Evil Eye: I Want to Live a Second Life!

Huo Yun'er had just turned around when she froze. She clearly had not expected her six-year-old son to suddenly ask such a... heavy question.

She fell silent for a moment, gently setting the rag on the corner of the table. Instead of continuing to wipe it down, she slowly walked back and sat down across from Dai Yuhao again.

Looking into Dai Yuhao's clear eyes, she softly answered, "Yuhao, Mom has made you suffer."

"Life is hard right now, but if we leave this place, where could we go?"

"Other than washing and mending clothes in the mansion and doing manual labor, Mom doesn't have any other skills."

"Outside... it isn't better than the mansion. At least here, we have a place to live, and we can always earn enough for a bite to eat every day."

"But if we leave, Mom doesn't even dare think about how to support you..."

Seeing the almost humble guilt on his mother's face, Dai Yuhao felt his heart prickle with a fine, dense pain, as if pierced by needles.

When Huo Yun'er saw her son fall silent, she leaned forward and took his small hand from the table.

Her voice rose slightly with hope and trembled faintly. "If you awaken a martial soul with Soul Power tomorrow, our lives might change."

Listening to his mother, Dai Yuhao felt a complicated mix of emotions.

Leng Yaozhu's words echoed in his mind, and he felt that his mother was thinking too simply.

But when he saw the bright hope in her eyes, every word caught in his throat.

He could not bear to shatter her last remaining hope, even if it was as fragile as a bubble.

He lowered his eyes, his thick lashes concealing the complicated emotions in them. He merely nodded obediently and answered in a low voice, "Mm... Mom, I understand."

Huo Yun'er cleared away the dishes and carefully wiped clean their only small table.

She turned back to look at her dazed son and said gently, "Yuhao, Mom is going to work. You... stay home and be good."

With that, she turned and pushed open the old wooden door, which creaked loudly. Her figure soon vanished beyond the small courtyard as she headed for the Laundry Room in the Duke Mansion, a place eternally piled with filthy clothes and dirty water.

Her back was slightly bent, but she did not dare slow her steps in the slightest.

After all, this was the only means by which mother and son survived in that cold mansion. Even when sick, she did not dare take a single day off.

Dai Yuhao watched his mother's figure disappear until the broken courtyard gate closed again, cutting off everything outside.

He returned to the Hard Bed, gently took off his shoes, and sat cross-legged on it.

With his back straight, his hands resting naturally on his knees, and his eyes half-closed, he focused on following the Soul Power Meditation Method Han Tianyi had taught him.

Just as he calmed his mind and began guiding his Soul Power along its established path—

The Evil Eye Soul Spirit's voice rang out in the depths of his mind once more, without any warning.

"Where exactly is this place? This is definitely no longer Shrek City, where the Spirit Pagoda is located!"

This time, Dai Yuhao did not choose to remain silent or ignore it.

With a slight shift of thought, his consciousness instantly sank down and descended into his Spirit Sea once more.

The Big Eye, over three meters in diameter, floated silently there. But unlike its previous stillness, this Evil Eye Soul Spirit was clearly in a state of unrest.

Within its enormous Silver-White Eyes, the deep, vortex-like pupil trembled rapidly and violently, contracting as the intricate patterns surrounding it flickered erratically.

Seeing how unsettled it was, Dai Yuhao remembered its previous arrogance, when it had ignored all his attempts at friendship. He could not help giving a soft snort. "Hmph! I didn't expect a Thousand-Year Soul Spirit like you to be so knowledgeable. You even know Shrek City."

At his words, the giant pupil's tremors eased slightly. The Sixteen Silver-White Tentacles behind it all lifted faintly upward, light flowing over their tips as it assumed an almost instinctive posture of pride.

"Of course, I am not comparable to those muddleheaded ordinary Thousand-Year Soul Spirits."

But that pride lasted only an instant before it immediately asked again. Its voice carried obvious urgency and even a trace of... barely perceptible unease?

"You still haven't answered my question! The aura and energy level here are completely different from before!"

"It feels as though... we are no longer in the same world!"

"What exactly is going on?! What did you do?!"

Dai Yuhao could not help showing a flash of surprise.

He had not expected the Evil Eye he had fused with to possess such sharp senses that it had nearly touched the edge of the truth.

For the first time, he truly understood the fundamental difference between an Indomitable Soul Spirit and an ordinary Spirit Soul.

Since this Evil Eye Soul Spirit would be traveling with him between Two Spacetime Separated by Ten Thousand Years from now on, there was naturally no need to hide anything.

