[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-beyond-the-passage-of-time":3,"chapter-beyond-the-passage-of-time-beyond-the-passage-of-time-chapter-968":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Beyond the Passage of Time",{"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},2345408,4583,"Chapter 968: Immortal Art: The Six Thieves Arise in Delusion","beyond-the-passage-of-time-chapter-968",968,"\u003Cp>Xu Qing’s expression was calm as he stood in the wind and snow, his right hand raised toward the place where Lanyao had vanished, and he gave a gentle grasp!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He grasped the void there, took the traces from there, and summoned the sounds that had once emerged there to return from all directions!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This process was merely the divine authority of sound; to achieve it required a higher level of control!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although Xu Qing’s divine authority of sound had absorbed the authority of the Sun’s musician and had also seized the authority of the Spirit Sound Forbidden Lord, it still had not reached the level where it could plunder sounds from time!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, he had the sundial.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The heavens and earth roared, and the phantom of the sundial emerged at the place where Lanyao had faded away; the gnomon turned, reversing time in that small area!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until Lanyao’s figure appeared once more, and until the only words spoken from her mouth echoed again!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You are courting death.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment these three words reappeared, Xu Qing grabbed them!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Afterward, the sundial blurred and everything returned to normal, but in Xu Qing’s spiritual sense, this sentence, these three words, became a mark!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He sent it into his divine authority!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, the voice of Feng Lintao, along with the howling of the wind, fell into Xu Qing’s ears together!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was also the somewhat eccentric tone of his Senior Brother, as well as the sound of snowflakes falling across the sky!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Furthermore, all things on this snowfield—including exotic beasts, including cultivators, including every sound in the heavens and earth—emerged in Xu Qing’s spiritual sense at this instant!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, relying on this sound mark and his innate qualification of sound, he made an inquiry!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He asked the wind if this sound could be heard!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He asked all things if this sound could exist!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He asked the sky if this sound could be remembered!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He asked the earth where the trail of this sound was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wind blew for ten thousand miles, informing him of where it was heard!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All things were endless, informing him of where the sound had gone!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The firmament had a sense, informing him of where it was in memory, and finally, the earth’s wind and snow informed him of its trail!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was right in the north.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Countless images, countless sounds, the heavens, earth, mountains, and rivers, all things and the wind and snow, all flashed through Xu Qing’s spiritual sense until they locked onto a location inside an iceberg.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The area around that iceberg was hazy, and inside the mountain was an ice cave where Lanyao and Yuedong were sitting cross-legged!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Almost the instant Xu Qing’s spiritual sense locked on, Lanyao’s body shook, and Yuedong’s eyes suddenly snapped open; her expression changed, and she rapidly formed seals and pointed!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Immediately, a surge of emotional fluctuation rose in Xu Qing’s heart, disordering his thoughts, disturbing his sound authority, and moving his spirit!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He severed it instantly!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it was still a step too late, because from this locked-on image, Xu Qing had heard!!! Lanyao’s heartbeat!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This sound, combined with the previous mark!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was enough!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Found you!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Qing spoke indifferently, his right hand raised and grasping toward the void.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Erniu gave a chuckle, likewise raising his hand to grab the trembling soul of Feng Lintao, and then the two of them and the one soul vanished instantly!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Enveloped by Xu Qing’s divine authority of sound, they merged into the void, merging into every sound!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wherever there was a sound, it was a point for his flickering!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And so, in an instant!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Qing, Erniu, and the soul of Feng Lintao crossed an endless distance and appeared at the border between the Yan Yue Profound Heaven Clan and the Northern Boundary of Wanggu; the wind and snow were heavier there, and the ground was no longer snow-covered mountains, but ice peaks!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The chill was biting, as if even life itself would be sealed here!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And among these ice peaks, one suddenly collapsed, splitting apart, and two figures flew out rapidly from within, their expressions both grave as they sped toward the distance!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was precisely Lanyao and Yuedong!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind them, from the collapsed ice peak, Xu Qing stepped out, heading straight for the two women!