If Heaven and Earth were likened to a great river, then its flowing waters were time.
This also explained why this great river could not stop. If time stopped, it would mean the destruction of the entire world.
Either it pressed forward without turning back, or it vanished into destruction.
Once the River of Time began to flow, it had no destination. If a destination truly appeared, that would also be the moment of its demise!
As the pioneers, the points at the very front of the river charged ahead, either dragging it along or forced to bear the brunt, either perishing or smashing headfirst against a suddenly appearing boulder and being crushed to pieces.
After all, within time, no one could stand apart.
No matter how heaven-defying your talent, no matter how illustrious your status, you could not break free of this River of Time!
Even the Immortals of the past, as the pioneers of their era, could only walk at the very front of this River of Time, with all living beings following behind them.
And when the boulder called the Great Calamity appeared, these Immortals would be the first to bear its impact, crushed to pieces within the Great Calamity.
As the pioneers of their era, they enjoyed the authority their era bestowed upon them, but when the curtain fell on their era, their deaths would follow.
Even Immortals were no exception!
And so there came Sword Immortal Li Taibai, a Sword Immortal born for the Great Calamity.
But Li Taibai's thinking had been too simple, and his methods too crude.
He had simply believed that slaying Immortals could change this world, forgetting that living beings ought to be guided by living beings themselves.
Saving the world was not the work of a day, but the planning