Recaps

Qi Yun fought the Earth Temple’s Buddhist intent with the Soul Refining Banner and his ghost army, seeking a way to reach the temple’s core. He broke through the golden Buddhist light and entered the crack, leaving his fate inside the main hall unknown.

• Qi Yun examined the Sword Qi lodged in his Soul Refining Banner and suspected an Azure Sect cultivator had wounded it.
• As Qi Yun explored deeper into the Earth Temple, clay monks repeatedly blocked his way and instantly restored themselves when destroyed.
• Qi Yun realized that overwhelming the Buddhist intent with pure yin-baleful power might force the temple to recognize him and open the way to its core.
• Qi Yun planted the Soul Refining Banner and unleashed the Night Parade of a Hundred Ghosts, forming a nether ghost domain against the temple’s Buddhist manifestations.
• Qi Yun replenished his True Essence with pills and drove the Soul Refining Banner’s black Qi into the golden Buddhist light, opening a crack.
• Qi Yun swept up the banner and plunged through the crack.

Qi Yun agreed to accept Mingxin’s Buddhist inheritance, but Mingxin began forcibly cleansing his Devil Cultivation Methods after empowering him to the Qi Refining Eighth Layer. True Person Qianxin then appeared in Qi Yun’s Sea of Consciousness and suppressed Mingxin’s Buddhist light, preparing to grant Qi Yun another benefit.

• Mingxin appeared in the Earth Temple’s empty main hall and offered Qi Yun the Great Radiance Glazed Treasure Scripture, purification, cultivation advancement, and the role of Buddha Son in exchange for returning his relic to the Great Radiance Temple.
• Qi Yun agreed, and Mingxin entered his Sea of Consciousness to begin the inheritance.
• Mingxin opened Qi Yun’s remaining apertures with Buddhist light, advancing him to the Qi Refining Eighth Layer, Hundred Apertures Spirit Connection.
• Mingxin prepared to erase Qi Yun’s Devil Cultivation Methods, but True Person Qianxin appeared in Qi Yun’s Sea of Consciousness and sealed it with azure light.
• Qianxin praised Qi Yun for drawing benefits from two True Persons and said he would lend him a hand.

True Person Qianxin defeated Mingxin’s remnant thought in Qi Yun’s Sea of Consciousness, leaving Qi Yun with a sarira and Buddhist prayer beads that could aid his cultivation. After Qianxin departed, Qi Yun revealed he had risked the confrontation because his Nether Spring White Bone Method could resurrect his soul, and prepared to make use of his gains.

• True Person Qianxin used his Devil Cultivation Method to overwhelm Mingxin’s remnant thought, which self-immolated and left behind a sarira.
• True Person Qianxin gathered Mingxin’s scattered Buddhist power into twelve prayer beads and gave them to Qi Yun, explaining that the struggle had improved Qi Yun’s aptitude and cleansed his body.
• True Person Qianxin praised Qi Yun’s gains, said he would handle the Earth Temple and the people outside, and questioned whether Qi Yun had truly gambled; Qi Yun stayed silent.
• After True Person Qianxin vanished, Qi Yun’s soul weakened from the clash and he revealed that White Bone Regeneration could restore his body and soul if the gamble went wrong.
• Qi Yun steadied himself, held the prayer beads, and turned his attention to digesting his gains.

Qi Yun reached the Qi Refining Eighth Layer, gained improved aptitude and twelve prayer beads filled with divine resonance, then tried to leave the Earth Temple. Outside, disciples from three sects attacked him, but he fought them off long enough to escape into the shadows.

• Qi Yun discovered that all 108 apertures in his body had opened and that his True Essence recovered far faster than before.
• Qi Yun sensed that the Buddhist baptism had improved his aptitude and left a protective mystical power in his bloodline.
• Qi Yun examined the twelve prayer beads and found that each contained a vast lake of refined divine resonance that could help him reach the Qi Refining Ninth Layer.
• Qi Yun disguised himself as Zhang Mazi and opened the hall door, where disciples of the Yellow Springs Netherworld, Azure Sect, and Phoenix Helm confronted him.
• The three sects attacked, but Qi Yun used the Soul Refining Banner and Nether Spring White Bone Method to withstand their assault and drive them back.
• Qi Yun stopped the Azure Sect disciple from drawing his sword with a flicker of intent, then vanished into the shadows and escaped.

