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Chapter 349 The Legend of the Fantastic Eyes in Another World

Xue's Law slowly carved out another question mark.

He gained a completely new perspective on the anomalies of this world, especially when he heard that souls that had reached the Pure Land could be returned to their original location. He even looked at the suddenly appearing tree roots with a strange gaze.

And, a giant tree covered in eyeballs.

When he first arrived in this world, he discovered that the tree with eyeballs was located in the abandoned shrine.

At first, he didn't pay much attention to the fact that there were too many abstract scenes in this world, thinking that it was just one kind of evil spirit, or just an ordinary creature that was simply distorted and affected by evil spirits.

But now it seems that the tree with eyeballs might be the "walnut wood" that the witch Susu and the others called it, and that the tree with eyeballs might even be the one that buried her body.

Could these eyeballs be formed from all the clergy that Su Su mentioned?

After all, in her words, the so-called clergy were a group of "pseudo-demons" who were born by specially processing their own corpses at a very young age and fusing them with walnut wood.

Walnut wood is said to be connected to Margaret, the goddess who governs the underworld in their world…

Now, seeing those colossal tree roots emerging from the ground, covered with terrifying eyeballs, it's hard not to associate Xue's law with the Pure Land deity Margaret.

Similarly, Xue's law instantly connected this giant tree with the divine tree.

However, there seems to be a great difference in their essence. It is really like a subspecies of a divine tree, not one that was cultivated by the apostles to absorb human spirituality. Instead, it is more like a subspecies of a divine tree that has been in this world since ancient times and has naturally adapted to it.

After all, in the ancient times of the First Era, the Divine Tree was not a tool used by the Apostles to launch natural disasters. It was merely a "World Tree" planted on the Dead Star, which gathered the atmosphere and water vapor of the Dead Star with its powerful life force, allowing life to grow on the Dead Star.

Even in the interstellar fleets of the First Age, those ancient ancestors used the Divine Tree as a tool to propel planets, which was quite advanced.

Upon seeing this tree, Xue Luding immediately thought of the ancient times when it was the World Tree. He even suspected that this planet might have originally been a dead star, and that a passing alien planted a tree, which was then transformed by the divine tree over countless billions of years before it came into being with life and civilization as we know it today.

However, he could only guess. If only he could connect to the world's consciousness, he could check the world's consciousness backend to confirm whether his guess was correct.

In that instant, Xue's mind raced, quickly considering a multitude of things.

At the same time, the tree roots covered with eyeballs immediately revealed a sense of expulsion, and judging from its posture, it seemed to want to attack.

"No, Your Majesty, Lady Margaret..." The priestess Susu suddenly showed an extremely painful expression.

Xue Luding frowned, and suddenly, he felt something extremely strange twisting on the little witch's body, as if something wanted to take over her body.

Could it be that what she meant by making the evil spirit return the way it came, actually meant it would return directly to her?
"Crack!" The little witch collapsed to the ground in agony. Eyes had sprouted from the palms of her hands, and even more shockingly, a mouth had grown below those eyes, opening its mouth and speaking…

"Let me go……"

"kill me!"

Xue Luding frowned, and suddenly the eyeball seemed to be preparing to wriggle into her body, as if this strange thing was going to use its own power to reach the little witch's brain and take over her body.

Instinct told Xue's Law that he had to do something.

"Buzz!" The cursed blood transformed into a blood nail that pierced through the little witch's palm in an instant, creating a huge hole in her hand.

Little did they know that this action seemed to have thoroughly enraged the rising tree roots, and the god of the underworld in this world, or rather, the otherworldly version of "Hades," began to breathe out in response.

Just as Xue Luding was about to pick up the little witch and run away, the dense eyeballs on the tree roots in the distance suddenly condensed into an incredibly terrifying death beam. Everything happened in just one millisecond, and the terrifying beam of light instantly attacked the direction Xue Luding was running away from at the speed of light.

Xue's reaction speed was so fast that he could only barely avoid vital points. The death ray grazed his head and ear, instantly obliterating half of his ear.

The feeling of death being so close was extremely unpleasant. Fortunately, after this attack, the giant tree seemed to have consumed a lot of energy, and at the same time, Xue Dinglu's teleportation portal had been opened. He immediately crawled into the portal and hid.

Behind the portal lies a wilderness nearly a thousand kilometers away. From here, one can see the giant tree root that soars into the sky in the city, but here, the tree root is as insignificant as a hair.

Xue Luding placed the little witch, who seemed to have some health problems, on the ground. He felt that he had been careless, and that skirmishes were not his forte, especially since the opponent seemed to be a level 5. If he had a few days to figure out the information about this world before preparing the ritual, he felt that he could do either world destruction or creation without any problems.

