Nan Songzi was extremely anxious.
This emotion had been persisting and accumulating, piling up like towering mountains whose shadows already shrouded him entirely, ready to collapse at any moment.
His physical body was gone, smashed to smithereens! If there was any situation worse than that, it was undoubtedly the present one:
He understood better than ever that he was completely finished!
That damned "One Dream Return" had actually managed to attach itself to his divine soul and continue existing! Not only that, but it had detonated the heart demon sha qi in his divine soul used to raise his natal yin demon, causing heart demons to sprout over the past few days and fouling his divine soul. Compared to his prime, his remaining strength was probably less than forty percent.
Without a physical body now, he could only exist in the form of a yin spirit. He hid along Yu Ci's necessary route to the training valley. The faint shadow still vaguely retained the appearance of his physical body, yet it was covered in patches of black spots—those were the most obvious injuries inflicted upon the divine soul by the out-of-control heart demon sha qi.
Behind his "back" hovered a blood shadow, similar in shape to the yin spirit but even more diluted, attempting to draw closer. It billowed with deep red smoke that scorched the air, hissing and crackling. To Nan Songzi, however, it felt more like the rumbling, turbid breathing from a hungry beast's throat, filled with killing intent and greed.
This was the "Five Manifestations Yin Demon" he had forged through heretical arts. This creature was directly nourished by his divine soul, hence it was also known as the natal yin demon.
Lured by the "One Dream Return," this bastard's **urge to devour its master had been