"Quinn, let me take a look at your eyes."
Granny Sue stared into his eyes for a while, finding no trace of Furylo within them. Then she checked with a mirror, but still saw no sign of Furylo in that eye. Only then did she relax and remind him, "You can use this eye, but don't activate your cultivation art. If danger arises, I'll handle it. When we meet the Woodcutter Sage, you'll need to seal this eye again with the Golden Willow Leaf."
Quinn nodded and put away the Golden Willow Leaf.
It was his first time using the third eye at his brow to observe the world. Curious, he glanced all around. What this eye saw was different from what his ordinary eyes perceived.
With his ordinary eyes, he could only see a cultivator's outward appearance. But through the third eye, everything became strange and uncanny.
Looking at Granny Sue, he could not only see her exterior, but also her Divine Treasuries—and even her Primordial Spirit—with chilling clarity.
Most terrifying of all: when Quinn saw Granny Sue’s Primordial Spirit, he actually found it strangely appetizing, a raw hunger swelling inside him—a sudden urge to devour her spirit!
He didn’t know where the feeling came from—only that his gut twisted with emptiness, a dreadful craving rising up, an almost uncontrollable urge to snatch Granny Sue’s Primordial Spirit from her body and swallow it whole!
The hunger gnawed at him so fiercely it felt almost real, driving a primal impulse to consume.
The last time, at the ruins of the City of No-Regrets, he’d opened his third eye only briefly before Tu Bo appeared, driving the jade pendant into it. Then the Mute Smith and Grandpa Blind forged the Golden Willow Leaf to seal it, so he hadn’t felt anything strange back then.
Now that the third eye was open, Quinn finally realized something was deeply wrong.
"Is it a problem with this eye, or is it something wrong with Luofu Heaven itself?"
Quinn suppressed the urge to devour Granny Sue’s Primordial Spirit, thinking, "It shouldn’t be Luofu Heaven’s fault. Luofu Heaven is just one of the demon worlds—even if there’s something wrong here, it’s only a problem with the demonic aura. But demonic aura alone shouldn’t make me feel this hungry. So the real issue must be with this eye. Strange—why does opening it make me feel so ravenous?"
He puzzled over it, unable to find an answer. For now, he set the problem aside and followed Granny Sue onward, heading toward the nearest altar.
The Woodcutter Sage and twenty-four True Gods had built towering golden-lettered altars to blood-sacrifice Luofu Heaven, forcing Furylo to halt the war. To prevent the altars from being destroyed by demon gods, the Sage was surely guarding them. Furylo and his demon gods, until the altars fell, would hold their armies back and avoid clashing with the Heavenly Court.
Seeking out the Sage at an altar was the best choice.
Quinn surveyed the surroundings. What he saw in Luofu Heaven and Furylo’s territory matched the strange phenomena Granny Sue had described—if anything, things here looked even more hellish.
Enormous stars drifted across Luofu Heaven’s sky. Their magnetic fields clashed with those of the realm, triggering violent earthquakes—so powerful that volcanoes erupted, and winds howled at speeds many times faster than sound.
The gales were like blades, the fiercest of spectral soldiers. Even newly formed volcanoes were ground to dust by the razor-sharp winds.
Most terrifying of all was the ocean. Towering waves surged with unimaginable speed, faster even than sound, obliterating everything in their path.