[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-above-destiny":3,"chapter-above-destiny-above-destiny-chapter-82":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Above the Heavenly Fate",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2225783,4117,"Chapter 82: Old Times","above-destiny-chapter-82",82,"\u003Cp>Mercury?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You tell me that is Mercury?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ji Jue’s brain buzzed, stiffly turned his head, and suddenly wanted to ask the Prophet: Why don't you say I am Mercury?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the facts are in front of him, undeniable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What happened to her?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ji Jue asked hoarsely, \"She turned herself... into what...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don't know.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Prophet sighed silently: \"Don't you know about your Ember lineage? No one can say clearly what kind of things a sage will leave behind after death, not to mention, a guy like her who is obsessed until death.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ji Jue had nothing to say.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just couldn't help but look at the place where the back left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One day... after I die, will I become like that? No, if I can really become like that, maybe it’s still lifting me up...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Embers of Heaven and Man, remnants of sages.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is completely not something that a white-board Awakened like Ji Jue can reach today...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if the thing just now didn't do anything, just touched his face and left, God knows what weird changes it will have once they resist without knowing their own strength or expose their outsider identity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When a whale falls, everything grows.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Awakened who deal with Shangshan all their lives are destined to be soaked by Shangshan, changed by blessings, and bring many influences due to their own transcendence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even ordinary people, eating corn wildly before death, can play with popcorn in the cremation furnace after death...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A craftsman deals with furnaces and alchemy all his life, every alchemy creation, every extraction and processing, every guidance of blessings... will leave traces and deposits in the soul and body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Accumulated over time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So much so that even the most famous mutation symptom of the Ember Path has turned into materialization.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Awakened who cannot control the out-of-control blessings in their bodies or suffer from evil stupidity will gradually turn into weird alchemy items in the loss of humanity and soul, causing repeated disasters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is foreseeable what a terrifying scale of change will be caused by the whale fall of Heaven and Man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it were just a monster, Ji Jue could almost burn high incense to worship his ancestors that he finally won a lottery with good luck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But unfortunately, it is absolutely impossible...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>God knows how many such out-of-control monsters are wandering in this deep nine lands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Please rest assured, you have traces of fluid alchemy on you, and the permission of the old furnace. They are not interested in you, not to mention, there are so many messy intruders outside.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Prophet looked outside expressionlessly, then her gaze fell toward the front, the deep well that seemed to lead to hell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We are almost there.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She said: \"Non-Aggression, is below.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ji Jue stood at the edge of the huge deep well, lowered his head, feeling the wind coming toward him, so cold, but at the very end of the darkness, there seemed to be faint flashes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he reacted, he subconsciously took a step back—according to the convention in RPG games, there would be an NPC kicking his butt from behind, and then it would be the fixed play of [Forward, jumping is very useful].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But there was no one behind him, only the little cow horse was brightly turning on the car lights, Little An’s action of secretly eating potato chips paused in place, sensing that Brother Ji Jue didn't turn back to catch himself, hesitated and chewed, then lowered his head and chewed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sound was crisp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Well, suddenly the sense of security came up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He measured the depth below and looked at the narrow stairs circling down, really unable to understand Mercury’s thoughts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Non-Aggression is a very important thing, right?\" Ji Jue asked: \"Why put it here? Like lost... don't want it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Heaven and Man no longer need the matrix to bind and suppress the blessings in the body. Even if the matrix is lost, it doesn't matter. It is not as tight as you think.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Prophet answered, with a bit of mockery: \"It should be said that she doesn't want to see it again at all, right? If it weren't for the great significance, it might have been thrown away long ago.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why?\" Ji Jue was dumbfounded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Should be said, don't want to see it again at all, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Prophet sighed: \"Perhaps, it is afraid of recalling the past, recalling the former self... after turning away from the Ember Dao, what kind of face-to-face appearance, how to face the past?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a long silence, Ji Jue finally couldn't help but ask again: \"Prophet, who exactly are you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A guide, a head, an evil result that shouldn't have survived until now?\" The Prophet laughed at herself, \"A tool that can't bear the burden.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She said: \"That’s all.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, they walked toward the darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Disappearing into the pitch-black abyss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The haze outside the darkness boiled, spreading silently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the gradually echoing singing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Miss my hometown... miss my hometown... a lonely guest in a foreign land, lonely and desolate, I want to return to my hometown, return to my old home...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That is the hoarse chanting of the lost souls in the darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, from the pool of blood, from the wailing, from the roar of collapse, one after another blurry figures gradually emerged from the darkness, wandering in this maze-like center.