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When Lin Qi opened his eyes again, the first thing he saw was utter darkness.

For a moment, she thought she had arrived at the Demon Sea of the Demonic Clan.

However, this place is not that similar to the Heavenly Demon Sea.

Besides the silence and darkness, starlight dotted the surroundings. A closer look revealed those stars to resemble glistening, glowing flowers.

"Could this be the legendary underworld?"

Lin Qi was puzzled, but she didn't feel a trace of death energy.

I took two steps forward before realizing I was standing in a layer of shallow water.

Many white lights also floated around his feet.

She crouched down and looked inside. Sure enough, it was a flower blooming with light.

The Cangwu world only has a few words about the Netherworld, and Lin Qi doesn't recognize what the flower in front of him is. He instinctively scoops it into the water.

A crystal white flower was fished out.

The water flowing beneath suddenly sped up.

Lin Qi simply picked a few more and tucked them into her bosom. She watched as the current grew faster and the water level rose higher.

During that time, she kept changing positions, but no matter where she went, it seemed like she was just going in circles.

After a moment, Lin Qi was washed away by the flood.

The water here is very peculiar, it seems as though it won't sink to the bottom.

Lin Qi simply gave up and watched to see where the current would take her.

Suddenly, a bridge appeared before them. It was extremely tall and wide, with intricate carvings of phoenixes on its surface. They were incredibly beautiful, and one could faintly see figures walking slowly across it.

Lin Qi discovered a figure and was about to take advantage of the situation to cross the bridge. As she stood up, she suddenly hit a barrier.

The next second, she arrived at the bottom of the bridge.

Crossing under the bridge, the scene before my eyes underwent another dramatic transformation.

It was still pitch black, but there were no more glimmers of light. Instead, there was a pervasive sense of death, a suffocating feeling.

Lin Qi is alive, brimming with vitality.

Death sensed her incongruous vitality and immediately surged toward Lin Qi's location.

Lin Qi had no choice but to take out the Heavenly Spirit Staff and cast a spell to purify.

It was just following the river's flow, deathly energy seeming endless, and the spiritual energy within her was leisurely.

If this continues, I'm afraid it won't work.

Especially, Lin Qi saw a number of corpses floating aimlessly on the river surface.

No, to be precise, it's a solitary spirit.

These lost souls had varying levels of strength, some were foolish and simple-minded, merely drifting along with the current, while others were aware and struggled desperately to survive. ... But they were all unconnected to Lin Qi.

They seem to be unable to see Lin Qi's existence.

So...what exactly is this underworld all about?

The river water didn't know how many days it had flowed. Lin Qi's last trace of spiritual energy within her body vanished completely, and the Celestial Authority Staff's luster extinguished.

In the next instant, Lin Qi was enveloped by a swarm of death energy that rushed towards her.

Life was being slowly drained from her, and Lin Qi felt her body growing heavier. She found herself sinking involuntarily towards the bottom of the water.

She could perceive the loss of vitality with clarity, and she could also clearly sense the river slowly engulfing her, suffocating her.

Lin Qi had never before walked so clearly on the edge between life and death.

But she didn't want to die!

If Rongshi and the Nangong family couldn't kill her, and even the Five Gods couldn't, could she just be quietly drowned in a river?

Lin Qi struggled desperately, but the feeling of drowning and suffocation grew stronger.

She slowly lost the strength to struggle.

Death clung to her tightly.

Between life and death, a hair's breadth away, a golden light suddenly flashed in Lin Qi's mind.

She held the Dihuang Sword in her hand and suddenly unleashed one sword technique after another.

Because she had no inner energy, she was simply practicing underwater swordsmanship.

Subtly, every time her sword strike connected, she seemed to gain a little more strength against the deathly qi.

Lin Qi didn't know how many times she had practiced, until her arms were completely drained of strength and she could no longer even hold the sword.

A white light flashed in his mind.

The sword intent of life and death!

Her eyes narrowed, and the sword in her hand instantly became incredibly sharp.

Anger and death energy transformed into a black and white light, intertwining together and surging out along the Emperor Phoenix Sword.

Life and death, yin and yang, are inherently incompatible. Yet, black and white harmoniously coexist in the Taiji diagram, perfectly balanced. The moment they meet on the surface of the river, a powerful explosion ensues.

The water surface cracked open a chasm dozens of meters deep, stretching for thousands of miles. Every soul along the way was turned to ashes.

After one move, Lin Qi seemed to have been drained of all his energy.

The whole person suddenly continued to sink downward.

In a daze, Lin Qi strained his brain and pulled out a white light flower from his arms to devour.

She didn't know if the flower was useful, but it was the only thing she found in the netherworld.

This is the last time I will stop!

Who knew that after consuming the Spirit Devouring Flower, the death energy within Lin Qi was swiftly expelled. A new vitality seemed to surge into her body, gradually filling every limb of hers.

Life revived, Lin Qi once again surfaced the water.

She gasped for breath, with the relief of someone who had cheated death.

At a critical moment, in her desperate fight for survival, she uncontrollably unleashed all her magical arts and techniques. Unexpectedly, in the chaos, she ingested a bit of death energy.

Only now that Lin Qi had escaped death did he have the time to deal with this problem.

She was taken aback.

It turned out to be the Five Heavens Water Swallows Thunder Technique devouring deathly energy!

Isn't the water from heaven needed to cultivate this spell?

Lin Qi didn't figure it out, but she was always ambitious and never missed an opportunity. She bravely continued her cultivation.

Utilizing the art of qi refinement, she was arguably the first person in Cangwu realm throughout history.

The familiar prickling sensation of skin returned, followed by a searing pain that spread through flesh and bone. The agony intensified bit by bit, yet Lin Qi had long since become numb to it.

Time passed day by day, Lin Qi didn't know how long she had been drifting on the water.

Until she completed her fourth round of heavy black water quenching.

Lin Qi suddenly felt a lightness throughout her body, as if she could merge with these water imbued with death energy.

Even without that mysterious flower, the deathly energy within could no longer harm her in any way.

Before she could fully enjoy the moment, Lin Qi raised her eyes to look around and realized that she had no idea where the current had drifted them.

She had already been reborn within the stagnant air, Lin Qi taking control and beginning to actively shuttle across the water's surface.

After searching for many days, I suddenly saw a black cocoon in the distance.

The cocoon was enormous, nearly three meters high and two meters wide, almost blending in with the dark river surface.

If Lin Qi hadn't been so observant, she wouldn't have noticed it at all.

What's inside?

Lin Qi stood before the black cocoon, pondering many things, not daring to make a rash move.

If it turned out to be a person inside, who knows if they were good or bad?

If what grows inside is a local specialty, Lin Qi will have nowhere to turn for help, and there's no guarantee that she won't even experience a life-or-death struggle.

After drifting on the river for too long, Lin Qi was incredibly lonely and bored. So, she decided to sit under the black cocoon and observe her surroundings.

Day after day, one day she suddenly found the black cocoon moving.

Lin Qi changed to the Zhenshen Dao and poked at the black cocoon.

The result is that the black cocoon's movements are larger.

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