Chapter 152: No Title (1/2)

Chapter 152: No Title

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The eyeball, quietly lying there, had become ordinary and plain, a far cry from its original magnificence.

At this point, Junior Leopard returned to reality. With a single glance, he suddenly felt the world he saw around him had changed.

Everything was clear, extremely clear. Even the dust was visible!

This was everything he could see before he'd unsealed his Fiery Eyes, but now, everything visible in this clear dusty space seemed to have changed. Junior Leopard wasn't just able to see visible things, but also the invisible changes in airflow. Nothing could escape his eyes!

He could see the flow of air, even the subtlest vibrations. Most importantly, when he used his eyes to look deep within, he could control his Internal Qi with a finer touch, and even deploy it more subtly. Naturally, the same applied to his body, all his muscles and skeletons were under his control.

That did not sound very helpful. But in fact, when you possessed complete control over your muscles and skeletons, you had an extremely strong advantage over others.

The punching skill of the Strengthening Body required good bodily control. Therefore, the more control you had over the body's skeletons and muscles, the more you could meet the demands of the punching skill, making it all the more effective. With this, you could achieve unexpected results with half the effort.

The Moon-evil Painted Skin Punching Skill and Blood-evil Bones Quan practiced by Junior Leopard were both top Strengthening Body punching skills, with correspondingly higher control requirements for the muscles and skeletons. Now though, Junior Leopard's new level of muscles and skeletons control would be greatly helpful for practicing Strengthening Body punching skills in the future.

Of course, this was only the most obvious present gain, the first thing he felt after coming back to reality. Once he completely calmed down, he discovered another thing that made him feel surprised and strange.

He discovered that his mind was connected to the Fiery Eye on the table, which now looked no different from an ordinary eyeball. Especially, he discovered that the eye's function was restored. He could even see things through the eye on the table just as well as with his own eyes.

It was a weird feeling. He already had a 360-degree viewpoint due to his Fiery Eyes, and now he suddenly had a new, discomforting field of vision.

Of course, this wasn't the main reason for his discomfort, he could slowly adapt to this new vision with time. Right now, the trouble was that he couldn't sever the connection between him and the Fiery Eye on the table. As a matter of fact, he could already feel his divine thoughts merging with some of the most essential things inside it.

Consequently, when his thoughts stirred, the Fiery Eye on the Table floated up, as if he was manipulating his Demon Devil Needles. But he had complete control over the Demon Devil Needles and completely lacked control over the Fiery Eye. The Fiery Eye left the table and flew straight up to his face, an act that startled him.

”Whoa! What's going on” Junior Leopard let out a strange cry and tried to dodge—unsuccessfully. The Fiery Eye seemed to have the spiritual intelligence of its own that anticipated his movements. As soon as he dodged, it changed course, intercepting his route every way he went. As he tried to dodge, he felt another stabbing pain in the head.

As the pain struck, Junior Leopard paused for an obvious instant. In that moment of hesitation, the Fiery Eye closed the gap in a flash and stuck to his face, right between the eyebrows. A cool feeling swept over him, spreading out from between the eyebrows. Then a sharp pain came. Junior Leopard clearly 'saw' the Fiery Eye burrowing into the space between his eyebrows, carving out a hole as if it sought to sink right in.

”S**t, no!”

At that moment, Junior Leopard, with no time to think, reached out and tried to pluck the Eye out from between his eyebrows. But how could it be that easy?

The moment his hand touched the Fiery Eye and prepared to pull, his Internal Qi began to work on its own. At the same time, the black pattern made from the three black lines started moving more rapidly. Junior Leopard knew everything there was to know about the Internal Qi circulation concentrated in his eyes. It was clearly condensing several times faster than before.

”No!” Junior Leopard's heart began pounding as if he'd come to a realization. He yanked his hand away from the Fiery Eye. In the same instant, with a 'whoosh', a black flame shot out from the Fiery Eye embedded between his brows and burned a huge hole in the stone wall across from him.

”What a potent flame!”Junior Leopard gasped. This time, the flame from the Fiery Eye was stronger and more powerful than before, burning through the bluestone wall instantly. It was at that moment of distraction that the Fiery Eye finished burrowing into the spot between Junior Leopard's eyebrows. Blood, drop by drop, trickled down from that spot. Whatever idea he might have had at that time was of no use, because between the moment that the Fiery Eye sank between his brows and the moment he went to touch the blood, the change was complete.

Flesh and blood blended together, completely blended together. The Fiery Eye merged with him, becoming an inseparable part of his body.

