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Chapter 835: The Deep Slumber Before He Was Reborn
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Complete Possession!
At the instant Su Ming's Possession was fully completed, Ecang's will withered away. In the blink of an eye, it disappeared without a trace, causing the purple Ecang tree to become Su Ming's clone from then on!
It was also during the instant Su Ming completed his Possession that vast waves of ancient memories surged into his soul like a flood that had broken through a dam.
Those memories were incredibly jumbled up, and a great swelling sensation rose within Su Ming. It was painful, as if those memories were imprinting themselves deeply into his soul. That pain could not be described with words… However, at the same time, Su Ming had a strong sensation that his soul was swiftly growing stronger. As those memories gathered together and his soul continued becoming stronger, he sensed that his cultivation base changed drastically.
It was as if he had suddenly come to understand the changes in the world within an instant, and the trains of thought that had been previously blocked opened up.
One hundred thousand galaxies. One hundred thousand golden seas. One thousand Ecang trees within one hundred thousand planets. All of these things shook, and Su Ming sensed that at the instant he turned into Ecang, he could feel numerous others galaxies that existed beyond these one hundred thousand.
There were nine wills that were on equal ground to his in this galaxy. Each of them contained the power of one hundred thousand galaxies. At that moment, they were gathering and surrounding the galaxies that belonged to Su Ming, as if they wanted to rush in, but were also hesitant to do so.
He did not need to think much to be able to tell that these nine wills that were lingering about beyond the area he controlled was the other wills of the great Ecang tree that had been torn apart.
Ecang had been split into ten parts all those years ago, and these parts used Western Ring Nebula's foreign land to heal themselves. If Su Ming had not appeared, then perhaps after a long period of time had passed, they would have devoured each other and conglomerated into the real Ecang. However, since Su Ming appeared and successfully Possessed the purple Ecang, and the purple Ecang sent out those ripples before its death, the other nine wills came over in an attempt to devour him beforehand.
If Su Ming was interrupted in the critical moment before he managed to form his clone and was devoured by the nine wills, then even if he Possessed the purple Ecang, the results would still be of no good to him. He would only become part of the true Ecang's soul.
Originally, these nine wills would planned to rush into the one hundred thousand galaxies that belonged to the purple Ecang and execute a brutal process of devouring Su Ming and fusing with him, until the purple Ecang Su Ming Possessed would be completely devoured. Then, these nine would will become much stronger.
Before the purple Ecang died, it had sent a divine thought to the nine wills with exactly this intention, because it had made a promise with the other nine Ecang souls before. Before the ten of them fully recovered, they would not devour each other. They would wait until they were all complete before they did so. Only then would the true Ecang be eventually born without any injuries, and would even be much stronger than before!
That was why if the purple Ecang had not sent that divine thought to them, the other Ecang souls would not have come forward. However, the purple Ecang did not expect that Su Ming's Possession towards it was not the traditional Possession that would wipe away its soul because the possessor only wanted its body. Thus, it had miscalculated.
The traditional Possession would cause a great aversion within the nine other wills, and they would immediately rush in to devour Su Ming. However, Su Ming's Possession was the Abyss Builders' inborn ability. This sort of Possession not only wanted to take over the target's body, but also their soul, and even the brand of their lives. It was a Possession that aimed to gather together a body from the purple Ecang's form, and that body would be identical to Ecang, in terms of both its presence or signs of life.
It was just like how Su Ming had Possessed one of the three Crimson Python Phoenixes all those years ago and the remaining two had not noticed him. Instead, they had always thought that he was their companion. Since even his presence had not changed.
This was the Abyss Builders' Possession!
It was also the reason why the purple Ecang failed even after it died!
To be precise, the Abyss Builders' Possession was divided into three steps. The first step was to create confusion by blending the false with what was real. It could be seen as the invasion of the soul, just like what had happened to the purple Ecang just now and what had happened to the Crimson Python Phoenix that had devoured Su Ming's soul all those years ago.
The falsehood here was referring to Su Ming's soul, and the reality was referring to his target's body and soul.
The second step was to substitute what was real with a fake. He would completely Possess his target's body, soul, mark of life, and even Life Matrix, in a manner akin of exchanging the sun and moon in the sky. The Su Ming right now was at the final stages of this step. Once he completed the Possession, he would have changed the sun and moon in the sky with a fake.
The main point of this Possession was to change, not to wipe off. That was why it had the third step.
To turn what was decaying into something amazing.
The decaying part symbolized the past, and the amazing part symbolized the future. The change between what was decaying and what was amazing was akin to a process of rebirth. It would use the decaying parts of the past to be reborn into something amazing.
This step was precisely what Su Ming was prepared to do at that moment.
In a sense, there were too many intrinsic differences between Su Ming and Ecang. But from another point of view… they were the same!
Ecang used Sui Chen Zi's death to be born and devoured his Divine Essence. Su Ming was reborn within Ecang's body. He absorbed what Ecang had absorbed and also devoured all that was Ecang. If one looked at it that way, the Abyss Builders were even more domineering than Ecang.
Because…
"You were born by devouring the universe's Divine Essence, and I will devour your life to live," Su Ming mumbled. As the windstorm of jumbled up memories in his soul continued imprinting themselves in his heart and body, Su Ming's understanding towards the Abyss Builders' inborn ability to Possess others became even greater.
After all, since ancient times, Su Ming was the only one among the Abyss Builders who could devour something like Ecang, which was an only existence in the universe!
"Abyss Builders… Just like how small fish eat shrimps to live, while big fish eat small fish. This is the law of the jungle… I didn't expect that this idiom would be portrayed so vividly in the Abyss Builders' inborn ability."
The black venous pathways and the black hearts within the one hundred thousand purple Ecang trees in the equally numbered galaxies turned into one hundred thousand faces of Su Ming at that moment. As he mumbled to himself, he found the reason as to why the other nine Ecang wills were lingering around the area of his perception.
"To their senses, my presence is not that much different compared to that of the purple Ecang, but since the third step still isn't complete, there are still some differences. That should be why they're lingering about and won't leave.
"This phenomenon will last until I complete the third step in this Possession. Once I turn what is decaying into something astonishing, it will end…" The eyes of Su Ming's faces shone at the same time and revealed a piercingly cold glare.
"I need time. This might not take long, or it could take an eternity. My soul will also descend into a deep sleep because of this. After all… the purple Ecang is not like the Crimson Python Phoenix, where I could instantly form my clone. The purple Ecang is too big…
"In this period of time, which might last for a long time, but also might just be a short while, the nine wills will become a lurking threat. If they continue lingering around the area… I don't want to use my life as a gambling chip and bet that they won't come and devour me.
"Fortunately, I have the black stone fragment. This Seed of Life Extermination, which is what the purple Ecang called it, seems to be from the same generation as the bald crane based on what it said. That's why Ecang had mentioned an 'also' when it said those words previously.
"'Did it also fail..?'"
"The mysteries of the ancient time of Sui Chen Zi's era will slowly reveal themselves before me as I Possess the purple Ecang. At this moment, I no longer have the wills from Yin Death Region manipulating me, and I don't have Di Tian trying to control me and using me in his plan. From now on… I am me!
"The only thing I need to worry about… is that Di Tian will definitely not accept that his plan to lie in wait and steal an Abyss Builder's body had just failed like this. And since he can no longer control my soul, he will definitely choose to use his full strength to plant his back-up plan in my physical body, which is within the land of Immortals right now!
"He knows that my physical body is my foundation. In the end, I will have to return for it. If he keeps watch over it, he will be watching over my core.
"But… if my physical body is the core of my being, then it is also… Di Tian's life."
The current Su Ming was different from who he was in the past. He was now like a fish who had returned to the sea, a tiger who had returned to the forest, a dragon who had returned to the clouds. It was confidence and temperament that would naturally appear within a person after his fate was no longer controlled by someone else and he gained full control over his own self.
Only at that moment could Su Ming truly be considered as Su Ming.
As he mumbled softly to himself, a burst of light erupted forth from the black stone fragment with a bang in accordance to his will. It immediately manifested the purple Ecang's soul and presence to make up for what Su Ming had yet to complete in the third step of his Possession. When there were no longer any differences between his soul and the presence Ecang, Su Ming sent his divine thought outwards.
"There was a cultivator that wanted to Possess me and almost succeeded… but he still failed in the end. I… am still me. The promise we made with our souls is still in effect. Now… leave these one hundred thousand galaxies of mine! The time for when we finally devour and fuse with each other has yet to arrive!"
As Su Ming's divine thought and the presence of Ecang's soul which was formed by the black stone fragment spread out furiously, the nine wills formed from the portions of Ecang's soul that were lingering beyond Su Ming's one hundred thousand galaxies gradually faded away. After a moment, they disappeared from his perception.
As the nine wills of Ecang's soul faded away, the edges of the one hundred thousand galaxies where Su Ming were starting to show signs of merging together. They were gradually turning into one.
At the same time, the Ecang tree that had been separated into one hundred thousand parts also started showing signs of gathering together as the galaxies slowly merged together. Su Ming gradually fell into deep sleep.
"When I awaken once more, I can tell that this clone of mine will be even stronger. My level of cultivation base will surpass what I have now, and this Ecang clone of mine… will become the foundation for me to become the strongest in the future.
"I look forward… to how I will be different… when I wake up," Su Ming mumbled. All one hundred thousand of his faces slowly shut their eyes, and a fusion, a rebirth, a serendipity, and the final step of the formation for Ecang's clone began.
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Chapter 836: I Am the Master of This World
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Ten years later.
Ten years is not such a long time. In fact, for cultivators, who live for a long time, ten years are just a short period of meditation. They can squander away time wantonly, and it does not matter whether it is ten years, a hundred years, or even more.
This was something that was the source of envy for mortals. It was also something they longed for. Perhaps longevity was the desire that spurred an average person to dream of becoming a cultivator, but it was definitely not the reason for all to become cultivators.
Besides longevity, one of the reasons why a person would dream of becoming a cultivator was because they wanted to not idle away even as they squandered off time.
To an average person, ten years might not be their entire lifetime, but it would become a source of nostalgia. Ten years ago, perhaps there was still a person who kept them company. Ten years ago, that person was perhaps still an undecided young boy full of dreams. Ten years ago, that person perhaps still did not know how to treasure what was beside him. Ten years ago, that person perhaps was still laughing happily and foolishly without worry.
But ten years later...
That person would only look at the blue sky, the white clouds, the sun setting and rising, and he would sigh… In the end, he was still just a normal person.
Ten years could change a mortal, but it could not change too many cultivators. However, it could make a certain set of memories be gradually buried in a cultivator's heart, and like a zither string, if no hands went to pluck it and cause it to shiver, it would remain still and silent.
The shock within the land with the one hundred thousand stone monuments ten years ago was one such thing. It had turned into a thought buried deep within the hearts of the people there, and one that no one wanted to talk about. However, the thoughts that would gather in their eyes would occasionally make them warily cast their gazes at the stone monument standing erect among the many others in the place… a stone monument that was one million feet tall, and on which Mo Su's name was carved!
Ten years ago, ten thousand stone monuments out of one hundred thousand had shattered. Ten thousand out of one hundred thousand cultivators died. It shocked the entire foreign land, causing all the people to gasp in astonishment. While those emotions were buried in the depths of their hearts ten years later, Mo Su's stone monument was the only one that attracted gazes again and again.
Among those gazes were Zhou Kang's, those who came after Su Ming's life, and those who were in the land since before Su Ming came.
Perhaps they were not persistently waiting for him to appear. Perhaps they were not really that curious. However, even without any discussions, everyone was certain that the horror of the disaster ten years ago had a connection to Mo Su's stone monument.
They were instinctively waiting. Waiting for the moment Mo Su would appear after not showing up for ten years. Perhaps at that moment, they would be able to find the reason behind the disaster those years ago.
During the ten years, there were no longer any boundaries between the one hundred thousand galaxies in which the purple Ecang's bodies resided. They had fused together, but Su Ming's deep slumber continued, and he showed no signs of waking up.
Another ten years passed. The one hundred thousand galaxies had already fused together completely. The next step was to fuse the one hundred thousand hearts that had been dyed black.
While Su Ming slept for sixty years, the people within the land that now had just ninety thousand stone monuments gradually grew used to his stone monument standing erect by its lonesome. They got used to the master of the stone monument not walking out, used to the lack of the ten thousand monuments that had been destroyed.
In fact, during the sixty years, there were thousands of newcomers who had come to this place, and they did not know about the disaster sixty years ago. The first thing they saw then were the ninety thousand stone monuments, and they thus believed… that there had always been only ninety thousand stone monuments here.
During those years, the one hundred thousand galaxies had completely fused together in Su Ming's world and created an incredibly great galaxy. The one hundred thousand black hearts were also slowly merging together. They turned… into one single entity that floated within the gigantic galaxy.
However, Su Ming still remained in deep sleep, because what came next was the fusion between the one hundred thousand Ecang trees. The one hundred thousand purple Ecangs would gather together into one gigantic body.
Another sixty years went by. It was already one hundred and twenty years since then.
If ten years could turn something into a mere memory, then a hundred years could turn something into a legend. That was how it would be for a mortal. To cultivators, in this unique and dull land of ninety thousand stone monuments, the event one hundred years ago gradually faded away as they moved into the worlds in their stone monuments repeatedly, growing their stone monuments toward the one million feet.
There was nothing different about the place. Even though the one hundred thousand stone monuments had reduced to only ninety thousand, they still had the one million feet test, along with the trips into memories.
When another sixty years passed, there were only a handful of people that remembered Su Ming.
Zhou Kang was one of the few who did. He could not forget Su Ming, could not forget the person who loved to remain silent and had helped him to take his revenge in exchange for his experience.
When the end of the fourth cycle of sixty years arrived, two hundred and forty years had flowed by. In Su Ming's world… an incredibly huge tree that towered into the heavens had gathered in the vast galaxy.
The tree occupied most of the galaxy, and there was an ancient, age-old presence exuding from it. That tree was entirely purple, and it had an indescribable mighty pressure coming from it. It was the only true existence in the galaxy at that moment!
If anyone looked closely, a person would be vaguely able to see that there was a golden light within that purple tree. At first glance, it might seem purple, but in truth, it was a fusion between purple and gold.
The purple shade was its foundation, and the gold its essence!
At the instant the purple tree's body was completely formed, its purple light surged into the heavens. Once it illuminated the entire galaxy, its body… shrank!
This was not a simple shrinking in size, but a form of retraction. It was a rebirth, where the tree withered away, but not entirely. It was as if there was a life that was about to be born within the trunk. This was the birth of this life which needed the tree's nutrients. It would continuously gather them, and the tree would shrink.
This process lasted for sixty years!
From the time Su Ming fell asleep to this moment, five cycles of sixty years had passed. That was three hundred years. It was enough for all the people in the land with ninety thousand stone monuments to forget the disaster all those years ago, and also enough for the gazes that often landed on Su Ming's stone monument… to reduce to only one!
That gaze that constantly watched the stone monument belonged to Zhou Kang. During the three hundred years, he had managed to make his stone monument reach nine hundred thousand something feet multiple times. He took the test multiple times, but failed every single time. However, this was no longer the most important thing in his life. At that moment, he was still watching Su Ming's stone monument… because he wanted to verify whether his deceased wife's guess all those years ago had been true.
Because once he arrived at the later stage of World Plane Realm, he had long since understood that all the memories within the world of the stone monuments… were fake. It was something that belonged to the passage of time. His wife's guess… had to be real.
Su Ming was neither his friend nor his relative, but the path Su Ming took was given by Zhou Kang. The path he took was his wife's guess and her conclusion. Since his wife had died, this was the thing that supported Zhou Kang, the only thing that got him moving forward.
Another ten years went by.
When the three hundred and tenth year was almost completely gone, no one within the world of the ninety thousand stone monuments noticed a change in their worlds.
This change came from Su Ming's world. He had opened his eyes.
In that vast galaxy within Su Ming's world, the tree was no longer around. What existed at that moment was a young man with long black hair and black eyes!
His hair reached his feet, and his face was so pale that he looked sick. However, a vast amount of life force that could suffocate others rose up with a bang within the young man's body.
During the three hundred years, Su Ming had completed the third step of the Abyss Builders' Possession. He turned something decaying into something astonishing, and from the Ecang tree, he formed a clone that belonged to him!
This would be the first clone in the endless passage of time that was formed after Possessing an entity like Ecang within the entire universe. This clone was not within the laws of the universe. It surpassed them. This was… Su Ming's strongest clone.
This was Ecang's clone!
He opened his eyes.
At the instant Su Ming opened his eyes, the entire galaxy trembled, and as if it was submitting to him, an endless amount of cracks spread out. It was as if with just one thought, Su Ming could make this galaxy crumble and shatter.
There was an endless amount of golden light within his eyes, along with overlapping shadows of runic symbols in his right eye. These shadows replaced his pupils and exuded an indescribably mighty pressure. If anyone met his gaze at that moment, then right at that instant, a loud bang would rang out in their hearts, and their minds would be torn to shreds.
At the instant Su Ming's clone which had mastered a portion of Sui Chen Zi's Divine Essence and gathered together a portion of the complete Ecang's body was formed, he possessed a power that surpassed his imagination.
Perhaps more accurately speaking, this was no longer a power, but an instinct that allowed him to control Divine Essence.
"I don't know how strong this clone is, but I can feel… that I am the master of these one hundred thousand galaxies.
"Now, even those at the peak of the middle stage of World Plane Realm like Zhao Family's Progenitor appeared, no matter how many of them there were, I would be able to instantly wipe all of them away with this clone of mine.
"Perhaps I could even fight against the ancient wills within Yin Death Region! However, this is only my current self. I can sense it strongly, this body is still like that of a newborn. It is still growing up, and with each breath, it is getting stronger." As Su Ming whispered to himself, the golden light in his eyes became as bright as the sun.
"From now on, all the ninety thousand stone monuments in the world can never reach ten million feet. Their limit will be nine million feet… because the final one million feet of those ten million feet… shall eternally belong only to me!" A faint smile appeared on Su Ming's face. He lifted his right hand and swung it before him.
Immediately, a wave of distorted ripples appeared in the galaxy before him. Those ripples spread out swiftly, and after a moment, a body appeared within them that gradually floated towards Su Ming.
This was his Crimson Python Phoenix clone. It was also his first clone that acted as his physical body, which he used to train the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows Whole.
"Ecang's clone refines Divine Essence.
"The clone that trained in the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows Whole refines my physical body.
"My real self in the land of Immortals refines my soul.
"I need one more clone to refine my epiphany.
"Now, this clone that trained in the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows Whole should get stronger…" Golden light shone in Su Ming's eyes, and he pointed towards that clone with his right index finger.
"I am the master of this galaxy formed by the fusion of one hundred thousand galaxies. With a single thought, I'll have… this body become stronger," Su Ming whispered softly.
At the instant he finished speaking, a set of laws and rules immediately appeared in the vast galaxy, and all of them gathered on Su Ming's clone that trained in the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows Whole.
When Su Ming's clone opened his eyes, a burst of powerful presence erupted forth like a tidal wave.
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Chapter 837: Limit
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The clone that trained in the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows Whole which Su Ming had formed by Possessing the Crimson Python Phoenix had passed through the first disaster of the nine disasters that came with the Duke of Crimson Flame race's unparalleled Art for physical bodies. From then on, it had reached the level of a Paragon, and Su Ming had entered World Plane Realm with it.
However, that clone was just in the initial stage of World Plane Realm. He needed to devour more power of World Planes and survive through several more disasters before getting sufficiently stronger.
However, the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows Whole became increasingly more difficult to train the more one advanced through it, and before Su Ming stepped into Western Ring Nebula's foreign land, he had stopped devouring the power of World Planes, because once he reached the second state of completion, his soul would fuse completely with this physical body, removing the inborn talent of the Abyss Builders to make their clones from him.
His soul would not even be able to fuse with his real physical body in the land of Immortals.
Su Ming thought about it before. If he could not find a suitable being for Possession, then he would randomly choose one to Possess. After all, he could not let his cultivation stop because of this. Even if there were plenty of problems that would come if he chose randomly, he still had to do it.
Yet now, the matter that had him hesitating had been resolved perfectly. Even if his Ecang clone wasn't what he had originally intended to for a clone to gain an epiphany for his cultivation, the Divine Essence Ecang's body refined surpassed Su Ming's expectations and turned into a serendipity that could change his entire life.
It was especially since with this serendipity, he escaped from the control of the wills in Yin Death Region and the seal Di Tian had hidden deep within him. To Su Ming, this outcome was as great as him obtaining his Ecang clone.
Besides, once he obtained it, Su Ming could divide his soul. Because of it, he could be at complete ease when leaving a portion of his soul in the clone that trained in the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows Whole, allowing it to continue going through the nine disasters.
As these thoughts fleeted through Su Ming's mind, he looked at that clone, and the clone also looked back at him. As their gazes met each other, a feeling of perfect harmony rose within him.
This was a very mysterious feeling. It was as if a single being had two bodies. Perhaps this comparison was not really that accurate. At that moment, what Su Ming felt was that these two clones had turned into his left and right hands. His soul was his mind, and he could control them with ease. There was no lack of fluency in his movements.
"This clone should be stronger." When Su Ming mumbled this, the clone which trained in the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows opened his mouth and said the same things as Su Ming did.
Laws surrounded him, and rules filled the air. Upon the voicing of those words, a loud bang rang out in the galaxy. It echoed in all directions, and faint shadows of a planet appeared as the galaxy trembled.
That planet was golden in color.
Soon after, the second, third, fourth… and up to the one hundred thousandth planet appeared!
Once the one hundred thousand galaxies fused together, they had not just formed the purple Ecang. The one hundred thousand planets in the place had also gathered together, but they had not turned into one single planet. Instead, they turned into a golden cosmos formed by one hundred thousand planets.
The light from the cosmos shone endlessly, and there were hints of purple within that golden light. At the instant it illuminated the entire galaxy, Su Ming's Ecang clone casually swung his right hand before himself.
"Cosmos formed by one hundred thousand planets, the one hundred thousand planets that are the start of my cosmos… I will now awaken your Essence of the World." Right when Su Ming finished saying his final word, waves of presence that belonged to the Essence of Worlds erupted with a bang from the one hundred thousand planets.
Their presences fused together and spread all over the galaxy. At the instant they shook it, Su Ming spoke again.
"The power of World Planes shall be born within the Essence of Worlds!"
Boom!
A tremendous amount of power of World Planes erupted from the cosmos, and it was so dense that it could not be described with words. In an instant, it surged into Su Ming's clone which trained in the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows Whole.
As the power of World Planes gathered on him, the hair on that clone started moving without wind, and the powerful presence increased exponentially within that body.
Su Ming lifted his head and looked at the cosmos before looking down and mumbling under his breath, "Absorb at will. Now that I have become the master of one hundred thousand galaxies, from now on… I will not let anyone manipulate me."
His face was pale. The runic symbols overlapped in his right eye, which... had an air of ancientness to it.
Before him, as the presence of the clone that trained in the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows Whole continued rising without end and the power of World Planes born from the Essence of Worlds from the one hundred thousand planets continued fusing into him, the clone reached the second state of completion in the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows Whole.
'From now on, this clone will become my strongest body in terms of the power of Qi. If each of my clones can become the strongest, when I eventually fuse with all of them…' A glint appeared in Su Ming's eyes.
Boom!
Once the clone reached his second state of completion, he took a step forward. The second disaster descended on him, causing a faint wisp of a presence that did not belong to the one hundred thousand galaxies to immediately appear.
That presence which did not belong to Su Ming appeared from the clone that trained in the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows Whole. It was just like when he experienced the first disaster. Besides the final three disasters, the nine disasters from the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows Whole from the Duke of Crimson Flame's race were all born within the physical bodies, as if they were experiencing a backlash.
"Begone!" Su Ming's expression was indifferent as he spoke calmly. With that one word, the galaxy instantly distorted, and a tremendous will erupted from Su Ming's Ecang clone, sweeping towards the clone that trained in the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows Whole like a windstorm.
It only lasted for the span of one breath. At the instant this invisible windstorm that contained Su Ming's will touched the clone, the second disaster which had been born within the clone immediately fell apart, and the presence which did not belong in this galaxy disappeared like the wind.
When the second disaster vanished, the clone which trained in the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows Whole lifted his head and let out a low roar. As it echoed in space, he instantly rose from the initial stage of World Plane Realm to the peak of the initial stage, then straight towards attaining completion in the initial stage.
The increase of strength by multiple fold made the clone let out a long cry. It was a shout that shook the sky and earth. His hair fluttered in space, and during that instant, his body became much stronger than before.
When he clenched his fist, the feeling that he had full control was absolutely wonderful, and it was a feeling that could get people addicted.
This feeling of becoming stronger instantly, especially the exponential increase of levels within World Plane Realm would immediately fill any other person with surprised delight and excitement, but Su Ming's two clones only frowned at the same time.
'This was an incredibly dense power of World Planes, and based on what the Duke of Crimson Flame said when he taught me this Art, once I got through the second disaster, I should have reached the middle stage of World Plane Realm.
'And since the middle stage of World Plane Realm is much stronger than the initial stage of World Plane, that is why… I would need the third and fourth disasters before I could reach completion the middle stage of World Plane Realm.
'During the fifth disaster, I could reach the later stage of World Plane Realm, and when I reached the ninth disaster, I would attain completion in World Plane Realm. Once I fused the nine disasters in my body, I could form Lunar Kalpa and become a powerful warrior in Lunar Kalpa Realm.
'But now that I've completed the second disaster, I've only reached the peak of the initial stage in World Plane Realm. Something… is wrong here.'
A contemplative look appeared in the eyes of both Su Ming's clones. Once they exchanged glances, the Ecang clone sent his will outwards, and it immediately gathered on the clone that trained in the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows Whole. As he observed him carefully, he controlled the power of World Planes around him to surge into him once again.
As the clone absorbed the power, reaching the third state of completion, and Su Ming wiped off the third disaster, his clone became stronger once again. Booming sounds echoed in space nonstop, akin to a drum being struck within the clone, and he immediately moved from the peak of the initial stage in World Plane Realm to the middle stage of World Plane Realm!
The middle stage of World Plane Realm was completely different from the initial one. It was just like how Su Ming had been able to kill those in the initial stage of World Plane Realm in the past but was forced to flee when he came face to face against those in the middle stage. These were two completely different stages. In fact, it could even be said that only those in the middle stage of World Plane Realm could truly be considered Lords of World Planes, and only when they reached this stage could they treat those in Heaven Cultivation Realm like ants.
Su Ming might have become stronger, but his brows were still furrowed. After a moment of pensive silence, he gathered the power of World Planes from the one hundred thousand planets to come forth once more.
Time trickled by slowly. After an hour, the clone reached the fourth state of completion. Su Ming neutralized the fourth disaster, and his body became stronger once again. His presence became monstrous and shook the entire area. Several hours passed, and the fifth state of completion also arrived.
If the Duke of Crimson Flame was awake at that moment, then this training speed and increase in levels would have definitely shocked him so much that he would have been tongue-tied and staring at Su Ming, wide-eyed.
This was the right only possessed by those who controlled an entire galaxy.
As the fifth disaster disappeared, the strength of the physical body of the clone that trained in the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows Whole reached the stage that was near the peak of the middle stage of World Plane Realm. At this stage, if he returned to one thousand years ago, then with his Qi alone, he could fight against Zhao Family's Progenitor on equal grounds.
After all, Zhao Family's Progenitor was just at the peak of the middle stage in the World Plane Realm. However, this sort of power had allowed his family to become the third in Western Ring Nebula, and this was a show of how powerful he was.
'I knew it. Something is wrong. I would have let it slide if it was just the second disaster that was not as powerful as I thought, but this fifth disaster is supposed to have physical bodies reach the later stage of World Plane Realm, but it only managed to make this clone reach the state that is similar to the peak of the middle stage of World Plane Realm.
'Is this because this clone of mine is naturally powerful on its own, that's why the Art can't reach its ideal condition, or is it… because there is a flaw in this clone?'
Su Ming's eyes shone, and when he manipulated the power of World Planes to gather on the clone that trained in the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows Whole once again, he suddenly understood the answer.
Because his clone… could no longer absorb the power of World Planes. The fifth disaster was his limit.
'It's a flaw. It's the Crimson Python Phoenix's flaw.' Su Ming shook his head.
'All manner of lives in the universe have flaws, and we practice cultivation to mend those flaws… I don't know what are the flaws within the Crimson Python Phoenixes… but there will come a time when I will be able to mend it.'
Upon falling silent, Su Ming closed his eyes. The clone training in the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows Whole also closed his eyes.
"The third change of heart [1]… should end now," Su Ming mumbled. Thousands of years had flowed by. Age and nostalgia changed places with each other and turned into a thread in the depths of Su Ming's heart. This thread was like the first point he would make when he drew. And now… it had turned into a circle.
At the instant Su Ming's two clones closed their eyes, a world changing event occurred in the one hundred thousand planets in the cosmos.
Translator's Notes:
1. Third change of heart: The one Su Ming has to create grass knot dolls for.
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Chapter 838: One Hundred Thousand Stone Monuments
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A mountain appeared in each of the one hundred thousand planets within the cosmos during that instant.
That mountain was the ninth summit from Su Ming's memories.
When the one hundred thousand ninth summits were born within the one hundred thousand planets, the two Su Ming clones who had their eyes shut lifted their hands at the same time. Golden threads appeared out of thin air and surrounded the two clones. As Su Ming's two clones started weaving them at will, he… started tying knots on them to weave the people in his memories.
Without the will of Yin Death Region interfering, Su Ming regained his emotions and his ability to feel pain. He immersed himself in the process of weaving grass knots using Divine Essence as time passed, turning all the people in his memories that he could not forget into Divine Essence Dolls in his hands.
This was the third change of heart Su Ming had not been able to complete when he first arrived in Crimson Flame Planet. In truth, when he returned to the disaster of the ninth summit in the world within the stone monument and killed his mortal foes with his own hands, he could have completed the third change of heart at any time he wanted.
However, he had a burden in his heart, and it was the mask that was formed by Yin Death Region's wills. As long as that burden was not gotten rid of, it would be difficult for him to complete the third change of heart.
When the control of Yin Death Region's wills disappeared, the burden in Su Ming's heart disappeared as well. That was why when he closed his eyes, he began moving towards completing his change of heart.
The galaxy was silent. There was a smile on Su Ming's two clones. Those smiles were born of the joy found as he returned to his memories. He was immersed in this joy, or perhaps he was immersed in the feeling loss, the return of which brought him joy. With the method of tying grass knots, he was allowing himself to remember the past.
The change of heart this time did not shake the sky or earth, neither did it cause loud booms to ring in the air. There was only Su Ming, who with his one soul and two bodies, weaved dolls in silence with a smile that looked happy, but upon closer inspection was full of sadness.
The grief in his soul dyed his hands and fused with the golden grass knots, turning into dolls.
Divine Essence Dolls appeared one after another as years passed by.
Ten years later, at the moment Su Ming's two clones opened their eyes at the same time, tears fell from down his face, and the third change of heart… ended.
This change of heart was to Su Ming a way to get closure for all that had happened in the past, and it was also… a form of rebirth.
He weaved dolls for all the people in his memories. Every single person in his memories had one, but not him.
At the instant he opened his eyes, the grief in them gradually turned into dullness, having become something that he would cherish in the depths of his soul and an everlasting memory in the deepest recesses of his heart.
During that moment, his level of cultivation broke through the peak of Earth Cultivation Realm and he reached Heaven Cultivation Realm before he… attained completion, but that was no longer important. Su Ming looked at all the dolls in front of him, looked at the people with the presence based on his memories, and his expression became one of smiling and crying at the same time.
Each recollection of his memories as he went to the world in the stone monument time and again during those one thousand years was part of his third change of heart. Those recollections might have seemed scattered, but there was a single thread that connected them all together.
This thread was like a blade of grass, and the recollections were akin to him tying grass knots on that blade of grass. The start of the change of heart in Crimson Flame Planet was the first knot. The recollection of his memories during those thousand years were what formed the knots later on. Now, as Su Ming opened his eyes, he tied the final knot on the blade of grass that symbolized his change of heart.
At the instant he completed this seemingly disconnected third change of heart, the invisible blade of grass was woven into a doll that represented his change of heart. This doll was the doll that had been missing among all the dolls he'd woven during the ten years.
It was of himself.
After a long while, Su Ming closed his eyes once again. When he reopened them, there was only an ancient air to them, nothing more.
"It's time that I leave," Su Ming said softly. His Ecang clone took a step forward, but he did not leave this cosmos. Instead, he stepped into the one hundred thousand galaxies and sat down. At the instant he closed his eyes, his clone that practiced the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows Whole lifted his head and looked at the cosmos that was formed by one hundred thousand planets. A resolute look appeared in his eyes.
He gave up on the idea to have his Ecang clone leave this place.
In truth, Su Ming had been constantly pondering on whether he wanted to let his Ecang clone leave this place. Only at that moment did he make his decision.
The purple Ecang was only one of the ten parts of the real Ecang. It was incomplete. Even if it possessed the power to fight against Yin Death Region's wills, Su Ming had long since noticed that even though this clone of his would become stronger if he left Western Ring Nebula's foreign land, his cultivation speed would still be unable to compare to when he was in this place.
Compared to the world outside, this place was the safest and the most suitable place for him to grow. If Su Ming wanted to have his Ecang clone devour the other nine parts so that he would become complete, then having the clone stay in this place was the best choice.
If he left, there would still be some people who could suppress him. However, if Su Ming had enough time, then his Ecang clone would grow to a point where the universe would tremble before him.
Besides, if he left the clone in this place, then while it would be difficult for this Ecang clone to help Su Ming fight against those in Solar Kalpa Realm, he could use the power of Divine Essence in his soul to draw upon Divine Essence, which would increase Su Ming's power, and his clone that practiced the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows Whole would become much stronger.
As the Ecang clone became stronger, Su Ming would also become stronger in the world outside. Until he retrieved his real physical body, his Ecang clone would be his foundation.
That was why Su Ming used the power of the cosmos in this place and made his clone that practiced the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows Whole become stronger. Even if this clone had not reached the later stage of World Plane Realm, it had fused with Su Ming's power, and more importantly, once he activated the power of Divine Essence, Su Ming was confident that he could fight against those in the later stage of World Plane Realm.
Besides, if Su Ming ran into a life and death crisis that he could not escape from in the Barren Lands of Divine Essence, then his Ecang clone would be able to rush over in a short period of time due to his might.
Furthermore, as long as his Ecang clone stayed here, Western Ring Nebula's foreign land would be the safest place for Su Ming. He could even regard this place as a cave abode of his. Over here, Su Ming did not need to worry about any form of threats due to Sui Chen Zi's law.
However, if he chose to have his Ecang clone leave this place for a prolonged period of time, he would lose all the advantages of this place and the chance to make his Ecang clone become complete.
Su Ming made his choice to have his Ecang clone stay.
But besides this decision, there was another question that lay at the bottom of Su Ming's heart. It was also one of the reasons why he had decided to have his Ecang clone stay in this place. This question had stayed in Su Ming's heart for a long time.
'Western Ring Nebula's foreign land is rumored to be an incredibly dangerous place in the world outside. It is rare for anyone to be able to walk out once they enter it. This is… something almost every single person in the Barren Lands of Divine Essence knows.
'But… if they know about this, why did so many of them still come here during the past one thousand years. If it had been a few dozen or a few hundreds, I would have let it slide; I would even regard it as a personal choice.
'However, several tens of thousands of people have entered, so there must have been a reason for it. I don't even need to guess about it, though. The forces of power from the four Great True Worlds keeping a lookout on the barren lands must have offered a reward that tempted practically all the people. That was why there were so many people who were brave enough to enter this place. All of them were tempted by the possible gains.
'The forces of power from the four Great True Worlds must know more about Western Ring Nebula's foreign land than anyone else. Their action of offering a reward for people to come to this place for my life might seem reasonable, but in truth…' A cold glare appeared in Su Ming's eyes.
'Unless there is no one from the forces of power from the four Great True Worlds who knows about the secrets of the foreign land, but no, this is impossible. If I were them, then if I couldn't say the secrets of this place and really wanted to have me die, I would straight away enslave one hundred thousand cultivators and force them into the foreign land to force a complete exchange.
'In fact, if one hundred thousand people weren't enough, then they could send in two hundred thousand people, or three hundred thousand, or even more to ensure this exchange several times, and I would have certainly died!
'But they didn't. And I refuse to believe that they didn't think about this, and since that's the case…' Su Ming's eyes sparkled, and a cold sneer appeared on the corners of his lips.
'They don't want me dead. Instead, they want to create some false impressions. The goal of it is to…' Su Ming lifted his head and cast a glance at the spot where his Ecang clone was, then narrowed his eyes.
'It can be for this Ecang clone, but there are too many loopholes in this possibility. I can't be sure that they did it because of this. Besides, I only managed to succeed by the skin of my teeth. There's a high possibility they hadn't thought about this, but I have to be on guard against this as well.
'There's one more possibility… They wish for me to obtain the Divine Essence using the normal method to make the stone monument reach one million feet and obtain a small amount of Divine Essence as well as the chance to go out for one thousand years.
'Could it be that… there are benefits for a person if they kill someone with Divine Essence?'
After a moment of pensive silence, he pushed this question to the bottom of his heart, then averted his gaze from his Ecang clone. He took a step towards space, and his body gradually disappeared. As it did so, there was a flash of red that flew out and charged towards the one hundred thousand galaxies.
That was the small Candle Dragon which was made to stay in this place by Su Ming. This place possessed dense power of World Planes, and it could serve as nourishment for the small snake.
At the instant Su Ming's clone that practiced the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows Whole left the place, Su Ming's Ecang clone within the one hundred thousand galaxies opened his eyes.
"Since I chose to stay here, then there are certain things that I must do."
When the Ecang clone spoke flatly, the space behind him immediately distorted, and a colossal shadow of a purple tree manifested in space. It swayed a little, and ten thousand rays of purple light instantly spread out. Within an instant, those ten thousand rays of purple light spread in all directions before vanishing into the cosmos.
