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

The snow started falling again.

The extremely malevolent black markings on the chest of young Li Changgeng receded into his heart meridian, and his breathing gradually became steady. He still held the blood-stained iron sword in his hand, its blade pressed against the black stone, supporting him as he guarded the center of the formation.

Before the rift in spacetime, only half of Li Changgeng's body remained.

His ribs and spine were stuck between the past and the future, with the Primordial Bone Nails embedded on both sides of the crack, barely blocking the turbulent flow of time.

Su Chang'an did not let go.

She pressed down on the three tribulation formations, examining each inch along the delicate veins of the moon. The formations had connected the Cold Abyss Earth Vein, the Taiyin Moon Phase, and the Nine-Tailed Ancestral Source, and the leaking black energy had been forced back into the ground.

But her fingers quickly stopped.

On the snow, the chains that Gu Tianhu had broken were becoming blurred.

First came the iron hooks, then the locks.

Within moments, the broken chain transformed into crimson specks of light and vanished onto the frozen earth. At the same time, a muffled rumble echoed from the depths of the icy abyss, and large sections of the ley lines that had been suppressed by the chains collapsed, revealing bottomless voids.

Su Chang'an's face darkened.

"Heaven is erasing the consequences of the broken chain."

The ancient celestial fox spread its nine tails, the tips of which touched the remaining chains.

Nine tails trembled.

The other end of the 372 chains, as she sensed, traversed the icy abyss, connecting to the deadly veins throughout the Nine Provinces. Each chain pressed down a piece of history, and also maintained a balance against calamity.

If the broken chain completely disappears, the Cold Abyss will lose its protective object.

Young Li Changgeng will once again become the vessel of extreme evil.

If the Supreme Forgetfulness Sect cannot be established, many karmic consequences three thousand years later will also collapse.

Gu Tianhu retracted his fox tail.

"Chains are both instruments of torture and the skeleton of the death vein of Kyushu."

Su Chang'an gritted his teeth and cursed, "Just because the chains can't be destroyed doesn't mean we have to use you as a substitute."

She looked down at the three separate battle formations.

What Heaven truly wants to preserve is the existence of the 372 chains.

It is not that Gu Tianhu must be punished alone.

Boom!

The nine snow-capped mountains that had stopped collapsing trembled again.

Crimson chains rose from the ground, their shadowy forms piercing the wind and snow, hovering above the icy abyss. This time, the hooks were not aimed solely at the Ancient Celestial Fox.

More than a hundred of them were aimed at the young Li Changgeng.

The other dozens of paths turned towards Su Chang'an.

The dormant black markings on the boy's chest reignited, spreading down his skin and towards his neck. The iron sword beside him trembled incessantly, the bloodstains on its blade gradually swallowed by the black demon.

Li Changgeng, the skeleton, instinctively raised his hand.

The remaining Quasi-Emperor Laws lit up between his palm bones, but he forcibly suppressed them back down.

The bony palm stopped in mid-air.

This time, he did not make a choice for his master without authorization.

Gu Tianhu glanced at him, then walked towards the center of the Black Stone Formation.

"What are you doing?"

Su Chang'an pressed down on the key point of the formation and shouted sharply.

The ancient fox used its nine tails to lift the boy and send him into the protective range of the array's core, while it itself stood under three hundred and seventy-two chains.

"I am not going back to die alone."

She raised her hand.

"It's time to go back and take over the core of the formation."

The blood-red iron hooks fell simultaneously.

puff!puff!puff!

The chains pierced her shoulder blades, spine, and the base of her nine tails once more. Blood flowed down her red robes and into the crevices of the black stone.

Young Li Changgeng clenched his five fingers.

The iron sword slashed his palm, and his arm trembled violently, but he neither cried out nor rushed to stop it.

This was Master's own choice.

He had promised to share the burden with her.

Gu Tianhu straightened up, her nine tails unfolding simultaneously. Instead of shutting down the branching meridians that Su Chang'an had repaired, she used herself as the central hub to connect the ends of each chain to the three tribulation arrays.

