Immortality Starts With Ignorant Heart Sword Art

Chapter 198: The Mysterious Third Eye, Opening of the Secret Realm

"The one who made a move, could it be Xiang Ling's husband? That's impossible..."

The speculation in her heart made Gu Yuning's whole body feel a bit numb.

There was no way that the overwhelming pressure that came down in an instant could be produced by an ordinary cultivator.

If Xiang Ling's husband was really him, then he must be the direct descendant of a major sect.

And such a person had the potential to become the sect's leader, like a god, high above, ruling over a domain.

At the same time, their immense power and lofty status allowed them to decide the life and death of countless families with just a word.

As the head of intelligence for the Restoration Society, Gu Yuning was not forced to step down. She had already received the promise from the major sect to establish a new family somewhere.

However, establishing a family came with countless benefits and troubles. If she could establish a friendship with a direct descendant of a major sect, even if it was just a Gold Core family, she wouldn't easily offend them.

Thinking like this, Gu Yuning looked at Xiang Ling with eyes burning with excitement.

"Sister, you must come to visit me often in the future."

"Huh?"

The most surprised by Gu Yuning's attempt to win her over was not Xiang Ling, but Xin Rou. She didn't understand why her superior would try to please Xiang Ling, who was already married to someone else.

Fortunately, she wasn't stupid and quickly figured out what was going on, causing her pupils to contract.

"That's impossible..."

...

Not to mention the shock that the pressure from heaven and earth brought to the three women, Zhong Cang's pressure was mainly directed towards the battlefield.

Being intimidated by this pressure, the first thought that arose in the minds of all Foundation Building cultivators was fear and dread.

There was no way not to dread it. No one had the confidence to rely on themselves to withstand the pressure of heaven and earth.

And if just one pressure was so strong, how terrifying was the existence that made the move? Everyone couldn't help but imagine.

Just as they were filled with fear and dread, a majestic and vast sound, like the long chant of the heavens, suddenly rang out.

"Hmm..."

The majestic sound of the bell had a special charm to it. When the bell resounded in their hearts, their spirits blanked out for an instant.

Although their spirits quickly recovered after that instant, no one noticed... No, when the bell rang, a protective light shone on the young master of the Di family, blocking the invasion of the gray mist.

This light prevented the gray mist from infiltrating his soul.

This also made Zhong Cang squint his eyes.

"Indeed, the gray mist is not invincible. At least, I can't project it into the soul of a strong cultivator without attracting attention."

Zhong Cang could forcibly erode the soul of the young master of the Di family, but doing so would undoubtedly expose the gray mist and attract everyone's hostility, which was not what he wanted.

Ignoring the young master of the Di family and not seizing the token, after intimidating everyone with his pressure, Zhong Cang changed his tone and suddenly sighed.

"There's no one worth fighting, how boring."

As he spoke, with a "buzz," the Heaven and Earth Eight Trigrams Diagram was put away by Zhong Cang, and the overwhelming pressure dissipated.

"?!?!"

This sudden and abrupt scene left many people dumbfounded.

They didn't understand what the hidden expert was doing.

However, soon, they didn't have time to think about it.

"Kill!"

"Hand over the token!"

The battle for the Five Spirit Tokens began once again.

During the unfolding of the battle, the weak Foundation Building cultivators didn't notice a tiny gray crack appearing in the center of their souls.

Because too many seeds were sown at once, these gray mists were unable to form eyeballs, affecting their spiritual consciousness.

However, in the following days, the battles among the Foundation Building cultivators in Tianyun Immortal City for the Five Spirit Tokens became increasingly fierce.

And Zhong Cang also frequently made moves during this process.

Just like before, every time a Foundation Building cultivator fought halfway, there would be overwhelming pressure descending from the sky, freezing everyone in space.

However, after each pressure, a voice saying "boring" would sound, and then the pressure would disappear without a trace.

At first, the Foundation Building cultivators didn't understand this inexplicable action, but gradually, they began to speculate.

