"Senior Sister! Why? WHY ARE WE DOING THIS?" Langtian shouted, his voice raw with desperation. He reached out to Shangguan Yue Ling, trying to pull her back from the brink of madness, trying to make sense of the chaos unraveling around him.
'Could she be under demonic influence too? Or worse… had she fallen into Qi deviation?'
It was all too possible. In the world of cultivation, Qi deviation was a perilous state. It's when one's Qi spiraled out of control, turning wild and unstable, consuming both body and mind.
'If that's true… how can I bring her back? What can I even do?'
His heart pounded, each beat like a war drum echoing in his chest.
But even as he questioned, the voices within surged louder, and hateful whispers rising into a chorus that drowned out reason.
"Kill her," they hissed. "She wants to kill you, Bai Langtian. If you want to live, kill her now!"
And before he realized it, his hand had already gripped the hilt of his dàdāo.
He swung.
WHHHHRRM!
