In Yang Valley, the situation was not as exaggerated as Qin Yi had imagined, with Bei Yuan turning into some great devil and swallowing Minghe whole...
The details were not entirely right, but he had guessed the general direction.
This Bei Yuan truly was the Devil Master, and he had indeed appeared for Minghe's sake.
But swallowing this Minghe would have been useless...
Thanks to Xi Yue's nervous suppression and assistance, Minghe had not yet awakened her Nether River Intent. She was still using the most reliable method, gradually devouring and recovering fragments of memory day by day. When the time came, she would fully receive Nether River's memories without being affected in any way. Such was the advantage of coming from a renowned sect—steady as a rock.
The current Minghe was merely a Little Daoist Nun with a few fragmented memories of Nether River. She was not the Nether River Spirit at all.
The reason her Nether River Intent seemed so dense was that the Dao of her present life had always been very close to it in nature, and the two resonated with each other.
But at its core, the Nether River water that brought stillness and extinction, death, communion with spirits, and washed away a thousand obsessions and ten thousand grudges from the world was still a hundred and eight thousand miles away from her in nature.
What use would the Devil Master have in swallowing some Little Daoist Nun from the Celestial Pivot Divine Palace?
Those fragmented memories were things the Devil Master himself possessed. His former body had been the Reincarnation Disk, and he had dwelled in the Netherworld for many years. Who could know less than him about the Netherworld's fragmented memories?
It was utterly meaningless.
He wanted the Nether River to fully awaken.