Chapter 825: Significant Achievement

Di She sighed and said:

“The teacher carefully divided a ‘Yuan Zhu Min’ into many parts, marked each one, and then distributed them to different ‘Yuan Zhu Min’ to eat.”

“What a ‘careful’ one,” Qiao Jia Jin said from the side.

“First, he discovered that eating a person’s head could grant ‘Xian Fa’. Then he divided a head into many parts and conducted the same experiment again. In the end, he concluded that only by accurately eating the eyeball could a ‘Yuan Zhu Min’ possibly gain ‘Hui Xiang’.”

After finishing, Di She looked at Qi Xia and said:

“I often wonder… why is it the ‘eyeball’? There are so many organs in the human body, but the one that holds each person’s ‘Xian Fa’ isn’t the most complex organ for thinking, the ‘brain’, or the core organ that powers the body, the ‘heart’. It’s the eyeball. Even my teacher couldn’t answer this question.”

Qi Xia found this statement ridiculous.

“Di She, do you really believe in your teacher’s so-called ‘research’? In a place where science isn’t needed at all, someone is actually doing research and proudly announcing ‘results’.”

“You can’t say that… The teacher did make significant breakthroughs… And this place really does need ‘research’…”

“How amusing,” Qi Xia said with a cold laugh. “‘Hui Xiang’ exists, ‘Xian Fa’ has been born, ‘Shen Li’ has appeared, ‘Shen Shou’ are flying through the sky, ‘time’ has stopped, and the dead have come back to life. Yet, what Tian She is curious about is why ‘Xian Fa’ is stored in the eyes.”

“This…” Hearing Qi Xia’s question, Di She was at a loss for words.

Qi Xia continued: “It’s just like in an era full of airplanes, telling me that scientists’ latest research is on ‘how to make raindrops not hurt when they hit your head’—that’s how ridiculous it is.”

“Well said, but no one can answer the questions you’re curious about,” Di She replied. “My teacher is just doing his best to unravel the mysteries of this place within his capabilities.”

“Are you saying that even ‘Tian She’ sees these as mysteries?” Qi Xia picked up on the key point in Di She’s words.

“Yes,” Di She nodded. “Even though the teacher is the most inquisitive among all ‘Tian Ji’, he still encounters many mysteries.”

Qi Xia shook his head after hearing this: “Maybe his curiosity isn’t as strong as you think—he’s just a self-satisfied pseudo-scholar.”

“But he did succeed,” Di She said. “After discovering the secret of the ‘eyes’, the teacher quickly ran into another problem.”

Di She steered the conversation back to “Tian She’s research.” Originally, after the first experiment, “Tian She” repeated the process several times.

However, the results changed. He accurately extracted the eyeballs from “Yuan Zhu Min” and fed them to others, but it didn’t guarantee that the eaters would gain “Xian Fa”—it only slightly increased the chances.

After more experiments and follow-up investigations, “Tian She” finally reached a final conclusion: The eyeball’s owner must have been a “Yuan Zhu Min” who already possessed “Xian Fa”. In other words, for a “Yuan Zhu Min” to gain “Hui Xiang”, they could only eat the eyeball of a “Hui Xiang” possessor.

“I still don’t get it,” Chen Jun Nan said, furrowing his brow after listening. “Even if that old thief figured out that ‘Hui Xiang’ is stored in the eyeball… why did he turn you into this?”

Chen Jun Nan pointed at Di She’s body, and at that moment, Di She turned around again, looking at everyone with the eyes on the underside of his neck.

“Why don’t you understand something so simple…?” Di She said. “The teacher deduced that since ‘Xian Fa’ is in the eyes, we could try implanting those eyes into us. As long as the implanted eyes can ‘survive’ in our bodies, we could naturally gain ‘Xian Fa’.”

“This logic is so obvious and yet so damn stupid…” Chen Jun Nan gritted his teeth. “Even if that old thief thought of that, shouldn’t he have implanted the eyes on the face?! How could they ‘survive’ on the back? Is it me who’s stupid, or him?”

Qin Ding Dong sighed after hearing this: “You’re already stupid for suggesting ‘implant on the face’…”

“I…” Chen Jun Nan paused. “Dammit, that old guy has me all confused.”

“Yes,” Di She nodded. “At first, the teacher did consider implanting the eyes on our faces.”

“Ah?” Chen Jun Nan was completely stunned.

“But his research results needed to be kept secret,” Di She said. “If all our ‘snakes’ went out with faces full of eyes, anyone would notice something was off, so he had to choose a more hidden location.”

After saying that, he showed a despairing smile and added: “Want to see the eyes on my thighs? Too bad none of them ‘survived’—just a bunch of bloody holes left.”

“No, no…” Chen Jun Nan waved his hand. “Let’s just have a normal conversation.”

“Alright, you brat,” Di She nodded. “Although you have a point, the teacher’s ‘implant’ isn’t your average kind of ‘implant’…”

“What?”

“Remember the first ‘Yuan Zhu Min’ who gained ‘Xian Fa’?” Di She laughed. “Guess what ‘Xian Fa’ he got?”

The group exchanged glances and then shook their heads.

“It’s ‘Jia Jie’,” Di She said. “What a perfect ‘Xian Fa’? A cultivation technique that originally only worked on plants can now directly transplant organs here.”

“That’s really out there,” Chen Jun Nan said from the side. “If your ‘Jia Jie’ is that amazing, how come all those eyes implanted in you died? Since ‘Yuan Zhu Min’ is called the strongest ‘Hui Xiang’ possessor, he should succeed every time, right?”

Hearing this question, Di She’s face darkened again.

“That’s how I ended up as his leverage,” Di She said hoarsely. “I didn’t have to have eyes implanted all over my body… But the teacher found that not a single eye implanted in me could survive… That’s when he discovered my secret. From then on, I entered a living hell.”

At that moment, Qi Xia thought of something and said: “Are you saying it’s ‘rejection’?”

“Right,” Di She nodded. “Qi Xia, I already ‘have’ it myself—how can I accommodate a second one? Even if it’s transplanted, how can it stay alive?”

“‘Rejection’?! What the hell is that about?” Chen Jun Nan suddenly interjected. “All those big shots up there have a ton of abilities on them! Why don’t they get rejected?!”