Overwhelming an Era, Deciding Eternity Alone

Within the River of Time, the figures of the Azure Emperor and Black Emperor reflected one another. But the moment Shen Ye appeared, his figure immediately squeezed their True Spirits to the edge of the River of Time and Space.

Under normal circumstances, to advance from perfected Creation to the Other Shore, one had to connect oneself into a line within the River of Time, tracing back into the past and occupying the future. The illusory Dao Fruit, working together with those three, would allow one's Innate Spiritual Light to completely leap beyond the River of Time, no longer touched by time. Only then could one be said to have crossed the Sea of Suffering and reached the Other Shore.

It was like a line, with one end hanging in the past and the other tied to the future, the illusory Dao Fruit suspended in the middle. With a tug, it could pull the illusory Dao Fruit out of the Sea of Suffering.

But Shen Ye's True Spirit was too powerful, and his illusory Dao Fruit was too heavy. The imprints of past and future were insufficient to pull him from the Sea of Suffering.

"Overwhelming an era, deciding eternity alone!" Shen Ye simply stopped trying to leap out of the Sea of Suffering. Instead, he made his True Spirit into an island within the River of Time and Space, into a "dam."

Taking the current point in time as the boundary, anyone who wished to alter the past or monopolize the future would henceforth need his permission.

The other beings of the Other Shore were not too affected, but the Azure Emperor and Black Emperor were miserable. They had been trying to leap out of the River of Time when a dam suddenly appeared within it, cutting across eternity.