Pursuit of the Truth

by Srtyi

Three thousand years of bowing down to the Demon Lord, I would rather be a mortal than a celestial being when looking back, but for her I will… become one who controls life and death!

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Chapter 806: His Physical Body Becomes that of a Paragon

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The Barren Lands of Divine Essence were in the shape of a gourd.

The mouth of the gourd was where the main camp of the forces of power from the four Great True Worlds that were keeping a lookout over the barren lands were located. This place was filled with a stern atmosphere and was usually shrouded in a deathly silence. Even the True Guards from the four Great True Worlds were not allowed to take even a single step into this place unless they were summoned and it was during the shift changes between the old and new True Guards.

All those who went against this rule would be considered to have committed a great crime and would be banished to Sinful Barren Lands.

Within the area of the main camp was a gigantic vortex. That vortex was constantly rotating, but it never made a sound. From the distance, the brilliant lights from the vortex would make it seem like an ocean of stars. However, if anyone looked from a close up, then they would see that the things that formed this ocean of stars were planets.

It was a gigantic vortex formed by countless stars. All those who saw this would not be able to help but be shocked by it.

At that moment, there was a long arc charging towards the main arc from beyond the vortex. Once that long arc closed in, it turned into a young man with the mark of a peach blossom at the center of his brows. He had a respectful expression on his face once he stopped beyond the vortex and wrapped his fist in his palm and bowed. He remained in that position for a long time and did not straighten his back.

Compared to this gigantic vortex, his existence was like that of an ant. He was completely insignificant.

Time passed. Soon, several hours went by, but that young man still remained in that bowing position and did not move, nor did he say a word. He simply waited there quietly.

Suddenly, the vortex started rotating a little faster before the speed of its rotation increased exponentially. A cultivation planet left its trajectory in the vortex and rushed to the periphery. A presence that could destroy the world charged towards the young man.

Once that presence stopped before him, a cold and flat voice came languidly from that cultivator planet.

"Come." That voice might have only said one word, but it contained a supreme majesty, as if no one in the world could resist it.

The young man with the mark of the peach blossom at the center of his brows straightened his back at that moment, then turned into a long arc to charge into the cultivation planet before him. After a moment, he stepped on that cultivation planet, and before him was a vast desert.

He could vaguely see a towering hall in the distance. It was brownish yellow in color and stood alone in the desert. There were whirlwinds roaring and moving around it, sweeping up the sand to form a windstorm.

Nearly a hundred figures could be seen standing in front of the hall in the desert.

These figures were all cultivators. They were men and women, elderly and young. They were lying with their faces against the sand of the desert, slowly crawling forward. These people were dressed in rags, many parts of their clothes tattered, but their expressions were filled with a strange fanatical zeal as they slowly crawled towards the hall.

The young man with the mark of the peach blossom at the center of his brows looked at the hall in the distance, then slowly crouched down until his body laid on the sand. Then, he began crawling forward, just like all the other people.

It was silent all around him. Besides the moaning of the wind, there was no other sound. All the people on the ground crawling forward were filled with a strange air. However, even if the cultivator crawling right before all the others looked as if he had already gotten close to the hall, he still continued onward, as if he could not see it.

It was as if the distance to the hall seemed different for each one of them

The young man with the mark of the peach blossom at the center of his brows continued crawling forward, and as he did so, his robes were torn, and they began showing signs of being burnt. His hair dried up, but there was a determined look in his eyes. After spending two hours, he finally crawled towards the hall he saw in his eyes while looking completely dishevelled.

Over there, he sucked in a deep breath. Once he stood up from the ground, he walked into the hall.

It was empty. There was only a table there with an oil lamp. The flame on the wick was swaying slightly. A countless number of faces with bizarre smiles could be seen swapping places with each other in the flame. None of the faces would show up again, as if over the countless years in this endless passage of time, none of them had ever been the same.

The crackling from the flames echoed in the hall. Besides the oil lamp on the table, there was also a bamboo book by its side. Half of it was laid open, and an ancient presence spread out from it as it lay under the light from the lamp.

"I, Dao Ren, ninth-tier True Guard of True Sacred Yin World greet Lord True General Huo Zhu." The young man knelt down on the ground and placed a hand on the asbestos on the floor before he lowered his head and spoke respectfully.

"Speak." An ancient and cold voice came from the flames on the wick of the oil lamp. At that moment, the faces on the oil lamp stopped changing, freezing on a woman's face with the ghost of a smile on her lips.

"We first discovered this person in Crimson Flame Planet…" The young man did not dare lift his head. He had it bent down as he told everything that he knew about Mo Su without holding anything back.

"... This humble guard would like to search through the ancient scrolls of reincarnation and find this person's origins, then formulate a plan that would lure him out so that he would show himself before us on his own."

His voice echoed in the hall. When the young man finished speaking, his voice still echoed in the area and lingered around for a long time.

After some time, the woman's face in the flame on the wick opened her mouth, and her ancient and cold voice tumbled out from her lips. "This person is not in the cycles of reincarnation."

The young man was momentarily stunned, then his expression immediately changed. After a moment, he gritted his teeth and said in voice, "This humble guard is certain that this person is still in Western Ring Nebula, and is also certain that he has already fused with the Divinity Incarceration Rune with some unknown method. He can borrow the power of the Rune, and he uses its power to warp himself and suppress others. This humble guard would like to request that you would lock down all the borders that would lead to the other galaxies in Western Ring Nebula… and shut down… the Divinity Incarceration Rune."

"I will bestow upon you a wisp of the flame from the candle. You will burn your life to keep the flame burning. Fate will lead you to find this person. I will allow you to shut down the Divinity Incarceration Rune once, but the down time cannot exceed three months." Once the ancient and cold voice finished speaking, the flames on the wick of the oil lamp swayed. At the same time, the young man with the mark of a peach blossom at the center of his brows started trembling violently.

Flames immediately burned his body, and these flames started moving over him like flowing water, eventually gathering in his hair, making it dance and look as if it was flames flickering in the air.

The mark of the peach blossom at the center of his brows also instantly vanished and turned into flames.

"Your body will be a candle, and your life will be its flames. You… may leave now."

The young man's body immediately began moving back against his will. He instantly turned into a ball of flames that swept out of the hall, out of the desert, and out of the planet. When he reappeared, he was already in the galaxy. Right before him was the rotating vortex. As for that cultivation planet, it was slowly moving backwards at that moment, until it disappeared into the vortex and became one of the many planets within it.

"He's not in the cycles of reincarnation, and he is a variable that was sent here using a special method. Wait, why can I… sense this presence in the story?

"That accursed crane that should sink to the depths of the sea of misery for all eternity, that hateful crane that all people cannot help but want to kill millions of times until it is eternally damned. THAT… DAMNABLE… CRANE!" Once the young man was swept out of the hall, a low roar that was no longer ancient and cold but filled with hate and madness rang out.

As that roar echoed in the air, the oil lamp on the table in the hall let out a violent crackle. An endless amount of faces appeared instantly in the flames, and they swiftly spread out, filling the entire hall before going outwards. The flames filled the entire cultivation planet, beginning to burn it right away.

"Achoo!"

The bald crane was on a meteor charging forward through Western Ring Nebula. The bird was lying lazily with sparkling eyes. There was crystal in its claws and a pleased look on its face when it sneezed three times in a row.

"Well, damn it all. Someone must be talking about me. Ah… as a crane and as a bird, I have to keep a low profile. I must keep a low profile. I can't have anyone keeping me in their minds… Achoo!" Before the bald crane could finish mumbling, it sneezed again. This time, it got angry.

It stood up, and a fierce look appeared in its eyes as it looked around itself continuously.

"Damn you all, who's talking bad about me?! I'll make you pay!"

As the bald crane was enraged, the Duke of Crimson Flame instinctively cast it a glance before quickly lowering his head and no longer bothering with it. The more he believed that the crane was the legendary crane, the more he did not dare associate with it. He remembered the series of rumors regarding that creature, and all the people that were associated with it did not end up well.

The meteor sliced through the galaxy. As the Duke of Crimson Flame protected Su Ming and the bald crane raged, the fury of the flames on Su Ming's body reached its peak. The flames burned every single inch of his flesh and blood. It did not matter whether it was his skin or the organs within his body, everything about him was being burned down.

His body had already withered up. He looked like a dried-up piece of wood.

Another half a month went by. Su Ming did not move. All his skin had become chapped. However, it looked as if there were no longer any flames on him. Seven days ago, the sea of fire on his body had all tumbled back and crawled into him.

The presence of death became even thicker on Su Ming's body. One day, his chapped skin let out popping sounds. At this moment, the Duke of Crimson Flame looked towards him with a grave look. Even the bald crane's gaze landed on Su Ming.

The chapped skin cracked once again, piece by piece. At the same time, Su Ming… slowly opened his eyes.

When he did so, faint golden light spread out from his pupils, making them look sharp and threatening. They were filled with an awe-inspiring air. When Su Ming opened his eyes, the popping sounds became even stronger. The chapped skin fell off piece by piece to eventually reveal a faintly golden skin. In fact, once all the chapped skin fell off, the faint golden light spreading out from Su Ming's body enveloped his entire person, making him somewhat hazy

Su Ming sucked in a deep breath. The galaxy around him immediately started trembling, and a sea of fire appeared around the meteor. The sea of flames burned with a loud whistle and spread out with a loud bang. In the blink of an eye, it covered a circular area of fifty thousand feet.

The presence of World Plane Realm erupted within those fifty thousand feet. This time, Su Ming did not borrow the Rune's power, but with his physical body alone he had executed the power of World Planes.

"World Planes…"

Su Ming stood up on the meteor. Loud banging sounds came from his body. As Su Ming clenched his fist, the sea of flames of fifty thousand feet instantly fell backwards. At the moment he clenched his fist, it was as if the sea of flames within those fifty thousand feet was absorbed and gathered onto his palm.

"This is my own power. My physical body has become that of a Paragon."

Su Ming closed his eyes. After a long while, when he opened them again, his lips curled up into a smile. However, that smile was a little bitter and sad. If he'd had this sort of power when he'd been in the land of Berserkers… then everything would be different now.

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Chapter 807: Shutting Down Divinity Incarceration Rune

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"You have to search for another clone soon. It does not matter whether it if from the four Great True Worlds or the fifth True World. There might not be many whose physical bodies can become those of Paragons, but it isn't rare either.

"More accurately speaking, no one talks about anyone's physical bodies having reached the level of World Paragons. In truth, you have not become a Lord of World Planes. It's only that your physical body can now resist the divine abilities from the initial stage of World Plane Realms without being injured. You can also use the power of World Planes to make your Qi be as powerful as the divine abilities of World Paragons.

"You have to continue to use the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows Whole to devour other people's power of World Planes. In fact, once you become slightly stronger, you can devour the Essence of a World from a planet.

"But this isn't a long-term plan. A real World Paragon is someone who can obtain the acknowledgement of an Essence of the World. When he obtains the acknowledgment from ten thousand worlds, a wisp of Plane Kalpa's essence would be born within him. This is the true Great Dao. Only when your cultivation base also reaches the level of World Paragons will you be able to head towards this great path.

"Your physical body is what will help you to walk even further down this road. When your cultivation base is also refined to the state of a World Paragon, then with the aid of your powerful physical body, you will be truly strong. It can be said that at that time, your foundation would become solid. As you accumulate your strength and let this power explode forth, you can become an incredibly strong warrior within whatever Realm you reach!" the Duke of Crimson Flame said in a low voice as he looked at Su Ming.

"I suggest that you Possess a cultivator with great talent as your clone. If you do that, you will not need another identity. You can also speed up your training by using the potential of the person you Possessed.

"Abyss Builders rely on their clones to train and grow stronger. The number of clones that each Abyss Builder can form is different. When the day comes that you reach the limit for the number of clones you can create and find your real body, you will be able to execute one of the strongest divine abilities among Abyss Builders… the Change of Abyss Builders.

"With this Art, all of your clones will fuse with your real body, and you will be able to bring forth your strongest combat prowess.

"In my memories, there weren't many who could execute the Change of Abyss Builders among the Abyss Builders in the fifth True World, and there were also distinctions of strength between each caster. I'm not entirely certain of the details, since I'm not of their race.

"But I've heard of a rumor that the Sovereign of the fifth True World, who is also your people's ancestor, could fight against one of the four True Progenitors from the four Great True Worlds that could already control fate, lives, and deaths and not be at a disadvantage once he gathered all his clones together and executed the Change of Abyss Builders. That was before he reached the Realm where he could control fate, lives, and deaths.

"When our Sovereign reached that Realm himself, he executed the Change of Abyss Builders once again and could win against the four Great True Progenitors alone while fighting against all of them!" When the Duke of Crimson Flame said those words, his tone was full of excitement. As a person of the fifth True World, he was clearly proud of the glory that his land had had in the past.

Su Ming looked at his own fist. As he slowly relaxed his fingers, he listened to the Duke of Crimson Flame's excited voice and cast his gaze into the distant galaxy.

'The powerful Sovereign of the fifth True World and the ancestor of the Abyss Builders couldn't protect his own home as well, so his people were nearly wiped out.

'Could there be a Realm that surpasses the state of controlling fate, lives, and deaths in this vast galaxy and can determine the lives of all the living? Can that power… kill those who can control fate, lives, and deaths..?' Su Ming looked at the galaxy, and for some unknown reason, this thought appeared in his head.

'Compared to those people, I am still as weak as an ant.' Su Ming fell silent.

After a moment, he asked in a low voice, "How many clones did my ancestor have?"

"He had six great clones, and all of them were incredibly powerful," the Duke of Crimson Flame immediately answered.

Su Ming did not speak anymore. He looked at the galaxy, and a powerful light gradually begun to shine in his eyes. An invisible, mighty pressure spread out from his body. The ripples coming from it meant that Su Ming's heart was trembling violently at that moment.

'Even my powerful ancestor could not protect his people and his home… and there is a possibility that he has already died.

'The fifth True World has been reduced to a broken world, and countless of its people are suppressed and sealed.

'Just what reason could have caused the four Great True Worlds to work together and fight against the fifth True World..? What reason could have to pushed them to completely destroy the fifth True World… and by the looks of it, their main targets were the Abyss Builders.

'I've already had enough of being fate's puppet. Di Tian controlled me in the past, that will from Yin Death Region is controlling me now, and perhaps in the future, there will be other people who will control my fate until… I die.

'I don't want to be controlled anymore. I want to control my own fate. I want my will to not be affected by anything. I want the people I want to protect to forever be safe. I want to be strong!

'I have to become powerful. Only by making myself stronger endlessly and surpassing the level of my ancestor can I truly protect the people and the home I want kept safe. Only then… will I be able to be myself!' The brilliant light in Su Ming's eyes grew even brighter. Only after a long while did it gradually disappear, hidden in the depths of his heart, having become his desire.

"Let's go. We'll head to Black Ink Planet." Su Ming averted his gaze from the galaxy above his head and sat down cross-legged.

The meteor hummed and charged towards the depths of the galaxy.

Several days later, Su Ming suddenly opened his eyes from his meditation. The Duke of Crimson Flame's voice also reached his mind at that moment.

"Su Ming, there is someone who is coming towards us from up ahead. Judging by the looks of it, he doesn't know where we are, but is just heading our way by pure coincidence."

Su Ming did not speak. He cast a glance at the galaxy above him and closed his eyes once again. He was not a person who loved killing, and his personality was that if no one provoked him, he would not attack. However, if someone provoked him, then his callous personality would turn him into a cold-hearted person.

After the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, a long arc charged forward. It closed in on the meteor where Su Ming was within an instant but did not stop. Instead, that long arc moved straight past his side. Within that long arc was a young man with long hair. He was dressed in a long purple robe. There was a picture of a dragon sewn on his robe with golden threads. That picture of the dragon looked like a word - Zhao.

Su Ming ignored that person. He continued meditating with his eyes closed, but soon, an incredibly arrogant divine sense swept past the area. Su Ming frowned, and the young man that was about to pass by the meteor swarm suddenly let out a light gasp and turned back. When he was moving at the same speed as the meteor, he looked towards Su Ming.

When he looked over, confusion appeared on his face. He then shook his head and swiftly left. He turned into a long arc and left the meteor's side to charge into the distance. There was a hidden hint of excitement and wariness in his eyes. As he charged forward, he immediately brought out a jade slip.

'I actually ran into him!'

"He recognized you, and he's about to crush a voice transferring jade slip so that others will know where you are." The Duke of Crimson Flame's voice travelled into Su Ming's ears as he sat on the meteor.

"I know." Su Ming opened his eyes. If the person had pretended to not recognize him but did not crush the jade slip, then Su Ming would have let it be, but since the other had decided to send word, it meant that he was seeking death.

"Earthen Script… become a Grave." When Su Ming spoke lightly, his body faded away and he disappeared without a trace.

In the distance, at the instant the young man in purple robes was about to crush the jade slip, a sudden powerful sense of danger rose in his heart. His expression changed, and just as he was about to throw caution to the wind and crush that jade slip—

Bang!

A ball of muddled fog appeared around him. That fog instantly froze up, burying the young man within in itself. If anyone saw it from the above, they would clearly see that a tumulus that looked like earth had appeared on the spot where the young man was.

There were torn pieces of skin manifesting on that tumulus, and they gathered together to form a tombstone. The buried young man's face was being drawn swiftly on that tombstone.

"Die," a flat voice stated, echoing in the galaxy. Su Ming's body reappeared on the meteor.

Time passed. In the blink of an eye, another month went by. A bloody presence surrounded a certain meteor, and it was covered in specks of blood. During the past half a month, Su Ming had run into four pursuers.

The first time, there had been two people. The second time, there were three people. The third time, there were six people. The fourth time, there were ten people.

Besides attacking the first two times, Su Ming avoided the other two battles. As he continuously pressed towards Black Ink Planet, he sensed an increasingly greater threat from the illusory projection.

He noticed that there were more glowing spots that were heading towards him from all directions.

"Duke of Crimson Flame, someone should have broken your Art that distorts time and space for seven days," Su Ming stated calmly.

The Duke of Crimson Flame fell silent. He could also vaguely guess this, or else he could not explain why the number of people chasing after their lives kept increasing during the past month.

"If I was someone of the four Great True Worlds, then the first step I would do is to break the seven days Art. The second step would be… since they can activate this Rune, then it is only natural that they can shut it down as well. Since the enemy is using the Rune, I would shut it down and make it so that the enemy cannot continue using it."

Su Ming sat on the meteor and looked at the faint ripples on the projection before him. An increasing amount of glowing spots flashed about, as if the Rune was no longer stable. He then said in a cold voice, "After that, when the seven days Art was broken and the Rune was shut down, the True Guards from the four Great True Worlds will appear en masse, and if I were the True Guards, I would use the shortest amount of time possible to lock down the area and destroy the target."

Right when Su Ming finished saying these words, the projection before him started shining even more brilliantly, then became dark and disappeared right away. But not a single hint of surprise could be seen on Su Ming's face.

"Damn it! Damn you all, you despicable rascals!!" The bald crane was momentarily stunned before it immediately roared in rage.

"Little boy Su! It's over! It's all because of that mouth of yours, you jinxed it! Everything good you say never happens, and everything bad you say always happens! I… can't sense that Divinity Incarceration Rune anymore! It's been shut down! Damn it all, these people cut off my path to riches! How despicable! I'll remember this! I'll remember it! I'm a crane that holds grudges. Sooner or later, I'll duke it out against all of you."

The bald crane was filled with deep hatred and resentment. It was not experiencing heartache because of the Rune, but because after the Rune was shut down, it could no longer extort Su Ming. It could no longer make deals with him. After all, when that Rune was around, it was practically a golden goose…

Every single time Su Ming used it, he had to pay with crystals.

'A thousand World Stones, a cultivation planet that has been modified and possesses a complete Essence of a World. This will no longer tempt cultivators alone… but entire families!' Su Ming looked at the disappeared projection, and killing intent appeared in his eyes.

He remembered the word 'Zhao' that was sewn on the purple robes on that young man whom he had killed a few days ago.

"Due to the unique conditions in the Barren Lands of Divine Essence, the criminals from the four Great True Worlds live and give birth to their offspring here. Over the years, forces of power that are formed from familial connections will naturally appear. To these families, the temptation of a cultivation planet that has been modified will surpass a World Stone.

"The four Great True Worlds and the pursuers, since all of you insist on killing me, then don't blame me… for stepping up and playing big!" A cold smirk appeared on Su Ming's lips, and a freezing glare shone in his eyes as he stood up.

"Bald crane, do you want to take revenge on the four Great True Worlds?" Su Ming asked as he looked at the bird.

The bald crane was livid with rage and its heart was aching at that moment. When it heard Su Ming's question, it immediately nodded fiercely, gnashing its teeth in hatred.

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Chapter 808: Zhao Family's Progenitor

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'I'm completely surrounded from all fronts. It doesn't matter whether it's these pursuers or the True Guards from the four Great True Worlds, all of them want to kill me!' Su Ming leaped up from one of the meteors. Crimson threads appeared out of thin air and surrounded him before they turned into a coffin that instantly charged into the distance.

Su Ming put the bald crane away, and the Duke of Crimson Flame turned into a totem on the coffin. All of them swiftly left into the distance.

The crimson coffin traveled incredibly quickly, but right at the instant it left, the galaxy they were in suddenly let out a loud bang, and deep blue ripples suddenly appeared, rapidly spreading out. In the blink of an eye, they covered a circular area of a hundred thousand feet and caught up to the crimson coffin that was Su Ming.

The deep blue ripples turned into fog, leaving the area in a hazy state. At the same time, at the edge of the hundred thousand feet area, Su Ming's crimson coffin looked like it had sunk into mud in a river, and his speed was reduced by half.

"Peak of the middle stage of World Plane Realm. He only has one step left before he moves into the later stage. What speed! You aren't his opponent. The gap between your strengths is too great. If it wasn't because there isn't enough power of World Planes in the Barren Lands of Divine Essence, this sort of powerful warrior would have arrived at the later stage of World Plane Realm by now. No matter where he goes, he will be considered the overlord of that area!" the Duke of Crimson Flame's swiftly told Su Ming. There was an anxious tone to his voice.

Almost at the same time he spoke up, a cold harrumph echoed from the deep blue fog within that area of a hundred thousand feet. That harrumph alone caused the galaxy to rumble and cracks to appear. It also caused the red coffin to tremble so much that it shattered.

Bang!

The coffin shattered, and its pieces fell backwards to reveal Su Ming, who was charging forward. Those shards swiftly gathered together into a long red spear, and with a flash, it disappeared into Su Ming's body.

Blood trickled out of the corners of Su Ming's mouth. That invisible strike just now had not only shattered the coffin, but also caused a great force to appear all around and within him. As that force exploded along with the coffin, it wounded Su Ming.

It was as if that cold harrumph could form some sort of resonance so that it would be difficult for one to defend themselves, and the body was instantly heavily wounded.

Su Ming could sense clearly that if his physical body had not become like that of a World Paragon, on other words much stronger than before, then he would have crumbled into pieces from that cold harrumph, just like the coffin.

The stranger was powerful. His strength surpassed that of Jing Nan Zi and the nine True Guards Su Ming had met in Heavenly Treasure Planet. This was the strongest person Su Ming had run into during his escape.

'I've run into some people in the middle stage of World Plane Realm, but I've never met anyone who could gravely wound me with just one harrumph. Is this the power of those who have reached the pinnacle of the middle stage of World Plane Realm..? They can completely suppress all the cultivators who are below World Plane Realm, and all the cultivators in Heaven, Earth, and Man Cultivation Realm have absolutely no chance of fighting back. It's like the difference between a baby and a grown man.

'Even if it's those who have reached World Plane Realm, those who are just in the initial stage will find themselves with a slim chance of survival even if they were fleeing, much less fighting against him.'

Su Ming did not even have time to wipe away the blood at the corners of his mouth. He was not too surprised by this person's appearance, though. He had already made a guess that the moment the Divinity Incarceration Rune disappeared, the True Guards and other pursuers would appear right away.

It did not matter who came. There was no difference. Besides, after the Barren Lands of Divine Essence experienced those things before, the person who appeared to kill Su Ming was much stronger.

'If the Divinity Incarceration Rune was still around, perhaps I could use the power of the Rune to fight against this person for a while, but now, I'm not his opponent.'

A glint appeared in Su Ming's eyes. He lifted his right hand and stomped on space. Immediately, faint golden ripples appeared and spread out with a bang. They covered a circular area of fifty thousand feet in the span of a breath, and the presence of World Plane Realm erupted from his entire body.

"You are just a candle flame. How dare you try to outshine a moon?" When the cold voice echoed in space, the fog that spread out to a hundred thousand feet… gathered together into a face that was a hundred thousand feet in size.

The face was ancient and belonged to an old man, and it took up the entirety of the deep blue fog. From the distance, that face that spread across the galaxy was an incredibly terrifying sight, and this was the power of those who had reached the pinnacle of the middle stage of World Plane Realm!

His voice rumbled in the galaxy, while Su Ming was swiftly rushing away from the spot near the center of the face's brows.

"If I kill you, then my family will be able to possess a cultivation planet with an Essence of a World. I, Zhao Tian Gang, might not be willing to be used by the four Great True Worlds, but for the sake of my family, I can only attack you… If you want to blame someone for your death, then blame yourself for not being strong enough." At the instant that rumbling voice shook the galaxy, a sparkle appeared in the eyes of that gigantic face of a hundred thousand feet.

"I'm impressed that you're wanted by the four Great True Worlds. I'll let you die under my second strongest divine ability. Then, at least, you will be able to die a worthy death!

"Three!" The moment Zhao Tian Gang said these words, Su Ming's heart trembled, and the area fifty thousand feet away from him began shattering.

"Let me perform a shift! You're not his opponent, if we don't shift, you'll definitely die!" The Duke of Crimson Flame's anxious voice traveled into Su Ming's mind.

"Wait a little longer. I want to see just how great is the disparity between me and a person who has reached the peak of the middle stage in World Plane Realm." Su Ming's eyes sparkled, and he immediately delivered these words in his heart to the duke.

"You… Are you mad?! I can tell you this, the difference between the two of you is like heaven and earth! Before him, you are just an ant! Not only is this person a World Paragon in the pinnacle of the middle stage in World Plane Realm, judging by his words, he is also the Progenitor of a family. This kind of person is definitely someone with a great reputation and fame. Even the ordinary True Guards from the four Great True Worlds might not want to provoke him," the Duke of Crimson Flame roared in anger. For the first time, he did not listen to Su Ming's words and was ready to shift to leave the place with Su Ming.

The faint golden area began shattering fifty thousand feet away from Su Ming. In the blink of an eye, only several thousands of feet were left. The other parts had been torn to pieces in a bizarre manner when Zhao Tian Gang had said that one word.

"Even if there is the distance of heaven and earth between us, even if I am an ant, I will still have the courage to glare at the universe. Even if I am an ant, I cannot flee because I cannot fight back!

"As long as the difference isn't so great that he can kill me in an instant, then I will definitely attack. Even if I am weak, I must draw my sword. Even if I am not his opponent, I cannot surrender!

"If I don't fight, my thoughts will not be clear. If I don't fight, I will not reach my goals. If I don't fight, then with what spirit should I reach Solar Kalpa Realm?!"

The presence of World Plane, which was that faint golden light that was previously thousands of feet away, had come to only several hundreds of feet. However, whe Su Ming's voice reverberated in the Duke of Crimson Flame's heart, it made him stop, just as he was about to perform a shift.

It was as if this was the first time he came to know Su Ming. Those words echoed in the Duke of Crimson Flame's heart, and every single word and sentence possessed a determination that could cause hearts to tremble.

"If I don't fight, then with what spirit should I reach Solar Kalpa Realm?!" Su Ming roared towards the sky, and a ten thousand feet illusion manifested behind him. That was his statue of the God of Berserkers.

"God of Berserkers' three Barren Arts of Heaven, Earth, and Man, Man Barrenness!" A brilliant light shone in Su Ming's eyes. He swung his arm, and the statue of the God of Berserkers behind him immediately lifted its hands. Once it pushed them together in the shape of a cross, it pulled its hands apart, with both of them heading towards the galaxy up above.

"Earth Barrenness!" The faint golden area that was only hundreds of feet away from Su Ming shattered completely at that moment. At that moment, the statue behind Su Ming lifted its right leg and stomped fiercely downwards.

"Heaven Barrenness!"

Bang!

During that instant, Su Ming's statue of the God of Berserkers shone with an endless faint golden light. Once it covered its body, the statue's right leg completed its act of stomping on the ground, and its body swelled up once more. In the span of a breath, it grew to several hundreds of thousands of feet, and its body… fell face forward!

With his current level of cultivation and the addition of his power of World Planes, Su Ming cast the God of Berserkers' Art. Man Barrenness was to worship the heavens. Earth Barrenness was to step on nothingness. Heaven Barrenness was to collapse the sky and destroy the land.

The statue's body was the sky. At that moment, when its body fell, a loud bang surged into the sky, and this was… the sky's collapse!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

A violent sound reverberated in all directions in the galaxy. At the instant Su Ming's statue of the God of Berserkers fell, Zhao Tian Gang's cold voice spoke up again

"Flowers!"

The booming sounds from the statue disappeared. It was as if there was a power that could destroy the sky right as it collapsed down to the earth, forcing the sky to fall apart before it even fell. The statue crumbled, and Su Ming coughed up blood. As he was forced back, he threw his head back and roared. He lifted his hands and began forming seals before he flung his arms backwards. Seven shadows immediately appeared behind him.

Those seven shadows were dressed in long black robes. The faces of those people could not be seen clearly. However, there was an incredibly thick aura of death that swiftly spread through the galaxy.

"Seven Abyssal Yin Death Seal!"

"Earthen Script, become a Grave!" At the same time those shadows in black robes bowed simultaneously towards the galaxy, Su Ming's body instantly became indistinct. A lone grave appeared, and Zhao Tian Gang's face was being swiftly drawn out on the tombstone.

"Destroy," came Zhao Tian Gang's voice from the face that was a hundred thousand feet big.

Bang!

The seven abyssal shadows shattered completely. The lone grave that was Su Ming also crumbled apart instantaneously. The tombstone on it… could not even manage to draw out Zhao Tian Gang's face.

Rumbling sounds came from Su Ming's entire body. His flesh and blood shattered inch by inch, and as he coughed up blood, his body was gravely wounded. However, there was no regret in his eyes. Only extreme brightness could be found.

He lost. This was a fight he was bound to lose, but he fought!

He dared to fight. He had the courage to still attack and draw his sword even though he knew he would definitely lose. This was a form of determination. It was the most important requirement for a powerful warrior, and the value of this requirement even surpassed potential and serendipities.

"Duke of Crimson Flame, shift! Let's go!" Su Ming licked the blood at the corners of his lips and sent these words to the duke.

"The World!" These were the two final words Zhao Tian Gang said. It also marked the completion for his divine ability - Three Flowers, Destroy the World. Right at the instant he finished saying these words, the Duke of Crimson Flame's body appeared next Su Ming, who was at that moment falling back while blood gushed out from his entire body.

The bald Duke of Crimson Flame swung his arm. While loud booming sounds were surging into space and ripples viciously spreading out, the totem of a flying dragon manifested in space. As those booms continued resounding, that totem shattered. However, by then, the Duke of Crimson Flame had already used the power of his life and shifted.

Almost the instant he did so, the area in that part of the galaxy collapsed, stirring up booming sounds that spread in all directions. When it started gradually calming down, the face that was a hundred thousand feet vanished, and an old man in purple robes appeared in the galaxy.

The old man had a dark expression on his face. He looked at the spot from which the Duke of Crimson Flame had taken Su Ming and vanished.

"He knew that he was definitely going to lose, but he still had the courage to fight against me. This child… is a determined person, and also a madman. But no matter what… fighting against a powerful person is the best way for your level of cultivation to rise quickly, and also the best way to obtain an epiphany.

"The difference of power between the two of us would be like the difference between me and those in the later stage of World Plane Realm. If I ran into a person like that, would I… dare to fight against them?" Zhao Tian Gang fell silent.

"If he doesn't die in ten thousand years, he will definitely become a big problem."

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Chapter 809: Revenge

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"Zhao Family's Progenitor!"

"It's Zhao Tian Gang from the Zhao Family, which is one of the three big families in Western Ring Nebula. It is rumored that this person has reached the pinnacle of the middle stage of World Plane Realm two thousand years ago. He is only a step away from reaching the later stage of World Plane Realm."

"Hmph, the distance of that one step is ten thousand lis. World Paragons don't really have that much difference between each other in the beginning, and there is not much difference in power between those in the initial stage of World Plane Realm and those in Heaven Cultivation Realm. In fact, there are several powerful cultivators in Heaven Cultivation Realm who could fight toe-to-toe against those in the initial stage of World Plane Realm if they had some unique methods and Enchanted Treasures.

"However, once one's level of cultivation reaches the middle stage of World Plane Realm, their combat prowess will increase exponentially. A powerful warrior in the middle stage of World Plane Realm can easily kill a person in the initial stage of World Plane Realm. Even if those in Heaven Cultivation Realm have extremely powerful Enchanted Treasures and they can kill those in the initial stage of World Plane Realm, in the face of those in the middle stage, they cannot hope to compete."

"That's right. I understand this logic as well. Besides, there are differences among those in the middle stage of World Plane Realm as well. Those in the peak of the middle stage can suppress the others in the middle stage with ease, or else Zhao Tian Gang wouldn't have been able to make that Zhao Family of his become so distinguished with his own hands."

Whooshing sounds mixed with howls were traveling swiftly from all directions before they turned into several dozens of people who were scattered around the area where Su Ming and Zhao Family's Progenitor had fought against each other.

These people had all come after Mo Su's life due to the waves of power that came from this place. Once they rushed to the area, they immediately saw Zhao Family's Progenitor looking into the distance in silence, but they did not see Mo Su.

"It's a pity that Zhao Family's Progenitor was ahead of us. That Mo Su has probably been killed or captured already."

"A cultivation planet with a complete Essence of a World. Zhao Family will become even stronger in the future. In fact, there's even a possibility that Zhao Family's Progenitor will be able to take that step forward and become a monster in the later stage of World Plane Realm."

"However, he is still only at the peak of the middle stage in World Plane Realm. If he ran into those in the later stage, even those who had just reached it, he would be completely suppressed. Unless he had a method to escape, he would definitely die.

"It's a pity that there are only three monsters in the later stage of World Plane Realm in Western Ring Nebula. Besides Li Family's Progenitor, who is in isolation all year around and doesn't ever come out, the other two are also training somewhere in hiding. It's been a long time since they showed themselves."

An increasing number of people arrived to the area. After a moment, there were nearly a hundred people there. The eyes of those people in the area shone brilliantly. Once they swept their gazes past Zhao Tian Gang's body, they began sending their thoughts to each other to discuss the matter among themselves.

After a moment, a layer of ripples spread out from the galaxy in the distance. Nine huge ancient bronze swords appeared slowly, and a powerful and mighty pressure spread out, causing the people in the area to swiftly retreat. As they did so, the nine big swords gradually stopped moving.

"Zhao Family's Progenitor, how did the battle go?" A person walked out of the sword positioned right in front of the other swords. That person was dressed in armor, and he was the old man who had escaped after he fought against Su Ming in Heavenly Treasure Planet.

The old man's level of cultivation was also in the middle stage of World Plane Realm, but based on his tone, it could be heard that he was rather courteous towards the old man from the Zhao Family. He did not have that high-and-mighty attitude he showed when talking to other people in Sinful Barren Lands.

After all, while the situation they found themselves in and their positions were important, the thing that truly mattered to cultivators were the levels of cultivation. Those who were weaker would respect those who were stronger. This was the foundation that formed the system of the universe no matter the era and no matter what sort of world the people were in.

If the True Guard did not execute the power from the ancient bronze swords and Zhao Family's Progenitor went berserk, he could kill almost all of those on the swords. This sort of power was the source for the respect shown him.

"He escaped." Zhao Tian Gang sighed. He was the person with the highest level of cultivation among those who went after Su Ming's life. His hate towards the four Great True Worlds ran incredibly deep due to his status and his level of cultivation, but as time passed and his family grew, he gradually hid that hate in his heart.

For his family, he would squash down his enmity towards the four Great True Worlds and listen to their orders temporarily to chase after Su Ming.

The moment he finished speaking, the people around him immediately burst into an uproar. Almost every single person was shocked by Zhao Tian Gang's words, because they knew full well the significance behind the act of being able to escape from the hands of Zhao Family's Progenitor.

Zhao Tian Gang was not willing to say much. He swung his arm, and an illusion immediately appeared before him. There were endless pictures that shone within that illusion, and they showed his battle against Su Ming.

The entire process from start to finish was shown before the group. Then, without a single word, Zhao Family's Progenitor turned around and left. He had been waiting in this place because he had wanted to explain himself to the forces of power from the four Great True Worlds keeping a lookout over this place. Once he did that, he was unwilling to continue lingering around the place.

As the people in the region watched the pictures in the illusion attentively, a layer of ripples appeared out of the blue in a spot that was very far away from where the battle was held in the galaxy. As it spread out, Su Ming walked out from space with a single step.

At the instant he walked out, he coughed up blood.

