Not long after, Wu Tao, who had been knocked unconscious, gradually began to regain some self-awareness, but he could barely feel the existence of his body.
The only sensation was a stinging pain from the third eye on his forehead.
"Third eye?"
"Ugh... what the heck?"
Discovering this, Wu Tao couldn't help but shiver. He suddenly remembered that before he fainted, the crimson eyeball had merged into his body, becoming his third eye.
Now, the first impression others would have of him would likely be that he was some kind of half-human, half-demon hybrid. That would be one thing, Wu Tao wasn't one to care too much about such things. What Wu Tao worried about most was inadvertently incurring some terrifying curse. Thinking of this, Wu Tao's expression turned grim.
"Shua!"
With a flicker of his mind, his divine soul actually entered the third eye.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
"The ancient great tribulation, the war of ten thousand races, my Nightmare clan shattered, on the brink of extinction..."
A vast and desolate sigh echoed endlessly in the pitch-black space, seemingly piercing through millennia of time.
"Who's there, come out!"
Wu Tao's mind tensed, and his body turned ice-cold. He scanned the dark space but saw no one.
The next moment, a ten-thousand-zhang purple cat suddenly appeared. The purple fur on its body spontaneously manifested ripples of soul laws.
"Fortunate junior, you have received my Nightmare Eye and bear my karma. My descendant is entrusted to you. The continuation of my clan's bloodline is also in your hands. Do not disappoint me..."
After speaking, everything returned to tranquility...
"Whoosh!"
Wu Tao breathed a sigh of relief. Before he could ponder further, a large amount of information suddenly appeared in his mind.
The next second, Wu Tao fainted completely.
"Buzz..."
Unbeknownst to how long had passed, Wu Tao suddenly awoke. His mind felt like it had been stuffed with countless things, causing an intense ache.
"How long have I slept? In such a long time, have there been significant changes in the Sea God's ruins?"
Wu Tao rubbed his eyes. His vision was still somewhat blurry, and he couldn't clearly see his surroundings.
Just as Wu Tao was about to stand up, his expression suddenly changed drastically.
The intense pain reappeared, and this time it was even worse, as if countless ants were tearing at his body.
He couldn't help but crouch down, clutching his head with both hands.
Along with this intense pain, a completely unfamiliar memory appeared in Wu Tao's mind.
Scene after scene flashed before his eyes, like a fast-forwarded movie.
The ancient ten thousand races, the Nightmare clan...
War...
Countless memory fragments flooded into Wu Tao's mind, and he could only grit his teeth and accept them as he passively absorbed them.
It took three days for these memories, which did not originally belong to him, to be finally digested.
In the ancient era, countless powerful races and beings were born. Among them was a clan called the Nightmare.
This clan was naturally gifted, possessing the bloodline of three thousand demon gods. In their youth, they were like kittens, and when they grew up, they could transform into human form.
The Nightmare clan was extremely scarce. They were naturally able to absorb dream energy to cultivate, and could also transform into phantoms, seeming as if they could dissipate at any moment.
Their usual form was that of a cat, and on their foreheads, they all had an eye-like marking.
Even such a reclusive race could not escape the brutal war of the ancient times. The entire Nightmare clan was defeated and perished, not even a trace of their souls escaped, leaving behind only a seed.
In fact, for a race to survive and thrive in the world, besides its own strength and wisdom, the most important factor was its reproductive speed.
Otherwise, no matter how powerful and intelligent they were, they would eventually face destruction.
And since the beginning of creation, the race that excelled most in the combination of strength, wisdom, and reproductive speed should be the Human race, which now dominates the world.
Although the Human race was not top-tier in terms of strength, wisdom, and reproductive speed, they had no obvious weaknesses.
While the ten thousand ancient races were locked in a life-and-death struggle during the ancient and desolate eras, gravely weakening each other,
the Human race, which was insignificant in the ancient era, quietly rose in the upper ancient era and has now become the protagonist of the world.
Looking further ahead.
Wu Tao then witnessed the war that swept across the entire world, and he understood that the great battle between Qingzhou and the East Sea back then was merely a minor skirmish in the eyes of those myriad races.
The war between the myriad races could stir the entire world, sweeping across hundreds of millions of miles, terrifyingly affecting all known corners.
All of this made Wu Tao tremble with fear.
"Is this the power possessed by the myriad races in the ancient era?"
"How could such terrifying races exist? Why were the ancestors of the Human race able to stand out among the myriad races?"
He saw countless powerful races roaring to the sky, countless powerful corpses falling from the sky, and he even heard the horns of world destruction.
