Humanity Orchidheart

Lin Xiaosu sat on the bluestone slab and closed his eyes, his heart surging. In another hour, if nothing unexpected happened, the Sky Window could open again.

During the last Celestial Change Day, he had inadvertently "cut off" some immortal maiden's opportunity and gained the Heavenly Insight Eye, giving his ordinary life another way to begin.

Today was not inadvertent.

Today, he was doing it deliberately.

He wanted to see whether there were any new opportunities he could "cut off"...

To cross between two disconnected worlds and pluck Heavenly Dao divine abilities that did not belong to the human realm—what could be more thrilling or worth anticipating?

Midnight arrived.

A long-awaited faint glow rose from the patterns on the stone that Lin Xiaosu had been staring at...

Lin Xiaosu's heartbeat suddenly accelerated. He sprang up, dropped to the ground, and peered through the patterns at what lay beneath the stone.

The Sky Window on the stone slowly opened before his eyes.

Once again, he saw that bizarre world.

A month had passed, and this world seemed to have changed somewhat as well. It was no longer utterly desolate; there was now a hint of movement.

A giant monstrous bird soared into the air, sweeping over the great river below.

Its body was so enormous that it blanketed the earth and towered into the sky. Its five spread claws resembled both eagle and dragon, while the three bright-red scales atop its head made it seem all the more extraordinary.

With a flap of its wings, the giant bird descended toward that ancient stone stele.

Judging by where those huge claws were falling, its target was clearly the little tree with only one branch and a little over ten leaves.

Lin Xiaosu's heart jolted. The giant bird was snatching an opportunity too?

With the force of that claw, let alone the little tree, fragile as a blade of grass before it, even the stone stele would probably be smashed to pieces.

Yet as the giant bird flew nearer, the entire world seemed to change completely.

The giant bird's body grew smaller and smaller...

No!

It was the stone stele that was growing larger.

At first it had looked like merely a stele, but as the giant bird approached, the stele became like heaven and earth.

Even a single leaf on that little tree seemed as vast as a world.

The leaf gave a light flick, and the giant bird turned into a cloud of blood mist.

Lin Xiaosu stood stunned for ten seconds...

Ten seconds later, his gaze shifted behind the stone stele. The crystal coffin was still there, but compared to a month ago, it had changed—changed in some indescribable way.

Part of the clouds and rosy mist inside the coffin had dispersed, revealing the beauty's upper body.

The moment it was revealed, it became the most beautiful tableau of charm in the world.

Her face was incomparably noble and holy, yet her figure was so breathtaking. Combined together, the feeling she gave was simply beyond words...

However, Lin Xiaosu's purpose today was definitely not voyeurism.

Just like how Lin Fugui peeped at Feng Widow bathing—at heart, he had been stealing something. He had merely lifted the curtain on a whim to see whether anyone was there, only to end up wearing the label of peeping at a widow bathing.

At heart, Lin Xiaosu was stealing something too...

His Heavenly Insight Eye fixed on the leaves above. On one leaf was a dewdrop, about to fall but not yet falling. Behind that leaf, another dewdrop was forming, though it had not yet taken shape.

This was the opportunity!

Last time, he had inadvertently caught a dewdrop and achieved the Heavenly Insight Eye.

Today, he had come prepared, and his target was still a dewdrop.

The starry sky seemed to tremble faintly.

That dewdrop fell.

Lin Xiaosu's consciousness glanced at the beauty below, and he said inwardly, Sorry...

Then he headed straight toward that dewdrop.

Splash!

It was as though a drop of water had splashed open within Lin Xiaosu's Sea of Consciousness.

Countless fragments like shattered jade flew up.

An ancient, boundless stream of information entered his Sea of Consciousness: Humanity Orchidheart, perceiving the grand currents of the human world, comprehending the great Dao of heaven and earth, merging the subtleties of the Wisdom Path, unraveling calamities born of delusion.

In an instant, Lin Xiaosu suddenly felt that all his memories had been awakened. Every fragment of memory from his past connected at once.

He fully understood every book he had read. Every brain cell in his mind seemed activated, and his thoughts became boundlessly clear.

His consciousness had originally been nothing more than an intangible sensation, but at this moment, it seemed to condense into a conscious, living Silver Fish that left his body and existed independently in that wondrous world.

Boom!

Beneath the stone stele, the great river roared.

Above the sky, the river of stars rolled backward.

Inside the crystal coffin, clouds and rosy mist churned, faintly revealing the beauty's most mysterious lower half...

Lin Xiaosu's Silver Fish sensed extreme danger and suddenly withdrew. He slid back through the Sky Window in a single step. The Sky Window closed behind him, sealing away the stormy upheaval of that world, as if it had flown into a furious rage.