"Was it worth it? You attacked despite knowing that you would definitely lose, and you were gravely injured in return. Was it worth it?" The Duke of Crimson Flame manifested beside Su Ming, and as he looked at him, there was a slightly complicated look on his face.

"It was!" Su Ming wiped away the blood with brightly shining eyes. "To me, the path of cultivation is filled with mountains. There are plenty of towering mountains ahead of me, and once I move over one mountain, it will mean that my level of cultivation has increased by a level.

"My enemies are these mountains. I can have my path blocked by these mountains, and I don't t mind running into a mountain that I'll never be able to cross in my life, but if I run into this sort of mountain and do not even have the courage to try climbing it simply because the mountain is too tall, then I will start to feel that I am an insignificant ant. Because of that, I will no longer be able to take even a single step forward. By then… what will I even be practicing cultivation for?!" Su Ming said as he looked at the Duke of Crimson Flame. His calm words were filled with determination that made the other's heart tremble.

After some time, the Duke of Crimson Flame suddenly asked, "If I wasn't by your side and you couldn't shift, what would you have done?"

"I would still have done the same thing," Su Ming answered firmly, without any hesitation.

"Since I would have definitely died there, then between not resisting but waiting for death with my eyes closed and fighting to the death in a grand battle, I would naturally choose the latter." A resolute expression appeared on Su Ming's face. His voice might not be loud, but when it reached the Duke of Crimson Flame's ears, it silenced him.

Ten breaths later, the Duke of Crimson Flame asked, "What will you do next? I've already used up one of my two shifts. The last one is for when you get close to Black Ink Planet so I can get you straight in."

Su Ming brought out some medicinal cores. Once he swallowed them, a freezing glare appeared in his eyes, along with a hint of madness. He coldly said, "Since they intend to make my life miserable, then I will also make theirs a living hell."

Three days later.

A shocking bang came from the cultivation planet closest to the spot to where Su Ming had shifted. As the loud booms reverberated in the air, roars from ferocious beasts rang in the air. The presences of those ferocious beasts were incredibly powerful, and there were even some who flew out of the cultivation planet to roar at the galaxy.

In fact, once the seals on these ferocious beasts were broken and they tasted freedom, an excited roar came from the depths of the planet before echoing faintly in the air. There was madness and hatred contained in that roar, and it came from the mighty cultivator of the alien race that was sealed in this planet!

As the ferocious beasts' seals were broken, the same sight as the one in Crimson Flame Planet was reenacted. The Sealing Rune collapsed, giving the mighty cultivator a chance to break free. As for whether he would manage to escape in the end would depend entirely on him.

Seven days later, the same booming sounds rang in another cultivation planet that was close by. At the same time they shook the galaxy, numerous roars from various ferocious beasts traveled into all directions.

Several days later, a drastic change appeared on the third cultivation planet…

Time passed. In the blink of an eye, two months went by. During this time, a change that caused the forces of power from the four Great True Worlds keeping a lookout over the place to be ignited with rage appeared in more than ten cultivation planets. An endless amount of ferocious beasts appeared in the galaxy, for the seals within cultivation planets were torn apart. The members of the alien races that were sealed also began showing signs that they were about to escape.

Based on how things were going, several years later a force from the alien races that could overturn everything would burst forth in Western Ring Nebula.

This was Su Ming's madness, and it was also the big gift he prepared for the forces of power from the four Great True Worlds suppressing the barren lands. He was using this act to take revenge against them for going after his life.

The bald crane's excitement was even greater than Su Ming's. Its anger and hatred towards the four Great True Worlds closing down the Divinity Incarceration Rune could be said to burn the skies. It completely approved of Su Ming's plan, and it did not even need him to pay any crystals but helped on its own accord, which was a rare sight to be seen.

Bang!

Another bang rang out in another cultivation planet. A large portion of the Sealing Rune on it shattered, and ferocious beasts flew out. As they roared in the galaxy, the crimson coffin swiftly flew up and headed into the distance.

The coffin might have shattered because of Zhao Family's Progenitor in the past, but its core was not damaged, which was why it could still turn into a coffin and fly in the galaxy.

"Damn you all! Curse you all! How dare you people from the True Worlds provoke me?! I'll fight it out against all of you! I'll break your seals! Break all of them! Break them! I'll break all of your seals! I'll let you know the consequences of provoking your Grandpa Crane, you crooks from the four Great True Worlds!

"Heh heh, I'm not that easy to bully! In the past, Lu Ya [1] was forced to his wits' end by yours truly! Four Great True Progenitors, what are you?! You're still just puny little birds before me… Eh? Am I that powerful?" The bald crane's excited cries gradually faded away as the coffin left into the distance.

"Kill him! Kill that person called Mo Su! I don't care how he came to the Barren Lands of Divine Essence, but that's the last straw, he must die!" an enraged voice shouted out from the place where True Sacred Yin World was stationed in the galaxy among the other forces of power from the four Great True Worlds.

"It would have been fine if he had just gone to the other galaxies, but he broke the seals in over thirteen cultivation planets within the region that True Sacred Yin World monitors. He is provoking us. This is revenge for us placing a bounty on his head."

"The main camp is already displeased and has sent a sealed order. If we cannot solve this problem within a month, then the True Guards in True Sacred Yin World will have to pay the price for this matter."

"The Kalpa Lord has already sent his orders. He will reward those who kill Mo Su with a treasure. This time… all the True Guards from True Sacred Yin World are to attack, and we are allowed to use the power of our Origin Essence to shift. The two World Elders in Lunar Kalpa Realm will also attack. We must resolve this within a month."

Huge ancient bronze swords shot through the Great Space Sealing Rune from the galaxy where True Sacred Yin World was stationed and appeared in Western Ring Nebula. Anyone who swept their gazes across them would find that no end to them could be seen. Each of the huge swords were a hundred thousand feet long, and there were hundreds of them.

The galaxy rumbled.

The notice of an additional reward was sent through the entire Western Ring Nebula, stirring up the attention and greed of cultivators in the other galaxies, including the True Guards from the other True Worlds.

"Those who kill Mo Su will not only receive the rewards originally offered, but also gain an additional reward from True Sacred Yin World … a Kalpa Treasure that possess the presence of Solar Kalpa Realm!"

Translator's Notes:

Lu Ya: The person who was the original owner of the gourd when the bald crane had its true form.

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Chapter 810: The Crowd is Mobilized

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Kalpa Treasure!

This sort of treasure was rare even among the four Great True Worlds. Most of them were controlled by the old monsters who possessed the power of Plane Kalpa, and the value of such a treasure was difficult to describe with words. It could be said that to the powerful warriors in Lunar Kalpa Realm, this sort of treasure was enough to fight each other to the death for it.

Treasures the level of Kalpa Treasures were rarely created by people. Most of them were naturally born in this vast universe. They were existences that were like the treasures of the world. That was why each Kalpa Treasure was different, and the might of their divine abilities also had distinctions in strength. However, even the weakest Kalpa Treasure was enough to make two old monsters in Lunar Kalpa Realm to have great differences in power.

Someone in Lunar Kalpa Realm who did not have any Kalpa Treasure in hand could not hope to win against someone at the same level with one.

Only those in Lunar Kalpa Realm who possessed a Kalpa Treasure could be known as… being half a step away from Solar Kalpa Realm!

Treasures of this level could stir up uproars even in the worlds outside, and it was much more so in the Barren Lands of Divine Essence. This was enough to even cause a calamity here.

This kind of reward could tempt the old monsters in Lunar Kalpa Realm who seldom ventured out in the Barren Lands of Divine Essence, could make the powerful warriors in the later stage of World Plane Realm go crazy for them, and even True Guards would descend into madness for such a treasure.

If they killed Mo Su, they would be able to obtain that Kalpa Treasure. The lure in this additional reward surpassed the World Stones and the cultivation planet. It became the brightest light within the entire Western Ring Nebula, and countless people went wild for it.

The other three galaxies were also excited because of this news. All those who believed they had a chance put aside whatever they were doing and walked out of their isolation grounds to rush towards Western Ring Nebula at full speed.

There was a region in there that was filled with dust. Bright light would occasionally shine in that place, but not a single hint of sound could be heard. From the distance, it looked like a wasteland. An endless amount of shattered stones floated in the air.

Not long after, a long arc charged towards the place from the distance and closed in after a moment. That long arc turned into an old man dressed in a long dark blue robe. His head was filled with white, but his eyes were bright. The presence of World Plane Realm spread out from his body, showing that he was a middle stage World Paragon.

He stopped on one of the barren shattered stone, wrapped his fist in his palm, and bowed deeply.

"Master, your disciple would like to meet you."

The old man's voice was loud. Once it traveled through the area, the shattered stones before him suddenly moved and were sucked together to form… a gigantic face consisting of an innumerable amount of shattered stones.

It could be vaguely seen that this face belonged to a middle-aged man filled with a dignified air. His shut eyes gradually opened.

"What is it?" A voice that sounded like thunderous booms spread out through the area and stirred up layers of ripples, because of which the galaxy trembled and all the power of law within the area vanished instantly.

"Master, the four Great True Worlds have offered a Kalpa Treasure as the bounty for one person." The old man lowered his head. His expression was incredibly respectful. He knew clearly just how powerful his Master was. He was one of the three strongest people in the entire Western Ring Nebula, which was why even though he had reached the middle stage of World Plane Realm, he was still apprehensive when he faced his Master.

"Kalpa Treasure…" The eyes on the face formed by shattered stones suddenly shone, and brilliant light appeared within them.

At the same time, in a cultivation planet that looked quite ordinary within Western Ring Nebula was an old man who was dressed in rags and looked as pathetic as a beggar. He was lying sprawled in a forest whose plants had almost all withered. There were a few cultivators by his side. The strongest among these was only at Earth Cultivation Realm, and there were even some of them who were only at Man Cultivation Realm.

At that moment, they were staring cautiously at a ferocious beast with the form of a tiger about thousands of feet away from them. Based on the ferocious beast's presence, it was equivalent to those at the peak of Earth Cultivation Realm. On the ground behind it was a three-colored flower in blossom, and faint wisps of fragrance were spreading out from it.

The creature continuously investigated the area around it with low roars and a grim face. Yet at that moment, when the petals from that three-colored flower fell behind it, sharp whistling sounds came from all directions. About forty something cultivators rushed out from the forest and charged towards the tiger.

The old man was among them. He was also the one making the most noise.

"Kill it! That little b*tch! Kill that tiger and the treasure will be ours!"

The old man's eyes shone, and he rushed out with a growl. The tiger let out a furious roar, and a chaotic battle stirred up, but before long, the old man let out a shrill scream of pain. A deep claw mark appeared on his body, and it looked as if his organs were about to be clawed out as well. When he fell to the ground, he did not forget to yell out a sentence.

"Ah, I'm dead!"

After a few breaths, the old man on the ground opened his eyes and blinked. When he saw that the tiger was roaring in madness continuously as it fought against the people, he crawled forward cautiously, getting closer to the three-colored flower.

He was incredibly quick and seemed to be incredibly familiar with this sort of thing as well, a telling sign that he had done this sort of thing quite a number of times before. But when he was right beside the three-colored flower, someone in the sky suddenly roared.

"Just where did that old coot come from? He actually faked death to steal the Tricolored Flower?"

"Hmm? He's not from our side."

"Damn it, don't bother with that tiger. First get rid of that old thief, he's not from our side either!"

Furious shouts came from the sky. Some of the cultivators even moved past the tiger to charge towards the ground. Right then, the old man seized the three-colored flower with an anxious look on his face and quickly got up. In desperation, he swiftly ran away.

The rays of light from Enchanted Treasures charged towards him from the back. There were even divine abilities chasing after him. The old man's face was filled with excitement. As he ran, he suddenly frowned and brought out a jade slip from his bosom, then checked it while he ran. The moment he did so, a brilliant light suddenly appeared in his eyes, and he stopped.

Almost at the instant he stopped, the many Enchanted Treasures and divine abilities closed in on him altogether. A loud bang reverberated in the air, but the old man continued standing his ground and did not budge an inch. All the Enchanted Treasures that crashed into him were reduced to ashes. As for the divine abilities, they fell apart completely.

"Kalpa Treasure…" The old man narrowed his eyes faintly. Once he put away the jade slip, he placed the three-colored flower into his mouth and bit into it before throwing it on the ground. He then whipped his head around to glare at the cultivators who had been stunned by the sight just now.

"Tricolored Flower, my foot! I'm one of the three great veterans in the later stage of World Plane Realm in Western Ring Nebula. So what if I snatched it from you?! Bah! It's not tasty either." The old man spat a few times on the ground before he charged towards the sky and disappeared without a trace.

There were seven cultivation planets that were forcefully moved to a certain region within Western Ring Nebula. These seven cultivation planets might have already been reduced to wastelands, but once they surrounded that region, the intimidating force they formed shook the entire Western Ring Nebula. All those with a bit of knowledge within them would immediately think of the strongest family within Western Ring Nebula when they saw the seven cultivation planets.

Li Family!

Li Family's Progenitor, Yuan Hua, was already in the later stage of World Plane Realm. His might intimidated everyone around, so the Li Family gained a great reputation within Western Ring Nebula and were known as the overlords of the galaxy.

It was rumored that Li Family's Progenitor had long hair that was thirty feet in length, and he had refined that hair into an Enchanted Treasure. The people who had died due to that hair were countless, and the progenitor had built the Li Family's influence based on his bloody fame.

Besides the Li Family, all the others staying in the seven cultivation planets were all their subordinates. They relied on the Li Family's protection and obeyed its orders. There was a range of tall mountains and a lake on the seventh cultivation planet. The water in the lake was incredibly clear, which was an extremely rare sight within the Barren Lands of Divine Essence.

There was a wooden house beside the lake, and at that moment, there was a middle-aged man standing outside the wooden house. He had his head lowered, and there was zealousness amid the respect on his face.

"... That is how it happened. The four Great True Worlds have brought out a Kalpa Treasure as a reward."

"I understand, you may leave now." After a moment, a gentle voice came from the wooden house. The zealous look on the middle-aged man's face became even greater, and he bowed once and left.

"Kalpa Treasure… This sort of treasure will definitely attract Tian Huang Zi's attention, who is always willing to mix around with the small cultivators and doesn't have an ounce of a powerful warrior's mannerisms. Even Shi Shen Zi will definitely go wild over this as well.

"But… Kalpa Treasure, huh? Hmph, if that young Mo Su can cause the four Great True Worlds to bring out a Kalpa Treasure, then I mustn't underestimate him." The gentle voice slowly spread out before it gradually calmed down.

The entire Western Ring Nebula had gone mad for the reward of a Kalpa Treasure. Endless long arcs were charging through the galaxy. Everyone was doing their best to search for Mo Su. Occasionally, people would cross over the boundaries of Western Ring Nebula from other galaxies to join the chase as well.

Three dragons charged through the galaxy. Behind them were black longships. There were plenty of cultivators in black armor sitting on them. They all had their eyes closed in meditation as they remained still.

A young man in a Sacred Constellation Robe stood on the head of the dragon that was situated between the other two. There was a person in white sitting cross-legged beside him. That person's face was as white as jade, but it held an incredibly cold and indifferent expression. The man looked like a sharp sword that had been drawn out of its scabbard - calm, but with an outstanding presence.

"Ye Wang, if you become my follower, then I will assist you with all my abilities in destroying Mo Su and help you obtain that Kalpa Treasure. In the future, I will definitely make your sect the strongest among the Immortals."

"No need." The young man in white was naturally Ye Wang. Once he answered flatly, he closed his eyes, hiding the strange glare that appeared in his eyes when he heard of Mo Su's name.

'Mo Su… What a familiar name, could it be you..? If you aren't him, then fine, but if it's truly you… Then I don't care how you came to this place, but our fight hasn't ended.

'Over the years, you were the only one who could fight me to a tie, the only opponent who I can remember up to this date. You cannot die, because the only one who has the right to kill you is me!' Ye Wang muttered quietly in his heart with his eyes closed.

Among the hundreds of ancient bronze swords in Western Ring Nebula was Ze Long Shen, who was sitting cross-legged and meditating among the crowd. He looked into the distant galaxy, and Mo Su's name emerged in his head.

He was not the only one. Li Huo looked calm by his side, but a figure had also surfaced in his heart. That figure, too, was of a young man named Mo Su.

'Is it you..?' Li Huo shook his head.

These two people did not notice Ji Yun Hai… whose body was trembling lightly as he sat right beside them. The farther they went, the more he could feel a faint call affecting his body in an unseen manner.

'Mo Su… Su Ming… In the past, you didn't have the capability to detect that I had a wisp of divine sense left in my body. You refined my body into your clone and became my master. Who could have expected that we would now run into each other here..? Well then, it's time that we change our roles.' A freezing glare shone in Ji Yun Hai's eyes.

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Chapter 811: Eye of Solar Kalpa

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There were three ancient bronze swords in the lead of the other hundreds of ancient swords from True Sacred Yin World. They formed the three points of a perpendicular triangle. There was a person standing on the tip of each of those three swords.

The person standing at the tip of the sword located in the middle had the mark of a ball of flame at the center of his brows. He was dressed in a long red robe, and he was naturally the ninth-tier True Guard, Dao Ren, who had been given a wisp of Huo Zhu's power when he visited the main camp.

His eyes burned brightly. There were no flames spreading out of his body, but the area where he stood was incredibly hot. In fact, the sword under his feet was melting slowly.

'Mo Su…' Dao Ren narrowed his eyes, and killing intent appeared within them. This Mo Su was the one who had utterly humiliated True Sacred Yin World, and the main camp was also displeased. If they could not solve this problem within a month, then all of them would have to receive punishment.

The other two people on the tips of the other two ancient bronze swords in the lead were sitting with their legs crossed and meditating. One of them was an old man, and the other was a short boy.

Not a single ripple of power was spreading out from their bodies, but if anyone took a closer look, they would discover to their shock that there was not a single hint of the universe's law around them. It was as if the area around them was a void, as if even the galaxy wanted to avoid wherever they were.

Dao Ren turned his head around and looked towards the boy on the sword to his right and asked calmly, "Senior Han Tong Zi, how much longer will you need to locate Mo Su?"

Even though based on the presence Dao Ren was exuding he was only at the peak of the middle stage of World Plane Realm, the same as Zhao Family's Progenitor, but there was not a hint of respect within his words when he spoke to the boy. Instead, he was addressing him as his equal.

He would definitely not have done so in the past, but it was different now, since he was no longer just a True Guard. He had a status that surpassed the True Guards - Huo Zhu's messenger.

The boy opened his eyes. When his gaze landed on Dao Ren, he said calmly, "I will need four more hours before I can locate him."

"Four hours… Mo Su, with just four more hours, I will make it so that it will be impossible for you to escape anymore!" Killing intent shone in Dao Ren's eyes.

At that moment, Su Ming was sitting cross-legged on the crimson coffin within Western Ring Nebula, leaving a cultivation planet. The booms from behind him were still echoing in the air, and waves of violent, murderous presences burst out. Some of the ferocious beasts even flew out of the planet.

"Oh yeah!" the bald crane cried out in excitement by his side. During the past few days, it had been unusually excited. Every single time it broke open the seals in a cultivation planet, it would think that it had taken revenge on the four Great True Worlds, and this feeling made it fall in love with this action.

"Su Ming, where should we go next? Let's break all the seals in the Barren Lands of Divine Essence and make the four Great True Worlds angry. The angrier they are, the more trouble they will be in, and the happier I will be." The bald crane was so excited that it began shuddering before it looked at Su Ming with expectant eyes.

"A Kalpa Treasure as a reward for killing me, huh?" Su Ming ignored the bald crane. His expression was incredibly dark. When he left the cultivation planet just now, he had learned about the four Great True Worlds adding another reward for his head.

"Su Ming, we can't continue anymore. We must leave immediately, and the further get away, the better. I didn't expect… that the four Great True Worlds would bring out a Kalpa Treasure as a reward." The Duke of Crimson Flame was by Su Ming's side. He looked at Su Ming with an anxious expression on his face.

"What is a Kalpa Treasure?" Su Ming asked.

Once the Duke of Crimson Flame finished making his explanations, Su Ming's face turned even darker. He clenched his fists instinctively, and even the bald crane no longer made any more noise. Clearly, it had been scared by the four Great True Worlds' actions.

"Aren't they thinking too highly of me? Kalpa Treasure… even I am tempted." Su Ming's eyes shone. His mind moved quickly, but he did not find any way for him to resolve this series of dangers.

Right from the start, this was destined to be a disaster that would cost his life. If the Four Great True Worlds wanted to kill him, then with their power, even an old monster in the later stage of World Plane Realm would not be able to escape death, much less him.

The only method for him to escape was to head to Black Ink Planet. That place was where the four Great True Worlds had the weakest influence. Once he stepped into Divine Essence Star Ocean through Black Ink Planet, then the four Great True Worlds would be helpless to chase after him, and as time passed, this matter would be forgotten and resolved naturally.

However, Black Ink Planet was too far away, and he would not be able to reach it in a short period of time. This sealed off his only method of survival. During the past few days, Su Ming had tried stepping into the dimension of the black stone fragment, which had fused into his soul, but it wasn't much use.

He could get in, but his body could not. Only his soul could do so, and if he was truly forced to this extent, then it would be the same as giving up on his physical body, and he would have to do everything from the beginning once more.

This method was not a perfect solution for him to avoid this disaster that would cost him his life. He would still eventually need to show himself, and once he showed up and revealed any hint of himself, he would be absolutely powerless to fight back, since he would no longer have a physical body, just a soul.

Besides, abandoning his physical body and his power was something Su Ming did not want to choose.

In silence, the crimson coffin charged through the galaxy. After the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, Su Ming's eyes flashed, determination shining there.

'Oh well, with my current level of cultivation, there's no way that I will be able to survive this disaster. Besides, I don't really need to hide in the dimension in the fragment for long. I won't believe that the four Great True Worlds will choose to seal off the Divinity Incarceration Rune of the Barren Lands of Divine Essence forever.

'As long as the Rune is activated and the Divinity Incarceration Rune is in operation once more, I will be able to use the Rune's power to warp, and no seal would work on me.

'At most, they will shut it down for a year, but it's likely to be even less, just a couple months or so, else… It's completely impossible for them to give up on the Divinity Incarceration Rune of the Barren Lands of Divine Essence just for me.

'If that is the case, then I will only need to hide for a period of time. During this period of time, as long as my physical body is safe, I will not suffer any injuries!

'It's a pity that from the tests earlier, I can't bring anything into the dimension besides my soul. I can't even bring my storage bag into the dimension. It wasn't like this when I was in Yin Death Region. Perhaps this is the strangeness of the Barren Lands of Divine Essence…'

"Ha…" Su Ming shook his head, and a glint appeared in his eyes. The speed of the crimson coffin beneath him increased exponentially and changed direction, charging straight towards the cultivation planet he had just left.

'Most of the seals in this cultivation planet have been broken. They will only send someone to form the seals again, but there should be only few people who could manage to figure out that I haven't left and am still around.' Su Ming's eyes sparkled. After a moment, the crimson coffin under his body rushed into the cultivation planet, broke the top layer of wind in the planet, and disappeared without a trace instead of descending.

There were multiple barren hills on this cultivation planets, as well as quite a large number of swamps. At that moment, Su Ming was sitting near one of the swamps. He had thought about several locations carefully and eventually chosen this one.

It wasn't entirely remote. Occasionally, some of the cultivators in the planet would pass by, because there was a strange Spirit Herb growing in this region. It contained a small wisp of spiritual energy. There might not be a lot of it, but it was enough to cause the cultivators in this planet to search for it.

"I have a treasure that can hide my presence. Once my presence disappears, bald crane, protect my physical body and don't come out. Hide in the swamp and wait for me. Duke of Crimson Flame, I'll have to rely on you here. I will only come out half a year later, and when my presence is no longer around…" As Su Ming was speaking, his expression suddenly changed.

Right at the instant this happened, the Duke of Crimson Flame lifted his head swiftly to look at the sky, and his expression instantly changed drastically.

"Don't enter the treasure that hides your soul! Damn it, this is the Eye of Solar Kalpa!" the Duke of Crimson Flame immediately cried out anxiously.

The sky was originally dark. The moment the duke cried out, the darkness in the sky disappeared and turned into a dim sky with faint light. Black snow floated down, and the sky instantly turned white.

Within that white sky, an illusory black sun appeared! It was a mere illusion, because this was not the real Solar Kalpa. This was the illusory sun of Lunar Kalpa Realm. Perhaps more accurately speaking, it was a moon!

This illusory black sun that looked like the moon but did not look like the moon at the same time caused the black snow to spread out once it appeared in the sky. During that instant, an eye appeared in the black sky!

This was an eye that contained wisdom and age. Right when it appeared, eyes appeared in the endless black snow floating down from the sky.

Each flake of snow was an eye!

"Lunar Kalpa Realm, and there's not just one. There are at least two people who are executing this at the same time, and this is the long-distance Eye of Solar Kalpa that can only be cast after people possess Kalpa Treasures of powerful might. They can locate everything within the area which they see!

"Su Ming, hurry up and give up on your physical body to hide! I don't know what method you have to hide your soul, but if you're confident, then use it! Hurry! Don't bother about us, your physical body… it, and I can't escape from being located. You are my people's hope. You must remember your promise to me. You have to find my people's Abyss Soul Flag. When you have the powers of an Abyss Builder, revive my people!

"Don't be attached to your physical body anymore. Even if you can leave via shifting, it's useless. Under the Eye of Solar Kalpa, we can't escape anywhere. It will be able to instantly locate us again.

"I will use the remaining power I saved for that shift to detonate my divine sense which will help to cover up the hiding of your soul. Su Ming… take care!"

The Duke of Crimson Flame was almost screaming. At that moment, booming sounds were echoing from the sky. Endless amount of eyes in the form of snow danced in the air. Powerful presences descended into the area. Cracking sounds came from all directions in the world. All the regions in the area had been frozen, as if they had been encased in ice at that instant.

This scene was even clearer up above. The moment the sky was turned into a layer of ice, ancient bronze swords shifted into the area. As the shadows of people appeared in flashes, a loud booming sound reverberated in the galaxy where forces of power from True Sacred Yin World were stationed.

An endless amount of ripples spread out. Those ripples formed a wave of impact that circled in the air, and as it did so… a gigantic Radix Planet slowly flew out from the True Sacred Yin World's region. This was the second time a Radix Planet was sent out during the endless passage of time.

The first time was when the anomaly in Black Ink Planet had occurred.

At the instant the Radix Planet came out, it immediately turned into an illusion and faded away, disappearing without a trace. At the same time, the galaxy in the area beyond the cultivation planet where Su Ming was roared. When the entire area was encased in ice, the space within a certain part in the region was forcefully torn apart, and the Radix Planet descended!

This huge celestial body that was formed by numerous celestial planets and looked like a distorted staircase was swiftly manifesting in the air. Half of it had already appeared. As it did so, a huge power that could seal space spread out. This was what the True Guards from True Sacred Yin World had prepared to prevent Su Ming from shifting. Once the Radix Planet appeared in its complete form, the seal would be complete. All those below Solar Kalpa Realm would not be able to shift.

They first found where he was, then the Radix Planet descended to lock onto his movements so that he could not shift. Once that was done, there was no need to worry that he would escape.

"Su Ming, what are you still thinking about?! Hurry! I can sense that the War Radix Celestial Body from the four Great True Worlds has already appeared!" the Duke of Crimson Flame roared. The sky twisted. The shadow of a huge sword appeared, and an endless amount of long arcs manifested in the air.

Right at the instant the duke was about to rush out, a hint of madness suddenly appeared in Su Ming's eyes. "Duke of Crimson Flame, with your full power, shift!" Su Ming's eyes were filled with madness, but his voice was so calm that it was terrifying.

The Duke of Crimson Flame whipped his head around and cried out with an anxious look on his face. "What?!"

"Shift… to Western Ring Nebula's… foreign land!"

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Chapter 812: Forced into Foreign Land

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Most of the Radix Planet had already descended. Hundreds of ancient bronze swords filled the entire galaxy. Cultivation planets charged through space in the form of long arcs. The huge net where no escape would be possible was about to be placed. All the True Guards from True Sacred Yin World stationed within the Barren Lands of Divine Essence had moved out. They had also brought out the offerings needed to ask the two cultivators from Lunar Kalpa Realm to help them, a telling sign that their desire to kill Su Ming had already become incredibly strong.

"You still have ten breaths before the Radix Planet completely descends. Ten breaths later, even if you can shift, you won't be able to use it at all."

An ancient bronze sword that was clearly much bigger than the rest appeared in the galaxy. Dao Ren, who had the mark of the ball of flames at the center of his brows, stood at the tip of the sword. Invisible, burning flames spread out from his body as he stared at the cultivation planet not too far in the distance.

"Even if you shift now, you won't be able to change the outcome. No matter where you shift, we will be able to catch up to you in an instant," Dao Ren said while laughing coldly.

The galaxy was frozen. As cracking sounds viciously spread out, the Duke of Crimson Flame gritted his teeth as he stood on the cultivation planet and stopped speaking due to the determination in Su Ming's calm voice. Instead, as he let out a roar towards the sky, ripples madly spread out from his entire body.

Those ripples swept out in all directions before they enveloped Su Ming and the bald crane within. At the instant those endless long arcs were about to arrive, the space around them let out violent, booming sounds.

Right at the moment those booming sounds shook the sky and earth and the Radix Planet completely descended to form the net which would allow no escape, the Duke of Crimson Flame disappeared along with Su Ming and the bald crane. In the blink of an eye, they fused with the ripples and shifted from the place.

Su Ming's disappearance did not cause any change of expression on the faces of the True Guards that had descended from the sky. It was as if they had expected this much from the start. Almost the instant Su Ming shifted, the Radix Planet appeared in its complete form in the sky. Waves of powerful light swept through the planet, and all the True Guards along with the ancient bronze swords disappeared.

There was not a single True Guard left within or outside the cultivation planet. It was as if everything had just been an illusion.

There was a unique place in Western Ring Nebula, and there was an endless amount of cracks in space there. Freezing wind always blew out from those cracks, and it would moan as it went around. Due to the large number of cracks, this place was surrounded by wind, distorting and turning blurry the sight of anyone who came here.

The wind was not strong. In fact, if a cultivator in Earth Cultivation Realm was a little more careful, they could be safe in this wind. However, in this harmless looking region, there was… one of the foreign lands where all the cultivators in the entire Western Ring Region and even the entire Barren Lands of Divine Essence would freeze in their tracks, and where very few would dare enter!

Western Ring Nebula's foreign land!

There wasn't much danger from the wind because this place was just the entrance. There wasn't much danger within all the entrances to the foreign lands. However, if anyone entered one of those cracks, that would no longer be so.

All of these cracks possessed the power of Relocation. No matter what sort of life form stepped into the crack, it would instantly be sent to the foreign land. The true danger would begin after the person was sent in, that was where the nightmare began.

At that moment, ripples appeared out of nowhere in this region. As they spread out, Su Ming's body manifested in space. He was alone. The bald crane was not with him, and neither was the Duke of Crimson Flame.

The bald crane had been put away by Su Ming, and the Duke of Crimson Flame… used up all his strength during that shift and fell into deep slumber. After all, this shift was not like any other. He had used it when the Eyes of Solar Kalpa were locked onto them, and the power he had to use far surpassed what he would usually need.

The unconscious Duke of Crimson Flame turned into a totem on Su Ming's right arm. It was dull, but had a hint of life force within it. He would need time to recuperate before he could wake up.

Right after Su Ming appeared, he took a step forward without any hesitation towards the foreign land. He moved so quickly that his body looked like a long arc that charged forward. Almost at the instant Su Ming appeared, the galaxy started roaring violently right where he had manifested moments before.

As those roaring sounds reverberated in the air, a gigantic outline appeared in the galaxy, and it looked like a distorted flight of stairs. That was naturally the Radix Planet! Once it locked onto Su Ming, no matter where he was, it would instantly shift and chase after him.

Once the Radix Planet appeared, huge ancient bronze swords manifested within an instant in the galaxy beyond the foreign land. There were hundreds of them, and during that moment, countless long arcs also appeared in the area.

"Foreign land! This is… Western Ring Nebula's foreign land!"

"Damn it, he shifted here? What does he want to do? Is he thinking about fighting for a slim chance of survival by entering the foreign land because he knows he'll definitely die facing us?"

"Foreign land!"

The moment those ancient bronze swords appeared, the countless True Guards on them stood up altogether. Just as they were about to move out of the swords, they saw their surroundings clearly, and they also saw Su Ming charging into the distance.

Ze Long Shen was also in the crowd. He was staring at Su Ming, who was before him, and a strange light appeared in his eyes. Complicated emotions also appeared in Li Huo's eyes, who was by his side.

Ji Yun Hai's pupils shrank. The faint call had grown incredibly strong at that instant, causing him to almost be unable to control his own body and rush forward.

As the True Sacred Yin World's True Guards appeared, the ripples in the galaxy spread out viciously. A black sun also manifested high above. A glint appeared in that eye and focused on Su Ming.

Su Ming's footsteps halted. He turned around swiftly and looked at the hundreds of gigantic ancient swords, the even bigger Radix Planet, and the large number of True Guards. At that moment, he had already rushed into the wind in the area. In fact, there was a crack in space less than thirty feet behind him.

Weak waves of absorption force spread out, letting Su Ming know clearly that this crack was one of the entrances that would lead him into the foreign land.

He finally saw the three people standing on the three swords that were located at forefront. He saw a boy and another person, both of whom did not let out any ripples of power but were powerful warriors that made his eyes sting in pain when he looked at them.

Su Ming had seen that invisible mighty pressure spreading out from those people before!

The three souls that were sealed in his body when he was in Yin Death Region had also been at this Realm. These were… terrifying existences within Lunar Kalpa Realm. As the duo stood on the swords, the galaxy around them seemed to have stopped all manner of operation. This was a mighty power that caused Su Ming's heart to tremble in shock.

Besides these two people, there was also a young man standing on the sword located in the middle. He had the mark of a flame at the center of his brows. That young man's gaze was filled with powerful killing intent. Su Ming only met that gaze for one moment, and an endless amount of heat immediately surrounded him.

There were tens of thousands of True Guards in the area, and these three people were the leaders. When Su Ming saw that there were so many people who were mobilized to kill him, a smile appeared on his lips, and it gradually became brighter and brighter, until Su Ming eventually began laughing loudly.

He was laughing because he saw that not a single one of those True Guards dared to step into the region where the entrances laid, even though there was no danger whatsoever in this place. He was laughing because he saw that the two powerful warriors who made his heart tremble when he looked at them and his cultivation base to freeze as well as the young man with the mark of the flame on the center of his brows were frowning.

He had even sensed that all the people that came, including that trio at the front, not only did not dare step into the region, they also prevented the ripples of their power from getting close to the area of the foreign land to the best of their abilities. Those ripples only spread to the peripheral edges.

He also saw Ze Long Shen and Li Huo, who had complicated expressions on their faces, along with Ji Yun Hai, who was staring at him fixedly by their side.

This sight let Su Ming know that he had made the right bet. Shifting to the foreign land was great bet, and he had to take it. Even if he had taken the option to hide in the dimension in the fragment when he was in the cultivation planet, not only would his physical body would have definitely been destroyed, the Duke of Crimson Flame would have also died certainly, and no matter how well the bald crane hid itself, it would also have found it difficult to escape from this disaster.

Even if Su Ming no longer had any emotions, he still could not do something like let the companions by his side suffer such consequences for his survival. Besides, even if he had hidden his soul, it still would have been difficult for him to escape being suppressed and sealed. It might have been difficult for him to walk out of the dimension in the fragment at that time, and once he walked out, he would still die.

If that was the case, then he might as well take a risk and head to the foreign land that would cause people to pale in fright when they talked about it. He would head there and fight for a chance at survival. That was his choice.

As Su Ming laughed, all the True Guards beyond the foreign land fell into silence.

"During the multiple times where I've been chased, the people I saw were all of you from True Sacred Yin World of the four Great True Worlds… If I don't die in the foreign land… then I will eventually return the favor!" There was an endless chill to Su Ming's laughter. He took a few steps back, moving to the edge of the crack.

"If you have the courage, you can continue chasing me into the foreign land and continue coming after my life." Killing intent appeared in Su Ming's eyes. He put into memory all of the faces of the people there, especially the three strongest among them. At the instant he finished his speech, he took a step back and entered the crack completely.

"Entering the foreign land is the same as entering hell. Forget about you, it is rare even for those in Solar Kalpa Realm to survive… Since you don't want to die at our hands, you can commit suicide by heading into the foreign land. We can allow this," Dao Ren stated flatly, being the one to speak at this moment.

Su Ming heard his words, but he did not speak. Before his body disappeared as he was relocated, he cast Dao Ren a deep glance, and that one glance caused the man's heart to tremble.

He saw a resolve and determination that he had never seen before in anyone else within Su Ming's eyes. That gaze sent forth a message that Su Ming did not say with his mouth, and that message was sent to them incredibly clearly.

"I will definitely return!"

Su Ming's body swiftly disappeared in the crack that was like a gaping mouth. Once it devoured Su Ming, it looked as if it was laughing and mocking the people while looking at the same time as if it was waiting for others to enter it as well.

Time passed. Dao Ren clenched his fists, and a freezing glare appeared in his eyes.

