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Chapter 928: Who… Summoned Me
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This was not a simple God of Berserkers' Art. It was an Art that was cast after Su Ming had fused the Illusion of Stars, Sun, and Moon in it, along with the mysterious power that would exist as long as he believed in it.
It could be said that only Su Ming alone could cast this divine ability in the universe. This Art might have started with the base of Second God of Berserkers' Palm, but even the Second God of Berserkers would find it impossible to cast this divine ability to this extent.
This was… Su Ming's Palm!
He believed his palm could break through space. He believed that his palm could destroy all those arrows, and he also believed… that his palm was a barrier that could not be shattered in this battlefield.
The palm grew larger. With a bang, it crashed into the thousand arrows. Booming sounds rose up, shaking the sky and earth. The small human from the gourd had turned into a long arc to charge towards the person with the bow, whose expression changed and who retreated swiftly. He had also seen the scene in the sky, and his heart trembled. He could not help but shout a word, "Transform!"
Right when this word was said, the thousand arrows immediately turned, and an even sharper penetrating force erupted from them. They gathered together with the other one hundred arrows, and all of them turned into one arrow!
Its might exploded, and it was several times greater than before. At this moment, Su Ming smiled.
The power that would exist if he believed in it was fused into Su Ming's divine ability. Its form was derived from the God of Berserkers' Palm, its spirit was from the Illusion of Stars, Sun, and Moon, and its power… was the Art that would exist as long as he believed in it.
However, even if Su Ming believed in the Art, he would only have executed half of the Art… The other half of the Art could only be completed when another person believed in it as well. Only then would it truly become Su Ming's unique divine ability.
And at that moment when the person with the bow spoke, it was clear… that he believed.
Because of that, Su Ming's gigantic illusory palm was no longer an illusion. It swiftly gained corporeal form, and with a bang, it crashed into the arrow.
Booming sounds surged into the sky. Loud bangs resounded in all directions, causing the empty air to tremble. In the mid of those bangs, an impact that was as great as a windstorm tumbled swiftly through the area before surging backwards.
The one arrow formed by one thousand and one hundred arrows… was disassembled in the sky. Once the arrows separated, they crumbled and exploded, unable to stop Su Ming's palm for even a moment!
The person with the bow on the ground no longer had any time to think. He retreated swiftly, but no matter what, he could not avoid the small person from the gourd slashing his neck!
The treasured gourd murdered a person. It was a murderous gourd!
Blood poured out from the neck of the person with the bow. He staggered, lifted his hands to press on the wound on his neck, but he could not do so… With just one slash from the gourd, his head flew up!
Sand rushed towards him swiftly from the area, as if it wanted to connect his head back to his body. Even with this sort of injury, the person with the bow was still not completely destroyed in terms of body and spirit. There was sand swiftly gathering on his empty neck, and he seemed as if he was about to recover in a moment. His body shrank swiftly, as if he was using the reduction of his body size in exchange for the recovery of his wound.
"I am the Malicious Sand Spirit Warrior! I am a spirit of the sand! I am the 3,691st scion of the Sand Spirits! I will not die here!" The head that had flown up let out a roar that shook the skies.
However, that roar was suppressed by Su Ming's gigantic palm in the sky. That palm had turned several hundreds of thousands of feet big from its initial tens of thousands, and it was fiercely pressing down on the ground, the roaring head, and the now headless person with the bow.
There were nearly ten thousand Sand Earthlings besides the person with the bow in that area of one hundred thousand feet. Their feeble bodies started trembling at that moment, and in the mid of their fear, they started fleeing in all directions.
They were afraid. They believed that the palm that seemed to be able to replace the sky could crush their bodies to pieces. As they believed in it, that palm grew increasingly stronger and more corporeal.
"Don't run! It's fake! Don't run! The more you believe in it, the stronger it will become!" The person's head fell on the ground and started roaring. If he still could not understand how Su Ming's Art worked, then he would have been unworthy of possessing power of Lunar Kalpa Realm!
Further into the distance was the illusory old man. At that moment, his Art had reached its crucial moment. He wanted to warn his people, but he also knew that his warnings in this life-and-death situation would be useless with how terrified his people were and how feeble their hearts were at that moment. That was why his eyes gained a cold edge, and his incantations grew even louder. He raised his arms and started calling to the sky.
The muffled booming sounds in the sky grew increasingly clearer.
"The color of the sand has become slightly duller," Su Ming said softly as he stood in midair.
Bang!
A loud bang reverberated in the air. The ground trembled. Once Su Ming's palm disappeared, a gigantic palm print was left on the ground. The sand chains around Xu Hui's body were gone, and she lay on the ground quietly, completely uninjured, but around her… were nearly ten thousand Sand Earthlings who were reduced to bloody mess. Their bones were completely crushed, and a bloody stench spread out. Their blood dyed the sand, making its color much more brilliant.
Right at the center was the person with the bow. His body had completely shattered, and it was the same for his head. His body and spirit had been destroyed.
Only the gigantic bow remained by his side. It was buried in the sand, with only its tip peeking out. As it quivered, it let out mournful whines.
Su Ming looked at his right index finger. Faint waves of fragrance that belonged to God Ascension Nectar spread out. This was due to him being unable to suppress the nectar with the seal once he brought out all his power into play.
Fortunately, this fragrance only filled the area around him and did not spread out.
With one move, Su Ming landed onto the ground. He passed the places with all the bloody puddles of Sand Earthlings. When he walked up to the place where the bow was buried, he stomped on the ground with his right foot, and the bow shot up from beneath the ground. Su Ming caught it.
At the instant he caught the bow, it started shrinking rapidly. Once it turned into a size Su Ming could use, the whines and shivers from the bow gained a submissive tone.
Su Ming put away the bow and walked towards Xu Hui. He gently picked her up from the ground, with one arm around her waist while letting her head rest against his chest. Waves of faint fragrance from Xu Hui's body wafted into Su Ming's nose, and he sent his life force into her body so that she could recover faster.
"Dao Kong…" Her voice was incredibly faint and weak as she struggled to open her eyes to look at Su Ming.
"Rest well. I'm here," he said softly and raised his head to look at the illusory old man, who was amid the tens of thousands of scattered Sand Earthlings, and who had his arms spread open, looking as if he was summoning something from the sky.
The old man's hair danced in the air, and his body shone as he shouted loudly towards the sky, "Hong Lashen, Suiyun Zhen Changlin [1]!"
As his voice echoed in the air, a roar came from the sky. That roar spread through the entire desert. During that instant, every single grain of sand in the endless desert started trembling.
Near the end of the desert was Dijiu Mo Sha, and he was rushing forward swiftly. He could already see the end and the area beyond the edge of the desert. That was a tranquil galaxy, but at that instant, his expression changed swiftly. He dipped his head down to look at the sand in the desert, and a solemn expression appeared on his face. Once he turned his head around to look back into the distance, he gritted his teeth to charge out of the desert even faster.
He could sense a wave of madness and murderous intent coming from the sand. In fact, as he moved forward, the sand under his feet started moving like flowing water.
He had always been able to move quickly, and at that moment, he even bit the tip of his tongue to cough up a mouthful of blood. His body turned into a blood shadow and he left into the distance. He could sense that the sand in the region was not the only one that moved. Instead, all the sand in the desert had started moving. As it tumbled about, it stirred up a great windstorm. The booming sounds caused by the storm were mixed with moans, and that sound was reverberating through the entire desert.
After a moment, he finally rushed out of the desert and stepped into the tranquil galaxy beyond. Then, he turned his head around to look back… and saw a scene that caused his heart to tremble uncontrollably, because he saw a scene that he would never forget in his life.
He saw… a gigantic face in the sky above the desert!
That face looked as if someone was lying in the sky. At that moment, that someone's body started sinking. After the face, the body also appeared, and that body… was the size of the entire desert!
The hundred thousand feet statue started shivering in the desert. When it started showing signs of rousing from slumber, the old man at the top of its head sat down and meditated on it without moving a single inch. Meanwhile, the black skull he held in his bosom shone with a black light that could bring fear to people's hearts.
"Who… summoned me…?" a voice that reverberated through the entire desert came from the sky.
Su Ming lifted his head swiftly, and his pupils shrank. He saw a huge body in the sky as well as a boundless face. That face belonged to a man whose eyes were shut. A long scar ran from the center of his brows to his neck. There were parts in that scar that had yet to close up completely, and those remaining wounds were ghastly white.
A mighty pressure Su Ming had never sensed before descended from that body at that moment, and Su Ming could sense… that this pressure even surpassed that possessed by the Masters of Fate, Lives, and Death!
This pressure might be unable to compare to Ecang when it was at the peak of its condition, but it was incredibly close to it! This pressure was only slightly weaker than Sui Chen Zi's, but it gave Su Ming a feeling that this person was… a powerful warrior who was in the same Realm as Sui Chen Zi!
The hair of the person who was descending danced in the air, and they looked like dragons moving about the Heavenly Spirits [2]. His skin was incredibly fair, making it look as if he had snow for skin, so all those who saw him will definitely not be unable to forget him.
At the spot where the center of his brows was torn was a cracked and broken mark. That mark… was of a desert, and it was exuding waves of power of Divine Essence that caused Su Ming's heart to tremble!
'Ancestral Spirit? Antecedental Spirit?' His pupils shrank.
"It is I, Long Di, the leader of the Sand Earthlings who have received your protection. I have disturbed your slumber because the Sand Earthlings are facing extermination… This person… this person has killed more than ten thousand of our people. He killed the spirit which you have bestowed upon us!" the illusory old man shouted out in a shrill voice. He had already knelt down on the ground, since the moment the person who was like a God had appeared in the sky.
All the other Sand Earthlings around him had prostrated themselves on the ground as well. The fervent zeal on their faces made it seem as if they were ready to burn their own souls.
Translator's Note:
1. Hong Lashen, Suiyun Zhen Changlin: Just a chant, no meaning. The second part is a name, though, so I like to think of it as "Come forth, Suiyun Zhen Changlin!"
2. Heavenly Spirits (天罡, tian1 gang1): These are actually planets. In Shui Hu Zhuan/Water Margin, there is a thing called 108 Stars of Destiny, and it is believed that a person's destiny is tied to a Star of Destiny. These Stars of Destiny are divided into two groups: 36 Heavenly Spirits and 72 Earthly Fiends.
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Chapter 929: Suiyun Zhen Changlin
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Su Ming's expression was cold. He held Xu Hui in his arms and lifted his head to look at the gigantic body as well as the pale face in the sky.
A sigh came from the sky. The gigantic person in the sky did not open his eyes, however. He kept them closed, and while he sighed, his words echoed in the air with a boom.
"This is a race I favor… They are my people… Thou… shouldst be buried in the void…"
The fragmented words rang in all directions. They brought with them a great mighty pressure that made it seem as if laws themselves were contained in them. At the instant they spread out, the sand around Su Ming started spinning about swiftly. The gigantic body in the sky then opened his mouth slightly.
An indescribable suction force came out, and the sand on the ground instantly started dancing. It flew up and charged towards the giant's mouth. The sand vortex around Su Ming turned into a whirlwind, sweeping up his body as if it wanted to devour him.
"You're just a broken spirit, and you dare to bury me, Su, as a punishment?!" Su Ming laughed coldly. Xu Hui had already fallen unconscious and was completely unaware of everything around her. She lay in Su Ming's bosom without moving.
Su Ming had his left arm wrapped around Xu Hui. As he raised his right hand, he pushed against the ground, and with it, the ground started rumbling and moving. The vortex around him stopped moving for an instant. At that time, without the suction force moving him, he shot up from the ground and charged towards the giant's mouth in the sky.
When he was in midair, Su Ming formed a seal with his right hand and pointed forward. Immediately, a mountain appeared in front of him!
Most of the mountain was white, and it looked like clouds. Only the edge near the top was black, and that area had the form of a malicious spirit. That creature was half-sprawled out on the mountain while holding a black bat in its right hand.
Naturally, this was… Dao Avenue Mountain, the one Su Ming had obtained from the Yu Family!
This treasure could be used without any need for Divine Essence, and its might was also extraordinary. At that moment, once Su Ming brought it out and pointed forward, Dao Avenue Mountain started growing bigger endlessly while charging at its target.
The giant in the sky still had his eyes closed, but his act of inhaling had very clearly become slightly faster. Yet even if it had only become slightly faster, the power of Divine Essence which had manifested around him burst forth in a magnitude that was stronger by several folds.
The wind seemed to have become sharp blades. As it roared, it charged towards Dao Avenue Mountain, which was rushing at the giant. While that mountain trembled, Su Ming formed a seal with his right hand and pointed forward again.
A roar instantly came from Dao Avenue Mountain. The malicious spirit looked like it had become alive and separated itself. As it roared, the bat in its right hand let out a piercing screech and shot out, turning into a long arc that charged towards the giant in the sky.
At that moment, the gigantic person in the sky finished inhaling, and just like a mortal who needed to breath out once he breathed in, he started swiftly exhaling.
Violent gusts of wind roared. A large amount of cracks instantly appeared on Dao Avenue Mountain, and it started falling backwards like a kite. Even the malicious spirit could not maintain its form. It looked as if its entire body was about to be blown apart. And the bat could not get close, either.
Su Ming felt violent gusts of wind crashing into his face, as if they wanted to batter him until he was reduced to dust and fused with the void. As his body fell backwards, intense pain shot up his body, and even Xu Hui's flesh and bones started showing signs of separating from each other.
Su Ming turned around swiftly, using his back as a barrier to fight against the violent gusts. At the same time, he saw the mockery and the smugness on the illusory old man's face on the ground, and saw the bloodthirst as well as excitement on the faces of the tens of thousands of Sand Earthlings around him.
A bitingly cold glare shone in Su Ming's eyes. He formed a seal with his right hand and even bit the tip of his tongue to cough up a mouthful of blood. Once the blood fused with the seal, it immediately turned into a layer of blood mist. Through that blood mist, a white mountain rock shot out. This treasure that was Peace Arrives When the Elephant is Here swiftly manifested. The mountain rock which was the size of a palm swelled up, and in the blink of an eye, it turned into a large elephant that could trample the skies.
At the same time, the gigantic scale also took form. A piercing roar reverberated in the air, and the malicious spirit which had appeared previously seized the scale once it saw it.
Su Ming's hair danced in the air. His robes floated, and the Divine Essence Runic Symbols began to flash with light in his eyes. With each burst, the treasure's might would grow stronger!
"Malicious spirit!" Su Ming roared.
The malicious spirit instantly turned around with the scale in hand, and its body swelled up limitlessly. The scale in its hand also grew bigger; its size and strength would depend on how much Divine Essence Su Ming possessed. If he possessed a sufficient amount of Divine Essence, then it could grow endlessly!
He formed a seal with his hand and said in a cold voice once again, "Weigh the elephant!"
The malicious spirit roared. As its body grew bigger, it lifted the scale, and with a swing, the elephant landed on the scale pan. Dao Avenue Mountain turned into the weight.
"This elephant… weighs eight maces and seven taels!"
After having this malicious spirit weigh the elephant several times, Su Ming could already figure out some patterns in it. When that spirit weighed the elephant, it would be better if it was heavier, because the weight represented the amount of Divine Essence that had accumulated.
However, when it weighed their enemies, it would be better the lighter they weighed, because the weight represented how much of his opponent's strength he could reduce!
At that moment as the malicious spirit weighed the elephant and said those words, the gigantic elephant raised its head and let out a roar. It shot up and, with an indescribable speed, charged towards the giant in the sky.
It was fast. While wind blew against its face, it crashed into the gigantic body with a bang.
Booming sounds shot into the sky, and rumbles echoed in all directions. A large amount of ripples fell backwards in the sky. Su Ming coughed up blood. He fell backwards, and a brilliant light shone in his eyes.
"Divine Essence…" a booming sound said flatly. "Thou art a Succeeding Spirit… Still, thou wilst be buried in the void."
When the giant opened his mouth, while he still did not open his eyes, he lifted his right hand slowly and pushed it swiftly towards Su Ming. It rushed through the air towards him, and his fingers were so big that they gave Su Ming the feeling that he was facing off against a Master of Fate, Lives, and Death!
'Ecang!'
In the face of this life-threatening crisis, Su Ming summoned his Ecang clone without hesitation. He lifted his right hand and swung it forward. As he said that word in his heart, the world immediately roared, and a gigantic shadow manifested behind him.
It was a tree, the projection of Su Ming's Ecang clone!
Once the tree appeared, Su Ming's power increased exponentially. At the same time, the hand of the giant in the sky froze and stopped in midair.
"Ecang!" The giant opened one of his eyes in an instant.
It was a yellow eye with a vertical pupil. Its edge was burning in flames, and the giant glared at Ecang's illusory form behind Su Ming!
Su Ming did not speak. If he wanted to summon the Ecang clone to this place, then he had to first form the clone's projection. Only when the projection appeared could he use his soul as a guide to open a tunnel in space and allow his Ecang clone to come to this place.
At that moment, his projection was swiftly gathering together, but he still needed a dozen something breaths before he could open the tunnel in space.
"Ecang, an Ancestral Spirit who was fortunate enough to obtain eternal life in the ancient ballad… You… have also become so weak… The legend is true… Could it be that the legend is true..?" the giant's left eye stared at Su Ming's Ecang shadow.
"Every single time the cycle of an aeon ends, Old Man Extermination [1] reactivates the power of reincarnation and creates the ballad for all lives once more… In that ballad, the slots for eternal life are given again… All manner of lives in the universe have the possibility of being added to the ballad… They will be sent to the Heavenly Ship and head to the vast sky. Then, when the cycle of an aeon ends… they will not be destroyed.
"You are so weak, and you have existed for much longer… Now… you have reached the end of your life." The gigantic figure in the sky suddenly started laughing loudly. His voice was like thunder, and the right hand which had come to a pause in midair suddenly increased in speed to charge down.
Su Ming's pupils shrank. When he lifted his right hand, he sucked in a deep breath. His Ecang clone needed several more breaths before he could arrive, and the arm of the person in the sky would definitely reach him beforehand.
Su Ming had already made preparations to enter the dimension in the fragment. With the dimension helping him, his Ecang clone could move through space and arrive in this area on time.
The black stone fragment's presence spread out in his soul, faint black ripples traveling out. Right at the instant Su Ming was about to step into the dimension in the fragment, a change suddenly occurred!
At the instant there were ten thousand feet between Su Ming and the right hand, the hand froze once again. In fact, it even shuddered. The giant's right eye flew open to reveal a crimson pupil with windstorms raging around it.
This was the first time he opened both eyes!
Disbelief appeared in these two completely different eyes. The giant's right arm was not the only thing that trembled. His entire body shivered as well, and as it did so, the entire sky seemed to quiver. Ripples traveled outwards, and an excitement that had never appeared on the giant's face before showed up.
"I can sense… Not just Ecang's power… In your body… This is… This is… the Seed of Life Extermination's presence! There is no mistaking this. I have gone to Old Man Extermination around thirty thousand times in the past and offered numerous offerings… but I never obtained a chance for my name to be written in the ballad…
"You are not Ecang… You are the precedent to reactivate Old Man Extermination!" As the giant in the sky trembled, excitement that could not be hidden showed up in his eyes. He pulled back his right hand quickly, and he swiftly turned his body in the sky so that he was no longer lying down, but standing up!
As he stood up, the sky roared. If anyone stood by his feet, they would be unable to tell just how tall he was, because no end of him could be seen… However, he did not stand up completely. Instead, he bent his body slowly… and knelt down before Su Ming to worship him!
"Please forgive my offense. Please give me the right to obtain eternal life once more… Please write down my name in the ballad you will reactivate. I am the Antecedental Spirit of Sand Earthlings, Suiyun Zhen Changlin."
Su Ming was momentarily stunned. He quickly recalled the other name of the black fragment – Seed of Life Extermination. He also remembered the old and broken ship in the galaxy, along with the old man sitting on it, as well as everything he witnessed in the past.
"An ancient ballad…" An old voice seemed to echo in Su Ming's ears.
Translator's Note:
1. Old Man Extermination: Someone who already appeared in ISSTH and RI.
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Chapter 930: A Time for a Ballad
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If the time the song was sung was the total time of a world's birth and subsequent destruction…
… Then when the song ended, it would mark the moment when the world disintegrated… How… would you decide the rhythm for such a song?
If the time the song was sung was the total time of a person's birth and road into death…
… Then when the song ended, it would mark the moment when the person's life ended… Who… would you choose to mention in your song? How would you sing it to yourself?
There was a ballad that rang throughout the existence of a universe, until it was destroyed. During that period of time, the ballad was time itself…
The composer of the ballad could add names into the song so that they would be with the ballad and exist eternally. They would… never rot away and die.
In the ancient past, there were nine lives and four races whose names were mentioned in the song, and they became glorious existences during the cycle of their aeon with the ballad.
At the moment, the ballad had reached its coda. It had not ended, but it was nearing that time. The current moment was also the time for Old Man Extermination to write a new piece.
Su Ming looked at the giant in the sky kneeling in front of him. He looked at his gigantic body, but for some unknown reason, he saw a great wave of aura of death around the giant's body.
This was a living being that was so old he was nearing the end of his life. He was still alive, but at the same time, he was already a candle that had burned to its end. The flames of his life were about to be extinguished.
"Please write my name in your ballad… I am willing to offer you everything in my life…" The giant bowed his head while speaking in anguish.
At the moment he noticed that the person in front of him possessed Old Man Extermination's presence, he gave up all thoughts of attacking Su Ming. The Seed of Life Extermination was something that could not be snatched or wrestled over. If someone wasn't acknowledged by that seed, perhaps another could still snatch it.
But once the Seed of Life Extermination was reactivated and fused with the person it acknowledged… then while all people and all forces could destroy the person who was acknowledged, but they could not destroy the Seed of Life Extermination. They would not be able to fuse with it either.
The person who killed the acknowledged person would also lose the right to be written into the ballad eternally.
This knowledge was something that existed in the giant's memories from the ancient past.
Su Ming fell silent. After a long time, he imitated the actions of the old man he'd seen in the dimension and said in a calm and leisurely manner, "What will you offer?"
When Su Ming said these words, there was an ancient air to his tone. The black fragment in his soul spread out waves of ancient presence. That presence existed in Su Ming's soul. It had been slowly accumulating over time, and now, when it spread out faintly, he… seemed to have become the old man from the past.
The giant raised his head and cast his gaze on the ground. With a flash, the tens of thousands of Sand Earthlings on the ground let out shrill, pained screams. Their bodies instantly melted, and all of them turned into sand, forming sand dunes on the ground.
The illusory old man trembled. This change had occurred too quickly, not giving him a chance to react. In an instant, all his people had died. As he trembled, he wanted to retreat, but when the God of his people fixed his gaze on him, his body turned into sand, and he scattered into the wind.
His physical body, which was located far in the distance on the statue that was one hundred thousand feet, disintegrated as well. The statue, too, disappeared.
At that moment, there was no more life in the desert.
Grains of sand that looked like crystals flew up from the ground. Each grain of sand symbolized one life. They gathered together to turn into a purification vase that came to float in front of Su Ming.
"This is the source of life for the Sand Earthlings. It is my first offering. Please accept it." The giant stared at Su Ming with brightly burning eyes.
Su Ming met his gaze. After a moment, he slowly lifted his right hand to seize the purification vase in front of him. At the instant he did so, a black vortex appeared on his palm.
The vortex was not formed by Su Ming's will, but the black fragment in his soul had manifested it on his palm on its own. Once it devoured the purification vase, it even sent out a black thread.
That black thread instantly charged towards the giant. Once it fused with him, the giant shuddered. Excitement appeared in his eyes. He might have been certain that this person was the one who reactivated the Seed of Life Extermination, but there had still been a hint of uncertainty within him. Yet the moment he saw the black thread he obtained every single time he would get in the ancient past after he made an offering, the uncertainty in his heart disappeared. He became completely certain of the person's identity.
"My life has reached its end, but I can attack thrice for you. This is my second offering… It is also all that I can do now." The sand giant's voice was filled with age. As his words reverberated in the air, he looked as if he was waiting for Su Ming's reply.
"I can promise you that I will write your name into the ballad, but after you attack thrice, you must offer your Divine Essence… as the third offering," Su Ming said calmly.
"If my spirit is preserved, then I will have eternal life. I will fulfill my promise," the giant said in his ancient voice after remaining silent for a moment. His body gradually shrunk down, until he turned into an earth's yellow sand bracelet. It floated over in front of Su Ming. There was an indistinct face on the bracelet, and that was naturally the Sand Spirit.
Su Ming looked at the bracelet. After some time, he picked it up. Once he placed it in his storage bag, he looked at the space around him. As of then, this place was filled with a dead silence.
