Third update today: Chapter 1757! 3/4!
After taking care of the first two matters, Xu Kun naturally set off for the Heavenly Reaching River. He was extremely curious about that natural barrier.
The Heavenly Reaching River lay between the nations of the Western Region and the Western Liang Daughter Kingdom. Not only were great demons entrenched in its waters, but the river itself was also said to possess a strange peculiarity.
That peculiarity was known as: Even Saints Cannot Cross!
It was said that if one tried to cross the Heavenly Reaching River at an inopportune time, even a Saint-realm existence might fall into the river and die!
That was assuming they were not attacked by the great demons within the Heavenly Reaching River—once they fell in, they simply could not climb back out.
Xu Kun searched through every available record, only to find that no one could explain it.
"How could a river be impossible for even Saint-realm experts to cross?"
The Heavenly Reaching River was indeed broad, but Saint-realm experts were beings who could ignore terrain altogether and directly cross from one bank to the other.
The claim that Saints could not cross was simply too fantastical.
Although the Western Liang Daughter Kingdom had lost contact with the outside world, that did not mean no one traveled back and forth across the Heavenly Reaching River. Some people lived by trading with the Western Liang Daughter Kingdom, believing that greater risks brought greater rewards.
Yes, the people who had truly crossed this eerie river known as one that even Saints could not cross—and done so more than once—were actually weak merchants.
When Xu Kun learned this, even he was shocked.
Because the Western Liang Daughter Kingdom was isolated, the Angel Race controlled it without governing it in any