When Darkness Falls, Light the Lamp
Chapter 556

Old bones had the hardest mouths

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"": "In truth, even a day earlier, Luo Bin would not have noticed such a subtle flicker in someone's eyes. He could not yet be considered a Yin-Yang Practitioner. The Primordial Sixteen Trigrams were only Yin Arts; at best, he was an unskilled practitioner of them.

But Luo Bin had just reviewed the Black Shell Sixty-Four Celestial Calculations, and its first section covered physiognomy.

The face had five features: first, the ears, which gathered sounds; second, the eyebrows, which guarded longevity; third, the eyes, which observed; fourth, the nose, which discerned; and fifth, the mouth, which received and released.

The description of the eyes specified that they should conceal their depths, have distinct whites and blacks, centered pupils, and a penetrating radiance. Only then were they normal eyes.

Humans received the energies of heaven and earth, resembled their forms, and drew upon the five elements, making them one of the myriad beings. Thus, the head resembled heaven, the feet resembled earth, and the eyes resembled the sun and moon...

The sun and moon should shine brightly...

When the sun and moon flickered and the eyes wandered, their whites and blacks lost their distinction, their radiance failed to shine upon others, and their pupils were no longer centered.

Something was wrong with Chen Zu, but Luo Bin could not see any deeper or determine where else the problem lay.

He had simply spent too long on Cabinet Mountain. Every monster and schemer there had at least eight hundred tricks up their sleeve.

As the man in charge of the Nine Hells Bureau, Chen Zu was certainly no pushover.

Most importantly, once Luo Bin began thinking along those lines, his instincts kept telling him something was wrong. Something must have happened.

These thoughts passed through Luo Bin's mind

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