The moment Nie Tian’s seven Heaven Eyes had entered her soul, she had recognized that it was him.

Back then, she had been confined by the mountains of corpses and seas of blood created by the Phantasms’ magics. Trapped in endless illusions, she had been at the most desperate moment of her life.

Even her black phoenix had failed to burst through the barriers of illusions and rescue her soul shadow after she called upon it.

Drowned by surging waves of negative emotions, she had felt bleak and terrified.

She had thought that her soul shadow was going to be gnawed away. She would have become a bloodthirsty, empty shell like the local Qi warriors, and eventually become another Specter added to the army of Specters over the lake.

As a matter of fact, there had been nothing she could do to turn the situation around.

Occasionally, she had gathered all of her psychic power to restore a moment of clarity to her mind. However, what she had...