Two days soon passed.
Within Qing City's Sealing Barrier, however, more than five years had passed inside the Time Tree's mist, where time flowed a thousand times faster.
Xiao Sui sat beside the Time Tree beneath the building, her eyes quietly closed as she contemplated and cultivated with a painting scroll floating before her.
Faint visions of life-and-death reincarnation manifested around her.
Over these five years, she had made considerable progress in the Way of Taiyin and had been trying to incorporate the Way of Life-and-Death Reincarnation into it to form a more profound Primordial Unity Way, but she had always fallen just short.
As the spirit of the Book of Life and Death, she had naturally possessed a Dao heart for the Way of Life and Death long ago.
As the Sword Spirit of the Zhu Xian Sword, Sword Immortal Lu also possessed an innate Sword Heart. Even without his past-life memories, he could easily comprehend the Primordial Unity Way with Senior Lin's help.
She was the spirit of the Book of Life and Death, likewise a Primordial Beginning Spirit Treasure, and she also retained her past-life memories. How could her progress be any slower than Sword Immortal Lu's?
It was just that she had cultivated for far less time than Sword Immortal Lu. Only a little over twenty years had passed since she reincarnated into the mortal world, and barely more than a decade since her memories awakened.
"Life and death are impermanent, fate returns to reincarnation; the three ethereal souls receive no offerings, the seven corporeal souls are bound by fate; through delusion and enlightenment, yin and yang descend into the netherworld..."
Suddenly, a woman's haunting chant rang out. The ethereal voice drifted over as though reaching straight into the depths of the heart, seemingly resonating with