"The child stepped into the foreign land. He will surely die. There is no need for us to keep the bounty on his head. There is no possibility that he will survive. No one managed to obtain the reward for his life, but we still managed to resolve this, and we can now answer to the main camp."

Ripples spread out within the galaxy. Gradually, the hundreds of swords and the endless True Guards faded away, slowly disappearing with the Radix Planet while immersed in their emotions and silence.

When they completely disappeared, many of the True Guards who left still remembered Su Ming's gaze before he was relocated. That gaze remained in their heads and did not disappear for a long, long time.

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Chapter 813: Foreign Land!

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Several days later, True Sacred Yin World spread the news of the wanted criminal Mo Su stepping into the foreign land. Once the numerous cultivators who were chasing after his life learned about it, their pursuits came to an end.

It did not matter whether it were the cultivators from Western Ring Nebula or those who had come from other galaxies. Once they learned of this news, slightly mixed feelings rose in their hearts. Quite a large number of them went to the peripheral edges of Western Ring Nebula's foreign land, and as they looked at the region, they chose to leave in silence.

It was precisely because they knew of the dangers of the foreign land that even if they had come after Su Ming's life for the rewards, a hint of respect grew in their hearts for that cultivator called Mo Su.

He had caused True Sacred Yin World of the four Great True Worlds to raise arms against him and add an additional bounty over his head. He had also released numerous ferocious beasts in many cultivation planets, breaking open one seal after another, and even forced the four Great True Worlds to shut down the Divinity Incarceration Rune. All of the True Guards of True Sacred Yin World were mobilized, and a Radix Planet had even left its region where the four Great True Worlds stationed themselves to keep a lookout over Sinful Barren Lands.

All of these might sound simple, but in truth, over the endless amount of years, besides the change in Black Ink Planet, only Mo Su alone was able to do this.

In the endless pursuit, not only had this person managed to survive, he had also killed countless pursuers. The difference between a cultivator in the initial stage of World Plane Realm might not be that great from a cultivator in Heaven Cultivation Planet, but no matter what, they were in World Plane Realm. Yet even so, even those in the initial stage of World Plane died when they ran into this Mo Su!

Only those in the middle stage of World Plane Realm could make this person avoid them. However, in the chase after his life, even Heavenly Treasure Planet had been shattered. Zhao Family's Progenitor could not detain him, and his achievements time and again had caused him to become famous. He became a subject that almost no one did not know about in Western Ring Nebula, and the things he did were known to almost all.

This sort of person deserved respect. This was something all the pursuers that had come after him for the rewards and mostly chosen to remain silent beyond the foreign land though.

Several days later, in the area beyond the foreign land, which had become quiet once again, a sigh could be heard. An old man in rags walked out of space with unstable footsteps. There was a pot of wine in his hand. Once he walked out, he drank a mouthful of wine. As he looked at the calm foreign land, a hint of admiration appeared on his face.

'No wonder he became a wanted criminal by the four Great True Worlds and could cause such a stir in Western Ring Nebula. What courage! He actually dared to enter the foreign land to fight for his survival. If this child doesn't die, then in the future, he will surely become a Chosen.' The old man drank quietly. After some time, he shook his head, turned around, and left.

'Mo Su, I'll remember your name. If you manage to come out someday, then I will invite you for a drink.'

Soon after the old man left, an innumerable amount of shattered stones appeared in space from another direction. Right when these shattered stones appeared, they gathered together to form a gigantic human made of stone. That stone human's eyes were cold as he stared at the foreign land. He did not say a word. After some time, he let out a cold harrumph and disappeared into the galaxy.

Seven days later, a young man in white arrived near the quiet foreign land. That young man's expression was icy cold, and there was a hint of loneliness in his gaze. He looked at the foreign land and remained silent for a very long time.

"Su Ming, you can't die here, because the only person who has the right to kill you is me. Only me, Ye Wang! If you die here, then I will no longer have any opponents…" The young man was naturally, Ye Wang. He stood there for several hours before he turned around and left, bringing with him a hint of loneliness.

Time passed. Soon, a month went by.

If the four Great True Worlds had not sent out a new notice, then the matter regarding Mo Su would have come to an end, and this matter would just remain in the hearts of all those who'd heard of it. Perhaps it would have remained there forever, or perhaps it would have disappeared several years later.

However, the new notice caused an uproar that had never been seen before in Western Ring Nebula and the other three galaxies. Even the shock that had been stirred up when the reward of the Kalpa Treasure was offered could not compare to what was happening at this moment. The difference between them was like heaven and earth.

People began to hesitate. In fact, the people who had chosen to leave started shuddering because of this notice as well. Madness appeared in their eyes, along with an intense conflict.

The old monsters who had taken action due to the Kalpa Treasure previously were shocked as well by the four Great True Worlds' notice. They were in disbelief. In fact, they could not imagine the reason why the four Great True Worlds would pay so much attention at this person called Mo Su. The level of attention they paid him even surpassed the amount of attention gained by Black Ink Planet.

The old monsters were not the only ones in disbelief. Even the True Guards from the four Great True Worlds were shocked by the contents of the notice, and they were… even dumbfounded.

This was the nineteenth-tier notice that was sent straight from the main camp. This notice's tier level meant that this was a decision made together by the nineteen powerful True Generals in the main camp. In fact, the orders of the two True Divinities within the main camp were contained in the notice as well, else even the nineteen True Generals would not have been able to offer such a reward.

It could be said that the notice represented the main camp's orders, the forces of power from the four Great True Worlds keeping a lookout over Sinful Barren Lands… and could even be said to represent the will of the four Great True Progenitors from the four Great True Worlds, who were said to no longer care about the matters of the world.

"Those who enter Western Ring Nebula's foreign land and capture Mo Su alive… will be pardoned of all their crimes and will be free return to the four Great True Worlds… They will obtain their freedom!"

This was the content of the notice. There was no mention of World Stones, cultivation planets, or Kalpa Treasure. However, the word 'freedom' was the greatest desire among all the cultivators within the Barren Lands of Divine Essence, and it did not matter what their level of cultivation was. For freedom, they were willing to give up on everything.

Compared to freedom, all treasures were nothing. This was the first time the four Great True Worlds had offered freedom as a bounty for a person within the Barren Lands of Divine Essence.

The shock caused by this notice was difficult to describe with words. Even the old monsters who usually isolated themselves to train and did not come out all year long within the four Great Galaxies were taken aback. In fact, some of the mighty cultivators who possessed the power of Lunar Kalpa Realm were also shaken by this notice. Their desire for freedom was so great that they would even dream of it in their sleep.

With such a reward, someone finally stepped into Western Ring Nebula's foreign land, becoming the second person to enter after Mo Su. Gradually, more and more people entered with hearts that were ready to risk everything so that they could fight for their freedom with everything on the line.

The moon in the sky shone with a gentle, luminous light. The light landed on the snow on the ground and reflected a silvery glow. The boundless snow floating down from the sky was like a beautiful song under the moonlight that echoed in the air.

The ground was filled with thick layers of snow, and although the wind was not strong, it was very cold. There were some trees there as well. The cold season caused their branches to be empty of leaves, so the only things that remained were dead trees with lots of branches.

There was a village in the distance. Under the moonlight were balls of light from the lamps, hidden behind the paper covering windows. Those lights shone with an indistinct glimmering yellow.

This was a village with only a few hundreds of people. In this dark night, the village gave people a feeling of peace and quiet. It might be due to the cold in midwinter, but even some of the mutts that were kept in the houses were hunched in corners. Even if a stranger came, they would not be willing to bark.

Occasionally, the sounds of babies crying could be heard. Soon after, a mother's soft, comforting whispers offering protection would cause the whimpers to slowly fade away.

This was the sight Su Ming saw when he entered the foreign land with a cautious heart and with his cultivation base circulating in his base so that he could bring forth his strongest attack at any time. This was the sight he saw after he was relocated and saw his surroundings.

This serenity, this gentleness, this normalcy, these whimpers of the babies, the mothers' whispers, and this village stunned Su Ming momentarily.

He stood on the snow, and there was plenty of it on his body, too as he looked at the village in the distance. The tranquility in this place made it impossible for him to believe that this was the foreign land.

This was not a place that was filled with dangers, where practically all those who entered died, while the few who survived refused to talk about the things they encountered even after they got out… This was clearly a peaceful place that was like paradise. In fact, when Su Ming spread his Atman outwards, he couldn't sense even a single hint of danger in the area, nor was there any hint of power. All of these things forced Su Ming to believe that this place… was just a normal village. There were no cultivators here, and neither was there any danger.

"How could this be?" Su Ming mumbled. There was a huge disparity between this and the foreign land he imagined. In truth, even if he had ran into a place that was filled with endless dangers and countless ferocious beasts charging at him, he would not have been as bewildered as he was at that moment.

This sort of ordinary peace sent shivers down his spine.

Not only did his guard not lax, it instead became stronger. He looked at the area, and eventually, his gaze fell once again on the village. At that moment, he slowly sat down cross-legged. He did not move forward, but instead looked at the village quietly with a huge, dried-up tree by his side.

'Foreign land…'

In silence, Su Ming grabbed a handful of snow from the ground. He looked at the snow, absorbing the warmth from his hand before it slowly melted away. As he looked at the melted puddle flowing down from his palm and dripping onto the ground to leave small potholes, he frowned.

'Could it be an illusion?' Su Ming's eyes shone. Gradually, the bright moon appeared in his left eye and the sun in his left. During that instant, his heart became a star.

Illusion of Star, Sun, and Moon. This was the illusion type divine ability that Su Ming had understood on his own. Even those with higher levels of cultivation than his would have their hearts seen through under this illusion. At that moment, Su Ming activated this ability at full force and looked towards the village in the distance.

Yet no matter how he cast the illusion, he could not detect a single hint of change. The village was still the village. Snow was still floating down. Everything was so real that it made Su Ming's breathing become a little rapid.

'Something's not right. The foreign land should not be like this.'

Su Ming swiftly closed his eyes. After he covered the sun and moon in his eyes, he circulated his cultivation base through his body. After a moment, he opened his eyes. A strange light appeared in them, and he looked towards the village once again.

It was still the same.

Su Ming was silent. He felt that the area was filled with a bizarre air, but he did not choose to leave. Instead, with his guard up, he chose to remain still while seated, remaining that way until the sky was no longer dark. Once sunlight shone on the ground and the new day arrived, he still continued to look at the village.

Time passed. One day went by, and another. Su Ming sat there for half a month, but he did not manage to see a single thing that was off. He examined practically every villager of the hundreds present—every man, woman, elderly, and young—but they were all mortals.

It was the night half a month later that Su Ming's expression suddenly changed as he remained seated. He turned his head around to look into the distance, then averted his gaze.

When midnight arrived, the sounds of galloping horses came from the distance. The snow that was sent flying into the air spread out. When bellowing laughter reached Su Ming's ears, he saw… a team of horsemen numbering a hundred, which he had noticed several hours ago.

These people all had ferocious looks on their faces that showed their ruthless and brutal nature. As they laughed, they charged towards the village, and even brought out scimitars and battle axes. By the looks of it, they were clearly going to plunder and slaughter the village.

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Chapter 814: Secrets of the Foreign Lands

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'Just what secrets do the foreign lands have that most of those who enter will die, and those few that leave will not speak of them? Is it because they don't want to say it or because of some other reason?'

Su Ming looked at the bandits getting closer to the village. Once the sounds of horse galloping shook the ground, the dogs in the village that did not want to bark seemed to have noticed danger and started barking almost shrilly, causing the lights that had been extinguished in the village to all be lit up at that moment.

Shocked cries and screams of terror came from a village along with the wails of babies. It was chaos.

'I've been observing this village for the past half a month and found nothing extraordinary. It's just a mortals' village… Since this is not an illusion, then they must be real.

'This village is built in this place. If bandits frequently appear here, then there's no way they would not have any sort of defenses set up, but I did not see even a single fence.

'The bandits' arrival is a little strange as well. Why did I see them..?'

Su Ming narrowed his eyes. As a myriad of thoughts turned in his head, he saw the group of bandits less than a thousand feet away from the village. Dogs were howling there, and children were held by their mothers, and as they shivered, fear and despair appeared in their eyes.

The men in the village took hold of any weapon they could find. They might be afraid, but they did not retreat. Instead, in their despair, they let out roars of madness.

They were ready to give up their lives to protect their families and home.

"Kill them. Destroy the entire village. Kill all the men, elderly, and children. Snatch all their food and women, and hurry up. Once we destroy this village, we have to rush back." The strongest man among the bandits lifted the scimitar in his hand with a ferocious grin. Then, waving the weapon before them and roaring loudly, all the men charged towards the village with crazed laughter.

A thousand feet, eight hundred feet, six hundred feet…

Su Ming looking at this scene from the distance. He watched the bandits come less that three hundred feet away from the village, watched as the villagers became fearful and despairing, watched the fear in the children's innocent eyes, watched how the men refused to take a single step backwards to protect their home, and watched all the women hold onto their children tightly as tears fell from their eyes. Resolve could be seen there.

Su Ming suddenly understood.

"I'm hesitating…" he mumbled.

"When I hesitate, I sink into a situation where I have to make a choice. I can choose to help the villagers or to help the bandits. I can also choose to not do anything and let things happen on their own, or choose to kill everyone here. Perhaps I even have other choices, but...

"This isn't my will. This is the surroundings around me and the development of the situation in this world forcefully dragging me into making a choice. No matter what I do, I will be making a choice.

"This is the foreign land, the foreign land that is rumored to be incredibly dangerous, I understand now!"

Su Ming sucked in a deep breath. He looked at the bandits that were only a hundred feet away from the village, having come to understand the things before him. This was the world and the foreign land setting out the conditions to have him make his first choice.

"It's like this dried up tree. There's only one trunk, but the higher it goes, the more branches there will be. Once I choose a branch, I will be faced with more choices later. When I reach the end, I will realize that the end isn't even the end." Su Ming stood up and looked at the tree beside him. "Choice, huh..?"

A freezing glare appeared in Su Ming's eyes. He lifted his right hand and swung it at the village not too far in the distance. At that moment, the man leading the bandits into village had lifted the scimitar in his hand with a ferocious smile. Right at the instant he swung down at the head of the middle-aged man in front of him, a shudder suddenly ran through his body. The scimitar he had lifted froze in midair. Wind blew past, and the man along with the horse under him turned into ashes.

There was no blood, no torn pieces of flesh. He was simply reduced to ashes and disappeared from the crowd's eyes. While the villagers were stunned, all the other bandits behind the man froze in the mid of their terror, and then… all of them turned into ashes as well.

This strange sight immediately caused the breathing of all the villagers to almost stop. They stared at the ashes spreading out in the snow with dumbfounded gazes and felt that everything that had just happened was surreal. It was as if everything that happened was just a dream.

They remained staring blankly until they saw Su Ming walking towards them through the snow. Then, all of them withdrew while trembling. Su Ming, with his gray hair and long white robes, walked towards them through the snow until he stood before the mortal villagers. He swept his gaze past all of their bodies.

He saw terror, one that was even greater than when these people had ran into the bandits earlier, and it was all shown in their trembling bodies. Su Ming averted his gaze in silence, then turned around. Just as he was about to leave, the wind lifted his hair.

"Le… Sir, you… You're the legend!" a trembling voice suddenly came from the crowd. An old man took a few quick steps forward. His face was covered in wrinkles, and he had the appearance of a person who had one foot in his grave. At that moment, with an excited face, he looked at Su Ming while his body shuddered.

"You are the legend, the legend of our village. There's no mistake to this, I will absolutely not mistake this… I remember your portrait. You are the legend!"

Su Ming was momentarily taken aback, then he turned around and looked at the old mortal.

In his excitement, the old man could not even enunciate his words clearly. His franticness made him unable to explain the situation clearly. He quickly pointed towards one of the buildings in the village.

A glint appeared in Su Ming's eyes when he looked at the building. He walked towards it, and once he pushed open its door, his heart trembled. He did not step in, but stood at the entrance for a long, long time.

That building was an ancestral one. There were plenty of memorial plates there, and they belonged to the deceased villagers, who were placed there to be worshipped by their descendants. On the wall behind those plates was a picture.

There was a man in that picture. He was dressed in a long white robe, and he had long gray hair. His body was positioned sideways in the snow, as if he was turning around. Wind lifted his hair, and this scene… was the exact same as when Su Ming had been about to turn around to leave!

"This is the picture to which we give our offerings all year long. In the past, you…" The old man's quivering and excited voice came from behind Su Ming, but he did not hear his words. This was no longer important.

The important thing was the picture. He looked at his hair dancing in the wind there, at the scattering snow, and he knew that this was not a picture scroll that had existed for many years. Instead… it was the him of just then.

"Foreign lands…" Su Ming mumbled. He lifted his right hand and seized the picture through the air. It rushed at him, and the instant he grabbed it, a vast amount of power spread out from within the scroll and surged straight into his body. Then, an ancient voice appeared in his head.

There was an age-old presence to that voice, as if it had traveled through the passages of time from many, many years ago. Due to its age, even just hearing that voice alone would make someone feel a waning presence.

"I… am Sui Chen Zi."

That voice echoed in Su Ming's mind. The ancient tone brought with it a presence that could make the galaxy freeze all over. At the instant that voice spread out, the snow around Su Ming stopped moving. All the villagers also lost all signs of life. They stood there, still and unmoving.

The buildings around him started disintegrating right before his eyes. Even those people who did not move also started rotting away at that moment.

They were not the only ones. Even the snow on the ground, the wind in the air, and the entire sky started slowly fading away, as if they were also falling into decline.

In fact, even the picture scroll in Su Ming's hands started disintegrating. It was as if it had been immersed in the eternal passages of time that were constantly flowing away.

All the color in the area also faded away at that moment, the only one remaining being gray. Only Su Ming's body alone retained its original color, becoming the only thing that was different in the world.

"When I was born, the world had already been formed. I've trained in the path of cultivation for a long time, and I've forgotten how long I've practiced it… The universe has nine heavens, and I am in exclusive possession of one of them. I've reached the end of the path of cultivation. With one thought, I can destroy the heavens; with one thought, I can give life to the universe.

"With one thought, I can make all lives perish; with one thought, I can give life to all manner of being… There are nine worlds in the universe. When the cosmos was first formed, the heavens were segregated, and I have become one of them. If I die, then the cosmos will be missing one piece to its whole. If I perish, then the cosmos will be incomplete from then on.

"Wherever my will is, another cultivator in Plane Kalpa Realm will be born. So long as I have the thought, a cultivator who has controlled fate will continue walking down the path of cultivation for his entire life. All the lives in the universe, all the lives in my world that practice cultivation are all because I will it to be so.

"However… the cosmos are damaged, and no one can reverse that damage. If the universe wishes for destruction, no power can fight against it… Those eight have all failed and perished. They have turned into Empty Dust, and I alone am left, still struggling.

"There are nine worlds in the universe, and eight have shattered. What use is there even if I struggle?!

"I wish to turn back the universe. If I succeed, I will recreate the cosmos. If I fail… then my dust will appear in the heart of the cosmos. With the Empty Dust of my eight friends as my companions, even if I die, I will have no regrets.

"Before I perish, I will set a law. I, Sui Chen Zi, shall declare this… If this world falls and turns into Empty Dust, then if the fated arrive, they can obtain my Divine Essence.

"Divine Essence is the essence of the nine worlds that were born when the universe was first formed. Only those who have obtained Divine Essence can become one of the nine worlds in the universe. Only then can they reach the end of their path of cultivation, and only then… can they give form to a world!

"Those who are fated, I do not know how long it has been in the universe where you are right now, but the number of Great True Worlds you see will tell you just how many Sublime Paragons like me there are in the universe right then!

"Look at the heart of the universe, find how many Empty Dusts have disappeared, and you will know how many people have become Sublime Paragons!"

Su Ming's heart was in shock. This was the greatest shock he had experienced ever since he became conscious of his own thoughts. It overturned all his understanding of the foreign lands.

"If you wish to obtain my Divine Essence, then there will only be three outcomes. One, you will be destroyed. Two, you will find yourself with not enough right to possess my Divine Essence, but you will be able to leave. However, you will not be allowed to say a word about it, or you will be destroyed. Three… you will fuse with my Divine Essence and walk down the path of becoming the Sublime Paragon!"

It was as if millions of thunderbolts roared in Su Ming's head at the same time. His body trembled. The world around him disintegrated completely during that instant. The buildings fell apart, the people turned into ashes, the sky disappeared, and the earth turned into nothingness. Only Su Ming alone stood in a daze.

The picture scroll in his hand also fell apart at that moment.

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Chapter 815: Big Man

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Once the picture scroll disappeared and the world around turned into emptiness, tall, towering stone monuments appeared before Su Ming. Those stone monuments were all of different heights. Some of them were about several hundreds of thousands of feet tall, while others were only twenty or thirty thousand feet tall. Their numbers looked endless when he cast his gaze upon them. There were more than a hundred thousand of them.

Most of their colors were dull. Some of them even had cracks on them. As waves of ancient presences spread out from them, dried up specks of blood could also be found, which had once seeped out of those cracks.

There was a name carved on each of the stone monuments, and because there were more than a hundred thousand of them, it meant that there were more than a hundred thousand names there.

"My Divine Essence can be obtained by all manner of living as long as they are fated to obtain it. However… the law of the jungle is a law that will never perish. That is why I have left behind a hundred thousand stone monuments. Each person who comes will bring death to another. This is what one has to understand if they wish to obtain my Divine Essence.

"Those whose stone monuments go past the hundred thousand feet are the candidates for my Divine Essence. They may leave temporarily, for a thousand years. After that time, they can come to this place again. Once they make their stone monument a million feet tall, they can obtain another a thousand years' time, and this will continue every single time they push a stone monument.

"If they do not come every thousand years, then they will be destroyed. This is the second outcome for those who wish to obtain my Divine Essence.

"Those who can make their stone monument reach ten million feet at first try can obtain my Divine Essence immediately. All the other stone monuments will be completely crushed, and they will scatter away in the form of Empty Dust. This is the third outcome."

As Sui Chen Zi's voice echoed in Su Ming's heart, he saw a stone monument that was eight hundred thousand something feet away from him. It was riddled with cracks, from which fresh blood could be heard continuously flowing down. In fact, Su Ming could even hear shrill screams of pain and roars filled with unwillingness to admit defeat faintly echoing in the air.

"No, I won't accept this! I'm been trapped here for twenty-three thousand years, give me more time, and I'll be able to make this stone reach a million feet! I won't accept this!"

Those roars abruptly fell silent. The stone monument before Su Ming was washed in blood. When that voice disappeared, the name that once existed on the stone monument also disappeared without a trace. It was removed.

At the same time, a gentle light began to shine. When it surrounded the stone monument, it gradually became smaller. It shrank to only twenty thousand feet, then the light on it dissipated. The surface of the stone monument was smooth, like a mirror. When Su Ming looked over, his reflection was reflected on it.

"Leave your name. The inheritance begins now," the old voice stated, resounding once again in Su Ming's mind. Su Ming fell silent. He looked at the one hundred thousand stone monuments around him and understood that he had no room for retreat.

The so called three outcomes were not for people to choose whether they wanted to accept or reject the inheritance before they received it. Instead, right after they stepped into the foreign land and made their first choice, they were destined to tread on the path of inheritance.

Su Ming remained silent.

His heart was filled with apprehension due to Sui Chen Zi's arrangement. He knew that the more irregular things were, the more terrifying they would be. This right of inheritance never gave anyone the chance to choose things on their own. Instead, they were constantly being chosen for them.

Perhaps there were would be only a few people that came here. Then it would mean nothing to these one hundred thousand people. After all, once the choice was made, only one person out of a hundred thousand would die, and the possibility of it falling on them would be very small.

However… this inheritance was open to all. Anyone could enter. In fact, during the eternal passage of time, there must have been many periods of time when numerous cultivators arrived here. If ten thousand people came, then it would no longer be one out of ten thousand who would die, but one out of ten!

If fifty thousand people arrived, then it would one out of every two who would die. Similarly, if one hundred thousand came to this place, then this would turn into a ruthless round of elimination. In an instant, the previous one hundred thousand would all be replaced.

Even if one had just obtained the right and did not have much time to receive the Divine Essence, death would arrive at their doorstep. This was unfair, but in this world, fairness never existed.

Luck was the key to survive in this place!

Su Ming sucked in a deep breath. Once he understood all of this, he knew that he had no way to avoid this. He stared at the stone monument before him, then lifted his right hand to swing it at that stone monument.

It was as if a gust of wind had swept past the land. When it landed on the stone monument, it dispersed, and a name emerged - Mo Su.

At the instant that name appeared, a rumbling sound came from within the stone monument. A picture was gradually drawn on it. After a moment, when that picture was completely revealed, Su Ming saw a village in a world with wind and snow intertwining with each other, and he saw himself standing before those mortals.

This was his initial choice, and it was shown on the stone monument at that moment.

Su Ming stared at it. After a long time, he averted his gaze. When he looked into the distance, he saw that there were a thousand stone monuments that had reached a million feet tall. This meant that there were a thousand people that were fortunate enough to not die after they were trapped for an unknown amount of years, succeeding in making their stone monument grow to one million feet, obtaining the one thousand year period of freedom.

There were five hundred monuments that were two million feet tall. These five hundred stone monuments were erected in different directions, and the names on them were shining with a faint light.

There were three hundred stone monuments that had reached three million feet, and two hundred that were four million feet tall. And as for those that had reached five million feet, Su Ming saw only a hundred of those among the one hundred thousand stone monuments around him.

There were twenty that had reached six million feet tall.

There were ten that had reached seven million feet tall.

Su Ming only saw one stone monument that was eight million feet tall. It was erected far in the distance, but it was the tallest one in the area and so the most eye-catching presence here. Su Ming looked at the stone monument, and he could vaguely see the name on it.

"Yun Shan Zi!"

"If you become a candidate for my Divine Essence, your life span will no longer be numbered. Under the power of my law, you will not perish… but if you cannot continue making the stone monument grow, besides being eternally trapped in here, if other people become candidates, your right will be cancelled." The old voice echoed coldly in Su Ming's heart.

"A merciless round of elimination," Su Ming mumbled. It was clear. It someone managed to make his stone monument reach a million feet, then the one thousand first monument of one million feet would not appear. Instead, from among the previous one thousand stone monuments, one would be killed off so that the numbers would forever remain as one thousand.

Since there was no pattern, someone would be randomly killed off, making the possibility o being killed for all those within the range to be the same, even if one of them had reached 1,990,000 feet, while the other was just 1,000,010 feet.

One among a thousand would be chosen.

'During the endless passages of time, there must have been plenty of those who came to this place… There is no limitation regarding age here, which means that there is a possibility of there being an extremely ancient existences among the candidates.

'Once someone manages to obtain the Divine Essence, then all the others will die. The Duke of Crimson Flame once said that the ancestor of my people, the ancestor of Abyss Builders, once entered the foreign lands and walked out of the place.

'I might not know into which of the four foreign lands my ancestor had went, but since he managed to move out, then it means that he was a candidate in that foreign land but still died in the end. Was it because… a person who truly obtained the Divine Essence appeared in the foreign land he was part of?' Su Ming's heart trembled, but he quickly rejected that thought.

'The Duke of Crimson Flame said that if one doesn't count Divine Essence Star Ocean, there are only four foreign lands. Now, there are still four of them. This means that no one has managed to obtain that Divine Essence.' A glint appeared in Su Ming's eyes, and a pensive expression appeared on his face.

'Could it be… that my ancestor… has not died?! Instead, due to the time limit of a thousand years, he was forced to return to the foreign land and is still trapped in there?'

Su Ming frowned. There were plenty of clues, but it was difficult for him to find the true reason. Yet no matter what, there might be thousands of connections between the fifth True World's destruction and the foreign lands.

Su Ming sighed. There was only one path laid out before him, and that was to let his stone monument reach one million feet! He sucked in a deep breath, then took a step forward towards the stone monument that represented him. He looked at it and lifted his right hand. He had a faint feeling in his heart that if he just pressed his hand on the stone monument, he could join this sort of death match against the one hundred thousand people.

The moment Su Ming was about to press his hand on the stone monument, a boom suddenly echoed in the air. In the distance, a stone monument that was about three hundred thousand something feet tall shone with a brilliant light. Its height rapidly shot up and reached four hundred thousand feet. At the same time, a person bathed in light walked out from that stone monument.

That person was a big man. His body was incredibly tall and strong, and there was a thick presence of power of World Planes filling him. He had already reached the later stage of World Plane Realm!

At that moment, he walked out with an exhausted and apathetic look on his face. He saw Su Ming, but there was not a single hint of care within him. Instead, he looked towards the other stone monument that was about two hundred thousand feet tall beside him. Hints of gentleness appeared in his exhausted eyes, and it looked as if that stone monument's existence was his only motivation to continue doing this.

Su Ming swept his gaze past the stone monument of the man and saw the name carved there.

Zhou Kang.

Su Ming also saw a Si Ma Yue carved on the stone monument that was two hundred thousand feet tall and at which the man was looking with a gentle gaze.

'Si Ma Yue. That should be a woman's name. These people are either very good friends or lovers.' Su Ming looked at the man now sitting under the stone monument that belonged to himself. He was completely unbothered by Su Ming watching him and simply ignored him. He closed his eyes and did not speak.

In silence, Su Ming did not immediately place his hand on the stone monument. He took a few steps backwards and sat down cross-legged. He did not have too many hints or much experience regarding obtaining the inheritance of this Divine Essence. If he could gleam something from the man, then he would have a little more confidence.

Time passed. Neither Su Ming nor the man spoke. About several hours later, Su Ming suddenly turned around and looked in another direction.

Right before his eyes, he saw a gigantic blood-red crack appear as the air distorted. A booming sound came from the crack, and soon after, a person walked out.

That person was an old man. When he walked out, there was a dazed look on his face. He looked at the area blankly, and there was disbelieving amazement as well as shock amid the confusion on his countenance.

Clearly, this person was the same as Su Ming—it was his first time coming here.

This scene immediately caught Su Ming's attention. In fact, the man also opened his eyes instantly and stared at the old man. His breathing became slightly hurried. The selection of death was about to start. After a moment, someone from among the one hundred thousand people would definitely have the shadow of death fall on them, and both Su Ming and the man could be the unlucky one.

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Chapter 816: Revenge for Having Killed His Wife

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"The Sublime Paragon's inheritance… This is… This is the Sublime Paragon's legacy of his Divine Essence! This is the foreign land! So this is what actually lies in the foreign lands!" As the old man cried out in surprise, he suddenly started laughing loudly. Exhilaration and excitement appeared in his eyes.

He had come into Western Ring Nebula's foreign land for freedom, to capture Su Ming alive. However, he did not expect that the foreign land was actually something like this. To him, the chance to receive this legacy was something that he desired even more than freedom.

Yet at the moment his laughter echoed in the air, cracks immediately appeared on one of the one hundred thousand stone monuments. Blood gushed out from those cracks, and wretched cries came out from the stone monument, and it was the usual voice of a person longing for life.

Su Ming looked swiftly at the stone monument from which the wretched were coming. Once he clearly saw which one it was, he was momentarily taken aback, then he instinctively cast his gaze at the man he'd seen before.

He was trembling at that moment, his hands tightly clasped on his legs. His eyes were red and tears were falling down his cheeks, turning into voiceless weeps. The stone monument from which the longing-for-life cries came from was precisely the one with Si Ma Yue's name carved on it. It was the monument that was right beside the man and was only two hundred thousand feet tall.

He watched as more cracks appeared on that stone monument, watched as more blood poured out from it, as his tears fell harder and harder.

"Take care…" a frail feminine voice spoke lightly from within the stone monument. That voice was incredibly weak, and the old man that was laughing long and hard in the distance could not hear it. Even Su Ming could only hear it faintly. The only one who could truly hear it clearly was the man.

That voice belonged to Si Ma Yue. She did not know whether the man waiting for her was still alive, but she knew that no matter whether he could hear it or not, this was farewell.

Her voice gradually faded away. Light then spread out, wiping her name away, and disappeared from that two hundred thousand feet tall stone monument. Eventually, the stone monument went down in size.

When Su Ming saw this scene, his heart trembled. During the instant just then, at the moment the old man appeared and his laughter echoed in the air, Su Ming had felt a chilling will spreading out and covering him and his stone monument. Once it swept past him, it gathered on Si Ma Yue.

Su Ming could well imagine that if that chilling presence had gathered on him, then the one who would have ended up dead would have been him.

"Haha! So this is my stone monument, hmm?" As the old man laughed, he jumped up and appeared before his stone monument. Then, his pupils suddenly narrowed. Clearly, in his exhilaration and excitement, he hadn't noticed that there were other people beside him in the area.

His gaze first fell on the man, but when he looked over, the man's tears had already disappeared. His bloodshot eyes had fallen shut, and not a single hint of his emotions could be seen.

When the old man looked at his surroundings incredulously, a brilliant flash suddenly appeared in his eyes and he stared fixedly at Su Ming, who was sitting in the distance. The sparkle in his eyes grew even brighter, and a hint of greed appeared within them.

"Mo Su!" The old man laughed long and hard, and his power abruptly spread out. A thick presence of World Plane Realm burst forth from his body with a bang. His level of cultivation was the same as Zhao Family's Progenitor. He had also reached the peak in the middle stage of World Plane Realm.

But he did not immediately attack. He was not a fool, since he was able to survive in the Barren Lands of Divine Essence up till now and had reach this level of cultivation. In fact, it could even be said that he was a cunning old fox. In this foreign and strange land, he was not certain whether there was a limitation that prevented fighting and killing. That was why he only had his power erupt forth from his body, but did not move forward. Instead, he stared at Su Ming. After all, Su Ming came to this place earlier than he did, and thus definitely knew much more than him. Based on Su Ming's instinctive reactions, he could be able to discover many things.

A glint appeared in Su Ming's eyes. He had guessed long ago that the old man was definitely one of those that came after his life, since he had come to this place after him. He immediately stood up, intending to push his hand on the stone monument to fuse with it and receive the test of the legacy, which could allow him to avoid being killed by the old man, but a thought suddenly appeared in his heart, and he did not choose to do so. Instead, he took a few steps backwards with a grim and wary expression on his face.

He had chosen not to fuse with the stone monument because of the man. That man might look calm right now, but Su Ming would never forget the gentle look in his eyes when he looked towards Si Ma Yue's stone monument. He would not forget the tears falling from his eyes when the stone monument cracked and blood poured out from it. And even less could he forget the two words that came from Si Ma Yue's stone monument.

'If it were anyone else, they would have definitely attacked and killed this old man, but not only did this man not attack, he hid his tears away and covered his red eyes. Something's wrong here!

'Could it be… that you can't attack each other here?'

Su Ming narrowed his eyes while on guard. He was certain that the old man had not left his name on the stone monument, which was why he did not know that Su Ming could fuse with it once he just placed his hand on it.

All of this thinking might have seemed to have taken a lot of time, but in reality, this lasted only for a brief moment. Su Ming swiftly showed panic on his face, and as his expression changed drastically, he charged backwards.

Su Ming's expression, his act of retreating, and that look of panic were all seen clearly by the old man. When he took note of his swift retreat and looked to be about to escape, some of the old man's doubts faded away, but he still remained cautious. Before he knew clearly whether he could kill others in this place, he would not attack easily.

When he took a step forward and killing intent shone in his eyes, looking as if he was about to attack, he kept the man in his peripheral vision. Perhaps he would be able to see some clues from that man.

Yet at the instant he swept his gaze towards the man, the other opened his eyes. They were no longer bloodshot, but calm, with a hint of obstinance and unruliness in them.

"If you want to kill someone, go do so by the side. Don't bother me while I train. Get lost." The man let out a cold harrumph. When he spoke, he lifted his right hand and swung his arm at the old man.

With it, a vast power of World Planes erupted forth with a bang from his body. As he swung his arm, the man's power in the later stage of World Plane Realm instantly turned into a gust of violent wind that charged towards the old man.

The wind traveled incredibly quickly. If the old man did not dodge, even if he did not die, he would be injured badly. This was the difference between the peak of those in the middle stage and those in the later stage of World Plane Realm. There was no way he would be able to withstand it.

The old man's expression changed drastically. He had long since noticed that the man's power ran so deep that he could not tell what level of cultivation he possessed. By his guesses, the man should be at the later stage of World Plane Realm. But since he had been hesitant about whether he could attack, that was why he had decided to use himself to test this, but he did not expect that the man would be so unruly as to attack. By the looks of it, it was clear that if he had been just slightly slower, he would've been wounded heavily.

Besides, when the man attacked, the old man could tell that he was absolutely not faking it, but the old man still forced his body to stop evading and made himself freeze for a moment on the spot.

He fixed his gaze on the man. He wanted to test one more time whether this person was truly attacking him or just faking it. When he saw that the violent gust of wind had closed in and the destructive power came crashing towards him with a bang, about to ram into him, he took note that the man still looked as he did before - cold, indifferent, and with an air of unruliness about him.

'You can kill here!'

The old man's expression changed. There was no longer any doubt in his heart. Almost at the instant that destructive gust of wind arrived, he retreated and brought out a jade slip. Right at the moment the gust of wind almost touched him, he crushed the jade slip.

