Through a kind of "perception" he still couldn't fully understand, Yu Sheng felt that he had established a connection with this valley. His consciousness flowed through the rocks and soil, traveled deep into the writhing, undulating woods, and immersed itself in the water and wind here. Then, through countless pairs of grotesquely twisted eyes, it observed the sky above the valley.
The gigantic eye, large enough to cover the entire sky, calmly and indifferently gazed down at the earth. It never changed from beginning to end, as though it were a transcendent observer watching the contents of a petri dish.
But Yu Sheng could feel that the eye had noticed him. The instant he established a connection with the valley, the eye's gaze had accurately fallen upon "him."
The eye was confused and curious. Although it showed no emotion or "change in its gaze," Yu Sheng almost directly "read" those thoughts. Some enormous "mind" trembled throughout this space, and every thought it had stirred up raging waves here. Yet ordinary people couldn't sense the roars echoing through the Otherworld. Even Yu Sheng, with the perception of the entire Otherworld, could only vaguely feel that some mental activity existed behind the eyeball.
But strangely, Yu Sheng sensed not the slightest hostility from that eye—and no goodwill, either.
After a while, he discovered that the eye's focus had shifted away from him. Or rather, it was no longer watching the entire valley, but had concentrated its gaze on some place within it.
The eyeball slowly swept across the earth, as though tracking and searching for something.
Meanwhile, Yu Sheng's consciousness gradually spread out. Over the next few minutes, he slowly came to understand something...
The entire valley had begun to stir. Some bizarre and terrifying "vitality" had turned this whole Otherworld into