Fire Eyes Golden Pupils, seeing through all things, piercing all illusions, this was a divine ability. Jiang Chen would be lying if he said he wasn't tempted.
Though he harbored such fantasies in his heart, he knew it was unlikely to possess such an ability.
He remembered that in the novel, when Tang San absorbed the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, his Purple Demon Eyes advanced one level, his vision and observation abilities improved, and he saw through Xiao Wu's true form.
He guessed that after absorbing it himself, it should also enhance his vision and allow him to see through certain illusions.
No longer thinking too much, he raised the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew in front of him and sucked the few transparent drops of liquid from the leaf into his mouth.
When those few drops disappeared, the entire immortal herb withered, turning to ashes and scattering in the blink of an eye.
"Truly magical," Jiang Chen muttered to himself. He sat down in a cultivation pose and began refining those few drops of liquid.
After he ingested the drops, they did not settle in his stomach but transformed into a very cool energy that surged toward his eyes.
Under the nourishment of this energy, his eyes felt an unprecedented comfort.
In his inner vision, this energy was slowly permeating into his eyes, seemingly undergoing some wondrous changes.
...
Three hours passed. The sky had not yet brightened when Jiang Chen awoke from his cultivation.
He inwardly inspected and found that the miraculous energy that had originally surrounded his eyes had vanished, completely absorbed by them.
"It worked?" Expectantly, he opened his eyes, wanting to see if the world had undergone any magical changes.
What met his gaze was the night scene outside the balcony. To his delight, he discovered his vision had strengthened considerably; he could see distant objects with perfect clarity.
The feather patterns on several small birds perched hundreds of meters away appeared extremely distinct under his gaze.
"Truly magical."
Next, expectantly, he shifted his gaze to the wall. Behind the wall was Hu Liena's room.
"See through, see through..." He silently chanted in his heart.
He lacked Tang San's eye technique and could only forcefully widen his eyes.
In the end, his eyes nearly bulged out, yet his vision still could not penetrate the wall.
"Damn it, what Fire Eyes Golden Pupils, the see-through function is fake; it just lets you see farther." Jiang Chen laughed wryly.
"It seems this immortal-grade herb wasn't that impressive."
Moments later, he turned his attention to the system, where three soul ring upgrade coupons remained unused.
He would set out to hunt soul beasts at dawn, and the usage restriction for the upgrade coupons was levels 31 to 40, so he immediately prepared to use them.
...
At dawn, he awoke from the soul ring upgrade state.
Now, his first three soul rings had all been elevated to at least a thirty-thousand-year level.
Thus, he had a target in mind for how many years his fourth soul ring should be.
When he finished washing up and came out, breakfast had already been delivered.
He glanced past Hu Liena's room and saw that she was still in cultivation.
Without waking Hu Liena, he ate some breakfast and headed out.
...
One hour later, in the grand hall of the Pope's Palace for discussions, a platinum bishop hurriedly left to gather soul masters skilled in combat currently in Spirit City.
Bibi Dong wore a black robe embroidered with gold, luxurious and noble, topped with the nine-curved purple-gold crown. Her dignified and majestic aura surprised Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo.
They guessed that perhaps the Pope's cultivation had advanced again.
"Chrysanthemum Elder, Ghost Elder, I'll leave little Chen to you two."
Chrysanthemum Douluo slightly bowed. "Your Holiness, rest assured."
"Mm, set out."
...
Jiang Chen followed Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo out of the Pope's Palace.
This trip involved only the three of them. They did not take a carriage but proceeded on foot toward the Star Dou Great Forest.
With the strength of two Titled Douluo, carrying Jiang Chen, a round trip would save far more time than by carriage.
Though Jiang Chen was fast, he had not reached the Titled Douluo level. After leaving the city, he was alternately carried by the shoulders by the two Douluo, speeding toward the Star Dou Great Forest.
In merely half a day, by afternoon, they had already arrived outside the Star Dou Great Forest.
The three did not pause and directly entered the forest.
From that afternoon until nightfall, they found no suitable soul beast.
It was not until noon the next day that a surprise came.
An ugly soul beast was tossed in front of Jiang Chen, already on the verge of death.
It was a jade-green toad, the size of an ox, its entire back covered in fist-sized bumps. Each bump had a slit from which dark-green pus continuously flowed, emitting waves of foul stench.
When the slits on the bumps opened, they revealed eyes inside, emitting eerie light.
This soul beast was called the Thousand Eyes Demon Toad. Every hundred years, it would grow one more eye. By the time it reached a hundred thousand years, the eyes on its body would exceed a thousand.
What Jiang Chen valued was not its deadly poison, but the illusion abilities possessed by its eyes.
The eyes on the Thousand Eyes Demon Toad granted it terrifying illusion capabilities, easily trapping prey in illusions.
Within its illusions, the prey's deepest fears were aroused, making escape difficult amid endless terror.
Jiang Chen carefully counted. The Thousand Eyes Demon Toad already had over three hundred eyes, meaning it possessed more than thirty thousand years of cultivation.
"Little Chen, this is a mental-attribute soul beast. Are you sure you want to absorb its soul ring?" Chrysanthemum Douluo asked.
"Grandpa Chrysanthemum, I think I should be able to," Jiang Chen smiled, taking out a sharp, long sword.
Such a disgusting toad, he had no intention of touching it with his hands or mouth.
Moments later, a pitch-black soul ring fell onto Jiang Chen, and strange black energy surged into his body.
This time, absorbing the soul ring differed from before.
The surging energy in the soul ring not only assaulted his body but also impacted his spiritual force.
Though his body felt some pain, he could endure it. The mental assault, however, was far less tolerable.
Moreover, he discovered that besides his spiritual force, his eyes were also affected by this energy.
Yet when the energy struck his eyes, a cool aura emerged in his eyeballs.
This aura was very familiar to Jiang Chen; it was precisely the energy from the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew.
"Could it be that the immortal herb's energy hasn't been fully absorbed yet, with some still hidden in my eyes?"
Time passed minute by minute. Though the sensation of his spiritual force being assaulted was unpleasant, no accidents occurred.
Besides his body, Jiang Chen's own spiritual force had been extraordinary since childhood—far stronger than that of soul masters of the same level.
Otherwise, he would not have repeatedly broken free from Hu Liena's terrifying charm skills.
To others, Hu Liena's skills were dreadful, but to him, after experiencing them once or twice, they posed no further threat.
...
By the time he finished absorbing this soul ring, it was already afternoon. The three did not linger and immediately set off on the return journey. By nightfall, they had already returned to Spirit City.
After returning to the Pope's Palace, Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo departed.
Jiang Chen headed alone toward Bibi Dong's chambers. After absorbing the soul ring, he would soon face heavenly tribulation again. He needed to discuss it with Bibi Dong.
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