[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-above-destiny":3,"chapter-above-destiny-above-destiny-chapter-90":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Above the Heavenly Fate",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},2225791,4117,"Chapter 90: Light and Tears","above-destiny-chapter-90",90,"\u003Cp>Ji Jue heard for the first time the miserable whistle, scream, and wail emitted by the boiling spiritual quality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was like being subjected to the slicing punishment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That blurry face emerged from between the surging spiritual bodies, terrified and twitching, wailing miserably, tearing its own body again and again, countless fragments dissipating, but unable to escape the terrifying gravity coming from the darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until finally, he made up his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Formless, exploded with a boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hundreds and thousands of blood lights erupted, towards all directions, but most of them were instantly swallowed by the darkness and disappeared, leaving only sporadic fragments escaping from that terrifying gravity, instantly, fleeing in a panic without looking back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not even daring to look back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just like that, brushing past the deer-headed ghost shadow coming from the blood, the weird monster paused slightly for an instant, withdrew its gaze indifferently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just like that, slowly walking into that sealed door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the dead darkness, blurry outlines appeared from the eternal gloom, hoarsely and scattered singing ancient tunes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just like dead spirits imprisoned in endless reincarnation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vainly, remembering their hometown.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thinking of hometown... thinking of hometown...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The departed soul sang joyfully from hell: \"Hometown is so cute...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, from the singing, a creepy breath sprayed out like a waterfall, sweeping, gradually drowning the entire Rift Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And in the corner of the hub, Ji Jue's eyes were dizzy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feeling unprecedented trembling and fear... it was as if invisible cold palms were stroking through his soul, selecting materials, indifferently examining, but slowly leaving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What he felt was the terrifying gap between each other like heaven and abyss, the fear and hesitation of being a fish on the chopping block, unable to resist at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He still recognized the spiritual quality signal that was wailing just now, and precisely because of this, he was even more terrified.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dragon Sacrifice Society?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What's going on? Are you serious?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This damn thing just gave up?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No, Ji Jue had already prepared to fight hard against such an out-of-spec monster in order to take down Non-Aggression. If they really fought, the strategy was already thought out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Use the operation of the hub, fight while retreating, hold the hatred, retreat all the way to the spiritual quality sea outside... and then, directly stab the neck to open that crushing device!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn't believe that this kind of monster that was spiritualized all over could withstand the spiritual quality purification program in the mercury workshop!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a result, he was ready to fight a shepherd again, but the opponent was solved so simply and easily?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No way? Can't be? Can't be?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ji Jue wasn't itchy for a fight, but the problem was... the shepherd of the Dragon Sacrifice Society was solved so easily, could he, with his few pounds and ounces, escape?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Prophet—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ji Jue turned his head and asked astringently: \"What exactly is that?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What else could it be?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The prophet was expressionless, feeling the gloomy fluctuations rising with the singing in the distance, \"That is mercury, Mr. Ji Jue. The Embers once called mercury are instinctively leaning towards the unextinguished remnant fire.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A low muffled sound captured everyone's soul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was, a heartbeat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the deepest darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the spiritual quality solution, a shriveled heart jumped suddenly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, another one...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Damn it, crazy, all damn crazy.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Outside the hub that was constantly expanding and rising, in the earth-shaking Rift Realm, dots of spiritual quality remnant light gathered from the corpses, blurry faces emerged, devouring the spiritual quality that had not dissipated, barely recovering a vague outline, but like a candle in the wind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Terrified and swaying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Formless looked back at the rising hub at this moment, he could no longer hide his fear and trembling, cursing in a mess, muttering incoherently: \"Go to hell with the sages... all liars... all damn crazy, all crazy!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Excuse me, excuse me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A gentle voice came from the darkness, accompanied by footsteps, making the blurry outline of Formless tremble suddenly, almost collapsing, not even caring about devouring the remaining souls, retreating rapidly, looking back vigilantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, he saw a disheveled face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was as if she had just crawled out of some corner, carrying a heavy backpack, holding a map that had been torn in half in anger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old white-haired woman took off her hat, fanned herself, raised her head and drank more than half of the water bottle in one breath, then sat on the ground with a sigh of relief: \"I fell down accidentally, the shitty map led the way, almost couldn't climb up... well, who is that, did you just come out from inside?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She asked curiously: \"Could you please tell me, what is the current situation of mercury?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just mentioning that name, the outline of Formless swayed, almost unable to maintain, no longer able to restrain the fierceness and malice, staring fixedly at that face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Actually... no matrix, no blessing, not even an ability, but the soul was condensed to the point that no breath leaked out, unable to identify any traces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So weird.