Thanks to his status as a Spirit Peak's Peak Master, Li Chen soon placed an order with the Universal Profits Merchants' Association for a Truth-Piercing Eye worth three million Talisman Coins.
He intended to install it in himself immediately, gain its abilities, and slowly study its principles through reverse engineering to develop techniques suitable for widespread use.
Alongside the Truth-Piercing Eye, he also specially ordered a Fire-Observing Dharma Eye worth five million Talisman Coins from the Everflow Merchants' Association.
This miraculous Dharma Eye could see through the characteristics of the life flame and perceive heat, making it another potential means of breaking through those assassins' concealment methods.
The nature of fire was to blaze fiercely and rise. Fire among the five elements referred not merely to actual flames, but extended to all forces of molecular thermal motion, and even concepts such as ardor and intensity.
From a scientific perspective, it was the thermal motion of molecules.
The vast majority of living creatures had body temperatures above zero and below one hundred degrees, including cultivators pursuing immortality and the Dao. Plenty of divine abilities and spells could raise or lower that temperature, but matching it precisely to the surrounding environment was no easy feat.
The Truth-Piercing Dharma Eye excelled at detecting such changes and differences. Through a particular method, it simulated patterns of changing thermal radiation and displayed them through neural connections and the brain's image-generating mechanisms.
From a cultivation perspective, however, a person had three lamps, corresponding to the three soul lamps within the three souls and seven spirits. These were manifestations of the life flame.
The Fire-Observing Dharma Eye could perceive the existence of this life flame and display it within the user's field of vision as red flames of varying intensity. Generally, the stronger the vitality, the more