[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-above-destiny":3,"chapter-above-destiny-above-destiny-chapter-92":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},2225793,4117,"Chapter 92: Liberation","above-destiny-chapter-92",92,"\u003Cp>When the mutated sage descended, everything was shrouded in control, but unexpected changes came suddenly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ji Jue felt that his reason and perception had deceived him, and it was hard to believe—the workshop created by the sage herself launched an attack on mercury?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stiffened in place, looking back at the prophet in disbelief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the prophet stopped talking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the silence, cracks appeared on the incomplete skull, and behind the broken face, a dazzling light that surpassed everything Ji Jue had seen appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, he felt the unprecedented huge rhythm again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shrouding the sky, covering the earth, filling the entire Rift Realm, reaching everything, forcibly terminating the operation of all spiritual quality circuits, and reverse-blocking the operation of the creation theory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this very moment, the creator of the workshop was suppressed by the workshop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Imprisoned in a cage!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No, it should be said that mercury had been shackled and imprisoned by the workshop from beginning to end, right?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the changes that outsiders encountered after entering the hub were not to resist the invasion, but to block the many Embers left by mercury...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it kept her soul, not allowing her to throw herself into that abyss of nothingness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Between the tragedy of having nothing and the tragedy of vain struggle, it chose a new tragedy that was neither, planting new bitter fruits between bitter fruits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Everyone is so pathetic.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The prophet whispered, staring at the behemoth imprisoned above the sky—having lost everything from endless reincarnation and torture, even the pride and determination she was proud of gradually peeled off. In four hundred years, she wandered alone in pain and despair, falling into such a state.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the self had completely dissipated in the repeated wear and tear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What remained was only obsession.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And countless creations that could not be autonomous in birth and could not be ended in death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For so many years, everyone has been cycling in this hell day after day, struggling endlessly, as if it would continue forever, but there is no forever in this world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What seems eternal will inevitably perish, and what seems infinite will inevitably dry up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It should end.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She sighed tiredly, \"Whether it's you or us.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, what sounded from the ruins was the final bell. Towards the Rift Realm, towards the workshop, earth, sky, all creations, towards mercury, issuing the final declaration.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like a dirge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the broken bell tower, the old and cracked bronze bell vibrated vigorously, emitting hoarse calls again and again, calling everything. Following the agreement promised to each other in countless reincarnations, it declared the arrival of the final end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, all things awakened from torture.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first to boil was the ocean...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From under the nine earths, infinite spiritual quality surged, in the deep sea, countless ashes silent like mountains surged, rising again, setting off violent turbulence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clarity and magnificence disappeared, replaced by the irritability and scarlet accumulated for more than four hundred years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They surged, from the boiling, rising upward, countless colors operated from the purest spiritual quality, and in the end, only the scarlet accumulated in the reincarnation of destruction and reshaping again and again!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rampaging, flowing, spreading from the earth, drowning everything in this ocean of pain and despair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the blood-like ocean, countless broken souls opened their eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ah ah, finally...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thank you for your hard work.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Prophet... prophet...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Where, where exactly...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, from the intense dizziness and trance, Ji Jue heard those hoarse voices again, overlapping, scattered and crazy, as if they had lost all reason and logic, but were so persistent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Containing despair, but also... so joyful, happy, as if in the endless waiting and torment, finally welcoming the result.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Wake up, wake up kid!!!】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The blue light of the ghost-work ball splashed on him frantically, maintaining his reason and consciousness, shouting: 【You are bound too deeply with mercury's workshop now, disconnect, disconnect immediately, do you hear me?! Otherwise you will be rolled into it and melted!】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this very moment, Ji Jue was still in the resonance of the workshop, just like a part of the workshop, feeling the wailing coming from the infinite scarlet sea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But before reason and soul were completely melted, everything stopped abruptly, and the operation from the workshop isolated all erosion and impact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Conversely, it shrouded him in it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only nosebleed slowly fell from Ji Jue's face. He gasped with difficulty, raised his head, and saw the gathered iron light, spreading from the void, intertwining, turning into the outline of steel, intertwining into a simple body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, dressed in solemn white clothes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just like the rebirth of the sage in the past, that posture and appearance made the ghost-work ball fall into silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don't worry, you will be fine.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The prophet looked back, the old face full of cracks still as usual, \"It's just a little bit of lingering hatred that doesn't belong to you, no need to be sad for this.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, a high-pitched hiss came from the spiritual quality sea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The huge body like a worm emerged again from the drowned city. The monster that had been chasing behind them and was hungry and thirsty when Ji Jue first entered the Rift Realm, bathed in the blood-colored sea, squirming its body, countless iron shards and tissues fell off from the swollen body, turning into dust.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The distortion began again, but what was born from that broken body was a chain extending infinitely, extending towards the wreckage of mercury above the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shackles, circling, entangling endlessly...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, the second one, from the collapse of the earth, the distorted monster like a giant turtle roared, pain and resentment turned into chains, rising to the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thousands of ferocious strange birds cannibalized, merged, and transformed above the sky, just like a link in a chain, when they buckled together, they entangled on the hands that unfolded one by one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And more, those dying, distorted, or still remaining human creations, bathed in the blood-like ocean, one by one embracing the iron disease that was once feared, shedding their bodies, turning into chains, entangling on the sage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shackling it in this rebellious cage...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And among the collapsed buildings and surging blood water, Ji Jue saw a familiar figure again...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"97?