The hall suddenly dimmed, but when you looked up, the starlight above grew even clearer and brighter. Moonlight and starlight intertwined—if this were outside, it would surely be a night of bright moon and sparse stars. Yet here, the moon and stars adorned one another, making the starry sky inside the hall all the more enchanting.
Quinn Shepherd didn’t return to the hall. After a while, a bull’s head poked out from behind the moon and plucked it down.
Both Lynn Ling and Serena Yunxiang grew indignant. “That killjoy! He doesn’t understand romance at all! If you were in this hall, with moonlight and starlight shining, and he said something sweet, whispered a few loving words, wouldn’t it be a perfect moment? Of course, only after kicking out the fox spirit beside him!”
Then Lynn Ling and Serena Yunxiang heard the sound of bricks and tiles being stacked outside. They saw the sky above the hall gradually vanish, and every so often a bull’s head would reach in and pluck a star from the heavens.
The stars above the hall grew fewer and fewer. After more than half an hour, the sky was peeled away—Quinn Shepherd had plucked down all the stars, sun, and moon.
The two women came outside the hall and saw a mountain-like pile of World Pearls on the ground, along with two enormous eyes—each with closed pupils.
These two eyes stood over ten feet tall, towering above them. Their texture looked like jade, not real eyes at all—clearly carved from fine jade.
Lynn Ling leaned in close and saw that the eyes contained intricate patterns—clearly formation runes engraved inside.
Their pupils were sealed shut, hiding the formation within as a single white line—no iris visible—while radiating outward were patterns like rays of golden sunlight.
The two women touched them; the surface was icy cold, nothing like the blazing heat from earlier.
“I thought they were Glutton beast eyes, but turns out they’re just jade.” Serena Yunxiang sounded disappointed.
Quinn Shepherd was fiddling behind one of the eyes, doing something unknown. Suddenly, the pupil split open—a vertical almond-shaped slit.
The two women immediately saw the slit in the pupil, where an incredibly complex formation began to activate, spinning like a precision machine made of countless gears. Then a terrifying blaze surged up from the pupil, growing ever fiercer—their eyes felt scorched just looking at it!
Serena Yunxiang hurriedly yanked Lynn Ling aside. The two dodged just in time—a whoosh rang out as a snow-white beam shot from the pupil, igniting the air. Wherever it passed, the marble floor turned instantly to magma, and even the magma began to evaporate!
The beam struck several glazed tiles; even though those tiles bore rune marks, they vanished into steam the instant the beam touched them!
Lynn Ling jumped in fright. “If that beam hit us, wouldn’t we be dead? Thank goodness Serena pulled me away…”
Quinn Shepherd was still tinkering behind the eye. The two women circled around and saw a formation inscribed with runes behind it—not too complex, but hard to identify.
Quinn was adjusting the formation with his own yuanqi.
As he adjusted it, the jade eye’s pupil gradually split to both sides, the blaze inside growing ever fiercer—sunlight pouring out, the heat behind the eye almost unbearable.
“Close your eyes.”
Quinn Shepherd’s expression grew serious. He said in a low voice, “I’ve activated the full power of the formation in this eye. Now I’m going to close the pupil into a vertical slit and see just how strong this spirit weapon really is.”
“Spirit weapon?”
The two women were briefly stunned. Quinn was already controlling the formation, shrinking the pupil. Suddenly, the light grew impossibly bright, and Lynn Ling and Serena Yunxiang hurriedly shut their eyes.
Even with their eyes closed, they could still see a terrifying blade of light slicing out—thin as a razor.
Quinn stopped the formation. A buzzing vibration came from inside the jade eye, then the light faded and the heat around them slowly dissipated.
The two women opened their eyes, but still saw a band of black light—the brightness had peaked to pure black, their pupils scorched by the glare.
Even without looking directly, the light from inside the jade eye had seared their eyes through their eyelids. Luckily, their yuanqi was strong enough to heal the damage.
Quinn emerged from behind the eye and looked up, stunned. He saw that the great hall before them had been sliced cleanly in two by the light blade from the jade eye!
Though the hall still stood, it was only a matter of time before it collapsed!
In the sky of this underwater world, a blade mark had been carved down from above. The barrier supporting the seabed had split open, and water began to leak into this strange undersea world.
Quinn rubbed his chin, where a few stubborn whiskers had sprouted. He grabbed them and yanked them out.
The boy winced, not from physical pain, but from heartbreak.
Just now, when he tested the jade eye’s power, he’d accidentally pierced the barrier of this strange undersea world. In a few days, seawater would flood the place.
Serena Yunxiang watched water droplets falling from the sky, splashing onto the hall. The seemingly sturdy hall groaned under the weight, tilting to both sides. With two thunderous crashes, the hall split in half and collapsed, dust billowing, revealing massive beast bones.
They were Glutton beast bones—the skull of a pureblood Glutton beast, sliced cleanly in two by Quinn’s blade of light.
Now that the hall had collapsed, the Glutton beast’s skull was exposed—enormous and imposing.
“Those Heavenly Kings weren’t wrong—wherever Cult Master Quinn goes, destruction follows…” Serena Yunxiang muttered.
Lynn Ling quietly lamented the loss.
This was a divine temple, a wondrous undersea world—ruined by Quinn’s tinkering in just a few moves.
“Cowherd, you have a given name but no courtesy name. I’ll give you one: ‘Chai Chai’—Quinn Chai Chai!” Lynn Ling suggested.