Deep within the Spirit Vein.
Ji Yuan stood there without moving.
He watched as Dong Qian's corpse gradually underwent a transformation.
The corpse's skin shriveled at a visible rate. Its once-full contours slowly caved in, and the sharp angles of bone emerged through increasingly thin skin.
In stark contrast to the decay of her corpse was the brand-new power continuously growing within it.
That power had begun as a faint wisp of presence, gradually developing into a fluctuation Ji Yuan could not have found more familiar.
Primordial Spirit.
Ji Yuan sensed it over and over several times.
Until he was completely certain—Dong Qian's body was indeed irreversibly decaying and withering away, but within her, an entirely new Primordial Spirit power was being born.
But Dong Qian's Primordial Spirit had clearly been taken to the Demon God Continent by the Hatred-Severing Devil Lord.
Back then at Immortal Grove Mountain, the Hatred-Severing Devil Lord had personally acted, extracting Dong Qian's Primordial Spirit from her ruined body and taking it away. Partridge Whistle had stated that fact himself.
The methods of a Tribulation Transcendence Stage Devil Lord were beyond question. The Primordial Spirit extracted could not have been fake, much less could any fragment have been left behind.
Besides, according to the Ghost Envoy, the Fish-Woman's power of revival could only affect the physical body, not the Primordial Spirit.
Yet the sight before him clearly told Ji Yuan—within Dong Qian, a new Primordial Spirit was condensing.
Ji Yuan could not make sense of it.
Since he could not make sense of it, he stopped thinking about it.
He would simply wait in silence.
Behind him, Tu Yue bit her lower lip and finally could not help lowering her voice. "Master, what exactly is happening to Sister Dong?"
Ji Yuan did not turn around.