The "female corpse" below suddenly had a violent twitch of her eyelashes.
As if she had been disturbed.
That twitch stirred up earth-shaking waves across this galaxy, directly driving out Lin Xiaosu's consciousness silverfish. Before him, there was no longer a skylight, only the tranquil Willow Forest Temple.
Hu Ya sprang up and sat upright with a thump. "What was that noise?"
She rushed out of the cave.
Still shaken, Lin Xiaosu had no idea how to answer...
At that moment, he sat in a dark corner of the temple, blankly staring into the deep inner cave.
The solar light could not reach into the inner cave, yet he could still see everything within it clearly. It was utterly unbelievable...
A piece of clothing hung on the cave wall. The crooked, haphazard stitching was clearly Second Uncle's handiwork. Three strands of hair lay on it, long and soft, clearly a woman's hair. A mosquito took off from one strand and flew into the air; he could see every flutter of its wings with perfect clarity...
The Heavenly Dao Insightful Eye saw even the tiniest details...
Right... there was also Time Reversal!
How was he supposed to reverse time?
Lin Xiaosu's gaze shifted slightly, and everything before him seemed to flow backward through time. He saw Hu Ya getting up just now. She sprang from the ground, and her full chest bounced as though it might burst before she dashed outside the cave.
His eyes had not only gained the function of a microscope, but also the ability to replay the past.
This was the Heavenly Dao Insightful Eye!
How had such miraculous eyes appeared?
It was because a skylight had opened in the stone. Through it, he had watched the female corpse lying on her back. A dewdrop had been about to fall onto her eyelid. Worried that it would disturb her thousand-year slumber, he had instinctively blocked it. With that one block, he had obtained the Heavenly Dao Insightful Eye.
Did my good intentions end up doing her harm?
It had originally been her opportunity. Did that mean I had intercepted it midway? I crossed two worlds that had no connection at all and stole someone else's opportunity. What the hell did I just do?
That fairy's eyelashes had really moved. She was angry...
Outside, Hu Ya suddenly let out an excited cry...
Lin Xiaosu rushed out of the temple as well. The starlight outside was hazy, and beneath it, he saw a scene he would never forget for the rest of his life.
Hu Ya braced her feet against the cliff wall and gripped a flowering vine, pulling it outward. The vine was covered in scales.
"So it was you, you little thing, disturbing my sweet dream. Get into this young lady's pot!"
Lin Xiaosu's teeth ached slightly...
"Still putting up a fight!"
With a fierce tug, rocks flew everywhere as she forcibly dragged out a huge patterned snake, seven or eight feet long. The snake was extremely vicious. It arched through the air and bit at Hu Ya.
But who was Hu Ya?
This was exactly what she did for a living!
With a swing of her arm, she turned the great snake into a limp whip. Smack!
It slammed against a rock!
Smack! Smack! Smack...
After a furious barrage of whipping, the snake's head was finally smashed to pulp. Hu Ya carried the huge patterned snake, beaming with delight...
Lin Xiaosu, meanwhile, stared at that mountain rock, his face full of disbelief...
"Scared stupid?" Hu Ya used the snake's tail to tease him.
Lin Xiaosu seemed slow to react. If she had teased him like this before, he would have turned and run at once. But today, he seemed a little dazed.
"Did it really scare you? Don't be afraid, sis will protect you!"
"No..." Lin Xiaosu let out a soft breath. "Something's strange."
"What?"
"Take a good look. What kind of snake is this?"
Hu Ya lifted the big patterned snake with one hand, and her eyes instantly widened. "Holy shit! An Earth Mother? How could it be this big?"
The Earth Mother was a local venomous snake. It was extremely poisonous, but it never grew longer than two feet.
Yet the one she held was at least two meters long. Even Hu Ya, famous throughout the county for catching snakes, had never seen such an absurdly oversized Earth Mother.
"There's another strange thing. Just now, you used this snake as a whip and lashed it against that rock more than ten times. You even shattered the rock, but the snake's body didn't bleed at all."
Hu Ya looked at the rock, then at the snake corpse in her hand. "You're right. What's going on? Could it be... a ghost?"
A chill ran down Lin Xiaosu's back.
"Ah, I'm scared of ghosts!" Hu Ya flung her hand, sending the patterned snake flying off the cliff. Then she leaped up and pounced at Lin Xiaosu.
Afraid that her tank-like charge would knock him off the cliff, Lin Xiaosu quickly turned and slipped back into the temple.
The latter half of the night was normal.
Hu Ya climbed onto the bed and patted its edge, signaling for Lin Xiaosu to join her.
She slept on the inside, Lin Xiaosu on the outside, both under Second Uncle's thin blanket.
For companions who had played naked together since childhood, this sort of thing seemed like nothing. But tonight felt a little different. At least, Hu Ya felt more flustered than ever before.
She imagined what would happen if...
Just if...
If a pair of hands reached over from behind, should she kick him off the bed?
Yet the scene she imagined never happened.
That made the girl relax a little, though she also seemed to feel a slight sense of disappointment.
If it had been the Lin Xiaosu from half an hour ago, he might really have played the "little game she set up." But now, his mind had wandered elsewhere, and he had completely failed to notice.
Before midnight, he absolutely had not believed Second Uncle.
But now, he did.
Because he had personally witnessed the changes that occurred on the day of the Yellow Path anomaly.
His eyes had completely mutated.
He had just used Time Reversal to trace the origins of the strange Earth Mother in Hu Ya's hand.
Before midnight, this Earth Mother had been normal-sized, only a little over a foot long. But when that faint glimmer swept past at midnight, it happened to strike it. Right before his "eyes," the snake grew out of thin air into a seven- or eight-foot "giant snake"...
What was truly strange was that faint glimmer at midnight.
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