Lu Ye sought Chong Xu out to ask about this not because he wanted to protect himself better. Though the Blood Pupil formed from the marvel's mysteries was formidable, it could not withstand the might of the Seven-Colored Divine Lotus. That had already been proven.
So even if Lu Ye did nothing and simply waited a while, the Seven-Colored Divine Lotus would destroy the Blood Pupil invading his Divine Sea and leave him unharmed.
He had sought Chong Xu's methods only because he wanted to make preparations in advance. He was very interested in the Spiritual Patterns hidden within the Blood Pupil.
Had anyone else asked, Chong Xu certainly would have ignored them. But since he had accepted Lu Ye's favor, it was difficult to conceal anything. Besides, no one else could imitate his method anyway.
He immediately said, "This old man does indeed have some means of sensing it in advance, though it is not accurate."
Lu Ye asked, "Could you teach me, Brother Dao? Of course, I can offer compensation."
Chong Xu waved his hand. "It is not that this old man is unwilling to teach you. It is simply that others cannot imitate this method. Fellow Daoist, please look at my right eye."
Lu Ye immediately looked over. In his sight, Chong Xu's right eye suddenly underwent a strange change. A normal eye had a black pupil surrounded by white, and Chong Xu's right eye had been the same. Yet as his words fell, it abruptly turned completely white, without a trace of black, looking extraordinarily eerie.
Chong Xu blinked, and his whitened right eye returned to normal. "To be frank, young friend, this old man's right eye was born unusual. Even before I cultivated, the things I saw differed somewhat from what ordinary people saw. After