"That person should be a disciple sent out by a major sect for training. Compared to treasures, he prefers to find someone to fight."

"But the cultivators who come to Tianyun Immortal City are too weak, no one can catch his eye, so he says it's boring."

This reason seems reasonable when speculated, and therefore, many people agree with it.

At the same time, feeling the power of Zhong Cang and speculating about his identity, many Foundation Building cultivators became extremely wary of Zhong Cang and decided that no matter what, they would not provoke a conflict with him.

"There are so many tokens, and there are even five Half Innate Law Treasures. I can compete with others without needing to fight that person."

This is the idea of many Foundation Building cultivators.

It can be said that with the power of the Heaven and Earth Eight Trigrams Diagram, Zhong Cang established his authority in Tianyun Immortal City.

What the Foundation Building cultivators who were suppressed by Zhong Cang didn't realize was that with each experience of pressure, their fear of Zhong Cang became more deeply ingrained.

The crack in their foreheads would also absorb their fear and dread, growing larger and larger.

Of course, during this process, there were also cultivators who closed their eyes and scanned themselves.

Whenever this happened, without Zhong Cang's command, their eyeballs would close on their own, making it impossible for others to detect any abnormalities.

One day, two days, three days... ten days.

As time passed, gradually, all the Foundation Building cultivators who were eager to snatch the Five Spirit Tokens in Tianyun Immortal City were contaminated by Zhong Cang's gray mist.

Of course, Zhong Cang could only cause minor contamination at this stage.

In this state, he could only influence those Foundation Building cultivators according to the situation, unable to make them do things against their own will.

While Zhong Cang could incite their greed and make them snatch tokens from stronger cultivators, he couldn't make them commit suicide or give away what they already had.

Moreover, those who could be influenced by Zhong Cang were mostly ordinary Independent Cultivators, and he didn't dare to touch any strong cultivators in the Foundation Building realm.

However, even so, Zhong Cang's fear of the gray mist had reached its peak.

"To be able to easily contaminate Foundation Building cultivators like this, the status of this thing cannot possibly be at the Foundation Building level... It might be at the Gold Core, Nascent Soul, or even Soul Formation Realm."

"Because of its lofty realm, it can initially contaminate Foundation Building cultivators and absorb negative energy to grow rapidly."

Zhong Cang could feel that with each strand of negative energy absorbed, the gray mist would become stronger.

If Zhong Cang disregarded everything and ruthlessly ruled, contaminating the souls of millions of people in the city with the gray mist, stimulating their despair and resentment, and absorbing them, he had a chance to advance to the Gold Core stage in one fell swoop.

No, that wouldn't be called advancement, it should be called using the gray mist as a foundation - restoring the status of Gold Core.

However, at that time, Zhong Cang might be able to advance to the Gold Core stage, but he would no longer be himself.

To absorb the resentment and hatred of millions of people into his soul in one breath, even if Zhong Cang didn't go crazy on the spot, it would still be considered strong-willed.

"The terrifying gray mist... Fortunately, when I integrated with the Union of Gray Mist, I don't know what happened to it, but it lost its will and only acted on instinct, like a rule. Otherwise, just a strand of gray mist would be able to extinguish my will."

"No, if the gray mist had a will, the first one to suffer would be the Hundred Ghost Perfected Being. If he was contaminated and became strange, he would enhance himself with various negative emotions. And around him, there are only greedy and cruel demonic cultivators, which are the best fuel for the growth of the gray mist. So, if the gray mist had a will, the demonic cultivators would be the first to suffer. At that time, the demonic sect would be in chaos, and I might not even have a chance to encounter it."

...

Zhong Cang no longer thought about what exactly the gray mist encountered. The main reason was that his current level was too far from the source of the gray mist, and even if he thought about it, he couldn't figure anything out.

At this moment, what Zhong Cang wanted more was to possess the five Half Innate Law Treasures in the Wutai Mountain Secret Realm.

