68: Chapter 68 Divine Eyes See Through All, Ten Thousand Steles Unite as One!

At this moment, no one was paying attention to the white-clad youth wandering on the outskirts.

And at the outermost edge of the Stele Forest.

Lin Yi came to a halt.

He withdrew his gaze from an unremarkable small stone stele and turned toward the tallest main stele deep within the Stele Forest.

To be precise, he looked at a symbol atop the main stele that was almost invisible to the naked eye.

The corners of his mouth curled up slightly.

"That's about enough."

"Time to get down to business."

The outskirts of the Stele Forest.

Lin Yi withdrew his gaze from that unremarkable small stone stele.

He had already walked a full circle around the Stele Forest.

This circuit seemed aimless.

In reality, he was using the most primitive method to first get a general sense of the layout of the entire Stele Forest.

"Interesting."

He muttered to himself in a low voice.

On the surface, this Ten Thousand Law Stele Forest appeared to be just a jumble of disorganized stone steles.

Every stele was engraved with a fragment of the Ancient Desolate Scripture.

However, the arrangement of these fragments was not random at all.

They were more like a jigsaw puzzle that had been intentionally broken apart.

If you took any single piece out, you could only see a blurry partial view.

The Prodigies who were painstakingly comprehending before the steles were essentially banging their heads against a single puzzle piece.

No matter how high their Comprehension Ability was, it was impossible to reconstruct the entire picture from a single fragment.

The reason Wang Teng comprehended so quickly...

...was not because he truly understood the Ancient Desolate Scripture.

Rather, it was because his Emperor-Bearing Dao Body could forcibly resonate with the Laws of the Emperor Dao.

To put it bluntly, it was rote memorization combined with copying the answers.

He memorized it, but he didn't understand it.

Therefore, the fist techniques he performed looked impressive, but they were actually hollow, weak, and riddled with flaws.

"This Ancient Desolate Emperor is quite interesting."

"He deliberately broke the scripture into fragments and scattered them across different stone steles."

"It was specifically to test if future generations could piece them back together."

Lin Yi understood clearly.

Relying solely on comprehending stele by stele, one wouldn't finish the puzzle in a million years.

But if one could simultaneously see the underlying connections between all the inscriptions...

...that would be a different story.

And Lin Yi just happened to be an expert at that!

He closed his eyes for a moment.

When he opened them again...

...within his pupils, two beams of immortal light, so brilliant they were blinding, suddenly burst forth.

Primordial Immortal Pupil, activate!

In an instant.

The entire world changed in his eyes.

The stone steles, which had been ancient and heavy, now became entirely translucent.

The runes engraved on the surfaces of the steles were no longer static characters.

Instead, they were flowing ribbons of light.

Each ribbon of light was frantically extending outward.

They formed countless intricate connections with adjacent steles and those even further away.

Those ribbons of light intertwined, coiled, and converged.

In the vision of Lin Yi's Immortal Pupil, they formed an incredibly vast heavenly net of Laws.

Every node and every thread of this heavenly net ultimately pointed to the same place.

The very center of the Stele Forest.

That giant main stele, three times taller than all the others.

The one Wang Teng was sitting beneath.

But Wang Teng only saw the runes on the surface of the main stele.

What Lin Yi saw was the symbol at the top of the main stele that was nearly invisible to the naked eye.

That was no ordinary rune.

That was the General Outline of the entire Ancient Desolate Scripture.

It was the core where all Laws converged into one.

"So that's how it is."

The corners of Lin Yi's mouth turned up slightly.

All the fragments were dismantled from this General Outline.

It was like a great tree.

The General Outline was the root.

The fragments on each stone stele were merely branches and leaves.

What was Wang Teng doing?

He was picking up leaves one by one.

After picking up two leaves, he thought he had grown a tree.

But Lin Yi had directly seen the root.

He didn't sit down.

Nor did he close his eyes to meditate.

He simply stood on the outskirts of the Stele Forest, staring at that General Outline symbol with his Primordial Immortal Pupil.

One breath.

Two breaths.

Three breaths.

With every breath that passed, the immortal light in his eyes grew a bit brighter.

