Vision Splicing

Needless to say, these two were the Gu Servants who had gone to find Liu Feng a few days earlier: the siblings Su Jing and Su Anjie.

They had taken the severed arms back, thinking that a few medicines would be enough to reattach them in time. Who could have known that the wounds struck by Split-Tooth would be so painful and numb, the stumps looking as though they'd been torn apart by sawteeth? There was no way to reattach them.

"Were your wounds inflicted by the Soldier Gu Split-Tooth?" Shen Yushu asked, studying the siblings with interest.

The two siblings kneeling on the ground nodded hurriedly, their eyes full of hatred.

"Please help us avenge this, Senior Brother." Su Jing's fairly pretty face was covered in hatred.

"How about this? I'm going to see the Valley Master. I'll have them go with you to deal with that man and take his Soldier Gu while they're at it," Shen Yushu said coolly.

He wasn't truly concerned about the two of them, but when you beat a dog, you still had to consider its master.

The siblings looked at the two Spirit Monsters behind Shen Yushu. Their gazes met the monsters' eyes, and they couldn't help but shudder.

The two monsters hadn't paid them any attention before, so it had been fine. But now that they were looking at each other, two waves of Killing Intent surged straight into the siblings' heads.

Before they became Spirit Monsters, they had been wild beasts in the mountains, accustomed to fighting.

After becoming Spirit Monsters, they had killed even more. The weight of their Killing Intent was naturally too much for two Gu Servants to bear.

Su Jing's eyes lit up, and she said excitedly, "He's just a Gu Child. With Second Senior Brother's status, even if the Spirit Monsters eat him, it won't matter."

"He cut off one arm from each of you, so have them eat both his arms and take his Soldier Gu as compensation. That settles it. Go."

Seeing Shen Yushu's expression turn cold, the siblings didn't dare say another word. They thanked him repeatedly.

Only after the two Senior Brothers, Shen Yushu and Zhu Li, had gone far away did Su Jing and Su Anjie dare to get up. They cupped their fists toward the two Spirit Monsters.

"Please, this way."...

The Gu Children who hadn't yet dispersed saw that there was more excitement to come. They trailed far behind the two siblings and two monsters, eager to see how Spirit Monsters devoured a person's arms alive!

Among them, Li Xiang'er tugged on Leng Qiuyue's arm and asked, "Aren't you going to take a look? He's your benefactor. From what that Senior Brother said, he's going to have the monsters eat both his arms!"

"What would I accomplish by going? I'd only have to watch him be humiliated." Leng Qiuyue's eyes dimmed.

"True. He's only a Gu Child. How could he possibly stand up to that Senior Brother's Spirit Monsters?"

Though she said that, Li Xiang'er still dragged Leng Qiuyue along by the arm and followed them.

In fact, the two of them weren't the only ones who thought this way. The other Gu Children felt the same.

Spirit Monsters all possessed cultivation. They'd often heard stories about Spirit Monsters eating people while they were out and about; there were even rumors of Taoist priests and military martial artists being eaten.

At that moment, inside the cave at the foot of the mountain.

Eight Gu Children lay sprawled across the long, straight passageway, their faces filled with terror.

The ground around them and their clothes were covered in the filth they had vomited up.

They had just returned, and no one had attacked them, yet they had all been struck without warning!

Ten paces away, a young-looking Gu Child didn't dare approach. He called out from a distance, "I'll go fetch the steward to help!"

Since he hadn't gone near them, the Gu Child had no idea what the people sprawled on the ground were experiencing.

The eight Gu Children had their heads turned sideways, their faces twisted with struggle. Their hands and feet thrashed and clawed wildly, yet not one of them could get up.

Their minds were clear and their limbs worked fine, but they were as helpless as drowning people, unable to fight their way free.

If someone could have shared their vision, they would have seen a bizarre scene that beggared belief.

They were clearly lying in the passageway, but there was no passageway before their eyes! Instead, they saw an enormous black-and-white maze!

Stone Chambers and stretches of passageway had all been taken apart, forming hundreds of fragmented images.

These divided images were being haphazardly pieced together, circling all around them.

With their feet off the ground and the "scenery" flashing wildly before their eyes, they were dragged along helplessly with the little pieces of image they occupied—up and down, left and right—spliced into other chaotic scenes and tossed around, back and forth, who knew how many times!

The eight of them were like tiny fragments within all those images, being arbitrarily assembled, turned upside down, and shifted about according to someone else's whim...

And none of those images looked as they did to the naked eye in their daily lives. They were all black and white!

"Quick, close your eyes..." Among the eight Gu Children, one of them was the first to figure out what was going on.

As soon as he closed his eyes, the Gu Child who had been spliced into the chaotic images instantly escaped and returned to the passageway. For a moment, it felt as though he'd just woken from a nightmare.

As he came to his senses, the Gu Child was immediately drawn to a figure inside the Stone Chamber. The other person didn't trouble him again after he opened his eyes! He didn't pull him back into that "maze."

"It was you. You definitely did this..."

A terrified shriek rang through the passageway as the Gu Child backed away and fled.

Hearing the warning, the other seven Gu Children closed their eyes one after another and broke free. When they got to their feet, each of them saw the figure in the Stone Chamber.

Like the first Gu Child who had fled, none of the seven dared to linger. They shouted and fled at once.

Inside the Stone Chamber, the figure didn't light a lamp. He simply sat cross-legged on the ground.

Nine pupils grew across his face, opening and closing as they blinked rapidly.

There were twelve more pupils on his left and right arms combined. They too blinked incessantly, in the same eerie fashion.

A short while later, every pupil except the pair beneath his eyebrows had closed, and only then did the figure let out a long breath.

"Using the Mind Eye Technique to obtain scenes from my precognition, then replacing the chaotic images of the Gu art with them... This method takes quite a toll on my mind and spirit."

Within Insect Valley, Liu Feng was naturally the one capable of using the Buddhist Mind Eye Technique.

The eight Gu Children had suffered purely because they happened to pass by just as Liu Feng was getting used to his newly acquired Gu art.

As for why the world before the eight Gu Children's eyes had been black and white, that was of course because the scenes Liu Feng had "spliced" into their vision had only been in black and white.

The Mind Eye Technique was a supernatural power born of the mind. It could be used whether the naked eyes were open or closed.

The difference was that with his eyes open, he could see a wealth of colors, while with his eyes closed, the world contained only black and white.

To splice the "scenes" faster and make them more chaotic, he needed to use the Mind Eye Technique to preview them.

"I wonder how many others besides me have hatched this Exotic Gu, and how their Gu arts differ from mine." Liu Feng murmured to himself.

Earlier, Third Senior Brother and Lu Yao hadn't told them the name of this Exotic Gu, much less mentioned its Gu art.

But it stood to reason that even Third Senior Brother and Lu Yao themselves would have had no way of knowing without seeing the Exotic Gu's Gu art.

After all, this was the first time they had tried to cultivate this Exotic Gu in Insect Valley.

"From what I can tell so far, this Exotic Gu can grant me three benefits: first, an expanded field of vision; second, Motion Vision; and third, the ability to splice other people's visions."

Liu Feng summed up what he had learned. If Liu Xing, who had just become a Gu Master, had been there, he surely wouldn't have understood.

He had just said something similar himself. The difference lay in the last point: Liu Xing had confused vision, while Liu Feng had spliced vision. The difference of two words had opened up an immense gulf!