Recaps

Master Xuanzhi gave Chen Lin sarira fruits and three-color glazed liquid in exchange for a promise to help the Demon-Suppressing Temple after reaching the Vajra Realm, revealing that its monks had been corrupted by an evil demon. Chen Lin chose to wait before investigating, prepared the Three-Treasure Buddha Dew, and began his breakthrough, only to be struck by tribulation lightning.

• Xuanzhi gave Chen Lin two sarira fruits and three-color glazed liquid, asking him to withdraw his commission and eventually help the Demon-Suppressing Temple expel an evil demon.
• Xuanzhi revealed that the temple’s monks, including himself, had been corrupted, but refused to explain the temple’s secret and warned Chen Lin not to act rashly.
• Xuanzhi left Yuan Zhen with Chen Lin as a messenger, and Chen Lin decided to wait until after his breakthrough before investigating the temple.
• Chen Lin prepared the Three-Treasure Buddha Dew and began advancing his Body-Refining Technique.
• Tribulation clouds gathered over Immortal Peak, and the first lightning bolt struck Chen Lin through his immortal cave, leaving him rigid.

Chen Lin survived his golden core tribulation, but a Buddha statue tried to devour his soul before a fourth golden lightning strike destroyed it and damaged Chen Lin’s soul. While recovering, he learned from Master Xuanzhi that the monks of the Demon-Suppressing Temple needed a vajra-realm cultivator to wield their Temple-Suppressing Treasure, and Xuanzhi suddenly underwent a strange change.

• Chen Lin endured the three tribulation lightning strikes, completed his transformation, and condensed a dharmic manifestation prototype.
• A Pitch-Black Buddha Statue emerged from Chen Lin’s Storage Bag and began pulling his soul and dharmic manifestation from his body.
• A fourth golden tribulation lightning struck; Chen Lin split his soul and sent part of it with his dharmic manifestation into the Buddha statue, destroying it and reducing his cave abode to ruins.
• After waking and recovering for weeks, Chen Lin told Qin Lingyu and Master Xuanzhi that his soul origin essence was damaged and he could not yet fulfill his promise.
• Master Xuanzhi revealed that the monks of the Demon-Suppressing Temple had been invaded by demonic beasts and needed a vajra-realm cultivator to wield their Temple-Suppressing Treasure, then briefly convulsed as black qi churned around him before it vanished.

Chen Lin recovered from his tribulation injuries but remained unable to restore his soul origin essence, so the Silver Fairy sent him to seek a renowned soul-cultivation family in the Southern Immortal Cultivation World. His cross-region teleportation was interrupted when someone destroyed the formation at the other end, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Chen Lin recovered his body, returned to the Vajra Realm, and advanced to the sixth layer of Foundation Establishment, but his damaged soul origin essence still prevented him from pursuing Core Formation.
• Chen Lin gave Luo Qingsong a Three-Stripe Seven-Star Pill, and the Silver Fairy later entrusted Chen Lin with a Pseudo Spirit Treasure inheritance and a peak third-rank flood dragon soul.
• The Silver Fairy directed Chen Lin to visit a secluded family in the Southern Immortal Cultivation World to seek a way to restore his soul origin essence and to look for his missing senior sister.
• Chen Lin traveled to Xuanguan Immortal City, visited Tian Haifu, and entered the Cross-Region Teleportation Formation alone.
• During transit, someone destroyed the formation at the other end, interrupting the teleportation and leaving the Golden Core cultivator unable to reactivate the array.

After a damaged teleportation cast Chen Lin into an unfamiliar village, he discovered that its houses were separate spaces governed by strange rules. He reunited with fellow teleportation survivor Luo Ziwen, but the two remained trapped with no clear way out.

• Chen Lin survived the collapse of the Space Passage, healed his injuries, and found a large village inhabited by mortals.
• A child, an old man, and a young woman gave Chen Lin three different names for the village and hurried away from him, making him suspect something was wrong.
• At the village edge, Chen Lin met Luo Ziwen, another survivor of the teleportation, who warned that he had been trapped there for three days.
• Chen Lin flew in every direction but repeatedly returned above the village, confirming that he could not escape its boundaries.
• Luo Ziwen told Chen Lin that each house was an independent space with its own rules, and described nearly dying in Elm Tree Village and Tofu Village.

