Chapter 47: Illusory Yin Eye

Next, only the final white light orb remained. Lu Yuan was filled with anticipation, and his divine sense gently touched the last light orb.

The light orb floated in midair without changing at all.

“Hm?” Just as Lu Yuan was wondering what was going on, a huge eyeball suddenly sprang out of the light orb and bounced around on the ground.

“Holy crap! That scared me!”

The shadow left in Lu Yuan’s heart by the thing covered in dense, countless eyeballs after the black cloth was untied had yet to fade. The sudden appearance of an eyeball startled him badly.

After observing it for a while and seeing that the eyeball inside the stone cave was only bouncing around randomly, without the strange abilities of the eyeballs on the black-cloth cultivator, Lu Yuan finally relaxed.

The eyeball inside the stone cave was the size of a fist. Its scarlet pupil bulged outward, while most of the rest of the eyeball was gray-white, with many fine lines spreading across it.

The eyeball was supported by a tender pink tentacle. At the end of the tentacle, several tiny feelers split off, taking quick little steps as it crawled excitedly around the stone cave.

Great. He had only just said that the Red-Footed Golden Crow had raised the appearance level of the spirit beasts in the cave abode by several grades, and as soon as this thing came out, everything instantly went back to square one.

Lu Yuan looked at the giant eyeball crawling all over the ground and silently complained in his heart.

While he was at it, he checked the eyeball’s related information.

Illusory Yin Eye, an Aberrant Grade Aberration. It possessed a certain degree of mobility and could evolve and split into avatars. It had a certain talent for illusion arts, along with a powerful parasitic ability. It could choose a target, absorb the target’s flesh-and-blood essence, and split new Illusory Yin Eyes inside the target’s body.

The greater the gap between it and the target’s cultivation, the fewer eyeballs would be parasitized, the longer the parasitism would take, and there was also a chance of suffering a certain degree of backlash.

The avatars’ fields of vision could be shared. Once there were enough avatars, it could truly achieve all-around vision with no blind spots.

As the owner of the Illusory Yin Eye, Lu Yuan could also use the Illusory Yin Eye’s main body to share the vision of its avatars, though the sharing ability had limits in distance and duration.

This ability made up for the awkward problem of being unable to understand the real-time situation inside the cave abode after he went out.

At the same time, it could also strengthen his control over the cave abode. After all, the cave abode’s volume was growing too quickly. Relying on Lu Yuan’s divine sense alone was no longer enough to know every detail like the back of his hand.

Lu Yuan decided to first experience the strangeness of the Illusory Yin Eye’s avatar. Spirit energy continuously poured into the Illusory Yin Eye’s eyeball, and under the nourishment of the dense spirit energy, the Illusory Yin Eye could not help blinking.

Immediately afterward, the fine gray-white lines in the white of the eye suddenly split open, forming a crack filled with granulation.

Very soon, a blood-soaked scarlet eyeball, slightly smaller in size, appeared inside the crack. The blood on the eyeball was swept over by the granulation on the crack, which rushed to absorb it one after another.

A scarlet eyeball of the same fist-sized shape crawled cleanly out of the crack. After the new eyeball appeared, the red color on the original eyeball also faded slightly.

Lu Yuan guessed that this avatar probably could not be produced without limit. Perhaps it had a great deal to do with the eyeball’s strength.

He controlled his divine sense over the Illusory Yin Eye’s main body. Following his command, Lu Yuan’s divine sense felt a faint vibration, and immediately after, the scenery before his eyes changed drastically.

“So this is sharing an avatar’s vision? It seems pretty good.”

Lu Yuan’s divine sense nodded in satisfaction.

At this point, all the rewards from this time’s group entry into the cave abode had been opened. Compared with the first group entry, the rewards were much richer.

The number of light orbs had increased by ten or twenty, and among them were a powerful cultivation method like the Three Heads and Six Arms Art, the incomplete yet unfathomably powerful Primordial Taiyin Restriction, the third-rank spirit beast Red-Footed Golden Crow, and the Aberrant Grade Aberration Illusory Yin Eye.