Junior Leopard simply sat down, closed his eyes, and quietly examined the sensations from the Fiery Eye as it proceeded to merge with himself, while simultaneously recovering the Internal Qi he had just lost.

After sinking between his eyebrows and blending with Junior Leopard's blood, the Fiery Eye continued to take root, generating countless filaments of blood vessels that spread through the inside of Junior Leopard's skull, linking to his brain just like his natural eyes were. At the same time, numerous blood vessels linked to his pair of Fiery Eyes, forming a physical connection.

The Fiery Eye finally stopped moving once it completely embedded itself between the eyebrows. The hole between the brows gradually closed as the wound began to heal itself. Before long, everything returned to its original form, as if nothing had happened.

This calm outward appearance did not reflect the turbulence inside. The Fiery Eye in-between his eyebrows was slowly growing and further improving. After quite a long while, Junior Leopard could no longer notice any structural differences between his grafted eye and his original eyes when he looked with his inner vision.

As the Fiery Eye's structure was perfected, everything seemed to start quieting down.

With a moment's thought, Junior Leopard circulated his recovered Internal Qi through his tendons and vessels, channeling it along the mysterious new pathways. As the Internal Qi began to move, it finally transformed into a black flame within his eyes and was released violently.

”As expected, I can use its power to release the transformed flame after it takes shape without passing throught my eyes. Then my eyes won't be hurt. Hee hee, interesting! I was thinking about how to do this, and didn't expect this trinket would be so helpful! I didn't need to worry at all. What a surprise!”

”The Fiery Eye is too amazing. It even sent out flame without burning the outside of my scalp!” Junior Leopard felt a bit of heat slowly build between his eyebrows. ”However, though I've gained a lot, I should be careful. Right now, my Fiery Eyes are hard to control. It almost feels like they have their own consciousness or a hidden instinct that can resist my will. This really is too incredible and weird. I'd really better be careful. Otherwise, I'll definitively get into big trouble if I'm exposed by my Fiery Eyes' instincts!”

The instincts of the Fiery Eyes were very special and confusing. There were lots of secrets that Junior Leopard needed to dig up. But before digging deeper, Junior Leopard needed to reacquaint himself with the power of his Fiery Eyes.

At the very least, he would gain complete control over the current form of his Fiery Eyes.

His decision made, Junior Leopard proceed to the second step, he slowly injected his Internal Qi into the Fiery Eye between his eyebrows and circulated it according to the refining method of the External Elixir.

It went smoothly, very smoothly, you could even say it went unprecedentedly smoothly. After injecting the Internal Qi of the Nine Dragons Heavenly Fire Technique into the Fiery Eye, he was surprised to discover he didn't need to construct a new Internal Qi working flow like the one in the skull of the Mud Dragon Loach. This was because after injecting the Internal Qi, the Fiery Eye automatically began to build an internal passageway for the Internal Qi of Nine Dragons Heavenly Fire, which was more perfect, more direct and more efficient than the pathway Junior Leopard built.

Before long, the Fiery Eye finished generating a perfect passageway for the Internal Qi of Nine Dragons Heavenly Fire. After constructing this passageway, the Mysterious Fire deep within his Dantian leaped up, quite naturally splitting into wisps that flowed into the Fiery Eye. After that, the Internal Qi of Nine Dragons Heavenly Fire automatically activated. There was no need for Junior Leopard to do anything.

”Such Amazing Eyes! These Fiery Eyes have so many advantages. No wonder so many people want them! If my guess is right, the cultivation method for External Elixirs was derived from the characteristics of Fiery Eyes. Fiery Eyes aren't the best materials for an External Elixir, but a naturally occurring External Elixir. The guy who created the way of the External Elixir surely must have been a Fiery Eyes scion like me. He must have naturally had the blood vessels of the Fiery Eyes, but not the Fiery Eyes themselves, so his only recourse was to give birth to the way of the External Elixir. This damn bloodline! It's not just others that want it: even people from the same bloodline want these eyes! No wonder it went extinct!”

Junior Leopard scolded these people in his heart. However, on reflection, he had also claimed and used another person's Fiery Eye, so he wasn't really qualified to scold others!

Whatever the thoughts of Junior Leopard, he'd completed the second phase. Now it was time for the third step.

His first idea was to awaken the mysterious capability of his newly acquired Fiery Eye to transform Internal Qi without hurting his own eyes. His second idea was to refine the Fiery Eye into his own External Elixir, after all, this was the Mysterious Object spoken of in legend, the best material for Refining External Elixirs? No one could have too many External Elixirs, right?