I Have a Date with a Thousand-year-old Female Corpse

"What a pity, although you possess the Sen Luo Eye, it’s merely a mortal fleshly eye, and the time you’ve opened the Sen Luo Eye is quite short, utilizing the Myriad Manifestation Eye Technique. Once you encounter someone who has been cultivating the Myriad Manifestation Eye Technique from a young age, it could be very dangerous,"

Frowning, you stared intently at Wei Shuxian and asked, "Cultivating the Myriad Manifestation Eye Technique from a young age? Does this mean that there is an aristocratic family inherently possessing the Myriad Manifestation Eye?"

"Exactly." Wei Shuxian nodded, "Since you don’t know, let me enlighten you. As everyone knows, the Li Tang lineage reveres Laozi and Li’Er as its ancestors, and the Li Family started to proliferate on a large scale during the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Throughout more than 300 years of Li Tang, the Li Family grew unprecedentedly in size, but with that growth came many branches. One such minor branch, after the fall of the Tang Dynasty, fled the calamity and hid in the deep mountains. By a chance occurrence, they opened the Heavenly Eye and after hundreds of years and dozens of generations of research, they named their native Heavenly Eye the Myriad Manifestation Eye."

"That can’t be?"

You seemed to have guessed the plot twist Wei Shuxian was about to reveal.

He shrugged and smiled, "Sorry, but the story to follow is exactly what you’re imagining. The Li Family has many branches, many of which emigrated overseas during the Republic of China, leaving only one behind in the country."

"Where are they now?"

"I don’t know, at least I don’t. I’ve occasionally heard the elders at home mention that they are either hidden away in the hustle and bustle of the world or secluded in the depths of mountains and rivers."

You were about to speak when Wei Shuxian slightly raised his hand and continued, "Initially, I thought your family was the last survivor of that branch. But after careful investigation, I discovered that your family is just a branch of that branch. Years ago, the Li Family produced an unparalleled genius. At just three years old, he could open the Myriad Manifestation Eye, and by thirteen, he had mastered the mysteries of the Myriad Manifestation Eye Technique, a rare talent seen only once in five hundred years of the Li Family."

"That was my grandfather?" you frowned, "That’s not right. Our Old Li Family is cursed; the men don’t live past adulthood."