Of Lu Yun’s four disciples, the only one to truly learn his craft and be able to practice the Method of Life and Death was Tianqi.

Once the ruler of the human hell, he’d controlled hellfire back in the day. Now with a second Karmic Tree as his nascent spirit, he could control hellfire again. The flame of the Hadal Hell was part of hellfire, so it naturally feared Tianqi.

As for the purple qi circling around him, Violetgrave had helped him refine it. It’d all become part of his body and one with his being. This qi was a product of the third realm that helped chaos creatures evade the energy of the worlds and enter them with impunity.

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“Who are you?” Hellfire...