Quinn Shepherd was able to unleash the Heaven–and–Earth Seal not because of his Overlord Body, but because of something the First Ancestor said: 'You and I are both Keane orphans.' That single sentence resonated deeply with him, letting his heart echo the First Ancestor's mindset.
He could feel the devastation of the Pioneer Era and, as the only Keane orphan left in the world, the crushing sense of wanting to shoulder heaven and earth alone yet feeling powerless.
That feeling belonged to the First Ancestor—and to him as well.
But there was more: the First Ancestor wanted to bear the Pioneer Era, to prevent its destruction, while Quinn wanted to carry the present world—the Everpeace Era.
Everpeace looks safe now; the people live in peace and prosperity. Yet Quinn knows danger is closing in, threats are quietly descending—the demon clans of High‑Emperor Heaven, the stone statues within Everpeace, the false sky, the distant High Heaven in the West...
He knows that even the remnants of Chiming are a threat!
The Everpeace Era has only just begun to show its shape—yet at any moment, it could vanish into dust!
Everpeace, this newly born era, has not yet risen but is already battered by wind and rain—at any moment, heaven and earth could overturn and all could be destroyed.
It was precisely this mindset that allowed him to wield the true power of the First Ancestor's Heaven–and–Earth Seal.
Under the power of the seal, Quinn Shepherd was not just a stabilizing pillar like the legendary Sea-Calming Needle—he was the column upholding all of heaven and earth. What he wished for was to erase future catastrophes before they could take shape, to prevent history from repeating the destruction of past eras!
Though his mood was tinged with melancholy, it lacked the despair and decadence that marked the First Ancestor. With the same Heaven–and–Earth Seal, Quinn’s imprint held a spirit of vigorous determination—the more perilous the crisis, the stronger his drive to overcome it!
That was the difference between him and the First Ancestor.
It was also why the First Ancestor turned back, stunned, after witnessing Quinn’s seal.
Quinn Shepherd unleashed the Heaven–and–Earth Seal again and again. The First Ancestor’s imprint arts differed greatly from those Quinn had seen before: all his seals required both hands, one hand as Heaven, one as Earth.
For the Heaven Seal, the palm lines held clouds; the fingerprints of each finger were sun, moon, or the five luminaries and stars.
For the Earth Seal, the palm lines formed rivers and mountains; the fingerprints became lakes and seas.
When the Heaven Seal trembled, clouds shifted, the five luminaries and moon revolved, and the fingers burst forth with the power of the five elements or the sun and moon.
When the Earth Seal trembled, rivers surged, mountains rose and fell, and each finger seemed to hold an entire ocean—its power was boundless.
And when the sky collapsed or the earth split, the power grew even more terrifying: the Earth Seal contained earth, water, wind, and fire, while the Heaven Seal made stars spin and crash into the ground.
If the seal arts transformed into the Annihilation Seal, their power multiplied many times over—but that belonged to the Heaven–Collapse Three Forms, a divine art not to be used lightly.