The entire narrative of the system actually comes with a point of view, that is, from the group of wizards who sealed the "Eye." From the perspective of this narrative, this group of wizards seems to be pure victims, discovering that they were being pursued by the Eye and then figuring out how to carve it down to end the pursuit, only to be discovered by the Eyes behind the other wizards. But what if these wizards were not pure victims? What if in the entire story, the "Wizards" were the proactive ones? Indeed, the "Eye of Truth" pursued those wizards who were in search of Truth. As a result, some bold wizards wanted to capture the "Eye of Truth" that followed them. They shared this plan with other wizards, but it was not recognized, so they decided to do it themselves. The "Sage" in the story could refer to the collective wisdom they gathered or to some secret existence that had infiltrated their ranks, possibly both. In the end, they succeeded in "manifesting" and "sealing" the entire Eye of Truth through the methods of the "Stone Slab Array." This could explain why the story talks about "carving" the stone slab when in reality it turned out to be a manifest sealing Array. And at the end of the story, the Eye of Truth behind the other wizards "saw" this group of bold wizards. Maybe it’s hinting that the "Truth" discovered their actions. And this could be linked to the system’s first hint, "But when you steal the power of Truth, the eyes of Truth may be watching you." Thus linked, the "Eye of Truth" before us is very likely to come from the "power of Truth." As for why the system would tell such a cryptic "fable," He Ao is more inclined to think that this might actually be a legend related to the "Tablet of the Eye of Truth." After all, many previous introductions of extraordinary items by the system were filled with "it is said" and "legend," where only the content following a "please note" is the actual hint from the system. And the birth of a legend could be due to the disseminator’s slip of the tongue or even a deliberate attempt to cover up "something." For example, from the system’s hint, "Knowledge is the bridge, cognition is the link," it might be the case that just talking or mentioning the true origin of the "Tablet of the Eye of Truth" would be noticed by the "Truth" hidden beyond space and time. Thus, the one spreading the tale deliberately "metamorphosed" the origin of the Tablet of the Eye of Truth, in an effort to obstruct the "perception" of Truth as much as possible. And in the turmoil of thoughts, the Divine Sense controlled by He Ao had already immersed into the deepest part of the stone slab. Feeling the rapid consumption of Divine Sense, he grasped the Blood-Moistening Jade Pendant hanging in front of his chest and simultaneously infused the Divine Sense into it. Noise, chaos, distortion. It was as if a craziness capable of shredding the brain blossomed within He Ao’s mind. This was pollution emanating from the Jade Pendant. At the same time, He Ao felt his perspective gradually "detaching," and the whole world unfolded before his eyes in another form. He immediately directed his "gaze" towards the stone slab sealing the Eye of Truth. In that instant, the Eye of Truth in the sky also twisted its perspective, looking at "him." While He Ao used the power of the Jade Pendant to peek into the Eye of Truth and the stone slab, the power of the Eye of Truth seemed to take it as some sort of provocation and quickly retaliated with a counterstrike. Like a thunderclap exploding in his mind, blood flowed from He Ao’s eyes, inner ear, nostrils, and corners of his mouth. At the same time, the rolling thunderous sound in his mind continued to intensify. Various overlapping pollutants played a chaotic symphony in He Ao’s mind, but his actions did not falter in the slightest. The main function of the Jade Pendant was to enhance "comprehension." Although it was best used for studying Martial Arts, it was also not bad for researching other things. Such as this intricate "Stone Slab Array." Under the influence of the Jade Pendant, this complex and weighty Array finally unfolded before his eyes. A severe sense of dizziness almost assaulted He Ao’s mind at the instant the Array unfolded. At this moment, he activated Super Memory and "remembered" all these complex Arrays. The complexity of this Stone Slab Array far exceeded He Ao’s understanding. It was as if a primary school student had opened a book on higher mathematics; even now, with the Jade Pendant enhancing his comprehension, a lot inside was beyond the scope of "comprehension," as he was missing too much knowledge. However, he was not trying to fully understand these Arrays right now. He only wanted to inscribe his own "name" on this "advanced math book" and engrave his own "Control Array." But even so, this was no easy task. The violent contamination was like countless strong men holding his hand back, preventing him from acting. The Divine Sense he used as a "pen" was not a nimble fountain pen, but a fragile stick. If he couldn’t find the right spot, he wouldn’t even be able to leave a mark on the Array. He started by trying to leave marks at some "connecting points," but the power of his Divine Sense simply couldn’t alter these points in the slightest. The violent contamination continuously assaulted He Ao’s mind, while he focused on painstakingly seeking out places within the Arrays where he could leave a "mark." As he searched, he was also continuously "getting to know" the Array. Although he couldn’t comprehend the more complex elements, he found some connections between the simpler parts and the Arrays. He slowly found some simple "edge Arrays," which seemed to serve "functions" that were not critical—some were even "decorative patterns" to beautify the structure of the entire Array. These Arrays were not structurally solid. Under the guidance of Divine Sense, "displacements" could occur, and He Ao pieced together the rudiments of an Array bit by bit by constantly "shifting" with his Divine Sense. As time passed, his back became soaked with oozing blood, and his entire face was covered in it as well. His eyes lacked focus, and his pupils diffused as if painted on. The contamination in his mind grew stronger, and the spillover even began to erode his physical body. But even so, he continued his movements without the slightest pause, until the vast and intricate Control Array finally took shape in his "field of view," until the last stroke of the ’K’ symbol was outlined. He finally exhaled a a sigh of relief. The assembled Control Array emerged on the "surface" of the stone slab, emitting a faint glow. At that moment, the Divine Sense in He Ao’s hands was completely drained. His consciousness withdrew from the "Jade Pendant’s" comprehension enhancement, returning to his own body, and a wave of intense fatigue nearly instantaneously washed over him. And in that same instant, the Tablet of the Eye of Truth in the sky shattered into countless orange-gray glimmers of light that surged into He Ao’s body in a flash. An even more terrifying contamination exploded in He Ao’s mind. A sensation of being torn inside out pervaded He Ao’s mind. In that moment, his body tensed and his eyes clenched shut. Countless strange forces filled his body, and thin cracks spread from his cheeks, palms, arms, and back as if eyes were about to open there. The power of Super Memory erupted in that moment, forcibly suppressing these forces, gathering them together. The cracks receded like the tide, intense pain pulling at the young man’s body. He straightened up slowly, spreading his arms, until all those forces converged. His tightly shut eyes suddenly snapped open, and within the depths of his pitch-black irises, two nested orange-gray concentric circles also lit up, as though another eye had opened within his eyes. At the same time, a huge illusory eye nestled within an inverted triangle took shape from the void behind He Ao’s head and slowly opened. The entire world seemed to shift in hue, with countless threads constructed of Truth linking together everything in He Ao’s view. He looked up at one of the two bottles of water on the table. As his gaze swept over it, the bottled water vanished from the world as if erased by an eraser. He shifted his gaze to the wall beside him. The street outside, the streetlights, the sky—they all appeared in his "vision." With a mere thought, it seemed he could erase anything from his "view," deconstructing them to their most fundamental Truth. He could erase a bottle of water with ease, just as he could a B-level Transcendent. A voice inside his head seemed to be reminding him to "deconstruct" everything. Was this the power of an Angel? He lowered his head to look at his palm; a network of fresh, fine cracks already covered his body, as if his body would shatter like a "porcelain doll" in just another moment. Feeling the contamination agitating continuously in his mind, he slowly closed off his Super Memory and shut his eyes, and the illusory eye floating behind him closed at the same time. The whole world fell silent in that moment. He opened his eyes again, the glow within