Once the Ecang clone did this, he shut his eyes again and began a long period of meditation.
During that moment, the world which had remained in the state of ninety thousand stone monuments for three hundred odd years suddenly saw ten thousand rays of light, and buzzing sounds instantly rang in the air.
All the people within the worlds of the ninety thousand stone monuments were forced out at that moment. For some, this was the first time they experienced this, but there were also quite a large number who experienced this for the second time. In the midst of their shock and astonishment, they could not help but remember the scene three hundred years ago, which had almost faded away from their memories.
As all the people were forced out, the ten thousand rays of purple light fused into the ground. The ground rumbled and shook, and ten thousand stone monuments rose up. The spots where those ten thousand stone monuments took place were precisely the ones from which they had disappeared three hundred years ago.
When those ten thousand stone monuments appeared, the number of stone monuments in the place returned to one hundred thousand!
The addition of those ten thousand stone monuments did not belong to Ecang or Sui Chen Zi, but… Su Ming!
These were Su Ming's stone monuments. All the people whose names would be carved onto those ten thousand stone monuments would have their lives controlled by Su Ming, and they would offer up all their time and power for Su Ming's Ecang clone to become stronger.
From then onwards, this scam within Western Ring Nebula's foreign land would have another person getting a piece from it.
At that moment, nearly ninety thousand people fell into dead silence. The various thoughts in the minds turned into shock, astonishment, and confusion. In fact, the breathing of some almost stilled as they looked at the new ten thousand stone monuments with a blank expression.
Only one person's expression was full of excitement. He did not look at the ten thousand stone monuments but towards the stone monument that belonged to Su Ming, which almost every single person had forgotten during these three hundred years. He looked at the stone monument, waiting for a certain person to appear.
Gradually, he saw a vortex took shape where Mo Su's name was carved, and a person walked out from that stone monument.
He had long gray hair, a straight back, a pale face, and almost bewitching runic symbols overlapping with each other in his right eye. This was… Su Ming's clone which practiced the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows Whole and which also possessed Ecang's Divine Essence!
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Chapter 839: Secret of the Stone Monument
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More accurately speaking, the rays of purple light that spread out from Su Ming's Ecang clone did not number ten thousand but 9,999. The one remaining ray of light was from Su Ming's stone monument.
As the number of stone monuments became the complete number of one hundred thousand once more and as the near ninety thousand people were in the midst of shock and deathly silence, more people noticed a vortex before Su Ming's stone monument and the powerful light that was gradually spreading out from within there. That light illuminated the entire world, causing all the people there to be unable to look away from it.
During that moment several tens of thousands of people had their gazes trained on the stone monument with Mo Su's name carved on it, Su Ming walked out, catching everyone's eyes.
His expression was indifferent as he walked out from the vortex in the stone monument. When he completely moved out, the vortex behind him disappeared, and Su Ming looked at the familiar land of the stone monuments. Hundreds of years had gone by in the blink of an eye to him, and he could only let out a sentimental sigh. Three hundred something years ago, he had brought with him an indomitable resolve in search for a serendipity, and several hundreds of years later, he returned, bringing with him a great serendipity and a miracle that changed his entire life.
Tens of thousands of gazes were trained on him, but they did not cause any fluctuation or any sort of emotion within Su Ming's heart. He swept his gaze across the area, the last spot being his own stone monument.
It was now one million feet tall as it stood erect among others of its kind. It looked normal, but in Su Ming's eyes, he could see Sui Chen Zi's law in the place. He could see the shadow formed by Sui Chen Zi's law in the air above the stone monument, and that shadow… was bowing to Su Ming at that moment.
He seemed to be congratulating him and waiting to be given orders. That action was one of obedience. He was obeying Sui Chen Zi's last order - to submit to the person who was chosen by the Art created by his one thought.
"What is the law set by Sui Chen Zi?" Su Ming sent his thoughts to the shadow.
"The first rule remains supreme. When not contradicting the first law, the law will protect and wipe out the people here. It will protect the people from being killed by Ecang's soul, and wipe out all those who go against the law." Sui Chen Zi's ancient voice traveled into Su Ming's mind.
"The first rule?" Su Ming seemed to have come to understand something.
"The first rule is that Ecang can use its Divine Essence as a price, and I will help it kill the people here. However, if the person it wants to kill is someone who had failed to Possess it, then no matter what price it wants to pay, it will not be allowed. The rule will allow this person to leave in his own way."
Su Ming nodded. He could discover some clues about this from how the purple Ecang had been unable to kill him previously. If there had been no rule, the purple Ecang could have had its will descend in this place and kill him off. It would not have needed to wait so passively.
He no longer inquired about Sui Chen Zi's laws, but instead looked at his stone monument. In his eyes, the monument was made of purple crystals, but since the surface was rough, no one could see it.
In fact, even if they used their divine essence to check it, they would be unable to find any hints about it. Only he, who had control over Divine Essence and had obtained an Ecang clone, becoming one of the people who could gain a share of the benefits here, could see the secrets of the stone monument at that moment.
"Is… that person… Mo Su?"
"He's the person we came here to capture alive. This is… He…" A buzzing gradually rose from the ninety thousand something people talking in the area.
"What happened just now? Why were we suddenly forced out of the world in the stone monument? Damn it, I was just about to reach a breakthrough! I was just one step away from it!"
"Three hundred years ago, a similar thing had happened. At that time, he was the only one who did not come out. Three hundred years later, the same thing repeats, but this time he emerges right after. I absolutely refuse to believe that he has no connection to this."
"Just what did this Mo Su do in the world of the stone monuments… He could make ten thousand stone monuments disappear, and could also make those ten thousand stone monuments appear again." The volume of discussions gradually increased, but Su Ming looked as if he could not hear any of it. He looked at his own stone monument and saw a purple leaf within the depths of it.
At the instant he the leaf, he understood. He shifted his gaze away and looked at the near ten thousand stone monuments that had just appeared in the area, and he saw that each of them were made of purple crystals, and there was a purple leaf within each one.
When he looked at the purple leaf, a feeling that he could blend perfectly with it rose within his heart, as if he only needed one thought, and those near ten thousand stone monuments would disappear. With one thought, he could also make those near ten thousand stone monuments reach one million feet.
In fact, when he closed his eyes, the near ten thousand stone monuments would become his eyes.
"I see, so it's like this," Su Ming whispered softly to himself. When he swept his gaze across the other ninety thousand stone monuments in the area, he nodded.
When he looked at the other ninety thousand stone monuments, he saw nine different colors. The number of stone monuments that belonged to each color was ten thousand. These stone monuments were all formed by crystals made by their respective colors, and within them was a leaf of the same color. [1]
When Su Ming saw all the stone monuments and swept his gaze past those tree leaves, wills that repelled his presence immediately spread out, blocking his gaze from looking at them. There were nine wills in total, and they all belonged to the nine different colored groups of stone monuments and their leaves.
A smile appeared on Su Ming's face. When he had Possessed the purple Ecang, he had always had a question in his heart as to why he was Possessing the purple Ecang.
Based on his understanding, the purple Ecang had the one hundred thousand stone monuments in this place. It was a test when they wanted to make their stone monuments reach one million feet. With this kind of understanding, he pondered over it for a long time, but could not find his answer.
As he came to the end of his train of thought, Su Ming realized that if this was the truly the case, then the purple Ecang was definitely the strongest among the ten souls, because it controlled the growth of all the stone monuments. Among the one hundred thousand people, there were about ninety thousand who were in its control.
When he was Possessing the purple Ecang, he saw it summon nearly ten thousand rays of purple light. Once he Possessed it, those scrambled memories surged into his mind. As he saw what really happened, he understood something.
His assumption before had been wrong.
The purple Ecang did not control the initial growth of those one hundred thousand stone monuments. In truth, it only controlled ten thousand. Ecang had ten souls, and each soul possessed ten thousand stone monuments. Only then could balance be maintained.
When Sui Chen Zi's law chose his stone monument for him, it was already purple. That was why… on the first day he arrived in the land of the stone monuments, he naturally became one of the ten thousand stone monuments the purple Ecang had.
Su Ming also realized that besides his, there was not a single stone monument that had surpassed one million feet in the area that was purple. Perhaps it was due to all ten thousand of the former purple stone monuments shattering three hundred something years ago, but Su Ming could remember clearly all the locations and names of the stone monuments which had surpassed one million feet when he first arrived in this place.
When he looked at them at the moment, he found that all of them were there, with not a single one added to the pile, and not a single one missing.
This gave rise to a question: Why had there not been a single person who had managed to make the purple stone monuments surpass one million feet since the time he had come to this place? Su Ming found his answer within the memories of his Ecang clone as well.
The person whose name was carved on the last purple stone monument that had surpassed one million feet had suddenly died in the world outside two thousand years ago, causing the stone monument to return to several tens of thousands of feet.
'By the looks of it… the purple Ecang had intentionally caused around a hundred stone monuments to reach nine hundred thousand something feet in one go that year to receive the test. It… must have panicked because no stone monument of one million feet had appeared, that was why it had intentionally made things easier.' Su Ming remembered the people whose stone monuments had grown to nine hundred thousand something feet during that time. Most of them should have been purple.
However, clearly, Zhou Kang's stone monument was not.
'These one hundred thousand stone monuments are divided into ten. The stone monuments of each color can reach up to ten million feet. Before I Possessed Ecang, I thought that there would no longer be any stone monuments that would reach ten million feet, because I alone have earned the right to ten million feet, but by the looks of it, my understanding was wrong.'
Su Ming shook his head. The memories within his Ecang clone were incredibly jumbled up, and he would need time until they fully fused into his mind. That was why he did not immediately seek to find his answers within.
'But this is even better. My Ecang clone will become even stronger with the help of the power of the ten thousand people, and I will kill all those whose stone monuments have surpassed one million feet in the world outside.
'If that is the case, I can prevent the growth of the stone monuments of the other colors, so only the ones that are purple will continuously become stronger, making it much easier for my Ecang clone to devour the other nine souls when the time comes.'
"Mo-Mo Su?"
While Su Ming was deep in thought, a voice tinged with uncertainty reached his ears.
At the sound of it, Su Ming looked over and saw Zhou Kang not too far in the distance. They had not seen each other for three hundred years. Zhou Kang did not look too different from before… but the ancient air around him was even stronger. When he saw Su Ming, excitement appeared on his face. This excitement was not due to him having a deep friendship with Su Ming, but because he obtained an answer - an answer that verified what his wife had said was right.
"Big brother Zhou." A smile appeared on Su Ming's face as he spoke amiably towards Zhou Kang.
"What happened? You… Why didn't you appear from the world in your stone monument for hundreds of years? Were the two abnormalities before and after because of you?
"Was-was my wife's guess correct?" Zhou Kang asked in excitement, his voice quivering. He longed to learn the answer. Even if that answer could not bring him freedom, it was the thing that had puzzled his wife all those years ago. Even if his wife had died, he still wanted to know.
Su Ming looked at Zhou Kang. If he had not told him of his experience in the past and his wife's guess, then there was a high possibility that Su Ming would not have taken the path of the Five Illusory Echelons.
If that had happened, then while Su Ming might still have chosen to Possess Ecang, the difficulty of the Possession would have been so high that it was very likely that he would have failed with the slightest mistake. In fact, if Su Ming was to Possess Ecang again, he was not entirely certain he would succeed.
Just as Su Ming was about to answer Zhou Kang's question, he suddenly frowned and lifted his head to look at the air above him.
At that moment, after a series of guesses and considerations, plenty of people from the ninety thousand something of those in the area became aware of who he was.
"You're Mo Su! The one who is wanted by the four Great True Worlds!"
"Damn it, it's you! If you didn't provoke the forces of power from the four Great True Worlds keeping a lookout on this place and had them place a bounty on your head, why would we come to this accursed place and lose our freedom?"
"Bastard, I might be unable to kill you here, but you also lost your freedom and can't go out. You will also have to face the possibility of being selected to die. I'd like to see just who among us will die first."
Sinister words instantly rose into the air. The cultivators who said these words were the ones who came to this place during the past three hundred years, and they knew that there was a rule here that forbade them from attacking. However, the grievances they had suffered during the past three hundred years made them immediately throw out scathing words once they recognized Su Ming.
Almost the moment those sinister words were spoken, booming sounds came from the air above. Hundreds of figures appeared at the same time, and as they descended to the place, their faces filled with different expressions of confusion, uncertainty, surprised delight, shock, and many other types of emotions.
These were newcomers, but Su Ming was not looking at them. He was still looking at the air.
Translator's Notes:
1. The matter of numbers: I wonder if any of you were confused as I was by the numbers when you first saw it and went back to compare with the final 'Ecang as His Clone' chapter. In any case, this is how I understand it. Ecang was split up into one million parts. It has 10 colors. Each color has 100,000 parts.
There are 10 foreign lands. 4 are in Sinful Barren Lands. The remaining 6 should be in Divine Essence Star Ocean. In each foreign land, there are 100,000 stone monuments. 10,000 belong to one color, so 10 colors x 10,000 stone monuments = 100,000. 100,000 stone monuments x 10 foreign lands = 1,000,000 stone monuments. By extension, it also means that 10,000 stone monuments of 1 color x 10 foreign lands = 100,000 stone monuments of 1 color.
I made this because I originally had the misconception that 1 foreign land belongs to just one Ecang of a single color, hence all 100,000 stone monuments belong to it, which is wrong.
And so, the 100,000 galaxies, planets, Ecang trees, venous pathways, and golden hearts from before were not from one foreign land, but was 10,000 worlds each from all 10 foreign lands.
Do keep in mind that this is my interpretation at the point I translated this chapter, and I might be wrong. I'm welcome to hear different views to the numbers.
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Chapter 840: Wiping Off
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"Bastard, if it wasn't because we can't attack in this place, then I would definitely kill you. You're the one who caused us to fall to such a state. You deserve to die!"
The ones who had thrown out biting and sinister words at Su Ming just now were looking at the hundreds of new people descending to the place with pleasure within them in regards to their misery. They continued venting out their frustrations with curses.
In this place where they were not allowed to fight back, besides using cruel words to curse others, there was no other way for them to vent their anger. Even if flinging verbal abuse brought no physical harm to others, if they did not do this, what else could they do?
"I curse you that your entire family dies! I curse you that your race will die a horrific death! I curse you that your lover will be abused by others! I curse you that your bloodline will end!!"
"That's right, everything is because of you, you damned bastard! If I get the chance to make my stone monument reach one million feet, I'll go and search for the people who are acquainted with you in the world outside during those one thousand years and kill all of them so that I can vent my hatred."
The voices rose and fell without stop. These people sounded as if they had descended into madness, and their verbal abuses grew stronger. The hundreds of years worth of oppression made it difficult for them to remain relaxed and calm. Once they witnessed the deaths of those in the area again and again, they placed the fault for all of this on Su Ming.
Su Ming looked as if he did not hear any of it. His indifferent expression caused the insults and curses to become even stronger. In fact, an even larger amount of people started throwing rebukes and slurs at Su Ming.
They wished that Su Ming would retaliate, because only then would they be able to find a hint of pleasure and be able to bury some of the despair they felt in this land.
They were pitiful people. Because if a cultivator was reduced to a state in which they could only shout and scream, it was certainly… a miserable thing.
In the mid of their slandering, Su Ming looked at the air calmly. At the instant the hundreds of newcomers descended in the place and their bodies landed on the ground, the hundreds of purple stone monuments in Su Ming's eyes started shining with a brilliant light.
Under that light, names started appearing on hundreds of stone monuments.
The light continued shining brightly, and those hundreds of stone monuments immediately rose. This was the initial increase of height based on the person's level of cultivation. As booming sounds reverberated in the air, one of the stone monuments among the hundreds of new ones reached thirty thousand something feet!
Most of the remaining ones were only twenty thousand something feet tall.
It was rare for a stone monument to start off at thirty thousand something feet in this place. Immediately, some of the people's gazes fixed on an old man.
The old man's face was gloomy as blood trickled out of the corners of his mouth. He wiped away the blood and quietly sat down to meditate. He completely ignored the gazes looking at him from the area. Instead, he lifted his head and looked at the air. A wave of killing intent as well as hatred showed up in the depths of his eyes.
'It's him.' Su Ming cast the old man a glance and smiled faintly.
"Peak of the middle stage of World Plane Realm!"
"This person is an old monster at the peak of the middle stage of World Plane Realm. By the looks, he's injured. Could it be that he came to this place to hide from his enemies?"
"Zhao Family's Progenitor! He's Zhao Family's Progenitor!"
"What happened outside during these hundreds of years? How could Zhao Family's Progenitor be forced to this place?"
In the mid of the people's shock, most of the hundreds of people besides the old man looked around them with complicated expressions. Once they saw the ninety thousand people in the place, they were first taken aback, but as they swept their gaze across the crowd, their eyes landed on Su Ming, and some of them immediately revealed surprised delight.
"Mo Su! He's Mo Su! I remember him! He hasn't changed at all during these thousand years! He's the Mo Su that can give us our freedom!"
A man with an incredibly hot temper lifted his head and laughed at the sky. Within an instant, he charged towards Su Ming. His movements were seen by the ninety thousand people in the place, and their gazes turned into ones of mockery and derision. Those were the expressions of people watching something for entertainment. They could already imagine the moment of the person's death.
"Mo Su!"
The man traveled incredibly quickly. He closed in on Su Ming in the blink of an eye, and as he laughed ferociously, he lifted his right hand. But just as his hand was about to strike, Su Ming averted his gaze from the air and cast him a flat look.
Just that one gaze alone instantly caused booming sounds that were akin to thunder exploding to rise in the man's heart. He had a strong feeling that while Su Ming's gaze seemed calm, it possessed a mighty pressure that he could not fight against.
This mighty pressure surpassed all manner of power and stood above all things. In fact, the man had the feeling that he had become a servant, and his life was in Su Ming's hands. With just one thought, he might be reduced to dust and vanish into thin air, no matter what cultivation he possessed.
The mighty pressure pressing down on his soul turned into a sharp pain that morphed into fear, and he shuddered in midair while letting out a shrill scream. His body plunged down, and as it swiftly withered away, his screams of pain echoed in the air, but he did not immediately die. Clearly, it Su Ming did not want to kill him.
This man was a person from a purple stone monument, and Su Ming… was the master of the purple stone monuments.
This scene immediately attracted the attention of the hundreds of newcomers. Their expressions changed, a telling sign that they were shocked and frightened by this scene. Even the gloomy looking Zhao Family's Progenitor instinctively cast a glance in that direction, noticing Su Ming.
At the instant he looked over, he recognized Su Ming. With a slightly complicated expression, he shook his head. Zhao Family's Progenitor looked away once again with a gloomy look, as if he was waiting for something.
Ignoring the screaming man, Su Ming looked at Zhou Kang and said softly, "Big brother Zhou, your wife's and your guess… was correct." Once Su Ming finished saying these words, he swept his gaze over the people who had been flinging verbal insults at him just now.
"You are pitiful," he said calmly. "If you want freedom, then I will give you freedom." He spoke in a relaxed manner, and as he did so, he lifted his right hand and pointed forward.
That finger was directed towards the old man who had cursed Su Ming's entire race.
The old man's lips curled up into a cold sneer. They could not attack each other in this place. If Mo Su dared attack him, then he would definitely die, so the old man was not frightened. Instead, as he laughed coldly, he continued speaking.
"Not only will I curse your entire race, I will also curse your…"
Before he could finish his sentence, his expression suddenly changed drastically. The instant Su Ming pointed at his body, he started disappearing, starting from his feet.
"This is impossible. You-you…" The old man's expression was filled with shock. Fear took root in his heart and body, but he could only speak up to that point. At that moment, his body swiftly turned into dust, as if his existence was forcefully wiped off.
"You too." Su Ming pointed again, and another cultivator that had thrown slanderous remarks just now was instantly reduced to ashes as he screamed shrilly.
This scene completely stunned all the people in the land. To them, this was a terrifying event, something past the boundaries of their imagination, since… Su Ming had killed, but he was not at all punished. This caused the people's fears to immediately become much greater.
"And you too." Su Ming lifted his finger and pointed once more. Immediately, another person disappeared with a shrill scream.
Because of that, a commotion instantly broke out in the land. As everyone moved back, the people who had cursed Su Ming just now immediately fell into madness. Some of them retreated, while others charged towards Su Ming with a glint in their eyes.
At that moment, a thought had risen in the hearts of all those rushing towards Su Ming. Could it be… that they could attack in this place now?
Yet at the instant they activated their divine abilities, a great will swept through the place. All those whose divine abilities landed on Su Ming were wiped off once that will swept past them.
Fear, shock, disbelief, and various other emotions rose within the hearts of the tens of thousands of people during that moment. They could not believe what they were seeing.
All those who had insulted Su Ming just now and had not died immediately entered the worlds in their stone monuments to hide. The fear in their hearts turned into despair, as well as surging hatred and terror. They could not understand why Su Ming could kill.
And… by the looks of it, he was not attacking with his power. Instead… the law in the land seemed to be obeying his words. As long as he wanted to kill, the law of the land would wipe off those he wanted dead.
At the moment Su Ming saw the people scattering and some of them reaching for their stone monuments, making it seem that it would be difficult for him to instantly kill all of them, Su Ming opened his mouth and said flatly, "Wipe them all off."
The shadow in the air which was formed by the law of the land and which could only be seen by Su Ming bent his back and bowed, then the will of the law immediately spread out. Shrill screams of pain traveled out of the mouths of all those who had insulted Su Ming. As their bodies were about to shatter, their expressions filled with fear and despair.
Suddenly, all the cultivators in the land felt their hearts shake. As their expressions changed drastically, nine wills with an ancient air and a boundless presence descended swiftly from the air.
Each of those nine wills were on equal grounds in terms of power with the purple Ecang, and that power was one that could instantly kill a person. With anger, the wills descended and rushed towards Su Ming.
These nine wills, these nine other souls from Ecang's body, sent out an intense wave of displeasure to Su Ming's soul in regards to him killing their tributes.
They had a promise between each other that they would not kill each other's tributes, or else there would no longer be any cultivators who would come to the place, and they would no longer obtain what was necessary for them to heal. That was why once Su Ming attacked and killed their tributes, they descended in indignation and started interrogating him.
"Why did you break our promise?!"
"Why did you kill our tributes?!"
"Purple, you have to give us an explanation!"
"Purple, they were my tributes, if you can't give me a satisfactory explanation, then even if I have to pay a price, I will make the law here kill several times the number of your tributes in retaliation of the number of my tributes you killed."
Su Ming did not back down a single inch in the face of the wrath from the nine wills in his soul. He instead sent his own will and had it crash against the nine wills.
"Your tributes offended me!" Su Ming's will did not compromise even the slightest. Instead, the voice from his will echoed unyieldingly in his soul.
The nine wills instantly stopped their interrogation, as if they were thinking about what Su Ming said.
"Should not those who offended us Ecang be killed?" Su Ming's will became even more fierce and unyielding. Several breaths later, the nine wills roared once again.
"They should be killed! Those who offend us Ecang should be killed!"
"I see, so that's how it is. Then they should die. They're only tributes, how dare they offend us Ecang?! They should die!"
As the nine wills roared, it did not matter whether the people who had thrown verbal abuses at Su Ming just now had scattered or entered the world in their stone monuments, they vanished without a trace while screaming shrilly.
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Chapter 841: Who Do You Think You Are?
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The fight and subsequent killing between life forms of the same level is known as robbing another's life. It is murder. The oppression of the strong towards the weak is something the strong bring with a presence that can change weather with just a flip of their hands. Their killing of the weak is known as granting others death.
As for… those that had surpassed the categories of life, their killing would be the will of heaven gathering its attention on ants. That could no longer be known as murder, not could it be known as granting someone death. This was purely wiping off someone's existence from the face of the world.
It was like how an artist drew on a drawing board. Within the picture were lives, and when the artist swiped their hand across the drawing board, the picture would be wiped off, and along with it, all the lives within it.
At that moment, the lingering cries from those who had already died still echoed in the ears of everyone within the land of the one hundred thousand stone monuments. Once they witnessed how Su Ming had casually swung his arm and caused the deaths of nearly a hundred people, the idea of these people being wiped off rose in all their heads.
Fear, anxiety, panic, shock, and various other emotions turned into a suffocating feeling, causing the world of the one hundred thousand stone monument to turn deathly silent at that instant. Almost all the people instinctively looked towards Su Ming, including Zhou Kang, and their gazes were filled with deep reverence.
How could they not be able to tell that the laws of Sui Chen Zi in this land were obeying Su Ming?
How could they not be able to tell that not only were Sui Chen Zi's laws obeying him, it could even be said that there was a special connection between them?
If someone had control over the laws in the world of the one hundred thousand stone monuments, then that person would be someone that no one dared to provoke, because he could determine a person's life and death.
In fact, if Su Ming wanted to, he could make Sui Chen Zi's law immediately kill all the people here. However, by doing so, he would completely break ties with the nine Ecang souls. From then on, they would be greatly averse to his presence, and the nine souls would also be wary of him. If Su Ming wanted to devour them in the future, it would be incredibly difficult.
Besides, if Su Ming wiped off the existences of all the people here, then there was a possibility that the nine Ecang souls would even work together to resist him. There would be more losses compared to benefits in this matter. That was why even if the temptation was incredibly great, Su Ming did not choose such an extreme method.
Furthermore, the law in the land was set to protect people, not only kill them. If Su Ming brought up this kind of request, perhaps the law would remain silent. After all, Sui Chen Zi's law was obeying Su Ming because what he was doing was within what was allowed. Until… Su Ming's power could set a new law in this place.
Su Ming remained calm. Taking away nearly a hundred people's lives seemed to be completely insignificant to him. He did not bother about whether these people had truly died. To him, this was not important.
What was important was that these people whose existences were wiped off had come to this place to kill him because of the rewards offered by the four Great True Worlds. But besides that, they had cursed him.
Because of that, they lost the right to continue living and obtained freedom, the kind Su Ming gave to them. They no longer needed to eternally sink into the worlds within the stone monuments in the land.
As the people around looked at Su Ming with respect in their eyes, he lifted his head and swept his gaze past them. All those who met his gaze would feel their hearts shudder. It did not matter what level of cultivation they had, as long as they were a person in this land, they would instinctively lower their heads, not daring to meet Su Ming's gaze, to incite his wrath.
Su Ming swept his gaze around the area, and paused for a moment on Zhou Kang. He had previously seen that Zhou Kang's stone monument was blue.
In the end, Su Ming's gaze landed on the man who was still twitching on the ground. This person only had a breath left in his body, and his body was already as thin as a skeleton, even though he was not screaming in pain.
This man was the first person who had attacked Su Ming, and his stone monument was purple. If Su Ming wanted to kill him, he did not need to make any sort of explanations to the nine Ecang souls, because this man was Su Ming's tribute.
"Since you must have experienced a lot of difficulties in walking down the path of cultivation and you are my tribute, I will spare you," Su Ming said flatly and swung his right hand. Immediately, the man who had been shivering and twitching on the ground stopped trembling. Once he recovered his consciousness, he stood up with great difficulty. His fear towards Su Ming reached extreme heights, and he quickly wrapped his fist in his palm to bow deeply towards Su Ming.
The word tribute fell into his ears and also entered the minds of all the others in the area, turning into surprise and bewilderment.
"The hundreds of you are all my tributes." As Su Ming spoke flatly, he walked forward. When he arrived next to the man, the person put on a look of reverence and followed after.
When Su Ming arrived before the hundreds of newcomers, he did not stop, but a mighty pressure that only those hundreds of people could notice spread out from his body.
This mighty pressure was like the might of heaven itself to these hundreds of cultivators. At the instant they sensed it, their hearts trembled furiously, and a feeling as if Su Ming controlled their lives and deaths rose strongly in their hearts.
This feeling was incredibly real, and they discovered to their shock that their heartbeats were beating at the same rate, and this heartbeat belonged to Su Ming.
If Su Ming's heart beat once, then their hearts would also beat once. This strange event caused the hundreds of people to move back altogether as Su Ming walked towards them. In fact, a few dozen of them even had loud booming sounds ringing in their minds as their faces turned pale. The mighty pressure spreading out from Su Ming's soul caused their minds to feel as if they were about to break. It was as if there was a powerful will in their minds at that moment, and it was forcing them to kneel towards Su Ming, who was walking over.
It felt like if they did not kneel and worship him, they would be destroyed. If they did not worship him, their souls would no longer be in their control. One of the young men fell down to his knees with a thump as his body shivered, becoming the second person after the big man who had attacked Su Ming just now to kneel and worship him.
Soon after, the second, third, fourth… When Su Ming walked over, these hundreds of people fell to their knees and worshiped him. When Su Ming arrived before Zhao Family's Progenitor, the hundreds of people around the purple stone were all kneeling.
Zhao Family's Progenitor had long since averted his gaze from the air above him and focused his attention on Su Ming. As Su Ming walked over and the hundreds of people knelt down to worship him, the mighty pressure pressing down on his mind caused his breathing to quicken, the veins on his face to pop up, and sweat cover his entire body.
He was fighting against the will in his body, fighting against his own soul. As Zhao Family's Progenitor, he would definitely not kneel down to anyone, but the strength of the will in his body was a form of suppression that was born from the soul, not from cultivation bases, so Zhao Family's Progenitor could only tremble furiously while letting out low roars.
"We meet again," Su Ming said calmly, coming to a stop before Zhao Family's Progenitor.
Zhao Family's Progenitor did not say a single word, because he could not speak at that moment. All his strength was used to fight against the power in his soul. The moment he laxed his guard, he would immediately be unable to control his body and he would kneel.
This was only secondary though, because even if Su Ming made him kneel, he was only making his body kneel. What truly made Zhao Family's Progenitor afraid and had him regretting stepping into the foreign land in order to avoid being killed was because he could sense that he fought against his own soul. He discovered that not only his mind and spirit were afraid of Su Ming, but he also respected him. In fact, there was even an intention within him to submit to him, and it was one he could not fight against.
This was not just a feeling from his body, but something that came from his soul and his mind. It was as if after he stepped into the foreign land, a person had showed up to take control of his life, and he now had a master.
Su Ming did not speak again. He simply stood before Zhao Family's Progenitor quietly. The hundreds of people worshiping him around caused the tens of thousands of people standing at the edges of the group to find their jaws falling slack in shock once they witnessed this.
At that moment, the one word Su Ming said just now rose in their heads.
"Tribute."
'Just what serendipity did he receive in the stone monument's world? How can he… How can he be so strong?!'
'Even the laws are obeying him. The land of the stone monuments also experienced two abnormalities. This must be the reason why he could become so strong!'
'Just what did he do? What did he receive? Why are those hundreds of people worshiping him… Could it be… that he became the law?'
'Even if his stone monument reached one million feet and he gained control of a portion of Divine Essence's power, I don't remember anyone who could compare to him among all the people who made their stone monuments reach one million feet over the course of time.
'In fact, forget one million feet. Even those who made their stone monuments reach two, three or even more million feet could not do this.'
There was no buzz of discussion, but these thoughts were part of everyone as expressions of respect appeared on their faces. As they kept thinking about it, their minds turned into windstorms of various thoughts and feelings.
Zhao Family's Progenitor's body was drenched in sweat. He shivered even more violently, and blood capillaries filled the whites of his eyes. As despair appeared on his face, he… slowly knelt down. When his knees touched the ground, he worshiped Su Ming, just like all the others around him.
Almost at the instant Zhao Family's Progenitor knelt down and worshiped Su Ming, loud bangs rang out above, and a large crack tore through the air. A long string of laughter echoed in the air, and a person walked out from the crack.
"A thousand years have passed, and I've returned to this place. Zhao Tian Gang, you old bastard, did you think that if you escaped here, you'd find the reason why I became stronger?! I'll tell you the truth, my real goal was to force you into this land!
"I will cause you to sink endlessly into nothingness. I will make you suffer the pain I endured after you forced me into this place. I've already granted death to thousands of those in your family. Don't worry. When my stone monument reaches two million feet, I will venture out for a thousand years again, and I will slaughter the rest of your family." As the long string of laughter echoed in the air, all the people noticed an old man in a long blue robe walking out from the air.
"A person with a stone monument of one million feet! This person… is Gong Sun Yin!"
"It's him. It's Gong Sun Yin. He left this place a thousand years ago, and now he's back." Some of the people in the area immediately recognized the old man.
The old man was ugly, and his hair was a mess, but he had reached the later stage of World Plane Realm. He was walking forward with an arrogant look on his face, but when he saw Zhao Family's Progenitor kneeling before Su Ming, his voice died away, and a surprised look appeared on his face.
Zhao Family's Progenitor remained silent. The long string of laughter and the voice in his ears made him lower his head. A wave of complicated feelings he could not describe turned into desolation and anguish in his heart.
He did not lift his head to look at his enemy who had killed most of his family members and forced him to step into the foreign land to hide, because at the moment he knelt down, he had already sunk into despair.
Su Ming lifted his head.
"Only I alone am allowed to rebuke my tributes, who do you think you are?" Su Ming said flatly.
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Chapter 842: Leaving the Foreign Land
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Once Su Ming said those words, Zhao Family's Progenitor shuddered before him. He lifted his head swiftly and looked at over blankly. No matter what, he did not expect that Su Ming would speak up to help him.
Su Ming's strength was incredibly mysterious to Zhao Family's Progenitor. He did not know what the other had experienced, but when he saw how he swung his hand and caused the deaths of nearly one hundred people and how hundreds of people, including himself, had knelt down and worshiped him as he walked towards them, his mind was left in confusion.
The submission of his soul terrified Zhao Family's Progenitor, and at the same time, an indescribable respect towards Su Ming rose within him. In fact, from all the other people's gazes around him, he could tell that someone like Su Ming had never appeared in Western Ring Nebula's foreign land from what these tens of thousands of people could remember.
What caused him to be apprehensive just now was that he could faintly sense with his level of cultivation that Sui Chen Zi's law had truly obeyed Su Ming's command when he waved his hand.
All of this was a clear sign that Su Ming was an unusual existence in this place.
Almost the instant Su Ming said his words, the tens of thousands of people in the area fell into a dead silence. They quickly lowered their heads. Everything that Su Ming had showed just now had already caused their hearts to be in shock, and as Su Ming's words echoed in the air, they had no choice but to be silent.
The crowd's silence brought a mysterious atmosphere to the place. Gong Sun Yin was momentarily stunned as he stood in the air, but after he recovered, he looked at Su Ming.
His pupils shrank. He had not returned to this place for a thousand years. When he returned now, he had felt that there was something incredibly off. The first thing was the sight of the hundreds of people kneeling and worshiping somebody. During the years he had been in this place, he had never seen anything like it.
The second thing was how that simple sentence from the person who was being worshiped by the hundreds of people had caused tens of thousands of people to fall silent, and none of them even dared to lift their heads. All of them did not dare to speak, and this caused Gong Sun Yin's heart to let out a thump.
He had a feeling that something very bad was about to happen.
'Just what happened here during the one thousand years I was gone? This person… I've never seen him before. He must be someone who arrived after I left.'
A glint shone in Gong Sun Yin's eyes. His ability to reach the later stage of World Plane Realm might be related to this place, but his intelligence was definitely nothing ordinary as well. At that moment, an amiable smile appeared on his face, and he nodded towards Su Ming.
"Brother, how may I address you? My name is Gong Sun Yin, and in this place, my stone monument has reached one million feet—"
Su Ming cut off Gong Sun Yin's words and flatly repeated again, "I'm asking you, who do you think you are?"
Su Ming's brusque words immediately caused killing intent to shine in Gong Sun Yin's eyes. Ever since he reached the later stage of World Plane Realm, he hadn't met anyone who would dare speak to him in this manner. He let out a cold harrumph, and the killing intent in his eyes became greater. As he stared at Su Ming, his lips curled up into a smile, but it did not reach his eyes.
"Ever since my stone monument reached one million feet, you are the first person who dared speak to me in such a manner. Looks like leaving this place for one thousand years has caused the newcomers to forget my reputation.
"Oh well, I won't punish you too greatly, but I will have you know that the ones who have made their stone monuments reach one million feet are the people who are primarily selected by the Divine Essence in this place. We are not people newcomers like you can easily provoke!" Gong Sun Yin sneered and lifted his right hand swiftly before pointing towards the ground.
"Come forth, my stone monument!" At the instant he spoke, a stone monument that was one million feet tall let out booming sounds and floated up from the ground before it went to him.
Gong Sun Yin's name was carved clearly on the one million feet tall stone monument. It was huge and stretched out boundlessly. At that moment, once it floated up, the expressions of the people in the area changed.
"This is one of the divine abilities which is granted to those who are primarily selected. They can push down other people's stone monuments and make them shrink!"
"That's right. That's the divine ability that only those chosen can obtain. I've seen one of the stone monuments from one of those chosen pushing down a nine hundred thousand something feet stone monument to instantly become merely tens of thousands of feet tall, causing the hard work worth dozens of years to be gone just like that. If that person had not immediately begged for mercy, as long as that chosen he offended remained in the place, he would never be able to make his stone monument reach one million feet."
"Gong Sun Yin is one of those chosen, and Mo Su has a lot of mysterious secrets surrounding him. His stone monument is also one million feet. I wonder what will happen if the two of them fight each other."
The buzz of discussions instantly rose in the area. Light from Gong Sun Yin's stone monument shone far and wide, and as it spread out in the land, all the stone monuments immediately became blurry, with only Su Ming's stone monument alone remaining as distinct as ever.
This was the effect of the divine ability of those primarily chosen. It could allow them to automatically find the stone monument that belonged to the person they wanted without the use of divine sense, and at the instant Su Ming's stone monument appeared, Gong Sun Yin frowned.
Su Ming's stone monument was also one million feet tall.
Gong Sun Yin laughed coldly in his heart. Even if both their stone monuments were one million feet tall, his own had been at that height since one thousand years ago, while it was clear that Su Ming's had only reached one million feet after his. If that was the case, he could still push down Su Ming's stone monument slightly. The effect might be nothing extraordinary, but it could still shock the other.
"Push it down." Gong Sun Yin let out a cold harrumph, and his stone monument immediately rushed towards Su Ming's to press down on it.
