From the perspective of the Guan Gong Eyes...

His movement looked more like dragging an already-zoomed-in picture on a screen with a single finger.

The image moved in one direction across the phone screen, rather than the image being "zoomed in."

This...

This clearly deviated from the spatial relationship Jiang Ye himself perceived!

Logically speaking, since he could see his complete relief sculpture face on this black wall...

Then the direction his face was pointing should be "away from" the black wall!

How could moving forward result in the white relief sculpture still moving across the plane of the black wall?

So...

It was indeed the entire spatial rules that were problematic!

In Jiang Ye's mind, he contemplated various possibilities for spatial rules like "compression," "folding," "projection," and so on...

It was also in this distracted state that he continued to slowly move in what he perceived as "straight ahead."

He was also wondering... 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

Could he also see a relief sculpture image of the Guan Gong Tattoo on the black wall?

Originally, he thought that since moving forward clearly didn't lead him out of the black wall, then he probably wouldn't be able to see any image related to the Guan Gong Tattoo on the black wall...

However, to his surprise—

Just by walking slowly like this, suddenly, in a transitional moment...

He actually saw that pair of red dots on the black wall!

Yes, not the complete Guan Gong Tattoo image, just a pair of red dots.

And, quite coincidentally, that pair of red dots didn't appear in a blank area of the "black wall."

Instead, they appeared directly in the eye sockets of the white relief sculpture figure on the "black wall"!

For a moment, it looked exactly as if the originally white relief sculpture eyes of the white relief had suddenly turned red!

This...

Jiang Ye was just startled by this change, not yet having time to think it through.

Suddenly, he felt a sharp pain in his brain.

The vision shared with the Guan Gong Eyes abruptly vanished!

In that moment, Jiang Ye was even afraid he would fall into a distracted state like Guan Ce had.

But he didn't...

He only felt a slight burning sensation in his eyes, and then his vision returned to normal.

Not the normal of the Guan Gong Eyes vision.

But the original normal.

He saw the holy white radiance of the 【Salvation Domain】 enveloping his body, saw the surrounding darkness...

Except...

The Guan Gong Tattoo that had been floating directly in front of his field of vision before was gone!

Jiang Ye's heart skipped a beat in alarm, but then he suddenly saw the messages Li Ku had sent during his "distracted" period of sharing vision with the Guan Gong Eyes:

【Guiwen, what exactly happened to you?? Don't walk forward anymore, you're about to collide with the Guan Gong Tattoo!】

【What's going on? You... used some method to subdue the Guan Gong Tattoo?】

【Was it you who subdued it? Or did it parasitize onto you?? Are you still Guiwen??】

Jiang Ye checked the messages and immediately replied:

【I'm fine, what did you see just now?】

【What do you mean I subdued the Guan Gong Tattoo? Did you see the Guan Gong Tattoo burrow into my body? But on me... there's no Guan Gong Tattoo?】

A series of messages. Li Ku also didn't know what was up with Jiang Ye's "distraction," but he replied immediately:

【I saw that after you and that Guan Gong Tattoo made eye contact, you suddenly became distracted... and Jiang Ye and Guan Ce, whose body you successfully seized, also had vacant eyes, like they'd lost their souls.】

【After that, it continued like this for a while, and then you suddenly, like you were possessed, started walking towards the direction of the floating Guan Gong Tattoo...】

【The messages I sent to stop you were sent at this time, but you seemed to have no reaction at all.】

【Soon, you, possessed like this, walked straight into the Guan Gong Tattoo...】

【I thought something was definitely going to happen, but unexpectedly—the red Guan Gong Eyes of the Guan Gong Tattoo and your pair of out-of-control red eyes, these two pairs of eyes, directly merged into one pair of eyes...】

【Then, the Guan Gong Tattoo disappeared, and you regained consciousness from your distracted state.】

【On your body, there is indeed no Guan Gong Tattoo, but it seems to have merged into your red eyes through that pair of red eyes...】

This...

Jiang Ye was shocked for a moment, then immediately thought of the scene he saw from the Guan Gong Eyes' perspective...

The white relief sculpture's eyes turning red...

That moment should have been when he "collided" with the Guan Gong Tattoo.

Afterwards, the Guan Gong Eyes directly merged into his eyes...

Jiang Ye, to be precise, the Ji Zixuan clone, raised his hand and touched his eyes.

Indeed, like after experiencing a burning sensation, these eyes had a somewhat different feeling.