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He appeared within the sound of Lanyao’s heartbeat, descending into that ice peak!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He saw Lanyao, and he saw Yuedong!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lanyao was as before, except for the panic that filled her face!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for Yuedong, this woman was in the wind and snow, her figure becoming increasingly graceful, with silver wings behind her back reflecting the snow’s radiance!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her skin was white and flawless, like jade grease, and she wore a black, gold-embroidered profound robe, which, combined with her fairy-like appearance as if from a painting, made her look like smoke and mist!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Furthermore, her brows were like distant mountains, light and slender, and her eyes were clear and bright!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was just that in her eyes, which were like clear water, what flowed was not a calm light, but a trace of ghostly radiance!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It must be said that both women were stunningly beautiful; if seen through the eyes of someone lustful, one would likely feel a strange sensation in their heart at a single glance!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, although they were beautiful, in Xu Qing’s perception, beauty and ugliness were unimportant; the people in his eyes were only divided into friends or enemies!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These two were enemies!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, the moment he appeared, Xu Qing did not hesitate at all; his entire body shone with light, a great sun rose in his sea of consciousness, and his whole person seemed to transform into a sun, emitting endless light and heat, rolling toward the two women with terrifying pressure!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this critical moment, Lanyao’s face turned pale, but the ghostly radiance in Yuedong’s eyes became even more dazzling; her hands formed seals, and she pointed rapidly toward Xu Qing!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under this point, Yuedong’s ability was finally fully revealed to Xu Qing!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was an art of using emotions to fluctuate fate; to a certain extent, this was actually a form of authority, and a very special one at that!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, after it erupted from Yuedong, Xu Qing bore the brunt of it; his emotions fluctuated instantly, as if a hand had reached into his heart and mind, stirring up his shock, his fear, his sorrow, and his despair all at once!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like great waves churning, wanting to drown everything!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even more astonishing was that there was also anger within it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This anger was like an origin point!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was an anger of empathy with Yuedong, originating from Yuedong!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Using this as a breach, it sought to collapse Xu Qing’s spirit and sea of consciousness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once the dam broke, Xu Qing’s inner world would be branded with Yuedong’s intent, and Yuedong’s face would be woven into his threads of fate!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if being parasitized!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If this had been before Xu Qing fought Fuxie, facing this ability of Yuedong’s, he would certainly have found it difficult to deal with, requiring him to handle it from multiple angles and attempt to resolve it!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was truly because this method of Yuedong’s was very hard to guard against and extremely troublesome!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, Xu Qing’s authority of erasure was the natural nemesis of Yuedong’s ability.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next instant, the Dao marks in Xu Qing’s right eye suddenly shone, as if an invisible hand had transformed into a power that transcended rules and laws, erasing everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It erased all fluctuations in his emotions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While his own self recovered instantly, an ancient pair of scissors also appeared above Xu Qing’s head!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Crafted from bronze, it exuded a primitive aura, covered in rust, as if it had experienced the baptism of time!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the tip of the blades pointed at Yuedong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He cut fiercely through the air toward Yuedong, and a \"clack\" sound echoed in the void of this ice field!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It severed the emotions, severed the fate, and severed all threads!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if a wind had swept across, causing the ice peaks to shake one after another!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It broke Yuedong’s art!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yuedong’s body shook, bloodshot veins filled her eyes, and the backlash from her broken art caused her internal organs to churn, and a mouthful of blood sprayed out!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her expression was gloomy as she grabbed Lanyao’s arm and retreated at full speed!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Furthermore, during this retreat, a teleportation light shone on her body, as if she were about to flee!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But just at this moment!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the void behind her, Erniu’s figure appeared silently from his concealment, licking his lips, and suddenly erupted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Erniu’s eruption shook the wind and snow in all directions, controlling all the coldness in this place!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And so, at this moment, a \"clack-clack\" sound came from the sky; it was actually freezing!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The void, at this instant, also solidified!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only Erniu, his whole body shining with blue light, appeared with countless overlapping faces in his eyes; a blue bone hand tore out from his chest, carrying coldness, carrying greed, and carrying madness, as it grabbed toward Yuedong and Lanyao!