Su Ming's expression remained as calm as ever as the stone monument pushed down on his own. There was not a hint of change that could be detected on his face. In fact, it was the same for his stone monument. However… at the instant Gong Sun Yin's stone monument pushed down, it immediately started cracking from the bottom, and with a bang, it even began showing signs of crumbling.
This scene immediately caused an uproar in the area. It also made Gong Sun Yin's expression change drastically. He quickly controlled his stone monument and lifted it. Then, with an expression as if he had just seen a ghost, he looked towards Su Ming.
Within Su Ming's eyes, Gong Sun Yin's stone monument was blue. He was a tribute of the blue Ecang. There were ten thousand such stone monuments in this place.
If they were in the world outside, then in the face of this old monster in the later stage of World Plane Realm, Su Ming would need to use his power to fight against him, but here, he did not need to do that. He lifted his right hand and pointed towards Gong Sun Yin's stone monument.
With this move, booming sounds echoed in the air. During that instant, the signs of shattering on Gong Sun Yin's stone monument became even more intense. Cracks appeared like hideous scars, and Gong Sun Yin's expression changed to reveal great shock. He immediately became alarmed.
The damage against stone monuments could directly affect a person's soul, so how could he not be afraid of it?
"No! Damn it, how dare you damage my stone monument?! If you can use the divine abilities of those primarily chosen, then I can, too!"
It was clear that Gong Sun Yin had misunderstood. Su Ming had activated the law in the land with that pointing of his finger. However, as a primarily chosen, Gong Sun Yin had thought of another unique ability that belonged to people such as him.
"Master! I, Gong Sun Yin, beg of you to descend to this place! Please lend me the power of the law here and protect my stone monument as well as suppress this person!"
Gong Sun Yin let out a low growl. When his stone monument had reached one million feet all those years ago and he became one of the primarily chosen, he had seen a ray of blue light that stretched endlessly. The strength of that blue light was so great that it could destroy him with just one thought.
In fact, the blue light had given him a feeling that his soul had submitted to it, as if it was his master, and his master had granted him the unique Arts given to those who were primarily chosen. He could use his stone monument to push down other people's monuments, and he was also given the right to summon his master thrice. Every single time he summoned his master, he could implore his master to help him do one thing.
This was the second time he used this right. The first time was before he left this place. He had summoned his master's will to descend to this place and open up space so that he could leave for one thousand years.
This might seem like one thousand years of freedom to others, but to those who were primarily chosen, they knew that this freedom was given to them in the form of an exchange… and the longest possible time they were allowed out was only one thousand years. After that, they could no longer make that request again.
Right then, at the instant he said those words, he had great confidence that his master's will was the strongest here and could affect the laws as well as change everything. That was a strength that he had never seen before in his life. As his master's will descended, he could definitely make this junior take a good look and make him know that provoking those who are primarily chosen was the biggest mistake in one's life!
He could even imagine how this junior's expression would change drastically after a moment. He would scream shrilly and would kneel down to plead for mercy before him.
He could also use this chance to strike a heavy blow to Zhao Tian Gang's confidence, sinking him into greater despair and having him taste the pain he had suffered all those years ago.
A cruel smile appeared on Gong Sun Yin's lips. He looked at Su Ming, who still looked as calm as ever, and his smile turned into a sneer filled with derision.
Almost at the instant that sneer appeared, he sensed the familiar presence of his master's will descending in its greatness to this place with a loud boom. Within an instant, it filled the area above his stone monument… but the shattering of his stone monument… still continued!
It might have become much slower, but it continued, as if even his master could not completely prevent his stone monument from crumbling further.
Gong Sun Yin's expression immediately changed. This surpassed his expectations and his mind instantly turn black, but he still had a stroke of luck.
"Purple!"
A dignified voice echoed in Gong Sun Yin's soul. He immediately recognized that this was his master's voice, but it was not directed to him. He could only hear it. At the instant he was taken aback by that one word, he heard another voice.
"Blue."
He was familiar with this voice. It belonged to that young man that was worshiped by hundreds of people, including Zhao Family's Progenitor, and who Gong Sun Yin had just mocked, prepared to teach him a lesson.
"This person is my primarily chosen tribute, could you spare him this once?" His master's divine thought reverberated in the air. This was a voice that only Gong Sun Yin could hear among all the others in the land, because the blue Ecang's will was summoned by him to this place.
However, what left Gong Sun Yin in shock and disbelief was that his master's voice was speaking to Su Ming with a tone as if he was negotiating with him. This made his heart tremble furiously and his breathing almost froze. He did not know just what sort of existence he had provoked that even his master would need to negotiate with it.
"Let your tribute Zhou Kang leave your stone monument and become my tribute."
Su Ming's divine thought traveled forth flatly, but in Gong Sun Yin's ears, this was a tone which placed itself on completely equal terms with his master. Once he remembered how his master's will had spoken with a negotiating tone, a frightening through rose in Gong Sun Yin's mind. This speculation made his heart quiver, and when he looked towards Su Ming, his expression was filled with utmost shock.
This scene was filled with a bizarre air to all the others in the area who saw this, because they could only see Gong Sun Yin stunned in midair, his face filled with shock and terror.
"Very well." The blue Ecang's will did not hesitate and agreed to it.
"This person can be spared from death, but he cannot escape being punished. To show that all of us ten souls are equal, he should sink into the ranks of those who are not chosen once again to serve as a warning to others."
"Very well, but you are not to find an excuse and cause my tributes to disrespect you again."
"All right."
The blue Ecang's will retreated, and Su Ming's will also faded away. During that instant, Gong Sun Yin's stone monument shrank rapidly, eventually turning to only thirty thousand something feet before it fell on the ground once again.
This scene immediately stirred up great commotion among the people.
"A stone monument of a primarily chosen… has shrank to only tens of thousands of feet!"
"Gong Sun Yin's right as a primarily chosen has been cancelled. This is… How could this be? Could it be because he provoked Mo Su? How could this Mo Su be so strong? I remember that he was the same as us in the past!"
"Just what sort of serendipity did Mo Su obtain? Could it be… could it be..?"
"We absolutely cannot provoke this sort of person. This sort of existence is someone that no one can dominate!"
"I remember that he entered the world in the stone monument through the Five Illusory Echelons in the beginning. Could it be that those who enter the stone monument through the Five Illusory Echelons become this strong in the future? But in the past, there had been quite a few who entered the stone monuments through the path of the Five Illusory Echelons… and no one was like this."
At this moment, the color of Zhou Kang's stone monument changed abruptly, turning purple, while one empty stone monument out of the ten thousand that belonged to Su Ming also turned blue.
However, this was something no one could see. In fact, not even Zhou Kang himself noticed this.
Gong Sun Yin's face turned pale, and as his body trembled, he fell to the ground. He looked at Su Ming, and the terror in his heart could no longer be described with words. At that moment, he was already certain that Su Ming was an existence that was the same as his master. In fact… Su Ming was no longer a cultivator, but a part of this foreign land.
He did not dare provoke such an existence, much less grumble or complain.
"Sir Purple, thank you for sparing my life."
As Gong Sun Yin said these words, the buzz of discussion in the area became even stronger. Su Ming ignored Gong Sun Yin, as well as Zhao Family's Progenitor, who was by his side and was shocked by this scene. Instead, he looked towards Zhou Kang, who was staring at him with a bewildered expression.
"Big brother Zhou, do you want to leave this place?"
"Can… I leave?" Zhou Kang lifted his head with a dazed expression and looked at Su Ming.
"As long as you want to."
"Can she… be revived?" Great hope appeared in Zhou Kang's dazed eyes.
Su Ming fell silent, then shook his head.
"I'll stay here."
Zhou Kang laughed brokenly, as if he had lost his soul. He knew that if he left this place, he would never be able to see his wife again, but in this place, at the very least… he had the memories in the world of the stone monument to keep him company, even though he knew that the person within them was just a recollection.
Su Ming sighed softly. The figures of several women appeared in his mind. After a long while, he shook his head. He respected Zhou Kang's loyal love for his wife, but in this world, besides romantic love, there were other forms of love that needed to be protected.
As he turned around, he lifted his right hand and tapped the unresisting Zhao Family's Progenitor between the brows. The memories of the past one thousand years appeared in his mind, and once Su Ming scanned through the changes in the world outside, he pulled back his finger and swung his arm at his stone monument.
Immediately, the words Mo Su gradually disappeared from the stone monument that belonged to him. The one million feet tall stone monument also instantly started shrinking, eventually turning to an empty one that was only several tens of thousands of feet tall.
Su Ming no longer needed a stone monument.
The people could not understand this. They could only remain silent and in shock. The only person who understood this was Gong Sun Yin. At the instant he saw this scene, he completely understood what was going on.
'As expected… he is the same as my master. He's not a candidate, but has become an existence that chooses others.'
Su Ming cast one look at Zhou Kang, then turned around to take a step into the air. Under the gazes of the tens of thousands of people in the area, he stepped into space and gradually fused into it before he left.
At this time, Su Ming's voice echoed within the minds of the hundreds of people with the purple stone monuments, including Zhao Tian Gang's.
"I am the will of the land. All of you, train here and try to gain your epiphany in this place. I promise you, when the day comes that I complete my Dao, all of you will be completely free."
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Chapter 843: Kong Huan
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In the Sinful Barren Lands, within the four Great Galaxies, at the core beyond Western Ring Nebula, beyond its foreign lands, cracks filled the endless galaxy. The area was filled with silence. Not too far away from the foreign land's area was a gigantic ancient bronze sword floating about. That sword was thirty thousand something feet long, and it remained still and unmoving in the galaxy.
There were three people sitting on the tip of the sword. One of them was an old man, the other middle-aged, and the last a teenage boy. The three of them were just sitting there, but their presence already made the galaxy around them to distort, a telling sign of how extraordinary their power was.
All of them were in the middle stage of World Plane Realm, and they were the True Guards that belonged to the forces of power from the four Great True Worlds keeping a lookout over the barren lands.
Behind them, on the huge blade of the ancient sword, were three hundred people in black armor, who were sitting quietly and meditating. Their eyes were shut tight, and the still presence spreading out from them made them seem dead.
In the silence, the middle-aged man said slowly with a slight displeasure on his face, "So many years have passed. Isn't Lord Vice General just making a big fuss over this. There's absolutely no meaning in changing shifts once every two hundred years to monitor this place."
"There must be a reason why Lord Vice General did this. After all, that Mo Su caused quite a ruckus in the past." The person who answered the man was the old man beside him, and his words were unhurried. The old man was dressed in a white robe, and his white hair fell on his shoulders. He did not look to excited, though.
"What other reason could there be? That Mo Su is just a cultivator at the initial stage of World Plane Realm. It was difficult to kill him because he was hard to track down. If that had not been the case, I could have easily killed him.
"He must have already died after he fled into the foreign lands, and he's causing trouble to us by making us suffer and wait here. We still have about fifty something years before someone will take our place." The man shook his head and cast his gaze on the boy who was seated right before them.
"Kong Huan, you are the third sword attendant of our Lord Vice General. What do you think?"
"You're very noisy," the boy named Kong Huan replied flatly with eyes closed. There was a green sword placed on his knees, and he had his hands pressed flat on its blade.
The man was not angered, but as he laughed heartily, a hint of derision flashed in the depths of his eyes. Lord Vice General had nine sword attendants, but only Kong Huan was tasked to monitor this place over the past thousand years. No one else came to take his place. Every single time there was a change in shifts, only the True Guards would be changed.
In his mind, the middle-aged man believed that Lord Vice General was not fond of Kong Huan, and this was just another form of banishment.
After all, this place was barren of resources, making it difficult for one's cultivation base to grow and improve. It was a big difference from training within the place where the forces of power were stationed. Over there, their level of cultivation would be able to increase by a large margin within a thousand years.
As the three people exchanged this meaningless talk, they did not notice a person standing before them in the area where the endless cracks leading to the foreign lands filled the space.
It was as if this person was invisible in their eyes and did not exist.
"A thousand years passed by so quickly… I originally thought that the time in the foreign lands was different from the world outside, but from what I obtained from Zhao Family's Progenitor made it very clear that the flow of time is the same," Su Ming mumbled. The three True Guards could not see him, but he could see them. In fact, Su Ming had known a long time ago that there were people monitoring this place from the area beyond the foreign lands. This was something he learned clearly from Zhao Tian Gang's memories.
However, these three people and the three hundred people behind them were completely ignored by Su Ming. The memories of the things that happened after he was forced into the foreign lands one thousand years ago fleeted past his mind, and he gradually fell silent.
One thousand years became a passing flash of starlight. However, the planets were still around, the brilliant rays of light were still around. When he looked at them, it was as if he was looking at the things from the past, and for a moment, he could not differentiate the time.
It was just like a person's hair. The strands could dance about in the air, and when their intersected with each other, they might seem similar, but they would be different, just like how the years were different now.
Su Ming looked at the galaxy. He did not intentionally try to appear ancient, but as he recalled what had happened in Western Ring Nebula's foreign lands during the past one thousand years and an air of sentimentality rose within him, he could not help but have an air of ancientness surround him.
A world changing transformation could be said to have happened to Su Ming during those one thousand years. He had run into one of the greatest serendipities in his life, he shook off the control of Yin Death Region's wills over him, he expelled Di Tian's seal over him, obtained his Ecang clone, and he had a cultivation base of great completion in Heaven Cultivation Realm. He was only a hair away from World Plane Realm.
In fact, if he had a clone that could train his cultivation base at that moment, he would definitely be able to isolate himself and try reaching World Plane Realm, but alas, he did not have one.
His clone that practiced the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows Whole had similarly obtained an incredibly great serendipity. He had risen from the initial stage of World Plane Realm to nearly the peak of the middle stage of World Plane Realm. Besides that, Su Ming had also obtained Divine Essence.
The overlapping shadows of the runic symbols that occasionally shone in his right eye would definitely shock those who saw them, and their minds would ponder over the strangeness within those runes.
This seemingly broken land due to the countless cracks that was Western Ring Nebula's foreign land was not at all different from how it was in the past. If it was not because Su Ming knew that one thousand years had passed, he would not have been able to differentiate just how much time had passed upon coming out.
It was quiet all around him. He could not see too much starlight, and neither could he see any cultivators. It was as if this place had become seawater that was nearly black in color.
"I have come out." Su Ming lifted his head and looked at the endless space in the galaxy above him. As he spoke flatly, for the first time, his gaze landed on the ancient bronze sword not too far away, and the people who could not see him.
Su Ming averted his gaze and placed his hands behind his back. Then, he walked forward. With one step, he moved out of the area leading to the foreign land, and with another, he closed in on the ancient bronze… before he moved past it coolly.
Su Ming did not want to kill these three people. After all, if any deaths occurred, he would alert the forces of power from the four Great True Worlds keeping a lookout over the land. That was why he ignored them.
Yet at the instant Su Ming moved past the ancient bronze sword, the ancient and simple looking green sword placed on Kong Huan's knees as he meditated in a seated position suddenly let out a sword whistle.
It was faint, trembling somewhat. At the instant it appeared, Kong Huan's eyes flew open. The two True Guards behind him were stunned as well, and they looked towards Kong Huan's sword at the same time.
This was the first time they heard the sword whistle over the hundred something years they kept a lookout over this place. This was also the first time Kong Huan heard the sword whistle over the past one thousand years he had been monitoring this place.
Kong Huan's expression changed drastically. He instantly stood up and looked around him. In his mind, the words from Lord Vice General one thousand years ago when he gave Kong Huan the sword rang out.
"This sword is known as Verdant Flames. Take it with you. When it lets out a sword whistle, it will be the day the existence I have been waiting for all this while have appeared. I will grant you this sword to keep a lookout over the foreign land.
"Once the sword lets out its whistle, immediately let go of it!"
It was these words that caused Kong Huan to come to this place and sit down cross-legged on the ancient bronze sword without lifting his hands off the green sword.
By now, he had waited for one thousand years. At the instant the sword let out a sword whistle and Kong Huan got up to look around him, he let go of the sword he had placed his hands without any hesitation.
At the instant he let go, green flames appeared on the sword. With a bang, that sword turned into a green arc and charged into the space, charging to the spot where Su Ming was with a loud whistle.
Su Ming turned around, and his gaze landed on the green arc that was coming towards him. A wave of sword aura charged swiftly at his waist, and Su Ming could not help but chuckle.
'It's rare to see such an intelligent sword, but by the looks of it, it doesn't seem to have noticed me. Instead…' Su Ming lowered his head to cast a glance at his waist. There was… a storage bag there.
Su Ming shook his head. At the instant the green arc came towards him, he lifted his right hand and pointed forward. With it, the shadows of runic symbols immediately appeared in his right eye. As they gathered on his finger, the tip of his finger tapped the green arc.
Boom!
A loud bang shook the entire area. The green sword shook and fell back. The blade melted at that instant and turned into two green wisps. One of them charged towards the center of Kong Huan's brows, while the other charged into space with an indescribable speed, intending to flee.
This scene caused the people on the ancient bronze sword to immediately widen their eyes. Their expressions changed. Right before their eyes, they saw the green sword stabbing an empty spot in space, but when a booming sound rang into the air, the green sword fell back and melted into two green wisps. During that instant, they saw a wave of ripples that looked like those that would appear on flowing water in the space before them. A figure with a tall and straight back gradually appeared from those ripples.
He was a young man with long, gray hair, a long robe with dark colors, and whose handsome face had an air of ancientness. Runic symbols shone in his right eye, giving all those who saw it a bizarre feeling.
"Mo Su!"
"You're Mo Su!"
The middle-aged man and the old man immediately recognized Su Ming, and surprised delight appeared in their eyes. After all, Mo Su's bounty remained ripe for picking to this date. True Guards did not care about freedom, but they longed dearly for the Enchanted Treasure containing a hint of Solar Kalpa's presence.
"I originally didn't want to make things hard for you."
Su Ming lifted his head to look at the space above him. The overlapping shadows of the runic symbols in his right eye shone, and ten thousand runic symbols appeared with a bang. They spread out and surrounded the entire area. Each of the runic symbols was shining, and the entire area froze as if it had been sealed.
The green wisp that had charged out into space to flee was also caught within the runic symbols formed by Divine Essence. It was struggling, wishing to escape…
"Since you discovered me… then you can become my tributes," Su Ming said flatly. He took a step forward. At the instant he did so, he appeared above the ancient bronze sword, clenched his right fist, and punched it.
The middle-aged man in the middle stage of World Plane Realm did not even have time to check Su Ming's level of cultivation when a sense of danger rose within him. He let out an enraged shout, then formed a seal with his hands. An armor manifested on his body, and a gigantic runic picture appeared before him. As it spun, it charged towards Su Ming.
Boom!
Su Ming's fist landed on the runic picture, and it immediately shattered to pieces. In shock, the man retreated, but before he could move far away, Su Ming's punch had already landed on his chest.
He coughed up blood, and his armor shattered. A loud bang rang out in the man's heart, and all his bones were almost shattered. As he coughed up huge mouthfuls of blood, disbelief appeared on his face.
'Later stage of World Plane Realm!' His body was instantly flung away by a great force to land within the crack in the area of the foreign land. He disappeared within an instant, sucked inside.
"The next is you." Su Ming's expression remained as calm as before. When he turned around, he threw his fist in the direction of the old man who was rapidly retreating and whose face was filled with shock.
Booming sounds echoed in the air. The punch that was fused with Divine Essence could temporarily bring forth the power of the later stage of World Plane Realm and completely suppress those in the middle stage of World Plane Realm. Unless the old man had a Kalpa Treasure and the same type of serendipity as Su Ming… then there was absolutely no way he could fight against it.
The old man coughed up blood, and banging sounds rang out nonstop in his body. As his face turned pale, his body was flung back by a great force, and he landed in one of the cracks leading to the foreign land before disappearing without a trace.
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Chapter 844: Green Feather
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It was quiet all around. Kong Huan's body trembled as he looked at Su Ming with fear. The three hundred cultivators in black armor on the ancient bronze armor did not dare to get closer to him at that moment.
Their bodies might have seemed to be full of a still presence, but their minds were normal. They had practiced the same skill, so they possessed the same presence. This sort of skill could make their hearts almost stop and make them cold and unfeeling.
However… the instant Su Ming's Divine Essence Runic Symbols covered the entire area, a great, mighty pressure instantly descended on their bodies. That mighty pressure crushed their cold attitude, and fear took form within them.
It was especially so when he had, with one punch, nearly killed the middle-aged man, and with another, the old man in white nearly died. Su Ming had clearly done this intentionally, or else, the both of them would have definitely died.
Those in the later stage of World Plane Realm could suppress all the cultivators beneath their level. This sort of strength brought despair to the hearts of all the people in the area.
Space had been sealed off, and even the ancient bronze sword was covered in runic symbols. Due to it, the sword lost its usefulness and could no longer be controlled. What lay before these cultivators seemed to be only the path to death.
"Either you die or you step into the foreign land," Su Ming said flatly. He swept his gaze across the three hundred cultivators in black armor. All those who met his gaze felt their hearts tremble, and they instinctively lowered their heads.
There were a few who gritted their teeth after a moment of hesitation and charged into the cracks leading to the foreign land with a single move. With someone taking the lead, the others turned into long arcs under the threat of death looming over their heads. In the span of a breath, the three hundred people in black armor went through the cracks leading to the foreign lands and disappeared without a trace.
Su Ming and Kong Huan were the only ones left in this place. Kong Huan, who had one of the green wisps fused into the center of his brows, had a ferocious look. Veins popped up on his face, but the terror in his eyes was even more prominent. However, he could not control himself and let out a low roar.
As he roared, a green mark gradually appeared at the center of his brows. That mark looked like a peacock spreading its tail feathers, and the image of a gigantic peacock manifested behind him as the space there distorted.
The peacock could not be seen clearly and looked as if it was incredibly weak, but at the instant it manifested, Kong Huan's power rapidly rose. However, as it rose, his face turned from that of a teenage boy to that of a middle-aged man, then he rapidly changed into an old man. His hair also transformed from black to gray before eventually turning white.
It was as if his life was being burned and turned into the nutrients for the explosive increase in his power, becoming the source of energy for the peacock. Red filled his eyes, and there was even a hint of madness within them. It was a madness that no longer possessed any form of intelligence.
Su Ming watched Kong Huan's transformation quietly. He had a question lying in his heart. The green sword might not have discovered him just now, but had instead… discovered his storage bag.
Perhaps more accurately speaking, it had discovered some form of living creature or item in his storage bag.
'Could it be..?' An answer rose in Su Ming's mind, and sadness showed up in his eyes.
He was never a kind and generous person to begin with. The four Great True Worlds chased after his life all those years ago and the rewards they promised had forced him into the foreign land. Su Ming… had sworn in the past that he would repay them back by several fold for all that was done to him.
However… he still had more important things to do. They were even more important than taking revenge on the four Great True Worlds, much more important, which was why he had previously decided to ignore Kong Huan and the other two.
Su Ming gently touched the storage bag. Within it was the slumbering bald crane.
It… was slowly dispersing, as if this was a transformation that could not be reversed. This transformation had not been very clear in the foreign land, but once he walked out of there, the process had become much faster.
Su Ming did not know the reason for this, but he knew that if the bald crane had not been there to help him, it would not have been reduced to this state. If it was not to help him succeed in his Possession, the bald crane wouldn't have burnt its soul and been left in a near death state.
In truth, Su Ming did not even dare to take the bald crane out of his storage bag. He was worried… that at the instant he brought it out, it would instantly disappear, and from then on, the bald crane would no longer exist in the universe. The bald crane that loved money as much as it loved its own life but had accompanied Su Ming to the Barren Lands of Divine Essence and the one that possessed a great deal of secrets would no longer be around.
'Looks like there are also different goals among the forces of power from the four Great True Worlds. Some of them are after me, and some… are after it.'
The sadness in Su Ming's eyes was replaced by killing intent. He had always been a person who was fiercely protective of those close to him. At that moment, as he looked at Kong Huan, Su Ming let out a cold harrumph.
At that moment, Kong Huan lifted his head and roared. He had completely lost his intelligence. When he opened his mouth, a large amount of saliva flowed down the corners of his lips. He came charging towards Su Ming while roaring, and his arrival was like that of a crazed peacock.
"Your level of cultivation rose to nearly the peak of the middle stage of World Plane Realm… but you're still lacking." Su Ming lifted his right hand and swung it before himself. With it, the ten thousand runic symbols around him immediately charged over from all directions at Kong Huan. While the other was still several hundreds of feet away, the symbols completely filled the entire area around him, turning into an existence that was akin to a grave.
"I will form a script under the ground, and that will… become a grave."
Boom!
The grave formed by runic symbols buried Kong Huan. At the moment they turned into a stone monument and scattered, a green wisp flew out, but before it could fly too far away, it was seized by Su Ming. Another green wisp also appeared in his palm. That green wisp was the one that had tried to flee into the distance just now, but had been blocked by Su Ming's runic symbols and had been seized by him.
The two green wisps struggled in Su Ming's hand as if they wanted to fly out, but could not escape from the restrictions placed on them by the Divine Essence Runic Symbols around them. Su Ming looked at the two green wisps with a glint in his eyes, and pulled his fingers into a fist.
Banging sounds came from his palm, and when Su Ming unfurled his fist and straightened his palm, the green wisps were gone. Only a green feather remained. A faint light spread out from it. There was a dried speck of blood on the feather, and it was exuding an ancient presence.
At the instant Su Ming noticed this presence, his heart trembled.
'This is… the bald crane's presence!' A crease gradually appeared between Su Ming's brows, and a pensive look appeared on his face.
"Just what is the goal of the person who made Kong Huan bring the feather to this place? One of the two green wisps was clearly supposed to send a message. Since I stopped it, that person should not learn about what happened here within a short period of time.
"But what is this person thinking about? If he is thinking about harming the bald crane, why did they hand me this feather? If that person is thinking of returning it, why attack me?" Su Ming fell silent.
After a moment, his right eye shone, and each of the runic symbols that contain the power of Divine Essence enveloped his body. Within an instant, they fused into his skin and entered his body.
Su Ming closed his eyes. After a moment, there was no longer any light around him, and even his presence disappeared, as if he had vanished from the galaxy.
However, the situation in his body right then was akin to a raging sea. All the runic symbols in him were like a giant net. As it contracted and expanded swiftly, Su Ming's body seemed to have turned into a sea, and Divine Essence Runic Symbols were a huge net that covered the entire place.
It was contracting and expanding in his body, like how an ordinary fisherman would hunt for fish. However, Su Ming was not catching fish… but memories.
Those memories were the scenes from when he was in Crimson Flame Planet.
'Let the Divine Essence Runic Symbols be seals… and seal my memories within Crimson Flame Planet!' As Su Ming opened and closed his eyes, the runic symbols in his body immediately turned into a seal, sealing up all of his memories from Crimson Flame Planet layer by layer.
At the instant his memories were sealed, a dark light shone in Su Ming's eyes. He could sense that an invisible thread was broken at the moment his memories were sealed.
'The source of the reason behind why the four Great True Worlds could find me all those years ago was because they had used someone's memories from Crimson Flame Planet and turned it into those Blood Identification Pearls after executing a mysterious divine ability.
'I could not understand it in the past and could not grasp the concept clearly, but now, with my Divine Essence… the Blood Identification Pearl will temporarily lose its effect. If I wanted to truly make it lose its effect, then I would need to wipe off the memories of that person from Crimson Flame Planet.
'If I did that, the four Great True Worlds would not be able to know my whereabouts, and would not be able to know… that I've come out of Western Ring Nebula's foreign land.'
When Su Ming walked out of the land with the hundred thousand stone monuments, he had cast this Sealing Art on himself and wiped off his traces. Now that he had come out, he had executed it once again, forming a complete seal, and his mind was set completely at ease.
Once he finished doing all this, Su Ming lowered his head and looked at his storage bag. After a moment, a resolute look appeared on his face. He lifted his right hand to reveal the totem that the Duke of Crimson Flame had turned into on his arm, then sent his power to rush into it.
The totem on his right arm immediately started shining. As it shone with a dark light, it slowly disappeared from Su Ming's arm, and the Duke of Crimson Flame's body appeared out of thin air. As if the old man was opening his eyes for the first time from a deep slumber that lasted for one thousand years, he looked at Su Ming, dazed.
However, after several breaths, that dazed expression turned into shock. The Duke of Crimson Flame looked at Su Ming, dumbfounded. He had noticed that the number of disasters from the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows Whole within Su Ming's body had reached five!
His level of cultivation had also reached a level that was almost the peak of the middle stage of World Plane Realm. This was still nothing, however. Most importantly, he sensed a strong, threatening presence from Su Ming's body. This sense of danger came from a presence that dominated over all forms of life. It might still be weak, but even so, the Duke of Crimson Flame was apprehensive. If Su Ming could grow, then perhaps with just one thought, the Duke of Crimson Flame would be reduced to ashes. This feeling caused his heart to tremble.
However, he was still wrong. If the presence of Divine Essence within Su Ming's body truly grew, then with just one thought, the Duke of Crimson Flame would not be the only one who would turn into ashes… the entire universe would turn into ashes as well.
This was what it meant to be able to destroy the heavens with one thought.
"You… just how much time has passed?" The Duke of Crimson Flame was, after all, an old monster that had lived for countless years. He might be shocked, but the very first question he threw out hit straight on the point.
If Su Ming told him that one hundred thousand years or even more time had passed, then he would have obtained all his answers. On the other hand, if only several hundreds or thousands of years had passed, then it would definitely mean that Su Ming had obtained an unimaginably great serendipity during this period of time.
"I'll tell you about this later, senior. Now, please answer me something first. Just what are the origins of the bald crane?"
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Chapter 845: The Crane That Commits All Sorts of Crimes Possible
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The Duke of Crimson Flame was momentarily stunned. When he looked around, he did not find any traces of the bald crane, and when he saw the solemn look on Su Ming's face, a guess instantly formed in his heart.
After a moment of hesitation, he said hesitantly, "I don't know where it truly comes from, either, but I did find a hint of familiarity on its body. It's… very similar to a certain existence during my era."
"I wish to hear more about it," Su Ming said as he looked at the Duke of Crimson Flame.
"I told you before that there are five Great True Worlds in this universe, and within each True World is a Kalpa Lord. They are the Sovereigns of a True World, just like Dao Chen from True Morning Dao World, Yin Sheng from True Sacred Yin World, and the Abyss Builders' Sovereign from the fifth True World.
"They are Kalpa Lords, and they are at the Realm where they can control fate, lives, and death.
"After them are the five True Progenitors of the five True Great Words. These five people's level of cultivation is even more shocking. They seem to have surpassed the level of Kalpa Lords. In fact, their existences can interfere with some of the operations of the five Great True Worlds.
"It's as if they are the rules of the five Great True Worlds itself, and they can turn into all sorts of existences. Very few people can know who they truly are.
"They are a part of legends," the Duke of Crimson Flame mumbled as he spoke of the secrets ages ago.
"Only our Sovereign of the five True Worlds within the five Great True World had his level of cultivation surpass that of the True Progenitor. The other Kalpa Lords from the four Great True Worlds cannot do this.
"I don't know who the other True Progenitors from the other True Worlds are, but the True Progenitor from the fifth True World had only ever adopted one single appearance over the years. His name… was Lu Ya.
"He called himself a Daoist, and his origins were a mystery.
"But… the universe is huge, and there are millions of races within it. It's impossible for there to only be ten Kalpa Lords and True Progenitors who are the strongest in the universe. Within each True World, there were other old monsters whose levels of cultivation were close to theirs, and there were some who were even stronger than them. These people… are also part of legends.
"Some of them moved about alone, and some of them ha huge races behind them acting as their support. Some… were rumored to be from the vast galaxy beyond the five Great True Worlds.
"Among the legends of the fifth True World, there is one about a huge crane. This crane always introduced itself as Hei Mo, and it was incredibly sly as well as ruthless. It loved killing and plundering, and wherever it went, all the sects would be destroyed and all medicinal cores taken away.
"It seemed to only be interested in medicinal cores. If one didn't resist, they would be fine, but if they resisted, they would bring upon themselves a disaster.
"This crane was skilled in Transformation Arts. In this aspect, it was incredibly similar to our True Progenitor. No one knew where it came from, but it was a famous character in the fifth True World.
"It had done practically every despicable thing in the book. It poked fun of all sorts of old monsters, snatched people's medicinal cores, changed its appearance so that no one could fend against it, causing all the cranes in the fifth True World to almost be massacred for a time being.
"Nothing seemed to be of much use against this crane. It seemed to have been born with a talent that could break all Runes, and Sealing Arts were also of no effect against it.
"Its bad name could even make a huge sect migrate and turn a galaxy into dust… It had only failed twice in its life. The first was when it went to the Abyss Builders' homeland and was defeated by the Sovereign. However, it was only injured at that time, and since the Sovereign didn't chase after it, it successfully escaped.
"The second time was when… it stole the True Progenitor Lu Ya's medicinal cores. Daoist Lu Ya chased after it for a thousand years, but no one knows how this ended. Anyway, this is just what people said, very few know precisely what had happened back then." When the Duke of Crimson Flame spoke up to that point, he cast Su Ming a strange look.
There was also a rather strange expression on Su Ming's face. He did not even need to verify to be almost certain that the bald crane was indeed that crane which committed all sorts of heinous crimes and snatched medicinal cores as spoken in the legends within the fifth True World.
"The one… beside you fulfills certain characteristics of that crane. It's greedy, can disregard Runes, is skilled in transformation, and is also a crane. However, what left me uncertain and unable to say for sure was that the crane in the legends of the fifth True World was only interested in medicinal cores. It would not even glance at crystals...
"But… the obsession and desire of the one beside you towards crystals has already reached a state that cannot be described with words, that's why I can't be certain whether it is the same crane as the one in the past!" the Duke of Crimson Flame said with a wry laugh.
"If you hadn't asked me, I wouldn't have told you what I've just said, because while I would be safe if the crane is not the same one as the one in the past, if it was, then I remember that the crane was the type that would seek revenge even for the smallest grievance, and it was a creature that held onto grudges.
"Even if it's just a small matter, it would remember it for life." The Duke of Crimson Flame continued laughing wryly, looking as if he had no way out of this situation.
At that moment, Su Ming was not just almost certain, he was almost absolutely certain that the bald crane was the one from the legend the Duke of Crimson Flame had just told. That personality which held onto grudges was one of which Su Ming had a deep impression.
Once he remembered how the purple Ecang had mentioned that the bald crane had been injured heavily thrice, it became clear to him that during the era the Duke of Crimson Flame had spoken of, it had needed to recover because of its grave injuries, that was why it had robbed medicinal cores in such a frenzy.
However, Su Ming still had a question in mind. Just what thing could make the bald crane shift its obsession from medicinal cores to crystals? This was something Su Ming could not figure out no matter how hard he tried. Perhaps only when the bald crane itself would be able to understand such a drastic shift in obsession once its memories returned.
'What the Duke of Crimson Flame knows is just a part of the bald crane's life. After all, it's a life form that is as ancient as Ecang itself.' After a moment of pensive silence, Su Ming lifted his head and looked at the Duke of Crimson Flame.
"Er… it even…" The Duke of Crimson Flame hesitated for a moment, and once he thought about how much he had said, he decided that he would tell Su Ming everything, which was why he gritted his teeth and continued.
"I've also heard of a rumor, but I don't know whether it's true or false. It said… that it was also very perverted. There were quite a number of female cultivators in the fifth True World in the past who were associated with it… Every single time they mentioned it, they would grind their teeth in anger, and they would look as if they badly wanted to kill it with their own hands… and I also met a female cultivator who clearly looked very embarrassed and enraged when she mentioned it, as if it did something that would make someone boil in anger."
Once he Duke of Crimson Flame finished speaking, Su Ming was momentarily stunned. This was something he had never seen on the bald crane before.
"Then do you know any place where I can find some clues in the Barren Lands of Divine Essence? Perhaps I should reword this… if it's injured badly and is near death, is there any way for me to heal it?"
A determined look appeared on Su Ming's face. It did not matter to him what sort of background the bald crane had or how many people held grudges against it. Since it had fallen unconscious and was in a state of near death because of him, then he would do everything he could to save it.
"About that…" The Duke of Crimson Flame had some speculations a moment ago, and when he heard Su Ming's words, he became even more certain that an accident had fallen upon the bald crane. A contemplative look appeared on his face, but after a long while, he shook his head.
"My level of cultivation was not the same in the past, I really don't know what sort of method could save it… It's a soul right now, and normal medicinal cores won't be able to heal it. If we can find True Progenitor Lu Yan, then perhaps with his skills with medicinal cores, he could help it… but this is the same as finding a needle in a haystack, and we don't even know whether True Progenitor Lu Ya is still alive."
The Duke of Crimson Flame sighed. Just as he was shaking his head, a glint suddenly appeared in his eyes, as if he had thought of something.
"It introduces itself as Hei Mo… I remember now. I heard some people mention a theory in the fifth True World in the past. They said that there is a high possibility that it's not a creature from the fifth True World, but something that came from Divine Essence Star Ocean." The Duke of Crimson Flame immediately looked towards Su Ming.
"Are you saying… Black Ink Planet [1]?" Su Ming's eyes sparkled.
"Hei Mo, Black Ink Planet, perhaps there is some connection between the two, but I can't be certain. You'll have to think about it yourself." The Duke of Crimson Flame nodded.
Su Ming closed his eyes. After a long while, he opened them, and resolve appeared within them. The bald crane knew Ecang, and this alone was enough to tell him many things. The possibility of it coming from Divine Essence Star Ocean was incredibly high, and because of it, there was a high possibility that Black Ink Planet had some form of connection with the bald crane.
'Black Ink Planet has existed for a long time, and unless someone changed the planet's name during the time before history was even recorded to turn this into a trap against the bald crane, then there is definitely some form of clue lying about it in this sort of coincidence.'
Su Ming lowered his head to look at the green feather on his palm. As he looked at the blood on it and felt the familiar presence that belonged to the bald crane from that feather, the scenes of how he met it up to the moment it burned its soul for him flashed through his mind.
He could even seem to hear the faint voice of the bald crane smugly referring to itself as Grandpa Crane.
'There are some things that cannot be viewed with rationale. Even if I know it's dangerous, I still… have to do it.
