Making use of it

"I did indeed retrieve this bead from the flood; it must be the eyeball of that serpent!"

The bead Wen Weng held in his hands was entirely black, yet it possessed a faint luster.

When he asked Zhang Xuezhou for confirmation, Zhang Xuezhou nodded repeatedly.

Zhang Xuezhou had seen the eye of the giant snake, as large as a bucket, and he had also seen a snake that had shrunk in size and lacked an eyeball, while the snake was chasing after this eyeball in the flood.

"It's amazing that Bashe didn't manage to retrieve it," Wen Weng sighed. "These past few days, I've been repeatedly guessing that Bashe must have found the eyeball that was knocked out."

"It's not that it doesn't want to go back, but that it lacks the ability," Dong Zhongshu said. "The Bashe shrank its body to avoid our pursuit, but it has just survived a heavenly tribulation, and its body can no longer expand and contract as it pleases, so it probably had to give up after chasing and stopping in the flood."

"Did you see the direction the serpent fled?" Wen Weng asked.

"It swam towards the other side of the river!"

Zhang Xuezhou pondered the exact location, but ultimately felt that even if he pointed accurately, it wouldn't be of much use.

He has been away from this world for too long; even an earthworm crawling away from that area would be far enough away.

"Brother Zhongshu, now that we've confirmed it, we need to get to work!" Wen Weng said urgently. "The Bashe is missing an eye, and it might try to repair it by eating voraciously!"

"But this serpent's eye has no Yao Qi left; how can I use magic to track it!"

Dong Zhongshu shrugged, indicating his helplessness.

Although the Eye of the Bashe has been confirmed, this eyeball is more like a rather special gemstone, making it difficult to track using the aura of similar creatures.

Even after Zhang Xuezhou dispersed his Law Power, he did not see a trace of Yao Qi emerge from the eye of the Bashe.

Without Yao Qi, there can be no guidance.

Otherwise, Dong Zhongshu could easily locate the Technique Method using any single drop of blood, a scale, or other material from the Bashe snake.

"You can't repair your demonic creature by eating, right?" Zhang Xuezhou asked uncertainly.

The demon treasure is the life-sustaining treasure of a demon. Zhang Xuezhou still remembers the frustration of Jin Wanliang after losing his toad skin.

If the demonic treasure is shattered, it's practically equivalent to ruining all your efforts.

Destroyed things are naturally difficult to repair, and the idea of restoring them through eating is more like a pipe dream.

The other person's eyes are not like Scrophularia ningpoensis; they cannot be regenerated through cutting.

"That's right," Dong Zhongshu nodded.

"If this eyeball belongs to a demon, would it willingly be lost in the river?" Wen Weng questioned.

"Perhaps it couldn't endure the injuries," Dong Zhongshu pointed to his eyes and said, "You need to understand that this Bashe is special; it has more than one demonic treasure!"

"I see!"

After some discussion, Wen Weng finally felt much more at ease.

The demon cannot recover from its physical injuries through the Bashe's method of healing, which means that the Bashe does not have the possibility of consuming large amounts of food to restore its eyeballs.

As long as the other side doesn't commit massacres, they have ample time to search, instead of being as anxious as ants on a hot pan.

Seven days have passed, and no special information has emerged from the surrounding areas of Shu County. Even the sporadic construction on the Taiping Weir has not yielded any trace of the Bashe.

"I've heard that a cultivator can kill an opponent with a single hair. Can't Master Dong use this demonic treasure to locate it?"

As Zhang Xuezhou drank his porridge and listened to Wen Weng and Dong Zhongshu's discussion, he couldn't help but feel a little surprised.

"The kind of Incantation Technique you described is very profound," Dong Zhongshu said. "My current level of cultivation is insufficient to practice it, and I have never seen such Technique Method in the imperial secret archives!"

"The art of curse killing truly requires an extremely high level of skill to even be possible to cultivate," Wen Weng nodded and said. "The cultivator you've heard of must be no ordinary person, to be able to kill an opponent using only a strand of hair as a curse."

"I see!"

Zhang Xuezhou nodded.

