[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-nothing-is-taboo":3,"chapter-nothing-is-taboo-nothing-is-taboo-chapter-376":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Nothing Is Taboo",{"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},2310761,4514,"Chapter 376: The River of Broken Cycles","nothing-is-taboo-chapter-376",376,"\u003Cp>Xu Yuan saw a deep, distant golden water river, drifting at the end of another world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The golden water in the river was dense and murky, devoid of any radiance, any sense of nobility or splendor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The golden water flowed and churned, evoking only a feeling of “weight, filth.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the lake of Qidou Village, the air boiled with chaos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the water surged forth pavilions, terraces, towers, cloud-bridges, and palaces, upon which stood figures of gods—all entirely golden, yet radiating only intense dissatisfaction, revulsion, hatred, and other dark emotions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet from their general shapes, one could still discern that these were certain celestial deities from ancient Huangming legends!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Why has it become like this?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Yuan was astonished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their entire beings—from divine bodies to robes and treasures—had been dyed the same color, soaked into the same state by the golden water.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was as if… the malevolent forces of the mortal world had infected the living!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the eaves, pillars, doors, and windows of those palaces, golden thorned branches continuously sprouted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some resembled antlers, some coral, some tentacles…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ostensibly noble, yet grotesque.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ostensibly revered, yet brimming with world-weariness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This golden water river existed neither in the mortal world, nor the yin world, nor the turbid realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Yuan did not know what world it was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The palaces and gods seemed to have once slumbered within the golden water river, yet were suddenly awakened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For some reason, they could hear the sounds emanating from the void above Qidou Village.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among those gods, one high above emitted a piercing, disgusted cry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he opened a birdcage beside him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the cage had once been kept, perhaps a parrot or a canary—but what emerged now was a horror beyond description!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its entire body teemed with elements that inspired terror, heart-pounding revulsion, nausea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As it flew out and reached toward the space of Qidou Village, Xu Yuan could not even discern whether what extended forth were claws, tentacles, sensory tendrils, chelae, wings, growths, or fissures…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rongrong, Li Shu, and the others were all snatched across the void into the golden river.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then they sank beneath the water, and not a sound remained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All fell silent once more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the golden water river continued to surge—until it struck an invisible barrier somewhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire golden water river was repelled back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Massive waves rose, drowning the palaces and gods alike.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then the entire golden water river reversed course, returning to its original position.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This strange world seemed to have completed a cycle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It returned to utter stillness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Xu Yuan’s right eye, it gradually blurred and faded, as if the entire world were drifting away, vanishing into the boundless sea of void.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Yuan suddenly realized: those palaces and gods within the golden river, once “awakened,” must endure once more the agony of the river’s reversal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, after being awakened, they harbored boundless revulsion and hatred toward anything that caused such disturbance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They slaughtered them without hesitation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This golden river seemed to be… the river of time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those gods and palaces were trapped within this segment of time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their divine radiance had vanished entirely; only intense malice and hatred remained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Repeatedly reversing, they ultimately collapsed, twisted, and mutated!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those familiar figures… might truly be the true deities of ancient Huangming legends.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The murky, viscous golden water had drowned countless ancient, dark secrets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, with eerie phenomena rampant across the land, although \"Door Gods\" could still protect believers at night,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>one could not help but wonder: had the divine path already collapsed?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But if these truly were the “true gods,” how could they be so easily trapped within a segment of the river of time?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many true gods should possess the ability to freely navigate the river of time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Yuan suddenly thought of another possibility: they had been betrayed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Betrayed along with this segment of the river of time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not only were they trapped—this segment of the river of time had been cut and imprisoned as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a moment, Xu Yuan dared not recall Pi Long.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was even confused: shouldn’t Pi Long have been taken too?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pi Long was also one of the culprits who disturbed these gods.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pi Long slowly sank into the lakebed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Yuan could not understand why.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the things within the golden river reacted only to living beings—why had the entire Qidou Village been snatched away in one claw?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The village contained many inanimate objects.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But since they did not take Pi Long, Xu Yuan was, of course, grateful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not understanding the reason didn’t matter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pi Long was precious; though Xu Yuan had prepared from the start to lose this treasure, preserving it was naturally better.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That patch of space had drifted far and vanished; Xu Yuan could no longer see it with the Yin-Yang Guillotine alone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the golden river reversed, the palaces and gods sank, and calm returned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet suddenly, several bubbles rose gurgling from the water.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed something beneath the surface was conversing, deliberating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gao Guanzi fled in disgrace to the agreed location.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He dashed into the forest and ran without pause.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Using the trees for cover, he sprinted miles without stopping.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind him lay large pools of blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The mysterious entity in the lake seemed uninterested in him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had merely seized Rongrong and the others and dragged them away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even after the lake calmed, Gao Guanzi dared not pause a moment—he ran as if his life depended on it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he reached the place where he had agreed to meet Master Xu, he was utterly exhausted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His wounds had not been bandaged; he had lost so much blood he was half-unconscious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he collapsed, he slowly exhaled, thinking he might be dying…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a daze, he suddenly saw Master Xu’s figure appear before him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Master Xu fed him a pill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He felt somewhat better, but the wound on his neck continued to spurt blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tian Jing looked, then said: “Bear with it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then thin roots pierced his neck, stitching and wrapping the wound shut.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gao Guanzi fainted from the pain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tian Jing did not think his method too brutal; instead, he said: “Fainting is better.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tian Jing’s method was certainly effective.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bleeding had stopped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wound on Gao Guanzi’s forehead was not serious—it had already clotted on its own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While stitching Gao Guanzi’s wound, Tian Jing had quietly “examined” his bodily structure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside his skull was no brain, only auxiliary organs for the ears and a mass of blood vessels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The brain was likely hidden somewhere in his chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tian Jing’s thoughts shifted: this bodily structure bore a resemblance to some malevolent entity in the mountains…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tian Jing understood the principle of “seeing through but saying nothing,” and kept the matter to himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1126,"2026-06-20T12:07:24.624Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","af999fb305daecb324347abaa16e314867c8c6b767a4eb09073148da414ee070","nothing-is-taboo-chapter-377","nothing-is-taboo-chapter-375",413,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fnothing-is-taboo-cover.jpg"]