"But didn't you say that the Immortal Artifact here could send Fangshi to anywhere they wished to go..." Sentinel Dai glanced sideways at the void beneath the stairs and could not help shuddering. This place was simply too bizarre. He did not even want to imagine what it would be like to fall down there.
"The one is all; all is one." The Kaiyang Envoy paid it no mind. "Precisely because this place is nowhere, it can be anywhere. Of course, what we see is the Immortal Artifact before it has been activated, which is why it feels as though we are trapped within Chaos. But in truth, it has nothing whatsoever to do with Evil Spirits. It is a precious gift the immortals left for us!"
"Then how do we activate it?"
"Very simply—more qi." He answered with complete confidence. "The medicinal catalysts we brought are certainly not enough, but the Seven Stars prepared for that long ago. The answer is the An Clan."
Although the Seven Stars had borrowed certain methods from the Yong Dynasty era to gather souls, whether for research or to create soul talismans, a boundary still existed. Any act of summoning Evil Spirits remained a red line; once crossed, it would bring the harshest punishment. The An Clan was different... They were remnants of the Yong Dynasty. Presumably, they had no aversion to Evil Spirits at all and acted with even fewer scruples. After running such a family for a hundred years, they might lack other things, but they certainly had no shortage of soul collections.
Furthermore, Yama Island's attitude toward Yao differed entirely from that of the Six States on the mainland. Many Yao therefore still dared to walk openly through the mortal world in broad daylight, and all of them were natural