'Since you burned your soul to help me, then… what harm is there if I step into danger for you?!
'I originally wouldn't have been able to obtain this feather. If it weren't for the Divine Essence Runic Symbols around me, even if I managed to kill Kong Huan, I would have only been able to obtain one of the green wisps. It would have been difficult for me to get both and turn them into this feather.
'I'll… take this risk. Bald crane, even if the feather turns out to be a problem, let's take this risk!
'If you can recover slightly after you absorb this feather, then even if it's the dragon's lair, I will go there for you.
'If… we lose this bet, then I promise you that once the cultivation of my Divine Essence reaches completion, I will destroy the four Great True Worlds and have them… be buried with you!'
Su Ming gritted his teeth and sent the green feather in his hand into the storage bag. At the instant his hand touched the storage bag… his hand shook lightly, and that light shiver was a symbol of how nervous Su Ming was in his heart.
At the instant the green feather went into the storage bag, an endless amount of green light immediately shone from within. At the same time, the sleeping bald crane's soul started shining with a brilliant black light, as if it was fighting against that green light.
It was also during this moment that the green feather in the light turned into a green peacock. With ferociousness and madness, as well as a hint of intelligence that appeared in its eyes, it charged towards the bald crane. As the black light spread out from the bald crane, it turned into a crane that had its eyes shut, and as if it was out of pure instinct, it charged towards the incoming green peacock.
At the instant both sides closed in on each other, a sparkle appeared in Su Ming's right eye, and the Divine Essence Runic Symbols swiftly took form. They surged into the storage bag and enveloped the green peacock.
"I knew it, there was trouble in it!"
Su Ming let out a cold harrumph, and the Divine Essence Runic Symbols exploded on the green peacock with loud boom. Within an instant, they wiped off the intelligence within the green peacock's eyes, causing a shrill screech to reverberate in space.
"Divine Essence… That's impossible!"
As screeches of pain rang out, the green peacock's eyes became unfocused, and its body looked as if it was about to scatter away. The bald crane, which had its eyes shut, pounced on it abruptly, and the two fused together instantly. The bald crane still had its eyes shut and continued to be in deep sleep, but the dissemination of its body immediately became much slower.
Though faint, the bald crane also seemed slightly different from before, as if its soul had recovered slightly.
"It's effective!" Su Ming's eyes shone with a brilliant light.
Translator's Notes:
1. Hei Mo and Black Ink Planet: Hei Mo is what the past bald crane in the age of the fifth True World introduced itself as, and it is the pinyin and transliterated version of 黑墨 (hei1 mo4), while Black Ink is the translated version of those two characters.
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Chapter 846: Ecang Clone, Appear!
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"Since it's effective, then… bald crane, you've done far too many things for me, today… I'll help you," Su Ming mumbled under his breath as he stood in the area beyond Western Ring Nebula's foreign land. As he did so, a determined look appeared in his eyes. He did not choose to search for the connection between the bald crane and Black Ink Planet.
After all, while it might seem certain that there was a connection between them, in truth, it might also be a coincidence, and the journey to the planet was long. Unless he absolutely had to, Su Ming would not choose to go there.
Besides, there was another path that led to the bald crane's recovery laid out before him, and that was to search for the person who gave Kong Huan that feather. It did not matter what sort of scheme that person was plotting. Su Ming just needed to find the person, crush thet scheme, and take back what belonged to the bald crane.
This path was incredibly dangerous, because the defenses and the number of powerful warriors within the forces of power from the four Great True Worlds keeping a lookout over the barren lands would continuously serve as a blockage in Su Ming's path.
Besides, there would definitely be some old monsters among the forces of power from the four Great True Worlds. This could be seen by the presence of the two powerful warriors who were half a step away from Solar Kalpa Realm among those who came after Su Ming's life all those years ago.
'I'll have to make this quick and not drag the fight out. I'll barge in at the fastest speed possible, find that person, and snatch away what I need. As long as I can do everything at the fastest speed possible… then there is a possibility that I will succeed in this matter.'
The Duke of Crimson Flame saw the light in Su Ming's eyes, and he also saw the madness within him. He had originally thought that Su Ming was hesitating on whether he would go to Black Ink Planet, but at that moment, Su Ming swiftly closed his eyes.
At the instant he did so, his Ecang clone slowly opened his eyes.
Right when he did so, a dense power of Divine Essence erupted from within him. He stood up slowly and took a step into space.
With one step, the galaxy roared. With another, the world of the one hundred thousand stone monuments looked as if it was about to shatter. The hundreds of people in the purple stone monuments, including the cultivators in black armor who were forced into the land by Su Ming, fell unconscious.
The purple light on their stone monuments became dull, and in the end, not a hint of light could be found on them anymore, as if all of it had been sucked away during that instant.
He took another step, and a figure suddenly appeared in Sinful Barren Lands, in the area beyond Western Ring Nebula's foreign land. That figure was dressed in purple and had long hair. His appearance was similar to Su Ming's, but he looked even more ancient. He stood there quietly, and at the instant he appeared, a large area within Western Ring Nebula rumbled.
This was a rumbling sound that came out of nowhere, and it was a sound that caused the galaxy to tremble. An innumerable amount of cracks appeared in the galaxy, and as that rumbling rang in space, the laws and rules in Western Ring Nebula looked as if they had descended into a disorderly state during that instant and got entangled with each other.
The planets shone, the meteors stopped moving, starlight was distorted, and an endless amount of ripples spread out, causing the entire Western Ring Nebula to descend into huge chaos.
It was as if the appearance of Su Ming's Ecang clone made this galaxy wary, and it became greatly averse to his presence. It was as if the galaxy had a will, and at that moment, it was seething in rage but was also in a state of anxiety as well.
White lightning descended with loud booms from space and instantly filled the area around Su Ming's Ecang clone. As it spread out violently in all directions, this large area within the galaxy instantly turned into a lake of lightning.
That lightning was like a prison, and seemed to have been born from the galaxy to prevent Su Ming's Ecang clone from moving out.
All of this was completely disregarded by Su Ming's clone that practiced the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows whole. He still had his eyes closed, but in front of him, the Duke of Crimson Flame's expression changed in such a drastic manner that had never been seen before. He instinctively retreated several thousands of feet backwards and stared at the purple figure that appeared within the white lake of lightning with a dumbfounded expression. A wave of respect born of extreme terror rose uncontrollably from his soul. His body trembled, and even his soul seemed as if it was about to collapse.
'Who… Who… is this?! This strength, this is… this is…'
The Duke of Crimson Flame looked as if his mind had become a muddled mess. Disbelieving shock appeared on his face. He saw how the laws and rules of the galaxy filled the area, and saw how the galaxy was greatly averse towards this person. He could not imagine just how strong a person who was repulsed by the galaxy could be. This was a strength that made a galaxy wary!
"You're just a broken galaxy. How dare you try to prevent me from going out?" The purple hair of Su Ming's Ecang clone danced in space. As he spoke flatly, he lifted his right hand and swung forward.
With it, all the white lightning around him turned purple right before everyone's eyes. In the blink of an eye, this place… became a purple lake of lightning.
What was more, right at that moment, a will that made the Duke of Crimson Flame suffocate erupted from the purple figure whose face he could not see clearly. As that will swept outwards, it was as if all the spots where the will passed through in the galaxy would no longer belong to the galaxy… but would be in this person's control.
The Duke of Crimson Flame could vaguely see all the laws and rules in the galaxy where this person's will touched forcefully wiped off and replaced by new laws and rules.
He also saw the resistance of the galaxy turn into a power that restricts others, as if it was trying to stop this person's will from spreading out. This was no longer something a cultivator could do. It was akin to a fight between a galaxy against galaxy, a scuffle between a cosmos against another cosmos.
The Duke of Crimson Flame's jaw fell slack in shock as he mumbled, "Just who… is this..?"
This sort of divine ability had already surpassed the Duke of Crimson Flame's imagination. Only one thought was in his mind - to flee. He shouted at Su Ming's clone that practiced the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows Whole, and just as he was about to take it away, he shuddered, because the will that terrified him had already enveloped Su Ming's clone.
At that instant, a faint voice echoed in the air.
"Broken galaxy, you can destroy all manner of lives, but you cannot destroy me, because you and I are the same sort of existence." At the instant these words were spoken, the Duke of Crimson Flame saw a scene that he would never forget in his life, a scene that shocked him for all eternity.
Right then, he saw a gigantic… purple tree that towered into the heavens and was so big that it was difficult to describe its size appearing behind that blurry purple figure whose face he could not see clearly!
That tree used the galaxy as the earth it planted its roots in and as its nutrients. There was also a sound that came from within it, which sounded like a heartbeat. With each thump, the galaxy would tremble. At the moment the tree appeared, it occupied an area so wide that its end could not be seen, causing the laws and rules within Western Ring Nebula to be on the verge of crumbling to pieces.
His will spread out once again, and with a bang, it enveloped the area where the Duke of Crimson Flame was. Despair filled him, but he did not sense death coming towards him, which momentarily took him aback.
Not only did not he not sense death, instead, in that will, he found a hint of familiarity which pushed him into a state of disbelief.
"Broken galaxy, you cannot stop me, and neither can you destroy me… Today, I came out from my homeland not to destroy you, but to borrow one hundred thousand lis of your galaxy. Do not… try to stop me."
At the instant these words were spoken, the purple lightning around Su Ming's Ecang clone spread out, and in the blink of an eye, it covered the entire area where Su Ming's will was, and it was… a galaxy that stretched out to one hundred thousand lis.
One hundred thousand lis of a galaxy filled with purple lightning became a galaxy that belonged to Su Ming's Ecang clone!
This region of the galaxy was not big and could not compare to the galaxy which belonged to the purple Ecang in its homeland within the foreign lands. However, this was the world outside, not the foreign land. There was a will from the universe here, and he had already surpassed the limits of a cultivator by being able to do this.
As Su Ming's Ecang clone spoke, the Duke of Crimson Flame looked at him with a dumbfounded expression. The repulsion from Western Ring Nebula… disappeared. It most likely hadn't disappeared completely and was still monitoring him, but this was a form of compromise, and it meant that… this purple figure was on equal grounds with the galaxy.
The Duke of Crimson Flame then saw a sight that left his mind blank. He saw Su Ming, which was Su Ming's clone that practiced the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows Whole, opening his eyes and slowly walking towards the purple figure before they… gradually fused together.
This was not the Abyss Builders' fusion, but a form of incorporation.
If the Duke of Crimson Flame still did not understand what was going on during that moment, then he would have wasted all his years of life. However, he was still in a state of disbelief. With a dumbfounded look, he watched the purple Su Ming walk towards him to stand before him. At the moment he Duke of Crimson Flame's gaze met the Ecang clone's, even his soul began trembling, and he slowly lowered his head to wrap his fist in his palm and bow to Su Ming.
He did not manage to finish that bow, because the mighty pressure gathered around him had instantaneously vanished.
"Senior, you don't have to do this. This is the first time this clone of mine came out, and I still can't really control him properly. I've offended you greatly just now, please don't take it to heart," Su Ming said calmly as he looked at the Duke of Crimson Flame.
He might have said these words, but the Duke of Crimson Flame's shock would not disappear due to a single sentence. He looked at Su Ming in a daze, and for the first time… a strong wave of respect rose within him. This form of respect was something he had never felt for Su Ming before, and the connection he formed with Su Ming due to his desire to use him from before also changed instantly.
Forget now, even when he was at the peak of his condition in the past, he would still not have dared to disrespect this sort of person and existence. In fact, he had a feeling that Su Ming… might be the new Sovereign who could make their fifth True World prosper!
Once this thought sprouted in his head, it immediately started growing rapidly in his soul, causing respect and excitement to appear on his face. He took a few steps back and bowed to Su Ming once again.
"I do not deserve to be referred to as senior. I had approached you with the intention of using you previously, please forgive me. Young master, from now on, I will use all my strength to help you restore the glory of the fifth True World!" The Duke of Crimson Flame bowed deeply, revealing all the sincerity in his heart. It was also during this moment that he chose to truly treat Su Ming as his young master and never betray him in his life.
"But allow me to say this, young master. This clone of yours might be powerful and able to fight against the galaxy… but there are some old monsters in this world who can still kill you. Please… don't let this clone of yours come out. It would be better if you had it stay in the foreign lands," the Duke of Crimson Flame said excitedly.
"I know, but there are some things that even though I know are dangerous… I will still have to do." Su Ming shook his head, and in his mind, the image of the bald crane's smug look appeared. A hint of a smile appeared on his face. "Let's go. We will… head to the main camp of the four Great True Worlds keeping a lookout over this place!"
A freezing glare appeared in Su Ming's eyes. He took a step into space, and within an instant, the purple lightning in the galaxy let out thunderous booms. Like a sea of lightning, he swept through the galaxy to charge swiftly into the distance.
Wherever he went, the galaxy would tremble, and all those who saw were shocked and amazed.
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Chapter 847: Space Sealing Rune Falls
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Su Ming predicted that there would definitely be some old monsters among the forces of power from the four Great True Worlds keeping a lookout on the barren lands. These people might rarely venture out, but if an enemy barged into the main camp stationed in the barren lands, then they would surely appear at the fastest speed they could muster.
Su Ming was not conceited enough to think that he could fight against those old monsters. He knew that while his Ecang clone could fight against galaxies, that was because of Divine Essence and because life forms like Ecang were very similar to the universe.
It could be said that such life forms were the same type of existence as the universe. However… his clone was still weak and incomplete, that was why… even if the universe could not destroy him, there would be some cultivators in the universe who could do it.
'The forces of power from the four Great True Worlds keeping a lookout over the barren lands are divided into four regions. Each of them corresponds with one of the four Great Galaxies, which include Western Ring Nebula… Behind the four regions is an endless cosmos. In its depths… is a vortex formed of planets. That place… is the spot where the main camp of the forces of power from the four Great True Worlds is located.'
The scenes of what he'd seen about the forces of power from the four Great True Worlds when he used the Divinity Incarceration Rune all those years ago when the bald crane was still awake resurfaced in his mind.
'I only have one chance. I can only barge in from one of the regions and step into the main camp.' The purple lightning rumbled in the galaxy. Su Ming remained cool and unexcited within it as his body floated in space. The lightning under his feet was tumbling about as if in seawater and brought his body to charge forward with a speed that was akin to shifting.
'The forces keeping a lookout over Western Ring Nebula are from True Sacred Yin World. Most of the True Guards who came after my life all those years ago were from True Sacred Yin World. Ze Long Shen, Li Huo, and Ji Yun Hai were also among them.
'It won't be difficult for me to learn of the identity of the Lord Vice General Kong Huan mentioned earlier.'
Su Ming's purple hair fluttered in space, causing that near ancient presence on his face to give off a bizarre air that was difficult to describe with words. It was especially so for that pale face, which made him look as if he was terminally ill. Due to it, the bizarre air about him became even greater.
The overlapping shadows of the runic symbols in his right eye shone, and his left pupil turned into a vortex. There was purple lightning spreading out through that vortex, and it gradually looked as if a world was contained inside there. In that world, there were ten thousand purple stone monuments. There were hundreds of people unconscious under those stone monuments, and two of them were naturally the middle-aged and old True Guards whom Su Ming had forced into the foreign land.
As they remained unconscious, purple fog spread out from the stone monuments and seeped into their minds. Within an instant, their memories took shape in Su Ming's left eye.
'True Sacred Yin World… Taia Planet [1]... Vice General… Wu Li Zi!
'Wu Li Zi… Solar Kalpa Realm… has a green sun possessing five lights!
'Taia Planet… outside the main camp… one of the Radix Planets of the forces of power from True Sacred Yin World keeping a lookout over Western Ring Nebula!' Su Ming's eyes flashed, and when clarity returned to his eye, there was a freezing glare in his gaze.
'So she's not in the main camp? If that's the case… then the chance of success will be around eight-tenths.' Su Ming closed his eyes. As the purple lightning around him let out booming sounds, he became even faster. Within an instant, he had already traveled a great distance, but he was still charging towards the forces of power from True Sacred Yin World keeping a lookout over Western Ring Nebula.
He traveled so quickly that he looked like a ray of purple light that was slicing through the galaxy. Wherever he passed, the laws and rules in the galaxy would avoid him, as if they did not want to get close to him, a telling sign of how domineering was Su Ming's Ecang clone. This also allowed Su Ming's speed to reach a terrifying extent.
'Ninety breaths later, I will be able to see the Space Sealing Rune outside the spot where the forces of power from the four Great True Worlds are stationed.'
Thirty breaths later, several cultivators saw a layer of purple covering the white sky above them as they remained in the endless cultivation planets of Western Ring Nebula. That layer of purple caused entire worlds to turn purple in an instant.
In the area where the forces of power from the four Great True Worlds keeping a lookout over the barren lands were stationed, a portion belonged to True Sacred Yin World. Within that area was a gigantic set of planets that formed a Radix Planet located slightly further away but not too far away from the main camp of the four Great True Worlds. The planets in the Radix Planet that were positioned like a distorted flight of stairs were shining with a brilliant light. In the set of Radix Planets at the spot which was similar to the spot where the heart of a human would be located was a green continent.
Green grass covered the continent, and there were plenty of lush, green mountains on it as well. An endless amount of intelligent beasts were playing around with each other. Wind blew past the grass, causing rustling sounds to reverberate in the air. Those sounds fused with the noise of the wind, forming a beautiful, sweet sound of nature that drifted through the area.
At the center of the meadow was a tent. Outside that tent were eight children playing around with each other. They wore happy expression, and their laughter echoed through through the area.
Within the tent was a woman in green. Only her back could be seen; she was facing a bronze mirror while combing her dark locks. As she sat there, her graceful body would cause people to think dirty thoughts.
Another thirty breaths passed. The booming sounds from the purple lightning from Western Ring Nebula became even louder. The cultivators from the cultivation planets were no longer the only ones who could see the lightning, even the cultivators who were charging through the galaxy found their expressions changing drastically. All the light in the area turned into purple during that instant. They could vaguely sense that the laws around them were distorting and shrinking back.
This scene shook the hearts of all cultivators who saw it, and during that moment, they looked in unison towards the purple lightning that was like an ocean in the galaxy.
Beyond the Radix Planet called Taia was a young man in blue. He had the mark of a fire at the center of his brows, in place of a peach blossom that had been there before.
He had an indifferent expression on his face, and he looked as if there was a layer of invisible fire around him. As he strolled forward, he walked into the Radix Planet and appeared in the depths of it, where the green continent was. He stopped outside the tent.
"Greetings, Vice General Dao Ren." Almost the moment the young man appeared, the eight children who were playing around stopped laughing. They came to stand in front of the young man, then wrapped their fists in their palms and bowed towards him.
Once Dao Ren smiled faintly at the eight children, he directed a gentle gaze at the tent.
"Wu Li Zi, do you still refuse to see me?" he asked softly.
Not a single word came from within the tent. The woman in green acted as if she did not hear him and continued combing her black hair.
When the ninetieth breath passed, Dao Ren shook his head with a bitter smile as he stood outside the tent. He turned around, intending to leave. Ever since he became True General Huo Zhu's messenger, Wu Li Zi had refused to see him even once throughout the last thousand years.
Even though he came here once every few days, he still could not improve their relationship.
Right at the instant Dao Ren turned around and was about to leave Taia Radix Planet, a booming sound so strong it shook the sky, the earth, the entire galaxy, and all the planets within it reverberated in the air. Taia Radix Planet trembled violently, and all the living creatures on the green continent were shocked and terrified. The eight children's expressions changed.
As that loud boom echoed in the air, a cold and apathetic voice spread through the area where the forces of power from True Sacred Yin World were stationed.
"There is a fifteenth-tier power attempting to break the Space Sealing Rune beyond Western Ring Nebula. Two thousand one hundred and thirty five years will be required to break the Rune with this power."
Once that voice spoke, all the cultivators within the planets in the area where the forces of power from True Sacred Yin World were located immediately sported changes in their expressions, and many people swiftly flew out of their cultivation planets.
Some of them even had a hint of shock on their faces as their hearts trembled due to the booming sound.
It was not that they had never met those lunatics from Sinful Barren Lands who tried to break the Space Sealing Rune… but since ancient times, there were only three times where the power exerted reached fifteenth-tier or surpassed that!
Right then… this was the fourth time!
Even though the previous three people from Sinful Barren Lands had failed in their attempts to break the Rune… but this was the first time a person's initial attack could bring forth a fifteenth-tier power!
"So what if it's a fifteenth-tier power? No one has ever successfully broken the Space Sealing Rune before, and it will be the same this time."
"What nerve, these criminals. How dare they try to attack the Space Sealing Rune? I remember reading the records that after those people three faile, True Guards from True Sacred Yin World moved out in great numbers and executed a wide-scale attack to kill them."
"Hmph, they're just asking for death!"
As the cold voice reverberated in the air within the Radix Planet, divine thoughts immediately echoed within the galaxy. Immediately, thousands of people charged forth. As those figures flashed past, they charged towards the Space Sealing Rune. They were the first wave of attackers, and they wanted to see just what fools would dare to offend the four Great True Worlds.
However, right as they flew out and had not even managed to close a distance of ten thousand feet, an even stronger boom suddenly shook the galaxy, which was left trembling. The violent echoes could make a person's ears ring. At the instant that sound left the cultivators in endless shock, the cold voice from the Radix Planet spoke once more.
"There is a nineteenth-tier power attempting to break the Space Sealing Rune beyond Western Ring Nebula. One hundred and twenty five years will be required to break the Rune with this power."
At the same time that voice spoke, in the mid of a layer of purple lightning beyond the Space Sealing Rune was Su Ming, who stood there quietly. He pulled his right hand back. Before him was an endless galaxy. At that moment, booming sounds were ringing in the galaxy. The countless planets within it were smashing into each other, and violent crashes were sounding nonstop.
"As expected of the Space Sealing Rune," Su Ming remarked flatly.
"But… there is a fatal flaw within this Rune that can even block those who can control fate, lives, and death. It… belongs to this galaxy." Su Ming lifted his right hand, and as the Divine Essence Runic Symbols in his right eye shone, he gently let his hand fall.
At the instant his palm landed on the Rune through the air, the booming sounds from the galaxy before him became much louder. As they echoed in the air, an endless amount of planets crashed into each other and exploded. The booming sounds continued nonstop. Su Ming's will spread out abruptly, and within an instant, it covered the entire area. Once he did that, the laws and rules surrounding the galaxy in this area disappeared.
Instantly, the galaxy looked as if it had lost the power that could make it float in this cosmos… and right before Su Ming's eyes, it started plummeting down at a rapid speed.
From the distance, this was a scene that could shock the hearts of many, and it was enough for the hearts of the cultivators to quicken their pace. The galaxy had turned into rain and spilled all over the cosmos…
For the first time, the Space Sealing Rune beyond the area where the forces of power from the four Great True Worlds were stationed was broken. There was a bizarre air to this action that would leave people in disbelief of this method of breaking the Rune. It was not a forceful break, and neither was it a skillful evasion of the Rune… It was done by extracting the laws and rules within it, causing the Rune… to lose its source of power. After this, it simply came crashing down like rain, like how a bead curtain that wards off dust at the entrance of a room falls once the strings holding it to the doorframe are gone. Once it collapsed with a rustling sound, the place lost its door.
Su Ming's expression remained as calm as ever. The Duke of Crimson Flame was not of much use here, and had been turned into a totem. At the instant the Space Sealing Rune fell, Su Ming swept up the one hundred thousand lis of purple lightning and took a step forward into the galaxy where the forces of power from four Great True Worlds were stationed. This was also the area into which no one from Sinful Barren Lands had managed step into over the course of an innumerable amount of years.
'This battle must end swiftly!
'I'll make this quick!'
Translator's Notes:
1. Taia Planet: There was also a Taia Tribe in the land of Berserkers, but they are in no way related to each other. Might be named after the ten great swords of China.
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Chapter 848: You Are Not It
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"The Space Sealing Rune… has lost its source of power and has been broken… The invader has entered the galaxy where the forces of power from the four Great True Worlds are stationed." At the instant the Space Sealing Rune plunged down, the Radix Planet's cold voice reverberated in the galaxy.
All those who heard it spotted changes in their expressions. The destruction of the Rune was too quick, no one had even prepared for the eventually of it when it was already over. Several cultivators who could control fate, lives, and death were needed to be able to do this, but it was impossible for those beings capable of controlling fate, lives, and death to exist… unless the alien races from Divine Essence Star Ocean had awakened.
Because of it, almost every single person thought that this matter had happened because the other party had plenty of cultivators in Lunar Kalpa and Solar Kalpa Realm, and there was also a possibility… that the other party had obtained some sort of incredibly powerful Enchanted Treasure.
A great sense of danger and shock immediately spread through the people in the area where the True Guards from True Sacred Yin World were stationed.
"Radix Planet will now show every single person what came here from Sinful Barren Lands." Dao Ren heard the violent booms on Taia Radix Planet and also heard the voice echoing in the Radix Planet.
His expression turned dark, but there was not a hint of panic on his face. However, three breaths later, his expression finally changed drastically.
An illusory picture had appeared out of thin air before him. Within that picture was a layer of purple lightning that was one hundred thousand lis wide… and there was only one person in that purple lightning!
It was a young man with purple hair and purple robes.
This was the reason behind Dao Ren's expression changing. He was not afraid that there were many people in the other party, because the more people there were, the more it would show that the strongest cultivator they had did not have a high level of cultivation.
However, he absolutely did not expect… that there would be only one person who broke the Rune!
The faces of the eight children around him also turned pale. There was great wariness in their eyes, and booms rang out in their hearts. This scene surpassed their expectations.
Almost at the instant Dao Ren looked towards the young man with purple hair, he saw the young man lifting his head, and as if his gaze had penetrated through an endless distance of the galaxy, he met Dao Ren's gaze.
It was as if… he could see Dao Ren.
Boom!
"Who are you?!" Dao Ren staggered. When he fell back a few steps, his face turned pale. Blood trickled out of the corners of his mouth. He raised his head swiftly, his face filled with shock and astonishment.
"Don't you…" An indifferent voice came from the picture. Only two words might have been said, but they were capable of making the ground tremble furiously.
The eight children and Dao Ren saw the young man with purple hair taking a step forward within that illusory picture. As purple lightning rumbled, the thousands of cultivators that were swiftly charging towards him to block his path were immediately submerged in the purple lightning.
"…recognize me…"
At the instant these words echoed in Taia Planet, Dao Ren trembled. He saw the purple-haired young man take another step forward in that picture. With that one step, he moved past half of the galaxy. The countless cultivation planets around him immediately started letting out booming sounds… and their trajectories were changed. They retreated from the area with loud booming sounds as if they were avoiding him, not willing to get closer to him.
This sort of power and divine ability was enough to make all those who saw him terrified.
"...anymore?"
When this last word was spoken, Dao Ren retreated. The eight children's expressions changed completely to those of fear. They moved back together… because they could see the young man taking a step forward once more, and then, right before him, was the Radix Planet!
It was a Radix Planet that was like a flight of distorted steps, and it was… the Taia Radix Planet where they were located at that moment!
The world rumbled. The ground trembled with an intensity which it had never experienced before. Intense booming sounds came from Taia Radix Planet. In the mid of them, all people including Dao Ren saw the young man in the picture before them… walking over as if he had just descended among them!
With one step, he landed on the grass.
This scene was so bizarre that Dao Ren and the others had misconception that Su Ming had walked out of the picture, but in truth, he was simply too fast. During the period of time he said those words, he had already taken three steps and moved from the Space Sealing Rune to his destination - Taia Planet!
Because of his speed, this kind of misconception had been created.
At the instant Su Ming's feet landed on the grass of Taia Planet, the complete form of his sentence finally echoed in all directions.
"Don't you recognize me anymore?"
Right when Su Ming stepped onto the grass, purple lightning spread out with a bang. With Su Ming as its center, the lightning covered the entire continent. In the span of a breath, all the green grass in the meadow became purple. As it withered away, the true form of the grass was revealed. It was a meadow filled with endless brambles!
As Su Ming's purple lightning covered the entire area, various intelligent beasts were reduced to a bloody mess. As shrill screams of pain rang in the air, their bodies shattered, and ferocious creatures crawled out from within.
Each of these beasts were incredibly ugly, and shadows of an incomplete peacock could be seen vaguely behind them. However, as they roared, they gradually prostrated themselves on the ground, suppressed so greatly by Su Ming's will that they did not dare move an inch.
It was as if Su Ming became the master of the planet at that instant. Every single spot in the purple area was controlled by his will, including the sky, the earth, the planet, the stars, and the entire galaxy.
As the purple lightning spread out, booms rang out from the eight children's bodies. Blood lines appeared at the center of their brows, and once they went down their entire bodies as if the lines had cut them into two halves, a layer of their skin melted as if it had been corroded, revealing ferocious faces of ghosts underneath the human skin.
These were not children. These were clearly eight existences that were akin to malicious spirits. At that moment, the eight people before Su Ming grew to about thirty feet tall. Blood was still pouring out from their bodies, and as their expressions twisted, eight shadows of peacocks appeared behind them. The mark of a peacock that was similar to Kong Huan's also appeared at the center of their brows.
The mighty pressure spreading out from their cultivation bases made it clear that they were all near the peak of the middle stage of World Plane Realm. These eight hideous existences were trembling violently at that moment as they roared at Su Ming together. They rushed forward swiftly, charging towards him with ferociousness.
There was madness in their eyes. They were completely deranged, without any intelligence left in them, and it made it seem as if they wanted to tear apart all their enemies.
Yet at the instant these eight existences closed in on Su Ming, he lifted his right hand and casually pushed forward.
With it, a bang rang out in the world, and the bodies of the eight creatures plummeted from the sky. It was as if there was an invisible power that had pressed down on their bodies, forcefully pushing them onto the ground.
Terror rose within the hearts of these eight hideous-looking cultivators. They might have lost their intelligence, but they still had natural instincts, and due to them their minds broke as they trembled.
At the instant Su Ming lifted his right hand, booms rang out from the eight people's bodies, which turned into wisps of green smoke. Once their bodies shattered completely, those wisps gathered together to form four green feathers that landed on Su Ming's palm.
"Master of Fate, Lives, and Deaths!"
Dao Ren glared at Su Ming. He recognized him now. This person… was Mo Su, the one he had led a team to pursue one thousand years ago! At the instant he recognized Su Ming, disbelief rose in his mind, along with fear and shock.
Without any hesitation, he made the mark of the flame at the center of his brows shine brightly, and that light immediately enveloped his entire body, making it look as if he had been set ablaze.
At the same time, three wills swept through the galaxy. As they came forward, the galaxy began to show signs of breaking. These were… three presences of Solar Kalpa Realm, and they were charging forward from the distance. Judging by their speed, in about another ten breaths, they would be able to arrive.
Right behind these three presences were two wills that exuded an ancient air, as if countless years were contained within them. They were also coming forth swiftly, and the strength of these two wills surpassed Solar Kalpa Realm. They were… close to that which belonged to the Masters of Fate, Lives, and Death.
They would only need the span of five breaths to arrive!
But that was not all. Right behind those five wills was a sigh, and it came from Taia Planet. That sigh contained a power that could control all manner of lives. At the instant it reached them, Su Ming's purple lightning froze.
"They sure are quick." Su Ming shook his head. He sent his will outwards, and as the purple lightning rumbled, it enveloped the entire Taia Planet, turning it completely purple.
A young man in red came near Taia Planet. He had a handsome face, but there were wrinkles at the center of his brows, giving him an incredibly bizarre appearance. The ancient look in his eyes gave him an air that all manner of lives was contained in his gaze, and no one knew just how many years those eyes had witnessed passing by.
He stood in the galaxy. The laws and rules in space around him were distorting, growing dull, as if a series of changes had occurred to them due to his will.
"I am Hong Sang Zi, one of the sanctified among the forces of power from True Sacred Yin World keeping a lookout over the barren lands.
"Fellow Daoist, for what reason have you come here? Pray tell. Your Essence Dominated World… can only stop me for about ten breaths, why must you do this?"
Su Ming averted his gaze from the sky as he stood on Taia Planet, then took a step forward. He did not bother about Dao Ren, who was beside him and was surrounded by flames, but walked straight towards the tent.
This was where his target was located.
Dao Ren moved back. His heart was in shock at that moment. Su Ming's strength had almost made his mind break, so there was no way he would have the courage to stop him right then.
It was also at this moment that the flaps of the tent were lifted up and the woman in long green robes walked out. When she looked at Su Ming, there was a complicated look in her eyes, along with a hint of hate, but once she saw Su Ming's face clearly, she was taken aback.
"You are not it!" The woman screamed shrilly and instantly moved back. As she formed various seals with her hands, a green sun appeared in front of her. There was a green peacock in that sun, as if the sun was brought forth once the peacock spread its tail feathers.
"I am not it, but I came here in search of you."
As Su Ming spoke calmly, he took a step forward to walk straight into the green sun. It shattered, and during that instant, Su Ming appeared before the woman. He lifted his right hand, and with a presence as well as a speed that the woman could not hope to put up a fight against… he seized her neck and lifted her into the air.
"Give me all of its feathers and physical body… or you will die. I will give you three breaths to think," Su Ming said calmly while looking at the woman.
"One.
"Two."
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Chapter 849: Disaster Befalls All
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"I… hate it!" The eyes of the woman in green whose neck was seized by Su Ming turned red. She glared at Su Ming and suddenly began laughing shrilly.
There was hatred in that laughter, along with deep enmity.
Su Ming frowned, and purple lightning immediately erupted from his right hand and enveloped the woman in green from head to toe.
As crackling sounds echoed in the air, it looked as if a layer of skin was peeled off her body, and her true form was revealed.
She had a hideous appearance that looked like it belonged to a ghost. Her hair was a mess, her whole body was covered in scars, and blood poured out from all over her. She had the mark of a peacock at the center of her brows, but what made hers different from the others was that her mark was not an illusion. Instead, it was formed by nine tiny green feathers stuck between her brows.
"As expected, it's injured. If you're here in search for its feathers, then it proves that it's heavily injured!
"My plan is a success, even if it isn't here personally, it's enough that you're here for it!" There was a forlorn expression on the woman's face, but her bloodshot eyes were shining with a brilliant light. At that moment, she looked as if she had become deranged.
"Three," Su Ming stated flatly. He ignored the woman's shrill voice ringing in the air. When he said that number, the purple lightning in his right hand shot up with a boom. A presence that could destroy all manner of lives instantly gathered. During that moment, he looked as if he just needed one single thought to kill this woman.
"I had my sword attendant bring that feather to Western Ring Nebula's foreign land. If you kill Dao Ren, I will tell you the whole truth and give you all the feathers I own!" the woman in green immediately shouted.
At the instant she said these words, a boom rang out from Su Ming's right hand, and the woman's voice turned into a muffled groan. Once he loosened his grip, she coughed up a huge mouthful of blood. When she staggered backwards, his cold voice reached her.
"I am not a sword you can use to kill others." Su Ming lifted his right hand and swung it in the direction of the woman in green. Immediately, an endless amount of Divine Essence Runic Symbols appeared on her body, covering her up as if sealing her.
"Neither do you have the right to use this to threaten me and make me attack… However, since you provided me with a clue, I will help you once, but you must pay the price for having me attack." As Su Ming spoke plainly, he lifted his right index finger and tapped the center of the woman's brows.
She started trembling violently. She could feel that the finger at the center of her brows was like a vortex that was rapidly devouring her life. In the blink of an eye, three thousand years of her life were gone. The woman might have an ugly face, but everyone could still see her becoming older. For the first time, fear appeared in her eyes.
The woman in green felt her life flowing away, and she immediately shouted out, "I know Kong Mo, and it knows me as well. You are its friend, you should…"
"It is my friend, but you aren't." A barely noticeable glint appeared in Su Ming's eyes, and once he absorbed another two thousand years of life from her, he lifted his finger away from the woman's brows. If he liked someone, that didn't mean he would also like everything that was associated with that person. In Su Ming's mind, he could have all sorts of friends, but a friend's friend had nothing to do with him.
When the woman mentioned Kong Mo, it was clear that she meant… the bald crane.
Su Ming turned around, and with a chilling gaze, he looked at Dao Ren, who was surrounded by fire. He had a feeling that this matter was not as simple as it seemed, and there was definitely some sort of secret contained within it. Based on the woman in green's words and expressions, he had already formed some assumptions.
Dao Ren's expression changed drastically. He did not expect that Wu Li Zi would want him to die, but this was not the time for him to think. Almost the moment Su Ming turned his gaze towards him, Dao Ren retreated, intending to flee without care for anything else.
He was feeling nervous, and his heart was filled with shock as well as terror. At that moment, the only thing in his mind was to flee at all cost. Intense hatred also grew within the depths of his heart for Wu Li Zi.
Right then, the entire Taia Planet shuddered, and a great will seemed about to descend from beyond the planet. This was the initial sign that the envelopment Su Ming had cast on this place was about to break.
Su Ming lifted his head and cast the sky a gaze, but he remained calm. At the instant Dao Ren took a step backwards, Su Ming lifted his right hand and pointed towards him.
A power that seemed like it could determine a person's life and death, could change laws, and overturn rules shot out with a bang from that finger. Before Dao Ren could retreat more than a couple hundred of feet, purple lightning came towards him with loud booming sounds and instantly gathered on his body.
Those booming sounds continued without stop. Dao Ren let out a roar, and the mark of the flame at the center of his brows shone abruptly. The flames around him became even brighter and started burning even more furiously to fight against the purple lightning.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
As the purple lightning gathered on him and as the booms echoed in the air, Dao Ren coughed up blood. As he staggered backwards, all the flames around him dispersed. At that moment, the purple lightning was about to descend on him once more and destroy him.
"Lord True General, save me!" Dao Ren let out shout in despair. The mark of the candle flame at the center of his brows shattered at that instant. As it crumbled to pieces, Dao Ren's body looked as if he had turned into a candle, and his soul as well as his life became flames.
From the distance, he looked as if he was no longer a cultivator, but had turned into… a burning candle!
