Free Web NovelChapter 145: Chapter 145: Yin-Yang Eyes
That evening, Edward brought an incredibly important piece of news: he had discovered an earth-shattering secret of the Temple!
Coincidentally, after eating this morning, Edward crawled back into bed to pretend to sleep, then secretly put the concealment array on his body and ran to the Heavenly Temple of the Temple. He didn’t hold too much hope, only wishing to find some more clues.
Unexpectedly, the Heavenly Temple, which was completely deserted every other day, had a group of people coming to perform a ritual today. Edward looked around the crowd, then chose an elderly Sub-Beast in the third row.
He thought that elderly people usually had high status. He didn’t dare to choose the first or second row for fear that they would discover him. In this situation, the third row was the most optimal choice.
The result showed that Edward had chosen correctly.
After the ritual, this group of Priest disciples left one after another. The elderly Sub-Beast that Edward clung to also left with the high-status individuals. They left the Heavenly Temple and went down together to a somewhat damp basement. Snakes naturally preferred damp places, but the dampness here carried a foul stench that made Edward feel extremely uncomfortable.
He held his breath to endure it and finally reached the end of the basement. In this place, there were many narrow caves, and all these caves had narrow bars carved from stone. Through these stone bars, Edward saw many people locked and crowded inside. There were Sub-Beasts, beastmen, children, and elderly people.
Looking at these people, Edward almost exposed himself. Fortunately, amidst a sea of people possessing Divine Energy, his momentary spiritual energy fluctuation did not attract the attention of that group.
A few Priest disciples walked to the front of the prison and threw a handful of powder into the faces of the people inside. Instantly, all the prisoners went limp and slumped to the ground. The prison doors were opened, and a group of beastmen rushed in, dragging out everyone locked inside.
A Water-attribute beastman pretended to faint. The moment the Water-attribute beastman was brought out of the prison, he instantly transformed into a puddle of water to escape, but was mercilessly stabbed by a guard beastman’s spear. A tragic scream rang out, making Edward’s scalp go numb.
The Water-attribute beastman immediately revealed his true form, left with only a dying breath. Edward regained his composure after the shock, quietly crawled down from the elderly Sub-Beast, and clung onto a guard beastman.
This group of guard beastmen dragged everyone who had fainted inside out, immediately dragging them away like torn sacks, leaving the prison.
The route out of the prison was completely different from the entrance. Passing through a series of complex turns, they finally appeared in an unfamiliar forest. Edward secretly memorized every single feature.
The guard beastmen dragged the prisoners to a spot, then another group took over. After changing shifts three times like this, they arrived at a place that looked extremely gloomy. An aura that was both oppressive and mixed with evil struck directly into Edward’s soul, making his heart tremble violently.
Another group of beastmen walked out from the mist and took over the prisoners. Edward wanted to try entering the mist, but rationality told him that he absolutely could not go any deeper inside.
In the end, Edward still chose to listen to his rationality, stopping in front of the mist. Before leaving this place, he raised his head to look at the towering ancient tree in the distance, his snake pupils constantly shrinking.
"It looks very holy, like a Divine tree. But..." Edward shuddered slightly: "I smelled a thick stench of blood, so thick that it made me afraid..."
Finnick, Oliver, and Ryder hurriedly stepped forward together, hugging the little snake’s continuously trembling body. Just how evil was that thing to make their always calm older brother this scared?!
The four children hugged each other for a long time. It wasn’t until dawn was approaching that Edward calmed down a bit. Finnick anxiously advised:
"For now, you shouldn’t go anywhere else, just stay in your room. We will try to pass the message to our fathers. Papa is so knowledgeable, who knows, maybe he will recognize that thing?"
Edward nodded, saying in a low voice: "I finally know why the Temple canceled the hunt-and-kill order for the divergent ones and brought them to the Beast City. They definitely want to use these people to do something evil. And I am sure the City Lord of the Beast City also knows about this. Otherwise, with so many people locked right under his nose, there is no way the City Lord wouldn’t know!"
Oliver nodded: "Since it has been verified, there is no need to take any more risks. First, you should listen to Brother Finnick and don’t go out anymore."
Ryder, with tears welling in his eyes, hugged Edward’s long, slinky body and sniffled:
"That’s right, you can’t go. I will bring delicious food for you, so please don’t let anything happen to you, okay?"
Edward’s heart softened. He rubbed his snake head against the foolish mouse’s head and guaranteed: "Alright, I will listen to you all."
Taking advantage of the time before being kicked out of the resonance space, Oliver asked Edward: "Eldest brother, you said there are a lot of people with Divine Energy, right? In our tribe, we only have many Divine Energy warriors because Papa awakened them, but are there really that many in other places on the continent as well?"
Edward shook his head: "I don’t know, but there truly are a lot of people. Such a large basement was entirely filled with people possessing Divine Energy. Furthermore, there is an array in that prison that weakens Divine Energy. Even when I got close to the prison bars, I felt my own Divine Energy being eroded."
Fortunately, his Divine Energy was very strong, so that eroded amount was just like dropping a grain of salt into a washbasin.
Oliver pondered: "You said the Spiritual Energy in the Northern Continent is very dense, right? Exactly how dense is it?"
"I have been here for a few months, and my Divine Energy has reached the peak of level five, about to advance to level six. My Beast Energy hasn’t grown much, but from the perspective of normal cultivation, it is definitely twice as fast as in other places."
Finnick took a deep breath. Their eldest brother was already a genius; being placed in a place with such dense spiritual energy was no different from releasing a tiger back into the forest. He said in a deep voice: "First, you must hold back, don’t rush to level up. If you really can’t suppress it anymore, then you must wrap yourself tightly around that Temple Lord and level up for me!"
