Great Art of Sheltering the Inner Nature in the Mystic Pass and Passing Through Tribulations Unclouded

Only when Ge Qi's divine soul had come to a complete halt in the "Hundun state," less than ten feet away, did Ding Songyan notice how he differed from other yin souls:

Ge Qi's ghost still looked like a man in his prime, no different from his physical body except that he had turned translucent and taken on a spectral green hue. Yet another soul had sprouted from his back. It resembled a crow, with a white beak, red feet, and strange markings on its head. Its face was strikingly human, showing fear and viciousness, a touch of age, and utter bewilderment, while streams of crimson flame swirled around it.

This phantom resembles Jingwei, but has a face of its own... Someone from the Imperial Daughter Sect? The connection flashed through Ding Songyan's mind.

During their earlier fight, he had only been able to make out that the manifestation in the void resembled a crow with a whitish beak. He could not distinguish anything else, making it difficult to identify its lineage quickly. Now that he had parted the mist and glimpsed the details, the answer came readily.

According to the "Secret Classic of Mountains and Seas":

Jingwei was the Flame Emperor's daughter, named Nüwa. She drowned in the Eastern Sea and transformed into Jingwei, whose form resembled a crow, with a patterned head, white beak, and red feet. Her cry called out her own name. Unyielding and indomitable, she could calm the billows and still the waves, burn mountains and boil seas, and die without perishing.

*Was possession and rebirth derived from that trait of "dying without perishing"? Calming the billows and stilling the waves... No wonder the vortex I created with "Illuminating One Direction" dispersed so strangely and caused a backlash... The Imperial Daughter Sect is in the