Chen Lin investigated the strange village after Luo Ziwen entered a wooden house and failed to return by morning. His experiments suggested that the villagers were dead people mysteriously revived to repeat scenes from their lives, and he prepared to test that theory again as night fell.

• Luo Ziwen entered a wooden house at night while Chen Lin watched from outside, but he did not emerge by morning.
• Chen Lin questioned a village woman and learned she had married into Ancient Bridge Village from Elm Tree Village; her husband attacked him, and Chen Lin left after disarming him.
• Finding no way out, Chen Lin knocked the couple unconscious and interrogated them outside the village about the old man with the pipe, whom they identified as the woman’s father-in-law, dead for over ten years.
• Chen Lin questioned other residents and observed that the villagers repeated fixed routines without interacting unless he intervened, leading him to suspect they were dead people revived to reenact their lives.
• Chen Lin returned the couple to their home, then seized them again and brought them to the hill to wait for nightfall.

Chen Lin entered the ruined village hidden inside a house at night and discovered that its ghostly villagers could repeatedly revive. After using the Soul-Destroying Finger to eliminate them, he received a wooden hairpin from the fading plump woman, which let him pass through the barrier at an ancient stone bridge.

• Chen Lin entered the house at night and found himself in a sinister space containing a ruined village and ghostly villagers.
• The sickly man and the pipe-smoking old man attacked Chen Lin, and he defeated them with his Azure Flood Dragon Halberd and puppets before learning they could revive.
• Chen Lin used the Soul-Destroying Finger to permanently destroy the ghostly villagers, leaving the plump woman alive.
• The plump woman spoke of wanting to see the outside world, then vanished and left behind a wooden hairpin.
• The hairpin caused an ancient stone bridge to appear and allowed Chen Lin to pass through the barrier at its far end.

Chen Lin emerged from Ancient Bridge Village into Ferry Town, only to realize he was still trapped in the strange realm. Luo Ziwen explained that the town might resemble the Netherworld and that a ferry carried one person away each month, leaving Chen Lin to investigate how it worked.

• Chen Lin found himself in bustling Ferry Town, where a scholar recognized Ancient Bridge Village and suggested Chen Lin had escaped its dangers.
• Chen Lin realized Ferry Town was another stage of the strange realm, then reunited with Luo Ziwen in a tavern.
• Luo Ziwen said Ferry Town ferried souls and praised Chen Lin for escaping the wooden-house village on his first attempt.
• Luo Ziwen explained that a boat appeared at the town's landing once a month and took one person, though he did not know where it went.
• Chen Lin left the tavern to investigate Ferry Town for himself.

Chen Lin learned from Luo Ziwen that Ferry Town was inside a replica of the Yellow Springs Scroll, and the two prepared to escape by finding its spatial node before the ferry appeared. As night fell and the townspeople became powerful ghostly creatures, Chen Lin revealed that his Soul-Destroying Finger could destroy one instantly.

• Chen Lin confirmed that Ferry Town was surrounded by an impassable barrier and that a dangerous black river bordered it.
• Luo Ziwen warned Chen Lin that the townspeople turned into ferocious ghostly creatures at night and revealed that the town was inside a replica of the Yellow Springs Scroll.
• Luo Ziwen explained that they had to find the spatial node, which he suspected was carried by one of the ghostly creatures, and destroy the creatures before the ferry appeared.
• Chen Lin agreed to join Luo Ziwen in fighting the creatures, and they discussed their plan as night fell.
• The townspeople transformed and charged at Chen Lin and Luo Ziwen, and Chen Lin destroyed a Golden Core-level ghostly creature with a single finger.

Chen Lin and Luo Ziwen fought through the ghostly creatures in the town, only to discover that Luo Ziwen was Jin Xingyun and the final Scholar was Gu Shengjin, who had trapped them in the Yellow Springs Scroll. After Chen Lin and Jin Xingyun destroyed Gu Shengjin and opened a rift, both escaped as a terrifying presence approached the ferry landing.

