"Since your life is so precious and mine so cheap, wouldn't I come out far ahead if I killed myself and traded my life for yours?"
Though the light before his eyes grew ever dimmer, Xu Taiping's mind remained clear. He had not been taken in by the Lotus Eye's empty rhetoric.
This was a little experience he had gained from his many years with the Lotus Eye.
After a moment of silence, the Lotus Eye finally spoke again:
"Little fellow, to seal this Evil God, I may have to sleep for thirty to sixty years."
"Before I fall asleep, I will leave a curse mark on your left palm. So long as you feed Gold Essence Coins into your left eye in time, this mark will grant you one use of the same power of divination as mine."
"Furthermore, whatever your left hand touches, you will be able to see the good fortune or misfortune awaiting them, or the misfortune suffered by someone already dead. But you can only look at each person once, and it will consume a considerable amount of your Divine Essence."
At this point, the Lotus Eye chuckled, then asked Xu Taiping gently, "Little fellow, what do you think of this bargain?"
Xu Taiping considered it carefully, then nodded.
"If that's the case, it's fairly reasonable."
That the Lotus Eye, formed from a Yin God, had attached itself to him as a parasite was already an established fact. Mutual benefit was naturally better than mutual ruin.
Especially now, with eight Soul Seals upon him and his cultivation greatly diminished, the Lotus Eye's abilities would give him a few more bargaining chips when he went to Peerless Nether Heaven to fight for the ingredients needed for Hidden Immortal Wine.
"Little fellow, besides that, there is something