[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-douluo-the-exiled-immortal-descends-sword-and-wi":3,"chapter-douluo-the-exiled-immortal-descends-sword-and-wi-douluo-the-exiled-immortal-descends-sword-and-wi-chapter-316":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Douluo: The Exiled Immortal Descends, Sword and Wine Slay the Gods",{"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},1550439,2014,"Chapter 316 - 316 – The Ninth Form of the Qinglian Sword Song! Time Collides With Time","douluo-the-exiled-immortal-descends-sword-and-wi-chapter-316",316,"\u003Cp>The Lake of Life lay still as a mist-blurred blue mirror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A fish leapt, rippling the surface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Zhexian sat alone on the icy lakeshore, his white robes trailing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ever since glimpsing the shape of time—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had been sitting in meditation for three days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beside him, the Qinglian Sword rested across his knees, its scabbard crusted in frost.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Sword Intent of Time—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>more elusive than wind,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>more ethereal than death,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>more distant than the stars.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time leaves no trace to follow, yet marks everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Visible everywhere, yet never truly seen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Zhexian closed his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chasing after that invisible, formless flow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He tried to grasp it—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>his fingertips met only cold air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He tried to listen—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but all he heard was everlasting silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Frustration began to rise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the fourth day of meditation—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The last snowfall of the winter arrived.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Snowflakes spiraled down, settling on the lake, coating branches, dusting his brows and shoulders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Zhexian did not move.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Letting the snow gather—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until he became a sculpture of ice and white.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the distance—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhu Zhuqing and Xiao Wu watched anxiously as the boy gradually turned into a \"snowman.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They wanted to approach.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But feared disturbing his sword comprehension.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Da Ming and Er Ming exchanged a glance—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>both sighing quietly, both even more awed by him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it had been them—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Given such a difficult path of enlightenment,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>they would have given up long ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...Roar…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger let out a low growl, the mockery in its blood-red eyes slowly fading.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dedicated… should never be mocked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It remembered itself—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alone in the vast Star Dou Forest,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the last of its kind,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>despised by man and beast,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>surviving on carrion as a cub.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But dedication or not—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It still did not believe Li Zhexian could comprehend the power of time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some things cannot be touched by effort alone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within the spiritual sea—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Li Zhexian's spiritual sea—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The round face of the Skydream Ice Worm showed humanlike shock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If I, back then…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Had even half of Brother Zhexian's drive to grow stronger…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If I hadn't been so lazy and slept all day instead of cultivating offensive abilities—would I have been imprisoned by the Star Dou Spirit Beasts?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Maybe I'd already have a kid with the Ice Empress by now!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While others were lost in their own thoughts—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Zhexian remained unaware.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was immersed in a special state.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though his eyes were shut and his body buried in snow—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>his spirit drifted with the falling flakes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A six-petaled snowflake drifted out from among the countless others, descending toward the top of his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And in his perception—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its descent suddenly became extremely slow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Slow enough that he could see every refraction of its icy facets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Slow enough that he could hear the faint tremor of the air being cut.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Slow enough that he felt he could see its entire life—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Condensing in clouds, growing in the wind,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>falling while witnessing the vastness of heaven and earth,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and finally heading toward a silent end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And that end—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was about to occur upon his forehead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that instant—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A clear comprehension struck him, like lightning breaking open his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Time is the eternal—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All living things scramble helplessly across its boundless mirror.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He murmured:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The first snow touching plum branches…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the dusk snows drowning deserted walls…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such sword dao—merely sand slipping between fingers.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not far away—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The meditating Dark Demon Evil God Tiger suddenly lifted its head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its blood eyes surged with disbelief as it stared at the snow-buried youth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This aura… impossible!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Da Ming and Er Ming, though less sensitive to the power of time than the Evil God Tiger,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>still stared wide-eyed at the snow-covered figure—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>whose presence was suddenly hazy, as if he no longer belonged to this timeline.