Chapter 2989 - 1401: Netherworld
Luo Yixuan sat cross-legged on the White Jade Meditation Mat, surrounded by a misty vapor. As the colorful light of the Immortal Technique flowed, the color of her Spiritual Root gradually shed its mortal quality, with strands of crystalline spiritual charm twirling around her snow-white skin, finally coalescing into a flawless Immortal Water Spirit Root.
At the moment the Immortal Spirit Root was refined, Luo Yixuan’s consciousness suddenly sublimated, as if transformed into a drop of water, merging into rivers, lakes, and seas.
But unlike Chen Mobai and Qing Nu, her consciousness, transformed into water droplet, flowed towards the sea and seeped into an underground current, eventually penetrating into a bottomless dark abyss.
Luo Yixuan’s consciousness was drawn by a cold and profound force within the dark abyss, endlessly descending.
Who knows how much time passed before it finally stopped.
Her consciousness attached itself to a dark yellow river, with the mourning of souls and the wailing of the dead echoing from the banks in her ears.
"Is this... Huangquan?"
Luo Yixuan’s heart and mind trembled, and consulting the Netherworld Scripture of the Tongyou Demon Sect in her mind, she recognized the source of the river where she found herself.
This was the mother river flowing through the Netherworld, nurturing and nourishing all the souls of the dead.
It is said that the Ghost Mother was born at the source of this mother river, mastering control of life and death and resonating with the Great Dao from birth.
But why would her discovery bring her here?
Luo Yixuan recalled the experience of perceiving the Immortal Technique shared by her Master and Mistress before, but none of their experiences matched her current situation at all.
What should she do now?
Just as Luo Yixuan was puzzled, the Huangquan mother river, to which her consciousness was attached, was already carrying her towards the Netherworld Mansion at the deepest part of the Netherworld.
Both banks of Huangquan were shrouded in black mist, with ghostly spirits of grotesque forms flitting in and out. Some crawled forward, some stood erect, and some were towering, cloaked in tattered black robes, their crimson eyes watching Huangquan from the shadows.
When Luo Yixuan’s gaze met theirs, she felt her consciousness grow cold.
She understood that this was because of the vast Realm difference between her and these ghosts. Fortunately, these powerful ghosts seemed to greatly fear Huangquan, only standing at the banks and not daring to step into it at all.
At this point, Luo Yixuan was already thinking about how to leave.
Unfortunately, the experiences of Chen Mobai and Qing Nu were that when they wished to leave, their consciousness would naturally return to their body, so Luo Yixuan could only flow with the water and endure.
And during the flow of Huangquan, Luo Yixuan’s consciousness faintly received ancient visions of this mother river in the World of Darkness.
There were mighty beings from beyond the realms that cut through the darkness, granting the first light to this boundless dark world, illuminating all spirituality.
There was the completion of the Six Paths of Reincarnation and the cycle of life and death following the merging of Yin and Yang.
And there were Innate Divine Spirits born of the Netherworld that upheaved the entire mother river, gathering the power of billions of ghosts in one realm, breaking through the eternally shrouded black mist overhead, stepping beyond the Netherworld, only to turn to ash in howling and lament at the touch of sunlight.
During this process, Luo Yixuan’s own consciousness gradually began to fall asleep, seemingly about to be absorbed by Huangquan, becoming a part of the mother river.
Suddenly, a lotus as warm as jade appeared at Luo Yixuan’s brow.
This was the Lifespan Artifact, the Fire Jade Heart Lotus, that Chen Mobai had refined for her.
While its function in a Magic Duel was minimal, like the Morning Bell, it could protect the heart and mind and suppress the Heart Demon.
Upon sensing that Luo Yixuan’s consciousness was slipping and no longer clear, this Lifespan Artifact automatically activated, shielding her consciousness from being assimilated by Huangquan.
And after the Fire Jade Heart Lotus was activated, Chen Mobai, who was constantly observing Luo Yixuan’s Immortal Water Spirit Root’s enlightenment, also sensed something amiss and immediately extended a finger to point at Luo Yixuan’s brow.
The Fire Jade Heart Lotus, which had just been slightly blooming, suddenly burst forth with its most potent power under the enhancement of Saintly Virtue Pure Light, awakening Luo Yixuan from slumber and pulling her back to reality.
Netherworld Mansion.
As the source of the mother river, after the Ghost Mother’s death, it became the abode of her great son, the Nether Dragon.
Apart from the Nether Dragon, the other sons of the Ghost Mother were also scattered throughout the Huangquan mother river.
Today, the Nether Dragon, with its body mostly submerged in Huangquan, raised its massive form and gazed solemnly at one of the tributaries flowing out of the mother river.
Shortly after, a Ghost Ferry floated down along the downstream, with a delicate young man holding a White Bone umbrella seated on it. Upon seeing him, the Nether Dragon frowned slightly.
"Big brother, I think I just caught a scent of mother’s presence?"
The delicate young man holding the umbrella had a pale complexion, but his eyes carried a burning intensity, speaking to the Nether Dragon with excitement.
"It was probably a remnant soul of mother being reincarnated, accidentally resonating with Huangquan, and briefly regaining consciousness. But was soon restricted by the Great Dao Rules, returning to the Living World."
Replied the Nether Dragon expressionlessly; it had also detected a mother-like aura suddenly appearing somewhere downstream of the mother river just now.
As the current master of the mother river, the Nether Dragon could command the power of Huangquan, so it had seen that strange trace of consciousness.
But just as it attempted to utilize Huangquan to send it into the Netherworld Mansion, a jade lotus flower suddenly immobilized it, and then a mighty being used Divine Skills from outside the Netherworld, invoking the Great Dao Rules of the Three Realms to remotely bring this trace of consciousness out of the Netherworld.
"Indeed, mother still has use, and the day of reincarnation reassembling will be when mother returns!"