But in the very next second, before everyone's eyes, Ye Guyi came back to life bit by bit.
The scattered golden motes gathered again, and her crushed body re-formed out of thin air: first her bones, then her meridians, followed by her flesh and skin.
She stood on the ground once more, six wings gently beating behind her, as though nothing had happened.
The only difference was that a creature resembling a deer now stood behind Ye Guyi.
It was an enormous deer-shaped Shikigami several times larger than an ordinary person, covered in fine, luminous white fur tinged with gray, with a faint glow beneath its flesh.
Its proportions were balanced, its limbs bulging with muscle, its thick contours brimming with strength. Standing firmly on all four hooves, it resembled a tranquil little mountain, bearing the imposing pressure unique to Shikigami.
A pair of sharply contoured, many-branched antlers grew from its head, their hard bone smooth and gleaming, adding a touch of savage divinity.
Its most distinctive feature was its eyes. Four eyes with vertical pupils were arranged on the front of its face, paired above and below, each glowing pale gold.
Beneath the fur on the left side of its neck was another enormous, separate eye with a vertical pupil.
"What's-"
Just as everyone wondered what on earth this thing was, the Reverse Cursed Technique power emanating from the Shikigami fell upon Ye Guyi again.
That power was exceedingly pure and carried an intense vitality, repairing every injury on Ye Guyi's body.
The answer was now abundantly clear.
It was the one that had resurrected Ye Guyi after she had been killed in an instant.
This was Round Deer, one of the foremost Shikigami of the Ten Shadows Technique.
Round Deer possessed the ability to use Reverse Cursed Technique