"Earth veins connect to the energy of death."

"Lunar phase, sealing the extreme evil."

"The remaining calamity intent has entered my soul."

Su Chang'an pressed down with a palm.

"Stop taking the blame upon yourself!"

The moon-white array patterns climbed upwards against the blood-red chains.

The heaviest death energy sank along the chains into the frozen earth, causing continuous rumbling in the icy abyss, but it did not collapse again.

The most violent and extreme evil was intercepted by the coldness of the Yin, freezing into layers of moon-white ice crystals.

Only the most subtle and difficult-to-remove tribulation intent seeped into the ancient celestial fox's soul along the iron hook.

Two patterns then lit up on the surface of the chain.

Crimson red is the origin of the celestial fox.

The moon's white light is a branch of the Taiyin (Great Yin) energy.

For the first time, the instruments of torture that once pierced flesh and blood were transformed into energy channels to channel the calamities of the nine provinces.

The ancient fox remained in the center of the chains.

But she wasn't completely nailed down.

She unfurled her nine tails, straightened her back, and stood firmly on the black stone. The chains rose and fell with her breath, never pressing her back to the ground.

As Li Changgeng, the Bone Demon, watched this scene, his soul fire flickered.

History has not been destroyed.

Master will remain in the Cold Abyss.

But suffering doesn't have to be repeated exactly the same way.

After several weeks of operation of the three tribulation formations, the black demons in the Cold Abyss gradually fell silent.

Just as all the array patterns were about to close, the one leading to the future suddenly lit up with a blinding blood-red light.

boom!

The fragmented calamity, unable to find its place, surged back along the crack in time. The broken causes and effects between the past and the future collided, transforming into vast, blood-red thunderstorms.

The crack that Li Changgeng, the skeleton, was holding up was torn open.

One of the Primordial Bone Nails fell off and plunged into the turbulent currents of time.

Next, there was the second one.

The chains binding the ancient fox tightened again, the iron hooks dragging deep into its flesh and bones. The calamities that had already seeped into the earth's veins began to flow back along their original paths.

Su Chang'an looked up.

Amidst the swirling lightning, the abyss of Guiyuan Palace, three thousand years in the future, was reflected.

Stone platform.

mutilated body.

And then there's that physical body that inherited the bones and blood of the ancient celestial fox, yet gave birth to a completely new divine soul.

"There is no key point in the future."

Su Chang'an immediately understood the problem.

If this formation had only been established three thousand years ago, the ancient celestial fox would still have been crushed by calamities over the long course of time.

We must leave a point of connection with the same source in the future.

She pointed two fingers at her chest, forcefully opening a vital acupoint.

Taiyin Yuepo rose from its seal and was placed on her brow by her raised hand. The ancestral source of the Nine-Tailed Fox surged out along the fox tail pattern on her palm, locking onto the coordinates of her physical body three thousand years later through their shared bloodline.

Blood Thunder immediately turned towards Su Chang'an.

The nine tails behind the ancient fox also instinctively rejected it.

The same celestial fox's bones and blood should not manifest simultaneously in two different eras.

Su Chang'an did not release his complete source.

She extracted only a thin, hair-like white array pattern from the Taiyin Moon Amber and sent it along the three tribulation arrays into the heart meridian of the ancient celestial fox.

The array patterns entered his body, but they did not change the landscape of the Cold Abyss, nor did they affect the fate of the young Li Changgeng.

It simply went into a deep sleep.

It traveled with the chains for three thousand years, eventually falling into the physical body of the future.

The ancient celestial fox sensed the end of the array patterns.

They also saw Su Chang'an standing there.

She said solemnly, "This is not about entrusting the rest of my life to you."

Su Chang'an pressed down on the key point of the formation, and blood was still seeping from the cracks on the back of his hand.

"It's to leave a door that can be pushed open by itself for this body three thousand years from now."

As soon as he finished speaking, the tributary of the future lit up with a moon-white light.

The swirling calamity aura paused in mid-air, then flowed towards the future along the dormant array pattern.

