221 Formless Beast

The black ball rolled fast in the air. It was as big as a basketball and ink-jet black. Staring at it made Shijian dizzy and thought it was sucking her into an abyss. Her mind went blank for a second there, and suddenly she realized it was already in front of her. By chance, she saw a long stretched out tongue thrust out and about to wrap her head with it. Shijian instantly lifted her hand in defense and released her electrical powers, electrifying the black thing. 

The thing rolled back away from her and floated in mid-air. The tongue stuck out again, slurping as a liquid yellow thing dripped from where the tongue came out, as if it had a mouth but invincible. 

Watching the dripping thing, Shijian gasped when the grasses and ground where it landed bubbled, emitting turbid smokes, and as the smokes dispersed, there was nothing left on it but a miserable hole of blackness a foot deep.