Chapter 767: Red Eye Level 6

Everything was business as usual inside the cave.

After a night had passed, artificial sunlight streamed in through the window, illuminating Shen Bai’s room.

Shen Bai felt the sunlight on his skin and let out a long sigh. He gazed at the mist before him, his heart filled with joy.

He hadn’t slacked off at all recently, constantly grinding the Skill Level for his Void-breaking Red Eye. After another intense session yesterday, Shen Bai had finally raised his Void-breaking Red Eye to Level 6.

Before him, the mist swirled and coalesced into new text, floating in midair.

[Void-breaking Red Eye Level 6 (Investigation +32, Tracking +32, Deterrence +32, Weakness +32, Information +32, Void-breaking +32): 0/20000]

As the text materialized, everything before Shen Bai’s eyes began to blur.

Shen Bai knew what was coming. ‘Time to watch the phantom show off again.’

And sure enough, just as the thought crossed his mind, his surroundings shifted from blurry to clear.

When his vision cleared, Shen Bai was no longer in his room. He had appeared in a place of bewilderment and illusion.

Mist was everywhere; all he could see was illusion.

Immersed within it, Shen Bai couldn’t distinguish between what was real and what was false. Everything felt both true and illusory.

It was an unsettling sensation, as if he were the sole aberration in this world.

Amidst this blend of reality and illusion, the phantom sat cross-legged on the ground. Its featureless face radiated an oppressive aura.

Shen Bai stared at the phantom, realizing that it, too, seemed out of place in this surreal landscape, just as discordant with its surroundings as he was.

Seeing this strange phenomenon, Shen Bai thought, ‘This feeling is so unpleasant. What will it use to break through this time?’

As he pondered, a strange phenomenon occurred.

The surrounding falsehood and reality began to intertwine. As the illusory and the real merged, the unsettling feeling Shen Bai had been experiencing grew stronger.

The mist condensed into countless black arms, each covered in unnerving black hair.

Innumerable arms suddenly shot out, surrounding the phantom and attempting to drag it into the mist.

These arms carried the power of both illusion and reality, and they actually began to imbue the phantom with the same aura, as if trying to assimilate it.

Witnessing this, Shen Bai made a quick comparison. ‘If I were in the phantom’s place,’ he thought, ‘I’d already be in a hopeless situation.’

Just as Shen Bai had that thought, the phantom, which had been completely Immovable, finally stirred.

The phantom raised its head, and two flickers of red light appeared on its featureless face.

The light glowed roughly where its eyes would be, exactly like when Shen Bai activated his Void-breaking Red Eye.

‘So this is the power of a Level 6 Void-breaking Red Eye,’ Shen Bai thought.

The red light flared, like twin columns of light lancing toward the heavens, and swept across the entire interwoven landscape of reality and illusion.

As the red light swept past, the interwoven space dissipated at a visible rate, as if encountering a natural predator. It offered no Resistance whatsoever.

In a mere instant, the mist of intersecting reality and illusion vanished completely.

The arms wrapped around the phantom dissolved at an incredible speed, as if struck by lightning.

The surrounding mist was gone, replaced by pristine clarity.

The surreal, dreamlike mist was no more; everything now looked perfectly real.

A flash of understanding hit Shen Bai, and then, everything before his eyes began to blur once more.

When the blurry scene sharpened back into focus, Shen Bai found himself back in his room.

“The Power of Void Breaking… dispelling all illusion.”

Shen Bai opened his eyes. Having absorbed a massive amount of Information, he had now completely mastered the Level 6 Void-breaking Red Eye.

In addition to his previous Attributes doubling, he had now gained a new Attribute: Void-breaking.

Void-breaking referred to the power to shatter illusions.

And what constituted an illusion?

Anything false or unreal—be it a mental deception or a tangible mirage, formless or corporeal—could be considered an illusion.

Now that his Void-breaking Red Eye Divine Power had reached Level 6, he could shatter any illusion within the scope of his Void-breaking +32 Attribute with a single glance.

‘A pretty impressive ability,’ Shen Bai thought. ‘Even without a direct boost to my combat power, it’s still excellent.’

The Qi inside him stirred, and moments later, the Spirit Soul Little Person in his mind began to change.

The golden hue now covered the Spirit Soul Little Person’s neck. While it was still a long way from enveloping the entire figure, it was a huge improvement for Shen Bai.

‘Next, I’ll grind the Yin Yang Storage Skill,’ Shen Bai decided.

He was saving the Spirit Casting Technique for last, since that particular Divine Power was the most environmentally demanding one to grind.

With that in mind, Shen Bai was tempted to continue grinding right away.

But just then, something unusual happened.

His Void-breaking Red Eye now had an extremely wide range, and through it, Shen Bai detected movement outside the mountain.

Leading them was the Situ Sect Leader, followed by a large contingent of Molten Rock Guards.

They were hiding in the shadows, seemingly waiting for the right moment to strike.

‘This has to be about me,’ Shen Bai thought.

The fact that they’d found the cave so quickly, combined with the only recent development being his rescue by the Awakened, meant the root of this situation had to be him.

Realizing this, Shen Bai temporarily set aside his plans to grind his Skill Level and stepped outside.

Outside the cave, the usual lively, harmonious scene continued.

Even though they were now Awakened, they still followed their old daily routines.

Shen Bai mulled it over for a moment and decided there was no longer any need to delay.

He had already learned all the clues he could, and he wouldn’t find any new information from what was currently available to him here.

He might as well speed things up and get the ball rolling.