Chapter 60: Crystal Sheep's Life and Death Eyes

  When Professor Zhou Tao mentioned the part about encountering the "Red Pupil Snow Ape", Professor Lin Yang suddenly jumped up from his chair, exclaiming: "Heavens! You actually encountered such a divine creature and even drank its... wine? You, you... I don't know what to say, why didn't I get to experience something like this..."

  Professor Zhou looked at him excitedly and smiled: "Look at you, you're not young anymore, but still so surprised. We'll go again another day, anyway that ape won't move house, then we can take a photo with it!"

  These two rascals, one asking and the other answering, made themselves seem like neighbors of that Red Pupil Snow Ape, causing Liu Yi, who had been holding back for a long time, to finally lose control, spitting out the wine he had drunk, and then bursting into loud laughter, saying: "The professor is really interesting!"

  Lin Yang looked at Liu Yi with an unhappy expression, then raised his neck and downed a tall cup of white wine in one gulp. "You don't know, do you?" he called out. "The legend of the Red Dawn Snow Ape is that it's a divine object from ancient Qiang tribe. It's said to be guarding something called 'Longevity Eye'."

  "Long Life Eye? What is that thing?" exclaimed Professor Zhou Tao.

  Lin Yang asked everyone: "Do you know why the eye sockets of that crystal goat head we saw are empty?"

  To be honest, neither Liu Yi nor Professor Zhou Tao paid much attention to this issue. They thought the crystal sheep head was originally like that.

  Lin Yang saw the crowd shaking their heads in confusion, and said with a smile: "This crystal sheep head was originally had eyes, these two eyes were one white and one black, each named - Longsheng Eye and Death Spirit Eye, together called - Life and Death Eye! These eyes are like the window of the soul, as our common saying goes, without this window, even if you know all kinds of spiritual techniques, you may not be able to sense the information inside. After the great war of Qiangguo, the two eyes were hidden by human beings. The Longsheng Eye was placed on the body of the tribe's divine beast "Hong Cui Xue Yuan", and the other Death Spirit Eye is said to be guarded by the "Blood Dragon". It is hoped that later generations will have the opportunity to obtain it! According to legend, the great Shibi Qiangmu Zhi inputted shocking secrets into the crystal skull before his death.

  Liu Yi and his companions exchanged a glance when they heard the names of Qiangmu Zhu and Xue Long, their expressions shocked.

  Ma Liucao interrupted: "Is this Qiangmu Pearl the one that led the tribe out of Death Valley and went to Sichuan?"

  Lin Yang gave him a white eye and said in a bad tone: "If it were someone else, what's the point of saying anything!"

  "Looks like your trip to Sichuan was quite fruitful in terms of gathering useful information!"

  Lin Yang heard this, raised his head and drank another cup of wine, saying: "The person we met was 120 years old, a bald man with prayer beads, dressed as a Taoist priest, but very strange. He lived alone in the nine peaks of Fengyi Town, with birds and beasts as his companions, sharp ears and bright eyes, strong body, knowledgeable about astronomy and geography, an old stubborn man. If I hadn't knelt on the ground and begged him sincerely, he might not have told us the secrets he knew!"

  Professor Zhou Tao really didn't expect that stubborn Lin Yang would actually kneel down for someone, this is indeed a strange thing.

  Here is the translation:

  At this point, Professor Lin Yang let out a sigh and looked at Professor Zhou Tao: "We're still flaunting our professor titles outside, but compared to others, we're like newly hatched tadpoles in front of a thousand-year-old sea turtle - how embarrassing!"

  Professor Zhou Tao was very curious about this person: "Such a strange person must be visited!"

  "I suspect this guy is fluent in beast language, because the tigers and leopards he raised executed every command he gave with incredible proficiency!"

  Kexi Ben and Kexi Yue were laughing together, but when they heard this, their eyes lit up, and they blinked once. They put their hands on the dinner table to support their heads, staring intently at Lin Yang, waiting for him to continue speaking.

  "What a freak, an absolute freak! While others keep dogs and cats as pets, he actually keeps tigers and leopards!" Ma Liu shouted.

  Professor Lin Yang gave him a white eye again, and suddenly changed the subject: "That old man told us that the seven-star crystal goat head we got is an object held by the ancient Shibi generation. They predict good or bad luck through the information on the crystal goat head. It's said that powerful Shibi masters can sense the information left in it by their ancestors, even several generations ago, through spiritual communication techniques. But ordinary people can only sense one or two generations of information, and basically no one can understand further back. However, Qiang Mu Zhen, who is a rare talent, actually sensed the information from ancient times."

  As he spoke, he looked at the stunned expressions of the people around him and continued: "Some people think that this Qiangmu Pearl is the reincarnation of the Sun Goddess. Not only was she proficient in the ancient Qiang magic that existed at that time, but through divination, she also learned that there was a 'Hidden Scripture Pavilion' in the Holy Land of the Antelopes. She led her tribe to migrate to the Valley of Death and gathered the leaders of the twelve tribes to jointly comprehend an anti-heavenly magic - the art of resurrection! However, this also brought disaster to the tribe. It is said that Wang Mang's subordinates..."

  He was interrupted by Professor Zhou Tao at this point, and then inserted the story of Liu Yi and others drifting on the Red Water and arriving at the forbidden land, all the legends, matching each other, surprisingly consistent!