The purple lightning came crashing on him and collided with the flames. As booming sounds surged into the sky, Su Ming suddenly walked out of the air beside the flames. He lifted his right hand. A power that felt like time gathered on his palm. It was a temporal divine ability formed by five thousand years of the woman in green's life. He seized the flames.
"These flames should be extinguished." At the moment Su Ming said these words coolly, the flames were snuffed out, and as wisps of green smoke drifted into the air, Dao Ren's life was also put out.
This was one of Ecang's origin divine abilities - Disaster Befalls All.
"Now, you can speak." Su Ming turned around and looked at the woman in green coldly.
The woman's face was pale and looked much older. This was not a gradual loss of five thousand years of her life, but an instant extraction. That was why she could not immediately regain her usual appearance.
"Sending out the feathers was my plan… and it was also something Huo Zhu… tacitly consented to.
"Our goal was to lure Kong Mo to this place. If it saw the feathers, then with how it is, it would definitely come to this place, and if it came, then it would fall into the trap Huo Zhu and I placed!
"But I am innocent, if I don't do this, then I would have been trapped in this hideous form forever. This wasn't what I wanted, all of it was imposed upon me forcefully by Huo Zhu.
"True General Huo Zhu managed to obtain a small portion of Kong Mo's physical body from some unknown place and used it to train. She also fused Kong Mo's blood and feathers in my body in an attempt search for Kong Mo's secret.
"I had no way of fighting back against it and could only endure it quietly, that's why I turned into this state, but Huo Zhu promised me that once she succeeded, she would return me my freedom.
"She wants to devour Kong Mo's soul. She is the instigator for all of this, and she also had her will descend on Dao Ren to monitor me. If you want the feathers, then take all of the nine fledgling feathers at the center of my brows. However, these are just part of all the green feathers. The remaining ones are with Huo Zhu. If you want all of them, then you must kill her!
"You've destroyed her will that descended to this place and killed her messenger. So even if there was no Kong Mo in-between, there would be enmity between the two of you now. If you kill her, you will obtain all that you want."
"If I kill her, you will also be free." As Su Ming spoke calmly, he lifted his right hand and swung it before himself. The woman in green immediately let out a scream of pain, and the nine feathers between her brows flew out to land on Su Ming's palm. During that moment, the sky rumbled, the ground trembled, and several great wills descended onto the land.
The strongest among them could almost cover the entire sky in this place. As those people descended, a sigh echoed in all directions.
"Fellow Daoist, why must you do this? This place… is not a place where you can come and go as you please." The world rumbled. At the instant the wills descended, Su Ming lifted his head. As a freezing glare shone in his eyes, an intense fighting spirit burned within him.
Up to this point, Su Ming had yet to bring forth all his power in the place where True Sacred Yin World was stationed. He had only executed part of the might of his Ecang clone. However, this portion of power had already let Su Ming come to a deeper understanding of how powerful this clone of his was.
The danger when he was Possessing Ecang became all worth it once he verified just how powerful was his Ecang clone.
"A clone that can change my entire destiny." As Su Ming mumbled, he put away the feathers. When he lifted his head, the divine thought from the old will echoed in the air, and all the purple lightning from those one hundred thousand lis at the spot where he was rose up from the ground and charged towards the wills in the sky.
There were six wills in total, and the weakest of them was in Solar Kalpa Realm. As for the strongest… it was the presence that had stirred up Su Ming's will to fight… a Master of Fate, Lives, and Death.
'With them around, it's impossible for me to head to the main camp and search for Huo Zhu. If I went there… with the power of my clone, it'd be impossible for me to leave.' Su Ming sighed in his heart. It was not that he did not want to take this risk, but this was simply a dead end. If he took that risk, there would simply be no hope winning.
Besides, once he went too deep, it would become impossible for the Ecang clone to leave under the mysterious forces of power from the four Great True Worlds whose power he did not fully comprehend.
After all, only about thirty breaths had passed since Su Ming had appeared in this place. However, within this short time, so many powerful warriors had appeared. If he dragged this on any further, more powerful people would be lured out.
'However, that person isn't really a Master of Fate, Lives, and Death. He is just close to that state.' At the instant the purple lightning from the ground crashed against the will from the sky, Su Ming took a step forward and turned into the strongest bolt of purple lightning. He swept up the lightning around him, stirring up booming sounds that shook the sky and earth.
From the distance, the layer of purple lightning seemed to draw the outline of a big tree. The lightning served as the tree's branches, and Su Ming was the trunk. He swept past the sky and crashed violently into the will up there. Booming sounds surged through the air, and as the entire planet trembled, the purple bolts of lightning dispersed, but the incoming wills were also forced to scatter.
It allowed Su Ming to rush out of Taia Planet and come back into the galaxy.
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Chapter 850: To Control Fate, Lives, and Death
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At the instant Su Ming came out, his face became pale, but without any hesitation, he took a step forward. However, right at the moment he did so, the six wills rushed at him with loud booming sounds. The one right at the end was the one in Solar Kalpa Realm, and the one right in front was the old man that was near the state of a Master of Fate, Lives, and Death.
His foot landed. When Su Ming appeared once again, he was already at the center, near the exit of the galaxy where the forces of power from True Sacred Yin World were stationed to keep a lookout over Western Ring Nebula. Yet the moment he got there, the voice of the old man chasing after him reverberated in the air once again.
"Nan, Di, La, Mi, Dong! [1]" At the instant these five syllables were spoken, a gigantic hand appeared in the air in front of Su Ming. The hand was semi-transparent, and it exuded a supreme might that contained a special law as well as a rule that charged towards Su Ming to seize him.
At the same time, another hand appeared behind Su Ming, closing in on him.
As the booming sounds echoed above and below Su Ming, two vortices appeared out of nowhere. A strange enchanting light shone within them, and faint figures of people could be seen sitting in them while meditating. These vortices pushed down on him from above and below, as if they had sealed off all of his exits.
At the moment the hands and the two vortices manifested in the air, the final syllable from the old man rose into the air with a shocking bang, as if it could replace the sounds of heartbeats of the people who heard it, causing their hearts to slow down to a pace where they had nearly stopped beating.
When these things closed in on Su Ming, the overlapping shadows of the runic symbols in his right eye shone. In an instant, they spilled out from his eye and surrounded him. The one hundred thousand runic symbols gathered about to turn into a huge purple heart.
As that heart began pumping, it collided against the hands and crashed into the two vortices as well. Booming sounds shook the galaxy, stirring up an endless amount of ripples that spread out in all directions like waves.
Su Ming's runic symbols disappeared, along with the purple heart and his body. All of them disappeared under the loud booms.
When he reappeared, he was already at the edge of the exit that belonged to the galaxy where True Sacred Yin World was stationed. Only ten thousand feet remained, and then he could leave.
Yet suddenly, the old man who was still chasing after him manifested in the space behind Su Ming. But he was not alone. During that instant, Su Ming sensed three wills that were almost on equal grounds with the old man coming from three different directions from the galaxy where True Sacred Yin World was stationed.
In fact, an even more ancient will from the depths of the galaxy gradually spread out as if whoever it belonged to had just woken up. It was a will that caused Su Ming's pupils to shrink. Right at the moment the person woke up, he immediately suppressed the might of the galaxy and the mightiness of all four wills accumulated together by the four old men.
"To control…" These were the first two words uttered by that oldest will right after he woke up. His voice echoed in the entire galaxy where True Sacred Yin World was stationed, and all those who heard it felt their hearts tremble before instantly prostrated themselves on the ground.
"Greetings, True Saint!" As these cultivators prostrated themselves on the ground, voices filled with zealousness and respect rose and fell like waves within the galaxy where True Sacred Yin World was stationed.
In fact, even the six wills of the old men as well as the three other wills near the state of Masters of Fate, Lives, and Death who were rushing forth from other places wrapped their fists in their palms at that instant.
It was also the enunciation of these two words that caused Su Ming's heart to tremble viciously, and for the first time… he coughed up a mouthful of purple blood in this place.
As he did so, Su Ming swiftly retreated. His face was pale, but his eyes were incredibly bright. This… was a true Master of Fate, Lives, and Death!
Even cultivators who were already close to becoming Masters of Fate, Lives, and Death would need to worship it.
"Fate…" The oldest and recently awakened will spoke his third word at that moment. The world instantly stopped moving, and a huge eye appeared in the space before Su Ming.
That eye was shut, but even it was closed, there was a feeling as if all space had disappeared, and the galaxy no longer existed.
While the voice still lingered in the air, the eye slowly opened. There was an endless ancient air within it. At the moment it looked at Su Ming, a bang shot up in his mind, and as he moved back, he coughed up blood once again.
In fact, during that instant, cracks appeared on his body, as if he was about to shatter. A powerful suppressive force that could not be described with words descended on Su Ming's body, as if it wanted to tear him into pieces.
This was the strongest person Su Ming had ever met in his life.
The eye shone like the embodiment of that one word from the ancient will. At that moment, it was charging swiftly towards Su Ming, as if… it wanted to seal him within itself!
In fact, Su Ming could even see a cosmos and a galaxy contained within that eye. There were an endless amount of planets inside, along with various living beings. Clearly, if he was sealed in it, he would become one of the many living beings within it.
'This is a Master of Fate, Lives, and Death, this is the true Master of Fate, Lives, and Death!' Su Ming's heart rumbled, and more cracks appeared on his body. At the moment the shadow of death enveloped him, he let out a low shout, and as the light of Divine Essence shone brilliantly in his eyes, he lifted his arms and flung them sideways.
Boom!
A gigantic tree that towered into the sky manifested behind him. The end of the tree could not be seen, and it was all purple. At the instant it appeared, it started trembling viciously, and there were Divine Essence Runic Symbols shining viciously around it. Su Ming had all his power within his Ecang clone erupt forth and crashed straight into the incoming eye of Fate.
The galaxy shattered and space fell back. As the booming sounds echoed in the air, the eye touched Su Ming's towering tree. The purple tree immediately trembled, and as it fought against it, it started showing signs of shattering. In the end, with a loud bang that shook the entire galaxy, the eye disappeared. Su Ming's Ecang tree also disappeared. He tumbled backwards as he coughed up blood. With a few steps, he moved out of the region where True Sacred Yin World was stationed and stepped into Western Ring Nebula. Then, without any hesitation, he shifted and disappeared without a trace.
It was also during that instant that the ancient will said its fourth word.
"Lives…"
Su Ming, who was in Western Ring Nebula, was forced out of his shift. He coughed up his fourth mouthful of blood, and a dried up, shriveled palm appeared under him. That palm seemed to be moving so slowly that it did not seem to be moving at all, but as Su Ming moved forward, it started growing endlessly bigger, as if… it could grow as big as the galaxy.
A great sense of danger warned Su Ming that he absolutely could not allow the palm under him to surpass him, or he would definitely die.
Yet no matter how far he fled, the palm continued expanding. It was already so great that its end could not be seen. As the echo of that last word echoed in the air, ferociousness appeared on Su Ming's face. He lifted his hands and seized the air of the galaxy around him. Immediately, Western Ring Nebula shook. If one were to describe the entire Western Ring Nebula as a piece of gauze, then as Su Ming seized the air, it was as if he had yanked up the entire cloth to fight against the fourth word.
With loud booms, the fragmented Western Ring Nebula became even more broken. Su Ming's eyes were crimson. As he spread his arms wide open, he spared no pain in spreading his will outwards. This particular move was him revealing all one hundred thousand of his galaxies in Western Ring Nebula.
This was an act that meant he would be fighting against this galaxy with all he had. At the instant he spread his will outwards, Western Ring Nebula began trembling violently. An endless amount of planets shivered, and an innumerable amount of living beings prostrated themselves on the ground.
"Winter!" Su Ming let out a low shout and started retreating nonstop. With one step, he disappeared, and with another, he reappeared, charging towards Western Ring Nebula's foreign land. A layer of ice instantly appeared under his feet, and in the blink of an eye, it spread out to cover the endless galaxy, freezing all parts his will touched.
"Autumn!" When Su Ming's voice echoed in space once again, all the frozen parts of the galaxy melted. The will of autumn representing cold and heat as well as life and death spread out in all directions, forming his Life Matrix of winter and autumn to fight against the incoming palm.
He moved away once again, disappearing one moment and reappearing the next.
"Summer!" Su Ming said. This was the summer Life Matrix which he had yet to completely master. Right then, in this life and death crisis, Su Ming activated this part of his Life Matrix.
Death disappeared, and life appeared in abundance. There were raging flames burning the galaxy at that instant.
Booms rang out in the galaxy. When Su Ming disappeared once again and reappeared later, he had left the exit of the region where True Sacred Yin World was stationed far behind himself and returned… to the core of Western Ring Nebula, where Western Ring Nebula's foreign land was located.
At the instant he returned to the place, the palm that had stretched out from the region where True Sacred Yin World was stationed had already moved from under Su Ming's feet to cover the galaxy. If anyone stood in Su Ming's place and looked down, they would not be able to see a black galaxy any longer, but a boundless palm that looked like a continent.
The palm lines on that palm were like ravines. If sweat ever went down it, then they would become huge rivers. The spots where the palm lines intersected were the plains.
The palm stretched out endlessly and looked as if it had an endless amount of living creatures on it. It was as if the palm itself was a world, and this scene was enough to make all those who saw it to feel shock.
"And Death!" At the instant the ancient voice said the final word, the endless palm under Su Ming's body started curling its fingers into a fist. The galaxy where its fingers swept past would shatter, and with an indescribable speed, it quickly moved to form a fist.
'So this is the true meaning of those who control fate, lives, and death!'
Su Ming's heart trembled. Blood trickled out of the corners of his mouth. He had already been injured badly, but an epiphany appeared in his mind. This epiphany was something that was impossible for him to gain unless he faced a Master of Fate, Lives, and Death himself. Later, this epiphany could even point him towards a path for him to become a Master of Fate as well, if there was enough time.
It was very difficult for people to gain value from this sort of serendipity, because all those who came face to face with this would die without exception, unless they had the same level of cultivation themselves.
This was a suppression based on levels of cultivation, a difference of strength that could not be changed even if a person had a supreme treasure on his or her person.
This sort of epiphany caused Su Ming's footsteps to freeze at the moment he was just about to enter Western Ring Nebula's foreign land. His face was pale, but his eyes were shining brightly. He looked at the incoming palm and at his own injuries. The other person's divine abilities appeared in his mind.
None would be able to survive before a Master of Fate, Lives, and Death. In fact, if Western Ring Nebula's foreign land did not exist, even if Su Ming had an Ecang clone, he would still die.
However, the existence of Western Ring Nebula's foreign land could make Su Ming the first and perhaps the only person who could survive and receive an epiphany before a Master of Fate, Lives, and Death.
This chance was like a sudden serendipity!
Translator's Notes:
1. Nan, Di, La, Mi, Dong: No meaning, just a chant.
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Chapter 851: Avacaniya [1]
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The gigantic hand covered the vast galaxy, and also enveloped the numerous cracks in Western Ring Nebula's foreign land. At that moment, as the palm swiftly furled into a fist, understanding appeared in Su Ming's eyes as he stood at the edge of a crack. He looked at the five fingers coming towards him and looked at how the galaxy was swiftly replaced by the palm that was swiftly furling itself into a fist.
Booming sounds surrounded the entire area, and wherever the fingers passed, the galaxy would look as if it was about to shatter. The final word of the declaration to control fate, lives, and death was still echoing in the air, and a power that was strong enough to destroy all lives seeped out continuously from the palm.
The galaxy trembled, and the cosmos scattered. This was a mighty power that was inconceivable, and so it enthralled Su Ming. He seemed to have forgotten that he was in danger and that if the palm seized him, he would be destroyed from then on… even if he possessed the purple Ecang clone.
He could not tell whether time was flowing quickly or slowly. It was as if all laws regarding time could no longer be found. This lasted for only one breath, but also seemed like an endless passage of time. The palm furling itself into a fist had replaced space itself, and by then had almost completely formed a fist.
Booming sounds echoed in the galaxy. From the distance, this was an incredibly shocking sight. The vast palm seized the entire Western Ring Nebula's foreign land. In fact, if anyone looked over, they would not be able to see Western Ring Nebula's foreign land. There was only a gigantic palm that was swiftly furling itself into a fist.
Su Ming looked at the incoming fingers from above, and he saw ravines as well as plains that were growing bigger continuously as they swiftly charged towards him.
"To control fate, lives, and death…" As Su Ming mumbled, the palm completely furled into a fist, and during that instant, he moved back and stepped into the crack leading to Western Ring Nebula's foreign land.
At the instant he stepped inside, a muffled bang that sounded as if the galaxy had shattered spread swiftly in all directions. That was… the noise once the palm completely formed itself into a fist.
That was an impact caused by the power that could crush everything.
A ring-shaped ripple appeared out of nowhere and tumbled backwards into all areas. Wherever it went, booming sounds would surge into the sky. That ripple was like a surging wave. As it continued spreading out, the boundless galaxy was filled with distorted ripples… as if the universe was about to be destroyed, as if all lives were about to die.
Yet during that instant, a furious roar came from inside the fist. That roar contained a domineering presence, an air that looked down on all manner of life, along with a supreme, mighty presence as well as an overbearing attitude, as if the owner of that roar placed itself above all. The roar swiftly spread out.
"Get lost!"
At the instant that roar traveled outwards, the gigantic fist suddenly trembled. As it did, power erupted from inside the palm. The strength of that power seemed to want to push open the fingers… as if it was a soul that the palm could not hope to destroy.
"Begone!"
As the enraged roar still lingered in the air, a second roar immediately came from the fist. The voice was sharp, but even though it was piercing to the ears, it still contained an endless domineering and mighty air, as if all wills had to submit to this voice, or else they would be wiped out for showing any sign of disrespect.
As that voice spoke up, the huge fist started trembling again, showing vague signs that it could not remain clenched.
"Damn you, you ant! How dare you come to this place and offend us Ecang?! Go away!" The third furious roar immediately came out and shook the entire galaxy.
"So what if you're a Master of Fate, Lives, and Death, how dare a cultivator like you stretch out a hand before us?! Leave this place!" a fourth roar rang out in space.
The palm trembled even more furiously. The five fingers were forced to raise themselves as they shivered. The furious howls grew in number as the fifth, sixth, and up to the seventh voices shouted at the same time.
"All of you lives are mere ants. The universe is all but emptiness to us. In the endless passages of time, you are not the first person who has dared to offend us, but you are the first fool who dreamed of destroying us."
"How dare a mere Master of Fate, Lives, and Death who doesn't even have his own True World come to this place?! You're just asking for death!"
"Go back to the place you sleep. This is not a place where ants like you can destroy!"
Booming sounds rang violently. When the seventh roar echoed in the air, the five fingers of the gigantic hand were forced to unfurl as booming sounds travelled out from within the fist. As it trembled, signs of destruction appeared, as if the palm could not fight against the seven roars that symbolized the seven wills.
"Heh heh, boy, what is your name? You are quite the brave one. Do you dare tell me your name? I will remember the mark of your life, and when I move out, the first one I will devour will be you." The eighth voice rose with a loud bang. The degree of destruction on the palm became even more intense, and the five fingers were completely stretched out.
"All those who offend us Ecang must die!" The ninth voice brought with it endless madness and killing intent. As it traveled out with loud banging sounds, the palm was torn to shreds. Three of the five fingers were separated from the palm, and as they fell away, they turned into ashes.
"Master of Fate, Lives, and Death, you can come out from the region where True Sacred Yin World is stationed for my life, but this place… is my galaxy. How dare you… still not shatter!"
The final voice belonged to Su Ming.
At the instant his voice traveled outwards, the final two fingers from the already shattering palm crumbled to pieces, revealing Western Ring Nebula's foreign land, which had been encased earlier. At the same time, ten wills erupted forth from the endless cracks leading to the foreign land, turning into an indescribably mighty impact that charged straight into the broken palm.
This was not Su Ming's will alone, but all ten of the Ecang wills within Western Ring Nebula's foreign land having their full power burst forth once they detected danger.
In this place, they were invincible existences. In this place, no form of life could destroy all of them completely in one go. In this place, they were the symbols of the strongest in the universe.
Booms rang out, shaking the entire universe. The palm continued shattering. There was not a single existence that could provoke Ecang. This was Ecang's pride and dignity. They could devour each other… but if any outside force intended to destroy them, it would be faced with their frenzied retaliation.
This was the reason why Su Ming dared to try and understand his opponent's method of controlling fate, lives, and death despite being in danger. As long as he returned to this place and his enemy still dreamed of killing him, then what would fall onto their head would be the counterattack of all ten Ecang souls.
In the face of such retribution… even a Master of Fate, Lives, and Death was nothing!
Loud booms surged into the air. During that instant, a large portion of the palm shattered, revealing the complete Western Ring Nebula's foreign land, and also revealing… a gigantic tree shining with ten-colored light while towering over the universe.
Ten colors surrounded the tree and exuded a presence that could destroy all lives. As furious roars echoed in space, the ten wills used the simplest method to crash into the crumbling palm, without even using any form of divine ability.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The palm that had stretched out of the region where the forces of power from True Sacred Yin World was stationed shattered inch by inch. The speed of its destruction was so quick that in the blink of an eye, the portion of the palm around Western Ring Nebula's foreign land shattered. As the destruction spread out, anyone who stood at a spot where they could see the entire Western Ring Nebula was able to see clearly that half of the gigantic hand had already disappeared while it continued shattering and disappearing even more.
As a large portion of the palm vanished, the galaxy that had been enveloped by the palm showed up once again. The planets that had been hidden away revealed themselves once more, and in the span of a few breaths, the destruction of the palm had reached the area near to the region where the forces of power from True Sacred Yin World were stationed.
Only a small part remained of the previously boundless hand. However, its destruction had not ended. Three breaths later, the palm that had stretched into the Western Ring Nebula was completely reduced to ashes, and the destruction of the palm finally extended into the area of the palm covering the region where the forces of power from True Sacred Yin World were stationed.
Booming sounds spread out. The galaxy trembled. The destruction from the palm finally extended to the main camp, which was located in a vortex. Once the entire palm was destroyed, the ten wills still didn't seem to be done. Just as they were about to continue destroying the vortex formed by countless planets, three divine thoughts that were on equal grounds with the ancient will that had gone after Su Ming's life spread out with a bang from that vortex.
"Enough, leave this place!"
"Neither you nor we from the four Great True Worlds have disturbed each other, do not think that we really can not destroy you!"
"You have not recovered, broken entity! If we summon our Sublime Paragon from the four Great True Worlds, you will be destroyed!"
These three divine thoughts echoed in space at the same time, shaking the area beyond the vortex. Only after some time did the sounds gradually calm down.
In the depths of the vortex in the main camp was a planet filled with black earth. Within it was a never-ending mountain range. That mountain range looked normal, but if anyone took a closer look, they would discover that it was in the shape of a human.
It was a human lying on the ground!
At that moment, that person's eyes were slowly falling shut. As booming sounds rang through the world, he closed his eyes completely, and at that instant… his right hand shattered.
"To control fate, lives, and death means to have everything in our grasp… Yet, how are we supposed to seize control of a being that is beyond the boundaries of fate?" A murmur echoed in the planet.
"In the Realm of controlling fate, lives, and death, I have only managed to reach the Realm where I can control. I do not know whether I will have the chance of stepping into the Realm of the Rise and Fall of Fate… much less the Realm of Life, which is the Reincarnation of Life, and the Realm of Death, which is the Death of the Universe.
"Master of Fate, Lives, and Death, Rise and Fall of Fate, Reincarnation of Life, and Death of the Universe. These are the four great Realms.
"There is no end to the path of cultivation. Each word, each flower, each leaf, and each world. Each of these words are gems, and each of these words will last for eternity. There is also the Sublime after the four great Realms, as well as… Avacaniya.
"Is there a Realm after Avacaniya..? There should be… because there is no end to the path of cultivation." A sigh traveled through the entire planet.
Within the world of the one hundred thousand stone monuments in Western Ring Nebula's foreign lands, all the cultivators opened their eyes and woke up. During the moment just now, they had all fallen asleep. They woke up confused, not knowing what had happened.
In the space where they could not see, the ten Ecang souls were growling and sending out their thoughts at that moment.
"Purple, all of this is because you provoked them to come here."
"Purple, you first killed our tributes, then lured Blue's primarily chosen to offend you. Just what are you doing?!"
Translator's Notes:
1. Avacaniya: The Sanskrit for 'not to be spoken' (不可言). The English form was a little too underwhelming.
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Chapter 852: I Need Stimulation…
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"Purple, if it wasn't because your soul weren't still that of Ecang, I would suspect that you were Possessed by a tribute!"
"It doesn't matter whether you were Possessed or not, Purple, your soul is still that of Ecang. If you aren't Possessed, then fine, but even if you are, and you're no longer the previous Purple we know, it doesn't matter to us. You just need to keep the promise made between the ten Ecang souls."
"Before we are fully recovered and have fused together to decide who will be the one who will dominate over the rest, do not go and provoke other Masters of Fate, Lives, and Death outside, and do not bring trouble to us."
"What if someone comes to this place to provoke me?!" Su Ming's divine thought immediately rang in space.
"We are Ecang. If they provoke you, then it means that they have provoked us. If they insult you, then it means that they have insulted us. If someone comes here, we will fight back with our full strength!"
"All right!"
After listening to the divine thoughts of the nine souls, Su Ming fell silent for a moment, then agreed to this matter. In truth, he had long since noticed that the nine souls had become suspicious of him. However, his soul belonged to Ecang. Because of that, even if they knew that he had Possessed the purple Ecang, they were still fine with it.
This was the Abyss Builders' inborn talent, a power that gave Su Ming a feeling that it was growing more mysterious with every new thing he learned about it. He also had a sense that Abyss Builders were an existence that even surpassed Ecang.
'Ecang is a form of life that forms its soul from a Sublime Paragon's soul and devours Divine Essence to be born, and I… Possessed Ecang to be strong.' Su Ming pulled back his divine thought and opened his eyes while remaining seated in the one hundred thousand purple galaxies.
'The power of a Master of Fate, Lives, and Death certainly shocked me.' Su Ming looked at the purple hue in the galaxy, and determination appeared in his eyes.
'The rise and fall of fate, and the lives of all manner of living are in one hand… Before I Possessed Ecang, I didn't know whether I would ever be able to understand this Realm, but with this Ecang clone, I will be able to head down this legendary path.'
Su Ming slowly closed his eyes, covering the determination in them, but the act of shutting his eyes did not manage to hide the obsession in his heart.
'When I fuse with the other nine Ecang souls, I will be able to surpass this Realm.' Su Ming did not say these words. He only quietly thought them at the instant he closed his eyes.
When Su Ming's Ecang clone closed his eyes, his other clone that practiced the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows Whole opened his eyes in the purple galaxy.
He was sitting cross-legged in space. When he opened his eyes, no determination or obsession could be seen. There was only a profound look in his eyes that made them seem like bottomless pits. If anyone took a closer look into them, they would be able to vaguely see overlapping shadows of runic symbols in the right eye, while a palm was swiftly forming in his left eye.
That palm was a mere illusion, but after Su Ming had survived under the hands of a Master of Fate, Lives, and Death, he had obtained an epiphany, and this palm was the result of that epiphany. The palm was changing its motions endlessly as Su Ming continued trying to understand his epiphany.
After a long while, he lifted his right hand and looked at his palm, as well as the palm lines on it. After a moment, he swung his right hand, and a green feather in it.
This was the one and only feather he had gained after fusing all the green fledgling feathers he took from Wu Li Zi's brows.
There was no blood on it, but at the instant the feather appeared, the image of a green peacock manifested in space, as if Su Ming was not holding onto a feather, but a peacock.
Su Ming looked at the feather, then lifted his left hand to strike the storage bag. The sleeping bag immediately turned into a ray of dark light that appeared in front of him.
The dark creature had its eyes closed and still did not show any signs of waking up, but at the instant it appeared, the dark light on it shone even more intensely. At the same time, the green peacock in Su Ming's right hand started screeching, as if it had run into a great enemy.
In Su Ming's senses, these two creatures were clearly from the same source, but their current actions caused his eyes to sparkle. He had formed a guess in his heart previously, and right then, he became somewhat certain of his guess.
The dark light from the bald crane burst forth. As it shone furiously, it turned into a black crane. That crane did not have its eyes shut, but they were unfocused. As it let out a piercing screech, it charged towards the green peacock.
The peacock also let out a screech before charging forward. The two birds immediately crashed into each other before Su Ming. There were no sound of collision. In silence, they looked as if they had begun merging with each other. It might seem like a quiet and calm process, but Su Ming could feel that this fusion was akin to an act of devouring.
It would be either the bald crane devouring the green peacock, or the peacock devouring the bald crane.
However, since Su Ming was around, he would definitely not allow the green peacock to succeed. He let out a cold harrumph and lifted his right hand to point swiftly at the green peacock's body as the two of them continued devouring each other.
At the instant he pointed towards it, the green peacock let out a shrill screech of pain. Its body collapsed and turned into bits of glittering green light that were instantly absorbed by the bald crane.
This process lasted for about two hours, and after that, the bald crane's body trembled. Its shut eyes showed signs of opening, but it seemed that the amount of power gathered was not enough, since it could not fully open its eyes.
There probably was still a little bit of power left required for it to fully open its eyes, but if it did not have the power to open them, then it would mean that it would not be able to wake up.
"I… need… sti…" As the bald crane struggled, it said these three syllables with a great exertion of strength. Its eyelids, which had moved apart to form a small crack, seemed to have lost all strength, and looked as if they were about to fall shut once again, causing the signs of it waking up to also disappear.
Su Ming's expression remained the same as usual. He looked at the bald crane and said flatly, "Stop pretending, the green peacock was enough for you to wake up. I don't have crystals anymore, so I can't give you the stimulation you need."
He said that, but the bald crane looked as if it hadn't heard it. As its body trembled, an expression of struggle appeared on it, as if it was gathering all its strength to not fall asleep again, but it could not do so. Its eyes fell shut at that moment, and a feeling that it had fallen into deep slumber spread out from its body.
Su Ming's gaze became focused. The bald crane did not seem to be pretending, and Su Ming could not accept it if the bald crane could not wake up due to crystals. He had risked danger to enter the region where the forces of power from True Sacred Yin World were stationed and had only been able to obtain the green feathers after barely escaping death when a Master of Fate, Lives, and Death chased after his life.
When he saw that the bald crane was about to wake up but was going to fall asleep again, he lifted his right hand and pressed down on his storage bag without any hesitation. Immediately, the hundreds of spirit stones remaining in his storage bag were all brought out.
The quality of these spirit stones were incredibly good, and they were the last of Su Ming's savings. After all, with the bald crane around, it was incredibly difficult for Su Ming to even keep the crystals he had by his side…
It could be said that all his money was in his hands at that moment. However, to give the bald crane the stimulation it needed, Su Ming had to bring out these spirit stones. Almost at the instant these sparkling spirit stones were brought out from the storage bag, the bald crane looked as if it had sniffed their scent… even though crystals had no scent.
However, it was clear that the bald crane could somehow sniff them. Its nose twitched slightly, and it looked as if new strength had immediately appeared within it. As it trembled, it struggled to open its shut eyes, as if it wanted to look at the crystals it was besotted with.
The strength of that newborn power seemed to provide support for the bald crane wake up from its coma. When it opened its eyes with great difficulty, it cast a glance at those crystals with sparkling eyes, but when it saw that there were only hundreds of them, it instantly lost all its strength and looked as if it was about to enter into deep sleep once more.
"The stimulation… is not enough… I need… more stimulation…" The bald crane continued speaking haltingly and looked as if it was incredibly weakened, but Su Ming could clearly see the spark in its eyes. That was clearly the appearance of someone who was highly alert and full of vigor.
"How much stimulation do you still need?" Su Ming snorted coldly in his heart, but his words were spoken in a relaxed manner.
"I… need… one thousand… no, ten thousand- One hundred thousand!" The bald crane struggled to not let its eyes fall shut, and it looked even more weakened.
"Is one hundred thousand enough? Do you want more?" Su Ming asked softly.
The bald crane was momentarily stunned, but soon, it looked as if strength had returned to its body, as if Su Ming's words were as effective as all forms of medicinal cores.
"Then… give me… one million."
"Mhm, go on ahead and continue sleeping."
Su Ming stood up and swung his right arm in the air before him. The hundreds of crystals immediately vanished, placed back into the storage bag. Once he did so, he turned around, intending to leave.
A shrill screech of pain tumbled out of the bald crane's beak at the instant Su Ming turned around. It seized its chest with its wings and narrowed its eyes into mere slits, looking as if it was out of sorts.
"You… how cruel… I… am going to fall asleep. Farewell, Su Ming, I'm going to sleep."
Su Ming walked into the distance.
"I'm really going to sleep!" the bald crane quickly shouted.
Su Ming moved even farther away.
"I'm really, really going to sleep!" the bald crane screamed wretchedly and closed its eyes completely. Its body fell to the side and begun to float in the galaxy, unmoving, looking exactly how it did when the bald crane had been in deep sleep.
Su Ming's figure could almost not be seen.
"Well, damn you!" The bald crane opened one eye and glared at Su Ming's already indistinct figure as he continued walking into the distance.
"I used my life to help you Possess that Ecang, and you're not saving me even if I'm about to die?! Y-y-you… You're going overboard! It's just a few crystals, just external objects, just… ah…"
The bald crane was mumbling furiously under its breath when it suddenly saw ripples appearing around Su Ming, who was already in the distance. When it saw that he was about to leave the galaxy, it abruptly let out a scream and instantly opened its eyes. At that moment, there were no signs of weakness on it, and it clearly had a look as if it had been infused with a great boost of energy.
"Hey, I'm alright now. That's strange, why did I suddenly become better? Haha, I, Grandpa Crane, have recovered. I am me again!" As it shouted loudly, it swiftly flapped its wings and flew towards Su Ming before crashing head first into those ripples. As Su Ming disappeared, it also vanished.
Its smug laughter alone continued echoing in the galaxy. It fell into the ears of Su Ming's Ecang clone in the distant cosmos. The Ecang clone did not open his eyes, but a hint of a happy smile could be seen at the corners of his lips.
"Hey, Su Ming, where are you taking me? Let me tell you, I'm not going to a place without crystals!"
"Black Ink Planet. Not only does that place have crystals, it also has a part of your physical body there. You can choose not to go."
"I'm going! There are crystals and my physical body there! Darn it all, I'm definitely going! Say… you're too slow. Just watch me, I'm fast."
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Chapter 853: Return to Crimson Flame Planet
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The galaxy had no end. Its boundaries could not be seen, and it only had that monotonous color scheme filling the entire area. If anyone looked at it for a short period of time, they would think that it was slightly beautiful, but if they looked at it for a prolonged period of time, they would not be able to help but feel lost, as if they did not know where they were.
Their insignificance of their own self compared to the vast galaxy would usually deliver a powerful impact on a person.
At that moment, there was a long arc charging through Western Ring Nebula. That long arc could almost not be seen clearly, because its color was similar to that of the galaxy. They were both black.
There was a dark light within that arc, and it was a black crane. The smug expression on its face and the nasty look in its eyes belonged solely to the bald crane; no other crane possessed this look in the whole universe.
Within the dark light was also a red coffin. There were runic symbols on it that formed bumps, giving the coffin a rough surface. They exuded a mighty pressure. Su Ming sat cross-legged on the coffin, meditating with his eyes closed.
The Duke of Crimson Flame was by his side like an old servant. He was looking around vigilantly, no longer indifferent towards everything like before.
This was the sixteenth day since they left Western Ring Nebula's foreign land.
Perhaps it was due to the appearance of a Master of Fate, Lives, and Death as well as his subsequent fight against Su Ming, but during those sixteen days, ripples had appeared nonstop in Western Ring Nebula, which was why all the cultivators in that galaxy had been terrified and did not dare to move out of their planets. Because of this, everywhere Su Ming had passed during these sixteen days had been very quiet.
He liked this type of silence.
Western Ring Nebula was rather far from Black Ink Planet. Unless his Ecang clone ventured out, he would be unable to get there within a short period of time with his own speed.
However, once the bald crane woke up and used the Divinity Incarceration Rune which had been reactivated, their speed became much faster.
According to Su Ming's estimations, he would need about six years before he could see Black Ink Planet.
However, before he left for Black Ink Planet, he still had one more thing to do. Once he settled this, he would no longer have many burdens left in Western Ring Nebula.
Three more days passed. On the nineteenth day since Su Ming had left Western Ring Nebula's foreign land, he opened his eyes slowly while seated on the coffin.
At the instant he did so, a planet appeared before him. That planet was dark red, like the color of a ball of flame that was about to die.
"Crimson Flame Planet…" Su Ming said softly.
"Crimson Flame Planet… so we've returned to this place."
The Duke of Crimson Flame had a rather sentimental expression on his face. In the blink of an eye, one thousand years had passed. When he thought back on the things that had happened, a slightly dazed expression appeared on his face.
The bald crane gradually shrank. At the instant the crimson coffin closed in on Crimson Flame Planet, it returned to its normal size and landed in front of Su Ming before sticking its head outward.
Boom!
The red coffin descended straight into Crimson Flame Planet. At the instant it touched the highest layer of wind in the planet, a sea of flame that was born due to the friction spread out in an arc in front of the coffin.
A strong gust of hot wind crashed into Su Ming's face. That wind was strong enough to crush all cultivators in Heaven Cultivation Realm. In fact, a normal cultivator in the initial stage of World Plane Realm would need to use Enchanted Treasures for some extra protection; they could not use their physical bodies alone to touch it. However, Su Ming remained calm. The hot wind blew against his body and lifted his hair, but did not manage to move him even in the slightest.
He watched quietly as the ground gradually grew bigger in front of him, watched as the mountain ranges, ravines, plains, and volcanoes grew larger before his eyes.
He continued watching until a booming sound echoed in the air. The coffin on which Su Ming sat shot through the highest layer of wind in the place, and the hot air immediately became weaker, though it still existed. However, it was no longer able to harm cultivators. It would only cause them to feel uncomfortable.
As he breathed in the familiar hot air and looked at the familiar ground, Su Ming could not help but remember his past self from one thousand years ago, when he had just appeared in Crimson Flame Planet.
He sighed softly. As his body remained in midair, ripples spread out from him, and he disappeared along with the coffin.
