The sudden loud noise not only scared the people who were staring at the quagmire, but the two brothers, Di Pi and Di Pa, who were originally sticking close to the ground to listen to the noise, were so scared that they jumped up. Their short and fat bodies rolled back a few times before they stopped. After they stopped, their first reaction was to dig a hole and bury themselves underground.
Scary!
Too scary!
They just wanted to watch the show. How could they encounter something so scary?!
The two brothers of the Ya tribe were completely shocked by the vibrations and sounds coming from the ground and air. Although they didn't know what happened, this kind of noise was enough to scare them. It was better to dig a hole and bury themselves underground. Hiding underground was safer than on the surface.
Beside the quagmire, the black waves of mud crashed down on the people who were already stunned on the shore. The water splashed onto them, and the mud rushed into their open mouths.
The Jing people looked at the huge hole in the quagmire. It was as if a large piece of the quagmire was suddenly dug out by a big spoon.
Violent!
Too violent!
Although the mud around the hole quickly filled up the hole after it stopped expanding, the Jing people who were watching from the side were still traumatized by this scene. From now on, the Jing people's impression of the Yanjiao people would probably stop at the scene where a Yanjiao person created a huge hole in their central quagmire.
The active ground eyes in the quagmire were thrown into the air by the waves of mud, and then they all fell back into the quagmire.
Before one of the ground eyes fell into the quagmire, a hand suddenly reached out from the quagmire and caught the falling ground eye.
The moment it was caught, the ground eye was still spinning. The straw rope tied to the hand squeezed off the mud as it spun. It even created sparks as if it was burning. But in the next moment, the hand and the ground eye both fell into the quagmire. The sparks created by the friction between the hand and the ground eye were extinguished in the mud.
The splashing sound of the mud gradually subsided. The ground eyes that were supposed to be active tonight suddenly calmed down. No one knew if it was because they were scared or because they fainted from the impact just now.
Under the silver plate hanging high in the sky, the moonlight illuminated everything on the ground very clearly. After everything stopped, the mud in the quagmire stopped churning violently.
"What happened?"
The confused crowd looked at the shaman and saw that the shaman was looking in one direction. That was where Shao Xuan had entered the quagmire. There was a gentle slope that extended downwards from the shore. Shao Xuan had walked down from there.
Whoosh whoosh —
The sound of water came from the quagmire. The surface of the quagmire that had just settled down rippled. Obviously, someone was approaching from below.
A man covered in mud poked his head out of the water.
"That Yanjiao guy is coming out!"
"What did he do just now?"
"Look at his hand!"
As Shao Xuan slowly walked out of the slope, half of his body emerged from the quagmire. His hands were hanging by his side, one of them holding a shuttle-shaped object.
"It's a ground eye!"
"What kind of ground eye is that?"
"It's quite big, but I can't tell what kind it is."
Even the experienced Jing people couldn't come to a definite conclusion. They just stared at the ground eye in Shao Xuan's hand, then looked at the shaman, waiting for his evaluation.
The shaman's face was frozen.
Just now, Shao Xuan had created a big hole in the quagmire. His heart was still beating violently. When he grabbed the ground eye just now, he almost thought that Shao Xuan was going to destroy their fire seed. Before he could shout "Stop!", the quagmire returned to normal.
Seeing that Shao Xuan didn't do anything else and seemed like he was going to come out of the quagmire, the shaman let out a sigh of relief. But when he saw Shao Xuan walk out of the quagmire, his sigh was stuck in his throat again.
The shaman's three eyes stared at the ground eye in Shao Xuan's hand. To be honest, there was nothing special about this ground eye. He had caught a lot of special looking ground eyes in his years as a shaman, but this one made him react so strongly because he didn't see it with his third eye before it came out of the quagmire!
The shaman saw Shao Xuan walking, but he didn't see what Shao Xuan was holding until the ground eye appeared as Shao Xuan walked out of the quagmire.
Shock, disbelief. The shaman even suspected that there was something wrong with his third eye.
How could he not see it?
Thinking back to what Shao Xuan said before, he thought that the ground eye that was faster than the Universal Eyes must be this one.
Could it be that he was really blind? He must have been infected by the Ya people.
The shaman started doubting himself. Until now, he still couldn't see what was different about this ground eye.
Miu, who was originally in the house, was helped out. He also wanted to see if the ground eye Shao Xuan caught was the True Eye.
"Grand Elder, what kind of ground eye did you catch?" Kun Tu and the others surrounded them.
"I think it has to be at least the Universal Eyes!" Tuo said.
"Brother Xuan, hurry up and cut it open!" Guang and Duo Li urged him.
Shao Xuan didn't have the experience, so he walked in front of the shaman and said, "Please cut it open and see if it's the True Eye."
"Ah? Oh! "
The Jing shaman snapped out of his self-doubt and asked someone to fetch some tools from the house. He also asked someone to fetch a basin of water.
He carefully took the ground eye that Shao Xuan passed to him. The moment he turned his hand, the ground eye suddenly started spinning again. Luckily, the shaman was experienced. He grabbed it tightly with the rope wrapped around his hand and didn't give it a chance to escape.
This kind of spinning … was stronger than the Universal Eyes.
The shaman felt the strength in his hand and his heart started to move towards Shao Xuan's guess.