And in the Wutai Mountain Secret Realm, the five Half Innate Law Treasures appeared at the same time and were scattered in different places, making it impossible for Zhong Cang, no matter how powerful he was, to obtain all five Law Treasures at the same time.

And so, he planned for more than ten days.

And today is the time for Zhong Cang's plan to be launched.

"Go, kill, plunder, do everything in your power, fight for your own path..."

With Zhong Cang's murmurs, the sound of battle erupted once again in Tianyun Immortal City.

Originally, this was a very common occurrence in Tianyun Immortal City, but today, the battle was particularly intense.

Almost all Independent Cultivators were attacking the strong individuals holding the Five Spirit Tokens.

This situation was not entirely caused by Zhong Cang's secret manipulation. The Independent Cultivators gathered in Tianyun Immortal City were already greedy and wanted to obtain a token.

Zhong Cang just ignited a fire in their hearts, magnifying their greed and diminishing their fear.

As a result, their actions became impulsive.

And with impulsiveness, chaos unfolded in the city.

"Boom!"

"How dare you, I am from the Yun family in Yizhou..."

"Hehe, what does it matter if you are from the Yun family in Yizhou? Do you know who I am?"

The intense melee turned Tianyun Immortal City into a mess.

Spiritual energy erupted everywhere, battles were happening everywhere.

And in this chaotic battlefield, unnoticed by anyone, a figure moved around like a ghost.

This was naturally Zhong Cang, who came here to help those Independent Cultivators.

The family descendants and disciples who were engaged in fierce battles would suddenly feel a heavy pressure.

Or a flying sword would suddenly appear and flash past their spells or the weak points of their shields.

Zhong Cang didn't make many moves, but with the fluctuations of the Sword Heart, the timing of his attacks was perfect.

Every time he attacked, it made the strong individuals in the Foundation Building realm extremely uncomfortable.

However, after repelling them, Zhong Cang didn't take more than one of the scattered Five Spirit Tokens.

With the gray mist present, he wasn't worried about ordinary Foundation Building cultivators. The only ones he feared were the strong individuals in the Foundation Building realm.

And now, Zhong Cang was eliminating his own troubles.

In this way, with Zhong Cang inciting a riot guided by the gray mist on the outside, he secretly made his moves on the inside.

Overnight, more than ten strong individuals in the Foundation Building realm lost their tokens.

However, this battle was not easy for Zhong Cang.

It wasn't because there were any unexpected incidents during his sneak attacks.

It was because the Foundation Building cultivators infected by the gray mist, when they were defeated or on the verge of death, would experience fear, regret, and frustration... Various negative emotions would breed within them, causing the eyeballs growing on their bodies to rapidly multiply.

When those Foundation Building cultivators died, these eyeballs would appear directly in Zhong Cang's consciousness sea through the connection between their minds, aiming to integrate with Zhong Cang's soul.

Naturally, he didn't want this to happen.

Even if the gray mist and eyeballs integrated with his soul, causing his soul power to undergo a violent surge, Zhong Cang still didn't want it.

He didn't want to end up in a state neither human nor ghost.

Therefore, whenever the gray mist appeared, Zhong Cang's Heart Sword would violently erupt in his consciousness sea, crushing the mist into pieces.

"It's a good thing that the external gray mist and eyeballs are not the original source. My Heart Sword can eliminate them!"

When the Hundred Ghosts Perfected Being invaded Zhong Cang's soul, it caused a tide of gray mist, filled with countless ghost faces.

In that soul battle, Zhong Cang cut down most of the ghost faces and extinguished a large portion of the mist. This indicated that although the original source of the gray mist couldn't be destroyed, its derivatives could be cleared.

Now, Zhong Cang was just redoing what he had done before.

"By the way, why is it that the Hundred Ghosts Perfected Being gives birth to ferocious ghost faces from the gray mist, while what I give birth to from the mist are eyeballs?"