When he reappeared, Su Ming stood on a dried-up piece of land. It was empty all around him, without a single person to be seen. It was clear that the place where he was located was a rather remote area.
He looked at the ground. This place was the spot where he had lain when he was shifted to this place from Yin Death Region. It was also in this place that he met Yue Hong Bang.
He remained silent for a moment. Just as he was about to leave, Su Ming saw the bald crane digging by the side. He remembered that this spot was the place where it had turned into a stone in the past. As he watched, he saw that once the bald crane dug out a small pit in that spot, it brought out three crystals.
"Heh heh, I knew they would still be here. I knew it, I'm a smart crane. I hid these three crystals here in the past just to be on the safe side. Since we're now passing by this place, I might as well take them away.
"Let me think whether I should take away the crystals I hid away in the other places as well…"
That smug expression, that act of immediately taking away the crystals with excitement, and especially those murmurs made Su Ming's understanding towards the bald crane's love for money to become even greater.
He then stopped paying any attention to the bald crane and cast a look at the Duke of Crimson Flame. When he saw the nostalgic look on his face as he looked at the ground, Su Ming knew what the Duke of Crimson Flame was thinking of, and he sent a thought to the old man.
The Duke of Crimson Flame lifted his head and looked at Su Ming before he wrapped his fist in his palm and bowed to him. Then, he turned around and disappeared to head to the place that had sealed him in the past.
After the Duke of Crimson Flame left, Su Ming took a step forward and left as well, leaving the bald crane alone in that place as it was still thinking about whether it should take away all of its crystals.
When Su Ming reappeared, he was standing before a small hill. He looked at it. There was a cave abode in there, and beyond it were an endless amount of densely packed blue stones. At first glance, there was no end to them.
However, this place was already covered in dust. It had been a long time since anyone came to this place. The cave abode had also been deserted. Someone had destroyed the cave from within. It might still look like a hill, but in truth, this place was already ridden with wounds.
Or else someone would have definitely occupied this place after it was abandoned for so many years.
This cave abode had belonged to Qi Bei Shan in the past, and those blue stones were items that Su Ming had asked Yue Hong Bang to find for him one thousand years ago.
'So many blue stones… Hundreds of years must have been used to gather this amount. I wonder how is Yue Hong Bang now, and is the Crimson Python Phoenix still around..?'
Su Ming shook his head. As he spread his divine sense outwards, he covered the entire Crimson Flame Planet. After some time, Su Ming found that he could not find any traces of the Crimson Python Phoenixes.
They had clearly left this place.
However, Su Ming did find Yue Hong Bang.
To the northeast was a continuous stretch of mountains, one of which towered all the others. That mountain was crimson, and was clearly not any ordinary mountain. Instead, it was a volcano whose magma had already cooled.
There was a karst cave within the frozen magma at the foot of the volcano, but it was filled with putrid water. The water was black, and there were even bubbles appearing in it, as if it was boiling.
In that puddle of water was a man, submerged up to his chest.
His arms were pierced through by chains, and those chains were connected to the walls on both sides of the cave. Waves of sealing power constantly seeped into the man's body through the chains. As they suppressed his power, they also delivered excruciating torment upon him.
The man's hair was a mess and his body was thin. He looked disheveled and incredibly pathetic. His eyes were closed, and his face was covered in rotting wounds. There were maggots squirming about in them, so anyone who saw him would not be able to resist vomiting on the side.
That man did not know how many years it had been since he was submerged in this place. In fact, most of his body in the puddle of water had already decayed. However, his life force hadn't yet dispersed. There was still a hint of it left. Clearly, this was done intentionally by someone because they did not want him to die.
The man did not move. If it was not because there was still a hint of life within him, it would be incredibly easy to think that he was a corpse. Occasionally, waves of power would spread out from him. These waves… did not belong to those in Heaven Cultivation Realm, but were… waves of power in World Plane Realm.
He was a Lord of World Plane!
He might only be in the initial stage of World Plane Realm, but there was no mistaking this presence.
Footsteps arrived from the area outside. After a moment, the light from an oil lamp approached him. It was a young man dressed in black. Once he placed the oil lamp by the side, he sat down cross-legged beyond the puddle of water and looked at the man who was sealed.
"Have you thought this through?"
The hanging man did not move, and neither did he say anything. He merely kept his eyes closed and his head lowered.
"That person has already disappeared for one thousand years and hasn't showed up from Western Ring Nebula's foreign land. He is already dead, so why are you still protecting a dead man's secret?
"As long as you say it, my Master will immediately let you go. In fact, with your level of cultivation, you will immediately become one of the three masters of Crimson Flame Planet, an existence that can be on equal ground with senior Mei Lan."
The man still did not move, as if he was dead.
"Even if he isn't dead, so what? He's trapped in Western Ring Nebula's foreign land, and it's impossible for him to venture out. Even if he does, he has the forces of power from the four Great True Worlds going after his life. He'll be too busy fending for himself, so why are you still protecting his secret?
"Tell me why Mo Su gathered the blue stones in the past. Tell me how he absorbed the power within the blue stones and made his physical body so strong!
"Tell me and you'll be free. If you don't tell me, you'll continue being sealed in this place and live while enduring a fate worse than death!" The young man's face twisted into a ferocious expression as he shouted at the man.
The man's head moved slightly, and he slowly lifted his head, revealing a face that was ridden with scars. He opened his eyes and stared fixedly at the young man with his dull eyes.
"Your Master has already searched through my soul. If he didn't manage to find an answer like that, I have nothing to say to him either." There was a deep-seated hatred laced in that voice, and his words tumbled out of his mouth as if he was gnashing his teeth while speaking. The atmosphere between them instantly became gloomy.
"Hmph, that's because you have a method to protect your memories. If it wasn't because you knew Mo Su's secret, how could you have become a Lord of World Plane from a mere cultivator in Heaven Cultivation Realm within such a short period of time?" The young man's face remained ferocious as he stared at Yue Hong Bang. After a long while, he swung his arm, turned around, and left with the oil lamp.
His expression was dark. In his heart, he remembered that his Master had assigned him to this place to keep watch over the prisoner. Master's birthday was near, and he originally wanted to obtain an answer from Yue Hong Bang as a present, but the man continued to refuse saying anything, and he decided that once he celebrated his Master's birthday, he would think of some other ways to torture Yue Hong Bang.
Yue Hong Bang watched the young man leave and gradually closed his eyes. He did not know of Su Ming's secret, but the young man refused to believe in this sort of thing, because Yue Hong Bang had indeed become a Lord of a World Plane within a short period of time, but that was his own secret. If he told it to the young man, he would die.
If that was the case, it would be better if he did not say anything, then perhaps he would have a chance of survival.
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Chapter 854: Yue Hong Bang's Liege
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Yue Hong Bang sighed and closed his eyes again. He knew that the torture he would have to suffer would only increase, but he was confident that the other would not let him die, because when he died, there would truly be no secrets left in him.
However, besides doing this, he could really not think of any other way. If he said it, he would die, and if he did not, he could survive, but the pain of living would make him feel as if his will was about to disperse.
At the instant he closed his eyes, an indifferent voice suddenly spoke airily in the karst cave.
"Just what sort of secret do you have?"
Yue Hong Bang instinctively remained silent and ignored that voice. He thought that the youth had come once again, but suddenly, his body trembled, because that voice did not belong to the young man, but to a person that he knew a long time ago.
At the instant Yue Hong Bang shuddered, the voice spoke once again.
"It's been many years since we last met, and you've become a Lord of a World Plane. Congratulations are in order."
Yue Hong Bang's body trembled, and he opened his eyes to see a young man in white standing before him. That young man had gray hair and a handsome face, but the ancient air about him could not be hidden. That young man… was looking at him calmly at that moment.
"My… My Liege?" Yue Hong Bang trembled even more furiously. He could almost not believe what he saw, but the person's face and expression were the exact same as those from long ago.
Because of it, he became even more certain that this was not a hallucination, but he remembered clearly that Mo Su had been forced into Western Ring Nebula's foreign land one thousand years ago, and only a handful of people could survive that place during the endless passage of time.
"This is payment for what you did for me in the past," Su Ming said flatly, and he lifted his right hand to swing it at Yue Hong Bang. Immediately, the chains on his arms shattered inch by inch with loud cracking sounds. Before they fell into the puddle of water, they turned into ashes.
In fact, even the puddle of water in which Yue Hong Bang had been submerged in dried up and revealed his body, which no longer looked like that of a human.
Su Ming cast a glance at Yue Hong Bang's wretched body, and though his expression remained as calm as ever, he let out a cold harrumph in his heart. Yue Hong Bang was an intelligent person, and he was skilled at seizing the right opportunity. He knew when to take action, and when not to.
This sort of person would usually have a lot of selfish motives. When he acknowledged Su Ming as his lord in the past, he did so to obtain Su Ming's protection. He had even spared no pains and killed most of his companions without leaving any trace to prevent anyone else from discovering the secret that he was a first-generation criminal in this place.
Because of that, he became the only person who knew about Su Ming, and he also preserved a path of escape for himself after he acknowledged Su Ming as his lord. In fact, to obtain Su Ming's trust, he had given Su Ming the Enchanted Vessel he used to protect his life to show his firm loyalty.
This sort of vicious and ambitious person was usually disliked by others, but that was mostly by those who could not stop such them. Jealousy would rise within them, and they would not want this sort of person to exist beside them. They would constantly think that such a person was a lurking threat.
However, in Su Ming's eyes, this person had been very obedient while following him, and even if he left, from the number of blue stones, he could tell that this person had continued obeying his orders for hundreds of years. It was also clear that he had stopped only because he was imprisoned in this place.
That was why it did not matter to Su Ming how this person was. It did not matter to him whether he was ambitious or spiteful. He was obedient, and that was enough, but this obedient person had been tortured to this state. Su Ming might not pity or have compassion for the treatment he received these hundreds of years, but he was a person who protected those close to him.
"I will not allow anyone to harm those who are mine as they please," Su Ming said flatly, and he swung his right hand at Yue Hong Bang once again.
With it, Yue Hong Bang, who had fallen to the side, immediately felt a wave of life force surge into his body. Flesh and blood instantly grew on him, and in the blink of an eye, he discovered to his shock that his body had recovered instantaneously. In fact, his cultivation base had become even more refined and profound. A presence which belonged to the initial stage of World Plane Realm erupted with a bang from within him.
Yue Hong Bang lowered his head to look at his own body. He clenched his fists, and a feeling that he had control over great power rose madly in his heart. This sort of strength was something that he had never possessed. The refreshing and relaxing feeling of having life force fill his entire body formed a stark contrast to the torment he had suffered for hundreds of years, causing him to be barely able to constrain the instinct to lift his head and roar.
He looked at Su Ming excitedly, but the emotion in the depths of his heart was completely different from the expression on his face. Su Ming had become so powerful that Yue Hong Bang was terrified of him. With just a swing of his arm, Su Ming had healed him, and killing was a much easier act compared to healing someone. From this alone, it was clear that Su Ming only needed to swing his arm to kill him.
"Thank you for saving me, My Liege!" Without any hesitation, Yue Hong Bang immediately knelt down and worshiped Su Ming. The excited expression was put on his face for Su Ming to see, and his trembling body was his respect, which he could not suppress.
"I heard that someone intends to hold a feast to celebrate his birthday. Come with me to take a look," Su Ming said calmly, then turned around to walk to the entrance of the cave. Yue Hong Bang quickly followed behind him, his heart racing in his chest. He had understood what Su Ming meant, and a powerful desire filled his heart. He had suffered for hundreds of years, and now, he was finally going to make the other pay.
'Zhao Guang You, I will make it so that you won't be celebrating your birthday!'
Mountain ranges rose and fell. Not far away from the mountain where Yue Hong Bang was sealed was another one. At that moment, there were many voices talking at once at that place. Most of the cultivators in Crimson Flame Planet had arrived and were waiting to present their gifts during the birthday celebration three days later.
This was the birthday feast of the strongest person in Crimson Flame Planet at that moment. That person had suddenly come to Crimson Flame Planet one thousand years ago. With the power of a cultivator at the peak of the initial stage of World Plane Realm, he overpowered Mei Lan with brute strength and sealed Yue Hong Bang, who had just become a Lord of a World Plane. With a single move, he became the strongest in the planet, occupying the land and building his sect there.
From then on, this place practically became the sacred land in Crimson Flame Planet.
At that moment, Su Ming was strolling confidently up the stairs up the mountain where the sect was located, heading straight to the top. He looked at the cloudy sky and the mountain range in the distance with his usual calm expression.
Yue Hong Bang was behind Su Ming with an incredibly respectful face as he followed with his head bowed.
The two of them were not walking quickly. On their way up, they saw quite a number of cultivators sitting around the area meditating. These cultivators were located in various parts of the mountain range and were waiting for the birthday feast three days later.
As Su Ming and Yue Hong Bang walked over, several cultivators who were sitting cross-legged were speaking to each other in low murmurs, but when one of them cast their gaze casually to the side, he was suddenly taken aback when he saw Yue Hong Bang behind Su Ming.
Only when Su Ming and Yue Hong Bang were already in the distance did he let out a cry of surprise.
"Yue… Yue Hong Bang! That person just now was Yue Hong Bang!"
"What? Yue Hong Bang? Wasn't he imprisoned and sealed by Sir Zhao Guang You hundreds of years ago?!"
As that person spoke, the expressions of the cultivators by his side immediately changed. When they looked over, they could only see Su Ming and Yue Hong Bang's backs.
Gradually, more people noticed Yue Hong Bang walking to the top of the mountain. After all, this person was a local of Crimson Flame Planet, so it was difficult for them to forget him in just a few hundred years. Slowly, a commotion rose up, and as it spread among the people, more learned of what was happening.
"It's indeed Yue Hong Bang, but who… who is that person in front of him?"
"Judging by how Yue Hong Bang is behaving, the person in front of him deserves extreme respect. That person… why is he somewhat familiar?"
"I find him somewhat familiar as well, but I can't remember where I've seen him before… But if Yue Hong Bang is so respectful towards him, then this person… Ah! I remember now!"
"Mo Su! He's… Mo Su!!"
In an instant, when someone mentioned Mo Su's name, a loud buzz went through the mountain range as everyone began speaking. The shock that came straight from the depths of their bodies and souls caused all the people to think of far too many things. They remembered the scenes from one thousand years ago, as well as the commotion that was brought upon the entire Western Ring Nebula due to this.
"Something big is about to happen. Sir Mo Su is Yue Hong Bang's liege, and Sir Zhao Guang You imprisoned Yue Hong Bang for hundreds of years. Sir Mo Su has returned now, and they will definitely have a dispute over this!"
"I didn't expect that Sir Mo Su would actually manage to walk out of Western Ring Nebula's foreign land. This… This will definitely shock the forces of power from the four Great True Worlds keeping a lookout over this place, it'll definitely cause a new disaster in Sinful Barren Lands!"
Long arcs swiftly rose into the air and charged towards the direction where Su Ming and Yue Hong Bang were at the top of the mountain, but they did not dare to come to close to them. They still remembered how Mo Su from one thousand years ago had killed countless people. It was said that wherever he went, he would cause planets to collapse, and none of the cultivators in those planets survived.
At that moment, at the top of the sect built in the mountain was a hall on a piece of rock. Crimson Flame Planet's strongest person, Zhao Guang You, was sitting on a big chair. He was dressed in a long robe with dashes of blue and white on it, and he appeared to be a middle-aged man, but his face was filled with pitted scars, making him look rather ugly. He was looking at the eight young men in front of him.
These eight people were the disciples he took under his wing in Crimson Flame Planet. All of them were incredibly handsome. As he looked at them, a strange light appeared in the depths of Zhao Guang You's eyes.
"Master, more than three thousand people came to send you gifts. There are still more coming as well. After all, this is a major event that causes a stir in the entire Crimson Flame Planet. Master, I hope to wish you in advance that you will have endless years and you will live throughout the ages."
With his disciples wishes upon him, Zhao Guang You laughed loudly and swept his gaze across them before fixing his eyes on the last person among the eight.
"Has Yue Hong Bang spoken?"
"Master, that person… That person still hasn't said anything. It's my fault for being so worthless." The young man whom Zhao Guang You was looking at lowered his head. Naturally, he was the young man who had appeared before Yue Hong Bang earlier.
At the instant he said those words, uproars and the sound of something breaking suddenly came from outside the hall. The noise that rose and fell was incredibly strong.
Zhao Guang You frowned.
"What is going—" Before Zhao Guang You could finish speaking, a loud bang rang out beyond the hall. As the sound shook the ground, a sinister voice rushed into the hall.
"Zhao Guang You, I'll never forget how you treated me during those hundreds of years. We will settle our matter later. Today, my liege has arrived, now come out and pay your respects to him!"
This was Yue Hong Bang's voice. In an instant, the expressions of the eight young men in the hall changed at the same time, while Zhao Guang You let out a cold harrumph.
"Your liege? I didn't even know that you had a liege!" As Zhao Guang You took a step forward, he turned into a long arc and looked as if he was just about to fly out of the hall, but during that instant, his expression suddenly changed drastically, because he had just remembered the liege Yue Hong Bang spoke about.
Based on what he knew, Yue Hong Bang had only one liege, and he was… Mo Su, the man for whom the four Great True Worlds had offered a reward, and the man Zhao Guang You had once joined a group to hunt down. However, he had been scared away by the amount of blood the other had spilled.
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Chapter 855: Temperamental
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Zhao Guang You remembered clearly that because he had been late to the fight one thousand years ago in Heavenly Treasure Planet, he had been outside the ocean of wind as he witnessed the crazed slaughter.
Those in Heaven Cultivation Realm all died, and plenty of other cultivators didn't leave alive either. Aside from that one cultivator in the middle stage of World Plane Realm, it was as if every other person had to die before Mo Su.
The sight of a hunter turning into a hunted had shocked Zhao Guang You. If he had not reacted to the situation quickly enough and decisively chosen to immediately leave Heavenly Treasure Planet, he would have probably been one of those who had died as well.
Heavenly Treasure Planet had been torn to pieces and reduced to ashes, but under that terrifying strike, Mo Su had once again appeared in Western Ring Nebula, and the shock it brought to Zhao Guang You was incredibly great.
He was one of the very few people who had managed to survive after witnessing Su Ming's attack, that was why after the other was forced into Western Ring Nebula's foreign lands, he chose to come to Crimson Flame Planet.
He saw the might of Su Ming's physical body and wanted to search for the reason behind it. He had heard about Su Ming gathering blue stones in Crimson Flame Planet to absorb them, and he tried to do it as well, but failed.
However, he was the first powerful warrior to arrive in Crimson Flame Planet, and was also the first to imprison Yue Hong Bang. From then on, there were quite a few powerful warriors who came to Crimson Flame Planet in search for the reason behind Su Ming's strength, but they were the same as him and did not obtain any answers.
As one thousand years passed, fewer people came, and it was especially so during the last few hundred years. Practically no one came to this place. It was as if Mo Su's name had already been forgotten.
Zhao Guang You did not harbor any hope anymore. The imprisonment of Yue Hong Bang had been without much purpose, just because he was a reminder. After all, if Zhao Guang You had still cared about it, he wouldn't have thrown the task of watching that place to his disciple. In his heart, he saw no point to it anymore. He had already done everything that he could do, but he still did not obtain any answer.
In fact, in his mind, Crimson Flame Planet was a good place, and he had already decided to stay here for long, which was why he had built his sect here and taken in disciples.
However, he did not expect that he would run into Mo Su here, the man who had terrified him in the past. This was something he never thought about. In his mind, all those who stepped into the foreign lands were dead men, since it was so rare to see anyone walk out alive. In fact, even if they managed to come out, they required at least several thousands or ten thousand years to do so.
Even if Mo Su managed to come out, he would definitely be cautious, because the four Great True Worlds had yet to cancel his bounty. If they could chase him down the first time, then they could do so a second time, and all the times after.
Yet now… only one thousand years had passed.
Yet now… this person had appeared in Crimson Flame Planet in such a brazen manner!
Almost at the instant he registered what was going on in his head, Zhao Guang You's expression changed rapidly. His body came to an abrupt halt just as he was about to fly out of the hall, and he turned around to immediately change his direction and retreat.
He did not fly out of the entrance. Instead, as he retreated, he shot up and rushed straight towards the roof of the hall with a bang. In the mid of that booming sound, he tore through a hole in the hall and charged out from within.
Dim sunlight scattered on the ground. At the moment Zhao Guang You appeared on the roof, the first thing he saw were the thousands of cultivators standing close to each other far away from the area, and immediately after, he saw Yue Hong Bang, who was not only healed, but was also standing with all of his cultivation base restored and refined.
Then, he saw… a figure that made his heart tremble furiously, and the one thread of hope remaining in his heart wishing that he would be lucky was shredded to pieces.
The figure was dressed in white and had gray hair as he stood there allowing the mountain breeze to blow against his robes. His face was handsome, but exuded an ancient air, and he was naturally the person whom Zhao Guang You found impossible to forget, and who was buried deep in his memories after terrifying him all those years ago - Su Ming!
"I see, so it's you." Su Ming placed his hands behind his back as he stood at the top of the mountain. The booming sounds from the roof of the hall echoed in his ears as he looked at the person who had flown out. Su Ming had seen this person before. He was one of the cultivators who had fled from Heavenly Treasure Planet from fright.
At the moment he heard Su Ming's words, Zhao Guang You felt his skin crawl, and he was almost terrified out of his wits, because at the instant he heard Su Ming's voice and looked over, a loud bang rang out in his heart, and his mind went blank. The only thing that remained in his head were Su Ming's eyes.
Those were a pair of eyes that shocked him. It was as if they could suck away his soul and make him lose his consciousness. In fact, he could feel that Su Ming could damn him for eternity with just one thought.
This was an incredibly distinct feeling, and it was clearer to Zhao Guang You than anything before.
'He's not in the initial stage of World Plane Realm. He-he's definitely different from one thousand years ago. He couldn't make my heart tremble with just one gaze back then. He… Just what sort of serendipity did he obtain in the foreign land?'
Zhao Guang You's body trembled, and right after, without even having time to speak, he swayed and coughed up a mouthful of blood. It turned instantly into blood mist, and he chose to flee without even fighting.
This was not any ordinary form of escaping either. This was a frenzied escape where he flung all caution to the wind and even injured himself to execute an Art that allowed him to instantaneously reach the horizon.
Since he was a cultivator at the peak of the initial stage of World Plane Realm, the thousands of spectators burst into a commotion due to his actions. They had originally expected a great battle. After all, in their eyes, while Su Ming was strong, Zhao Guang You had been a supreme existence during the hundreds of years that were nearing a thousand he was in Crimson Flame Planet. That was why in their minds, Zhao Guang You's strength was not to be questioned. However, the scene unfolding before their eyes immediately overturned their beliefs.
"Paragon Zhao is… He's running away?"
"He's definitely thinking about executing a powerful divine ability in the sky. It's impossible for him to immediately run without even attacking."
"Nonsense. He's clearly running away. Sir Mo Su is so strong that he can make a cultivator in the initial stage of World Plane Realm choose to not fight but flee by sacrificing his blood."
The thousands of cultivators in the area were not the only ones shocked by this. Zhao Guang You's eight disciples in the hall also had their mouths hanging open in shock. They stared at Zhao Guang You turning into a ray of blood-red light that fled madly into the sky from the hole that appeared on the roof in the hall. Their Master, who was an incredibly powerful existence in their hearts… was running away pathetically.
In fact, he looked as if he did not even dare to say a single word. It caused the shock in the eight disciples hearts to change into astonishment and fear, especially that of the young man who had kept an eye on Yue Hong Bang. His face had instantly turned pale.
When Yue Hong Bang saw that Zhao Guang You was about to disappear, anxiety appeared in his heart, but he did not dare to chase after him rashly. It was not because he was afraid of Zhao Guang You, but because Su Ming had not said even a single word by his side.
"He's a clever one, at least," Su Ming remarked flatly. This person had escaped the disaster in Heavenly Treasure Planet with that intelligent mind of his, but he should not have set his eyes on Su Ming.
Su Ming did not do much. His left eye only shone once, and immediately, the mark of the palm which he had formed in his left eye through the epiphany he had gained after he survived the attack of a Master of Fate, Lives, and Death disappeared.
In the next breath, the sky roared, and the dim heavens tumbled about to reveal a sight that caused all those who saw it in the area to cry out together in surprise. Zhao Guang You's eight disciples also looked as if they had instantly lost all their strength, and despair appeared on their faces.
Even Yue Hong Bang's breathing quickened when he saw this scene. As his pupils shrank, his heart filled with shock and disbelief.
At that moment, as the clouds tumbled about and ripples were formed in the sky, a huge palm replaced the sky and appeared before everyone's eyes.
There was no end to this palm, and it completely replaced the sky, making it seem as if there was a giant standing in the galaxy, right outside Crimson Flame Planet, and he was striking the planet with his palm.
The sky rumbled, and the heavens twisted. The gigantic palm was Su Ming's epiphany. At that moment, the epiphany gained form, and the palm descended as if it was falling from the sky. As it pressed down, it looked as if a sea of fire had risen up due to friction, causing the sky to burn.
As the palm swiftly descended, a loud bang rang out in the sky. The fleeing Zhao Guang You's body formed from the blood-red light. His face was distorted in shock. With a piercing scream, his body plunged down as he tried to avoid the palm from seizing him.
Su Ming shook his head. The understanding he had was still not enough. The palm only possessed an outline and did not have much power. It was impossible for it to be compared with that of a Master of Fate, Lives, and Death, but its appearance could be used to scare others.
"Kill him."
Su Ming averted his gaze from the sky. When he spoke lightly, killing intent shone in Yue Hong Bang's eyes. He had been waiting a long time ago for Su Ming's orders. At that moment, he let out a prolonged shout towards the sky and rose up, turning into a long arc that charged towards Zhao Guang You, who had been shaken by the palm in the sky and was currently retreating.
"That person is already scared out of his wits. He might be slightly stronger than you, but he won't be able to bring out his full power. I will give you the span of ten breaths. If he doesn't die by then, you will die with him. I do not need weaklings under my wing."
Su Ming's voice was calm, but there was a ruthless tone within it that caused Yue Hong Bang's heart to tremble. He did not suspect the truth of that statement at all. Once he witnessed Su Ming's strength, he once again remembered the other impression Su Ming had left in his mind all those years ago.
Temperamental.
His heart shuddered, and Yue Hong Bang clenched his teeth tightly. His eyes immediately turned bloodshot, and with a low growl, he rushed towards Zhao Guang You. He had to give everything he had in this fight. If he did not manage to kill this person within ten breaths, then he himself would die with the other. This was not something he could choose, and neither did he have time to dawdle. Even if he would be severely injured, he had to kill Zhao Guang You.
In this bout of madness, besides respect, he also felt terror towards Su Ming from the depths of his heart. This terror would accompany him for the rest of his lives, and it would not leave.
'Is this how the superior are..? There were four superiors recorded in Yue Family's scrolls, and the experiences of the older generations of the family while dealing with them were recorded in the scrolls as well. The first was a forthright person, and the second a somber one. Yue Family's Progenitor was that somber person. This sort of person was easier to serve, since those who are forthright are easier to get close to. The third was temperamental, and the fourth was also temperamental. The first of the two pretended to be emotionally volatile, and the second... was born this way. It didn't matter which sort of temperamental person they were, they were incredibly difficult to serve.' Yue Hong Bang's heart was filled with anguish, but he did not have time to think much about this at that moment. With red eyes, he closed in on Zhao Guang You.
Su Ming closed his eyes. He did not pay any attention to the battle in the sky.
Time passed. Booming sounds echoed in the air, and eventually, during the tenth breath, a shrill scream of pain traveled through the air. When Su Ming opened his eyes, Yue Hong Bang returned to him with a head whose face was filled with despair. It looked as if there was fire burning on Yue Hong Bang's body, and there were many parts of him that had turned into a bloody mess. When he knelt down on the ground, he coughed up a mouthful of blood. There was a dispirited look on his pale face.
It was clear that he had only won after burning his cultivation base, gave it his all, and executed his family's strongest divine ability.
At the moment he knelt down, one word echoed in the deepest recesses of his mind.
'Temperamental…'
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Chapter 856: Who Is It?
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"When I appear in your memories once again, you will remember me, and you will then truly become my subordinate." Su Ming raised his right hand and tapped the center of Yue Hong Bang's brows.
Yue Hong Bang's injuries were immediately healed, but a dazed expression appeared in his eyes, and he slowly fell to the ground.
Su Ming swung his right hand, and a gentle gust of wind immediately swept through the area. It gushed forth in a manner as if there was nothing in the world that could stop this wind spreading out. It did not matter whether it was mountain ranges or cave abodes, all the geographical structures in the land with cultivators around seemed as if they were just illusions.
All the cultivators that the piercing wind touched instantly began shuddering no matter what their levels of cultivation were. A dazed look appeared in their eyes. All their impressions and memories about Su Ming vanished into the wind.
As the cultivators fell on the ground unconscious. In the blink of an eye, Su Ming became the only person who remained standing in the mountain range.
The wind continued spreading out. With this place as the center, the wind spread through the entire Crimson Flame Planet. This was a windstorm aiming to wipe off all memories regarding Su Ming, as if he had never existed in Crimson Flame Planet no matter whether it was the past or the present.
In fact, even those who had died and were now soul fragments drifting in the world had their fragmented memories wiped off. The parts in their minds where those memories had existed turned into blank slates.
As the windstorm swept outwards and spread out continuously, Su Ming took a step towards the sky. With it, he disappeared. When he reappeared, he was standing on a mountain.
There was a small house made of stone at the top, and an old woman was sitting cross-legged in there. She stared at the door of her house. There was a dismal expression on her face, as if she was waiting for something.
Su Ming walked forward, and when he arrived outside the house, the wind he had stirred up earlier had already swept past most of Crimson Flame Planet. In another few breaths, it would cover the entire planet.
Su Ming pushed open the door to the house, and the door swung open with a creak. He did not go in, but stood outside the house. His gaze met the old woman's.
"You still came here, in the end." The old woman was Mei Lan, and she was also the source for the creation of the Blood Identification Pearls when the four Great True Worlds extracted her memories.
"I'm here." As Su Ming spoke calmly, he walked into the stone house and sat on a chair by the side.
"I'll thank you if you allow me to die in a more dignified manner." The old woman closed her eyes. Once she finished saying these words, she stilled.
Five breaths later, the windstorm finally covered the entire Crimson Flame Planet, and all the cultivators in the planet forgot about Su Ming, their memories taken by the wind. This was an irreversible erasure of their memories, and they would not be able to recover it.
Crimson Flame Planet was the start of Su Ming's journey in the Barren Lands of Divine Essence, that was why certain mysterious aspects had appeared in the planet, such as the possibility of forming the Blood Identification Pearl through the memories of the people in this place.
When Su Ming eventually left Crimson Flame Planet, all those who had once seen him would no longer be able to form the Blood Identification Pearl through their memories about him. This divine ability was related to the power of Plane Kalpa Realm, and the mysteries contained within it could not be described with words.
Once the windstorm spread through the entire Crimson Flame Planet and gradually vanished to allow the planet to return to a state of peace while all the cultivators remained in deep sleep, Su Ming walked out of the house. He cast a final glance at Crimson Flame Planet and turned around to stroll towards the sky.
Gradually, a crimson coffin manifested around him. Su Ming stepped on it and walked into space. Two long arcs flew up from the ground. One of them was the Duke of Crimson Flame, and the other was the bald crane. They caught up to Su Ming… and vanished into space with him.
"Damn it all, those jerks! I've hidden crystals in about seven to ten thousand places, but they… they… the crystals in two spots where I hid them were gone… I can't believe it!
"I'm so frustrated! I absolutely can't hide crystals anymore, it's not safe, and it's far too easy for me to lose them. My heart hurts, Su Ming! My heart really hurts!" The bald crane had an expression that its heart was aching terribly, and by the looks of it, it was not pretending. It was really feeling that its heart was bleeding from emotional pain.
Its hurt lasted for so long that the bald crane still had a distressed expression on its face and looked as if it was in anguish even after Su Ming left, as if it had lost the most precious thing in its life.
Ten breaths after Su Ming left Crimson Flame Planet, the first to open his eyes was Yue Hong Bang. A perplexed look appeared in his eyes, as if he knew that something had happened, but when he thought about it carefully, he found that there was a person missing in his memories.
That person's figure was indistinct, and no matter how hard he tried, he could not remember him. When he lowered his head, he saw Zhao Guang You's head in his hand.
Soon after, more people woke up, but all of them were the same as Yue Hong Bang. There was a person missing in their memories, along with his name.
On a mountain in a stone house was an old woman sitting cross-legged inside. She gradually opened her eyes, and there was a dazed look within them. After a moment, she sighed lightly.
"I can't remember."
She did not die.
Crimson Flame Planet still had its set trajectory, and it was still moving about that trajectory. However, in all of the people's memories, a series of events had been eternally wiped off. It was just as Su Ming had told Yue Hong Bang earlier, if Yue Hong Bang could remember, then he would truly become Su Ming's subordinate.
If he could not, then they would no longer have anything to do with each other.
Su Ming sat cross-legged on the red coffin in the galaxy as he meditated with closed eyes. Time trickled by. One year, two years, three years, up till five years passed.
During the course of these five years, Su Ming headed swiftly towards Black Ink Planet. Occasionally, he would shift using the power of the Rune, increasing his to travel speed by a lot.
As of then, he was almost at the borders of Black Ink Planet. With just a little more time, he would be able to enter its area. The amount of time they spent getting to this place was slightly shorter than what Su Ming had expected.
The Blood Identification Pearls had lost their effect, so no one could track Su Ming any longer. The bald crane had also fused with the Divinity Incarceration Rune, so that particular method of using the Rune to track him down no longer posed a threat to him as well.
Perhaps only if a Master of Fate, Lives, and Death covered the entire Western Ring Nebula with their will would they possibly be able to find Su Ming. However, he did not run into any True Guards on his way to Black Ink Planet, and neither did he hear the four Great True Worlds mentioning anything about him again.
Su Ming was well-aware of why it was so.
During his trip to the region where the forces of power from True Sacred Yin World keeping a lookout over Western Ring Nebula were stationed, Su Ming had killed Dao Ren and demonstrated his might. He also managed to survive after a Master of Fate, Lives, and Death chased him down, and had even caused a stir in the entire galaxy.
He refused to believe that they did not know who he was. Even if Dao Ren, who recognized him, had died, Wu Li Zi was still around. True Sacred Yin World must already know that he was the Mo Su that they had chased after in the past.
'So they've given silent consent to my continued existence, huh?' Su Ming opened his eyes.
'Or are they gathering up a new storm..? No matter what, the feud between me and the four Great True Worlds hasn't ended.' With a calm expression on his face, Su Ming closed his eyes once again.
He might have done so, but it was not silent around him. During these past five years, Su Ming had come to know just how good the bald crane was at talking nonstop.
"My heart hurts… Oh, my heart hurts. Su Ming, my heart hurts! Say, I've hidden them so well, you know, so why did the crystals in two spots go missing..? Nine of them went missing, just like that…" The bald crane's voice traveled through the air, and the crane sounded as if it was beating its chest in anguish.
The Duke of Crimson Flame quickly closed his eyes and pretended he did not hear anything.
"I've lived a pitiful life of saving up by cutting down my expenses, of running about searching for crystals. I've worked hard and kept constant vigilance over these years, but… but why did I lose them..? I can't accept this. This is the first time I lost my crystals, my heart aches…
"Su Ming, my heart is already hurting so much, why aren't you giving me a response?" Even after chattering away for half a day, the bald crane did not feel thirsty. It simply looked at Su Ming with eager eyes.
Su Ming ignored it.
"Su Ming, I burned my soul for you in the past. You still owe me one million crystals! Y-y-you… My heart is aching so much I can't handle it, and I need comfort, but you're not even speaking to me… My heart hurts…"
"I've given you eighty-six crystals during the past five years!" Su Ming frowned and opened his eyes to glare at the bald crane.
When the bald crane notice that Su Ming was responding, it was immediately filled with energy and even its fighting spirit began to burn, making it clear that it wanted to argue with him for a long, long time.
"That's not the same thing. If you gave those crystals to me, then those are the things you gave me, but the ones I lost… are forever lost. Even if I get ten billion crystals in the future… I should actually have ten billion and nine crystals." The bald crane seized its chest, and based on its expression, it could be seen that this problem had been troubling it during the past five years.
Su Ming forced down the irritation that had risen in his heart after being tormented by the bald crane for five years and said flatly, "Then go and snatch nine crystals."
"But even if I snatch them, I would still have lost nine crystals."
"Then go steal some more."
"Even if I steal, I still would have lost them."
"Go pick some up!"
"Where to? Even if pick some up, I still would have lost them…" The bald crane put on a long face.
"Then what do you want to do?" Su Ming let out a long sigh. He could tell that the bald crane had not been making a fuss out of nothing during these five years, but was really troubled by this. To the bald crane, who would consider itself to have lost crystals if it did not see any when it ventured out, truly losing nine crystals would definitely be a disaster to it.
"Let's go back to Crimson Flame Planet. I want to search for them again. I swear I'll definitely find the person who stole my crystals." The bald crane ground its teeth in anger.
"We're almost at Black Ink Planet." Su Ming sighed again.
"I have a feeling that if we go to Black Ink Planet, I'm going to lose more crystals. This feeling is incredibly strong, very, very strong. The closer we get to Black Ink Planet, the stronger this feeling gets, and I can't stand it anymore…"
The bald crane was using every trick in its disposal to speak and emote with great feeling. It did not have any sort of premonition that made it feel like it was going to lose its crystals, but at that moment, it did not know that its nonsensical words right then would turn into a heartache very soon which would drive it crazy for the rest of its life.
"... Hmm? Who's that? What a familiar presence."
As the bald crane continued speaking, it was suddenly taken aback and let out a light gasp. It could sense all the things within a very large area, since it had fused with the Divinity Incarceration Rune.
