novelraw Chapter 803 - 764: Exploring History
Chapter 803 - 764: Exploring History
At this moment, Huang Yi could clearly feel a pulling force. This eye seemed like a spring, absorbing all the magic elements and spiritual energy between heaven and earth.
It appeared that the water sphere created by the Tidal Calling Siren Princess dissipated precisely because of this eye.
"Let’s take a look around!" Huang Yi patted Little Dragon’s head, preparing to scout the area behind the eye.
Soon, Little Dragon carried Huang Yi to the back of the giant eye, avoiding its gaze.
As they circled to the rear of the giant eye, Huang Yi was startled upon seeing the scene behind it!
Behind the eye was a black void vortex that continuously rotated, absorbing all magic elements or anything with spiritual essence—it looked exactly like a black hole!
At the moment, Huang Yi was very close to the black hole, his entire field of vision completely consumed by it!
His own gaze involuntarily rotated along with the vortex, and soon he began to feel a mysterious sense of dread, followed by dizziness and nausea.
This black hole seemed like a massive nightmare, ready to devour everything about him, pulling his very soul into oblivion!
Huang Yi shook his head and looked up at the azure sky, finally dispersing the mysterious feeling.
The scene before his eyes was undeniably bizarre. This small island, lost amidst the vast ocean, was as elusive as finding a needle in a haystack. Even Huang Yi had only been able to find it thanks to the Tidal Calling Siren Princess’s perception of the Divine Artifact Fragment; otherwise, he would have missed it entirely.
On this barren, isolated island, a massive eye lay buried, absorbing all elemental and spiritual energy of the world. Scattered treasures further added to the mysteries plaguing Huang Yi.
After pondering for a while, Huang Yi decided to activate a divine skill to investigate—Eye of Time!
His Eye of Time allowed him to see events from the past, with the effect growing stronger as his level increased.
The energy value consumed depended on what he observed. Investigating a player’s past actions exhausted energy value rapidly—3,000 points might not last long. As for observing a player’s future, that was utterly impossible; predicting a player’s future was beyond reach.
The slowest energy consumption occurred when observing changes in the geographical features of a region. Geographic transformations spanned lengthy timeframes, often calculated in tens of thousands of years. At his current level, 3,000 energy points could let Huang Yi see up to a hundred thousand years into the past regarding a region’s morphology.
In the next moment, he activated the Eye of Time, his vision entering a peculiar state where everything before him began to rewind like a film!
The rewind speed could be freely adjusted, and Huang Yi immediately chose to observe scenes from ten thousand years ago.
Instantly, a large amount of energy value was consumed!
Through his eyes, the history unfolded before him, with "sea changes into mulberry fields" transforming through his gaze.
Ten thousand years ago, the island was still small, with half of the eye buried underground.
Huang Yi shifted the timeline to thirty thousand years ago.
Again, his vision transformed. Back then, the small island had just emerged from the seabed, revealing only the eye.
Huang Yi decided to exhaust all remaining energy points to observe the region’s features from one hundred thousand years ago.
History sped backward again. One hundred thousand years ago, this area was still underwater, with no island in sight—but the eye remained, submerged beneath the sea.
By this point, 3,000 energy points had been consumed! Yet Huang Yi still couldn’t determine the origin of the eye.
The eye had been here for an indeterminable number of years, consistently absorbing all elemental and spiritual energy of the heavens and earth. Over time, the island formed around it. The magical ores, the epic-tier items, and the Divine Artifact Fragment Huang Yi had detected earlier were likely drawn piece by piece from distant marine realms, eventually converging here.
Furthermore, the island’s trees growing taller than those on neighboring islands, and the wild deer becoming extraordinarily strong, seemed influenced by the island’s rich elemental spiritual aura.
Huang Yi pulled out an A-grade Energy Stone, taking one minute to fully replenish his 3,000 energy points.
Energy absorption could only occur when energy usage was halted; replenishing while using energy value was not possible.
Once his energy was fully restored, he activated the Eye of Time again.
Previously, he had examined broad changes over time, spanning tens of thousands of years, observing directly the large-scale transformations.
This time, he intended to scrutinize more recent events; slowing the rewind speed would allow him to uncover details about whether players had discovered the island in recent years.
Huang Yi adjusted the speed to observe one week of history per second. A week ago, the terrain resembled the area prior to the Deep Sea Demon Flesh rampage. At that time, the giant eye was buried within a mountain, inaccessible from the exterior.
Time ticked by second by second, as weeks of changes played out before Huang Yi’s eyes. Most variations were subtle—shifts in leaf patterns, differences in the clouds above.