Once it shattered, the old man disappeared. When the gust of wind charged past, he appeared thousands of feet away, not too far from Su Ming.

'This person is incredibly powerful. I can't provoke him. Besides, he might not know that I have a jade slip that allows me to shift and avoid being locked by World Paragons in the later stage of World Plane Realm. Then… Mo Su, you can't escape!'

The old man turned around swiftly and locked his gaze on Su Ming, who was swiftly running away. As the old man laughed ferociously, his power in World Plane Realm erupted and spread out. He lifted his right hand and let out a low shout, and an endless number of runic symbols instantly appeared out of nowhere. They gathered in midair and formed a horsetail whisk. As it swept through the air, it instantly appeared in front of Su Ming and flung itself fiercely in his direction.

Su Ming paused in his footsteps and turned around swiftly. He did not dodge, but stared at the old man. In fact, he simply let that horsetail whisk close in. He was confident that this strike could injure him, but not heavily so. With him being heavily injured as the bet, he gambled on the mystery of the land. When Su Ming thought of the things he had analyzed previously, he was certain by eight-tenths he would win.

The man's attack just now had especially made Su Ming certain of his actions.

'His actions aren't fake. The red and grief in his eyes are incredibly real. This person trembling when that voice told him to take care also explain everything.

'He might look as if he was attacking, but in truth, I'm certain that this person went to seek death. He will either be successful in his revenge, or he will die. He is using his eventual death as a price to make the old man believe that… you can attack in this place!'

Su Ming stopped moving. The horsetail whisk arrived in an instant. This scene made a glint appear in the man's eyes and the old man's expression to change. Within an instant, the horsetail whisk touched Su Ming's body. He was prepared to be heavily wounded, but when it touched him, it disappeared without a trace, as if it had never existed.

This scene caused the old man's expression change drastically, and fear appeared on his face. He knew that he had fallen into a trap, but before shock could register in his heart, a chilling will immediately swept past his body. Then, without any sound, his body instantly disintegrated into ashes.

He died! His body and soul were destroyed!

The entire area was in dead silence. Su Ming sucked in a deep breath. His expression was as calm as usual. He walked slowly towards his stone monument and sat down cross-legged once again. His gaze fell on that man, who also looked at him at that moment. Their gazes met in midair.

After some time, the man said softly, "Thank you."

"You're welcome," Su Ming replied lightly.

The man fell silent. He no longer looked at Su Ming, but instead looked at the stone monument that had once belonged to Si Ma Yue. Tears fell from his eyes once more, and the grief on his face was incredibly great.

It was as if he saw how he and Si Ma Yue had come to this place many years ago and what had happened after that. She was his everything, and he was also her everything. Yet now, he was the only one left.

"I will never owe anyone any debt of kindness. You are a newcomer as well, so you definitely have questions. Ask away… I will tell you all that I know and experienced. Think of it as me repaying you for helping me take revenge on that man for killing my wife just now," Zhou Kang said lightly.

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Chapter 817: Five Echelon

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Su Ming's face turned stern as he looked at Zhou Kang. He had helped him not just because he had wanted to test the mysteries of this place, but more importantly because he wanted to obtain some information about this place from Zhou Kang.

This sort of thing was incredibly useful to him. At the very least, it would help him to walk fewer circles, and that would mean that he would be making his stone monument grow to a million feet at the fastest speed possible, being able to move before the others.

However, unless there was some sort of unique situation, no one would be willing to tell another this sort of information based on personal experience. After all, if someone else succeeded, it would mean that their chances of dying would increase. This Divine Essence's legacy was in truth a competition.

No one would tell someone completely unrelated to them their experiences and let that person gradually walk ahead of themselves. More importantly, those experiences could be said to have been bought with an endless amount of time. They were what the people here have obtained after making numerous circles and walking into various dead ends. The value of these experiences was, in a way, incredibly valuable.

Su Ming needed this knowledge because he clearly knew that if one person had appeared in the foreign land to come after his life, then the forces of power from the four Great True Worlds keeping a lookout over the Barren Lands of Divine Essence must have certainly increased his bounty. While he did not know what sort of reward was offered this time, it was clearly enough for a person to dare to enter the foreign land at the risk of their life.

And if a single person was willing to come here, then it meant that the reward by the four Great True Worlds would definitely bring more people, and as more and more of them entered, the shadow of death would fall on Su Ming's head again and again.

'If a person comes, then the possibility of me dying will be one out of one hundred thousand. If one hundred thousand come... I might not certainly die. After all, every single time the selection comes, it will choose between one hundred thousand people, and since it doesn't have any sort of pattern, even those who had just obtained their stone monuments might be chosen.

'But by that time the threat of death will reach an incredibly terrifying rate. The only way out of this… is to use the shortest amount of time possible to make my stone monument one million feet tall. Only by doing so will I have the greatest possibility of avoiding being selected.'

Su Ming sucked in a deep breath. He knew that he had made the right bet. With his actions, he would show his sincerity in order to obtain Zhou Kang's experience. This was a trade.

"What are the details of the inheritance's test in this place? How can I make my stone monument reach one million feet tall at the shortest amount of time possible?" Su Ming asked languidly, his voice relaxed, not showing a single hint of his thoughts and emotions.

Zhou Kang did not speak right away. He only looked at the stone monument that had once belonged to Si Ma Yue. After a long while, as if he was mumbling to himself, he softly spoke up.

"Three thousand years ago, I was just a cultivator in the middle stage of World Plane Realm. Since her father entered a foreign land and never came out, that's why… I accompanied her to this place.

"Int the blink of an eye, three thousand years passed. During this time, we were constantly struggling here. but it wasn't for that stupid inheritance. Those who obtain the Divine Essence can become a Sublime Paragon, but I don't care about that. I only wanted to get out of this place alive with her.

"We worked hard continuously. My wife, Yue Er, her potential was far greater than mine, but in this place, potential is meaningless… Over the period of three thousand years, she had only managed to make her stone monument reach two hundred thousand feet… I didn't want her to be alone in this place, hence I gave up three chances of making my stone monument reach one million feet, so that I could be with her.

"Because even if I managed to make my monument reach one million feet, if I was the only who managed to get out, what use would there be even if I was given a thousand years of freedom? It'd be completely useless… I gave up those three chances and stayed here with her instead." Zhou Kang did not answer Su Ming's question, but continued mumbling to himself.

Su Ming listened to him and did not interrupt. He could feel that Zhou Kang's love for Si Ma Yue had already surpassed the love for his own life. He was also shocked that Zhou Kang had three chances of making his stone monument reach one million feet, and it had only been… three thousand years since he started.

"Yue Er was more intelligent than I am, and she had greater knowledge than me regarding this place. During the first five hundred years, we examined our experiences within each of our worlds in the stone monument. Each of us gradually figured out the things that all the seniors of this place valued like treasure and spoke not a word of. The all delighted in watching those who came later to tread the long and winding paths they had taken themselves in the past.

"We discovered that what we experienced in our worlds was different… but the answer we obtained in the end was the same. This so called Divine Essence inheritance is in truth divided into ten stages due to a person's body," Zhou Kang mumbled softly, and Su Ming immediately began listening even more attentively.

"Yue Er and I weren't clear what Divine Essence was. We only knew that it could grant a person the possibility to become a Sublime Paragon. The eyes, nose, mouth, ears, and heart are the Five Illusory Echelons.

"The limbs and torso are known as the Five Corporeal Echelons.

"When you add all of them together, you will have the complete ten stages. With the completion of each echelon, you will be able to make your stone monument grow to one million feet…" Zhou Kang's voice echoed in the air. When it fell into Su Ming's ears, his heart trembled.

"Almost all those who come here will receive a vague notice that they need to use their hands to touch the stone monument. Only then can they activate the training from the legacy. Yue Er and I started like this as well.

"It was only five hundred years later that we noticed something off, but it was already too late. We could no longer turn back and could only continue moving down that path.

"Because we used our hands to touch the stone monument, that's why… the first Five Echelon path we chose became the Five Corporeal Echelons. We used our right hand to touch the stone monument, that's why the first thing we had to train was our bodies' right hand, then it would be our left hand, and then it would be our entire body… Only once we did that would our stone monument reach five million feet.

"But our guess was that the people who came here didn't necessarily need to first tread the Five Corporeal Echelons, because this path was too hard. It did not contain any form of consciousness, and we could only use our bodies to feel our way through. The difficulty of this path is something those who have not experienced it do not understand.

"It's different for the Five Illusory Echelons. They need understanding and a form of epiphany. It might seem even harder compared to the other path, but in truth, if you want to receive a great serendipity, then you must first walk down the path of Five Illusory Echelons. After that, you will possess a conscious will of things, and you'll move faster down your path."

Zhou Kang's words caused Su Ming's pupils to constrict, and he suddenly said, "Senior Zhou Kang, do you mean that if my body first touches the stone monument, then it will be the first to receive the refinement of Divine Essence? It'll have to get used to this Divine Essence or at least come to remember it, then with the body as foundation, I will have to slowly understand the Five Illusory Echelons, and from then… eventually make my stone monument reach ten million feet?

"And if I don't take this path, I'll be using my consciousness and my soul to get used to the Divine Essence first? And once I remember that feeling, it'll have to spread to my entire body?

"This makes it two different paths: In one, a person trains from the outside of their bodies to the internal parts, and the other one is where they train from the internal parts to the external ones."

Zhou Kang fell silent. After a moment, he averted his gaze from the stone monument that once belonged to Si Ma Yue and moved it to Su Ming.

"This was the guess of my wife and me, and it remained so until two thousand years ago. At that time, a person sat down before his stone monument and meditated for three hundred years, then with his own comprehensive abilities, he understood this. His name… is Xing Yu. Right now, his stone monument has reached two million feet.

"Don't use your body to touch the stone monument. Use your eyes, nose, ears, mouth, and heart to form a faint connection with it. This will make you move in fewer circles, and it will also… make your chance of success greater.

"You might not be very quick, and there is even a possibility that you will be slow… but based on our observations, there were quite a few people who had arrived during these two thousand something years, and there were quite a few of them who made their stone monuments reach a million feet. During this, it is only natural that some people died, but Xing Yu is still around.

"That's why Yue Er believed that those who walk down the path of Five Illusory Echelons will have a much lower possibility of death compared to other people. This is only a guess, because only a short time has passed and those who train in the path of Five Illusory Echelons are too few in number, so we couldn't contain too much proof.

"You can choose to believe me or not," Zhou Kang said calmly. His voice echoed in the area.

"This is what we experienced. Also, no matter what sort of method you use to touch the stone monument, you will still need to fuse with the world there. That is an illusory world… in which everyone's experiences are different. It's born based on your memories...

"In fact, some of the memories that even you don't know of will be revealed. Based on what I experienced, if you fix your mind on a certain period of time the moment you begin to fuse with the monument, then there will be a high possibility to see the world that belongs to that time."

Nostalgia appeared in Zhou Kang's eyes at those words. He lifted his right hand and slowly pressed it against the stone monument. Su Ming might not know the details of the things the man saw, but he could guess that here was definitely a woman in those memories, and her name was Si Ma Yue.

"All of these are my experiences. I've told you everything... You… take care of yourself." As Zhou Kang spoke softly, his body gradually faded away, and a vortex appeared on his stone monument. A hand suddenly reached out from there and grabbed Zhou Kang's right hand, yanking him inside.

"The last thing... is a guess Yue Er made four hundred years ago. Perhaps it's also the reason for her death… She told me that she suspected that the foreign land was a great scam!"

Zhou Kang disappeared, but his voice still reverberated in the air. Su Ming sat there with a dumbfounded expression. He looked at Zhou Kang's stone monument, and after a long moment, he sucked in a deep breath.

The area returned to silence. However, Zhou Kang's voice still echoed in Su Ming's head. A long while later, a brilliant light shone in his eyes, and his gaze slowly landed on his stone monument, which was right before him.

This stone monument was only twenty thousand feet tall. Compared to the others, it was really insignificant.

'No matter what, I still have to walk down this path. I can't believe Zhou Kang's words completely, but there should be some truth to them… Five Illusory Echelons, huh..?'

Su Ming did not choose to use his hands to touch the monument. Instead, he just sat there and stared at it. Aside from using his eyes to look, his heart did not think, his body did not move. All his sensory organs besides his eyes did not do anything.

'If it's the Five Illusory Echelon, then I will start with my eyes!' Su Ming sat down and meditated quietly. Time passed slowly.

One day, two day, three days… In the blink of an eye, another month passed by. During it, Su Ming rarely blinked. He just stared at the stone monument. His entire mind and body were focused on that sight, and he ignored everything else around him.

When he even forgot about time, he saw a vortex appear on the stone monument. He saw a great suction force within it, and once it sucked in his gaze, an eye appeared within the vortex. The moment this eye looked at Su Ming, his body became indistinct.

"Time, after I became the God of Berserkers. Location, ninth summit… when Morning Dao Sect's Dao Yuan arrived!" At the instant Su Ming became indistinct, a bloodcurdling murderous intent appeared in his eyes.

As his voice echoed in the air, he disappeared!

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Chapter 818: The Teardrop All Those Years Ago

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That Teardrop All Those Years Ago

Su Ming wanted to kill Dao Yuan, wanted to kill all five of those Dao Slaves, and wanted to kill all the guards Dao Yuan had summoned later on. He wanted to kill everything, even if it was just an illusion. He wanted to let his current powerful self return to the past!

Boom!

A loud bang rang out in Su Ming's heart. He felt as if his body was about to be torn apart, and an intense pain traveled through his entire body, something which he had not experienced for a long time.

'That's not right. I've already lost my sense of pain…' The intense pain made Su Ming's heart tremble, and he tried to open his eyes.

But he could not do so!

The intense pain in his body gradually disappeared, but Su Ming did not know where he was. He could not open his eyes. It was as if his body did not belong to him. He could not control it.

'What's going on?... Just in which timeline was I thrown?' Su Ming could sense that the intense pain in his body was rapidly fading away. After a moment, when the pain vanished, he tried opening his eyes again, but he still could not do so, as if he did not possess the strength to do so.

He could sense that his cultivation base was still around, his Atman was also with him, but it could not leave his body, as if it had been restricted and could not spread out.

But this was not the most important thing. The main point was that once the intense pain disappeared, Su Ming sensed warmth. It did not come from the body, but from the heart. It came from his soul, and that sort of warmth was unfamiliar to him, because there was a hint of grief in that unfamiliarity.

In fact, not even he knew why he was sad. However, this sorrow brought with an urge to cry. It caused extreme pain and left him at a loss.

'Why am I sensing warmth..? This warmth feels dear to me, makes me feel as if I'm being protected. Makes me feel… as if it's something that I cannot lack in my life, something that I must protect… Where… am I..?

'Why does it feel so unfamiliar? Just what timeline does this place belong to in my memories?

'Why… do I feel sad, and have the urge to cry? Why am I in such a state of sorrow, as if I've lost the most precious person in my life?'

Time passed. In this warmth and unfamiliarity that was accompanied by sadness, Su Ming gradually calmed down. He immersed himself in this situation and let time pass, until one day, he gradually began to feel that there was something wrong with his body.

In the past, when he circulated his cultivation base over his entire body, he only needed an instant to do so. It didn't take much time. However, now… the speed of the circulation of his cultivation base had reached a state which put him in disbelief. In the past, he could complete a cycle of his cultivation base in an instant, but now… he could complete a dozen something cycles in that same time!

This sort of speed stunned him momentarily, and a myriad of thoughts raced in his head.

'My level of cultivation did not increase. My cultivation base is still that of Earth Cultivation Realm. If that's the case, then this isn't because of my level of cultivation… but because of my body!

'Zhou Kang once mentioned that the world in the stone monument is born from a person's memories, which means that there was a period of time in the past when my cultivation base could reach this circulation speed.

'Just when was it… It's not before or after I became the God of Berserkers. I remember that my body was just an illusion that was gathered together. I couldn't reach this sort of speed back then.

'There's only one explanation to this - this is… my real body!' Su Ming's heart trembled. The conclusion he came to through his analysis caused the circulation speed of his cultivation base to become even faster.

'My real self. Darkness. Could it be… that this is the time when I couldn't see light and when my body was surrounded by freezing cold, where only Fei Er's voice accompanied me? The period of time which is indistinct in my mind?

'It should be that timeline. My real body is in the land of Immortals. It's sealed up and has become something for other people to absorb, but why is there warmth, unfamiliarity, and sadness..?' Su Ming could not open his eyes. He could not see his surroundings. He was still uncertain about this guess.

'I chose the eye from the Five Illusory Echelons for the Divine Essence test I received this time. Right now, I can't open my eyes, then does it mean that this time, the success of my test depends on… whether I can open my eyes?!'

Su Ming was no longer the ignorant boy from the past. After receiving the baptism of time and experiencing many things, he had been refined to the point where he possessed a powerful will and wisdom. With a few clues, he could deduce and figure out many things.

'It doesn't matter whether this is the truth or not, I will have to continue trying to open my eyes.' Su Ming wanted to do so, but no matter how hard he tried, he could not achieve it. He could not control his own body, and so his eyes remained closed.

He continued trying, and time gradually passed. One month, two months… One year, two years…

Su Ming lost track of how much time passed. He slowly sensed that the timeline he currently resided in was not the one where he was in the land of Immortals, as he had previously guessed.

Otherwise, why would he not sense even a single hint of someone absorbing his power. In fact, he had a vague sensation that his body was moving… or more accurately speaking, he was floating.

'I don't have any memory of this… I don't remember myself floating and being unable to open my eyes like this. Just when had this happened?!'

In silence, time continued to pass, until one day, Su Ming suddenly heard a violent boom.

This loud boom immediately made him notice that he could hear. Over the years, this was the first thing he'd heard. In the mid of that booming sound, a loud whistle shot through the air, causing Su Ming to immediately draw a picture in his head.

Within that picture was a long arc that was slicing through the air. The whistles that were stirred up crashed into the invisible space, and that booming sound was created.

It became louder in Su Ming's ears with each passing moment, seemingly endless. Once it became deafening, his heart trembled. He realized that his theory had been wrong. The thing was not a long arc… but a gigantic longship!

'That sound means that the longship is traveling at an incredibly fast speed, and this speed… is impossible within a cultivation planet. Could it be… that this is the galaxy?'

Su Ming's mind immediately wiped off the previous picture, and he replaced it with a gigantic longship. The background was a galaxy.

The longship was charging closer with a piercing sound in its wake, like a sharp sword that sliced through space. This sort of sound was familiar to Su Ming. He remembered that he had heard something like this before.

'A sword! This is the sound of a sword slicing through space! This is a sword, an ancient bronze sword. It's the sound of a gigantic ancient bronze sword of True Sacred Yin World when it charges through the galaxy!' If Su Ming could breathe at that moment, it would have definitely quickened. The picture in his head had already become complete, and many speculations rose in his mind.

In the vast galaxy, a gigantic ancient bronze sword was traveling. Right in front of it, within the endless galaxy, was dust, and in that dust there was a corpse floating about.

"There is a corpse here. There's no mistaking this. This is the corpse that's been spreading those waves of mighty power. We're lucky today, we actually managed to find a powerful warrior's corpse."

An awe-inspiring voice reached Su Ming's ears. It was rather familiar, and Su Ming almost immediately managed to recognize its owner. At that instant, a loud bang rang out in his heart and mind.

'This is the voice of the Spirits of Nine Yin's Progenitor [1]. Corpse, ancient bronze sword… This is the time when the Spirits of Nine Yin were ordered to look for corpses of powerful warriors and managed to find a baby in the galaxy!

'That baby… is me!'

The booming sounds in Su Ming's mind were like thunderbolts striking and echoing in the air. His heart trembled, but the next few words that reached his ears caused Su Ming's heart to almost break during that instant.

"Hmm? There's not just one corpse, but two!" When the voice that belonged to the Spirits of Nine Yin's Progenitor reached his ears, several powerful divine senses immediately swept towards him and gathered on his body.

"There's a baby held in the corpse's arms… It's a pity, but the baby is dead, too. By the looks of it, he hasn't been born for long. This woman should be his mother.

"Seems like she wanted to protect the child even as she died, hoping to use her body to protect him. It's an instinctive act of not wanting her child to be injured.

"This woman must have been incredibly powerful when she was alive. Look at her tears, they're frozen on her face. Even those that have fallen on the baby's body are also frozen. Only the tears of powerful existences can possess the power of Plane Kalpa, gaining the ability to become eternal teardrops. Those teardrops are treasures. If we refine them into Enchanted Treasures, their might will be incredibly great.

"All right, separate the two corpses and store them separately. Once we find a few other, we'll be able to go home."

A loud bang rang out in Su Ming's heart. This time, that bang could no longer be described as the sound that would be heard when thunder struck the ground. This was the greatest sound Su Ming had heard in his life. The loud bang made him tremble, and it was not his heart that trembled, but his body!

He could not describe what he was feeling now. His mind was blank. Only the voice of the Spirits of Nine Yin's Progenitor continued echoing in his head, and it became increasingly louder. Due to it, Su Ming begun shivering even more, until it became a powerful craze that urged him to open his eyes.

He understood why he felt warm now. That was because he was in the woman's embrace.

He also understood why he had that sense of unfamiliarity. That was because he had never met this woman before, he had never seen her…

He, too, understood why he was sad. That sorrow that came from his soul was due to the woman's tears having frozen on his body.

'Mother…'

Su Ming's heart was torn. Boundless grief brought extreme pain with it. If he did not learn who this woman was right now, then he would be a failure of a son!

He wanted to open his eyes, not for anything else, but to simply catch a glimpse of his mother who had protected him even during the final moments of her life, with tears falling from her eyes even though he was a stillborn.

He wanted to open his eyes and see her face, then use his entire life to remember her, protect her in his memories.

His body trembled. His heart roared. His soul grieved. All of these things gathered together into a power that shook the sky and earth during that instant, causing Su Ming's body to continuously tremble and gather together the power that would allow him to open his eyes. At that instant, his eyes flew open!

He then saw the ancient bronze sword and the Spirits of Nine Yin's Progenitor along with a few people behind him walking over. He also saw… a pair of warm arms holding onto him.

Su Ming turned his head around, finally seeing a beautiful woman. Her eyes were closed, as if she was asleep, but there was reluctance to part and an expression of love on her face as well as frozen crystalline teardrops on her cheeks. All of these things etched themselves into Su Ming's mind. His body trembled, and tears fell from his eyes.

Boom!

Everything before Su Ming's eyes vanished. He wanted to lift up his hands and seize it, but the only thing that he managed to catch was emptiness. There were only endless stone monuments around him. The one that belonged to him let out a booming sound, and at that moment, from twenty thousand feet, it shot up to one hundred thousand feet.

Translator's Note:

1. Spirits of Nine Yin's Progenitor: The one who was a skeleton in the temple in the World of Nine Yin and asked Su Ming for Lie Shan Xiu's power. He then helped Su Ming and Fated Kin escape from the World of Nine Yin.

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Chapter 819: Cherishment

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Even though the one thousand feet stone monument stood tall before Su Ming, there was no joy in his heart, much less a hint of emotion that was stirred due to the gigantic size of the stone monument. He sat in front of it with a blank gaze, tears falling soundlessly down his cheeks.

There was no expression in his eyes, but if anyone looked closely, they would be able to see a hint of light flickering with sudden flashes of brightness and darkness in his right eye. That light belonged to a runic symbol that was swiftly forming at that moment.

If someone extracted that runic symbol from his eye, then anyone who looked at it would sense an ancient presence. It seemed to only exist in the endless passage of time, almost impossible to find in the current day and age.

Before Su Ming had fused with the stone monument, that runic symbol did not exist. It instead naturally appeared once he did that and his stone monument rose to one hundred thousand feet.

As time passed, the runic symbol became clearer in Su Ming's right eye, until it completely replaced his pupil. Right then, if anyone looked at him at that moment, they would definitely be shocked by the sight of his right eye. It seemed as if the changes of the universe's law and the supreme truth that no words could describe were contained within the runic symbol that had replaced the pupil.

However, Su Ming paid no attention to all of these, not caring for it one bit. He stared at the stone monument in front of him blankly while tears trailed down his cheeks before falling on his robes, but they could not seep into it. Instead, they trailed down, and eventually… fell on the ground.

The sound of tears falling on the ground could only be heard if someone listened with their heart. This sound was soft, and it echoed in Su Ming's heart before turning into warmth, unfamiliarity, and grief. It did not fade away even after a long time had passed.

Su Ming had always thought that the baby had floated alone in the galaxy until he was taken away by the Spirits of Nine Yin. Yet now, he realized that the truth was quite different… It quite different. He did not float alone in the galaxy in the past, but instead was a child held in his mother's arms. Even though both mother and son had died, her warmth and tears now etched themselves into Su Ming's mind for all eternity.

Sharp stabs of pain that intertwined with each other shot up his heart. His face turned pale, and he immersed himself in sensing this pain. His face was filled with anguish as he remembered the scenes within the Spirits of Nine Yin's ancient bronze sword.

"So she was… that close to me at that time… Ma…" Su Ming mumbled. His eyes gradually filled with red, and a trickle of blood flowed down the corners of his mouth. This was the blood from his heart. It was blood that flowed out of a person's body when their emotions were rife and when great waves of happiness as well or sadness had injured their heart and soul.

Those droplets of blood were the symbol of that face that would remain eternally within Su Ming's memories.

A crazed ball of fire alighted in his eyes. He clenched his hands tightly into fists. This might be the first time he saw his mother, and that familial love between them might be unfamiliar…

But his mother's tears, her action of protecting his infant self before she died, and everything else brought a warmth that Su Ming had never experienced.

He remembered the story second senior brother had told him, one that had happened many, many years ago. He recalled a married couple and all the things that had happened to them in True Morning Dao World.

"This world… shall be built for Abyss…" Killing intent shone in Su Ming's eyes.

His hate towards True Morning Dao World was originally one that could not be resolved, and right then, another great layer was added to that hatred. Su Ming would definitely not rest until he took his revenge.

"True Morning Dao World!"

Su Ming sucked in a deep breath and slowly closed his eyes. After a long while, he forced down the emotions in his heart. When he opened his eyes once again, the sadness was hidden in their deep recesses. No one could see it. Only when he was lonely and missed his family would he experience that past grief that was thicker than blood once again.

The parental love was greater than anything else in the world. It might come suddenly and be unfamiliar, but once it entered one's soul, how could they forget or cast it aside simply because it was unfamiliar to them?

Su Ming sat quietly before his stone monument, looking at it. The monument was no longer an icy cold presence in his eyes, no longer something that forced others to inherit its legacy, and killed at random, but had become a path for him to regain his lost memories.

Compared to retrieving the lost memories, making this stone monument reach one million feet was no longer important. Su Ming looked at it while the time slowly passed around him.

He lost track of it soon. Then, a booming sound echoed around him, and three huge cracks appeared in the empty air in the distance. Three people charged out.

Once those three people appeared, their faces were filled with shock and confusion. At the same time, three of the one hundred thousand stone monuments began shining with an intense light. As that light shone, shrill screams filled with an unwillingness to admit defeat rang out before quickly fading away.

The three new people had arrived and taken the right of their predecessors.

Almost the moment the three people appeared, a vortex emerged from the stone monument before Su Ming. An eye protruded out of the vortex, and it met his gaze.

Su Ming's body slowly faded away until he completely disappeared, fusing with the stone monument and vanishing without a trace.

This time, there was no darkness before Su Ming's eyes. He saw a dim piece of sky, blue waves on the sea, breathed in the air of the land of Berserkers, and felt the familiar waves of power.

He lowered his head and saw a pretty young woman with a face that was unforgettable. This woman was grabbing onto a big yellow mutt beside her as if she was angry and was scolding it nonstop.

That big yellow dog had a look of suffering on its face. Its head drooped down as it simply allowed the woman to hold onto its fur. Occasionally, it would let out a few moans.

As Su Ming looked at the woman, a gentle expression gradually appeared on his face.

"Yu Xuan…" Su Ming whispered.

The woman turned her head around and looked at him in surprise.

"Hmm? Little dummy Su, what did you say? Ah! You actually spoke to me on your own accord? You called my name of your own free will? You-you…" The woman was momentarily stunned, and disbelief appeared on her face. She no longer bothered with the big yellow dog and went up to Su Ming's side, lifting up her hand to touch his forehead.

Su Ming's expression was gentle. He did not dodge, but simply allowed the woman to place her hand on his forehead.

The woman saw his expression and saw him not evading her actions. Her expression instantly turned strange and she instinctively took a few steps back with a dubious and disbelieving expression.

She remembered how Su Ming had been cold towards her just moments ago, with an expression of impatience as he spoke with her. Yet now, this sort of change had appeared, and it immediately caused her heart to be on guard.

It was especially due to Su Ming's gentle expression. The woman was absolutely unused to it. She quickly took a couple more steps back, and when she saw him standing up from his seated position, she quickly spoke up.

"Er… You know, you shouldn't treat the marriage your second senior brother spoke about seriously, you… Your expression is really weird, you know… Ack..!" Before Yu Xuan could finish speaking, her mouth fell open. She was too stunned to speak, as if her body had been frozen. She looked at Su Ming with a stupid look on her face.

This was because the instant he stood up, he took a step forward and appeared right next to her and gave her a hug. Yu Xuan was completely dumbfounded by this action. Her heart thumped loudly against her chest; she was too stunned to move. She simply let Su Ming hold onto her, while her mind was completely blank.

She was not the only one feeling this. Even the big yellow dog beside her was stunned, unable to grasp what was happening even after a long time had passed. The bald crane that was peeking from not too far away also blinked a couple times, disbelief evident on its face.

"Yu Xuan, thank you."

"Who are you?!" she instinctively cried out. She had a feeling that the person in front of her was no longer the person she liked to tease.

Su Ming just shook his head, his gaze moving to his second senior brother, who was sitting and meditating not too far away. He also saw Hu Zi, who was snoring on the ground, as well as his eldest senior brother, who had turned into a statue.

This was the ninth summit. As he looked at the scenery around him, Su Ming found that he was brought to the place where he had wanted to be previously - the time before Dao Yuan appeared.

"I can't change what has already happened, but I can change what happens now. Even if it's futile, I will still change it," Su Ming mumbled. He did not know just what exactly the test of the Five Illusory Echelon within the stone monument was, but if he could return to the past in his memories, then he wanted things to no longer be like what had truly happened in reality.

Su Ming's gaze moved into the distance, a woman dressed in white looking at him quietly. She was Bai Su, and she had a smile on her face as she looked back at him.

Su Ming had understood the meaning of that smile in the past, but he had chosen to avoid it. Yet now, when he saw that it again, the memory of him being unable to catch that piece of cloth when Bai Su had died all those years ago resurfaced in his mind. It was almost symbolic. Since he had chosen to avoid, he could not catch her in the end, only able to let that piece of cloth dance in the air as it left into the distance.

'I'm truly happy to be able to see all of you again…' Su Ming hid away his sadness regarding his mother and let happiness into his heart. It wasn't fake either. This was the happiness that came straight from the depths of his heart when he saw his old friends and family once more.

There are two ways to cherish something in this world. One of them is when a person never places any importance on a certain thing at first. Only once they lose it do they begin to value it more as they think back on it during the endless passage of time.

The other is when the person always values a certain thing, and even after losing it, they still persistently care about it. As time passes, this kind of cherishing gathers together and becomes greater, until it reaches an extreme state and turns into nostalgia, making the person treasure the thing even more than they did in the past.

Su Ming was the latter.

He looked at those familiar faces, at ninth summit, at his home, at the people in the distance, who chose to stay in the ninth summit in the past and who spared no pains and chose to self-destruct just to save Su Ming during danger. His smile was incredibly happy and joyful as he looked at all of them.

He smiled faintly, even if that smile made Yu Xuan skeptical, stunned Bai Su, and even surprised the yellow dog that was the Abyss Dragon. They simply did not understand.

Bang!

As Su Ming smiled, a muffled booming came from the distance, followed by the ripples of the Rune in this area being torn apart. Su Ming had sensed these ripples in the past, and now… when he sensed them again, he slowly turned his body around. Gradually, his smile faded away. Gradually, a heinous intent of murderousness appeared in his eyes.

"Dao Yuan, I've waited for you… for an entire cycle of life and death!"

Not much explanation was required for this sort of hate. Perhaps some people would understand, but it was just as likely that… no one would.

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Chapter 820: So Simple

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Su Ming lifted his foot. The moment the crowd around him was shocked by the booming that came from the Rune being torn apart, he took a step forward. With it, Su Ming instantly disappeared.

His disappearance did not surprise the people, because in their hearts, he was always the strongest in this place, but the pupils of the Abyss Dragon by the side shrank at that instant in disbelief. It watched the spot where Su Ming had disappeared with a blank look in its eyes.

During that instant, it had sensed a powerful presence of World Planes. In fact, it even sensed danger. This was a sense of something that could threaten its existence, and this brought disbelief to the Abyss Dragon.

Bang!

In the distance, Dao Yuan and the five Dao Slaves stepped through the barrier around the island. The arrogant look on Dao Yuan's face had just appeared, but before the words he had prepared could leave his mouth, the expressions of the five Dao Slaves around him suddenly changed drastically.

Almost at the instant this happened, Su Ming walked out. He had an apathetic look on his face, but the murderous intent in his eyes was monstrous. At the instant he appeared, he charged towards Dao Yuan without any hesitation.

"A powerful warrior! A powerful World Paragon! Damn it, why is there a powerful World Paragon here?!"

"Protect the young master! The stench of blood on this person is incredibly thick, and his power of World Planes is great. This is… the bloody aura of someone who has killed numerous people in the same realm!"

As the expressions of the five Dao Slaves changed, one of them immediately grabbed Dao Yuan to charge backwards. The other four turned into long arcs and rushed towards Su Ming. When they closed in, their cultivation bases erupted at full force, but it was a pity… while they were World Paragons in the initial stage of World Plane Realm, in the land of Berserkers, their power of World Planes was restricted. The combat prowess they could bring out was capable of pushing Su Ming into the depths of despair in the past, but now…

He charged forward and instantly crashed into the four. A loud bang that shook the world reverberated in the air when Su Ming's right fist landed on Dao Slave 19's body.

The man's eyes instantly went wide. His body started shattering inch by inch, and his flesh as well as his blood fell to pieces. When faced with the current Su Ming… he was instantly killed. The destructive power of World Planes surged into his shattered body, tore apart his Nascent Divinity, and wiped away his soul. His body and spirit were destroyed.

At the same time, all the divine abilities from the other three Dao Slaves landed on Su Ming's body, but to their shock, they inflicted absolutely no damage. In fact, their divine abilities did not even manage to make Su Ming slow down for a moment. They could only watch wide-eyed as Dao Slave 19 was instantaneously killed.

"Forget the fact that you can't even activate your power of World Planes, even if you were capable of doing so, you're just merely in the initial stage of World Plane Realm… It wouldn't be difficult for me to kill you then, while now… it's as easy as breathing!" Su Ming turned around, and monstrous hatred flashed in his eyes. His voice was like a chilling gust of wind that blew past, causing the hearts of the three Dao Slaves to shudder.

In the distance, Dao Slave 51 held onto Dao Yuan as he fled. Shock could be seen on the young lord's face, along with fear. The three Dao Slaves before Su Ming immediately retreated, his might bring great pressure to them. In fact, when his words fell into their ears, they did not feel a single hint of conceit from him.

It was just as he said. Even if they did execute the power of World Planes, they still might not be his opponent. They felt this was certainly right based on that murderous aura about him, which made them incredibly apprehensive. This was a bloodthirsty aura that could only be gathered on a single person after he had killed a great number of people. This sort of powerful warrior was not someone they could provoke, but Su Ming's appearance was too sudden, and they did not even know how they had offended him.

After all, while they had come with killing intent, they had not damaged even a single patch of grass on this land. At most, they had only torn down the barrier.

"This must be a misunderstanding. Sir, please do not be angry. We are from Morning Dao Sect. This must be a misunderstanding."

"That's right. We're only passing by this place while protecting our young master. We did not know that you were training here in silence. Please allow us to show our apology in the form of gifts, and we will immediately leave."

"Sir, you have extraordinary power. You're certainly not some nobody. We have no grudge nor enmity between us, this is just a misun—"

The three people spoke one after another, Su Ming's strength having terrified them. At that moment, they did not bother to pursue Dao Slave 19's death, because leaving this place was the most important thing. That was why they placed themselves in an incredibly low position and wrapped their fists in their palms to apologize.

But before the three people could even finish speaking, laughter thick with forlornness immediately cut their words off.

"No grudge nor enmity?" Su Ming's laughter was incredibly bitter and desolate. There was also a hatred to it that could burn the heavens. The moment he asked his question, he took a step forward. The expressions of the three Dao Slaves changed drastically. Knowing that retreating would mean their deaths, their eyes turned bloodshot during, and they charged towards Su Ming.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

"No grudge nor enmity? You say that there is no grudge nor enmity between us?!"

Booms came from under Su Ming's feet, and faint golden light swiftly spread out from there to an area of ten thousand feet. Once it was covered by the light, it turned into rolling golden fog. It was Su Ming's power of World Planes.

At the instant it erupted forth, Dao Slave 21's body fell apart. He had been crushed alive by Su Ming's power of World Planes and had collapsed.

"How could we have no grudge nor enmity between us?!"