Facing such a terrifying scene, he felt as insignificant as a bug.
And at this moment, a cat's meow sounded from his sea of consciousness.
Wu Tao extended his divine sense into his sea of consciousness, and a lazy purple kitten lying asleep in his sea of consciousness appeared before Wu Tao's eyes.
Wu Tao was stunned for a moment. What was going on?
As he was thinking, the purple kitten suddenly opened its eyes. Its tiny black nose twitched, and the next moment, with a whoosh, it rapidly flew towards Wu Tao's divine soul!
Before Wu Tao could react, the purple kitten pounced onto his divine soul and extended its pink tongue, licking his divine soul.
"How dare you!"
Wu Tao's face darkened at this sight. He roared, and with a movement of his mental power, with a creak, he threw the purple kitten out, saying angrily, "You beast, you're courting death!"
"Meow meow meow...!"
The purple kitten looked at Wu Tao with its two dark, round eyes, appearing very wronged.
"This connection is a soul-bound symbiotic contract."
Quietly sensing the faint connection between his divine soul and the purple kitten, and recalling the words of the mysterious being in the dark space, Wu Tao couldn't help but frown.
This soul-bound symbiotic contract imposed a terrifying constraint on both parties.
In Wu Tao's memory, such a contract was only similar to the one he signed with Xu Xiaomei when he reincarnated as a Scarlet Blood Dragon in the Illusionary Realm.
Under this contract, two independent individuals who establish a connection will share life and power, to the point where if one dies, the other will also perish.
Carefully sensing the terrifying and familiar connection within his body, Wu Tao revealed a wry smile on his face.
This time, it was truly a case of "one life, one death."
"Meow meow meow..."
The purple kitten seemed anxious, looking eagerly at Wu Tao, appearing very worried.
After listening for a while, Wu Tao could only make a general judgment based on the connection of the soul-bound contract.
"Meow meow, hello, my symbiotic partner. I am a descendant of the Nightmare clan, and my name is Youmeng."
"I love to eat divine souls and can enter the sea of consciousness to directly devour them. Besides that, I also have the talent for illusionary distortion."
...
Devouring divine souls, illusionary distortion.
Very terrifying abilities.
Wu Tao was shocked upon hearing this. It can devour divine souls?
Damn it!
Did this little guy fly towards his divine soul just now to eat it?
If he had been devoured just now, wouldn't he be finished?
No, according to the terrifying binding force of the soul-bound contract, one life, one death, would the purple kitten, or rather Youmeng, be so stupid?
Wu Tao stared at Youmeng curiously, and Youmeng also stared back at him with her feline eyes.
After careful observation, Wu Tao discovered that Youmeng was very troublesome. She could enter the sea of consciousness, devour souls, and her physical body was in a state between solid and ethereal, making ordinary attacks ineffective against her.
The Nightmare clan was truly a wondrous race.
...
In the Sky Mountain Ravine, within a forest, Wu Tao was currently hiding in a lush, leafy tree.
The third eye on Wu Tao's forehead was wide open. He was now trying to utilize the abilities of the third eye.
Undoubtedly, with this third eye, Wu Tao's various abilities had reached a qualitative leap.
Firstly, Wu Tao's vision, reaction time, and other abilities had all been newly enhanced.
For instance, in terms of vision, as long as he opened the third eye, he could see objects a thousand miles away if there were no obstructions in his line of sight.
Not only that, but his third eye could also penetrate the reality of ordinary objects, discern the authenticity of treasures, and most importantly, it could see through the flaws and loopholes in formations and barriers.
Following that, Wu Tao's innate five senses were also greatly enhanced by the activation of the third eye. This included his ability to perceive danger and his combat instincts.
In short, anything related to reaction time had been greatly enhanced by the activation of the third eye.
Just then, a Qi Refining stage Iron-beaked Vulture flew from the front of the mountain and arrived above Wu Tao's head.
"Hmm?"
Wu Tao's third eye opened, and a streak of bloody light flashed.
At that instant, a wave of invisible mental shock was emitted from his third eye, striking the Iron-beaked Vulture in the sky.
*Plop!*
The Iron-beaked Vulture shrieked in terror and lost its balance in mid-air. The next second, it fell to its death, its body shattered.
It was not Wu Tao's third eye that killed the Iron-beaked Vulture, but rather the mental shock that caused the Vulture's soul to become disoriented, unable to control its body, and thus it fell to its death.
"Not bad, killing without a trace. If this move were used in combat to disorient an opponent, even for a brief moment, it would be enough to decide life and death."
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