Hard to describe, unclear, but it seemed he couldn't directly use the vision of the Guan Gong Eyes...

Jiang Ye tried to operate these eyes, and suddenly, with a thought.

He pressed his palm against his eyeballs, then slowly moved it away...

That pair of red eyeballs in the eye sockets actually followed his palm, leaving the eye sockets!

A pair of eerie red eyeballs was just "dug out" by him from his own eye sockets?

This...

Jiang Ye was amnesiac, after all, and didn't understand many things.

So he asked Li Ku: 【By the way, can Glyph Pattern abilities... manifest like this?】

Li Ku, for some reason, didn't reply directly.

Instead, he remained silent for quite a while before replying: 【This red eyeball of yours... what does it feel like when you hold it in your hand?】

Huh? What does it feel like?

Jiang Ye was surprised by Li Ku's point of focus, but he replied directly: 【No pain, no bloody smell, the eyeball's texture isn't slippery or soft and greasy, instead it's hard, feels a bit metallic...】

He just gave a detailed description based on his own perception.

Li Ku was silent again for quite a while. Jiang Ye started to feel something was off, so he asked again:

【Is there a problem with this red eyeball?】

【Or, normal players' eyeballs don't detach like this?】

Li Ku's emotions were very subtle at this moment. After adjusting his emotions in silence, he replied truthfully:

【Earlier on the top floor, you should have also heard my conversation with Guan Ce—】

【In the world outside this instance, players like me all come with Prison watches.】

【And another type of player living in the Qiankun Land can easily Erase us watch-wearing players.】

【And the characteristic of that type of player is precisely having a kind of mechanical eyeball called 'Enforcers'!】

Hearing this, Jiang Ye immediately reacted—

【Mechanical eyeballs? So I've obtained mechanical eyeballs? Using them... can I Erase watch-wearing players??】

Li Ku immediately corrected him: 【Not necessarily.】

【Normal Sun People players' mechanical eyeballs are all black. Even if there are eyeball mutations, they're pure white.】

【A red mechanical eyeball like yours seems to be the first case...】

In Li Ku's heart, he thought again of the possibility of the "moon infant."

It's just, he previously suspected Jiang Ye was a moon infant...

But now, Guiwen... could he be a moon infant?

This red mechanical eyeball felt very unusual!

Li Ku probingly asked: 【What effects does this red mechanical eyeball of yours have?】

Clearly, what he was worried about in his heart was the red mechanical eyeball's Erasure Effect on Moon People players.

Even though he doesn't wear a watch now...

But that fear seems deeply etched into the bone marrow of Moon People players.

In fact, what Li Ku was truly worried about was—

If this red eyeball's effect was even stronger than the black Enforcer eyeballs...

For a fleeting moment, Li Ku even had a stray thought.

But it was just for a moment, mainly because the current "Ji Zixuan" was still enveloped by the effects of the 【Salvation Domain】.

He couldn't really do anything to him anyway.

Jiang Ye could probably guess Li Ku's state of mind.

This feeling was probably like—a person holding the button to destroy the world.

Even if you know this person is harmless, the effect of that button would still inspire fear.

So, Jiang Ye wasn't sure if Li Ku would believe his reply, but he still stated:

【To be honest, I don't know what effects this thing has...】

【Oh no, it seems to have one effect, the one Guan Ce demonstrated before exploring the Underground Palace—】

【This eyeball can divide infinitely.】

Saying this, Jiang Ye directly stuffed the eyeballs back into his eye sockets.

It looked like he was back to being the normal Red-Eyed Ji Zixuan.

Then this time, his palms covering his eyes didn't move directly outward, but moved to the left and right respectively.

This time, a pair of red eyeballs remained in his eye sockets.

But another pair of red eyeballs appeared on his palms...

This action was performed for Li Ku to see.

He explained further: 【Just like this, I seem to be able to use this pair of red eyeballs to differentiate many such eyeballs.】

【It looks like exploring the Underground Palace next will probably be much more convenient.】

Jiang Ye's thinking was simple—Li Ku's original goal could now be achieved.

However, Li Ku, watching this scene, was deeply shocked once again!

Another possibility suddenly flashed through his mind—

Could it be that he had misunderstood before...

Guiwen wasn't a moon infant, but a sun infant?!

Yes, Li Ku thought of the "sun infant."

Even though, in reality, there was no system-wide announcement or other evidence proving the existence of sun infants.

