Origin Sky Eye

Lu Zhou activated his Origin Heavenly Perception. Two violet rays shot from his eyes as he inspected the more than fifty stone artifacts before him one by one.

In the end, Lu Zhou cut open every piece of stone.

He obtained two bean-sized grains of divine source, worth roughly over two hundred thousand jin of ordinary source.

Besides that, he obtained a petrified Stone Fruit that had lost all its essence.

A petrified Strange Plant, a petrified Earth Life Fruit, a petrified sapling, some gray powder that had completely lost its essence, and the head of a primordial creature mixed with tiny fragments of divine source.

As well as a bottle of fragrant fruit juice, a violet Stone Gall, and a damaged Human Origin Fruit!

Even though Lu Zhou had long known the answers,

when he personally cut out the petrified sapling, Strange Plant, and Earth Life Fruit,

his heart still ached. Unable to hold back, he cursed loudly at Origin God and Origin Ghost. They were truly awful bastards.

During the stone-cutting process, he also encountered the same situation Ye Fan had faced in the original story. A sinister wind rose, and the red hair within the stones carried an eerie power that sought to erode Lu Zhou's body.

Lu Zhou had long been prepared. As he cut the stones, the Dragon Pattern Black Gold Seal remained suspended above his head. The instant the red hair stirred, a dragon's roar from the seal shattered it into nothingness.

That so-called eerie power was also annihilated in an instant.

Lu Zhou sealed the damaged Human Origin Fruit and the fragrant fruit juice separately in jade bottles for future use.

Next, he placed the petrified Strange Plant and sapling into the Purple Mountain Sacred Spring to nourish them.

By now, Lu Zhou's Qiankun Heaven and Earth contained two jade spring pools, one large and one small.

The larger one held the Purple Mountain Sacred Spring. The smaller held just over seven jin of Empress Sacred Spring, with an Azure Lotus seed being nurtured within it.

Lu Zhou did not know whether the two petrified Immortal Divine Medicines could still be revived. He could only try with the faint hope that a miracle might happen.

Then, aside from the Stone Gall, Lu Zhou disposed of everything else as trash, including the primordial creature's head.

Over the following days, Lu Zhou continued to consolidate the foundations of his cultivation in Stone Village while constantly drawing the essence from the divine source to nourish the Stone Gall.

Another two months soon passed. When Lu Zhou had consumed more than half the essence within the divine source that had once sealed Yang Yi, the violet Stone Gall was finally nourished into gold.

Lu Zhou was overjoyed!

A golden Stone Gall could bring his Origin Heavenly Perception to perfection and form an Origin Sky Eye.

Every Origin Master throughout history had developed the strongest heavenly eyes, capable of seeing through illusions and gazing directly upon the source.

A true Origin Master, even without using source arts, could see through ancient mines deep beneath the earth at a glance, roam the world freely, and perceive every secret hidden within source!

Lu Zhou impatiently broke open the golden Stone Gall.

In an instant, the entire room filled with fragrance that seeped into one's bones. Even Lu Zhou could not help swallowing.

The golden Stone Gall liquid steamed with streaks of golden radiance, its fragrance overwhelming. Lu Zhou carefully squeezed it out and let the crystalline droplets flow into his eyes, feeling waves of coolness.

Yet in only an instant, his eyes felt as if they had been pierced by needles. It was as though blazing flames were burning within them, causing tears to stream down his face uncontrollably.

Lu Zhou knew this was an unavoidable stage in cultivating the Origin Sky Eye with the help of the Stone Gall.

Enduring the burning and stabbing pain, he wiped away his tears. In one go, he squeezed all the liquid from the Stone Gall into his eyes.

Then he closed his eyes and silently circulated his source arts, refining his pupils.

At this moment, his eyelids had turned golden and nearly transparent, gleaming with golden light. They looked exactly like the Fiery Golden Eyes from myth and legend!

About an hour later, Lu Zhou opened his eyes. Two flashes of golden light flickered from them and vanished. His gaze was as deep as the starry sky and as brilliant as the stars.

Lu Zhou felt clear-headed and sharp-eyed. The entire world seemed somehow different in his eyes.

Sitting cross-legged on the bed, he could see through the wall into the courtyard, where Wang Shu was helping Fifth Master Zhang chop firewood while wearing floral boxer shorts.

Lu Zhou rubbed his eyes. It was simply too painful to look at!

He truly did not understand why the people and dogs of Covering the Heavens were all so flamboyant and loved wearing floral boxer shorts.

He remembered that Li Heishui dressed like that, Duan De dressed like that, that dog Prosperity dressed like that, and now even Wang Shu dressed like that.

After cultivating the Origin Sky Eye, Lu Zhou's confidence grew even stronger.

Early the next morning, after eating with Fifth Master Zhang, he said to him,

"I'm preparing to head out. This trip may take as little as half a month or as long as around a year, but I will definitely return."

"You can use this time to make your preparations. Once I return, I'll help you move!"

Fifth Master Zhang had long told Lu Zhou that, after learning a great disaster would befall this place in the future, the people of Stone Village had all decided to move away.

Hearing Lu Zhou say this, Fifth Master Zhang nodded and said he would inform everyone shortly.

After explaining this matter, Lu Zhou left Stone Village directly and headed toward the Primordial Ancient Mine.

The Ancient Sacred Pool Land lay more than ten thousand li from the Primordial Ancient Mine.

With the information about the Ancient Sacred Pool Land's location from Yang Yi's memories, Lu Zhou naturally did not have to go through the same trouble Ye Fan and Black Emperor had faced in finding its exact location.

Though ten thousand years had passed, the so-called changes of seas into mulberry fields had not occurred in the sealed Ancient Sacred Pool Land.

Lu Zhou found the Ancient Sacred Pool Land successfully after only a few days.

Under the moonlit night, he stood upon a vast, empty expanse of crimson earth.

He saw Yaochi Flying Immortal.

For the sake of caution, Lu Zhou decided to take the same route Ye Fan and Black Emperor had used in the original story to enter the Ancient Sacred Pool Land.

Golden light flickered in his eyes as he scanned the surroundings. Dao patterns of the Xingzi Secret interwove beneath his feet, and with every step, he flickered in and out of view, leaving behind one afterimage after another across the crimson land.

After roughly half an hour, Lu Zhou discovered a pitch-black well opening through his Origin Sky Eye.

Lu Zhou threw a punch toward that spot. With a sweep of his sleeve, he quickly uncovered the well opening buried beneath dirt and boulders.

Leaping forward, Lu Zhou jumped directly into the well. He descended for more than two thousand meters before finally reaching the bottom.

Before long, Lu Zhou discovered a dried-up riverbed connected to the well. Following it for thirty or forty li, he found the terrain gradually rising.

He saw a faint light ahead and also sensed an extremely weak seal.

Not long after, he stepped into the sealed Ancient Sacred Pool Land.

Lu Zhou glanced at his system panel. It showed that this place met the conditions for check-in and allowed him to check in.