The Forgetting River

The frontline.

In the sky, Wang Li was still fighting against the Dragonewt. His black coat and hair were flowing in the wind, a pair of clear blue eyes calm as the autumn water, with a hint of laziness. As he looked around, suddenly he pointed her finger at an empty space behind the wicked Dragonewt, asked questioningly: "Blade Emperor, why are you here?"

Hearing him say that, a person appeared in that space.

A tall, muscular body, both eyes glowing full of life, on his face was a long scar straight from his forehead through his nose, ending at the chin. On his back was a giant Blade as big as he was. This was Humanity Alliance's frontline vice-supreme commander, peak Ascension realm great cultivator, Blade Emperor.

Blade Emperor only laughed, pointing at the scar on his face: "A chance finally showed itself today, since you've come here yourself, of course I would come here to make sure you stay here for good"

"Because of that year's defeat by my Shifu's hand?"

"That's right, I've kept this wound, not letting it heal completely, all to remind me to get my revenge"

"So the traitor was you" Wang Li suddenly laughed in disdain and said: "That year you used your higher cultivation to peek on Shifu in the bath and even wanted to use violence, after getting beaten black and blue, you'd still dare to hold a grudge?"

Blade Emperor glared at Wang Li: "I really had feelings for your Shifu back then, but she didn't know what was good and what was not, she can't blame me for being cruel now"

"How pathetic"

Blade Emperor's face suddenly changed, both arms crossed in front of his chest to block.

'So quick, I couldn't even take out my Blade!'

Within that moment, Blade Emperor felt a deep sense of loss.

Wang Li appeared above him, his fists clenched right, looking to strike.

"Stop!"

"Bastard!"

"Wang Li, you dare!"

Three other demons appeared from the air. Immense miasma flowed from them, they were all Beast Saints! All the Beast Saints rushed forward at the same time, concentrated their attacks on Wang Li. Facing their full-power strikes, if Wang Li still value her life, she would have to dodge and let Blade Emperor go.

But completely unlike their expectation, Wang Li didn't care, only smirked: "Took you long enough. Haki: Fallen Sky!"

And struck downward with his fist. Even the air itself was warped, as a silent ripple spread across the sky. It wasn't until one breath later that a dull sound was heard.

——–thud!

As Blade Emperor was struck, he flew straight into a mountain peak 100 miles away, burrowing deep into it.

"Eat dirt, perverted old bastard!"

Bai Hua Fairy laughed heartily in the Bai Hua Palace as her clear voice rang across the Palace.

At this point, the Beast Saints had gotten close enough to strike, yet Wang Li still attacked Blade Emperor without any intention to dodge. As the Beast Saints saw that, they angrily swore that they would kill Wang Li in one hit. Then Wang Li suddenly disappeared.

"That's not possible!" the Dragonewt roared in anger: "Even an escape Secret Art wouldn't be able to escape my eyes!"

"He's really nowhere to be seen, there's not even a trace of spirit energy left. Isn't he a new Saint?" another Beast Saint said.

The final Beast Saint spoke in fear: "Just what kind of spell would be able to make him disappear in front of all our eyes without a trace like that"

Shadow Sword Saint Wang Li, his reputation isn't just for show. All three of them felt a sense of unease.

"Relax, he isn't quite as powerful as you imagine"

Suddenly a voice was heard. And then figured appeared in the air. Another Sainted realm demon beast! Including the Dragonewt, there's a total of 5 Beast Saints here!

Dragonewt: "Three-eyed Evil Mother, you know the most out of us all, quickly tell me what's going on"

Three-eyed Evil Mother scoffed: "His true self retracted his clone, that's all it is"

"The one just now wasn't his true self, just look at Blade Emperor if you don't believe me"

As they turned to look, the mountain broke apart, and Blade Emperor got out from there, flying towards them.

The Dragonewt squints looking at Blade Emperor, then breathed out a sigh: "Being hit straight on yet he didn't die, seems like it really wasn't his true body"

It was only then that they calmed down. At the same time, in Bai Hua Palace. The shadow clone suddenly appeared with a huge Blade in hand. He casually threw the Blade together with 3 other weapons into the pile on the ground.