A focused glint appeared in Su Ming's eyes. He fused his Atman into the bald crane's Divinity Incarceration Rune, and immediately, the large galaxy showed up clearly in his mind. In a place that was rather far away from where they were, Su Ming saw… a snake-like beast whose body was rotting away but was not dead struggling forward while filled with the aura of death.
By the looks of it, it was on the verge of death and already had one foot in its grave. Before long, it would die.
Behind it were hundreds of cultivators. There were moths under their feet, and they were chasing after it while letting out strange cries. These cultivators were dressed in rags, but there was a fierce light shining in their eyes. The person in the lead was a woman. She was thin and tiny, and there was dirt on her face, making it so that no one could see her true appearance. However, she was the fastest among them. There was a string of bells on her wrist, and every single time they swayed, the galaxy would distort and the beast before them would let out a pained roar.
At the instant Su Ming saw the snake-like beast, he was stunned.
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Chapter 857: Xiao Huang
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The Abyss Dragon let out a sad cry. It was exhausted, with little strength left in its body. After it had all of its power taken from it, its life after it was sent to the Barren Lands of Divine Essence had been filled with hardships during these past one thousand years. In fact, there were even a few times when it had nearly died because it was severely wounded.
It if was not because it still had some of its physical power left and the other Abyss Dragons going against the wills of their Progenitor and True Sacred Yin World by leaving it some methods to defend itself when it was banished to this place, it would have died a long time ago.
After all, the Dragon Tendon which gathered all its Qi and allowed it to possess great physical strength had been extracted from its body. Without the Dragon Tendon, it was as if it had been reduced from a dragon to a snake, and it had lost everything.
As of then, it could only bring out power that was equivalent to those in Man Cultivation Realm, and this was due to its people helping it in secret. During the thousand years, it struggled to live in agony, and from its initial refusal to yield, it had descended into despair.
The repeated escapes and roars at the heavens when it was alone filled its heart with madness and hatred. This madness was not against Yu Xuan, and the hate was not aimed at the Berserkers in Yin Death Region, but was instead… aimed towards the Emperor of Abyss' True World… as well as the Abyss Dragons' Progenitor.
The dragon had risked death to bring Yu Xuan back, but had ended up in this state. It was loyal to the Abyss Dragons, but had its Dragon Tendon taken from its body. It was a creature that had prided itself for being a part of the Emperor of Abyss' True World, but had its power completely abrogated by that same Emperor of Abyss' True World.
It hated them!
Yet aside from hating them, it could do nothing else, because it did not have sufficient power. With a level of cultivation that was only equivalent to those in Man Cultivation Realm, it did not have enough strength to protect itself in the Barren Lands of Divine Essence, and since it had lost its Dragon Tendon, its level of cultivation had not increased during these one thousand years… no matter how hard it tried.
It could only have its life run its course in the Barren Lands of Divine Essence.
If it was not a dragon, then perhaps things would have been slightly better, perhaps things could still change and it would not have ended up this way. However, it could not transform and could only appear as a pathetic Abyss Dragon, and this, to many people in the Barren Lands of Divine Essence, meant that its body was full of treasures.
Its flesh could provide nourishment to all those that ate it; its scales could be turned into an armor if someone gathered them together and fused their power or could be turned into Enchanted Treasure; its blood had the power of a spirit stone once it was dried; and its organs were the greatest supplement to cultivators.
Its bones were even more precious, for they could be turned into extremely powerful Enchanted Vessels.
Its brain could allow others to learn the Abyssal World's Arts if they gained an epiphany through it.
In fact, even its soul had its uses. If it was refined by a powerful warrior, it could be sealed in an Enchanted Treasure and turned into a Vessel Spirit.
It was a miracle that this Abyss Dragon that had no power to protect itself could survive for a thousand years.
During this time, the Abyss Dragon had thought about dying many times. From its initial fear and despair, it had gradually become apathetic, and in the end, death and living lost their importance to it. Compared to living in agony like this, it would be better to just die and gain freedom.
However, when such thoughts befell it, it always remembered the Abyss Dragon that helped it by quickly telling something before the banishment took place. There were numerous alien races within the galaxy behind Black Ink Planet. However… there was also a serendipity there that could turn something decaying into something miraculous. If there was a place which could allow its cultivation base to be restored in the Barren Lands of Divine Essence… it would only be Divine Essence Star Ocean!
That was why during these one thousand years, the dragon had continued flying without stop, wanting to reach Black Ink Planet and head to Divine Essence Star Ocean.
However, all of this had now turned into a mere dream.
Yet there was still unwillingness to admit defeat in the depths of its heart. This refusal to give in was an obsession that not even time managed to take away. The dragon hated the Emperor of Abyss' True World and wanted to take revenge on that world. It wanted to return to the Abyss Dragons and win against the Abyss Dragons' Progenitor.
It also wanted… to meet its young mistress once more and hear her call its name.
However, it knew that this was impossible. Forget even being able to leave the Barren Lands of Divine Essence, this disaster of being chased by the cultivators alone was something it could not escape from.
The howling behind it continued nonstop. The weird shouts and killing intent had locked onto the dragon firmly. Its speed was not fast to begin with, and the people behind it had those moths under their feet. It… could not escape.
Its will gradually became clouded. The pain in its body made it unable to tell the source of the pain. It was as if there was not a single part in its body that did not ache. As blood poured from its body, the strange yells from the cultivators behind it became something that urged it forward, the echoes of the bells especially sounded as if they brought death in their wake.
The dragon still remembered that it had only wanted to rest for a little while when it passed by a floating group of meteors in the galaxy three days ago. It had not shown any ill-will, but the meteors actually served as a cave abode for a group of cultivators. When they appeared with those moths under their feet, the Abyss Dragon had even degraded itself by trying to curry their favor while begging to leave.
Yet what it got in exchange was a chase after its life that lasted for three days. It could tell from the desire and murderous light in the pursuers' eyes that they… had recognized that it was an Abyss Dragon, and they… wanted to devour it alive.
There were four Lords of World Planes among these cultivators and there was even one who was at the middle stage of World Plane Realm. Even when the Abyss Dragon was at the peak of its condition, it had never reached this state. When it was in Yin Death Region, it had only attained completion in the initial stage of World Plane Realm. With its cultivation base and its physical body of an Abyss Dragon, it could have somewhat put up a fight against those in the middle stage of World Plane Realm, but it could not have won against them.
However, the powerful warrior in the middle stage of World Plane Realm had not personally joined in the chase. Instead, the other three cultivators in the initial stage of World Plane Realm had led nearly one hundred cultivators and initiated this hunt for its life that lasted for three days.
In truth, the Abyss Dragon could sense that they did not really need nearly one hundred people to chase it down. Any one of the three cultivators in the initial stage of World Plane Realm could kill it within an instant. In fact… most of the one hundred people could do so as well.
However… they did not do it. Instead, it was as if they were intentionally toying with it. They only chased after and forced it to continuously flee, so it would use up its strength. At this point, the dragon was like a dying ember, only instinctively escaping forward. It had already lost all power to fight back.
The strange cries in its ears sounded like mocking laughter. The bell chimes were like an illusion that made the Abyss Dragon's consciousness become increasingly more clouded.
Wherever it went, blood would spill into the galaxy. Its vision blurred, and its eyes were about to fall shut at any moment. The howling sounds were closing in from behind. Whenever its blood spilled, someone from the near one hundred cultivators would immediately fly out and use a jade bottle to pick it up.
Laughter came from the near one hundred cultivators behind the Abyss Dragon. The laughing was a young man who had just collected the dragon's blood, and he said with mirth towards the woman in front, who had the bells tied to her wrist. "Lady Yu Luo, the Abyss Dragon's consciousness is about to scatter. The hunt this time was very interesting."
"Abyss Dragons are incredibly precious in the Emperor of Abyss' True World, so it's difficult to find any who would venture out, much less enter the Barren Lands of Divine Essence. It must have offended the influential powers in the Emperor of Abyss' True World and was banished to this place."
"That's right, it only has power equivalent to those in Man Cultivation Realm. During these three days, it was easy to see that its Dragon Tendon had been taken away. It's the same as a piece of trash."
"Haha! This isn't an Abyss Dragon, it's just a big snake. Lady Yu Luo, you're wise indeed. You made this snake continue running so its blood would circulate and the effect from each drop that spilled would be better than if we extracted it forcefully. In fact, this sort of chase would force its consciousness to fade, and it'll become even easier for you to control it and refine it into a flying Enchanted Vessel. In the future, it'll be much easier for us to head out."
Laughter rang in space. The near one hundred cultivators saw that the Abyss Dragon's speed had slowed down, and they knew that the dragon had reached its limit.
The woman in front of the crowd had a prideful look on her face. She swung the bells on her wrist, and with a glint in her eyes, she looked towards the cultivators around her. She was the one who had discovered the dragon, and she had also suggested the plan to toy with it while chasing after it. By the looks of it, her plan was very effective.
"We'll chase it around for the time it takes to burn an incense stick, since the Abyss Dragon's soul is about to fade away. At that time, we'll use the Secret Art and gather its soul in its body. Then, it'll be much easier to search through its soul."
Excitement appeared in the woman's eyes. She did not bother about the dragon's blood or any Enchanted Vessels. What she cared about was the Abyss Dragon's memories. Ever since she was born, she had been in the Barren Lands of Divine Essence and longed to go to the four Great True Worlds. However, all the people around her were the same and had never left the Barren Lands of Divine Essence before. However, the Abyss Dragon should have been banished to this place. If that was the case, then the sights of the world outside should be contained within the memories in its soul.
That was what made her curious.
"Young mistress, we can't fool around anymore. That old monster Xuan Yi's territory lies ahead. The Progenitor has stated before that we are not allowed to enter other people's territory." Just as the woman became excited, one of the two middle-aged men who had been following silently behind her all this while spoke flatly.
These two people were in the initial stage of World Plane Realm, just like the woman. However, the feeling they gave others was as if they had gone through perilous battles, and there were hints of murderous aura surrounding them.
The woman might be unwilling, but after a moment of hesitation, she could only nod in resignation. She shook her wrist, and the bell chimes immediately rang loudly. The speed of the near one hundred cultivators behind her instantly increased exponentially, and they surpassed the Abyss Dragon and surrounded it.
"The hunt has ended. Kill the dragon and preserve its soul properly!" the woman said coldly. In her eyes were excitement and cruelty.
The sounds of affirmation rang out around her, and greed appeared in the eyes of the cultivators. The Abyss Dragon had already turned into an ingredient that they could eat to increase their levels of cultivation. At that moment, with a single shout, they spread out.
The Abyss Dragon's consciousness had already become clouded. It knew that it was about to die. It might be unwilling to… but there was nothing it could do.
As it laughed brokenly, it closed its eyes, but at the instant they fell shut, a gentle voice immediately echoed in its soul.
"Xiao Huang…"
At the instant the voice reached its soul, a violent shudder wrecked through its body. It trembled incredibly furiously, and even its soul began trembling. Its fading consciousness abruptly stopped scattering away.
It was as if there was an endless amount of thunderbolts roaring in its heart. That name was the most precious existence in its memory. There was only one person who would call it by that name in the world, and that was a young woman called Yu Xuan - the Abyss Dragon's young mistress.
The dragon had not heard these two words for more than a thousand years. Those two words seemed to have awakened its memories, causing tears to fall down the Abyss Dragon's eyes as it trembled.
However, it knew that the person who called it was not its young mistress, but another… voice that it was familiar with.
"Xiao Huang…"
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Chapter 858: Anything
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When the voice called out the second time, it did not echo in the Abyss Dragon's heart. Instead, it spread throughout the galaxy. That voice seemed weak, but when it reached the place, ripples spread out and the galaxy even looked as if it was distorting.
When that voice landed in the ears of the near one hundred cultivators who were closing in on the Abyss Dragon with the intent of dissecting it, that voice instantly turned into a loud bang that shook the entire galaxy and was deafening to their ears. It crashed straight into their hearts, crushing their minds and breaking their souls.
Blood poured out from all seven orifices in their bodies.
There were nearly one hundred cultivators, and all of them were bleeding from their eyes, nose, ears, and mouth. Their eyes immediately lost focus and all forms of luster turned into streams of blood that flowed out of their eye sockets. The moths under their bodies also let out shrill screams of pain and exploded into bits and pieces of flesh and blood.
The bodies of the near one hundred cultivators tumbled backwards, as if they had been swept back by a huge force. They coughed up blood in midair… and all of them died!
All of this was caused by the enunciation of the two words!
Those two words killed nearly one hundred cultivators. Even though there were no cultivators in World Plane Realm among them and the strongest was just in Heaven Cultivation Realm, the ability to do this was enough to shock all those who witnessed it.
As the cultivators died altogether, their bodies shattered to pieces as they fell backwards, turning into a picture of mangled flesh. The stench of blood immediately filled the area. The woman with the bells on her wrist instantly turned stark pale, and the two middle-aged men behind her put on solemn expressions that had never appeared on their faces before. There was shock in their eyes, and cold sweat had even broken out on their foreheads due to extreme nervousness.
"Xiao Huang…" The third call traveled clearly from a far away distance at that moment. It landed in the Abyss Dragon, the two men, and the woman's ears.
Once it did, the Abyss Dragon opened its eyes and saw a person walking over from the space in the distance.
That person was dressed in white and had a head full of gray hair. As he walked forward, he gradually closed in, and the dragon saw the young man's handsome face, his ancient presence, his familiar gaze, and the time the Abyss Dragon always thought back upon with nostalgia. His arrival made it seem as if he brought the past with him, and the galaxy around him looked like it had stilled during that moment.
Once the Abyss Dragon saw Su Ming clearly, it trembled even more furiously. Those were tremors caused by agitation and disbelief. It had not expected that it would be able to meet an old friend in the Barren Lands of Divine Essence.
"You…" The Abyss Dragon only managed to say one word before its eyes slowly fell shut. It was already extremely exhausted, and after going through despair, at the instant it saw Su Ming, its soul began to disperse.
Su Ming walked over to it and lifted his right hand to gently place it on the Abyss Dragon's wound and blood ridden head. With it, the Abyss Dragon's fading soul began converging once again, and all its wounds were instantly healed.
It was with this touch that Su Ming learned of what had happened. Xiao Huang's power had been abrogated, so the dragon could only bring out power equivalent to those in Man Cultivation Realm. Because of that touch, Su Ming also learned that the Dragon Tendon was missing.
Su Ming did not know how many years the dragon had been in the Barren Lands of Divine Essence, but he could imagine that the life of one who could only bring out the power of those in Man Cultivation Realm must have been filled with hardships even if they only were around for several dozens of years.
Not to mention that Su Ming saw numerous injuries on the Abyss Dragon's body as it recovered. In fact, some of them were old, a telling sign that they had been left hundreds of years ago. There were even some injuries on the Abyss Dragon which were... nearly fatal.
Su Ming was infuriated.
He was truly enraged. But besides anger, he also felt worry. He did not know why the Abyss Dragon came to the Barren Lands of Divine Essence. He only knew that he had saw it take Yu Xuan and leave when they were still in Yin Death Region to head towards the Emperor of Abyss' True World.
Yet now, it had appeared in this place. Then… where was Yu Xuan?
"I am a daylily in the rain… This is the name my mother gave me. She wanted me to forget the sadness in my life and be happy forever…" Yu Xuan's voice seemed to echo in Su Ming's ears, lingering there for a long time.
When Su Ming fell silent, the two middle-aged men not too far away were shivering. The shock on their faces was incredibly great. They could not see through Su Ming's level of cultivation, but they could sense a bloodthirst and murderous aura that they had never sensed before from him.
They had originally thought that they had killed plenty of people, and they were even proud of the invisible murderous aura that had formed around them, but the moment they saw Su Ming, they discovered to their disbelief, the heavy murderous aura on Su Ming's body was something they could not hope to compare to. Theirs was like the light of a firefly compared to a bright moon.
In fact, the mighty pressure Su Ming gave to them almost made these two people's minds break. Even when they were before their Progenitor, they had not faced such great pressure as this. With this in mind, they could immediately be certain that this person was at the very least at the peak of the middle stage of World Plane Realm, and there was even a high possibility… that he was an old monster in the later stage of World Plane Realm!
'This Abyss Dragon is the pet of someone in the later stage of World Plane Realm!' As the two people's hearts shook, they saw Su Ming fall silent, and without any hesitation, they grabbed the woman who had become dazed and fell back in frenzy.
Ever since they came under the Progenitor's wing, they had never fled in this manner. They instantly moved with great desperation, but as they moved back, they saw Su Ming lift his head. During that instant, they roared together, and veins popped up on their faces. They pushed the dazed woman thousands of feet away before they shouted at her, "Young mistress, run!!"
"GO!!!"
The woman trembled. The change had happened too quickly, and she found herself somewhat unable to accept what was going on. At that moment, as the two middle-aged men roared, she turned around and fled with an incredible speed.
Almost at the moment she turned around, a shrill scream of pain came from the area behind her. She was familiar with the owner of that voice. It belonged to one of the two middle-aged men.
Her heart ached. Tears fell down her eyes, but she could no longer repent. As the shadow of death loomed over her head, she experienced fear from the depths of her heart for the first time in her life.
"Your loyalty is commendable, but you won't be able to escape death."
Killing intent shone in Su Ming's eyes. He pulled back his right index finger and looked at one of the two middle-aged men in the initial stage of World Plane Realm. His body had shattered. Once he was shredded to pieces, Su Ming cast his gaze on the other person.
That man's face was pale. He was incredibly certain that Su Ming was an old monster in the later stage of World Plane Realm. Even the Progenitor would be a mere ant before this person. The difference between them was like heaven and earth, so he was unable to manifest any will to fight against him.
"I…"
The middle-aged man's face was pale. When he saw that Su Ming had lifted his right hand once again, madness appeared on his face, which was filled with despair. His cultivation base and his soul burst swiftly into flames at the same time, and he charged towards Su Ming as if he had gone mad, choosing to self-destruct.
However, while self-destruction would be an effective move against many since it was an Art that caused death… but before an Abyss Builder, as long as that Abyss Builder had awakened, it would mostly be useless, especially since Su Ming had already somewhat understood the will of summer in his Life Matrix through his epiphanies.
He lifted his right hand and swung forward. A feeling of time filled the middle-aged man's body. In an instant, time reversed about him, and he went back from the state of self-destruction to the moment before he triggered it, but it did not stop there. Time was still flowing in reverse, and so his face gradually stopped being that of a middle-aged man's, but became that of a young man, then a teenager, and several breaths later, after an unknown of time flowed in reverse on him, his body was reduced to ashes.
Once he finished doing all this, Su Ming turned his head around and cast the sleeping Abyss Dragon a look. It was in deep sleep, and it was clear that it had been a long time since it had rested like this. When he saw that the wounds on its body were healing, a gentle look appeared in Su Ming's eyes.
"Sleep. I am here, so you will be safe," Su Ming mumbled. He tapped the dragon lightly with his right hand and put it away into his storage bag before turning his head around to look in the direction in which the woman was leaving, and the chilling glare in his eyes appeared once again.
It did not matter whether the person was a woman or a man, nor whether they were ugly or pretty, all of these things were just their outward appearances and were superficial in Su Ming's eyes. They had nothing to do with him.
He only needed to know that a person wanted to kill Xiao Huang, and that was enough.
"If Yu Xuan was around, she definitely would not have let you suffer so much with the way she was. But she isn't around, so I'll be the one to help you," Su Ming said gently and took a step forward.
He did not rush after that woman, but started walking slowly towards her.
Because of that, a powerful and mighty pressure could be formed. That pressure gathered on the woman, causing her to almost sink into despair in the mid of her fear, making her experience what the Abyss Dragon went through when she had been chasing it down in cold-blood just then.
She shivered. Despair and fear filled her heart and soul. This feeling almost caused her to descend into madness. Tears continued falling down her eyes, and in her fear, she continued escaping nonstop.
Su Ming followed her calmly, occasionally lifting his right index finger to point at her. A bloody gash would immediately appear on the woman's body, and when her blood gushed out, a jade bottle would fly out from Su Ming's storage bag. Once it caught her blood, it would continue floating in the area to be retrieved at any time.
An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth. He did not think that he was boasting about his status because of the difference between their levels of cultivation or that he was doing something that was unbefitting of his level of cultivation. In Su Ming's mind, the phrase 'using one's strength to bully the weak' was something that if he needed to do towards enemies, he would find no problems with doing.
He would use a similar method when faced with those of a high level of cultivation as to those with a lower level of cultivation. He would not mind persecuting either of them in such a manner.
Su Ming didn't think that there was anything wrong with his actions. As long as he thought that he should be doing so, then no one could change it. In truth, the person who understood him the most was Yue Hong Bang. Describing him as temperamental was indeed an apt description.
Temperamental and willful. No law or rule could restrain Su Ming's actions, because he didn't believe that his actions were wrong.
'I will chase you down just like how you had chased down Xiao Huang.' This was the simplest way to describe Su Ming's thoughts.
Time passed. The woman's hair was a mess by the time a day had passed with her being chased. Her consciousness had almost faded away, her face was pale, her body was covered in wounds, and blood continued flowing out. It was continuously taken by Su Ming, and the pressure brought by this had left her in extreme despair.
There was still about an entire day before she could reach the Progenitor's cave abode, but her mind could no longer withstand this torment. Eventually, she stopped running away and instead turned around to plead for mercy from Su Ming.
"Senior, please spare me! I know I've done wrong, as long as you don't kill me, I will do anything you ask!" The woman was beautiful. At that moment, her clothes were in tatters and could not hide her body, giving her a tempting charm.
"Anything?" Su Ming asked lightly.
"Anything!" The woman seemed to have thought of something and instinctively bit her lip. A red flush immediately appeared on her cheeks, and the desire to continue living became extremely strong in her heart.
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Chapter 859: The Bald Crane's Excitement
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Su Ming cast the woman called Yu Luo a look. She was rather good-looking. Her body was curvaceous, and a large portion of her skin was revealed as it was now difficult for her tattered clothes to cover her up. With the shivers born from fear and the desire to live shining in her eyes, she was filled with an air that would cause the hearts of men to pump with excitement.
Her expression, the color of her face, and the look in her eyes all said that she was willing to pay any sort of price, was willing to do anything. In fact, she was even willing to be ravaged any way Su Ming wanted.
Su Ming's expression remained as calm as ever as he slowly walked towards the woman. When he approached her, Yu Luo instinctively wanted to dodge, but after a moment of hesitation, she gritted her teeth and stood there, simply allowing Su Ming to get closer to her. By then, their bodies were almost touching.
In fact, she only needed to lean forward slightly and she would fall into Su Ming's embrace. He lowered his head slightly, and by the looks of it, he seemed as if he was going to kiss her lips.
Yu Luo's heart thumped loud in her chest. As the sound rose and fell, her cheeks gradually gained a red flush, and her eyes shone with a woman's charm. It did not matter what sort of request Su Ming would make; she would do her best to curry his favor in order to survive.
Su Ming was about to touch the woman's slightly parted lips, but right at the instant he was about to kiss her, he moved his head to her ear and stopped there.
"I may choose not to kill you, as long as you…" When Su Ming whispered, his words traveled straight into Yu Luo's ear.
As she listened to his voice, she lifted her hands to place them on her clothes. Her face turned even redder, and the gaze in her eyes turned even more alluring.
Yet right at the moment she was about to undress herself, he spoke once again,
"As long as you run like you did just now," he said flatly and lifted his head. He moved hundreds of feet back and put on a smile on his face.
Yu Luo shivered. She stared at Su Ming as her expression changed nonstop. Right when anger born from humiliation rose in her heart, despair reared its head once more. She might have been pampered and cared for since she was young, but she had still seen quite a number of cultivators with different personalities. However, none of them had ever terrified her like the person in front of her right then.
Just as she was about to speak, Su Ming's smile turned into an indifferent one. He lifted his right hand and swung his arm, stirring up a violent gust of wind that swept up Yu Luo and flung her into the distance.
Time had a very mysterious law. To those who were happy, the passing of time seemed as if it was so quick that it was hard to notice it. In the blink of an eye, it would be gone. However, to those who were in torment, time would pass in a terrifyingly slow manner.
This was the case for Yu Luo. As she fled during the last half of a day before she reached her home, she felt as if she had fallen into hell, as if she was submerged in the endless passage of time, and it was moving at an incredibly slow pace.
She was extremely weakened. Her face was pale, and she had lost a large amount of blood, which was all retrieved languidly by the nightmarish existence behind her, who would then continue chasing her at a relaxed pace.
Her consciousness had become clouded and her mind had broken down. The only thing that remained in her mind were Su Ming's words telling her to flee, to continue running.
She did so until a group of meteors floating in the galaxy finally appeared before her. This was her home. At the instant she saw the group of meteors, Yu Luo looked as if she had recovered a hint of her sanity. A strong light appeared in her eyes, and she became slightly faster, instantly heading towards a large stone.
"Progenitor, save me!" At the instant she landed on the meteor, she let out a forlorn cry. When her voice echoed in space, she lost all her strength and collapsed on the ground unconscious.
Su Ming stood in the galaxy and looked at the large group of meteors before him, then watched Yu Luo collapsing on one of them. He heard her forlorn cry echoing in space, but even several breaths later, there was no answer.
The unconscious Yu Luo did not know that her Progenitor did not appear.
Another three breaths passed before Su Ming spoke lightly.
"Not coming out, hmm?" He lifted his right hand and swung it in the air. The overlapping shadows of the Divine Essence Runic Symbols in his eye shone abruptly, then flew out from his eye to surround him before spreading out swiftly.
Loud booms instantly broke the silence. As they reverberated in space, most of the meteors were reduced to ashes in the blink of an eye. The destruction continued, as if it would not stop until all meteors were destroyed.
An anguished sigh came from the collapsing meteors, and an old man in a long blue robe walked out from one of them. That old man had a head full of white hair, and when he walked, he cast a complicated glance at the unconscious Yu Luo, then once he looked at Su Ming, he lowered his head.
"Senior, please calm down. I am Yu Han, a member of the extended family of Yu Family in Black Ink Planet. I have been ordered to keep watch over the members of the family in space. Our daughter of the family, Yu Luo, is young and ignorant, please spare her, and I will definitely offer you great gifts in return." The old man was incredibly respectful as he wrapped his fist in his palm and bowed deeply towards Su Ming.
A glint appeared in Su Ming's eyes. He cast the old man a glance, but did not speak. He did not even ask what gifts the old man would give him in order to solve this matter. He turned around and walked into the distance, without paying any more attention to the old man.
The old man was momentarily stunned by Su Ming's actions, but once a barely noticeable spark shone in his eyes, he immediately took a few steps forward and bowed towards Su Ming again.
"Senior, please wait. I am also at fault in this matter because I have not taught the child properly. I will definitely offer you a satisfactory conclusion to this matter. Senior, since you came to Black Ink Planet, you should be here to attend Black Ink Planet's famous Barren Lands Auction or to head over to Divine Essence Star Ocean to fight against those from the alien race. I have a map detailing part of Divine Essence Star Ocean here with me, which can help you save a lot of time." As the old man spoke, he immediately brought out a piece of beast skin from his bosom, as if he was worried that Su Ming would leave. There were a few lines drawn on it, and it seemed like a map.
Yet strangely, this map was not printed on a jade slip, but was drawn on a beast skin, which was a more primitive manner of drawing a map.
Su Ming's footsteps came to a halt and he turned around to cast the old man a look with the ghost of a smile on his lips.
With it, the old man's heart let out a thump, as if all the secrets he hid in his heart were seen through with that one glance, as if everything about him was laid bare before Su Ming. This feeling immediately turned into a sense of danger that rose swiftly in the old man's heart.
"Senior…" The old man's heart pounded against his chest, but he put on an even more respectful expression. When he spoke instinctively, he suddenly saw Su Ming lifting his right hand to seize the space beside him, and the beast skin in his hand immediately flew out appear in Su Ming's hands.
Su Ming held the beast skin and cast it a few scrutinizing looks before turning around and leaving.
The old man's heart trembled, and his expression changed several times. He did not expect that this person would leave just like that after coming to this place in such an aggressive manner and killing all the members in his family. He came in such a flashy manner, yet left without a sound.
This made all the preparations he had done to have completely turned to waste.
This made him anxious, and he took a few steps forward to speak again.
"Senior! Senior, please wait! I haven't given you all the gifts yet, there's still… There're still a large amount of crystals I would like to give you to help you succeed in whatever you want to buy during the auction."
These words had no effect on Su Ming, but the moment they were spoken, the bald crane's figure appeared in the space beside him. Its eyes shone and sparkled brilliantly as if there were crystals contained in its eyes as it looked at the old man.
"How many crystals?!" it instantly shouted excitedly.
The old man hesitated for a moment before he gritted his teeth and said, "Three million crystals!"
The bald crane let out a shrill scream, and as its body shivered, it stared intently at the old man. Its expression and gaze were filled with a ferocious air, as if it wanted to swallow the old man whole. Its body also grew larger in space, as if it could not control itself. In the blink of an eye, it had already grown to become several hundreds of feet big.
When the old man heard the bald crane's shrill scream and saw its gigantic body as well as its ferocious expression, his heart shuddered and he took a few steps back to quickly speak up once again.
"Three million crystals are just the start, there will be three million more to come. Senior, please calm down. Please calm down."
It would have been better if he had not said such words. Once they left his mouth, the bald crane screamed even louder, and the shudders in its body seemed to have reached an extreme state. Its expression caused the old man to be nervous, but Su Ming knew… that the bald crane was just too excited.
The shock from the three million crystals was enough to make the bald crane go mad, but when the old man said that there were three million more to come, that number turned into an even greater stimulation that caused the bald crane's mind to become a mess.
"Ten million. I'm willing to give you ten million crystals as an apology." When the old man saw that the gigantic featherless bird-like creature behaving in such a ferocious and crazed manner, he thought that the number of crystals he was offering was too few, enraging it, which was why he grit his teeth and quickly offered ten million.
At the instant he offered ten million crystals, the bald crane's eyes bulged out and its body shuddered a few times before its eyes rolled backwards and it fainted.
This scene made the old man become even more nervous. Su Ming sighed. He knew that the bald crane had never expected that it would get ten million crystals. This shock came too suddenly, and the crane was stimulated so much that it fainted.
Su Ming shook his head and no longer chose to leave. Instead, he turned around and looked at the old man. A chilling glare shone in his eyes. There was something about this old man. It was something Su Ming had thought when he appeared in this place just now, and after probing around a little, he obtained his answer.
The old man seemed to be thinking of ways to lure Su Ming towards where he was.
"Is the person you're waiting for still not here yet?" he asked flatly.
When he said these words, the old man's heart trembled, but his expression remained as it did, though he did put on a stunned look.
"Senior…"
"I promised the woman that as long as she continued running, I wouldn't kill her, and since you didn't go after the Abyss Dragon, I originally did not consider taking your life, but planned to just punish you lightly.
"But since you schemed against me, then there is no need for me to let things end this way." Su Ming cast the old man a look, and his lips curled up into a cold sneer. He lifted his right hand and pointed towards the old man.
With it, distortions instantly appeared in space, and a destructive power gathered together with a bang to rush towards the old man.
The old man's expression changed. At the instant he retreated, he shouted.
"A strong enemy has invaded our territory! Main family, please take action!"
At the instant he said these words, the meteor on which he stood exploded with a loud bang. The ripples of power that belonged to a Rune rose out. That meteor was a Relocation Rune that not even Su Ming had managed to discover just then.
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Chapter 860: Would You like to Become Our Guest?
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This was a two-way Relocation Rune. It connected two places, allowing people enter and leave through either of the sides.
If Su Ming had stepped on that meteor just now, then since the Rune was in constant ready more, once it went into operation, he would have been forcefully relocated to a specific region, and the powerful warriors from the Yu Family in that place would have attacked at the same time.
Su Ming might not have discovered that there was a Relocation Rune contained within the meteor, but he had determined that there was something off based on the old man's actions.
The other's attempt to hide was too fake in Su Ming's eyes.
However, there were some strange aspects to this sort of concealment. Su Ming had indeed been unable to discover the man even though he had scanned the area with his Atman, just like how he had been unable to discover the Relocation Rune.
However, once Su Ming destroyed a large portion of the meteors with the runic symbols, the old man seemed to have been forced out. Yet in truth, if he truly wanted to flee, he could have left the area beforehand.
However, he did not leave. Instead, he chose to pretend to hide, then to come out. All of this was just to bait Su Ming into taking action and destroying some of the meteors.
This destruction was like a signal, like he was trying to achieve some sort of goal.
This area was where Yu Family's external faction stayed. The first thing the old man had said was a hasty conveying of his status and an explanation whom this area belonged to. All of this might seem normal, but in truth, he had done so intentionally.
Because of that, Su Ming could mostly determine what that person's goal had been: To ascertain that Su Ming had offended Black Ink Planet and the Yu Family.
If the old man had needed to ascertain this, then it would be much easier to explain what the he had previously done. Chasing down the Abyss Dragon had been his personal decision, and even if trouble arose because of this, it had nothing to do with the Yu Family, because it was all merely what he had done personally.
However… if Su Ming destroyed the meteors, then the old man could set up a gigantic sham and make this matter, which was originally just a personal matter of his, into a fight against Su Ming and his entire family.
After all, each and every single Relocation Rune set in the external factions were of great importance for a powerful family that could set a stronghold in Black Ink Planet and have their name ring through the entire Barren Lands of Divine Essence. Those Relocation Runes were part of their status. Once they were destroyed, it would be as if they had been slapped in the face, and they would definitely be unable to let this slide.
However, it was a pity for the old man, because Su Ming had managed to see that there was something off with his actions, and he did not step on the meteors, but had instead turned around to leave. This immediately caught the old man off guard. The members of the family would definitely look into the matter of the meteors being destroyed, and if Su Ming left, then with how strict the family was to its members, they would definitely be able to find clues leading to the truth, and at that time, he would have to face severe punishment.
After all, in his eyes, Su Ming was at the very least a cultivator at the peak of the middle stage of World Plane Realm. In fact, there was a high possibility that he was a powerful cultivator in the later stage of World Plane Realm.
Unless absolutely necessary, even the main family would not offend this sort of person.
That was why he had used the map as bait, wishing to lure Su Ming over. When he failed, he had spared no pains in using crystals as bait. However, when Su Ming had looked towards him with that gaze of his that seemed to be able to see through him, the old man knew that a deviation had occurred in his plan.
That was why he had changed his plan without any hesitation. Since the other refused to come over sp the old man could not send Su Ming to the main family, then he absolutely could not let him leave. If he could summon the main family here when Su Ming was still around, then… once they started fighting, this would no longer have too much connection to him.
Even after they found the reason for this in the future, the enmity would have already been born between the main family and this person, so they would no longer have a choice.
Loud booms came from the Rune. A piercing white light instantly spread out and swept through the area from the meteor. In the blink of an eye, it covered the entire area, and as the Rune was activated, three figures immediately walked out.
They were two men and one woman. One of them was a middle-aged man, and he had a somber expression. The other two behind him were young adults, but all three of them were sending out ripples of power that belonged to those in the middle stage of World Plane Realm.
The middle-aged man had already reached the peak of the middle stage of World Plane Realm. With this level of cultivation, he could already fight against Zhao Family's Progenitor. Even if he was still slightly weaker than the other, this man could already become an overlord of a region.
At the instant he saw the three people, Su Ming formed an impression towards Black Ink Planet. Just one Yu Family in there had let Su Ming see four cultivators in the middle stage of World Plane Realm, three cultivators in the initial one, and numerous in Heaven Cultivation Realm.
This was also clearly just the tip of the iceberg of the Yu Family!
Even though Su Ming did not know what sort of status Yu Family had in Black Ink Planet, he could tell from this hint of their power alone that Black Ink Planet… was an ancient planet that had existed even before the fifth True World was destroyed. It was the only planet that had broken the seal many years before Su Ming had arrived and the living beings within in had been able to venture out and escape from being suppressed by the four Great True Worlds.
It allowed this planet to become a cultivation planet that was not controlled by the four Great True Worlds! It was a free, lawless planet that became a gathering place for many old monsters in the Barren Lands of Divine Essence.
The powerful were the rulers of Black Ink Planet. The four Great True Worlds did not pay attention to them, and no True Guards would dare come to the planet rashly, causing this place to seem rather chaotic. However, in truth, this planet became the place that gathered the most attention in the Barren Lands of Divine Essence.
Most of the powerful warriors in the Barren Lands of Divine Essence gathered in this place. Cultivators in the later stage of World Plane Realm or those who had attained completion as well as those in Lunar Kalpa Realm along with those in Solar Kalpa Realm might be here as well.
If anyone compared Sinful Barren Lands to a jail, then the existence of Black Ink Planet would become the darkest place of this jail, but would also be the only source of dawning light at the same time.
Its geographical location prevented the four Great True Worlds from conquering it from afar, because on the other side of Black Ink Planet… was Divine Essence Star Ocean, the place that made the four Great True Worlds wary. It was the true place that they were fending against!
Because the alien races were in Divine Essence Star Ocean, some of the members of these alien races were remnants of the fifth True World in the past. However, most of them were mysterious alien races that possessed Divine Essence and were filled with an intimidating presence even while the fifth True World was still around.
No one knew where the alien races with Divine Essence came from, and very few people knew just how many of them there were in Divine Essence Star Ocean. They seemed to have formed their own cultivation system and rarely formed any form of contact with the world outside. However, based on his conversations with the Duke of Crimson Flame, Su Ming had been able to tell that besides the legendary existences that were the Kalpa Lord and the True Progenitor of the fifth True World, the powerful cultivators that were believed to not belong to the fifth True World… were from outer space. This 'outer space' could mean that they had come from other worlds, and could also mean… that they came from Divine Essence Star Ocean.
As the only transition point between Divine Essence Star Ocean and the four Great Galaxies of Sinful Barren Lands, it was impossible for Black Ink Planet to not become the most eye-catching place in the Barren Lands of Divine Essence.
Su Ming had learned from some of other people's memories that Black Ink Planet connected Divine Essence Star Ocean with the four Great Galaxies. That was why it became a transition point for those who wanted to take the risk to enter Divine Essence Star Ocean. Over the course of numerous years, a large amount of items, treasures, and almost every sort of item imaginable had appeared in Black Ink Planet.