The ribbons of light in that heavenly net of Laws began to converge toward him at an extremely rapid speed.

The fragments on hundreds of stone steles...

...automatically arranged, combined, and underwent Fusion within his Immortal Pupil.

It was like a puzzle that had been scattered for ten thousand years.

Finally meeting the person who could see the entire picture.

It pieced itself together with a rustling sound.

One stick of incense.

In just the time it took for a stick of incense to burn.

The immortal light in Lin Yi's eyes slowly faded.

It was finished.

The complete framework of the entire Ancient Desolate Scripture was now fully imprinted within his sea of consciousness.

From the first form to the last form.

From the introductory Mind-Cultivation Technique to the Peak Profound Truth.

Not a single word was wrong, not a single link was missing.

More importantly...

...he hadn't just memorized it; he understood it.

The principles of force for every form, the operation of Laws for every move, and the true meaning of the Great Dao behind every rune.

He had achieved complete mastery through thorough comprehension.

This was the terrifying power of the Primordial Immortal Pupil.

It didn't see appearances.

It saw the Origin.

When others comprehended scriptures, they went from the text to the meaning, then to the Laws, peeling it back layer by layer.

Lin Yi didn't need to.

He directly saw the lowest level of the Laws themselves.

He skipped all the intermediate steps.

"This Ancient Desolate Emperor's scripture is indeed exquisite."

Lin Yi evaluated it in his mind.

"Unfortunately, it only goes as far as the Emperor Realm."

He withdrew his gaze, his expression as calm as if nothing had happened.

Chu Wanqing leaned over, her big eyes blinking as she looked at him.

"Brother Lin Yi, your eyes were so bright just now."

"Did you get something in your eye?"

"Do you want me to blow on it for you?"

As she spoke, she stood on her tiptoes and leaned close to Lin Yi's face.

Lin Yi reached out, pressed her forehead, and pushed her back.

"Nothing's in them."

"I'm finished watching."

"Finished watching?" Chu Wanqing tilted her head. "Finished watching what?"

"The Ancient Desolate Scripture."

"All of it."

Chu Wanqing froze for a moment.

Then she suddenly covered her mouth, almost crying out loud.

Shen Qingyue and Su Yuxi also turned their heads.

Shock filled both of their eyes.

They had been watching Lin Yi the entire time.

He had simply stood in place and looked at the stone steles for the time it took a stick of incense to burn.

And now he said he had finished watching all of it?

"Are... are you serious?" Su Yuxi's beautiful eyes widened slightly.

Lin Yi nodded.

"The fragments in the Stele Forest were originally a complete scripture that was broken apart."

"If Wang Teng gnaws at them stele by stele, he could gnaw for ten thousand years and still not understand the essence."

"By directly finding the General Outline, all the fragments piece themselves back together."

Lin Yi spoke as if it were as light as a breeze.

But Su Yuxi and the other two knew clearly in their hearts.

It was easy to say.

But throughout all of eternity, he was likely the only one who could actually do it.

Xu Chen squatted nearby, spitting out spiritual fruit pits all over the ground.

"I told you!"

He slapped his thigh and stood up, his voice startlingly loud.

"Senior Brother Lin never disappoints!"

"I told you guys you were worrying for nothing!"

"Doing a lifetime's worth of work in the time it takes for a stick of incense to burn—now that's what you call a Dimensional Strike!"

"Shh!"

Su Yuxi glared at him.

"Keep it down."

Xu Chen quickly covered his mouth, but the smug expression on his face, which was almost distorted with pride, could not be hidden.

Lin Yi didn't care about any of that.

His gaze once again turned toward the depths of the Stele Forest.

Wang Teng was currently comprehending the third form.

That smug, arrogant face of his was clearly visible even from halfway across the Stele Forest.

Beside him, Xuan Ye was still working hard to flatter him.

The surrounding Prodigies were filled with envy and admiration.

"Emperor Son Wang Teng is incredible!"

"Emperor Son Wang Teng is so overbearing!"

"Emperor Son Wang Teng is a god!"

Many Prodigies had already begun their flattery, and their cheers echoed throughout the entire stone Stele Forest.

The entire scene was like a peerless portrait of an Emperor Son comprehending the Dao!