On the Fengming First High School Worldline, atop Purple Gold Mountain.
This worldline was in the season of spring warmth and blooming flowers, a riot of crimson and purple.
Though it was deep in the night, Shi Tiexin's eyesight was now no different from daylight.
Guanlan Sky Eye cultivation progress: Third layer, perfected Attributes possessed: Guanlan +6
Shi Tiexin closed his eyes. A moment later, he suddenly opened them, and the light of thought qi shone in his eyes. This time, it was no longer so bright or conspicuous, but more concealed, more condensed, and more penetrating.
He was finally no longer stuffing thought qi wholesale into his optic nerves. Instead, he arranged troops and deployed formations with great order and method throughout his corneas, ciliary bodies, lenses, retinas, and optic nerves.
If he had to draw an analogy, it was like inscribing runes upon his eyes.
Except these runes required no physical materials, nor were they permanent. In other words, every time he opened the Guanlan Sky Eye, he had to arrange them anew. Arrange them slowly, and the Sky Eye opened slowly. Arrange them quickly, and it opened quickly.
In a sense, before it was fully mastered, the Guanlan Sky Eye's response speed was inferior even to the Basic Pupil Technique.
But compared to its many advantages, that flaw was hardly worth mentioning.
First, as his cultivation continued to improve, the Guanlan Sky Eye's activation speed would grow faster and faster. Starting from the Second Heavenly Layer, it would undergo a qualitative leap. Once thought qi had been cultivated to a profound level in the Second Heavenly Layer, allowing Void Traces, it could form a semi-permanent stable structure.
Second, thought qi that had been arranged into formations was superior to the Basic Pupil Technique in every