284: Chapter 284 Mind's Eye, Clear Mirror

Having secured the Torch Spirit Blood Spear, Tang Long immediately changed his strategy.

He was no longer lacking in offensive means, so he could dump all his skill points into the Regeneration Gu.

Actually, Spirit Summoning was also a very good choice; a max-level Spirit Summoning could summon four Tyrant Iron-Eating Beasts, granting double the base attributes of the user, and possessing the Tyrant Roar skill with a stun effect.

However, the investment for Spirit Summoning was too high for relatively small returns; it wasn't as practical as the massive healing of the Regeneration Gu.

[Your Regeneration Gu has been raised to MAX!]

[Triggered when the carrier takes damage, recovering 790 health per second, with healing effects increased by an additional 1120 points, lasting for 30 seconds.]

Seeing this recovery amount of nearly 2000 per second, Tang Long felt his confidence instantly bolstered.

After all, his previous health pool could only be considered superficially high; once facing a strong enemy, if his recovery means couldn't keep up with the rate of health loss, it was still quite anxiety-inducing.

And... the matter he promised Elder Zheng could now be fulfilled.

As for the other 30 attribute points, he added 13 to Spirituality, and the remaining 17 were added directly to Mental Energy.

[Your Mental Energy has reached 80 points, satisfying the activation conditions for {Mind's Eye · Clear Mirror}!]

[Your skill {Fire Eye · Candlelight} has advanced to {Mind's Eye · Clear Mirror}!]

[Next tier: Dharma Eye · Heaven's Vision, activation requirements: 180 Mental Energy, Torch Spirit Breathing Method LV7, Blood Refining Stage 9!]

Seeing the name of the next-tier skill, Tang Long felt inexplicably excited.

The Fire Eye skill had provided him with huge help from the very beginning, and even though he had only used Candlelight for a few days, its effect was definitely not small.

Heaven's Vision—these two words made it seem like a completely different class, but the requirements were just too high.

Even with his rate of progress, he feared he wouldn't be able to obtain it in the short term.

After all, the level cap for the beta version was 30; the level attributes would eventually just be that much.

As for Realm attributes, the Qi Manipulation Realm had already been exhausted. Even if he really reached Blood Refining, he feared that even with the full attribute increase from the Blood Refining Realm, he wouldn't be able to make up this 100-point Mental Energy gap.

Furthermore, he tried out Mind's Eye slightly, but not only did he not feel any benefits, he instead felt a wave of inexplicable irritability.

This was the inconvenient part about skills without descriptions; he always had to figure them out himself.

Anyway, there was no rush. After he exited the dungeon and moved far away from the player area, he found a place to rest.

When he used Mind's Eye again, his mind suddenly roared, and a large amount of noise immediately flooded in.

Yes, it was noise.

It was a noise even more headache-inducing than the constant chattering of that blabbermouth Mad God; it felt as if many people were muttering about him all at once.

Tang Long immediately deactivated the skill, then looked astonished.

After calming down for a few minutes, he tried for a third time.

Almost forcefully suppressing his irritability, he listened carefully to these sounds, becoming even more certain of his previous feeling.

There really were many people muttering about him, but the voices were too quiet and the words were fragmented, making it hard to hear clearly.

But after listening for a while, two voices suddenly appeared and became quite clear.

Closing his eyes, he felt as if he could 'see' the sound sources far away, appearing just like two balls of light.

Tang Long listened carefully and discovered that the voices were quite familiar.

"I want to know, where exactly did this intelligence on Tang Long come from?"

"Are you still dwelling on this now? Xu Chaoyang is currently plotting against the clock, and there are steps targeting you among them. The situation is critical."

"I naturally understand that the situation is urgent, otherwise I wouldn't have come to meet him with you, but I must also evaluate the accuracy of the intelligence."

"I cannot disclose that. When you see Tang Long later, you can ask him yourself; perhaps he is willing to answer."

"Heh, Little Xie. Your attitude towards this young man is also quite intriguing."

"What do you mean by that?"

"Do I still need to spell it out? Tang Long has indeed displayed various extraordinary qualities, some of which defy common sense, even approaching divine miracles—more exaggerated than even Ye Baiqiao. That cannot be explained by just the three words 'Holy Messenger'."

"I don't understand what you are saying."