Edward scratched his head: "You want him to be struck into charcoal by lightning like Uncle Wofu? But I’m afraid it won’t work, that guy is so strong."
Oliver put his hands on his hips and said: "It doesn’t matter if it works or not, at the very least, you have to flatten the Beast City for me!"
Edward seemed to understand his younger brothers’ intentions, his eyes lighting up: "Advancing one level only brings normal lightning storms, but advancing five levels at once like last time will have massive destructive power. Oliver, quickly check if there is any way to compress spiritual energy and teach it to me right now!"
Oliver searched through his inheritance memories for a long while. Right before the resonance space swayed and was about to shatter, he shouted: "The resonance space, you must stuff the spiritual energy into the resonance space!"
*Crash!*
The four children simultaneously woke up with a start. Edward frustratingly slapped his tail. *Damn it, Oliver, you still haven’t taught me how to do it!*
The nighttime resonance period was too long, so they could no longer meet during the day. Having to wait for another long day, Edward was irritated to death.
On the other side, right after waking up, Ryder squeaked continuously. Kaelen and Sane hurriedly jumped up and ran over to check. They discovered that the mouse cub was being pressed down by Oliver’s snake tail and Finnick’s chubby jaguar body, with only his four limbs sticking out.
Sane hurriedly picked his two children up by the scruff of their necks, while Kaelen scooped the little mouse out of the nest and gently patted his back to help him catch his breath.
"Beast God, I almost returned to You just now!" Ryder opened his mouth and gasped for air in large gulps. After a while, his wildly pounding heart finally stabilized. Sane looked back at his two little brats, surprisingly discovering that they seemed to have grown a bit larger than yesterday.
"Kaelen, do you think our children have grown a bit larger? Or am I seeing things?"
Kaelen placed the mouse cub down into the nest, reached out to take the drowsy Finnick from Sane’s hands, and said in astonishment:
"He is indeed a bit heavier... Did this brat eat weight-gaining feed?"
Ryder scratched his head: "He didn’t eat feed... he ate grass."
"Huh? Ate grass? Finnick ate grass? But this brat secretly spits out even the vegetables put in his mouth?"
"It’s not ordinary grass, it’s glowing grass." Ryder transformed into human form, clinging to the edge of the crib, and said naively. Finnick and Oliver looked at each other: [*That happened the night before last, and he’s only remembering it now?*]
After that, the two brats listened to Ryder recount the events in the resonance space from that night to their two fathers, instantly feeling ecstatic. Although the memories came a day late, Ryder remembered absolutely everything. This meant that tomorrow, their two fathers could receive the information about Edward’s discovery.
Finnick jumped out of Papa’s hands, stretched his body, and stuck his tongue out to lick Ryder’s face, licking so much that Ryder’s tender skin turned a patch of red from the barbs on his tongue. Ryder clutched his cheek and screamed:
"Finnick, you haven’t brushed your teeth yet! It stinks to death!"
Finnick’s wildly wagging tail froze in mid-air, and then the cub sulkily turned his butt towards Ryder.
Sane smiled and said: "Let Daddy take you to brush your teeth and wash your faces." He bent down, intending to pick both Finnick and Ryder up, but suddenly froze:
"Ryder, your eyes?"
Kaelen also immediately bent down, speechless with astonishment. A few days ago, Ryder’s eyes had been able to open, but at that time, there were only black irises filling his eyes, and the boy couldn’t even see anything yet. Today, the black in Ryder’s eyes had receded, returning to a pair of eyes with whites and pupils like a normal person’s.
But they weren’t completely normal either!
The boy’s left eye was sea blue, while his right eye was pale yellow, exactly like the heterochromia phenomenon that appears in cats.
"Yin-Yang eyes!" Kaelen couldn’t help but exclaim in amazement.
Ryder blinked. The boy didn’t know what Yin-Yang eyes were; he only knew that he could see!
Ryder brought his hands in front of his face, gazing at them. The boy then looked at Finnick, Oliver, Kaelen, and Sane. Afterwards, he looked at the surrounding scenery. So, this was what the outside world looked like. It wasn’t just streams of light or scents, but real colors and shapes.
"I... I can see... I can see everyone..." Ryder’s tears fell pit-a-pat.
He was born blind. In his world, there was only darkness and flashing lights of energy bodies. He had never known what natural light, natural colors, or natural shapes were.
Kaelen emotionally picked Ryder up, kissed his cheek and hair, and comforted: "Be good, don’t cry, what if you ruin your eyes."
Ryder hurriedly blinked continuously, then tilted his head up as if trying to force his tears back inside. Kaelen burst out laughing, and the corners of Sane’s mouth also curled up slightly.
The two of them helped the three children wash up and eat breakfast together, then took Ryder to Draven for an examination. After performing a series of checks, Draven frowned and said:
"Although his vision is not affected, when I pulled back the curtain to let strong light shine into the room, the boy’s eyes seemed mildly irritated. This is only the early morning light; if it were the harsh sunlight, it might be even more uncomfortable."
Kaelen nodded. He knew this, because cats with heterochromia often developed certain health issues like deafness or sensitivity to strong light. Light sensitivity wasn’t too much of a worry; although they couldn’t make sunglasses for now, they could use thin silk to make the boy an eyepatch. The most crucial issue to focus on was the deafness phenomenon. Kaelen anxiously instructed Ryder:
"Ryder, if at any moment you suddenly can’t clearly hear what people are saying, you must tell me immediately, got it?"
Ryder nodded. He felt very well right now, but since Uncle Kaelen had instructed him, there must definitely be a reason, so he would remember it carefully.
