The cold look in Qin Yu’s soul suddenly vanished. He shuddered as a feeling of incomparable weakness surged out from all around him, making his consciousness flash black.

The powerful eruption of soul force just now that scared away the Lord of the Black Skull had only been possible using a secret soul art he borrowed from the jade pendant embryo egg.  If he hadn’t done that, he feared that cunning and vicious otherworld being would really have torn apart the contract.

It had unexpectedly been able to sense the auras of the Purple Moon, Blue Sun, and Cosmic Seacross Bell and tested Qin Yu because of it. From this, one could see that it had been sorely tempted.

After a long time, the weak feeling slowly subsided. He lifted a hand and sealed away the black skull. Then he looked at the quietly burning flames to the side. In his weakened state, the earnest desire from his soul was even greater than before. Qin Yu had to take a deep breath to suppress the impulse to absorb it.

In order to help him absorb and grasp control of the Ancient’s heart, Purple Moon, Blue Sun, and the...