Soul Return, Battle of the Twins, Calamity of the Twins, Star Chain Mutation

"That's impossible." Xu Xian leaned closer to the mirror. "I clearly saw him dissipate."

Before he could finish speaking, Night Venerable in the mirror suddenly opened his eyes! His pitch-black pupils stared straight at Xu Xian, and the corners of his lips slowly split into a grin. "Brother. Long time no see."

Xu Xian staggered backward, the copper coin mark erupting with stabbing pain. Fine cracks spread across the mirror's surface as Night Venerable's voice came intermittently: "Come find me... I'm inside the seed..."

The instant the bronze mirror exploded, the seed in Xu Xian's dantian suddenly sent out a rootlet that stabbed straight into his heart!

Amid the agonizing pain, Xu Xian's consciousness was dragged into a strange space. There was no distinction between heaven and earth here, only endless gray mist churning about. Two flowers floated within the fog—one gray-gold, one pitch-black. Their stamens faced one another as they slowly revolved.

"This is..."

"Your dantian's Purple Mansion." A familiar voice came from the gray-gold flower. Qin Wang's phantom emerged, far more solid than before. "More precisely, it's inside the seed."

Xu Xian had barely begun to step forward when the black flower suddenly spewed out dense mist. The mist gathered into Night Venerable's form, and he blocked the way with a playful smile. "Don't be in such a hurry, Brother. Play a game with me first~"

Qin Wang's phantom immediately drew his sword. "Careful! He has already..."

Night Venerable suddenly thrust a hand into his own chest and pulled out a mass of pulsing black light. "Already found this!" He tossed the black light into the void. "Look!"

The black light exploded, transforming into fragment after fragment of memory: Xu Xian being punished by his master as a child while Qin Wang secretly brought him medicine; Xu Xian