But this red mechanical eyeball's infinite differentiation effect was indeed associated with the "sun"!

Li Ku himself, although a Moon People player, also had some understanding of the Sun People of the Qiankun Land.

He had also been curious and inquired about the mechanical eyeballs of Sun People players, and those Enforcer eyeballs that filled the Qiankun Land...

How exactly were these eyeballs formed?

The final message he investigated was—

The birth of mechanical eyeballs was related to the "sun" of the Qiankun Land.

One of the theories was...

The "sun" of the Qiankun Land was like a giant mechanical eyeball.

And it was the "father" of all mechanical eyeballs.

That is to say, all mechanical eyeballs could be understood as being infinitely differentiated from that mysterious "sun"...

And this bizarre red eyeball actually also had the ability of infinite differentiation!

Didn't that look like a weakened version of the "sun"?

So, speculating it was a "sun infant" didn't seem excessive, right?

Li Ku's heart was deeply shaken.

It was only at this moment that he realized...

The secrets on Guiwen and Jiang Ye might be even more terrifying than he imagined!

Hiss...

Du Yuheng and Zhou Qiming, Lin Dong and Guiwen, them using "Jiang Ye" as a code word probably had a deeper meaning!

And the Jiang Ye mentioned by players in this instance...

After a period of contemplation, Li Ku decided to name this hidden instance behind the Blood Pool Elevator—the Jiang Ye Instance!

Thinking this, his attention fell back onto the genuine Jiang Ye.

At the same time, he sent a message to Ji Zixuan: 【Now, shall I let you out?】

Jiang Ye thought for a moment and replied: 【Can I leave a pair of eyeballs to look around in your space?】

【...】

Li Ku was silent for a while, but ultimately agreed: 【Alright.】

And so, Jiang Ye left a pair of differentiated red eyeballs in this dark space.

And Jiang Ye, Ji Zixuan, and Guan Ce who were inside the space...

These three clones were then sent out of the dark space by Li Ku.

When entering the dark space before, Jiang Ye only felt his vision go completely black, seeing nothing.

But now, upon leaving, using the light of the 【Salvation Domain】, he saw that in this darkness, black threads seemed to materialize out of thin air.

These threads were as thin as strands of hair, yet seemed tougher than iron wires.

Even though he hadn't seen Li Ku use these black threads to kill, Jiang Ye had a premonition—

These black threads could probably easily turn any object into meat paste!

And very likely, it wouldn't require much force...

Because Jiang Ye realized belatedly that the black threads materializing in this darkness were, in essence, perhaps the same as the black wall.

That is to say...

On the surface, it just looked sharp as a blade.

But in reality, when it killed, it might be utilizing some bizarre spatial rule!

Jiang Ye suspected—

Li Ku using these black threads to explore the Underground Palace seemed simple.

But other players wanting to replicate it probably couldn't achieve it at all.

If it were ordinary rope, or thread-type items, they probably couldn't freely shuttle through the gaps between the steps!

So...

Li Ku, with this black thread ability, was practically the chosen one specifically for exploring this Underground Palace!

These thoughts flashed through his mind in an instant, and Jiang Ye's three clones were all released from Li Ku's crack eyes.

It was also at this time that Jiang Ye immediately discovered—

That pair of red eyeballs left in the dark space was also in a "disconnected" state with him.

His main red eyes could originally share the perspective of other differentiated eyes.

But the dark space seemed to have a special barrier separating it from the outside world, causing the connection between eyeballs, and the connection between clones, to fail!

However, he didn't reveal this to Li Ku, instead directly sending Li Ku a message asking:

【Earlier on the top floor, when you told Guan Ce and the others about your experience of accidentally entering this instance, did you hide any particularly special circumstances?】

【I now strongly suspect—the bizarre space of this Underground Palace staircase seems to have been prepared for you.】

【Or rather, only your black thread ability can explore this Underground Palace staircase that seems to form a complex tree-like structure.】

Seeing him say this, Li Ku immediately guessed—he had probably glimpsed a hint of the black threads' secret.

After thinking for a moment, he shared with Jiang Ye the matter of obtaining the mysterious cross on the 44th floor of the Blood Pool Elevator.

Of course, this included the initial cross shadow phantom, and the relief sculpture images to which the iron chains on it extended...

The cross...

The relief sculpture...

There really was a connection!

Jiang Ye's heart pounded with shock. Subconsciously, he immediately pressed: 【What kind of images did those relief sculptures you saw specifically form?】