Bone Grows Eye!

Chapter 33: Bone Grows Eye!

The sun and moon appear every day, seeming ordinary yet extraordinary.

Sunrise and moonset, the alternation of day and night, the cycle of the four seasons—this is the way of heavenly principle.

The ancients worshipped the moon to pray for bountiful harvests, and later it became a vessel for longing, carrying the world's yearnings, expressing people's nostalgia for their homeland, family, and friends.

In the eyes of modern people, the vast, deep cosmos is filled with mystery. The moon is the closest celestial body to Earth, a forward outpost for humanity's journey into deep space, and some have even proposed the idea of migrating there.

Compared to the scorching sun, whose blazing radiance keeps everyone at bay, that gentle silver glow seems far easier to accept.

Perhaps because it appears every day, everyone takes it for granted—even Ye Qin was no exception. The moon he had visualized hung in the vault of the heavens, its bright light never changing.

Beautiful as it was, it lacked a certain soul.

Rather than calling it a moon, it would be more fitting to call it a mere luminous object, devoid of the divinity of Lunar Yin, like a hollow shell without a spirit.

"Maybe I'm still missing something. What exactly is it?"

Gazing at the moon above his head, Ye Qin pondered with great seriousness.

People have their joys and sorrows, their partings and reunions; the moon has its waning and waxing, its fullness and eclipse. The moon is not immutable.

Just as when he had previously visualized the White Bone, able to grow flesh and blood from bone, and have flesh and blood return to bone—this followed the path of reincarnation. The same principle applied to the moon.

Ye Qin suddenly understood. As this realization dawned, the shadow of the visualized moon gradually faded, dissolving like a flower in a mirror or the moon's reflection in water.

The world returned once more to a state of chaos.

The long night stretched on, boundless darkness shrouding the entire world without a single ray of light. The whole sky was covered by a black curtain, pressing down so heavily it was almost suffocating.

No one knew how long passed. In the haze, the stars adorned the sky, countless points of light drifting and sinking within it. A magnificent Milky Way floated before Ye Qin.

The constellations in the heavens shifted in countless ways, yet they followed their own fixed order, containing infinite and endless patterns. However, the central position remained perpetually vacant, as if waiting for something to arrive.

The starry river surged, silver light converging together, raising towering waves. A vast silhouette could be faintly glimpsed, gathering the entire world within its embrace.

Silver gauze served as water, and the myriad stars moved because of it. At last, the outline of this object became visible.

It was an enormous circular plate, cascading down like a waterfall.

Silver light flickered, illuminating past and present. Heaven and earth met, and the moon served as the bridge.

Between heaven and earth, there was only this clear, transparent shadow.

It seemed so close, as if one could reach out and pluck the stars or seize the moon, yet in truth it was far away. Its form shifted endlessly, from a shallow crescent into a full, rounded Jade Plate.

Ye Qin's entire serpent body was bathed within it.

Then, a massive skeleton slowly manifested behind him, coalescing into form, as solid as a real object.

A shallow silver glow formed thousands upon thousands of strands of gauze, wrapping the White Bone within it. Using this as a medium, the celestial river in the sky cascaded down, ceaselessly washing over the skeleton.

From the surface of the White Bone, black impurities were continuously scoured away, then purified by the moon's radiance.

The originally eerie, gloomy skeleton, through the baptism of the moon's glow, instead gained a measure of sanctity and solemnity.

Immediately after, the Jade Plate in the heavens began to spin continuously, as if drawn by some inexplicable attraction.

The starry river began to ripple from this, forming a massive vortex. Countless stars fell and rose, then coalesced into a huge ball of light that flew into the right eye socket of the White Bone.

A single eye slowly grew forth from that spot!

The White Bone's right eye remained an empty void, like a distant and profound universe.

The other eye, however, blazed with brilliant stars and a moon pouring across ten thousand miles.

Bone Grows Eye!

Eyelashes blinked softly, the gaze shifting, yet aside from that eye, all was bone!

This should have been a scene of utter eeriness, yet because of the majestic splendor within those two eyes, it instead added a sense of wonder and magnificence.

