The River of Time, Tracing the Past

The River of Time.

It encircled the Primordial Chaos Cosmos and flowed through future and past. All living beings and all worlds lay within it. This river held infinite Karmic Cause and Effect and infinite Laws.

The River of Time could neither be seen nor measured by anyone below the Pure Yang Realm.

Only those who had attained Pure Yang could sense the River of Time and witness it.

Yet even those in the Pure Yang Realm merely struggled to cross the River of Time. If any existence could transcend it, perhaps it was only one who had attained the realm of Pure Yang that commanded the Dao.

Black Shadow had only just attained Pure Yang. Before he could sense his own Great Dao, before he could brand his True Spirit upon the Primordial Chaos Cosmos and carve his name into a pillar of the Great Dao, Jiang Sheng dragged him into the River of Time.

That meant Black Shadow, newly ascended to Pure Yang, was not yet complete.

"You said Rahu and Li Yang were half a step from Pure Yang, that their Dao Fruits were incomplete."

"Now you've entered the Dao at Pure Yang. But are your Dao Fruit and your True Spirit really so complete?"

As Jiang Sheng spoke, the heavenly eye that represented the authority Qingyan Heavenly Venerable had bestowed on him as the Dao-Guarding Judicial True Lord of the Mountain-Sea Three Realms opened on his brow.

The shattered Talisman of No Taboos in Jiang Sheng's hand turned into a streak of light and entered the heavenly eye, taking shape anew within his sea of consciousness.

A familiar, gentle power began to flow around Jiang Sheng, protecting his body and True Spirit from the ravages of the River of Time.

For beings who had not reached