Qi Yun escaped the Earth Temple with the central sarira already in True Person Qianxin’s hands, then concealed his strength as the four sects’ True Persons broke into the Yin Ruins and searched for the people behind the upheaval. With the Wuji Sacred Sect’s True Persons shielding him from karmic divination, Qi Yun left the ruins and vanished at the temporary market.

• Qi Yun left the Earth Temple, returned to the Yin Ruins, and sat aside to tend his damaged Soul Refining Banner.
• The four sects’ Foundation Establishment True Persons shattered the Yin Ruins’ sealing screen and began tracing the upheaval through karma.
• Qi Yun sensed the divination closing in, but the Wuji Sacred Sect’s True Persons blocked the search and concealed his karmic traces.
• Qi Yun sealed most of his opened apertures and suppressed his cultivation from the eighth layer to the seventh, fooling the other sects’ Divine Sense scans.
• After the True Persons entered the Earth Temple, True Person Qianxin signaled Qi Yun to leave, and Qi Yun exited the Yin Ruins.
• Qi Yun used [Gather Form and Disperse Qi] to conceal himself at the temporary market.

Qi Yun returned to the Wuji Sacred Sect after a year away, having advanced to the Qi Refining Eighth Layer, and learned that the old True Person had arranged his dangerous mission in the Teapot Valley Yin Ruins as both protection and a test. The old True Person offered to guide Qi Yun through his next cultivation hurdle, then revealed he had at most fifty years before beginning a new life through reincarnation.

• Qi Yun returned to the Wuji Sacred Sect and visited the old True Person at the Green Mountain Daoist Temple.
• Qi Yun reasoned that the old True Person had arranged for him to undertake the mission involving the Earth Temple's core, and the old True Person admitted it had been a test as well as an investment in him.
• The old True Person urged Qi Yun to remain in the sect and approach the dangerous Qi Refining Ninth Layer with caution, offering to answer his cultivation questions.
• The old True Person told Qi Yun he had at most fifty years before undergoing Liberation by Violence and entering reincarnation.
• Qi Yun promised to meet the old True Person's expectations, and the old True Person cautioned him not to let the deadline disrupt his cultivation.

After a month of preparation, Qi Yun began cultivating the Qi Refining Ninth Layer and sensed his three souls on his first attempt. Facing debts and an empty purse, he started teaching his resentful souls to draw talismans, hoping to build a ghostly production force.

• Qi Yun spent a month strengthening his foundation and then began cultivating the Divine Soul Realm, using the Bright Lamp Single-Mind Method to quiet his thoughts and sense Fetal Light, Bright Spirit, and Hidden Essence.
• Qi Yun found the Mystic Nether One Qi Bottle technique and its artifact blueprint in the Holy Sect Treasure Market, but lacked the Sacred Yuan to afford them.
• Qi Yun remembered his debts to Ning Feng and for the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Sha Diagram, and decided to earn money by making talismans.
• Qi Yun summoned intelligent resentful souls from his Soul Refining Banner and guided one to draw a Baleful Intent-Breaking Talisman, but its Yin Qi ruined the paper.
• Qi Yun switched to the Mystic Yin Slashing Law Talisman and continued guiding the souls through repeated attempts, aiming to create a tireless talisman-making force.

Qi Yun negotiated a better commission with Ning Feng and began selling a large batch of Mystic Yin Slashing Law Talismans made by resentful souls in his Soul Refining Banner. After receiving an advance payment, he repaid his Holy Sect loan and bought materials to upgrade the banner, leaving its minor version update complete.

• Qi Yun insisted on a twenty-eighty split, and Ning Feng agreed after learning Qi Yun had another unusual type of talisman to sell.
• Qi Yun gave Ning Feng the 2,500 Thousand Cranes Talismans he owed and entrusted him with a large batch of Mystic Yin Slashing Law Talismans, receiving an advance payment.
• Qi Yun inspected the resentful souls’ talisman production line in the Soul Refining Banner and decided to improve the banner’s capacity and output.
• Several days later, Qi Yun received Ning Feng’s advance payment and repaid his 20,000-Sacred-Yuan Holy Sect loan in full.
• Qi Yun spent much of the remaining payment on materials to strengthen the Soul Refining Banner and accelerate the creation of resentful souls.
• Qi Yun refined the purchased treasures into the Soul Refining Banner until its minor version update was complete.

