pjbooks Chapter 30 You Must Avoid My Eyes
Chapter 30 You Must Avoid My Eyes
The aged figure slowly turned its head.
It slowly turned from facing away from Lin Yu to facing her. But what appeared in front of Lin Yu was not a human face, but a dark, empty face.
The face was hairless, noseless, and eyebrowless, with only four dark holes around the eyes, nose, and mouth, as if someone had hollowed out the face, leaving only four holes leading to a deeper depth.
At first glance, it seems to be an unusual and evil creature that has stepped out of a folk tale of demons and ghosts!
It faces Lin Yu directly.
The next moment, a crimson dot suddenly appeared deep within the four dark openings.
That's the color of flesh and blood.
But the scarlet color didn't give people any sense of vividness or vitality; instead, it became even more disgusting and eerie, as if some evil spirit was using human flesh and blood as a shell, gradually manifesting itself from the invisible.
That crimson spot was wriggling.
Gently, little by little, it wriggled and pushed open sections of bloody, fleshy passages within the four dark orifices.
Then, something slowly fell out of the passage.
First, there's the cave entrance below.
Two uneven pieces, pale pink in color, with white fuzz clinging to their edges, hung down, damp and glistening.
Those were the old man's lips.
Next, at the middle opening, a bulging mass covered in viscous fluid slowly seeped down before sinking heavily.
That's the old man's nose.
Finally, there are the two holes at the top.
Two murky beads slowly squeezed out of the hole, as if they had struggled with great effort to break free from the depths of the black abyss. They fell to the ground, their tails still wrapped in writhing strands of blood.
Those are the eyes of an old man.
Lips, nose, and eyes—all three are present.
It was as if the senses that should have been present in the three organs had also been separated from that strange, incomplete body.
So the three things fell to the ground, clearly distinguishable from one another, yet at the same time, they all "looked" at Lin Yu.
The lips parted slightly, forming a slanted arc to the sides, as if they were smiling.
The nose drooped slightly, seemingly dissatisfied yet satisfied, and even wrinkled slightly as if it were alive.
Those two eyeballs were the most eerie.
They stood on the ground, their fleshy appendages like thin tails supporting their two eyeballs, which stood upright like snakes, staring intently at Lin Yu.
Within the murky vitreous body, faint specks of black shadow appeared, their nature unclear—whether joy, sorrow, or resentment.
"Jing'er..."
A soft sound escaped from those two lips.
It sounded like the mournful wind blowing through a mass grave at night, chilling to the bone.
The voice carried a hint of nostalgia, but more than anything, it was chillingly sinister.
"Where has my Jing'er gone?"
Such an eerie scene is rarely seen even in horror movies.
Lin Yu simply smiled as she looked at those eyes, that nose, and those lips, and nodded slightly.
"interesting."
"Although your cultivation level is only at the third level of the embryonic breathing stage, barely touching the edge of magical power, your innate extraordinary abilities would have made you a treasure among demonic cultivators in your previous life."
"...After all, you are the first evil creature born under the first spiritual aura in this world."
"Give you some time to grow, and you will easily reach the cultivation limit of this world—if the limit in this world is Foundation Establishment, you can reach the peak of Foundation Establishment within a few years; if the limit is Purple Mansion True Person, you can easily achieve Purple Mansion within ten years; if the limit is higher, reaching Golden Core, or even higher..."
Lin Yu spoke quietly, but her gaze passed over the evil creature and landed on the large pine tree behind it.
"As long as the [Sinking Wood] position remains unoccupied, you and this pine tree will naturally occupy that position, becoming born Great Sages of the Fruit Realm!"
"Being born close to the Tao can be considered a kind of luck."
The evil creature clearly couldn't fully understand Lin Yu's words.
Or perhaps, it is not yet enlightened enough to understand these theories, realms, and future prospects.
For a moment, only a colder voice rang out in the arena, like a sob or a mournful wail from the depths of the earth.
"My Jing'er... my disciple... where have you gone?"
In an instant, a series of sharp and mournful howls burst forth from the dark orifices on the face and body of the evil creature.
Immediately afterwards, four chilling and malevolent wisps of cold air rushed towards Lin Yu.
call out--
For a moment, everything seemed to fall silent.
The four streams of cold air coalesced in mid-air and struck Lin Yu directly, but they could not advance any further when they were only inches away from him.
The next moment, the chill condensed directly into visible black ice shards in the air.
Crack, crack.
It broke off piece by piece and fell to the ground.
The evil creature seemed to be stunned as well.
The two eyeballs, suspended in mid-air, even the black shadows shimmering within their turbid vitreous bodies, seemed frozen in place.
"This is clearly a world untrained by cultivators; the newly emerged spirit creatures are so ignorant and fearless, one could say pure and simple... that they actually dared to bully their master!"
Lin Yu chuckled softly.
