Where's Your Civic Virtue? Can You Stop Throwing Corpses into the River?!

Su Mu had just sent the coffin away one second, and the moment he returned to the bank, the coffin floated back down the next.

Su Mu stood there in a daze for a moment.

What kind of heartless family lived upstream?! When someone died, shouldn't they be laid to rest in the earth? Why did they insist on a water burial? Could it be that land in this world was also worth every inch of gold, costing tens of thousands per square meter, and they couldn't afford a graveyard??

This truly angered Su Mu. If he had not been temporarily unable to leave this stretch of water, he would have chased after them to see exactly which heartless bastard was Throwing corpses into the river!

He stood directly on the bank and controlled the fifty-square-meter area of water beneath the coffin to move backward. Though he could not make the entire river retreat at once, he could shift a section of water horizontally. As long as those fifty square meters covered the coffin, he could control it and move it forward or backward.

And so, Su Mu controlled the water and sent the coffin back upstream again.

You rotten bastard upstream! You really are rotten!

If you keep Throwing corpses into the river, I don't care whether it's your father or your Old Ancestor lying in that coffin—I'll sink it straight to the bottom! Wu Xu Plains, Black Central Realm.

After successfully sending the coffin into the River of Time, all four of them had suffered severe losses and were recuperating.

Sending a coffin into the River of Time and making it flow toward the past inherently violated the Time Rules. Even they had paid an enormous price.

They had lain low here for over a thousand years, all for this very day.

If they failed again, they would truly collapse. "It shouldn't fail this time, right?"

At that moment, a weak voice rang out. One could hear from the voice alone just how much effort had been spent.

"It shouldn't. We just need to wait for the timeline to change. Once the Black Central Realm returns to normal, we can escape."

"That bastard cleaved the Black Central Realm into nothingness with a single sword, trapping us here to fend for ourselves. He miscalculated one step and made the wrong move. We have cultivated for tens of thousands of years—we can exist in the past and in the future. Once we get out, it will be his day of death!"

The prolonged imprisonment had already driven them somewhat mad. They wanted only to escape as quickly as possible, then return to the Main Battlefield and kill their way back! Bone Shadow, however, said nothing and stared intently into the void above.

For some reason, he had an ominous feeling.

By all rights, traveling through the River of Time to the past should have taken only a few breaths. If the past timeline had changed, then the Black Central Realm should have returned to normal.

What lay inside the coffin was not something their past selves could handle. Changing the timeline should have been easy.

Then why? The next moment.

That black coffin was reversed back once more in the exact same manner.

But upon seeing the black coffin, the four of them could no longer remain calm.

"Why!!!!"

"Why was it reversed back again!"

The three masses of shadow were already losing their minds. They had plotted for so many years, only to fail twice in a single day!

This failure meant that if they wished to send the coffin into the River of Time again, they would have to lie low and recover for another thousand years. Sending an external object into the River of Time consumed their Origin Power.

The Origin Power they had left could no longer support a third attempt. They could only slowly recover over a thousand years.

"It's him again!"

Bone Shadow, who had remained relatively calm, was no longer composed either.

It was once again that Mysterious Figure on the River of Time who had reversed his coffin back.

The first time might have been a coincidence, but the second time could not possibly have been one.

That Mysterious Figure was targeting them!

Bone Shadow began recalling his past, trying to remember whether he had ever offended such a formidable figure in some world, at some point in time.

Yet no matter how he searched his memories, he could find no one who matched. How could a terrifying existence capable of influencing the River of Time possibly be his enemy?

Put another way, he was not even qualified to have such an existence regard him as an enemy.

But why was he targeting him?? Bone Shadow could not understand it. Yet aside from changing this past timeline and restoring the Black Central Realm to its original state, he could find no other way to escape.

They could only lie low once more, make their arrangements, recover for a thousand years, and attempt it a third time.

After all, that figure could not possibly camp out on the River of Time watching him for a thousand years, could he?? What kind of place was the River of Time? Even their true bodies did not dare remain in the River of Time for more than a minute. Staying for a thousand years? What a joke! "You three, think carefully. Do you have any enemies?"

The Bone Emperor turned and asked the three masses of shadow behind him.

The moment those words came out, the three masses of shadow nearly wept without tears.

Bone Emperor, Bone Emperor, what kind of joke was this? What virtue or ability did they have to make an enemy like that? Someone who dared run wild atop the River of Time—what kind of heaven-defying existence would that be?? "Bone Emperor, you think too highly of us."

"If we truly had an enemy like that, do you think we would still be alive today?"

That was true enough. For a terrifying existence capable of influencing the River of Time, erasing them would be as easy as turning over a hand.

"A thousand years."

"Let's recover for another thousand years."

"After a thousand years, we'll try again."

"Mm. That's the only way."

After a few simple exchanges, the shadows sank into the Lord of Chaos, and this place returned to dead silence once more.

A thousand years passed in the blink of an eye.

The four gathered together again, this time brimming with confidence.

"A thousand years. A full thousand years."

"I hope we don't fail again this time. Otherwise... I'm truly afraid my Dao Heart will shatter."

"We won't. A thousand years have passed already. That person must have long since left the River of Time."

And so, Bone Shadow gathered the Origin Power of the other three and once again controlled the coffin, sending it into the River of Time.

By the riverbank, before the wooden house.

Su Mu was clearing the wildly overgrown weeds along the bank when he sensed something and looked up.

He saw a black coffin floating down from upstream once again.

Su Mu froze for a moment.

What the hell? Again?

It had only been ten days. What now?

Did someone else die in your family? Why were you Throwing corpses into the river again!!!

A nameless fire surged up within him. Su Mu set down the sickle in his hand and walked across the water to the coffin.

He took out a brush and wrote a sentence on the surface of the coffin: You dare try that again?

After writing it, Su Mu once more controlled the water to move backward and sent the coffin upstream, until it disappeared from sight.

Seriously! What kind of rotten habit was that?! After finishing all this, Su Mu returned to the bank and continued cutting grass and clearing the riverway.