After remaining silent for a moment, Su Ming rubbed the center of his brows. Everything had happened too fast and too suddenly just then. Many thoughts rushed past his mind at that moment, but he calmed his heart and started thinking about it with calmness.
After a long while, he instinctively touched the space below his neck. There was nothing there, but he seemed to be able to feel the black fragment. Everything about this stone was slowly revealed before him as he gained more experience.
"Seed of Life Extermination… Old Man Extermination's reactivation… composing the ballad…" The experiences he had went through in the dimension in the fragment surfaced in Su Ming's head. The ancient ship should be the Heavenly Ship that the Sand Spirit had mentioned.
After some time, Su Ming took in a deep breath. He no longer thought about the things that that left him confused and lost. He dissipated his Ecang projection and resolved the power he had obtained after fusing with his clones. Then, with the unconscious Xu Hui in his arms, he charged forward.
Several days later, Su Ming reached the end of the desert—now filled with a dead silence—based on the marks he had left in the past. When he stood at the edge, he turned his head around to cast a look at the desert behind him.
He could sense that the desert was moving towards death. There was no longer any life force there, nor any lifeforms.
He kept watching, and suddenly came to understand slightly why the black stone fragment was known as… the Seed of Life Extermination.
He remained silent for a moment before turning his head around and walking out of the desert. In front of him was a galaxy which was incredibly clean. When he cast his gaze on it, he could not see too much dust or rotten matter. It was like a calm swamp. He could vaguely see a planet at the forefront.
This was… a cultivation planet that had been split in two, as if it had been cut in half by someone. There were some parts of it that were still connected together, but when he looked at it, he found that it was a wasteland.
"When you walk out of the desert, what you see in the galaxy… will be my tribe." Dijiu Mo Sha's words before he left echoed in Su Ming's ears. He stared at the broken cultivation planet and walked silently over.
He gradually got closer. In silence, Su Ming stared at the cultivation planet, and his footsteps became faster. He had no idea how much time had passed, but eventually, he closed in.
A decadent air of time filled the galaxy, causing people to be immersed in it, as if they would also become ancient beings from it.
Su Ming walked quietly. As he came even closer to the planet, he saw that there seemed to be endless debris on the left side, and among it was a broken statue.
When he saw the statue from the distance, a sharp stab of pain appeared in Su Ming's heart. With one move, he instantly appeared on that cultivation planet and stood on a piece of black ground. In front of him was an endless stream of debris.
Death existed in the form of a bloody stench that persisted through the passage of time. The ancient air and silence were the only themes in this place.
The statue that stood erect among the debris had lost its right arm, but it was still… gigantic in size and covered head to toe in black fur. Sitting cross-legged on its head was an old man. He was dressed in a robe whose color could not be determined, and he had his head lifted to look into the distance.
He was also a statue.
Su Ming looked at the old man, then put down the still unconscious Xu Hui from his bosom to slowly walk over to the statue. He descended on the top and stood beside the old man, looking at the familiar face. Various memories appeared in his head.
The old man who loved changing his clothes when he ventured out of the ninth summit, the person who brought him to the land of the Shamans so that he could get used to the battlefield, the person who taught him the Art to clear his mind, and also the person who let him find a home in Freezing Sky Clan.
At that moment, he was right before Su Ming.
He stared at the statue with a dazed expression, then tears fell down from his eyes. He quietly knelt down and kowtowed nine times to the statue.
"Master…"
When his tears fell on the statue, they spread out and sank into the fine cracks, leaving behind only a wet mark.
"One thousand years ago, this was the place where I was born…" A deep voice echoed in the air. It came from an abandoned house below the statue, the thin man who was sitting there with a desolate air.
Needless to say, he was Dijiu Mo Sha.
He lowered his head and touched the house beneath him. His voice spread through the wreckage, and his words were filled with grief, nostalgia, and an anguish that could not be wiped away.
"The old man in front of you is our Patriarch. He did not like to speak, and most of the time, he would just look into the distance silently. The place he watched was the sacred mountain, the symbol of our tribe. Our patriarch called it… the ninth mountain.
"The patriarch said that he had five disciples in his life, and all of them made him proud. He believed that his disciples would someday be the center of attention of the entire universe so that their names would spread through the whole world and reach him even here.
"Which disciple of the patriarch are you?"
"My Master only had four disciples, and the mountain is not called the ninth mountain. It's the ninth summit," Su Ming muttered under his breath while staring at the statue.
Dijiu Mo Sha's body trembled in a barely discernible manner. He raised his head slowly and directed his gaze at Su Ming.
"There are five stones in front of you. You can place your hands on them…"
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Chapter 931: The Fifth Kiln
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Love.
It is the pillar of support for people as they live their lives. It can be love between friends, love between lovers, familial love, and love born out of kindness. When they are shown to the world, they reveal uniform joy and grief.
Dark Mountain allowed Su Ming to feel the love for home. His elder gave him the love born out of kindness. His companions gave him the love between friends, and the women in his life allowed him to feel affection but not romantic love. All of these were Su Ming's precious memories.
His love for the ninth summit was one between familial love and love born out of kindness. It had dissolved into his blood and was branded into his memories, turning into a form of warmth that was different from his mother's murmurs when he was swathed in darkness.
This love and warmth was the thing that allowed him to continue down his path when he closed his eyes in the darkness. In the end… he was still human. A person with flesh and blood.
Even if he had a limitless amount of divine abilities at his disposal, even if he had lived for many years and was now an ancient existence, even if he had already grown numb to killing, and even if his hands were stained with blood… when he closed his eyes, the things that came up the most often were still those carefree peals of laughter in Dark Mountain as well as the warmth he experienced in the ninth summit when he was protected by his senior brothers and Master.
But reality was harsh. It was as if it had reduced all of his longing into fragments filled with all sorts of twists and turns, and they were stranded in the depths of the swamp known as memories… He could stretch a hand into that swamp, but he would never be able to fish out all of them. He would only be able to drag out bits and pieces of those memories.
He truly wanted to use his divine abilities to freeze those scenes that were gone from his sight in the blink of an eye, but even if he could not freeze them, there would always be one small little stone that would fall into the swamp, causing faint ripples and giving a light tap so that he would remember.
There were so many things that happened in the past, which had now turned into a sigh that echoed in the air as he looked at his Master in this silent wasteland. Su Ming stared at the statue before him and sensed the ancient air about the statue… How could he forget this person?
Su Ming knelt beside the statue, and tears fell from his eyes.
Dijiu Mo Sha's voice entered his ears, then left. Su Ming seemed to not have heard him. He looked at his Master's statue quietly, as if time had stopped because of his stare.
When an unknown amount of time had passed, Su Ming lowered his head and saw five stones the size of his palm by his Master's feet. They were placed there and were connected to the stone statue of the giant. It was as if… they had existed since the statue was created.
Su Ming looked at those stones, and his gaze fell on the fourth stone. That stone had a slight, purple tinge, and it was slightly different from the other four. When Su Ming's gaze fell on it, he had a faint feeling that his soul was being led to it.
"Our patriarch left behind these five stones. He said… that if his disciples arrived someday, they would be able to find their stone among the five. If they can make those stones melt, then there would be no need to suspect them. They are his disciples," Dijiu Mo Sha said in a low voice.
Su Ming stared at the fourth stone. He raised his right hand and slowly placed it on the stone. At the instant he did this, Dijiu Mo Sha focused his eyes on the stone and watched it attentively.
He saw a flash of purple. That purple light instantly surged into the sky and illuminated the entire sky. Su Ming's figure was fused into that purple light. When Dijiu Mo Sha looked over, he found that Su Ming's figure was only barely discernible.
Su Ming shivered. At the instant the purple light spread out, he sensed Tian Xie Zi's presence incredibly clearly. That presence seemed to be just around him, as if it had always existed in this place, just waiting for his disciple to arrive.
After a long while, the purple light dissipated. Su Ming stood beside Tian Xie Zi's statue, and the five stones on the ground had now turned into four.
"I, Dijiu Mo Sha, greet my fourth senior brother!" Once Dijiu Mo Sha witnessed this scene, he wrapped his fist in his palm and bowed to Su Ming without any hesitation.
Su Ming did not speak. His gaze fell on the fifth stone beside the statue before he turned his gaze towards Dijiu Mo Sha.
"What did you call me?" A fierce look appeared in Su Ming's eyes.
"After the patriarch arrived in Divine Essence Star Ocean, I became his disciple in name when he provided enlightenment for the Ninth Tribe. My patriarch told me about the divine abilities his four disciples have. Since you could awaken the fourth stone, then based on what the patriarch said before he left… you must be Su Ming!" Dijiu Mo Sha raised his head to stare at Su Ming.
"Of the four disciples my Master took in, I am the most ordinary of them all. My eldest senior brother is the Lord of Nine Li, my second senior brother is the King of All Phantoms, my third senior brother is above all runes and seals… what right do you have to become our junior brother?" Su Ming's expression was calm, but the fierce tone in his words had a faint, freezing quality to them.
He was no longer the teenager who was immature and who did not have enough experience behind his back. He had gone through far too many things and also had a deep understanding towards the cruelty of the world. He no longer trusted in someone easily.
Even if a person called him his fourth senior brother and was truly Master's fifth disciple, some sort of change might occur.
Besides, this was not something that concerned Su Ming alone. This was something he would have to share with his senior brothers. Acknowledging another junior brother into their mid was no child's play.
Dijiu Mo Sha remained silent for a moment, then said in a low voice, "I am very ordinary. Even when I was in my tribe, I was ordinary. I don't know why patriarch took me in as his disciple in name. Before he left, he told me his four disciples' names and told me to come to this place often so that I could wait for his disciples, who might come to this place someday."
Su Ming looked into the distance. If the cultivation planet had not shattered, he would have been able to see the ninth summit that was built on the planet from this spot.
"Why did this place fall to desolation?" Su Ming asked calmly after some time.
"The races surrounded and attacked us!" Dijiu Mo Sha's eyes shone with great killing intent and hate as he spat these words through gritted teeth.
"Why did they surround and attack you?" Su Ming asked faintly.
"Because the fifth stone appeared, and because our patriarch obtained it." Dijiu Mo Sha clenched his fists, and his voice echoed in the air.
Su Ming remained silent for a moment before finally asking, "Is Master… still around?"
"Around a thousand years ago, our patriarch took the fifth stone and led the four races away for us. We don't… know whether he is alive or dead… However, over the course of years I've spent conducting investigations in secret, I've found some hints. The four races have not obtained the fifth stone, and I believe that the patriarch did not die in the past," Dijiu Mo Sha told everything he knew while looking straight into Su Ming's eyes.
"What is the fifth stone?"
"Once you have that stone, when you are in the fifth ocean located at the core of Divine Essence Star Ocean, you can use it to point you in the direction… of the Fifth True World's key, which has been lost in the passage of time. With it, you can even step into the Fifth True World."
Su Ming fell silent again.
"How do you gain possession of the fifth stone, and how did it appear?" he asked while looking at Dijiu Mo Sha.
"There are two ways to obtain the fifth stone. One of them is to snatch it from the person with it. The other… is to wait for the activation of the fifth kiln.
"It is unknown when the fifth kiln will be activated. Sometimes, it will be activated once a decade. Sometimes, it will be activated once a century. Sometimes, it will need a thousand or ten thousand years or even longer to activate.
"Once the fifth kiln is activated, flames that will spread through the entire Divine Essence Star Ocean will burst forth. This is something that even the galaxies beyond Divine Essence Star Ocean will be able to see.
"The flames will burn continuously for a period of time. During that time, it will be a form of torture and trial for all living beings. We need to avoid the fire, or our bodies and spirits will be destroyed.
"But there are some powerful warriors who can head towards the fire and step right into the fifth kiln. In it, they might be able to obtain a great serendipity. Their bodies will become sanctified, as if they had been refined. They might also be able to obtain Enchanted Treasures. The hardest to obtain among them is the fifth stone.
"However, the possibility of death in there is extremely high.
"It is said that the fifth kiln is not a product of Divine Essence Star Ocean, but an Enchanted Kiln. When it burns, it can create supreme treasures possessing endless spiritual energy for the Fifth True World. It was in the Fifth True World, but once that disappeared, the kiln appeared in Divine Essence Star Ocean.
"No one can use it as their personal Enchanted Treasure. They can only watch it erupt time and again in the passage of time, and there are always people who step into it to search for serendipities.
"By now, this fifth kiln has become one of the four great mysteries in Divine Essence Star Ocean!" Dijiu Mo Sha explained.
"As for the other three mysteries, one of them is the vortices in space that occasionally appear in Divine Essence Star and have been in the galaxy since its birth. Once someone falls in there, there's no way to get out. We call these vortices Divine Essence Star Ocean's swamps. They might lead to another world that is not known to us.
"The second mystery is the endlessness of Divine Essence Star Ocean. Even if you manage to find the core, it doesn't matter for how many years you move away from it, you will never be able to get out of Divine Essence Star Ocean. It's as if this galaxy is the epitome of the word boundless.
"The third mystery is the place where all Ancestral Spirits were born. It is also known as All Spirits Hall. It is said that the secrets of Divine Essence Star Ocean's origins are kept there, but when All Spirits Hall appears, those who are not Masters of Fate, Lives, and Death cannot enter the place, which is why it is very difficult for people to know just what is inside." Dijiu Mo Sha's voice's reverberated in space as he spoke about the secrets in Divine Essence Star Ocean.
Su Ming remained silent for a moment before he asked again, "Do you know where Master has gone?"
"The entrance to the Fifth True World. In fact, there's a high possibility that Master is already in the Fifth True World," Dijiu Mo Sha said without any hesitation.
Su Ming sank into a contemplative silence for a moment. Just as he was about to speak, a piercing whistle suddenly came from within Dijiu Mo Sha's body. This sound contained two long whistles and three short whistles, giving off a very urgent feeling.
At the instant the sound came, Dijiu Mo Sha's expression changed drastically. He turned around and looked into the distance. As anxiety appeared in his eyes, he also let out a bunch of sounds.
They were three short whistles and one long whistle, as if this was some form of language, and he was replying to whoever it was that made the initial whistle.
Once he made this sound, another sound came faintly from his body. This time, it was four long whistles and three short whistles.
Dijiu Mo Sha's expression changed. Without hesitation, he moved forward, but after he took a few steps, he turned around to look at Su Ming. His usually aloof eyes now held a hint of complicated emotions and nostalgia.
"I finished what the patriarch instructed me to do—to come to this place once in a while to wait for his disciples. It doesn't matter to me whether you acknowledge my status or not. I… Dijiu Mo Sha, am the patriarch's disciple, and even if I die… my soul will be the patriarch's disciple!" Once he finished saying this, a determined and resolute look flashed in Dijiu Mo Sha's eyes. He turned his head around, turned into a long arc, and instantly charged into the distance.
Su Ming remained silent for a moment. Then, he looked at his Master's statue before letting out a light sigh. With a swing of his arm, he swept up Xu Hui and took a step forward. His body instantly disappeared. As he had the Duke of Crimson Flame shift, he appeared right next to Dijiu Mo Sha, who was in the distance and was charging forward in a hurry.
"You…" Dijiu Mo Sha was taken aback.
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"What happened?" Su Ming asked calmly.
Dijiu Mo Sha remained silent for several breaths, then when he looked at Su Ming, his expression was filled with a hint of gratitude.
"The tribe is in danger. It should have been an invasion by the Hearers. After the patriarch shifted the tribe to this place from the inner parts of Divine Essence Star Ocean, we had to keep migrating over the past thousand years. We kept hiding from everyone. The four races might not chase after us anymore, but the minor races affiliated to them kept whittling down the number of people in our tribe ceaselessly," Dijiu Mo Sha said through gritted teeth.
"From a tribe of nearly one hundred thousand people, we were reduced to less than one thousand people…"
"Take me to your tribe," Su Ming said calmly.
Dijiu Mo Sha nodded. He moved, and blood fog erupted from his body, causing his speed to instantly increase by several fold. Su Ming took one step forward by his side, and with it, he had already traveled the distance.
They rushed on their way, and after about two hours, Dijiu Mo Sha came to an abrupt halt. He carefully observed his surroundings, then brought out a stone from his bosom. He crushed it and spread it outwards.
Immediately, in a spot not too far from where they were a vortex the size of a palm took shape. It sucked in the powder from the crushed stone.
"The vortices in Divine Essence Star Ocean might have their own mysterious aspects, but after years of investigation, the people here found that while some of the vortices are endless chasms that lead to unknown destinations, there are some vortices that are connected to others of their king in Divine Essence Star Ocean.
"Once we find these safe vortices, they can be turned into a kind of natural Relocation spot. We can use them to make initially long distances no longer so far away.
"The records of these vortices in each tribe are the most important treasures, and we cannot let any outsiders learn of them. In fact, there are only a few members of a tribe who can have this knowledge.
"The patriarch used some sort of unknown method to discover the Ninth Tribe's Relocation Vortices, and he discovered quite a number of them. The planet where our tribe was built was also shifted from the inner parts of Divine Essence Star Ocean to the periphery in this manner.
"In fact, if it was not because of the existence of these vortex tunnels, it would have been impossible for my tribesmen to continue surviving after being chased ceaselessly for the past thousand years. There are plenty of vortex tunnels the patriarch has uncovered which other tribes do not know of up to this date."
Clearly, Dijiu Mo Sha no longer treated Su Ming as an outsider. As he observed the powder from the stone around him, he provided him with detailed explanations.
"When we return to the tribe, I will tell you all the vortex tunnels that have been recorded. It'll be much more convenient for you to travel around in Divine Essence Star Ocean like this." Dijiu Mo Sha's eyes focused on the spot where the stone powder disappeared, then he raised his right hand to seize the air in that direction.
"Just touching the vortex with your body will be sufficient. When you're being Relocated, do not open your eyes. We will be able to walk out of the other tunnel in about a dozen something breaths."
Dijiu Mo Sha's voice still echoed in space when his body was sucked into the fist-sized vortex. He was pulled inside straight away, as if the edges of that vortex were soft and bouncy, which allowed it to devour all matter.
A glint appeared in Su Ming's eyes. After a moment of pensive silence, he took a step forward and touched the vortex. At the instant he did so, he felt that he was enveloped in something soft. Right when this feeling appeared, he noticed a powerful suction force that pulled him into the vortex with a bang.
Su Ming did not close his eyes. Instead, he kept them constantly open.
He could sense that his body was being moved by some sort of force leading him forward. Before him, he saw Dijiu Mo Sha, who had his eyes closed.
Aside from him, Su Ming saw… a colorful world. There were countless living beings that were like jellyfishes shining in this world while they floated around the area. When he looked down, he found no bottom. There was only darkness.
When Su Ming saw this, his gaze focused, and he saw six brownish yellow flames suddenly lighting up in a small region of the darkness beneath him.
At the same time, a furious roar came from the darkness. Right when that roar sounded, the colorful jellyfish-like creatures around him dispersed.
Immediately after, Su Ming saw the six flames burn up brighter in the endless darkness beneath him. They swiftly grew bigger, as if they were three living spirits swifty rushing out.
"Close your eyes!" an anxious voice immediately said from a spot not too far away from Su Ming. That voice was belonged to Dijiu Mo Sha, whose body was moving forward due to the force leading him. Once he heard the furious roar, he kept his eyes closed, but anxiety appeared on his face.
Su Ming did not close his eyes. He instead continued looking at the endless darkness beneath him.
The six burning flames came increasingly closer. About six to seven breaths later, the furious roars turned into a powerful impact… and a horse that was entirely black and was stepping on flames appeared before Su Ming's eyes.
The two-headed horse was black and had flames surrounding it. There was murder in its eyes, and the two dragon heads kept tossing about. Enraged roars reverberated in the air and charged towards Su Ming.
A powerful mighty pressure erupted from this foreign creature's body, and it was so strong that Su Ming once again understood that becoming a Master of Fate, Lives, and Death was absolutely not the limit and did not constitute to someone being the strongest!
"Don't look at anything… Ha…" Dijiu Mo Sha's voice turned into a sigh in the end. His figure disappeared from the colorful world, and no trace of him could be found anymore. It was a telling sign that he had been sent out on the other side.
The black horse with two dragon heads drew closer. Its roars shook the air in all directions.
Su Ming could feel that the power drawing him forward was on the verge of collapse due to the tremors. He narrowed his eyes, but he still did not close his eyes.
Su Ming had grown incredibly fond of this horse the moment he saw it. The creature's fierce presence matched well with his own murderous aura. When he saw it stepping on flames while on its way, this appearance coincided with a thought that had blossomed in the depths of his head when he had heard Dijiu Mo Sha's words.
He was also extremely satisfied with its speed. It had only used the span of a few short breaths to reach this place from the seemingly endless darkness. There were no flaws in its cultivation base, either.
Su Ming's eyes were trained on the horse, without any attempt of hiding it, and since his thoughts were revealed in his gaze, the black horse with the two dragon heads felt provoked, which was a rare emotion. It also noticed Su Ming's intent to enslave it.
This caused the beast's roars to become stronger and its speed to become faster!
However, this was just a short Relocation to Su Ming. The period of a dozen something breaths had ended, and his body swiftly disappeared.
"You are mine." At the instant Su Ming disappeared, he said those words. He knew that the black horse would be able to hear his voice and would also be able to understand him.
He did not know whether anyone had said the same words to the black horse before him. If there was, then the effect of Su Ming's words would not be great, but if there was not…
… Then Su Ming's words would turn into a seed that would be planted in the black horse's heart. As long as it remembered that someone had said such words to it, the seed would exist in its heart.
This was Su Ming's Art.
It evolved from the Art that would exist if he believed in it, and it was also a divine ability that surpassed the Great Art of Berserker Seed in terms of standard.
"Roar!"
As the black horse's roars reverberated in the air, Su Ming disappeared from the colorful world. When he appeared, he was standing in the galaxy that belonged to Divine Essence Star Ocean. Before him was Dijiu Mo Sha, who had a wry smile on his face.
"Fourth senior brother, I am to be blamed for not telling you clearly earlier. You are… not supposed to see anything in the world within the vortex. Once you see it and its image is imprinted in your memories, you will be remembered by the strange power in the world within the vortex.
"Once you use them again, the living creatures you saw will not let you leave. Even if you manage to leave by a stroke of luck, if you keep using the vortexes to Relocate, your journeys will become increasingly more dangerous." Dijiu Mo Sha sighed and rushed forward. He was feeling anxious about his tribe's safety, and was also feeling a little sulky about Su Ming's previous actions.
Su Ming took a step forward before he suddenly asked, "Do you know why you are only Master's disciple in name and not his proper disciple?"
Dijiu Mo Sha was momentarily stunned.
"It's because I only have normal potential and am very ordinary…" Dijiu Mo Sha said in a low whisper.
"You're wrong." Su Ming shook his head. "Who told you that you are not allowed to open your eyes in the world within the vortex?"
"There's no need for anyone to tell me about this. It's common sense. It's a general piece of knowledge almost everyone living here knows. Those who open their eyes out of curiosity, before long, they are unable to walk out of some vortex. Too many of such incidents have happened over the years. I've seen more than you did…" Dijiu Mo Sha felt slightly indignant.
"Then has anyone managed to tame the creatures in the vortex and bring them out?" Su Ming asked.
"Never!" Dijiu Mo Sha said without any hesitation.
"You're wrong." Su Ming looked at Dijiu Mo Sha. He stared at this fifth junior brother of his, who he had not admitted verbally, but had already accepted slightly in his heart. "Common sense is just a circle. If you believe in it, then it will exist in your life and limit your steps. It will limit everything about you. While it might be able to protect you… it will also limit your growth.
"It's not because of your potential that Master took you in only as a disciple in name. It's because you lack the courage to challenge common sense, or rather, you don't have the will to shatter common sense in you.
"Have you ever thought why Master would know more of these vortex tunnels than other tribes when he was in this place? Have you ever thought about why the four races are still unable find Master even when they have been pursuing him all this while?
"In fact, I am certain that the black giant Master is sitting upon is a fierce creature that you've never seen before. It's not a creature from Divine Essence Star Ocean, but you've never wondered where it came from," Su Ming said slowly, but when his words fell into Dijiu Mo Sha's ears, they turned into thunderous roars.
He knew full well that the patriarch's fierce black giant was indeed a living creature that he had never seen before…
"That fierce creature should have come from the world in the vortex. Master was able to discover more vortex tunnels than other tribes because he opened his eyes in the world within the vortex… and he even enslaved a creature from there," Su Ming said faintly.
Dijiu Mo Sha's feet came to an abrupt halt. He looked at Su Ming with a dazed look. His voice echoed in his heart, and every single word caused his heart to tremble. Only at this moment did he suddenly understand why, among his four disciples, his patriarch had spoken the most… about this fourth senior brother standing in front of him instead of his eldest senior brother, his second senior brother, or his third senior brother!
