Double Pupils
"Spare me! If you kill me, the Demon Spirit Lake will not rest until you're dead!" the Demon Spider shrieked, begging for mercy but not forgetting to make a threat.
Lei Chong remained unmoved, however, as the terrifying sword light continued to rage.
Pfft!
A streak of sword light flashed past, splitting the Demon Spider's head in two. The Demon Spirit Lake's Demon Spider Venerable fell in the Divine Medicine Valley.
After putting away the Demon Spider's corpse, Lei Chong fixed his gaze on the people from the Divine Medicine Sect.
Thud!
Lin Feng's knees buckled, and he collapsed to the ground. Not a trace of his earlier arrogance remained.
Even the Divine Medicine Sect members behind him all fell to their knees, trembling.
He felt no goodwill toward Lin Feng and his companions. He reached out a hand and grabbed at them.
Pfft!
The instant the giant hand closed, the group was crushed into meat paste.
After throwing the corpses into the formation, Lei Chong leaped onto the boulder.
He grabbed the Heaven Ascending Ladder and tried to refine it.
Hum!
The Heaven Ascending Ladder trembled slightly, resisting Lei Chong's refining. But with no one controlling it now, it could only be refined.
Sure enough, although the Heaven Ascending Ladder resisted, it still shrank to about an inch in size.
The entire ladder was brilliant and translucent, with all kinds of runes flickering across its surface and a special power circulating through it, showing how extraordinary the artifact was.
After putting away the Heaven Ascending Ladder, Lei Chong chose to leave for the time being.
The Demon Spider had been killed in the Divine Medicine Valley, and the Demon Spirit Lake might already know.
With one of their own killed, those Demon Spiders would surely come to investigate.
However conceited Lei Chong might be, he would not take on the entire Demon Spirit Lake now.
Medicine Capital!
Countless cultivators looked up at the sky, gazing in the direction of the battle that had just taken place.
Even though the battle had ended long ago, they still had not recovered from their shock.
Hum!
The teleportation formation in the city lit up, and several terrifying presences appeared. They belonged to a group of middle-aged men, led by a blond man.
Behind him were several green-haired men who looked much like the Demon Spider.
Startled by these presences, the dazed cultivators came to their senses. Under the pressure of those presences, many went limp and collapsed on the spot.
Lei Chong stood before a medicine stall, secretly observing the Venerables. He had only just arrived when the Demon Spiders showed up.
The golden spider at their head, in particular, was definitely close to the Divine Fire Realm.
The golden spider surely had some kind of secret treasure on him.
Perhaps it was a Heavenly God artifact of his clan, possessing terrifying destructive power.
Only after the Demon Spiders left did the city gradually return to normal.
Lei Chong entered the secluded inn he had previously chosen in the city.
He wanted to study the Double Pupils and see what was so wondrous about them.
Hum!
Lei Chong took out the eye with Double Pupils. Even without being activated, it gave off a faint purple light, as though trying to break free of his control.
Runes surged in Lei Chong's palm, completely suppressing the Double Pupils.
At the same time, his eyes lit up as he began examining the Double Pupils.
Since the Double Pupils were praised by the world, they were bound to have something extraordinary about them.
Sure enough, in the deepest part of the Double Pupils were two strange runes. They seemed embedded deep within the pupils, emitting a special power.
When the Double Pupils merged, the two runes would also merge.
Once the new rune formed, it would emit a different kind of power.
This was the true secret of the Double Pupils, and the source of their strength.
Like those First Generation prodigies, it was all an evolution of special runes.
Hum!
The interior of the Double Pupils was profoundly mysterious. Even though they had been separated from their original body, they still retained their vitality, and the pupils within were still changing.
Soon, the two pupils became one, and the two runes began to combine.
A terrifying secret power flowed out, turning into strange symbols that entered Lei Chong's eyes and even his sea of consciousness.
Whoosh!
Lei Chong's vision shifted, and the scenery around him changed completely.
It was a place filled with lightning. Enormous bolts, like chains of order, seemed to link The Heavens to the land of the Nine Netherworlds.
"This is..." Lei Chong stared blankly ahead.
The strange image in his mind was identical to the scene before him.
Had he fallen under an illusion, or was this a memory from his mind, now drawn out by the Double Pupils and displayed clearly before his eyes?
The scene before him continued to change. As though carried by some force, he moved closer to the terrifying lightning.
As he approached, the lightning seemed to sense him and moved aside, opening a passage that allowed Lei Chong to enter.
Beyond the expanse of lightning lay a vast complex of palaces.
The palaces were magnificent and dazzling, with bolts of lightning spilling out from them.
Lei Chong felt himself still flying toward the palaces, unable to control his movement.
He flew past layer after layer of palaces without encountering any obstruction.
At last, he reached the final palace and came to a complete stop before it.
A plaque hung over the palace's main entrance, bearing the words "Thunder Emperor Palace."
"So it really is here," Lei Chong said with a slight nod.
When the image first appeared in his mind, he had already had a vague guess.
His original body had been sealed since childhood, leaving him with very few memories, but he would have at least some impression of his former home.
The scene continued to change, and he was about to fly into the Thunder Emperor Palace.
But the moment he began to move, the images were completely cut off.
The scene before him changed, and he was back in the inn.
The pupils of the Double Pupils were still turning, but the Double Pupils had separated again.
"Is this the power of the Double Pupils?" Lei Chong's expression was grave.
They had pulled him into an illusion without a sound.
Although he had sensed something was wrong as soon as he entered the illusion, and could have broken free at any time,
no one had been controlling the eye; it had acted entirely on instinct.
If someone with Double Pupils controlled it, its power would be even more terrifying. In a life-and-death battle, for example, even the briefest instant could decide the course of the fight.
At that thought, a bold idea occurred to Lei Chong.
He could inscribe the Double Pupils' runes into his Heavenly Eye.
He was currently cultivating in the Array Formation Realm, so he could add the Double Pupils' runes. That would not only improve his formation's abilities, but also those of his Heavenly Eye.
His only concern was whether the runes were dangerous.
If they were like the runes of those killing formations, destroying his eyeballs and his Martial Dao Heavenly Eye along with them, he would truly want to cry but have no tears.
His Heavenly Eye had only just been opened, and everything was still somewhat unstable. If his eyeballs shattered because of this, he might very well lose his Heavenly Eye.
Lei Chong did not act rashly. He opened his Heavenly Eye, and the runes in his eyes flickered, penetrating the eye with Double Pupils.
He wanted to imprint the Double Pupils' runes in the depths of his eyes, leaving a mark there.
Once his eyeballs had gradually adapted, he would try inscribing the runes into them.
Hum!
The purple eyeball glowed, giving off faint fluctuations. The two pupils overlapped again, and the illusion formation was once more activated by the Double Pupils.
The images were the same as before, and he still did not go inside.
Perhaps even if he went in, it would be of no use. These were only his memories, and they would not help him improve at all.
As time passed, Lei Chong could clearly feel his Heavenly Eye changing. Some runes seemed to be forming inside it.