As Su Ming's voice echoed in the air, he moved beside Dao Slave 31. With hatred fueled actions, he pierced through the center of Dao Slave 31's brows with his right index finger and shattered his skull. Su Ming allowed Dao Slave 31's attacks to land on him before his death, completely unperturbed.

"This is… the Sacred Constellation Robe! He has the Sacred Constellation Robe!" Before his death, Dao Slave 31 let out a cry that was filled with utmost surprise. These were his last words in this life.

"The hate between us burns the skies!"

Su Ming turned around swiftly. Once he killed Dao Slave 31, he looked towards Dao Slave 41, whose expression had changed drastically due to the shock he experienced after he heard Dao Slave 31's words before his death and who was rapidly retreating without any hesitation at that moment.

Powerful killing intent appeared in Su Ming's eyes. During that instant, and in a manner that not even he himself noticed, the runic symbol that had been formed not too long ago and had replaced his right pupil shone abruptly in his right eye under his great murderous intent.

During that instant, Dao Slave 41, who had been retreating, suddenly shuddered. The image of the runic symbol in Su Ming's right eye was immediately reflected in an inverse manner in Dao Slave 41's right eye.

Almost at the moment this happened, Dao Slave 41 let out a shrill scream. As his body trembled, his cultivation base began quickly dispersing, and within an instant, there was not a single shred of power left in him. He had become a mortal.

At the same time, as if his body could not withstand the flash of power from the runic symbol in Su Ming's eye, it shattered and turned into ashes. Without a sound.

After he died, a runic symbol took form in midair, then charged back. It fused with the runic symbol in Su Ming's right eye, which became even clearer and shone even brighter.

Su Ming was momentarily stunned, but at that moment, he did not want to investigate the secrets in his eye. Instead, he looked at Dao Slave 51 and Dao Yuan, who were retreating in the distance. Dao Yuan's face was stark pale. When he saw Su Ming looking towards him, he let out a piercing scream.

"Who are you?! Just who are you?! You have the Sacred Constellation Robe, but I've never seen you before! Who are you?!"

Almost at the moment Dao Yuan's screams rang out, Dao Slave 51 began trembling beside him. The runic symbol in Su Ming's right eyes had appeared in both his eyes at the same time.

There was no racket. Without any sound, Dao Slave 51 lost all his cultivation base as his body shivered, and he instantly shattered, turning into two runic symbols that instantly flew towards Su Ming. Once they fused into his right eye, the runic symbol began flashing viciously, and overlapping images appeared. This was clearly due to three runic symbols having been put on top of each other.

"You can't kill me! I have the Sacred Constellation Robe! No one can kill me!" Dao Yuan began screaming shrilly while shivering. The fear in his heart had reached extreme levels, and as he swung his right hand, the item he had brought out a long time ago began sending out a force that summoned others.

The sky began to roar, and ripples spread out, longships appeared. There were numerous people on those longships.

"Attack! Kill him! Kill him!!" Dao Yuan screamed, madness evident in his eyes.

Yet at the instant those longships and the people on them appeared, Su Ming's lips curled up into a cold sneer. He had been waiting for this moment. Killing those five Dao Slaves and Dao Yuan alone was not enough to him to vent his rage and hate. He had been waiting for these people to come. He wanted… to kill all of them!

Boom!

Su Ming's power of World Planes fully spread out. That faint golden fog immediately expanded to an area of fifty thousand feet, turning it into his world. He leaped up and charged into the sky, crashing into the incoming longships.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Endless booms rang out nonstop in the sky. Once the Dao Slaves that were World Paragons were no longer present, the strongest were just in Heaven Cultivation Realm. In fact, most of the people were just in Earth and Man Cultivation Realm. This sort of cultivators could only be slaughtered by Su Ming.

The booming continued for about the time it takes for an incense stick to burn. The sky was dyed in a shade of blood, and runic symbols appeared in the sky one after another. There were hundreds of them. They circled about, following Su Ming. When he walked down from the sky with the stench of blood around him, they finally surged into his right eye, filling it with strange overlapping shadows that would terrify people.

In Dao Yuan's eyes, the blood fog behind Su Ming surged into the sky. As he walked over, it looked as if it had turned into a cloak. At that moment, Su Ming looked as if he was dressed in a cloak formed by the blood-red sky, and with a boundless amount of murderous aura, he was walking towards Dao Yuan.

"You can't kill me, you cannot kill me, we have no grudge between us…" Dao Yuan was filled with fear and despair. As he quickly retreated, Su Ming's right eye suddenly shone, and hundreds of runic symbols appeared at the same time on Dao Yuan's body. Those runic symbols were on various spots of his body, and they were all shining. Dao Yuan's voice fell silent, and his body shattered instantaneously. In fact, even his Sacred Constellation Robe was reduced to ashes due to those flashing runic symbols.

The world fell silent instantly, the people on the ninth summit looking at Su Ming with blank gazes, almost suffocating for having forgotten to breathe.

Su Ming stood quietly in midair when he suddenly began laughing. However, as he laughed, he turned his head around and looked at the people of the ninth summit around him. He looked at the faces that had died for the ninth summit, and the grief in his eyes rose within him once more.

"I see… so killing is so simple an act…"

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Chapter 821: The Obsessive Desire to Become the Strongest

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"So, the one event that caused me to sink into despair in the past is only a joke after I obtained the power of a World Paragon!" Su Ming laughed loudly, but his laughter was a mocking one. He was not laughing at anyone else, but at the world and at himself.

He did not feel any sort of delight, no joy for getting his revenge, only derision.

All the people that had sacrificed themselves in this disaster in the past and all their deaths which Su Ming had been unable to prevent even though he had done everything he could to change it, even choosing to submit to that power with a dejected spirit, now looked like a joke in his eyes. During this instant, an incredibly great awareness towards the difference between the strong and the weak took form in Su Ming's heart.

It was just like how that existence in Yin Death Vortex had uttered 'very well' when Su Ming voiced his request.

Just that simple 'very well' from a powerful warrior's mouth was enough to stop this disaster, just like what Su Ming could do right now. If he wanted to kill, then he could do so with ease, all of Dao Yuan's Dao Slaves were like ants before him now. This was such a mockery, and such a matter that could cause the hearts of others to ache with grief.

'Become stronger. I don't want to be a weakling anymore. I want to become a powerful warrior. I want to control my own life. I don't want to see people dying to protect me anymore. I don't want to have all the people beside me disappear… leaving me only pitiful, lonely person in this vast world.

'I don't want to!'

Su Ming had never had such a deep understanding towards the distinction between the strong and the weak as he did now. Even when the will in Yin Death Vortex had taken action in the past, he had only been shocked and swathed in anguish. That person's great power had caused his heart to tremble and birthed a great desire in his heart.

This desire made him descend into madness, made him want to become stronger. Up till now, when he used the stone monument's power to return to the past and took his revenge. He saw that he had obtained the power he had longed for in the past… but he was unhappy.

Because he was still not strong enough. He still could not be considered as a powerful warrior. Perhaps he could kill Dao Yuan and the other Dao Slaves, but even if he could take revenge now, so much time had already passed.

If he ran into new enemies that were stronger, then the same scene would happen again, just like how he was forced to step into the foreign land because he had been chased down by a major force against which he could not fight back.

He did not want to only be able to turn his head back and look at the past on a certain day as time continued flowing away every single time when a disaster arrived because he was not strong enough. He did not want to laugh only then, to cry only then, and to experience this fate that was filled with scorn.

He wanted to move before fate and dictate how his fate should move instead of his body being led along like a puppet. He wanted to become even stronger!

"The strong and the weak. This is such a simple logic, and only now have I managed to come to understand it." As Su Ming laughed with his head thrown back, more tears flowed down his cheeks. He looked at the bloody sky and at the bright red hue in the sea. This was the color of autumn.

The tears that flowed from his eyes drowned his vision, blurring his sight. In the now muddled world he saw, he could not tell apart the sea and the sky. Everything he saw was an endless shade of red.

The will of autumn appeared in Su Ming's consciousness and his mind without his knowledge. At the instant this happened, his cultivation base started circulating.

Winter, autumn, summer, spring!

This was Su Ming's Life Matrix. It was the path he had come to understand and which he knew he would tread in the future, as if coming from death to life. When he was in Yin Death Region, his Life Matrix had been that of midwinter. It was the still silence of death, and when he was in Eastern Wastelands Tower, he understood the color of autumn. He longed to see the world become red. The red of autumn would allow him to feel death flowing away as he was surrounded by midwinter.

"What is the meaning of autumn..? What lies between life and death is autumn!

"Because autumn is the change between coldness and warmth. Because autumn is the transition between midwinter and summer. Because autumn… is the path where all manner of lives will head towards a withered state from their lush, life-filled states.

"Autumn should be crimson red. It is a change in each and every person's state of life and death when I kill endlessly so that I can complete my epiphany. This is Autumn's Slaughter!"

The circulation of Su Ming's cultivation base became faster. As he gained his epiphany, as the world before his eyes was covered in an endless layer of bright red, as he laughed in self-depreciation, his cultivation base started roaring like thunder.

"My Life Matrix is winter, autumn, summer, and spring. What I lack in my Life isn't a soul nor a physical body, but vitality. I lack vitality, because I am that dead baby in his mother's embrace from all those years ago!

"I possess consciousness. This is due to the Abyss Builders' unique traits. My physical body grew up in the land of Immortals, and that is simply because there is no one who said that those who died could not continue growing!

"Life and death, the strong and the weak! It's so simple, so simple!" Su Ming's laughter was crazed. His cultivation base was at the initial stage of Life Privation Realm, which was at Earth Cultivation Realm.

Yet during that instant, as his cultivation base circulated in his body and he came to understand that he lacked vitality, it erupted from his body with a bang. The weather changed, and the heavens growled. The space around him started trembling. As he stood in midair, his cultivation base rose, and he headed straight to the middle stage of Life Privation Realm from the initial stage.

Su Ming threw his head back and roared, "I want to become powerful! I want to become… the most powerful person in the universe!"

This was the first time such words were voiced by him. In the past, he had only wanted to become strong, but he had never set a specific goal. Yet now, at this instant, his roar shook the sky and earth, and it symbolized his desire, its strength within him.

The strongest person between the sky and earth, within and beyond the universe!

"I want to make all those who once humiliated me, who once cornered me, wanted to kill me, and wanted to control me to return to dust. I will turn them into dust. And I will have all the people in the universe not dare harm even a single hair of those who were kind to me, who helped me, and who protected me as long as the universe continues existing, even if they have committed heinous crimes and sins!

"I want to become the strongest! The strongest!"

As Su Ming's voice echoed in the world, the red hue around him started trembling before surging towards him. The dead Dao Slaves and the blood-red will of autumn surged into his body. Once they rushed into all the pores, Su Ming roared towards the sky.

His gray hair danced in the air. His cultivation base rose once again with a bang at that instant, and he moved from the middle stage to the later stage of Life Privation Realm. With just one more step, he would attain great completion, and if he managed to breakthrough once he reached that stage, he would reach Life Palace Realm, which would mean that he had reached Heaven Cultivation Realm!

The moment Su Ming's cultivation base reached the peak of Earth Cultivation Realm and he was only a step away from Heaven Cultivation Realm, the space around him turned into a gigantic vortex. As it churned about, a huge eye appeared in it.

Once that happened, Su Ming's body faded away and gradually disappeared. He turned around at that moment. There was no longer any madness in his eyes, only reluctance to part.

When he was in the stone monument's dimension, he had sensed early on that the power which sealed his emotions and his pain had dispersed. It was as if that power was naturally suppressed here.

He looked at the people of the ninth summit around him, the familiar faces that would remain in his memories for all eternity. They might have died, but in his heart, they would remain alive.

"I will… resurrect all of you, one day…" Su Ming mumbled as he remembered the Abyss Builders' divine ability the Duke of Crimson Flame had mentioned. His body then gradually faded away until he disappeared into the world.

In one of the four Great True Worlds, True Morning Dao World, there was an Osmanthus Planet. Given this name, it was no surprised that the place was filled with osmanthus trees. Their fragrance pervaded the air and dispersed by the wind. In the southeast region of this planet was a mountain range, and there were plenty of exquisite towers there. Within them were many cultivators.

The sounds of a Chinese zither came from one of the towers. The notes echoed in the air and did not disappear even after a long time had passed. There was a woman in white sitting cross-legged there, her long hair spilling over her shoulders. She was incredibly beautiful, and if Su Ming could see her, he would be able to recognize that she was the woman that had appeared within the illusory projection brought up by one of the three souls in his body when he was still in Yin Death Region in the past. She was… Bai Su's real self.

"What a strange feeling… I feel as if this piece is a dream." A dazed expression appeared on the woman in white's face. As she mumbled, the sounds of the Chinese zither echoed in the air. That piece seemed to contain Su Ming's mocking laughter along with his grief as he wept.

In an ordinary cultivation planet within True Morning Dao World was a cave abode. A cultivator of average looks was sitting cross-legged in there. In fact, he looked quite shifty, but as he continued sitting, tears flowed down from his eyes. After a long time, he opened his eyes, and nostalgia appeared within them.

"I can't forget the Berserkers, can't forget the ninth summit, and I can't forget the joy I experienced when I was in the land of Berserkers, and neither can I forget… Su Ming." That cultivator did not have a high level of cultivation. After mumbling to himself, he closed his eyes once again [1].

Within Yin Death Vortex, which was the Immortals' territory within True Morning Dao World… was the land of Berserkers. There, on the ninth summit, was a man who looked like a flower. He was standing there, dressed in white, and as the sea breeze blew at him, it lifted up his robes and caused his long hair to dance in the wind, revealing a gentle and beautiful face.

He no longer had sunlight shine on the side of his face, and a gentle smile was no longer always present on him. Actually, it had been a long time since it had graced his lips. He stood there quietly as he looked into the distance.

"Youngest junior brother, I dreamed of you… I dreamed that you killed Dao Yuan and all his Dao Slaves. I dreamed that you… became a powerful warrior. Was it just a dream..?" second senior brother mumbled softly.

In the cave abode behind him, Hu Zi opened his eyes from his dream as tears trickled down his cheeks. His face was filled with stubble, but he was not willing to shave it. He looked a slovenly mess as he grabbed the pot of wine beside him and drank large mouthfuls from it.

Wine flowed down the corners of his lips. But even as he drank, he was unable to control the tears flowing down his eyes. He wept silently.

"Youngest junior brother, I dreamed of you again. I miss you…"

Under the sea was the foot of the ninth summit, and it was also the isolation grounds of eldest senior brother. He had no head, but there was a crazed will within his body. He was training. He was continuously training. Only by doing so could he let go of some of the pain and guilt, stop blaming himself for a moment.

"Youngest junior brother… I'm sorry, if you didn't try to save me…"

Translator's Notes:

1. The cultivator: His name is not revealed, so I won't mention it here as well. But here's some stuff to jog your memory a bit. He was Su Ming's experiment when he first tried out the Curse, then was conned by the bald crane, then joined Su Ming and the rest back on the ninth summit, and was witness to the whole Dao Yuan incident.

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Chapter 822: Nine hundred ninety thousand Feet

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In one of the four Great True Worlds, the Emperor of Abyss' True World, there was an incredibly great galaxy. It was formed by nine vortexes that surrounded the area, creating a forbidden ground. If anyone without a plate allowing them entry stepped here, they would find difficult to survive.

In the depths of the galaxy was a vortex, and at the center of it was a piece of land whose edges were covered by black lightning. That piece of land was not big, only a few millions of lis in size.

The area there was covered in flowers and grass. Thick waves of spiritual energy filled the air, and their presence was so thick that they were corporeal. They circled in the air several times based on some pattern before surging towards the center of the land.

There was a tall platform at the center upon which nine old men sat cross-legged. They were sitting in a circle, and in the middle of them a young woman lay quietly.

She was dressed in a long purple robe and had her eyes closed, as if she was deep asleep.

She was Yu Xuan.

She remained still and unmoving, her face pale, as if she had died.

In the foreign lands of Western Ring Nebula within the Sinful Barren Lands located in the Barren Lands of Divine Essence, there were a hundred thousand stone monuments, all of them different in size. Su Ming appeared before his stone monument once again. As his body gradually became completely distinct, the stone monument before him let out booming sounds. It slowly grew from one hundred thousand feet to two hundred thousand feet, and once it did so, the light disappeared.

A calm voice travelled into Su Ming's ears. "Congratulations. You managed to make your stone monument grow to such a level within such a short period of time."

The person who spoke was Zhou Kang. It was clear that he had just come out from his stone monument, but instead of growing, it had become only one hundred thousand feet. The difference was too great compared to the height it reached previously, but the man looked as calm as ever.

After a long time, Su Ming averted his gaze from it and sensed his own power as he looked at his surroundings quietly. When he looked over, he found several dozens of people around, most of them meditating with aloof expressions on their faces. They did not bother each other.

When Su Ming's gaze fell on Zhou Kang, he saw that his stone monument had shrank, and he could not help but focus on it. He remembered that when he'd first walked out of his stone monument, he had glanced past Zhou Kang's stone monument and seen that it had reached seven hundred thousand something feet. However, at that time, he had been immersed in his memories of his mother and did not pay too much attention to the changes around him.

"I failed to reach one million feet, so my stone monument regressed to one hundred thousand feet," Zhou Kang stated flatly when his gaze fell on Su Ming. "I didn't expect that your speed would be so quick. Looks like Yue Er's guess was correct. The Five Illusory Echelons are the best method of training in this place.

"Of course, this has a huge connection to your own potential in understanding things. This should be something that exists, or else why would I, whose potential in the path of cultivation is lesser than that of Yue Er but whose epiphany was slightly deeper, could survive while she left?" Grief appeared in Zhou Kang's eyes as he mumbled to himself.

"If you fail in reaching one million feet, your stone monument will regress?" Su Ming asked softly.

"You should have realized the benefits after you entered the world in the stone monument, because your world is completely formed based on your memories. This way it'll be much more convenient for you to gain epiphanies, and your epiphanies will also be much deeper.

"That's why your cultivation base can be increased in the world within the stone monument. As long as people aren't afraid of being killed, many of them will choose to give up on reaching one million feet and instead continue immersing themselves in the world within the stone monument so that they can gain deeper epiphanies.

"However, even if that's not what you want, you will still have no choice, because it's not incredibly difficult to make your stone monument reach nine hundred thousand feet. Since the start, there have been plenty of those who managed to go up that high.

"But when trying to reach one million feet from nine hundred thousand feet, there is a wall. It's the same for everyone. If you want to climb over it… it will be difficult, very difficult. If I were to count it, then I've run into this wall four times. I didn't try to climb over it the previous three times but chose to give up on it. I was waiting for my wife.

"Once she passed away, I tried breaking through it, but failed." Zhou Kang looked at Su Ming, his voice calm.

"If you fail, then you'll have to start again. It's like a cycle of reincarnation. You will keep on repeating the process… and those who manage to climb over this wall are few, very few…" Zhou Kang closed his eyes.

Su Ming fell silent. He looked at his stone monument, which was now at two hundred thousand feet. The questions that existed in his heart were now answered. When he first left his stone monument, he had looked at it, which had become one hundred thousand feet, and had been skeptical about the Divine Essence's legacy. It seemed… as if it was not really that difficult.

So why when were there so many people who had failed, with only a few who managed to reach one million feet? Now, he understood.

Su Ming looked at Zhou Kang, who had his eyes closed, and said in a low voice, "There should be quite a number of people who will come during the next few days. If… you can make your stone monument reach one million feet as soon as possible, then you should."

Zhou Kang did not speak. He continued to stand with his eyes closed.

Light would occasionally flash in the area. Some people would walk into their worlds in the stone monuments, while others would walk out. Su Ming noticed that the stone monument of the old man whom he and Zhou Kang had plotted together to kill had already been occupied by someone else, and it had already reached one hundred thousand feet.

Several days later, once Zhou Kang returned to the world in his stone monument, Su Ming also chose to enter again.

Time passed. When in the world of the stone monument, he returned to the time when he became the God of Berserkers, when he was still in Dark Mountain, when he experienced the great war between the Shamans and Berserkers, and when he had just entered Freezing Sky Clan.

The experiences, epiphanies, and killings caused more runic symbols to overlap, making it seem as if the universe was contained in Su Ming's right eye. Its power also grew the extent that it terrified even Su Ming himself.

This power was not something he had obtained through an epiphany. Instead, he had naturally obtained it after he used his eye to enter the stone monument.

Without being aware of it, Su Ming had already spent sixty years in this place. During that time, there were more than thirty thousand people who had come to this place, and once they arrived, they became one of the candidates to obtain the Divine Essence.

There were men and women among those thirty thousand people, and almost every single one of them came for Su Ming's life. Once they saw him in this place, some of them chose to attack, but after multiple deaths, the others noticed the will in this place and gave up, since they could do nothing about it.

Occasionally, some more newcomers would arrive, but Su Ming was completely unconcerned. In fact, he did not even attempt to dodge. As long as their divine abilities landed on his person, they would all die.

Gradually, the old timers in the place noticed what was happening, and they were delighted by the proceedings. After all, every time a person died, it would mean that a stone monument would be emptied, so when a new person arrived, they would receive that monument, and the old timers would thus skip one turn of possibly dying.

The arrival of thirty thousand people meant that there was an equivalent amount of people who had died. The old names on the stone monuments were gradually replaced by new ones, and the occasional deaths put pressure on everyone that they had never experienced before.

There was a continuous string of people who attempted to break the wall of one million feet, but during the sixty years, not one managed to succeed.

There were still people entering the foreign land, and Su Ming had even sensed a powerful threat several times. This sensation had eventually dissolved, but those few times had put pressure on Su Ming.

Once his stone monument reached six hundred thousand feet, it became harder for it to grow. In fact, Su Ming needed to fuse with the stone monument's world several dozens of times before he could make his stone monument grow even a few tens of thousands of feet.

In sixty years, Su Ming managed to grow his stone monument to nine hundred nine thousand feet. At the same time, Zhou Kang's stone monument also reached nine hundred eight thousand feet.

This was the second time Zhou Kang made his stone monument reach that height during the sixty years, and it was also the sixth time he'd reached that height.

"We've known each other for sixty years now, and to lifeforms like us, sixty years is too short, but to mortals, sixty years might be their entire lives.

"Today, your stone monument also reached a similar height. It's a pity that I can't tell you anything about the experiences about the wall in trying to reach one million feet. This is a restriction placed on us by the laws here. I can only… wish you success!" Zhou Kang looked at Su Ming. Once he sucked in a deep breath, he pushed his right hand on the stone monument and disappeared.

Su Ming looked at his own stone monument, which had reached nine hundred nine thousand feet. During the sixty years, he had seen almost every single person here. The apathetic faces and gazes that would occasionally shine with a gloomy light were expressions that said that they hoped for others to be quickly replaced by newcomers so that their chances of death would be lowered, and it was an expression that showed just how cruel this place was.

Some of the one thousand people who had made their stone monuments reach one million feet had returned from the world outside during those sixty years, a telling sign that their time limit of a thousand years had drawn near, and they had to continue trying to receive the Divine Essence.

Su Ming shook his head. Once he sat down with his legs crossed, he looked at the stone monument. He noticed that there was quite a large number of people around him who were sizing him up, but he was already accustomed to these kind of gazes. After all, compared to other people, he had chosen to walk down the path of the Five Illusory Echelons. He was different from the others, and he would naturally catch their attention. Besides, during the sixty years, the newcomers would occasionally attack him straight away, ignoring everything else. So it was impossible for him to not catch people's attention even if he wanted.

After a moment, a vortex appeared on the stone monument in front of him. As it rotated with loud booming sounds, Su Ming's body swiftly became obscure and he disappeared.

When his field of vision cleared, he immediately had his Atman sweep through the area. This was a galaxy, and there was a cultivation planet not too far away from him. That planet was golden, and it shone with a brilliant light.

"Those who wish to obtain my Divine Essence must go through this test if they want to make their stone monument reach one million feet. If you succeed… you will obtain a part of the power of my Divine Essence. If you fail, then you will have to start over.

"That cultivation planet before you is my homeland. In that place is my Divine Essence, but whether you can obtain it… will depend on your serendipity!" Sui Chen Zi's ancient voice, which had spoken to Su Ming sixty years ago, echoed in his head once again. "You can use whatever methods you have at your disposal… as long as you obtain that Divine Essence!"

Sui Chen Zi's ancient voice gradually disappeared, and once it vanished, Su Ming lifted his head. A glint appeared in his eyes, and the overlapping shadows from those runic symbols in his right eye gave him an especially stately appearance, making him look incredibly bizarre. He took a step forward and, with a bang, turned into a shooting star that charged down towards the cultivation planet in the distance.

Su Ming's speed grew increasingly faster. In the blink of an eye, he sliced through the galaxy and closed in on the cultivation planet that was shining with golden light. Right then, a powerful and mighty pressure spread out from the cultivation planet. The golden light around then became akin to a golden sea, which decreased Su Ming's speed by a large margin.

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Chapter 823: The Golden Cultivation Planet

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When Su Ming was inside the golden sea, a glint appeared in his eyes. He focused his gaze on the cultivation planet in the distance and sensed the agitation as well as the madness that came from the mighty pressure spreading out from there. There was also a killing intent contained within that could make outsiders freeze in their footsteps.

"Begone!" A low roar that sounded like thunder came from the cultivation planet with loud booming sounds before Su Ming could even get close.

As that voice echoed in the air, the golden sea that filled the area around Su Ming immediately started tumbling and roaring, forming a great force that rejected him. The killing intent exuded by that voice was enough to make all the people who heard it to feel as if they had run into their mortal enemy, and their hearts would tremble.

Su Ming immediately stopped moving. His pupils shrank. His heart shook, and a loud bang reverberated in his head. There was a will contained within that voice, and it was so great that it seemed that if he did not obey it, his body and soul would be destroyed.

'So this is the test for those who want to have their stone monument reach a million feet?' Su Ming's expression was incredibly solemn. He stared at the cultivation planet in the distance, and after some time, he moved again, charging forward like a shooting star while resisting the mighty pressure.

He wasn't quick inside the golden sea. After all, that mighty pressure felt as if it possessed corporeal form. Cracks appeared on his body as he moved forward, as if even with his powerful physical body, he was still unable to withstand the power of that mighty pressure descending on him.

'Just who is in that cultivation planet in front of me? Just that pressure alone is enough to make me like this. That person's level of cultivation…' Su Ming suddenly understood why so many people had failed in the face of this wall.

Time passed, and Su Ming became increasingly slower as he moved forward. Banging sounds signaling his inability to withstand the pressure rang from his physical body. A large portion of his skin cracked and shattered, and his organs were nearly destroyed under the mighty pressure.

And this was Su Ming, who possessed an incredibly powerful body. If it had been anyone else, they probably would have been unable to withstand the pressure a long time ago, but on the other hand… Su Ming did not have sufficient power. If he had enough, then he could protect his entire body with the power generated by circulating his cultivation base, then with his physical body, he could move forward a little farther.

After a moment, Su Ming was forced to stop. Blood trickled out the corners of his mouth, and his eyes were filled with red as he stared fixedly at the cultivation planet.

As of then, he was still about thousands of feet away. The distance might seem great based on that number, but in truth, when that distance was placed in a galaxy, Su Ming was already very close.

'This is my limit. With my cultivation base and the power of my physical body, this is as far as I can go. Without using any special method, I would have to stop here, and I would have no right to talk about making my stone monument reach one million feet.'

Su Ming lowered his head and looked down at his body which looked incredibly pathetic at the moment—it was filled with cracks and bloody marks. When he lifted his head, the overlapping runic symbols in his right eye suddenly started flashing.

As they did so, Su Ming lifted his left hand and pressed it against his right eye.

This was the method to use the runic symbols, which he had come to naturally understand during the sixty years. With it, the moment Su Ming lifted his left hand from the eye, the runic symbols there instantly erupted.

Nearly a thousand runic symbols flew out with a bang, and as they shone, they circled around Su Ming, rotating around him swiftly. He looked as if he was in a storm of runic symbols. As they surrounded him, the mighty pressure on him reduced slightly.

Without any hesitation, Su Ming rushed forward. With the runic symbols around him, after around the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, he drew close enough to the cultivation planet that he could see the mountain ranges as well as the rivers on the continents.

Right then, the runic symbols around him started shuddering violently, while some of them were even destroyed instantaneously. Thankfully, being destroyed was not equivalent to disappearance for these runic symbols. They simply turned into glittering light that was instantly absorbed by the other runic symbols, who then begun to shine even brighter.

Su Ming let out a low roar and continued to charge forward at full speed. He ignored the flow of time around him. The only thought in his head was to step on that cultivation planet, that he absolutely had to step on that planet. Not being able to even step on that cultivation planet during his test was something Su Ming would absolutely not allow to happen.

'I've never seen anyone dying when they tried to make their stone monument reach one million feet, which means that while this might look dangerous, real death is not a possibility. If that is the case… then I must give it my all!'

Su Ming lifted his head and roared, then charged forward at an even faster pace. More of the runic symbols around him shattered, but those that remained became even brighter, up to the point where they were almost dazzling.

But Su Ming's physical body was also being torn apart as he moved forward. In fact, there were several spots on his arms where his flesh and blood had been torn apart, revealing bones. Those bones also started cracking due to the mighty pressure.

The pain that he could not feel in the world outside was incredibly great in this place. It attacked his heart and soul, but it could not suppress his madness.

There was a persistence and determination that others would find hard to imagine within Su Ming's personality. If it were not for this determination, then how else could it have been possible for him to set his Life Matrix as a movement from winter, autumn, summer, to spring? How else could it have been possible for him to move from death to life? How else could it have been possible for him to go against fate his entire life? How else could it have been possible for him to have such an exuberant fighting spirit even after he had learned that everything in the land of Berserkers was Di Tian's plan and that he was originally just a corpse?

All of this came from the determination that was part of Su Ming's character. In fact, what he possessed could even be called obstinacy!

Boom!

There were only nine runic symbols left around Su Ming. Each of them was a thousand feet big, and they were rotating around at a great speed. Su Ming's legs had already disappeared. His flesh, blood, and his bones were no longer around. Only his arms remained. In fact, he looked as if he was a corpse that had crawled out of its grave after most of its body had decomposed.

He looked incredibly terrifying, and the madness in his eyes and the light shining in his eyes due to his determination was enough to make all those who saw it to feel their hearts trembling in shock.

Bang!

Only eight runic symbols left!

Boom!

Only seven runic symbols left!

Loud booming sounds continuously rang out, and each bang meant that another one of the runic symbols had shattered. Several bangs later, only three were left by his side.

Those three runic symbols were all several thousands of feet big. They swept through the area, and as Su Ming held on, they continued protecting him as he moved forward.

The flesh and blood on Su Ming's skull had already dispersed. At that moment, one could see more bones than flesh or blood on his body. He looked like a skeleton that was still persisting in moving forward. The light in his eyes was even growing brighter; twin flames born from madness.

Booming sounds rang out once more. This time, two of the runic symbols exploded at the same time, which left only a single one. It was ten thousand feet big and was rotating swiftly under Su Ming's feet.

It was at this time that Su Ming got close to the cultivation planet, which was at the center of the golden sea, after experiencing an endless amount of trials!

He was incredibly close, and because of it he could see the land of the cultivation planet. He saw… figures floating in midair, all of whom he was familiar with. Among them was Tian Xie Zi, his eldest senior brother, his second senior brother, Hu Zi… It did not matter whether it was his enemies or his friends, Su Ming saw all the people he had met before in that cultivation planet.

All the faces that existed in his memories were looking at him from the sky of that cultivation planet.

Besides… Di Tian!

Di Tian was not around!

As Su Ming continued getting closer, the final runic symbol under his feet started showing signs of crumbling, and his body started shattering again as the pressure came crashing down on him.

Su Ming knew that he had failed this time, because he had done everything he could, but he had only gotten close to the cultivation planet. He had not even sensed the highest layer of wind in that planet, only able to see it.

'Even if I fail, I still want to see what else is there in this cultivation planet besides the faces from my memories!'

Su Ming's eyes were bloodshot. He simply allowed the runic symbol under his feet to crack. What little remained of his body turned into a burning shooting star and charged towards the highest layer of wind with loud booming sounds.

He came closer to it!

With a bang, Su Ming's body collided against the highest layer of wind of that planet. most of the runic symbol under his feet shattered. Violent gusts of wind roared, covering Su Ming's vision. They crushed the runic symbol under his feet, and swiftly destroyed it.

When the runic symbol under Su Ming's feet shattered, he rushed out of the highest layer of wind into the planet and truly reached the sky of that cultivation planet.

He saw the familiar faces, and also saw… a branch right behind each of those familiar figures. There was… a big golden tree that occupied most of the cultivation planet and used the land as its foundation!

That tree possessed countless branches, and the figures in front of those branches looked like flowers on them. They were connected to the tree and there was no distinction between the two. The familiar faces were smiling at Su Ming, as if they were calling out to him.

A rumbling sound rang out in Su Ming's heart. He looked at this indescribable big tree with a blank stare and watched as one of the branches swiped through the air, landing on his crumbling body.

A power of time that Su Ming was familiar with gathered around him. He saw his crumbling flesh and blood swiftly tumbling backwards before they were all sent to the highest layer of wind in the blink of an eye, then in the span of a breath, he rushed out of to appear in the galaxy beyond the cultivation planet. The runic symbol under his feet looked as if time had reversed on it. As Su Ming was continuously forced back, the runic symbols that had crumbled previously beside him appeared once again.

His body started recovering ceaselessly from its previous crumbling state. When Su Ming was sent out of the golden sea and the cultivation planet became incredibly far away once more, his body recovered completely. The runic symbols had also returned to his right eye.

At the same time, booming sounds rang out in Su Ming's ears. His vision blurred, and when everything became clear once again, he looked at the stone monument before him blankly. He… had returned to the place where the one hundred thousand stone monuments were.

His own had turned to become only twenty-one thousand feet tall from its previous ninety-nine hundred thousand feet height.

"You failed!" Sui Chen Zi's ancient voice echoed in his mind, with a hint of aloofness.

"Heh heh, even those who entered the stone monument through the Five Illusory Echelons can fail, huh?"

"Now that you failed once, you're no longer a newcomer in this place. Welcome to this endless cycle of repetition."

Voices from all around spoke to Su Ming, and they all belonged to people in the other stone monuments. Once they noticed that his stone monument had regressed to twenty-one thousand feet, they decided to speak up.

"This is only your first failure. If you continue, you will know what true despair is…"

The words from the voices from all around echoed in the air, but Su Ming did not answer. He closed his eyes, and after a long while, when he opened his eyes, a dark glint shone in them.

"Perhaps… I can pass it this way," he mumbled. The dark light shone incredibly brightly in the depths of his eyes.

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Chapter 824: The Insane Thought

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Bang!

Soon after Su Ming failed and returned, the stone monument that symbolized Zhou Kang shone brilliantly and gradually shrank from its nine hundred thousand something feet. When it was only several tens of thousands of feet tall, Zhou Kang's body tumbled out of the vortex.

His face was pale. He looked at the stone monument with a dazed expression, and after a long while, he lowered his head in anguish before he closed his eyes and sat down cross-legged.

He had also failed.

Su Ming lifted his head slowly and his gaze fell on Zhou Kang, but when he looked over, his pupils suddenly constricted, and he was taken aback, because in his eyes, he saw a thin, golden thread on Zhou Kang's right hand. That thin thread existed within his right hand, and it exuded a power that Su Ming was familiar with.

In fact, when he looked over, the light from the golden thread in Zhou Kang's right hand started moving, as if the light was reflecting Su Ming from the distance.

Su Ming hesitated for a moment before he turned his head around and looked at the other people in the place. As he swept his gaze past them, his heart trembled even greater, but he showed nothing on his face.

He saw that a thin golden thread existed within each person's body. Most of them existed in their right hands, with only a flew in the left hands. And a couple in their legs.

This was something that Su Ming had never noticed before. After experiencing his first failure, he could see those golden threads, and he found that every single person had them, but some of those threads shone with a more brilliant golden light, while others were duller.

After a moment, Su Ming mumbled, "Divine Essence, huh..?" He discovered that the limbs in which those golden threads resided was the ones with which those people were touching their stone monuments.

As he sat in silence, the world suddenly started rumbling. Not too far away, a gigantic crack appeared in the air, and seven people walked out from within.

The appearance of those seven people immediately caused the expressions of all cultivators here turn dark and aloof. There was also animosity contained within their faces.

These were seven newcomers. The vacant looks in their eyes was a telling sign that at that moment, Sui Chen Zi's voice was echoing in their hearts. Almost the moment they appeared, an indifferent will had descended upon them. When that will swept through the area, it gathered on a stone monument that was around seven hundred thousand feet tall. it immediately started shining brightly, and as a shrill scream of pain rang out, the name on that stone monument was wiped off, just like that.

The indifferent will was still swirling around the area when Su Ming's expression changed drastically. He lifted his head and stared at the sky, seeing a scene that he had never seen before.

He saw a blurry figure appearing in midair above the place where the one hundred thousand stone monuments were located. From that blurry figure, he could tell that this person was an old man. He strolled around the area, and every single time he stopped, he would lift his hand to point at one of the stone monuments. It would then immediately shine with light, and the name on it would then be wiped off.