Gradually, half a minute elapsed. Huang Yi had seen up to six months ago.
Suddenly, a tiny anomaly caught his attention.
The change was minuscule, akin to a few pixels flashing unexpectedly on a computer screen—something ordinary observers would likely overlook. But Huang Yi noticed.
Remaining vigilant, he focused on the anomaly. The subtle shift appeared to bear traces of human activity!
Adjusting his speed further, Huang Yi rewound to examine the exact section showing the unusual occurrence.
Immediately, he spotted something—a cave!
The cave had a pile of neatly arranged soil beside it, seemingly created using Earth Attribute magic, not the result of natural forces.
This small alteration drastically piqued Huang Yi’s curiosity!
He slowed the rewind speed further, analyzing progress day by day instead of week by week.
Soon, he discovered the cave had formed on the first day of that week and became waterlogged after rainfall three days later.
Refining his speed to hourly intervals, Huang Yi determined the cave appeared between 11:00 AM and 12:00 PM on the first day of that week.
His detective-like tracing continued, slowing rewinds to intervals measured by minutes, each observation bringing him closer to the truth of the mystery.
Finally, at precisely 11:27 AM that day, Huang Yi saw how the cave was created!
The revelation sent shockwaves through his heart!
He saw a familiar creature—the mysterious python!
Back when Huang Yi searched for the Sand Thief King’s heart in the Desolate Sands, he had encountered the black serpent, one of the three Great Generals under the Sand Thief King. That serpent had a black python coiled around its neck.
The python, shrouded in mystery, had coerced the black serpent to betray the Sand Thief King, swearing allegiance to the python instead. It even promised the black serpent ascension to the Heavenly Realm Level.
At the time, the black serpent had barely reached Holy Domain level—far from being Heavenly Realm caliber. Yet the mysterious python spoke with unshakable confidence, astonishing the eavesdropping Huang Yi.
Later, Huang Yi trapped the black serpent in an underground palace, releasing the clone of a criminal to engage in a deadly battle. The black serpent, under the python’s control, self-destructed, obliterating the underground palace and ending the fight.
Despite the cataclysm caused by the Holy Domain warrior’s explosion, the mysterious python managed to escape unscathed except for dripping several drops of python blood. It fled effortlessly. Huang Yi collected the drops of Mysterious Serpent’s Blood, hoping to analyze its origins through evolution.
Yet, even after repeated attempts—including during his 160th-level evolution—he never succeeded in absorbing the Mysterious Serpent’s Blood.
The enigmatic python had remained an unresolved mystery for Huang Yi—and now its traces had reappeared on this island!
The cave had been created with Earth Attribute magic by the mysterious python, which then tunneled directly into it.
This projection strongly suggested a connection between the python and the immense eye. Traveling great distances to this remote island, it likely aimed to enter the buried giant eye.
Behind the giant eye lay the mysterious black hole. The python had entered the hole and vanished.
The implications were clear: the python might have traversed the black hole into an unknown dimension.
Huang Yi continued examining the historical footage with the Eye of Time, but found no further clues of value.
To uncover what lay beyond the black hole, he had to unravel the mystery of the giant eye itself!
Under the blazing sun, Huang Yi stared intently at the gigantic vortex ahead. Its ceaseless rotation absorbed all elemental spiritual energy, embodying an everlasting nightmare. The mysterious python’s trail, too, had been consumed by the black hole.
The simplest and quickest way to uncover where the black hole led was to venture within.
Yet, entering such a formidable black hole recklessly could lead to irreversible doom.
Just then, Huang Yi’s body trembled, splitting into a clone.
Every individual who reached the Holy Domain level would gain a class ability: the ability to create a clone imbued with a portion of their attributes.
Huang Yi’s clone held 1% of his attributes, leaving his main body with 99%.
If the clone perished, he’d need significant time to recover.
But compared to unveiling the black hole’s mysteries, the downtime was worth enduring.
Without hesitation, Huang Yi controlled the small clone, guiding it forward with flapping wings towards the ominous black hole.
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Many readers have been asking if the story is nearing its conclusion—it’s not ending yet. There are still hundreds of thousands of words to go.
The numerous plot threads interwoven earlier are beginning to converge and emerge. Chapters like these mark critical parts of foreshadowing. Unraveling them all at once would ruin the pacing and resemble a careless shorthand, akin to an unsatisfying rushed ending.
This book won’t be completed in just several months. My rough estimate suggests there are hundreds of thousands of words remaining—potentially even more if inspiring ideas emerge mid-progress.
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