Evil Eye Tyrant Race

Even...

First Father had even made a special trip to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

With a single sword strike, he had forced those immortal herbs to hand over heavenly treasures that nourished the body and spiritual power...

He had forcibly built Cao Xin's physical condition and spiritual power up to a terrifying level.

Just yesterday, he had tested them.

The strength in his hands had reached over nine hundred kilograms.

His spiritual power had reached four hundred and twenty-seven points.

According to the continent's standard classification of spiritual power levels,

four hundred and twenty-seven points placed him at the Peak Spirit Connection Realm, just one step away from the next major realm, the Spirit Sea Realm.

Spiritual power at the Spirit Sea Realm meant that he could perform more complex and precise spiritual operations simultaneously.

Whether sensing his surroundings, predicting an opponent's movements, or operating more sophisticated Soul Tools, he would ascend to an entirely new level.

Outside.

Over the three-hour live broadcast,

Qian Gu Dongfeng had watched almost from beginning to end.

From his surprise when Cao Xin killed the Earth Armored Bear with his first strike, to his later seamless performance of killing one with every sword...

his expression had gone from astonishment to shock,

and finally to a near-speechless stupor.

Because, as the master of the Spirit Pagoda,

he had seen no fewer than eight hundred, if not a thousand, geniuses.

He had personally assessed the chosen seeds of every major sect, the outstanding students of Shrek Academy's inner court, and even descendants of certain reclusive families.

Yet not a single one...

had achieved such a level at the age of six.

At the same time, he felt immense regret.

After all...

the Spirit Pagoda and the Tang Sect were both sect-like organizations.

Though the two powers maintained an amicable relationship,

their inheritance systems were independent of one another.

Core disciples could not join both.

Especially someone like Cao Xin, a direct descendant of the Tang Sect's leader, who was destined to become a future pillar of the Tang Sect.

Therefore...

Cao Xin could never join the Spirit Pagoda.

Qian Gu Dongfeng sighed inwardly.

If he could bring such a terrifyingly gifted youth into the Spirit Pagoda's system...

then for the next several centuries...

the Spirit Pagoda would stand as firm as a rock.

But then he shook his head, buried that trace of regret in his heart, and turned his gaze back to the screen.

In the end, they were simply fated to miss each other.

Meanwhile, within the Ascension Platform.

As Cao Xin ventured deeper...

the scenery around him quietly began to change.

The trees gradually grew less dense, replaced by a more open woodland clearing.

The weeds on the ground also became sparse, exposing vast stretches of grayish-brown earth.

The hundred-year and thousand-year soul beasts that had originally wandered throughout the forest had now vanished completely.

The surroundings were unnaturally quiet.

Even the chirping of insects and calls of birds had disappeared entirely.

An invisible pressure filled the air.

It was as though this place was the territory of a powerful soul beast, keeping all other soul beasts from daring to remain here.

Yet a trace of excitement appeared on Cao Xin's face.

He had come precisely for this soul beast.

Before coming here, Second Father had already explained the structure of the Junior Spirit Ascension Platform to him in detail.

The Ascension Platform was a whole.

However, in order to ensure that every Soul Master received a certain degree of training, the Spirit Pagoda had divided it into three regions: junior, intermediate, and advanced.

Each region corresponded to Soul Masters of different cultivation levels.

This ensured that the soul beasts they faced matched their own strength, neither too easy to provide no training nor too difficult to endanger their lives.

At the same time, to ensure that no Soul Master accidentally entered a higher-level Ascension Platform,

the Spirit Pagoda stationed an Ascension Platform guardian...

at the boundary between the two regions.

And according to what Second Father had learned...

the guardian of this Junior Spirit Ascension Platform at the Spirit Pagoda headquarters was a three-thousand-year Evil Eye Tyrant.

One had to know...

the origins of the Evil Eye Tyrants were anything but ordinary.

Ten thousand years ago, the Evil Eye Tyrant Race had possessed a clan leader with cultivation as high as seven hundred thousand years—

the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord.

It had also been the second-ranked among the former Ten Great Ferocious Beasts.

Its spiritual power was said to cover the entire Evil Demon Forest, capable of plunging tens of thousands of soul beasts into chaos and madness with a single thought.

However...

the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord had fallen at Huo Yuhao's hands.

That battle had shocked the entire continent.

Afterward, having lost the protection of a powerful being, the Evil Eye Tyrant Race was hunted madly by Soul Masters.

In the end, the Evil Eye Tyrant Race was exterminated.

That powerful race, which had once dominated an entire region, had been hunted to extinction in only a few decades.

Even the Evil Demon Forest...

had vanished from the continent's map from that day onward.

It had become nothing more than a symbol in history books.

But the reason Soul Masters had targeted the Evil Eye Tyrant Race...

was because if an Evil Eye Tyrant produced a soul bone, it would inevitably be an External Soul Bone—an eye-type External Soul Bone, at that.

Once an ordinary soul bone was acquired, its age and abilities became fixed, and its full potential could only gradually be brought out through the Soul Master's own increase in cultivation.

External Soul Bones were different.

They evolved in tandem with the Soul Master's growth.

Under specific conditions, they could even break through their original grade limits. They were truly "growth-type" treasures.

Even the Tang Sect did not possess many External Soul Bones.

After all, although the Tang Sect's ten-thousand-year foundation was profound,

the rarity of External Soul Bones made them strategic-level treasures even among top-tier powers.

Not to mention the most precious eye-type External Soul Bones among them.

Such soul bones had appeared only a handful of times throughout the continent's history.

Every single one was enough to drive the entire Soul Master world mad.

But as it happened...

the Spirit Pagoda possessed one such External Soul Bone.

It had even used it to create the guardian of this Junior Spirit Ascension Platform.

At that moment, Cao Xin stopped.

He looked ahead.

At the center of the clearing, a massive creature floated silently in midair.

It was a dark-purple soul beast.

It resembled a gigantic eyeball, nearly two meters in diameter, its surface covered by a tough outer membrane.

A golden slit stood vertically at the center of its pupil. Fine vein-like patterns spread around it...

pulsing faintly in a certain rhythm.

An Evil Eye Tyrant.

At that moment, it seemed to sense the intruder's arrival. The enormous eyeball slowly turned, its golden pupil slit opening slightly as it faced Cao Xin's direction.

The spiritual pressure in the air...

intensified abruptly in an instant, as though countless invisible needles were piercing Cao Xin's mind at once.

Cao Xin took a deep breath.

The Sentimental Sword and the Ruthless Sword appeared.

They radiated entirely different lights.

His gaze met the Evil Eye Tyrant's from afar, and the excited smile at the corner of his lips only deepened.

Outside.

As Qian Gu Dongfeng watched Cao Xin's figure venture deeper into the primeval forest on the screen, his gaze lingered on that route for a moment before a look of realization suddenly flashed through his eyes.

He slowly turned his head toward Zang Xin, who had remained calm all along, his tone carrying a hint of certainty.

"You came for that External Soul Bone."