  When Professor Zhou Tao mentioned the "hook snake" they had seen, Professor Lin Yang became excited again, stood up, turned around in circles and muttered to himself: "The eyes of the dead, the eyes of longevity, when two eyes meet, secrets will appear... We must go to Death Valley again!"

  At this time, Malacca, who had been given the cold shoulder by Professor Lin Yang and had been stifling for a long time, suddenly stood up, proudly slapped an object onto the table with a "slap" sound, and shouted: "Professor Lin Yang, is the thing you called 'Dead Spirit's Eye' this thing?"

  Liu Yi really didn't know when this Malacca guy had gotten such a pearl and looked at him with suspicion.

  Malacca explained: "At that time, the hook snake flipped over the black wooden box and it fell to the ground and shattered. The bead was rolling out of the black wooden box, I thought it was fun, so I picked it up. Hearing Professor Lin Yang say this, I estimate it's the Dead Spirit's Eye he mentioned!"

  Professor Lin Yang was so excited when he saw the shiny black pearl on the table that he didn't know what to do, and actually ran up and hugged Ma Liuji, giving him a kiss, which made Ma Liuji's face turn bright red. It seems that Ma Liuji's performance this time has won his favor, and becoming his son-in-law is something to look forward to!

  Then, Professor Lin Yang picked up the black bead, overjoyed like a child, constantly praising it. At this time, Liu Yi also took out the milky white bead that Hong Xue Xue gave him before they parted ways, and calmly said: "You guys think, will the milky white bead given to me by the white ape, be the Longevity Eye?"

  As soon as this was said, Professor Lin Yang turned his head around, took a glance at the milk-white jade pendant in his palm, and suddenly fainted with excitement!

  Professor Lin Yang's fainting spell instantly caused everyone to be in a flurry. Professor Zhou Tao waved his hand and said, "This is an old problem of his, he gets excited and faints, it'll be fine after a while, don't touch him!"

  Since nothing major happened, everyone put their minds at ease.

  Sure, here is the translation:

  As expected, in less than a minute, Professor Lin Yang woke up, rubbed his head and laughed: "Sorry about that, I made you all laugh!"

  After dinner, everyone moved into the hotel arranged by Professor Lin Yang near Minzu University of China where he taught. Although it was not large in scale, it was very clean and called Qingqing Hotel.

  ……

  In a standard double room of the hotel, Liu Yi moved the bedside table to between the two beds. Professor Lin Yang carefully took out the Qī Xīng Shuǐ Jīng (Seven Star Water Crystal) Goat Head from his bag and placed it on the bedside table. The empty eye sockets of the goat head shone brightly in the sunlight coming through the window, radiating a mysterious aura, standing quietly like a database, as if waiting for someone to unlock its secrets.

  Perhaps it has been waiting for this day for a long time. Perhaps it has also been lonely for too long.

  Professor Lin Yang stood up, took a deep breath, while the others sat on the bed, waiting in silence for what would happen next when they put their eyes into the empty eye sockets of the crystal sheep head.

  Professor Lin Yang looked down at the crystal sheep's head, then took out two beads from his pocket, one black and one white. He crouched down, his line of sight aligning with the empty eye sockets of the sheep's head. First, he pinched the black bead, carefully placing it into the left eye socket of the sheep's head.

  The threads are tightly woven, the frame and eyes are interdependent, but there is no strange scenery.

  Then he put another Longevity Eye into the right eye socket of the sheep's head, and still nothing unusual appeared.

  They were still exploring the road, and after putting the crystal sheep's eye into the water crystal frame, they thought that a magnificent and resplendent scene would appear, and then put on a silent movie of what they had seen in the crystal channel, and then they got the information they wanted.

  However, this quiet situation now greatly disappointed them.

  The crystal sheep head was still quietly silent, but after the eyes of life and death were installed, this sheep head became even more eerie than when it had no eyes.

  At this time, Liu Yi and the others all thought of the two divided forms of the Seven-Star Qilin God, the guardian deity by the side of the Sun Goddess - black body with white eyes and white body with black eyes. It seems that these life-and-death eyes should be his legendary eyes.

  Professor Lin Yang pointed at the crystal sheep head and said, "It's really annoying! He even put this on his eyes, but didn't get any useful information. What a useless guy!"

  Liu Yi smiled and said, "Putting on the life-and-death eyes, the appearance of image data is just our hypothesis. If it's that simple for us to decipher, then why did the ancient Qiang generations of release masters still learn the art of divination?"

  Professor Zhou turned his head and looked at Kexi beside him: "Have you learned spiritualism?"

  Kexi was staring at the Seven Star Crystal Goat in a daze, and said faintly: "I've learned it, just a little!"

  Professor Lin Yang's anger turned to joy, and he suddenly became excited and forgot his seniority. He went forward and pulled Kexi's hand, saying: "My little brother, I'm so anxious that my heart is burning, but you're still so calm. Quickly try your spiritual technique to see if you can sense any information!"

  Everyone was also looking at him with a face full of expectation, he seemed to be enjoying the kind of gaze that people placed their hopes on him, slightly smiled, stood up, raised his head, proudly and loudly said: "Then, try it?"

  "Give it a try..."

  "Give it a try..."

  "Hurry up and try..."

  This string of sounds rose up, can be seen, how anxious people's mood is!