Chapter 459: Clearly Chu Chu looked perfectly normal, so why are her inner emotions so terrifying?
“Alright, you stand outside the Array and use your Celestial Eye on me,” Bai Feng said from inside a setup that only housed him, addressing Chu Chu outside. “Don’t just unleash your Celestial Eye power blindly—try mixing it up. For example, you can combine your Celestial Eye with Illusion Arts or the musical instrument you’ve recently been learning.”
“Hmm, got it.”
Chu Chu nodded, slowly removing the black eye mask that concealed her eyes. Beneath it, a pair of pitch-black pupils stared back.
“Eh? Your eyes…”
Bai Feng stared at her eyes for a few seconds. If he remembered correctly, Chu Chu’s old eyes used to hold a faint red hue.
Now, her eyes were pure black—completely black, as if she had absorbed all the surrounding light into a black hole. When he looked into her eyes, he felt an irresistible attraction, unable to look away.
“What’s wrong?” Chu Chu stretched out her hand to probe her eye corner, looking a bit puzzled.
“Do you usually take off your eye mask at home or check your eyes?”
Facing Bai Feng’s question, Chu Chu shook her head. “No, I’m used to wearing this mask daily, so I keep it on at home too.”
“Have you noticed any changes in your eyes lately?”
“Sometimes they feel a bit swollen, and when I practice, my eyes absorb some spiritual energy.”
Bai Feng lowered his head, deep in thought—It seems Chu Chu’s Celestial Eye differs slightly from Bai Yu Mo’s Celestial Bone. Not sure if it’s due to their different locations, or if her Celestial Eye is a result of some repair.
“Your current eyes are somewhat different from the ones I just treated,” Bai Feng shared his observations. “But I’m not sure what caused the change, whether it’s good or bad.”
Chu Chu’s expression grew serious upon hearing Bai Feng’s words.
“No need to worry too much. What we need to do now is help you become more familiar with your eyes. Maybe in this process, we’ll figure out what’s happening.”
“Yeah.”
“Let’s begin then.”
Due to the special change in Chu Chu’s Celestial Eye, Bai Feng activated the array at full power.
In the next moment, he noticed Chu Chu’s eyes seemed to turn into a vortex. Even with all his concentration, he experienced a brief dazzle, and a flood of negative emotions surged into his mind like sticky black mud.
Anger, frustration, jealousy, sadness, even greed and other desires—these emotions tore at his mind relentlessly. If he weren’t already in the Refinement Stage, he probably wouldn’t have endured long under the influence of the Celestial Eye.
“Bai Feng, are you okay?”
Chu Chu’s voice reached his ears. He rubbed his forehead, trying to shake off the overwhelming negative emotions.
“I’m fine.”
Bai Feng shook his head, silently muttering: So-called Celestial Eye, what’s with this ability—doesn’t seem very celestial at all…
But thinking about the group who established the Divine Monarch, he suddenly felt that this Celestial Eye was quite manageable.
“Maybe take a break first?” Chu Chu asked with concern.
“Sure, I’ll rest for a bit.”
Bai Feng didn’t refuse. He also needed time to sort through the emotions that had just flooded his mind.
Although the negative feelings were varied, some stood out—like frustration, as if repeatedly struck by something. The greed was noticeable too, but it wasn’t a desire for gold, silver, or treasures. No, it was tangled with other cravings…
After a few moments of pondering, he looked at Chu Chu and asked, “Recently, have you often felt lost or frustrated?”
“Ah… yes,” Chu Chu nodded, unconsciously twirling a strand of hair around her finger. “Is it… pretty obvious lately?”
Bai Feng didn’t answer, instead continuing to ask, “When you activated your Celestial Eye just now, were you thinking of anything specific?”
Chu Chu thought for a few seconds. “I released the power of the Celestial Eye, but when I did, some emotions inside me felt active.”
“Hmm…” He paused again, feeling a suspicion forming—perhaps the negative emotions and desires the Celestial Eye imposed on him were actually coming from Chu Chu herself. And recalling the huge killing intent he encountered when he helped her treat her Celestial Eye before, maybe the Eye was still absorbing her emotions even now?
“We’ll try a different approach,” he said, temporarily clearing his mind and turning his gaze to Chu Chu. “This time, you actively project a negative emotion onto me.”
“Okay, I’ll try!” Chu Chu replied somewhat uncertainly. “What negative emotion should I use?”
“Use your strongest current negative emotion.”
“Got it.”
Chu Chu focused her attention on her Celestial Eye. Just as she was about to unleash it, she hesitated.
What is her most intense negative emotion right now?
Murderous intent? That’s been buried deep in her heart all along. But over time, as her cultivation recovered and she saw hope for revenge, her murderous desire wasn’t as fierce as it had been years ago. Like a solid stone at the bottom of a vast sea, it didn’t surge like the crashing waves but remained deep beneath the surface.
Could it be frustration and loss? After a moment’s thought, Chu Chu dismissed that idea. There was one emotion even stronger than frustration and loss—desire.
And right now, she could feel that desire still growing…
Thankfully, she managed to keep her rationality and control herself, not letting her burgeoning desire influence her.
“I’m starting now. Be careful.”
As soon as the words left his mouth, Bai Feng looked into Chu Chu’s swirling black pupils and felt a sudden surge of intense desire. He wanted to pull her into his arms, even tie her up with ropes, to keep her forever by his side.
He subconsciously swallowed, resisting the urge to step back.
This desire—was it really directed at her?
Chu Chu seemed normal on the surface, wasn’t she? Why is her inner craving so terrifying?
And he hadn’t done anything to her—just healed her eyes, provided spiritual arts and cultivation environment, and still planned her revenge…
Hmm… Better focus on how to treat her psychological issues instead.
“Ba Feng? What’s wrong?” Chu Chu asked, puzzled.
His actions were just ordinary, but for some reason—perhaps psychological—he felt a hint of fear when he kept staring into those bottomless black eyes.
“It’s nothing, I’ve roughly understood,” Bai Feng said, shaking his head, hiding no abnormality. “Let’s move on to the next test.”