"Do you think that if you don't say it, others won't suspect he is a Reincarnation of the Saint?"

"What did you say!"

"I have lived for nearly two hundred years; don't play dumb in front of me. That old geezer Jiang Yueyu... eh? This is..."

That ball of light suddenly flashed, and Tang Long's brain immediately felt a sharp pain like a needle prick; his perception was suddenly cut off.

When he opened his eyes again, his heart couldn't help but beat wildly.

The two people speaking just now were Xie Jin, and the other could basically be confirmed as the High Priest of Feng City.

The other noises were the players.

The reason he could hear them speaking was likely because... they were talking about him.

The reason he couldn't hear clearly inside the dungeon before was due to spatial barriers.

So that's how it's used!

Mad Dog had mentioned before that within Song City, one must not mention the three words 'High Priest', otherwise the High Priest would know.

Mind's Eye · Clear Mirror has a basically similar effect.

A small fry like me in the Qi Manipulation Realm possesses an ability at the Huagai Realm level? This skill... isn't it a bit too insane?

Also, the High Priest of Feng City just mentioned the Reincarnation of the Saint, and it seems he even discovered me?

Before he could think it through in detail, two exceptionally powerful waves of spiritual energy pressure already swept over him.

The figure of the High Priest of Feng City appeared before him in the blink of an eye.

"I was still wondering which expert could actually spy on me; it turns out to be Your Excellency Tang Long. That was the power of the Mind's Eye, which is above the Fire Eye, right?"

Xie Jin appeared alongside him, but after hearing the words of the High Priest of Feng City, he stared directly at Tang Long with an extremely shocked look.

Tang Long steadied his mind and bowed slightly to the High Priest of Feng City.

"Your Excellency High Priest, I have also just mastered this power; please excuse my rudeness."

The High Priest of Feng City sighed, seemingly not offended, and just shook his head.

"So, you heard the conversation between Little Xie and me just now."

"I heard some of it."

"Then, do you know who you are now, Your Excellency?"

Tang Long still shook his head, "As for your belief that I am some Reincarnation of the Saint, I'm afraid I cannot answer that. I am just me, Tang Long."

The High Priest of Feng City laughed instead.

"I had my suspicions from the moment that old ghost Jiang Yueyu requested the original copy of the Torch Spirit Breathing Method."

"After hearing about your various deeds, especially how easily you mastered the advanced power of the Torch Spirit Breathing Method, it can basically be confirmed without a doubt."

"Do you know that this power of the Mind's Eye was originally the power bestowed by my master, the Red God, upon The Seventh Saint? Apart from him, no one in later generations has been able to Cultivate to this step on their own."

"Nowadays, the high priests of every city have been bestowed with this ability by my master. However, we can only use such power in places filled with Divine Power and faith—that is, within the main cities."

"But you just did it yourself."

"You perhaps haven't recalled who you are yet, because you haven't awakened all your Soul memories."

"Tell me, child, do you often dream of strange things, or perhaps suddenly have some fragmented memories—scenes you clearly haven't seen, yet seem to have experienced personally? It is as if... it were a past life!"

Tang Long did not answer, merely appearing to be in deep thought.

He had long awakened his past life memories, but they were not those of the so-called Saint.

Old monsters like the High Priest of Feng City might just have some way to distinguish whether he was lying.

He had asked Xie Jin to arrange this meeting today to see if he could recruit another Huagai Realm-level thug.

If he said too much or said the wrong thing, it would be counterproductive; it was better to remain silent.

As expected, the High Priest of Feng City laughed.

"You don't need to answer, because your expression has already explained everything."

"The question now is, which Reincarnation of the Saint are you exactly."

"Back then, when Xie Jin and the others sent you to Song City, it was because they feared the mask of calamity; that is the Legacy of the Sixth Saint."

"The Songcheng Sect, along with that old geezer Jiang Yueyu, likely also believe you are the Reincarnation of the Sixth Saint based on this."

"However, are you really?"

"After all, the various Saints each have their own strengths. Even if the Sixth Saint were resurrected, I fear he could not so easily master the power of The Seventh Saint."

"Child, do you understand what I mean?"

Tang Long's expression was grave, and he nodded slightly, his heart filled with a sense of 'good grief'.

This was definitely not his intention, but the High Priest of Feng City seemed to have developed a very big and very beautiful misunderstanding.