The gale atop Yaochi Peak was as cold and sharp as Li Wuhen's face, slashing at the skin like small blades cutting flesh. Clutching his left eye, Chen Mo dragged himself down the mountain, wincing as every step pulled at the wound on his ribs where the Demonic Qi had licked him, burning with a fiery pain. The pain in his left eye was even worse; the socket was swollen high like a ripe, bruised peach, burning and throbbing. His vision was a hazy blur of bizarre, shifting color patches, making everything look as though it were viewed through a layer of rippling, greasy, grayish-green frosted glass.
That damned eye! Every time he forcibly "saw" something he shouldn't, it felt like a red-hot iron poker was being jammed inside and stirred around. Fumbling into his tunic, he pulled out the Heart-Clearing Jade Essence. The icy touch sank into his skin, slightly subduing the scorching agony that threatened to boil his brains, but the grayish-green haze in his field of vision merely faded a little rather than dispersing.
"Woof," came a lazy greeting from beside his foot.
Chapter 76