Only when Si Chen heard Xie Changsheng's voice did he turn to look at him.
Their eyes met.
Seeing him staring, Si Chen found it a little odd, but still cupped his hands politely. "Fellow Daoist, a pleasure to meet you."
Xie Changsheng was puzzling over something just then.
As the Dao Son of the Profound Unity School, he had been born with a pair of "Dao Eyes."
They were extraordinarily powerful. Not only could they see through illusions and anomalies, they could even vaguely discern what "Dao" someone cultivated.
Whether it was the keen Sword Dao, the gentle Dao of Alchemy, or some other path, each manifested a different "aspect" in his eyes.
The first moment he saw Si Chen, he had felt something was off about him, but couldn't put his finger on it.
So he instinctively wanted to see just what Dao this Si Chen cultivated-the man who had appeared out of nowhere and landed straight in third place on the Azure Profound Ranking.
At the thought, a faint glow immediately lit up in the depths of his eyes.
His Dao Eyes opened.
Then his gaze met Si Chen's.
In that instant, Xie Changsheng's mind rang with a buzz. First, a flash filled his vision, as though someone had shoved the midday Sun right into his face.
Then everything went black. He wasn't even sure whether it was black; he simply couldn't see anything, as if he had gone blind.
His vision had literally gone dark.
If the black before his eyes wasn't black, then what kind of white had that white been?
It felt as though he had seen something, yet also as though he had seen nothing at all.
A sharp pain immediately shot through both eyes. He instinctively shut them, his eyelids twitching