Chapter 2577 Taboo Power

As time flowed and fate interwove with it, the starry sky seemed to be trapped in a strange cycle. Everything was withering, sinking, and being annihilated.

Evil God Dishen only saw a pure whiteness in front of his eyes, and an unspeakable fear surged in him. The power of time and fate was like a torrent, sweeping all into the unknown abyss of time and space.

Light and shadow flowed in front of his eyes, and scenes emerged, all of which were everything he had experienced in the past. There was the excitement and joy from when he had first embarked on the road of cultivation, pure happiness and triumph every time he had broken through to the next realm, and the memories of the hardships and dangers of when he proved his dao...

The past joys and sorrows, the past grievances and blood feuds, his deceased old friends and enemies... Images passed by his eyes, and then they withered and shattered before disappearing without a trace.

Evil God Dishen choked when he saw a beautiful figure that resembled something out of a painting. He struggled desperately, trying to catch it. Unfortunately, this scene was ruthlessly splintered and vanished before him

"No!" He held his head and screamed, his face full of pain.

That was his most beloved woman, but at this moment, he found that everything about her had been erased from his memory. Her name, preferences, temperament, even her voice, smile, every bit...he could not remember it at all!

In the end, his face was full of confusion, and the pain in his heart had disappeared, as if everything just now had never existed. Scenes continued to emerge, pass, wither, and dissipate...

The fear within him continued to grow stronger and stronger. He now realized that those lost scenes were all his original experiences and memories! Now, they were being deprived from him and then destroyed by a terrifying force!

"Why, why..." Dishen struggled frantically, roaring like a beast.

This was too frightening! It was like falling into an abyss of time and space. Everything he had in the past and present was disappearing from him, including his cultivation, life span, memory, wisdom, mind, and the dao of endless years...

They were all evaporating! It felt like countless years had passed, but at the same time, it seemed like only a moment had passed as well.

Everything in front of him disappeared. The cosmos, cold and vast, reappeared. Dishen stood there in a daze, his expression full of confusion.

Then, he saw a man and a woman. The woman was dressed in a black robe, with a graceful figure. Even though her face was covered by the brim of her hat, there was still a sense of thrilling, mysterious beauty coming off of her.

She was coughing up blood. The man was panting heavily, his face was pale and transparent. His aura was weak, and his eyes were dim.

At this time, both of their eyes were fixed on him, making him feel uncomfortable all over. He couldn't help but ask, "Who are you, and where am I?"

The voice that came out was childish.

Xia Zhi stared at the childlike Evil God Dishen for a long time before she asked out of confusion, "How could he become like this?"

"Isn't this better for us?" Lin Xun took a deep breath, his voice hoarse and full of satisfaction, "An old bastard who has lost his memory, cultivation, and lifespan, and had been reversed back into his childhood. Now he probably doesn't even know who we are."

He gazed at Dishen with a strange and shocked expression. If his hunch was right, then this was the incredible power that was generated by the fusion of the mystery of time and the mystery of fate!

It was like the torrent of fate, going back in time, depriving those affected of their cultivation and memory, and sending a person back to their state before they began cultivating! This was no different from a completely taboo power!

This reminded Lin Xun of the third stage of his innate power, Blade of Time, that had been used by the Omega Lord! A long time ago, Luo Tongtian had used this magical ability to send Wei Mingzi back to his youth in one fell swoop, and his cultivation had also reverted back to his youth.

The fact that an innate ability could reverse time and cut off a person’s attainments in cultivation was incredible!

However, unlike Blade of Time, the power that Lin Xun and Xia Zhi had exerted together just now not only reversed time and cut off Evil God Dishen’s cultivation, but also deprived him of his memories, experiences, and wisdom, making him truly return to his childhood, without all his memories and experiences. It was as if all the strokes on an ink landscape painting had been completely wiped out, becoming a blank sheet of paper again!

This was undoubtedly related to the power of fate! Therefore, how could Lin Xun not be shocked by this? Time and fate were both regarded as supreme taboo grand daos!

According to rumors, only when someone had glimpsed the mysteries of eternity and understood the laws of fate could they stand on top of thousands of daos, understand the wonders of the passage of time, and experience the mysteries of the rise and fall of epochs!

His innate ability was related to the law power of time, and Xia Zhi had been branded with shackles that looked like they came from the law power of fate. Time and fate had actually helped them to overcome a great danger and defeat Evil God Dishen at this critical moment!

All of this seemed incredible. After all, Dishen was a terrifying expert who had killed many Immortals, but even someone as powerful as him could not withstand the forbidden power of time and fate!

"Can you...send me home?"

Dishen, who was now like a child, was quite scared and terrified at this moment. He looked like he was about to cry. He truly was really no different from a young child who was ignorant of the world.

"Go home?"

Lin Xun walked up, rubbed Dishen’s little head, and said with a strange look in his eyes, "Little friend, let me ask you first, what is your name? Where do you live?"

