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

The last wisp of pale soul fire merged into the rift.

Li Changgeng's skeletal remains completely dissipated, and the Primordial Purple Qi transformed into countless rays of light, stitching together the wounds between the past and the future.

The snow started falling again.

Su Chang'an lowered his head to examine the array diagram.

The earth's veins receive the death energy, the moon's phase seals off the extreme evil, and the future array's core shares the karma spanning three thousand years. The three hundred and seventy-two chains still pierce the ancient celestial fox's flesh and bones, but no longer compress all the calamities of the nine provinces into her body alone.

Crimson and moon-white patterns flowed along the lock's body.

A chain is still a chain.

But it is no longer a grave that exists solely to bury her.

Su Chang'an withdrew his hand from the frozen ground and put the warm, moonlit jade slip into his sleeve.

She looked toward the center of the Black Stonehenge.

The ancient celestial fox unfurled its nine tails, protecting the young Li Changgeng within them. The young man's eyes were tightly closed, his palm still pressing down on the blood-stained iron sword, and the extremely evil black markings on his chest had already subsided.

"I will personally take this body from three thousand years in the future."

Su Chang'an spoke through the swirling snow.

"The chains you left behind will never become anyone's grave."

Gu Tianhu looked at her.

On that face, so strikingly similar to hers, there was neither the relief of having entrusted her last wishes nor the weariness of waiting for someone else to clean up her mess.

She simply raised her fox tail to shield the boy from the wind and snow.

"Go."

"Go and live your own life."

Su Chang'an twitched the corner of his lips and turned to walk towards the closing spacetime rift.

The moon-white array patterns beneath my feet are fading.

The repulsion from the past returned; her hands became transparent first, followed by her arms and shoulders. The wind and snow swept through her body, and even her shadow on the ground gradually disappeared.

Not just the physical body.

Her name, origin, and memories are also being pushed outward by history from three thousand years ago.

Su Chang'an did not unlock the full extent of his cultivation.

She gripped the Jade Slip of Oblivion in her sleeve, using the thin, moon-white line left by the future array's eye as a coordinate, and waved back at Gu Tianhu.

"Keep a close eye on that kid."

"If you dare to teach him to die in someone else's place again, I'll curse you too when I get back."

Gu Tianhu wasn't angry; instead, a hint of a smile appeared in his eyes.

Su Chang'an didn't linger and stepped into the space-time tunnel, which was now just a thin thread.

The wind and snow closed in behind them.

Everything from the past is now on the other side.

However, she had only taken half a step forward when the pale soul fire left behind by Li Changgeng was completely extinguished.

Click!

The last passage was closed on the spot.

There was no Central Continent ahead, nor the ruins of fallen gods, only layers upon layers of turbulent time.

Su Chang'an's body was swept into the fault line. The Taiyin Moon Amber had just emerged from between his brows when it was suppressed back into his sea of ​​consciousness by the chaotic laws of spacetime. The Nine-Tailed Ancestral Source also could not fully manifest due to the paradox of the shared origin of the past and the future.

Dozens of blades of time grazed past her.

The sleeves turned to ashes.

She raised her right hand and watched her five fingers gradually fade into the distance.

"Even with the roads repaired, people still manage to forget about those returning home."

"Li Changgeng, you've really made being a quasi-emperor a breeze."

The forces of historical revisionism are pressing in from all directions.

The threads of cause and effect she left in the future are being severed by an invisible blade.

The roast chicken from Zuixianju.

The broken sword sealed in the cave.

The little fox in Yunmengze's palm.

Scenes emerge one by one, only to be crushed by the storms of time.

Just as the last few causal links were about to be severed, three Taiyin Ice Crystals suddenly appeared deep within the turbulent currents.

Inside the ruins of the Fallen God in Zhongzhou, Gu Xiang, Chen Xuan, and Bai Yin are still sealed inside.

The surface of the ice crystals was covered with blood-red cracks.

Gu Xiang's righteous energy transformed into golden characters, constantly striking the ice layer. Chen Xuan's remaining killing intent slashed at the void time and time again. Bai Yin's Geng metal baleful energy transformed into tiger claws, tearing at every crack in time.

The three forces collided with each other.

Even in their deep sleep, they still vied to find her.

However, with each collision, the light of destiny emanating from the three of them dimmed a little.

The teasing look on Su Chang'an's face disappeared.

"The person I went to such great lengths to protect."

"Let anyone who dares to die try."

She raised her hand to activate the Taiyin Moon Amber.

The moonlit cold tide had just spread when it was torn open by turbulent currents. Yue Po could only barely protect her alone and was unable to simultaneously lock onto the coordinates of three locations in the future.

If she releases the complete essence of the Celestial Fox, she will overlap with the ancient Celestial Fox from three thousand years ago.

Heaven will not give her a second chance to deceive people by sealing her vital points.

To save myself would mean losing three others.

Even if she saves three people, she may be completely erased from the timeline.

The blade of time pierced through the cold moonlight, aimed straight at her brow.

Su Chang'an did not retreat.

Just as the blade was only half an inch away from her brow, three causal marks suddenly lit up in her palm.

It was the cyclic array pattern left in her body after the three tribulations of Han Yuan.

Su Chang'an glanced down and suddenly smiled.

"We almost let this broken Heavenly Dao lead us back to the old ways again."

She flipped her five fingers, and the Nine-Tailed Calamity Array spread out from her palm.

This time, she will not tear open the river of time alone.

She broke down the cause and effect of her return to the future into three strands.