As the fundamental Contemplation object, the White Bone, underwent this change, Ye Qin, as the main body, also emitted a blinding white light, so intense it even masked the original color of his serpent body.

The serpent bones within were as hard as jade, each piece radiating an inexplicable glow.

At first glance, it looked like a great white serpent.

In this moment, from the inside out, Ye Qin felt an ascension, even an impulse to rush toward the moon.

In an instant, his emerald-green serpent pupils were replaced by the Jade Plate. A crescent moon faintly reflected into his serpent eyes, leaving an indelible mark.

"My left eye has also received the backflow from the Contemplation object, absorbing the Lunar Yin essence!"

At this moment, Ye Qin's left serpent eye shared a similar wonder with the White Bone's eye, nourished by the fundamental Contemplation object, the White Bone!

The left eye became the moon, wrapped in silver gauze, a vast expanse of stars cascading down, revealing the vision of a bright moon slowly rising.

In that instant, he felt as if he could see all things in existence. Nothing in the world could escape these dharma eyes; everything was within his grasp.

"Second realm: Creation Body Tempering!"

"I used the White Bone to contemplate the Lunar Yin and the bright moon as my creation, tempering a single eye, thereby causing the fundamental Contemplation object, the White Bone, to grow a left eye born of Lunar Yin."

"Thus, my main body, the serpent form, was influenced by the fundamental Contemplation object, and my left eye also underwent a wondrous transformation."

"This is the original intent of the Contemplation Method."

Ye Qin could even see his own bones transforming into a jade-like structure, impossibly hard.

Soon, the Jade Plate flew out again, hanging high above the sky. Ye Qin's eyes returned to normal, and the illusory visions faded away.

The Bone Vision also dissolved into specks of light, merging into Ye Qin's body.

Breaking free from the meditative illusion, in the real world, his eyes remained that pale green. But if one looked closely, a faint crescent mark was barely visible within them, as if it were proof left behind by Lunar Yin.

Though the fusion through meditation lasted only an instant, given Ye Qin's current cultivation, he couldn't fully integrate Lunar Yin's power into his eyes. Yet even that brief contact brought him immense benefits.

In reality, the entire snake body emitted a faint glow, barely perceptible to human eyes, like flowing moonlight. The surrounding magnetic field was subtly shifting as well.

On the other side, Xie Yixuan finally reached the vicinity of Falling Thunder, not daring to venture any closer.

But strangely, the thunder gradually faded, and the weather began to clear.

Even so, he didn't dare approach too closely, afraid of accidentally triggering another thunderstorm. If he slipped up, it wouldn't be a joke.

He stopped far away, squinting to observe. Aside from the lightning strikes, there seemed nothing unusual about the place—it looked perfectly ordinary. Xie Yixuan couldn't help feeling disappointed.

"I thought there'd be something good here. Turns out it's nothing special."

Xie Yixuan was about to head back when he suddenly noticed something and couldn't help exclaiming in surprise.

"Huh? Why is there a snake over there?"

Xie Yixuan rubbed his eyes. From a great distance, he could vaguely make out a creature coiled on the ground, its body long and slender—definitely a snake.

"That snake isn't moving. Could it have been struck dead by lightning? Too far to see clearly."

Under Falling Thunder, logically, there shouldn't be any living things on the ground.

The earth all around was scorched black. Stones and branches were shattered, all bearing the marks of lightning strikes—a testament to the thunder's ferocity.

The snake's body was faintly visible. Though mostly black, it didn't look like it had been struck dead.

All creatures have an instinct to avoid danger. Along the way, he hadn't seen a single living thing. Suddenly spotting a snake here struck him as extremely odd.

"All snakes should be hibernating right now. Why would one be out here?"

Xie Yixuan widened his eyes, trying to see more clearly.

But the distance was hazy, as if a thin veil hung in the air, making him feel like he was looking at flowers through fog.

The snake in the distance didn't seem long—about a meter or so. Its eyes were closed, but its body was upright, holding a strange posture.

It was truly bizarre.

End of this chapter