Chapter 7: Chapter Previous Note, Thousand-Mile Eye

Chapter Previous Note, Thousand-Mile Eye

(PS: Can someone using Thousand-Mile Eye be detected when observing others? It is not absolutely impossible.

In Journey to the West, it seems only the Heavenly Court possesses Thousand-Mile Eye and Wind-Listening Ear, but in fact, many gods and demons also have Thousand-Mile Eye and Wind-Listening Ear (though this setting goes beyond Journey to the West and appears in other classical Ming-Qing novels).

For example, in Investiture of the Gods, Gao Ming and Gao Jue from Mount Mei—one a peach tree spirit, the other a willow tree spirit—are not the original Thousand-Mile Eye and Wind-Listening Ear.

The true Thousand-Mile Eye and Wind-Listening Ear were two great generals under Emperor Xuanyuan.

In Emperor Xuanyuan’s temple, flanking his statue are two ghost envoys.

Gao Ming and Gao Jue stole the “spiritual essence” from these ghost envoy statues (Investiture of the Gods does not clarify this clearly; essentially, these two demons stole part of the Yellow Emperor’s ghost envoys’ abilities and cultivated them into Thousand-Mile Eye and Wind-Listening Ear).

In the “Biography of Huaguang Bodhisattva,” Huaguang also took a pair of Thousand-Mile Eye and Wind-Listening Ear as subordinates.

Huaguang is the Horse King.

In Journey to the West, when Tang Seng and his disciples were nearing Lingshan, they took shelter from rain in a ruined temple and got entangled in a lawsuit with a wealthy patron; that ruined temple was Huaguang Bodhisattva’s temple. Huaguang, like Jin Chanzi, had been dismissed by the Buddha and reincarnated as the Horse King, so Huaguang Bodhisattva’s temple was abandoned at the time.

Also, the Eastern Peak Great Emperor of Mount Tai has Thousand-Mile Eye and Wind-Listening Ear under his command.

These are merely two bloodline spiritual abilities, not the only ones.

Since they are spiritual abilities, naturally there are levels of strength—like students in a class, some can enter Tsinghua or Peking University, others struggle to graduate. Spiritual abilities can also be countered; they cannot be absolutely invincible.

The Thousand-Mile Eye and Wind-Listening Ear belonging to the Horse King’s subordinates are frequently detected by immortals and Buddhas.

Observing mortals is fine, but immortals and Buddhas certainly won’t allow you to watch or listen freely; if such observation and eavesdropping were permitted at will, Thousand-Mile Eye and Wind-Listening Ear would long ago have been hunted down like the Six-Eared Macaque.

Additionally, Guan General’s Thousand-Mile Eye being faintly sensed by the fish demon is abnormal—not the standard capability of Thousand-Mile Eye.

Either Guan General or the fish demon has an issue.

A reasonable explanation will follow.

Also, I’ve seen readers say the protagonist only appeared briefly at the start and hasn’t shown up in these past few chapters.

Let me clarify.

First, the protagonist “Sha Man Yu” herself has not appeared, but everyone is talking about her, and all their actions revolve around her.

The text explicitly states that Guan Huchen’s group crossed thousands of miles of desert to reach a tiny sand dune solely to capture Sha Man Yu.

You’ve seen Guan Huchen’s prestige: the Chiyan Steed, a divine mount rare even in the Investiture era, Thousand-Mile Eye, the eyes of an immortal, the Snake Flame Whip, a magic treasure... There may be no comparison yet, so it’s not obvious, but after dozens of chapters, you’ll realize just how high Guan Huchen’s level is.

I can hint slightly: Guan Huchen is not the highest-prestige figure hunting Sha Man Yu.

Another big figure will appear tomorrow.

Second, you’ve probably noticed that I’m summarizing the protagonist’s “first half of life” through others’ perspectives.

Initially, I considered writing chronologically—depicting Sha Man Yu’s life in the primitive tribe along Liushahe over dozens of chapters.

Later, I found it too cumbersome and switched to this method to quickly summarize her “dramatic yet ultimately useless” first half of life.

The title of Volume One is “Tales of Liushahe.”)