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Chapter 933: The Flower That Sank into Darkness
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When the fifth kiln appears in the world, its flames fill the entire Divine Essence Star Ocean. The boundless sea of fire burns all those who try to be disrespectful to it.
Only the powerful warriors who have practically eternal lives can charge through the sea of fire, and only they can head into the fifth kiln in the sea of fire to seek death, serendipities… and the legend of the Fifth True World allegedly existing there in fragmented pieces.
If a person could step into the Fifth True World, then all the resources of a true world, all the World Plane power there could be obtained by that person. Then they could turn the power of ten thousand worlds into the power of Kalpa Realm, and with one single move… become a Master of Fate, Lives, and Death.
This legend was about the fifth True World and the fifth kiln.
Yet since the past, every single time the fifth kiln had appeared, there were few who managed to walk through the sea of fire. To be able to do this, a person needed to have a deep understanding towards the original essence of fire. They would need to turn their bodies into fire… or at the very least, they would need to have a ferocious beast that can dance around with fire. Only then… would that person be able to move through the sea of fire.
Su Ming's understanding towards fire had not reached the state where he understood its original essence or was deep enough that he knew all the origins of fire and its full structure, neither did he have an understanding great enough that fire would appear out of nowhere when he breathed.
His understanding towards fire was only slightly greater than that of a normal person. After all… he inherited the legacy of the Fire Berserker, but to the current Su Ming, the Fire Berserker's level was a little too low. This level of understanding towards fire was not enough for him to be able to walk through the sea of fire when the fifth kiln was activated.
That was why he needed a fierce beast that could live even if it was swathed in fire!
This sort of ferocious beast could not be seen anywhere. All the fierce creatures in Su Ming's memories did not fulfill this requirement… but when he saw the black horse in the world in the vortex, its heroic bearing as it moved forward while stepping on fire had given Su Ming a powerful hunch the moment he saw it.
He had a feeling that this… was the creature that could allow him to move through the sea of fire. This was a ferocious beast that could let him look down on fire in the sea of fire!
That was why he wanted to obtain this creature. Before the fifth kiln was activated the next time, he wanted to make this creature his pet!
It would be incredibly difficult…
However, Su Ming had already made his decision. If this matter only concerned Lie Shan Xiu's disappearance, then he might hesitate. Even if he came forth to search for clues regarding the First God of Berserkers and guessed that there was a high possibility that he had entered the Fifth True World, Su Ming might still eventually choose to give up and return to True Morning Dao World.
After all, he still had not prepared himself fully.
However, Tian Xie Zi was now added into the mix, and this became incredibly important in Su Ming's heart. Besides, he also had a mind and heart to return to the Fifth True World and the Abyss Builders' homeland and have a look.
All of these things caused him to make his decision!
He wanted to wait for the fifth kiln to be activated in Divine Essence Star Ocean and obtain the fifth stone in the fifth kiln, then bring this stone to the fifth ocean in the core of Divine Essence Star Ocean, and from there… step into the Fifth True World.
'This is my path… a path that was already set for me when I descended into the Barren Lands of Divine Essence's Crimson Flame Planet… I tried to escape from it, but in the end, my path still led… to the Fifth True World.' Su Ming walked beside Dijiu Mo Sha and looked at the galaxy in the distance with a calm expression on his face.
'I could not escape from it not because there was a will that chose this path for me in the dark, but because I had subconsciously chosen this path for myself.' An ancient presence appeared in Su Ming's eyes. As he grew older, as he experienced more things, as he… He grew used to thinking, grew used to being alone, and grew used to being lonely.
Perhaps his world was not colorful and full of excitement. However, in this world where the strong preyed on the weak, there was a possibility for a rare peace in a person's life.
After all, he was only one person.
If the bald crane had not been with him, Su Ming did not know how he would have turned out by this time. Perhaps he would have gone to the extreme, become obsessive, or perhaps when he closed his eyes, he would have gained a presence akin to a blade, and when he opened them, shadows stained with blood would appear before him.
'Because I am someone from the Fifth True World…' Su Ming shook his head. He did not acknowledge this, but he could not stop that thought and feeling of wanting to take a look at the Fifth True World.
'Perhaps it's because of her…' Su Ming walked through the galaxy. It was dark all around him, bringing back the memory of the woman who had appeared when he was in Western Ring Nebula's foreign land. The woman who gave him an unfamiliar yet familiar feeling, who gave him a cold feeling but also one of warmth… his mother.
'Perhaps it is also for her…' Su Ming remembered the girl who had long since stopped calling out to him… his younger sister.
He had never experienced true love in his life, be it with Bai Ling or with Yu Xuan. Their figures were like willows in his heart. They drifted about in the wind, never able to fall on the ground, and even if they did… they would soon rise once more due to a passing breeze.
Because they were not the only ones who were willows. Even Su Ming himself was a willow without roots. He drifted about without a home and without a place in which he could stay.
If he had to mention one thing, then the only experience he had with love was the experience of having a crush when he was still ignorant towards love.
In the darkness of his emotions, it was a fleeting rainbow. It was akin to a sigh when snow fell from the sky and wind blew past, like snow that could not make a person's hair completely white even if the person continued walking under it… like how he had been unable to fulfill his promise in the past.
Some of his memories were now covered in a light layer of dust from the passage of time, and they were fragmented, no longer connected to each other.
'I… don't understand love, and neither do I… understand affection.'
Su Ming sighed softly. It turned into faint ripples in the galaxy, and sadness was contained in them. They were a blossoming flower that no one could understand as it revealed its loneliness in the quiet darkness.
Su Ming looked at the galaxy. He realized that as he grew older and gained more experience, he always subconsciously immersed himself in his memories, constantly turning his head back to look at all the things he regretted in his life.
"I'm old now… because I always think back on the things that happened when I was young. My young La Su, when a person is old, he starts to feel sentimental about his life, and only then does he start counting all the exciting things that had happened in the past."
In Su Ming's ears, his Elder's words echoed, brimming with mirth, but he had already forgotten the year and the season his elder had said them.
Time trickled by. Four hours later, six piercing whistles came from Dijiu Mo Sha's body, interrupting Su Ming's thoughts.
Those whistles were shrill and piercing to the ear, sounding like a shrill, pained scream. Dijiu Mo Sha's expression changed, and because Su Ming couldn't understanding anything, Dijiu Mo Sha immediately brought out a medicinal core from his bosom. That core was pitch black, but when it appeared in his hand, it instantly started moving.
This was not a medicinal core. It was a black centipede that resembled the shape of a medicinal core after it had curled unto itself. A resolute look appeared in Dijiu Mo Sha's eyes, and with gritted teeth, he swallowed that centipede.
Once he did so, black smoke immediately rose from his face. The faint mark of a centipede appeared on his face, causing him to look incredibly ferocious.
"I'll be rushing forward and burning my life. The tribe is in grave danger. Once you walk past this galaxy, you will see a floating continent. That place… is where my tribe lies." Once he finished saying these words, black smoke immediately spread out from Dijiu Mo Sha's entire body. He lifted his head and roared, then with a speed he had never shown before, he vanished.
Su Ming's eyes focused. He had tried shifting before, but there was something incredibly strange about this galaxy at this particular moment. He could not shift. It was as if there was a natural barrier placed in this area.
At the instant Dijiu Mo Sha disappeared, Su Ming took a step forward and sliced through the galaxy like a bolt of lightning to charge into the distance. Right when he had traveled for about a dozen something breaths, he heard a barely discernible sound from the area in front of him – the seventh whistle!
He did not stop moving but traveled even faster. After the time it takes for half an incense stick to burn, he saw a floating continent in the distant galaxy.
There were uneven cracks on that continent, a telling sign that it had been separated from a planet after it had collapsed. On the fragment, he could see shattered mountains, dried up ground, and countless withered and yellowing plants.
He also saw… hundreds of ferocious beasts with blades growing out of their backs floating in the galaxy. They were hundreds of feet tall and had armor. On their backs were tall and lean figures whose earlobes drooped down to their shoulders.
There were thousands of people who had the same appearance around the beasts. There were also a large number of black insects of several dozens of feet big moving about in all directions. They had already formed a sea of insects that was rapidly spreading outwards.
Roars and booming sounds echoed in all directions. This sea of insects was spreading towards a mountain. Around the edge of that mountain were hundreds of people, and on their faces were despair. However, they did not back down and were continuously killing the insects in that sea.
There were also hundreds of people in midair who were casting divine abilities against their enemies in the sky, causing loud bangs.
Old people, young children, as well as sick and disabled could be seen on the mountainside. They were watching the sky and earth in silence with the expressions of people who knew they were about to die.
A loud bang echoed in the area. A crack appeared in the sky, as if it had been torn apart. Dijiu Mo Sha walked out of that crack in one swift step. Black smoke surrounded his body, and it turned into a gigantic ferocious centipede behind him. As it twisted its body, it opened its mouth wide against the sea of insects on the ground, and a vast amount of black fog instantly shot out of its mouth.
As that poisonous fog came out of its body, Dijiu Mo Sha's body immediately withered, but there was not a single change in his expression. The only thing that changed on him was that the killing intent in his eyes had grown stronger.
His appearance immediately caught the attention of the people standing on the ferocious beasts' backs in the distance. Compared to the usual practice of cultivators speaking to each other before they fought, this alien race that survived in Divine Essence Star Ocean did not speak even a single word when they saw Dijiu Mo Sha and recognized him. However, seven people did fly out, and with murderous intent, they charged towards him.
At the same time, the thousands of people in space lifted their hands. As they formed a seal, an innumerable number of black beetles from the sea of insects on the ground went mad. With a purple tint to their bodies, they rushed forward as if they had descended into madness, not caring about the poison fog corroding their bodies.
This scene was reflected in Su Ming's pupils in the form of a miniature image. He moved forward and closed in on the continent.
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Chapter 934: Hearers
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Hearers were a small tribe in the periphery of Divine Essence Star Ocean. There were about ten thousand people in the tribe, but only a few thousand of them were warriors.
If those who did not understand the distribution of the powers in Divine Essence Star Ocean saw Hearers for the first time, then perhaps they would think that this was a big tribe. However, those who truly understood Divine Essence Star Ocean would know that there were plenty of tribes like this one in Divine Essence Star Ocean.
They were like Dijiu Mo Sha's Ninth Tribe. Perhaps they were once a big tribe in Divine Essence Star Ocean. However, as time shifted its gaze away from them, they gradually fell into a state of decline until they could no longer survive in the inner parts of Divine Essence Star Ocean and could only shift to the periphery.
Only in this place could they continue growing.
All tribes with history behind them would have a complicated connection to the inner part of Divine Essence Star Ocean. Even though Hearers had already lived in the periphery of Divine Essence Star Ocean for a long period of time, they still had a close connection to several big tribes in Divine Essence Star Ocean. With just one order from those big tribes, they would send out all the warriors in their tribe along with the ferocious beasts they had been rearing for years to launch a siege.
As Su Ming watched this scene, he turned into a long arc that charged forward, as loud bangs erupted in space as he broke through it, drawing the attention of the Hearers to him. Yet when they turned their heads around, they only saw a blood-red shadow passing by them.
This was an arrow!
It was an arrow that had no corporeal form, as if it was formed from space itself. It had appeared in the people's eyes as a crimson shadow because once it had been shot out, it pierced through a dozen something people's chests, and the blood that was brought out from their wounds had dyed it red.
This arrow shot past thousands of Hearers in space and landed at the foot of the mountain, right on a black beetle that was corroding but still rushing forward with its mouth wide open to devour a member of the Ninth Tribe.
With a bang, the black beetle crumbled to pieces. The impact that was stirred up tumbled through the entire area, stirring up fog that pushed the member of the Ninth Tribe hundreds of feet back. After that, not a single living creature could be found in a circular area of one hundred feet around the spot where the arrow had landed.
There was only… a dozen something dead insects whose bodies had shattered due to the vibrations from the force that had wrecked their bodies.
There was also a person who stood with his back straight and his hair dancing in the wind in the area. He was dressed in a sackcloth and held a longbow in his hand. He also had a woman he carried close to his chest. She was incredibly beautiful, but her eyes were shut tight, as if she was deep asleep.
"Take care of her for me," Su Ming said faintly and loosened his grip on her. The woman was then sent to the member of the Ninth Tribe behind him, who had escaped death just moments ago.
This was a member of the Ninth Tribe whose face had turned pale because of how shocked she was by Su Ming's arrival. The danger her tribe faced had forced her to fight for her tribe even though she was a woman. At this moment, she almost instinctively took over the unconscious Xu Hui.
Su Ming's eyes were calm as roars surged through the area. This battle was an incredibly grand sight to others. After all, this was a fight between thousands of people, and there was even a sea of insects composed of tens of thousands of black beetles. However, this sort of situation was really nothing in Su Ming's eyes. Whether it was the war between the Berserkers and the Immortal sects when he was in the land of Berserkers or the recent battle against the Waves of Tears, the scale of those fights far surpassed the scale of this battle.
He stood in place. With his left hand holding onto the Sand Spirit's bow, he raised his right hand, and an arrow shot out. That arrow was still without form. As it sliced through air, it landed in the ground in front of him. Booming sounds reverberated in the air, and an area of one hundred feet shattered once again.
Su Ming did not hesitate and continued to fire arrow after arrow. Each one that he shot could turn an area of thousands of feet into a region of death when it landed on the ground.
For a period of time, booming sounds shot up ceaselessly in the battlefield. At one point, Su Ming leaped up from the ground and appeared at the peak of the mountain behind him. When he stood there, he drew the bow with his right hand, and arrows poured down like rain towards the ground.
He had sufficient cultivation base and a powerful physical body. Because of this, each arrow Su Ming shot felt as if it was a dozen arrows fired at full strength. It could be said that when this bow was in Su Ming's hand, he could bring forth and even more powerful destructive force than the person who had previously held onto it.
Within a short period of time, his arrival and the arrows he shot caused an uproar among those of the Ninth Tribe and the Hearers. Those from the Ninth Tribe had excited expressions, and their fighting spirit had been kindled once again. The strength of Su Ming's arrows made it so that all land belonged to him. The sea of insects that was close to the mountain continuously disintegrated amid the booming sounds every time an arrow landed on the ground.
As the members of the Ninth Tribe in the sky executed their divine abilities, their morale was boosted. Occasionally, they would look at Su Ming who stood on the mountain. The image of that person with the bow was then deeply engraved into their eyes.
To the Hearers, Su Ming's appearance brought a disturbance to the battle, preventing the sea of insects on the ground from moving forward. Fierce, murderous looks appeared on their faces, and they glared at Su Ming with powerful killing intent burning in their eyes.
Dijiu Mo Sha roared, and the centipede which had manifested behind him immediately left his side. Once it grew to several thousands of feet big, it charged towards the thousands of Hearers.
Su Ming remained composed. When he shot out another arrow, the ground rumbled, and a deep pit of one thousand feet appeared. Then, he put down the bow.
If anyone looked down from the sky at that moment, they could clearly see that five thousand feet away from the foot of the mountain was a deep pit. It drew a line between the mountain and the black beetles!
Not a single black beetle could be seen behind the line, only the members of the Ninth Tribe. A dense sea of insects could be seen beyond the line, but not a single one took half a step into that line. They only roared and hissed furiously from beyond.
This line was drawn by Su Ming with his arrows. Within it was the remnants of Su Ming's aloof, murderous aura, along with a ruthless declaration that needed no words but could be felt by all manner of lives that possessed intelligence.
All those who step into the line will die.
Killing this sea of insects and all the Hearers was not difficult for Su Ming. This was a tribe that did not have even a single cultivator in Lunar Kalpa Tribe. The strongest that had appeared in this place was only in the later stage of World Plane Realm.
As for the other Hearers, their levels of cultivation ranged from Earth Cultivation Realm to the middle stage of World Plane Realm. This sort of tribe was completely unable to make Su Ming feel threatened.
He stood at the top of the mountain without saying a single word. However, his existence and his arrows were even more intimidating than words. It could make the sea of insects on the ground not dare to take even a single step forward. The rise in the magnitude of his presence with this action alone caused Su Ming to become an existence that could look down on the world in all the people's eyes.
"ROAR!"
The old man in the later stage of World Plane Realm among the Hearers in space let out a low roar which turned into two waves of impact. One of them landed on the ground, making the sea of insects on the ground even more savage and violent. Some of them then were no longer able to bear with the violence raging in them and the impulse to move past the boundary rose within them.
The other wave turned into a sound that rushed towards the hundreds of members that belonged to the Ninth Tribe standing in the air, as well as Su Ming standing behind them.
At the same time, the thousands of Hearers around the old man charged out. They turned into thousands of long arcs that rushed towards the mountain, the hundreds of members that belonged to the Ninth Tribe.
As they rushed out, the sea of insects on the ground let out a piercing screech stepped onto the line formed by the pit, intending to cross over.
The old Hearer in the later stage of World Plane Realm kept his gaze fixed on Su Ming. Killing intent shone in his eyes. He could tell that Su Ming was only in the middle stage of World Plane Realm, and he had already made a judgment that Su Ming was only this powerful because of that bow.
He believed that if he got close to this stranger, then with his power, he would immediately let him know the outcome of going up against the Hearers.
With a cold harrumph, he took a step forward. When he raised his right hand, a rattle drum the size of his palm appeared on his palm. The drum was white, and it was clear that it was made of bone. With one shake, rattles reverberated in the air. The sounds seemed to be able to permeate through everything. They spread throughout the area and fell into each person's ears. The sounds of the drum was not loud, but even Su Ming could hear it.
Almost at the instant he heard it, the old Hearer let out a ferocious bark of laughter, and with one move, he shifted, even though he was just in the later stage of World Plane Realm!
This was something that was almost impossible, unless he was like Su Ming and had the soul of a powerful warrior in Lunar Kalpa Realm by his side so that he could borrow the power of shifting from that person. Otherwise, it was incredibly difficult for those in the later stage of World Plane Realm to shift.
It was especially weird… since it was impossible to shift in this galaxy. Su Ming had tried it before. Yet now, the old man's body had vanished!
Su Ming's expression remained the same. Not a single hint of change could be detected on him. He watched the sea of insects rushing past the line. As they spread out swiftly, they stirred up a momentum that made it seem as if they wanted to push down the mountain from where it currently stood.
This time, Su Ming did not draw the bow. He raised his right hand, then dipped his head down to look at it for a few moments before pushing his hand towards the ground on the mountain.
With it, the world rumbled. The ground started trembling intensely. A gigantic palm appeared in the sky and charged towards the ground with loud a rumbling. The movement was so quick that in the blink of an eye, the palm had already reached the ground.
The entire land trembled. Booming sounds reverberated through the world, shaking the sky and earth at this moment. The black beetles within the sea of insects let out cries of despair, and their infestation immediately fell apart as they started fleeing in all directions in a frenzy.
It was also at this moment that distorted ripples appeared behind Su Ming. The old man who had previously disappeared took a step out of those ripples, and with a ferocious smile on his face, he raised his right hand, intending to strike Su Ming's back. His fingers were pitch black, and wisps of black smoke surrounded his hand, turning into the souls of black beetles. Just as he was about to touch Su Ming, he saw… a palm appear in the sky and saw the sea of insects collapsing. This scene caused his pupils to shrink and his expression to change drastically. It revealed shock and disbelief.
"Master… Master of Fate, Lives, and Death… This is impossible!"
The old man sucked in a sharp breath. In his shock, the thought of injuring Su Ming became the least of his concerns. Instead, as he filled with astonishment, he started moving back, as if the intention of harming Su Ming could not even rise in his heart anymore. The only thought he had was to get out of this place as quickly as possible.
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Chapter 935: Malicious Eye
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Su Ming did not turn his head back. As his right hand fell, a loud, deafening bang instantly came from the ground and drowned out the countless shrill screams of pain that rose into the air. While echo lingered in the air, a shudder ran through the bodies of all the people who were fighting against each other, and as if they had been frozen, they cast their gazes at the ground. All of their jaws then fell slack, and shock on their faces could not be concealed.
On the ground was a huge handprint that had sunk in hundreds of feet deep. It was branded onto the land, and there was an innumerable amount of mangled black beetles in there!
That handprint was incredibly clear, as if a giant had placed his hand on the ground. On the edges of the handprint were the black beetles who had narrowly escaped death. Their bodies trembled, and they lay on the ground, not daring to move even a single inch.
They could sense a terrifying presence that could destroy their entire race coming from that handprint, and it was a mighty pressure that was impossible for them to stand against.
Su Ming watched this scene unfold before his eyes calmly. The heart of the old Hearer behind him was trembling at that moment. He was retreating swiftly, filled with regret and terror. He was regretting that he had come so close to such a scary person!
He was frightened by that palm which contained a will that he could not resist. He had never seen a Master of Fate, Lives, and Death in his life, but he had heard about the divine abilities possessed by the powerful warriors on this Realm. When he saw all that had happened, only the title of a Master of Fate, Lives, and Death echoed in his head; these were the only words that could describe Su Ming.
"Coming to my side is not something that you can do at will, and neither… is leaving," Su Ming said flatly.
The old Hearer's expression changed drastically. When he raised his right hand, the rattle drum appeared. As he shook it rapidly, he left in an instant. He had been already scared out of his wits by Su Ming's palm. If he knew that there was such a powerful existence in the Ninth Tribe, he would have never brought his tribe, no matter what.
This was no longer them hunting down the Ninth Tribe, but the Hearers bringing upon themselves a threat of extermination!
His pupils shrank. As he charged forward, he began fleeing desperately. He wanted to escape from this place. In fact, he could no longer care about the survival of his other tribe members here. He wanted to get back to his tribe as quickly as possible and have it migrate quickly to get as far away as they could from this place. If they slowed down even the slightest bit, then he believed that what would await his tribe would be complete annihilation.
Su Ming lowered his right hand, then struck his storage bag. The gourd immediately appeared and floated above hid palm. Su Ming touched it gently a few times.
"Treasured gourd, please kill him," Su Ming said faintly, and eyes immediately appeared on the gourd before fixing themselves coldly on the fleeing old Hearer. A multicolored light instantly erupted from within, and a small person with a blade shot out from the gourd, charging over at its target.
After a moment, a shrill scream of pain rang out in the air, resounding swiftly in the battlefield which had fallen silent due to Su Ming's palm, attracting all of the people's gazes towards the source.
When the people of the Ninth Tribe looked over, their spirits were immediately lifted, but when the Hearers looked over, their faces turned stark pale. If Su Ming's palm strike to the ground had scared the Hearers out of their wits, pushed their fighting spirit into the dumps, and gave rise to incredible terror within their hearts, then the sight of the old Hearer being beheaded was like a funeral bell that struck fiercely in all the Hearers' hearts.
"Elder!"
"Run! Get out of here quickly!"
After being stunned for a moment, a commotion rose among them. All of the Hearers were filled with limitless terror at that moment. Their minds instantly broke down, and all of them started withdrawing. All their minds were focused on only one word – Run!
"All members of the Ninth Tribe, heed my orders! Come with me… and kill them! The Hearers have been slaughtering our people for years, and this time… we will have them pay by several fold!"
Dijiu Mo Sha let out a roar, and monstrous hatred burned in his eyes. As he roared, the gigantic shadow of the black-furred giant manifested behind him, along with… Tian Xie Zi's figure sitting on its head, which brought Su Ming's eyes to him once more.
Roars immediately answered his call. It was an outburst that came from all the warriors of the Ninth Tribe after it had been suppressed within them for countless years. Hundreds of people flew out at that moment, turning into long arcs that charged towards the sky before launching a crazed slaughter on the fleeing Hearers, who were now scattered and lacked any unity.
One party was fleeing in desperation, and the other was chasing them down in a frenzy while roaring. Clearly, this battle would not end within a short period of time, and the battle line would be elongated.
Su Ming stood at the summit and watched this scene, then sighed. He had no grudge against the Hearers, and with his principles, as long as they did not provoke him, he would not exterminate an entire tribe without reason.
This day was the first time Su Ming had ran into the Hearers.
However… once he cast his gaze on his Master sitting on the black-furred giant right behind Dijiu Mo Sha, who was chasing down the Hearers in the distance, a determined gaze appeared in his eyes.
He could change his principles for his Master.
'This is the tribe Master developed in Divine Essence Star Ocean. They were his companions through many lonely years.'
Su Ming raised his right hand. Once he formed a seal, he swung his arm in the air. With it, the totem on his arm that was the Duke of Crimson Flame instantly formed a fire cloud that appeared in an incredibly distant place. That spot was the border to the continent the fleeing Hearers have not managed to get close to just yet.
