After an indeterminate amount of time, Wu Tao, who had been knocked unconscious, gradually began to regain some self-awareness. However, he could barely sense his own body's existence.
The only sensation he felt was a stinging pain from the third eye on his forehead.
"Third eye?"
"Ugh... what the hell?"
Discovering this, Wu Tao couldn't help but shiver. He vividly remembered that before he lost consciousness, the crimson eyeball had merged into his body, becoming his third eye.
Now, the first impression anyone would have of him would likely be that of a half-human, half-demon hybrid. That would be one thing; Wu Tao wasn't one to care too much about appearances. What Wu Tao worried about most was inadvertently incurring some terrifying curse. The thought made Wu Tao's expression darken.
"Swish!"
With a mere thought, his soul entered the third eye.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
"The Primordial Calamity, the War of Ten Thousand Races, my Nightmare clan shattered and on the brink of extinction..."
A vast and desolate sigh echoed continuously in the pitch-black space, seemingly piercing through millennia of time.
Who's there? Come out!
Wu Tao's soul condensed, and a chill ran down his spine. He scanned the dark space but saw no one.
The next moment, a colossal purple cat suddenly appeared. Its purple fur seemed to naturally manifest ripples of soul laws.
"Fortunate junior, you have accepted my Nightmare Eye and bear my karma. My bloodline descendants are now in your care. I entrust the continuation of my clan's bloodline to you. Please do not disappoint me..."
After speaking, everything returned to silence...
*Hoo!*
Wu Tao exhaled deeply. Before he could ponder further, a vast amount of information suddenly flooded his mind.
The next moment, Wu Tao completely fainted.
"Buzz..."
After an unknown period, Wu Tao jolted awake. His mind felt as if it had been stuffed with countless things, causing it to throb intensely.
"How long have I slept? Hasn't much changed in the Sea God's Ruins during this time?"
Wu Tao rubbed his eyes. His vision was still somewhat blurry, making it difficult to discern his surroundings.
Just as Wu Tao was about to stand up, his expression changed drastically.
The intense pain returned, and this time it was even worse, as if countless ants were gnawing at his body.
He couldn't help but crouch down, clutching his head with both hands.
Accompanying this severe pain, completely foreign memories appeared in Wu Tao's mind.
These scenes flashed before his eyes like a fast-forwarded movie.
The Primordial Ten Thousand Races, the Nightmare clan...
War...
Fragments of countless memories surged 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 finally be digested.
In the Primordial Era, countless powerful races and beings were born. Among them was a clan named Nightmare.
This clan was naturally endowed with extraordinary gifts, possessing the bloodline of three thousand demon gods. They were like kittens in their infancy, capable of transforming into human form when they grew up.
The Nightmare clan was extremely rare. They were born with the ability to absorb the power of dreams for cultivation and could transform into phantoms, seemingly on the verge of dissipating at any moment.
Their usual manifestation was that of a cat, with an eye-like mark on their foreheads.
Even such a reclusive race could not escape the devastating war of the Primordial Era. The entire Nightmare clan was defeated and perished, not even a single remnant soul escaping. They were annihilated, leaving behind only a seed.
In truth, for a race to survive and thrive in the world, besides its own strength and wisdom, the most crucial factor is its reproductive speed.
Otherwise, no matter how powerful and wise it is, it will eventually face destruction.
Since the creation of heaven and earth, the race that combined strength, wisdom, and reproductive speed most effectively would be humanity, which now dominates the world.
Although humanity is not at the pinnacle in terms of strength, wisdom, or reproductive speed, it has no significant weaknesses.
While the Primordial Ten Thousand Races were locked in a life-and-death struggle during the Primordial and Ancient Eras, inflicting heavy damage on each other,
The human race, originally inconspicuous in the Primordial Era, quietly rose in the Upper Ancient Era. By the current epoch, they had completely become the protagonists of the world.
Looking further ahead.
Wu Tao witnessed the war that swept across the entire world. He understood that the great battle between Qingzhou and the East Sea back then was merely child's play in the eyes of those Ten Thousand Races.
The wars between the Ten Thousand Races could shake the entire world, spanning billions of miles, terrifyingly affecting all known corners.
All of this filled Wu Tao with dread.
"Is this the power possessed by the Ten Thousand Races of the Primordial Era?"
