Evil Eye

In the distance appeared a Soul Beast with an exceptionally bizarre appearance.

It had no body, no limbs.

It was merely an enormous eyeball, floating in the air without any support.

Tentacles around the eyeball constantly danced about.

Such a bizarre form hardly seemed like a Soul Beast that should exist on Douluo Continent.

However, Ye Luochen quickly recalled the corresponding name.

Evil Eye.

A Soul Beast unique to the Sun Moon Empire.

The Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign, ranked second among the ferocious beasts, was an Evil Eye of unfathomable strength.

"No wonder no other Soul Beasts came near. With an Evil Eye like this nearby, the surrounding Soul Beasts had probably fled long ago."

The old man's voice rang out within the membrane space.

Hearing this, Ye Luochen frowned.

"But why would an Evil Eye appear in such an outer region?"

The old man explained,

"This situation isn't unusual. With the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign presiding here, the Evil Eye clan has always acted in the Evil Demon Forest without logic or restraint, utterly unscrupulous.

I just didn't expect us to be unlucky enough to run into one."

"Then can we only wait for it to leave on its own?"

Ye Luochen spoke somewhat unwillingly.

With things like this, the Mandala Snake bait would most likely become the Evil Eye's meal, and their half-day of waiting would all have been for nothing.

The old man immediately continued,

"It would be fine if it left on its own.

But what I fear is that, given this Evil Eye's strength, it may cause some trouble."

Ye Luochen was slightly stunned upon hearing that.

He then turned his head and carefully examined the Evil Eye in the distance.

Back at Shrek, he had learned how to judge an Evil Eye's strength.

The first indicators were its size and the number of tentacles.

The larger its body and the more tentacles it had, the greater its cultivation.

The second was its attribute, which could be judged from the color of its tentacles.

For Evil Eyes, the more uniform the color of their tentacles, the fewer attributes they possessed and the stronger they were.

This Evil Eye before them was nearly a meter in diameter, while the six tentacles around its eyeball were all silvery white.

Judging from these characteristics, this Evil Eye had a cultivation of around fifty thousand years and possessed the mental attribute, the strongest attribute of the Evil Eye clan.

Its strength could absolutely be described as formidable!

"You're worried that it will discover us?"

After making a rough judgment of this Evil Eye's strength, Ye Luochen quickly guessed what trouble the old man meant.

Facing Ye Luochen's guess, the old man slowly nodded.

"That's right. Mental power is the Evil Eye clan's most powerful innate ability, and this Evil Eye's cultivation is quite impressive."

"If we were farther away, there would naturally be no need to worry. But the problem is that this distance is simply too close."

As they spoke, the Evil Eye floated a little closer.

It was now only a few meters away from the membrane space where they were hiding.

"At such close range, even if this camouflage was created by a Class 9 Soul Tool, I cannot be completely certain it will not notice us."

"We can only pray that its attention is entirely on the Mandala Snake."

Inside the membrane space, everyone stared intently at the Evil Eye.

Fortunately, it seemed the old man's words had come true. After floating over and circling once, the Evil Eye did not linger for long.

Instead, it quickly drifted toward the large tree where the Mandala Snake had been placed.

Several tentacles then began extending toward the Mandala Snake.

Seeing this, both the old man and Ye Luochen let out a sigh of relief.

It seemed the other party had indeed been drawn here by the Mandala Snake.

Once it swallowed it, it should leave.

Yet in the next instant, the two had barely relaxed when their nerves instantly tensed once more.

Just as the Evil Eye's tentacles were about to touch the Mandala Snake, they suddenly halted in an eerie manner.

Then, an extremely humanlike emotion flashed through the massive eyeball.

As an Evil Eye Tyrant that had already reached the Monarch level and possessed considerable intelligence,

it sharply sensed that something was wrong.

This Mandala Snake was seriously injured.

It looked like an easy meal, but snake-type Soul Beasts were famously cunning and treacherous.

How could it be severely injured, yet instead of finding a hidden place to recover, openly coil itself high atop the tree canopy?

As if it were afraid other Soul Beasts would fail to see it?

Something was wrong. It was a trap!

The Evil Eye Tyrant's tentacles abruptly retracted. Then, its enormous single eye suddenly lit up.

Rings of strange, warped silver light instantly spread outward.

Within a radius of several hundred meters, everything distorted along with the spreading light.

"Damn it!"

The old man's expression changed instantly when he noticed the Evil Eye Tyrant's actions.

Naturally, he recognized this technique.

Mental Domain, the Evil Eye clan's innate Soul Skill.

It could indiscriminately suppress every being within its range whose mental power was weaker than the caster's.

As a Class 9 Soul Engineer, the old man's mental power was certainly far stronger than this Evil Eye's.

But because he was wary of the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign, he could not freely use his methods.

Relying on a single Soul Tool alone,

he feared it would be difficult to withstand this Evil Eye's attack.

Sure enough.

When the light waves emitted by the Evil Eye Tyrant touched the boundary of the membrane space, the natural-colored camouflage instantly faded away.

It revealed the translucent pale-gold membrane and the people hiding within.

Screech!

A piercing cry rang out from the Evil Eye Tyrant's body.

The next moment, a huge and terrifying silver beam shot from its massive eye, hurtling straight toward the membrane space.

Evil Eye Gaze!

The moment it attacked, this Evil Eye Tyrant directly used one of the Evil Eye clan's most powerful innate offensive Soul Skills!

Humans and Soul Beasts had always been irreconcilable enemies.

And these humans had actually dared to set a trap.

Though it had seen through it, that did nothing to stop the Evil Eye Tyrant from instantly flying into a rage upon discovering them.

Seeing that the Evil Eye had used a killing move right away, the old man cursed angrily,

"Damn it!"

"You all, find somewhere safe to hide first. Once I lure this Evil Eye away, I'll come find you!"

As he spoke, the old man waved his hand, and the membrane dispersed.

A massive Soul Tool barrier lit up, firmly blocking the silver beam.

Then, several Soul Tool rays accurately struck the Evil Eye's eyeball.

Screech!

The injured Evil Eye Tyrant let out another howl.

Seeing that he had successfully enraged it, the old man pushed off the ground and leaped into the air.

While continuing to draw its hatred, he began rapidly fleeing into the distance.

With his strength, he could naturally have killed this Evil Eye directly.

But this was the Evil Demon Forest, the Evil Eye clan's territory. Who knew whether there might be some special circumstance?

If they were unlucky enough to alert that Sovereign because of this, the few of them would likely die here.

Thus, the old man intended to lure this Evil Eye far away.

Then, he would use his advantage in speed to shake it off before returning.