Qi Xia suddenly turned his head to look at an empty space, stared wide-eyed and pondered for a few seconds.
Then he slowly opened his mouth: “Starting now… you cannot mention the name Baiyang.”
That empty space was devoid of anything and transmitted only a quiet sound.
“If you must mention someone, then mention me.”
The empty space still had no response whatsoever, yet Qi Xia seemed to have received an answer.
“Only this way can you live. After all, you have no choice.”
…
“The ‘Sun.'”
Everyone fell silent the instant they heard Heavenly-Dog’s explanation.
Although these two words clearly reached their ears, they felt they didn’t understand at all.
“This is… the sun…?” After Jiang Ruoxue finished speaking, she pressed down hard with her feet, finding that the sensation beneath her feet was still strange, carrying a certain hard elasticity. “We’re actually standing on the sun… What nonsense are you talking about…”
“Isn’t it?” Heavenly-Dog said. “You can look around. We’re in ‘Taoyuan’ right now.”
After hearing this, everyone paused and slowly turned around, only to discover that behind them was also an endless expanse of yellowish-white earth. The door they had walked through was floating behind them like a suspended opening.
When they looked up again, they found that there was no sun at all in this dawn sky.
Could it really be as Heavenly-Dog said… They were in “The Land of The End,” and at this moment, the sun wasn’t in the sky but beneath their feet?
“The scent here…” He gritted his teeth and forced out a few words with difficulty. “No good… This scent is too thick…”
“You’re ‘Spiritual Scent,’ right?” Heavenly-Dog turned back to glance at Zheng Yingxiong. “It looks like your ability is much more formidable than Heavenly-Mouse’s.”
Everyone looked at him, not knowing what he meant.
“Everyone.” Heavenly-Dog pointed at the ground beneath them. “Not only will ‘Spiritual Scent’ suffer inhuman torture here, even we ‘Spiritual Hearing’ users are the same. The massive echoes will vibrate our eardrums… It took me a very long time to get used to this enormous sound…”
“Why is it like this…?” Jiang Ruoxue said with furrowed brows beside them. “What’s strange about this sun…?”
“The masterpiece of several generations.” Heavenly-Dog rarely showed a smile. “Even if I really have to die… I must come here to take a look at the final moment…”
He slowly walked forward, his footsteps stepping on the ground as if stepping on a large drum filled with water.
Everyone followed him forward step by step, not understanding.
“What a wonderful optical illusion…” Heavenly-Dog smiled. “Even though this ‘Sun’ has always been floating above your heads, not one of you could discover its problem…”
While listening, Yan Zhichun lowered her head to carefully observe this yellowish-white earth, only to discover that deep inside, there were enormous greenish-black patterns.
These patterns felt inexplicably familiar, as if they were…
“This is… a gigantic… eyeball…?” Yan Zhichun murmured. “My God…”
Her single sentence made the others’ hair stand on end. Jiang Ruoxue felt that even her feet standing here had become somewhat uncomfortable.
“Zhichun… Don’t suddenly say such frightening things…”
She wanted to refute a few words, but when she lowered her head to look, these patterns and texture… What difference was there from an eyeball?
Not only were they standing on the “Sun” now… they were actually also standing on a gigantic eyeball?
“Qinglong and Heavenly-Dragon have five eyeballs, ‘Divine Beasts’ have four, and ‘Heavenly-level’ have three.” Heavenly-Dog said as he walked forward. “Why would there be quantity restrictions?”
Everyone’s minds were thrown into chaos by these consecutively discovered truths, and they could only follow him forward numbly.
Zheng Yingxiong was also desperately trying to determine at this moment what two characters comprised the enormous scent drilling into his mind, but the current feeling was like standing beneath gigantic text—looking up, he couldn’t make out the outline at all.
“It’s all because we’ve tried before… Five eyeballs are the limit that a thinking person can bear.” After walking a few steps, Heavenly-Dog slowly crouched on the ground, reaching out to caress the earth beneath his feet as if caressing a lover. “The sun at night won’t emit ‘Flash,’ so no one realizes its existence… Only during the day will it emit a faint light like the real sun…”
Zheng Yingxiong looked down at the appearance of this eyeball and felt inexplicably afraid. But thinking carefully, he could know where this fear came from.
Since he could smell the scent brought by the eyeball, that meant he was a “Fragrant One.”
He involuntarily grabbed the hand of Jiang Ruoxue, who was nearest to him. Jiang Ruoxue also felt at this moment that Zheng Yingxiong’s fingers were somewhat cold.
“What’s wrong…?” Jiang Ruoxue asked.
“This eyeball…” Zheng Yingxiong swallowed, then said incoherently, “This thing is alive… He’s a living person… He’s a living person floating in the sky…!”
…
Qi Xia was stunned for a moment, then looked toward an empty space again.
“Have you arrived now… If you didn’t close the door… you can hear my voice… You can’t possibly lack even this much brain… right?”
His neck slowly turned, as if pondering something, or as if in a daze.
“You need to tell Yan Zhichun the truth exactly as it is… She’s not crazy enough right now. Do you understand? If it really doesn’t work… that woman beside her is ‘Karma.’ Do you understand?”
Qi Xia raised his head, his entire state gradually becoming abnormal.
“If I calculated correctly… that door of yours is already the only door on the entire ‘Train’ that can lead to ‘The Land of The End’… You will also be the only ‘Heavenly-level’ to survive next. You must cherish this last opportunity. Understand?”
…
Heavenly-Dog paused in place, his expression also trembling, then turned around and said to the people before him: “Yes, yes… This little brother is right… This eyeball is a gigantic living person floating above the sky… It’s just a pity that it’s not her entire body that was ‘Gigantified’… Only the eyeball…”
His words once again sent a chill through Yan Zhichun.
Only the eyeball beneath their feet had been gigantified?
In other words, everyone was now walking on a living person’s eyeball… Could she… still feel it?
Would she feel a stabbing pain in her eyeball? Where was her pupil looking?
“Don’t worry… She’s no different from the natives.” Heavenly-Dog smiled bizarrely. “She has no thoughts… Even if she’s uncomfortable, she can’t speak… Look…”
As Heavenly-Dog spoke, he jumped up on this elastic surface, stirring up waves of drumming sounds.
*Thump thump.*
“Jump! It’s fine! It’s fun!”
*Thump thump.*
*Thump thump.*
Zheng Yingxiong looked coldly at Heavenly-Dog. He could feel that although Heavenly-Dog was all smiles, he was afraid.
This scent of fear was very strange. He didn’t seem to be afraid of the eyeball, but rather afraid of something very distant.
“Stop jumping…” Yan Zhichun said with a slight tremor. “What’s wrong with you… Is this fun?”
