Yun Shu hurriedly stood up and bowed to that woman. "Maybe… I was lucky…"
Of course, the woman wouldn't believe such an answer, but she didn't continue on the topic.
To leave the valley, he had to solve one of the three mysteries. Yesterday, Yun Shu could only have a connection with the stele in the middle, and that was why he decided to start with this one today as well.
The woman also turned to look at the stele, but she could not help peeking at Yun Shu. She hoped to know why Yun Shu was progressing so rapidly. After a while, she still had no clue at all.
When she was about to give up, she suddenly noticed that Yun Shu's eyes had two beams of golden light coming out.
"Golden pupils?" the woman murmured in surprise.
Yun Shu had no idea about the change happening to his eyes, entirely focused on the stone stele. His eyes had caught something.
The messy strokes had turned into countless streaks of sword Qi crisscrossing each other as they kept colliding randomly.
Yun Shu was very sensitive to any messy Qi moving around in the cosmos. Therefore, his eyes had discerned some patterns. They were extraordinarily complex yet incomparably wonderful. Yun Shu raised his arms and started copying the movements.
That woman was thoroughly shocked. She had spent quite some time on the stele, so she more or less had some understanding of it. She knew that Yun Shu was not just moving his arms randomly. Instead, his movements were strictly following some intricate sword intent.
The woman believed that she was pretty gifted. Yet, she had spent three years sitting in front of the stele before she realized what was on it. But Yun Shu just sat down beside her a couple of hours ago!
After a while, Yun Shu started feeling slightly exhausted. So he stopped staring at the stele to take a breather. His pupils also returned back to normal after he removed his eyes from the stele. Meanwhile, Yun Shu noticed the woman gazing at him.
"Master, what did I do?" Yun Shu asked politely.
The women frowned. "Who are you? Why do you have golden pupils?"
Yun Shu was confused, but he still answered, "My father is Yun Wanli, and he's my foster dad. He found me on the backside of the mountain. I don't know who my parents are. And 'golden pupils'? I don't know what they are."
That woman found the name, Yun Wanli, a bit familiar, but she couldn't recall anything related to it.
She then asked Yun Shu, "You don't know what golden pupils are?"
Yun Shu shook his head.
The woman took a deep breath and said, "That's very strange. You didn't sense any differences when you were staring at the stele?"
Yun Shu remained honest. "There were indeed some differences…"
That woman put on a wry smile. "Your pupils turned golden when you were reading the stele, just like the book said!"
"What can I do with golden pupils then?" Yun Shu followed hurriedly.
The women thought for a while and then said, "The book only mentioned it roughly, so I'm not sure. If you want to know, why don't you use it again?"
Yun Shu nodded, although he was not sure what he should do. He tried to recall the feeling when he was totally focused on that stele, closed his eyes, and then fiercely opened them!
His pupils turned golden again!
But this time, he saw something different.
"Master, you have really nice curves!" Yun Shu praised sincerely.
Crack!
The woman picked up her sword and brought the tip upward. Her sword Qi directly threw Yun Shu away.
The boy appeared to be honest and well-behaved. But he wasn't!
"Come here!" the woman said to Yun Shu coldly.
Yun Shu dared not.
The woman kept gazing at him harshly in a threatening manner. Under her intense stare, Yun Shu sighed and came closer to the woman.
"Sit down! Look at me!" commanded the woman.
Yun Shu had no choice but to sit down. His eyes then looked at the woman's face. It was also his first time to gaze at her face directly.
Yun Shu was astonished after a single look. Based on the woman's temperament and messy hair, he had assumed that she must be an old, senior master with an unattractive appearance.
However, now that he was much closer to the woman, Yun Shu found that although her face was mostly covered with dust and mud, the remaining exposed skin was rather fair and smooth. Obviously, she was not old at all, contrary to what she appeared on the surface.
If she took a bath, she would definitely be a gorgeous beauty!
The lady snorted. "You experienced something like this before?"
Yun Shu tried to recall but failed, so he shook his head.
The lady thought about it for a while and murmured, "That's strange. The power in you just woke up recently?"
"Master, can you elaborate a bit more?" Yun Shu hurriedly requested.
The lady nodded. "People born with golden pupils have a special kind of constitution. Golden Pupils is one of the four 'ultimate eyes' and is the most mysterious one among them. The other three eye techniques are Enlightened Eyes from Buddhism, Sky Eyes from Taoism, and Grey Pupils from Diabolism. Golden Pupils can not only see through everything as Enlightened Eyes and Sky Eyes do, but they can also launch attacks like Grey Pupils."
Yun Shu nodded, "So Golden Pupils are very powerful, right?"
The lady snorted again. "Of course! It comes first among the four 'ultimate eyes'!"
Yun Shu's heart was full of wild joy.
Behind that stone gate, he saw the man who looked almost identical to him. Furthermore, he also had a pair of golden pupils. Before the man's body disintegrated, from his eyes, a beam of golden light had shot out and went directly into Yun Shu's.
Did that man give Yun Shu his golden pupils?
As he mused, the lady said coldly, "Don't celebrate too soon. A gifted man who doesn't practice enough ends up nowhere. There're plenty of such examples!"
Yun Shu bowed to the lady again. "Thanks for the teaching, Master."
Then Yun Shu smiled. "We've known each other for two days already, but I still don't know your name, Master."
It took the lady a while before she answered, "Su Lingwen!"
Yun Shu repeated the name several times in a low voice.
Su Lingwen looked up at the sky and said, "It's almost noon now. Find a place and hide yourself."
Although he had made some progress in his cultivation, the killing winds could still be fatal to him.
He bowed to Su Lingwen again and walked back to his stone shelter. Soon after he returned, the killing winds started roaring like a tornado. As this would last for quite a while, Yun Shu pulled out the Book of Three Thousand Fiends.
Even though Yun Shu was already a cultivator now, he, nevertheless, needed to hone his martial skills a lot. While the sword intent he perceived from the stele was quite something, it would still take some time to turn it into his battle prowess. So Yun Shu had decided to stick to the book.
He flipped to the second page, concentrating his mind. Now with his cultivation technique, Yun Shu no longer needed the killing winds to help him make the book show its content; his hands kept smacking the book violently.