'After experiencing one failure, my eyes… my right eye has changed! I couldn't see all of these things before. I couldn't see the golden threads, much less this figure.

'Who is he? Could he be… Sui Chen Zi?!' Su Ming's breathing quickened. He saw the figure tapping the air six times, and six stone monuments shining, which meant that six had people died.

He continued watching until he saw the figure walk towards the spot where Zhou Kang's stone monument was, but Zhou Kang did not notice it. Perhaps more accurately speaking, all of the people there did not notice anything!

Only Su Ming could.

He saw the figure lifting his right hand, and right at the instant he was about to point towards Zhou Kang's stone monument, Su Ming's heart trembled. He remembered Zhou Kang's advices, remembered him offering words that helped him during the sixty years even though he did not speak much.

"Zhou Kang!" Su Ming suddenly shouted.

Zhou Kang opened his eyes. When he looked over, Su Ming immediately saw the figure that no one else could see also turning his head around to look at him from midair.

At the instant Su Ming met the figure's gaze, a bang rang out in his head. A sharp pain shot up in his mind, as if it had pierced through him.

It did not last long, until the figure averted his gaze. The figure hesitated a bit, but it did not point towards Zhou Kang's stone monument with his lifted right hand, instead, it fell on the stone monument that was four hundred thousand feet from them.

As light shone on it, the name on the monument was wiped off, and the figure looked at Su Ming once again before gradually disappearing.

Yet at the instant it disappeared, an indifferent and ancient voice echoed in Su Ming's mind. This voice belonged to Sui Chen Zi, but it was slightly different. There were no emotions contained within, only a type of apathy.

"Only this once!"

Su Ming's heart trembled. When that figure disappeared and Zhou Kang looked towards him, Su Ming closed his eyes. Only after a long time had passed did he manage to quell the shock in his heart. He knew that after experiencing failure within the Five Illusory Echelons, he had obtained a power that some of the people around him would not be able to imagine.

He also knew that what Zhou Kang's wife, Si Ma Yue, had guessed about the people who trained in the path of the Five Illusory Echelons having less chances of dying… was correct!

Because those people who trained in the path of the Five Illusory Echelons… could see that figure, and could even change fate of other people.

'Since ancient times, there were few who trained in the path of the Five Illusory Echelons, but there should have been quite a large number of people that passed through here over the endless passage of time. These people…'

Su Ming lifted his head and opened his eyes to look at the stone monuments that had surpassed one million feet. He did not know how many people of those had trained in the path of the Five Illusory Echelons like he did.

"What is it?" Zhou Kang asked, interrupting Su Ming's thoughts. Su Ming cast him a glance with a complicated expression, then shook his head and did not speak.

Zhou Kang was momentarily stunned, then his eyes flashed. He swiftly looked towards the stone monument by his side whose name was wiped off, and a brilliant light gradually manifested in his eyes. A pensive look appeared on his face.

He no longer asked Su Ming anything else, but instead closed his eyes and began meditating.

Su Ming lifted his head and looked at his surroundings. Dark light gradually started shining in his eyes before he, too, closed them. Several days later, he chose to enter the world in the stone monument once again.

Time passed once more. Ten years, twenty years… until another sixty years slowly passed by in this cycle of repetition. During those sixty years, Su Ming made his stone monument reach nine hundred thousand feet twice, but he failed the test both times.

The first time, he only had his head left when he entered the cultivation planet. The second time, he had half his body left.

Yet even so, he still could not succeed in passing the test. As time went by, he discovered that if he wanted to have his stone monument reach one million feet, then not only would he need to have his body reach the cultivation planet in complete form, he would also need... to obtain the Divine Essence from that strange big tree!

During those two times, due to the strangeness of his right eye, he had seen an endless amount of golden light within that big tree. That golden light was the golden threads that he saw within every single person's body.

This was Divine Essence - a mysterious power that Su Ming still could not fully understand, but whose might he could sense.

During the sixty years, the experience of having his stone monument reach nine hundred thousand something feet twice had caused the runic symbols in Su Ming's right eye to grow from close to a thousand to five thousand, and he had obtained all of them from the world built based on his memories.

Yet even if he had five thousand runic symbols, he could still not make his stone monument reach one million feet. But Su Ming did not give up. Sui Chen Zi's voice continued ringing in his mind.

"You can use whatever method you have at your disposal… as long as you obtain that Divine Essence!"

"Whatever method, at your disposal - these are a very clear hint," Su Ming mumbled. He looked at the stone monument that was only twenty-three thousand feet before him. During the sixty years, he had constantly mulled over the insane idea that surfaced in his mind after his first failure all those years ago.

'It's exponentially difficult if I use a normal method to pass the test so that my stone monument will reach one million feet. I might not know how the other people did it, but since ancient times, there were only a handful who had managed to do this.

'Now that I think of it, they must all have been incredibly amazing and bizarre people.

'Besides, the time that is required for this is extremely long. I think I might know how to continue walking down this path… but my stone monument was originally only twenty thousand feet. It might be mostly the same as the other people's, but there are also some differences. However, based on my observations during these one hundred and twenty years, the initial size of our stone monuments should be based on the appraisal and judgment of the land towards us, or else why would some of the stone monuments start off straight at several tens of thousands of feet, while some nearing a hundred thousand feet, and some only a couple thousand feet.

'After my first failure, my stone monument became twenty-one thousand feet tall from its initial twenty thousand feet. Then I failed twice during the past sixty years after my first failure, and now my stone monument is at twenty-three thousand feet.

'Which means that with each failure, my stone monument increases by one thousand feet, and I'll be able to pass this test only when the height of my stone monument reaches one million feet.

'For this, I will need to fail… around nine hundred times more. If I calculate based on how many times I could take the test in the last sixty years, then I will need approximately four hundred something cycles of sixty years, which also means… about twenty-four thousand years.

'This is if I don't factor in accidents and everything works smoothly. Twenty-four thousand years… I won't wait for that, I simply can't wait for that!'

Dark light shone in Su Ming's eyes. As the five thousand overlapping shadows of the runic symbols shone in his right eye, he sucked in a deep breath and gradually let his eyes fall shut.

'I should be able to do it. Without counting in my first failure, I've observed that tree during the two other times I failed… Not only does that tree possess Divine Essence, it also possesses life force. It's a living being, and a powerful one to boot!

'Next time, when my stone monument reaches nine hundred thousand something feet, I'll put that plan into motion!' Su Ming mumbled in his heart with his eyes closed.

'Use whatever methods you have at your disposal… Then I'll use a method that only I possess and no one else, and I'll… make my stone monument reach one million feet in one go!' The crazed will within Su Ming's eyes was covered because he had shut his eyes.

Time passed once more. One year went by, and another… twenty-seven years later, when there were about seven thousand runic symbols in Su Ming's right eye, his stone monument reached nine hundred thousand something feet for the fourth time.

Su Ming stood before his stone monument with a calm expression. He turned his head around to look at the area around him. Zhou Kang had yet to appear from the world in his stone monument. Su Ming was familiar with most of the other people around him as well by then. He looked at the place that had detained him for almost one hundred and fifty years, and resoluteness gradually appeared in his eyes.

When his gaze landed on his stone monument and the vortex appeared again, Su Ming's body faded away. Once he disappeared, he appeared beyond the golden sea, in the galaxy he'd seen before.

It was quiet all around. Su Ming stood in the galaxy and looked at the cultivation planet within the golden sea, with resolve in his eyes.

'As long as you are a living being, then I can… Possess you and make you my clone!' A crazed will appeared in Su Ming's eyes. This was the plan he had formulated after he had failed the first time.

Since he could not obtain the Divine Essence straight away… then he might as well Possess it. He would have the tree's vitality turn into his clone, and if he succeeded, he would obtain a clone that was unprecedented, which not even his ancestor of Abyss Builders had managed to obtain!

And if he used this clone to refine that Divine Essence, then Su Ming's future… would be inconceivable!

But the prerequisite for that was… he had to succeed!

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Chapter 825: Persistence

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To anyone else, this was definitely an abnormally insane idea!

This idea had been left to brew for more than sixty years, and now, he was finally going to put it into motion. The main point of his plan this time was not whether he would succeed, but that he definitely had to try. Only then would he have the possibility of success.

Su Ming also wanted to test some other things, and only by doing so would he be able to make that insane plan of his obtain a greater chance of success.

'Possession… My first Possession was when the Crimson Python Phoenix crushed my body and sucked my soul into its mouth, because of it, my first act of Possession was naturally successful.

'But the Crimson Python Phoenix was a low ranked ferocious beast. It can't compare with this golden tree. Just its body alone occupies most of the cultivation planet, and its mighty pressure is so incredible that it's terrifying.

'If a person that didn't possess the power of Divine Essence wants to break through the golden sea, it's incredibly difficult.

'Can I succeed..?' Determination appeared in Su Ming's eyes. He looked at the cultivation planet in the distance and charged at the golden sea.

He did not know whether he would succeed, but unless he was willing to be trapped here for twenty-four thousand something years, and that was without factoring in any accidents that might occur during such a long period of time… then this was the only path he could choose.

'That tree is incredibly powerful… but I must succeed. If I Possess it, then my life will change. My fate will become shocking from then on, and everything about me… will be different from the instant I succeed!'

Su Ming's heart raced. The sense of power caused his blood to flow even faster, and it also turned into a great desire.

Instead of saying that this act of Possession was him being unwilling to be trapped for twenty-four thousand something years while possibly running into some accident, it would be more accurate to say that this his attempt to resist fate. He was also incredibly certain that this would be his greatest serendipity!

This serendipity could not be described with words… but its difficulty was also incredibly terrifying. This was something Su Ming knew full well.

The determined look in his eyes grew even stronger, and he traveled faster. As whistling sounds rang in the air, he swiftly rushed through the golden sea like a shooting star.

The mighty pressure descended. The overlapping shadows of the runic symbols in Su Ming's right eye shone, and immediately, three thousand runic symbols appeared to turn into a windstorm. Booming sounds rang out, and that runic symbol windstorm swept up Su Ming, making him even faster. After around the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, the cultivation planet was only a thousand feet away from him.

At that moment, there were only seven runic symbols left out of the three thousand. Yet at that instant, Su Ming's right eye shone once more, and another two thousand runic symbols appeared. After having experienced the challenge of this golden sea thrice, Su Ming was much more relaxed compared to his first time. The moment the two thousand runic symbols appeared and the windstorm rose once again, Su Ming had his cultivation base circulate through his entire body at full force.

Boom!

His speed increased exponentially again, and he shot out, becoming faster with each passing moment. When the runic symbol windstorm that rose once again shattered to the point where there was less than ten of them, Su Ming arrived at that cultivation planet.

A hint of excitement could be detected in his eyes. This time, he used up nearly five thousand runic symbols and finally reached the highest layer of wind around the planet. He remembered clearly that the previous time he came here, he had only had five runic symbols left, but now… there were several dozens of them around him. This was enough proof to show that he had become much stronger, not to mention that he still had about two thousand still left in his right eye.

Without any hesitation, Su Ming moved abruptly and brought with him the dozens of gigantic runic symbols to the highest layer of wind. The strong gusts were like blades. As the runic symbols were destroyed, Su Ming's body reached its limit on what it could withstand. When he saw that his flesh and blood were about to be torn, the runic symbols in Su Ming's right eye shone once again.

All of the remaining two thousand appeared and surrounded Su Ming, turning into a windstorm. They swept him up and charged forward while booming sounds reverberated around him nonstop. After a moment, when Su Ming rushed out of that layer of wind, there were still quite a few runic symbols left around him, and his body was not too heavily damaged. Even though he was no longer at the peak of his condition, he was in a much better form compared to the previous times.

Boom!

Su Ming rushed out of the highest layer of wind and stood in the sky of the cultivation planet. The sky was golden, and the land was also golden. An incomparably huge golden tree whose trunk occupied most of the planet stood erect within that world. Compared to that tree, Su Ming's body was as tiny as an ant.

The figures from Su Ming's memories were on the branches like flower buds. These figures were smiling at him at the moment, and their smiles were amiable and warm, as if they were calling him to go over to them.

At that moment, a branch with no flower buds swept towards Su Ming from the distance. The sound as it sliced through the air was piercing to the ears, enough to cause people's hearts to tremble uncontrollably.

Su Ming was familiar with this scene. During the previous few times he was here, he had been struck by this branch, and time had reversed on him, causing him to fail the test.

This time, Su Ming's eyes shone. He sucked in a deep breath, and as the runic symbols all over his body spread out with a bang, they instantly crashed into the incoming branch.

As booming sounds reverberated in the air, all the runic symbols around Su Ming shattered. They seemed extremely weak, having absolutely no chance of fighting back against that branch. And this was only one of the numerous branches on that big tree, a telling sign of how strong it was.

As the runic symbols shattered, the branch came straight at Su Ming and crashed into his body. At the instant the two touched, his body immediately turned into a bloody mess. He also started tumbling backwards. The reversal of time had once again arrived and descended on him.

Yet at the instant the reversal of time begun when the branch touched Su Ming's body, his soul left that body of his for the first time and simply allowed the clone to be swept back. His soul instead pounced on the branch like a ball of transparent air.

The power of time had not only landed on Su Ming's body, but his soul as well, since it was within the area of effect. However, Su Ming was an Abyss Builder. He possessed an innate ability to control time. The moment the time reversal tried to affect his soul, a power that was also that of time reversal erupted from him. At the moment that power went to resist the power of the tree, Su Ming's soul finally touched the branch.

He fused with the tree's branch in a mad frenzy, and he saw a golden world. It was indistinct and contained an innumerable amount of venous pathways. At the center of them, Su Ming saw… a golden heart!

That heart was not beating, as if it was already dead. It was surrounded by the golden venous pathways, and a thick aura of death spread out from within it. That aura of death contained an ancient, waning presence, and it was unknown just how many years had that aura been here.

'Hurry! Hurry! HURRY!' Su Ming roared in his heart. His soul quickly stretched out along the branch. He could sense that a very small portion of the endless venous pathways had already been covered by his soul, and he had a vague feeling that when his soul covered all of these paths, he would successfully Possess this thing.

However, this was, after all, a Possession. He would definitely run into resistance, so the faster he succeeded, the better.

Time passed. One breath went by, and another. Soon, seven breaths passed, but Su Ming's soul had still only stretched out and occupied a very small portion of the paths. At that moment, a furious roar came from the big tree.

Once it resounded, the big tree immediately started trembling. In fact, during that instant, a loud boom that shook the sky and earth erupted from the cultivation planet.

Immediately after, the venous pathways Su Ming could see in his field of vision instantly started twisting as they shone with a golden light. Not only did they cover the golden heart even more tightly, they also vaguely formed a golden runic symbol.

That runic symbol flashed.

Su Ming sensed a power that was so great it could not be described with words. With a mighty power that could kill him, the runic symbol flashed, and then rushed at him with a bang.

There was also an incredibly incensed and slightly terrified will that came along with it.

"Die! Die! DIE!"

That will was incredibly powerful. With a bang, it landed on Su Ming's body and turned into a crazed killing intent. Right at the moment it was about to destroy his soul, though, that power abruptly changed into a power that reversed time.

It was as if there was a law that was controlling everything in the dark, forcefully turning this power that intended to kill Su Ming into the power that reversed time. It brought Su Ming's soul instantly out of the tree's body, and as it up to his body, and he fused once more into it.

"Damn you, Sui Chen Zi! Even if you died, is your law still going to stop me?! I will kill him! I WILL KILL HIM! He is a threat, he is the 3742nd person that tried to Possess me, but he's the only one that made me sense danger!"

This was the final voice Su Ming heard. Once his soul fused with his body, booming sounds echoed by his ears. When everything became quiet and he opened his eyes, he returned to the place with the one hundred thousand stone monuments. The one before him had become twenty-four thousand feet tall.

"I failed…" Su Ming mumbled softly, but soon after, a dark light shone in his eyes. "But I also succeeded!" He lifted his head and stared fixedly at his stone monument.

'I can use all methods at my disposal, and even attempting to Possess the golden tree is allowed. Even if the golden tree tried to kill me in the end, its actions were prevented by Sui Chen Zi's law. It couldn't hurt me in the slightest bit. It only made me return to this place due to the reversal of time.

'If that's the case, then the law Sui Chen Zi set before his death is the highest will in this place. Even that golden tree's actions are limited. It can't kill me, and because of that… I now have an endless amount of chances to Possess it!'

Su Ming's eyes shone. He might have failed, but if he had succeeded so easily, then it would have been incredibly odd. He had failed this time, but obtained a number of proofs and answers, and they brought with them a lot of confidence for him.

'I will definitely be able to Possess that golden tree to build the path of Divine Essence for my future… and I will head towards… becoming a Sublime Paragon!'

Confidence shone in Su Ming's eyes. He sucked in a deep breath, and slowly closed his eyes.

'Before me, there were 3,731 people who once tried to Possess this golden tree… but none of them succeeded, because their methods of Possession were different from mine. Possessing others to make them into clones is Abyss Builders' inborn ability!

'It only noticed that I wanted to Possess it after seven breaths. This is perhaps due to its previous oversight, but it might also be that it is a specific time set before it notices me. I need to test this several times before I can be certain!'

Su Ming was unaware of it, butt making his stone monument reach one million feet was no longer his main focus. His goal turned into Possessing that golden tree.

The failure this time made Su Ming even more determined to Possess that tree. Until he succeeded, he would definitely not give up.

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Chapter 826: Ecang as His Clone (1)

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Time passed. In the blink of an eye, one hundred and eighty years went by.

Nearly two hundred years. To a mortal, this was more than two lifetimes. It was a luxury they could not imagine. However, to cultivators, this small amount of time would perhaps naturally pass by if they full immersed themselves in isolation.

More than three hundred years had passed since Su Ming came to Western Ring Nebula's foreign land. But even after that time, the Duke of Crimson Flame still had yet to wake up. He had turned into a brand on Su Ming's arm, and Su Ming had no idea whether it was because of the mysteries in this land, but the duke remained in deep sleep.

Su Ming had been puzzled by this before, about why the Duke of Crimson Flame had come to this place with him but did not have a stone monument to show his existence. He had thought about it for a long time, but could not obtain an answer, and in time he stopped thinking about it.

The bald crane also could not leave Su Ming's storage bag. He had tried several times, and discovered that the bald crane could only appear when he was in the world in the stone monuments. However, once he returned to the land with those one hundred thousand stone monuments, it was as if it was sealed, and not even the bald crane could break through it.

Perhaps this was not a seal, but part of the law in this land.

Thankfully, Su Ming had tried once in the golden sea, and the bald crane… could appear. Once he promised a large amount of crystals to it, the bald crane struck its chest excitedly and agreed to Su Ming's plan, which made it even more likely to succeed.

After his first failure in Possessing the golden tree, Su Ming had once again descended into an obdurate state. He had made his stone monument reach nine hundred thousand feet seven times and entered the cultivation planet within the golden sea seven times more.

He tried to Possess the golden tree time and again, failing repeatedly, and came face-to-face with the golden tree's crazed and enraged intent to kill him, but with Sui Chen Zi's law, that power that could instantly kill him several thousands of times over was forcefully turned into the power that reversed time. Due to this, Su Ming did not feel any danger, despite failing.

Seven tries. Among them, the shortest time he had lasted was when the tree had instantly discovered that he was trying to Possess it. The longest time he lasted was a full span of nine breaths.

This made Su Ming's previous assumption wrong. He was slightly unclear as to how such a deviation of time could appear in regards to the tree discovering someone trying to Possess it.

The span between one breath and nine breaths might not seem long, but those few breaths was usually the key that determined whether a person would live or die. With the tree's strength, this sort of inconsistency should not be present.

This became something that troubled Su Ming a great deal. He needed time. Only when he had sufficient time would he be able to complete the Possession. He had even made calculations before, because of which he knew that he would need approximately the span of nine hundred breaths to succeed.

As long as his actions were not stopped during those nine hundred breaths, he had confidence that once he had his soul fill all the tree's venous pathways, then with the Abyss Builders' inborn ability, his chances of success would be much greater than of all the others that had tried to Possess the tree.

This was because the other people had tried to Possess the tree's real body, while Su Ming was doing no such thing. An Abyss Builders' Possession was different from the others. In fact, it was not really a form of Possession, but rebirth!

From the golden tree's body, he would use its quintessence, its life force, and all its power to form a new body. It would be the same as rebirth, and this reborn body would become Su Ming's clone.

This was a rebirth stemming from a Possession that worked its way from the soul to the outer parts of the body. Compared to the other Possessions that worked their ways from the outer parts of the body to the inner parts of the soul, it was only natural that Su Ming's chances of success were greater. It was just like how a person could easily crush a bug that was lying on the skin and wanted to crawl in, but would find it difficult to kill a bug that was living inside the body.

'Just what sort of reason could cause changes in the time taken for the tree to notice me when trying to Possess it..?' This was a question that had been plaguing Su Ming's mind for a hundred and eighty years. If he did not solve this mystery, then even if he had perfected most of his plan for successful Possession, he would still not be able to buy himself the span of nine hundred breaths.

This question continued lingering in his mind for another thirty years, and when Su Ming attempted his ninth Possession, he finally noticed something. This time, the time he could spend Possessing the tree was fifteen breaths!

Fifteen breaths was something that he had never achieved before, but the key lay in Su Ming noticing that there were fourteen people's stone monuments around him that turned from nine hundred thousand feet to only several tens of thousands of feet tall after his ninth try and subsequent failure once again.

This meant that, including him, there were fifteen people who took the stone monument's one million feet test.

This discovery excited Su Ming. He tried once again after that, and when he was in this place for a full three hundred and sixty years, he was certain that there was a huge connection to the time taken for the tree to notice him trying to Possessing it and the number of people who were taking the test at the same time.

Once he was certain of this, he did not choose to immediately take the test and try to Possess the tree when his stone monument reached nine hundred thousand feet. Instead, he waited.

He did so quietly, looking for the best time, when there would be the highest amount of people taking the test at the same time.

As Su Ming waited, time slowly passed by. One year, and another year… Su Ming waited for fifty years, then a hundred years. He was so incredibly obstinate with his goal that it was already impossible to describe his stubbornness with words. He sat cross-legged before his stone monument. He would rather give up on the chance to train and continue waiting.

There was a time where there were seventeen people who took the test in succession within a short period of time, then there were nineteen people who took it, followed by twenty-one people, but he chose to give up on all of those. He refused to believe that there would not be a time where there would be more than a hundred people among these ten thousand people who would take the test at the same time.

Su Ming continued waiting until three hundred years went by. With the previous amount of time that he spent in this place, Su Ming had been trapped in this foreign land for seven hundred years by then.

Seven hundred years were equivalent to several generations for mortals. Su Ming's hair was long, his body was emaciated, his eyes were crazed, and his mind was highly strung.

At that moment, he was completely different from the time when he had just arrived to this place seven hundred years ago. An ancient and aged air radiated off his body, along with madness. In fact, some of the people who came to this foreign land were unable to recognize Su Ming as Su Ming after the Blood Identification Pearl lost its effect upon entering this place

Because at that moment, his outward appearance was not that much different from the old monsters that had been trapped in the place for who knew how long.

However, there was a fire burning in his heart. It was doing so furiously, forcing down his madness, and waiting… for the day it would erupt.

Su Ming waited for almost another hundred years. Then, when he'd been trapped for almost eight hundred years in Western Ring Nebula's foreign land, the day arrived!

One hundred and twenty-four people's stone monuments reached nine hundred thousand something feet at around the same time. They might not have reached that height at the same time, but they received the test in succession, and this was the first time more than a hundred people took the test after Su Ming had waited for four hundred years.

Perhaps this was not the largest number. Perhaps if he continued waiting, more people who reached that height would appear at the same time after thousands or tens of thousands of years, or even longer, but perhaps… even after a very long time, such a thing would not happen again.

That was why at the moment those one hundred and twenty-four people took the test at the same time, Su Ming, who had been sitting and meditating without moving for four hundred years, instantly lighted up. It was as if the fire of life that had been suppressed for four hundred years erupted and flamed up at that instant.

'It's time. If I still fail, then my chances of success will become incredibly slim. This time… is my biggest hope and my greatest chance for success!'

Su Ming lifted his head. The overlapping shadows of the runic symbols in his right eye might not have changed during the four hundred years, but during the times he had worked his way to take the test again, they had long since reached the total of ten thousand. He also discovered a long time ago that once he reached ten thousand runic symbols, their number would stop increasing.

This was also one of the reasons why he chose to wait in place for four hundred years.

At that moment, as the overlapping shadows of the runic symbols in his right eye shone, the vortex appeared on the stone monument before him that had reached ninety-eight hundred thousand feet four hundred years ago. As the vortex spun rapidly, Su Ming's body became obscure.

When his vision cleared up, he found himself once again in the galaxy near the golden sea. After not seeing it for four hundred years, a brilliant light that could light up even the sky shone in his eyes when he saw it. That light possessed a fighting spirit, madness, and also the strength born from Su Ming holding himself back and bearing with it patiently for four hundred years.

With his fastest speed, he only used the time it takes for an incense stick to burn to shoot through the golden sea that had been incredibly difficult for him to pass through all those years ago. After losing only several thousand runic symbols, he shot out of the highest layer of wind in that cultivation planet and stepped into the sky once again.

As he came face to face with those numerous familiar faces and that branch that came charging towards him swiftly from the distance, a violent burst of light shone in Su Ming's eyes. At the instant that branch touched his body, his soul… came out with a bang.

At the same time, the bald crane let out a shrill screech and flew out from the storage bag Su Ming had kept on his body and charged towards his soul. The bald crane had always just been an illusion and did not possess a corporeal body. After multiple tests in the world within the stone monument, Su Ming had discovered that his soul could incorporate the bald crane's existence.

As he fought against the power that reversed time, Su Ming's soul enveloped the bald crane. Once he touched the branch, with familiar ease, he used his fastest speed and the strongest amount of power he could muster to make his soul explode and spread out. In the blink of an eye, he covered a small area of those golden venous pathways, covering them in black.

Time passed breath by breath, as Su Ming roared in his heart. He did not want to fail again. He wanted to succeed!

'Hurry up! Hurry up! HURRY UP!' Su Ming roared in his heart. His soul was spreading out rapidly, and during the twentieth breath, he had already occupied nearly three-hundredths of the venous pathways in the place.

This was the most he had occupied out of all the times he had tried. In an instant, he had surpassed the peak of what he had ever achieved. As time passed and Su Ming roared in his heart, the fortieth breath arrived, but there was still no shred of will coming from the golden tree. Su Ming thus occupied a seven-hundredths of all the venous pathways in the tree!

Sixty breaths, eighty breaths… When the hundredth breath arrived, Su Ming noticed that a loud boom coming from the world where the golden venous pathways were. At that time, his soul had already occupied a one-tenth of all the venous pathways in the tree!

This was not just a brilliant achievement Su Ming had never managed to reach in his life, but it was also the maximum that less than ten out of the thousands of people who had tried to Possess the golden tree had managed to achieve over the endless years.

There were still twenty something breaths left!

Twenty breaths later, at the instant Su Ming's soul occupied fourteen-hundredths out of all the venous pathways, Su Ming gave up on continuing. Instead, he roared in his heart and turned his voice into a sound that echoed within him.

"Bald crane!"

Almost at the instant his voice sounded, the bald crane that had been enveloped by his soul let out a piercing screech.

"Change! Change! I'm telling you, Change!"

The bald crane had known about Su Ming's plan from the start, since he had told it when they were in the world inside the stone monument. The bald crane also knew just how important the Possession this time was to Su Ming, especially since he had even promised a large amount of crystals. This exited the bird so much that it did not consider failure as an option. Because of this, it used probably an even greater amount of strength than what it had mustered when it fused with the Divinity Incarceration Rune.

As the bald crane roared, all the venous pathways that had been occupied by Su Ming's soul were immediately covered by a layer of ripples. When they went away, those venous pathways turned from black to gold, and Su Ming's presence was no longer around, making the tree seem to be in the exact same state as when it was before he'd tried to Possess it.

It was also at this time that a furious roar came from within the tree.

"Damn it, you're here again, you-you… Huh?"

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Chapter 827: Ecang as His Clone (2)

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Su Ming's soul remained completely still. The bald crane was also incredibly nervous. It could sense a presence coming out from the golden tree that horrified and disgusted it. The pressure also surpassed that of Divinity Incarceration Rune. In fact, under that presence and pressure, the bald crane's muddled memories became slightly disorderly. It seemed to have some sort of recollection of this golden tree, but it could not remember it clearly.

As the furious roar echoed in the air, followed by that light puzzled gasp, the runic symbol formed by the vast number of venous pathways shone. A huge will instantly swept through the entire area, yet when it reached the spot where the bald crane had transformed to cover Su Ming, it simply swept past them.

And then again and again. It was impossible for Su Ming not to get nervous. This directly tied with the success of his plan to Possess the tree and turn it to his clone. If the bald crane's Transformation Art was discovered, then the sooner that happened, the lower Su Ming's chances of success would be.

Only if he wasn't discovered for a good while and managed to gain the span of eight hundred breaths would he succeed.

The bald crane executed its full strength to control its Transformation Art and conceal Su Ming's presence. It made the area that was covered by its Transformation Art look exactly same as those golden venous pathways no matter how anyone looked at it.

Time trickled by. Several breaths later, a cold harrumph came from that powerful will.

"That damn Sui Chen Zi. Why can't you just stay dead?! How dare the law you left behind lord over me?! Damn it! Damn it all! Or else I would have killed that person who dared to try Possess me a long time ago!

"Sui Chen Zi! You don't deserve sympathy even if you died! You deserved death! If it wasn't because I dared fighting back all those years ago, how could this have happened to me?! HOW COULD THIS HAVE HAPPENED TO ME?!!" a crazed roar shouted out, coming from that will, before it gradually disappeared.

"Haha, I made it! Your Grandpa Crane is good, eh? How dare this small little shrub try to fight against me? Heh heh, I just did a small, insignificant transformation, and it couldn't discover me, haha!" The bald crane sent out a voice with its soul in excitement. As it was feeling smug about itself, it seemed to have forgotten its previous fear and nervousness.

"Little boy Su, don't forget the crystals you promised me. This time, I've used all my strength and didn't hold back even a single bit. I'm seriously tired, you know? Look at my small wings and feet, they've become thinner…" The bald crane quickly used that opportunity to emphasize its hard work and its contribution.

Su Ming remained silent. He did not look at the bald crane's 'small wings and feet'. To the bald crane, whose body was formed by its illusory soul, if it wanted to, it could just turn into a giant with huge wings and feet.

Time was running short. At the instant that great will faded away, Su Ming spread his soul outwards once more and continued occupying the golden tree. One breath passed by, and another…

With each breath that passed, Su Ming's chances of success would increase slightly. To him, this was a scramble, a wrestling match for time.

'Hurry up! Hurry up! Faster!' Su Ming roared in his heart. His soul continued spreading out. From his previous fourteen-hundredths, he reached sixteen, eighteen, twenty…

All the areas that were covered by his soul would be enveloped by the bald crane's Transformation Art at the same time, causing that black color to turn gold, and preventing the tree's will from noticing it.

When Su Ming covered twenty-eight-hundredths of the venous pathways, nearly a hundred breaths had passed since the bald crane had appeared. This sort of speed could already be considered incredibly quick, but Su Ming still felt that he was slow. He saw himself as a thief that had entered a stranger's house to rob it while the owner was still in the house. Only by finishing it swiftly would his chances of success grow higher.

The bald crane looked excited, but in truth, the nervousness in its heart had never reduced the slightest bit. As time passed, that nervousness became even stronger, and it could not help but start urging Su Ming to hurry up.

"Hurry up, hurry up… STOP!" The bald crane immediately sent out a piercing shout with its soul, and the spread of Su Ming's soul instantly stopped.

Almost at the instant he did so, a crazed roar that brought with it a great will that could destroy everything descended on their area again. The roaring voice of that will swept through the place as it searched ceaselessly.

"You damned insect, you're still here! I know you're still here! You despicable, shameless bastard! I don't know what method you used to hide yourself, but I will find you! I will definitely find you!" That great will continued sweeping past the area again and again, and the bald crane was incredibly nervous, not daring to move even a single inch.

In the blink of an eye, ten breaths passed by, and the great will still searched through the area, doing it even more frequently, and it was growing even stronger. At that moment, it was already several times greater than before, and as it swept through the area, booming sounds rang out without stop.

"I refuse to believe that I can't find you, you despicable bastard!" As the tree's will roared, the golden venous pathways suddenly twisted at the same time before drawing close to the heart that was exuding aura of death, located at the center.

The bald crane quickly used its Transformation Art and performed a corresponding act, causing the area that was covered by Su Ming's soul to also twist, behaving in the exact same manner as the other places.

However, at the instant the golden venous pathways retracted and approached the heart that was filled with aura of death, Su Ming suddenly felt a great sense of danger. At the same time, as the tree's will roared, the heart that was filled with the aura of death contracted!

After it did so, it expanded swiftly, as if it was completing a beat.

Thud!

That heart beat once, and a purplish gold fog spread out. Wherever that fog passed, it would tumble about endlessly. When it touched the area that was enveloped by the bald crane's Transformation Art, the bald crane let out a shrill scream.

"It found us!"

"So you're here!" the tree's will roared. At the same time its voice echoed in the air, a heinous destructive will charged towards the area where the two were hiding.

There was no hesitation within Su Ming. Since he was already discovered, he would not hide any longer. Instead, as he spread out the power of his soul, he sent a shout to the bald crane.

"Ten thousand crystals!"

When the bald crane heard Su Ming's voice, its body instantly gathered together to turn into its original appearance. It shuddered from the stimulation brought by the mention of ten thousand crystals. The bald crane lifted its head and howled, its eyes bloodshot. At that moment, Su Ming's words were the only things that echoed in its heart. Ten thousand crystals. To it, this was a temptation greater than anything else in the world. This sort of temptation was enough to make it go mad.

"Ah! Ten thousand crystals! Ten thousand glittering crystals! With the five thousand crystals Su Ming promised me earlier, I'll have fifteen thousand crystals! I'll give it my all! Everything! Everything within me!" At that moment, the bald crane was no longer the bald crane. It was a warrior that did not fear death nor any of the powerful warriors in the entire universe!

With an indomitable presence, fearlessness towards the world, obsession towards crystals, and madness that would destroy all manner of things that wanted stop it from obtaining its crystals, it rushed towards the tree's will which was charging over while flinging all caution to the wind.

The bald crane loved crystals, but it loved harboring grudges even more. And it harbored a grudge towards the four Great True Worlds for shutting down the Divinity Incarceration Rune, which made it so it could no longer extort Su Ming. This made the bald crane so resentful that it practically clenched its teeth in anger while it slept. At this moment, it also hated the tree, not because of standing in its way, but because this tree was stronger than the bald crane itself…

"Twenty thousand! You have to give me twenty thousand crystals. Give me another five thousand and make it twenty thousand crystals, and I… I will fight with my life!" the bald crane roared. In its madness, it asked for additional five thousand crystals.

"I'll give you thirty thousand!" Su Ming sent his voice to the bald crane with his soul. He was using his full might to quickly cover the area where those venous pathways were. Just a little bit more, and he would be able to cover twenty-nine-hundredths of the venous pathways.

The bald crane went mad, and just like a real warrior, it crashed straight into the tree's will.

Bang!

As a loud noise reverberated in the air, the tree's will, which was incredibly terrifying to Su Ming, tumbled backwards when it crashed against its opposition. The body of the bald crane crumbled and fell apart, then gathered together once again a thousand feet away.

As it roared and rose up, an enraged howl came from the tree's will.

"It's you! Damn it, I remember now! You failure! How dare you still show yourself in front of me?! You're not worthy of showing yourself before me!"

As the tree's roars echoed in the air, Su Ming's soul occupied twenty-nine-hundredths, and as he pressed on, he occupied thirty-hundredths!

Nearly a third of that large area of venous pathways had turned black and exuded Su Ming's presence. This level of occupation was something that no one among the thousands of people that tried to Possess the tree had ever been able to achieve.

At the instant Su Ming Possessed this much, a booming sound rang out in his heart. Right then, a gigantic picture rose in his soul.

Within that picture was a big tree in the galaxy. The size of that tree was so great that its end could not be seen with the naked eye. A cultivation planet would be incredibly tiny compared to it. That tree was entirely purple, and the strength of the mighty pressure that spread out from it felt like it would need only a single thought to shatter the whole universe.

However, that colossal tree was not covered head to toe in purple. There was golden light shining from within it, making it seem purplish golden. This was the picture that appeared in Su Ming's soul after he occupied a third of the venous pathways in that tree. During that instant, he also became aware that… this was the real body of the tree that he was trying to Possess!

The tree was incomplete, however; many of its parts had withered. It might look incredibly big, but there was aura of death and a dismal presence spreading out from it. Yet even so, the shock it brought to Su Ming was still incredibly great.

His soul was connected to the bald crane, which was why when he saw that scene, the bald crane also saw it. It was originally rising to a clamor and roaring, but once it saw that tree, it was suddenly stunned, and during that instant, the endless memories that existed like fragments in its mind grouped together for a moment.

