Chapter 666 The Rebirth of the Right Eye (1/2)

Speaking of which, Caesar didn’t have special blood flowing through his veins like Cha Cha did. He was a fearsome beast because Shao Xuan helped transform him into one.

Now, Caesar had lost an eye. Shao Xuan was about to give him a new eye, but he was not sure whether the merge would succeed. Regardless, he had to give it a try.

Shao Xuan broguht Caesar to a mountain far off from the rest of the tribe. The ground here was not suitable for agriculture, and the quality of the rocks here were not decent either. The rocks here were not suitable for making weapons, and no wanderers lived here. Usually, only a few patrolling soldiers would stop by here to rest.

When Shao Xuan came, there was a group of patrolling soldiers resting here. Seeing Shao Xuan, those people immediately greeted him, and after learning that Shao Xuan had business here, they descended the mountain immediately without asking any questions. However, they didn’t walk far and guarded nearby to prevent people from coming over to disturb them.

Caesar was still doubtful. Even though he could understand their language quite well, Shao Xuan didn’t tell him much, so he was still confused about what was going on. There was a hunting team dispatched today, but he didn’t get to follow.

Shao Xuan brought out the scroll that had all the important notes written on it, and reread it once more. Even though he had read it a couple times on his way back on the ship, he made sure to read everything over again before he started. In his mind, he pictured the steps of the merging process that was about to begin.

“Alright, come here and lay down,” Shao Xuan called out to Caesar.

Caesar was already a massive beast. As he laid on the ground, his back was still as tall as most ordinary people, so it was needless to say how tall he was if he stood up. Shao Xuan was going to help him merge with his new eye, so he had to stay low.

Although he didn’t understand what Shao Xuan was about to do, Caesar followed obediently. He laid flat on the ground and set his head low between his paws.

Shao Xuan removed the blindfold that was covering his right eye. There was no eyeball inside its socket. The eyelid there was slightly folded inwards, and his upper eyelid had remained shut for a long time. His injuries from the previous year had already recovered, and the injuries on his body now were all new. They were from recent hunts, but his right eye had always been blindfolded, so it didn’t get any new injuries.

“Caesar, this is a True Eye I got from the Jing tribe. The Jing people use this to grow a new eye,” Shao Xuan pointed at the bamboo tube in his hands.

Hearing about the “Eye”, Caesar’s ears moved as he looked expectantly at the bamboo tube.

Shao Xuan personally marked Caesar back then and imprinted him with the energy of the Flaming Horn totem. Caesar had been living in their tribe for so many years and participated in many of the sacrifices, so he naturally absorbed some of the fire seed’s energy. This was the only thing Shao Xuan was concerned about now. If the fire seed’s energy within him was too strong, then the repulsion would be more obvious, and the success rate would also be lower.

But he still had to give it a try.

Heaving a sigh, Shao Xuan opened up the bamboo case and took out the ground eye that was sealed with mud from within.

It was just as the Jing shaman had said. The ground eye meat could be preserved longer with the mud seal. Shao Xuan washed away the mud and untied the rope that was tightly bound around it. As he opened the shell, he noticed that the meat inside the ground eye was still as fresh as before. Nothing changed. He took out the ground eye meat and opened it. He then took out the True Eye from within.

After he washed the meat, Shao Xuan cut some of it and passed it to Caesar. “Eat this first.”

Caesar smelled its scent curiously and ate it right away.

Shao Xuan observed him for a while. Seeing no reaction, he fed Caesar the last bits of the meat.

After Caesar finished eating the rest of the meat, Shao Xuan slowly opened Caesar’s right eyelid. There was no eyeball inside, only some red flesh in his eye socket.

Caesar wasn’t inserting a third eye into the middle of his forehead like the Jing shaman, so he didn’t need to cut a slit open anywhere. With one hand, Shao Xuan kept Caesar’s right eye socket open. With the black True Eye in the other hand, he carefully inserted it into his eye socket and slowly pushed inwards.

Shao Xuan didn’t dare push it too far in.

If the True Eye caused too severe a reaction, then he had to extract it, as the Jing shaman had said.

After Shao Xuan inserted the True Eye into Caesar’s right eye socket and took two breaths of air, change started to take place around the black True Eye.

Inside Caesar’s right eye, all the flesh started to surround the black True Eye, and thin blood vessles grew around more than half of the eye. Besides the part that was still facing outward, the other sides around the True Eye were all blood vessels. Very soon, a white layer of membrane started to form where the blood vessels were, and started bulging.

“Roar---”

Caesar shook his head uncomfortably. Shao Xuan let go of him and asked, “Are you alright?”

The True Eye had already started changing. Was it working?

Caesar was just not used to the feeling. He wanted to use his paws to scratch his eye, but Shao Xuan held them down.

Then, Shao Xuan noticed that Caesar’s right eye was starting to bulge under his closed eyelids.

Caesar wanted to bang his head on the ground, but Shao Xuan stopped him again.

If these were the only reactions, then it was fine. The Jing shaman had mentioned the severe reactions after a failed merge. Caesar’s case didn’t look like he was experiencing a severe rejection.

This was a good sign.

Caesar probably also knew that something was changing within his right eye, and even though he felt uncomfortable, he held the pain in. When he couldn’t hold it in, he struggled for a while, but Shao Xuan was still holding him down.

A muddy fluid flowed out from Caesar’s right eye. Shao Xuan frowned, but he still saw no severe reactions, so he didn’t take any action yet. If Caesar couldn’t help struggling and was suffering too much from the pain, then he would consider forcefully extracting the True Eye.

The Jing shaman had also mentioned the muddy fluid that would flow out from his eyes. It happened to all the Jing people during their merging process, so it wasn’t abnormal.

The muddy substance dripped to the ground and was gradually absorbed into the earth. With the naked eye, people could observe how the grass that was growing there was suddenly dying and bending downwards. Very soon, the entire patch of grass wilted to the ground.

Seeing this, Shao Xuan’s eyebrows arched even higher. These were not normal tears. The Jing shaman had not mentioned this, but he also recalled not seeing much grass on the Jing property, so he could understand this even if the Jing shaman didn’t mention anything about it.