Luo Yan looked at Bai?'s silver-white left eye. "So, this eye of yours is Mei Ba's third eye?"
Bai? shook her head. "No, I am Mei Ba's third eye."
"This eye of mine is merely that eye's manifestation."
Luo Yan frowned. "I don't understand. How can you be an eye?"
"You have a grandmother and parents, so you're a human."
"How can a human be Mei Ba's eye?"
Bai? smiled. "I had the same question back then. Then it told me that Mei Ba didn't want to be bound by the Heavenly Dao. She wanted to shed her identity as a child of Jianmu and become an ordinary person, able to live freely between heaven and earth."
"Therefore, when she was sealed, she plucked out her third eye and cast it down into the Mortal World."
Luo Yan nodded. "I know about that. God Lord told me the same thing."
Bai? continued, "After that eye left the Mortal World, it was free. However, for the first thousand years after leaving Mei Ba, it was still only an eye."
"It recorded the vicissitudes of the world, witnessed the birth of the new humans, and recorded and stored all of it."
"Two thousand years after leaving Mei Ba, it developed its own consciousness. At that point, it was discovered by humans, who worshiped it as a god."
"Three thousand years later, it began to ponder how it could become human..."
"Five thousand years ago, it successfully embedded itself into a human, granting that human extraordinary power. That person eventually built a great dynasty, but the eye discovered that this combination was not what it wanted."
"So it chose to separate, and shortly after it left, that dynasty fell apart."
"To commemorate it, the humans of that era created a bronze mask with