I Pick Up Talents on the Interstellar Battlefield

Chapter 871: Chapter 587: Black Dragon Combat Armor

The Eternal Ghost Eye originated from one of the Empire’s top Gold Bloodline families—the Black Wood Clan.

Different from most Bloodline Families, all of the Black Wood clan’s Bloodline Abilities were condensed into a single pair of eyes.

The Eternal Ghost Eye possessed eerie and formidable powers; it could see through invisible Soul Bodies, absorb the resentment, corruption, and Ghost Qi between heaven and earth, then refine and condense them into nether Ghost Souls, commanding these Ghost Souls to fight for its wielder.

It could also use Telekinesis to construct a bizarre, phantasmal Illusion Technique world, forcibly dragging enemies into the Eternal Ghost Realm, where their Will would be broken and their Souls annihilated through endless torment.

Generally speaking, Spiritual Mind Masters were divided into four main schools.

The first was the Ghost-Control or Tamed Beast school, which used control of Soul Bodies or Exotic Beasts as its combat power.

The second was the Soul Attack school, specializing in formless, intangible Soul Shock, striking directly at the enemy’s vital points.

The third was the Object-Control school, using Telekinesis to manipulate all things, unifying offense and defense.

The fourth was the Illusion Technique masters, adept at constructing Illusion Realms to bewilder the enemy’s mind.

Members of the Black Wood Clan who possessed the Eternal Ghost Eye were born with the Empire’s top-tier Telekinesis Cultivation Talent, and could often command the abilities of three to four schools at once, combining Ghost-Control, Soul Attack, and Illusion Techniques in a single body, their combat strength utterly terrifying.

As a result, the Pupil Skill of the Eternal Ghost Eye successfully rose into the ranks of the Empire’s Ten Great Pupil Skills, its renown resounding far and wide.

But everything has two sides.

The trait of gathering all Bloodline Abilities into a pair of eyes allowed the Black Wood Clan to bask in infinite glory, yet it also drew the gaze of a notorious faction—the Blood Demon Cult.

The core reason the Blood Demon Cult was spurned and hunted down throughout the entire Empire was that they captured large numbers of Bloodline Spiritualists and, through surgery or ritual, forcibly transplanted Bloodlines into the bodies of Blood Demon cultists.

However, these transplant surgeries were extremely difficult, and the higher the Bloodline Level, the more intense the host’s rejection, making the success rate plummet.

Before this, the general belief was that the Blood Demon Cult could at best successfully transplant a Silver Bloodline; there had never been a successful case of plundering a Golden Bloodline.

Yet a massacre ten years ago shattered this understanding and changed the fate of the Black Wood Clan.

That night, the Blood Demon Cult launched a sudden assault on the ancestral lands of the Black Wood Clan.

Within the ancestral lands, thousands of Black Wood clan members, old and young alike, were all slaughtered without exception, and the eyes of every single corpse were brutally dug out.

Shortly afterward, in a series of major cases perpetrated by the Blood Demon Cult throughout the Empire, figures wielding the Eternal Ghost Eye repeatedly appeared.

Those Blood Demon cultists who had Eternal Ghost Eyes transplanted into them used this Pupil Skill to commit countless heinous atrocities, butchering innumerable innocents.

The Judgement Court was enraged, mobilizing elite forces for a covert investigation, and eventually captured multiple key members of the Blood Demon Cult, extracting the truth from their mouths.

It turned out the Blood Demon Cult had accidentally discovered that the Black Wood Clan’s Eternal Ghost Eye could actually be successfully transplanted into others through surgery, and that the rejection reaction was far lower than that of other Gold Bloodline transplants.

This was the first Golden Bloodline transplant barrier the Blood Demon Cult had successfully broken; from that moment on, they set their sights on the Black Wood Clan and meticulously orchestrated that Black Wood massacre.

As a top-tier Golden Clan, the Black Wood Clan had spread its branches for generations, with clansmen scattered across every corner of the Empire; thus the deaths of thousands at the ancestral lands did not cripple the clan’s foundations, though it still dealt them a heavy blow.

More importantly, the ancestral land was the root of the Black Wood Clan, the birthplace of their rise, bearing their inheritance and glory; to be slaughtered and desecrated in such a way was a humiliation of the deepest kind that the Black Wood Clan absolutely could not tolerate.

However, the Black Wood Clan had not foreseen that the negative consequences brought by this massacre would go far beyond that.

Once the news that “the Eternal Ghost Eye can be transplanted with a high success rate” spread, members of the Black Wood Clan instantly became prey coveted by all sides.

Star Thieves, the Blood Demon Cult, the Xieshen Association, the underground black market, and even some hidden dark forces all cast greedy eyes upon this pair of Golden Bloodline pupils.

During that period, as long as a Black Wood clansman left home, there was a high chance they would encounter ambush, kidnapping, or even be brutally slain and have their eyes gouged out.

As more and more clansmen met with misfortune, even though the Black Wood Clan launched thunderous reprisals and slew countless coveters, they could never suppress the world’s greed and desire for Golden Bloodlines and the Eternal Ghost Eye.

With no other choice, the Black Wood Clan could only urgently recall all clan members outside, secretly resettle them, and strictly order everyone to conceal their identities whenever they went out.

After the Black Wood Clan’s calamity, several other families possessing special Pupil Skills were also subjected to similar attacks one after another.

However, as the first Golden Clan targeted by the Blood Demon Cult, the Black Wood Clan’s Eternal Ghost Eye became far more widely known precisely because of this massacre.

Qin Tian fixed his gaze on that pair of eerie dark-green Eternal Ghost Eyes in Black Wood Tong’s sockets; to him, this pair of ghostly eyes, one of the Empire’s Ten Great Pupil Skills, held little appeal.

He himself possessed the Eye of Fear, a mighty Pupil Power originating from the Fearful Evil God, and furthermore had the world’s top-tier Soul-type Talent, [Divine Venerable]; whether in Soul defense, Soul Attack, or mental control, he far surpassed the Eternal Ghost Eye.

Still, even if he had no need for the Eternal Ghost Eye, this Pupil Skill could be bestowed upon his subordinates.

And at this moment, he already had the most suitable candidate in mind—

Old Ghost.

Old Ghost, Zong Xiangui, had been branded with a Soul Seal by him back in the battle at the Demon Suppression Abyss and had willingly pledged allegiance under his command.

Now, among his few old subordinates, Old Ghost was the highest in Level, a genuine Tier Six Nine Stars Spiritual Mind Master.