Su Mu stepped across the river surface, walking step by step toward the figure standing on the river.
As he drew closer, he saw that it was a man in a long gray robe. He had sword-like brows, starry eyes, sharply defined features, and a tranquil gaze without the slightest trace of panic.
Looking carefully, he saw a cicada resting on the leaves of a bamboo stalk. The gray-robed man stood with his hands behind his back, gazing ahead.
The gray-robed man looked at the Spring and Autumn Cicada before him, which had carried him against the River of Time, and said faintly, "I didn't die. The Spring and Autumn Cicada really worked."
He surveyed his surroundings, ripples rising in his heart.
Who could have imagined that the legendary River of Time would look like this? It seemed utterly ordinary, yet it governed all the laws of time.
Thanks to the Spring and Autumn Cicada, he had been fortunate enough to walk the River of Time himself.
He recalled being hunted down by everyone, forced to self-destruct, and having no choice but to use the Spring and Autumn Cicada to return to the past and begin again.
Suddenly, he sensed something. Slowly, he raised his head and looked ahead.
He saw a man walking across the surface of the River of Time as though strolling through a courtyard, approaching him step by step.
His pupils shrank, and his brows furrowed slightly. Without realizing it, he clenched his fists and swiftly entered a state of battle readiness.
He had only set foot upon the River of Time by relying on the Spring and Autumn Cicada. Could this person possess one as well? In the moment he was pondering this, the figure had already arrived three meters before him. As the figure