his pupils had disappeared, and the world seemed to return to an eternal calm. He raised his hand and glanced at his palm, where the scarlet cracks still existed but were now hidden beneath the skin. He walked over to the coffee table and picked up the remaining bottle of water, opened it, and took a sip. After inscribing the control array, the Tablet of the Eye of Truth directly "fused into" his body, which he hadn’t anticipated. There were also no system prompts. Perhaps even the system hadn’t expected him to endure such violent contamination to inscribe a control array on the Tablet of the Eye of Truth. Any ordinary B-level Transcendent would have gone mad at first contact with such violent contamination, not to mention He Ao, who had compounded the contamination with that of the Blood-Moistening Jade Pendant to boost his comprehension. Of course, the merging of the tablet into He Ao’s body wasn’t a bad thing. Strictly speaking, the slab hadn’t actually merged with his physique but had formed some sort of connection with his body and soul in the realm of Mysticism. He could call upon the power of the Tablet of the Eye of Truth at any time, and it seemed that the tablet itself existed in some alternate space, only appearing when he used its power. Thus, he didn’t need to free up a storage space to carry it with him. The tablet had essentially become a "bound equipment" that didn’t take up storage space. However, while inscribing the array, he also noticed that the array within the slab had a natural "self-repairing" tendency. That is to say, if he left it alone, the control array he inscribed would be automatically erased, so he would need to reinforce the control array periodically. The power of the Tablet of the Eye of Truth was very pure; it allowed He Ao to "peer" into the most fundamental "composition" of this world, then "deconstruct" the "Truth" that constituted the world. This "deconstruction" was not in the sense of a mental or verbal deconstruction but a physical one. He could directly manipulate all matter, breaking it down to its most basic particles, effectively "erasing" it from the world. Of course, "particles" were not the ultimate end point of deconstruction; if necessary, the Eye of Truth could also break matter directly down to the energy that constitutes it. Well, both nuclear fusion and nuclear fission release energy by the deficit of mass, so in a sense, this ability could be understood as rubbing together a nuclear bomb to see who explodes. However, directly breaking down mass into energy, even if only deconstructing a small part of the most easily deconstructed gluon "binding mass" between quarks, the energy used is immense, so He Ao usually wouldn’t use the Eye of Truth to conjure nuclear bombs. In terms of the difficulty of "deconstruction," the energy consumed to deconstruct a Transcendent was more than that of an ordinary human, and deconstructing sentient life was more difficult than non-sentient life, even more so than inanimate objects. Besides "deconstruction," in an environment rich with Extraordinary Power, He Ao could also control the surrounding Extraordinary Power, briefly emitting powerful attacks. Of course, aside from its destructive capabilities, the very act of "peering" into the world’s fundamental deconstruction by the Eye of Truth was an ability in itself. And those who possessed the Eye of Truth would naturally attract the "adoration" of those chasing after Truth. But considering the circumstances of the creation of this Tablet of the Eye of Truth, such adoration was likely to degrade easily. And although the Eye of Truth was powerful, it greatly wore down the user’s body. Since the Eye of Truth fundamentally lacked substance, whenever it released power, it required the user’s body as a medium. He Ao had just "activated" the Eye of Truth briefly while his Super Memory was open, and it had almost caused his entire body to collapse. He didn’t know what the full-power activation of the Eye of Truth would be like, but he guessed it would not be easy to endure. The rate of bodily collapse would probably exceed his estimates, and there was even a possibility of instant disintegration. In some sense, it was a Prop where "Life Consuming" traded for power. However, from his experience in the Copy World taking on the strength of the War God’s Incomplete Angel Tier, improving Physical Fitness might help bear more power and extend the usage time. Right now, apart from Super Memory, his Martial Arts and physical Talent Sequences were both C-level, which indeed seemed too weak for Angelic Tier