[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-name-that-echoes-through-eternity":3,"chapter-the-name-that-echoes-through-eternity-the-name-that-echoes-through-eternity-chapter-902":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","The Name That Echoes Through Eternity",{"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},2283451,4466,"Chapter 902: Sound Rhythm Thirteen, Sixth Final Realm","the-name-that-echoes-through-eternity-chapter-902",902,"\u003Cp>The news shattered heaven and earth, plunging the entire Governor’s Mansion into silence, as if dead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When they finally regained their wits, everyone stared wide-eyed, unable to believe it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiandragon Pass—the first frontier of the Eastern Region—had been breached?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Ancestral Dragon sent word, written in dragon’s blood—this was the symbol of the pass’s fall—but… how could this be?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How could Jiandragon Pass be breached? We hadn’t even received a distress call—was it a surprise assault?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This sudden thunderclap made every hair on their bodies stand on end, filling them with dread.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the battlefield, things change in an instant—anything can happen—but this piece of news was too shocking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Quick! Send messengers to Jiandragon Pass to verify the intelligence!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After staring blankly, Long Potian snapped back to himself and hurriedly spoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The others also came to their senses and swiftly dispatched scouts to investigate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not long after, news arrived from Jiandragon Pass: the patrol team sent there had only one survivor, who returned and immediately ordered the teleportation array sealed and the anchor point to Jiandragon Pass destroyed!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The news reached the Governor’s Mansion at once; Long Potian received the scout’s report—a horrific, desperate scene: the solemn, iron-blooded Jiandragon Pass, the city that had stood for countless ages, had become ruins of broken walls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Towering walls tens of thousands of zhang high were riddled with horrifying, gaping holes that chilled the soul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the ground were massive footprints, torn earth, and in the void, countless wounds that refused to heal—each hole pulsed with void-destroying power, too dangerous to approach, like vortices capable of swallowing any living thing that drew near.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ground was littered with wreckage and blood—remains of the Eastern Region’s clans, and countless ancient demon corpses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most terrifying of all, the divine dragon statue—the sacred symbol of the Long Yimai lineage—had been shattered, its head broken on the ground, its body torn, its claws snapped off!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Know that this dragon statue was an Immortal-Forbidden Emperor Artifact!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially after being stained with the blood of the Long Yimai, it could unleash power rivaling that of an Immortal Emperor!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet now, this artifact was broken—its imperial power destroyed!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This… what happened?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Long Potian was stunned, unable to believe it; his heart trembled as if shaken. Though border conflicts were frequent, he had never witnessed such devastation in all these years!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiandragon Pass, the Eastern Region’s foremost frontier, had only been breached three times: once during the ancient Battle of Duanjie Mountain—a war among the myriad celestial clans, impossibly distant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The second time was during the Ancient Demon War; the third, a surprise assault fifty thousand years ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And now, a fourth breach had occurred!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Jiandragon Pass was guarded by a Candle Dragon Emperor and nine pseudo-Emperors—how could this…?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Long Potian was dazed; the pass’s fall was dire enough, but the fact that no distress signal had reached them meant the attack had been devastatingly swift.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as their minds reeled, a piercing dragon roar split the sky, extending through the void via a force beyond law—its might dominated heaven and earth, surveyed all realms, emanating from the Ancestral Dragon Court of the Eastern Region.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dragon roar pierced the air and descended upon the Governor’s Mansion, transforming into an Ancestral Dragon Token.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the Ancestral Dragon Token came the command of the Ancestral Dragon Court:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Jiandragon Pass has fallen. The Candle Dragon Emperor is gravely wounded. He leads four pseudo-Emperors and the remaining soldiers of Jiandragon Pass to retreat behind the Baicheng Defense Line, using Zulong City as the base to make a final stand against the Ancient Demons. All cities must mobilize full reinforcements and fight to the death!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The low whisper of the Ancestral Dragon echoed—Long Potian and the others froze. This meant Jiandragon Pass had truly fallen; the scout’s report was true. And the Candle Dragon Emperor—himself an Immortal Emperor—had been gravely wounded. How many battles had passed without his direct intervention? Now he was forced to abandon Jiandragon Pass and retreat to the second line.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What of the Ancient Demons’ spies? Why did we receive no intelligence? Such a massive offensive must mean an Ancient Demon Emperor has moved!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Long Potian’s face twisted with shock and confusion; he knew the elders of the Ancestral Dragon Court wouldn’t sit idle—they’d likely already rushed to Zulong City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The border war had taken a sudden, dire turn—such massive casualties signaled that something monumental was about to happen!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Quick! Mobilize the troops! Teleport reinforcements to Zulong City!