In the spacetime fissure between the Present World and the Netherworld, a clear ancient spring lay still.
On the bank stood a man silent as a stone statue, holding an empty fishing rod. Its line hung straight down above the water.
Seen alone, that fishing line resembled a straight, hiltless sword—infinitesimally thin and keen—pressed against the throat of something called "Yellow Springs."
He held the rod like that, suspending the sword, and waited for a long time.
As the supreme existence of the Netherworld, the White Bone Venerable God had long held dominion over Yellow Springs.
Later, though He descended into the Present World and shed godhood to become human, nearly cutting away everything He had possessed in the Netherworld, this foundational Dao inheritance, tied to His former divine path through the Netherworld, was something He could not bear to strip away. So He concealed it quietly within the spacetime fissure, waiting to use it in the future.
In the end, He had left Himself a way out. If the path to Transcendence could not be traveled in the Present World, He could still return and become the Netherworld Venerable God once more. With this Yellow Springs, He could rebuild the White Bone Divine Kingdom with relative ease.
And during the early stages of developing through His Dao Fetus in the Present World, [Yellow Springs] was an exceptionally useful power.
He could remain unmade as a god, yet use Yellow Springs to form seals and secretly place his pieces upon the board, without involving himself.
For example, Ye Lingxiao had forged the Golden Body God of Wealth, while Jiang Wang had taken on the role of Chiyun Mountain's god in the Demon Realm. White Bone would only have done it better.
Even if White Bone could not conveniently use the