Transforming into a stunningly beautiful fox spirit, leaving a scar on the heart of a prodigy.

The spacetime inside the cave has become a complete mess.

Gu Xiang gritted his teeth, a trickle of crimson blood spilling from the corner of his mouth. The knuckles of his hands, which were forming hand seals, were a glaringly pale white from the excessive force. The righteous golden shield protecting Chen Xuan and Bai Yin was now emitting a teeth-grinding "creaking" sound, its surface covered with spiderweb-like cracks.

His face was decaying at a visible rate under the indiscriminate erosion of the laws of time. His once upright back was hunching over inch by inch, and his once black hair was falling out, turning as gray as withered grass.

Chen Xuan, protected at the rear, was in equally dire straits. His body flickered wildly between youth and old age, his flesh sometimes plump, sometimes withered like orange peel. It was the river of time forcibly pulling at his lifeline, making him jump back and forth between life and death.

Bai Yin, who had just been thrown back, lay sprawled on the ground. His lower body, with its sandy, dark gold bones, cracked and creaked under the strain of time. Bone dust fell in a flurry, and his breath was extremely weak.

Su Chang'an gripped the Taiyin Sword, her gaze passing over the churning, greyish-white river. Li Changgeng's figure had already been swallowed by the chaotic mist. She didn't pursue him. Because the rock strata above were being annihilated on a large scale.

The destructive pressure of the Nine Heavens Tribulation, like a pair of invisible giant hands, tightly gripped this cavern that attempted to reverse time and space. The will of Heaven to obliterate descended, and the surrounding spiritual energy had no room to struggle, instantly turning into an absolute wasteland.

boom!

Above the heavens, the first bolt of world-destroying purple lightning, as thick as a water bucket, tore through the dome and crashed violently onto the edge of the river of time.

The raging power of thunder stirred up towering gray-white waves of time, like a world-ending tsunami, crashing fiercely against Gu Xiang's crumbling golden shield.

Time is like a dull knife slowly cutting flesh, turning your hair white before you know it. But once the dam breaks, it becomes a bowl of poison that goes straight to your gut, turning even the bone fragments to dust.

Grayish-white waves crashed down.

Gu Xiang suddenly spat out a mouthful of black blood mixed with fragments of internal organs. The great sage's pen in his hand let out a mournful cry, and the pen barrel shattered inch by inch.

The golden aura of righteousness shattered under the impact of the waves of time, turning into countless dim specks of light.

The moment the shields were removed, the terrifying power of time washed over the three of them without reservation.

Chen Xuan's skin instantly dried up and lost all its luster, resembling a dried-up corpse, but his hand still tightly gripped the blood-stained jade pendant.

Bai Yin's remaining dark gold bones began to turn into ashes in large quantities, and the origin of the Asura White Tiger was mercilessly stripped away by the years.

Gu Xiang's vitality was like a candle flickering in the wind, almost completely exhausted, and he had lost even the strength to lift his eyelids.

Outside, the old monsters who sensed the changes in the Central Continent through their remaining energy were all horrified when they noticed the precipitous drop in these three powerful auras.

Deep within the Wang family compound, the Supreme Ancestor's voice trembled: "It's over. Swept up in the river of time, even an emperor would be severely injured. These three are destined to become dust in history."

In the ancestral land of the Ji family, several powerful figures slowly closed their eyes and asserted, "The karmic backlash from heaven and earth has left no chance of survival."

Inside the cave, Su Chang'an's eyes held no warmth, only extreme coldness and resolute determination.

She turned abruptly, her tattered white robe fluttering in the temporal storm. Retreat? That word was never in her vocabulary.

Even if Heaven were to grant them their lives right before her eyes, it wouldn't be possible.

The Taiyin Moon Amber between her brows erupted with an unprecedentedly dazzling, eerie blue light. Without the slightest retreat, her slender body charged upwards against the overwhelming, gray-white tsunami of time.

She stood firmly in front of Gu Xiang, Chen Xuan, and Bai Yin.