When they arrived, the Duke of Crimson Flame walked out from the fire cloud. His expression was aloof, and when he spread his arms open, he roared at the sky. With just one roar, a sea of fire spread out around him with loud booms. In an instant, a fire barrier was erected around the land.
This barrier was like a lock that completely cut off any chance of survival for the Hearers!
"No!"
"We're willing to pledge allegiance! We're willing to join the Ninth Tribe!!"
"Please spare us! All of this was the elder's orders, we had to come…"
Pleas for mercy, shouts of madness, and cries of despair instantly echoed in all directions, but all of them turned into pained screams that were drowned out by the enraged roars mixed with the intent for vengeance from those of the Ninth Tribe.
Su Ming closed his eyes and sat down cross-legged on the summit.
He did not want to join in this massacre. Helping the tribe kill the strongest person among their enemies and resolving the threat of the sea of insects' infestation was something Su Ming had done for his Master, but that was also all that he would do.
To Su Ming, who had already grown used to seeing life and death, whether this tribe could continue thriving and growing was of no importance.
Shrill screams of pain rose and fell in his ears. The stench of blood was thick and refused to leave. Once it collided with the sea of fire, it formed an unpleasant smell.
As time passed, the screams grew less in number, but at that moment, Su Ming's eyes suddenly flew open and he swiftly looked into the distance. His gaze was trained on a male Hearer who was fighting for his life against Dijiu Mo Sha once his path to escape was cut off by the sea of fire.
He had outstanding power and seemed to be either in the later or middle stage of World Plane Realm, possessing power of equal level to that of Dijiu Mo Sha. Their divine abilities rang in the air, and when their fight had reached its most intense moment…
Su Ming's expression remained as calm as ever, but he let out a cold harrumph. Dijiu Mo Sha could not see it, and neither could anyone from the Ninth Tribe, but Su Ming could see a fine crack appearing in the air behind that Hearer. It was swiftly tearing open, and in just the span of a few breaths, it would be completely ripped open.
Su Ming's harrumph did not travel too far. It only echoed a hundred something feet in the area, but the fine crack behind that Hearer that no one else could see abruptly stopped moving.
The Divine Essence Runic Symbols in Su Ming's eyes shone, and the world before his eyes seemed to have been frozen, as if it was due to the power of Divine Essence. It did not move, and was turned into a still picture.
Su Ming was momentarily stunned by this sight. When he looked over, the picture was instantly magnified before his eyes, as if it was moving. As it grew ceaselessly bigger, it looked as if Su Ming and the Hearer's distance was being reduced. It continued until Su Ming's gaze seeped through the man's body and landed on the fine crack in the seemingly normal air behind the man.
As Su Ming stared at it, the air was magnified endlessly. Once it grew several hundreds of times bigger, he saw a fine crack.
He magnified it once more, and when it was made several thousands of times bigger, that crack turned into a gigantic ravine. Su Ming's gaze shot through it, and he saw a layer of light.
It moved about in Su Ming's eyes until he saw a black piece of land.
On that land was a black volcano, which was erupting. There was a tribe that was formed of black towers at the foot of the volcano. Within that tribe were men, women, the elderly, and the young, but at that moment, all of them were kneeling on the ground and surrounding a statue.
That statue was an eyeball!
A feeble, frail old man with festering wounds all over his body was gasping as he circled around the eyeball with movements as if he was dancing. His eyes shone with hatred and anxiety, and complicated chants tumbled out endlessly from his mouth, causing a cloudy look to gradually appear in that eyeball, as if wind and clouds over the course of ten thousand years had just flashed past it.
Judging by the appearance of the people who were kneeling on the ground in worship, Su Ming could tell that they were Hearers, and this was clearly where the Hearers' tribe was located. As for that eyeball, it was definitely the God that the Hearers had been worshiping for countless years.
It was clear that they had sensed their tribe members' deaths and were worshiping their God, hoping that it would show them a miracle.
Almost the moment Su Ming's gaze looked towards the eye through the crack, a vertical pupil appeared on the eye that was being worshiped. That pupil was brown, and there seemed to be endless vengeful spirits struggling to rush out from within it, making it seem incredibly wicked.
The pupil turned around and instantly looked at Su Ming.
At the instant their gazes met, the pupil in the eye shrank abruptly, and a piercing screech reverberated in Su Ming's heart. With a bang, he tumbled out of the magnified version of the world before his eyes. The ravine turned into a crack, and when the world he saw was no longer a picture but had regained mobility, the burning of flames reverberated in the air, a bloody stench spread out, and the Hearer continued fighting against Dijiu Mo Sha.
Su Ming moved backwards, as if an invisible force had crashed into him, then a freezing glint shone in his eyes.
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Chapter 936: Your Life
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'A Divine Essence Treasure…' A glint appeared in Su Ming's eyes, and he swiftly stood up.
He clearly knew that he did not possess divine abilities which could make the world turn still and even allow him to magnify what he wanted to see, then be able to see fine details that he would otherwise be unable to see.
Even if he gathered Divine Essence in his eyes, he would still not be able to do this.
He had been stunned when it had happened. When he connected the pieces together at that moment, he knew that this was not his Art, but was due to Divine Essence in his eyes possessing some kind of connection with that eyeball that Su Ming did not understand. It was this connection that resulted in that divine ability, which he thought was incredibly powerful when he recalled it.
Su Ming's eyes shone. At the instant he stood up, he took a swift step forward. He was so quick that he appeared beside Dijiu Mo Sha and the Hearer in the blink of an eye.
Almost at the instant he arrived, a roar that echoed in Su Ming's heart came from behind the Hearer. Su Ming's footsteps faltered, but as the Divine Essence Runic Symbols in his eyes shone, he recovered, and the brilliant light in his eyes grew even brighter. Without even sparing a glance at the man, he walked past him, then seized the air behind with his right hand.
With it, booming sounds surged into the sky, and an endless amount of ripples instantly appeared in the air. Other people could not see it, but Su Ming could faintly sense that the crack in the air was swiftly closing up at that moment.
Immediately after, an even more powerful roar echoed in Su Ming's heart, showing faint signs of fighting against the power of his Divine Essence. When he connected this sound to the roar that reverberated in his heart, it was clear that it wanted to stop him from continuing. When he looked at the crack that was swiftly closing up, he was certain… that the eyeball worshiped by the Hearers… had noticed something terrifying. It sensed the threat Su Ming brought with him, which was why it refused the Hearers that had worshiped it for years, abandoning their tribe members. Instead, it chose to close the crack to prevent Su Ming from coming closer.
Roars that shook the sky shot up from the Hearers' tribe at that moment. All the tribe members surrounding that eyeball had their hands pressed against their ears, and as they screamed in pain, blood poured out of their eyes, ears, nose, and mouth. Some of them even died straight away.
The old man who was incredibly frail, feeble, and was covered in festering wounds found his expression changing drastically. He did not know what had happened, but he could sense the terror coming from the eyeball.
It was as if the eyeball had sensed an existence that left it uneasy, and at that moment, it was swiftly closing up the tunnel it had opened.
The eyeball's pupil was shrinking. The countless vengeful spirits in it were letting out piercing roars, because of which the Hearers either died instantly or let out pained screams, while Su Ming's heart trembled. Due to that, his body showed signs of stopping.
"Who is it..? Who is it that is terrifying the Malicious Eye!"
With faltering steps, the feeble old man went up to the eyeball and raised his right hand. He pressed it against the creature, intending to sense and see the person who destroyed his tribe's warriors and terrified the Malicious Eye to the point that it would not care about his tribe members' survival, going back against its promise to exterminate the Ninth Tribe.
On Su Ming's side, as his Divine Essence fought against those rumbles, he seized the air with his right hand, then yanked it swiftly outwards. His power erupted with a bang, and the air was immediately torn apart.
At the same time, a violent force erupted from the crack and charged straight towards him. As bangs echoed in the air, he instantly moved backwards, seized Dijiu Mo Sha, and brought him hundreds of feet away from the place. Then, Su Ming lifted his head swiftly to look at the crack he had torn open in the air.
Others would not find anything strange about this crack, but when Su Ming looked at it, he sensed that it was incredibly similar to that eyeball's pupil.
Su Ming's appearance and his subsequent act of seizing Dijiu Mo Sha to retreat stunned the latter momentarily. Soon though, he retreated without question himself as well. He might not know why Su Ming had suddenly come over, but the crack that had appeared behind that Hearer gave rise to a sense of danger within him that caused his heart to shiver. Because of this, he had an idea why Su Ming might have arrived.
As for that Hearer, he looked towards Su Ming with an enraged expression, but he did not move forward. Instead, he moved back swiftly, moving to touch that crack behind him.
Su Ming stood in the air and made no move to stop him. When he saw the man touching that crack and the desire to return to his tribe alive on his face, Su Ming smiled coldly.
At that moment, the man let out a shrill scream of pain. At the instant he touched the crack, he was not Relocated, but had all his vitality and his cultivation base sucked out of him. His body instantly withered away, and in the blink of an eye, he was reduced to skin and bones which soon turned into ashes.
Once the crack sucked out the man's life force, it began to close up right before everyone's eyes, just like how a person's wound would heal. During that process, it also retreated swiftly, and in the blink of an eye, only a fine crack was left of it.
"So… you are afraid of me." Su Ming moved forward and charged towards the rapidly closing crack.
"Let us… not interfere with each other…" A buzzing sound mixed with screeches and an old, ancient air travelled out swiftly from the rapidly closing crack. That sound echoed in the world and stirred up an endless amount of lingering echoes.
"Let us not interfere with each other, heh. If I was not powerful enough, would you still have said those words?" Su Ming asked flatly. He continued closing in on the crack, then raised his right hand and seized the closing crack once again with his fingers.
With a loud rip, the crack was torn open again. This time, Su Ming did not stop. While enduring the roars in his heart and the violent force charging at him from the crack, he rushed inside.
When he stepped into the crack, the roars from the Malicious Eye in the Hearers' tribe reached their most intense state. Under the barrage from that voice, the old man with his right hand on the Malicious Eye became the first whose body instantly dispersed… After him, all the Hearers around the eyeball immediately died wretched deaths. When they fell on the ground, their bodies withered, and they turned into ashes that vanished into the air.
All of their life force was absorbed by the Malicious Eye during that moment. The eyeball flew up swiftly from the now completely silent tribe formed by black towers and fled into the sky.
During that moment, at the spot where the Hearers died in the tribe, a booming sound rang in the area where the Malicious Eye had previously stayed. A huge crack tore through the air, and Su Ming walked out.
The moment he did so, he raised his head and looked at the hastily fleeing Malicious Eye in the sky.
"Become my eye…" Su Ming said calmly. He did not chase after it, but lifted his right hand and seized the air in the direction of the sky. With a loud bang, a huge hand appeared high above.
That hand was several tens of thousands of feet big, and it was swiftly charging towards the Malicious Eye to seize it.
"No!"
A furious roar came from the Malicious Eye. As it reverberated in the air, it stirred up a large amount of ripples. They crashed into the palm coming towards it from the sky. As booming sounds surged into the heavens, the palm crumbled and disintegrated. The Malicious Eye shot through then and left into the distance once more.
"You and I were fated to meet today…" When Su Ming said these words flatly, he still remained unmoving, but the Duke of Crimson Flame walked out of the air right in front of the Malicious Eye with the sea of fire behind him. When he raised his left hand, the sea of fire turned into a gigantic hand that rushed forward to seize the Malicious Eye.
"Damn it, I refuse!"
Within the cloudy and smoky hue of that Malicious Eye's pupil were countless malicious spirits roaring ferociously. Some of them had even rushed out of the eyeball to turn into endless ghosts. Quite a large number of them were Hearers, and they all rushed towards the fire palm the Duke of Crimson Flame had created.
At the instant they touched each other, booming sounds rose into the air. The fire palm fell apart and turned into endless embers in a sea of flame that plunged down to the ground. The Malicious Eye noticed a crack that did not have any flames in the plunging sea of fire, and in a flash, it shot out of there, looking as if it was about to fly out of Su Ming's gaze.
But Su Ming remained as composed as ever.
"… this is your Life," Su Ming uttered the latter half of his sentence calmly and completed what he had intended to say.
At the instant he said these words, a gigantic shadow appeared right in front of the charging Malicious Eye. That shadow was that of a tree, and it was… the projection of Su Ming's Ecang!
The appearance of the Ecang projection brought a presence that filled the world and turned into a suppressive force which made the Malicious Eye to let out a screech filled with despair.
"Ecang! Damn you, Ecang! You killed my original body in the past to offer it to Old Man Extermination in exchange for your eternal life… You ambushed me when I was at my weakest when I segregated my Malicious Eyes! If that was not the case… how could you have been my opponent?!
"I… am the first eye that was born before even the universe was even created! I am the first eye that witnessed the rise and fall of the universe! I… I won't accept defeat!" The roars from the Malicious Eye were filled with an indescribable madness and hatred. It rushed straight towards Ecang's projection.
When it rushed over, it started expanding rapidly, and in the blink of an eye, it grew to be one hundred thousand feet tall and stood erect in the air. With a bang, it crashed into Ecang's projection.
However, at that instant, a hand stretched out of the Ecang's projection. Compared to the gigantic eyeball, this was an incredibly tiny hand. When it crashed into the Malicious Eye, a shrill scream of pain reverberated in all directions.
Booming sounds surged into the sky, but Su Ming stood his ground and remained still.
Once the booms subsided and Ecang's projection disappeared, a handsome, long-haired man dressed in purple stood in the sky with a presence that could allow him to look down on the world. In his hand, he held an eyeball.
The eyeball was currently gray, but there was smoke and clouds surging within it, as if the rise and fall of the universe was contained within its pupil.
Naturally, the purple-haired man was Su Ming's Ecang clone!
This was the first time Su Ming had successfully used his Ecang clone as a tunnel and his soul as a guide in Divine Essence Star Ocean to summon his Ecang clone.
"You are mine. This is… your Life," Su Ming and his Ecang clone said together.
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Chapter 937: Her Hair Lifted by the Wind
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There was nothing in the world that served as the true epitome of fairness. It was just like what Su Ming had said in the Yu Family in the past. He had already seen through this so-called fairness in the world.
Since there was no fairness in the world, then the law of the jungle was an eternal rule. It was no surprise then that the Malicious Eye had been ambushed by Ecang in the past when it was at its weakest and that Ecang had offered its physical body to Old Man Extermination in exchange for his name being added to the ballad, thereby gaining eternal life.
It was no surprise then that one of the eyes of the powerful creature in the past that had managed to escape by a pure stroke of life had returned to Ecang's hand once again. However, this time, the one who had orchestrated this was not Ecang's will, but Su Ming's soul.
His Ecang clone took the Malicious Eye and slowly placed it at the center of his brows. At the instant the eyeball touched his forehead, the world rumbled. Endless lightning bolts appeared out of nowhere and started spreading outwards in all directions from Su Ming's Ecang clone.
The sky looked as if it had been turned into a huge lightning net.
In this net was Su Ming's Ecang clone. When he slowly lowered his right hand, a new eye opened up at center of his brows!
It was a Malicious Eye that shone with a purple light! A Malicious Eye that exuded a strange and wicked presence!
This eye had a vertical pupil. Countless vengeful spirits struggled and roared at the edges of it, and some of them even spread outwards. Because of it, Su Ming's Ecang clone left the impression that he was absolutely not a good person. His appearance and the wicked air around him was enough to give a great impact to all those who saw him.
That impact would give rise to a thought within those who saw him, and it would be that they could not provoke this person for any reason whatsoever. They would also have a vague sense that he was filled with maliciousness.
The aura of it around him was so thick that it was already close to the peak of its density. If it truly reached the peak, then the word 'malicious' would no longer be capable of describing it. Perhaps a new word would then be created by all those who were shocked and intimidated by Su Ming's presence.
The Malicious Eye moved at the center of the Ecang clone's brows. The pupil looked swiftly towards the net of lightning in the sky, and with it, the lightning that filled the sky distorted, as if it was trembling, and within an instant… it vanished!
It was as if with the Malicious Eye, the Ecang clone's existence became a proud sun in the sky that not even the net of heavens could cover. When the lightning in the sky vanished, the Ecang clone lowered his head. Once he met the gaze of Su Ming on the ground, his body gradually disappeared. When not a trace of him could be found any longer in the area, he returned to Western Ring Nebula's foreign land and the one hundred thousand purple galaxies that belonged to him.
Once the Ecang clone left, Su Ming closed his eyes. At the instant he did so, a fine, purple line appeared at the center of his brows. That line was incredibly clear, and its appearance caused the wicked air that had always existed around Su Ming to become as thick as the one possessed by his Ecang clone.
He stood quietly on the ground and did not move as time trickled by. On the third day, Su Ming opened his eyes. He raised his head to look at the sky, and an incredibly peculiar feeling rose in his heart.
The sky was the same as it was three days ago. Nothing had changed. The world in his eyes was as it always was—a gray sky, a boundless galaxy that could be seen at the edge of the horizon in the distance. This unusual phenomenon in the sky was one that could only be seen in Divine Essence Star Ocean.
The ground was dry, and not a single hint of life could be seen on it. When he swept his gaze across the land, he saw only a flatland that gave off an air of stillness.
However, Su Ming could sense that he… was able to see more, and he could… see things that others could not see.
"Malicious Eye," he said calmly.
At the instant he said these words, the thin, purple line at the center of his brows flew open.
This was not a thin line. This was… the projection of the Malicious Eye on Su Ming's cultivation base clone and his clone that practiced the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows Whole. When that eye opened, the vertical pupil and the countless struggling figures of the vengeful spirits were immediately revealed at the center of Su Ming's brows.
Roars that could cast hearts in awe and terror reverberated around Su Ming intensely. However, they did not affect him this time. If there were other cultivators around him at that moment though, then the wave of impact from the piercing roars would definitely affect their hearts and bodies.
Those roars surged into the sky. Su Ming raised his head once more, and when he looked towards the sky, he saw a completely different sight!
He saw nine hundred something different skies. This was a scene that was incredibly difficult to put into words. It was as if there were nine hundred something people lifting their heads to look at the sky at the same moment, and the scenes they saw were all gathered into one person's eyes.
Because of it, it could be said that he saw nine hundred something images of the same sky. However, it was not true. It wasn't the exact same sky.
Soon after, when the nine hundred something skies in his eyes overlapped, the sight before him changed, and it was magnified by one-fold.
But it did not stop there. Once the sight was magnified by one-fold, it continued expanding like flowing water. Only when everything had been magnified by nine times their original size did it stop. At that moment, Su Ming saw endless fine particles in the gray sky. These particles were gray, and they were… the ones which gave the sky its color.
Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that this was not a sky, but a gray layer of fog.
Su Ming lowered his head and looked towards the ground. He saw endless fine cracks on the seemingly flat ground, many of which were continuously spreading outwards. However, no one else could see it.
This was Su Ming's Malicious Eye. Before it opened, it was a fine, purple line. When it opened, it turned into the first eye that had seen the universe's rise and fall!
Su Ming sucked in a sharp breath. The Malicious Eye at the center of his brows closed up and turned into a fine, purple line once again. A great surge of confidence rose in Su Ming's heart. This confidence did not come from his power, but from control!
Once he came to possess this eye, he was qualified to say that he could control all things.
He could control the battlefield, control all battles of Arts, and control all lives and death!
"There are nine hundred something souls in this eye, which is why it can magnify something up to nine times their original size. If that is the case, then the more vengeful souls this eye absorbs, the more shocking the extent to which the eye would be able to magnify something will become…" Su Ming swung his arm and, with a single move, turned into a long arc and disappeared from the ground.
Several days later.
On the floating continent in which lived the Ninth Tribe was a mountain. In the middle of it was the tribe, and stone houses surrounded the entire mountainside. Nearly a thousand members of the Ninth Tribe were preparing food in the morning in the mid of chimney smoke.
Some children played around. Their naive and young laughter echoed in the morning, bringing rarely seen smiles on the adults' faces when they occasionally looked over.
The women in the tribe put down their weapons to take care of the elderly and the young, as well as to prepare food. The warriors in the tribe sat down and meditated at the foot of the mountain. They were all training there.
There were also a portion of the members in the tribe who went out to hunt. They had yet to return.
The entire tribe was brimming with an air of peace that came to them after the great war, and it was one that had been absent from them for a long time.
A line formed by deep pits thousands of feet away from the foot of the mountain showed how devastating the previous battle had been, and it had by then turned into a barrier.
Xu Hui opened her eyes on this morning and woke up.
When she did so, she looked around her in confusion. The last thing she remembered was a familiar figure. Right when this picture appeared in her head, she saw a figure sitting on a mountain rock outside the house. The sun was shining on him.
She could only see the person's back, but that back had already overlapped with the final scene she recalled.
"You're awake… the porridge in the Ninth Tribe is pretty good. You can eat some of it." When a familiar voice of the familiar figure reached her, Xu Hui lowered her head and looked towards the bowl of porridge that was still steaming hot.
Her face was still slightly pale. She averted her gaze from the porridge and cast her eyes on her own body. When she saw herself, her eyes focused. She saw that her robes had been changed to sackcloth, and she was wearing nothing else beneath.
Her wounds were healing, and her cultivation base was slowly beginning to reassert itself. The injuries she had suffered were too grave. They were enough for her to possibly lose her life. Even if she was currently recuperating, she would be unable to circulate her cultivation base for a short period of time. A sense of feebleness rose in Xu Hui's heart.
This sort of feeling was incredibly strange and unfamiliar to her. It was as if she had become a weak mortal.
She picked up the hot bowl of porridge, took a light sip out of it, licked her lips, then immediately began taking large gulps from it. Soon, the entire bowl was finished.
Her facial color regained a gained a slightly better hue, but the sickly paleness wasn't gone from her face. However, she felt much better than before. She slowly stood up, and her breathing quickened slightly due to that simple action.
With her hand on the stone wall beside her for support, Xu Hui walked out of the stone house and stood under the sunlight. She looked at the sky, then at the ground at the foot of the mountain, and breathed in the refreshing air.
Xu Hui lowered her head to look at Su Ming, who was by her side. She remained silent for a moment before saying softly, "Thank you."
"Don't mention it," Su Ming answered faintly while sitting on the mountain rock and looking at the sky in the distance.
"You were the one who changed my clothes?" Xu Hui suddenly asked.
"Mhm." Su Ming nodded.
Xu Hui fell silent once more. She did not continue standing, but sat down instead. She, too, looked into the distance. Mountain breeze blew past, lifting a strand of hair, but she caught it with her hand. However, the next moment, the breeze did not just lift up a few strands of her hair. Instead, it blew up most of it up, and she could not catch all of the hair with her hand. It was just like how her heart could not return to her usual, calm state, despite her quiet appearance at that moment.
"You have a nice figure," Su Ming said faintly with his face as calm as ever.
But when his words fell into Xu Hui's ears, she immediately looked towards him. Yet soon, she suddenly smiled elegantly. "Thank you."
Su Ming turned his head sideways to look at Xu Hui. He stared at the elegant smile on her face, and for the first time, he thought that this woman was quite interesting.
"But you have too many moles," he said calmly.
"Can't help it. My parents gave them to me, and I don't want to erase them. You'll just have to be bothered by it," she said lightly. She lowered her right hand, not bothering to continue trying to grab the hair that was lifted by the wind…
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Chapter 938: Who Gave Rise to This Obsession?
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It was dusk.
Su Ming watched the sun rise in this continent within Divine Essence Star Ocean, watched the sun set, and also saw evening arrive.
He could not explain this. This was supposed to be a completely pitch-black galaxy and was a continent floating in a galaxy, so where did the sunlight come from, and why was there daylight and nighttime?
However, there was indeed a sun here. Strangely, when he stepped into the galaxy, he did not see the sun, but when he stepped onto a cultivation planet or the continent the Ninth Tribe chose, he could see it.
Su Ming had asked Dijiu Mo Sha about this before.
"That is… the light and heat spreading out of the fifth kiln. Before the fifth kiln appeared, Divine Essence Star Ocean was pitch black. The darkness lasted eternally, and the people there had grown used to it.
"When the fifth kiln arrived, it brought light to Divine Essence Star Ocean. However, while we can see it, we can never find it, unless it appears on its own before us once in a while. Some people say that the fifth kiln's true location is within the world in the void," he had answered.
Su Ming sat on the mountain rock and looked at the sun that was the fifth kiln gradually set in the distance. When he looked at it, he could tell that the sun was indeed not round. Instead, it contained the outline of a kiln.
The afterglow of dusk shone on the ground with the warmth during the day, fusing together with the freezing wind that blew towards him. When it landed on his body, he could not tell whether it was warm or cold.