• Chen Lin and Luo Ziwen defeated the ghostly creatures until only the Scholar remained, and the Scholar revealed himself as Gu Shengjin.
• Gu Shengjin exposed Jin Xingyun's identity and demanded the Weeping Blood Ginseng, while Jin Xingyun attacked him and Chen Lin supported the fight with nine puppets.
• Gu Shengjin's red crescent mark blocked Chen Lin's Soul-Destroying Finger, but Jin Xingyun's Golden Saber and Chen Lin's formation gradually weakened him.
• Gu Shengjin began to fade away, but Jin Xingyun struck him with the Golden Saber and Chen Lin hit him with stored tribulation lightning, destroying him.
• A point of light appeared as a terrifying aura rose from the ferry landing, and Jin Xingyun opened a rift through which he and Chen Lin escaped.

Chen Lin escaped the Yellow Springs Scroll and traveled through the Southern Immortal Cultivation World to Tianyun Immortal City, where he reunited with Dantai Yunjin and Luan An. He learned that Zhao Mengru survived the Ghostly Domain, but Dantai revealed that she was no longer in the city.

• Chen Lin and Jin Xingyun escaped the Yellow Springs Scroll, and Jin Xingyun left for Golden Light Island while Chen Lin headed toward Tianfu Immortal City.
• Chen Lin examined the wooden hairpin he had brought out, learned that Jin Xingyun and Gu Shengjin belonged to overseas powers, and began replacing his lost puppets and spiritual tools.
• Chen Lin traveled for a year through several immortal cities before reaching Tianyun Immortal City.
• Chen Lin visited Dantai Yunjin, who welcomed him alongside Luan An.
• Chen Lin asked whether Zhao Mengru had escaped the Ghostly Domain, and Dantai confirmed she had survived but was no longer in the city.

Chen Lin reunited with Dantai Yunjin, learned that Zhao Mengru had left to search for him, and asked for help finding the Ji Family to repair his damaged soul origin essence. He later visited the struggling Qingshan Sect, where its leaders debated sacrificing a widow and her daughter to secure protection, just as a visitor from the Tianyuan Continent arrived.

• Dantai Yunjin told Chen Lin that Zhao Mengru had waited three years before leaving to search for him, and that she had not returned since.
• Chen Lin told Dantai Yunjin about his damaged soul origin essence and asked about the Ji Family; she agreed to consult the city lord.
• Luan An told Chen Lin that Tianyuan Continent cultivators had founded the Qingshan Sect near the city, while Xiazhi and Xu Zihua visited him.
• Chen Lin inspected the Qingshan Sect and learned that its leaders were considering giving Chen Qiaoyun's daughter to the Chang Family in exchange for protection.
• A disciple reported that a Foundation Establishment cultivator from the Tianyuan Continent had come to meet the Qingshan Sect's sect master.

Chen Lin reunited with his elderly niece Chen Qiaoyun at the Qingshan Sect and discovered that the sect planned to offer her daughter as a concubine to win help from the Chang Family. He revealed his Golden Core strength and took Chen Qiaoyun, her husband, and their daughter away, agreeing to protect his newly found relatives.

• Chen Qiaoyun recognized Chen Lin as her long-lost second uncle after he identified her Chen Family lineage.
• Chen Lin insisted on taking Chen Qiaoyun away, then revealed his Golden Core-level pressure when the sect's elders tried to stop him.
• Chen Qiaoyun explained that the Qingshan Sect intended to offer her daughter to the Chang Family's ancestor and asked Chen Lin to take her family away.
• Chen Lin accepted Chen Qiaoyun's decision not to pursue the sect's actions and left with her, her husband, and their daughter.
• Chen Lin explained why he had never returned to the Chen Family and welcomed the three relatives to stay with him.

Chen Lin reunited with Chen Qiaoyun’s family, eliminated the resentful Qingshan Sect cultivator who had threatened them, and advanced to late Foundation Establishment. As he prepared to return to Tianyun Immortal City, a Golden Core cultivator and three Foundation Establishment cultivators surrounded him and demanded what he had obtained from Huang Dafu.

• Chen Lin learned that Chen Qiaoyun’s daughter, Chen Qingying, had a wood essence physique, and gave her, Chen Qiaoyun, and Zhang Dayuan pills to aid their cultivation.
• Chen Lin used puppets to capture and kill the White-Bearded Old Man, then interrogated his fragmented soul before destroying it.
• After waiting in Tianyun Immortal City for True Lord Yuming to return, Chen Lin cultivated for three months and reached the peak of the sixth layer of Foundation Establishment.
• Chen Lin underwent a lightning tribulation in the wilderness and successfully advanced to late Foundation Establishment.
• Three Foundation Establishment cultivators and a concealed Golden Core cultivator surrounded Chen Lin and demanded what he had obtained from Huang Dafu; Chen Lin released his nine formation puppets and readied his weapons.