"My name is Goudan, and I live in Big Locust Tree Village in Qilipo," responded the child Dishen timidly.

𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

Goudan?

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Lin Xun's lips twitched, and he almost couldn't stop himself from bursting into laughter. How glorious and terrifying was Evil God Dishen? Yet he had been called Goudan when he was a child?

"Then do you know who I am?" Lin Xun asked.

The child Dishen shook his head and whispered, "I don't know."

Lin Xun sent his consciousness to probe into Dishen and found that he was indeed a child without any cultivation. If he wanted to, he could kill him with just a thought. However, he couldn't bear to do that after facing the clueless child Dishen. After all, he was now a child who had been deprived of everything he had in the past.

"Goudan, when we leave, can I take you with us?" Lin Xun said.

The child Dishen almost cried, "I just want to go home, Big Brother, please, take me home."

Lin Xun sighed in his heart, waved his sleeves, and put away the child Dishen. He stored him into the Limitless Abyss Sword Cauldron where he fell into a deep sleep.

"When we reach the Eternal True Realm, we'll find a home for him..." He came to a decision.

At this moment, Xia Zhi's figure shook, and she seemed to be unable to hold on. Lin Xun's heart tightened, and he stepped forward and hugged her immediately. Unfortunately, his hands became covered with blood.

Only then did he realize that while Xia Zhi was covered by the black robe, there were countless fine spider-web-like cracks on her, which had long caused the robe to become soaked in blood. When he lifted up her hat brim, he saw that her beautiful and picturesque face was even more pale and bloodless, and blood was still flowing from the corners of her lips.

"Xia Zhi!" Lin Xun's heart trembled. He was severely affected by this, and his expression changed drastically.

"I'm fine, I just forcefully broke a shackle in my body, so I got a bit injured," said Xia Zhi quietly as she wiped the blood stains from the corners of her lips. Her voice was still as clear and ethereal as the sounds of nature, but her usually clear eyes had long turned cloudy.

Obviously, her previous desperate attack, which seemed to burn her very lifespan, had actually caused her extremely serious injuries!

"You call this okay!?" Lin Xun felt unspeakable guilt and pity in his heart, and hugged Xia Zhi tightly in his arms, "I am incompetent. Even after cultivating until now, I have not been able to protect you well..."

His voice was low, revealing deep self-blame.

From his youth to now, who knew how many killing disasters Xia Zhi had blocked for him? Now, even though he was a supreme Emperor Ancestor, he still was helpless against a powerful foe. In addition, he had to let her fight for him and get injured for him...

All this was like a knife piercing Lin Xun's heart, making his eyes turn red.

"Lin Xun, this is what I want." Xia Zhi said seriously, "For me, this is a matter of course...don't do this again."

She had noticed that Lin Xun's state of mind was not right, which made her feel an unspeakable kind of discomfort in her heart. She didn't want him to blame himself in regards to what she just experienced. She truly didn't want that.

"This may be natural for you and what you want, but it doesn't work for me!" Lin Xun took a deep breath and gritted his teeth, "Do you remember what I said in the Nirvana of Transcendence? If we fight, we fight together, and if we die, we die together! You must never be as stubborn as you were today, understand?"

Xia Zhi stared at Lin Xun for a moment, and then she lowered her head and hummed. Lin Xun took out many rare and precious medicines and handed them to Xia Zhi, saying, "Heal your wounds first, I will protect you."

"It's useless. My wounds are related to the power of the shackles within me. I can only resolve and repair them by myself," Xia Zhi said softly.

"Since I told you to use them, use them! Even if they can't heal your wounds, they can't be harmful," Lin Xun said unhappily.

Xia Zhi took the medicines and swallowed them one by one to refine them. She had always obeyed Lin Xun's requests.

Seeing this, he also breathed a sigh of relief, took out some pills, and began to swallow and refine them.

During his time in the area outside of Chaotian City and until now, he had ended up using TIme Stopping three times in succession. His cultivation base had long been exhausted and was now extremely weak.

Now that he was finally able to rest and relax, he felt a little overwhelmed. In the starry sky, their two figures were snuggled together, like fish supporting each other, and they both felt an unprecedented peace and stability in their hearts.

One could only realize how hard-won the tranquility of such a moment was after going through incredible hardships and trials.

A long time passed. Lin Xun had recovered over half of his cultivation, but what worried him was that although the cracks along Xia Zhi's body had healed, her aura was still extremely weak. Her usually breathtaking eyes were still dim, as if she had lost her spirit, and there was a pallid gray color lingering on her pale and beautiful little face.

"Xia Zhi, let me take a look at your injuries."

Lin Xun came to a decision. He didn't believe that the injuries caused by the so-called shackles of fate could not be cured! As he spoke, his spiritual consciousness flew out and poured into Xia Zhi's graceful and delicate body.

1. Characters literally mean ‘dog egg.’ Not a nice name. Of note, not nice names were often given to children in the past in order to prevent them from dying prematurely. Kind of like naming your kid ‘silly goose.’ ☜