Long Yutian snapped back to reality, almost forgetting why he was here.
"Teacher, you said this thing might blow up the entire Greenlawn City. That must be a joke, right...?"
"It's true," Mo Di said calmly, uttering something terrifying.
He pushed over a blackboard covered densely with various formulas, some of which were written in the unique runes of the Eternity Continent.
"According to my calculations," he pointed to a formula on the blackboard, "using the shard of the light god has a 70% chance of being safe, a 25% chance of an unforeseen accident, and a 5% chance of wiping Greenlawn City off the face of the earth."
A 5% chance was still too high, but he dared to gamble because of the Ancient Blood that he could activate at any time.
Seven days later, he would inevitably be repelled from this world, but before that, he could actively activate the Ancient Blood at any moment.
"...Teacher, how did you come up with this calculation method?" Long Yutian felt a headache coming on as soon as he saw the formulas.
How did he come up with it? Naturally, through the painful lessons of multiple reloads.
Such an embarrassing and secretive matter, he naturally wouldn't speak of it, merely brushing it off with a sentence:
"Have you finished reading 'Greta School's Magic Theory'? If you haven't mastered it to the point of knowing it by heart, you wouldn't understand even if I told you."
At the mention of this, Long Yutian's head swelled, like a primary school student being urged by his parents to do homework right after school, and he quickly changed the subject:
"Teacher, stop lecturing, we still have important matters to discuss."
"Important matters? Oh, I've already calibrated the shard of the light god launcher and locked onto the Frost噬 Giant Spider. It can be fired at any time," Mo Di said seriously.
Long Yutian subconsciously nodded, only realizing something was wrong a second later.
"Wait, I didn't say we should deal with the Frost噬 Giant Spider now. We're not even sure if it's coming for us..."
"It's confirmed," Mo Di interrupted him. "The cold wind brought a message: that hungry Titan beast is heading our way, expected to arrive in Greenlawn City in six hours."
The cold wind was a natural messenger for the Wendigo, and it was the same for him, possessing the Wendigo Bloodline.
Long Yutian was still somewhat skeptical, but after an informant brought him the latest observation results, he had no choice but to believe it.
"Mr. Mo's observation results were probably from an hour ago. Now, that giant spider is expected to arrive in five hours."
"Tsk, why did we lose an hour of preparation time?"
Long Yutian looked at the altar with a headache, his gaze falling on the shard of the light god.
He had just reviewed the research report on this item and understood how dangerous it was.
His experts and scholars all stated in the report that this thing was terrifying, and they even believed Mo Di was being conservative; if this thing exploded, it would certainly not only be Greenlawn City that suffered.
"The shard of the God of Light, huh? It's hard to imagine what kind of existence the God of Light truly was, if even the fragments of its corpse left after its death are so terrifying."
"According to ancient texts," Mo Di took over, "He was the pioneer who destroyed the rule of ancient dragons, the guide who dispelled the Eternal night, and a merciless God."
If one were to elaborate on the deeds of this God of Light, it would truly take three days and three nights to finish.
Ending the rule of ancient dragons in the First Era, dispelling the chaotic Eternal night of the First Era... these were all his achievements.
The sun, now hanging high in the sky of the Eternity Continent, is its remnant after its fall, and also the largest shard of the light god.
But even such a powerful existence could not escape the ultimate fate of falling, being torn apart by many demon gods in the Battle of Sunset.
"It's hard to imagine that such a powerful existence could also die."
Long Yutian did not ask Mo Di where he learned these secrets. Everyone has their own secrets, just as he wouldn't inquire about Mo Di's origins.
"Let's get back to business. We have less than five hours left, which isn't even enough time for Greenlawn City residents to evacuate."
He looked at the altar, his gaze deep, and his martial arts will helped him make a choice.
"Rather than sitting idly by, it's better to take a gamble."
If it succeeds, one of the three disasters can be eliminated, and Greenlawn City's crisis averted.
If it fails, it's just dying a little earlier.
"I'll recalibrate the instrument. It should be ready to launch in about an hour." Mo Di nodded slightly and walked to the instrument's control panel, beginning to adjust it.
If he didn't use the Ancient Blood, he certainly couldn't escape. That Frost噬 Giant Spider was more cunning than he imagined, having already used magic to seal off the entire Greenlawn City.
Outside Greenlawn City, it was already enveloped by a blizzard. Even with his natural affinity for ice, he couldn't guarantee he could walk out of that blizzard.
A question had always lingered in his mind: 'The Frost噬 Giant Spider species, by all accounts, doesn't typically eat humans unless they are extremely hungry.
What made a Frost bite Elder reach such a desperate state of hunger... Wait, Aether?'
In a flash of insight, he seemed to grasp the threads of the truth.
'The Frost噬 Giant Spider species specifically chooses worlds with high Aether as their lairs, so is it possible that they cannot adapt to low Aether environments?
Once they come to such an environment, they fall into hunger, just like this one on Blue Star.'
Mo Di looked up, and the biting cold wind slapped his face. The even lower temperature than usual heralded the arrival of the Titan beast.
