Qionglin knows his sister worries for him, but he can't just sit back and do nothing - trying exactly that was how he fell into the Metaverse in the first place! - and fighting back this way leaves no traces leading to his family.

He thinks there's nothing that can be done to stop him, until he's stared at by a blank mask and his own mask is seized and -

The Yiling Laozu finds him, afterwards, and introduces him to the Ghost General who lay hidden inside his Shadow-self, and the boy who will never be Qionglin again silently swears eternal loyalty to the one person who helped him when he needed it most.