"You've grown a third eye too? How come you're just like me?"
Half an hour later, Mu Chen met up with the Martial Border Little Princess.
The white-robed girl, whose beauty was as ethereal as an immortal's, insisted that Mu Chen summon the Life-Extinguishing Pupil again so she could admire it. She chattered on and on like a little songbird.
As it happened, the Martial Dao Heavenly Eye and the Life-Extinguishing Pupil shared some similar functions.
They could see through illusions and pierce layer upon layer of barriers and obstacles.
But as its name suggested, the Martial Dao Heavenly Eye focused more on the martial path. It could copy and imitate any martial art, and see through an enemy's weaknesses in battle.
The Life-Extinguishing Pupil, on the other hand, leaned more toward combat and was more destructive.
After hearing of the Life-Extinguishing Pupil's origins—that it was a Sacred Artifact embryo crafted from the pupil of an Ancient Treasure-Hoarding Beast that had fallen ten thousand years ago in the Origin of Divine Beasts during ancient times—the white-robed girl, whose beauty could topple kingdoms, sighed, "An Ancient Treasure-Hoarding Beast? We keep two of them in Martial Border."
It was said that these ancient, extraordinary beasts had long since gone extinct and no longer appeared in the world.
The Spirit Gathering Clan, one of the Great Thousand's five sacred lands of artifact crafting, did raise a small group of them, studying the innate divine ability of these born masters of artifact crafting.
After attaining sainthood, Martial Ancestor had once visited the Spirit Gathering Clan and debated the clan's ancestor alone. That ancestor was a rare Saint Grade Grand Spirit Artifact Master. They had sat facing each other for seven days and seven nights before Martial Ancestor returned, shaking the Great Thousand.
He had