Chapter 176: Incoming Bloodbath

While monitoring the crimson light through countless eyeball bubbles, Yu Xian turned toward Eternal Purity and tried to persuade her, hoping to convince her to kill Edward. "Edward is returning to the Blue Planet, and countless lives are bound to be lost. Auntie, can you really bear to sit back and let that happen?"

Eternal Purity simply smiled. "Do you know? Countless living beings in the Tree Universe, several times the population of your world, die every second. Besides, if two ant colonies went to war, would you care?"

Yu Xian frowned. "But, Auntie, aren't you the embodiment of kindness?"

Eternal Purity corrected him. "That's not right. I am the embodiment of Impermanence's kindness, not kindness itself."

Yu Xian was speechless. The difference between the embodiment of Impermanence's kindness and the embodiment of kindness itself was that Eternal Purity's kindness was shaped by Impermanence's understanding of what kindness meant, rather than the kindness that ordinary people knew.

Merely refraining from killing or harming others could already be considered a form of kindness. Eternal Purity never took lives or harbored malicious intent. Moreover, she was honest, magnanimous, and always willing to help others. For an existence of her level, that already made her extraordinarily kind.

Eternal Purity looked at Yu Xian, and a smile slowly spread across her face. "I once discovered clues in an ancient rune. A long time ago, there was a powerful existence who was deeply benevolent. They wished for the myriad worlds to be at peace, with no more conflicts and no more killings. Thus, the entire Tree Universe operated according to his will. That was an era of no criminals and no evils. Compared to your kindness, theirs was true kindness. Your kindness lacks authority. Theirs genuinely allowed countless living beings to know true peace."

Yu Xian was shocked. "Is something like that actually possible?"

Eternal Purity replied, "Of course. I suspect that powerful existence was a Transcendent, but I have no proof. Perhaps they were an Almighty-rank powerhouse."

Yu Xian stopped persuading Eternal Purity. He closed his eyes and focused on comprehending Mr. Eye's legacy. Without strength, his words carried no weight. He had to seize every available second to grow stronger, stronger than everyone. Only then could he obtain everything he desired and protect those he wanted to protect.

Eternal Purity watched him with a smile. Evidently, she was very pleased with his current reaction. In the Tree Universe, the strong dictated the rules. Most of the time, it was chaotic and lawless, governed by the survival of the fittest. Sometimes, death descended without reason. Most living beings wouldn't even know how they died.

Eternal Purity had once witnessed fights between two powerhouses. One of them hurled a planet inhabited by tens of quadrillions of living beings as a weapon. In the next instant, his opponent destroyed the planet and killed every life inside with one punch.

She had also seen an Almighty-rank powerhouse destroy every world within an entire branch of the Tree Universe just to kill an enemy hiding somewhere inside it. A single strike from an Almighty-rank powerhouse easily destroyed countless worlds. Had someone gathered the collective wails of every dying soul in those worlds at that moment, they could have refined them into a formidable artifact.

The lives in the Tree Universe were simply too fragile and short. Sometimes, Eternal Purity simply took a short nap on a planet, only to awaken and discover that its civilizations had advanced from the Stone Age to the era of space colonization. Everyone she knew would have long turned to dust, replaced by a long lineage of their descendants.

She sincerely wished for everyone she met to have a good ending and enjoy a bright future. That was why she was always willing to help those she met. For a kind yet naive young man like Yu Xian, she did not mind giving a little extra assistance.

The version of Mr. Eye's legacy that Yu Xian was learning was already a modified version, streamlined by Eternal Purity. Were he to follow the normal path, he would first have to meditate to form an eye symbol in his sea of consciousness. The entire process usually took around ten to fifteen years. Someone with a poor aptitude could even require a hundred years merely to establish the foundation.

Even after forming the foundation, Yu Xian would have needed to use the energy from the eye symbol to enter the state of Eyes Without Pupils. Under normal circumstances, this step would've taken roughly a year. Moreover, in this one year, Yu Xian would've truly lost his vision. That was why many practitioners of Mr. Eye's legacy developed an almost obsessive craving for eyes. They understood the feeling of losing one's sight far too well.

Yu Xian had never truly gone blind. Even in his Eyes Without Pupils state, he could observe his surroundings with his eyeball bubbles. Therefore, his craving for eyes was replaced with his thirst for knowledge.

At this moment, Yu Xian was comprehending the second inherited ability within the eye symbol. The Eyes Without Pupils was merely the foundation, allowing his eye sockets to accommodate an unlimited number of eyeballs.

But what purpose did those eyeballs serve? If Mr. Eye's legacy merely allowed him to swap eyeballs, then it would be far too weak. In truth, after Yu Xian mastered Eyeballs Without Pupils, he could proceed to the next stage—No One In Sight.

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In outer space, an eyeball bubble keeping watch on the crimson light suddenly changed, its pupil turning emerald green. The No One In Sight ability was actually very simple. It could replace another person's eyes and allow Yu Xian to see whatever they were seeing. If he possessed a special eyeball, he could even use that eye as the replacement.

This ability could be considered the ultimate ability for gathering intelligence on an enemy. Unfortunately, Edward was too strong. The difference between their strength was simply too vast, so Yu Xian couldn't use No One In Sight on him.

However, Yu Xian could use it on himself. And that was what he did. He directly used the eye Eternal Purity had given him and replaced the eyeball bubble with it.

Although Yu Xian's eyeball bubble did not meet the requirements for his eye sockets, it could provide him with vision. After replacing it with the eye provided by Eternal Purity, he could perceive far more information about Edward.

Sure enough, when Yu Xian used Eternal Purity's eye to look at the crimson light, he saw killing intent like a blazing inferno, along with overwhelming hatred and rage. The sight was terrifying. It was clearly a small streak of crimson light, yet through Eternal Purity's eye, it resembled a grim reaper brandishing his scythe as he prepared to harvest all life on Blue Planet.

As he saw the crimson light gradually approach the Blue Planet with Eternal Purity's eye, he muttered, "This time, the Blue Planet may truly be plunged into a bloodbath!"

Fortunately, Huaxia had been moved into a pocket dimension. Even if Edward wanted to vent his fury upon Huaxia, he had no way to enter it. Aside from Huaxia, Edward's most likely target was probably the Glorious Dragon Empire. After all, he needed a large target to demonstrate his power and force everyone else to submit to him.