"Ecang! You're Ecang! You're not dead?! You weren't killed by Sui Chen Zi! You're still alive!" The bald crane had no idea why it said these words. Confusion filled its face, but its voice was shrill, and there was even a hint of fear in it.

"Remember me now? You failure. Sui Chen Zi, that damn bastard, he still doesn't have the right to kill me! You went against the will of heavens, you failure! You traitor!" the tree's will roared, and as it echoed in the air, the confusion on the bald crane's face became even greater.

Its voice became even more piercing to the ears when it spoke next. "You're incomplete, you were injured badly… Su Ming… Possess it! Make it your clone! If it was complete and uninjured, then there would be no one that could Possess it in all the worlds that exist in the universe! But now… you have a chance to succeed! I'll help you Possess it!" The bald crane's face was still puzzled as it screamed shrilly.

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Chapter 828: Ecang as His Clone (3)

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The purplish golden tree knew the bald crane, and judging by the two's words, the tree was known as Ecang. Also, based on what it said about the bald crane, the latter was a traitor and a failure.

The bald crane knew the tree's name. It had even mentioned that the tree was incomplete, and that it had been injured gravely. Most importantly… Su Ming had also heard the bald crane mentioning Sui Chen Zi's name while having a dazed expression on its face!

'You weren't killed by Sui Chen Zi... Judging by these words, not only does it now this Ecang, it also… knows Sui Chen Zi. Could it be… that the bald crane is an existence that belongs to the same generation as Sui Chen Zi?

'Why did Sui Chen Zi want to kill the tree? What sort of connection do they have?'

Several questions rose in Su Ming's heart. There was something bizarre about this, and the amount of guesses he had regarding the bald crane's existence rose up once more. He had originally thought that the bald crane, with its mysterious background, had a great connection to the fifth True World, but due to some form of accident, it had lost its memories and became this way, wandering about until it arrived in Yin Death Region. There, it had turned into various things, enjoying acting a menace to others.

When they arrived in the Barren Lands of Divine Essence, the experiences the bald crane went through and the hesitation on the Duke of Crimson Flame's face were all seen by Su Ming. But right then, when the purplish gold tree said his piece, Su Ming's assumptions became even more complicated.

It could be that the bald crane did not possess its memories even during the era of the Fifth True World. Su Ming was almost certain now that the event that resulted in its memory loss had not happened in the fifth True World's time, but an even more ancient age.

However, this was not the time for him to ponder over this. Currently, he was in an incredible hurry. As the crane shouted out at him, he spread his soul outwards again and sent it filling up even more venous pathways.

Thirty-one, thirty-three, thirty-five… Su Ming's expansion was incredibly fast. As he was doing that, Ecang roared, and the bald crane let out a piercing screech that grew increasingly more intense as they continued shrieking amid the ceaseless booms echoing within the tree's body.

"Damn you, you failure! Even if I'm incomplete and am badly injured, you are still not my opponent, because you… are also incomplete and similarly injured. By the looks of it, you weren't just gravely wounded once, but thrice, up to the point that your real body broke down and you only have your soul left, and besides being useful in my body, you have nothing worthy of praise in the world outside. You can only be trampled by others, you piece of trash that can only imitate other people's presences, failure, traitor!"

Boom! Boom! Boom!

As the bald crane's and Ecang's wills fought repeatedly, the crane's body disintegrated multiple times. While it might be able to gather together itself each time, the body was growing increasingly duller.

"Ecang, your Grandpa Crane is mighty and powerful, and I have an endless amount of crystals, why should I be afraid of you?!" The bald crane let out a shrill screech, and turned into a windstorm in a single move that charged towards Ecang's will.

Su Ming's soul covered the venous pathways at an even faster rate as the bald crane fought against Ecang. He saw the bird's continuously dimming body, and even though its words were as sharp as ever, Su Ming could sense that it's soul was rapidly scattering away.

Thirty-nine, forty-one, forty-three… Su Ming growled with his soul. The time he had now was gained for the price of the bald crane's soul fading away—all of it was just so that he could successfully Possess the tree, but even so, it was still difficult for him to do so in a short period of time. He was still only at the halfway point toward complete Possession.

Ecang's enraged howls rang nonstop. It had tried multiple times to bypass the bald crane and stop Su Ming's soul from spreading further, but the bald crane would block it recklessly every single time in its bout of madness to buy time. And as it did so, it would also let out hoarse, piercing screeches.

"Damn you, your Grandpa Crane might have forgotten many things, might be unable to bully anyone except the various Runes and seals, and are indeed capable of fighting against you in this place and only this place, but your Grandpa Crane knows that you are a crystal, and as long as I hold you back, I will get thirty thousand crystals!

"For crystals, I'll fight with everything I've got against you! Su Ming! I'm exerting all my strength here! I need stimulation!" As the bald crane roared, Su Ming's soul only needed a little more before it would have covered half of all the venous pathways within the tree.

"A hundred thousand crystals!" Su Ming immediately shouted.

The moment he spoke those words, the windstorm that was the bald crane let out a roar and grew larger by several sizes. The light shining within the eyes in the windstorm were shocking to see.

"A hundred thousand crystals! A hundred thousand!" The bald crane looked as if it had gone mad and held back Ecang's will, which was trying to prevent Su Ming from Possessing it, once more. Ecang's enraged roars rang through the whole tree.

Su Ming's soul continued spreading. At that moment, with a bang, he reached the coverage of forty-seven-hundredths of all the venous pathways. At a glance, half of the large amount of golden venous pathways were black, and they were filled with the dense power of Su Ming's soul.

"Damned thieving crane, my real body is here, and you don't have yours, for how many breaths can you possibly hold me back?" Ecang's will decisively gave up on trying to stop Su Ming and instead used its full power to crush the bald crane, intending to first destroy it before it took care of Su Ming.

"Five hundred thousand crystals!" Su Ming shouted out the moment his soul covered forty-eight-hundredths of the venous pathways.

"One million crystals!" When he shouted this out, the entirety of the bald crane's soul, from the inner parts to the outer parts, were so stimulated by his words that it completely burst forth.

"Get bigger! Bigger! BIGGER!!" The bald crane's eyes turned completely bloodshot. In its madness, the windstorm around it instantly grew endlessly and swept in all directions. As if its soul had been set on fire, it rushed towards Ecang's incoming will.

"You lunatic! You were a lunatic all those years ago, and now, you are still a lunatic! You're burning your own soul for those stupid crystals?! Y-Y-You…"

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The entire world of the golden venous pathways trembled. The tree that was Ecang started swaying intensely, and large cracks even spread out through the cultivation planet. By the looks of it, it was about to be torn to pieces.

Amid the booming sounds, the bald crane let out a shrill scream of pain. As Ecang roared furiously, the windstorm that was the bald crane collapsed, and its body rapidly shrank until it was only the size of a palm. In an almost transparent state, it fell back to the area that was covered by Su Ming's soul.

Once it was enveloped by Su Ming's soul, the bald crane immediately fell unconscious, but before it fainted, it used whatever remained of its strength to send a divine thought to Su Ming.

"Remember… that you owe your Grandpa Crane… one million and thirty thousand crystals…"

"Failure, traitor, thieving crane, you aren't my opponent! I'll swallow you so that I'll recover even faster. Give me time, and I'll even devour the other nine and become the real Ecang!" Ecang's will shook the entire area, but just as it was about to echo in the sky, Su Ming's soul spread out and covered half of the area, truly Possessing half of the venous pathways!

Once he did so, a similar scene as before surfaced once again. At that moment, booming sounds that could shake the world rang in his soul, and a picture manifested before him. However, compared to the scene he saw when he had only occupied a third of the area, this was something at an even greater scale. In fact, Su Ming's soul almost froze at that moment.

He saw...

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Chapter 829: Ecang as His Clone (4)

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When Su Ming's soul occupied half of the golden venous pathways and he saw the scene that caused his heart to tremble, the latter half of the divine thought that the bald crane had sent to him with all its remaining strength before it fainted reached his heart.

"... You have to remember to give me my crystals… because I might have fainted, but I held back that thrice cursed Ecang… for some time. I don't know how long I'll be able to confuse it, so you'll have to be fast…"

As the bald crane's divine thought completely disappeared, Ecang's furious roars echoed in the air, and its divine thought swept over the place, but it could not leave a set area.

At the same time, Su Ming saw the picture in his soul. There, he saw a galaxy.

Within that galaxy was a golden sea. And within that sea was a golden cultivation planet. While within that cultivation planet was a big, golden tree…

There was nothing special about it, and it was far from being able to make even Su Ming's soul freeze… but that was because it was merely the first thing he saw.

Su Ming could not find anything that he could use to compare to the world he saw at the moment. He only felt that everything he saw right then made him remember the spider webs he saw when he was still a child in Dark Mountain.

Thin threads connected together to form small little squares that looked like they belonged on a spider's net. That was what Su Ming found himself comparing this world to in his mind.

Beyond the galaxy of the golden sea, golden planet, and the big golden tree was another galaxy that looked the exactly as the one with the tree. On its edge, there were many other galaxies that were identical as well, and there were even more of them farther away. Their numbers could not be counted, for there was no end to them. Once a person saw such a sight, they would be unable to help themselves but feel shocked… and a hint of despair would even raise within their hearts.

One hundred thousand galaxies. One hundred thousand golden seas. One hundred thousand golden planets. One hundred thousand… golden trees!

This scene caused Su Ming's heart to roar. In fact, he even saw ninety-seven cultivators existing in ninety seven of those one hundred thousand galaxies. Some of those cultivators were in the golden seas, while some of them were close to the golden planets. There were also those that were struggling in the highest layer of wind on the planet.

Su Ming had seen some of those people before. They were… most of the one hundred and twenty-four people who had entered the stone monument's test in an attempt to make their stone monuments reach one million feet.

As for the dozens of people who were missing, it was clear that they had already failed.

"I've used everything that I have, and the bald crane even fell unconscious due to heavy injuries. Only like this did I manage to Possess half of the tree… but… that half that I thought was of the whole was just a half of one out of the one hundred thousand Ecang trees among the one hundred thousand cultivation planets and one hundred thousand galaxies.

"How… can I possibly… Possess this sort of living being..?" Su Ming mumbled. As he was shocked by all that he saw, despair rose within him.

It could even be said that the possibility of being Possessed simply did not exist for this sort of living being, because there was no person who could Possess all one hundred thousand of its bodies. If there was someone who truly had the power to do such a thing, then… there would be absolutely no need for that person to Possess anything, because if they were capable of doing such a thing, then they were certainly one of the people who stood at the highest pinnacle of the entire universe.

'Am I truly incapable of succeeding?

'Am I truly going to fail just like this…

'Are all my previous efforts, near a thousand years of struggle, hundreds of years of waiting, going to be laid to waste and become a mere joke?!

'Is the bald crane's grave injuries to buy me some time would all be just so that it would present me with a fate that would make us despair?

'Am I supposed to give up just like this and only be able to leave this place after tens of thousands of years, becoming just like the others, an ordinary tool in the grand scheme of things? Do I have to remain an ant for the rest of my life, remaining a person whose fate is controlled by others? Can I only watch the people I want to protect have their lives and deaths controlled by the strong again and again?!'

Violent waves surged in Su Ming's soul. Once he saw those one hundred thousand planets, he had experienced a despairing strike. It made him suddenly realize that the success he thought was already in his hand after having occupied half of those venous pathways was so insignificant it was practically a joke. For a moment, he was simply unable to accept this fact.

"I absolutely won't give up, neither will I be willing to admit defeat. I… am Su Ming. I am an Abyss Builder. I've lived a forlorn and bitter life. I couldn't control my own fate, and even my physical body was sealed by the Immortals. Right now, I only exist as a soul!

"Heavens! Fate! Just how long are you going to continue toying with me?!" A crazed wave left Su Ming's soul, along with a roar that shook the sky and earth. That roar contained Su Ming's resistance against fate, bringing with it his first ever, complete and absolute resolution to fight fate.

At the instant that powerful wave left Su Ming's soul, the one hundred thousand galaxies, one hundred thousand golden seas, and one hundred thousand planets started trembling together, as if they were shaken by the madness of his soul.

Booming sounds rang without stop, ceaselessly shaking the one hundred thousand galaxies, so the ninety-seven people who were going through the test sported sudden and drastic changes in their expressions. Practically all of them swiftly looked around themselves, confused because they did not know what was going on. The booms also caused the golden seas to roar and tumble and the galaxies to start shaking, as if there was an earthquake around that was so great it could shake mountains and seas.

"You let me grow up in Dark Mountain, then you took it away from me, telling me that it was all just a dream!" Su Ming laughed long and hard. Within his laughter was a mockery that was aimed at himself as well as a roar that was aimed at both heavens and fate.

The one hundred thousand galaxies started trembling even harder. In fact, there were some galaxies that even started cracking. Black smoke was surging into the sky from the half of the venous pathways Su Ming had occupied. The smoke tumbled about viciously and spread outwards with a bang.

"You let me come to the ninth summit! You gave me warmth! But in the end, you took all of it away with a cold laugh! You turned everything into a mere illusion! You manipulated my fate as if I was some puppet!"

Su Ming's laughter was forlorn. The one hundred thousand galaxies roared with him, and the ninety-seven people who were being tested turned stark pale. They might not know what was going on, but they could sense that there was a crazed will within the galaxies in which they were located.

That will contained a resistance against fate, an opposition towards the heavens, and it was spreading out violently towards them at that moment.

"You let me become the God of Berserkers, but after I took that title, you snatched everything from me! You made me watch Yu Xuan close her eyes, made me watch Bai Su disappear, made me watch my people die! You made me leave the land of Berserkers and come to the Barren Lands of Divine Essence…

"You let me possess great power, but you pushed me to the foreign land and trapped me here for a thousand years!" As black smoke tumbled about from the half of the venous pathways Su Ming had occupied, and those black venous pathways immediately started twisting before they gradually grouped together to form a face. That face belonged to Su Ming.

His expression was ferocious and his laughter was incredibly bitter as he stood up against fate.

"You let me obtain the possibility to gain a great serendipity in the foreign land and even allowed me to occupy half of these venous pathways, but in the end, you tell me that… this is just half of one of the one hundred thousand trees!

"Fate! Heavens! How long will you continue toying with me?! In your eyes, am I truly unable to fight against you and destroy you?!"

Loud booms shot up from the one hundred thousand galaxies at the same time. All of them trembled viciously, and cracks began spreading through them. Wisps of black smoke flowed out from those cracks, and as it continued spreading, it grew in volume, to eventually gather together into one hundred thousand faces in the one hundred thousand galaxies.

All one hundred thousand of them were Su Ming's faces!

This was not something that was naturally formed due to Su Ming's shouts. Neither had his shouts made the law in the universe open up a gap for him. What allowed him to do so was most certainly not his possession of some mysterious ability that would allow him to make the entire area around him bow its head and worship him with his anger alone.

The reason for it was something he did not know - that half of the venous pathways he had occupied on one tree would be equivalent to him occupying half of all the venous pathways within all the trees.

There might be one hundred thousand trees, but in truth… there was only one tree!

If he obtained one, he would obtain all of them!

However, if Su Ming had given up due to his despair just now, then he would have failed. It was precisely because of his determination and his resolve to push on that he had the chance to see the tree's real self, as well as obtain the chance… to Possess it again!

Illusions, reality; apparitions, corporeality. Sometimes, if a person persisted and broke through, they could realize that illusions and reality, apparitions and corporeality were divided by a fine line!

The logic was simple. It might seem easy to figure it out, but just how many were truly able to do this? If there was a canyon that was one hundred thousand feet deep, just how many people would dare to take that one step forward!

It was just like a person climbing a mountain. If he thought he had climbed half of it, he would use his full strength if there was only half left. But if he thought there was only half left and lifted his head to suddenly see that the half that he had climbed was completely insignificant and there was actually still a lofty hill above that had no end, his strength would wane due to his despair. He would not be able to hold on to the walls on the mountain, and he would fall to his death. It was the same concept. Just how many people would be able to persist and continue climbing up such a mountain?!

This was the true reason as to why Su Ming could make the one hundred thousand faces of black smoke appear in those one hundred thousand galaxies!

"For as long as I remember myself, I have never given up. I have always moved forward, and I have always had a determined heart. Even if that determination turned into obsession, and even if that obsession caused me to suffer and descend into madness, I have never given up on any single possibility.

"Do you know why I did all of this..? Do you know what made me do all of it?!

"Because when I was young, I searched for my elder, yet when I grew up, I learned that all of my memories were just a dream. Because after I became the God of Berserkers, I learned that everything was just someone else's plan, all the things I had accumulated in my heart begun pressing down against me until I couldn't breathe. I even thought about not struggling anymore...

"But I couldn't accept it. I didn't want to be a puppet, I didn't want to be manipulated by fate. I knew back then as I know now that unless you can truly crush me, then someday, I will stand up. I will crush fate under my feet. I will make all my enemies spill blood and dye the world red with it. I will make them despair!"

The one hundred thousand wisps of black smoke that formed Su Ming's faces within those one hundred thousand galaxies let out a sharp and loud cry towards fate at the same time at that instant. As it echoed in the air, besides the face that had surfaced on the venous pathways that Su Ming had occupied, all the other faces rushed towards the golden sea, towards the golden cultivation planets, and towards the golden trees!

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Chapter 830: Ecang as His Clone (5)

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The moment the one hundred thousand galaxies roared, the cultivators that were receiving their tests in ninety-seven different galaxies found that they could not control their bodies. They were all forced out of their galaxies, and when they reappeared, they had already been moved to the place where the one hundred thousand stone monuments were.

As their bodies appeared at the same time, their faces filled with shock as well as disbelief, everyone else swiftly looked over at them.

Ninety-seven people had failed at the same time and returned simultaneously, while their stone monuments shone and shrank together… This was something that had never happened before in this land over countless years!

"What happened? Why… did these people appear instantly at the same time?!"

"Ninety-seven stone monuments turned from nearly one million feet to several tens of thousands of feet at the same time. What-what is going on?!"

As the buzz of discussions from the people echoed in the air, the ninety-seven people who were forced out of their tests looked at each other in silence, their faces pale. They saw the shock and astonishment within each other's eyes.

"Something's wrong! There's still one stone monument that is nearly one million feet! That person… He hasn't yet appeared!"

"Hmm?" As that voice rang in the air, all the people's gazes, including those of the ninety-seven returnees, instantly gathered on Su Ming's stone monument.

The buzz of discussion instantly died down. The two words that were carved on that stone monument were reflected in each and every person's eyes.

Mo Su.

Su Ming's face had occupied half of the area within the golden venous pathways at that moment, and his voice, which was laden with his determination, echoed in all directions.

"Most important of all… I would have let it slide if you had just toyed with me, but you tried to affect those around me! I will fight against you… because I want to protect my family and all those who have been kind to me. I want to protect them, and this… is the pillar that's supporting me in my life! It's the only resolution that has allowed me to keep moving forward!

"I will protect them!

"This is the only reason that I still have the courage to continue living! I will become strong, I will become the strongest in the universe, because I don't want to see the people who had been kind to me cry. I don't want to see them die. I want to protect everyone. They… are the most precious things to me. They are my life."

An incredibly powerful wave left Su Ming's soul. This was his roar, his cry. This was the strongest shout he had mustered from the depths of his heart against fate.

Bang!

Besides Su Ming's face around him, all the others formed by black smoke within the other one hundred thousand galaxies shot through all the obstructions and appeared near the golden trees. Without stopping, they instantly imprinted themselves on the trees and shot through the tree trunks before rushing towards the golden venous pathways within every single tree.

Within the blink of an eye, loud bangs that could overturn the world shot out from those one hundred thousand Ecang trees and one hundred thousand golden venous pathways.

"I burned my life for Dark Mountain and the elder in the past! I could swallow all those herbs to make myself stronger without care for anything [1] and break that door because I cared about my tribe! I wanted to protect my tribe!"

Su Ming's voice reverberated in the air. The venous pathways within the one hundred thousand trees were devoured and occupied at the same time by the black faces formed by Su Ming.

"I lived a forlorn life, but I walked through all the bumpy roads to find my elder. I wanted to protect him, wanted to make the old man smile happily, let him see that his young La Su had grown up and could stand by his side to protect him."

The one hundred thousand faces roared and occupied the venous pathways instantly, eventually making half of all the one hundred thousand of those trees and one hundred thousand sets of venous pathways to belong to Su Ming!

"I became the God of Berserkers and shouldered the Berserkers' fate. Even if I'm not a Berserker, but my senior brothers are, my Master is, my friends are. For them, I could give up on my struggle, as long as… they were happy. I could become the God of Berserkers and help the Berserkers gain new glory."

Once half of each of the one hundred thousand sets of venous pathways in the one hundred thousand trees were under Su Ming's control, he roared, and those faces started spreading at the same time throughout all the venous pathways within those one hundred thousand trees!

The spread this time was even faster. Ecang's will was madly struggling, wanting to break free of the lock left behind by the bald crane before it fainted, but this was a lock that was placed by the bald crane burning its soul. The might of that lock was something that even Ecang needed to spend some time on if he wanted to break free.

"I came to the Barren Lands of Divine Essence because I wanted to protect the ninth summit. I didn't want them to cry. I didn't want my senior brothers to die. For that, I could sacrifice myself. I could live without love and pain. I could come to this foreign place. As long as they were alive, I would be happy.

"This is the resolve in my heart. It is my obsession. For this obsession, even if I will eventually make seas of blood flood the sky, even if I will stain my hands with blood, why should I care?!

"I WILL NOT GIVE UP!"

Su Ming's voice reverberated in the air. The occupation of the venous pathways from those one hundred thousand trees had moved from a fifty- to fifty-six-hundredths!

It might have seemed to have only increased by a six, but this was definitely not that simple a calculation, because that was not just merely fifty-six-hundredths of a single tree, but fifty-six-hundredths of one hundred thousand trees!

Boom!

The lock left behind by the bald crane before it fainted was broken by Ecang. As its will spread out from within, its furious roars shook the sky and earth within the world of those venous pathways.

"Even if Sui Chen Zi's law is protecting you, you won't be able to Possess me! Get lost! Get lost! Get lost!!"

Ecang's anger burned the skies. Over the numerous years, there had been plenty of people who had wanted to Possess it, but none of them had been able to occupy more than half of its body. In fact, this wasn't even a simple occupation of half its body, but an occupation of half of all of its bodies.

This brought it a great sense of danger. If it was not because it would definitely need to pay a price that even it would not be able to bear if it went against Sui Chen Zi's law, then it would have already killed Su Ming, instead of just chasing him away from its body.

"Get lost! Get lost! GET LOST!!"

Ecang's will boomed and crashed into Su Ming's faces, which were formed from the venous pathways after he had occupied them. In fact, Ecang was not just crashing its will into one single place, either. Instead, its will erupted at the same time from all the one hundred thousand trees, the one hundred thousand of its bodies at the same time.

Booms rang out. Without the bald crane fighting against the will, Su Ming bore the full brunt of its attack. When Ecang shouted its first words for Su Ming to go away, his soul trembled. It was difficult for him to even put up a resistance against Ecang's strength. At the same time it bore down on him, its power turned into one that reversed time and swept up Su Ming's soul, making the fifty-six-hundredths occupied of the venous pathways to regress to only fifty-three-hundredths!

Su Ming's faces turned ferocious. He erupted at that instant, and without any hesitation, he chose to burn his soul!

It was just as he said previously: unless fate crushed him, then he would definitely crush fate under his feet. It was the same in this place. Unless Ecang could destroy him, then Su Ming would definitely complete the Possession. Even if he died, he would still succeed!

As his soul burned, Su Ming began fighting against Ecang's will.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

He fought against it several times, but his occupied territory still shrank down, from fifty-three-hundredths to a forty-five-hundredths. However, once it fell back to this much, Su Ming's burning of his soul reached its peak. He no longer moved back, and as he continued crashing against Ecang's will, his occupied territory moved from forty-five-hundredths back to forty-six, then forty-seven. When he reached a forty-eight-hundredths, he could no longer continue, but Ecang could also not make him move back anymore.

Intense pain shot through Su Ming's soul. It was rapidly becoming incomplete, fading away as it burned. However, as it burned, Su Ming's madness was shown fully.

"Foolish cultivator, did you think that you could Possess me if you burned your soul? I can even choose to no longer continue crushing you. As long as I stop your Possession from spreading, before long, you will die due to the burning of your soul.

"You foolish life form, you're definitely going to lose! You're definitely going to die!" As Ecang's voice echoed in the air, most of Su Ming's soul had already burned away, but the faces that were formed from the venous pathways he had occupied smiled in a bizarre fashion.

That smile on those one hundred thousand faces at the same time momentarily stunned Ecang.

Right at that moment, Su Ming's voice came from within those one hundred thousand galaxies and one hundred thousand Ecang's tree.

"Ancient existences within Yin Death Region. I know that you can hear my voice, and every single one of the actions I took after I came to the Barren Lands of Divine Essence were under your watch. You're also seeing what I'm currently doing.

"Help me fight against Ecang's will. If I succeed, I will obtain this serendipity, and I will help you find your king! If you don't take action, then my soul will simply die, and it'll be impossible for you to find another person like me who will help you find your king!"

As Su Ming's voice echoed in the air, an enraged roar came from the depths of Yin Death Vortex, located in True Morning Dao World, which was far away from the Barren Lands of Divine Essence.

Su Ming's soul was still burning, but only three breaths passed before incredibly ancient presences suddenly appeared in his soul. There was not just one, but four of them.

At the instant those presences appeared, they immediately spread out from within his soul and formed an illusory black mask. It was naturally the seal that had been imprinted on Su Ming.

At the moment the four presences spread out, four suns appeared beside him. Those suns were green, red, blue, and white respectively. An age-old presence spread out from them, and they spun rapidly around the mask before they charging towards Ecang's will with a loud bang.

"Damn it, just what exactly do you have around you?! You had that traitorous and thieving crane, and you even have the protection of the divine thoughts from four people who are half a step away from beings Masters of Fate, Lives, and Death!" After being momentarily stunned, Ecang let out a furious roar and swept past the area with its will.

"Abyss Builder, remember… to find our king for us. We are the fifth True World's Yin Maelstrom people, Boundless Gangue people, and Just Progenies [3]!

"If you don't fulfill your promise, we will definitely destroy all the Berserkers!" There was anger within the four chilling divine thoughts, and their voices surrounded the mask before going outwards.

"Quit your yapping and attack!"

Su Ming let out a cold harrumph. They had no choice. Forcing them to attack was part of his plan to Possess Ecang. Su Ming had been thinking for four hundred something years, and he had already calculated all possible situations. Even if these people refused, he still had a few methods to force them to attack.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

There was once again someone there to help Su Ming fight against Ecang. As Su Ming's soul burned, it spread out at an indescribable speed. He continued occupying the venous pathways ceaselessly within the one hundred thousand galaxies and one hundred thousand trees, moving upwards from the forty-eight-hundredths.

Forty-nine, fifty-one, fifty-three, fifty-five… until he reached sixty-hundredths!

And it continued. Sixty-one, sixty-two, sixty-three, sixty-five, sixty-seven...

Booms echoed in the air. The mask that symbolized the four great divine thoughts from Yin Death Region shattered to pieces. The four suns around it were also reduced into numerous glittering flickers of light during that spread out.

As the mask shattered and the four divine thoughts disappeared, the ancient wills from Yin Death Region also completely lost their control over Su Ming!

This meant that he had taken a huge step forward in his path towards resisting fate. He had successfully shaken off the limitations placed on him by Yin Death Region, and successfully… supplanted those controlling him!

From then on, he would no longer be sealed by Yin Death Region. He had regained his complete self… and the existences within Yin Death Region would not dare to touch the Berserkers, because they needed him to find their king!

"Damn you, you accursed cultivator, I'd like to see what else you have besides that traitorous, thieving crane and the protection from the four divine thoughts. Even if you occupied more areas, it's still useless. Your soul is about to be completely burned. You're about to die! What else can you do?!" Ecang roared furiously. Once it crushed the mask and the four divine thoughts, it swept towards Su Ming once again.

At the instant it closed in on him with loud booming sounds, Su Ming, who had occupied a sixty-nine-hundredths of all the venous pathways within the one hundred thousand trees, had all the faces he formed smile in that bizarre fashion once again.

About seven-tenths of Su Ming's soul had been burnt. As he smiled, he mumbled with madness in his eyes, "Possessing you will be the greatest serendipity in my life.

"But Possessing you isn't the most important thing in my life!" The madness in Su Ming's eyes grew even stronger, as if it had been lit up in flames.

"Possessing you is just a process. During this process, I will borrow your strength to make sure that I break free from other people's control and become who I really am. The existences within Yin Death Region were just one of those who wanted to rule me, there's still… Di Tian!

"Di Tian, I once thought that I had completely broken free of your control and walked out of your plans, but now… I saw everyone's faces on Ecang's numerous branches… but I didn't see yours!

"During that moment, I knew that you are still controlling me. Your plan hasn't failed at all! In fact, everything about me is still a part of your plan!

"You are absent from all the faces that manifested on Ecang's tree, just like how I am absent from it! I can't see myself, and neither can I see you! Then doesn't it mean that you used some method to make it so that you are me and I am you?! That you have let our souls fuse together in some sense?!

"I don't know what your plan is, but over the years, from all the clues I've gathered, I can vaguely guess… that you want my life! It's not my life in the sense that you want my vitality, but you want my life as an Abyss Builder!

"If that's the case, then either you die with me… or you will get out of my soul!" This was the insane thought that had been born in Su Ming's mind after his first failure hundreds of years ago.

Possession was nothing. It was merely a serendipity. Breaking free of fate's control was the most important thing for Su Ming. Perhaps he was wrong. He was not certain whether Di Tian had fused with his soul, however… if he could have Hong Luo and those three powerful warriors in Solar Kalpa Realm in his soul, then why would it not be possible… for Di Tian to exist there as well?!

The less understanding he had towards this control, the harder it would be for him to break free from it. Only… by using his life as a betting chip and placing a huge bet that no normal person would take would he be able to break free of his predicament.

"Di Tian, are you leaving or not?!" Su Ming roared, and the one hundred thousand faces within the one hundred thousand trees in the one hundred thousand galaxies roared at the same time.

Translator's Note:

1. This is about when the elder locked Su Ming in the house in Wind Stream Tribe and went back without him for Dark Mountain Tribe's migration.

2. Master of Fate, Lives, and Death: Name of the Realm for those who can control fate, lives, and death. First mentioned by the Candle Dragon in 'For what reason do all manner of living practice cultivation? For what reason do we strive to become strong?'

3. It's not mentioned, but I do believe that the fourth one is Heavenly Phantoms. Remember that the Duke of Crimson Flame mentioned that Su Ming had a seal on him that he didn't want to break because it was doing him good and Su Ming said that he did have a seal placed on him? I thought that it was a reference towards the seal on the mask at that time.

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Chapter 831: Ecang as His Clone (6)

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In the galaxy that belonged to the Immortals in one of the four Great True Worlds, True Morning Dao World, far from the Barren Lands of Divine Essence was an incredibly strange celestial body. It was formed of one hundred and eight cultivation planets. From the distance, they looked like a leaf that was filled with veins. It floated in the galaxy with brilliant light shining a hundred thousand feet from it. The great and mighty pressure that was formed when those one hundred and eight cultivation planets gathered together intimidated all those around them. This was an area that was incredibly famous within the galaxy that belonged to Immortals.

Within there, there was Great Leaf Immortal Sect's first sect.

An endless amount of people weaved in and out of the planets within that celestial body. The people that were moving about the place were all disciples of Great Leaf Disciple Sect that were either going out or returning. At first glance, there were several hundreds of thousands of them moving about.

This might seem like a huge number, but compared to the gigantic one hundred and eight cultivation planets, these hundreds of thousands of people were incredibly tiny and insignificant. Based on the sect's scale, the number of disciples within Great Leaf Immortal Sect would definitely be extremely great.

At the instant all one hundred thousand of Su Ming's faces shouted at the same time within the Western Ring Nebula's foreign land in the Barren Lands of Divine Essence, there was a change in a cultivation planet within the deepest recesses of the celestial body that looked like a leaf.

That place was filled with green grass. There was a light gust of wind that swept through the land in that world. The sky was blue, and there were a few white clouds moving about gently in the sky, filling this place with an air of tranquility.

There was a lake nearby, and a middle-aged man sat by its side. He was dressed in a sackcloth and held a fishing pole in his hands. He looked as if he was taking a cat nap. There was a peaceful expression on his face, along with a faint smile.

Yet by his side were countless wild wolves lying in ambush among the grass. Red light was shining in the wolves' eyes as they stared at the middle-aged man while not moving a single inch.

Yet during that moment, a faint crease suddenly appeared between the middle-aged man's brows. This action immediately made that peaceful expression on his face disappear. He slowly opened his eyes, which were long and narrow. This pair of eyes caused the man to seem like he possessed a strange charm, but at that moment, a focused glint tainted with a dark look gradually appeared within those eyes.

"I… do not like wayward children," the middle-aged man mumbled to himself. He still held on to the fishing pole with his right hand while slowly closing his eyes, as if nothing had happened.

Within Western Ring Nebula's foreign land in the Barren Lands of Divine Essence, Su Ming's low roars were echoing in the air. His soul was rapidly burning away. The burnt area of his soul rapidly turned from a seven-tenths to eight-tenths as he furiously fought against Ecang's will.

The roars and booms that came from Ecang's will prevented Su Ming from spreading his soul out any further. To Ecang, Su Ming should already be near the end of his life. Just a little more, and his burning soul would completely scatter away. At that moment, Ecang would not even need to do anything. His opponent would just disappear into the wind on his own.

There was a determined expression on the one hundred thousand faces of Su Ming at that moment. He did not show any intention of changing his mind. Even if most of his soul had already been burnt, as long as Di Tian did not get out of his body, he would not give up. This was a gamble with his life on the lien, as well as a competition of patience, one where he and Di Tian would both have to make a choice.

'Kites have strings. That's why even if they flow above the nine heavens, they will still be controlled by someone and won't have a free will.

'If I can't break off that string throughout my entire life and fly freely in the sky, then what is the difference between me living and dying..? Only when I break this string will I be able to taste freedom!'

A determined light shone within all the eyes of the one hundred thousand faces that belonged to Su Ming. As his soul burned, another portion of it crumbled away.

At that moment, the middle-aged man in a sackcloth near the lake on the plain of grass within Great Leaf Immortal Sect in the galaxy that belonged to the Immortals in Morning Dao World opened his eyes once again. This time, besides a grim look, there was also seriousness in his expression.

However, the hand which held the fishing pole was still very stable. Ripples suddenly appeared on the water in the lake before him. Once the middle-aged man lifted his right hand, a golden fish was yanked out from the water with its mouth around the fishing hook.

As water droplets scattered everywhere, one of the wild wolves from the grass swiftly leaped up and charged towards that golden fish with its mouth wide open, about to swallow it whole.

"I do not like those who take the initiative."

The middle-aged man's eyes became even more grim. He did not seem to have done anything, but at the instant he said those words, the wild wolf that had leaped up suddenly shuddered and withered away. Its teeth fell off and its fur shriveled. Its body instantly turned into dust, and even the teeth and fur that had fallen off turned into ashes before reaching the lake, as if a thousand years had passed for the body of the wolf in an instant.

"The Abyss Builders' inborn ability… What a despicable race, but also… a race that makes others envious."

The middle-aged man's face turned even darker. He slowly stood up and let go of the fishing pole. With a turn, he stepped into the air.

His body vanished instantly. When he reappeared, he had already moved an unknown amount of distance and reached… Great Leaf Immortal Sect's first sect.

When he appeared here, he was no longer dressed in a sackcloth, but had adorned a golden long robe and had a golden crown on his head. There was also a dignified expression on his face. Wherever he went, all the cultivators that saw him would immediately bow down and worship him.

He continued onward until he stood at the center of the shattered continents, right on top of the tallest altar in that place, beside the corpse that had been sealed there for numerous years.

He looked at the young man with the pale face, frail body, and shut eyes before him. The middle-aged man remained silent, but suddenly, Su Ming's real body, which was the corpse that was held here, suddenly showed signs of withering away. Wrinkles swiftly appeared on its skin, and its hair gradually lost its luster. Those were the signs that its soul was about to die. Once the soul died, the corpse would wither away, and the soul would also scatter away.

Due to this scene, the expression of the middle-aged man, Di Tian, changed. He had not believed in what he sensed previously, but now that the truth was placed before him, he became certain that Su Ming was facing a danger that he could not hope to stand against. He was burning his soul at that moment, and nine-tenths of it were already gone.

"Either you have truly run into a life and death situation… or you have discovered a clue. If it's the former, I'll let it slide, but if it's the latter…"

Di Tian let out a cold harrumph. He was still frowning. There was a unique form of fusion between his and Su Ming's souls. If Su Ming died, then he would also be injured badly. In fact, his level of cultivation would no longer increase even a single bit for the rest of his life. In truth, his plan had been a gamble all along.

"I only need another three hundred years to succeed… Three hundred years…"

Di Tian fell silent and stared at Su Ming's physical body without saying a single word. When a large amount of black patches appeared on the skin and a rotting stench also spread out while his hair fell off, for the first time, Di Tian's heart was shaken.

