Immortal Cultivation and Life-Saving Guide

Chapter 477 The Third Eye
But the story doesn't end there; soon after, Wei Xi lost her sense of taste.

It's not hard to see that seasoned but unlucky players like Wei Xi always handle unexpected situations with composure and ease.

After testing his tongue's function, Wei Xi optimistically believed that at least he still had the sense of touch.

Having grown up in a mountain village, Wei Xi had fallen from trees many times, thus developing the skill of landing on her back. This time, she also had spiritual energy to cushion the fall, so she was not injured.

Wei Xi felt around on his back and concluded that he had fallen onto a soft object.

"It's so flat; it wasn't formed by piling up random things."

This conclusion leads to the next question—where did those things that were swept into the abyss along with Wei Xi go?
This is a crucial question. Wei Xi believes he is not favored by Heaven, so how could he expect to receive preferential treatment from the Abyss? In the absence of information, those reference points are the best for trial and error, so how could he not take them seriously?
Wei Xi tentatively rolled over twice, carefully experiencing the various tactile feedback.

"Like...moss, the kind that grows in patches?" Wei Xi's eyebrows furrowed unconsciously. "We can't rule out the possibility that it's the skin of some kind of monster."

Considering the coccyx's enormous size, Wei Xi could not immediately rule out the second possibility.

Given her current condition, Wei Xi chose to remain lying down and glided at an incredible speed. To speed up the search, she even spread her arms to increase the contact area.

Regardless of the effectiveness of this rather primitive search method, Wei Xi himself was certainly exhausted.

To make matters worse, Wei couldn't find any living creatures other than her and Lingyin.

Wei Xi sneered, feeling that this wretched place was refusing to listen to reason and was now being forced to drink a forfeit.

Lingyin and Weixi were of one mind, and under their master's command, they spread their wings amidst their busy schedules.

The eyes on the wings opened, their pupils darting back and forth, as if they were frightened.

Thanks to the selfless dedication of his brothers in Lingyin, Wei Xi gained a hazy perspective.

“It’s a bit like Miaomu,” Wei Xi thought to himself, “I wasn’t completely unprepared either.”

The idea of ​​exploring alone is best taken with a grain of salt. The reason for bringing Lingyin was because this fat bird had stayed at Yin-Yang Slope for a while. Considering that similar abysses are filled with abundant Yin-Yang energy, Lingyin might be able to play a surprisingly effective role.

The addition of the [Pulling Silk] which can absorb Yin and Yang energy gave Wei Xi the confidence to come down.

Unexpectedly, the first thing to come in handy was the pair of eyes that Lingyin had grown later.

Wei Xi considered himself a strict master of Lingyin, a judgment that completely disregarded the bird's weight and various spoiled behaviors, as if he had lost his mind.

Wei Xi, who was fair in rewarding and punishing, usually used the bird's voice as his throat, and therefore rarely developed other uses for it.

The eyes on Lingyin's wings eventually closed, as if out of sight, out of mind.

Wei Xi had no knowledge of demonic beasts and had no idea why Lingyin had grown a second pair of eyes. He could only vaguely connect this to the fact that it had murdered its own brothers when it was born.

Lingyin was acting as both mouth and eyes, but she obediently squatted on Wei Xi's head.

Wei Xi caught it in one swift motion. This bird was also greedy; even on its deathbed, it kept munching away. Its owner's eyesight was failing, so he lifted it up by its wings and held it up to his eyes before he could see that this little rascal was eating yin-yang energy.

One after another, like slurping noodles. Wei Xi breathed a sigh of relief after struggling to see clearly for a while. At least it wasn't some random junk, otherwise this bird would have been unusable.

Lingyin was still eating at this time. Its two little eyes glanced at Wei Xi a few times, and seeing that its master had no intention of disciplining it, it continued to eat with peace of mind.

“Strange,” Wei Xi, the bird carrier, pondered, “there was no yin or yang energy outside just now. Did it all sink to the bottom? But why can’t we detect it when we’re so close?”

