"System, can you locate the Broken Sword I need to find?"
Seeing that the system still had not given him an answer,
someone grew a little anxious.
[Ding! The system can pinpoint the Broken Sword's location. You can search for it whenever you wish, but...]
It seemed the reward from this check-in was worth even more than the Broken Sword.
What could it be?
Looking across the entire Hundred Broken Mountains, could it be...?
Could it be the Little Pagoda? Or heavenly first true water?
Or perhaps the Monkey Wine?
This system really knew how to torment him!
Why couldn't it just give him the answer?
"Tell me! What exactly is it? Stop keeping me in suspense!"
[To be perfectly honest, this system considers the greatest opportunity in the Hundred Broken Mountains to be the double pupils.]
That answer was absolutely beyond anything he had imagined.
Double pupils?
How could something like that be in the Hundred Broken Mountains?
"Could this be where the double pupils originated?"
It was a rather foolish question.
Yet after Shi Xiu asked it, he seemed to sense something.
It was the feeling of someone secretly watching him from afar.
Had Shi Yi come here too?
And was he using his double pupils to spy on them right now?
That would explain why the system had picked up this power.
The system's greatest function was to seize the fortunes of all under heaven.
It was more than a mere treasure finder.
Previously, it had already taken the Supreme Bone back from Shi Yi.
And put it back into the little brat.
But the double pupils were an even higher-grade constitution, a road to invincibility in their own right!
If he could take them from Shi Yi,
this would absolutely be a god-tier check-in!
"Agreed! I want that! Check in!"
Perhaps he was simply too excited.
Shi Xiu could not help breaking into a delighted laugh.
He also casually glanced toward the area above the Woods.
That single glance was caught by Shi Yi in the distance.
For some unknown reason,
Shi Yi's heart suddenly lurched.
Then he felt his right eye begin twitching violently and unnaturally.
What was happening?
Soon, a tearing pain erupted on his right side.
It felt as though some outside force was desperately trying to wrench his eye out.
"No! I wasn't looking at you! I really didn't mean to look at you!"
At that moment, what had that earlier glance made Shi Yi realize?
He instinctively felt that everything happening to him was very likely connected to that fellow.
[Ding! Due to the target's fierce resistance and the exceptional rarity of this opportunity, even at full power, this system can only guarantee success with half.]
So there were things even this system could not accomplish!
Perhaps the double pupils were simply too overbearing.
Plundering such an opportunity went against the harmony of heaven.
Thus, this time, the system could only forcibly seize his right eye.
Soon, the fellow on the opposite mountain collapsed to his knees in agony and rolled about without stopping.
The double pupils in his right eye had inexplicably vanished.
He had no idea where they had gone.
It was just like what had happened to the Supreme Bone.
Some unknown force seemed to have forcibly plundered them.
And every last sign seemed to point toward the mysterious Shi Xiu.
In the end, he passed out from the pain.
His servants then found him and carried him away in a panic.
Meanwhile, a small sapphire-like orb had appeared in Shi Xiu's hand.
"System, could this be...?"
[Since the double pupils, like the Supreme Bone, are an opportunity unique under heaven...]
According to the system's explanation,
the double pupils could not be bound directly to the host.
It was like a transplant: their cells had to be compatible and merge without rejection.
Only then could the double pupils be perfectly grafted onto Shi Xiu.
However, possessors of these ancient double pupils were actually much like those with his heavenly dao treasure body.
Only one such fortunate individual could exist in each era.
"Then doesn't that mean I can't use this powerful ability?"
[That is not the case. To ensure you can use it, this system has performed certain conversions.]
No wonder the thing in Shi Xiu's hand looked like a gemstone.
The system had refined Shi Yi's double pupils into a magical treasure.
"Then can I use it directly? Is there some secret to activating it?"
[You cannot use it yet. This treasure must be socketed into a magic artifact. Once you obtain a suitable weapon, this system will automatically match them for you.]
It seemed the double pupils were not so easy to claim.
The system had turned them into an enhancement for some kind of weapon.
He would still have to find a weapon that suited him.
But he had come here in the first place to help Weird Grandpa recover the Broken Sword from back then.
Perhaps that thing could be fitted with the double pupils!
All in all, this was a good thing!
For Shi Yi, however, this trip to White Broken Mountain was absolutely the darkest moment of his life.
He had only just arrived and had yet to gain the slightest benefit. All he had done was sneak a look at those two fellows cultivating.
And his right eye was gone!
He had been turned straight into an ugly one-eyed man.
His strength had also declined considerably.
Although he had no evidence whatsoever,
he instinctively felt that Shi Xiu had done all of this.
After their last contest in the Void God Realm, his Supreme Bone had mysteriously disappeared.
This time, he had merely glanced at him from afar.
And now even one of his double-pupiled eyes was gone!
Wasn't that enough to prove there was a problem?
That young man was absolutely Shi Yi's fated nemesis.
He would have to stay as far away from him as possible from now on!
"Cousin Shi Yi, how are you feeling?"
Seeing that the pillar of their group had finally pulled through,
everyone was overjoyed.
Yu Feng was even more so.
Earlier, when they saw Shi Yi lying unconscious, several of them had wanted to leave the Hundred Broken Mountains.
After all, although this place held tremendous opportunities,
it was also far too dangerous.
Without formidable strength to back them up, they might not even know how they had died.
"Let me tell you something. Stay as far away as possible from those two boys from Stone Village."
Perhaps it was because he had suffered repeated losses.
Shi Yi had finally learned his lesson.
Not only did he no longer dare provoke Shi Xiu,
he also warned those around him never to confront that fellow.
He was too terrifying.
There was something within him that sent chills down one's spine.
Although Yu Feng felt deeply frustrated,
he still did not dare disobey Shi Yi.
Although Shi Yi was now a tiger stranded on the plains,
the outside powers that favored him were each more formidable than the last.
On the surface, Demon Spirit Lake was the power backing him.
But everyone knew there was an even more powerful sect behind it.
That was the Heaven Mending Sect.
However, these people probably did not yet know.
The Heaven Mending Sect's preferred candidate might already have changed.
After all, Shi Xiu now possessed the heavenly dao treasure body.
And his performance in every respect was more outstanding than Shi Yi's.
If they learned that Shi Yi had now suffered one devastating blow after another,
who knew whether they would still firmly choose him?
After all, he had previously possessed a complete pair of double pupils, along with a stolen Supreme Bone inside his body.
The Heaven Mending Sect would surely have been satisfied with such talent.
But the problem was that his Supreme Bone was now completely gone.
His double pupils had also lost half their power...
Strictly speaking, he had already become a third-rate cripple.
If the Heaven Mending Sect still wanted him like this, it could only mean there was something wrong with them!
Of course, none of this had anything to do with Shi Xiu.
All he wanted now was to find Weird Grandpa's Broken Sword as quickly as possible.
Then he could see whether those double pupils, now transformed into a gemstone, could be fused into it!
After all, combining treasures had always produced exceptionally fine results.
It really was something to look forward to!
"System, didn't you say earlier that you could pinpoint the Broken Sword's location for me?"
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