After sensing that the medicinal pill had finished nourishing his soul, Fan Zhongxing climbed to his feet and staggered out the door.
Once again, there was only that sealed dome, not the real sky.
For no reason at all, he felt stifled.
Then he brushed his storage pouch and took out a sachet.
This sachet had long since lost any fragrance. It had originally contained calming herbs, but when he had received it, he had only been at the Qi Refining stage. Back then, he could not afford anything so fine that it would remain fragrant even after a hundred years.
"Ah... Sister..."
Fan Zhongxing clutched the sachet, feeling something soft within his heart awaken.
That day, his sister had smilingly handed this to him. But that had been over a hundred years ago.
He could not help recalling Elder Killer's story.
Elder Killer had originally been the master of the assassin organization "Assassin Tower" in Cangxia, the world-shaking greatest assassin. However, during a job targeting an evil Dao sect, he had been betrayed by his subordinates, failed, and been captured.
That evil Dao sect was called the Nether Mansion. It revered Xuanzi and Hsan theGreater as its patriarchs and worshipped the Evil God and the Outer Saint.
The fiends of the Nether Mansion had used Elder Killer as a sacrifice to The King in Yellow, turning him into that Outer Realm Devil.
Then Elder Killer had slaughtered every last person at the Nether Mansion stronghold where he had been held.
As a projection of The King in Yellow, he could not live much longer. He would become The King in Yellow's Dao marker in this world, the key that would open the door for the Evil God. When his lifespan reached its end, the true King in Yellow would