"A Blade Emperor without a Blade, I'd like to see what you can do now"

The shadow clone laughed with amusement, then disappeared into mist. At the same time, in the sky at the frontline.

The Dragonewt suddenly shouted: "You bastard; you dare steal my Inventory Bag! Your just that Bitch's dog."

Blade Emperor unconsciously reached behind, then his face paled. The other two Beast Saints also quickly recited their invocations to call for their weapons, but felt nothing except a void.

"Bitch's dog?"

Inside Bai Hua Palace, on the ten thousand flowers throne, Bai Hua Fairy Xia Dao Ling's face grew colder, clasping her hands together.

"Bitch?"

She had just been enjoying seeing her disciple, who she was proud of most, trash these Saint Beasts when she heard that.

Sitting on her throne, Bai Hua Fairy said.

"Qing Shan, today, I'll be giving you your first lesson"

Gu Qing Shan bowed and said: "Please teach me, Shifu"

Bai Hua Fairy triggered the hand seals she was holding back, saying: "Firstly, never offend a beautiful, powerful female without a good reason, women can all hold a very long grudge; Secondly, Sainted realm is nothing but the start, yet so many mistake it for being the end"

"These two matters, make sure you remember them"

Saying that, the hand seals in her hand was were suppressed, just waiting for her disciple to bring the Dragonewt so she can release them.

The frontline.

"No, he took my Blade!"

Blade Emperor's heart sank. Bai Hua Fairy's pickpocket skills infamously are second to none, and now her disciple is just as good. He's already took precautions, but still got done in. His strongest suits are all on that Blade, as long as he has the Blade in hand, he can easily disturb Xie Dao Ling's spell castings, one of the reasons why he was even included for this time's plan. However who would have thought that the newest and youngest Saint is just as strong as Bai Hua Fairy and just as skilled. Now, without his Blade, it's hard to tell what's going to happen.

Blade Emperor felt a strong sense of unease. He still has beef with the Wild Beast Saint, without his Blade, once things start getting messy, he'll also have to look out for him. However, seems like Wild Beast Saint isn't all that well-off either, looking at his face turning blue, seems like he also got robbed of something.

The Dragonewt's face was even worse, of all the people here, only he had the confidence to take Bai Hua Fairy's Divine Skills head on without losing for a short period. But now his Inventory Bag was stolen by Wang Li. Without his trove of treasures, it would be very hard to deal with Bai Hua Fairy's endless means of attacks let alone Wang Li who can use laws.

While Blade Emperor was still thinking, he saw all the Beast Saints suddenly stopped moving.

'What happened?'

He couldn't help but also look at them, and was almost shock stunned.

All their heads suddenly fell down and all of them dies. If that wasn't all a voice was suddenly heard by all giving them endless dread.

"Arise!"

The Faceless Giant suddenly turned around, and tried its best to run away. As a chaos-species, the Faceless Giants were born from the time when heaven and earth still haven't been, naturally gaining an acute sense of life and death. Blade Emperor looked at the escaping Faceless Giant, then again at the shadow soldiers rising from the dead Saints emitting energy equal to that of Saints.

Suddenly he felt a strange cold sweat dripped down his back.

As Blade Emperor saw the Shadow Soldiers gwtting closer and closer, he couldn't help but shout: "Three-eyed Evil Mother, what is that?"

Three-eyed Evil Mother wasn't nearly as prideful as before, her eyes bulging, looking at the Shadow Soldiers.

"I've never seen it before; this is..."

Suddenly, as if she had remembered how the shadows rose from the dead, her whole body shook, her face became anxious and couldn't speak even a word.

Wild Beast Saint who got his personal weapon stolen was angry, shouted full of killing intent: "Who cares what it is, just use our full power to break this spell and go find Wang Li, that's the real issue!"

Evil Dragonewt Beast Saint agreed: "That's right, who cares what kind of spell it is, everyone prepare to attack together at once"

Everyone thought for a bit, knowing what he said is correct, they all concentrated their spirit energy and prepared to attack. But one second later, they couldn't help but stop as if they were locked in place, unable to move. Wang Li suddenly appeared infront of them and then looked at his Bai Hua Fairy's Flesh Incarnation.