Qi Yun upgraded the Soul Refining Banner into a talisman-producing tool, used the profits to acquire the Mystic Nether One Qi Bottle, and spent nearly three years cultivating steadily. The chapter ended when he received a visiting card from someone who had also entered the Inner Mansion and wondered whether to meet him.

• Qi Yun strengthened the Soul Refining Banner, repeatedly bred and refined its resentful souls, and began selling their Mystic Yin Slashing Law Talismans through Ning Feng.
• With the resulting income, Qi Yun redeemed the Mystic Nether One Qi Bottle technique and commissioned its Law Artifact from a sect artifact refiner.
• Qi Yun received the completed bottle and began cultivating Mystic Nether Erosion while continuing to stabilize and unite his three souls.
• Over nearly three years, Qi Yun’s cultivation and talisman business progressed steadily, though his three souls did not fully merge into a divine soul.
• Qi Yun received a visiting card from someone who had entered the Inner Mansion and considered whether to meet him.

Li Chong visited Qi Yun and asked him to help kill Chang Qing, an Inner Mansion cultivator nearing the ninth Qi Refining Layer, offering the Three Lives Glazed Treasure Mirror as payment. Qi Yun reserved his answer for three days and then asked Ning Feng to investigate Chang Qing, but Ning Feng said he did not know him.

• Li Chong visited Qi Yun after years apart, and both recognized that their cultivation and positions had changed.
• Li Chong asked Qi Yun to help kill Chang Qing, explaining that Chang Qing was powerful, hard to catch, and close to reaching the ninth layer.
• Li Chong offered Qi Yun the Three Lives Glazed Treasure Mirror, which Qi Yun recognized as a valuable aid to cultivating his divine soul.
• Qi Yun questioned Li Chong's motives and risks, then asked for three days to decide whether to help.
• After Li Chong left, Qi Yun summoned Ning Feng and asked him to investigate Chang Qing; Ning Feng said he did not know him.

Qi Yun learned from Ning Feng that Chang Qing was a ruthless, powerful Inner Mansion disciple, while Li Chong reported to his master that Qi Yun had not accepted the offer to kill him. Li Hanyan then appeared in Qi Yun’s courtyard and ordered him to kill Chang Qing, leaving Qi Yun startled because Chang Qing was his senior brother.

• Ning Feng warned Qi Yun that Chang Qing was a vicious Qi Refining Eighth Layer cultivator, but Qi Yun remained interested in the job Li Chong had offered him.
• Li Chong reported to Li Hanyan that Qi Yun had not agreed to kill Chang Qing, and Li Hanyan decided to approach Qi Yun himself.
• Li Hanyan appeared in Qi Yun’s courtyard despite its restrictions and assessed Qi Yun’s cultivation and abilities.
• Li Hanyan ordered Qi Yun to kill Chang Qing, and Qi Yun protested that Chang Qing was his senior brother.

Li Hanyan offered Qi Yun precious treasures to kill Chang Qing, and Qi Yun accepted after learning the assassination was tied to a struggle over the Great Dao. He received Chang Qing’s combat details and learned the target would travel to Cauldron Yang Cave in three days.

• Li Hanyan offered Qi Yun a Three Lives Glazed Treasure Mirror and a jar of Soul-Cleansing Elixir to kill Chang Qing, while insisting Black Baleful Intent Mountain would have no connection to the deed.
• Qi Yun consulted the old True Person, who explained that Chang Qing and Li Hanyan’s gifted disciple sought the same Dao Foundation, making Chang Qing a threat to the disciple’s future.
• The old True Person encouraged Qi Yun to accept the job, affirmed his confidence in Qi Yun’s ability to defeat Chang Qing, and promised to protect him from Chang Qing’s backer.
• Qi Yun agreed to kill Chang Qing and sent word to Li Hanyan through Li Chong.
• A steward disciple delivered a Jade Slip detailing Chang Qing’s techniques, artifacts, combat habits, and planned trip in three days to Cauldron Yang Cave on Emerald Mountain.

Qi Yun trapped Chang Qing in the ruins of the Divine Silkworm Sect and attacked him with three Law Techniques. Chang Qing fought back with his Asura Battle Body and Military Sha Arsenal, while Qi Yun prepared to intensify his assault.

