Crack! Crack! Crack!
Incomplete Vertical Eyes rose into the air one after another. They had originally been flesh and blood, but after Ma Qingqiu and the others modified them, large amounts of metalwork appeared on their bodies.
Some were gears, some connecting rods, some pistons, and so on.
The many gears, connecting rods, catches, and other parts meshed and fitted together.
Amid the assembling of mechanical gears, the many Vertical Eyes pieced themselves into a Vertical Eye over a meter tall, with one ring nested inside another.
Within the Vertical Eye, multicolored eyeballs turned, spraying light of every hue.
When this light shone on people, it made some arrogant and conceited, some lazy, some fall into lust, and some a little colder-hearted.
Eyeballs in dozens of different colors could be combined, blended, and so on to produce thousands of different effects.
Gurgle!
[Vertical Eye] rotated.
It mechanically surveyed Ma Qingqiu and the others, its heart filled with resentment. These bastards humiliate and berate me however they please.
One day, I will have my revenge on them.
It seethed with discontent, but did not dare resist now.
Because it had no idea how far these things, neither human nor ghost, had developed after stealing its intrinsic traits.
Much less did it know what special methods these bastards possessed after combining its stolen essence with cultivators' power.
So...
I must sleep on brushwood and taste gall!
I must keep a low profile!
I must... endure.
My lifespan is longer than these bastards'. I can endure three or five thousand years, or even ten thousand.
Once they die, I'll sing and dance on their graves. I'll dig up their remains, skin them, and tear their bones apart.
I'll grind their bones to dust and scatter their ashes, never to be reborn.
At this