The cave abode itself had also undergone new changes in several landmark areas after the spirit energy once again continued increasing.

The magma deep inside the stone cave became even more turbulent and surging, and its range of movement continuously expanded downward. Its color turned deep red, and metal that fell into it would instantly melt into a puddle of molten iron.

The strengthening of the magma also caused the Earthfire Heart Lotus Seed to grow even faster. It brimmed with vitality, looking as though it were thriving vigorously.

In the peach blossom forest, the thick layer of piled-up peach blossoms caused the forest’s miasma to keep growing denser. What had originally been rather useless now became much more threatening. A middle-stage Qi Refining cultivator might accidentally fall victim to it if caught unprepared.

In the broad pool, the rise in spirit energy throughout the entire spirit realm also caused the spirit energy inside the pool to increase. Wisps of white light flickered, and the Python-Sparrow Eel and the two big-headed strange fish continuously swam through the water, freely absorbing the spirit energy contained within.

In the Sword Bone Ground where the Sword-Nurturing Gourd was planted, the flying swords of every cultivator encountered along the way were buried. Under the stimulation of the rich spirit energy, a sharp sword intent had unknowingly formed, patrolling the Sword Bone Ground at every moment. Ordinary people would find it difficult to step inside.

Only the Sword-Nurturing Gourd staying within was not attacked by the sword intent. Instead, under the nourishment of the sword intent, it grew even faster.

Across the entire cave abode, which was nearly a hundred zhang in range, some ordinary ores that had been buried underground for who knew how many years in the places with the most abundant spirit energy quietly underwent changes. They transformed into spirit ores rich in spirit energy, usable for all kinds of purposes.

Inside the stone cave, whether unintentionally or because it was naturally attracted, the Red-Footed Golden Crow gently landed on a piece of charred wood.

It was precisely the third-rank Phoenix-Resting Wutong Wood, which no bird had ever cared to visit.

This time, it had finally waited for the arrival of the Red-Footed Golden Crow, which was likewise third-rank and also a fire-attribute spiritual bird.

The instant it landed, points of golden light emerged from the charred portions of the wood, like specks of starlight in the night sky. They were tiny and hard to notice, yet extremely brilliant.

Seeing that its perch was a piece of charred wood, the young Red-Footed Golden Crow was initially somewhat proud. It raised its little head high, wanting to spread its wings and leave to choose another fine tree.

But its just-spread wings immediately drooped back down, and it stayed on the Phoenix-Resting Wutong Wood without moving.

Under the influence of the Phoenix-Resting Wutong Wood, the golden feathers on its wings began burning for no reason. Layers of golden flame wrapped the Red-Footed Golden Crow inside. The Red-Footed Golden Crow cried happily within the flames, seeming to enjoy it very much.

The two complemented and enhanced each other.

After patrolling the cave abode once, Lu Yuan controlled the Little Paper Man, had it take the Primordial Taiyin Restriction stele, and flew out of the stone cave.

Spirit energy continuously poured into the stone stele. His divine sense followed the route of the runes on the inscription and activated the inscription on the stele.

The stone stele gradually turned illusory. In the end, like a river flowing into the sea, it completely merged into the earth without leaving the slightest trace behind.

Lu Yuan’s divine sense could clearly perceive that the entire cave abode was covered by a mysterious and wondrous force.

Under the protection of this force, any Core Formation cultivator or Aberration and below who did not have his permission could forget about entering the cave abode.

Unless several Core Formation cultivators joined forces, or someone at an even higher level took action, they would be able to break through the restriction’s protection. But in that case, the entire cave abode would also be destroyed, and all spiritual herbs would turn to nothingness.

“With chastity… no, with the protection of the restriction, I’m suddenly so much more relaxed. I don’t need to worry anymore about someone stealing my base while I’m out!

“It’s time to go out and run wild for a bit!”

Lu Yuan was eager to give it a try.

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