Sages Cast the Golden River

Overview

To relieve the immense and suffocating pressure placed upon the Sword Qi Great Wall by the relentless Wild World armies, the sages of the Three Teachings seated at the ends of the wall executed a profound and costly intervention. Pooling their immense Daoist, Buddhist, and Confucian powers, they forcibly materialized a towering Golden River (金色长河) that physically cleft the massive demonic army in half. This golden river functioned as a distinct localized world (小天地), characterized by torrential golden waters, root-bearing golden lotuses, and intricately glowing texts composed of ancient sage characters and famous poetic verses praising lotuses.

The creation of this river provided a critical buffer for the human defenders. Great sword immortals descended from the wall to hold the line at the river's banks, intercepting the severed vanguard of the demon forces. Meanwhile, the demon army trapped between the river and the wall was forced into a desperate, beast-like struggle, allowing the lower-tier middle-five realm sword cultivators to engage them with slightly reduced pressure.

The Wild World immediately countered this intervention by deploying great demons with mountain-moving and water-diverting abilities. These demons hurled peaks and poured corrupted rains onto the golden river, attempting to bridge the gap and reconnect their severed armies. The sheer volume of demon corpses and white bones piling up against the riverbanks also continuously eroded the river's protective text boundaries. In response, the sages were forced to continuously reinforce the river from afar to prevent its rapid dissipation, with the golden lotuses sprouting roots deep into the earth to stabilize the barrier.

Outcome / Consequences

The Golden River successfully disrupted the Wild World's overarching invasion momentum by isolating their vanguard forces, buying the Sword Qi Great Wall invaluable tactical breathing room and saving the lives of many young sword cultivators. However, this apocalyptic battlefield manipulation came at a severe personal price for the sages. They could only cast the river three times before suffering permanent, irreversible damage to the foundations of their Great Dao, a vulnerability the Wild World's Jiazi Tent meticulously calculated and ultimately incorporated into their war of attrition.

References

• 剑来22：愿挽天倾者，第五章 — 下城头: Details the demonic army being split in two by the Golden River created by the Three Teachings' sages, and the Jiazi Tent's calculation that the sages could only cast it three times before damaging their Great Dao.
• 剑来22：愿挽天倾者，第六章 — 开阵: Describes the visual manifestation of the Golden River, including the golden lotuses, the ancient sage texts, and the sages continuously reinforcing the river while Wild World demons attempted to smash the barrier with mountains and corrupted water.
• 剑来23：人生梦复梦，第四章 — 天寒加衣: Confirms that the sages of the Three Teachings successfully created the Golden River three times to divide the battlefield, paying a devastating price in their cultivation to stall the Throne Great Demons.