Su Ming had been sitting on the mountain rock for two days. His heart was calm, a sight rarely seen ever since he came to the Barren Lands of Divine Essence. He could watch the sun rise and the sun set. Perhaps cultivators would not be used to the lifestyle of the tribes here, but to Su Ming, this place was brimming with familiar sights.
Humans always loved to reminiscence about the past when swathed in a familiar feeling that they might have coincidentally ran into. They loved immersing themselves in that feeling to turn their heads back and look at their own lives.
The sounds of children playing brought back the memories of Dark Mountain Tribe. The friendship between the members of the Ninth Tribe made Su Ming remember the ninth summit. Not for the first time, he became aware that this was the tribe his Master had once lived in for many years.
Perhaps his Master's image still remained in these people's memories.
'If eldest senior brother, second senior brother, and Hu Zi learned about Master and came here as well, it would be great…' Su Ming shook his head.
The sun set, and night fell.
The area became quiet. The children's playful laughter turned into even breathing. The elderly slept. The members of the Ninth Tribe started to either meditate or fall into deep sleep one after another, so the mountain became completely silent when night arrived.
Su Ming continued to sit on the mountain rock and look at the dark sky. He could not see the moon, and neither could he see any stars. The only thing he saw was endless darkness, as if he was the only person left in the world at that instant. It was a familiar feeling.
Since he was used to being lonely and knew that this was his grief-laden fate, then why was he still immersed in his memories and unable to free himself from them? Why did he always love to watch the black sky and have the fireworks of those beautiful moments in his memories be set off in his heart?
Since he was already used to walking down the path of his life alone, then if there was such a thing as a person having past lives, he would have definitely reincarnated plenty of times over tens of thousands of years.
Su Ming smiled in the darkness.
No one could tell that this smile was filled with anguish. Only the people who had smiled in this manner before would be able to see the heartache that seemed to have fused into the water when they looked at their own reflection in the lake, and only those who tasted that water before would know just how bitter it was.
"What's wrong..?" a gentle voice asked. It did not interrupt Su Ming's thoughts as he sat in the darkness but fused into the air quietly and surrounded him. A lovely figure dressed in a sackcloth walked out from the house and sat down by his side.
"I miss home," Su Ming replied softly.
"If that is the case, then we can leave tomorrow." Xu Hui looked at Su Ming in the darkness. She could only see the outlines of his face, but she liked watching him in this manner, because she knew that only at this moment was she looking at that person… and not Dao Kong.
She understood what was going on, but she did not want to say it.
"Do you believe in fate?" Su Ming shook his head.
After remaining silent for a moment as a few pictures flashed through her eyes, she gently said, "I do…"
"There are few cultivators who believe in fate." Su Ming looked towards Xu Hui.
"I do believe in fate, or else why would I be here?"
"When your wounds are healed, you can head to the nine old Frail Darknesses. I… still don't want to go home." An ancient air had seeped into Su Ming's voice in the darkness.
"Did you stay here to wait for my wounds to heal?" Xu Hui looked towards Su Ming.
"Sleep. I want to meditate alone here." Su Ming did not answer her, but instead told her to go and rest. There was no longer any ancient quality in his voice, and neither was there any nostalgia.
Xu Hui did not stay beside him. She stood up and walked towards the house, leaving the darkness for him alone.
"Perhaps you miss home, but you miss a person even more," Xu Hui said from the house, her voice drifting into Su Ming's ears.
He fell silent and closed his eyes, immersing himself in the darkness, and quietly meditated. He circulated his cultivation base, and in the freezing wind, he felt as if he had returned to the ninth summit, as if he had returned to the spot outside his cave abode, and was meditating there and watching the sun set and rise as he did in the past.
Cultivators did not dream.
Because dreams would only appear when a person was asleep, and deep sleep could be replaced by meditation for a cultivator. However, on that night, when Su Ming was meditating, he dreamed.
In his dream, he returned to the land of Berserkers. In his dream, he saw the ninth summit. In his dream… he also saw Dark Mountain. He saw the figures that existed in the forest, which was where his tribe was located when he was younger.
There was Xiao Hong. There was also… a beautiful girl filled with wild beauty standing alone under a big tree in the snow, dressed in a white mink fur coat. She was waiting in the snow alone.
She was waiting for a promise to be fulfilled. A promise of walking in circles with a boy.
Mountains aligned close to each other in the mountain range could be seen in the distance. The cold moon in the sky was indistinct. With the white snow on the ground and the pine tree as her companions, the girl continued standing in place and waited foolishly.
Snow, wind, and dust blew past her. Years went by. Was there ever any regrets within her?
Yet in those clouds were several galaxies and several layers of sky between them. No form of letters in the world could allow them to speak to each other any longer.
Thousands of years had gone by. No traces of anything could be found when water landed in a lake. The pine tree appeared the same every year. No one known whether beauty will eventually subside, and whether… still water will leave no traces behind when it disappears.
"You left me with a promise saying you will fulfill it tomorrow, and I have been waiting for you for a thousand years, but don't make me wait too long. Don't let this silence fade away."
Su Ming opened his eyes, the soft murmurs from the dream still echoing in his ears. He suddenly came to an understanding. Perhaps he was truly not thinking about his home or that one person, but was thinking… about that promise he'd made one thousand years ago.
'If this an obsession of mine, or is this an obsession someone placed in me?' Su Ming watched the sky gradually brighten in the distance and the night be washed away by the streams of time.
'Or else why would I always remember that promise instead of Bai Ling? Why… would I dream while meditating?!' Su Ming's eyes swiftly grew sharp from their previous dazed state. There was a piercing cold look within them, as if an ancient, ferocious beast had woken up from deep sleep and was exuding the presence that allowed no form of transgression against it.
A domineering air spread out from Su Ming's body. With the first rays of sunlight shining on him, he stood up to move to the bottom of the mountain rock. His body was enveloped by sunlight at that moment, and with a turn, Su Ming trained his gaze towards the sky, from where the sun was shining.
The purple line at the center of his brows opened up and turned into the Malicious Eye. The clouds and fog in it turned into ghosts that looked ferociously towards the sky in the direction of Su Ming's gaze.
At this moment, another Su Ming appeared in the sky, but in a way that no one else would notice it. This was his clone that practiced the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows Whole after he had separated it from his body. The Malicious Eye had also appeared at the center of his brows, and he looked at the sky in the same direction as Su Ming's cultivation base clone.
In Western Ring Nebula's foreign lands was Su Ming's Ecang clone, and he was sitting and meditating in the purple galaxy. Wrapped around his arm was the small Candle Dragon. Soon after both of Su Ming's clones looked towards the sky, his Ecang clone's eyes flew open, and the true Malicious Eye also opened at the center of his brows!
Once this happened, Su Ming's Ecang clone turned his head around and fixed his stare at the spot Su Ming was gazing upon.
This was all three of Su Ming's great bodies as he walked down the path of cultivation executing the power of the Malicious Eye at the same time. They let out all of their power at to look towards the boundless space.
Their gazes penetrated through space, as if they were moving through the passages of time. They moved past the area which the four Great True Worlds fended, moved past the entrance to the Barren Lands of Divine Essence, and looked towards True Morning Dao World!
They saw the land that belonged to the Immortals in the gigantic galaxy there. At that moment, a war was raging in that place. It was… a war between Immortals and those from Morning Dao Sect. There were countless cultivators casting endless divine abilities.
Behind the boundless battlefield was a Rune formed by a tremendous amount of fragmented continents. At the center of it was a body made of flesh and blood that was just lying there.
There was a figure dressed entirely in a black robe standing beside that body. That person had his slightly withered right hand lifted and pressed against the top of the lying man's skull. Beside the first figure was another person who was also dressed in a black robe, but based on its shape, it could be seen that this was a woman. She was mumbling softly beside the body, her voice echoing in the area.
"… but don't make me wait too long. Don't let this silence fade away."
The woman's voice was gentle. There was a hint of nostalgia and a hint of grief within her words. At the instant she finished speaking, the tall person in black who had his right hand pressed on the top of the body's skull raised his head swiftly to look towards space.
With a bang, a powerful impact spread out of nowhere. The wind stirred up by the impact did not lift the tall person's robes, but threw off the hood of the woman beside him, revealing a face before Su Ming's eyes.
It was… Bai Ling's face!
Her expression and the grief in her voice were not matched at all. There was only an aloof look on her face, a calm expression that contained no shred of emotion.
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Chapter 939: A Sigh That Came Hundreds of Thousands of Years Late
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Su Ming's Ecang clone closed his eyes.
The clone that practiced the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows Whole, too, closed his eyes along with Su Ming's cultivation base clone.
If his soul had eyes, then at that moment he witnessed the aloof expression on Bai Ling's face, they would have closed as well.
That was Bai Ling, not Bai Su. There was no way Su Ming would mistake it.
Cultivators originally did not dream, but Su Ming dreamed. When he woke up, he was in a daze, and he questioned just who was the other's obsession…
Perhaps she was his obsession, but perhaps he had always been her obsession.
He woke up from his dream, but he did not wake up. In a shattered space there was a ballad that sang about time. In the ocean of memories was a lone ship that slowly sailed to the sea in the sky.
'Who is she?' This question did not appear for long in Su Ming's heart before he obtained his answer. When he was still in the land of Berserkers, the three powerful warriors in Lunar Kalpa Realm sealed in Su Ming's soul had provided him with a picture. Within it, he'd seen a woman. She was Bai Ling, Bai Su, and also… the Sacred Lady of True Morning Dao World's Phoenix Sect.
She was also Xu Hui's senior sister.
'So this is the answer…But I am no longer the same person I was back then. The passing of one thousand years has allowed me to understand many things.' Su Ming shook his head. With a calm heart, he realized that his heart did not clench in pain, and he did not experience that feeling of being at a loss as if his heart had been devoured by the void.
It was as if he had been prepared for this answer for a long time. Even if he saw the truth at that moment, he was already used to loneliness, as if the more experience he accumulated, the less things in the world could make his heart feel as if it would be torn apart. By then, there was nothing that could break his heart.
Even if it was the girl filled with wild beauty he met in Dark Mountain during his early days planting an obsession in his heart. This obsession had been deeply rooted in Su Ming's heart for a thousand years, and when he met Bai Su in the ninth summit, it had grown deeper…
It was as if there was always a weak force that would lead him once in a while to remember and think about that white head, as well as make him recall that promise made in the snow.
'Bai Ling in her youth, Bai Su in her adult years… and also Phoenix Sect's Sacred Lady when she has become an ancient presence. What a powerful obsession. With each step, she connected more incarnations together and weaved a net that has lasted for a thousand years.
'I wonder just what it is about me that makes Di Tian and even the Sacred Lady from Phoenix Sect be so obsessed with me.'
Su Ming smiled.
If it was not for the Malicious Eye's presence, perhaps he would have continued lying to himself and refusing to think about the net of lies weaved to last for a thousand years. He had wanted to keep that beautiful and joyous moment in his heart and did not want to have it all be turned into a brutal reality.
He did not want to. He just did not want to…
But he woke up from his dream, just as if he had walked out of a material world.
When people are in materialistic worlds, they remember and yearn for each other, they do not forget each other. They think about each other, learn about each other… but never meet each other.
Once they walk out of that materialistic world, they do not remember, do not think, and do not learn about each other. They forget each other and only meet when they had become strangers.
If that was the case, then it was better to place no importance on separations and reunions. It was better to just smile and face the end that no words could describe, to wake up with a smile, to have less of an obsession and more of a sense of freedom.
If there was a promise, he would fulfill it one day, but he would just fulfill it to complete his life. He would not do so for another person.
Su Ming stood on the mountain with the sunlight on his face. His long hair rose and fell in the mountain breeze. However, that wind only managed to lift his hair and the corners of his robes. It could not move his heart.
It was as if the rising and falling strands of hair were Su Ming's memories. They were gradually scattered away by the wind, and the ones that could not be blown aware were the dust that had been frozen in the sky.
Hence, his heart would also start freezing over, and those layers of ice would envelop him.
He would no longer long for anything good or happy. His expressions would become as cold as frost as his heart became frozen. Only at the bottom of his frozen heart, which no one could see, in an area where no sunlight would shine, he would find that it was not made of ice. It was wet, and as wind would blow past, drops of blood would fall, dyeing all the fallen leaves in the mountain red.
His love was over.
That first love of his, acquired when he was still ignorant of everything, was like a bud that did not come to blossom. In the end, even if it was a choice that came a thousand years late, it still chose to wither.
Su Ming smiled. There was no anguish in that smile, only a faint sigh that held a hint of an ancient air. No words were spoken.
He suddenly came to a realization. He had thought that the sigh he heard in the wind and snow in the past had come from none other than himself, but that wasn't fully correct. The sigh had indeed come from himself, but it had not come from him at that time. Instead… it had come from him at this very moment.
"So… even the sigh arrived hundreds of thousands of years late." As Su Ming smiled, he gradually began laughing until he was roaring. His laughter echoed between the sky and earth, filling the morning with peals of his laughter.
This laughter stunned the members of the Ninth Tribe, and they looked towards him. It also attracted Xu Hui's attention, and she cast him a sideways glance from the house.
"Fifth, do you have wine?!" Su Ming's voice traveled outwards with his laughter and landed in Dijiu Mo Sha's ears at the foot of the mountain. He was first taken aback, because this was the first time Su Ming had called him 'fifth'.
There was no way Su Ming would not understand the meaning behind that word. Dijiu Mo Sha shuddered, and excitement appeared on his face. He had been waiting for this day for far too long.
"Yes!" he shouted out loudly, and with a single move, he rushed up the mountain. Then, he turned into a long arc to instantly appear beside Su Ming. With a swing of his right hand, several pots of wine appeared beside them.
Su Ming picked up a pot, patted off the soil crust, and without even using a bowl to drink, he placed the pot to his lips and took a big gulp.
This wine was brewed by those in Divine Essence Star Ocean, and it was quite different from the ones drunk by the cultivators. The spiciness in it was like a hot wave that erupted swiftly in his body before it rushed straight to his brain.
However, it would not knock out a person, but would just affect their mind.
Dijiu Mo Sha also picked up a pot of wine and drank with Su Ming.
"If only life was as beautiful as it seems at first sight…" Su Ming put down the pot of wine and leaned against the mountain rock. His long hair spilled over his shoulders, and there was an expression of indulgence on his face. Once he said these words with a smile, he took another big swig from the pot.
"Fourth senior brother, what does that mean?" Dijiu Mo Sha was momentarily stunned. He mulled over these words carefully in his heart, and the more he thought about them, the more he believed that there was something ancient to those words. They were heavy, so heavy that they brought a sense a depression with them.
"You won't understand it." The one who answered was not Su Ming, but Xu Hui, who walked out of the house with a pale face that gave an air of weakness. Her footsteps were light, though, and sunlight shone on her face, emphasizing her beauty that was like that of rainbow.
In that beauty was purity, age, and a form of gentleness.
"'If only life was as beautiful as it seems at first sight.' I've heard plenty of people say these words before, but no one had the tone as profound as I heard just now." Xu Hui looked towards Su Ming and saw him drinking under the sunlight. Wine spilled out of the corners of his mouth, causing people to be unable to tell whether he was drinking wine, or whether he was treating that wine as anguish.
"When you've gone through the vicissitudes of life, experienced the changes in a person's heart, lived through everything that you do not wish to face in your life, then you will sigh in when you are old and have walked through the path of your life.
"If all people and all things could return to their earliest moments when we first met them, then how good would that be? Because the beautiful moments in your earliest days will be memories that you can no longer live through again once you have been baptized by time.
"If only life was as beautiful as it seems at first sight…" Xu Hui mumbled and shook her head.
"You still have plenty of things you need to do in the tribe. you should go and do those things. I'll stay and accompany… your fourth senior brother." Xu Hui moved beside Su Ming and sat down. Dressed in a sackcloth, she took the empty pot of wine from Su Ming's hand, then brought out another pot. She wiped off the soil crust on it, then placed the pot in Su Ming's hand.
Dijiu Mo Sha fell silent. Once he wrapped his fist in his palm and bowed to Su Ming, he turned around quietly and left. When he did that, there was a look of recollection on his face. In his head were Su Ming's words.
"If you want to drink, then I'll drink with you." Xu Hui picked up a pot of wine as well. With a gaze that could make a person calm down, she met Su Ming eyes when he turned his head towards her.
"I've already drunk one pot." Su Ming stared at Xu Hui with an unruly look in his eyes.
Xu Hui smiled. Her smile was incredibly elegant, and there was a resplendent air to it. She looked at Su Ming and lifted the pot of wine with her hand. Once she took a gulp from it, she quickly lowered the pot and furrowed her dainty brows. Clearly, the spiciness of the wine was beyond her expectations. A red flush appeared on her pale face, and she only recovered after some time. However, when she picked it up again, she drained the entire pot in one go.
Once she finished drinking, she placed the pot of wine by the side and lifted her head to look at Su Ming. There was a slight, watery look in her eyes.
"I caught up."
Su Ming stared at Xu Hui for a moment and lifted up the pot of wine to his mouth. Xu Hui sucked in a deep breath by the side, then picked up a pot of wine filled with wine again, as if she wanted to compete with him. Once she picked it up, she started taking large gulps.
She drank at an incredibly fast pace, and before long, she had already finished the entire pot. There was a smug look on her face, and when she looked at Su Ming, her expression immediately froze on her face. There was even hostility and slight anger in her eyes.
Su Ming lowered the pot of wine. He had only drunk a small half of it.
"We're done for the day. Let's drink on another day," he said faintly.
"No! I've already drunk two pots!" Xu Hui stood up in anger.
Su Ming cast a look at Xu Hui and retorted calmly, "I didn't ask you to drink it."
"You're not drinking, huh?" Xu Hui glared at Su Ming and nodded before she picked up another pot, and right in front of him, she finished another pot with loud, noisy gulps.
"… I don't drink with people with a lot of moles."
Su Ming's eyelid twitched. He turned his head around and put down the pot of wine. The wine was too spicy, and when Xu Hui arrived, for some reason, her presence calmed his heart, and he no longer felt tipsy.
"Su Ming!"
Anger raged in Xu Hui's eyes. With a single move, she picked up an empty pot and hurled it against the floor. The pot shattered with a loud crash. At that moment, she could not circulate her cultivation base, and as a woman, drinking three pots of wine from a tribe in Divine Essence Star Ocean had resulted in her… getting drunk.
"What did you say?" Su Ming looked towards Xu Hui.
"I might have been unconscious, but I could still hear. I, Xu Hui, do not care whether you are Su Ming or Dao Kong. What I care is that you asked to drink wine, but you can't outdrink me! Now, drink!" A hint of scorn appeared on Xu Hui's face. She picked up a pot of wine and shoved it in Su Ming's face.
"You're drunk…" Su Ming rubbed the center of his brows.
"Are you going to drink or not?!" Xu Hui glared at him. Her body swayed, and a misty look appeared in her eyes. Yet she continued holding herself straight so that she would not fall.
"Let's drink on another date." Su Ming sighed.
"I drank THREE POTS!" Xu Hui shouted loudly.
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Chapter 940: Change in True Morning Dao World
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Su Ming had never seen a woman with such a personality before.
She was usually elegant with a hint of aloofness in her, as if she was a noble, solitary presence. Once she learned that Su Ming had changed her clothes, her expression had only changed momentarily before she quickly regained her composure. The lack of concern about the matter from her had made even Su Ming think about it carefully for a moment before he could tell whether it was genuine.
This was still nothing, though. Once she drank, the change of personality in her was so great that it stunned him.
Xu Hui's voice was incredibly loud. Her words echoed in the area, and when most of the members of Ninth Tribe heard it, they raised their heads and looked over. Dijiu Mo Sha sucked in a breath and felt fortunate that he had left beforehand. He did not expect that this woman would become so unreasonable once she started drinking.
"Fellow Daoist Xu, good job!" a woman's voice said from Ninth Tribe. There was a merry lilt to it, and once it was heard by many, other voices immediately started echoing in the air as well.
"Fellow Daoist Xu, you're a warrior among women to be able to drink three pots of our tribe's wine!"
"Savior, your wife has already drunk three pots, how can you not drink?!"
"That's right, drink it! Drink three pots!"
"Three pots won't do! She drank three pots and she's a woman. Savior, you'll have to drink nine pots!"
"That's right, savior! We can't lose to women! Drink nine pots for her! Savior, drink it!"
Most of the members of Ninth Tribe had learned from Dijiu Mo Sha that Xu Hui was a cultivator from beyond Divine Essence Star Ocean. Su Ming did not bother hiding it, since there was no need for him to lie about it.
The gratitude Ninth Tribe felt towards him could be seen from the respect they had showed him during the past few days. They had also showed great concern for Xu Hui. Based on Dijiu Mo Sha's words, they had also deduced that Xu Hui and their savior were a couple; otherwise, why would they stay together?
Su Ming laughed wryly.
A smug look appeared on Xu Hui's face, and she placed a pot of wine in Su Ming's bosom. Once she did so, she turned around and wrapped her fist in her palm towards the members of Ninth Tribe at the foot of the mountain. She was beautiful to begin with, and once she became drunk, her act of wrapping her fist in her palm gained a heroic air. It was a bearing that could not be seen on her on normal occasions.
"Thank you, my friends from Ninth Tribe. I've drunk a little too much today, but I can still continue drinking. Still, I am unhappy, because even though I've already drunk three pots as a woman, your savior has stopped drinking after only half a pot," she said loudly.
"It's one and a half…" Su Ming was just about to explain himself when his voice was drowned out merry cheers from Ninth Tribe.
Su Ming shook his head. As he watched Xu Hui's heroic bearing as well as the smug look on her face, a smile gradually appeared on his face. The sadness that had previously lingered in his heart disappeared without his knowledge, and the wound left in him due to seeing Bai Ling with his Malicious Eye slowly closed up.
"If only life is as beautiful as it seems at first sight…"
With a faint smile, Su Ming stood up and moved to stand at the foot of the mountain rock. Amid the merry cheers from the members of Ninth Tribe, he picked up the pot of wine, placed it beside his mouth, and started drinking.
The sounds of him gulping down wine echoed in the air. Soon, when he emptied an entire pot of wine, he wiped the corners of his lips with his sleeve, then raised his head and let out a long roar towards the sky.
His roar echoed in all directions. At that moment, in the morning sun, Su Ming seemed like a great dragon looking down at the world from the mountain while roaring at the sky.
When Xu Hui saw his figure, she started laughing as well. Her laughter echoed along with that of the other members of the Ninth Tribe.
"Another!" Su Ming shouted loudly.
Someone from the Ninth Tribe swiftly brought out more pots of wine and placed them around Su Ming, who picked up one of them, patted off the soil crust, and placed the mouth of the pot to his lips.
The wine was spicy and seemed to have turned into a ball of raging fire in his stomach. Some of the wine trickled down the corners of Su Ming's lips and drenched his hair, giving him a domineering air.
"Another!" Su Ming put down the pot of wine and picked up another.
The fourth, the fifth, the sixth… and once Su Ming downed nine pots, his body swayed. As he laughed with his head thrown back, he fell to the ground with a thump.
He was drunk.
Xu Hui was also drunk, and her eyes gradually fell shut.
Su Ming could become drunk without worry, because he had the Duke of Crimson Flame's totem on his arm. Besides, while his cultivation base clone was drunk, he still had his clone that practiced the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows Whole in him as well as his Ecang clone protecting everything and the Malicious Eye keeping an eye on the area.
Which was why he could become drunk, and he needed to be drunk. If anything dangerous happened in the meantime, he could have his clone hold the threat back until he bought enough time.
Dijiu Mo Sha watched Su Ming and Xu Hui fall to the ground and shook his head with a smile. He personally carried Su Ming, then arranged another woman from the tribe to carry Xu Hui and sent the both of them into the house before placing them… on a bed.
Time trickled by. Su Ming and Xu Hui slept deeply in the house on the mountain that belonged to the Ninth Tribe. During that time, Su Ming felt that he had another dream.
In his dream, he felt that he saw his physical body, Di Tian, and also Bai Ling, whose hood was lifted, revealing her face.
He also saw the battle between the Immortals and those from Morning Dao Sect in True Morning Dao World. During it, he heard shrill roars as well as the booms from the execution of divine abilities, but those sounds seemed to be very far away from him.
Gradually, those pictures faded away. However, there was a woman who seemed to be in his bosom. She was very warm and delicate, and subconsciously, he wrapped his arms around her.
He forgot everything after that.
When the morning sun of the next day shone in the house, Su Ming opened his eyes.
He was first stunned, then when he moved his head to the side to look over, he found that he was the only person on the bed, but he did see a long strand of hair by his side. It did not belong to him. It was Xu Hui's.
Su Ming rubbed the center of his brows. Once he circulated his cultivation base, his mind instantly gained full wakefulness. He saw Xu Hui with her back turned towards him, and she was sitting on the mountain rock where he had previously sat outside the house while looking into the distance.
