Not long after he finished speaking, rounded bulges began to form on the walls of the Temple of Inquiry. They moved rapidly, writhing outward again and again as if trying to break through the walls.
"Cut the parlor tricks. I know I'm not in a Dungeon right now," Xu Huo said. "I believe in doing good without expecting anything in return, but I was already leaving. Pulling this on me is a little unreasonable."
As soon as he finished, the eyes beneath the wall slowed down and drifted toward the spot directly opposite the Temple of Inquiry's entrance. Gradually, they merged into one much larger round shape. A few seconds later, it split down the middle, like the eyelids of an animal, peeling upward and downward to reveal a gigantic eyeball within.
The moment he noticed the eye was about to open, Xu Huo prepared himself. As its eyelids parted, he moved outside the Temple of Inquiry. But before he could put any distance between them, the surroundings changed as mental power spread through them. In the blink of an eye, the nearby temple scenery vanished, replaced by a sea of blood strewn with corpses. Directly ahead, a mountain made of eyeballs rose from the ground. As overwhelming mental pressure bore down on him, the giant eye appeared at the summit, swiveling as it looked down at him!
An unprecedented pressure seemed to become a tangible weight, crushing Xu Huo. His body, every muscle and bone, even each of his cells, was constantly dragged downward, as if to pull him into the sea of corpses and blood!
He shifted his gaze from the giant eye ahead to the ground beneath his feet. With some effort, he pulled his legs free of the corpses, only for countless eyeballs to emerge from