Crash!
In an instant, a wave surged skyward!
Figures burst from the rushing river. Bathed in emerald light, their wills arced like rainbows, while Divine Abilities powerful enough to tear through the void enveloped them. The power turned illusion into substance, forming the weapons they had wielded in life. They raised them high!
"Foreign Barbarian Deity! You dared enslave us with your schemes!"
Their voices rang with fury. The dead poured all their strength into a single strike, their power twisting together as one!
Rumble!
A hundred weapons struck, and the River of Time descended!
The river's phantom, which the monk had believed unstoppable, turned upon the great Buddha and roared toward it!
Boom!
The blow sent the great Buddha hurtling hundreds of miles backward. Golden threads fell from all over its body!
Chen Cuo swept up several threads and gathered them in his hand, pouring his Divine Sense into them. River waters instantly thundered in his ears, and his consciousness entered the River of Time itself. Scenes of the past appeared before him, accompanied by a storyteller's voice—
"Now, the Xiongnu rose in the Great Desert and united its tribes with bone and blood. Turning south, they saw that the richest lands in All Under Heaven belonged to the peoples of Xia. Their nations were mighty, the strongest foes the Xiongnu had ever known! And so the Xiongnu invaded Han lands while seizing the territories held under their loose control. When their southern advance was checked, they turned west, igniting two great wars! The second swept across the Eight Desolations and Six Directions. Not only Huaxia but nations large and small throughout the Western Regions, Transoxiana, India, and the Northern Wasteland were drawn in. Slaughter spread everywhere, all living beings were cast into darkness, and the dead and wounded