In the original story, Shi Nian had been killed by Tang San's Soul-Chasing Life-Reaping Yama's Invitation due to a moment of carelessness, without even getting the chance to unleash his Martial Soul Avatar.
But now, Shi Nian had clearly been truly enraged. Eager to kill Yang Ming, his Martial Soul, Residual Dream, was extraordinarily unique, and so was his Martial Soul Avatar. The instant his entire body merged into the illusion, the entire illusion trembled violently.
"Rumble! Rumble!"
Amidst earth-shaking tremors, deep black fissures split open across the heavens and earth within the illusion. Thick, long octopus tentacles suddenly descended from those cracks. Each one was over a hundred zhang long, resembling towering skyscrapers from afar, or divine pillars reaching into the heavens, inspiring dread at a glance.
On the octopus tentacles, millstone-like discs opened one after another. Each disc was as large as a truck cab, and distorted human faces periodically flashed across them. Men and women, young and old—every face bore an extreme emotion: jealousy, arrogance, gluttony, lust...
Just seeing those densely packed discs and faces was enough to make even someone without trypophobia feel their scalp tingle with lingering fear and nausea, overcome by intense discomfort.
"Yang Ming!"
A roar like that of a demon god echoed throughout every corner of the illusion, booming endlessly like heaven-shaking thunder and sending waves of pain through Yang Ming's eardrums.
"On this day next year, it will be the anniversary of your death!"
Dark clouds blanketed the illusory sky, while pale electric serpents slithered and spread through the gaps in the clouds, flashing with ghastly white light. They also illuminated Shi Nian's weathered face reflected across the entire sky. His gaping, bloody maw seemed to lead into an unknown abyss, and those enormous octopus tentacles were being spewed from within