Double Pupil and Heavenly Eye, Invincibility and Fortune

When Long Zhanye woke up.

He found himself leaning against the trunk of a massive ancient tree.

Warmth and the crackling of burning wood reached him, while the air carried a scent... mixed with charred fragrance and something meaty.

He slowly opened his eyes, and the first thing he saw was dancing orange-red flames.

In the firelight.

Old Man Gu and Zhua Yun sat around the campfire.

Each held a large skewer of meat, sizzling with grease, browned on the outside, and fragrant.

They were wolfing it down, their mouths slick with oil and their expressions utterly content...

"Grrr..."

Long Zhanye's stomach let out a thunderous protest.

Hunger immediately surged through him.

Only then did he remember that he had been fighting continuously since yesterday, absorbing Soul Rings and Spirit Bones. The consumption had been immense, and he was already starving.

Those two... they're actually sneaking off to eat without me! Long Zhanye fumed inwardly as he struggled to sit upright.

As he got up, instinctively stretched his limbs, and surveyed his surroundings, a strange sensation rose in his heart.

His vision... had changed!

Everything within his sight appeared with unprecedented clarity and detail.

It was not merely every deep wrinkle on Old Man Gu's face by the campfire, or the grease stains on Zhua Yun's hands.

He could even clearly see the delicate veins on the undersides of leaves dozens of meters away.

The trembling of a beetle's legs as it crawled across a tree trunk a hundred meters away.

Even the movements of birds preening their feathers atop treetops a thousand meters away!

His line of sight seemed able to extend without limit, piercing through layer upon layer of woodland to see the outlines of distant mountains.

Even stranger was this.

Several nocturnal birds streaked rapidly through the sky, yet their movements seemed slowed several times over in his eyes.

Every flap of their wings and every turn was distinctly visible. He could even catch the faint glimmer reflected in their eyes.

This visual experience of controlling everything and perceiving the finest details.

Made him feel slightly dizzy, followed by indescribable shock and wild joy!

My eyes... have been reborn? No, have they... evolved?!

He murmured inwardly, sensing how utterly different his eyes felt from before.

Just then.

Old Man Gu, who was chewing on meat, seemed to sense something.

He raised his head and happened to meet Long Zhanye's gaze in midair.

"Brat, you're awake?!"

"Don't just sit there like an idiot. Come eat! This is Cyclops hind leg meat, a rare treat. It's got quite the bite!"

Old Man Gu spoke indistinctly as he tore off a large piece of golden-brown roasted meat and casually tossed it toward Long Zhanye.

Long Zhanye reflexively caught it. The meat was warm in his hand, and its aroma flooded his nose.

Holding the meat, he walked toward the campfire.

However, the instant he drew closer to Old Man Gu and their eyes met again by chance—

Old Man Gu still had meat in his mouth, but his previously casual expression suddenly froze!

It was as if he had seen something unimaginably horrifying.

His eyes flew open to their widest, his pupils constricting violently. The skewer in his hand dropped into the fire with a smack!

His entire body jerked backward. His legs went weak, and he nearly fell flat on his backside!

"Y-you, you you you...!" Old Man Gu pointed at Long Zhanye, his lips trembling as his face turned deathly pale.

Incoherent, terrified sounds came from his throat, and he could not even form a complete sentence!

Zhua Yun, beside him, also noticed something was wrong.

Following Old Man Gu's gaze, he looked at Long Zhanye's face, especially his eyes.

The next moment.

Zhua Yun's expression froze as well, and the chunk of meat in his hand slipped free.

His mouth hung open, his eyes filled with utter shock...

It was as if an invisible force had seized his throat, leaving him unable to utter a single word.

Long Zhanye was completely baffled by their reactions and had no idea what was happening.

He instinctively touched his face. "What is it? Is there something on my face?"

He recalled the strange sensation from when he had observed the distance with his eyes just now.

