77: Chapter 77 Mutual Viewing, Not a Loss

At this moment, the look she cast at Ling Yichen was one of shock, complexity, and fervor.

"A person capable of absorbing the moon's essence is right before my eyes. If I can recruit him and hand him over to the family, the family will surely forgive my mistakes and recall me to Sky City."

Elina couldn't help but think a great deal. Finally, she stepped forward toward Ling Yichen.

However, she hadn't taken two steps before Ling Yichen's voice rang out.

His voice was cold and stern: "Stop. Take one more step forward, and I will consider it a declaration of war against me. I don't mind fighting you to the death."

His tone was filled with intense killing intent.

Because she had previously launched an attack on him without warning and even destroyed his physical body, he remained in a hostile state toward Elina.

This caused Elina's expression to change, as she recalled her previous actions.

"I am very sorry; I was reckless before, but I did not intend to attack you!"

She spoke softly, trying to salvage some room for negotiation.

Although she had genuinely wanted to kill him before, things were different now.

Even Sky City did not possess someone capable of absorbing the moon's essence.

She had to recruit Ling Yichen, even if it meant setting aside her dignity or sacrificing her charms, because this concerned her future.

Of course!

This was also based on the premise that she currently lacked the confidence to subdue Ling Yichen.

If she had the strength to completely crush Ling Yichen right now, she wouldn't waste her breath. She would directly beat Ling Yichen down, imprison him, and report him to the family.

Unfortunately...

Having used her Heavenly Eye last time and failed to take down Ling Yichen, she truly had zero confidence now.

"I think there is some misunderstanding between us. I do not consider you an enemy."

Elina spoke up again to explain.

It was only then that Ling Yichen slowly opened his eyes and looked up at her.

As soon as he opened his eyes, a layer of white light immediately flashed across his left pupil.

Following that, the Elina before him underwent an instantaneous change.

The already beautiful Elina saw her features change once more, becoming even more stunning and radiant, like an angel.

But when Ling Yichen's gaze drifted downward, he couldn't help but slightly open his mouth.

Because in his vision, Elina's clothes seemed to turn into transparent gauze, unable to block his sight at all. He could clearly see every inch of Elina's skin!

Ah, this...

Ling Yichen had not expected such a situation.

He was stunned for a moment, then took a few more looks at Elina's important areas.

It was precisely this action that aroused Elina's suspicion.

She frowned slightly, vaguely feeling that Ling Yichen's gaze was not right.

"Heavenly Eye, open!"

She immediately activated her divine ability, opening the vertical eye on her forehead.

In an instant, the surrounding space rippled, and a wave spread toward Ling Yichen's side.

When that ripple swept across Ling Yichen's body, she saw that his left eye was emitting a faint light.

Elina's expression changed drastically, and she exclaimed, "Heavenly Eye? How does he also have a Heavenly Eye?"

But immediately, she realized something. Her face changed suddenly, losing all color, turning from white to red, and then from red to green. She was so angry that her chest heaved and her body trembled.

"Ling Yichen! You are despicable!"

She shouted angrily, then immediately crouched down and roared again, "Close your Heavenly Eye! If you dare to peek at me again, I will fight you to the death!"

Upon hearing this, Ling Yichen suddenly laughed. Instead of closing his eyes, he took two steps forward, looking even more intently.

"Oh? Didn't you just say that there was a misunderstanding between us?"

"I suddenly feel that we do have some misunderstandings. Why don't you come over, let's face each other, have a good chat, and explore why the moon is so white?"

Ling Yichen was talking about the moon, but his finger was pointing at Elina.

Elina was truly about to die of anger.

"You... you despicable wretch."

After saying this, she leaped into the darkness and quickly fled the scene.

She could not let Ling Yichen continue looking at her body.

Ling Yichen watched Elina flee in a sorry state and couldn't help but let out a satisfied laugh.

But immediately, a question occurred to him.

"She only discovered my left eye had perspective capabilities after opening the vertical eye on her forehead. Does that mean her vertical eye should also have similar abilities?"

"Damn... does that mean, in the previous few times, I was naked in her eyes?"

As he said this, Ling Yichen couldn't help but look down.

Then he revealed a wicked grin.

"Since we have both seen each other, no one loses!"

Ling Yichen suddenly felt completely unburdened.

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Once Elina left, he had no other distractions and continued his cultivation.

At this moment, inside his spiritual sea of consciousness, the golden cloud had grown much larger. He could perceive that if he cultivated for a little longer, this golden cloud would undergo a change.

So he did not hesitate and continued to absorb and refine the power of the purple ring.

An hour later, as Ling Yichen refined some more purple mist and countless golden light spots converged toward the golden cloud, the golden cloud trembled slightly, like a fruit tree laden with heavy fruit. A drop of golden liquid slowly condensed within the cloud, then dripped down from the cloud and fell into the spiritual ocean.

The golden droplet quickly sank to the bottom of the lake, like a golden bean dropped into water.

At the same time, Ling Yichen opened his eyes, filled with joy.

Because this was spiritual sense liquid, his own spiritual sense liquid.

From today on, he was someone who possessed spiritual sense.

