Chapter 1146: Organ Tumbling

Bai Jiu was slightly taken aback by the sight but quickly suppressed her surprised expression.

She then smiled at Jiang Shi and asked, “Little Jiang Shi… are you feeling unwell?”

“Me…?” Jiang Shi paused, then lightly sniffled. “No… why do you ask?”

Bai Jiu stared into Jiang Shi’s eyes. Though filled with confusion, she worried that bluntly mentioning such a bizarre situation might frighten him, so she hesitated to speak.

His eyes… could they be healing?

Bai Jiu scrutinized Jiang Shi’s eyes again and noticed that while his own pupils were pitch-black, the newly appeared pupil had a faint brown hue.

Not only were the two pupils different in color, but they also moved independently on the same face—clearly, they didn’t belong to the same person.

Bai Jiu remained outwardly calm, but a chill ran down her spine. She couldn’t shake the feeling that there was someone else inside Jiang Shi, peering out through his eyes.

That eye brimmed with fear, confusion, and bewilderment, starkly contrasting Jiang Shi’s own eyes, which were filled with pain, exhaustion, and sorrow.

The indescribable strangeness of it all unnerved Bai Jiu, and her expression finally betrayed her panic, catching Jiang Shi’s attention.

“Ninth Sister… is something wrong with my left eye?” Jiang Shi paused. “Why are you looking at me like that…?”

Bai Jiu didn’t want to answer. Her expression shifted from panic to helplessness.

Whoever was inside Jiang Shi, they shouldn’t be disturbing him in his final moments.

The strange eyeball rotated before fixing its gaze on Bai Jiu, then widened in shock.

“Little Jiang Shi… I need to tell you something, but don’t be afraid…”

Before Bai Jiu could finish, Jiang Shi’s bizarre eye convulsed violently.

The eye morphed into a nose, then into a mouth, shifting like the reels of a slot machine from top to bottom.

When the grotesque transformation settled, Jiang Shi’s left eye had been replaced by a mouth, leaving his tiny face with one eye and two mouths—an unsettling and horrifying sight.

Bai Jiu instinctively covered her own mouth in shock.

“Ninth Sister!!”

A familiar voice echoed from the void. Bai Jiu focused and realized the sound was coming from the mouth on Jiang Shi’s eye.

Jiang Shi was equally startled, unable to pinpoint the source of the eerie voice—it seemed to come from everywhere, yet also from deep within his own mind.

“Who… who’s speaking?” Jiang Shi snapped to alertness, frantically looking around.

Bai Jiu, however, simply cupped Jiang Shi’s face in silence, her expression one of utter disbelief.

“That voice… Little Sixteen?” she asked.

“What Little Sixteen…?” Jiang Shi grew even more confused. “There’s no Sixteenth here.”

“Ninth Sister!! I thought I was seeing things, but it really is you!” Qiu Shiliu’s voice continued to drift in from the void.

“What’s going on, Sixteen…?” Bai Jiu wasn’t reassured by the familiar voice—if anything, she was more puzzled.

“Who’s talking?” Jiang Shi muttered. “Where’s Sixteen?”

“I should be asking you, Ninth Sister. How are you inside Xuanwu’s body? Who were you just talking to? Tenth Brother?”

“Wait…” Bai Jiu sensed that the situation wasn’t as she’d assumed. “You said we’re… inside Xuanwu’s body?”

“Yeah…” Qiu Shiliu’s voice floated out. “You’re in the space inside Xuanwu…”

Bai Jiu turned to look at the distant battlefield, where a group of people surrounded Xuanwu, yet neither side moved.

Xuanwu simply lowered its head, staring at its own chest, while the members of “Cat” stood tense but motionless.

“No, Sixteen.” Bai Jiu shook her head. “If anything, it should be you inside Xuanwu… We’re all outside.”

“Where is Sixteen…?” Jiang Shi felt his mind fogging up.

“What…?” Qiu Shiliu was stunned. The mouth on Jiang Shi’s face twisted again, reforming into an eye. “Only me?”

The eye darted around, surveying the scene outside, then grew even more perplexed.

She shifted the eye away, replacing it with the mouth once more. From Bai Jiu’s perspective, Jiang Shi’s left eye alternated between being an eye and a mouth.

“What the hell is going on? I saw you guys through a tiny light inside Xuanwu’s body…”

“Through a tiny light…?”

“Ninth Sister… what is this light?”

“I don’t know… What does it look like from your side?”

“It’s just a hole, about the size of a coin…” Qiu Shiliu explained. “But where are you seeing me from?”

“I’m seeing you… through Little Jiang Shi’s eye.” Bai Jiu answered truthfully. “Right now, you look like you’re inside his body… Your eye is peeking out from his.”

“What?” Jiang Shi and Qiu Shiliu were both stunned.

Several seconds passed before Qiu Shiliu spoke again: “Ninth Sister… I’m clearly inside Xuanwu, so how did I end up inside Tenth Brother…?”

Bai Jiu absentmindedly twirled one of her twin tails. As one of “Cat’s” famed strategists, though she wasn’t much help in combat, she could at least try to make sense of this bizarre phenomenon—it was undoubtedly tied to Xuanwu’s ultimate secret.

“In that case… this must mean the ‘Immortality’ of two people has connected to the same space.” Bai Jiu mused. “It’s not entirely incomprehensible… It’s just that the chance of two ‘Immortals’ meeting is incredibly rare…”

“No, Ninth Sister, I think it’s more than just two ‘Immortals’…”

Qiu Shiliu knew that with Bai Jiu here, she could leave the heavy thinking to her. So she spilled everything she’d observed—the endless doors, each leading to different spaces, and her theory of “people staying still while space moves.” She also explained how she’d ended up in front of this strange light.

The flood of abstract concepts overwhelmed Bai Jiu’s mind but also helped Jiang Shi grasp the situation.

“Ninth Sister… what should I do now…?”

Bai Jiu furrowed her brows, deep in thought, before reaching an abstract conclusion.

The space inside Xuanwu seemed to exist outside all other spaces—except that “Immortals” somehow held the key to accessing it.

“Sixteen… there was a slight flaw in your earlier strategy. From now on, listen to my instructions.” Bai Jiu said sternly, staring into Jiang Shi’s eye.