from this world.

Instead, the endless desert soil that had been dry since the birth of the world gradually became moist, and trees and vegetation sprouted from the ground visibly to the naked eye.

No one knew that the world was just one wish away from complete annihilation.