Soul of Terror

[Mind Games, Suspense, Deduction, Passion, One Female Lead, One-Loop Counterplay Against Multiple Loops, No Major Pitfalls]

After being reborn, An Qiu looked around and saw every face obscured by a black cloud of chaos.

The people who had witnessed An Qiu's birth, long-armed and ape-like, grinned eerily. "The faceless one!"

Before he was to be sacrificed, a child whose face was not shrouded in chaos, the first such child he had ever seen, knelt before An Qiu and bared his chest. "My lord, I will clear the way for you."

In this world, where darkness descended once every six days, among crowds of strange people bowing their heads in prayer, he rose to his feet and pointed at the sun on the ground, blazing with light that shot into the sky. His resolve was fierce. "Sun, I challenge you to a duel."

(Completely revised and finished)