"Shifu you can use that spell now."

Suddenly the sky itself had disappeared.

The blue morning sky was gone, instead replaced with a thick, yet also transparent fog.

As Blade Emperor saw a river getting closer and closer, he couldn't help but shout: "Three-eyed Evil Mother, what is that?"

"I've never seen it before; this is..."

Suddenly, as if she had remembered something, her whole body shook, her face once again became anxious and couldn't speak even a word.

Suddenly, a faint singing was heard from the sky. Within the fog, you could almost see a large, unending river, flowing across the sky itself. The river itself was the sky, and no matter how far you look, you can't see its end. Inside the yellow drifting fog, a female whose face couldn't be seen was rowing a small boat along the huge river. As she rowed the boat, she was also singing a strange song.

"Who is that?" Blade Emperor couldn't help but ask.

"She's coming here. No, that can't be right, how can a spell contain a person?" Evil Dragonewt frowned for the nth time, still unable to comprehend the bad situation he is in.

Everyone there also felt an aversion to it. With their combined knowledge and experience, they should have already seen all the spells and techniques in this world, even many Secret Arts are not secret to them. Yet the previous Shadow Soldiers and this scene unfolding right now was something completely unheard and unseen before.

They couldn't comprehend it.

As the small boat came from the sky, the female stood at the back of the boat, keeping it moving while looking at the people here. Evil Dragonewt Beast Saint once again felt horny, his lustful eyes scanned the female from head to bottom.

"This little lady seems to also——"

As soon as he said that much, Evil Dragonewt Beast Saint shut his mouth. The beautiful female figure on the boat, has a skull for a head. On the skull were two dark eye sockets, inside were a couple of dimly lit blue flames, silently looking at them. Even as Beast Saints, this scene somehow still causes them an overwhelming sense of fear.

To get to where they are today, none of them could stay clean, they all got blood on their hands and mountains of bones beneath their feet, so a simple skull wouldn't even make them blink. Yet when facing this skull girl, they felt a bone-cold chill without understanding why. This is a never-before-seen spell, a monster that hasn't appeared before in this world. Standing before it, a deep sense of despair and powerlessness naturally appears, gradually grows more and more like wild grass, and eventually will overwhelm them.

"Die, demon!"

Evil Dragonewt Beast Saint shouted loudly as he tried attacking her with a spell but couldn't move. The Beast Saints looked at each other anxiously. The skull girl still hasn't retaliated, only stood there, like she was waiting for something.

"Forgetting River... no doubt about it, this is the Forgetting River" Three-eyed Evil Mother face paled.

"What did you say? You must be mistaken, that river is in Hell" Wild Beast Saint eyes became sharp.

Mortal beings live in the Human Realm, since seeing Shen Wu world, the Beast Saint had known that there are many worlds, of them there are many Human Realms that can connect to each other. But the other realms in the cycle, like Hell realm, Hungry Ghost realm, there would definitely be no mortal beings. Unless you die, and your soul escape from your body, only then you can reincarnate into one of the other realms.

This is the very foundation of the 6 Paths of Reincarnation, the law of the world itself, so there would definitely be no problems. Yet Three-eyed Evil Mother is saying that large river before their eyes is the legendary Forgetting River. The Forgetting River appeared in the Human Realm?

How is this possible? All the Beast Saints couldn't believe it.

Evil Dragonewt Beast Saint coldly laughed, rejecting the thought: "I think you're just being scared to death by Xie Dao Ling and Wang Li."

Three-eyed Evil Mother stared incessantly at the skull girl, trembling as she said: "No, I wouldn't be wrong"

Evil Dragonewt Beast Saint scoffed, saying: "Bullshit! This Saint has only reach this realm for 1000 years so I might not know as much as you, but I know for sure there's no spell or technique strong enough to connect two worlds"

Evil Mother suddenly turned her head, looked straight into Evil Dragonewt's eyes and asked: "What if it isn't a spell or technique?"