items. Without activating Super Memory, he couldn’t even "awaken" the Eye of Truth. But aided by the connection with the Eye of Truth, he could also "clearly see" some of the world’s underlying structures, an effect somewhat better than "Secret Watcher," similar to the Eye of Annihilation without the "elimination" capability. The trade-off was the continuous echo of contamination from the Eye of Truth in his mind. But his mind was already a jumble, and he was used to it. After the contamination from the Eye of Truth arrived, the previously dominant contamination from the Blood-Moistening Jade Pendant quieted down and shrank to the corner. Looking at the capability structure of the Eye of Truth, gathering Extraordinary Power was somewhat like "Scarlet Radiance," the ability to attract worship was a bit like the "Witch’s Mask," and Peering into the Truth was somewhat like the "Incomplete Truth Mechanism." Indeed, the system had tried to find a reward that related to the main elements of the three items. Here, the "Incomplete Truth Mechanism" should be the core of all elements; if not for its existence and connection with close friends, the system likely wouldn’t have been able to generate high-level items like the Eye of Truth, which are so closely related to Divine Beings. And the "Incomplete Truth Mechanism" was spawned from the achievement "Defier of Gods," suggesting the effects of "Defier of Gods" weren’t wasted. In any case, with the Eye of Truth in his possession, he now genuinely had the strength to confront Angelic Tier projections and even Divine Being projections. He Ao took a deep breath and turned his gaze back to the center of his field of view. There, a row of subtitles was still lit up. "Congratulations on triggering a super advanced task, as you have reached a five-star comprehensive evaluation for the first time." "Current advancement progress: 12.5/25" Advanced tasks—where was this advancement taking place? He Ao glanced at the character card interface, which had settled with 6.5 Exchange Stars from tasks, and the ’Almost’ achievement awarded one more Exchange Star, making a total of 7.5 Exchange Stars. The overall evaluation was calculated at five stars. 12.5—was that the sum of the Exchange Stars obtained and the comprehensive evaluation? The subtitles in his vision gradually faded, and He Ao glanced at the countdown in the corner. He had stayed in the Copy World for almost eight days, which translated to eight hours in the Main World; another hour had just been spent dealing with tasks—was the waiting time for this Copy World also seven days? Over nine hours had passed, and the sky was already tinged with specks of red light. He looked at his hand, covered in fresh blood, and walked into the bathroom. Here, close to half a day behind Rodan where He Ao’s original body was located, it was time for sunset’s glow. He Ao’s Hao Yi clone was sitting by the sea, casting his fishing line into the water. A hoarse shout came from behind him. His deputy in the Daybreak organization, Noding, scurried up to him, rolling and crawling, and held up a cellphone, "Leader, the leader is looking for you." He Ao glanced at the phone and then at the fishing float, speaking in a calm voice, "Good evening, leader." An elderly voice came through the phone, "Bad news, the second-in-command is dead." "The incident in the Newland City-State?" He Ao asked in a slightly lower voice. The elder spoke rapidly, "The second-in-command didn’t leave many survivors; things weren’t managed well, so I’m temporarily splitting the Western Lands in half for you, at the same price as last time, and doubled." His words were rushed, as if he was busy with something. He Ao, sensing the urgency in his words, did not respond immediately but paused for a moment. Then he flicked the fishing rod and said slowly, "Twice." "One point five times, no more," The elderly replied quickly, "If you can’t do it, I’ll find someone else." "One point seven times, paid in gold bars on the spot." He Ao continued calmly. There was silence on the other end for a moment; after brief breathing sounds, the voice spoke slowly, "Deal. I’ll have someone bring the gold bars to you the day after tomorrow." Subsequently, the call was disconnected. Noding stared at He Ao, trembling. He Ao was reeling in the fishing line slowly, his gaze lingering on the sea beneath his eyes, "So now, am I the second-in-command of Daybreak?" "Yes, besides the Leader, you have the largest territory." Noding promptly responded. He Ao’s gaze drifted forward, where the fishing line swung gently in the sunset.