A Lowly Divine Envoy Caught in a Tight Spot; Five Declines of Heaven and Man Seeks Light in the Dark Night

'Live... for me...'

'Just... be well...'

Whose voice was that?

And what did it mean? Why was there a thought that did not belong to him lingering on Ai Cangsheng? Had Dao Qiongchang influenced him too, just like Feng Yujin? Or was it Dao Qiongchang in women's clothes?

They really played that wild?

Holding his shield, Xu Xiaoshou retreated above the sea. Only after leaving the range of Thought Deprivation did he listen to the waves and shake his head, flinging off the fog clouding his mind.

"Not necessarily Dao Qiongchang..."

He suddenly recalled the story Li Fugui had told him about Ai Cangsheng.

Before he had become the Great Emperor Cangsheng who protected the Five Domains, when he had first entered the martial world, he met a woman who had likewise just entered it: Lei Xiaoxiao.

The two entered an ancient ruin together, but their endings could not have been more different. Ai Cangsheng obtained the Evil Sin Bow, while Lei Xiaoxiao perished. Before dying, she bestowed upon him the Eye of the Great Dao.

Was that why? Was that voice Lei Xiaoxiao's?

So Thought Deprivation truly did not target "people," but "thoughts"? Within a certain spatial range, no matter how many thoughts existed within a person, whether they belonged to that person or not...

Even across time, depending on the strength of a thought and the depth of its obsession, could a person in the present serve as a vessel for the thoughts of someone from the past to attach themselves to?

"A form of existence like a vengeful spirit clinging to someone?"

Xu Xiaoshou pondered, trying to use that voice—whether it belonged to Dao Qiongchang in women's clothes or Lei Xiaoxiao—to find a way to defeat Ai Cangsheng.

He quickly realized he had been indulging in a