Fairy, Don't Be Afraid, I Am Blind

Chapter 306 - 180: The Secret of You Su’s Eyes (Part 2)

You Su focused his gaze and discovered that what was suspending Venerable Chengtao was not an ordinary chain, but two eel-like evil spirits! The eel bodies were covered with densely packed wound holes, through which one could see the rotten flesh inside the evil eels.

They were respectively holding Venerable Chengtao’s left and right hands, suspending him. This middle-aged venerable, who was so glamorous just a few days ago, had no way of dealing with them.

"Mr. You... you’re here..."

Venerable Chengtao forced out an ugly smile.

"You Su, greetings to Venerable Chengtao."

You Su still cupped his hands in salute, puzzled as to why the situation had turned out like this.

"What exactly have you seen before?"

The Head Elder stared at You Su’s pure black and white eyes, but it seemed like he was talking to himself.

"What does the Head Elder mean?"

If You Su kept his eyes closed, he could only see evil spirits and things strongly related to evil spirits, but naturally couldn’t see the Head Elder’s gaze.

"We’ll talk about this later."

The Head Elder turned around to look at Venerable Chengtao, who had fallen into captivity, his gaze fierce, as if looking at an enemy that would not rest until one is dead:

"The first purpose of calling you here is to verify what you saw and heard at Jade Ring Pool. Regarding the matters of Hidden Earth and Hidden Water, tell me everything you know."

You Su was momentarily stunned, then divulged everything he knew.

However, he deliberately hid the little white fish, as it would expose the True Lord within him.

This was You Su’s greatest secret, he couldn’t fathom others’ attitudes towards the True Lord, the source of evil, so he didn’t dare to easily reveal it.

"What you said closely matches with what Venerable Chengtao said. So essentially, there are two forces in Jade Ring Pool; one is Hidden Earth and the people who worship it, like Venerable Shenxi, and the other is the avatar of Hidden Water, Saintess Yudie, and those selected by her, including you and Ji Xueruo, the Clan Leader of the Snake Race?"

You Su nodded.

"You and Ji Xueruo jointly broke through the illusions of Hidden Earth, fulfilling Hidden Water’s wish, and you also thwarted Hidden Water’s plan to possess Ji Xueruo, allowing these ancient monsters to completely die out?"

You Su nodded slowly.

"Have you ever wondered what qualifies you to achieve all this? You must know... you’re just a blind man at the Middle Spirit Platform Realm."

The Head Elder looked at You Su sitting on the chair.

You Su felt as though there were no shackles on him, yet it was like undergoing interrogation.

"Never thought about it, and couldn’t think of any reason. Maybe it’s all due to fate." You Su replied.

"A fine fate indeed."

The Head Elder’s smile deepened, gazing as if at some rare treasure:

"If the investigation by Hua Jing is correct, you’ve also experienced significant hardships in Chuyun City. The evil spirits that appeared there include one from thousands of years ago, a Leviathan, and another, the Dream-eating Ghost that stole the treasures of Nanyang Continent and fled. In terms of rank, they even surpass Hidden Earth and Hidden Water. Yet you survived and even, as someone at the Lower Spirit Platform Realm, first killed Mr. Ling of the Condensed Water Realm, and then the mastermind at the Feather Transformation Realm, Mr. Liou who was behind the scenes, also becoming the key person in unraveling the evil spirits’ conspiracy. Was this too a matter of fate?"

You Su remained silent. After a long period of tranquility, he thought his insignificance was of no concern to these great forces and figures, only now realizing they had not ignored him but were waiting for an appropriate moment.

The scene fell into a brief silence, the tense You Su seemed to hear his own heartbeat.

"By the way, where did your teacher go?"

The Head Elder suddenly asked, like an elderly person chatting casually.

You Su was momentarily stunned, then shook his head: "I really don’t know, only that my teacher said he went to do something big."

"What could be bigger than using his fists to ascend the Divine Mountain?"

The Head Elder stroked his beard with a smile, looking through the small window on the stone wall towards the peak of the Divine Mountain hidden in the mist, where that astonishing woman had once been, higher than here.

You Su was taken aback by this, expressing his disbelief: "The Head Elder must be mistaken; my teacher is merely a small Sect Leader of Sword Sect at the Condensed Water Lower Realm."

