Eye System

Lex sat down cross-legged and began to semi-cultivate knowing that he couldn't do anything until sunset, as the figure formed of mist hovered around him watching him closely.

"He seems to be attempting to cultivate and isn't restricted by levelling, but doesn't seem to have a cultivation method" mumbled the Jade Empress to herself.

"I am not as weak and ignorant as you may believe and have a cultivation method that I haven't completely yet" stated Lex with his eyes still closed, knowing what the Jade Empress was probably assuming from watching him.

"This child really is incredible for such a small island to produce him, but how does he know so much and somehow have access to a cultivation method" wondered the Jade Empress.

Lex was in a calm meditative state as he allowed the thick and dense energy around him in the temple stream into his body as it entered his meridians with a painful tingling sensation yet also soothed them and slowly recovered them.

Time passed quickly as Lex semi-cultivated and the Jade Empress stood there waiting.

After a lifetime as long as the Jade Empress's, time was merely a blur and a few hours felt like seconds to her.

"Kid, get ready to point out the friends you want to save and the one that you think is worthy of being my successor" called out the Jade Empress to Lex who was sat cross-legged.

Jumping up, Lex despite the seemingly confirmed saving of Angela still felt nervous and as though fate could still find a way to achieve its aims.

"Wait here and I will bring you all the girls here and you can show me the two that you spoke about," said the Jade Empress.

The groups outside began to forcefully push the girls into the mist, that would swoop them up and around them and dragged them into the temple as they screamed and struggled in the mist.

"No"

"No"

"No"

Lex seeing each girl be dragged to him, would tell the Jade Empress that it wasn't the right girls, then she would place her palm on their head as the gem in her forehead would glow and they would lose their memories.

After a few dozens of girls, Lex finally was given the Weston Family's daughter.

"Yes, she is one of the girls I came here to save" quickly exclaimed Lex.

"Could you wipe her mind and we leave her here, but she isn't the one worthy of your successor" asked Lex.

In the same way, she did with the other girls, the Jade Empress wiped the Weston Family's daughter and placed her on the ground in the temple.

She was beginning to doubt the weird child before her and whether there really was somebody worthy of her inheritance on the small ignorant island she was on.

She felt as though after thousands of years, her trust was won over by a weak child and made her begin to doubt.

After dozens of girls, Lex still hadn't seen Angela and was also beginning to become nervous and doubt that he may have over thought the situation.

"Maybe Angela wanted to stay at home and I am just overthinking everything" mumbled Lex.

It was getting dark and the sun had mostly set, which is when the mist wouldn't accept females and would kill them instead, which the groups outside knew but still continued to forcefully push in the young girls who would be ripped to shreds by the corpse beasts.

"If your friend that you think is worthy of my successor comes in now, she will be ripped to shreds by the corpse beasts at you will not be able to point her out to me in the mist that you cannot see through" she stated unapologetically.

"I will bring her to you and don't worry about what I can do and can't do" refuted Lex who was becoming very frustrated by her cold and unaffected nature.

Before she could reprimand his tone, Lex dashed out of the temple and into the mist grounds.

"Let's see what this kid can do" mumbled the Jade Empress who could easily stop him, but decided to leave him and see what he was capable of.

Scouting Eye

Spreading his vision as far out as he could, Lex was able to mostly cover a quarter of the mist ground that wasn't very large and only had a 500-metre radius.

Dashing around the temple, Lex was horrified by the sight of the young girls being eaten alive and killed by the corpse beasts, but was too focused on finding Angela for his and her own safety as if he couldn't provide the Jade Empress with a worthy successor she would most likely kill him.

"His mental strength seems quite good and doesn't seem extremely fazed by the death of the young girls around him that he seems to be sensing by somehow fusing his senses with his eyes as the centre and spreading his vision around him with it" observed the Jade Empress.

Almost completing a full circle around the temple, Lex still hadn't seen Angela and doubt was clouding his mind, until he suddenly heard a scream distorted by the mist that sounded familiar to him.

Streaming more energy into his Scouting EYe he could see in the distance was Angela who couldn't see through the mist and was wildly trying to fight back against the three corpse beasts around her.

He knew he was too far to reach her in time with his body's speed and the spacial eye would take too long to activate and he didn't have complete control or understanding of the Body Jolting skill and only attempted to copy it from the Eye Demon.

While the Eye Demon was ridiculing and insulting Lex trying to waver his focus, Lex as his final option decided that he would have to use the Self-Cloning Eye.

Dual Eye

Self-Cloning Eye

Lex's left eye stayed clear still with the Scouting Eye, but his right eye became it's usual black, seemingly without an Eye Power activated, but had the Self-Cloning Eye.

Streaming half his energy into the formation of the clone and using the Perceptive Eye as the relayed Eye Power and the centre of the Self-Cloning, Lex aimed his Self-Cloning at where Angela was being attacked by the 3 corpse beasts.

Lex instantly felt all the energy that he streamed into the Self-Cloning Eye was sucked out of his eye and sent to the area near Angela that he had targetted where a figure identical Lex in every way appeared.

"Protect Angela" screamed Lex to his clone who was near Angela that had three corpse beasts gnawing at her body that was no2 unconscious from fear and shock.

Instantly the clone with half of Lex's power, burst off its feet and charged launching a foot into the side of a clone beast near him that was attacking Angela's body.

With half of Lex's power, its External Cultivation LVL was at LVL 34 and its Internal Cultivaiotn LVL is 31 because as you rise in LVL there is a slightly larger gap between the LVLs and therefore isn't exactly half of the LVL of Lex despite only having half of his energy.

Lex's clone launched another kick at another corpse beast launching it sliding away and grabbed the final beasts and threw him crashing into one of the corpse beasts that he had kicked away.

The beasts were on a similar LVL to Lex's clone and it was only able to successfully get them off Angela because they were distracted, so knew better than to stay there if he wanted to protect Angela.

Surprising Lex, the clone lifted Angela's bleeding and fatally injured body over its shoulder and dashed back towards Lex.

Lex who gave the vague order, 'protect Angela', allowed the clone more control over its actions and still being intelligent cold use its own initiatives without being clouded by human emotion.

"He seems to have an extremely rare cloning ability, yet his clones are intelligent and obedient that is linked to his right eye, while his left eye is linked to his sensory ability. Could he be an Eye Master" mumbled the Jade Empress, surprised by how she could be in awe of a child on a weak and segregated island.

"However without the right backing and resources he won't be able to flourish like he can and out of jealousy and envy will be put down by the large sects when he is found" she muttered regretfully as she watched Lex.

Laying her eyes and the girl on the verge of death that Lex's clone was carrying, the Jade Empress was interesting and could sense something different within her and maybe Lex really was right.

Lex with his clone that was carrying Angela dashed towards the temple prepared to fend off the corpse beasts, but they all moved away from them and allowed them entry, as they dashed into the temple.