However, if a sudden close-quarters battle were to occur, his combat style, which relies mainly on Noble Phantasms and rituals, would suffer a significant weakness in terms of combat power.

In short, a noob at fighting, but invincible in duels.

Currently, his strongest combat skill is the ability to unleash a delayed spatial slash using the dimensional sword.

He reached up and touched his ear; blood was flowing from his ear.

Luckily, he dodged quickly, otherwise he would have had the same wild imagination as a certain American president. He didn't want to end up in a luxury convertible in this strange world, with skulls flying everywhere.

The cursed blood began to rapidly repair the injury to his ear. Such an injury was not even a minor scratch for him; with the cursed blood alone, the missing part of his ear could grow back in just a few seconds.

However, it seemed that a special energy was entering his body through the wound, and even trying to take over his brain. Xue Luding frowned and immediately controlled the cursed blood to expel this unknown energy from his body.

After leaving the area of ​​the giant tree, Xue Dinglu suddenly discovered that the little witch's physical condition had improved a lot. She no longer felt those twisted things inside her, as if she had severed her connection with the walnut wood full of eyeballs and was no longer a transit point for ferrying evil spirits.

"Are you alright?" Xue asked as he controlled the cursed blood to quell the unknown energy in the head.

The witch Susu seemed to be in much better condition. The large hole that Xue Luding had punched through her hand was healing, as if the wound had never appeared.

However, when she looked up at Xue's law, she was astonished to find that the number above Xue's law had changed to... 11454191192!

The number has increased slightly!
She immediately understood that the slight increase in Xue's law seemed to have occurred after he pierced his own palm and killed the evil spirit.

Her sapphire-like pupils contracted instantly, and the next moment, the phantom of a demon seemed to be about to invade Xue Luding through the wound on his ear, and now it had invaded his head.

In the vision of her divine and demonic eyes, the evil spirit burrowed into Xue Luding's brain through the wound on his ear!
"Brother, there's an evil spirit! An evil spirit has invaded your body!"

The girl's voice suddenly rang out.

Xue Luding, who was controlling the cursed blood to expel the unknown energy source, was stunned. His brain was working at a rapid pace at this moment.

This energy is a remnant of Margaret's death ray, and now the little witch says it's an evil spirit invading her...

Why would the terrifying destructive beam of the Walnut Margaret allow evil spirits to invade its body? He probably guessed a part of the secrets and truths of this world.

At the same time, he immediately began to collect information and frequency bands of this energy, recording it as the energy fluctuations of the "evil spirit," and storing these energy fluctuations in the information panel left by the Great Sage.

Xue Dinglu even sat down on the ground, preparing to refine this evil spirit in an instant.

After telling the little witch her thoughts, she silently watched Xue Lude sit on the ground and try to control and seal the power of the evil spirit in his eyeballs with the cursed blood.

The eyeball is not a certified organ of the human body. Although it is counterintuitive, the eyeball is like an "external foreign body". It is not connected to the human immune system and is an embedded foreign body. When the immune system of a normal person discovers the eyeball, it will immediately attack this foreign body.

Therefore, as an external object, the eyeball is also the best carrier to isolate this special energy. After a brief consideration, Xue Law chose to use an eyeball to refine this evil energy.

Even if the failure only resulted in the loss of an eyeball, he would recover quickly.

The thought was immediately put into action, and the energy was instantly guided into Xue Lude's eyes. In the little witch's eyes, Xue Lude's pupils, which were originally black, suddenly turned into sapphire-like shapes, much like her Divine Purification Demon Eyes.

However, unlike Xue's case, where the center of the pupil is black and the outer edge is light blue, the opposite of her case where the center is blue and the outer edge is still white.

The eyeball seemed to be moving restlessly, with rapid eye movements, as if an abnormal entity was controlling it, rather than Schrödinger.

But it was quickly suppressed. Xue Dinglu closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, the eyeballs were completely under his control, as if the evil spirit he had just seen did not exist.

"Hoo..." At this moment, Xue Ding let out a long breath, finally finishing refining this abnormal energy.

The little witch seemed to have recovered as well, and in her vision, the evil spirit appeared to have been swallowed alive by Xue Luding.

She complained, "Brother, now I finally understand why those evil spirits were so afraid of you. You can practically eat them up like they're nothing, and even use their power afterward. No wonder none of the evil spirits dared to approach you before..."

Her rant also explained why the evil spirits in the city hadn't dared to approach Xue Dinglu before.

She muttered to herself, thinking that Xue Dinglu was very powerful, but she didn't expect him to be this powerful. This kind of ruthless person who eats evil spirits without blinking an eye is simply like an evil spirit killing machine, devouring evil spirits one by one.

However, thinking about this, she felt a little frustrated. If it had been a year or two earlier, if Xue Lude could have come here before the end of the world, would he have been able to devour all the evil spirits and thus resolve the crisis in his world? But it seems they came too late.

