Chapter 41

Itachi who had disappeared from the place where he was hugging Xia Qingyue had not gone to the hotel this was because he felt some fluctuations in space near the forest that was behind the Xiao clan.

Knowing that he is the only person strong enough to check this abnormality, he wasted no time and went towards the place where the fluctuations in space were happening. Itachi realized that if it wasn't for his universe, he most likely wouldn't feel this fluctuation in space, that's because, this level of fluctuation was far above a Profound Emperor Realm cultivator.

Flying above the mountain, he noticed that the space fluctuation seemed to have ended, activating his Mangekyo Sharingan, he noticed that in a specific corner of the mountain there was a white mass on the ground. Itachi who realized this, flew towards this white mass.

As he approached the white mass, he discovered that the white mass was actually a person! This person was lying under the grass in a silent manner.

"A child?!" Itachi muttered.

His eyes landed on the child who was lying on the soiled grass, there didn't seem to be the slightest sign of life in the lying child, as if he had been killed long ago.

"What happened? And why is a child injured?" He wondered as he landed next to the child lying on the ground.

As he stood next to the child, he realized that it was actually a girl who appeared to be in her twelfth or thirteenth year of age and was wearing a dress soiled with blood.

The girl's body looked extremely delicate, and due to the blood dripping from her chest, she looked extremely fragile as if she could break at any moment. The girl's legs are as smooth and soft as snow, but with a closer look one could see internally inflicted wounds. She was wearing a black shoe on one of her feet, while the other was completely bare with wounds.

Something that surprised Itachi besides the girl's wounds, were the color of her hair which was unexpectedly red that gave off a sense of mysteriousness and brightness.

"Uzumaki?" Itachi thought.

Lowering his left hand, he lightly shook the little girl while channeling a small amount of deep energy to try to heal even a little of the wounds she possesses.

"Little girl, little girl..."

His voice was soon silenced, and he quickly disappeared from where he was standing only to appear in midair while looking at the little girl with a surprised expression.

His sudden movement was not in vain, that's because, he felt a small amount of poison seep into his body before being decimated by his Universe. But in the seconds that the poison came into contact with his body it was enough for him to feel his soul almost being torn apart.

"What is this poison?" He muttered as he looked at his left hand which seemed to have returned to normal.

Looking again at the little girl on the ground, he couldn't imagine the amount of pain she must have felt for enduring such a large amount of poison in her small body.

"If I'm not mistaken, then this little girl could be a cultivator who is above the Divine Profound Realm..." He thought.

That was the only thing he could think of, that was because even if she never met a Profound Sovereign Realm expert, he is sure that none of them could withstand this poison in the girl's body. That was why his conclusion was that this girl was at the Divine Profound Realm or above.

"Maybe she is even a few thousand years old..."

The grass around the girl seemed to be slowly dying, as if poison was slowly seeping into the surrounding earth, and Itachi knew that if this continued then a much bigger problem would arise in the future.

Thinking for a few seconds, he found that he could try to eradicate the girl's poison with his Universe, this was because he realized that the moment the poison came into contact with his Universe, the poison seemed to have been dealt with. He only feared that his Universe was not strong enough to completely cure the poison from the little girl's body.

"Sigh! I can only try, if it's not possible then I can only use my Mangekyo Sharingan to burn her body..." He muttered those words.

At the end of his speech, a huge thunder arose in the sky, as if it was giving him a warning if he tried to burn the girl's body with his eye.

Itachi didn't know how he would make his Universe heal the little girl's body, so the only thing he could think of was to take her into his Universe, thinking that maybe his Universe could treat the poison.

"I hope nothing bad happens..."

With these thoughts, he touched the little girl to the ground with his left hand, and soon they both disappeared from the mountain leaving only a black trail on the ground with dozens of dead plants.

...

Within his Universe, Itachi noticed the changes that happened due to his cultivation being in the Emperor Profound Realm.

"I guess I can see those changes later, for now I'll just try to help treat the girl's poison..."

His thoughts were interrupted, this was because the little girl that was in his arms seemed to have disappeared causing Itachi's expression to turn pale.

"What happened? Where is she?"

Itachi scoured everywhere in his universe until he finally found the girl near the Black Hole that was at the center of his first galaxy. Reaching the little girl's side, he realized that she seemed to be going through some kind of nightmare, but it seemed that the moment she felt Itachi beside her, her body had stopped shaking and the nightmare was over.

He realized that she was gripping his hand tightly as she muttered a few words.

"Big Brother... Please... Big Brother..."

The little girl's mutterings became more and more intense until the point where her eyes opened revealing two pairs of extremely deep and powerful black eyes.

The little girl's pair of eyes first looked at the hand she was holding and soon after she turned her eyes to face Itachi's eyes.

Her black eyes stared into Itachi's onyx red eyes.