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, it was so tempting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The hungry appetite instinctively urged him to devour, he could no longer endure, eat, eat, eat, eat, eat, eat!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the hissing, Formless pounced out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the next instant, he stopped abruptly, from between the closed five fingers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's been so many years, why is the Dragon Sacrifice Society still in this shitty state?\" She sighed lightly, as if pinching a dead dog, holding Formless in her hand, shaking it casually: \"To get in, I even dismantled the matrix, at least be polite, don't fight and kill at every turn. However, since you are not polite first...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the flickering faint light, her face was shrouded in shadows, gradually changing, and in the end, faintly outlined the ferocious outline of a fierce bird.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The weird blood-stained mask slowly emerged, shrouded over that gentle smile, the void blood color slowly dripped from the long beak, looking down fiercely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then I don't have to pretend to be a gentleman.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>White Owl grinned, smiling silently and ferociously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amidst the loud noise, the earth collapsed and cracked, and thunder resounded through the entire Rift Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The earth finally split apart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The hub bloomed like a lotus, opening, piercing through the earth and the sky, bathing in the eternal dim sunlight, layers of complex structures unfolded from it, thousands of threads, drifting and vague, just like thousands of invisible big hands, reaching towards the sky and the earth, holding everything in them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And from the highest point, what unfolded was a pair of translucent wings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Refracting the dim light of the sunset, so gorgeous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then the second pair, the third pair, the fourth pair...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until the end, countless wings covered the sky, and eyes opened one by one on the wings, once again, looking down at everything, staring at the riddled earth and ruins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blood-colored tears fell like rain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No wailing could be heard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the sorrow was like a tide, making the cracked earth tremble again, swallowing everything...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just among the countless wings, vague outlines of palms appeared, overlapping, entangling, stretching, thousands of palms unfolded from the center, outlining and intertwining into a weird giant ring.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【■————】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The hissing sound of thousands of people overlapping in one place resounded through the entire Rift Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The last remnant of the former shepherd dissipated completely from White Owl's hand, not even having time to wail.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, she raised her head, looking at the countless wings covering the sky, and even the thousands of palms twisted into a ball in the wings, and couldn't help but gasp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hey, old guy—what exactly is this?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>White Owl pulled up the map in her hand and questioned angrily: \"Before coming, you only told me to take a courier, but you didn't tell me there was such an exaggerated thing in the Rift Realm!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【That is mercury, haven't you seen it with your own eyes?】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the silent map, distant handwriting slowly appeared: 【This bitterness and despair is the sin and evil fruit that mercury bears on behalf of all Mo practitioners.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...The evil transformation of the sages?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the dead silence, a hoarse voice squeezed out of White Owl's throat, no longer able to deny reality: \"Is the backlash of the Tianyuan fracture so exaggerated?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When those Mo practitioners cut off the Tower of Tianyuan, didn't they foresee the consequences?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【The fracture of the Tower of Tianyuan is the worst consequence, but even the worst consequence is better than watching the Tower of Tianyuan complete.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There is no place for gods in the human world, and there should not be an eternal ruler and emperor in this world. If the emperor wants to make this world meaningless, then even if the world is destroyed, the emperor cannot be allowed to live.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The collapse of the Eternal Empire is essentially the counterattack of other Supreme Goods against Tianyuan's attempt to control everything, and it could not have been triggered by just a few Mo Heavenly Humans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Similarly, cutting off the Tower of Tianyuan is not mercury's duty...】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The handwriting on the map appeared like flowing water: 【But when breaking through the Empire's encirclement and reaching the Tower of Tianyuan, forty-one Heavenly Humans had already lost half, and among the survivors, the Giant was severely injured and dying, leaving only her blood to awaken the Blade of Reform.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it were you, how would you choose?】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>White Owl was silent, staring at the huge outline wailing silently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No longer knowing how to speak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The last chance of the whole world, the accumulation and sacrifice of all Mo practitioners for thousands of years, the fate and duty passed down from generation to generation... when the path reached the end, the world was still dark, wind and rain swaying, and the ideal paradise was still so far away, like a dream.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When everything reached the end, the cruelest choice was placed before her eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is it to turn back to the eternal dream promised by the emperor, sleep like a baby in the iron swaddling clothes, or ignite oneself, sacrifice everything, and hope for a future that may never be reached?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, in the sky, amidst the thunder, the phantom of the collapse of the Tower of Tianyuan appeared again. This time, she finally saw clearly the dazzling light rising from the darkness towards the sky...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the first sword that the sage mercury slashed towards the Eternal Empire more than four hundred years ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And what fell to the ground was only the sad light of tears. \u003C\u002Fp>",1775,"2026-06-17T22:21:51.502Z","2026-06-18T03:18:02.290Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","e5d0be5b50f1f26271f09fa8fe42e6405585230a3c1cd6d0b02c04af24a7f950","above-destiny-chapter-91","above-destiny-chapter-89",461,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fabove-the-heavenly-fate-cover.jpg"]