"Just passing through? Then why did you trespass into White Jade Palace's territory?" The white-haired girl looked at Mei with obvious distrust.
"How was I supposed to know this was White Jade Palace's territory? You can tell I'm human too. I know absolutely nothing about the Underworld..."
"Oh... I suppose that's true! But what is a human doing in the Underworld alone? The yin energy here... causes permanent damage to a human body. Even someone powerful shouldn't stay in the Underworld for too long."
Apparently believing Mei for the time being, the girl lowered the sword in her hand.
Since Mei was not an enemy and had only ended up here by accident, and was also so powerful, Youmu naturally had no reason to make another enemy.
"Don't worry about that. A Valkyrie's body is nothing like an ordinary human's. Even living in the Underworld for half a year or a year wouldn't be a problem.
"By the way, do you know how to get to the Sanzu River? I came to the Underworld because I have urgent business there."
Though Mei was somewhat puzzled as to why this Underworld had a faction like White Jade Palace, she had not forgotten her mission.
Everything else could wait. The mission was what mattered most.
"The Sanzu River? Didn't you enter the Underworld through the Sanzu River?"
Hearing Mei's question, Youmu immediately stared at her in surprise. The Sanzu River was the boundary between the world of the living and the world of the dead, the necessary passage from the Human World into the Underworld.
Because its waters were divided into three currents—slow, normal, and rapid—according to the deeds the dead had committed in life, it was called the "River of Three Crossings."
Normally, after ordinary people died... their souls would arrive