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Qing also stepped forward at this instant!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two of them, one in front and one behind, were about to form a fatal blow!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But just at this moment, a rune shone on Yuedong’s brow; that rune... Xu Qing had seen it before; it was precisely the Great Emperor formation mark that Yuedong had displayed when she tried to seal Feng Lintao that day!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This mark flashed on her body, transforming into layers of ripples like flowing water, rapidly covering her entire body!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It even expanded outward from her as the center, forming a defense!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Resisting the power from Xu Qing and Erniu!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sound of the roar was earth-shattering in an instant!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Erniu’s eyes flickered, his body retreating rapidly under this counter-shock force, but he forcibly twisted his body and charged again... heading straight for the formation, continuing to bombard it!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Qing narrowed his eyes; although his footsteps also paused and his body was swept back a few steps as if by a gale, his figure vanished the next instant, merging into the sound, appearing above Yuedong’s formation, the great sun shining as he suppressed it downward!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A deafening sound spread in all directions!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That Great Emperor formation was not ordinary; it actually blocked all of Xu Qing and Erniu’s attacks, but it was clear that this formation could not last long, and Yuedong inside could not persist for long either!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, her whole body shook violently, and she sprayed blood again; her originally beautiful face now became ferocious!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This formation, while her defense, had also become her cage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Facing the attacks of Xu Qing and Erniu, one could imagine that the moment the formation vanished would be the time of her death!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this critical moment, Yue Dong’s expression turned ugly; after her cold, gloomy gaze swept over Xu Qing and Chen Erniu, she suddenly raised her right hand and pressed it fiercely against the ground!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With this press, the glacial earth outside the array shattered!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Figure after figure actually rushed out from beneath the cracked ice layer!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These figures were experts from the Yanyue vassal tribes of this place; at this moment, every one of them revealed hatred and fury, and within their\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>threads of fate, Yue Dong’s face was shockingly present!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were all Yue Dong’s emotional puppets; the moment they appeared, they feared neither life nor death, rushing madly toward Xu Qing and Chen Erniu!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was not a struggle, but rather... self-detonation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Relying on self-detonation, using death as the price to delay the two!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, Yue Dong herself sat cross-legged, manipulated Xiang Lanyao to sit opposite her, and raised her right hand to press it onto Xiang Lanyao’s brow,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>as if extracting something!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiang Lanyao trembled all over, her expression pained!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet Yue Dong’s aura was rising, and in particular, traces of Dao were rapidly forming within her eyes!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the outside world, following the emergence and self-detonation of those puppets, booming sounds shook the heavens and earth, the firmament rippled, the earth shattered, and countless more cold currents were swept up by the storm, causing this place to become a blur!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, although there were many self-detonations and their power was not weak, it was clearly not enough to completely block Xu Qing and Chen Erniu!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially for Xu Qing, these self-detonations had a negligible impact on his physical body; his body radiated light and heat in mid-air, ignoring everything, and he struck the array where Yue Dong was located once again!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the array rippled violently, Yue Dong, who was inside, stared fixedly at Xu Qing and spoke the first sentence since the battle began!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Humans cannot exist for long because of the six thieves that arise from delusion! The eyes view falsely, the ears hear falsely, the nose smells falsely, the mouth tastes falsely, the body acts falsely, and the mind thinks falsely; in the end, one cannot return to the root! This is the source of the seven emotions and six desires, hence the forbidden art of the immortals.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yue Dong’s voice was low, and the moment her words were spoken, seven-colored light radiated from her entire body, forming a seven-colored storm that swept across the heavens and earth!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Today, disciple Yue Dong, with this art, strips these two of their six desires and severs their seven emotions, to become my puppets.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The backlash of karma and fate shall be borne by Xiang Lanyao alone, daughter of the Great Emperor's bloodline. 'Immortal Art: Six Thieves Arising from Delusion.'\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yue Dong suddenly raised her head; she was shockingly unleashing a forbidden secret art, intending to control Xu Qing and Chen Erniu right here.\u003C\u002Fp>",2306,"2026-06-21T00:45:20.082Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","380360ca9a4a0509fa6171038a7fd893a41503fcdba5c4a5e709ef211f6b9ed2","beyond-the-passage-of-time-chapter-969","beyond-the-passage-of-time-chapter-967",998,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fbeyond-the-passage-of-time-cover.jpg"]