Chen Lin killed Zhao Zhenqi and the Sky Eagle Sect cultivators who came after Huang Dafu, then learned the sect had sought a mysterious token Huang Dafu possessed. After stabilizing his cultivation, Chen Lin began searching for the Ji family to repair his soul origin essence and for news of Luo Qinglan and Mu Linglong; he learned nothing of Mu Linglong but found a lead about Luo Qinglan.

• Chen Lin used the Azure Flood Dragon Halberd and his puppets to kill Zhao Zhenqi and the three Sky Eagle Sect cultivators who had confronted him.
• A blue-robed man detected the aura of a pseudo spirit treasure at the battle site, then left to seek a way to evade his tribulation.
• Chen Lin returned to Tianyun Immortal City, where he learned the Sky Eagle Sect had disbanded after losing its leader and other high-level fighters.
• Chen Lin realized Huang Dafu's unexplained token might be the item Zhao Zhenqi had sought, but he could not decipher it.
• Chen Lin began investigating the secluded Ji lineage and searching for news of Mu Linglong and Luo Qinglan; he found no news of Mu Linglong but learned something about Luo Qinglan.

Chen Lin learned that Luo Qinglan and the rebuilt Qingyang Sect were thriving, but the possible remedies for his damaged soul origin essence remained out of reach. After arranging for his relatives to stay in Tianyun Immortal City, he traveled into the Barrens to seek the Ji lineage and was repeatedly attacked by a giant black eagle.

• Chen Lin learned from Cheng Chuji that Luo Qinglan had reached Golden Core mid stage and rebuilt the Qingyang Sect in Starry City, where Mu Xingchen had also formed his Golden Core.
• Dantai Yunjin told Chen Lin that the Ji lineage had left Xuanyin Immortal City and might be in the Overseas Islands or Myriad Souls Ridge, while the other possible soul-restoration methods were impractical or dangerous for him.
• Chen Lin arranged for Chen Qiaoyun, Chen Qingying, and Zhang Dayuan to remain in Tianyun Immortal City and promised to help them establish their foundations before he left.
• Chen Lin traveled through several Teleportation Formations to Rooster City, then entered the Barrens and headed toward Myriad Souls Ridge.
• A fast second-rank black eagle repeatedly attacked Chen Lin and evaded his counterattacks, leading him to suspect it was trying to lure him somewhere.

Chen Lin reached Myriad Souls Ridge in search of information but found its settlements closed to outsiders. At Xuanyin Immortal City's headquarters, he encountered Madam White Bone, now known as Shen Lingyu, and escaped after she tried to detain him, leaving her to take out her anger on a nearby cultivator.

• Chen Lin killed the Black Eagle that had been trying to lure him toward Myriad Souls Ridge, then continued on his way.
• After surveying Myriad Souls Ridge, Chen Lin entered its canyon and found that the settlements inside belonged to sects and lineages that refused to admit outsiders.
• Chen Lin learned that the largest settlement was Xuanyin Immortal City's headquarters and left to avoid attracting Gu Shengjin's attention.
• Madam White Bone recognized Chen Lin and revealed that she had become Shen Lingyu, an elder of Xuanyin Immortal City and a Golden Core cultivator.
• Shen Lingyu blocked Chen Lin's departure and offered to provide information about recent disappearances, but Chen Lin used Lightning Ray to escape.
• Shen Lingyu, furious at being deceived, seized a Foundation Establishment cultivator and said he would take Chen Lin's place in helping her cultivate.

Chen Lin searched the underground layers of Myriad Souls Ridge for the Ji Family, battling increasingly powerful yin souls as he descended. After a possessed woman’s companion framed him for her death and a powerful pursuer arrived, Chen Lin escaped into the fourth layer, where his Soul-Destroying Finger improved rapidly before a strange cry knocked him from the air.

