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The eerie man with half his body missing looked utterly miserable, yet he laughed so hard he could barely catch his breath, his eyeballs bulging as though they were about to burst.

He knew full well what mighty power the Yellow Springs possessed. He also knew its strange and profound mysteries could not be broken by brute force alone. Any sentient being had desires, and with desires came obsessions. If one could not let go, could not bear to part, could not see past it, then one could never transcend the Yellow Springs.

The Five Great Water Veins of the Ancient Underworld were the most widely known line of defense guarding the Ancient Underworld. How could they possibly be so easily crossed?

He had not expected this Three Bodies Dao Lord, who looked so young, to actually step into the Yellow Springs.

If it had been elsewhere, with only a single branch of the Yellow Springs, then absolute power truly could have forced a path out. But this place held more than just one branch—it was linked to a fragment of the Ancient Underworld, a fragment guarded by the Yellow Springs.

The power required to force one's way out was not something an ordinary powerhouse could possess. If one truly possessed strength that could shatter the rules, one would never have been trapped within the Yellow Springs in the first place.

The eerie man's body slowly recovered. Staggering to his feet, he returned to the bank of the Yellow Springs and met the gaze of the girl with peach heart bangs.

The girl's eyes were like pure crystals. She quietly watched the eerie man without sorrow or joy, as though she were merely looking at a stranger—a stranger who made her a little curious.

After a long while, the girl