He could not see her face. The only thing he could see was the refreshing breeze lifting up her hair, making it dance and curve, drawing beautiful arcs in the air, just like the graceful lines of Xu Hui's back.
All of this was an incredibly beautiful sight under the sun.
Su Ming got up and walked out of the house. The tranquility during the past few days was a period of serenity that was rare in his life. There were no dangers, no killings, no deaths, no shrill screams of pain. All of this made Su Ming feel as if he had found the life he wanted to live the most.
In fact, a desire to live in this peace and quiet permanently rose in the depths of his heart. However, this desire could not stay in the wind. It did not matter whether that desire was willing or unwilling, the mountain breeze that blew towards it took it away without stopping for even a single moment.
This was something he had no control over. There were still plenty of things he had to do, plenty of regrets he still had not resolved, plenty of people, plenty of things… that Su Ming worried over, preventing him from finding a place in which he could… live in permanent peace.
"May I see your true face?" Xu Hui did not turn her head. She had her back facing Su Ming when she said those words softly.
Su Ming remained silent for a moment. He closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, his face had changed. His clone that practiced the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows Whole had replaced his cultivation base clone, allowing him to transform into a face that was completely different from Dao Kong's. It was… Su Ming's face.
Xu Hui seemed to have noticed it. She turned her head around slowly and looked at him in a daze. Then, a faint smile appeared on the corners of her lips. The=at smile was incredibly beautiful in the refreshing breeze.
"I know you. You are Su Ming and also Mo Su. One thousand years ago, you were a wanted criminal by the forces of power from the four Great True Worlds. When you appeared again, you caused a huge ruckus in the area where True Sacred Yin World was stationed and caused a Progenitor who is a Master of Fate, Lives, and Death to personally go after your life.
"But in the end… even he did not manage to kill you. Instead, he canceled the bounty over your head and tacitly acknowledged your existence.
"Su Ming, your name rings far and wide in the Barren Lands of Divine Essence, and you are the person who gathered the most attention over the past thousand years. You are also the one person who Dao Kong wanted to bring to his side more than Ye Wang.
"I didn't expect…" Xu Hui shook her head and smiled.
"I didn't expect that you would have such influence in Black Ink Planet and turn something that is decaying into something amazing. You flipped the universe over its head and Possessed Dao Kong… the main organizer behind-the-scenes for Black Ink Auction was you, am I right?!
"You are the master of Black Ink Planet. You control everything within Black Ink Planet, along with the auction, so you had them put that Sacred Constellation Robe on auction to lure Dao Kong into your trap!
"I'm curious. How is it that not only the nine old Frail Darknesses didn't notice that you Possesssed Dao Kong, but there wasn't even a single change in behavior among the fearless warriors Dao Kong controls with his soul?
"In fact, nothing changed within the soul link formed by Morning Dao's Progenitor between Dao Kong and me. If it was not because there are simply too many things that are different between you and Dao Kong, and if it was not because of us having this chance to be alone, I would have only been able to suspect but not obtain even a single proof to serve as evidence that you are not Dao Kong," she said while looking at him.
"I still remember that there is a seal on Dao Kong that prevents the direct descendants of the Dao Family in Morning Dao Sect from being Possessed. This mark would attract the attention of the powerful warriors in Morning Dao Sect, since they want to be sure that none of their family gets Possessed.
"But you… How did you avoid being detected? In fact, that seal… is still in you. How… did you do it?" There was disbelief on Xu Hui's face. This was a question that she could not find an answer for in the depths of her heart.
"You will not want to know," Su Ming said flatly as he sat down on the mountain rock.
"Are you afraid that I will expose you after I learn of it?" Xu Hui suddenly asked.
"It doesn't matter to me." Su Ming smiled faintly.
Xu Hui fell silent. She knew that Su Ming truly did not care about it, because it did not matter whether it was his blood or his soul, everything about him showed that he was indeed Dao Kong. In this situation, no matter what she said, she would not be able to bring about an effect, and there were no benefits for her in this either.
Su Ming remained silent for a moment before he asked calmly, "What happened yesterday night?"
"You won't want to know!" Xu Hui glared at Su Ming and turned her head around.
Su Ming frowned before his expression suddenly changed. He lowered his head swiftly. The sackcloth on his body changed instantly and returned to the appearance of the Sacred Constellation Robe. Once it did so, a great ripple of power spread out.
Xu Hui turned around swiftly. There was surprise on her face, along with a solemn expression.
"This is the interworld voice transmission for the direct descendants of the Dao Family in Morning Dao Sect!"
Right when Xu Hui finished saying this, a loud bang immediately came from Su Ming's body, and a powerful ray of light that surged into the sky erupted from him. This powerful light spread out from his Sacred Constellation Robe. As it did so, an ancient voice began speaking.
"Dao Kong… the Immortals have revolted and broken ties with Morning Dao Sect… Make haste and hurry back from the Barren Lands of Divine Essence!"
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Chapter 941: If You Gain Something, You Will Lose Something in Return
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"… There are 379 direct descendants who will participate in the activation of the ancestral temple in different batches. Once they inherit our ancestor's glory, they will volatilize their blood that shows they are Dao Chen's descendants, and your power will rise once more.
"Make haste and return!" The old voice echoed in the air, but the crowd did not hear it. Only Su Ming and Xu Hui could hear it properly due to the link they shared between their souls at that moment.
Su Ming's eyes focused. He had seen the change in True Morning Dao World as spoken by the voice from the Sacred Constellation Robe with his Malicious Eye previously and could tell what was happening. Su Ming did not know the details of the break between the Immortals and Morning Dao Sect, which was why he could find no clues from what he saw, and when he could not find the cause for it, he could not imagine the reason behind why the Immortals would fight against True Morning Dao Sect. However, since they started a fight, they had to be confident in themselves.
Xu Hui's expression also changed, because at the same time she heard the old voice from Su Ming's Sacred Constellation Robe, a voice akin to a phoenix suddenly spoke in her soul.
That voice echoed in her heart and turned into a power that could avoid the link binding her soul with Su Ming's. Once it formed a faint wall separating her and Su Ming, it uttered words that only she could hear.
"Hui Er… This is the first time I use this method to send a message to you. Do not panic, and do not reveal any clues…"
This was from her sect, the voice transmission from Phoenix Sect. Based on the fact that it could form a barrier that separated the link binding her soul to Su Ming's, he should not be able to hear the message.
This was a force of power that Xu Hui had never known existed. She also did not know that her sect had the ability to create such a barrier!
This barrier was like a crack on a dam. In fact, with Xu Hui's intelligence, she could already imagine that this so-called seal and promise to unite Phoenix Sect and Morning Dao Sect through marriage was not so firm that it could not be torn. A screen could be placed over the seal, and if that was the case, there was naturally a huge flaw in it. However, this flaw was usually hidden very deeply, and it could only be found during crucial moments, thereby allowing them to break the seal and have Phoenix Sect leave Morning Dao Sect.
"Dao Kong is by your side. Don't let him see anything off about you… When you were sent to Morning Dao Sect to be his wife, I felt deeply unhappy, but I could do nothing about it.
"The only thing I could do for you is to fight for a promise for you. Now… this promise is no longer important. Phoenix Sect has decided to break off from Morning Dao Sect. All the seals will be broken, and from now onwards… you will be free, and Phoenix Sect will be free as well!
"But you must kill Dao Kong. Your level of cultivation is much higher than his. Look for a chance and kill this boy. Once you do, hurry back to True Morning Dao World…
"Remember this. The boy Dao Kong is incredibly important to Morning Dao Sect. I did not notice how important he was in the past, but when I thought about it during the past few years, there seems to be a profound significance to Morning Dao Sect's act in sending him into the Barren Lands of Divine Essence. I've only learned about this recently, but the one who ordered Dao Kong to be sent to the Barren Lands of Divine Essence… was the sleeping Kalpa Lord of True Morning Dao World!
"Your mission is to kill Dao Kong. I will help you break the seal once he dies."
Xu Hui's face was pale to begin with. Once she heard the voice in her soul, she staggered, and her face turned even paler when she looked over at her companion.
Su Ming narrowed his eyes. A brilliant light shone within them. Just like Xu Hui, a voice that only he could hear was echoing in his head at that moment.
This voice had similarly created a barrier that prevented Xu Hui from hearing the message.
"Kong Er, do not be in a hurry to come back. The voice you heard from the Sacred Constellation Robe just now was for Xu Hui, who followed you to the Barren Lands of Divine Essence.
"The woman's sect has harbored the intention to rebel since a long time ago, and the hilarious thing is, they thought Morning Dao Sect did not know about it.
"Be careful. You can decide on your own whether to kill her. The nine old Frail Darknesses have a treasure specifically tailored to target those from Phoenix Sect. If this woman is on your side, you can relax, but if she harbors any other intentions, you can just kill her.
"With your intelligence, I will leave the choice to you without worry. Remember, Kong Er, do not return within a short period of time."
The voices gradually faded away, and Su Ming looked towards Xu Hui. Their gazes met.
Xu Hui remained silent for a moment, then said softly, "My sect asked me… to kill you. They chose to break off from Morning Dao Sect. The Immortals are not the only ones who joined in the change within True Morning Dao World. Phoenix Sect is part of it as well. There must be other forces of power who have… also joined the rebellion." Xu Hui rubbed the center of her brows. There was a slightly haggard look on her pale face.
"You're still injured. You should rest," Su Ming said plainly. He sat down on the mountain rock and did not continue with the topic.
Xu Hui remained silent for a moment before she looked towards Su Ming.
"Are you going back?"
"It's still not time for us to go back." Su Ming shook his head.
"… When are you leaving?" Xu Hui closed his eyes. After some time, she opened them, and a resolute look appeared on her face.
"With your injuries, you will need another half a month before you can recover from most of them. At that time, I will leave," Su Ming answered her softly while he watched the sky in the distance.
"I will go with you," Xu Hui said calmly.
Su Ming remained silent. After a moment, he turned around and looked at her. A long time passed before he nodded.
Xu Hui's lips curled up into a faint smile, then she turned around to return to her house.
As if he had already forgotten about the battle waging in True Morning Dao Sect at that moment, Su Ming lived on the mountain that belonged to the Ninth Tribe in peace. He watched the sun rise and set, and by his side was good wine as well as Xu Hui's occasional company.
This sort of life passed by them like flowing water and was like a dream. It lasted from morning till dusk, then from night till dawn.
The two of them did not discuss anything related to True Morning Dao World, as if neither of them was willing to speak of it. Like that, half a month passed by slowly.
Flowers might not have bloomed and withered during this period of time, but the moon became full, then was reduced to only half of its full form. Half a month passed in just the snap of a finger. It could not be said that plenty of things had flourished and died, and neither could it be said that the stars had lost their brilliance. However… during this half a month, Su Ming forgot his frustrations and his confusion, as if he had returned to the mortal world.
Xu Hui's smiles had also increased throughout this half a month. It could be seen that she experienced the same things as Su Ming. The joy she felt during the past half a month was comparable to the happiness she had during the first half of her life.
However, happiness does not last forever. Joyous moments are always temporary, and all beautiful melodies are fated to end at some point since the moment they are started.
One day, it started drizzling in the sky above the Ninth Tribe. This was the first time Su Ming saw rain in this place. He did not want to use the Malicious Eye to see how this rain appeared, afraid that he would see too much and make rain lose its meaning.
When raindrops fell on the ground, they stirred up fog and dust. As these tumbled about, anyone who looked closely at it would feel that it was like a wave and have a sense as if they were surrounded by mountain fog. Anyone who saw it would at it quietly, and they would be unwilling to avert their gaze.
It was as if all the bitter and cold moments of life were subconsciously turned into merely grumbles in a book or a song that seemed to speak of something that happened many years ago as they watched the rain. The murmurs of the wind in the distance sounded as if someone was playing a xun, and it was strong enough to chase away the rain that filled the entirety of their field of vision.
Su Ming watched.
"Xu Hui." He turned his head around and looked at the woman who was packing their luggage in the house. Her hair spilled over her shoulders, giving her a gentle charm that made her look like a beautiful flower that had blossomed.
She turned her head around and looked at Su Ming.
"Sit there. Let me draw for you," he said faintly.
Xu Hui smiled light at him. She put down their luggage and did not even bother putting it back to her storage bag before walking over to Su Ming's side. She went to a mountain rock and sat down on it.
Behind her was the rain pouring down from the sky and the obscure land. Moaning wind blew past the strands of her hair, lifting up her dark locks that did not scatter away.
"You know how to draw?"
"I drew in the past." When Su Ming spoke, he patted his storage bag. A drawing board immediately appeared in his head. This drawing board was not the item he had obtained when he was in the land of Berserkers, but was something he had come by coincidentally when he was in Black Ink Planet.
"Oh? How are your skills?" Xu Hui smiled, then lowered her head to look at her clothes, straightening some of the wrinkles on them.
"I can't draw those with only a few moles, but I might be able to draw those with plenty of moles well. Don't change your expression, you'll affect me when I'm drawing you," Su Ming said with a frown on his face when he saw Xu Hui's expression stiffen.
"Su Ming, you're going overboard!" Xu Hui stood up swiftly with rage on her face. "Just where exactly do I have plenty of moles, huh?! If you don't tell me clearly today, I'll fight you to death!"
"Do you really want me to tell you?" Not a single change in expression could be detected on Su Ming's face.
"You-you!" Xu Hui sucked in a deep breath before she suddenly turned around and shouted at the foot of the mountain, where the members of Ninth Tribe were, "Dijiu Mo Sha, your senior brother wants to drink. Bring twenty pots of wine from the tribe over here."
Dijiu Mo Sha had been meditating at the foot of the mountain. When he heard those words, his expression did not change. He constantly heard these sort of words during the past half a month and knew that his senior brother would definitely back down once they were spoken. There was absolutely no need for him to bring any wine up to them.
"You have no moles on your body…" Su Ming laughed wryly.
Xu Hui glared at him before sitting down again. She straightened her robes, then looked over with a faint smile.
Su Ming picked up the drawing board and opened his mouth to say, "You don't have eight moles on your body,"
When he saw that Xu Hui's expression had changed again, he raised his right hand, tapped the puddle of water by the mountain rock with his finger, as if he was dipping his finger in ink. Then, he drew on the drawing board.
The paper was clear, just like how his heart was calm.
A dash of ink gradually stained the paper with colors that seemed like they came from another world through Su Ming's hand, as if it brought with it the happy moments that remained in his eyes. The paper could no longer return to how it was at the start, but it gained a beauty that it had never possessed before.
When you gain something, you lose something in return. This is the way of life.
If only life was as beautiful as it seemed at first sight… The situation at that moment was like those words. However, there were certain times when the beauty that was initially seen could not compare to the peace gained after years had accumulated in a person's life. It was like this paper. When nothing was drawn on it, it was empty and blank. Once colors were placed on it after a person drew on it, which one exactly was the one that was more beautiful?
Only the person drawing would know.
Only those who had experienced such things before would understand…
Su Ming continued drawing. In the picture was rain, land, sky, and also the figure of a woman. The beautiful moments in the past when he was still in Dark Mountain remained faintly in his head, but as years went by, as wind and clouds continued changing, they became like dust which would fall on the surface of water and not leave a single trace or stir up a single ripple. They would not ruin the drawing paper.
The wind from beyond the mountains filled his sleeves. A beautiful lady sat before him in the rain. No emotions were present on his face, and neither did they enter his heart. This was a change of heart.
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Chapter 942: You Are Already My Junior Brother
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Xu Hu's heart was trembling before Su Ming had even finished his drawing. She stared at him blankly, because she had discovered that once he drew his first line, he looked as if he had gained an ethereal air!
This made it seem as if his body had disappeared. In fact, he looked as if even his presence as well as his soul had vanished without a trace, but she did not notice even a single hint of it in the connection she had with Su Ming's cultivation base clone.
It was as if he was sitting there, but at the same, he did not seem to exist.
It was as if… he had fused together with the mountain, with the land, with the sky, and everything under the heavens that their eyes could see. He had even fused together with the rain and the wind that blew towards him. There was no distinction between them.
This was not him drawing. He was… imprinting everything from the wind, the rain, the sky, the earth, and everything else in the universe.
What caused Xu Hui to suck in a deep breath was when the ripples of power from Su Ming's body swiftly stirred up at the instant he reached that ethereal state before her eyes. Then, in a manner that shocked her, those ripples rapidly gained power!
Within a short period of time, he became infinitesimally close to the later stage of World Plane Realm from the middle stage of World Plane Realm!
This method of cultivation immediately caused a word to surface in Xu Hui's mind— Enlightenment!
This was enlightenment. Besides this word, Xu Hui could not find any other that could allow a person's cultivation base to erupt suddenly in this manner without any use of medicinal cores or training.
This made her remember a few sentences her Master had told her in the past.
"When the ancients trained, they placed primary focus on their hearts. They would continuously ask their own hearts and continuously try to understand the truth about the universe. It did not matter whether it was a great truth or a small one. Training their hearts was akin to training their psyche.
"They tried to understand the universe, and when they ran into enlightenments, their levels of cultivation would reach a state that defied common sense.
"Now, the method of cultivation we employ only places half of our focus on the heart, and the other half is on Arts. We might… never be able to reach enlightenment."
Xu Hui's breathing quickened, but she was incredibly careful in not bothering Su Ming in his drawing. The smile remained on her face, and she made sure that she did not move, because she was worried that if she did anything, she would affect his epiphany. Once he woke up from it, he would lose this serendipity.
She saw the ripples of power from Su Ming become stronger as he continued drawing. After a moment, thunder roared beyond the mountain as rain poured from the sky. The ground even started trembling faintly. A gigantic vortex appeared above Su Ming, at the top of the mountain. This vortex spread out in all directions, sweeping up rainwater and the mountain breeze to create an abnormal phenomenon.
The members of Ninth Tribe noticed it. As they raised their heads, they looked towards the vortex in the sky, and in doing so, they also noticed the ripples of power from Su Ming.
Right when an uproar broke out among them, they were immediately silenced by Dijiu Mo Sha. He stared at the spot above in a daze, watching Su Ming's back. His breathing quickened, and excitement appeared on his face.
'Change of heart. This is… the change of heart, the Art that Master once said belongs solely to his disciples!' Dijiu Mo Sha understood the change of heart and knew that this moment was incredibly important to Su Ming, which was why he did not just silence the commotion caused by the members of his tribe, he even personally began defending the entire area with a vigilant expression.
"I wonder when will my change of heart… arrive," he mumbled softly.
Time trickled by, and several hours passed since Su Ming began drawing. The rain in the sky gradually lessened and the wind too slowly became weaker. Xu Hui kept to the same pose. Even if rain poured on her body, she still continued remaining still.
She still had a smile on her face, but there was anxiety in her eyes.
She was not anxious because she had not been moving for several hours, but because she had seen Su Ming attempt to reach the later stage of World Plane Realm seven times during the past few hours.
But he failed every single time.
She knew deeply that there was a barrier between the middle and later stage of World Plane Realm. This barrier was incredibly difficult to break. She had been able to break that barrier in the past because her Master had helped her with all her strength, and only then did she succeed, albeit with great difficulty.
However, she believed that as long as Su Ming had enough time, he would definitely be able to reach a break and step into the later stage of World Plane Realm. Even if she did not know why he occasionally gave off a feeling that he was weak while at other times that he was strong, she believed this was related to him Possessing Dao Kong.
However, at that moment… Xu Hui could sense that the rain was lessening and the wind was gradually fading away. Once the wind and rain were gone, the sky would return to normal. At that time, Su Ming's picture would be finished.
If he still had yet to reach a breakthrough by then, his process of gaining enlightenment would end, and he would need another serendipity before he could continue.
Su Ming knew this.
Every single time a person experienced a change of heart with this Art, it would allow a their heart to go through a metamorphosis, and even their soul and everything about them would move to a greater state. However… even with this sort of metamorphosis to stir up his cultivation base, there was still a barrier within him. If he could not break through it, then he would be forced to stop in his tracks.
This was why Su Ming had chosen Dao Kong as his cultivation base clone. In truth, this cultivation base clone was like a vessel, and Su Ming chose it to make it easier for him to break through the barrier.
If he thought about it on a fundamental level, this so-called potential was really just how many barriers a person had in his path of cultivation, and how thick those barriers were.
This was why Su Ming had chosen to cripple Ye Wang's kismet. Once he destroyed the kismet in him, the only person who could have the kismet gather on his person for years to come in True Morning Dao World… would be only Dao Kong!
This was the reason why Dao Kong was so highly valued by Morning Dao Sect.
However, kismet was insubstantial. Very few could understand it completely and use it. Even Su Ming could not do it. He could only use his own method to change or move it about, indirectly guiding this kismet that existed in the unseen world.
Such as right then…
Bang!
A loud clap of thunder rang out in the sky. That thunder roared and shook the world in all directions. As it echoed, the rain that was about to disappear started pouring from the sky once more, and the wind that was about to fade away became strong once again.
The rain did not stop, the wind did not pause. All of them raged violently and frantically again.
Was this kismet..? Perhaps. Perhaps even without this so-called kismet the rain was fated to not stop, but if this rain continued pouring for several days…
Then perhaps this would truly be the work of the kismet!
The second day, the third day… until the fifth day arrived!
On the fifth day, rain still poured from the sky and continued falling on the ground. Dark clouds filled the sky. Wind raged in the mountains and blew violently in the world. Xu Hui sucked in a deep breath. During these five days, she did her best to keep still and not move, so that she would not bother Su Ming when he drew.
When dusk eventually arrived on the fifth day, Su Ming's cultivation base charged against that barrier once again, and loud banging sounds came from his body. A vast wave of power from his cultivation base erupted from within him.
That was not power of the middle stage of World Plane Realm… but the later stage!
Su Ming's cultivation base clone had finally stepped into the later stage of World Plane Realm and was at the same stage as his clone that practiced the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows Whole. Only at this moment could Su Ming truly be considered to have moved into the category of powerful warriors.
All his clones could become an overlord of an area. When his clone that practiced the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows Whole overlapped with his cultivation base clone before, Su Ming could bring forth power that was close to someone who had attained completion in the later stage of World Plane Realm. Yet right then, the power that would erupt from him would be one that truly belonged to someone who had reached great completion in World Plane Realm, and he had not even added his Divine Essence into the mix.
If he added his Divine Essence, he would no longer need to use the projection formed by Ecang's power to fight against those in Lunar Kalpa Realm, such as what he had done when he was trying to rescue Xu Hui in the desert. At that moment, even without using Ecang's projection, he would be able to fight against those in Lunar Kalpa Realm.
That was if he did not include his Ecang clone into the equation, if his Ecnag projection appeared, Su Ming did not know just how great his offensive abilities would become, but it was clear that he would then be able to fight against those in Solar Kalpa Realm.
If his Ecang clone came personally and the three clones fused together, then with his soul linking them together, the offensive power that would erupt from him would be able to shock even the heaven. Su Ming would be even stronger than when he had first walked out of Western Ring Nebula's foreign land and broken into the galaxy where the forces of power from True Sacred Yin World were stationed!
Perhaps he could still not be considered as the most powerful person beneath Masters of Fate, Lives and Death, though. But if he took a step further and made his cultivation base clone as well as the clone that practiced the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows Whole attain great completion in the later stage of World Plane Realm, then he would become the most powerful person beneath the Masters of Fate, Lives and Death!
If his Ecang clone devoured the other Ecangs, then his combat abilities would increase exponentially, and this… was the terrifying composition of power that came from the Abyss Builders' inborn ability.
Su Ming opened his eyes, or rather, he had never physically closed his eyes. The eyes he opened were those that belonged to his soul.
The sky instantly fell silent. There was no longer thunder. The rain disappeared, the wind faded away, and the sky was clear across tens of thousands of lis.
Su Ming looked at the drawing board in his hand. On it was a picture of rain pouring continuously from the sky along with a delicate figure. Wind lifted her hair, and it looked as if a world was contained in her smile, causing those who saw it to be unable to help themselves but smile as well.
"Thank you." Su Ming raised his head and looked towards Xu Hui.
A faint smile blossomed on Xu Hui's face, and it was identical to the one in the picture.
There always comes a time when people have to be separated.
There always comes a time when a song ends and people leave the theater.
On the second day since Su Ming woke up, he left the mountain in which Ninth Tribe was located, left the land, and left the near one thousand members of Ninth Tribe bowing down to worship him.
He did not take Dijiu Mo Sha with him, but instead picked up a map. It was a map detailing the locations of the four great races, which were ones who had surrounded and attacked his Master when he was in the inner part of Divine Essence Star Ocean.
