[Huo Lian]
He really did it, I thought, watching as he slowly took wobbly steps towards the farmhouse. The fight was exciting to watch, but to be honest, both sides did not utilize their strengths to their fullest during the fight. I must have been mistaken about it being an adult Azure Serpent. It might have just matured and did not know how to use its strength. Jian, too, is actually much more powerful than the fight conveyed. His sword slash hit the serpent three times before killing it. He missed 27 times.
Haaa, when I wake up, I need to teach him how to fight properly. I think I need to assess his full strength to better assist him in his training. After staring at his body for a long time, I have grown somewhat tolerant of it. With a purposeful mind, I start to cover him in my perception ability. But why do I feel this strange fear when I have the intention to see inside him to analyze his strength? It is strange. It is like my instincts tell me not to do it. Should I ignore my instincts?
Doctor Zhen Jian
Finally, we reached the porch. "Oh my, finally at the porch. Now just a little bit, and I can rest on the couch," I muttered. I glanced back and saw that Mrs. Patient was covered in sweat, looking a bit pale. Well, we did go through a life-or-death situation. I will rest a bit and then give her a bath. But she really is an amazing person, truly fearless. Okay, onto the couch
Huo Lian
The moment my perception entered him,I lost consciousness. Now I found myself in a dark world. In this pitch-black world, I felt an enormous being in front of me. In this world, however, I couldn't use my perception at all. The moment I took a step forward, an eye opened.
The eye dominated the landscape, an enormous, luminescent orb suspended in the darkness. The sclera was a pristine, almost otherworldly white, shimmering with an eerie iridescence that cut through the blackness. The glow was so intense it felt like it could burn away the shadows, yet it only served to illuminate the abyss further, highlighting the void. The iris, a ring of crystalline blue, was a breathtaking sight, yet it filled me with a primal fear. The blue was deep and unfathomable, like an ocean at midnight. It glimmered with the radiance of countless sapphires, an ever-shifting dance of light and shadow that seemed almost alive. The beauty was hypnotic, drawing me in even as my instincts screamed at me to run.
At the center of this mesmerizing blue sea was the pupil, a vertical slit of pure darkness. It was a black so deep it felt like a void within a void, a glimpse into an endless abyss. The pupil narrowed and widened with a slow, rhythmic pulse, like the heartbeat of some ancient, primordial force. Staring into it, I felt as though I could be swallowed whole, lost forever in its depths.
Standing before it, I was dwarfed by its magnitude, a mere speck in the presence of such a colossal being. The terror gripped me, freezing me in place. My body trembled, not just from fear but from the overwhelming sense of awe. This eye, this horrifying and beautiful eye, had seen worlds rise and fall, had witnessed the birth and death of countless lives.
Another eye opened beside the first, equally terrifying. The eyes rose into the air, the fear gripping me forcing me to take a step back. However, I was too scared to move. I felt my limbs go weak and I was about to fall, but right before I fell, I was caught by a red feathered wing.
The wing looked as if it was on fire, but it felt warm and comforting. Tracing upwards from the wing, it displayed a beautiful red bird engulfed by fire. But the fire looked to be originating from itself, part of it. It was the same bird that I had seen before I was woken up after the fall from the waterfalls. The same feeling welled up inside me as before. The feeling of being embraced by the wings and conveying all my grievances to it. This time it kept its focus on the eyes while holding me up with one of its enormous wings.
The eyes were also staring at the red bird. The air was filled with tension as if the two powerful beings were about to attack one another. Then, when the tension was at its peak, the eyes slowly descended and closed as if nothing had happened. I looked shocked but felt relieved.
I looked up at the bird. It rubbed my back, the soft, comfortable feeling making me close my eyes. After the feeling left me, I opened my eyes...