Peeking Backfires! One Glance Shattered Tang San's Heart Meridians

To get to the bottom of who he was dealing with, Tang San took a deep breath. The internal power of the Mysterious Heaven Skill from the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record circulated silently to his eyes, and he instantly pushed the Purple Demon Eye to its limit!

Two traces of deep purple light flashed through Tang San's eyes, too faint for anyone else to notice.

Through the Purple Demon Eye's Detailed vision, the pedestrians on the surrounding streets, the dust drifting through the air, and even the flow of Soul Power within low-level Soul Masters became perfectly clear.

Tang San's gaze blazed as it passed through the halos of lightning and water surrounding Keqing and Mona, which made even his heart tremble. He fixed his eyes on Chu Yuan, who walked between them, attempting to use the Purple Demon Eye to forcibly see through the black-haired youth's meridians, Qi and blood, and the true nature of his Martial Soul!

Thirty paces, twenty-five paces, twenty paces.

Chu Yuan did not break stride. His left arm wrapped around Keqing's waist, his hand gently caressing the smooth silk hem of her dress. He seemed to pay the man and woman at the roadside no mind at all.

But just as the two prying beams of Tang San's Purple Demon Eye were about to reach within three feet of Chu Yuan-

Chu Yuan slowly raised his lowered eyelids, casting Tang San an indifferent glance from eyes as deep and black as the starry sky.

How dare you.

He made no sound, nor did Chu Yuan even need to actively use a Soul Skill.

Simply because Tang San had attempted to use a mortal eye technique to peer into the Heavenly Principles origin of the Primordial One, the First Martial Soul dormant within Chu Yuan, the Crown of Heavenly Principles, instinctively brought down a wisp of supreme law's pressure. It followed Tang San's line of sight and rebounded straight into him!

"Hum-boom!!"

Through his Purple Demon Eye, Tang San saw no human meridians at all. Instead, the moment his eyes met Chu Yuan's, he saw a resplendent purple-gold divine crown floating above the nine heavens, capable of burning all the stars in the heavens to ash!

"Agh-!"

Tang San felt as though a divine hammer weighing ten thousand jun had smashed into his mind, and an excruciated groan escaped his lips!

The Purple Demon Eye he was so proud of, which had never failed him before, was instantly routed beneath the backlash of that wisp of Heavenly Principles law.

Tang San felt as though two red-hot iron needles had stabbed deep into his eyes. Two vivid streams of crimson tears instantly ran from their corners!

The vast, unfathomable force of the backlash drove straight through his spiritual sea of consciousness, directly stirring up the Mysterious Heaven Skill's internal power circulating at high speed within him.

"Pfft!"

Tang San's face turned as white as paper. The Qi and blood in his chest surged backward like rivers and seas overturning, and his legs gave way, dropping him to one knee!

"Brother!!"

The sudden turn of events drained the color from Xiao Wu's pretty face. She rushed over to support the swaying Tang San, and when she saw the two streams of blood running from his eyes and the blood at the corner of his mouth, she looked up at Chu Yuan and the two women twenty paces away, shocked and furious:

"Brother! What's wrong?! Why are your eyes bleeding?!"

Passing pedestrians and Soul Masters were also startled by the commotion. They stopped in their tracks and looked uncertainly between Tang San, kneeling on the ground, and Chu Yuan's unruffled group.

"What happened? How did that kid take one look at the noble opposite him, then cough up blood and drop to his knees?"

"Shh! Keep your voice down! Didn't you see the bearing of that young master and the two young ladies? That kid in blue must not have known the rules. He used some kind of eye-technique Martial Soul to spy on them, only to kick an iron plate and suffer the backlash!"

Keqing and Mona stopped and watched Tang San kneeling and coughing blood beneath the colonnade with cold eyes.

Mona gave a soft snort and adjusted the pointed witch's hat on her head, muttering to Chu Yuan:

"I was wondering how anyone could be so blind... Turns out he's just some guy who learned a crude eye technique and thought he could pry into other people's secrets whenever he pleased. Chu Yuan's fate is a supreme existence that can even shatter my divination astrolabe, and he actually dared to look straight at it with his naked eyes. He's lucky he didn't go blind on the spot."