• Chang Qing reached the ruined Divine Silkworm Sect to search for a hidden cache, but his vertical eye spotted a paper crane near a broken stele.
• Chang Qing called for the concealed intruder to reveal himself, and Qi Yun's wooden cangue struck the ground as a formation darkened the sky around the ruins.
• Qi Yun unleashed two hundred vengeful souls, a hundred and eight exploding bone skulls, and Mystic Nether Erosion against Chang Qing.
• Chang Qing activated his Asura Battle Body and used the Military Sha Arsenal to smash through the attacks and withstand their damage.
• Qi Yun controlled his three Law Techniques from outside the battle and began gathering greater killing intent in the Mystic Nether One Qi Bottle.

Qi Yun overwhelmed Chang Qing with the Mystic Nether Erosion, demonic techniques, and four tiger-walking chandana, but Chang Qing’s Asura Dao grew stronger under pressure. Chang Qing awakened his Six-Armed Asura form and held up Qi Yun’s falling iron-sand meteor, only for Qi Yun to reveal that a second one was coming.

• Chang Qing unleashed Great Annihilation Wind Calamity against Qi Yun’s Mystic Nether Erosion, and Qi Yun summoned four tiger-walking chandana to attack him.
• Qi Yun’s souls, skeletal figures, and erosion Qi joined the tiger-walking chandana, but Chang Qing fought them to a standstill and grew stronger through battle.
• Qi Yun sent a meteor of sunken abyss iron sand crashing down toward Chang Qing, whose escape was blocked by the encircling attackers.
• Chang Qing awakened his Six-Armed Asura form and caught the meteor with all six arms, halting its descent.
• Qi Yun raised his hand and asked Chang Qing what he would do about the second meteor.

Qi Yun and the mortally wounded Chang Qing were pulled beneath the Divine Silkworm Sect ruins by an ancient formation, where they discovered an immense sea of Hundred Essence Pills. After pretending to agree to divide the treasure, they attacked each other and resumed their battle.

• Chang Qing unleashed the Asura Method-All Living Beings Perish, but ancient blue-gold power erased the curse and swept him and Qi Yun underground.
• Qi Yun awoke in an endless sea of Hundred Essence Pills and realized the hidden Divine Silkworm Sect treasure held hundreds of millions or billions of pills.
• Chang Qing recognized the pill sea as the product of the sect's Treasure Furnace and rejoiced at finding it.
• Qi Yun and Chang Qing pretended to agree to share the pills, but each secretly prepared to kill the other.
• Qi Yun's iron-sand spike intercepted Chang Qing's Asura Sha Qi saber, and the two resumed fighting.

Qi Yun defeated Chang Qing’s desperate Asura Eight Weapons with a talisman sword forged by combining Nameless Swordsmanship and Talisman Art. Chang Qing’s attempt to survive by swallowing Hundred Essence Pills ignited the entire pill sea in black flames, leaving Qi Yun braced behind layers of defenses as the fire engulfed them.

• Chang Qing used the Asura Eight Weapons to launch a final assault, but Qi Yun formed the Expel Evil Break Baleful Intent Sword from countless talismans and shattered the attack, badly wounding Chang Qing.
• Qi Yun explained that Nameless Swordsmanship could combine with a Law Technique to create a Law Sword, then approached Chang Qing to kill him.
• Chang Qing swallowed a large quantity of Hundred Essence Pills to regain strength, but Qi Yun divined extreme misfortune and urged him to spit them out.
• Black flames erupted across the pill sea and rapidly consumed the Hundred Essence Pills, engulfing Chang Qing and rushing toward Qi Yun.
• Qi Yun dispersed the talisman sword and surrounded himself with the Soul Refining Banner, iron-sand barriers, and protective formations as Chang Qing disappeared into the flames.

Qi Yun was trapped in a sealed chamber where countless humanoid monsters hatched from cocoons and adapted to his attacks. After strengthening his white bone skulls by feeding them the monsters, he broke through the chamber’s barriers and escaped through a tiny opening just before it sealed.

