Chapter 57: Terrifying Eyes

Chu Buwei stared at Ye Chen in shock; Ye Chen's words were undoubtedly telling him, "Your Return to Simplicity and Truth Realm, in my eyes, is nothing."

Chu Buwei's heart held no trace of struggle; before an expert stronger than the Return to Simplicity and Truth Realm, he, a Grand Master Realm cultivator, couldn't even stir a wave before Ye Chen.

Ye Chen saw that Chu Buwei had no will to resist, for Chu Buwei understood that even if his master came, he could not harm Ye Chen.

Seeing this, Ye Chen said no more nonsense, directly took Chu Buwei's life, then sealed his soul into the Ten Thousand Souls Banner; Li Feng, seeing this, shook his head repeatedly.

"I will die too, right?"

Li Feng said to Ye Chen.

Ye Chen didn't speak, not even glancing at him.

Seeing this, Li Feng also knew Ye Chen's thought.

Although Ye Chen had heard Li Feng's words earlier, he was, after all, a member of the Northern Sect; cutting weeds and eradicating roots was his style, and he would not foolishly leave a hidden danger.

Although this danger posed no threat to him, he still did not want to leave it.

Ye Chen turned and left; Li Feng, seeing Ye Chen go, said nothing, merely sitting down alone, his expression utterly forlorn.

The next moment, his body collapsed, and his soul drifted into Ye Chen's Ten Thousand Souls Banner.

And Ye Chen's figure also left this place.

This time coming to the Northern Sect, he had obtained a total of 468 souls; for his Ten Thousand Souls Banner, that was far from enough—since it's called the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, it naturally needs over ten thousand souls to barely exert a trace of its power.

Moreover, as the number of souls in the Ten Thousand Souls Banner increases, its material also needs upgrading, becoming even stronger.

After leaving the hall, Ye Chen did not directly leave the Northern Sect but entered a secret chamber; according to the aura emanating from the chamber, this should have been the place where Chu Buwei previously stayed.

Or rather, this is Chu Buwei's cultivation place.

Ye Chen looked at the simple surroundings, feeling nothing; he walked toward the depths of the secret chamber, and in its depths he could clearly sense a strange aura—not particularly strong, but very strange.

Since Ye Chen arrived at the Northern Sect, he had felt as if a pair of invisible eyes were constantly watching him from behind, making him very uncomfortable.

Because it made him feel as if he had no secrets at all.

Ye Chen walked toward the depths of the secret chamber; upon entering its depths, the strange aura became even more apparent.

Ye Chen unfolded his Wuji Yin-Yang Diagram; with its aid, that feeling vanished instantly, as if it had been blocked.

Only after Ye Chen sensed that the strange aura had disappeared did he breathe a sigh of relief.

At this moment, he had reached the depths of the secret chamber.

In the depths of the secret chamber lay only one object: an eye, a scarlet eye.

The moment Ye Chen saw that eye, his mind felt a brief daze, but he quickly returned to normal, as if nothing had happened.

Seeing this, a spark of anger rose in Ye Chen: "You tiny eye, dare to launch a psychic attack on me—do you not even want that sliver of consciousness you painstakingly gained?"

Ye Chen's voice was icy cold, a hint of killing intent emanating from it; upon hearing Ye Chen's words, the eye closed, as if frightened by Ye Chen or unwilling to speak with him.

Seeing this, Ye Chen's divine sense instantly locked onto the eye; after his divine sense locked on, the eye snapped open, its pupil rolling in the socket, as if very curious about Ye Chen's power.

"My whereabouts—did you expose them?"

Ye Chen asked the eye.

But the eye did not reply, remaining silent.

Seeing this, Ye Chen threatened, saying, "If you still won't speak, I will smash you to bits and let you die completely."

Ye Chen's words finally made the eye reply.

"It's me."

"If so, then you can just go die."

Eye: "!?"

"You didn't say you wouldn't kill me if I spoke?"

"I never said that; I only said I'd smash you if you didn't speak."

Ye Chen looked at this eye with a poor brain, shaking his head slightly.

But soon he realized his mistake—where would an eye get a brain? It has none.

"Could it be that my brain is the problem?"

Ye Chen doubted his own brain, but soon he cursed himself in his heart: "Ye Chen, are you truly stupid or just pretending, saying you have no brain?"

However, after Ye Chen finished saying that in his heart, he always felt something was off.

"How is it getting weirder and weirder?!"

"Your power does not belong to this world."

That eye suddenly said to Ye Chen.

After the eye finished speaking, Ye Chen looked at it curiously: "Obviously, you are also not a spiritual creature that this world could now give birth to."

Ye Chen finished speaking, and the eye immediately replied.

"Indeed not; in my vague memory, I come from a place of utter Chaos."

Upon hearing the eye's words, Ye Chen's heart filled with curiosity.

After all, Chaos is usually a place of great power; since this eye comes from there, its strength naturally would not be weak.

But Ye Chen couldn't understand why such a powerful eye would appear in a place where cultivators are extremely rare.

The eye's spiritual intellect seemed high, perceiving Ye Chen's confusion, and so it said to him:

"In that Chaos World, I don't know what kind of existence I am; I only know that when I open my eyes it is day, when I close them it is deep darkness."

After hearing the eye's words, Ye Chen felt it was just talking nonsense.

"Isn't opening the eyes day and closing them night?"

"You really do spout nonsense."

Ye Chen finished speaking, and the eye immediately replied: "No, you haven't understood my meaning; I mean that when I open my eyes, the whole world is the scene of all things reviving, and when I close my eyes, it is the time of the world's destruction."

After the eye spoke, Ye Chen inwardly exclaimed, "My goodness, your pretentiousness is so high—no wonder you ignored me just now; what's the difference between this power and a Creator?"

And the reason I appeared here is because one day, an incredibly powerful person barged into the Hundun Kongjian where I was.

Upon hearing this, Ye Chen instantly grasped what is meant by 'there are always people beyond people, heavens beyond heavens'; even the power of a creator has someone stronger, and such exaggerated strength is nothing short of terrifying.

Then how did you end up here?

After Ye Chen finished asking, his eyes sank into a brief silence.