The knife used to cut open ground eyes was made from animal horns. It was definitely not as sharp as the weapons in Shao Xuan's hands, but the Jing people had been using their own tools for a long time and were used to it. Plus, this knife was specially made for cutting open ground eyes. It could be cut along the threads on the ground eye's shell, so the shaman didn't take the knife Shao Xuan passed to him.
He washed the ground eye in clean water. After washing it, the ground eye was no longer covered in mud, so it started spinning much slower.
The shaman held the ground eye in one hand and the knife in the other. He measured the ground eye's body with the knife, then cut into the middle of the ground eye.
The shaman used a lot of strength and his movements were fast. With one cut, a small crack appeared near the center of the ground eye. With the second cut, he could see the white meat inside.
Compared to the grey outer shell, the meat inside the ground eye was unbelievably white. Under the moonlight, it shone brightly.
After the second cut, the shaman took a deep breath. The people around him also became nervous. The third cut would reveal the truth. Whether it was the ground eye stone, the Universal Eyes, or the True Eye that Shao Xuan had been longing for, there would be an answer.
The Shao Xuan stared at the knife in the shaman's hand without blinking. With the third cut, the white meat was cut open, revealing the core of the ground eye.
"Huh?"
The shaman's hand paused.
The Shao Xuan looked over. In the meat that was cut open, there was no round bead. No matter what kind of ground eye stone it was, it was definitely not the colour of the ground eye meat.
However, there was no ground eye stone. Instead, there was a small round ball wrapped in white ground eye meat.
The ground eye meat wrapped around the ball showed signs of hardening, so it was not cut open by the shaman's third cut.
"What is this?"
The shaman had never seen anything like this before. He frowned and looked at the Shao Xuan. "Continue?"
"Continue. Cut it open and see what's inside," the Shao Xuan said. When they were at the bottom of the quagmire, it was the wrapped bead that had shone.
The shaman was even more careful this time. He cut open the hard meat wrapped around the ball bit by bit until a trace of black was revealed.
"True Eye!" The shaman almost shouted. He could only see it now! It was as if the meat wrapped around the ground eye stone had blocked the vision of his third eye, so he could not see the true face of the ground eye.
The moment the shaman spoke, the onlookers burst into an uproar.
"It's the True Eye!"
"The shaman said it's the True Eye!"
"I can't believe he actually caught it!
The people who were catching ground eyes in the outer quagmire heard the shouts. They put down what they were doing and ran over. It was rare to hear about someone catching a True Eye. Sometimes, it might not even be seen for a few years. Of course, they had to take a good look.
Seeing that more and more people were gathering around, the shaman waved his hand impatiently to chase them away. He thought of something and said ten names. "It's you guys this year. You can enter the quagmire in the center tonight to catch ground eyes."
The ten people who were named were overjoyed. They were not in a hurry to look at the True Eye. They hurried back to prepare their equipment for the quagmire. Who knew, they might be able to catch something good?
The shaman asked the Shao Xuan to go to the house to talk. It was too noisy here.
When he went over, the shaman was still thinking about how such a situation could happen. However, with Miu's previous example, the shaman quickly calmed down. It should not be a problem with his eyes. There were too many types of True Eyes. Perhaps he could only see a part of it.
After entering the house, the shaman continued to dissect the ground eye that he had not finished dissecting. The True Eye that he dissected was a pure black bead. It did not have the pupil like the ground eye stone, nor did it have the pointing function of the Universal Eye. It looked just like a black stone.
"This is the True Eye?" the Shao Xuan asked. It looked too normal and too small. The Universal Eye and the ground eye stone were at least the size of a quail egg. The one in front of him was not even a third of the size of the other two.
"Not bad. Why? Don't you think it looks like it? You'll know when it's time to merge. " The shaman inspected the True Eye that he had dissected and put it back into the ground eye meat. He then closed the outer shell of the ground eye and tied it with a rope to prevent the meat inside from showing through the cracks. After tying it up, the shaman put it into a large bamboo tube filled with mud.
"It will last longer if you put it in here. However, I still advise you to use it as much as possible. If you drag it out for too long, it will affect the merging process," the shaman said.
The Shao Xuan agreed. He would have more chances in the future, but if he missed out on Caesar's eye this time, he did not know when he would have another chance. After all, the shaman said that it was hard to find a True Eye. If the ground eye was not active during normal times, even a Universal Eye would be hard to find.
Even if the ground eye was preserved using the Jing tribe's method, the temperature was too high right now. He did not know how long it would last. It was better to go back as soon as possible.
The Shao Xuan asked the shaman about some things he needed to pay attention to, such as how to install the True Eye on a human or beast that had lost an eye, and whether he needed any medicine to help.
"You don't need anything else. Just feed the ground eye meat to it. It might help with the merging process. Speaking of which, I only made a small opening between my eyebrows and put the True Eye there, and it merged. " Speaking of this, the shaman was quite proud. He was one of the few people who managed to merge successfully. He was very talented.
"However, some people have a strong reaction. You can do whatever you want. If that person … that wolf has a strong reaction or even bleeds too much, stop the merging process. Even if you put the True Eye in, you have to dig it out," the shaman looked at the Shao Xuan seriously and reminded him again, "Some things cannot be forced."
"I understand," the Shao Xuan said seriously.
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