Chapter VI: The Moon in the Sky

Nian Xin flew into a rage. "Chen Ping'an, what is wrong with you?!"

Shuangjiang, squatting to one side, gently sighed. She could not entirely blame the little girl for her fiery temper, for Nian Xin was truly accustomed to the rock-solid disposition of the Yin Guan ancestor. In all their previous cloth-sewing sessions, they had always pulled through. The cloth sewer had grown used to mishaps both big and small; no matter how perilous the process, success always seemed to follow. Thus, this accident was intensely unexpected.

Inside this prison, after they had slain yet another Nascent Soul Realm demon race sword cultivator, the task Nian Xin faced with today's cloth-sewing was to carve the true name of an ancient, ferocious, formidable demon, piercing it through the center of Chen Ping'an's back with her Destiny Item embroidery needle, and further connecting it to his spine. With only the last two strokes remaining, they had still fallen short at the very threshold of success. Had Nian Xin not withdrawn her blade in time, Chen Ping'an's entire spine would have snapped into two pieces. The turbulent, lingering resonance of the fierce demon's true name would have surged like a reversed tide, with the killing intent rampaging wildly into Chen Ping'an's heart. Had there not been several lingering Golden Talisman and Jade Scroll characters left inside Chen Ping'an's heart chamber—characters Nian Xin was exceedingly familiar with and had hastily used to suppress the true name's killing intent, barely neutralizing it—Chen Ping'an's body and soul would likely have devolved into a string of consecutive exploding firecrackers, meeting an end just like an Earth Immortal destroying their own Golden Core and Nascent Soul, beyond the rescue of even immortals.

The young Yin Guan collapsed to the ground, unable to rise. His back was stripped raw