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within the spiritual sea—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Skydream Ice Worm shrank back in terror from the Qinglian Sword that pulsed with destructive, annihilating power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh my heavens—he's going to tear the place apart!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your Martial Soul True Body is sealed inside the sword shrine, yet it's still leaking power this terrifying?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Brother Zhexian—did you really comprehend the power of time?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amid the drifting curtain of snow—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Zhexian slowly opened his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no white nor black in them—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>only the vast reflection of an ancient frozen river,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>within which the rise and fall of the world played out with the passing of ages.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At almost the same instant—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The falling snowflake finally touched his hair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Zhexian raised two fingers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The snow on his body shattered away, and with a motion so light—so gentle—he flicked toward the empty air before him…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No sword qi erupted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No wind roared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only the snowflake—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if lifted by an invisible hand—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>rose upward along the exact path it had descended, reversing its fall step by step.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It ascended through the frozen wind, through the dancing snow, past the branches and the frozen lake—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>rising and rising—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>until it disappeared into the lead-gray clouds,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>as though it had never existed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was as if an unseen string had been plucked—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>reversing the flow of time for an instant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wind and snow continued at the lakeside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Zhexian lowered his hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He gazed at the Qinglian Sword before his knees, his fingers brushing its icy carvings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His voice echoed clear like sword-song, cutting through the late-winter stillness:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A sword can cleave mountains—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but cannot sever the mark of flowing time.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Only when the heart transcends all things\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>can it reverse a feather of time's passage.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Qinglian Sword Song, Ninth Form—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A Thousand Autumns Depart.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Complete.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After four months, Li Zhexian had finally succeeded in comprehending the sword.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Da Ming and Er Ming brought out their treasured delicacies, setting up a grand feast rarely seen in the outside world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Heh, Brother Zhexian—try this spirit-flower honey!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Er Ming carefully held up a wooden stump, proudly saying:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There's a ten-thousand-year old bear on the east side of the forest that just woke from hibernation!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I asked to borrow some honey, but it wouldn't share. So I gave it a couple punches to make it honest!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Zhexian peeked inside the stump.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was filled with viscous, golden liquid that gleamed like molten amber.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A sweet floral fragrance lingered at his nose, making his mouth water.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He tasted a drop—his mouth filled with rich sweetness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Zhexian nodded repeatedly, giving a thumbs-up:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A delicacy beyond the mortal world!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Rrhh…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger approached.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Er Ming's beast eyes widened instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You want some too? Get lost!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Zhexian chuckled and ladled a bowl of mountain-treasure soup for the tiger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now that he had mastered the Sword Intent of Time—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He no longer had need for the tiger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But truthfully…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The tiger's Spirit Ring and the Evil God Pearl were of little use to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Better to treat it as a mount for now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If war breaks out with the Spirit Empire, it's still a Title Douluo-level combatant.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If it refuses…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then I'll kill it and take the pear.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The meal was joyous and carefree.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And just as they finished eating, Er Ming suddenly proposed something that even Li Zhexian found amusing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Brother Zhexian, since you've mastered Time Sword Intent—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>whose time power is stronger, yours or the Evil God Tiger's?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment he spoke—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Da Ming's deep blue eyes lit up, then hesitated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Power with a time attribute is far too rare.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What happens when time clashes with time… no one can predict.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhu Zhuqing and Xiao Wu quietly listened, sensibly refraining from interrupting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Zhexian stroked his chin and looked toward the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The tiger happened to be looking at him too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their gazes collided—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>within those blood-red eyes, he read two simple words:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not convinced.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At his waist, the Qinglian Sword buzzed with excitement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Zhexian's lips curved upward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Well, shall we clash?\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1325,"2026-06-06T07:17:02.446Z",1,"novelbin.me","e3236bb40be3225f892178ecedb31c1fe35b40c10fdb998746c3a88fc179f734","douluo-the-exiled-immortal-descends-sword-and-wi-chapter-109","douluo-the-exiled-immortal-descends-sword-and-wi-chapter-315",442,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fdouluo-the-exiled-immortal-descends-sword-and-wi-cover.jpg"]