• Chen Lin explored the first and second layers, questioned two Qi Condensation cultivators, and found no information about the Ji Family.
• Chen Lin reached the third layer, where he encountered a Grey-Robbed Cultivator fleeing from a woman possessed by a yin soul.
• Chen Lin destroyed the possessed woman with his red lotus and Soul-Destroying Finger, but the Grey-Robbed Cultivator accused him of killing Princess Hanhua and fled.
• Chen Lin sensed the arrival of a powerful pursuer and escaped into the fourth layer, concealing himself and searching for the Ji Family.
• Chen Lin fought Golden Core-level yin souls in the fourth layer, rapidly advancing his Soul-Destroying Finger, until a strange cry made him tumble to the ground.

Chen Lin survived a Nether Crow’s attack with the help of the cracked Wooden Hairpin, then met Ji Wuming and learned that the Ji Family had no easy cure for his damaged soul origin essence. As he prepared to leave Myriad Souls Ridge, a child claiming to belong to the Ji Family appeared and insisted that his family could heal him.

• A Nether Crow’s cries weakened Chen Lin and began pulling his soul into a vortex, but the Wooden Hairpin released white light that let him kill the bird.
• Chen Lin recovered in an Isolation Array and discovered that the Wooden Hairpin had cracked and was leaking yin qi.
• Ji Wuming identified himself as a member of the Ji Family and recognized Chen Lin as the disciple of Second Young Miss Yun, the Silver Fairy.
• Ji Wuming warned Chen Lin about the dangers of the fourth level and said that only a Netherworld treasure such as a nether river flower could likely repair his damaged soul origin essence.
• As Chen Lin headed toward a cave entrance, a little boy appeared, claimed to be from the Ji Family, and angrily declared that his family had plenty of ways to heal Chen Lin.

Chen Lin traded a Nether Crow corpse to Ji Wuyu for a Nascent Soul Pill formula that might repair his damaged soul origin essence. After successfully refining and testing the pill on Duan Hongyan for six months, Chen Lin concluded its effects were close to what he needed and left for another immortal city.

• Chen Lin examined the Nascent Soul Pill formula Ji Wuyu gave him and traded it for the Nether Crow corpse.
• After Chen Lin left, Ji Wuming explained that the Ji Family was leaving the Barrens because a great tribulation was approaching.
• Chen Lin gathered ingredients in Huayu City and successfully refined a Nascent Soul Pill.
• Chen Lin recruited Duan Hongyan to test the pill under a Soul Contract and observed him for six months.
• Chen Lin ended the experiment, gave Duan Hongyan the promised Double-Patterned Seven-Star Pill, and departed through a Teleportation Formation.

Chen Lin restored his soul origin essence with Nascent Soul Pills, then settled in Wanmeng Immortal City to investigate the Nightmare Realm and rumors of an approaching great tribulation. As he prepared to advance to Golden Core and gathered rare ingredients, a shopkeeper told him that Hanhai Immortal Palace was about to open again.

• Chen Lin spent three years refining and taking ten Nascent Soul Pills, restoring his soul origin essence while advancing close to the great perfection of Foundation Establishment.
• Chen Lin remained unable to find Mu Linglong or Zhao Mengru, then focused on cultivation, tribulation preparations, and preparing to reach Golden Core.
• Chen Lin settled in Wanmeng Immortal City to seek Nightmare Realm information and investigate major powers' unusual stockpiling of supplies.
• A powerful clan's direct descendant told Chen Lin that secretive families suspected a devastating great tribulation would arise within the next hundred years.
• Chen Lin bought fire essence from Baozhen Pavilion, completing his set of five elements materials for refining a Six-Pattern Seven-Star Pill.
• The shopkeeper asked Chen Lin whether he had heard that Hanhai Immortal Palace was about to open again.

Chen Lin decided to enter the Hanhai Immortal Palace secret realm to seek the yin- and yang-attribute materials needed for his pill. While waiting at the ruins, he encountered Alan, who recognized his wooden hairpin, explained that her sister’s soul was inside it, and gave him soul-nourishing liquid before vanishing.

• Chen Lin decided to explore the Hanhai Immortal Palace secret realm in search of rare yin- and yang-attribute materials.
• Chen Lin watched the secret realm’s projection appear above the ruins and turned away a cultivator who tried to buy his key.
• Chen Lin discovered Alan on a distant hillside, but she stopped him from leaving and recognized him as Silver Fairy’s disciple.
• Alan identified the wooden hairpin Chen Lin had obtained and learned that it had cracked while saving his life.
• Alan returned the hairpin, told Chen Lin that her sister’s soul was inside it, and gave him soul-nourishing liquid before disappearing.