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He whispered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The middle-aged man with deformed arms climbed upward vigorously, towards a higher place. Behind him, one after another, members of the camp followed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he raised his head, he noticed the gaze cast from the hub in mid-air, as if he saw Ji Jue, and waved his hand vigorously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just like saying goodbye, shouting something loudly, but Ji Jue couldn't hear clearly, only saw his smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Relieved and liberated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Full of joy, 97 spread his arms, letting the scarlet spiritual quality flowing against the current swallow himself. From the blood color, his body swelled violently, distorted, and shattered. In the end, he merged into the chains that rose one by one...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thousands of threads, like a rebellious net rising from the earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Entangled on the sage's body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Ji Jue finally reacted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What about the camp? What about the people in the camp?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He staggered forward, grabbed the prophet's collar, and could no longer restrain his anger, roaring and questioning: \"What exactly are you doing! No matter how great the plan is, must you kill them!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Die?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The prophet looked back in doubt, looked at Ji Jue's angry face, and gradually realized: \"So that's it... thank you, Ji Jue, until now, you still treat us as people like you.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thank you for the pity and sympathy you bestowed... but the premise of death is having lived, right?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Do you think we look like we are living?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The prophet asked: \"Do you think we have truly lived?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since birth, everything has been doomed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Operating day after day in the preset trajectory and life, until wear and tear, destruction, and then being recast into a new appearance, thrown into the reincarnation without an end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a tool, everything is justified.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But why be given a soul?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why let us realize what is 'I'?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We are shaped like humans, but we have never thought of becoming humans... living and dying, for us, have never made any difference.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But for tools, living like humans is too painful.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So-called living is like hell.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The prophet looked back, staring at the unrecognizable Rift Realm, \"We were born as part of hell, but even if it is hell, we should be able to freely choose to continue or destroy...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not just me, this is the common decision made by all tools.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—If our world shouldn't have existed from the beginning, then returning to nothingness is the correct answer to everything.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the silence, Ji Jue let go tiredly, but staring at those firm and calm eyes, he couldn't help but ask: \"Prophet, who exactly are you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The prophet was silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Couldn't help but smile self-deprecatingly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A liar who was entrusted with hope by all companions but could not achieve it, a traitor who was poured with a mission by her own master but violated it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An out-of-control tool, that's all.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The prophet answered as such.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another lie.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ji Jue shook his head. But thinking carefully, since they met, Ji Jue really didn't know whether the truth or lies she told him were more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sure enough, one shouldn't believe this kind of riddle-filled god-stick from the beginning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clearly, the answer was placed before his eyes from the beginning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only figure missing in countless broken times, the only important character missing in the town's reincarnation again and again, the only creation that broke away from the original trajectory and settings, and decided her own life and future without authorization.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is she a puppet crowned with the name 'mercury'?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or, after inheriting mercury's memory and obsession, the workshop core entrusted with a heavy responsibility?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps, there is also the gathering of all broken souls and obsessions in the Rift Realm...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She is everything itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is the Heaven-Given Forging that mercury performed unconsciously at the end... after gathering all the causes, another result born from this endless magnificent alchemy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Heavenly Craftsman known as the Prophet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And now, the authority and power to decide everything have appeared from the prophet's hands. The supreme power to control the workshop, control the Rift Realm, and interrupt pain and reincarnation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The flowing mercury slowly rose from the ground, turning into a slender and concise scepter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just like that, held up carefully.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Delivered to Ji Jue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Remember our previous agreement, Mr. Ji Jue.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The prophet asked softly: \"Now, in the bottom-level judgment instructions of the workshop, you, who have inherited fluid alchemy and Non-Aggression, have the same authority as mercury, enough to make the decision that a tool like me can never make, and issue instructions... are you still willing to bestow mercy on us non-human things?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For four hundred years, day after day of torment and waiting, endless repetition and reincarnation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Started to look forward to and wait from the moment the creation calling herself 'Prophet' was born.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Outsiders came one after another, died, or left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Never cast any gaze on these puppet creations, nor poured any care into this poor and broken Rift Realm...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until she noticed the door of the present world open again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A soul that had never existed before emitted a faint flash from the gloom, but it was so dazzling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only outsider who would sincerely pity creations and bestow mercy when facing suffering and temptation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not just the furnace that generously gifted everything after activation, any creation, when sensing the essence of the machine god's descent, would offer rewards and gratitude from the heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If you didn't sincerely treat those ignorant machines and creations as companions, how could you be moved by the wailing of mere puppet creations?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, she had already seen it from the tears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dawn of the end she dreamed of.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What we long for is not so-called freedom, nor a painful life like a human, just returning to silence, as a tool, welcoming the end that should be.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The prophet lowered her head, begging humbly, towards the controller she chose, the master enough to preside over the workshop, offering everything: \"Please let them be liberated.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Please, let her be liberated...\" \u003C\u002Fp>",2053,"2026-06-17T22:21:51.502Z","2026-06-18T03:18:02.290Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","71dc8a89e0c927cb5023d879f699fb917144fbb9d478d2ff1347d6de4602fd18","above-destiny-chapter-93","above-destiny-chapter-91",461,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fabove-the-heavenly-fate-cover.jpg"]