"How could such terrifying races exist? Why were the ancestors of humanity able to stand out among the Ten Thousand Races?"
He saw countless strong races roaring towards the sky, countless powerful corpses falling from the air, and even heard the horns of world destruction.
Facing such a terrifying scene, he felt as insignificant as an insect.
At this moment, a meow echoed from his Sea of Consciousness.
Wu Tao sent his divine sense into his Sea of Consciousness, and a lazy, sleeping purple kitten appeared before him.
Wu Tao couldn't help but be stunned. What was going on?
As he was thinking, the purple kitten suddenly opened its eyes. Its small black nose twitched, and the next moment, with a whoosh, it swiftly flew towards Wu Tao's soul!
Before Wu Tao could react, the purple kitten pounced onto his soul and began licking his soul with its pink tongue.
"How dare you!"
Wu Tao's face darkened. He roared, and with a surge of mental energy, with a creak, he threw the purple kitten out and angrily said, "You beast, you're courting death!"
"Meow meow meow...!"
The purple kitten's two dark, round eyes looked at Wu Tao with a wronged expression.
"This connection is a life-bound symbiotic contract."
Silently sensing the faint connection between his 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 life-bound symbiotic contract imposed terrifying restrictions on both parties.
In Wu Tao's memory, such a contract was only encountered during illusionary reincarnations, like when he transformed into a Scarlet Blood Dragon and signed a similar contract with Xu Xiaomei.
Under this contract, two independent entities that establish a connection would share life and power, to the extent that if one died, the other would follow.
Carefully feeling the terrifying and familiar connection within him, Wu Tao wore a bitter smile.
This time, it was truly life for life, death for death.
"Meow meow meow..."
The purple kitten seemed anxious, looking up at Wu Tao with eager eyes, appearing very distressed.
Wu Tao listened for a while, and based on the connection of the life-bound contract, he could only make a general judgment.
"Meow meow, hello, my symbiotic partner. I am a descendant of the Nightmare clan, named Youmeng."
"I love to eat souls and can enter the Sea of Consciousness to directly devour them. Besides that, I also possess the innate ability of illusionary distortion."
...
Soul devouring, illusionary distortion.
Terrifying abilities.
Wu Tao was shocked. It can devour souls?
Damn it!
Did this little guy fly towards his soul just now because it wanted to eat his soul?
If he had been devoured just now, wouldn't he be finished?
No, according to the terrifying binding power of the life-bound contract, life for life and death for death, the purple kitten, or rather Youmeng, wouldn't be so foolish?
Wu Tao stared curiously at Youmeng, and Youmeng's cat-like eyes stared back at him.
After careful observation, Wu Tao realized that Youmeng was quite troublesome. It could enter the Sea of Consciousness, devour souls, and its body existed between the ethereal and solid states, making ordinary attacks ineffective against it.
The Nightmare clan was truly a magical race.
...
In the Tianshan Gorge, within a forest, Wu Tao was currently hiding inside a large, leafy tree.
The third eye on Wu Tao's forehead was wide open. He was now attempting to utilize its abilities.
Undoubtedly, with this third eye, Wu Tao's various abilities had taken a qualitative leap.
First, Wu Tao's vision, reaction speed, and other senses had all been newly enhanced.
For instance, in terms of vision, as long as he activated the third eye, he could see objects up to a thousand miles away without any obstructions in his line of sight.
Not only that, but his third eye could also penetrate the reality within ordinary objects, discern the authenticity of treasures, and most importantly, see through the flaws and loopholes of formations and restrictions.
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, his combat instincts, and so on.
In short, any aspect related to reaction speed had been greatly amplified by the activation of the third eye.
Just then, a Qi Condensation 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 blood-red electric light flashed.
In that instant, an invisible mental shockwave was emitted from his third eye, striking the Iron-beaked Vulture in the sky.
*Plop!*
The Iron-beaked Vulture let out a scream, its soul in disarray. It lost control in mid-air and the next moment, it plummeted to its death, its body shattering.
It wasn't Wu Tao's third eye that killed the Iron-beaked Vulture, but rather the mental shockwave that caused its soul to become chaotic, making it unable to control its body, leading to its self-inflicted death.
"Not bad. Killing without a trace. If this move were used in combat to disorient an opponent, even for a moment, it would be enough to decide life or death."
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