"Cough, cough..."
With his throat locked by the corpse's hand, Li Yaotong tried desperately to struggle, but to no avail. He could only weakly flail his arms and legs as his complexion gradually turned from rosy to pale, with his eyes bulging outward.
Li Yaotong glared furiously at Le Le with his three eyes, completely unprepared for him to strike before their plan was fully successful!
"Brother Li, thank you for your help during this time, which allowed our plan to proceed very successfully. Now, please do me one last favor!"
Le Le spoke in a cold tone, as another icy, stiff, withered hand covered in corpse spots stretched out from his embrace, slowly reaching out. Its three fingers formed into a claw, aiming for the vertical pupil on Li Yaotong's forehead that was about to split.
"Clack!"
The icy claw touched Li Yaotong's brow and eye socket. The dark nails slightly indented, and a stream of fresh blood immediately flowed from Li Yaotong's forehead.
Running down his nose bridge and dripping onto the ground.
How could Li Yaotong want to help Le Le with this favor? His vertical pupil in the forehead was the repository of his entire cultivation, linked with his life. Once removed, death was certain!
He struggled frantically, trying to escape from there, to expose Le Le's conspiracy to everyone!
However, the demons currently under Li Yaotong's control were only three in number, which was already a struggle. If not for the power of the Demon Eye, he feared he wouldn't have been able to control even a single demon.
And Le Le, for some reason, had managed to control more than a dozen demons in just a few days. His flesh and blood entirely transformed, he was almost indistinguishable from a real demon!
Because of the demons' law, he had absolutely no ability to retaliate against Le Le!
"Hiss!"
A hissing sound followed as the claw that touched the spot on Li Yaotong's forehead abruptly dug inside, and more blood flowed out from Li Yaotong's vertical pupil in his eye socket!
As the vertical pupil was attacked, Li Yaotong's body tensed up instantly, and he struggled no more.
"Clatter..."
The corpse hand's three fingers completed their deep penetration into Li Yaotong's vertical eye socket, slightly twisted and turned, and with a final clatter, he plucked out the vertical pupil that could peek into the strands of the future!
A Demon Eye was extracted by Le Le from Li Yaotong's forehead, tearing apart the nerve fibers, yet its pupil did not scatter, losing focus, but instead, became more agile, emitting an ominous red light.
As if freed from a burdensome host, it began exhibiting even greater power!
"Splatter!"
Having successfully obtained Li Yaotong's Demon Eye, the corpse hand constricting Li Yaotong's neck retracted, and Li Yaotong fell weakly from mid-air.
He crumpled limply onto the ground.
Deprived of the Demon Eye, which was crucial to his life, Li Yaotong's vitality leaked away just like the blood constantly seeping from the eye sockets on his forehead. His pupils dilated, gradually losing focus.
Yet still, as a being of the God Realm, he was not so fragile as to die on the spot!
Li Yaotong lay limp on the ground, gazing blankly at the ink-black sky, recalling his recent dealings with Paradise Lost, their plot to save Xiang Mantang, and the unleashing of a demon sealed for thousands of years.
He thought himself Omniscient, lacking nothing in schemes, believing that even if he cooperated with the treacherous Paradise Lost, he would be the last to laugh, but alas...
Too clever by half, it cost dear life a life!
As Li Yaotong's consciousness gradually began to fade, a verse suddenly crossed his mind:
Occasionally opening the Heavenly Eye to observe the earthly world, pity that one is merely a figure within that view!
"Hehe... hehehe..."
Li Yaotong broke into a tragic laughter.
He thought with his Demon Eye, gifted to peer into the myriad futures of all beings and foresee everything under heaven, he could see everything. Yet, he couldn't foresee his own future...
With a tragic smile, Li Yaotong had no power to turn the situation around. His laughter gradually ceased, and his vitality completely scattered!
Le Le, after using the corpse hand to extract the demon eye capable of peering into the Heavenly Mechanism from Li Yaotong, never glanced at the struggling Li Yaotong on the ground again.
He watched as the demon eye gradually regained its vitality, its malevolent red glow intensifying. A smile appeared on his face, and then, controlling the corpse hand, he slowly brought it towards his own forehead.
As soon as the demon eye was brought to Le Le's forehead and touched his skin, it was as if a sharp sword had split open a seam at his forehead, and then with a swish, the demon eye burrowed into Le Le's forehead.
Under the power of the demon eye, Le Le's forehead was quickly transformed into a vertical, eerie eye socket, making the embedded demon eye even more animated.
"Hahaha..."
Le Le laughed heartily, saying, "This feeling is really nice. I finally understand why Li Yaotong always acted like he had the world in his grasp!"
After the demon eye merged with him, countless fragmented visions appeared before him, pertaining to future events.
Of course, the future is elusive and can change at any time, but as long as he could grasp even a single thread of it, many things could be greatly influenced!
"Hum..."
Le Le then used the power of the demon eye to capture a fragment of a vision, concerning the events that Mu Jinyu, Sheng Rulai, Ren Xiaoyao, Reinhardt, and others would encounter shortly after entering the Spirit Communicative Ghost School.
He looked at these visions, sometimes furrowing his brows and sometimes sneering. Finally, after finishing, he laughed out loud, and a flash of purplish-red light enveloped his body, and he disappeared from the rooftop.
The body of Li Yaotong lying beside him, with Le Le's departure, was suddenly nibbled upon by some invisible creature, and soon, only a trail of blood remained on the spot.
By then, even if someone came to the rooftop, they wouldn't know who had died there!
...
On this side.
Mu Jinyu, with the help of the relic and the formation, finally managed to mass-produce the Gold Inlaid Jade Magical Instruments with the cooperation of the Arhats!
"Very good, it really works!"
Mu Jinyu, seeing this, finally let out a long sigh of relief.
Originally, although he guessed that with the help of the relic, it was possible to mass-produce protective talismans on an assembly line, he couldn't be certain of success until the experimental results were out.
Now that it had succeeded, he naturally heaved a long sigh of relief.
"Next, I will arrange for manpower to establish a factory here. By then, I will trouble all of you masters to help create molds for the evil-warding magical implements so that we can really free up our hands from constant manual production..."
Mu Jinyu said to the Arhats with a smile.
The formation paired with the relic proved that the jade engraved with evil repelling runes could be activated as an evil-warding magical implement, but to achieve assembly line production, that was not enough.
After all, creating molds for the evil-warding runes is not a simple matter; it also takes considerable effort to complete.
Only then could a piece of quality jade be sent on the assembly line, directly engraved by a laser with dense evil-warding runes, and then illuminated by a Primordial Gathering Formation powered by the relic under Buddha's Light Shines Everywhere, completely activating those evil-warding runes to become qualified protective talismans!
"Naturally…" Arhat said with a smile and a nod.
Mu Jinyu was about to say something more and was preparing to leave since, without the repression of the relic, he might harm others at any moment.
"Beep beep..."
At that moment, the message alert tone of his cellphone rang.
He took out his phone, unlocked it, and immediately, no longer engaging in conversation with the Arhats, said, "Masters, there has been a situation in the Capital City, I need to go handle it now; continue with your work!"
After speaking, he hurriedly left, heading towards the location of the school Li Yaotong had sent him to!