“Chu Tianqiu… you…”

Doctor Zhao’s mouth moved slightly. He clearly knew the other party was severely mad, yet he felt he couldn’t possibly contend with him.

“So have you two decided?” Chu Tianqiu turned his head back, his face cold and dangerous. He smiled faintly, licked his lips and said, “If you can’t grasp the wings of this mad eagle that I am, how will you soar through the sky to witness with your own eyes that ‘divine’ eyeball in the heavens?”

“You…”

The two looked at Chu Tianqiu, whose temperament had completely changed, unable to utter a single word.

A ‘mad eagle’—this description was too perfect for Chu Tianqiu right now.

His gaze was extraordinarily sharp, his body carrying an overwhelming bloody aura.

This ‘mad eagle’s’ wings would be hung with bombs and gunpowder. It didn’t seek prey, but instead flew toward the most dangerous sun in the sky.

Either destroy the sun, or become the sun.

The two people behind Chu Tianqiu swallowed simultaneously. Doctor Zhao spoke first. “You say you need our help, so what do you want us… to do?”

“Go hunt ‘Echo Users’.” Chu Tianqiu said. “I need a large number of ‘Echo Users’.”

After hearing this, Doctor Zhao’s brows furrowed. “Chu Tianqiu… you… you need their corpses? To place in your basement for you to gnaw on?!”

This statement startled Han Yimo. “What… gnaw on corpses?!”

“Ha…” Chu Tianqiu revealed a trace of a smile. After glancing at Doctor Zhao, his gaze turned toward Han Yimo. “Han Yimo, do you think someone who gnaws on corpses counts as a ‘good person’ or a ‘bad person’?”

“How could they possibly count as good—”

Before Han Yimo finished speaking, Chu Tianqiu reached into his pants pocket and pulled out a gleaming golden ingot.

That ingot was shaped like a yuanbao, rounded at both ends, cinched at the middle. At this moment, it was radiating brilliant golden light in Chu Tianqiu’s hand.

“Han Yimo, in your novel, what kind of person can obtain this golden ingot?” Chu Tianqiu asked.

After hearing this, Han Yimo slowly widened his eyes. He reached out to take the golden ingot and examined it carefully, then recited silently:

“Those judged ‘Good’ are rewarded with one tael and seven qian of silver. Those judged ‘Evil’ have the ‘Seven Black’ pierce through their dantian… The jianghu swordsman Chu Qi, wielding the ‘Seven Black Sword’, spent his life rewarding good and punishing evil countless times. Only once did he give someone a golden ingot.”

“Which time was that?” Chu Tianqiu asked.

“The other party had a pure innocent heart, their character like uncarved jade and pure gold. They had performed countless good deeds in their life and had never done anything wrong.” Han Yimo said somewhat incredulously. “This kind of person… this kind of person shouldn’t exist in reality…”

“So will the ‘Seven Black Sword’ lie?” Chu Tianqiu continued asking. “It determined that I’m qualified to obtain this golden ingot—could it possibly be a misjudgment?”

“No…” Han Yimo answered with furrowed brows. “Ever since ‘Chu Qi’ died, the ‘Seven Black Sword’ has been soaring through the martial world carrying ‘Chu Qi’s’ soul. It can see clearly a person’s past and can also perceive the good and evil of a person’s soul… So it should be…”

“So I’m considered a ‘good person’.” Chu Tianqiu said with slightly reddened eyes. “I too have performed countless good deeds in my life, doing my utmost to help anyone I could possibly help. But until now I haven’t received any return, and I’m already covered in wounds.”

“You…” Han Yimo seemed somewhat disbelieving of Chu Tianqiu’s words, but he found that the golden ingot in his hand was exceptionally real, clearly originating from the story of the ‘Seven Black Sword’.

Could Chu Tianqiu… truly be a good person?

Even he himself had said that there were no good people in this world, only different degrees of badness.

Could it be that the person who said this statement had actually never done anything wrong in his entire life?

“So you’re an innocent person…?” Doctor Zhao was slightly stunned. “That’s not right… Chu Tianqiu, if you’ve never done anything wrong in your life, why are you here?”

“Heh…” Chu Tianqiu looked at Doctor Zhao, the expression on his face becoming increasingly distorted. Then he heavily spat out a few words. “I also want to know…”

“What…”

“I also really want to ask them!!” Chu Tianqiu suddenly shouted. “I have more questions than any of you!! What exactly did I do wrong to make me endlessly reincarnate in this kind of hell?! Is this the ‘good fruit’ I’ve cultivated from a lifetime of good deeds?! Is this the retribution after my selfless devotion?! I’ve helped countless people in this life, and even after arriving here, I still persist in helping all people in difficulty find hope… but where is my hope?! Where is the ‘Path’ this place has left for me?!”

Chu Tianqiu continuously roared. Several strands of his blood-set hair fell to his forehead, making his entire person look even more deranged.

“Why?! Why are there so many hardships waiting for me on the path of my life? Is this what I deserve?!” Chu Tianqiu clenched his fists, his entire body trembling. “A lifetime of good deeds for twenty-eight years, and just as my life was about to begin, a tumor was discovered in my brain. I thought this place would be where I could ‘redeem’ myself… but what I’ve persisted in here is just a joke. The person I fell in love with here turned into a monster. My ‘goodness’ here is worthless! My tumor has been in constant pain, never giving me a moment’s peace…!!”

“Tumor…?” Doctor Zhao felt something was strange. He had previously helped Chu Tianqiu dissect Qi Xia’s corpse, and Qi Xia’s brain also contained a malignant tumor.

Was the ‘tumor’ some kind of coincidence?

But judging from the tumor’s condition, if Chu Tianqiu had the same illness as Qi Xia, their lifespans would be at most half a year.

“No wonder you don’t want to ‘escape’ but instead want to ‘become a god’…” Doctor Zhao nodded after hearing this. “Because escaping this place means ‘death’.”

“I’ve done enough…” Chu Tianqiu said. “I’ve already been a ‘lighthouse’ here, illuminating everyone for a long time… Now I want to do something for myself…”

“So what you want to do is collect their corpses…”

“No.” Chu Tianqiu shook his head and once again recovered his cold expression. “I no longer need corpses. I need their eyes.”

“Eyes…?”

The two looked simultaneously at the eyeball necklace hanging around Chu Tianqiu’s neck.

“I need a large number of eyes.” Chu Tianqiu said with slight sorrow. “As long as you can help me collect ‘Echo User’ eyeballs… I won’t treat you poorly. But if you can’t bring me back ten eyes every day… I will no longer need you.”

“Ten…?” The two looked at each other. “That means… we must kill at least five people every day… and five ‘Echo Users’ at that…”

“That’s right. You can also rest assured that as long as you can meet the requirements, I will distribute abundant rewards to you every day.” Chu Tianqiu smiled. “Whether it’s food or other resources, as long as I have it, I can give it to you.”