pertwk Chapter 15: The Evil Eye: I Want to Live a Second Life!
Chapter 15: The Evil Eye: I Want to Live a Second Life!
Huo Yun'er had just turned around when she paused. She clearly hadn't expected her six-year-old son to suddenly ask such a... weighty question.
She paused for a moment, gently placed the rag on the corner of the table, and instead of continuing to wipe, slowly walked back to the table and sat down opposite Dai Yuhao again.
She looked into Dai Yuhao's clear eyes and softly replied, "Yuhao, Mom has made you suffer."
"Life is tough now, but where can we go if we leave here?"
"Besides washing, mending, and doing rough work in this mansion, my mother has no other skills."
"Outside... it's not like inside the manor. Inside the manor, at least you have a place to live, and you can always earn a bite to eat every day."
"But if you leave, I don't even dare to think about how I'll support you..."
Looking at the almost humble guilt on his mother's face, Dai Yuhao felt a sharp, persistent pain in his heart, as if he were being pricked by needles.
Seeing her son remain silent, Huo Yun'er leaned forward and took Dai Yuhao's small hand, which was resting on the table.
Her voice rose slightly with anticipation, trembling a little: "If you can awaken a martial soul with soul power tomorrow, our lives might change."
As Dai Yuhao listened to his mother's words, he felt a mix of emotions.
Leng Yaozhu's words echoed in his mind, and he felt that his mother was thinking too simply.
But when he saw the bright expectation in his mother's eyes, all the words stuck in his throat.
He couldn't bear to shatter his mother's last remaining illusion, even though it was as fragile as a bubble.
He lowered his eyes, his thick eyelashes concealing the complex emotions within, and simply nodded obediently, replying in a low voice, "Mmm... Mom, I understand."
Huo Yun'er cleaned up the dishes and carefully wiped the only small table clean.
She turned to look at her son, who was in a daze, and said softly, "Yuhao, Mom is going to work. You... take good care of yourself at home."
After saying that, she turned around and pushed open the creaking old wooden door. Her figure quickly disappeared outside the courtyard and headed towards the laundry room in the Duke's mansion, which was always filled with dirty clothes and murky water.
Her back was slightly hunched, but her steps dared not slow down in the slightest.
After all, this was the only source of livelihood for the mother and son in this cold mansion, and even when they were sick, they dared not stop for a single day.
Dai Yuhao watched his mother's figure disappear until the dilapidated courtyard gate closed again, isolating him from the outside world.
He returned to the hard bed, gently took off his shoes, and sat cross-legged on the bed.
With his back straight, hands naturally placed on his knees, eyes slightly closed, and expression focused, he followed the soul power meditation method taught to him by Han Tianyi.
Just as he calmed down and guided his soul power to slowly circulate along the predetermined route.
The voice of the evil eye spirit once again rang out from the depths of his mind without warning.
"Where exactly is this place? It's definitely no longer Shrek City, where the Spirit Pagoda is located!"
This time, Dai Yuhao did not choose to remain silent or ignore it.
With a slight thought, his consciousness instantly sank, descending once more into his own spiritual sea.
The giant eyeball, over three meters in diameter, floated silently, but unlike its previous stillness, this evil eye spirit was clearly in a state of "restlessness".
Within its enormous, silvery-white eyes, the pupils, which were originally deep and swirling like vortexes, were now trembling and contracting at an extremely high frequency, and the complex patterns around the pupils were flickering with light.
Looking at its agitated state, Dai Yuhao recalled its previous attempts to curry favor with it, only to be met with its arrogant indifference. He couldn't help but snort, "Hmph! I didn't expect that you, a thousand-year-old soul spirit, would be so knowledgeable, even knowing about Shrek City."
Upon hearing this, the Evil Eye Spirit's enormous pupils trembled slightly, and the sixteen silver-white tentacles behind it all rose slightly upwards, their tips shimmering with light, displaying an almost instinctive arrogant posture.
"I am certainly not comparable to those ordinary, muddled, thousand-year-old souls."
But this arrogance lasted only a moment before it immediately asked another question, its voice revealing obvious urgency, and even a hint of... barely perceptible unease?
"You haven't answered my question yet! The atmosphere and energy level here are completely different from before!"
"It's as if...we're no longer in the same world!"
"What on earth is going on?! What did you do?!"
Upon hearing this, a hint of surprise flashed across Dai Yuhao's face.
He hadn't expected that the evil eye he had fused with would have such keen perception, almost touching the edge of the truth.
