Yue Tingge led Quinn Shepherd and Logan Cross onward, with Quinn's visualized divine dragon trailing behind them.
This Daoist's face grew vicious and twisted again, darting suspicious glances everywhere. At the slightest sound, he would hide behind bushes or trees, poking his head out, constantly convinced someone meant to harm him.
The divine dragon crept along after him, hiding just as sneakily.
Quinn couldn't help but laugh and cry at the scene, asking for an explanation. Yue Tingge sneered, "This world is full of malice toward me, watching my every move, plotting to harm me! If I weren't careful, I'd be dead already!"
He glanced around nervously, lowered his voice, and said, "Shh, let me tell you a secret: Grand Void Land is alive! It watches us, tracks our every move, and eavesdrops on us. It even arranges all sorts of 'accidents' to wipe us out..."
Quinn and Logan exchanged glances. For someone like Yue Tingge, a master at the peak of the Emperor's Throne realm—surely on par with a Dao Ancestor or King Brahma Buddha—to act so paranoid was truly shocking.
"Stop!"
Suddenly, Yue Tingge grew intensely nervous. He stuck his rear in the air and crouched down to sniff the ground. The divine dragon followed suit, crawling behind him and sniffing around too.
Yue Tingge looked up, his face full of fear, then suddenly bolted, shouting, "They're coming!"
Quinn was taken aback and quickly followed. Logan, helpless, went along too, muttering, "Quinn Overlord Body, this Celestial Teacher Yue really has lost his mind—and badly at that. If this lunatic suddenly snaps and tries to kill us, no one could stop him! We'd best keep our distance."
Quinn hesitated.
Yue Tingge really did seem a bit off. By rights, even after being trapped here for over ten thousand years, a master of his level shouldn’t have gone mad. Maybe Her Majesty the Empress broke his brain?
Sticking with a lunatic like this was truly dangerous—nobody could predict what a madman might do next.
The divine dragon kept trailing after them, still sniffing around. Suddenly, it seemed to catch a scent, lifted its head, wiggled its nose hard, and muttered in puzzlement, "Maha?"
Quinn and the others had already walked far ahead. Just as the divine dragon was about to catch up, the earth suddenly split open—a patch thousands of mu wide turned into a giant eyeball!
That enormous eyeball beneath the ground rolled once, staring off into the distance at Quinn and the others.
The divine dragon jumped in fright, its scales standing on end. It tumbled and crawled madly after Quinn and the others.
"Maha maha!" The divine dragon circled Quinn, trying to tell him what it had seen.
"Hungry again?" Quinn asked, baffled.
"Maha!"
The divine dragon spun in anxious circles, not knowing how to explain what it had seen. When it looked back, the ground had returned to normal—the giant eyeball was gone.
"Maha?" The divine dragon scratched its mane with a claw, still puzzled.
Suddenly, a handsome mountain nearby silently split open, revealing a giant eyeball. It rolled from side to side, the pupil contracting as it focused on Quinn and the others.
And the mountain next to it turned into a giant ear!
The divine dragon's scales stood on end. Trembling, it rushed to Quinn's side, pointed at the mountain with a claw, and cried, "Maha!"
Quinn turned to look—the eye in the mountain had vanished, and the ear turned back into a mountain, as if nothing had happened.
"This dragon's gone mad too."
Logan suggested, "Next time, let's just slaughter it and eat it."
The divine dragon drooped its head, listlessly trailing after them.
It suffered for not being able to speak, unable to tell Quinn and the others that Yue Tingge was not actually crazy—the Grand Void Land really was alive, and it was monitoring and listening to them.
After a while, the divine dragon saw the blue sky above their heads suddenly morph into a gigantic eyeball. But it no longer had the courage to warn Quinn and the others, and could only weakly mutter, "Maha..."
It then saw a tall tree turn into a giant ear, but could only feebly say, "Maha."
Quinn and the others followed Yue Tingge, who was cautious and alert. Yue said, "Don't let the quiet fool you—it's actually deadly here. I survived only by being clever. Good brother..."
He gently stroked the roasted, golden, oily beast leg and softly said, "Good brother, here it's just you and me. We'll be brothers for life... Who are you?"
Suddenly, he saw Quinn, Logan, and the divine dragon following him, and his expression turned wary.
Quinn coughed and said, "Celestial Teacher Yue, we are..."
"I remember you!"
Yue Tingge suddenly realized, tossed the beast leg aside, and smiled, "Shepherd Heavenly Venerable, one hand. Of course I remember you. Heh, we're heading to that place, so be careful. I'll tell you a secret—the Grand Void Land is alive..."
The beast leg hit the ground with a loud thud. Yue Tingge eyed it warily and sneered, "Trying to tempt me with roasted meat? Do you take me for a three-year-old? Let's go—they're watching us! We need to find Flame Heavenly Venerable and Void Heavenly Venerable quickly. That rascal Kaihuang is coming!"
Quinn's scalp tingled, and he wanted to back out, but hearing that Kaihuang was coming, he had no choice but to follow.
Yue Tingge kept leading the way. As they walked, Quinn suddenly saw Yue Tingge's head turn perfectly square, like a box, with square eyes, ears, nose, and mouth!
The Celestial Teacher's neck, body, legs, and arms also turned into square blocks, each finger and knuckle becoming connected cubes!
Quinn and Logan jumped in shock, then realized they too had turned into blocky figures like Yue Tingge!
Quinn turned to look at the divine dragon, which had also become a bizarre creature made of joined cubes!
All around, the trees were cubes, the leaves were cubes, the mountains were cubes, and even the water in the river was a stream of blocks flowing along the channel!
"This is... a bizarre divine art visualized by the Grand Void Creators! Or rather, they've created a new divine sense illusion within Grand Void Land, with Dao laws completely different from outside!"
Quinn looked up and saw square clouds and a square sun overhead. He took out his Sword Pill, which had also become a block!
He activated his power, and the Sword Pill transformed into a sword—yet the sword was also made of cubes!
Quinn opened his vertical demon eye at his brow, which remained normal and hadn't turned into a block.
He channeled his divine sense into the Taichu Primal Stone and shouted, "Break!"