"Evil Dragonewt replied: "Not a spell or technique? That would be ——"

It suddenly couldn't say. Everyone else there also realized, looking at each other in fright.

A soft female voice could be heard: "Divine Skill, that's right, to connect two worlds, it would have to be a Divine Skill, and a peak Divine Skill as well"

The person unveiled herself, revealing a face of beauty. It was another Beast Saint from the Wild, Peacock.

Peacock ignored the rest of them, looked in the direction of Bai Hua Palace from afar, bowed and said: "Fairy, we've met each other once, can I request you to hear me out"

"Speak"

Xie Dao Ling sat neatly on her throne, her hands still holding the hand signs as she blinked.

Peacock suddenly started crying and spoke with a sobbing voice: "Evil Dragonewt took my dear daughter to force me into this, I myself truly did not want to be a part of this at all"

"Since you've used a Divine Skill, then I can only be so brazen and beg of you Fairy, please save my daughter's life, I swear from now on my life will be yours to decide"

Xie Dao Ling was silent for a bit, then smiled: "Since dear sister was forced into this, then this Saint won't blame you. Li save her daughter."

"Yes"

"Peacock! Seems like you don't need your daughter's life!" Evil Dragonewt roared loudly and took out something, wanting to crush it.

"No!" Peacock's face paled.

"Attack that skull with all you have, or else I'll kill your daughter immediately!" Evil Dragonewt coldly said.

Peacock looked again at Bai Hua Palace's direction, hesitated for a bit before she bowed down in the air, begging: "Fairy, I beg you"

A Sainted Beast, stooping so low as to bow down to a human Saint several ten thousand miles away, the Saint Beasts couldn't help but be surprised.

Yet before anymore time could pass, Wang Li had already taken 'something' from the Evil Dragonewt's hand and gave it to the Peacock. The Black Hole technique also stopped restricting her.

Xie Dao Ling activated her spirit energy, creating a jade-green light in front of her, then she muttered: "Divine Skill, Forgetting River"

The green light moved as soon as she said that, flew straight out of Bai Hua Palace towards the sky.

Frontline.

The green light descended, falling straight into the skull girl's body.

Suddenly the blue flames inside her eye sockets became intense, asking the air: "How many people are going this time?"

Inside Bai Hua Palace, Bai Hua Fairy answered: "Aside from Peacock and my disciple, take them all to Black Rope Hell ——-I'll give the Evil Dragonewt's soul to you as a candle wick, let him burn for 30,000 years then take him to Inescapable Hell"

"Thank you, as you want then"

The skull girl finished speaking, then turned towards the beast saints, bowed and gestured: "Please board the boat"

Immediately, phantoms looking the same as the beast saints flew from their heads and went straight towards the small boat on the Forgetting River. They struggled with fear in their eyes, trying to get out. But as they have already left their bodies, every spell, technique, secret arts or power, nothing could be used anymore; and they could only scream in vain as they escaped their bodies, flew across the Forgetting River until they reached the boat. A few dull sounds were heard as their bodies fell crashing into the ground, marking them with huge craters.

The skull girl then looked at Wang Li and smiled mysteriously. She then continued to sing her tune of hell, steered the boat deep into the great Forgetting River and gradually disappeared.

Bai Hua Palace

Bai Hua Fairy sat on her ten thousand flowers throne, slowly releasing all the hand seals she had casted. On her head of hair full of life, one strand slowly turned into a silver color for no apparent reason. Perhaps noticing it, Bai Hua Fairy lightly tilted her head, and the strand of silver hair was hidden among her others, unnoticeable from outside.

Gu Qing Shan didn't notice this. He only looked in awe at the Forgetting River that's slowly disappearing from the sky, unable to say anything. This type of Divine Skill can really strike anyone speechless, leaving a deep impression on any cultivator.

This is what a peak Divine Skill can do?

Wang Li so easily dealt with numerous Beast Saints like they were children, playing with them till the end. With Gu Qing Shan's experience he could easily see with Wang Li's posture that Wang Li hasn't used a bit of his true power.

No wonder Bai Hua Fairy said that Sainted realm is still only the beginning.

'When, will I also reach this height?'

Little did he know that he was not too far.