“Neither Chongxiao City nor the abyss of Dieji Mountain have similar effects,” Wei Xi said, puzzled. “What’s so special about this one outside Dead Water City?”

Lingyin felt displeased that her wing root was being pinched. She cried out a few times and, finding that her master was deaf, gave Wei Xi a bite without any hesitation.

The victim snapped out of his thoughts and his gaze fell on the chicken in his hand.

The chicken showed no shame whatsoever, and with its beak, it picked up another condensed yin-yang energy and began to eat it.

"Wait a minute!" Wei Xi's internal alarm bells rang loudly. "When did Yin and Yang energies become so similar to the warp and weft of heaven and earth?"

Wei Xi, whose eyesight wasn't very good at that moment, checked several times before he realized that Lingyin was indeed holding a yin-yang energy stick in her mouth.

It was a slender yet unmistakably thread-like yin-yang energy.

It's different from the "Pulling Silk" and also different from the heaven and earth meridians inserted into Yu Xianzhou.

It has the form, but that's all.

But Wei Xi just couldn't let go of this idea. A terrifying thought crept up his spine: Where do the warp and weft of heaven and earth come from?

Although Wei Xi lost her memory of escaping from the projection of the Dongyi Incident, she clearly remembered Yu Xianzhou saying that the warp and weft of heaven and earth were the embodiment of the Dao of Heaven, and the phrase "all things in the world are woven from them".

Now that I think about it, doesn't the word "weaving" seem a bit too human-like?
From the moment they entered the Qingcheng Sect, all the seniors used the Heavenly Dao to instruct the junior cultivators. This was an ethereal yet subtly discernible entity: if you didn't do your evening prayers, the Heavenly Dao wouldn't favor you; if you indiscriminately killed innocents, the Heavenly Dao would strike you down with lightning; if you secretly interacted with your mortal family, the Heavenly Dao would immediately deliver a "gift" to you; legend has it that even flying would be struck by the Heavenly Dao, leaving you barely alive. Such a "reasonable" entity, no one would question how it came to be.

Wei Xi may be at the lowest point in this world now, rolling on the ground like a pitiful cave-dwelling animal, yet he has begun to peek into the supreme Dao of Heaven, which is quite a strange and ironic situation.

Wei Xi couldn't help but wonder, if the so-called Heavenly Dao and its manifestations were all fabricated by people, or if the Heavenly Dao was like that old wooden block in Nanjiang, severely injured and dormant, and someone was using its power to launch subsequent conspiracies and schemes, wouldn't the whole world become a joke?
“This is a colossal lie,” Wei Xi forced himself to calm down. “The Heavenly Dao. You shouldn’t concern yourself with matters of the Heavenly Dao. Even if someone makes a fuss about this, it’s not something a Foundation Establishment cultivator can handle.”

But Wei Xi couldn't control his thoughts, because the yin and yang energy that Lingyin was enjoying really looked like the warp and weft of heaven and earth.

"What exactly is the relationship between Yin and Yang, the warp and weft of heaven and earth, and the Way of Heaven? Can it be understood that the warp and weft of heaven and earth act in accordance with the Way of Heaven, using Yin and Yang to weave all things in the world? But where does the warp and weft of heaven and earth come from? Is it also woven from Yin and Yang?"

"Why do these abysses have such a large amount of yin and yang energy? Is this where they originate?"

Wei Xi felt that he was getting closer and closer to the answer to this question.

Because she considered a possibility, which required her to find the water that flowed into the abyss.

With the help of a third pair of eyes, Wei Xi finally stood up and began to search his surroundings.

If Wei Xi had regained her former sight, she might have seen a pair of indistinct hands covering her eyes. These hands belonged to a short, eight-armed figure, and another hand was covering her ears and nostrils, while an additional hand pried open her mouth and pressed down on her tongue.

The figure clung tightly to Wei Xi's head, like a deformed ape riding on her neck. Its mouth was split into a grotesque grin, and its neck was only connected to its head and body by skin, swaying back and forth with Wei Xi's movements.