Su Chang'an frantically activated the primal power of the Taiyin Moon Amber, pushing the extreme cold laws of this sacred relic left behind by Chang'e to their limit.

A deep blue ripple of lunar energy spread outwards from her center.

Extremely cold.

The terrifyingly low temperature, which even froze space itself, forcibly condensed into a massive ice and frost barrier a hundred feet thick on the edge of the gray-white river of time.

The violently crashing waves of time were frozen solid in mid-air the moment they touched the frost.

The menacing gray-white waves, retaining their surging posture, have transformed into lifeless ice sculptures.

The frost barrier rubbed violently against the power of time, emitting a terrifying freezing sound that sent chills down one's spine. Grayish white and deep blue clashed fiercely within the cave, neither willing to yield.

Those spies and powerful figures from various factions who had thought the matter was settled were shocked to see the intense collision of the celestial energy.

"What kind of power is that?!"

"The laws of time... have actually been forcibly stopped?!"

That invincible law of time, which even emperors had to retreat from, was actually forcibly blocked by an extremely cold force in the Chen family's ancestral land. The terrifying power displayed by the Taiyin Law caused all the onlookers to feel a deep sense of dread.

Su Chang'an stood behind the barrier, his face as pale as paper.

She knew all too well that a simple defensive barrier could not withstand the relentless flow of time. The power of time was inexhaustible, while her very essence would eventually be exhausted.

The cause and effect must be severed.

She decisively raised her right hand and bit her fingertip.

A drop of pure, divinely inspired celestial fox blood oozed out, emitting an alluring fragrance. Without hesitation, she smeared this drop of blood onto the Taiyin Moon Amber between her brows.

Crimson and eerie blue intertwine as the strongest defense inherited from the Moon Palace—"Absolute Zero"—is unleashed.

The laws of extreme cold no longer resist the flow of time outwards, but instead suddenly contract inwards.

Three dense, almost impenetrable, dark blue beams of light shot out from the Taiyin Moon Amber, precisely enveloping the three dying figures behind them: Gu Xiang, Chen Xuan, and Bai Yin.

"seal up!"

Su Chang'an gave a cold shout.

A deep blue ice instantly solidified around the three of them. A series of cracking sounds rang out as they froze, and in the blink of an eye, they were firmly sealed within three enormous Taiyin ice crystals.

Gu Xiang's aged and decaying face, Chen Xuan's frantically flickering lifeline, and Bai Yin's constantly turning to sand all came to a complete standstill under the absolute zero seal.

The Taiyin Ice Crystal perfectly isolated itself from the pull of the river of time.

The passing of life was forcibly paused.

The temporal storms and the power of time raging within the cave scraped across the surface of the ice crystals, producing a harsh friction sound, but could only leave white marks, unable to penetrate even a little.

Su Chang'an single-handedly snatched these three lives from the jaws of the river of time.

The gale gradually subsided, but the thunder still roared outside.

Three ancient, chilling ice crystals stood firmly amidst the shattered obsidian ruins. The people within the ice crystals seemed to be asleep; though their life force was weak, it was no longer fading.

The powerful beings outside sensed the changes in these three auras and fell into a deathly silence.

Those three auras were extremely faint, yet they seemed to be welded to the laws of heaven and earth, never dissipating even slightly. This extraordinary method of forcibly freezing time and ignoring the obliteration of the heavenly Dao instilled in them a deep sense of awe for the white-robed figure.

Su Chang'an flipped his wrist and sheathed the Taiyin Sword.

She stood amidst the chaos, quietly glancing at the three people safely sealed inside the ice crystals.

Chen Xuan still clutched the jade pendant in his hand, Gu Xiang's pen lay broken beside him, and Bai Yin's dark gold bones remained frozen in the moment of turning to sand.

The worries about the future in this world have been completely eliminated.

Su Chang'an's eyes regained their absolute coldness and calm. She turned around, her gaze piercing through the ruins of the cave, and once again falling upon that magnificent river of time that led to three thousand years ago.