After taking the two wounded fighters to the nearest rear camp, Two Cats—once the former young lord's son, now Yin Er, an executioner under the command officer—returned to the front to support the surrounded Feng Lan.
In the past, he and his half-brother had cultivated the arts of yin and yang together. Their work, founded on the cycle of yin and yang, was chiefly meant to help their elder sister perform the Soul-Return Dao Art.
But after witnessing the Azure Waves command officer attain the True Intent of the Way of Slaughter, he had been influenced by it and truly embarked on the path of the yin arts' Heavenly Kill, a branch of the Killing Dao.
When Yang Lingrui broke through that day, he had intended to sacrifice all three of them.
He had left Yin Er for last because he saw that Yin Er's yin-yang arts had some affinity with his Killing Dao.
If the fortunes and fates of the first two sacrificed to the Tribulation Cloud Demon Child were enough for his breakthrough, Yin Er would live.
If sacrificing the two still was not enough, Yin Er would have no path left but death.
Everyone knew what happened afterward.
As things stood then, Yin Er should have been sacrificed and sent to the heavens along with them.
But Bai Di had displayed his divine powers, leaving a portion of his own fortune within the Tribulation Cloud through his Spirit Eye manifestation. That supplied the final measure Yang Lingrui needed to break through.
The act had snatched Yin Er's life back from the gates of hell, allowing Yang Lingrui to recruit him.
As Bai Di's son, Yin Er naturally could not avoid having a Five-Colored Brand carved into his soul.
Bai Di had devised this means of governing those