The Truth of the Star River

"Why were you able to return?"

Su Ye stared sharply at Jian Qing, who stood before him with moving grace and valiant bearing.

"Return? The us of today stopped being the us of the past long ago."

Jian Qing shook her head. A bleakness touched her exquisitely beautiful face as she said, "Mental imprints. Time can wear away everything, but it cannot erase will. In that brutal war back then, who knew how many immortals fell? Supreme Beings were even more like ants.

"The sword immortals of my Sword Sect possessed unparalleled offensive power. Though they were only True Immortals, they could shake Immortal Kings. But precisely because their strength was so terrifying, an Immortal King from the Foreign Realm came treading along the River of Time, intending to kill the founding ancestor of my Sword Sect. They were afraid he would step into the Immortal King realm."

"Treading along the River of Time... Could it have been Red King?"

Su Ye's expression stirred slightly.

As for fear, he supposed it had been the same as with Thunder Emperor. Back then, Thunder Emperor had been the same; because the Foreign Realm feared Thunder Emperor's power, they had surrounded and hunted him down, and in the end Thunder Emperor had died.

"No."

Jian Qing shook her head. At the same time, she looked at Su Ye in astonishment. Hadn't the outside world buried all the truth, in the name of preventing later generations from despairing over it? Yet the person before her actually knew, and even knew of an existence like Red King. She did not ask why, but continued, "It was not Red King. Red King was a top-tier giant, and his every move was watched. The one who came was Red King's disciple. He had only recently advanced to