Seeing that "Desolate" mark, like a ghostly face that seemed both to weep and smile,
Li Qingyue seemed to understand everything.
With obsession as its material, boundless demonic will and Killing Thoughts, the resentment of billions of departed souls, and the vast Dao principles of heaven and earth,
all manner of secret arts had been gathered into a single furnace to forge the Ghost Face Mask before her.
Her obsession, in particular, had pierced through the past, present, and future when the God-Crossing Art became an Emperor Art, forming a River of Time of its own.
Like the ring of a Reincarnation Seal Mark, it cycled endlessly, without beginning or end.
It was almost indestructible.
Now, the Ghost Face Mask forged from it seemed to possess the same power.
Ethereal and illusory, it seemed to exist in both past and future, influencing time and forming its own stretch of causality and years.
It was a strange existence, like a world unto itself.
Everything arose from the Ghost Face Mask.
Thus, once branded with the Ghost Face Mask's mark, everything would be suppressed.
Even the passage of time in this world and the consciousness of living beings would be suppressed.
This was a supreme, mighty power.
A power that turned decay into wonder.
Reincarnation seemed to manifest within it, yet birth and destruction also seemed to intertwine, forming a cycle of space and time of its own.
Born of obsession, Immortal and Undying, it pierced through endless years, eternally unchanged.
Branded upon a living being, this undying power suppressed everything, including the being's consciousness.
Branded upon all things, it carried the supreme power to turn decay into wonder.
It severed the power of passing years, as though refining a supreme divine weapon.
As long as the mark remained, its bearer could