Zhang Shan gritted his teeth as he tightly gripped the black sword before him, his entire body already drenched in sweat.

“Little… Glasses…” Zhang Shan squeezed out a few words from between his teeth. “Run quick!”

At this moment, Little Glasses finally came to his senses and suddenly retreated several steps backward.

Even Zhang Shan himself wasn’t clear on what the current situation actually was. Chu Tianqiu had merely uttered a single sentence and completely broke through his “Tian Xing Jian.” Now he was only holding onto the great sword with brute force, feeling like his arms were about to be torn off.

His tightly gripping hands continuously split open under the brute force of this great sword, and blood practically sprayed out from his fingertips.

“Damn it…”

He held the great sword with a death grip, his entire body leaning backward, but this sword was extremely heavy to begin with. Now there was also some inexplicable power making it advance unstoppably. Even though Zhang Shan was born with divine strength, having lost the protection of “Tian Xing Jian,” not only was his entire body severely injured, but his strength had also greatly diminished.

His feet were rooted like tree roots to the plastic ground. Over time, he actually dragged out a deep mark.

“Chu Tianqiu… enough…” Zhang Shan said through gritted teeth. “Enough… I already understand…”

“Zhang Shan, why let it come to this?” Chu Tianqiu said with a smile from the side. “I only want your eyes.”

Zhang Shan’s face revealed unwillingness: “Make this black sword stop… I already know your capabilities…”

Seeing this, Chu Tianqiu turned his head to look at Han Yimo and said softly: “Han Yimo, prohibit the use of ‘immortal techniques.'”

As soon as the words fell, the “Seven Black Swords” in Zhang Shan’s hands transformed into starlight filling the sky in an instant.

Zhang Shan suddenly lost his grip. His entire body fell backward uncontrollably. Old Lu had long been prepared and directly threw himself to the ground, using his own obese body to catch Zhang Shan, preventing him from hitting his head.

When all the dust settled, both Han Yimo and Doctor Zhao had bewildered expressions, while Zhang Shan lay on Old Lu gasping loudly for breath.

“Zhang Shan… are you alright?” Little Glasses asked.

Zhang Shan lay on the ground gasping for quite a while before slowly saying: “Truly unfathomable… this thing with starlight filling the sky… isn’t that the specialty of that tattooed kid?”

“Oh?” Chu Tianqiu smiled slightly. “I almost forgot—you’ve witnessed Qiao Jiajin’s methods.”

“You…” Zhang Shan raised his head to look at Chu Tianqiu. “How did you use someone else’s ‘Echo’ on yourself?”

“This is all thanks to ‘Heavenly-Snake,'” Chu Tianqiu said. “If not for the note he gave me… I still wouldn’t have figured out this secret. Who could have thought that the eyeballs that look the most turbid and foul-smelling after death would actually be the thing I need to swallow… It’s just a pity that in the past, I would directly dig these things out and sell them to the ‘Zodiacs’ in exchange for food.”

“What…?” Zhang Shan’s brow slowly furrowed.

“What a bizarre situation…” Chu Tianqiu slowly grinned, revealing his blood-stained mouth corners. “Did they know about my situation all along… which is why they use eyeballs as currency? Or is it…”

Zhang Shan felt he had recovered pretty much, slowly stood up, and said: “Chu Tianqiu… all the food at ‘Heaven’s Mouth’ was exchanged by you using our comrades’ eyeballs…?”

“What else?” Chu Tianqiu asked in return. “What did you think I had you bring back your comrades’ corpses every time for?”

“This…”

“Are you so kind-hearted that you think this is also inappropriate?” Chu Tianqiu asked in a low voice.

“There’s nothing inappropriate about this,” Zhang Shan said. “If it were me… I might also do the same thing. Using organs from dead people’s bodies to exchange for food… isn’t such a big deal here. After all, I’m human. But if you asked me to kill people and then take their eyeballs, I likewise couldn’t do it, because I’m human.”

“Precisely because of this… you are the vice leader of ‘Heaven’s Mouth,'” Chu Tianqiu slowly extended his hand toward Zhang Shan. “Zhang Shan, hand over your eyeballs to me. I will use them well.”

After hearing this, Zhang Shan slowly extended his hand, then asked in a low voice: “Chu Tianqiu, if I give you my eyeballs, can you promise that Old Lu and Little Glasses will be fine?”

After hearing this, Chu Tianqiu nodded: “Zhang Shan, if you willingly give me your eyeballs, then you are my most capable assistant. Not only will I ensure those two are fine, I’ll also release ‘Breaking Ten Thousand Laws’ to let you recover from your injuries.”

“Good, it’s a deal.”

Zhang Shan extended his three fingers and accurately grasped toward his eyeball. With a muffled groan, a fresh eyeball dripping with blood was plucked out.

A dizzying pain transmitted from Zhang Shan’s eye socket, but he didn’t hesitate. He then aimed at his other eye.

In just a few seconds, Zhang Shan’s rugged face was left with two bloody holes, looking extraordinarily horrifying.

“Take it.” Zhang Shan thrust the things in his hands forward and said hoarsely, “If you keep your word, from now on I’ll work for you.”

Chu Tianqiu took the red things from Zhang Shan’s hands and nodded with a smile: “Of course.”

After speaking, he slightly closed his eyes. Zhang Shan felt the mysterious power suppressing him disappear, and all the wounds on his body were rapidly healing.

Meanwhile, Little Glasses and Old Lu on the side also witnessed with their own eyes as Zhang Shan’s already sunken eye sockets bulged up again. A yellowish-white thing condensed within them like a whirlpool. In just a few seconds, his eyes reopened, leaving only two bloody marks hanging on his cheeks.

“Truly worthy of ‘Tian Xing Jian,'” Chu Tianqiu said. “I will treasure these two opportunities well.”

Zhang Shan slowly stood up, looked at his healing palms, then asked with slight confusion: “So… what exactly is your ability?”

“Like Chen Junnan, I’m too ashamed to speak of my own ability.” Chu Tianqiu chuckled softly. “Zhang Shan, do you believe that in this world… there exists an ability that can do nothing except allow someone to preserve their memories?”

Zhang Shan carefully pondered Chu Tianqiu’s words, reaching up to wipe the blood on his face: “I don’t believe it.”

“At first, I thought my ability could only preserve memories.” Chu Tianqiu smiled bitterly. “Unfortunately, my identity is so awkward. I’m a leader of a faction, yet I possess the most useless ‘Echo’ in the entire ‘Land of the End.’ No matter how you think about it, it’s quite laughable, isn’t it? Fortunately, I quickly mastered the method of controlling ‘Echo’ and told everyone that only by ‘witnessing the end’ could I ‘Echo.'”

“So you were lying from that time on…”

“No, I wasn’t lying.” Chu Tianqiu answered with a serious expression. “As long as I can witness the ‘Land of the End,’ I can activate my ‘Echo.'”