Spiritual sense had many uses, such as the most basic telepathic communication. Although this was relatively useless for him because he could rely on the Worm's connection to talk to anyone, or even manifest directly in front of them, though that required the premise of having parasitized them.

However, spiritual sense also had many characteristics that Worms did not possess, such as directly using spiritual sense as a weapon to conduct spiritual sense attacks.

It could also be used to nurture spiritual sense weapons.

It could also be used for scouting.

Regardless of which one it was, it was extremely powerful.

But the next second, Ling Yichen's expression immediately became solemn as he looked up at the moon in the sky.

Previously, he did not possess spiritual sense, so he did not know the power of it, but now that he had it, he understood what a terrifying power spiritual sense was.

However, his spiritual sense was obtained by absorbing and refining the power of the purple ring.

In other words...

Those two purple rings surrounding the moon were very likely also spiritual sense!

Materialized spiritual sense!

Thinking of this, Ling Yichen felt a heavy weight in his heart.

If this hypothesis was true, it would be too terrifying.

Whose spiritual sense could be powerful enough to imprison the moon and the sun?

Why would they want to imprison the moon and the sun?

Various questions lingered in Ling Yichen's mind like a maze.

This world really had too many mysteries.

"Forget it, my strength is low right now, thinking about these is useless. Better to improve my strength first!"

Ling Yichen took a deep breath, closed his eyes to focus, and entered a cultivation state again.

-

Time passed quickly, and when the sky revealed a hint of fish-belly white, the moon also disappeared on the horizon.

Ling Yichen breathed out lightly, ending his night of cultivation.

He rose slowly and stretched his limbs.

A night of cultivation had yielded him great gains. At this moment, in his spiritual ocean, there was already a small pool of golden liquid.

It was condensed from five drops of spiritual sense liquid.

Although the quantity was still very scarce, it was enough for him to launch one spiritual sense attack.

He could also preliminarily conduct spiritual sense scanning. Although the scanning range was only 5 meters, it was still great. At least he could identify the state of people within a 5-meter range.

After stretching his limbs, he walked downstairs with satisfaction.

Returning home, he washed up as usual. Just as he was planning to go to Ye Qingzhu's house to check on the situation, he suddenly noticed ten exquisite jade boxes on the bedroom table.

His eyes lit up, and he walked over to pick one up to look. Sure enough, it was ten boxes of seven-leaf lotus heart.

"Heh, this kid is quite pious. He even offered me ten boxes of seven-leaf lotus heart overnight."

After saying this, he snapped his fingers.

Immediately, the White Cat Doudou from Ye Qingzhu's house appeared at the bedroom door.

Ling Yichen beckoned to it, and Doudou immediately came to his feet, rubbing against Ling Yichen's legs affectionately.

"Well done. Here is your reward: you are permitted to hunt an Awakened One on your own to increase your strength!"

As the words fell, Doudou immediately let out a relatively high-pitched cry, then wagged its tail and slipped out of the bedroom.

He might have been too immersed in cultivation last night and didn't notice Lin Hao's tribute.

And Doudou, as the only complete entity besides him and Ling Yixuan, might have sensed Lin Hao's call, so it went over itself to bring the tribute back and put it in his room.

This made him very satisfied.

It also gave him inspiration.

"It seems I need to create a few more Worm creatures. That way, they can help me run errands or collect information, saving me from having to do everything myself."

Thinking this, he raised his hand. His palm instantly turned into a gelatinous state, and countless Worms separated from his palm, fell to the ground, and then quickly condensed into a brand-new black cat.

Then came the second, third, fourth, and fifth.

He created a total of five cats, all composed of ordinary Worms, which hardly had any impact on his own strength.

Looking at these five cats, Ling Yichen smiled slightly and waved at them. The five cats immediately walked out of the bedroom and disappeared from Ling Yichen's view.

Ling Yichen also immediately set off, walking toward Ye Qingzhu's house.

Because it was still early, Ling Yichen was afraid of waking Tang Juan, so he entered Ye Qingzhu's house on tiptoe.

Arriving at Ye Qingzhu's room, watching Ye Qingzhu in a comatose state, Ling Yichen sat on the edge of the bed and reached out to hold her hand.

But the next second, a wisp of electric arc instantly burst from her hand, shocking Ling Yichen.

Ling Yichen frowned, not paying attention to it. He gripped Ye Qingzhu's hand tightly, then transferred a Spirit Worm from his own body into Ye Qingzhu's body.

As soon as the Spirit Worm touched Ye Qingzhu's body, it immediately triggered a lightning attack. The Spirit Worm instantly withered, its aura weak to the extreme, and it looked like it was about to die. Ling Yichen hurriedly injected a bit of power into it to help it hold on.

Sure enough, with Ling Yichen's help, the Spirit Worm held on.

Then, like the previous Spirit Worms, it turned the tide. Its previously extremely weak body suddenly burst with endless vitality, and wisps of electric arcs burst from their bodies.

Seeing such a scene, Ling Yichen could not help but be overjoyed, and the conjecture in his heart was verified.

"Haha, sure enough, other Spirit Worms can also obtain lightning power."

At this moment, the look Ling Yichen cast at Ye Qingzhu became extremely fervent.