• Qi Yun arrived in an underground chamber covered in cocoons, and thousands of humanoid monsters hatched and attacked him.
• Qi Yun fought the monsters with his Soul Refining Banner and Mystic Nether One Qi Bottle, then used the Nether Spring White Bone Method to let his skulls devour their bodies and grow stronger.
• Qi Yun suspected the Divine Silkworm Sect had created the monsters and searched for an exit, but found the chamber sealed.
• Qi Yun detonated all one hundred and eight white bone skulls to break through the outer rock wall, exposing a stronger barrier marked with divine silkworm images.
• Qi Yun struck a weak point in the barrier with his sword, opened a finger-width hole, and escaped through it using Gather Form and Disperse Qi before the opening healed.

Qi Yun followed Chang Qing to the Divine Silkworm Sect’s hidden inheritance platform, where Chang Qing was restored and transformed by a mysterious Daoist phantom. Qi Yun exposed the inheritance as a scheme and accused the sect of creating a new living being in defiance of heaven, leaving the phantom’s faint reaction to his accusation as the only answer.

• Qi Yun followed Chang Qing’s bloody footprints up the heavenly staircase and found him broken and near death beneath a Daoist phantom.
• The phantom placed a golden mote in Chang Qing’s brow, restoring him and granting him the Divine Silkworm Transformation.
• Chang Qing celebrated his new power and challenged Qi Yun, who mocked him for believing he had received a genuine fortune.
• Qi Yun’s words made Chang Qing reconsider the suspiciously convenient trials and realize he might have been manipulated.
• Qi Yun accused the Divine Silkworm Sect of using Creation Art to create a new life and being destroyed by the northwestern powers for deceiving heaven.
• The Daoist phantom remained silent, but its surrounding radiance appeared to ripple at Qi Yun’s accusation.

Qi Yun learned that the Wuji Sacred Sect had led the Northwest Devil Domain in forcing the Divine Silkworm Sect to attempt the ancient Creation Art, then helped destroy it when the risks grew too great. When the Daoist apparition tried to possess Chang Qing and infiltrate the Holy Sect, Qi Yun killed Chang Qing and revealed that he had crushed a blood jade to summon someone powerful.

• The Daoist apparition accused the Wuji Sacred Sect and the Northwest Devil Domain alliance of coercing the Divine Silkworm Sect into pursuing the Creation Art, then betraying and destroying it.
• The Daoist apparition vowed to possess Qi Yun and Chang Qing and take revenge on the Holy Sect.
• Golden threads burst from Chang Qing and began turning him into a silkworm cocoon as the Daoist apparition tried to consume his consciousness.
• Qi Yun unleashed the Southern Ming Sword Devil-Sword Offering and severed Chang Qing's head, stopping the possession.
• Qi Yun crushed an ancient blood jade, declared that others were coming, and an overwhelming gaze fell upon the platform.

Qi Yun summoned Deng Yin and Qianxin to confront the Divine Silkworm Sect Daoist, who sacrificed the ruins to unleash a realm-destroying attack. A True Lord effortlessly extinguished the threat and ordered the survivors to behave.

• Qi Yun activated the crimson blood jade fragments, opening a passage through which Deng Yin and Qianxin arrived.
• Deng Yin and Qianxin confronted the Divine Silkworm Sect Daoist phantom and revealed that a True Lord had once erased the sect.
• The cornered Daoist ignited his phantom and triggered the ruins’ stored power, filling the realm with divine silkworm phantoms and destructive force.
• Deng Yin shielded Qi Yun from the attack but admitted he could not block its power, which had reached the threshold of a True Lord.
• A boundless hand descended, smothered the destruction, and a True Lord commanded everyone to behave.

After the Divine Silkworm Sect ruins were subdued, Qi Yun returned to the Wuji Sacred Sect with Deng Yin, who warned him to forget the matter and arranged an exchange with Black Baleful Intent Peak. Li Hanyan delayed handing over the Soul-Cleansing Elixir and planned to keep Qi Yun waiting while he secretly pursued his own scheme.

• A True Lord’s hand suppressed the Divine Silkworm Daoist’s attempt to destroy the ruins, and Qianxin noticed Chang Qing’s headless corpse; Qi Yun called Chang Qing’s death an accident.
• Deng Yin said he would handle Hantao if he objected to Chang Qing’s death, then took Qi Yun and Qianxin back to the Wuji Sacred Sect.
• At Green Mountain Daoist Temple, Deng Yin told Qi Yun to keep the Divine Silkworm matter secret and contact Li Chong to complete the agreed exchange there.
• Li Hanyan offered to deliver the Three Lives Glazed Treasure Mirror immediately but said Qi Yun would have to collect the Soul-Cleansing Elixir at Black Baleful Intent Peak in ten days.
• Deng Yin accepted the delay, but Li Hanyan then ordered Li Chong to make Qi Yun wait while he entered seclusion to conceal the karma of Chang Qing’s death.