Chen Lin entered the Hanhai Immortal Palace Secret Realm and found it transformed into a dark, monster-infested place. After surviving an attack and discovering a rare Scarlet Flame Golden Lotus, he joined a group near the pool as the Golden Core Cultivators began discussing how to divide the treasure.

• Chen Lin entered the secret realm as its key glowed and found the supposedly immortal palace realm dark and oppressive.
• A monster ambushed Chen Lin and other cultivators, but Chen Lin killed it with his Golden Body Transformation and escaped with its corpse.
• Chen Lin confirmed his location using a map, recovered a durable patterned Bone Shard from the monster, and continued cautiously toward his destination.
• Chen Lin spotted a pool of spiritual herbs, including a mature Scarlet Flame Golden Lotus, and joined the Foundation Establishment Cultivators watching it.
• An old man addressed the Golden Core Cultivators at the pool and urged them to agree on how to divide the lotus before monsters arrived.

Chen Lin watched as the blue-robed late Golden Core Cultivator forced others to approach the lotus pool, whose hidden danger eventually revealed a colossal beast. Amid the chaos, an unknown figure snatched the Golden Lotus Seed and vanished, while the monster emerged after the cultivators fled.

• The blue-robed man killed cultivators who resisted his orders and sent others to harvest the lotuses, but each one who approached the pool was pulled underwater.
• Huo Yudong tried to destroy the spiritual herbs and escape, but the pool dragged him, the blue-robed man's attacks, and the man himself toward its depths until he sacrificed an arm to break free.
• The blue-robed man turned the pool red, and the Golden Core Cultivators' attacks let the gray-robed old man pull out the herbs before the ground collapsed and revealed the pool as a colossal beast's mouth.
• The gray-robed old man seized the lotuses, then scattered the lotus seeds to escape as the cultivators grabbed seeds and fled.
• The blue-robed man reached for the Golden Lotus Seed, but a Lightning Ray appeared, took it, and vanished with its thief.
• The blue-robed man fled as the beast's jaws closed and the mountain-sized monster rose from the ground.

Chen Lin escaped the man in blue, secured the Golden Lotus Seed, and discovered that some tentacle monsters’ bone shards fit together in a revealing pattern. After reaching his destination, he rescued Liu Ruolan from a powerful monster and learned that an even more dangerous creature had emerged in the Secret Realm.

• Chen Lin fought off a stronger group of tentacle monsters with the Azure Flood Dragon Halberd, collected their breastbones, and hid underground to examine the Golden Lotus Seed.
• Chen Lin judged that the seed could support a Six-Pattern Seven-Star Pill, then found that two monster bone shards fit together and their patterns connected.
• Chen Lin resumed his search for yin-attribute treasures, killed more monsters, and reached a towering armored creature that had captured two cultivators.
• Chen Lin used exploding Foundation Establishment Puppets to distract the creature, killed it with the Azure Flood Dragon Halberd, and recovered a bone shard and Storage Bags from its remains.
• Chen Lin made Liu Ruolan swear an Inner Demon Oath and learned she was an accepted disciple of True Lord Wanmeng.
• Liu Ruolan warned Chen Lin that a powerful devouring monster had appeared, so he hurried toward his destination.

Chen Lin risked his last Foundation Establishment Puppet to search Falling Spirit Valley and discovered a hidden garden of spiritual herbs. After the puppet returned with a Storage Bag, the blue-robed man found Chen Lin and struck him through the chest with Black Glimmer.

• Chen Lin sent puppet pairs into Falling Spirit Valley’s turbulent energy, losing more than ten Foundation Establishment Puppets while searching for a yin-aligned spiritual herb.
• At the ruined Ancient Imperial Palace, the blue-robed man killed a passing Foundation Establishment Cultivator and left, then an enormous Spherical Monster arrived and swallowed cultivators who failed to escape.
• Chen Lin sent his final Foundation Establishment Puppet into the valley and saw it reach a spring surrounded by spiritual herbs before their connection broke.
• After waiting half a day, Chen Lin sensed the puppet returning, and it handed him a Storage Bag before the blue-robed man confronted him.
• Chen Lin fled with the Lightning Escape Technique, but the blue-robed man’s Black Glimmer pierced his defenses and left a bloody hole in his chest.