These books looked ordinary, but once opened, the words inside resembled countless eyes. On the surfaces of some books, tissue like muscle even emerged. This, too, was the result of the two ancient gods' powers becoming entangled with one another.
Therefore, most scholars tasked with deciphering these books were not quite normal.
They stared intently at the books before them. No matter what happened around them, they turned a blind eye. Slowly, eyes somewhere between illusion and reality would grow across their bodies, opening and closing from time to time as they drew in information from the surrounding books.
However, whenever those eyeballs began to expand, the warning attendants observing the scholars' changes would hurriedly pick up the bells in their hands and shake them violently beside the scholars' ears.
The bells produced an exceedingly piercing sound, like a magical treasure aimed at the soul. A light shake alone could send a person's three souls reeling and their seven spirits leaving the body.
Yet most of these scholars showed no reaction to such a sound. Only the one with the bell by his ear could not help turning his head.
And the instant the scholar turned, a tentacle hovering between illusion and reality would descend from midair and touch the eyeball, causing it to collapse and swell again and again until it finally turned into gem-like objects.
The warning attendant shaking the bell would immediately bow to the figure suspended in the air and respectfully say, "Thank you, Great Sage!"
After saying this, he would swiftly pick up the gem-like objects that had fallen to the ground and store them in special containers.
At the same time, he would use special tools to seal away the corresponding books.
As for the scholar whose body had produced the gems, after breaking