Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
The third floor of this building was entirely different from the first and second floors. It was as if it were in another dimension. The third floor was actually a spacious and empty palace, and there was a huge sphere floating in the center of the palace. This sphere was even bigger than the entire building of OmniStore.
Tiao Miao brought Kong Hou and Dong Xiao to stand right in front of the sphere. There was a grave expression on her face.
She lifted her right hand, extended her index finger, and gently pointed at the sphere.
Within a split second, the sphere underwent a sudden change.
With a loud, alarming noise, the huge sphere started to crack down the middle, the crack. The crack slowly traveled down the sphere before stopping when it had reached a certain point. Countless glowing pieces of jade started separating from the two halves of the sphere. It wasn’t long before the two halves of the sphere were completely disassembled into countless luminous square jade pieces, and there were glittering words on every piece of jade.
Tiao Miao waved her hand again, and all the glowing jade pieces rapidly started rotating, clattering as they moved. In the midst of it all, light was flowing and pervading the entire room. The scene before them was so primitive and simple that it almost made them lose their minds.
A moment later, the rotating glowing jade pieces started to slow down. And, at long last, they slowly came to a stop. Then, two out of all the originally disorderly pieces of jade recombined with each other, and the words on the two jade pieces started to sparkle.
Kong Hou walked up to the jade pieces. After carefully examining them, she turned around to face Tian Miao and said, “Boss, the time and space have been determined.”
“All right. Three days from now. Light the lamp.” Tian Miao gave a slight nod and then gently waved her hand. Once again, countless jade pieces started rapidly spinning. And finally, they all combined to form two hemispheres, which in turn merged together to become the huge sphere that they had all originally come from. The sphere’s glow disappeared, and it quietly floated above its original spot.
Then Tian Miao turned around and stretched her back, saying, “I’ll have sliced suckling pig and sweet-scented Osmanthus wine for dinner tonight.”
Kong Hou and Dong Xiao bowed their heads and respectfully and replied, “Yes, Boss.” For her light seizing and shadow chasing assignments, their boss was most fond of the sliced suckling pig and sweet-scented Osmanthus wine. Before they’d returned, they had made sure to bring a lot more of these items back with them. Each and every time, from every world they traveled to, they would bring tons of delicious food back with them that they found in that world. There was no denying it. Their boss loved food.
After Tian Miao went downstairs, Kong Hou whispered, “This time, it’s your turn to light the lamp, right?”
“If Boss didn’t give specific instructions, then it should be me.” Dong Xiao nodded.
That lamp placed at the highest point was a guide for the fated ones. It would guide them in the right direction and ensure that they arrived at the shop without a hitch.
When Kong Hou lit the lamp, it would be moonlight; and when Dong Xiao lit the lamp, it would be sunlight. When there was a need for two of them to light the lamp together, it would be moonlight and sunlight. However, it had been many years since this situation had happened.
The sphere in the palace was named Chaos. It was so incomparably mysterious that even the two of them didn’t know where this divine artifact had come from. All that was expected of them was to follow the sphere’s guidance every time to light the lamp.
Kong Hou and Dong Xiao also didn’t know when OmniStore had begun to exist. All they knew was their boss would follow Chaos’s instructions and bring the shop with her as she traversed space and time. Then, at the world that Chaos guided them to, she would carry out a light seizing and shadow chasing assignment, which was, to put a world that had deviated off course back on track. The lamp that they lit would guide the fated ones into this shop, and their boss would grant any of their wishes, but they had to pay a price for it. And every time, the price was always something unexpected.
As for the identity of their boss, from the outset all they’d known was that she was very, very powerful. Everyone was like ants to her, including the two of them. They were just ants at their boss’s mercy, and this had always horrified them each day they lived.