"His primordial spirit has not truly vanished; it was merely hiding within the Swallowing Pagoda. When he took you as a disciple back then, it was ultimately just to bide his time for resurrection. Aren't you surprised?"
It seemed his guess was correct. The primordial spirit did indeed belong to his master, Bai Yanyan. Initially, he had believed Bai Yanyan's primordial spirit had completely perished, never expecting that it was still intact and hidden away inside the Swallowing Pagoda.
As for whether Bai Yanyan wanted to use this opportunity to resurrect and deal with him, as the Ten Desolations Corpse Emperor claimed, that was entirely one-sided from the Corpse Emperor, and he couldn't possibly believe it all.
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