"Could it be because of the technique? The Perfected Being manipulates the hundred ghosts, while on my side, the Integrated Union of the Grey Mist is controlled by the Heavenly Heart. The eyes are the windows to the soul, so is it represented through the eyes?"

This doubt flashed through Zhong Cang's mind, but it was quickly extinguished by him.

In the latter half of the night, as more and more Independent Cultivators in the Foundation Building stage died, the grey mist that entered Zhong Cang's consciousness sea became boundless.

In the end, Zhong Cang's divine soul was engulfed by the boundless grey mist and countless eyeballs.

Fortunately, Zhong Cang's Heart Sword could annihilate all things.

What's more important is that he possesses the Twelve Melodies of the Jade Heaven Tower.

With the accumulation of the Heart Sword, its power skyrocketed. In the end, Zhong Cang managed to clear most of the grey mist and eyeballs.

However, the remaining ones, after being integrated with Zhong Cang's body, caused some abnormalities.

These abnormalities appeared on his forehead, where... an extra eyeball grew.

Perhaps because Zhong Cang integrated a strand of the origin of the grey mist, this eyeball is under Zhong Cang's control.

At the same time, it can not only grow within the divine soul but also manifest on the physical body in the outside world.

"Three eyes, I never thought that one day I would become Erlang."

Zhong Cang's third eye is different from Erlang Shen's eye.

Erlang Shen's third eye is the Heavenly Eye, capable of seeing through the essence and good and evil of things. It can even reach the heavens and peer into the underworld, emitting divine light to destroy enemies.

Zhong Cang's third eye, on the other hand, seems somewhat eerie.

It lacks the ability to peer into the heavens and the underworld, but it can perceive the negative emotions of others.

At the same time, Zhong Cang's third eye cannot penetrate illusions.

However, when Zhong Cang gazes at others, he can use his eyes to trap them in illusions.

Moreover, Zhong Cang can extract the divine souls of some weak individuals through his eyes.

Most importantly, Zhong Cang can sense that there is more than one eye born from the grey mist.

"The power of the eyes can be accumulated. The more eyes nurtured, the stronger the power of this eye will be."

"However, even though the grey mist has no will, its instinct is not something I can resist. If there are too many eyes, it will no longer be me controlling the eyes, but the eyes controlling me... Since the Heart Sword is currently at the Fourth Realm, I should not have more than four eyes for now!"

...

Suddenly gaining an extra eye out of thin air made Zhong Cang both vigilant and familiar with the power of the eye.

On the other hand, although the turmoil from last night has subsided, the impact of this battle is significant.

Some people who sensed that something was amiss sent the information they collected to the Gold Core cultivator currently stationed in Tianyun Immortal City.

"Reporting to the Perfected Being, yesterday's situation was unusual. Although Independent Cultivators in the Foundation Building stage also compete for opportunities, they usually value their lives and are afraid of offending many families. So, they wouldn't be so audacious... Over a hundred Foundation Building cultivators fought each other and even besieged the descendants of the families. There must be a hidden hand behind the scenes guiding them."

"Then go investigate..."

In this way, the cultivators who obtained the tokens hid in the shadows, while spies searched around Tianyun Immortal City.

However, they did not find anything on Zhong Cang.

Even the "great sect's true inheritance" fabricated by Zhong Cang did not attract anyone's attention.

This was not because the people in Tianyun Immortal City were foolish.

It was because in their eyes, the person who incited such chaos must be from the Demon Sect.

Therefore, their investigations mainly focused on the Demon Sect cultivators, and as a result, they naturally couldn't find anything on Zhong Cang.

In this chaotic situation, three more days passed.

The time for the opening of the Wutai Mountain Secret Realm has arrived.

"Finally, if I can obtain these five Semi-Innate Law Treasures, my cultivation might be able to leap to the mid-Foundation Building stage. The power of the Five Organs Divine Palace True Form Diagram will also further skyrocket, and the progress of proficiency will increase significantly."

"This time, I must obtain all five Law Treasures!"

(End of this chapter)