"The Frost噬 Giant Spider has accelerated. It's probably too hungry to wait."
If it originally took about five hours to reach Greenlawn City, the time has now been shortened to two hours.
Soon after, Long Yutian rushed to tell him the latest observation results.
"Teacher, the Frost噬 Giant Spider has sped up. It's expected to arrive in two hours, but in one hour, the cold it releases will be enough to freeze the entire city."
"I know, I calculated it just now," Mo Di looked up, taking his hands off the control panel. "Calibration complete. The God of Light's Spear is locked onto the target and can be fired at any time."
"Then what are we waiting for? Let's do it."
As soon as the words left his mouth, Mo Di pressed the large red button on the control panel.
A sense of dread surged in his heart, followed even faster by a blinding flash of light.
The shard of the light god was activated. It transformed into a small sun, radiating light and heat freely, as if returning to the ancient era of the Second Era when the God of Light hung high in the sky.
The two closest to the shard, Mo Di and Long Yutian, were now staring wide-eyed into the light, directly at that luminous body that should have been eternally unextinguishable.
It wasn't that they had to do this, but rather that covering their eyes was useless. The Eternal Light would penetrate all coverings and shadows. Looking at it or turning away from it made no difference.
Both were people with keen spiritual senses, or in other words, high spiritual vision, and could better perceive the profoundness of the Eternal Light.
Eyes are the windows to the soul. For the two of them, looking directly at the Eternal Light was equivalent to providing it with an entrance into the depths of their souls.
Light seeped through this crack, flowing into their minds, their consciousness.
Mo Di felt his mind clearer than ever before, as if something was about to break free from the depths of his consciousness.
"I have good news and bad news. Which do you want to hear first?"
Without speaking, the light acted as a conduit, conveying his intended meaning into Long Yutian's heart.
"Let's hear the bad news first. By the way, what's happening to us?"
Although he had never encountered such a situation, Long Yutian found himself not surprised in the least, as if everything was as it should be.
"The bad news is, we drew the 25% chance. The shard of the light god is undergoing an unpredictable transformation.
The good news is, we most likely won't die, and a small portion of the energy emitted by the shard of the light god is enough to kill the Frost噬 Giant Spider."
The dazzling light released by the shard of the light god was focused into a beam by the magic lens, which had been adjusted to the correct angle, and then shot into the distance, directly at the dimly visible silhouette of the giant beast.
Driven by hunger, the Frost噬 Giant Spider, heading towards its next hunting ground, was completely unaware. The speed of the God of Light's Spear far exceeded the speed at which its crisis premonition could take effect.
When its crisis premonition finally took effect, the light spear had already pierced its body.
Unlike the gods of light in most works, the God of Light is a merciless God. Its radiance is neither benevolent nor gentle; it only brings ruthless destruction and purification.
The light spear pierced through the Frost噬 Giant Spider, instantly vaporizing more than half of its body. The time was so short that even the constant spells on its body didn't have time to trigger.
The coldness brought by the Frost噬 Giant Spider completely dissipated, replaced by the high temperature brought by the immense heat released instantly by the light spear.
One of Blue Star's three disasters, the Eternal-ranked Frost噬 Giant Spider Elder, thus fell. The merciless light completely erased its vitality; even with the remaining small portion of its body, it could not regenerate.
The catastrophe that was about to reach Greenlawn City was thus averted, yet the impact brought by the shard of the light god was far from subsiding.
At the Light and Shadow Altar, the shard's anomaly became increasingly apparent.
Mo Di, closest to it, finally confirmed what kind of change he had undergone under its influence.
It was an eye, an eye that opened on his soul.
'This is the Fifth Eye, a Soul Eye forcibly torn open.'
Legend has it that the Third Eye is the pineal gland, and the Fourth Eye is the mark formed during the process of becoming an Eternal. Every Transcendent condenses their own mark during the process of becoming an Eternal.
And the Fifth Eye is the Soul Eye, which is this extra "eye" he now possesses.
Slightly turning his Soul Eye, he observed a completely new world.
The aspects on his body, the distorted magnetic field around him, the thin Aether in the world... the most dazzling was that luminous body illuminating all directions.
Although it had many functions, the Fifth Eye was not actually a good thing.
On the contrary, it was often referred to as a curse by mages, the Curse of the Fifth Eye.
A forcibly torn-open Soul Eye would continuously extract emotions from the soul body, polluting the soul body and spirit. Those who possessed it would eventually become passionless husks.
Moreover, not everyone could adapt to the new senses it brought.
'If I were an ordinary Transcendent, I would probably have to immediately look for a way to close the Soul Eye. Fortunately, I'm not.'
Mo Di activated a wisp of the curse on his body and fed it to the Soul Eye.
The negative emotions such as pain and fear contained in the curse satisfied this eye, and also made him notice a subtle anomaly.
'The Soul Eye is connected to the depths of my consciousness, where something seems to exist.'
Without giving him time to think, just moments later, the shard of the light god suddenly erupted.
A pillar of light shot up from the ground, piercing the sky.
At this moment, Eternal daylight enveloped the entire planet.
