Green Hill

Under a Divine Ability, mortals could not escape!

Doniya had survived the "Emotion Dissolution" just now not because she had dodged well, but because the Purple Mansion Great Demon, a Six-Tailed Demon Fox, had deliberately spared her.

Otherwise, she would already have ended up like the other Beyonders.

The reason it had spared her was simple: she bore the "influence" of a Purple Mansion cultivator!

Divine Abilities were mysteries within mysteries. Even a brief encounter with one could leave a vivid mark on a person's life.

She might not have noticed it herself, but to another Purple Mansion cultivator, it was unmistakable.

Scraps of flesh still clung to the Six-Tailed Demon Fox's enormous teeth, dripping with blood.

Now it reached out a massive claw with interest and gently hooked something from Doniya's body. A wisp of black flame emerged.

"[Shi Fire]?"

The Six-Tailed Demon Fox's eyes curved in a smile. "So it was a fellow Daoist from Later Chu..."

Its six tails swayed, each shimmering with the dreamlike radiance of Divine Abilities. "But... how did that fellow Daoist get in so much earlier than I did? It seems there's a secret there!"

The Six-Tailed Demon Fox tapped a fingertip lightly. Doniya could no longer breathe. She felt as though she had become a statue, a Puppet.

The tip of its sharp claw came to rest against her fair forehead.

"[Six Yin Inquiry into Mysteries Technique]!"

The Six-Tailed Demon Fox's voice grew grave as it used this soul-searching art passed down from Green Hill Heaven.

Every detail of Doniya's life appeared before its eyes.

It lingered especially on the time after calamity struck her: when she picked up an Esoteric Sect scripture, prayed to the unknown, and received an answer.

"Bronze King? Lord of Black Flame?"

The Six-Tailed Demon Fox sneered.