After transmigrating into Perfect World, Jin Li takes an unconventional path from the very start: he snatches Shi Hao's Kunpeng art, only to be unexpectedly ensnared by runes tainted with darkness. While removing them, he awakens a fragmentary dark hypnosis technique and sets off on a path to turn the tables, wielding dark arts as his blade and staking everything on the price.
He can magnify Huo Ling'er's anxiety over Shi Hao and turn her into a pawn who depends on him. But each time he uses a dark art, the black marks beneath his skin spread further, while darkness devours both his vitality and his soul.
Against the upper realm's chosen prodigies, he uses dark arts to sow discord and reap the rewards. Facing the Dark Spider Empress of an ancient forbidden zone, he pretends to cooperate while waiting for a chance to strike. Even when confronting Shi Hao, who bears the Supreme Bone, he dares to scheme from the shadows, using hypnosis to sway fate itself.
From founding the Dark Spirit Alliance in Blackwind Valley in the lower realm to matching wits with Shi Hao in Skycloud City in the upper realm, Jin Li always walks the line between light and darkness. He must master the dark arts, not be consumed by them, and forge a heaven-defying path of his own as the
