The jade pendant left behind when his parents burned themselves to death has a doppelganger crawl out of it, one that scolds him for having a "stupid transformation pose."
His rubber ability lets him stretch his body like a slingshot, while his Thousand Shadows technique has his doppelgangers secretly learning the demon race's script. These shadows begin crying, "We don't want to disappear," and share his pain.
The red-eyed general's arrows always veer away just before they reach his throat. The patterns on the general's armor even match the cracks in the jade pendant.
Only when a rift in the void creeps across his palm does Lin Ye understand his parents' last words: "Now that the shadows have hearts, are you their god, or their sacrifice?"