Dark Undercurrents on the Immortal Boat, the Mystery of the Two Xuans, and the Inspector's Scheme

The atmosphere in the quiet chamber suddenly grew tense because of Yun Yi's urgent report. The "Xuan" in the Star Infusion Pool had awakened? She had lost her memory? Her aura was strange? This sudden development added another layer of confusion to Li Wuyang's heart after he had only just survived a brush with death, exhausted in both body and mind.

The Inspector's face, shrouded in starlight, revealed neither joy nor anger. He merely said, "Understood. Yun Yi, withdraw for now. Keep a close watch on her. Without an order, no one is to approach the Star Infusion Pool within half a step."

"Yes!" Yun Yi accepted the order and left.

Silence returned to the quiet chamber, yet an invisible pressure spread through it. Li Wuyang forced his weakened body upright and fixed the Inspector with a blazing gaze. "Senior, what exactly is going on? Is the one in the Star Infusion Pool... truly Xuan? Or is she... something else?" Instinctively, he turned his awareness inward toward the heavy crystal coffin within his sea of consciousness. Xuan Nü's true body lay quietly asleep within. She shared the same origin as the embryo in his heart, whose spiritual glow had completely faded into silence, yet formed a bizarre contrast with the awakened "Xuan" outside.

The Inspector paced slowly, profound light flowing through his starlit eyes as though he were deducing the secrets of heaven. Only after a long while did he speak. "The Annihilation Mystic Maiden is an incarnation of the Great Dao. Her condition cannot be compared to that of ordinary living beings. Ages ago, the Dao Venerable sealed her within a coffin and sank her into the Annihilation Star, using its Annihilation Dao Rhyme to nourish her remnant soul. It was a defiance of heaven itself. Her true spirit