Keqing's delicate brows also drew together slightly. Her cold gaze swept over the outline of a mechanical Hidden Weapon that had slipped halfway out of Tang San's sleeve because of his pain, and she said coldly:

"Sinister eyes and a hidden arrow up his sleeve. He looks gentle on the surface, but his thoughts are vicious. My lord, shall I go cripple both his hands?"

"Don't, don't attack!"

Still kneeling on one knee, Tang San felt as though his eyes were splitting apart, and his vision was a blurry field of red. His ears, however, keenly caught Keqing's icy killing intent and the lightning sword intent around her that chilled him to the bone.

He gripped Xiao Wu's arm tightly and, forcing himself to endure the dizziness in his head and the surging of his Qi and blood, yanked her behind him as she was about to rush forward and argue!

Tang San's heart was pounding beyond his control, and his back was already drenched in cold sweat!

How terrifying!

He had cultivated the Purple Demon Eye for over ten years, but even when facing a Spirit Grandmaster from the Spirit Hall Branch in Nuoding City, he had never encountered such a terrifying existence-one who could gravely injure his Mysterious Heaven Skill's heart meridians with a single glance!

"I-I am Tang San. I had no intention of offending you three honored guests!"

Tang San clenched his teeth. Without bothering to wipe the blood from his eyes, he bowed his head deeply toward Chu Yuan and said in a hoarse, strained voice:

"Just now, I suffered a cultivation deviation while practicing an eye Soul Skill and unintentionally offended your dignity. I hope you will forgive me! Xiao Wu, apologize, quickly. We're leaving!"

"Brother, but your injuries..."

Xiao Wu looked at Tang San, who was usually proud and composed, never bowing his head to anyone, yet was now so disheveled and frightened. Her heart ached for him, and she was shaken.

She looked up at the black-haired youth twenty paces away, flanked by two breathtakingly beautiful girls.

Although he had just injured Tang San with the backlash, when Xiao Wu met Chu Yuan's deep, calm eyes, where a trace of Irminsul's emerald-green vitality faintly flowed, the instinct of the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soft Bone Rabbit's soul within her reacted as though it had encountered the forest sovereign who ruled over all living things. She could not muster the slightest hostility or rage. Instead, her heart pounded like a startled fawn, and she lowered her head involuntarily.

Chu Yuan looked down at Tang San, who had bowed his head in submission but still held his right hand tense inside his sleeve. A mocking smile curved his lips:

"Put away those disgraceful bits of metal in your sleeve, along with those inferior eyes of yours that like to pry. I'm in a good mood today, so I'll let you off for now. If there's a next time, you won't get away with just a little blood."

The indifferent, level voice fell on Tang San's ears like a thunderclap from the nine heavens!

His Silent Sleeve Arrow-had the other party seen right through it with a single glance?!

Tang San shuddered violently. An unprecedented sense of frustration and chill enveloped him as he retreated in a sorry state into the shadows of the crowd, supported by Xiao Wu.

Chu Yuan did not spare Tang San another glance.

A character like Tang San, who relied on the Tang Sect's Hidden Weapons and Twin Martial Souls to run rampant in the early stages, was no more than a roadside pebble to him now that he wielded the Crown of Heavenly Principles and Irminsul-one he could casually crush.

The best amusement would be to march into the Star Dou Great Forest and the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well someday and strip him of all the opportunities that belonged to him, as well as the rabbit at his side.

"Let's go, Mona. Lead the way to that dark alley in the northwest of the city."

Chu Yuan wrapped his arms around Keqing's and Mona's slender waists and turned, walking unhurriedly toward the dark streets northwest of the commercial district.

Hidden in the shadows at the street corner, Tang San listened to the footsteps of Chu Yuan and the two women recede. Only then did he dare raise his sleeve to wipe the bloody tears from his eyes. He gasped for breath, his face grim and stricken:

"How could such a terrifying, unfathomable youth suddenly appear in Suotuo City...? Could they really have something to do with the vision of the heavens splitting open last night...?"

Xiao Wu, who was supporting him, looked back in a daze at Chu Yuan's tall figure as it disappeared around the street corner into the night. The supreme breath of life that haunted her thoughts seemed still to linger at the tip of her nose, and her pretty face was filled with bewilderment and confusion.