If Su Ming had a grudge against someone, he would definitely take vengeance. This was his principle.
On his way out, he left behind some words which caused Dijiu Mo Sha to lower his head and bow to him.
"No matter what Master thinks, to me, you are already my junior brother."
These words caused Dijiu Mo Sha to tremble. He looked at Su Ming and saw a light shining with wisdom in his eyes, making it seem as if he could read his thoughts. Slowly, an ashamed look that caused him to be unable to speak appeared on Dijiu Mo Sha's face. He quietly lowered his head, but those words still echoed in his heart.
This was Su Ming's acknowledgment.
When Su Ming first saw the five stones under his Master's statue, he could already tell that the fifth stone had been placed there later on. It might not have seemed as if it was different from the other four… but the four stones that signified the four original disciples were under his Master's feet, while the fifth… was placed away from his feet.
This small detail allowed Su Ming to understand plenty of things.
He could imagine a young boy many years ago standing by his Master's side and longing to have Tian Xie Zi as his Master, but up till the moment Tian Xie Zi left, he still did not take the boy his disciple.
Yet the boy did not give up. He protected his tribe and fulfilled the request Tian Xie Zi made before he left without any complaints or grumbles. In fact, as he grew over the thousand years, he treated himself as Tian Xie Zi's disciple and placed the fifth stone by the statue's feet.
This was why Su Ming had only said half of what he thought. He had the other half remain in his heart.
The complete sentence was: "Master will not take in a fifth disciple, but no matter what Master thinks, to me, you are already my junior brother."
Su Ming left. This time, the loneliness he had grown used to was no longer his companion. Xu Hui had taken its place.
The two of them turned into two long arcs that headed to the inner part of Divine Essence Star Ocean and the four races that had went after Master's life in the past. They gradually disappeared from Ninth Tribe's sight and vanished from Dijiu Mo Sha's eyes.
"Senior brother…" Dijiu Mo Sha mumbled. This was the first time no anguish appeared in the depths of his heart when he said these two words.
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Chapter 943: On the Way
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Who was it who was unable to see through the mirages of life, just like how the figures who have left into the distance remained as indistinct blurs in other people's eyes?
Who was it who saw through the beautiful moments of life, just like how Su Ming did not turn his head back to look? He merely watched the clouds around him as he moved, then with a smile, he lowered his head and snapped his fingers.
Perhaps the dust that flew up when he snapped his fingers was a brilliance that no one could see, but Su Ming knew that it would only last for the time he blinked, just like how one thousand years in the world would pass in no time.
He would no longer think about it, no longer reminisce. He would have those beautiful moments from the past remain forever at the bottom of his heart and not have them come into contact with the truth. He would retain his happiness, and also leave behind a fixation in others.
What he cut off was the love in his heart. What he did not cut off was the obsession fixed on him by someone else from the distance, a fixation that tangled itself around him.
'I retained this happiness… but I've never been a person who would just allow another to scheme against me…' A piercing, cold glare appeared in Su Ming's eyes. He had not cut off his obsession because he wanted to… personally find the person who planted this obsession in him.
This was how Su Ming was. He would definitely take revenge for all the slights done to him, just like the reason he was heading to the inner parts of Divine Essence Star Ocean. Searching for clues about Lie Shan Xiu had become secondary. His true goal was to wreak havoc in Divine Essence Star Ocean.
He would have all the four venerated races who went after his Master's life to pay what was due.
Su Ming walked calmly in the galaxy when he asked without turning his head back, "Have you killed many people in your life?"
"Quite a lot." Xu Hui had recovered most of her cultivation base, but she still wore the sackcloth and did not bother to change her clothes.
"I haven't killed that many …" Su Ming said calmly.
Xu Hui turned her head to look at him with a slightly strange expression on her face. Forget the ones she did not see, just the Waves of Tears alone was enough for her to sense the murderous aura about his body.
If that was not considered a lot, then Xu Hui suddenly felt that she should have answered that she had only killed a few people in her life.
"The four venerated races have one hundred thousand something people each within the inner parts of Divine Essence Star Ocean. I won't kill many of them… just thirty thousand something from each race," Su Ming declared flatly.
Xu Hui remained quiet for a moment before she said softly, "If they can become a venerated race in Divine Essence Star Ocean, then the race will definitely have someone who is a Master of Fate, Lives, and Death among them."
"There is one in each race. I know about that." Su Ming turned into a long arc and charged forward through the galaxy. Xu Hui kept him company by the side. Once she heard his words, she smiled faintly and did not continue questioning him.
Since Su Ming knew of how dangerous this trip was but still chose to go, then he had to be quite confident in himself. After all, if he was not confident, he would be just walking to his death for no reason.
A normal cultivator would need a long time before they could arrive at the inner parts of Divine Essence Star Ocean from the periphery, and they would face countless dangers in their journey.
But Su Ming and Xu Hui could both shift, so their speed was exponentially faster. Yet even so, even if they were much faster, they would still need several decades to reach the inner parts.
However, the map from Ninth Tribe marked several Relocation Vortex spots. Because of that, they could shorten the distance. Based on Su Ming's predictions, they would need only about ten years to be able to step into the inner parts of Divine Essence Star Ocean.
This journey wouldn't be short. Based on Su Ming's calculations, the distance from the periphery of Divine Essence Star Ocean to the inner parts would be the same as the one to the entrance of the Barren Lands of Divine Essence from this place. Such a great distance was a ravine that a mortal would not be able to cross even after he had been reincarnated thousands of times.
Thankfully, this time, Su Ming was not alone. There was a woman by his side. And thankfully… before this woman left Ninth Tribe, she had taken a lot of the wine when Su Ming was not looking.
Hence, Su Ming, who had already grown used to loneliness, was interrupted by occasional conversations which would fill the trip with a unique air.
"Just what happened that night?" On a day several years later, Su Ming sat cross-legged on a meteor flying rapidly forward. He looked at Xu Hui drinking wine by his side. At that moment, her heroic and valiant bearing gave Su Ming a feeling he could not put to words.
"You don't know what happened?" Xu Hui blinked and looked towards Su Ming.
The contact they had during the past few years seemed to have gone by with just the snap of their fingers, but the company she provided him for nearly one thousand days in the galaxy caused their relationship to become slightly different from before.
Su Ming cast Xu Hui a look and said faintly without any expression on his face, "I seem to have held something very soft,"
Xu Hui smiled faintly. She continued drinking for a time before picking up a pot and throwing it to Su Ming.
"Can you stop drinking like this all the time? You always get drunk." Su Ming frowned and picked up the pot of wine.
"Getting drunk is good. You can just leave on your own." Xu Hui narrowed her eyes into the shapes of crescent moons, and a misty look gradually appeared in her eyes. When Su Ming saw this, he sighed. He knew that Xu Hui had become drunk again.
After a moment, he hugged the sleeping Xu Hui and jumped from the meteor. This was not the first time he carried this drunk woman. Over the course of the past few years, he seemed to have grown used to this action.
Every single time she drank, she would not circulate her cultivation base to get rid of the alcohol, and every time she got drunk, she would fall into deep sleep. A smile would appear at the corner of her lips, causing Su Ming to feel as if he could sense the fatigue and the guard she put up against everyone in the past within her heart every single time he saw that smile.
It was as if… she could only sleep without worry when she was with him. Perhaps it was also because… she liked the feeling of being held by Su Ming after she became drunk.
He did not know whether she was doing it intentionally or unintentionally, but she wrapped her arms around his neck and buried her head into his bosom. Her long hair drifted in space, tangling together with his, and giving off a feeling that they could not be discerned from each other.
Perhaps this was what she wished for.
Su Ming moved forward quietly through the galaxy with Xu Hui in his arms. After the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, his footsteps suddenly came to a halt. He looked at the area around him carefully before raising his right hand and swinging his arm before him. A wave of air spread through the area and was then rapidly sucked into a spot that was about the size of a palm in front of him.
Su Ming's eyes focused. After giving the place a few scrutinizing glances, he took a step forward and headed into that formless vortex, disappearing without a trace.
This was not the first time Xu Hui and he used a vortex to Relocate on their journey to the inner parts of Divine Essence Star Ocean. Su Ming was already well-versed in using them. Within an instant, he appeared in that colorful world.
He did not close his eyes, but had them open. As his body charged forward due to him being dragged, he lowered his head to look at the darkness and the bottom of the colorful world, and in just a few breaths, a faint smile appeared at the corners of his lips.
A roar came from the darkness, shaking the colorful world. At the same time, the jellyfish like existences floating around Su Ming withdrew.
The black horse with two dragon heads rushed out from the endless darkness. The two dragon heads glared at Su Ming while panting harshly, and with a kick, fire instantly burned the entire area. The color of the fire was black, matching the horse's body and giving it an incredibly might air.
During the course of the journey, Su Ming had used the vortices to Relocate three times, so this would be the fourth time he saw this horse. Previously, every single time Su Ming appeared in the world within the vortex, the black horse would immediately notice him, and no matter how far away it was, it would use the unique method it possessed to swiftly reach him.
Furious roars echoed in the air. When the black horse lowered its head, it rushed swiftly towards Su Ming with the intent to kill in response to the earlier provocation.
Su Ming's expression remained the same. During the previous few encounters, he had come to know that the horse would always get a little closer each time, but it would not be close enough for it to kill him. Judging from the spot where it appeared, the horse would need seven breaths after he left the place to be able to close in on him.
"You are mine. One of these days, you will carry me on your back to ride to heaven and hell!" Su Ming smiled. As he spoke faintly, the black horse's roars became even stronger, and it looked as if it was about to reach Su Ming, but by then, he had already disappeared and left the world in the vortex.
Once Su Ming walked out into the galaxy with Xu Hui in his arms, he did not immediately move forward, but stayed close and listened attentively. Six breaths later, a faint rumble echoed from the vortex he'd left earlier.
"It's one breath short." Su Ming's eyes sparkled. After some calculations, he estimated that he would need at least three more trips to the world in the vortex before the black horse would catch up to him, and then, the time would come for him to capture it.
After mulling over this for some time, Su Ming looked at Xu Hui in his arms. Once he pushed her away, he shook her forcefully until she opened her bleary eyes.
"Wake up. It's your turn." When Su Ming saw that Xu Hui had opened her eyes, he let go of her, sat down, and closed his eyes.
Xu Hui rubbed her eyes and said with resignation, "You're cheating!"
"We promised each other that each of us would take the other and travel a distance. It's your turn," Su Ming told her without opening his eyes.
"Vortex Relocations doesn't count!" Xu Hui glared over at him.
"You didn't mention that before, so it counts. Are you a woman or not? Aren't you going to admit to what you said?" Su Ming opened his eyes and looked at her sideways.
"You know more than I do whether I am a woman or not," Xu Hui retorted without any hesitation.
With that one sentence, she managed to render Su Ming completely speechless for a long time and make him think that something seemed to have been reversed here…
In silence, Su Ming chose to just close his eyes and ignore her.
Xu Hui let out a light snort, then circulated her cultivation base. Once she chased away her drunkenness, she raised her right hand and swung her arm in the space before her. A fire phoenix immediately appeared under her. With a screech, it swept up the seated Su Ming and charged forward. Xu Hui stood at the top of the phoenix and occasionally looked around her as well as glanced back at Su Ming training calmly behind her before grumbling under her breath, "So petty!"
"I don't have any moles on me, so of course I'm petty." Su Ming opened his eyes for a moment, then closed them again.
"I know what you want me to say. I just refuse to say it." Xu Hui smiled, having uttered words that only Su Ming could understand.
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Chapter 944: Them…
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In True Morning Dao World, a battle that shook the entire true world so much that even True Sacred Yin World and the Emperor of Abyss' True World were paying attention to it had just started, and it was already incredibly devastating.
This was a great war in which almost every single race in True Morning Dao World had banded together to fight against Morning Dao Sect!
It could be said that Morning Dao Sect was surrounded by enemies on all sides. The rebellion had been started by the Immortals who had managed to get the other races working together with them by some foreign method, which caught the people from Morning Dao Sect slightly off guard.
However, Morning Dao Sect was a sect that controlled an entire True World on its own, so its strength was definitely not something ordinary. Once they fended off the first wave of attacks launched by the Immortals' Union, they executed a violent counterattack.
Roars surged into the heavens from the battlefields throughout the entire true world. Loud bangs became the constant noise in True Morning Dao World. Cultivation planets shattered and numerous people died, causing a bloody stench to fill every single corner of True Morning Dao World.
Within the Immortals' territory was a sect called Hundred Flowers Sect. Every single person in it was either handsome or beautiful, and in the Immortals' world, this place was considered a small sect.
Seven hundred years ago, a man had entered this sect. He was a person with gentleness and elegance akin to a flower, and he was fond of having sunlight shine on the profile of his face, fond of playing around with flowers and plants, and fond of… forming ambiguous relationships with the female disciples in the sect, because they always communicated with each other as if they were flirting.
Seven hundred years ago, he had been an inner sect disciple in the sect. Seven hundred years later, he became a core disciple, but he still retained his personality. He was likable, but there were some who felt envious yet could not do nothing about it.
Of course, that envy came mostly from the men.
His name was Hua Yan Yue.
A man whose family name meant flower.
"Yue Er…" A woman's resigned voice came languidly from a garden in the mountain where Hundred Flower Sect was located.
"Please call me second senior brother…" A man with long hair dressed in a white long robe stood under the sun, and with a smile, he looked towards the woman who had a mature and charming elegance.
"I am your Master…" The woman sighed.
"But seven hundred years ago, you were my junior sister." The man shook his head and walked next to the woman. He helped her tug a lock of hair behind her ear, which had been made messy by the wind.
"Just like what you said previously, the Immortals' Union has waged a war against Morning Dao Sect… and I've organized plenty of small sects based on your request… Seven hundred years might not be a lot of time, but it's enough to make thirty-nine sects become our affiliates." The woman lowered her head. She did not resist the man's actions as she spoke softly.
"Then… has my slot on the ship heading to the Barren Lands of Divine Essence been confirmed?" the man asked softly while blowing into the woman's ear.
"I can't confirm it yet…" The woman instinctively took a step back.
"It's alright, but those from Morning Dao Sect acting as garrisons in the Barren Lands of Divine Essence should have already been summoned back, right?" The man smiled softly.
The woman raised her head, and with puzzlement in her voice, she asked him, "Why do you insist on going to the Barren Lands of Divine Essence? That place is a prison…"
The man shook his head and looked at the sky, not speaking.
At the bottom of his heart was a string of words, and they were words he could not say to the woman.
'Because my youngest junior brother is there…'
Within True Morning Dao Sect was a galaxy that did not belong to the Immortals. That galaxy belonged to a race called Heaven's Howlers. Within that galaxy was a huge sect, and if anyone saw it from outside, they would find that it was formed by endless swords. It floated in the galaxy and surrounded a cultivation planet.
There was an incredibly distinct building on that planet. It was a huge sword whose half revealed outside was already one hundred thousand something feet tall. It penetrated through the planet, and even the tip of the sword itself was one hundred thousand something feet long. From the distance, the planet and the sword were incredibly eye-catching.
There were three hundred cultivators dressed in black robes sitting cross-legged around the sword. These cultivators had hoods covering their heads and did not move, but a murderous aura that surged into the sky was brewing around their bodies, as if they could cause the weather in the world to change and clouds as well as wind to surge the moment they stood up.
All of them appeared to be in the middle stage of World Plane Realm. In fact, any person could sense clearly that there was a seal contained within them, and if that seal was broken… no one knew just what sort of brilliance would explode from them.
Dong… dong… dong…
The beats of a war drum echoed swiftly in the area. As the sounds of the drum traveled outwards, the three hundred cultivators in the area gradually raised their heads.
Their gazes were all trained on the tip of the huge sword they surrounded. It might be blurry in their eyes, but a picture had already appeared in their heads.
In that picture were clouds that looked like they were hovering above the tip of the sword in the galaxy. Within those clouds was a person sitting cross-legged. Before him was a huge drum, and the beats came when he struck the drum with his right hand.
That person… did not have a head!
He was half-naked. His nipples served as his eyes, and his navel was his mouth. In his left hand was a battle axe of several dozens of feet. With his right hand clenched into a fist, he struck the drum.
He was known as Xing Gan by the people in the sect!
Seven hundred years ago, he had joined the sect, and during those seven hundred years, his level of cultivation rose at a pace that shocked everyone, but what cast them even more into disbelief was the fighting spirit this person possessed.
It was so strong that his murderous aura was so thick that it was enough to make a person feel as if they were cast into hell the moment they saw it. This was a Natural Fiend, a presence publicly acknowledged by all the cultivators in the sect.
The sounds of the drum were like thunder. As the booms surged into the sky, the headless Xing Gan stood up. At the moment he did so, his tall body caused the world to lose its color and all roars to fall silent.
Lightning crackled in the sky. As it illuminated the ground, the bolts of lightning formed a gigantic face in the sky.
"Heaven's Howler!" the headless man shouted out in a low growl that rumbled in all directions. His voice boomed in all directions and drowned out the thunder.
"You promised me that once I, Xing Gan, joined your sect, you would execute your divine ability and send me to the Barren Lands of Divine Essence!" As the man roared, the three hundred people under the sword stood up together. An indescribable murderous aura erupted from their bodies, and it was so strong that their presences connected together. A powerful aura then surrounded the sword. As it swept outwards in all directions, it filled the entire cultivation planet.
Anyone who looked over would find that the cultivation planet was surrounded by fog. It was formed from murderous aura, and it had manifested after the kismet in the place was chased away. Within that fog were countless vengeful spirits. There were men and women among them, as well as ferocious beasts and cultivators. They were all howling shrilly.
"Over the course of seven hundred years, I've killed one billion lives for you…" When the man at the tip of the sword said these words, the shrill cries from the illusory vengeful souls surrounding the cultivation planet grew even stronger. Needless to say… they were the one billion souls he had killed.
"When… are you going to send me to the Barren Lands of Divine Essence?!" he roared loudly.
At the instant he did so, the three hundred people on the ground raised their heads together and let out roars that shook the sky.
"When are you going to send me to the Barren Lands of Divine Essence?!" These three hundred people shouted in anger, and as they did so, the hoods over their heads were blown off by wind to reveal… bald heads filled with marks exuding the Shamans' presence. These three hundred people… were the souls of Nine Li!
The face formed by lightning in the sky remained silent as he looked at the man. In his eyes was a hint of high praise and deep respect. He then said in a low voice, "Once the war against Morning Dao Sect ends, I will personally send you to the Barren Lands of Divine Essence and help you search for your junior brother. If I go back on my word, then all Heaven's Howlers will face the disaster of extermination!"
"Alright…" the headless man at the tip of the sword agreed unhappily.
"Warriors of Nine Li, we… will go to war!"
"To war!" The ones who answered him were the three hundred people on the ground. Their roars surged into the sky and shook the lightning so much that huge waves of sound surged up.
"Kill him!"
"Damn you, you bastard! How dare you ambush me?! I'll bite you to death!"
On a battlefield in the war between Morning Dao Sect and the Immortals' Union enraged roars rang in the air. Cultivators from Morning Dao Sect were all watching a man they had surrounded in shock.
The man was the height of three average men. He was abnormally built, and he had endless strength. The tiger skin he wore made it seem like he was a ferocious beast in the shape of a tiger from the distance, or maybe the manifestation of a tiger spirit.
At that moment, he had his teeth snapped tightly shut on a young cultivator who he had seized with his right hand. As the cultivator screamed in shrilly from pain, the tiger person ripped off a layer of his flesh, and with blood filling his mouth, he threw his head back and laughed.
"I don't even need to Enter any Dreams to kill every single one of you damn bastards! How dare you ambush me?! If you force me to a corner, I'll drag you all into my Dream!" The man lifted the cultivator in his hand, and with a roar, rushed at the people from Morning Dao Sect.
If he was just a reckless person, the cultivators would not have bothered with him, but as he moved forward, Runes continuously appeared under his feet. As they overlapped with each other, divine abilities were ceaselessly cast from them into the area, and there were light screens protecting them, making it difficult for others to fight back.
"Damn it, it's that person again! Just where did he come from?! He looks like a fool, but I've never seen an idiot having such great skills with Runes!"
"This person's Runes… can already gain corporeal form! How are we supposed to surround and kill him?!"
After a moment, the Morning Dao Sect cultivators in the area swiftly retreated and left the place while nursing grievances in their hearts. Their departure caused the people within the Immortals' Union to laugh loudly.
"Fellow Daoist Hu, how many did you kill this time?"
"That's right. Fellow Daoist Hu, every single time you rush out, you will draw a crowd over here. I've calculated the number this time. You should've killed twelve people, right?" There were several dozens of those from the Immortals' Union around the tiger person, and they were all smiling as they looked towards him.
There was a smug look on the man in tiger skin. He brought out a pot of wine from his bosom, and once he took a big swig from it, he let out a loud roar.
"I've killed fourteen!" He lifted the pot of wine and drank from it again. He was about to speak smugly when he lowered the pot and a shudder wrecked his body. He looked swiftly at a figure in the distance.
It was a person dressed in long black robes. He had his back turned towards the tiger person, and he had long hair. In his hands he held a long spear. He was a cultivator, and while he was not tall, he stood with his back straight. The tiger person took a swift step forward and seized the cultivator's shoulder. When the cultivator turned his head around, a fearful face was revealed before the man's eyes.
"Grandpa… Grandpa Hu, what is it?"
"Get lost! Don't you dare wear black in front of me ever again! And don't grow your hair so long! Don't use spears either!" As the man roared, he pushed the cultivator away, then picked up the pot of wine to drink from it again. However, no one saw that when he lifted his head, wine was not the only thing that flowed into his mouth. Tears flowed in as well.
"Youngest junior brother… are you well in the Barren Lands of Divine Essence? I miss you…"
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Chapter 945: Heaven Traverser
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He had time in his grasp, he imprisoned old age, keeping with him a period of time and a collection of beautiful memories…
In the fifth year since Su Ming had left Ninth Tribe…
A buzzing echoed in the galaxy as a colony of two-headed scorpions swarmed forward. They chased after two incredibly disheveled and pathetic-looking figures before them.
They were a man and a woman, Su Ming and Xu Hui.
"I told you a long time ago that we shouldn't take this path!"
"You only said it after we took this path."
"I did not!"
As the two fled, Xu Hui's grumbles rang in space. As their voices slowly faded into the distance, their figures also gradually vanished from sight as the colony of scorpions screeched.
In the seventh year…
Our figures were imprinted into the soul of the galaxy so that it would remember us—these words were turned into ripples of that beautiful period of time due to a man and woman named Su Ming and Xu Hui.
Enraged roars shook the galaxy. Three gigantic ferocious beasts that were originally hidden in the void roared and swam about two people. The woman's face was pale, and she held the man's hand in a tight grip.
"This is the path we chose after I listened to your suggestion."
"I was talking about another path!"
"You did not…"
Su Ming shook his head. When he closed his eyes, Ecang's projection manifested, and at the instant the three creatures in the void were shocked, he held Xu Hui's hand and left hastily into the distance.
In the tenth year…
Xu Hui appeared in the vast galaxy as if she had come out of thin air. There was anxiety on her face, and once she appeared, she immediately lowered her head. The worry in her eyes was incredibly clear.
Time trickled by with each breath she took. As Xu Hui's expression continued changing, she gritted her teeth. Just when she was about to step into the vortex, a hand suddenly stretched out of space. Xu Hui quickly grabbed it and yanked it outwards.
She immediately dragged Su Ming out of the vortex. He was an incredibly pathetic sight, but he had a handful of black fur in his left hand. That fur was burning fiercely, but Su Ming did not throw away that fur.
"That is a ferocious beast with power equivalent to a Master of Fate, Lives, and Death, you… you…" Xu Hui immediately said in anger.
"So what if it's a Master of Fate, Lives, and Death?" Su Ming smiled, though this ended up in causing the injuries in his body to get worse. However, when he saw the black fur in his left hand, he still started laughing loudly.
"I can't use the vortex to Relocate anymore… but when I choose to use it again, then… I will subdue you!" Su Ming looked at the space under his feet. There was a vortex there, and enraged roars were coming from the distance.
In the thirteenth year…
In the galaxy, there was a ferocious beast of around forty thousand feet. That creature looked like a crocodile, but if anyone looked closely at it, they would find that it was a creature that could blend into space.
Yet at that moment, there was… a tent at the top of this ferocious beast's head.
Light spread out from within that tent. There was a pearl in there, and it was the one exuding the light. Underneath it sat Su Ming, who was meditating, and Xu Hui did the same thing by the side.
Clearly, during the past three years, they had somehow managed to subdue this creature and had had a lot less setbacks in their trip. However, based on how wretched the Void Beast currently looked, it was clear that it had suffered quite terribly during the year it was subdued.
