Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—
Xiang Yuan's eyes flashed like lightning as the Six Soul Banner in his hand shook violently.
The wind rose!
Clouds surged!
Souls keened!
The entire heaven and earth trembled faintly with the six streamers of the banner.
The Six Soul Banner was no ordinary weapon of slaughter. It did not harm the flesh, ignored defenses, used the heart as its lure and thoughts as its blade. Once it moved, it stirred the deepest fears and obsessions between heaven and earth.
The living feared death; the dead feared extinction. The four sect leaders, too, had karma yet unresolved and places where their Dao hearts remained unpurified.
At this moment, that unresolved karma and those unpurified Dao hearts surged forth with the fluttering banner streamers.
As its name implied, the Six Soul Banner had six streamers, upon which six names could be written.
In the version before the save was loaded, the six names written upon it had been Venerable Lord of Morality, Primeval Heavenly Venerable, Jieyin, Zhunti, Jiang Shang, and Ji Fa.
Times had changed. Numinous Treasure Heavenly Worthy, who had already flipped the table, no longer cared about the Investiture of the Gods. All he wanted now was to regain his lost face. Jiang Shang and Ji Fa could do whatever they pleased; their names had not been written, as the firepower was concentrated on the four sect leaders.
The instant the Six Soul Banner swayed, Primordial Spirits were shaken, karma was drawn forth, and obsessions were given form...
The four sect leaders' bodies stiffened. Stray thoughts flooded their hearts like a rising tide. Though their foundations were not truly shaken, their Dao hearts grew unsteady, disrupting their rhythm for a moment. Even the auspicious clouds surrounding them fell into disorder.
Venerable Lord of Morality's thoughts froze,