"If Edward returns, the living beings of Earth will surely be plunged into misery. Auntie, do you really have the heart to just stand by and watch?"
While keeping an eye on the red light, Yu Xian looked toward Zhenwo Changjing, trying to persuade her to see if he could convince her to take out Edward.
"Did you know? Every single second, the Tree Universe sees countless times more living beings perish than all the lives in your world combined. Besides, if war breaks out between two ant hills, would you care?" Zhenwo Changjing smiled at Yu Xian and asked.
Yu Xian frowned. "But Auntie, aren't you the embodiment of goodness?"
"That's not quite right. I am the embodiment of Zhenwo Wuchang's goodness, not the embodiment of goodness itself," Zhenwo Changjing corrected with a smile.
Yu Xian was instantly rendered speechless. The difference between being the embodiment of Zhenwo Wuchang's goodness and being the embodiment of goodness lay in the fact that Zhenwo Changjing's benevolence was rooted in Zhenwo Wuchang's personal understanding of good, rather than what ordinary people conceived as kindness.
Indeed, taking no lives and harming no one was already a form of benevolence.
Zhenwo Changjing never took a life, harbored no malice, and was honest, generous, and eager to help. For an entity of her stature, this was already remarkably kind.
"I once uncovered some clues in an ancient ruin," Zhenwo Changjing said, looking at Yu Xian with a gentle smile. "A very, very long time ago, there was a formidable entity who was extraordinarily benevolent. He desired world peace, wishing for an end to all conflict and slaughter. As a result, the entire Tree Universe operated in accordance with his will. It was an era without criminals, without evil.
"Compared to your kindness, his was true benevolence—because your kindness is utterly powerless, whereas his genuinely granted peace to countless living beings."
"Even that was possible?" Yu Xian asked in shock.
"Of course. I suspect that supreme expert might have been a Transcender, though there is no proof. Perhaps they were a Mighty One instead," Zhenwo Changjing said.
Yu Xian fell silent. Closing his eyes, he focused wholeheartedly on comprehending the legacy of Mister Eye.
Without strength, a man's words carried no weight whatsoever. He had to race against the clock to grow stronger, stronger than anyone else. Only then could he obtain everything he desired and protect everything he wished to protect.
Zhenwo Changjing watched Yu Xian with a smile, thoroughly pleased by his present attitude.
The rules of the Tree Universe were dictated entirely by the strong. Most of the time, it was chaotic, disorderly, and governed by the law of the jungle. Sometimes, death arrived with utter irrationality, leaving most lives unaware of how they had even died.
Zhenwo Changjing had witnessed clashes between supreme powerhouses. One of them had hurled a planet harboring tens of quadrillions of lives as a weapon, only for the other to obliterate the planet and every soul upon it with a single punch.
She had also seen a Mighty One, seeking to slay a foe hidden within a branch of the Tree Universe, casually obliterate every world along the entire branch. Countless worlds perished beneath that single strike; had the wails of every living soul at that instant been gathered together, they could have forged a rather fine magical treasure.
Most life in the Tree Universe was simply too fragile, and far too fleeting.
Sometimes, she would merely doze off on a planet, and by the time she awoke, it had evolved from the Stone Age to an era of space colonization. The people she once knew had long turned to dust while she napped, their descendants having multiplied for who knew how many generations.
She sincerely wished for everyone she crossed paths with to have a good outcome and a bright future, so she was more than happy to aid those she met. As for a boy like Yu Xian, who was both kindhearted and foolish, she did not mind offering a little extra assistance.
In truth, the legacy of Mister Eye that Yu Xian was currently comprehending was already an accelerated version modified by Zhenwo Changjing. Under normal cultivation, Yu Xian would first have had to condense the eye symbol in his sea of consciousness through meditation.
This process typically took between ten and fifty years. Those with poor aptitude might even require a full century just to lay the groundwork.
Once the foundation was established, one had to use the power of the eye symbol to enter the state of having eyes without eyeballs.
Under ordinary circumstances, this step took around a year.
Furthermore, practitioners would truly go blind during that year. Consequently, most who cultivated the legacy of Mister Eye developed a nearly perverse fixation on eyeballs, knowing all too well the agony of losing sight.
The thing was, Yu Xian was not blind at all. Even while in the state of having eyes without eyeballs, he still had his eyeball bubbles to observe the outside world. Thus, his desire to obtain eyeballs depended entirely on the strength of his thirst for knowledge.
At this moment, Yu Xian was comprehending the second legacy ability within the eye symbol. Having eyes without eyeballs was merely the foundation, allowing his sockets to accommodate countless eyeballs.
Then what was the use of these eyeballs?
If all it did was allow Yu Xian to continuously swap eyeballs in his sockets, the legacy of Mister Eye would hardly be worthy of its reputation.
In fact, after mastering having eyes without eyeballs, Yu Xian could proceed to the next stage of training.
This stage was called: Eyes Disregarding All.
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Out in deep space, one of the eyeball bubbles keeping watch suddenly underwent a transformation, its pupil turning an emerald green.
The effect of Eyes Disregarding All was simple: it could replace another's eyes to see what they saw. With a special eyeball, one could even use that eyeball as the replacement medium.
This move could be called the ultimate ability for scouting enemy movements. Unfortunately, Edward was too powerful, and the disparity between Yu Xian's strength and his was far too vast, making Eyes Disregarding All impossible to use directly on Edward.
However, even if he could not use it on Edward, Yu Xian could use it on himself.
In doing so, he directly replaced the eyeball bubble with the eye gifted to him by Zhenwo Changjing.
Though the eyeball bubble did not meet the criteria of an eye socket, it still provided sight. Once replaced by Zhenwo Changjing's eyeball, Yu Xian could glean far more information about Edward.
Sure enough, when Yu Xian gazed at the red light through Zhenwo Changjing's eye, he saw killing intent raging like wildfire, alongside monstrous hatred and fury.
It was an utterly terrifying sight.
Though it was visibly just a tiny streak of red light, within Zhenwo Changjing's field of vision, it resembled a Grim Reaper brandishing a scythe, poised to harvest the Earth.
"This time, Earth really might be plunged into utter devastation!"
Yu Xian murmured to himself as he watched the red light draw closer to Earth through Zhenwo Changjing's eye.
Fortunately, Huaxia had already been tucked safely away as a grotto-heaven. Even if Edward wanted to vent his rage on Huaxia, he would find no way in. Aside from Huaxia, the target Edward was most likely to set his sights on was probably the Meilong Empire.
After all, he needed a target grand enough to display his absolute might and force everyone else into submission.
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