"Ninety-five-hundredths…

"Ninety-five-hundredths. I've already burned more than ninety-five-hundredths of my soul, but Di Tian still hasn't appeared. Could I… be wrong..?" Su Ming had already reached his limit in terms of burning his soul in Western Ring Nebula's foreign land, and Ecang's laughter echoed in the air. The one hundred thousand faces that belonged to Su Ming shook at that instant.

If he continued, he would truly die. If he gave up, he would still have some life left, but... he was already at this point of his plan. After a short period of silence, a resolute and ruthless expression appeared on his face.

"If I'm wrong, then I will be freed from all this from now on! This is my choice, I will accept it!"

Without any hesitation, the flames burning Su Ming's soul rose once again and started devouring the last five-hundredths of his soul. If he split that remaining portion into five parts, then he only had four left, and it was still becoming less.

As Su Ming's soul continued to burn, he heard a faint voice in his heart, though he did not know whether it was just a figment of his imagination.

"This world… shall be built for Abyss…" That voice said seven words, and they were the same ones Su Ming had heard when he was still in Yin Death Region.

This time, even Ecang's will was shaken. It had seen lunatics before, but it had never seen someone as insane as Su Ming. He had already arrived at this point, but he was still continuing. He was using his life to gamble!

Di Tian, who was in the galaxy that belonged to the Immortals, also trembled. The relaxed look on his face disappeared at that moment. A ferocious look appeared in his eyes, which were now covered in blood capillaries. He stared intently at Su Ming's physical body, watching as it rapidly decayed, and his heart shook even more violently.

When there was only three parts of the original five of Su Ming's soul that were not burnt, Di Tian trembled lightly. This was an invisible fight, a battle of Arts that could not be seen. It was a fight where both parties competed to see just who was more ruthless and who was the first to fall back.

Di Tian's expression twisted. He was unwilling to accept that his plan would truly fail just like this, but he had no way of knowing whether Su Ming was truly facing a life and death danger at this moment or whether all of this was just him fighting back. With an internal struggle, Di Tian watched the decay on Su Ming's physical body become even worse. In fact, he no longer had the shape of a human when there were only two parts left of his soul.

That flow of time seemed to have been stretched out in an invisible manner. This was torture and a test to Su Ming, and it was the same for Di Tian. When there was only one part left of Su Ming's soul, Di Tian lifted his head and let out a furious roar towards the sky.

There was anger within that roar, along with a resignation that he had to terminate his own plan, as well as an enmity towards time. As Di Tian roared, he lifted his right hand and fiercely struck the center of his brows.

At the instant he did so, a golden light erupted from within Su Ming's soul, which was at the brink of unconsciousness. That ray of light swiftly flew out from within his soul. A furious roar came from within Su Ming's soul and echoed faintly in the air as that golden light disappeared.

Su Ming was familiar with that roar. It was Di Tian's voice. In that invisible battle of Arts, Su Ming had won!

He laughed long and hard. A resistance against fate that had lasted for countless years was contained within that laughter, along with Su Ming's determination and resolution. He won in that battle of Arts and gained his freedom. If he could get through Ecang's disaster, then from that time on, he would be free from everyone's control over him. He would have endless possibilities ahead of him. This would be him leaving an extraordinary situation to get into another marvelous situation.

However, the price for breaking free of Di Tian's control was incredibly devastating. There was only a wisp left of Su Ming's soul, and that wisp was still burning. At that moment, there were two paths before Su Ming.

He could give up all form of resistance. With Sui Chen Zi's law in existence, he might have a chance of merging his soul together once more under the reversal of time and return to his physical body.

However, there were a lot of unknowns in this. There was even a possibility… that if he formed his soul once more under the reversal of time, all the souls that once existed within his own would also return.

No one could say how this would end.

The was another path as well, and in that one, Su Ming was certain that the situation of the seals forming once again in his soul would not happen. This path… was one where he continued on!

A glint appeared in all of the eyes within the one hundred thousand face that belonged to Su Ming. The situation had not derailed to the point where it was no longer part of his plan. During the four hundred years of analysis, he had discovered several ways that might be dead ends but could also be points that led to new life.

At that moment, the second path was one such way. Without any hesitation, Su Ming chose to walk it. At the instant his soul was completely burnt, the wave of impact that erupted from him was incredibly powerful. Ecang's will laughed coldly and did not try to stop it. He knew that this was Su Ming's final bout of madness. After that, he would surely die.

'I was dead to begin with. My soul is dead and cannot touch the sun… Then what will happen if a person whose soul is dead dies again..?'

As the wave of impact from the burning of Su Ming's soul spread out, his soul covered eighty-hundredths in one bout from the previous sixty-seven. A boom shot up in Su Ming's mind, and a new picture appeared in his head.

He saw… Western Ring Nebula's foreign land, right beyond the one hundred thousand golden seas and one hundred thousand galaxies!

It was as if Su Ming's Atman was expanded endlessly at that instant and covered the entire foreign land. It even continued spreading out to cover Western Ring Nebula. However, the Western Ring Nebula before Su Ming's eyes was vastly different from his memories.

This place was filled with tranquility and life. The Essence of the Worlds within the countless cultivation planets was abundant and sufficient. There were… no cultivators on the planets, only ferocious beasts. It was as if this was a foreign galaxy that no cultivator had yet discovered.

Su Ming was momentarily stunned. When he instinctively pulled back his Atman and it returned to his body, he discovered that the foreign land had disappeared.

More accurately speaking, he had become the foreign land.

Su Ming lowered his head. When he looked at himself, he saw that he was dressed in white. He had become a stranger.

He was an old man with white hair, an unfamiliar existence whose eyes were filled with wisdom and an ancient air.

"With one thought, I can destroy the heavens…" The universe instantly turned dark. The galaxy disappeared in an instant, as if everything had been destroyed.

This was not Su Ming's voice, but he could sense that he was the one saying the words. During that instant, he suddenly understood. Once he occupied eight-tenths of Ecang's venous pathways, he saw Ecang's memories, and once he fused with them, he saw… Sui Chen Zi.

"With one thought, I can give life to the universe."

Su Ming's heart trembled. He saw a ray of light being born within that endless darkness after the galaxy had turned into a black, empty void. That light spread out and covered everything that Su Ming saw, chasing away all darkness. Cultivation planets were born, and lives appeared on them.

"With one thought, I can make all lives perish…" As the third sentence was spoken, all lives were reduced to ashes, as if flames had swept past them. It was as if several millions of years had flowed past the universe.

"With one thought, I can give life to all manner of being." When that ancient voice spoke again, Su Ming's heart shuddered. He seemed to have come to a vague understanding of something.

"Those who can see my four Great Arts of Divine Essence have either made their stone monuments reach nine million feet… or Possessed eight-tenths of Ecang. It doesn't matter how you managed to do it, as long as you understand the law I left behind within these four Great Arts of Divine Essence, then it will become your law. The more you understand, the more control you will have over this law…

"You only have three breaths. After three breaths, you must tell me what you have understood!" Sui Chen Zi said flatly.

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Chapter 832: Ecang as His Clone (7)

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The first breath.

As Su Ming was shocked and caught in a daze due to the four Great Arts of Divine Essence, they repeated themselves before his eyes. In that short span of a breath, they repeated themselves thousands of times.

As the first breath passed by, Su Ming realized that he was no longer Sui Chen Zi. He seemed to be able to see a faint layer of black smoke coming from the white-robed and white-haired Sui Chen Zi. There were one hundred thousand faces within that black smoke, and all of them belonged to Su Ming.

When the second breath arrived, the one hundred thousand faces formed by black smoke spread out from Sui Chen Zi's body. Once they gathered together behind him, Su Ming could feel that he now possessed a body, and he was no longer a lost soul in the world.

Once the third breath came, Su Ming saw Sui Chen Zi's back. What appeared in his mind was still the shock he received due to the four Divine Essence Arts. That shock seemed to have vaguely fused with his life, and he had a feeling that he had understood.

After the three breaths, Sui Chen Zi, who had his back turned towards Su Ming, shook his head and gradually left into the distance. When Su Ming's body began to fade away, he suddenly spoke.

"The start of my Life Matrix is midwinter. The world is still, and there is no life there. It's as if a vast amount of snow had covered the earth, and all manner of lives ended… This is… what you mean by with one thought, you can destroy the heavens," Su Ming mumbled, a light of understanding shining in his eyes.

"After midwinter, my Life is that of bloody autumn. With blood, I will dye the sky red, turning it into the color of autumn and gain… the will of autumn. This is a transition between life and death. It is the only state where death and life exists at the same time within my Life Matrix. It is not like the complete stillness within midwinter, but neither is it like the vast amount of life during the searing summer…

"Since both life and death exist at the same time, it is the state of all lives dying, as well as the state of all lives being reborn… This is what you mean when you say with one thought, you can give life to the universe."

Su Ming was whispering absentmindedly, as if he was not talking to anyone but himself. However, Sui Chen Zi, who had his back turned towards Su Ming in the distance, paused in his footsteps when he heard Su Ming say these two things. He kept still and unmoving, as if he thinking about Su Ming's words and waiting for the rest.

"The Life Matrix I came to understand is a path that moves from death to life, just like how midwinter moves towards spring, but the movement from spring to winter in the world is something that cannot be reversed. However, this is what I lack in my Life Matrix. Even if it is something that cannot be reversed, I still have to tread down this path.

"I was originally lost in my path after the bloody autumn. Now, I have come to understand. The searing summer after the bloody autumn should be filled with an abundance of life force. That life force is hot and can burn away everything. That life force is great and can illuminate all manner of lives.

"This life force… might seem real, but in truth, it is fake. Even if it is real in a sense. It can burn me, and also use its heat to burn all the lives in the universe, extinguishing the fire of life within all the living beings.

"Perhaps before it does anything, it is a mere illusion, but once the lives are extinguished, it will become real. Summer… Summer… Burn all lives to light up my own life so that it would become greater… This is what you mean by with one thought, you can make all lives perish."

Su Ming's eyes grew even brighter. This was just like how he had gained that unique epiphany when he was in Eastern Wastelands Tower all those years ago. Now, from the four Great Arts of Divine Essence, he had come to gain an epiphany that not even Sui Chen Zi had expected.

This was an epiphany that belonged solely to Su Ming.

Sui Chen Zi turned around slowly. At the instant he looked towards Su Ming, Su Ming mumbled his final string of words.

"After the searing summer would be spring… Spring, the time when all lives are revived, where all manner of lives will rise. This should be the first step for all life forms, but for me, this is the final step in my path from death to life. With the power of resurrection, I will complete my awakening.

"If I succeed, then with one thought, I'll be able to give life to all manner of living, but if I fail… then with one thought, I will make all lives perish!" A glint appeared in Su Ming's eyes and he lifted his eyes to look at Sui Chen Zi. He looked at the old man with white hair and wisdom as well as old age in his eyes, and a firm persistence of his beliefs appeared in Su Ming's face.

"This is my understanding!"

At the instant he said these words, a slightly strange look appeared on Sui Chen Zi's face. He seemed as if he wanted to say something, but in the end, he could not do so. Instead, with some form of epiphany in his eyes along with a sort of dazed look on his face, his body gradually faded away.

Almost at the instant Sui Chen Zi's body vanished, the space around them also disappeared, and Ecang's low roars echoed in Su Ming's heart once again. A powerful will swept through the area, and booms caused by it crashing into Su Ming's soul could be heard rising into the air.

However, in Su Ming's senses, that sound seemed to be incredibly far away from him. At that moment, his soul was completely burnt. However, even as his entire soul was burnt, he noticed that… he did not disappear.

"I was dead to begin with, and even my soul was dead. What would happen if I died again?" Su Ming mumbled.

"It's thought… This is my thought…" Su Ming whispered softly. He remembered the signs that were known as Abyss' Awakening when he first came to control time.

When Dao Yuan came, when the three seals in Su Ming's soul were released, and when that voice telling him that the world was built for Abyss emerged in his head, he could sense that he had moved into the true state of Abyss' Awakening.

Only then was he able to Possess the Crimson Python Phoenix in the Barren Lands of Divine Essence and form his new physical body, though Su Ming had not known about it before he Possessed the creature. It had practically been a natural instinct.

"The Duke of Crimson Flame once said that the Abyss Builders can revive the dead… This is an inborn ability that snatches the power of creation from the universe's hands. It does not conform to the will of heaven, and neither is it in harmony with the universe.

"I've been thinking about where this ability came from all this while… Now I understand, after awakening to Abyss, what will awaken again is the ability to build… To build the Abyss, and to build life…

"So Abyss' Awakening requires… a person to die once, truly, completely, and absolutely." As Su Ming mumbled while coming to understand this, a wisp of his soul reappeared, and as it swiftly expanded, it instantly became a complete soul.

This form of completion was different from before he burned his soul, but Su Ming could not tell just what was different about himself. He could only sense that something about him seemed to have risen to a higher level. It was as if the state of being alive and dead existed at the same time in his soul. He was no longer just a dead soul… but was something dead that possessed life.

It was just like how he had come to understand the will of autumn. At that instant, Su Ming became aware that he had truly moved into the will of autumn. Now, not only had he understood it, but his soul had also managed to obtain it.

From then on, the presence of Bright Yang would no longer be a terrifying thing that could wipe him off, because Su Ming's soul was no longer completely dead. It now possessed life. It was caught between life and death, just like autumn.

It was also during that moment that Ecang's enraged roars as well as its cries of surprise filled with disbelief grew close instead of remaining in the distance. They echoed in the area clearly. Ecang's voice was filled with shock, puzzlement and astonishment towards Su Ming's transformation.

Su Ming's soul had occupied eight-tenths of all the golden venous pathways by then, and it had the heart that was filled with the aura of death at the center surrounded. As Su Ming awakened to Abyss and his soul became complete, he began to Possess Ecang once again without any hesitation.

This time, he was clearly much faster than before. As he fought back against Ecang's will, he also noticed… that he seemed to be able to control some power that did not belong to him.

It was the power of law, the law Sui Chen Zi had left behind before his death!

When that understanding surfaced in Su Ming's heart, runic symbols suddenly appeared within the right eyes of all his one hundred thousand faces. Those runic symbols did not exist before, but even though they had just appeared, there was not a hint of unexpectedness within the faces.

The instant they appeared, the one hundred thousand runic symbols within the right eyes of the one hundred thousand faces flew out at the same time. Endless rays of black light spread out from them, and each of them turned into a black shadow.

Su Ming had seen such shadows before. They were those that could kill all the people within the world with one hundred thousand stone monuments.

At that moment, one hundred thousand of such shadows appeared and… bowed at Su Ming. As they did so, he clearly sensed that he could control them.

'Sui Chen Zi was hoping that a person who could successfully Possess Ecang would appear, or else he wouldn't have provided help when I Possessed a third, a half, and eight-tenths of those venous pathways.'

At the instant those shadows appeared, a thought rose in Su Ming's head. Immediately, the one hundred thousand shadows charged towards Ecang's will with furious roars. As they crashed into it with loud booming sounds ringing in the air and as Ecang roared madly, Su Ming immediately started Possessing, raising his coverage from eight- tenths to eighty-five-hundredths.

The parts that had turned black from the golden now occupied most of the territory. Besides the heart at the center, only very little was still shining in gold when Su Ming looked around himself.

Eighty-six, eight-eight, ninety!

Ninety-one, ninety-two, ninety-three…

The one hundred thousand shadows were formed by Sui Chen Zi's law. As they fought against Ecang, Su Ming's soul swiftly spread out. As time passed, Su Ming's soul Possessed ninety-five-hundredths of all the venous pathways!

By then, besides the golden heart that was filled with the aura of death, all the other venous pathways that were previously gold had all turned black. All of them had become Su Ming's property. The power of his soul spread out, and the waves of power that were stirred up caused Ecang to let out a cry of despair.

It was also during that instant that besides the stone monuments that belonged to the ninety something people who received the test, failed, and were chased out at the same time, almost all the stone monuments erupted forth with a powerful ray of lights.

One hundred thousand stone monuments. Besides the small portion of those who had surpassed one million feet, the other ninety thousand something stone monuments shone with a light that spread far and wide. That light was brilliant and piercing to the eyes. As it shone, numerous figures with shock and cries of surprise were forced out of their stone monuments.

Ninety thousand something people!

These ninety thousand something people who wanted to obtain the Divine Essence and who had been immersed in the world formed by their memories in the stone monuments all appeared. This scene shook all the people's hearts, causing them to be unable to help themselves, they cried out in surprise. This was something that had never happened since the time Western Ring Nebula's foreign land was born.

"What happened?!"

"How could this be? I was in the world in the stone monument just now, but I was forcefully expelled by a will that I could not fight against."

"Could it be… Could it be that someone has reached ten million feet? That's impossible. There's no stone monument here that is ten million feet tall."

"Look. That is… Our stone monuments, they are…"

Cries of surprise rang in the air. The last one was especially piercing, and immediately, all the people in the place were stunned. To their shock, they discovered that besides their own name, another one had suddenly appeared on their stone monuments.

That name was above theirs, as if the owner of that name was the true owner of all the stone monuments, the true master of the land with the one hundred thousand stone monuments!

The additional name… was Mo Su!

Zhou Kang stood by the side and stared at Su Ming's stone monument blankly. Unbidden, the image of Su Ming listening to his experiences seriously when he had just arrived in this place appeared in his mind.

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Chapter 833: Ecang as His Clone (8)

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As Zhou Kang looked over, the ninety something people who had taken the test to make their stone monuments reach one million feet and failed at the same time looked swiftly towards the stone monument which had yet to go down in height. With expressions that had changed drastically, they stared at the monument that belonged to the person which had received the test with them, but was the only one who did not come out.

They clearly remembered that this person was known as Mo Su!

At that moment, his name had appeared on nearly one hundred thousand stone monuments. This shocked everyone, and within their hearts, countless guesses arose, each of which could make their breath quicken.

The returnees weren't the only ones to notice this. Gradually, more took note of it, and after a moment, all the cultivators who were forced out of their worlds in their stone monuments turned their gazes towards one of the many stone monuments on the land.

That was… Mo Su's stone monument.

The buzzing of voices gradually dispersed in the land of the one hundred thousand stone monuments, replaced by death-like silence. All the people watched Su Ming's stone monument, and as their expressions changed, myriads of thoughts passed through their heads.

It was especially so for the people who had come for Su Ming's life. Their expressions were incredibly complicated. Perhaps to the others, Mo Su's name and status were unfamiliar, but these people had come solely for him. If it had not been because of the laws in this place interfering with their actions, they would have attacked him a long time ago. Their understanding of Su Ming was much greater compared to the others, but due to that greater knowledge, their feelings were even more complicated, and they were even more troubled.

As the people in the land with the one hundred thousand stone monuments fell silent, within the one hundred thousand venous pathways in the trees of the equally numbered galaxies, Ecang truly panicked when Su Ming successfully Possessed ninety-five-hundredths of the venous pathways.

Its angered roars brought with them the fright from the bottom of its heart, along with the wariness and terror. Its roars echoed nonstop.

This was because once Su Ming occupied all of the golden venous pathways, which caused them to turn black, his soul began his final Possession of the one hundred thousand hearts that were exactly the same, filled with the aura of death and located at the center of the venous pathways.

Once Su Ming successfully Possessed those hearts, he would have completed a nigh impossible Possession. From then on, there would no longer be Ecang, only… Su Ming's strongest clone of Ecang!

"No! You can't do this! You low-life! You shameless thief! You can't do this! I, Ecang, am the one and only existence in the universe! I am a life form that stands above all in the universe! What right do you have to Possess me?!" Ecang's will let out a hysterical, enraged roar.

Booming sounds echoed in the air, stirring up endless ripples that spread out and swept up in all directions, shaking the one hundred thousand galaxies so badly that they started trembling violently. In fact, a large amount of cracks appeared in space, as if those galaxies were about to crumble.

The booming sounds came from Ecang's hysterical will crashing viciously against Sui Chen Zi's one hundred thousand shadows. However, it did not matter whether it were Ecang's roars or the booming sounds in the area, they did not manage to make Su Ming falter for even a moment. With the one hundred thousand shadows formed by Sui Chen Zi's law fighting against Ecang's will, it was simply unable to stop Su Ming's actions.

As Su Ming's soul spread out, not only did he completely cover all of the golden venous pathways, but his soul also surged forward from all directions towards the golden hearts within their respective venous pathways that were within the one hundred thousand trees.

It was as if a golden sheet of drawing paper had been stained by black ink, with only the spot at the center having yet escaped the calamity. At that moment though, that boundless black ink was swiftly spreading towards the only empty spot, intending to completely dye that piece of paper black.

One hundred thousand galaxies roared. One hundred thousand trees trembled viciously. One hundred thousand Ecang's wills roared and howled. As their voices echoed in the air, Su Ming's heart touched those one hundred thousand hearts that were filled with the aura of death.

At the instant he did so, a boom rang out in his soul once again, and it was the same sound that he'd heard after he occupied a third, a half, and an eight-tenths of the venous pathways. Once again… a new illusory picture emerged in his soul!

When Su Ming had occupied a third of the venous pathways, he had seen Ecang's soul and its gigantic body. He had been incredibly shocked, but it was also at that moment that he learned that the tree was known as Ecang.

As time passed, when Su Ming occupied half of those venous pathways, he saw a scene that brought him an even greater shock and even despair. It had been the one hundred thousand galaxies, one hundred thousand golden seas, and one hundred thousand trees that he saw!

In that scene, Su Ming sensed the difference between what was real and what was false, the difference between illusions and reality, but he still did not give up and made his soul successfully occupy eight-tenths of all the venous pathways.

During that instant, Su Ming saw Sui Chen Zi. He had even become him at that instant and sensed his four Divine Essence Arts, and in the end, verified his Life Matrix, thereby… mastering Sui Chen Zi's law!

It could be said that if these three pictures had not appeared in his soul, then Su Ming would have definitely been unable to reach this point, which was a point that no one had managed to reach since ancient times. The illusions that appeared in his soul those three times were like three powerful boosts of power, while also acting as three great tests. As long as one got through those tests, then they would be able to obtain help.

All of this had clearly been left behind by someone beforehand. His goal was naturally to make things slightly easier for when the descendants of the later generations came to Possess Ecang, but he only made things slightly easier. If Su Ming had not done the things he did, then even with those three aids, he would have still been unable to reach his current state.

Clearly, the person who had left behind all those… was Sui Chen Zi!

At that moment, as the picture emerged in his soul, Su Ming clearly knew that this was the fourth time Sui Chen Zi would help him… and it was also likely… that this would be the last time!

Booms rang in Su Ming's soul, and as they did so, he saw a broken universe.

That universe was boundless and limitless. Su Ming did not know precisely how big it was, but he had a vague feeling that this was a True World. It was a gigantic, complete True World, so great that its size could not be described with words!

Su Ming might not be able to describe how big the universe was, but he could use what he knew about the four Great True Worlds to compare them. This… was also a True World!

Yet this True World was damaged in many ways. Booms from the universe falling apart echoed in Su Ming's heart. They continued without stop, becoming louder.

When he cast a glance over, the endless planets within that boundless galaxy were rapidly falling apart and turning into rubble. The countless lives within them were also reduced to dust at that instant. It was as if… the galaxy was dying, the planets were falling into destruction, and all manner of living were returning to the embrace of earth.

Everything within this universe had moved to the end of their path, just as a human's life, and it was rapidly… heading towards the absolute end.

Even the cultivation planets that still had an abundant amount of life force a breath ago were surrounded by the aura of death within a breath, and the entire galaxy was instantly occupied by a dense aura of death.

"The final world in the universe… too cannot escape the disaster of death… I, Sui Chen Zi, also am powerless to fight against it, huh..? I… failed," an ancient voice thick with sorrow echoed in the universe.

Su Ming saw Sui Chen Zi walking into the dying galaxy while dressed in white. His hair was a mess, and he was laughing long and hard at the sky. However, when that laughter fell into his ears, there was clearly grief contained within it that was difficult to describe with words.

"But I… have also succeeded!" In the midst of Sui Chen Zi's anguished laughter, Su Ming looked at him in a daze, and he saw a shard falling off Sui Chen Zi's face. Then… an endless amount of them fell off Sui Chen Zi's whole body. He looked as if he was formed of countless shards. At that moment, as they fell, his body shattered to pieces.

"If I die, then this world will turn to dust. If I close my eyes, then this cosmos will have no light… Descendant who inherits my Divine Essence, remember how I die, and remember… that the laws governing the operations of the universe also die, as well as that the universe does not possess thought…

"I failed, that's why I am destroyed, but I also succeeded, which is why… I give you hope!"

As Sui Chen Zi laughed, his body turned into numerous shards, which then transformed into a whirlwind. When it spread out, Su Ming immediately saw that only the heart remained from Sui Chen Zi's crumbled body.

It was a golden heart. When Su Ming saw it, he felt as if she saw a whole world. This was an indescribable feeling, and Su Ming only had a similar experience once, when he saw the numerous life forms from the World Stone when he was still in Crimson Flame Planet. However, the feeling he had right now was much stronger than what he sensed from the World Stone. In fact, the difference between the intensity of the two was difficult to compare.

It was as if one was the bright sun, and the other just the flickering light from a firefly!

Su Ming was shocked by this scene. He looked at the heart in the whirlwind, and suddenly, though he did not know whether this was just a figment of his imagination, he saw… a seed on that heart!

The seed possessed ten colors, and it was hidden within that golden light.

Before Su Ming could see it clearly, Sui Chen Zi's body completely dispersed in an abrupt manner, and the galaxy as well as the cosmos tumbled forward, charging towards that golden heart. As they did so, the galaxy and the cosmos experienced continuous destruction. Their laws were shattered, their rules disappeared, the lives within them passed away, their planets died, the flow of time became chaotic as the galaxy and cosmos tumbled forward to gather at the heart. In fact, the memories of a countless life forms before their deaths also turned into fragmented thoughts. They turned into an invisible windstorm in this dying galaxy… until this former True World surged completely into the golden heart before Su Ming's eyes, and the spot where the galaxy had been located previously turned into a void that had no life.

Boom!

Su Ming saw with his own eyes as the golden heart that had gathered together a True World turned… into a gigantic vortex. There was an endless amount of cracks beyond the vortex, and by the looks of it, it was Western Ring Nebula's foreign land!

Before Su Ming's shock could fade away, the scene he saw next brought him an even greater shock that surpassed the totality of what he'd experienced through the scenes that were shown to him when he occupied a third, a half, and eight-tenths of the venous pathways.

He saw a gigantic tree that towered into the heavens. With a great presence, a crazed ferociousness, and a mighty pressure that surpassed Sui Chen Zi's, it had been born within the vortex!

In the span of a breath, its size surpassed the vortex, as if the tree was devouring it as its nutrients and the Divine Essence within it so it could grow.

The big tree surpassed the size of Ecang Su Ming saw, but it… was clearly Ecang. However, its color was not just purely purple. Instead… it had all ten colors!

During that instant, a sound of a shoot sprouting that was akin to the sound a baby made when it was born came from the tree!

"E… cang…"

These were just two indistinct syllables, but there was a terrifying might contained within them that made it seem as if with just one thought, the tree could destroy Su Ming several millions of times. His heart trembled at that!

It was powerful. It was indescribably powerful. It was the universe's supreme power, and had in fact… surpassed the universe's strongest power!

"The complete… Ecang," Su Ming mumbled as his pupils shrank.

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Chapter 834: Ecang as His Clone (Final)

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This was Ecang when it was just born!

Su Ming looked at Ecang, who was born by absorbing nutrients from Sui Chen Zi's cosmos once he died and his body shattered. He looked at the tree that possessed all ten colors, at how its light shone without end, and at the mighty pressure as well as its appearance that was so incredibly powerful that no words could describe them. At that instant, Su Ming felt as if his mind had stopped functioning.

From the start, he had expected that Ecang had an incredibly great background, but he still did not think that it could be this unbelievable.

"What I'm Possessing… is such a powerful life form…" Su Ming mumbled. If he had known that Ecang was such an inconceivable being, he did not know whether he would still have had the willpower to choose to Possess it.

Fortunately… what he was Possessing was not the complete Ecang, just one tenth of it. What was more, judging by the looks of it, it was also heavily wounded, or else, Su Ming knew that even if it was just one of the ten of the complete Ecang, he would have definitely not been able to succeed in Possessing it.

In the mid of his shock, a question immediately rose in Su Ming's heart. 'But it's already so inconceivably strong, just who could possibly injure it badly enough to shatter the complete Ecang into pieces..?'

At the instant this question rose, Su Ming… saw his answer.

He saw Ecang's body growing several times larger right after the instant it let out a sound that was akin to a newborn's cry. At first glance, he could not see where its end was. It was as if half of the entire space had been occupied.

Yet suddenly, an ancient voice Su Ming was familiar with came from within Ecang's body.

"With one thought, I can affect the universe. With one thought, I can affect the heavens. With one thought, I can affect all manner of lives. With one thought, I can affect all things in the universe…"

This voice naturally belonged to Sui Chen Zi, whose body had already been destroyed and who only had a heart left. His voice shot out of Ecang's tree trunk and echoed in the void, bringing with it a carefree air and a wave of resolve that lingered in space for a long time, refusing to disappear.

Ecang's gigantic body started trembling viciously. As the ten-colored light shone brilliantly, the tree found that it could no longer grow any taller. Pained whimpers that sounded like a baby's cries came from Ecang.

Before long, it probably would have been able to turn into an incredibly terrifying existence after it devoured Sui Chen Zi's Divine Essence, but… it had only just been born. It might be complete, but it was like an infant and had not fully grown. Its shrill whimpers spread in all directions, and when they fell into Su Ming's ears, his breathing quickened.

"I was unable to kill you and could only allow you to live in my soul, then destroy me… I knew that you would be born the moment I died, and while I might be unable to kill you… but at the instant you are born, you will become me, and I will be you. I will not walk on the path my eight good friends did. Instead, I will use what I have prepared for one hundred thousand years to injure you mortally!

"With one thought… I will have one million lives be born!"

Sui Chen Zi's voice abruptly became stronger. As it echoed in the air, numerous cracks appeared on the tree, and it crumbled from within in a bang.

It turned… into one million parts! The golden heart, which was the accumulation of Sui Chen Zi's Divine Essence throughout his entire life, turned into one million hearts at that instant.

At the same time, Ecang, which had been shredded into one million parts, found that each of its colors possessed one hundred thousand fragments, and as it shattered, its fragmented pieces were individually suppressed and sealed under the one million golden hearts. As a boom that shook the entire void echoed through the area, Ecang's one million fragments tumbled backwards and were swept into the foreign land, which still remained as it was, while those fragments disappeared without a trace.

"I failed, that's why I died… but I also succeeded. I left behind… a chance to break Divine Essence's disaster for the future generation. If any of you, the descendants of the future generation, obtain my Divine Essence, remember…"

As Sui Chen Zi's voice gradually faded away, Su Ming was shocked by the things he saw. However, the truth that he saw did not fade away. Instead, something new occurred.

Su Ming saw time pass. He had no idea how many years had went by when a faint and weak growl came from the foreign land. That growl contained an unwillingness to admit defeat, madness, and a burning hate that could scorch the heavens.

"Sui Chen Zi, you old coot! You can't kill me, and neither can you suppress me for eternity! I've already been born, and my life is already in this universe! It's already written in destiny that I will walk out of your seal!

"Even if you divided my body into ten parts and because of that, ten different wills were born within me, someday… all those ten wills will fuse together once more, and at that time… I, Ecang, will appear!

"Even if you injured me badly, your Divine Essence is still around. Since you left a law for the future generations to obtain your Divine Essence after your death, then I can borrow it and make this place into the source that will heal me!

"The more people come to this place to obtain your Divine Essence, the more they will help me heal! All their epiphanies, their cultivation bases, and their lives will belong to me!"

As that voice echoed in the air, everything before Su Ming's eyes disappeared. He woke up from the illusion in his soul. His soul had already covered all the golden venous pathways, and at that moment, it had already fused with the golden hearts within the one hundred thousand galaxies.

His Possession had reached ninety-seven-hundredths from the previous ninety-five.

'So this… is the truth.'

Su Ming remembered Zhou Kang mentioning before that this place was a huge scam. By the looks of it, that scam was not laid out by Sui Chen Zi, but had turned into such after it was used by Ecang.

'It doesn't matter what is the truth. It's not important whether this place is a scam or not. The important thing is… I've already Possessed ninety-seven-hundredths of this place. My Ecang clone is about to be complete.'

Su Ming's soul continuously spread out and fused with the golden heart. With the one hundred thousand shadows formed by Sui Chen Zi's law still blocking Ecang's will, Su Ming progressed incredibly smoothly.

At the instant his Possession reached ninety-eight-hundredths from the previous ninety-seven, Ecang descended into complete madness. Its will roared hysterically, with despair and lunacy contained within it.

"You are the one who forced me! All of this is because you forced me! I absolutely won't let you succeed! Even if I will lose the chance to devour the other nine, even if I will lose all my consciousness because of this and will only have a portion of my soul left that will be devoured by the other nine as they please, I will still… absolutely not allow you to Possess me, this noble Ecang's body!" Ecang laughed madly. There was a resolve within its laughter and a will that said it would die with Su Ming.

"Great Ecang Art!"

At the instant it said these words, a shrill scream of pain immediately came from the near one hundred thousand people within the world with one hundred thousand stone monuments.

As the screams of pain echoed in the air, the people around the area looked at the spot from which the screams came from, and to their shock, they saw a middle-aged man rapidly rotting away. Bits of purplish light were coming from his body while it was rapidly being absorbed by the stone monument. In the blink of an eye, the middle-aged cultivator's body disappeared, without a single trace of it left.

Soon after, screams of pain rang in the air once again. As they rose and fell, nearly ten thousand people cried out at the same time. Their bodies were all rapidly disappearing, being absorbed by their stone monuments.

During that instant, when the near ten thousand stone monuments absorbed the corresponding number of people's flesh, blood, lives, and everything else about them, numerous cracks rang down the monuments. The air filled with the sound of cracking, and near ten thousand stone monuments shattered into pieces with a bang. As they fell apart, purplish smoke spread out from within, and as the shattered debris shot through the air, it disappeared from the land. Due to this, from then on, this place would only have ninety thousand stone monuments!

Ecang's will swelled up exponentially at that instant, and wisps of purplish smoke appeared out of thin air. There were nearly ten thousand wisps of that purplish smoke, their number naturally identical to the number of the cultivators who had died.

As those wisps rapidly gathered together, they turned into a gigantic purple tree. That tree… was naturally Ecang's soul.

"E… cang…"

At the instant its soul appeared, the gigantic purple tree let out a low roar. When it uttered the first syllable, the one hundred thousand shadows that were formed by Sui Chen Zi's law shuddered and were instantly frozen, unable to move.

When the second syllable was spoken, without the one hundred thousand shadows' protection, Su Ming's soul immediately felt a strong impact crashing into him as he was Possessing the golden hearts within those one hundred thousand venous pathways.

"I paid an incredible price in exchange for the law to freeze. This means that from now on, there will no longer be any chance for me to recover. I can only watch as the other nine continuously recover and wait for the one who will awaken among them to devour me…

"I've sacrificed so much, so I won't accept not being able to kill you!"

Ecang's will rushed over in a mad dash. At the instant it crashed into Su Ming's soul, the final part of the Possession which he had planned and prepared for hundreds of years was executed without any hesitation.

"Black fragment!" Su Ming's soul let out a low shout.

The black fragment. The unknown treasure that had accompanied Su Ming while he was in Yin Death Region and had fused with his soul to follow him to the Barren Lands of Divine Essence was formed within his soul at the moment Su Ming called out to it.

This item was a mysterious entity. Even if Su Ming had completely burned his soul previously, it still existed within him. At that moment, when it manifested, it returned to its original form and turned into a negligible black stone fragment!

"Deceive it!"

The instant the black stone fragment appeared was also the moment Ecang's will crashed into Su Ming. As booming sounds echoed in the air, the golden hearts that originally numbered one hundred thousand within the equally numbered golden venous pathways in those trees in the galaxies suddenly increased drastically by several thousand folds. They appeared within each set of the golden venous pathways, and when added together, they reached one hundred million hearts with the aura of death within those one hundred thousand galaxies.

Among those one hundred million hearts. Only one hundred thousand were real. The others were all fake, but the presence each of them gave off were the exact same. There was not the slightest difference among them. This was the mysterious ability that the black fragmented excelled in - the ability to deceive all manner of life.

Su Mig did not know how long this treasure could deceive Ecang, which was why he had not dared to use it previously. Instead, only when he was closest to success, when the value of a breath was even more precious than before, did he bring it out.

"This… This is… the Seed of Life Extermination! Did it… did it also fail? This is impossible! How could it fail..? How could there only be a fragment left?" There was disbelief in Ecang's voice, along with deep despair. It needed ten breaths before it could find the real Su Ming among the one hundred million hearts.

If it had needed these ten breaths to search for Su Ming beforehand, it would have been nothing to it, but now, time was critical. Ten breaths would determine the winner and the loser.

"I lost! The nine wills that have been separated from me, I have been Possessed! Destroy him, and help me take revenge!"

As Ecang's voice of despair echoed in the air, Su Ming's Possession of the true one hundred thousand golden hearts reached ninety-nine-hundredths, and then… one hundred!

The golden venous pathways and the golden hearts were all black!

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