Chapter 1588
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Chapter 1588 Heart Barrier Tribulation
In the sky above the ruins of the Celestial Court, a rift in time suddenly tore open.
A gray-white figure fell to the ground. When Left Qing and the others saw this scene, they were stunned at first, then immediately stumbled forward, supporting themselves with broken wood.
“Is that Wang Mian?” Wu Laogou asked in confusion. “Didn’t he go back to change history? Why is he falling from the sky?”
Left Qing frowned deeply, bending down beside Wang Mian. Just as he was about to examine him, the latter began to cough violently.
“Cough, cough, cough…”
“Wang Mian, why did you come back? What happened?”
“It was An… cough, cough… An Qingyu.” Wang Mian weakly sat up from the ground, raising his head to look at the gradually closing rift in the sky. “He stood at the end of that timeline, warning me not to touch that line… then he used time to push me back.”
“An Qingyu?”
Left Qing’s frown deepened.
An Qingyu was the Gate of Truth. He could utilize part of the power of truth, which naturally included control over time and space… meaning that as long as the future An Qingyu guarded the timeline, they wouldn’t be able to change this part of history?
What was he thinking?!
As Left Qing was deep in thought, three streaks of light flew in from the distance. Wu Laogou beside him brightened up.
“It’s the Celestial Venerables. The three Venerables have returned.”
In the sky above the Celestial Court, the silhouettes of three Daoists appeared.
When the Moral Venerable saw the Celestial Court reduced to ruins beneath his feet, his chest heaved violently, and murderous intent poured from his eyes.
“The Celestial Court… [Chaos], that beast!”
The Primordial Venerable frowned as he sensed the situation for a moment, his expression relaxing slightly: “Fortunately, there aren’t many casualties, only the palaces and some places nurturing celestial treasures were destroyed… let’s quickly save people.”
The Primordial Venerable and the Moral Venerable rushed down to the Celestial Court to rescue the fallen gods of Great Xia and human ceiling experts. The Treasure Venerable stood alone in the air, looking down at the devastated Celestial Court, his fists involuntarily clenching…
In the mist, [Chaos] and An Qingyu had appeared together, which meant… An Qingyu was also involved in this scene at the Celestial Court?
Just as the Treasure Venerable was about to descend to save people, his peripheral vision caught something, and confusion appeared in his eyes!
His form transformed into a streak of light, landing directly around the void in the Celestial Court. Scattered yellow sand floated above the void with the wind. The original ground here seemed to have been forcibly turned into sand, piercing through the Celestial Court.
“It’s him…” the Treasure Venerable murmured.
Only An Qingyu’s ability to deconstruct all things could accomplish this!
The Treasure Venerable bent down and picked up a broken knife handle from the ruins of the palace. He was very familiar with this handle; it belonged to a Night Watchman’s standard straight knife, but the blade had mysteriously disappeared.
He turned the handle over. At the very bottom of the handle, two characters that had been carved on it were clearly visible:
—Cao Yuan.
The Treasure Venerable’s pupils contracted slightly.
…
“Still haven’t found Seven Night?”
Zhou Ping, carrying a blood-stained sword on his back, walked to Left Qing’s side and asked worriedly.
After the three Venerables returned, the Moral Venerable had used medicinal pills to save many of the severely injured and dying gods of Great Xia. Most of those with less serious injuries had also regained their mobility.
The destroyed palaces could be rebuilt, and the shattered Celestial Court could be repaired. These were not difficult tasks for the skilled gods of Great Xia. But strangely, despite searching for a long time, the gods and human ceiling experts couldn’t find Lin Qiye’s soul in the ruins.
Left Qing shook his head. “No, but now that the Venerables are back, finding him shouldn’t be difficult…”
Before Left Qing could finish speaking, the Primordial Venerable’s voice penetrated the void and reached his ears.
“Found him.”
Left Qing’s eyes brightened. Supporting himself with the broken wood, he quickly headed toward the Primordial Venerable’s direction, with Zhou Ping following closely beside him.
They arrived in front of the ruined Lingxiao Palace, where the Primordial Venerable stood quietly among the debris. There was nothing around except for rubble.
“Where is Lin Qiye?”
The Primordial Venerable didn’t speak, but simply raised his head toward the only remaining section of the palace roof, where a blurry figure stood motionless, staring into the distance like a stone statue.
“What is he… doing?” Left Qing asked in confusion.
The Primordial Venerable looked at Lin Qiye with a complex gaze. After a moment, he slowly uttered two words:
“Heart Barrier.”
“Heart Barrier?” Zhou Ping asked puzzled. “What’s that?”
“…” Left Qing directly ignored Zhou Ping’s question, his brow immediately furrowing. “He’s breaking through the Heart Barrier? But doesn’t he only have a soul form?”
“Heart and soul are interdependent. Even without a physical body, the Heart Barrier still exists,” the Primordial Venerable explained. “After his soul drifted down, he must have seen something on the palace roof that triggered the ‘Heart Barrier’ to descend…”
Left Qing seemed to realize something, his lips pressing together slightly.
He knew clearly what had caused Lin Qiye’s Heart Barrier. An Qingyu’s betrayal and Cao Yuan’s death—either of these events alone would be enough to cause a tremendous impact on his mind, let alone the fact that it was An Qingyu who had killed Cao Yuan with his own hands.
He had planned to conceal the connection between these two events after Lin Qiye regained consciousness, only saying that An Qingyu had been taken away by [Chaos] and Cao Yuan had died in battle… but he never expected that Lin Qiye’s soul would be on the roof of Lingxiao Palace, witnessing everything.
As the captain of the [Nightfall] team, watching his most trusted vice-captain betray him and kill Cao Yuan—how great a shock must that have been?
“But even if he’s breaking through the ‘Heart Barrier,’ it should just be a momentary emotional fluctuation. Why is he frozen in place like this?” Left Qing asked in confusion.
“When a soul is forcibly ejected from its body by external forces, it’s like a drifting weed without roots, in a state between dream and wakefulness. He can see everything happening in the outside world, but his consciousness is blurred, only able to generate some instinctive emotional responses from deep within.
For ordinary people encountering the ‘Heart Barrier’ bottleneck, a moment’s emotional fluctuation is enough to step into the ceiling realm. But in his current state, that’s not the case.
A fragile, blurred consciousness encountering an unprecedented strong emotional fluctuation will instantly destroy his rationality, as if trapped in an eternal nightmare, sinking into the impact of the ‘Heart Barrier.'”
Left Qing was stunned for a while. “You mean… he’s trapped in the ‘Heart Barrier’?”
“Correct.”
“Then what should we do?”
The Primordial Venerable shook his head helplessly. “The tribulation of the ‘Heart Barrier’ can only be overcome by oneself. Perhaps this is the predestined tribulation in his fate… All we can do is recreate a physical body for him and guide his soul into it.”
“Like when you recreated a body for me?” Zhou Ping pondered thoughtfully.
“So, does the Celestial Court have a suitable body?”
The Primordial Venerable thought for a moment, then sighed helplessly, turning to walk toward the distance:
“This poor Daoist must go retrieve something…”
