Free Web NovelChapter 746: Chapter 292: 128,000 Eyes
Prompted by Li Yuan’s reminder, Fan Wubing realized that his mindset had been too unstable recently, leading to frequent minor mistakes.
After leaving Sword Continent, he returned to the Fan Family and found Luo Qingyao,
"Junior Sister, listen, I need to be away for a while. Please help me ask Xiaohong for a leave of absence."
"Have you found a solution?" Luo Qingyao asked expectantly.
"I don’t have a definite answer, but regardless, I have to try."
"Then why not tell Xiaohong yourself?"
Fan Wubing paused for a moment, "I... I can no longer lie to her."
"This... why?" Luo Qingyao didn’t quite understand.
Fan Wubing actually couldn’t give a clear reason either. He increasingly felt that Zhuge Hong being by her side was no coincidence but a destiny approaching. However, he didn’t know if it was urging him to walk into a cage of fate or to escape from it.
He shook his head, "Just say I need to go out for inspiration, to prepare for future lessons."
"Alright." Luo Qingyao joined her index and middle fingers, casting a sword technique, "Senior Brother, if there’s an emergency, use this to contact me. Even though the problems you can’t solve, I probably can’t solve either. But... at least it’s an extra layer of insurance."
"Okay."
Fan Wubing took the sword technique, which transformed into a beam of light, shooting into the sky.
...
The Supreme Dharma Orbiting Device rotated madly.
Fan Wubing multitasked, simultaneously operating the Orbiting Device, "Furnace of the Heart," the "Death Flame Fate Guiding Method" given by Jiang Sha, and the Yin Yang Fate Divination Skill with the blessings of "Supreme Forgetting Emotions" and "Heart of All Wonders." Countless Yin Yang Bagua rotated around him as the center, like a massive gray sphere from a distance.
This was the first time since obtaining the Orbiting Device that he operated it at such high intensity.
His soul spread to every corner of the world along with the Orbiting Device.
With the strength of his soul, he wouldn’t normally be able to do this, but the Orbiting Device and Divination Skill extended his soul into threads, attaching them to the invisible connections among all things. Doing so significantly reduced his soul’s insight and precision, but his target from the start was the Twelve Thousand Eight Hundred Eyes related to the Orbiting Device.
There was only one target, so he only needed to focus on one point.
It was enough.
Fan Wubing entered a state of No Self.
Focus on one point, reaching the pinnacle.
At a certain moment, as if hit by a flash of insight, a mysterious sense arose, and he opened his eyes suddenly, his sharp gaze sweeping toward Ji Continent.
This world was not spherical but an irregular curved surface.
So there was only one pole, located in Ji Continent.
The extreme point of the world, the edge of the world.
Although it’s at the edge of the world, it is the most solid place. It is the only continent among the nineteen that has never been trampled by celestial beings. No matter what disasters occur elsewhere, it has always remained calm.
As a price, Ji Continent’s atmosphere was the most unusual; most places were almost stagnant, with poor access to the Great Dao.
It could be said to be the least suitable place for cultivating Immortality.
Because of this, it is often seen as a place for arduous cultivation of the Dao. Being able to exert any strength in Ji Continent means being able to exert twice, thrice, or even more in other places.
Fan Wubing gazed toward Ji Continent.
"Yan Hui, you’re in Ji Continent..."
A long time ago, Pei Weiyi had told him that the Twelve Thousand Eight Hundred Eyes was related to Yan Hui or was in his possession.
An image of a young man with righteous features appeared in his mind.
"Yan Hui... what kind of person are you really?"
He certainly did not forget that when he initially avoided the Heavenly Calamity on Changsheng Continent, a crucial reason was that Yan Hui made an extremely heavy sacrifice, finding him a glimmer of hope, using the Immortal Jellyfish to get through the toughest time against Ying Huo’s predation.
In the past, he believed Yan Hui helped him out of a bond developed over a long time spent together.
But now, it may not be so.
He didn’t dwell on it, used the Celestial Patrol Skill, transforming into the eternal sunlight, traversing more than half of the world to reach Ji Continent.
...
Ji Continent, when viewed from the sky, looked like a giant inverted pot. Isolated from other continents, the sea conditions were extremely complex, situated within a massive cyclone, with surrounding energies extremely turbulent, while the center point was particularly stagnant.
Due to this, Ji Continent’s climate was especially humid and oppressive, with most areas covered in a layer of ice crystals on the surface.
Fan Wubing walked on a barren permafrost, making a crunching sound.
The "Furnace of the Heart" activated, his soul clinging to every inch of the land, grasping every detail of this continental domain. Native groups in Ji Continent were sparse, but having lived here long-term, even if their average cultivation was not as high as other places, their actual strength was not bad; under local conditions, practically everyone was a higher-level fighter.
A significant portion of the people came here for training.
Circumnavigating once, he found nothing that threatened his existence.
Suddenly, a bright color caught his eye. Focused, he saw a hand-sized butterfly whose wings were predominantly golden with some vermilion skeletal lines.
It was the first time he saw this butterfly species.
"Are there butterflies in this climate?"
Fan Wubing found it hard to understand. He had developed a habit of simulating a scenario when he didn’t understand something well.
His fingers moved swiftly, and after a while, he frowned slightly, discovering nothing unusual.