"Oh?"

The Head Elder cast a playful glance at the bewildered You Su, then said slowly:

"Well, maybe it really was a mistake on my part."

You Su could not associate the memory of his teacher with the figure in the Head Elder’s words, who ascended the Divine Mountain with a pair of fists; no matter how capable his teacher was... he was merely at the Condensed Water Upper Realm.

In a real fight, he might not even see the shadow of the Divine Mountain, right?

"Have you ever thought about why you can see these evil spirits?"

The Head Elder saw You Su relax a bit and continued the questioning:

"Don’t deny it, if you couldn’t see them, you couldn’t possibly have survived until now. Countless have died unknowingly at the hands of evil spirits in the Spirit Platform Realm."

You Su had pondered over this issue; initially, he thought it was the True Lord’s power given to him, as being the source of evil, seeing all evil spirits seemed reasonable.

However, even before merging with the Power of the True Lord, he could already see evil spirits like the Red-flesh Ghost. He then speculated that it was because of dreams; since he saw Taisui and the Dream-eating Ghost in dreams, he could see flesh-and-blood types and dream master types that were lower-tier evil spirits.

But until that day on the walls of Chuyun City, when he saw that Leviathan engulfing clouds and spitting mist, he realized he could also see powerful evil spirits of the five elements kind.

Ultimately, he couldn’t figure out what was wrong with his eyes, so he simply stopped thinking about it and accepted the ability.

"I really don’t know." You Su shook his head.

No sooner had he spoken than he was suddenly overwhelmed by an immense pressure, like something was pressed tightly against him; he could even feel the heat radiating from the front!

The entity was staring at his eyes, as if trying to see through the fog in his eyes and discern all his secrets!

"Hua Jing!" The Head Elder shouted coldly, suddenly different from his previously amiable demeanor, "Don’t forget! He belongs to me!"

With those words, the intense pressure subsided like a tide.

And the source of that pressure was a woman enveloped in a wide purple robe.

Her face was shrouded in an inscrutable mist, making it difficult to clearly see. Only the pair of pure white eyes were clearly visible, devoid of pupils, as smooth as a mirror, seemingly reflecting all the world’s evils.

Just by standing there, the only words that could describe her were holiness.

"Cannot decipher it, he’s not blind — someone has placed a restriction technique on his eyes." The woman’s voice was crisp, reminiscent of a mirror shattering.

The Head Elder was initially taken aback and then furrowed his white eyebrows:

"Enough, let’s go, don’t scare the child."

The purple-clothed, white-eyed woman immediately vanished, as if she had never been there.

You Su sat in place, his back already drenched with cold sweat.

This woman was Hua Jing, the First Seat of Hua Jing just mentioned by the Head Elder, obviously of the same level as him... If truly as she said, he was not inherently blind, but someone had placed a restriction technique, even she couldn’t crack it, what level of cultivation would the caster hold?

"Don’t be afraid, as long as I’m here, even if they are curious about you, they won’t harm you."

The Head Elder waved a withered hand, and a cup of fragrant hot tea suddenly appeared on the table in front of You Su.

"We’ve investigated your life, from which we can deduce that before your teacher found you, you had a short but amazing experience."

"What kind of experience?"

"Honestly tell me, have you seen evil spirits belonging to the Three Great Evil Gods?" The Head Elder’s tone became serious.

You Su paused for a moment before decisively nodding.

"The Leviathan, Dream-eating Ghost, Hidden Earth... Did you see them all the moment you first encountered them?"

You Su nodded heavily.

"Good, then I can basically be certain."

The Head Elder stared at You Su’s face, his aged eyes gleaming with sharp insight: "When you were just born and not yet blind, you had already seen the deepest evils of this world!"

Upon hearing this, You Su’s head buzzed like he had been struck hard, dazedly murmuring:

"The deepest evils... You mean the Three Great Evil Gods?!"

"That’s correct!"

The Head Elder took a deep breath, his voice booming like a bell:

"The person who placed the restriction technique on your eyes took you to see these Evil Gods hidden in the darkest corners of the world!"

"For reasons unknown, he then sealed your sight! And due to some reasons, abandoned you, until your teacher found you. That’s why, even though you’re blind, you can see these evil spirits that even we cannot easily detect!"