Chapter 1354 - 1404 Worm King
Na Yi helped Li Yifei stand up. The two turned around and saw something like a silk cocoon resting on the smooth jade stone. It was about the size of an ordinary silkworm cocoon, but its color was different—ordinary cocoons are usually milky white, while this one was a kaleidoscope of colors, like it had been artificially dyed. The colors were vibrant and similar to the colors of Xiaowu’s wings from before, with similar patterns too.
"Be careful!" Li Yifei saw Na Yi extend her hand to grab the cocoon that Xiaowu had transformed into and quickly warned her. But Na Yi just turned back, shook her head slightly, and her hand had already touched the cocoon.
The jade stone did not reveal any runes again. Na Yi’s small hand grasped the cocoon and lifted it up. As she picked it up, the entire block of jade, which seemed quite valuable, unexpectedly crumbled instantly, its dark green color turning to gray-white, shattering into pieces and falling to the ground.
It finally turned into a pile of white ash, with no piece left intact.
And those luminous runes had completely vanished.
Li Yifei watched the scene before him with some astonishment. Na Yi, on the other hand, was very calm, holding the cocoon in her hands solemnly and with exceptional care, suddenly chanting a rapid string of syllables.
As the syllables were spoken, the cocoon also pulsated, evidently indicating that Xiaowu inside was still alive.
Li Yifei had seen moths emerge from cocoons before, but had never seen a moth spin silk to become a cocoon again, because that doesn’t align with the biological state of such creatures. In biological metamorphosis, which includes butterflies, from the birth of the egg larva, to the larval stage as a silkworm, then spinning silk to form a cocoon, wrap themselves, and finally emerge as a butterfly, this is the natural biological progression.
But for a butterfly to turn back into a cocoon is somewhat magical, completely defying the laws of nature.