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just like prisoners wandering in a prison that can never be left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the pale mist emerged from the air in strands, the clear spiritual quality sea gradually stained with scarlet madness. Manic, despair and pain, countless despairs accumulated in the long time, rose like rain, flying toward the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Above the dome, the scene of the broken high tower shone again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Above the crack of the high tower, strands of scarlet overflowed, spilling toward the earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that instant, in the deepest part of the darkness, Ji Jue heard the hallucinatory sound again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So gentle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mom...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The little cow horse’s journey stopped abruptly, the engine trembling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ji Jue looked back vigilantly, as if someone was talking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the gaze swept past, in the darkness, the blind spot seemed to be swept past by a figure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But when he looked back suddenly, he couldn't see clearly. There was always the sound of footsteps, in some place, ringing at an inadvertent time. And even breathing, noise, whispering...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was as if, breaking into the realm of the dead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The further forward, the closer to another world...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another distant world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The little cow horse shivered, if it weren't for Ji Jue pulling hard, it wouldn't want to go forward. Little An looked around slowly, sniffing something, but couldn't find any breath of living or dead things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until the girl’s giggle sounded again in front of her eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the deep darkness outside the narrow stairs, the rainbow light of spiritual quality rippled, and a young and petite figure ran past Ji Jue’s eyes, rushing into another figure’s arms: \"Mom! You’re back?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Did you miss me?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The gentle voice sounded, making Ji Jue stiffen in place, slowly turning his head, across the blurry phantom, unable to see the face clearly, but the voice and the figure, he recognized even if he turned into ashes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mercury!!! [83-\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the darkness, the sage from four hundred years ago took her daughter's hand, whispering softly, and left laughing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the noisy sounds continued, coming from all directions, as if they had finally crossed an invisible boundary, and faint, indistinct figures emerged one after another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sixteen point five for a kilogram, no less. It's a good brand from the Southern Continent. We're old acquaintances, I'll give you a little garlic at most.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wow, come look, it's said that Mo's group launched another attack in the Central Capital.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They're all a bunch of lunatics, why care about that? Did you save enough for your business tax this year?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's four in the afternoon, praise the Emperor, shall we go to worship together?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Gloria must stay here, you take the money. Where does raising a child need so many things? Don't worry, she's like my own daughter.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's my fault, big brother, but I...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Alright, don't say any more. I don't want to hear about those things of yours. And don't talk about the world and everyone anymore...\" Under the flickering lights, in the living room, the man smoking with his head down sighed, \"Just came back for a few days, and you're leaving again. Have you told her?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The figure with their back to Ji Jue was silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mom?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the top of the stairs, the little girl holding a plush toy timidly poked her head out: \"Don't you want me anymore?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mercury was silent, lowered her head, and said nothing more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'm sorry.\" She said softly: \"I'm sorry, Gloria.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mom, where did Mom go?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The girl cried in the early morning: \"I want Mom! I want Mom!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Someone is sick, Mom went to an emergency call. Don't worry, Mom will come back.\" The elderly lady stroked the child's long hair: \"How could Mom forget Gloria?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But soon, that phantom also disappeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More intricate or disordered and inexplicable fragments rose from the darkness along with the rainbow light, like a kaleidoscope, overlapping and dizzying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Ji Jue walked forward, he couldn't help but stop for the crying girl and sighed softly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But across four hundred years of time, that distant sigh seemed to extend to the other side, causing the girl who was lowering her eyes and shedding tears to look up, looking at him in confusion:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Who are you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ji Jue's hair stood on end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stumbled backward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the scene soon dissipated again and disappeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Has the ether record overflowed so severely?\" The Prophet sighed: \"After so many years without maintenance, I'm afraid it can no longer contain the events of the past.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What exactly is that?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ji Jue couldn't help but ask again. He lowered his head and looked down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the end of the deep well, that shimmering flash of light seemed like a gateway to the past, filled with images of yesteryear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That is the old time, Mr. Ji Jue, the time dissipation and remains painstakingly and laboriously pieced together, the fragmented events gathered by the power of ether.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Prophet said: \"Four hundred years ago, the appearance of a town in a remote corner of an empire.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is Mercury's hometown.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her eyes lowered, her pupils illuminated by the light from the old days, as if they had also become clear and bright, with no haze: \"What a... too long and distant dream.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that instant, infinite time surged, rising from the darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rushing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Swallowing them completely!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Currently, my physical condition is gradually recovering, but my reaction is still relatively slow. It should be better after a while.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Starting to gradually resume my writing state.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Asking for a monthly ticket~\u003C\u002Fp>",1815,"2026-06-17T22:21:51.502Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","9c198b9dc97d1a739a53d6c25130f4b243df6dce1b7e943380771486caf4c69f","above-destiny-chapter-83","above-destiny-chapter-81",461,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fabove-the-heavenly-fate-cover.jpg"]