In fact, there were even members of alien races appearing in Black Ink Planet. These people could come and go as they pleased, which made this planet to become the only spot where members of both galaxies could trade.
Hence, a tradition was formed in Black Ink Planet countless years ago that shocked the entire Barren Lands of Divine Essence, and was even able to make True Guards hide their identity to come to this place.
That tradition was the auction.
Auction halls of various sizes became incredibly grand places in Black Ink Planet, and each one was managed by a family. The size of the auction hall was always the deciding factor for the family's status and power in Black Ink Planet. It would decide their rise and fall.
Since auctions were celebrated for being honest and strict, that was why the families that manage these auctions would gradually start forming their own family rules as they continued growing. These rules were mostly used to provide service for auctions, and they would offer different forms of protection as well as punishment towards a family member's overbearing attitude.
Su Ming had come to know these things when he obtained the memories of the people he devoured using the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows Whole. He looked at the three people walking out of the Rune with his usual calm expression.
"I am Yu Chen Hai. Greetings, fellow Daoist. How may I address you?" The middle-aged man who walked out of the Rune cast Su Ming a glance with a somber expression on his face. He might not be able to tell Su Ming's level of cultivation, but he could sense the murderous aura and the mighty pressure coming from him. Yet even so, his expression did not change as he wrapped his fist in his palm and spoke.
"Su Ming," Su Ming answered languidly. He did not use Mo Su's name because that name had quite the reputation in the Barren Lands of Divine Essence. He did not know anything about Black Ink Planet, so it would be best for him to not make a fuss.
"I see, so you are fellow Daoist Su. May I know whether the Yu Family has offended you?" the middle-aged man asked in a somber tone.
The old man who was tasked to keep watch over the region was feeling incredibly nervous at that moment. He knew how strict the rules were in the family but had thought that the family would take action immediately after they arrived once they saw that most of the meteors had been destroyed. As long as they attacked, everything would be simple.
However, the members of the family who appeared did not immediately take action but instead started communicating with the person.
'I can't let them continue talking with each other!' The old man grit his teeth, then cast a swift glance at the unconscious Yu Luo by the side then began roaring. He went to Yu Luo's side, and when he lifted his head, his eyes were bloodshot. Rage burned in his eyes as he stared at Su Ming.
"You killed nearly one hundred of my family's disciples, made Yu Luo's fate unknown, destroyed most of the meteors here, and even wanted to kill me. I will definitely not let this slide. If you want to fight, then fight!" As the old man spoke, he rose up from the ground and charged towards Su Ming.
When the old man moved, a light crease appeared between the middle-aged man's brows. He could not figure out Su Ming's level of cultivation, but once he came to this place, he had scanned the area with his divine sense. When he saw the meteors and the old man's reaction, he formed his own judgment of the situation.
He was originally hesitant, but once he saw that a member of his family had attacked, he decided to attack to judge Su Ming's strength. However, just as he was about to move, a bright light suddenly appeared, and his foot, which had already taken a step forward, froze.
He saw Su Ming waving his arm as he stood in space, and immediately, a large amount of shining runic symbols appeared out of nowhere. As they spun in space, they surrounded the old man who was charging towards Su Ming. Once they formed multiple rings around him, they contracted, and as if they were sealing him, they encircled him and prevented him from moving. No matter how hard the old man struggled, he could not move even a single inch.
'A seal that can make a cultivator in the middle stage of World Plane Realm be unable to move!' The middle-aged man's eyes shone brilliantly, and once he cast an attentive glance at the runic symbols on the old man's body, he let out a hearty laugh and wrapped his fist in his palm before bowing to Su Ming.
"Fellow Daoist Su, with your power, it is clear that the members of the extended family have provoked you first. Please forgive us in regards to this matter. I will definitely report this to the family and punish this man as a response for you."
This time, the somber expression was gone from his face. His laughter was hearty, and there was a friendly attitude that was just pitched to the right level.
Yu Chen Hai's expression was sincere as he said with a smile, "Fellow Daoist Su, do you happen to have a place to stay in Black Ink Planet? If you don't mind, would you like to be a guest of the Yu Family and receive our offerings?"
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Chapter 861: Uphold Justice
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Yu Chen Hai's laughter was bright. The sincere expression on his face made it seem as if he already knew everything about what had happened here, just like he had said - he knew that his family member was the one at fault.
However, Su Ming did not believe it. No matter how strict the rules in a family were, they would still be protective of their own blood. Besides, his attitude had changed completely from a person who had a somber expression on his face and had seemed to want to attack at any time to test him without asking him anything and without trying to understand the situation just because Su Ming had executed a divine ability.
If there was something strange, then there definitely was something wrong going on.
"A guest?" Su Ming asked lightly.
"Yu Family is one of the many families in Black Ink Planet. We have our own auction hall, and it's one of the top three middle-sized auction halls in the planet. Fellow Daoist Su, if you're willing to become our guest, then you will receive thirty thousand crystals per month as an offering. You will also receive the White Jade Plate, which will allow you to obtain discounts in our auction hall and receive honorable treatment.
"We will also provide you a cave abode within our territory. There will be sufficient spiritual aura in it. You can request from us whatever you need. As long as it isn't a clone, we will agree to all your requests.
"The Yu Family will also not tie you down in any manner. You may leave at any time you please. You will have freedom in all your actions, and we won't need you to do anything on usual days. You just need to lend a hand during crucial moments. Every single time you help us, we will also offer you additional rewards.
"Fellow Daoist, what do you think?" Yu Chen Hai asked with a smile.
Su Ming was the only person in his eyes, and he did not even look at the old man from his family who was sealed. In fact, in Yu Chen Hai's mind, Su Ming who had a seal that could seal a cultivator in the middle stage of World Plane Realm was far more important than most other people. Even though Yu Chen Hai did not have the right to invite someone to become their family's guest and the recruitment of guests was incredibly strict in all families, it did not matter to him. He knew that only family elders had the right to invite guests and those guests' backgrounds had to be thoroughly investigated, but when he thought of Su Ming's Sealing Art, his heart burned with eagerness.
As long as Su Ming agreed to it, he could investigate his background on a later date and could use his own resources in exchange for the status of a temporary guest.
"Fellow Daoist Yu, aren't you afraid that I am a person with ulterior motives? Aren't you treating this as too much of a child's play by hastily inviting me to be your guest?" Su Ming's expression remained the same as he smiled faintly at Yu Chen Hai.
A glint appeared in Yu Chen Hai's eyes, and the smile on his face grew wider. As he shook his head, he wrapped his fist in his palm towards Su Ming.
"It is only expected that you would be doubtful, Brother Su. I have indeed been rash in my actions…" Once he said these words, Yu Chen Hai hesitated for a moment. When he looked at Su Ming once again, he spoke in a decisive manner.
"Brother Su, I won't hide from you. I don't have the right to invite you as a guest, but I can invite you to be our temporary guest. Even if you do have an ulterior risk, I am willing to take this risk. I will take this gamble and believe in you." Yu Chen Hai's expression was incredibly sincere as he bowed deeply towards Su Ming.
"Oh? Let's hear it in detail," Su Ming said flatly.
"I might be a direct descendant of the family, but my status isn't high. Thanks to the kindness of the older generation, I have finally been given the right to host an auction. However, there are too few people by my side who can help me, and I also lack a person who is skilled in laying down seals.
"That is why I've thought of convincing you to be a guest once I saw your Sealing Art. Please forgive me for not being honest just now," Yu Chen Hai said sincerely. He could tell that Su Ming was not trying to get closer to him by saying these words, because Yu Chen Hai had only just learned that he was going to host an auction, and it was impossible for his competitors in the family to arrange a stranger who had extraordinary power to get closer to him in such a manner.
More importantly, it was by pure accident that he was relocated to this place and met Su Ming. The person who was originally supposed to come here was not him, but his father. He was merely coming to this area in his place, and his father, who was a family elder, would naturally not have let his son be harmed.
Besides, he could tell from some clues that Su Ming did not know just how important Sealing Arts were in Black Ink Planet. However, there was also something off about this. After all, the first attack Su Ming had delivered was to cast a seal.
"You need a person who is skilled with seals?" Su Ming looked at Yu Chen Hai.
"Brother Su, this must be your first time in Black Ink Planet. There are quite a number of people who know a few Sealing Arts in Black Ink Planet, but only a few of them can seal cultivators in the middle stage of World Plane Realm.
"With this Sealing Art of yours, you would be valued highly no matter which auction hall you went to. In fact, if someone acted as your recommendation, you could even be a valued existence in the three large auction halls.
"Forget the fact that those family members of mine would not be able to invite a powerful warrior like you to be our guest, even within the Yu Family, only three people are capable of doing such a feat as yours.
"If that is the case, then what should I be afraid of? Brother Su, please help me, I will definitely reward you greatly." Yu Chen Hai looked at Su Ming sincerely as he waited for his reply.
Su Ming pondered over his words for a moment before he stated slowly, "You still haven't told me why you need those Sealing Arts."
"To seal the treasures that will be auctioned. This time, I will be hosting the auction, but I don't have the resources to ask for the assistance of the three guests who are skilled in Sealing Arts in my family. I only have with me a few guests who are under the command of the older generation with whom I share my blood, but they might not be up to my satisfaction.
"This time, I will be putting a number of treasures from the alien races up on auction, and I will need a powerful warrior skilled in Sealing Arts to seal them so that they will not undergo a transformation," Yu Chen Hai quickly explained. In truth, he had only told Su Ming about a fifth of the truth. It was only natural that he did not tell him everything: That this time, Yu Family's auction would be the first official competition among the people of his generation.
There were six auctions in total, and there would be six different people who would host them. All of the older generations were not allowed to provide them with too much help, and it would entirely depend on their own abilities on how well they could organize the auctions.
This would determine the six people's positions in the family in the future. The fights both in the open and in secret have already started a long time ago.
In fact, even the auctioned items during the auction would be determined by their abilities. If they managed to bring to their side a cultivator that could seal those within the initial stage of World Plane Realm, then they could apply to auction off treasures that would require people to seal these treasures.
If they managed to bring to their side a cultivator who could seal those in the middle stage of World Plane Realm, then they could apply to auction off even higher quality treasures. Yu Chen Hai was certain that if he could auction off treasures of this caliber, then his chances of standing out among the other five would be incredibly high.
"As long as you agree to it, then I am willing to give you five million crystals as thanks in advance. Once I complete hosting the auction, I will give you ten million crystals extra to thank you.
"Brother Su, don't worry. The very first rule in Yu Family is that we must fulfill our promises!" Yu Chen Hai wrapped his fist in his palm once again.
Right when Yu Chen Hai finished saying these words, the unconscious bald crane by Su Ming's side opened its eyelids to reveal a pair of eyes that were shining with a brilliant light that was akin to the light of crystals. It was so excited that its body began trembling once again, eager to immediately agree to this matter.
However, just as it was about to speak to agree to the matter in Su Ming's place, it saw Su Ming glaring at it, and it immediately swallowed its words, but its heart was already bleeding in pain at the loss.
"Crystals, oh my crystals…" When the bald crane put on a dejected expression and looked as if it had suffered injustice, a focused glint appeared in Su Ming's eyes. He did not expect that this family in Black Ink Planet would have such financial power that ten million crystals would seem like a small number. This was a great difference compared to the other planets in the Barren Lands of Divine Essence.
Based on his experience, he could tell that Yu Chen Hai had not told him the full story. However, the general picture he had given Su Ming should not be fake. At that moment, as he opened and closed his eyes, a smile appeared on Su Ming's lips.
"All those from the Yu Family will definitely fulfill their promises as long as they gave their word, you say?"
"That's right. This is the rule in Yu Family. You do not need to worry," Yu Chen Hai said with a smile."
"Is it the same for everyone?" Su Ming looked to the side.
Yu Chen Hai hesitated for a moment, but still could not truly grasp what Su Ming meant. "It's the same for everyone."
Su Ming let out a fake cough, then lifted his right hand to pointed towards the old man he had sealed by the side before he spoke in a relaxed manner.
"This person had promised to give me one billion crystals just now as an apology. Brother Yu, since you're here and you heard him make this promise, you should be a witness for me."
As Yu Chen Hai was momentarily stunned by his words, the old man who was sealed but still had his ability to hear widened his eyes and began struggling violently. Anger appeared in his eyes, and it was so great that it looked as if it could burn everything around, making him look as if he would definitely cry out in rage with all his strength if he could break free.
There was also despair and resentment amid that anger. It was a despair that came from his soul as well as a resentment that came from his heart, and they almost drove him mad.
The bald crane's eyes went wide, and its breathing quickened. Its body trembled in agitation as it looked at Su Ming again. Suddenly, it felt heartfelt admiration towards Su Ming, and felt that he had become incomparably great.
'Well, damn me. I thought that I was devious enough, but I didn't expect this, I honestly didn't expect this. This Su Ming usually doesn't reveal his real character, so I didn't expect him to be so sly. He just promised ten million crystals, but this Su Ming… said it was one billion!
'That middle-aged man named Yu Chen Hai wants to bring Su Ming to his side and will definitely act as a witness. This is… He's too unbelievable!
'Devious, truly devious. Little Devious Su, he's even more devious than I am… Looks like I'll have to learn from him. Yes, I'll definitely master this, and I'll surpass his abilities!'
"One… One billion?" Yu Chen Hai was momentarily stunned before he instinctively asked again to make sure. The eyes of the two people behind him also went wide, filled with a strange expression. They naturally saw that there was something off about this. They had never seen such brazen extortion in their lives.
"Hmm? Brother Yu, didn't you hear with your own ears just now that this person promised me one billion crystals? Could it be that he was lying to me?" Su Ming frowned and let out a cold harrumph. "I was thinking of becoming your guest, but if this person had so shamelessly lied to me, then I'll have to rethink this."
Yu Chen Hai could only laugh wryly. He cast a pitying glance at the old man, who was almost going mad in his despair but could only struggle and not speak, then immediately nodded towards Su Ming.
"That's right, I… heard… just now, but this person should not have that many crystals with him. Don't worry though, Brother Su, all his savings will belong to you, and if it's not enough, he will pay with his life!" Once he said these words, a resolute and ruthless look appeared in Yu Chen Hai's eyes.
'He's just a cultivator who forcefully rose to the middle stage of World Plane Realm with the use of a treasure from the alien race, and he won't be able to improve even the slightest bit for the rest of his life. He's also a member of the extended family. Even if he's under father's command… it'll be fine to sacrifice him.' Yu Chen Hai had already made his decision in his heart. When he looked towards Su Ming once again, his impression of him had changed by far too much.
"Thank you for upholding justice, Brother Yu. Then, when will we head to Black Ink Planet?" Su Ming smiled faintly.
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Chapter 862: The Shamans Reappear
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'O endless galaxy, I want to praise the great Little Devious Su. His deviousness is a light that the galaxy cannot conceal. His deviousness is a dream that all manner of lives in the world cannot hope to obtain.
'O boundless universe, I want to praise the Little Devious Su who is even greater than me. His deviousness can conceal the universe and cause the galaxy to turn black. His deviousness can cover all manner of living, causing all the people's hair to turn black [1].
'His deviousness also symbolizes my determination. Little Devious Su… continue showing off your devious nature and infect all manner of lives with your deviousness. I will be by your side and walk down this black path…'
The bald crane looked at Su Ming's back with a pious expression as it followed behind him. During that moment, it looked up to Su Ming with unparalleled admiration. In fact, in its eyes, Su Ming was a light that would point it towards the peak of the path to get even more crystals.
The bald crane was almost in tears. Those tears were due to it being touched, to have found someone walking down the same path, and the excitement of having its ideals resonate with someone else now that it had found someone who was even more devious than itself.
The bald crane's excited thoughts and musings echoed in Su Ming's mind. No one else could hear them, but Su Ming still felt odd. He let out a fake cough, and under Yu Chen Hai's invitation, stepped into the Relocation Rune with him.
Yu Luo and the old man were naturally taken away by the other two people. As the Relocation Rune shone with a brilliant light, booming sounds echoed in space, and the people disappeared.
Su Ming might seemed to have left with them in a relaxed manner, but he had not relaxed his guard even a single bit. At the instant the Rune was activated, he had made preparations to attack immediately if anything went wrong.
After all, to other people, the manifestation of Su Ming's level of cultivation was rather indistinct. He seemed like he was in the initial stage, but also like he was in the middle stage of World Plane Realm, and they were unable to tell which was the truth. Unless someone had witnessed Su Ming engaged with another person in a battle of Arts with their own eyes or saw him bring out all his power in the form of pressure, they could only guess his level of cultivation based on what they could sense.
Even the old man who had been sealed and extorted could not tell what Su Ming's actual level of cultivation was. He could only guess that Su Ming might be in the later stage of World Plane Realm, but he could not be certain about it.
It was much less so for Yu Chen Hai, which was why it had become Su Ming's hidden tactic. Once he fused with Divine Essence, he could execute the terrifying power of those in the later stage of World Plane Realm.
This was also one of the powers he possessed that made him dare come to Black Ink Planet.
The light from the Relocation Rune blocked his field of vision, and as the light gradually faded away, Su Ming sensed the power from the Relocation Rune reverberating in space. The booming sounds in his ears gradually became weaker, and at that moment, Su Ming immediately spread his Atman.
The world around him instantly appeared in his mind.
They were in a towering hall that had nine pillars of crouching dragons around them. On each pillar was a person sitting cross-legged. There was no aura spreading out from these nine people, which made it seem as if they were dead.
Su Ming did not sense any danger, but he did not pull back his Atman. When the light from the Relocation Rune completely disappeared from his eyes and their figures showed up in the hall, Su Ming lowered his head to look at the ground beneath his feet.
There was a complicated Relocation Rune on the entire floor, and he could vaguely see the word Jade [2] written indistinctly at one point. Su Ming could not see anything else wrong in the other areas of the Rune, but he did not know much about Runes. If Hu Zi was in this place, he would definitely be able to tell with just one look where the core of the Rune lay.
"Welcome to the Yu Family." Yu Chen Hai remained friendly. When he spoke with a smile at Su Ming, he extended his right hand to show him the way forward.
"Brother Su, I will take you to where you can rest first. I still have some things to discuss with you later. This way, please!" As he spoke, Yu Chen Hai became the first to walk out of the Rune. Su Ming nodded in agreement. As he walked out, he swept his gaze across the nine people who were sitting cross-legged around the Rune.
"These people are the guards of the Rune. They practice a unique cultivation method and do not have any signs of life about them. The only thing remaining in them is the aura of death, but each of them can bring out the power equivalent to those in the middle stage of World Plane Realm." Yu Chen Hai smiled faintly and offered an explanation. It was not without the intention to show off.
"This place is where your family is located, so it's only natural that you do so." Su Ming's expression remained as calm as ever. Yu Chen Hai did not notice that a barely noticeable glint had appeared in Su Ming's eyes when he looked towards the nine people just now.
Perhaps other people could not find any clues about them, but Su Ming… had sensed a hint of the Shamans' presence from these nine people!
These nine people did not practice any unique cultivation methods. They were Shaman Puppets that only Soul Catchers could create!
'Just what level of cultivation had these Shamans reached to be able to create Shaman Puppets at the middle stage of World Plane Realm…' When Su Ming averted his gaze, he suddenly found that he no longer felt that Black Ink Planet was an unfamiliar place. Instead, he found a sense of familiarity to it.
This did not mean that he had come to this place before, but because he had sensed the Shamans' presence.
'I didn't expect that there would be Shamans in this place. Why would they be here? This race was born after branching out and evolving from the Berserkers… That's right, the Berserkers were once one of the alien races in the fifth True World.
'There are plenty of other alien races within the vast Divine Essence Star Ocean beyond Black Ink Planet… Perhaps there are also Shamans there!
'By the looks of it, the first God of Berserkers, Lie Shan Xiu, should have been the first person to venture out and search for the entrance to the fifth True World. Then… could he also be in the Barren Lands of Divine Essence? If he is, then… is he alive or dead? Is he on Black Ink Planet, or could he be in Divine Essence Star Ocean?' Su Ming had made many connections between various thoughts from the Shaman Puppets.
All these things caused him to develop great interest towards Black Ink Planet. It also seemed to have formed a connection with the land of Berserkers in his memories.
He stopped pondering over the matter. At the moment he walked out of the hall, he saw blue sky and white clouds. This was the first time he had seen such a blue piece of sky in the Barren Lands of Divine Essence.
Most of the sky in the other cultivation planets was dark and dim. Even those planets that did not have a dark sky would have muddled and clouded colors above. Only the sky in this place was as blue as a piece of silk, so people could not help it but look up.
A gentle breeze lifted Su Ming's hair. The wind was refreshing, and there was even a spiritual aura contained within it. With one breath, it felt as if all pores in his body had been opened up. It had been a long time since Su Ming had felt this sort of wind against his skin.
This was a completely different place compared to all the other planets in the four Great True Worlds. This was… like paradise.
There was a smile on Yu Chen Hai's face at that moment. He might seem calm, but in truth, when Su Ming walked out of the Rune, he had been observing him. He might not have been able to see the glint in Su Ming's eyes when the other looked towards the nine puppets, but he had seen him looking at the sky and taking that one breath instinctively.
These were just minor details, but Yu Chen Hai had always believed that minor details could determine everything. From these details, he was certain by seven-tenths that this was the first time Su Ming came to Black Ink Planet.
Su Ming sucked in a deep breath and said slowly, "This place is completely different from all the other planets I've gone to."
More accurately speaking, Su Ming had never been to a normal planet. He had previously been in Yin Death Region and was later sent to the Barren Lands of Divine Essence. All the planets he went to were barren wastelands. It could be said that Black Ink Planet… was the first planet Su Ming had ever stepped into.
"Brother Su, since you've decided to stay in Black Ink Planet, then you will be a cultivator in Black Ink Planet from now on. You can have everything here permanently." Yu Chen Hai smiled and became even more certain in his heart that this was the first time Su Ming had come to this place.
"Brother Su, let us head to your lodgings first. I still have some things I would like to discuss with you."
Su Ming nodded and averted his gaze from the sky to follow Yu Chen Hai into the distance. Wherever he went, there would be tall towers all around. As Su Ming sent his Atman outwards, he found that were quite a number of places that repelled his presence. His true level of cultivation was not as high as his physical body's, that was why his Atman was much weaker than of those that belonged to the later stage of World Plane Realm. Once he scanned the area, he pulled back his Atman and no longer looked around.
This simple scan had allowed Su Ming to see that this was a gigantic manor, and it was built on a flat piece of land. There were faint figures of lush, green mountains in the distance.
Soon, Yu Chen Hai stopped next to a small courtyard, outside a double-story tower.
"Brother Su, please treat this place as your temporarily lodgings for now. I will go report to the older generation of the family that you are my temporary guest. If everything goes smoothly, then I will be able to help you obtain the plate immediately, but if things don't go smooth… then you will need to be tested. I will have to trouble you for this. I hope you will not mind." Yu Chen Hai wrapped his fist in his palm and bowed towards Su Ming. His expression remained sincere.
"This won't take long. A decision will be made by sunset. During the process, try not to venture out. I hope you won't mind this offence.
"As for the one… one billion crystals, I will ask someone to handle this. Soon, someone should be here to give you the crystals." Yu Chen Hai was worried that Su Ming would be displeased and provided detailed explanations.
"I will remain in the room." Su Ming cast Yu Chen Hai a glance. He did not harbor any dislike towards this person, and since he had been polite all this while, Su Ming nodded.
When he saw Su Ming agreeing to stay in his room, Yu Chen Hai smiled and bowed to him before turning around to leave.
Su Ming stepped into the courtyard but did not enter the tower. Instead, he sat down cross-legged on the grass. It was quiet all around him. Occasionally, a gentle breeze would blow past him. He looked at the sky as if he was meditating, but also seemed to be deep in thought. Gradually, he forgot about the flow of time.
The Duke of Crimson Flame manifested beside him and bent his body slightly, keeping a vigilant eye on the surroundings.
The bald crane was lying by Su Ming's feet. Its eyes were moving about, though no one knew what it was thinking about. However, from the occasional drop of saliva that would fall from its beak, all those who saw it would definitely be able to tell that it was definitely thinking about something related to crystals.
Xiao Huang was still sleeping in Su Ming's storage bag, but all of its injuries had already healed, and it should wake up soon.
Two hours later, the Duke of Crimson Flame's eyes sparkled, and its body gradually turned indistinct. However, its gaze was fixed on the door to the courtyard. After a moment, the sound of knocking on the door could be heard. Su Ming lifted his right hand and swung it, opening the door to the courtyard. A young man walked in. He was one of the two people who had followed Yu Chen Hai previously. There was an incredibly respectful look on his face. Once he placed a wooden box and a storage bag before Su Ming respectfully, he bowed and left.
The eyes of the bald crane immediately went wide, and it charged towards the storage bag in excitement, but before it even got close to it, the storage bag flew up on its own and landed on Su Ming's palm.
When the bald crane saw that the storage bag was taken by Su Ming, it changed directions and pounced on the wooden box to quickly open it. At the instant it did so, a bloody stench spread out, for there was a human head contained within it.
It was the head that belonged to the old man who had promised Su Ming the crystals.
Su Ming cast a glance at the head, then scanned the storage bag with his Atman.
"Seventeen million crystals. Is this all his money?" Su Ming put away the storage bag and ignored the bald crane who was giving him a bitter look. He closed his eyes and meditated.
'Damn it, so many crystals… What should I do? What should I do..?' When the bald crane saw that Su Ming was not paying any attention to it, it immediately clenched its teeth in anger.
Darkness gradually covered the sky. The bright, blue sky that stretched to the ends of the horizon just one moment ago was soon hidden by dark clouds. When the sun was about to set, there were numerous dark clouds above.
When the muffled sound of thunder rang through the air, it looked as if rain was about to pour.
Su Ming opened his eyes. When he looked at the sky, the door to the courtyard was pushed open, and Yu Chen Hai walked in with an incredibly sullen expression.
"Brother Su, these are the crystals I promised you. They've gone overboard! I'm not hosting the auction anymore!" Yu Chen Hai brought out a storage bag. He was feeling incredibly resentful at the moment, and if he had not been suppressing his emotions continuously just now, he would have burst out a long time ago.
"Calm down." When Su Ming said these words calmly, he averted his gaze from the sky, and his eyes met Yu Chen Hai's.
Translator's Notes:
1. In the original version, Su Ming is actually supposed to be Little Black Su, which means that he has a black heart, but it doesn't mean that he is evil or emotionally cold, per say, just means that he is devious, which is why you have that turn everyone's hair black thing. It basically means that he is so devious that he's turning everything black.
2. Jade in the Rune: Jade is written as 玉, and it is the meaning of the Yu family name.
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Chapter 863: Swallow's Feathers
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Yu Chen Hai had been in a gloomy mood originally, but after he cast Su Ming a look, it was as if everything before his eyes had disappeared, and the only thing that remained was the other's eyes.
The sun, moon, and stars were contained within his eyes. The three celestial bodies grew larger in Yu Chen Hai's eyes before completely replacing his world, making him feel as if he was in a galaxy. There, he was as insignificant as an ant. When he was compared to the galaxy, all of his frustrations became insignificant; they were not worth feeling frustrated over.
At that moment, he could see snow floating down within the galaxy formed by the sun, moon, and stars. It made him feel that everything was so hazy that it felt unreal. However, when that snow landed on his body, the chill spreading out from it made him feel as if he was in an ice cave that would last for eternity. He felt a frigid cold fill his entire body and heart. That cold did not chill him to the bone, but froze his body and even soul for a moment.
That pause calmed his heart, and Yu Chen Hai sucked in a deep breath. He instinctively took a few steps back, and when he looked at Su Ming again, the other had already shut his eyes.
Yu Chen Hai was then unable to tell whether he had recovered from being frozen because Su Ming had closed his eyes or because he had freed himself from it. Even though that feeling just now had disappeared without a trace, Yu Chen Hai believed he absolutely had not mistaken what he sensed. There was definitely something abnormal about Su Ming, or else he would not have been able to make him lose his composure with just one glance.
In fact, he had felt that his soul and his body had been separated from each other during that instant just then. If Su Ming had wanted to bring him harm, then Yu Chen Hai would have definitely been unable to fight back. He would have been at Su Ming's mercy.
Cold sweat broke out on his forehead. When Yu Chen Hai looked at Su Ming again, wariness rose in his heart. As he wrapped his fist in his palm towards Su Ming, he lowered his head and said softly, "I lost my composure, thank you for waking me up, Brother Su."
Yu Chen Hai might have been courteous with Su Ming earlier, but that courteous attitude had been one that was used between equals. However, when he spoke at that moment, even he did not notice that he had clearly placed himself at a lower position.
Sometimes, there was no need for people to attack to show their strength. One glance and a few simple words would be enough to garner respect from others.
"Sit," Su Ming said in that flat tone.
Yu Chen Hai sucked in a deep breath and sat down cross-legged before Su Ming. In his eyes, Su Ming was now completely different. That calmness within him was one that would not be shaken even if the sky collapsed and the ground shattered. Yu Chen Hai could sense it incredibly well.
"I have made a fool of myself. I made a promise to you earlier, but it made me come under the suspicion of the other branches of the family. They want to hold the Three Gates of Heavenly Dao test on you, which only a few of even the true guests of the family would be able to pass.
"And they will definitely not allow you to pass the test. If it wasn't because the lineage with the family ancestor's blood mostly doesn't care about the matters in the world and have ventured in Divine Essence Star Ocean, these people wouldn't dare to oppress you in such a straightforward manner. They were so unfair, and that was what caused my anger," Yu Chen Hai explained with a bitter laugh.
Dark clouds filled the sky at that moment. As the muffled sounds of thunder roared in the air, huge drops of rain poured down, causing dust fog to rise from the ground. However, before this dust fog could rise into the air, it was immediately struck back down once more, until no dust dared to rise up.
Su Ming did not speak. He looked at the dust, watched the rain mercilessly pouring down from the sky, and witnessed the downfall of the dust fog. After some time, he cast his gaze at Yu Chen Hai.
"What is fair, and what is unfair?" Su Ming asked calmly.
"That is…" Yu Chen Hai was momentarily stunned.
"The height of mountains is not the same, hence it is unfair for them. The ground is not completely flat, hence it is also unfair. All manner of lives are not equal, so it is unfair for them as well. The length of the rivers is not the same, hence it is unfair for them too. Planets rise and fall, and even for galaxies, there is no such thing as equality. So then, how would you think of obtaining fairness?
"Fairness has never existed in the world. This so called fairness is just a form of mercy from the strong to the weak. It's a form of self pity of the weak as they bemoan their own fate," Su Ming said lightly. When those words landed in Yu Chen Hai's ears, his heart started trembling. This sort of theory and words overturned his way of thinking. They formed an impact that caused his breathing to become slightly quicker.
"Look at the dust fog. The fog is like a person's life, and the might of heavens is like its life. The unknown is the rain, and when it falls onto the ground, the dust will first rise into the air, then will fall back.
"Is this fair?" he asked flatly.
Yu Chen Hai was momentarily stunned. When he turned his head back to look at the falling rain, he was silent for a moment, then looked like he had come to an understanding.
The rain poured down from the sky without end, but there were several black spots in the horizon in the distance. Those were swallows that had not been able to find shelter from the rain in time. They struggled in the rain, and because their wings were drenched, it became incredibly difficult for them to fly, and they seemed as if they were about to plunge down at any moment.
There was one swallow that flew to the area near the courtyard with great effort. Just as it was about to fall, Su Ming lifted his right hand and swung it in the air before him. Immediately, the swallow trembled, and its feathers were no longer wet. It was as if an empty space had appeared around it, preventing the rain from entering it, and so the falling body of the swallow drew a beautiful arc once again before it landed in the eaves of the courtyard around the tower where Su Ming stayed.
"This swallow seeks shelter in the rain, but the rain falls continuously, and it cannot fight against it. Is this fair?" When Su Ming asked calmly, while Yu Chen Hai remained silent.
"I helped it and allowed it to avoid falling in the rain, so it could hide under the eaves, but the other swallows do not share its serendipity. Is this fair?" Su Ming looked at Yu Chen Hai.
"Brother Su, do you mean that I am the dust fog, and the older generation of my family is the rain that is the might of heavens, so when the rain falls to make me sink into the ground, this is unfair to me?
After a moment, Yu Chen Hai hesitated for a moment then asked, "The swallows in the rain are also like the competitors in the Yu Family..? Brother Su, please give me a straight answer, what do you mean?" He was a little unclear of what Su Ming was thinking. He had some form of understanding in his heart, but it was not very clear.
Su Ming's expression was calm. He did not answer Yu Chen Hai's words, but instead lifted his right hand to seize the air in the direction of the eaves. Immediately, the swallow he had protected just now was captured and brought into his hand. The swallow did not dare to struggle, but it was shivering.
"I chose to help it instead of the other swallows because it was the closest to me, and because… I liked this feather on its body." Su Ming lifted a feather from the swallow's body with his left hand. With a light tug, he plucked it off. There was a hint of blood at the root of the feather.
He loosened his grip over the swallow, and it immediately flew back under the eaves while shivering nonstop.
Su Ming looked at the feather in his left hand and brought it closer to Yu Chen Hai. His face remained as impassive as ever, and not a hint of emotion could be detected on it. It was as if he was ruthless, but also gentle. When Yu Chen Hai caught sight of it, his heart trembled. He sensed a hint of a devilish and mystifying air about Su Ming, and a chill ran down his spine.
"Fellow Daoist Yu… do you still need my help?" Su Ming smiled faintly and brought the feather before Yu Chen Hai.
Yu Chen Hai fell silent at the sight of that smile, but a moment later, he gritted his teeth and took the feather before standing up and bowing towards Su Ming.
"If you can help me during the auction to become the most striking presence, then I am willing to become that swallow. If there is anything that you need, I will do my best to fulfill your wishes."
As he smiled, Su Ming stood up and patted his clothes before walking towards the door to the courtyard.
"Fairness does not exist in the universe. The only things that exist are deals made under this unfair situation. Let's go. If they want to test me, then I will take the test."
"The Three Gates of Heavenly Dao Art weren't from the four Great True Worlds or even from Sinful Barren Lands. Instead, it came from an alien race known as the Gate of Dao from Divine Essence Star Ocean.
"It's said that this is a divine ability unique to those of that race. They can bring up never-ending illusions, and there is only one main point to their Art: As long as you believe it, it will exist.
"I don't know how to say this clearly either. The Art and the materials to cast it were all obtained by coincidence by those of the older generation from Divine Essence Star Ocean. They could only activate it slightly after many years of research, and it is the test used for the guests who want to be promoted to guest elders within the Yu Family.
"As long as they pass at least one gate, then they can become a guest elder. From what I remember, five guests have managed to pass the test.
"Four of them managed to pass the first Gate of Heavenly Dao, while only one managed to pass the second gate. There has never been a guest who passed the third gate.
"The Three Gates of Heavenly Dao are also what the members of the Yu Family must go through once they reach a certain level of cultivation. However, over the course of numerous years, only eleven people in the Yu Family have passed the first and second gates with different results. Progenitor Yu Ci was the only one who passed through the third gate eight thousand years ago."
There were numerous towers all around them. In the mid of the area made indistinct by the rain, Su Ming walked in front while Yu Chen Hai gave him directions from the side while describing the Three Gates of Heavenly Dao Art. He was still worried, but he felt much better than before.
He had originally thought that Su Ming would not accept the Three Gates Heavenly Dao test, and even if he accepted it, he would most likely not succeed. After all, there had been numerous guests within the Yu Family over the years, but only five people had succeeded.
Most of those did not care much about the world and would isolate themselves to meditate throughout the year. As for the guests who were more active in the family… none of them had managed to pass the Three Gates of Heavenly Dao and could not become guest elders. They could only remain as guests. However, the difference between the rights and resources of guests and guest elders could not be compared.
The request from the older generation from the other lineages was a form of unconcealed suppression in Yu Chen Hai's eyes, but he was unwilling to accept it. That was why when he went to Su Ming's place, he had been furious. Most of his sullenness had been just a show, though, his goal being stimulating Su Ming into taking the test. In fact, he had already prepared a series of words as a follow-up to continue stirring up his target.
However, he did not expect that with just a few words and one gaze, Su Ming had caused his heart to tremble. It was as if everything had become different. Even though Su Ming agreeing to take the test was in alignment with his goal, the change in the process had left Yu Chen Hai feeling like he was on the passive end.
That faint ghostly smile Su Ming had while he plucked the feather off the swallow's body had especially shaken Yu Chen Hai's heart. It was a devilish air that could not be described with words. He did not know whether it had been the right… or the wrong decision to bring Su Ming to the Yu Family.
As complicated thoughts ran through his head, Su Ming's footsteps came to a halt. Yu Chen Hai immediately cast his thoughts away. Instinctively, he had brought Su Ming to an incredibly big square among the numerous towers.
Almost at the instant the two of them arrived, the square distorted as if the universe was moving in reverse and the mountains as well as the rivers were moving. In an instant, the towers around them disappeared along with the square without a trace. What appeared before them was a tall mountain.
That mountain towered over them. It did not look like a mountain, though, but a gigantic statue instead. The summit looked like a head which had long hair falling down its shoulders. It looked as a hideous malicious spirit. The body of the mountain was its body, and it stood sideways to them. The right hand was lifted in the air, and there was a gigantic bat about to fly out on its palm!
From the distance, it looked like a giant was looking down from the summit, half of its body revealed by the side. In fact, since the mountain was a mix of blue and white, it was not that different from the colors of the sky, and at first glance… it was as if the mountain and sky were one, so people might confuse the two as they looked up or straight before them. It was as if the mountain was there, but was not at the same time. What existed was only that gigantic, hideous ghost that had the side of its body turned towards them.
"This is… Dao Avenue Mountain."
At the instant Yu Chen Hai whispered that to Su Ming, several divine thoughts came from the mountain in an incredibly domineering manner. Without any hesitation, they pressed down on Su Ming with an awe-inspiring might that belonged to those who considered themselves superior.
"Cultivator from the world outside, it is your fortune to see Dao Avenue Mountain, now kowtow three times to worship the mountain!"
Su Ming lifted his head, a freezing glare shining in his eyes.
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