Cold sweat broke out across Lin Xiaosu's back.

Could it be that after cutting off opportunities twice, he had finally been discovered?

If his consciousness were trapped in that world, would that mean he could never return?

Fortunately, wealth was sought amid danger.

He had successfully gained another inconceivable opportunity: Humanity Orchidheart.

In the past, he might have needed a long time to explore the mysteries of this great divine ability.

But now, with Humanity Orchidheart, he understood the heaven-defying nature of this great divine ability in mere moments.

Humanity Orchidheart: superhuman comprehension.

Photographic memory was only the basic skill. Its true wonder lay in being able to grasp and integrate everything.

Recently, in preparation for the civil service exam, he had nearly worn his books to tatters and worked himself numb on practice questions, yet he still only half understood many things.

But now, he could recite every book he had read backward without missing a single word. The question banks that surfaced in his mind were child's play to him.

My heavens, six days before the civil service exam, I was given such an invincible cheat item. What did that mean?

Did heaven really think a genius like me was suited to becoming a weather observer?

Last time he had cut off an opportunity, an Earth Granny seven or eight feet tall had appeared. What about today? Would something appear this time too?

Lin Xiaosu swept his gaze over the sleeping Hu Ya before him. The girl was sleeping deeply, and there was no movement outside either.

From this angle, the girl's chest truly was not as impressive as that of the female corpse in the coffin.

But this posture was clearly more uninhibited than any woman's.

She lay flat on her back, her body posed like Chang'e flying to the moon.

Chang'e flying to the moon embodied elegance.

What Hu Ya embodied was a little... less than elegant?

He found the reason. The weather had turned hot, and she was wearing less. Half her chest was exposed, and so was her belly...

Girl, you're testing me again and again and again.

Lin Xiaosu walked into the inner room, picked up his second uncle's blanket, and covered her with it.

After covering her, he even carefully tucked in the corners. Hu Ya did not move throughout the entire process.

Lin Xiaosu's heart gave a slight jolt. This was not normal.

Hu Ya might look fierce and careless, but her alertness was unbelievably high.

Last time, a snake had been burrowing outside the Daoist temple. Lin Xiaosu had not noticed it at all, but she had.

After all this commotion today, she still had not woken up?

Lin Xiaosu grew anxious. "Hu Ya!"

His voice echoed through the Daoist temple, but Hu Ya still did not wake...

Had she drunk too much?

She really had drunk quite a lot earlier. After downing nearly a pound of baijiu, it was normal for a girl to lose consciousness, but that did not include her.

Lin Xiaosu's gaze shifted as he used Temporal Reversal.

He traced things back to a few minutes earlier. The faint glow had appeared, and he had crouched down. At the very moment he crouched, Hu Ya sprang up.

The instant she sprang up, that faint glow struck her.

Then...

Hu Ya collapsed.

The problem was not the alcohol!

The problem was the faint glow.

Last time, that faint glow had inadvertently swept over an Earth Granny two feet tall, and before his eyes, Earth Granny had grown from nothing into a Super Earth Granny seven or eight feet tall.

But today, that faint glow had shot into Hu Ya's brow.

What... would happen to her?

Lin Xiaosu did not delay. He immediately called 120.

Then he picked up Hu Ya and carried her down the mountain.

The mountain path was rugged, the moon hid behind the clouds, and darkness blanketed everything around them.

Under Lin Xiaosu's Heavenly Insight Eye, none of that was a problem.

The real problem was his own physique. After carrying Hu Ya, who only weighed around a hundred jin, for several li along the mountain trail, he was panting for breath from exhaustion.

He had to confirm whether Hu Ya's bodily functions were normal.

That was why he had called emergency services.

By the time he reached the foot of the mountain, the ambulance had already arrived.

Two doctors stood beside the vehicle. "What are her symptoms?"

"She's unconscious and won't wake up."

"She drank alcohol!" The male doctor sniffed. "How much did she drink?"

He had caught the scent of alcohol.

"It has nothing to do with alcohol. She has drunk even more than this before and been fine. Hurry and check whether her bodily functions are normal..."

"Come on, carry her into the vehicle!"

The ambulance started moving, and the examination began at the same time.

"Pulse normal... blood pressure normal... ECG normal... Check her blood alcohol level!"

The female nurse riding in the ambulance jabbed a syringe toward Hu Ya's arm. The needle slid lightly and slipped aside.

The female nurse's eyes suddenly widened...

She tried again, but it still would not pierce through...

"Doctor Zhou, the needle won't go in!" The female nurse's voice trembled.

"How is that possible?" Doctor Zhou said. "Try again!"

She tried again!

Before everyone's eyes, the needle bent directly.

Everyone stared in dumbfounded shock. Even the driver nearly overturned the ambulance.