It was as if they were late; they arrived almost a year too late. The world had been destroyed, and only evil spirits roamed the area; there were no living people left.

His pale blue pupils began to move, and Xue Luding glanced at the little witch before suddenly frowning.

"What's wrong, brother?" The little witch looked at Xue Dinglu, who had heterochromia, with a puzzled expression and asked.

"No, it's nothing. Shall we continue with the original plan? Or should we start searching for why Margaret stopped us from extraditing the evil spirit?" Xue asked the little witch.

“I want to proceed according to the original plan,” she said. “I still want to extradite my compatriots who died unjustly, and at the same time, we’ll find out why Margaret is stopping us.”

She seemed somewhat secretly saddened. As a clergy member, she was quite puzzled that the deity she worshipped had openly opposed her plans and ideas.

What, sir? I don't understand. Why are you doing this?

What's even more puzzling is why Margaret didn't save the world when it was destroyed? And why did she suddenly jump out to stop her when she wanted to take her fellow human beings to the underworld?

She didn't understand why the gods merely watched as the world was destroyed, instead of trying to protect it. What she understood even less was why they were preventing her people from returning to the Pure Land.

So she also wanted to find this answer, and...

“Brother, let’s swap eyes…” she said.

Xue Dinglu stopped in his tracks, his pale blue pupils looking at the little witch, and suddenly fell silent.

"Your current Ghost Eyes are definitely not as good as my Divine Purifying Demon Eyes. Your Ghost Eyes might even see many things that affect your judgment. If you had my Divine Purifying Demon Eyes to assist you, it might be much better for you..."

"Besides, brother, your ability to manipulate blood is just too convenient. If you were to change an eye, it might only take a few minutes..." She brought up a similar idea again, and dug her fingers into her pupils as if she were about to pluck out her "Divine Purification Demon Eye".

When she first brought up the idea that morning, Xue Daolu had decisively refused, because he was too lazy to undergo eye transplant surgery and didn't want to covet the child's eyes. But now, Xue Daolu hadn't uttered a word of refusal.

That ghost eye did indeed give him a strange visual experience, so he desperately needed the Divine Cleansing Demon Eye to compare it with.

Even after the experiment was completed, it was very convenient for him to return the girl's Divine Purification Demon Eye; under the control of the Cursed Blood, it was as easy as hot-swapping.

“Fine, but it will be controlled by my cursed blood.” Xue Luding said calmly and indifferently, as if changing eyes was as easy as clipping nails for him.

The Cursed Blood completely peeled off one of his own eyeballs, which was an ordinary eyeball that originated from his ancestor, a loose rat, not the ghost eye.

Meanwhile, the Divine Purification Demon Eye of the little witch on the same side was peeled off. Under the precise control of the Cursed Blood, Xue Luding installed the Divine Purification Demon Eye in the left eye socket. The next moment, Xue Luding, who now possessed both the Divine Purification Demon Eye and the Demon Eye, frowned even more deeply.

When the little witch's eyes met Xue's pupils, she immediately started screaming and opening and closing her eyes repeatedly, as if she were seeing the vision of an ordinary person for the first time.

"This is amazing! So this is what a normal person's vision is like?" She even had the urge to cover up her Divine Eyes and observe the world solely through normal vision.

Although she was born with the Divine Purification Demon Eye and had become accustomed to a world full of demonic traces, now that she has suddenly switched to the perspective of an ordinary person and is seeing this ordinary world, she suddenly feels that perhaps she would be happier to never see demons again, to keep her Divine Purification Demon Eye sealed, and to see the world with ordinary vision.

“Let’s go,” Xue Dinglu suddenly said.

"Oh! Brother, how are my eyes? Don't you see traces of evil spirits everywhere? By following these traces, we can actually find the true form of the evil spirits. Don't you feel that the world is different now?" The witch Su Su immediately took small steps to Xue Dinglu's side and began to tell him about the benefits of the Divine Purification Demon Eye.

It was as if after exchanging eyes, the two had grown even closer. Now they were truly in close proximity, each other's presence intertwined.

Xue Dinglu remained silent and did not respond, but the little witch seemed to have gotten used to this personality and began to chatter on and on, telling Xue Dinglu what the abnormal scene he saw meant and what the abnormal humanoid figure he saw was.

He then explained to Xue the uses of the Divine Purification Demon Eye one by one.

"Look over there, brother. Those white figures are ghost spirits, the lowest level of evil spirits. They often appear after ordinary people die, and usually only last for a short time before dissipating. They are evil spirits that we don't need to deal with. Those ghost spirits like to repeat their behavior in life. If they come into contact with ordinary people, at most they will only cause minor illnesses and disasters, and will not have a big impact."