Deep within the heart of the ancient celestial fox, a faint glimmer of life emerged.

It did not free her from the chains of three thousand years, but it left that physical body with the possibility of breaking free from its withered fate.

With the future array's core set in place, the spacetime rift is widened once again by the causal forces at both ends.

Li Changgeng, the skeleton, looked down at his remaining half of his body.

He raised his bony palm.

The primordial purple energy scattered among the ferry wreckage and the barriers of time and space all rolled back.

"Are you trying to atone for your sins with self-destruction again?"

Su Chang'an said coldly.

White Bone Li Changgeng pressed the remaining Quasi-Emperor Laws into the crack, and his voice became calm.

"It's not about going to one's death."

"It's about patching up the parts I tore open myself."

The primordial purple energy transformed into countless purple threads.

One end connects to the past Cold Abyss.

One end is connected to the future array eye.

In the middle, it passes through a fragmented river of time.

With each inch of stitching, the remains of Li Changgeng's skeletal body dimmed further. The blood-red ferry also completely disintegrated in the purple light, its planks, calamity energy, and remnants of the laws of time merging into the cracks, becoming the foundation for a stable passage.

The ever-expanding crack finally stopped.

Then, it slowly closes.

The causal storms that had accumulated between the past and the future also lost their outlet at this moment.

Thousands of blood-red lightning bolts crashed down.

The entire frigid abyss was stained crimson.

Su Chang'an bit his tongue, forcefully pressing the remaining vital points. The Taiyin Moon Amber fully manifested between his brows, its moon-white light illuminating the nine snow-capped mountains.

She formed a mudra with her hands.

"freeze!"

The moon shines white as a cold tide surges against the sky.

The first layer of blood lightning was frozen.

The second layer of shattered cause and effect was sealed within ice crystals.

The cold wave continued upwards, eventually freezing the entire thunderstorm area into a moon-white glacier hanging over a frigid abyss.

Inside the glacier, thousands of crimson lightning bolts still roam.

The ancient celestial fox unleashed all nine of its tails.

Three hundred and seventy-two chains flew into the sky at the same time, piercing the glacier and cutting the entire thunderstorm into countless tiny tributaries.

"Earth's veins, receive!"

The heaviest lightning tribulation sank into the frozen soil along the chains.

"Lunar phase, seal!"

The violent lightning intent was suppressed layer by layer by the Yin cold light.

"Future Core, receive!"

The remaining cause and effect traveled along the fine veins of moonlight through the river of time, falling into the slumbering array three thousand years later.

Li Changgeng, the skeleton, raised his remaining bone palm.

The Primordial Purple Qi tightened simultaneously, locking the last few spacetime rifts.

Boom!

The glacier that hung across the frigid abyss collapsed from within.

The ice shards did not fall, but instead transformed into countless tiny points of light under the moonlight, scattering into the earth's veins.

The blood-red sky faded away inch by inch.

The nine snow-capped mountains have stopped collapsing.

The extremely evil black markings on the chest of the young Li Changgeng completely subsided, and the constantly trembling iron sword also quieted down.

He raised his head and looked at his master in the center of the chains.

The ancient fox was still pierced by 372 chains.

But she stood ramrod straight.

As the nine tails spread out, the crimson and moon-white patterns on the chains slowly flowed, dismantling the deadly predicament of one person's calamity towards the earth's veins, the phases of the moon, and the future.

The wind and snow resumed their movement.

The lights of Luoyan Town were still shining in the distance.

The dead veins of the Nine Provinces have returned to their original positions, but the karma between the young Li Changgeng, the Supreme Forgetfulness Sect, and all living beings in later generations has not disappeared.

Su Chang'an raised his hand and sealed his cultivation again.

The three tribulation formations under his palm were operating stably.

White Bone Li Changgeng stopped at the edge of spacetime stitched together by the Primordial Purple Qi, his bone palm hanging down, never reaching out to Gu Tianhu again.

Three thousand years of history still remain.

The 372 chains are still in place.

But the old path that had to be borne alone has been rewritten by the three of them.