Chapter 596
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Chapter 596: Mysterious Gaze
Lin Qiye stood on the shallow beach for a long time, but he finally made up his mind and raised his palm again…
This time, he did not use the “Cloud Somersault,” but instead employed “Darkest Erosion.”
A wisp of black light flickered between his palms, coalescing into a sphere about the size of a coin. Lin Qiye held this touch of darkness and looked up at the night sky above, his eyes filled with vigilance.
After a moment, that terrifying gaze descended once more!
Lin Qiye felt as if he were being targeted by some deadly beast, the hairs on his body standing on end. Without a moment’s hesitation, he dispersed the touch of darkness from his palm again!
That gaze lingered in the area for a moment; this time, it searched longer than before. If the previous search was merely a cursory glance, now it was a meticulous investigation.
It seemed puzzled as to why this aura had appeared here twice in succession.
About two minutes later, that gaze slowly dissipated, and Lin Qiye let out a long sigh of relief.
It seemed that the appearance of that gaze was indeed triggered by the forbidden ruins.
The reason he attempted a second time was to see if the appearance of that gaze was related to the type of forbidden ruins or the amount of mental energy infused.
When he used the “Cloud Somersault” for the first time, he infused a large amount of mental energy, but during the second use of “Darkest Erosion,” he only minimally activated the forbidden ruins, roughly equivalent to the level of a lamp’s realm. He did not expect that even such a weak fluctuation of forbidden ruins could attract that gaze’s scrutiny.
In other words, it could sense any form of forbidden ruins fluctuation?
If it found the source of the forbidden ruins fluctuation, what would happen then?
Lin Qiye did not know, but he could vaguely guess that it would not be anything good.
This was Japan, and the gaze projected from the void likely came from a certain Japanese deity. If it discovered this outsider, it was unlikely to warmly invite him to visit Takamagahara, right?
But without being able to use the forbidden ruins, he was just an ordinary person with a stronger physique. If he encountered any situation, he could easily fall into a dangerous predicament.
The situation had suddenly worsened.
Lin Qiye furrowed his brow, deep in thought. Eventually, he seemed to think of something and began searching around the shallow beach.
Five minutes later, he returned to his original spot holding a piece of black wood that had been rotted by seawater.
He crouched down and began to draw something on the shallow beach with this piece of wood. When he stood up again, a complex black circular magic array had appeared beneath his feet.
This was a basic directional summoning magic array.
In the past, when Lin Qiye used summoning magic, he would directly sketch the magic array in the void with mental energy, which would then instantly take shape. However, this would inevitably alert that mysterious existence, so he changed his approach.
He first used the surrounding tools to manually draw the magic array, then infused mental energy in an instant to activate the summoning magic. This way, the process of activating the forbidden ruins would be compressed to the shortest duration, lasting only a moment.
Based on the two previous experiments, Lin Qiye was completely certain that as long as the duration of the forbidden ruins was not long enough, that mysterious existence would not be able to lock onto his specific location. Otherwise, he should have been locked onto long ago.
Perhaps this was the only way to evade that existence’s perception of the forbidden ruins.
After finishing the magic array, Lin Qiye took a deep breath and pressed his palm against the massive magic array.
His mental energy surged into it.
Under the pitch-black night sky, on this deserted seaside shallow beach, a dazzling magical light flashed, illuminating a corner of the sky!
At the same time, Lin Qiye keenly sensed that the terrifying gaze was once again projected from the void, and this time, he could even clearly perceive its angry emotions!
Having been drawn here three times in a row without finding anything, the pressure contained in its gaze this time was several times greater than before, causing Lin Qiye’s body to tremble uncontrollably.
He gritted his teeth and stood motionless on the shallow beach, forcing himself to control his body with sheer willpower, refusing to be knocked to the ground. Even so, his feet were already deeply embedded in the gravel of the shallow beach.
This time, that gaze searched for more than five minutes before slowly fading away.
The moment that gaze left, Lin Qiye felt as if he had lost all his strength, his body swaying dangerously close to collapsing.
He could not attempt this again.
Lin Qiye even suspected that if he attracted it one more time, it might just linger here indefinitely.
Even if he wanted to try again, he would have to wait a few days and change locations to give it some time to cool down.
Lin Qiye regained his composure and walked toward the massive black magic array. In the darkness, he reached out and rummaged through the gravel at the center of the magic array…
His eyes lit up.
When he pulled his hand out from the gravel, he was now holding a snow-white long knife.
“White Slash.”
“Praise the God of Magic,” Lin Qiye said with a slight smile at the corner of his mouth, genuinely expressing his gratitude.
Lin Qiye grasped the hilt of the knife and lightly slashed at the void beside him. Instantly, a deep knife mark was carved into the gravel several dozen meters away.
Moreover, this time, that terrifying gaze did not appear.
Could forbidden items be used normally…?
Lin Qiye pondered thoughtfully.
In any case, in this mysterious land where he could not use forbidden ruins, he had obtained a trump card for self-protection. Although it was just a knife, behind this knife lay another crucial piece of information.
The ability to manually draw magic arrays meant that… he could summon those caretakers, one after another, from the Divine Mental Hospital.
How many mysteries were locked away in his hospital? Lin Qiye himself could not even count them.
These caretakers did not belong to the realm of humanity; to be more specific, they were merely mysterious beings in a soul state. Whether they would attract the gaze of that mysterious existence remained uncertain, but even if they, like him, could not use forbidden ruins, they could still accomplish many things due to their racial talents.
For example, A Zhu could transform into a spider to fight and weave webs without using forbidden ruins; Beile Ye could produce purple mist without using forbidden ruins; and Hong Yan could shatter half a mountain peak with sheer physical strength.
He could quietly nurture the mysterious in this modern metropolis.
Lin Qiye temporarily set aside this thought, as he still needed some time to recover before drawing the magic array to summon the caretakers again, and those mysteries had not yet signed contracts. It was still too early for that step.
He stepped on the magic array on the ground, wrapped “White Slash” in his trench coat, and walked straight toward the distant city center.
He could not walk around the streets holding a knife, so he needed to find a sword bag for “White Slash.” He had heard that Japan was a country that valued sword culture, so finding a sword bag should not be too difficult.
But the current problem was…
Where could he get some money?