Dai Yuhao had already decided to tell this special "partner" his secret in full.

"You're right. This place truly isn't the same world as before."

Dai Yuhao's voice echoed clearly through the Spirit Sea. "Simply put, I possess a special ability that lets me travel between two different eras..."

Dai Yuhao immediately explained that he could travel through ten thousand years of time and that he himself was the Founder of the Spirit Pagoda!

This information was clearly too shocking. The Evil Eye Soul Spirit's huge body seemed to sway slightly, and its silver-white light flickered unstably.

After Dai Yuhao had finished speaking, he clearly sensed the Evil Eye Soul Spirit before him, which had been trying to maintain its calm, suddenly erupting with spiritual power like a raging tsunami!

The pupil within its massive Silver-White Eyes trembled more violently than ever before.

It was a mixture of extreme shock, disbelief, and even a trace of... trembling and agitation from the depths of its soul!

"You... you are... the Spirit Ice Douluo?!"

"The Soul Master who became God Ten Thousand Years Ago?!"

Dai Yuhao could clearly hear the shock in its voice. He nodded solemnly.

"Mm! Aunt Leng... is the Vice Tower Master of the Spirit Pagoda ten thousand years from now, and she is also my teacher. That's what she told me. Based on the historical records and everything that has happened to me... it should be right."

The Evil Eye Soul Spirit fell into deathly silence. Yet its violent spiritual turbulence did not subside; instead, in that silence, it brewed emotions even harder to describe.

The reason this Evil Eye Soul Spirit's emotions had changed so dramatically was not merely because it had learned Dai Yuhao's identity, but because of something in its inherited memories!

Ten Thousand Years Ago, the Evil Eye Clan had possessed a supreme being.

That being had cultivated for eight hundred thousand years, once ruled the Evil Demon Forest, and cowed the continent—the supreme monarch of the Evil Eye Clan, the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign!

And the strongest being in the Evil Eye Clan's history had fallen at the hands of the Spirit Ice Douluo, becoming his Soul Ring!

When the Evil Eye Soul Spirit focused its gaze on Dai Yuhao again, its attitude had undergone a complete transformation.

If it had previously treated Dai Yuhao with lofty, indifferent disdain—

Then now, the light in that enormous pupil held shock, realization, reverence, and an almost eager... fawning.

After becoming a Spirit Soul, this three-thousand-year Evil Eye, whose talent surpassed that of its entire clan, had felt that this was all there was to its beastly life. There was nothing left worth longing for.

But things were different now. It had become Dai Yuhao's Spirit Soul. This was the future Spirit Ice Douluo, a being destined to become God!

This meant that its identity as a "Spirit Soul" would no longer be its end!

As long as it clung tightly to this host, witnessed his growth, and accompanied him into battle—

When he ascended to the God Realm, it might very well live a second life and even obtain eternal life!

What a heaven-shaking opportunity this was?!

Over ten thousand years on the continent, there had only been one person who became God, yet it had actually encountered him from ten thousand years in the future!

That immense joy utterly crushed what little pride and restraint it had left. Compared to the ultimate temptation of becoming God, what did a little face matter?

Thus, Dai Yuhao saw the enormous silver-white eyeball floating in the center of the Spirit Sea suddenly lower itself until it was nearly level with his consciousness projection, even dipping slightly lower in an almost humble posture.

The cold voice sounded again, but its tone was completely different, filled with urgency, ingratiation, and even a trace of cautiousness.

"My attitude before was poor! I hope you can forgive me!"

"From now on, as long as you give an order, I will carry it out without fail! No questions asked!"

Seeing the Big Eye's attitude change so quickly, Dai Yuhao was momentarily dumbfounded. The contrast was simply too great!

However, he was only six years old, pure-minded and at an age when he did not hold grudges easily.

Although Evil Eye's previous indifference had made him a little upset, it had not given rise to any deep resentment.

Now that it was apologizing and declaring its loyalty so sincerely, that small bit of displeasure had long since vanished like smoke.

He blinked, then waved his hand with the air of a little adult and said generously, "Then I'll see how you perform from now on."

Hearing that Dai Yuhao seemed to have forgiven it, the light within the Evil Eye Soul Spirit's massive Silver-White Eyes appeared to grow brighter.

It hurriedly nodded, its entire spherical body bobbing up and down once as its fawning manner became even more obvious.

"Yes! Yes! I will perform well! I definitely won't disappoint you!"

"Um... from now on, you can call me 'Xiao Yin'!"