What was a normal situation in Zhang Xuezhou's eyes became an abnormal situation in the eyes of Dong Zhongshu and others.

Thinking of Hongku's star-fixing Incantation Technique, Zhang Xuezhou considered that the Venerable One could sense his location even from thousands of miles away, there was also the accurate tracking by the Venerable Yufeng, and Jin Chang's ever-present presence...

Zhang Xuezhou thought about the people he had encountered, and he finally had to admit that the group of cultivators he had come into contact with were all quite powerful.

It's rare to encounter so many outstanding cultivators in normal circumstances.

In Shu County, Wen Weng was a rare, top-tier master of Technique Method.

In the present moment, if Wen Weng and Dong Zhongshu lacked the right methods, it would be difficult to find anyone in the entire Shu County with better methods.

"Since you've taken the eyeballs from the Bashe, you should be more careful around it, lest that monster come back for you," Dong Zhongshu warned.

"This demonic treasure doesn't seem to have any use?" Wen Weng asked doubtfully. "If you find it useless, it's best to destroy it."

"This demonic treasure should still be of some use," Zhang Xuezhou said. "Besides, if that Bashe comes to Shu County City looking for the demonic treasure, wouldn't that be perfect for you two to catch?"

Zhang Xuezhou touched the eye of the Bashe.

Just as Dong Zhongshu had sensed, there was not a trace of Yao Qi in this Bashe eye.

When isolated from being tracked and investigated, the Bashe snake clearly found it difficult to use its Yao Qi or other factors to retrieve the eyeball.

Zhang Xuezhou felt that as long as he didn't wear the Eye of the Bashe on his head and happened to run into the Bashe, the other party would have difficulty recognizing him upon meeting him.

"That makes sense," Wen Weng nodded.

"Since we need to plan ahead, this demonic treasure isn't entirely useless. If you don't mind, sir, we could take it outside the city and use it as a trap for a while!"

Zhang Xuezhou's polite refusal in dealing with the issue of the Eye of the Bashe gave Dong Zhongshu and Wen Weng some pause for thought.

"Now that the Bashe can change size at will, making it even more elusive, it means we don't need to make our traps so large," Dong Zhongshu said. "If it doesn't fall into the trap, we suffer no loss; if it does, we'll make sure it never returns!"

"Brother Zhongshu is absolutely right!"

Wen Weng nodded.

Having survived the heavenly tribulation, the Bashe (a type of serpent) gained the ability to stretch and contract its body freely, and some demons even possessed the Transformation Technique into human form.

This expansion and contraction brings immeasurable benefits to demons, but powerful demons who have just survived their tribulations cannot shrink or grow at will; this expansion and contraction will exist in a relatively long intermittent state.

The large size of the Bashe snake makes it easy to spot, while shrinking into a small snake makes it possible to approach Shu County City.

Once the Bashe transforms into a small snake to search for this eyeball in Shu County, it will be difficult for the opponent to instantly transform into its giant form.

Without reaching its gigantic state, the Bashe snake cannot crush ordinary people with its body to cause injury, nor can it swallow them whole with its enormous mouth, thus reducing its harmfulness to a certain extent.

Furthermore, the opponent's strength is significantly reduced when they are in a smaller form.

This is also why Dong Zhongshu mentioned that traps could be set outside the city.

The trap that Wen Weng places for the Eye of the Bashe needs to be stable and only allow small creatures to enter, to prevent the Bashe from casting its transformation at the right time.

"Actually, I have a use for this eye!"

Upon hearing that Dong Zhongshu and Wen Weng had made their decision, Zhang Xuezhou muttered a few words.

However, when eliminating the threat from Shu Commandery, he, as a citizen of the Han Kingdom, was clearly required to cooperate unconditionally.

Moreover, Wen Weng and others saved his life.

For Wen Weng and his associates, finding a way to utilize the Eye of the Bashe is the most important thing right now, and they need to do it even if it's just a possibility.

But for Zhang Xuezhou right now, the key is how to avoid starving to death within seven days of losing Body Control.

After regaining some strength, he inquired about the medicinal ingredients needed to refine the Grain Avoidance Powder.