Jietisikoki, his body riddled with bloody holes, trembled as he sprayed blood and staggered backward, frantically sorting through every scrap of "information" related to Ye Chen that he had stored away so far.
As a Bloodsmith Hunter, Ye Chen's personality had always been fighting his own abyssal power for control of his body.
A person's soul form would be reflected in the appearance of their physical body in reality—this was an absolute iron law of the soul domain, and Jietisikoki had absolute confidence in the correctness of this theory.
Jietisikoki had originally believed that although Ye Chen suffered from a severe conflict of consciousness with the abyssal power inside him, it had always been acquired humanity fighting against inborn instinct. Therefore, the soul at the deepest level of Ye Chen's spiritual world could only be one—a mixed soul where humanity and the abyss were tangled together in a messy mass.
The black-clad young man whom Jietisikoki had just hacked into meat paste bore a soul form almost identical to Ye Chen's appearance in reality, and the power he had used to resist at the very first moment had also been pure abyssal power.
Thus, Jietisikoki had once believed that he was Ye Chen's soul itself, possessing both Bloodsmith humanity and Abyss Instinct, and so he had focused all his attention on this prey!
Yet just as Jietisikoki chopped the youth into a bloody pulp and believed he had completely annihilated Ye Chen's true self—
Before him, another soul had actually appeared!
Within this ruined church hall at the deepest reaches of the Bloodsmith Hunter's spiritual will.
Aside from the young man Jietisikoki had previously hacked into eight pieces.
There had actually been a deformed infant of unknown origin hiding silently there!
And now, the deformed infant that had pierced Jietisikoki