Several massive shadows beneath the sea fell silent.
"I heard that besides your race's exceptional talent for concealment, you also possess a special ability that lets your vision pierce a hundred li and see an ant's antennae clearly." As if recalling something, Yue Huai slowly spoke. "Can this ability of yours share what you see with others?"
"Share? No." A massive shadow answered.
The massive shadows stirred. A black tentacle rose from the waves, and at its tip, a green eyeball spun rapidly before finally locking onto Yue Huai in front of it.
"If you want to see what we see... you must first become one of us." The massive shadow's voice continued.
Yue Huai looked at the eyeball before him and frowned slightly. A faint light flickered in his profound eyes, as though he were pondering something.
After a moment, he still reached out and took the spinning eyeball, speaking indifferently. "Become one of you? You think too highly of yourselves. You are merely tools created by that lord... Tools are meant to serve their purpose at critical moments."
"You...!"
Expressionless, Yue Huai reached up and removed one of his own eyeballs. Blood streamed down his cheek as he forcibly stuffed the green eyeball into his empty socket.
His bloodstained eyelid blinked lightly, and an eerie ghostly glow slowly blossomed from the depths of the green eye.
Yue Huai, his face smeared with blood, looked around with a somewhat surprised expression. "This eye is rather interesting."
At last, he turned toward the island, narrowing his green eye slightly.
"Let me see just who is guarding Great Xia's National Destiny..."
The island.
Crackle—!
Flames blazed beneath dry branches, constantly licking the bottom of a huge black vat. The high heat warmed the water inside, and rising steam drifted upward