Ning stayed on the island for over a month, trying to find a way out of there.
There was no ship or boats in that region of the ocean, so he was stuck there. He wanted to make a small raft, but he couldn't do that either as he had nothing to cut the trees with.
He simply spent his days there eating the fruit juices and waiting to see some sort of aid in the ocean. There was nothing else he could do on this small island.
Fortunately, the island wasn't that cold and it didn't rain at all, or he would have definitely gotten into a lot of problems there.
However, that was starting to get boring too, and Ning was getting ever so closer to closer to just teleporting away from this place.
That was, until one day something happened that shook the entire island.
Ning was using the sword the cut his fruit when suddenly he felt an earthquake hit the island. It was a strong shake and he couldn't remain standing at all. He fell onto the water and stayed there for a while.
"What… what's going on?" he looked around worriedly. The shaking continued for a while, making him stay there. If Ning were to guess, that was strong enough to topple skyscrapers in a modern city.
He felt himself slip away suddenly as he was pulled along with the waves. His weight however made it so that the sword slowly slipped away from the wave, falling to the sand below.
Ning tried to remove his hands from the sword when he realized what was happening. The water had disappeared from the shore and so much more of the beach was visible.
"Is it a tsunami?" Ning thought. He knew that after an earthquake, especially this close to the ocean, there was always the chance of a tsunami.
Not only that, the water level receding meant that the tsunami was definitely coming. Ning decided to prepare for it, but he wasn't sure how he could do it at all.
How could he, a normal human at the moment, prepare himself for a tsunami on a small island with nothing but small coconut trees?
Should he climb his way to the top of the trees? Maybe the fact that they were standing meant that they were strong enough to handle these situations.
Ning tried to run for the trees but he stopped because he noticed something. About 20 or so meters from where he was in the direction of the receding water, he noticed a thin perimeter in the sand where the water simply dropped instead of moving back.
"What?" Ning thought with a confused look as he noticed that the perimeter went around the island.
As he followed the drop with his eyes, he realized something that he hadn't realized before.
It was not that the water was receding at all, but the fact that the whole land was rising up from the ocean.
"What the hell is going o—"
His words stuck in his mouth as something rose from the ocean in the distance. A massive head popped out from the water with something long attached to it.
Ning's eyes went wide when he realized that was a turtle head.
"Am I… am I standing on top of a turtle?" he couldn't help but ask himself. Was he going to die from the beast?
Just as he was feeling scared, something else appeared to get rid of his fear of the turtle. Not because he felt he was safe from the turtle now, but because his fear was replaced. The thing that appeared was a massive illusory snake that was nearly 10 times the size of the massive turtle he was on.
Now that Ning looked at the head of the turtle, the thing that seemed to be sticking out of it was the snake's head, which seemed to have chomped off.
The snake was dead, but it was still there to fight back one more time.
The snake's illusory body hissed listlessly as it didn't know what to do. Its instinct kicked in and it attacked the first thing it noticed, the turtle.
Suddenly, 5 massive blobs of water appeared in the air next to the turtle's head and it they suddenly shot out a massive amount of water at the snake.
In the next moment, each water blast left a hole in the snake's illusory body, which started disintegrating in the air and falling on top of Ning.
Ning put up his arms in a reflex and suddenly the sword that he had gripped tightly at some point in fear came along with his arm.
The illusory light simply passed through him like bits of light that weren't there to harm him at all.
Ning was surprised and thankful that he was safe. Then, he looked at the sword in his hand and realized that he was actually picking it up.
"But how?" he wondered. He let go of the sword and noticed that his palm was bloody. "I must have gripped it too hard."
He wondered if this was the same as Qi. If only he had known that so many days ago. "I should have tried to use it so much earlier," Ning thought.
He staggered a bit as the turtle's head went underwater. And then, it started moving. Ning watched as the ocean waves moved away in the distance and he realized he was finally moving away from this godforsaken place.
The turtle remained floating at the top and thankfully didn't go underwater as Ning's journey truly began in this world.
"Oh, I should go look out for some boats now," he thought. "Hopefully I can find some."
He quickly grabbed the sword and ran away from the beach towards the center of the island where the trees were.
He climbed up the tree and arrived at the top where he sat and watched all around him.
With him moving from this location, he was sure he would definitely find a place to depart soon enough.
