but from that moment on, he was no longer entirely “human.”
The Taiping Talisman Seed forcibly planted inside him became a curse and brand he could never remove. It brought bone-deep agony, along with fragmentary flashes of eerie Taiping Daoist arts: summoning wind and fire, commanding corpses, drawing talismans… and a cold, chaotic will of the “Yellow Heaven” lurking deep in his blood.