In the cultivation world of the past, this evil creature could indeed be considered a born Dao embryo, possessing the potential to attain a higher level.
Those beings born close to the Tao, once they are born, often have the natural ability to seek good fortune and avoid misfortune, know who can be befriend them and who can be avoided, and possess powerful perception... or rather, the instinct to bully the weak and fear the strong!
But this life is different.
In this era, even the will of heaven and earth itself has not yet truly understood what cultivation is. Spiritual energy has just begun to open, the path has not yet been established, and even the initial cultivation system is still in a state of chaotic exploration.
Under such circumstances, the first evil creature born from the [Scattered Wood Blowing Spirit] naturally did not understand what hierarchy, lineage, or the difference between strong and weak was!
It instinctively sensed that the person in front of it was somewhat dangerous.
But that sense of danger was not enough to suppress its innate ferocity and appetite.
So it took action.
In short... it's just your breath!
"What an idiot."
Lin Yu gently raised her hand and pointed at the evil creature and the large green pine tree behind it.
With that single finger gesture, he neither used any Qi Refining stage techniques nor borrowed any supernatural powers or mysteries.
At this moment, standing atop his own metal elemental aura, he uttered a word devoid of magical power.
"You must avoid my gaze; there is still a way to survive underground."
Then, the room fell silent for a moment.
The next instant, the old figure, along with the two eyeballs, one nose, and two lips on the ground, suddenly disintegrated at the same time!
It wasn't blown to pieces, but rather like some kind of strange, forcefully propped-up form that suddenly lost its support, its entire shape instantly collapsing.
At the same time, the large pine tree also began to tremble violently!
One of its pine needles, which had been stretching outwards, suddenly turned inwards and pierced its own branches and trunk!
At first glance, it looked like a torment of being covered in pine needles, much like the torture of the "Iron Maiden" in ancient Western times!
Black sap seeped from the pine needles piercing the trunk of the pine tree.
The sap flowed down the bark, covering the entire tree, and dripped down, forming a deep, dark pool on the ground, emitting a chilling, fishy smell.
The branches of the entire pine tree rustled and moved.
There was clearly no wind, yet the sound was like the trees themselves vaguely wailing, struggling and begging for mercy.
"Wait a moment... wait a moment..."
"Spare my life..."
Lin Yu did not answer, but simply looked at it quietly.
Then the pine tree finally remembered what Lin Yu had said earlier.
Amidst violent tremors, its pine needles continued to burrow inwards, and its bare branches snapped one after another. But then, the entire tree suddenly began to shrink downwards.
It's not that it shrinks.
Instead, it burrowed underground.
Rumble...
The ground trembled slightly.
In an instant, the spot where the pine tree once stood in Baiyang Temple was reduced to a flat ground. Only a few traces of uprooted roots remained on the surface of the soil.
It turns out that the pine tree had actually turned itself upside down because of Lin Yu's words!
Its entire trunk burrows into the ground, forcing the roots to rise upwards while the trunk itself sinks deep into the soil.
The power of a single word has reached this level!
Lin Yu looked at the flat ground with a calm expression.
"From now on, this evil spirit wood should be able to understand some things a little better..."
"However, making you live underground is not just a punishment."
"The path of 'sunken wood' is associated with observing 'soil' and 'deep water,' which are close to the netherworld."
"If you stand upright in this mortal world, you will only make the surrounding land increasingly treacherous. Under the majestic sun, the further you go, the heavier the oppression you will suffer from this world... When Yin and Yang manifest and the True Yang emerges, that will be your death!"
"...But if your tree trunk points downwards, there is an endless depth underground, with yin soil, filth, buried bones, and lingering fortune, where the Great Dao can be pursued."
"Therefore, this is actually the most suitable path for you to seek the truth."
Lin Yu said quietly.
And a faint, lingering thought immediately came from underground.
That was the awe and gratitude that Qingsong and the evil creature within them felt towards Lin Yusheng after they had come to their senses.
Lin Yu smiled gently and stopped paying attention to it.
His words were both a reprimand and an enlightenment.
On the one hand, it means hiding it underground, so that it no longer flaunts its tree trunk on the surface; on the other hand, it also means pointing it to a path that better suits its image.
This is called, 【Ground-covered Pine】!
As for this guidance, it can be considered as payment for the time he spent cultivating in the tranquility of Baiyang Temple and by harnessing the energy of the pine trees.
And right now—
Lin Yu raised her eyes and scanned the distance with her spiritual sense.
Although he could not yet truly reach a thousand miles away, his status as a metal element was enough for him to roughly observe the atmosphere of the entire Minjiang City.
"In the Baiyang Temple, this sacred tree and the evil spirit are now locked in place."
"But in Minjiang City, the storms caused by the spiritual atmosphere of the [Scattered Wood Blowing Spirit] have only just begun."
Lin Yu gazed into the distance and murmured to herself.