Qi Yun accepted the Three Lives Glazed Treasure Mirror from Li Chong, then used a lifelike double to escape the quiet room and infiltrate Black Baleful Intent Peak. Guided by Deng Yin’s Treasure-Gathering Bronze Mirror, he found a hidden spatial entrance inside a dead tree and slipped through it.

• Qi Yun arrived at Black Baleful Intent Peak, where Li Chong handed him the Three Lives Glazed Treasure Mirror and said the Soul-Cleansing Elixir would be delayed until his master emerged from seclusion.
• Qi Yun agreed to wait in a quiet room, then used Gather Form and Disperse Qi to leave a convincing double behind and slip away.
• Deng Yin told Qi Yun about Li Hanyan’s private treasure collection and gave him the Treasure-Gathering Bronze Mirror, along with stealth treasures including the Formless Divine Talisman.
• Qi Yun used the mirror to follow the strongest trail of treasure light through Black Baleful Intent Peak, evading patrols and bypassing its restrictions.
• Qi Yun traced the treasure light to a withered tree in a dead grove, detected hidden restrictions and a spatial boundary, and entered the tree.

Qi Yun reached Li Hanyan’s heavily guarded private treasure vault and used the [Formless Divine Talisman] to summon True Person Deng Yin’s clone, which bypassed the palace’s restrictions. Inside, Qi Yun was overwhelmed by the brilliance of the treasures displayed.

• Qi Yun slipped past a blue-furred, golden-eyed giant ape guarding the hidden space and followed a gray-earth road to a pitch-black palace.
• He recognized the palace as Li Hanyan’s private treasure vault and realized its Foundation Establishment restrictions made entering alone impossible.
• Qi Yun poured his True Essence into the [Formless Divine Talisman], summoning the clone of the old True Person Deng Yin.
• Deng Yin saw through the palace’s defenses and formed a bridge of formlessness that passed through the restrictions and closed doors.
• Qi Yun followed Deng Yin into the vault, shielded himself from the treasure light with iron sand, and stared in shock at the riches inside.

Qi Yun and the old True Person slipped into Black Baleful Intent’s treasury and took two treasures to aid Qi Yun’s Foundation Establishment. Qi Yun later left Black Baleful Intent Peak after waiting patiently for Li Hanyan, pleased with his haul and confident he had escaped notice.

• Qi Yun offered to empty the treasury, but the old True Person warned that angering Black Baleful Intent could bring deadly consequences and led him to seek Foundation Establishment supplies instead.
• The old True Person took the Great White Molt and the Gold-Patterned Fire-Warding Mantle from their cases and gave them to Qi Yun.
• Qi Yun and the old True Person left the treasury under the protection of the Formless Divine Talisman and returned to the secluded side hall without being detected.
• Qi Yun resumed his false body and waited more than half a month while Li Chong repeatedly told him that Li Hanyan remained in seclusion.
• Qi Yun told Li Chong he had pressing matters and left Black Baleful Intent Peak, then smiled once he was safely beyond its territory.

After six months of strengthening his three hun souls, Qi Yun attempted to break through to the Qi Refining Ninth Layer and form a Divine Soul. Just as the souls were about to unite, a hidden figure used a ritual tied to Qi Yun’s birth characters to unleash inner demons and threaten his breakthrough.

• Qi Yun used the Three Lives Glazed Treasure Mirror and white-gold prayer beads to cultivate his three hun souls, then delayed his breakthrough to strengthen them safely.
• After three more months, Qi Yun stopped feeding the hun souls spiritual essence and prepared to attempt the Qi Refining Ninth Layer.
• Qi Yun released the Sea of Consciousness’s pull, drawing his three hun souls into the Ancestral Aperture, where they began merging into a Divine Soul.
• Inner demons suddenly overwhelmed Qi Yun, disrupting the hun souls’ union and pushing his nascent Divine Soul toward collapse.
• A black-robed figure performed a ritual with Qi Yun’s birth characters and a crimson command flag, sending Black Qi through a mysterious connection to provoke Qi Yun’s inner demons.