Chen Mo's pitch-black eyes gradually turned crimson with qi and blood, and everything he observed became incomparably detailed.
Moonlight spilled down, as though staining the entire world with a layer of blood. Chen Mo raised his head and looked up. The moon at the horizon was no longer bright yellow.
A ring of blood-red radiance wrapped around the entire moon, with only a small patch at its center still stubbornly emitting bright yellow moonlight.
Chen Mo had looked at the moon before, yet no matter how he looked at it, it had always been a golden disk. Only today, when he surveyed the sky with the Blood Essence Eye—
—did the moon completely change in his eyes. Only a small circle of tranquil bright yellow remained; most of the moon had become an eerie, frenzied red.
What was more, when he observed the sky with the Blood Qi Eye, Chen Mo could not see the existence of any stars. Through this method, it seemed as though he had seen through the world's falsehood and reached a deeper layer of truth.
The star-filled heavens fell utterly silent at this moment. The only light left in the entire world was bloodlight.
Chen Mo picked up the gong and drum in his hands and gave them a light strike. The bloody hue before his eyes swiftly receded, and bright silver-white moonlight once more claimed this land.
Yet this area extended only a hundred zhang around him.
Beyond that hundred-zhang radius, the world was still covered in a layer of blood, and the Blood Moon in the sky had never changed.
The sound of the gong and drum seemed to carve out a boundary around him, dispersing the power cast down by the Blood Moon.
But farther away, the sound of the gong and