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Long Potian gave swift orders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qingxuan nodded, his face grim, sweat beading on his forehead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He swiftly issued commands, but as he arranged troop deployments, figures flashed through his mind—he added instructions to avoid sending those individuals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, this reinforcement mission carried an extremely high casualty rate; some seeds should remain in Longmen City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Outside Jiandragon Pass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the dark of the void, a group of figures stood motionless. Among them, three were towering like mountains, standing still, their presence alone freezing the void, severing time and space, halting its flow as if suspended beyond the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This meant that within such frozen time, one could live eternally.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The place they occupied was the Eternal Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides the three towering figures, a group of varying heights stood beside them. Among them was a slender, elegant figure with cold, piercing eyes—her body bore the terrifying form of an Ancient Demon, yet her eyes glowed like autumn water, bright and captivating; though her gaze was icy, it held a haunting beauty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Xueyao, your return and the offering of the Reincarnation Fragment is the greatest achievement of this campaign!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, one of the towering figures spoke softly, his voice ancient and gentle, radiating both authority and kindness like a venerable elder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Father, it was your support that allowed me to cross the Southern Region and return to our family.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Ancient Demon with eyes like autumn water whispered softly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Li Hao were here, he would instantly recognize her voice—she was Mi Xueyao, the Ancient Demon he once knew.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This child Xueyao is truly rare. Without her, our five clans would never have reconciled. Now, half of the Reincarnation Gate has been reforged. The other five clans refuse to unite—but once we seize the Eastern Region and establish the Reincarnation here, they will come.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another towering figure spoke, his voice rough like stone, yet filled with amusement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The myriad clans of this true world have grown too comfortable. It’s time they feel terror again.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A third figure spoke plainly, his words radiating cold indifference.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Around them, the other Ancient Demons—of varying heights—remained silent. They were the pinnacle of their kind, or members of royal bloodlines.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To the myriad clans of the true world, they felt no mercy, viewing them as pigs and dogs—like a pond of fish: carp, crucian, and pike—mere variations, no real difference.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The Nijing Emperor and Dushí Emperor have already breached the pass. It’s our turn to take the next city. The old Long Wang of the Dragon Court must have recovered by now—be cautious. The Emperor Lords of other realms will likely not stand idle. This is our second declaration of war in ten thousand years!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Ancient Demon with the voice like stone spoke low.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His body was grotesquely bony, unlike other Ancient Demons—he had no flesh, only bone, rough and jagged, some bones sharp as blades.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Along his frame stretched chains, terrifying weapons—iron hooks, saw blades, spikes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Merely his terrifying form induced suffocation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It felt as if one would be endlessly dismembered, plunged into unimaginable agony.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was Xinggu, one of the Ten Royal Clans of the Ancient Demons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beside him stood several Xinggu warriors, smaller but still towering ten thousand zhang high, including a royal bloodline prodigy covered in chains, each end tipped with sharp barbs, his back adorned with curved, spider-leg-like blades that stretched freely—frightening and bizarre.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to the Xinggu, the pitch-black Mi Xueyao was undeniably “delicate and lovely.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a Yanluo, she was the clan closest in appearance to humans among the ten clans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Shatter the Eastern Region!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her father, the Yanluo Emperor, now spoke slowly and deeply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing his words, Mi Xueyao gazed ahead—the pass before her was crumbling, littered with corpses, and the few surviving soldiers still fought desperately, now mere prey for their advancing army.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, for no reason, a figure flashed through Mi Xueyao’s mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The human race… she had once felt nothing toward them, no pity—like other Ancient Demons, she saw humans as insects.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But on the border of a certain Immortal Dynasty in the Southern Region, she had been saved by a human, and lived with him for months… those insects weren’t just screaming and fighting—they possessed noble calmness and composure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking of that boy, she recalled his miraculous cooking—turning Ancient Demon flesh into food that rapidly extracted power and strengthened the soul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After returning home, she sought out countless Ancient Demon chefs—but their kind cared little for cuisine, only for ingredients; for cooking… they valued only the most basic methods.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the royal chefs had refined their skills, yet none could extract soul-enhancing power from Ancient Demon flesh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She later sought human master chefs as well, but none succeeded. The best managed, after years and countless divine herbs, to cook a single Immortal Lord-level Ancient Demon—yet the soul enhancement was barely noticeable… far too inefficient.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, centuries later, she didn’t know where that boy was—or how many Ancient Demons he’d eaten, or how far his Primordial Spirit had advanced.