This was also the first time he truly experienced the fundamental difference between an indomitable spirit and an ordinary spirit.
Since from now on this evil eye spirit will travel with me through these two time periods separated by tens of thousands of years, there is naturally no need to hide it anymore.
Dai Yuhao has decided to reveal this secret to this special "partner".
"You're right, this is indeed not the same world as before."
Dai Yuhao's voice echoed clearly in the sea of consciousness: "Simply put, I possess a special ability to travel between two different eras..."
Dai Yuhao immediately revealed that he was able to travel through ten thousand years and that he was the founder of the Spirit Pagoda!
This information was clearly too shocking; even the massive body of the Evil Eye Spirit seemed to sway slightly, and its silvery-white light flickered erratically.
After Dai Yuhao finished speaking, he clearly felt that the spiritual power of the Evil Eye spirit in front of him, which had been trying to maintain its calm, suddenly surged violently like a tsunami!
The tremors in its enormous, silvery-white eyes reached an unprecedented level.
It was a mixture of extreme shock, disbelief, and even a hint of... trembling and throbbing from the depths of one's soul!
"You...you are...the Spirit Ice Douluo?!"
"That Soul Master who became a god ten thousand years ago?!"
Dai Yuhao could clearly hear the shock in the voice, and he nodded solemnly.
"Yes! Aunt Leng... is the deputy tower master of the Spirit Pagoda ten thousand years later, and also my teacher. That's what she told me. Based on historical records and everything that happened to me... it should be correct."
The evil eye spirit fell into a deathly silence, but the intense mental turmoil did not subside; instead, it brewed even more indescribable emotions within the silence.
The reason why this evil eye spirit's emotions changed so drastically was not only because it knew Dai Yuhao's identity, but also because of something in its inherited memories!
Ten thousand years ago, there was a supreme being in the Evil Eye clan.
That supreme ruler of the Evil Eye Clan, whose cultivation reached 800,000 years and who once ruled the Demon Forest and intimidated the continent—the Evil Eye Tyrant Ruler!
The most powerful being in the history of the Evil Eye Clan fell at the hands of Spirit Ice Douluo and became his soul ring!
When the Evil Eye Spirit focused its gaze on Dai Yuhao again, a complete upheaval had already occurred.
If his attitude towards Dai Yuhao was previously one of condescension and indifference, then...
At that moment, the light emanating from those enormous pupils was a mixture of shock, realization, awe, and an almost urgent... fawning!
For this three-thousand-year-old Evil Eye, whose talent surpassed all others in its race, becoming a spirit meant that its beastly life was over, and there was nothing left to cherish.
But things are different now. He has become Dai Yuhao's soul spirit, the future Spirit Ice Douluo, destined to become a god!
This means that its identity as a "soul" will no longer be the end!
As long as you closely follow this host, witness his growth, and accompany him in his battles.
At the moment it ascends to the realm of gods, it is highly likely that it will live a second life, or even gain eternal life!
What an incredible stroke of luck!
In the past ten thousand years, only one person has become a god on the continent, and now it has encountered him ten thousand years later!
The overwhelming surprise completely crushed its remaining pride and composure. Compared to the ultimate temptation of becoming a god, what did its previous pride matter?
Then, Dai Yuhao saw that the huge silver-white eyeball that had been floating in the center of the sea of consciousness suddenly dropped in height, almost level with his consciousness avatar, and even drooped slightly, presenting an almost humble posture.
The cold voice rang out again, but the tone was completely different, filled with urgency, ingratiation, and even a hint of caution.
"I apologize for my poor attitude earlier! I hope you can forgive me!"
"From now on, I will carry out any order you give me without question! Absolutely no questions asked!"
Seeing the sudden change in attitude from those big eyes, Dai Yuhao was momentarily stunned; the contrast was just too great!
However, he was only a six-year-old child, with a simple mind, and at the age when he was least likely to hold grudges.
Although he was a little annoyed that Evil Eye ignored him before, he didn't harbor any deep resentment.
Seeing the other party's sincere apology and statement, the slight displeasure had long since vanished.
He blinked, waved his hand with a rather "little adult" air, and said magnanimously, "Then it depends on your performance."
Upon hearing that Dai Yuhao seemed to have forgiven him, the light in the huge silver-white eyes of the Evil Eye Spirit seemed to brighten even more.
It nodded hurriedly, its entire spherical body swaying up and down, its fawning expression growing even stronger.
"Yes! Yes! I'll definitely do my best! I won't let you down!"
"Um... you can call me 'Little Silver' from now on!"