The turbid waters of the River of Rebirth surged on without end, carrying countless phantom souls wailing in agony. Li Wuyang and the other three each displayed their divine abilities, traveling upstream under the protection of Master of Qingwei Temple's purifying Dao Rhyme. Like four small boats amid muddy waves, they struggled onward.
The river water was icy to the bone—not physically cold, but a chill and hatred that pierced straight into the soul. The obsessions of the countless beings drowned here became invisible tentacles that constantly tore at their protective spiritual radiance, trying to drag them into the river for eternal damnation. Stranger still were the various water wraiths—semi-corporeal monsters condensed from dense resentment, shaped like bloated floating corpses or twisted waterweed. They lunged from the undercurrents below, letting out shrieks that bewildered the mind.
"Guard your minds! Do not listen, do not look!" Master of Qingwei Temple barked. With a sweep of his whisk, streams of pure immortal light shot forth like sharp swords, purifying the attacking water wraiths into nothingness. Yue Liuli fired her star bow in rapid succession, her arrows turning into meteors that precisely picked off evil spirits attempting sneak attacks from afar. Yun Yi continually cast out formation plates, setting up simple warning and defensive formations around them to ward off the pervasive mental corrosion.
Li Wuyang held the Star Shatterer Sword Sheath, his Annihilation Sword Intent contained but unleased, like a blade ready to leave its scabbard. Any evil entity that approached was silently erased by the sword intent of All Things Return to the Void before it could even touch his protective spiritual radiance. His Chaos Dao Body was instead perfectly suited to this place, constantly absorbing the pure soul power and Annihilation Dao Rhyme within the river—the ultimate destination of departed