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since the end of the Southern Region campaign, she had never seen him again, lost all trace of him, and returned alone to her family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Perhaps by now, he’s reached the peak of Immortal Lord…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She murmured to herself, an involuntary smile tugging at her lips. Though she knew the boy cooked his own kind, the Ancient Demons despised all other races—and even other Ancient Demon clans—viewing their own as supreme, with little sense of kinship.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps their race was born without emotion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was why they were so strong—why they could sweep through the myriad clans of the true world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Let’s go. Their surprise attack on Jiandragon Pass caught them unprepared—but the next pass won’t be so easy. Fortunately, we’ve already prepared in advance.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another towering figure spoke coldly—he was pitch-black, like a charred corpse, with black flames flickering in his flesh crevices. The flames gave off no heat, yet induced an icy chill—or perhaps extreme heat, so intense one could no longer distinguish cold from fire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Each of you, lead your forces forward!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Yanluo Emperor ordered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The surrounding figures all nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mi Xueyao bowed slightly and said, “Father, I shall go as well!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t take risks. Beware reinforcements from other realms.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Yanluo Emperor said gently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mi Xueyao nodded, then vanished in a blur, speeding toward the front.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Longmen City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Long Dun, seventh floor, first level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the mountain spring atop the peak, Li Hao slowly opened his eyes. His irises were gray-silver, hollow yet seemingly filled with countless flawless silver rays.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Sound…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A century of contemplation on the Ultimate Path, coupled with a decade of seclusion in Longmen City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Li Hao finally attained enlightenment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Dao of Sound—penetrates every seam, enters every crack!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Dao says: the highest good is like water—it benefits all things without contention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Water is the softest, yet when frozen into ice, it becomes the sharpest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And sound is even more terrifying—it can pierce through water, penetrate through rock layers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Something that resists water may not resist sound; sound is rhythm, it is vibration—all things have sound, and once resonance occurs, transmission follows.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Sound and rhythm… pierce all things, pierce the void, penetrate every surface, reaching straight into the depths of the soul!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It enters every crack, penetrates all things—Heavenly Sound Pierces the Void…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Hao murmured to himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before his eyes, a panel prompt flickered into view.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Achieved “Void-Piercing Mindset,” Sound Rhythm Dao elevated to Stage Thirteen!】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The chains lost their restraint; countless insights flooded his heart. Li Hao sat in the mountain spring, yet felt fused with the entire mountain body—the Void-Piercing Way of Sound Rhythm made him sense himself as a sound, capable of piercing all things, piercing heaven and earth, connected intimately with every entity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And this sensation was eerily similar to Transformation into Immortal!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Transformation into Immortal meant the body merging with heaven and earth, consciousness dispersing into the cosmos, maintaining a delicate balance between form and dissolution.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Hao had already mastered the Ultimate Extreme of Transformation into Immortal; under this Void-Piercing Mindset, his perception deepened further, as if the sensation of Transformation into Immortal had been amplified a hundredfold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once, he had faintly touched the deepest reaches of heaven and earth—the towering will.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was the Heavenly Sovereign!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Transformation into Immortal is the peak; the Heavenly Sovereign is the end!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this very moment, as Li Hao attained the Sound Rhythm’s Void-Piercing Mindset, his consciousness merged boundlessly with heaven and earth, like the strongest sound, brushing against the deepest core of the cosmos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had previously barely touched the power of the Heavenly Sovereign, sensing it faintly; now, he felt it truly and concretely—a force deep within heaven and earth, resembling the Dao, yet different from the Daoic power he had sensed on his Path to Heaven.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Dao he had sensed on the Path to Heaven was supreme and exalted, yet seemed to carry emotional life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the Heavenly Sovereign he now felt was like the truth of cosmic operation, the order of all things—cold, supreme, utterly devoid of emotion, solemnly unmoving, unyielding and unchanging.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What… is this existence?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Hao felt a shiver run through his entire body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That Heavenly Sovereign seemed a being equal to the Dao—devoid of emotion, yet terrifying beyond measure.\u003C\u002Fp>",2298,"2026-06-20T02:15:44.384Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","98c3853578125a1879ad8e2f29bd14c1a38c3fb795295c17e442d21550312b4f","the-name-that-echoes-through-eternity-chapter-903","the-name-that-echoes-through-eternity-chapter-901",929,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-name-that-echoes-through-eternity-cover.jpg"]