Luo Yixuan sat cross-legged on a white jade prayer mat, misty water vapor wreathing her body. As the colored light of the immortal art flowed around her, the hue of the spiritual root within her gradually shed its mortal quality. Strands of crystalline, translucent spiritual charm circulated over her snow-white skin, finally condensing into a flawless and complete Immortal Water Spiritual Root.
The instant the Immortal Spiritual Root was tempered and completed, Luo Yixuan's consciousness suddenly sublimated, as though it had turned into a drop of water and merged into rivers, lakes, and seas.
But unlike Chen Mobai and Qing Nü, the water droplet formed from her consciousness seeped into an underground undercurrent as it flowed toward the sea, and finally poured into a bottomless black abyss.
Within that black abyss, Luo Yixuan's consciousness was drawn by an icy, deep, and unfathomable power, falling endlessly.
No one knew how long passed before it finally stopped.
She discovered that her consciousness had attached itself to a dark yellow river. Wails of dead souls drifted from the banks to her ears, along with the sobbing of the undead.
"This is... the Yellow Spring?"
Luo Yixuan's mind shook. Comparing it against the Netherworld Scripture of the Through Nether Demonic Sect in her mind, she recognized the origin of the river she was now in.
This was the mother river that flowed through the netherworld and gestated and nourished all dead souls.
It was said that Ghost Mother had been born at the source of the mother river, and the moment she came into the world, she grasped life and controlled death, resonating with the Great Dao.
But why had she come here during her Awakening?
Luo Yixuan recalled how, before accepting the immortal art, her master and master's wife had told them about