The Evil Eye was an extremely strange type of spiritual-attributed spirit beast.
Its torso could be described as nothing more than a grotesque vertical pupil directly connected to a massive brain.
Beneath it grew clusters of writhing tentacles.
By the diameter of that vertical pupil, as well as the number of tentacles, one could roughly judge the strength of an Evil Eye.
And deep within the pitch-black Evildemon Forest below…
A silver-white Evil-Eyed Tyrant floated silently between the trees. Its vertical pupil was over three meters in diameter, and beneath it dangled sixteen silver-white tentacles.
That eye was tightly shut, as though it were resting.
But as Ye Yu drew near, the Evil-Eyed Tyrant stirred.
It seemed to sense his presence, and in the next moment, a vast wave of spiritual power surged outward, reverberating into a chilling spiritual voice.
"Human, leave at once!"
"This place is not for your kind to tread!"
The sinister voice rang out in Ye Yu's mind.
The source was obvious—the silver-white Evil-Eyed Tyrant had opened its massive vertical pupil.
Ye Yu, however, only smiled faintly.
Transforming into a flash of lightning, he descended lightly to the ground. With a mere thought, he summoned forth the Blue Silver Spirit Jade Tree Martial Soul.
Two purple, four black, and three red Spirit Rings rose up in succession, nine rings gleaming with dazzling light.
In the next instant, countless translucent crystal-blue roots erupted from the ground, spreading wildly underground before bursting upward, rushing to coil around the Evil-Eyed Tyrant.
"What!!"
The silver-white Evil-Eyed Tyrant was instantly struck with horror as its gaze fell upon the nine rings beneath Ye Yu's feet.
Such a Spirit Ring configuration… it exceeded everything it had ever known.
This human is not someone I can fight!
Terrified, the Evil-Eyed Tyrant immediately sought to flee, intending to seek the protection of its father—the Evil-Eyed Tyrant Emperor.
But it was too late.
The Evil-Eyed Tyrant unleashed a storm of spiritual power, a raging psychic tempest meant to crush Ye Yu.
Yet Ye Yu stood unmoved, his expression calm.
Years of cultivating the Inner Core Method and the Purple Demon Eye, consuming the immortal herb Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass Dew, and ceaselessly tempering his second Martial Soul, Spirit Eyes, had given him unfathomable soul strength and spiritual power.
The Evil-Eyed Tyrant's spiritual storm was meaningless before him.
And for a spiritual beast whose only true power lay in its spiritual attacks, this meant its fate was already sealed.
Under the frenzied tightening of the Blue Silver Spirit Jade Tree's crystalline roots, the enormous silver-white Evil-Eyed Tyrant was bound like a dumpling.
Its grotesque brain and vertical pupil were wrapped tightly, while the sixteen thrashing tentacles struggled madly but to no avail.
Then, with a thought, Ye Yu transformed the binding roots into razor-sharp crystalline spears, which pierced cleanly through the Evil-Eyed Tyrant 's body, ending its life.
The enormous vertical pupil dimmed, its vitality dissipating.
Countless scarlet motes of light drifted out from the corpse, coalescing above into a scarlet-red hundred-thousand-year Spirit Ring.
At the same time, a silver-white, eye-shaped Spirit Bone dropped out.
As with the Mirror Beast, the rarity of the Evil Eye species meant it could produce a special drop.
This hundred-thousand-year Tyrant had indeed exploded into an External Spirit Bone – Vertical Eye.
Still, although this was a valuable find, Ye Yu's eyes remained calm.
His true target was not merely this Evil-Eyed Tyrant, but its father—the Evil-Eyed Tyrant Emperor, known as the Evil Emperor.
That Emperor would almost certainly produce a superior version of this External Spirit Bone.
Thus, Ye Yu simply stored away the Evil-Eyed Tyrant's Vertical Eye bone, intending to decide later whom he might gift it to.
As the hundred-thousand-year Spirit Ring above solidified, Ye Yu sat cross-legged beside the corpse and began circulating Mysterious Heaven Skill.
The glowing ring descended, and he drew it onto himself.
With his physical endurance and overwhelming spiritual strength, the absorption was smooth and effortless.
Moments later, he had fully refined it—
and thus gained the Seventh Spirit Ability of his second Martial Soul, Spirit Eyes: Spirit Eyes True Body!
Activating this Seventh Spirit Ability caused all spiritual-type abilities' power to triple.
Cooldowns were erased, and spirit power consumption was halved.
Its strength was nothing short of terrifying.
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Meanwhile, in the heart of the Evildemon Forest…
The moment Ye Yu slew the silver-white Evil-Eyed Tyrant , an ancient existence stirred.
From the forest's deepest depths, a gargantuan vertical pupil—over three hundred meters across—suddenly opened.
From its base dangled eighty-one colossal tentacles, each more than five hundred meters long.
A tidal wave of rage-laden spiritual energy erupted.
"Who dares… WHO dares kill my child!"
"Courting death!!"
Fury shook the heavens as the Evil-Eyed Tyrant Emperor—the Evil Emperor—rose into the sky, streaking toward Ye Yu's location with world-shaking speed.
At that same time, not far from Ye Yu's position…
Three powerful Spirit Douluos were assisting a handsome young man dressed in golden imperial robes, with flowing black hair, in hunting down a forty-thousand-year Blazing Flame Hawk.
That youth was none other than the current Crown Prince of the Sun Moon Kingdom—Xu Tianchen.
Back at Ye Yu's side, the absorption was complete.
He tested the effect of his new Seventh Spirit Ability, Spirit Eyes True Body, and found it extraordinary.
Satisfied, he prepared to seek out the Evil-Eyed Tyrant Emperor.
For his eighth and ninth Spirit Rings, Ye Yu already had three potential targets in mind: the Evil-Eyed Tyrant Emperor, the Ten-Thousand Beast King, and the Mermaid Princess.
But first—he would deal with the Emperor.
Yet just as he readied himself to fly deeper into the forest, Ye Yu felt a violent, oppressive spiritual wave surging toward him from afar.
It could only be one being.
His slaying of the silver-white Evil-Eyed Tyrant had drawn out its enraged father.
The Evil-Eyed Tyrant Emperor was coming.
Ye Yu merely smiled faintly.
He felt no fear, only anticipation.
He remained where he was, calmly waiting.
Within minutes, under the gaze of his Spirit Eyes Martial Soul amplified by the Purple Demon Eye, Ye Yu clearly saw it:
Far above the Evildemon Forest loomed a colossal crimson vertical eye, over three hundred meters wide, with eighty-one massive tentacles writhing below—each spanning hundreds of meters.
The Evil-Eyed Tyrant Emperor had arrived.
It had not even closed the distance before fury consumed it.
Sensing the aura of its slain child lingering on Ye Yu, the Emperor erupted.
Its colossal pupil radiated waves of soul-crushing spiritual energy, sweeping across the forest like a tsunami, shattering trees to dust with psychic force.
"Human!"
"You dared harm my offspring—prepare to die!!"
The deafening roar shook the forest.
Not far away, Xu Tianchen and his three imperial protectors turned pale.
"Evil Eye Emperor!"
"Who… who could possibly have provoked it to such wrath?!"