His heart stirred, and he hurried to the side, pouring some water from his canteen onto the ground to form a small puddle.

Then he crouched down and, using the flickering firelight, lowered his head to look at his reflection in the water.

The water rippled faintly, reflecting a young face that was slightly pale yet unable to hide its heroic air.

And when he focused his gaze on his own eyes, he froze as well.

In the reflection, those eyes that had once been clearly black and white now...

Each contained two pupils!

One large, one small. One primary, one secondary!

The primary pupils remained deep black, while the secondary pupils.

Those slightly smaller pupils were an unusual pale gray.

They emitted an extremely faint glow, like misty Chaos fog.

"Th-this is..." Long Zhanye's heart shook violently, and even his breathing stalled.

Just then.

Old Man Gu finally seemed to recover a trace of his senses from his overwhelming shock.

His voice trembled with disbelief as he slowly said:

"One eye... with two pupils?!"

"Th-this... could this be the legendary... Double Pupil?!"

Even though Old Man Gu was a well-traveled, highly learned "old monster" who had lived for more than two hundred years.

His face now held none of its usual casualness or madness.

In its place were unprecedented fear, gravity, and a complicated emotion that was almost reverent.

"Double Pupil..." Zhua Yun repeated in a low, dry voice.

This term.

Was occasionally mentioned in ancient legends and certain secret records of Douluo Continent.

It was always associated with words such as "destiny," "omen," and "invincibility."

A Double Pupil Bearer was destined to be extraordinary. Rare throughout history, every one who had appeared had stirred the winds and clouds of the world, leaving behind endless legends.

It was a symbol of being chosen by fate, the embodiment of talent and fortune.

And now, this legend had appeared before them in the flesh!

Even more unbelievable was that this youth with the legendary "Double Pupil" also possessed the equally unfathomable "Heavenly Eye"!

Heavenly Eye and Double Pupil—these two earth-shaking things that seemed to exist only in imagination had actually converged in a single person!

Old Man Gu and Zhua Yun were deeply shaken and unable to calm down for a long while.

They looked at Long Zhanye as though they were looking at a walking legend, a living mystery.

Even if they racked their brains, they would never have believed such a thing could exist in this world.

Long Zhanhai himself was also immersed in the overwhelming visual shock and the impact of Old Man Gu's words.

Looking at his double-pupiled eyes in the water, he felt a hint of unease, but even more uncontrollable excitement.

"So this is the form my External Soul Bone took... after fusion?" Long Zhanye murmured.

It came from the eyeballs of the Twin Cyclops and should have been called something like "Twin Cyclops Eyes."

But this strange form of "one eye, two pupils" meant it should be called—

Double Pupil!

He closed his eyes and carefully sensed it.

There was no discomfort in his eyes. Instead, they felt warm, while a strange energy slowly circulated within them.

The enhancement to his vision was only the most superficial manifestation. He vaguely sensed that these Double Pupils might contain even more powerful spiritual strength.

Not only that, after successfully absorbing that hundred-thousand-year Demon Eye Demon Tree Head Spirit Bone.

The Soul Power within him had surged forward unstoppably, directly reaching the peak of level fifty-four, only one step away from level fifty-five!

Merely absorbing Soul Rings and Spirit Bones had raised his Soul Power by so much!

This efficiency was simply horrifying!

One had to know that for ordinary Spirit Masters, once they reached the Spirit King rank, every increase in level required vast amounts of time and effort.

Yet, through the opportunities he had encountered in such a short time, he had nearly caught up on the three years he had spent unable to cultivate!

"Excellent... At this rate, as long as I obtain another suitable fifth Soul Ring, my Soul Power could even break through directly to level fifty-five!"

"If that happens, I can make up for the three years I lost to injuries and illness as quickly as possible!"

"I... am still that genius, second to no one!"

Long Zhanye clenched his fists, feeling the surging power within him as a resolute light flashed in his eyes.