At the top of a mountain hidden behind some foliage was a muscled man. He sat in meditation as black chains spun all around him. The chains burrowed into the ground in various areas making a matrix of chains like a spider web.

The muscled man reached for the greatsword on his back as he stood up from meditation. His shirtless abs rippled as he adjusted his stance. He took out a piece of paper and with dark energy on his fingertips, he inscribed something.

Then he folded the paper into a crane and threw it off into the horizon. The dark energy started to change the crane as it flew, and it transformed into a one-eyed crow heading off into the horizon as the man watched. This man was Yunshi and he was here at the behest of Han Yi.

Yunshi eyes were focused down the mountain, there was a faint rumbling coming towards him. He could see birds flocking away from the mountain with haste.

"He'll be here soon, Ominous Whispers..." Yunshi faintly muttered, with his call nature seemed to speak. The wind started to howl and the plants swayed melodically, Yunshi could hear all around him the Ominous whispers of things to come.

This was a special attribute of the Demon that Yunshi sealed, the foreboding thoughts demon. It was an evil spirit class demon because it had no physical form and it was renowned for causing apprehension in its victim and making them completely bend their will to the demon.

Yunshi grabbed his greatsword and stabbed it into the ground. Suddenly the black chains shot out of the ground all around him. Suddenly a black frost beam blasted out from the horizon smashing the chains.

Yunshi's concentration went through the roof and he slashed down with greatsword splitting apart the frost beam. Suddenly a black beast walked out ripping the trees around him from the roots as they got in his way.

Every step the beast took corroded the world around him, leaving a frozen wasteland behind. Yunshi could see the trail of frozen death behind him all the way to the middle of the mountain.

"Illathar..." Yunshi said with a confused tone, he had seen the depiction of Illathar and he was a blue beast, not a black one.

"Regardless it doesn't matter." Yunshi said as he shook his head, Gulan had already given them the information they need to control Illathar.

"So you're the thunder thief." Illathar growled out sending out frost auras from his mouth. The air around Yunshi suddenly cooled by a few degrees.

Yunshi's gaze remained unperturbed as he reached for a patch of blue fur on the ground. He gripped it tightly as he stared at Illathar.

"This is your end, Demon." Yunshi coldly stated and with a very tough grip ground down the fur into blue energies. The frost auras flowed into his body like dots of blue light, his gaze seemed to freeze as a frozen end world emerged from his eyes.

The black chains started to change colors as a layer of frost appeared on them. The black chains became blue in a few moments and shot out from the ground at Illathar.

Illathar stood still as the chains wrapped around his legs, and then they chained his hands together. The last chain wrapped around Illathar's neck and then Yunshi stood up.

He raised his palm and a blue chain materialized from it connecting with the chain around Illathar's neck. He grabbed the chain with two hands and suddenly yanked with all his force.

Illathar's body shook forward and slammed down onto the ground in front of Yunshi. The massive reverberations of his fall echoed throughout the mountain startling the remaining animals.

"Sacrament of the Shadow!" Yunshi roared as the chains emerged from the ground and fused into his chest. This was the purest form of demon sealing! Just as there are Combat Codes for Chivalry there are Sacraments for Demon sealing.

Sacraments require an arcane focus, Augury was the same in that respect. But with a Demon Sealing Sacrament, there needs to be an offering that holds the power of the demon.

Gulan was just the perfect offering and was a part of the prince's plan. But now that he died they could only use the remnant mutated flesh to seal Illathar.

The chains dragged Illathar's body closer and closer into Yunshi's chest. It was like he body was a black that continually absorbed Illathar's body head first.

Illathar's head, his torso, and finally even his lower body was entering into Yunshi's body with the blue chains slowly dissipating. When suddenly one of the blue chains exploded scattering into a black aura.

"What?" Yunshi questioned dumbfounded

Then another chain suddenly exploded turning into more black mist, and then hundreds of chains shot out of Yunshi's body.

"Argh!" He roared the pain of a hundred stab wound coursed through his body every time a chain escape. Then a black beast head shot out of Yunshi's body along with a copious amount of black mist.

The head floated out and the black mist formed together with the head forming Illathar back into one piece. Yunshi's body collapsed from the sheer pain and he looked up at the black beast's terrifying predator eyes.

Illathar's eyes were completely black excluding a single white dot in his left eye. Yunshi couldn't help but be left terrified at his realization.

"You..." Yunshi tried to say but suddenly he felt pain and gripped his chest.

"Since you wish to possess me! Why don't I do the same?" Illathar laughed as a black mist exploded from Yunshi's chest. The mist wrapped all around his body infecting him.

"Argh!" Yunshi's pain screams could be heard throughout the mountain.

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Maven substituted his body the moment Han Yi became distracted. Han Yi crushed down with his 9 colored palms destroying Maven's clone and the black chain at once. He turned his attention towards the black Illathar as he stared at Yunshi.

He looked deep into his eyes and noticed that in Yunshi's eyes were completely black except the left one which had a single white pupil.

"I see..." Han Yi slowly intoned and snapped his fingers at the people behind him. Ye Yuyan, Maven, and Nesilia who was now free of the mind control all looked at him.

"Let's put aside our conflicts now. We are humans and we have one directive." Han Yi said with a neutral tone.

"To slay demons!" Han Yi hissed out with hatred.

When confronted with a mutual enemy, human conflicts were often put aside. This was the directive of the Noble Trifold path, all cultivators of the three conventional paths followed this directive. At least as long as they are a Noble Cultivator.

Otherwise, if they went against convention and jeopardized human interest for their own personal gain. They would be labeled as Fallen cultivators, often this type of cultivator would make deals with demons and engage in heretical acts. These people were no better than demons!

"That much I can do, your highness." Ye Yuyan said as he reached into his robe and removed a black dagger inscribed with runic writing.

"For the sake of slaying demons." Nesilia said cooly her eyes scanned over Maven, she had her own grudges now that she was free. But even she was willing to hold those back in this situation.

Maven noticing her gaze couldn't help but grit his teeth. He had already started burning his sword forces at this point he needed to eke out a way to survive.

"Fine..." Maven hesitantly said as he raised his moonlight sword in an aggressive stance.

"Hehe...you humans are really something else." The blue Illathar growled as his fiendish energies seemed to rise.

"Let's see if you can handle me." He roared as the blue auras around him exploded out into a vortex. The black Illathar accompanied the roar with his own, their growls reverberated all over the valley. Suddenly the black Illathar transformed into black auras that flew into the blue Illathar's body.

Yunshi seemed to follow as chains wrapped around the blue Illathar body. Yunshi landed on blue Illathar's head and suddenly all his fur got a black glossy hue to it.

His left eye turned black except for the white pupil, and the left eye seemed to intensify as it turned into a glowing blue light! From Illathar's body shot out hundreds of rays of blue light. Each ray turned into a frost that constantly propagated.

"What the hell is that?!?" Maven questioned as he blocked the blue rays.

"Frost propagation...he's definitely used lightning to transform his frost truths." Han Yi said cooly as the 9 colored light circled around him, guarding him against the blue rays.

"I thought he was a low-level fiend. How could he grasp such high-level laws?!?" Ye Yuyan asked as he released a frosted light of his own from his dagger.

"Such is the terror of frost propagation." Nesilia cooly analyzed as her divine clouds blocked the blue rays.

The rays started to settle down and the reverberations suddenly stopped. Illathar's body stood stout and upright as an endless stream of frost gathered all around him.

"Now shall we?" Han Yi proclaimed as the 9 colored light around his body turned into crackling lightning.