This is a New Beginning

After indulging in wild fantasies about the future, Bai Chuan finally calmed down and carefully calculated the time.

Four days. There were still four days. In four days, he would welcome another generation of points, and this batch of points would also determine how quickly he could grow stronger from then on.

Thinking of this, he could hardly contain his eagerness. He wished he could just skip straight past these four days!

To ensure no unexpected incidents occurred, Bai Chuan decided not to wander around for the next few days. He would eat his fill each day and then shrink back into his cave to stay put.

Under these circumstances, two days passed in the blink of an eye, and Bai Chuan's previously disrupted sleep schedule had finally been corrected.

That day, as usual, after swallowing a Black-Tipped Snake, Bai Chuan suddenly felt something was off.

"Strange. Why do my eyes feel weird today? Did I not sleep well?"

Muttering to himself inwardly, Bai Chuan shook his head, feeling more and more that something was wrong.

Normally, his vision wasn't crystal clear, but at least within a hundred meters, everything was still particularly sharp. Now, however, it felt like something had gotten into his eyes.

Everything he looked at seemed hazy.

Had he eaten something bad? After all, during this period, in his pursuit of ability models, he had devoured many living creatures he encountered, far exceeding the Eye King's normal diet.

Or was he sick? Had something parasitized him?

This was the first time in his serpentine life that he had encountered such a situation. Bai Chuan had no idea what was happening, and at this moment, his heart felt heavy.

With his mood weighed down and his stomach full, he didn't hesitate any longer.

He crawled directly back to his nest. At the same time, the sudden problem with his eyes made him uncertain about tomorrow—whether he could still go out hunting. So, to guard against variables, he did not activate his rapid digestion that day.

This was the first time since arriving in this world that he felt grateful for the snake's ability to sustain itself for a long time after a single meal.

Waking up the next day, Bai Chuan found the problem had worsened.

If yesterday his eyes were merely hazy, like looking through two to three hundred degrees of nearsightedness, then today it was roughly equivalent to over five hundred degrees.

He could barely make out anything at a distance—it was all a blur. The Eye King relied on its vision to hunt. In this state, he couldn't even hunt, let alone move without crawling cautiously.

At that moment, he suddenly felt grateful that he had prioritized strengthening the Danger Perception ability. His keen hearing and sharp sense of smell prevented him from completely losing awareness of his surroundings.

But even so, a vague premonition arose in his heart. This feeling urged him to leave this tree hollow quickly, because for him in his current state, the tree hollow was no longer safe.

What he needed most now was a narrow burrow, a cave just big enough to fit him.

At this point, Bai Chuan wasn't sure if the sudden premonition in his heart was correct, but after careful consideration, he felt it made some sense.

First, this tree hollow was located midair and had originally belonged to a bird—he had simply taken it over by force.

Now that his vision was nearly gone, if he encountered a bird, he would struggle to see and dodge its pecking, let alone counterattack.

Moreover, if he didn't leave the tree hollow and return to the ground soon, he feared that if his vision went completely blind tomorrow or the day after, even climbing down the tree might become a problem.

If he accidentally fell from the tree and ended up severely injured, that would be ridiculous.

After serious consideration, Bai Chuan followed his inner premonition and carefully climbed down the tree.

He thought, perhaps this inexplicable premonition came from his biological instincts?

Such instincts were truly mysterious!

He crawled along cautiously the entire way. Although this area was his territory, he was afraid an intruder might appear at any moment.

Fortunately, because he had been out hunting every day recently, many animals had grown familiar with and fearful of him.

As soon as they saw him crawling so brazenly past, they scattered in panic.

So, after a full day of searching, he finally found a long, narrow, and deep cave in the afternoon.

Once he had completely squeezed inside, the nerves that had been tense all day finally relaxed by more than half.

But even now, Bai Chuan noticed that his vision was deteriorating even further, to the point of near blindness.

This discovery made his mood even heavier, and at the same time, his senses grew more acute.

For the sake of feeling secure, he coiled his serpentine body, keeping his head always facing the cave entrance.

The two small bumps on his head constantly sensed movements outside, while his forked tongue flicked in and out.

The venomous fangs in his mouth were ready at all times—if any unexpected event occurred, they could spring out and inject venom in the next second.

He swore that no matter who barged into this cave at this moment, they would not escape his frenzied attack.

The only thing he could be grateful for now was that aside from his blindness, he felt no other abnormalities.

Time passed slowly like this.

From the Golden Crow setting in the west to the Jade Rabbit rising in the east, and then to the Golden Crow rising and setting again.

Day and night had completed two full cycles.

After enduring three days of agonizing torment in his heart, Bai Chuan finally saw the light once more.

At this moment, his heart was moved.

At this moment, he felt as if he had undergone a rebirth.

At this moment, he felt as if he had been cleansed.

If he were to write a book right now, he believed he could produce something that would make people weep uncontrollably—something like If I Were Given Three Days of Light.

And at this moment, he finally understood what the problem with his body was.

Because that abnormally tense, aching, itchy, and painful sensation told him the truth.

This was a path every snake must walk—shedding skin!

This was a trial every snake must overcome to grow!

The old skin aged, and new skin grew.

Don't wonder why Bai Chuan was shedding skin in such a short time.

In the Song Dynasty, Su Song's Illustrated Materia Medica recorded: "Snakes shed skin at no fixed time; they shed when unclean, or when overfull."

This meant that snakes often shed when food was abundant, when their body surface was dirty, or when their scales were damaged.

Having understood this, think about what Bai Chuan had been doing lately.

Eating. Yes! Eating every day!

Even though most of the energy from that food was converted by the Panel, don't forget that as a snake, Bai Chuan's absorption ability was weak.

Even if most of that energy wasn't absorbed and turned into Points but instead dissipated, his body was still constantly wrapped in energy.

That was why he had to shed his skin so quickly.

Having realized this, Bai Chuan knew that what lay ahead would still be an ordeal. He had only just finished the prelude to shedding; next, he had to peel off the old layer of skin.

As his snake body began to move again, Bai Chuan immediately felt that his body had grown significantly.

If before he was barely over three meters, now he was already over three and a half meters.

And in the days to come, he should grow even more.

But that was a matter for later.

Since the most difficult and vulnerable part of shedding was over, Bai Chuan wanted to return to his previous tree hollow.

Along the way, he deliberately sought out narrow branches and dense thickets. As his snake body slithered and crawled, the old skin was either torn off naturally or scraped away by the branches.

He had to say, the feeling of that layer of skin slowly falling behind him as he moved forward was incredibly strange, yet it also carried a sense of relief.

If Bai Chuan had to describe it, it was like suddenly being hit by a fierce wind on a scorching hot day, and then stripping off all your clothes.

Naked, sensitive to every gust of wind, but also with the refreshing lightness of having all the tartar scraped clean from your teeth.