The first wisp of light pierced through the rift of time and fell into Gu Xiang's exquisite heart, which held seven orifices deep within.

The second wisp of killing intent, following the remnants of Chen Xuan's broken sword, pierced deep into the ice crystals.

The third wisp of light pierced through the turbulent currents, illuminating the fox mark on Bai Yin's heart.

The three ice crystals trembled simultaneously.

Su Chang'an clenched his five fingers.

"Don't rush to fight over what you owe me."

"Work together to pull me back!"

In the ruins of the fallen god, the Seven Apertures Exquisite Heart within Gu Xiang's body burst forth with golden light.

The righteous energy burst through the ice crystals, transforming into chains of golden characters that pierced through the time rift and wrapped around Su Chang'an's waist.

The broken sword fragments beside Chen Xuan vibrated simultaneously.

The dark sword intent no longer attacked the other two, but instead followed the direction indicated by the Nine-Tailed Tribulation Array, cleaving through the turbulent currents of time blocking Su Chang'an's path.

Roar!

The fox mark on Baek In's chest lit up.

The malevolent energy of Geng metal condensed into a giant white tiger claw, gripping the two ends of the fault that was about to close, and forcefully tearing open a path for return.

Golden chains pull, killing intent clears the way, and the malevolent energy of Geng metal supports the gate.

The three forces, which were originally destined to fight to the death upon meeting, connected end to end for the first time along the Nine-Tailed Calamity Formation.

"That's more like it."

Su Chang'an raised his hand to protect his brow and used the three forces to rush forward.

The blade of time sliced ​​through her shoulders and back, the blood being washed away by the storm before it could even flow. She didn't look back, but followed the three increasingly clear causal coordinates, bursting through the time rift in one step.

boom!

The ruins of the fallen god in Zhongzhou suddenly trembled.

Su Chang'an fell from mid-air, his knees slamming heavily into the rubble, cracking the ground in a large, spiderweb-like pattern.

The moon's ice crystals resonated in unison.

Three heartbeats, which had been silent for a long time, sounded one after another.

The blood-red spatial rifts that remained above Zhongzhou also extinguished one by one as Li Changgeng completed the repair.

Su Chang'an did not check his injuries.

She raised her hand and summoned the Moon Amber, pressing it into the center of the three ice crystals.

"Three kalpas in one place, turn!"

The nine-tailed array pattern spread out, simultaneously drawing out the residual effects of time from within the ice.

The Phoenix True Fire within Gu Xiang's body ignited first, spreading along her meridians throughout her entire body, burning away the decaying, deathly energy left by the erosion of time.

Within Chen Xuan's sea of ​​consciousness, the dormant killing intent of the sword re-condensed.

The sword's edge sliced ​​through the spine and heart meridian, severing the remaining laws left behind by the Nine Nether Refining God Array after it extracted the sword bone.

The fox mark on Baek In's chest lit up.

The malevolent energy of Geng metal no longer ran rampant, but under the guidance of the Tribulation Array, it repeatedly ground down the demon core, crushing the uncontrollable hidden dangers left by the extremely malevolent destiny.

The crimson cracks on the surface of the three ice crystals gradually faded.

The light of fate for the three people stabilized again.

The long-silent system notification sound finally rang in Su Chang'an's mind.

[The main quest of defying fate has been completed.]

The fates of Gu Xiang, Chen Xuan, Bai Yin, Li Changgeng, and Gu Tianhu have completed their rescue loop.

[Cumulative rescue points have been calculated.]

[The Nine-Tailed Ancestral Source, Nine-Tailed Tribulation Technique, and Taiyin Moon Amber rules have been detected and are complete.]

[Final Access Unlocked - Nine-Tailed Fox's Three Bodies in the Mortal World.]

A moon-white light curtain unfolded.

Su Qing.

Su Xiaojiu.

Su Chang'an.

Three figures appeared one after another.

[The three bodies in the mortal world share the memories and perceptions of the main soul, but each possesses an independent physical body, destiny, and life.]

[Once the avatar dissipates, it will no longer be forcibly retrieved, nor will it affect any other destinies.]

The three bodies are not substitutes, puppets, or sacrificial offerings.

[Their lives are chosen and continued by the hosts themselves.]

Su Chang'an stared at it for a long time.

The former incarnation was a mission, a deception, and a dead end that would dissipate once used up.

Now, they can finally live to see the end of their respective lives.

"At least this time they gave us a reward that people could actually use."

Su Chang'an waved his sleeve.

The three lunar ice crystals melted from the outside in, turning into scattered points of moon-white light.

Gu Xiang was the first to regain consciousness.

Before his eyes were fully open, his hand was already reaching out to her.

"Qing'er..."

Bai Yin followed closely behind, grabbing Su Chang'an's sleeve, his voice hoarse.

"Xiao Jiu".

Chen Xuan was the most seriously injured.

He opened his eyes but didn't speak. He only made sure Su Chang'an was still standing in front of him before gripping her wrist tightly with his fingers.

Three gazes collided in mid-air.

Just as the righteous aura, the killing sword intent, and the Geng metal baleful aura were about to rise, Su Chang'an pressed them down with a palm.

The Celestial Fox's essence crashed to the ground, suppressing all three of them back to their original positions.

"All of you, lie down properly."

"Li Changgeng's debt has been settled, so let's not settle your old scores for now."

The three of them fell silent at the same time.

Su Chang'an looked at the three faces that had survived the ordeal and gradually reduced the pressure on them.

"Survive first."

"I will repay you one by one the lives I owe you."