The little witch covered her normal eyes, used her Divine Purifying Demon Eye to look at the distant village, and pointed it out to Xue Luding.

Xue Dinglu used his Divine Purification Demon Eye to see the group of Ghost Memory Spirits. The entire village was filled with the group of Ghost Memory Spirits waving at them. They looked like a group of milky white figures, as if they were a mosaic on the retina.

As the little witch said, there were no traces or auras of other evil spirits in the village except for the ghost spirit. According to her exorcism, there was no need to worry about this situation. The ghost spirit would dissipate on its own. It would keep repeating the actions it took in life until it realized that it had already died. At this point, it would realize that it was dead and would dissipate on its own.

However, the little witch still asked, "Brother, even though we can ignore those ghost spirits, are you going to eat them?"

She glanced at Xue Luding's other ghost eye. Xue Luding's act of devouring a demon alive was still too advanced, a bit too abstract for her. While she didn't really want Xue Luding to eat his own kind, if Xue Luding wanted to eat...

She couldn't stop it either...

"No need, and I'm really not some pervert who likes to eat ghosts." Xue Dinglu responded to the little witch beside him, while his brows furrowed again when he looked over with his ghost eyes.

"What's wrong?"

"No, it's nothing. If we don't need to worry about that, let's leave. If you could accurately point out where the next city is on the map, I could just open a portal and fly there instead of plunging headfirst into some unknown ravine like this," Xue Dinglu said expressionlessly.

"Ah... Brother, I'm just a priestess. Although I do know about other cities, I really can't draw a map on the ground and accurately state how many kilometers the next city is from here!" the little priestess said.

"Besides, I died when I was 6 years old and never went to school. In addition, my hometown is sparsely populated, and the cities are more than a thousand kilometers apart, so it's hard to pinpoint the exact location... At most, I'll be able to find the next city after a few more flights..."

The little witch kept complaining while picking up a twig and drawing a simple, abstract map on the ground. Xue Lude then calculated the coordinates based on the area on the map, opened a portal, and flew there.

He stopped complaining and instead took out the white plastic chair that had been placed in his consciousness space, stuck it in the ground, and sat down on it. He placed the dimensional sword beside him, looked at the little witch, and waited for her to confirm the next location.

In the vision of the Divine Purification Demon Eye, the entire world was covered with traces of evil spirits. The ground was covered with red marks left by evil spirits, bright red and dazzling. In the distance, pure white ghost spirits kept waving, twisted and eerie.

At the same time, the Divine Purifying Demon Eye looked down at the top of the little witch's head, where a string of blood-red numbers appeared...

"Two hundred and eighty thousand..." Xue Dinglu silently recited the number in his mind.

He probably understood why the little witch seemed so terrified when she saw him before. The numbers seen through the eyes of the Divine Purification Demon Eye were probably the number of vengeful spirits or the number of people killed, so the number above his head should be exaggerated to a terrifying degree.

That's probably why she felt such strong hostility towards me when she saw me, to the point of being as terrified as a groundhog.

But now, there's a number over 200 million above her head?

The total population of this world is only around 200 million, right?
Xue Dinglu closed his Divine Cleansing Demon Eyes, and the next moment, his Ghost Eyes opened.

In an instant, the scene completely changed. The distorted and eerie world vanished. The ghostly spirits in the distance transformed into waving villagers, and the abandoned village became a peaceful and tranquil village. Many tourists, carrying large and small bags, were preparing to stay overnight in the village.

The old man waving kept saying in Xue Dinglu's direction, "Hey! Young man, it's not safe outside the village at night!"

The glaring marks left by the evil spirits in the eyes of the gods and demons have all disappeared, replaced by a world of birdsong and fragrant flowers, with blooming flowers and tender buds on the trees.

Everything seemed perfectly beautiful, except for the little witch standing before them.

In the demon's vision, her skin was as pale as a corpse, and her entire shrine maiden robe was tattered, as if it had been buried underground and corroded for many years.

Her hair was soaked and covered in mud, hanging down completely, obscuring her face. She was writing and drawing on the ground with a stick.

In the Ghost Eye's vision, blood-red numbers also appeared above her head.

344512, a number of over 34.

Xue Dinglu thought about it and realized that the city they had just purified seemed to have had roughly the same population originally.

With her ghost eyes closed, under the divine and demonic gaze, the little witch, who resembled a ghost, returned to her playful and adorable appearance.

"Alright, we've found the direction." The illiterate witch, who had never been to school, stood up and became a little embarrassed when she noticed Xue Luding staring at her. "What's wrong? Why are you staring at me?"

"Nothing, I just think you're good-looking," Xue Dinglu casually said, spouting nonsense.

"Hmph, regretting it now?" She stood with her hands on her hips, displaying an arrogant, devilish look.

(End of this chapter)