Soul-Seizing Life-Taking, Augmenting Good Punishing Evil, The True Lineage of the Underworld

Saintess Hall.

Meditation Chamber.

Chan'er sat cross-legged atop the couch, her eyes closed in meditation. Her breath rose and fell soundlessly, her form hazy, as if she had merged into heaven and earth.

Behind her, the phantom of the Yellow Springs Mother Tree swayed and rustled. Silver-white chains pierced the void like roots, continuously drawing in the yin energy of Yellow Springs to strengthen the tree's shadow.

Within the mist swirling around its canopy, phantoms of the Six Paths of Reincarnation appeared and vanished. Air currents surged and pulled, murky and unfathomable, like six obscure gray fruits hanging from the treetops, silently telling of the mysteries of life, death, and rebirth.

These Six Paths phantoms were nothing else—they were the six reincarnated bodies of Jinse, the Hard Disk Saintess. She had practiced the Reincarnation Rebirth Scripture without finding the right method and had remained stuck in the Nether Passage Realm, unable to make any progress. Yet when Chan'er cultivated it, she was like a fish in water; everything fell naturally into place, without the slightest bottleneck.

Chan'er had been born to eat from the bowl of a Yellow Springs enchantress.

The chamber door creaked open, and a figure tiptoed toward Chan'er on the couch. The footsteps were light, but to Chan'er, whose senses were keen, they were no different from thunder exploding on level ground, jolting her awake from meditation in an instant.

Before Chan'er even opened her eyes, she recognized the visitor from those familiar footsteps. Joy filled her heart, and she immediately wanted to leap into her husband's arms and shower him with kisses.

But then she thought of how Xiang Yuan had left for two whole months. Rounding up, that was practically two years. The smile at the corners of her lips instantly fell. Her husband, the