Whines echoed in the quiet galaxy. Those sounds came from the Void Beast, and they were growing increasingly urgent. In the end, they were practically piercing to the ears.
"It's feeding time. Su Ming, go and feed it." Xu Hui opened her eyes.
"It's always me. You do it this time."
"That's my pet, I subdued it!" Xu Hui declared smugly.
Su Ming fell silent. After some time, he shook his head, got up, and walked out of the tent.
After a moment, the whines disappeared. When Su Ming returned to the tent, he saw the grinning Xu Hui and let out a fake cough.
"It's strange…" He only said these two words before he shook his head and stopped speaking.
"What's strange?" Xu Hui asked, puzzled.
"It's nothing." Su Ming closed his eyes.
Xu Hui blinked and asked again, "What's strange?"
"Do you really want to know?" Su Ming's eyes remained closed when he said this.
"Tell me, quickly."
"I find it strange that so many moles has grown on this Void Beast over the past few years," he stated expressionlessly. Once he finished speaking, he immersed his heart and soul in meditation, not bothering to look at Xu Hui's expression.
The seventeenth year…
At the perimeter of the inner parts of Divine Essence Star Ocean was a gigantic ring, and it could be seen clearly from the distance. That ring was formed by endless sparkling but shattered stars. They were grouped together and formed a circle, causing this place to look like a stellar stream.
There was a faint layer of fog in it, along with countless planets, so all those who saw this sight at first glance would be attracted, but once they looked at it for a prolonged period of time, they would slowly notice that in this region of this ring-shaped stellar stream, there were shapes in the fog, and they formed the contours of ferocious beasts. All who saw that would be shocked.
"We've finally reached the inner part of Divine Essence Star Ocean." Su Ming stood on the Void Beast and looked into the distance. By his side, Xu Hui had a solemn look on her face.
She remained silent for a moment before saying softly, "Heaven Traversers, Virtue Rooters, Reng Wu Race [1, and Dust Burners are the four venerated races in the inner parts of Divine Essence Star Ocean, and they have already lasted for an unknown number of years… With our power, it'll be very difficult… Or perhaps it should be said that it'll be impossible for us to even shake the foundations of these races."
"We'll have to try before we know." Su Ming smiled faintly. When he lifted his right hand, he patted his storage bag, and a jade slip immediately appeared in his hand. Once he cast it a few scrutinizing glances, he passed it to Xu Hui.
"Based on the plan I told you earlier, wait for me in the spot I marked on the map, then activate the Rune one month later!" Su Ming turned his head sideways to look at Xu Hui.
She hesitated for a moment before she raised her head to look at him. "I want to go with you."
"If you come, then who will activate the Relocation Rune?" Su Ming shook his head.
"Then tell me your full plan. Why do you need to activate a Relocation Rune a month later in a designated spot?" Xu Hui stared at Su Ming.
"I want to give the Heaven Traversers, who are the closest to us, a huge gift. The plan is set," Su Ming said calmly. With one move, he turned into a long arc that charged into the distance. In the blink of an eye, he was already far away, leaving behind the Void Beast and Xu Hui staring after him as he traveled into the distance.
Xu Hui remained silent for a moment, fusing into the void with the Void Beast only much later. They disappeared without a trace and headed to the spot marked on the map based on Su Ming's request.
Su Ming rushed through the inner parts of Divine Essence Star Ocean. As he charged forward, he had his Atman sweep through the entire area. Everything around him was incredibly unfamiliar. In fact, when Su Ming swept his Atman outwards, he could sense that there were plenty of ferocious beasts in the place, but most of them were in deep sleep. They seldom ventured out, which was why when he cast his gaze on the area, it was quiet.
"Heaven Traversers…" A glint appeared in Su Ming's eyes, and the descriptions of Heaven Traversers in Dijiu Mo Sha's jade slip appeared in his head.
This was a race that worshiped the heaven. It was made up of one hundred thousand something people which lived a primitive life and regarded the sky as their paragon. The divine abilities and Arts they practiced were completely different from those of other cultivators. They were somewhat similar to those of Berserkers and Shamans, but they had their own cultivation system.
However, no matter how many branches of cultivation systems there were, they would eventually converge into one. Despite them being different at the start, once a person reached a certain level of cultivation, they would end up walking the same road. This race also had cultivators in Lunar Kalpa Realm, Solar Kalpa Realm, and also… a Master of Fate, Lives, and Death.
'They believe in the will of heaven, and worship the sky, believing it to be their God. As long as the sky is around, they will not die and can then change the galaxy…' Su Ming's eyes sparkled, and he became even faster.
'They are dressed in long blue robes, since blue is the symbol of the sky to them and so they love this color. Since they have plenty of people and the environment here is different from the world outside, the Heaven Traversers… have wings!' The fierce cold look in Su Ming's eyes grew stronger.
With wings, Heaven Traversers were the lords of the sky!
'The records in Dijiu Mo Sha's jade slip are one thousand years old. After so much time had went by. I wonder how greatly Heaven Traversers have grown. One thousand years might not be that long, not enough for anything abnormal to happen to a race…
'But I'll still have to learn about them through trial and error to perfect my plan.' Su Ming smiled coldly. With one move, his speed increased exponentially, and after shifting once, he had already traveled an incredible distance.
Several days later, he entered the inner part of Divine Essence Star Ocean and into the territory belonging to the Heaven Traversers as indicated on the map.
Based on Dijiu Mo Sha's understanding, Heaven Traversers controlled 173 cultivation planets and nearly 5,200 floating continents in the northeast portion of Divine Essence Star Ocean. Even if the territory that belonged to them could even be considered one-ten-thousandth of Divine Essence Star Ocean, this territory was already enough for the Heaven Traversers to be known as one of the four venerated races.
After all, they were one of the four large tribes who dared to live in the inner parts of Divine Essence Star Ocean, and this was something known to the world outside, because there were plenty of ferocious beasts in this area. Compared to the tribes, the numbers and strength of the ferocious beasts exceeded the tribes by far too much.
The most dangerous beings in this area were not the tribes… but the ferocious beasts!
'The four venerated races are spread around the inner parts of Divine Essence Star Ocean. They are very close to each other. Heaven Traversers and Virtue Rooters are located in the northwest and southeast regions of the inner parts.
'Dust Burners are closer to the center. As for the most mysterious Reng Wu Race, all of them live at the center, and they exist together with the powerful ferocious beasts.
'The four venerated races have a way to communicate with each other so that they would have a sense of propriety. Since that's the case, Heaven Traversers are my first target.
'You chased down my Master in the past. Now… I, Su, have come forth to make you pay.'
Killing intent shone in Su Ming's eyes. With one move, he charged towards a black cultivation planet located ahead.
This planet was known as Outer Skies Planet, and it was located at the outermost layer of Heaven Traversers' territory.
Bang!
Su Ming moved like a shooting star and charged towards the planet. Before he even closed in, he already stirred up huge waves that surged into the heavens, forming layers of ripples that spread through the galaxy. They shook the area and caused loud booms.
These violent sounds turned into waves of impact that instantly charged towards the planet, causing the weather on the planet to change. Violent gusts blew, and as the ground trembled, the seas tumbled, and trees were torn apart.
Translator's Note:
1. Reng Wu Race: Reng (陾) means many and Wu (邬) is a family name.
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Chapter 946: Stepping into Outer Skies
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A layer of green filled Outer Skies Planet. Anyone who cast their gazes towards it would find that forests covered the land, and there was no end to them. There were plenty of big trees of thousands of feet tall standing tall in the area.
From the distance, the gigantic tree crowns looked like giants standing on the ground.
There were also trees that were ten thousand feet tall. If anyone saw them, a feeling that they were ancient would rise spontaneously in their minds.
Farther down was a huge, azure ocean. As waves tumbled about there, it looked as if there were endless huge trees swaying about at the bottom of the ocean.
This was a cultivation planet filled with spiritual aura. The Essence of the World was so thick that it caused all lives in the planet to naturally possess faint power since the moment they were born.
There were no cities here, and no tribes could be detected in the planet either. It was as if this was a peaceful planet that posed no threat, but if anyone took a closer look, they would find wooden houses under the tree crowns of the gigantic trees!
Some figures with wings would occasionally move between the wooden houses.
However, all of this peace and quiet was swiftly torn apart by thunderous rumbles from the sky. Booming sounds surged everywhere. The ground trembled, the trees swayed violently, and quite a number of them were torn apart. The ocean in the distance roared, and waves rose up with loud booms.
The figures with wings in the wooden houses immediately raised their heads. Their eyes had a faint yellow hue, but at the instant they looked towards the sky, they turned crimson.
A ruthless presence erupted from all the people with wings.
Roars then echoed in the air Their voices fused together to turn into a sharp sound that charged at the sky as if it wanted to fight against the sound coming from above.
Booms shook the sky and earth, and during that moment, a shooting star appeared in the sky. That star turned into a long arc, as if it wanted to tear through everything in its path. It charged forward, heading straight for the ground.
The long arc's appearance had caused the eyes of the Heaven Traversers under the tree crowns to turn crimson. At the same time, they flew up swiftly. As they flapped their wings, they charged towards the spot where the shooting star was about to land.
As the garrisons placed in the planet at the outermost layer of the territory that belonged to Heaven Traversers, they were used to fighting and had a brutality that was usually hidden within their bones. On normal occasions, they would sometimes venture out to hunt in the galaxy.
If there was really a ferocious beast foolish enough to intrude into their planet, then the only outcome for it would be that it would end up becoming food in their stomachs.
In fact, there were occasionally members of tribes from the galaxy beyond or cultivators not from Divine Essence Star Ocean intruding on their planet, but these people were also torn apart and eaten alive.
Almost every single one of the soldiers stationed here had done this sort of thing before, and they were incredibly fond of the supple taste of flesh and blood of cultivators.
Hundreds of Heaven Traversers traveled at extreme speeds. As they charged forward, two old men flew out from the gigantic tree reaching up to ten thousand feet. These two were dressed in long blue robes. They had old appearances, and the presences of those in the later stage of World Plane Realm spread out from them.
"Those who trespass into Heaven Traversers' territory must die!"
One of the old men let out a harrumph. He raised his right hand and swung his arm forward. The forest before him immediately started rustling and formed a gigantic palm made of tree leaves in midair. As it rushed forward, it charged towards the place where the shooting star was.
Bang!
Loud bangs shook the land as the shooting star landed on the ground. With a loud noise, a wave of impact swept through the area, lifting the earth and uprooting many trees, while roars from the quaking ground spread far and wide. Then, from the pit that appeared on the ground, Su Ming slowly stood up.
Dressed in a sackcloth and with his hair dancing in the wind, he seemed cold and aloof. There was a piercing cold glare in his eyes. At the instant he stood up, swishing sounds came from the sky, and hundreds of Heaven Traversers came swiftly towards him.
Once they saw Su Ming, their eyes immediately sparkled. To them, Su Ming was like a lost lamb, and the tenderness of his flesh was definitely one that would make them think back on it fondly after all of them had taken a bite out of him.
Almost in an instant, all Heaven Traversers opened their mouths to reveal sharp, brownish yellow teeth. From a certain perspective, they, who lived in the inner parts of Divine Essence Star Ocean, had already assimilated with ferocious beasts, and could no longer be known as humans.
After all, the wings behind their backs alone already made it difficult for the cultivators beyond Divine Essence Star Ocean to acknowledge these Heaven Traversers as humans.
Almost at the instant they rushed towards Su Ming, the huge hand formed by countless tree leaves arrived. It surpassed the member of the tribe and appeared beside Su Ming, then went to seize him with a vicious grip.
Su Ming raised his head, remaining as composed as ever. When the huge palm made of tree leaves charged towards him, he lifted his right hand, and without even using his cultivation base but just his physical strength, he hurled a punch forward.
Bang!
A loud bang reverberated in the air, and Su Ming took a step backwards. His robes fluttered fiercely in the wind, and the hand broke apart and turned into countless tree leaves that shattered before disappearing.
This scene caused Heaven Traversers to come to an abrupt halt. With a flap of their wings, they flew up together, and with hostile expressions glared at Su Ming.
At the same time, the two old men approached the area as well. At the moment they saw Su Ming, their pupils shrank together.
'Later stage of World Plane Realm…' The old men exchanged glances with each other.
"Which tribe do you come from? Why did you come to Heaven Traversers' territory?" one of the old men asked coldly. His words rolled off his mouth, and he spoke in a language that most cultivators would not be able to understand. Their language was similar to the one used by Berserkers and Shamans, but there were differences as well. Su Ming had fumbled around with the language with Dijiu Mo Sha for some time before he mastered it.
After all, he had the foundation of the Berserkers' language, and he was not unfamiliar with these sorts of tribal societies.
Su Ming did not speak. He flicked off the dust on his body, and a faint smile appeared on the corners of his lips before he took a step forward. His body became obscure, then disappeared altogether. When he reappeared, he was already in midair, and he was right behind one of the Heaven Traversers.
"Careful!"
Almost at the moment his people warned him, the young Heaven Traverser curled his body, but he did not rush forward to escape. Instead, he sent his body hurling backwards, and his wings became as sharp as blades that sliced swiftly towards the area behind him.
This was the difference between Heaven Traversers and the other races. This was a race that was skilled in fighting. Even a normal member of their race possessed incredibly great battle experience. However… while this method would be effective when there was not a great disparity between their levels of cultivation, to Su Ming, no matter how quick this person's reaction was… his actions were useless.
A rain of blood poured down from the sky, along with shrill screams of pain. Su Ming had simply allowed the young man to crash into his body and his wings slice through his skin while Su Ming himself seized the young man's neck with his right hand. With a squeeze, there was a loud crack. When he crushed the youth's neck, Su Ming sent his power straight into the person's body and crushed his Nascent Divinity.
When he released his grip, enraged roars came from all around. The hundreds of Heaven Traversers instantly rushed towards him.
"You're asking for death!"
The eyes of the two old Heaven Traversers in the later stage of World Plane Realm shone with killing intent, and these two people were the fastest among the group. One of them appeared beside Su Ming right away. As he raised his right hand, it immediately turned into a piece of dry wood. Branches grew from it, and as they spread out, it looked as if the old man's arm had turned into a tree which was rushing towards its target.
Su Ming's expression remained calm. During that instant, his cultivation base clone and his clone that practiced the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows Whole fused together, and he was filled with the offensive power of those who had attained great completion in World Plane Realm. When he turned around, he raised his right hand and formed a seal before pointing at the old man's incoming tree arm.
With it, a shudder wrecked the old man's body.
"I Curse… that three out of ten Heaven Traversers will die!" Su Ming declared flatly. This was the Curse he had mastered when he was in the land of Berserkers. This Art was extremely vicious, so Su Ming seldom used it. Now, since his level of cultivation had increased, the Curse's might when he cast it became much stronger than it had been previously.
Almost the moment Su Ming finished speaking, his finger turned pitch black. Black smoke instantly flew out, and with a rotten and decaying stench, it collided with the old man's tree arm. The black hue swiftly spread out, and as the old man's expression changed drastically, the color spread through half of his body.
Su Ming did not bother about the old man any more. With a single move, he charged towards the incoming Heaven Traversers.
For a short period of time, slaughter and bloodshed filled the sky. Shrill screams of pain continuously rang out while Su Ming was so aloof that it seemed that he had no emotions. He truly didn't feel anything by oppressing the weak because the difference between his and Heaven Traversers' level of cultivation were simply too great.
In fact, as long as they were among these hundreds of people, even the female Heaven Traversers were treated in the same fashion as the men and were killed by Su Ming.
In the blink of an eye, dozens of Heaven Traversers died in Su Ming's hands. The expressions of the people in the area changed and they retreated at the same time. Only the other old man who had attained great completion in World Plane Realm let out an enraged roar and charged towards Su Ming.
He took one step in the air, causing it to tremble and roar. When he took his second step, his feet turned into trees, and when he took his third step, he raised his right hand to seize the air in the direction of the sky. A greenish black whip manifested in his hand. With a flick of his wrist, cracking sounds shook the sky and earth.
With his fourth step, his body turned into a long arc that pressed in on Su Ming. During that moment, the power of those who had attained great completion in World Plane Realm erupted from his body. At the same time that presence spread out, the entire cultivation planet looked like it was showering its love towards him. All the trees swayed in his direction, and the ocean in the distance roared. As waves surged into the sky, they looked as if they were sending their power to the old man.
Su Ming felt as if this incoming old man could influence the entire cultivation planet, as if the flow of his blood were the surging waves in the ocean, the fall of his footsteps held the vitality of the trees on the ground, and the beating of his heart were part of the operations of this cultivation planet.
"Interesting…" Su Ming smiled faintly. At the instant the old man closed in on him and the whip came cracking down, Divine Essence Runic Symbols appeared in Su Ming's eyes.
Right when his Divine Essence appeared, Su Ming's power erupted with a bang, and he raised straight from having attained great completion in World Plane Realm to Lunar Kalpa Realm. Even if the shadow of the moon did not appear behind him, his current offensive power was that of Lunar Kalpa Realm!
In the face of the old man charging towards him, Su Ming lowered his head, raised his right hand, and just hurled a punch forward!
His fist landed in the air. The bang that came with it shook the skies, and the air in front of Su Ming immediately shattered. It tumbled backwards and turned into a whirlwind. Within an instant, it crashed into the old man who seemed to have the love of the planet gathered on him, surrounding him.
The ground trembled, and the trees stopped moving together. The ocean's howls seemed to have become silent as well. Every single Heaven Traverser in the area watched the blood flying out from the whirlwind with a dumbfounded gaze, and in their ears, they heard shrill, forlorn screams that rang continuously in the air.
Not too far into the distance was the Cursed old man whose body was now entirely black, rotting away. There was anger on his face, and he demanded with a roar, "Who are you?!"
Su Ming pulled back his right hand, lifted his head, and said flatly, "Tian Xie Zi's fourth disciple, Su Ming. I came to Heaven Traversers to take thirty thousand of your souls to make you pay for chasing after my Master's life in the past!"
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Chapter 947: Curse the Planet
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"Run! All Heaven Traversers, run to the tree crowns! This person isn't someone you can fight!" As the rotting old man roared, he moved forward instead of retreating and charged towards Su Ming.
The Heaven Traversers in the area were already shocked by the fact that Su Ming had managed to kill the other old man. Without any hesitation, they withdrew by turning into long arcs that charged towards the forest on the ground.
Su Ming looked coldly towards them. Once he averted his gaze, he looked at the old man coming towards him while roaring. Unstable ripples were spreading out of his body. His eyes were crimson, and a rotten stench came from his entire body. Judging by the crazed look on his face, it was clear that he wanted to self-destruct to hold his opponent back.
Su Ming raised his right hand, and a gourd appeared in his hand. A five-colored light flowed out of the gourd, and Su Ming swept his left hand across the gourd.
"Treasured gourd, please kill them!" Once he said these words, an eye instantly appeared on the gourd. It blinked once, and right after that, a small person with a sharp blade flew out. It turned into a stream of flowing light that instantly went after the fleeing Heaven Traversers.
At the same time, the old man closed in on Su Ming. His body swelled up in a bizarre manner, and a loud bang shot out from his body, a clear indication that he had chosen to self-destruct. As his body exploded, the energy from it instantly spread through the area.
The ground trembled, and the sky roared. This was a self-destruction triggered by someone who had attained great completion of World Plane Realm. If the power of the explosion spread out, it could destroy the planet, but the old man executed some unknown method and restrained the power in a set area. Because of that, once this area was destroyed, it would turn into an eternal black hole.
The black hole would deliver a huge amount of damage to the planet, but since the explosion had been limited, the planet would not shatter.
The sky and earth lost their color while the wind and clouds surged about. Just as the destructive power from the explosion was about to submerge Su Ming, the old man's head disappeared. Before he died, a ferocious sneer appeared on his mouth.
Quite a large number of fleeing Heaven Traversers raised their heads while on the ground. When they looked towards the explosion in the sky, hatred appeared in their eyes.
Su Ming remained as calm as ever. He was not afraid of his enemy's self-destruction. Almost the moment the destructive power of the explosion spread towards him, he raised his right hand and drew a circle in front of him.
"That which exists between the past and the future is Destiny," he stated flatly. He swung his right arm forward, and the Art possessed by all Abyss Builders was immediately executed. As Su Ming's level of cultivation increased, he could use his race's inborn ability with more and more ease.
What he wanted to change was not the already dead old man, but the area around him. As the world continued being destroyed by the destructive force, Su Ming's inborn ability reversed the flow, causing the destruction to go in reverse. After a moment, when the ripples of destruction dissipated, what appeared before the Heaven Traversers' eyes was Su Ming standing in the sky completely uninjured while staring at them with aloof eyes.
Almost the instant they saw him, screams of pain echoed in the air, and all of them were due to the small human from the gourd slaughtering its targets. It moved so quickly that in an instant, it had already beheaded three people.
Screams of pain traveled outwards, and Heaven Traversers fled even faster. The shock they felt in their hearts and souls could no longer be described with words. To them, the strength of the intruder this time already surpassed their expectations.
Blood rain poured down from the sky as Su Ming stood and watched the heads of Heaven Traversers flying into the air with an aloof expression. There was not a single hint of compassion in him. He came to this place to kill. Even if they were weaklings and their power was not great enough for them to stand against him… the only thing they could blame was themselves for being born Heaven Traversers.
If they wanted to blame someone, they could only blame the powerful warriors of their tribe, because they should not have chased down Su Ming's Master!
"I will not attack unless I am attacked… You have not attacked me in the past, but if I learned that someone among you chased after my Master in the past and did nothing about it, then it would be presumptuous of me to still call myself his disciple.
"Heaven Traversers, I will make you pay."
As Su Ming mumbled that, the slaughter on the ground reached its end. There were only four of Heaven Traversers who could be considered the fastest left alive. As shrill screams of pain echoed in the air, these four Heaven Traversers fled into the forest. A glint appeared in the small human's eyes. He raised his head to glance towards Su Ming, then rushed towards him and disappeared into the gourd.
"Not enough… essence… Replenish it… and you can activate the second-tier Divine Art." Once the small human flew into the gourd, the buzzing voice belonging to the gourd echoed in Su Ming's heart.
Su Ming put away the gourd and walked down towards the ground, where the forest was. If he wanted all Heaven Traversers in this planet die, then the four people who fled could not escape death.
However, at the instant Su Ming was about to descend into the forest, he suddenly frowned. An incredibly dense wave of life force erupted from the ground, the ocean in the distance, and the endless forest.
That life force was so thick that it practically had corporeal form. It created a layer of fog that covered the forest. That fog did not spread outwards but surrounded the area to form a sort of defense which was so strong that Su Ming could tell that only those possessing the power of Solar Kalpa Realm could break it.
'As expected of the four venerated races, the protection of the planet alone is already incredibly powerful. Looks like Heaven Traversers were careless just now; otherwise, if they had just hidden themselves here, it would have be enough to cause me quite a large amount of trouble.' Su Ming swept his gaze across the fog in the forest.
'The entire cultivation planet is rejecting my presence. Heaven Traversers have been acknowledged by the planet, so me wanting to kill them would mean that I am going up against the cultivation planet itself.
'It was the same with the old man's divine ability just then. What he executed was the power of kismet gathered on him after he was acknowledged by the planet.' Su Ming remained silent for a moment before a cold smirk appeared on the corners of his lips.
He raised his right foot and stomped in the direction of the forest. His body immediately sank, and once he touched the fog, his power erupted from within him. Booming sounds reverberated in the air, and he forced his way into the fog until he eventually touched the ground in the forest.
The fog around him was so thick that he felt as if he was surrounded by seawater. When he wanted to move, his body was tangled by countless threads, making it difficult for him to even lift his foot. The grass on the ground wound itself around Su Ming's legs, and as the trees around him swayed, they blocked his sight. The sky was dark, and the ground trembled irregularly. The ocean roared and howled, and even the air he breathed in thinned out. All of this was due to the cultivation planet rejecting Su Ming.
If the cultivation planet was sentient and was a person, then its hatred towards Su Ming would have surely reached its peak.
"Since you don't like me, there is no need for you to continue existing." Su Ming could sense the planet's hatred towards him and how it rejected his presence. With a cold sneer, he slowly raised his right hand and pushed it against the ground. As he closed his eyes, wisps of red smoke appeared on his right index finger.
More red smoke appeared, and they gradually formed a ring [1]. After a moment, a red ring manifested on Su Ming's right index finger!
The ring was blood red, and it was shining with a strange light. At the instant it appeared, the Curse's dense power erupted and surged into the ground from Su Ming's right hand before spreading out.
The ring was Su Ming's treasure, and it was the source of his Curse.
Since this planet rejected Su Ming, then Su Ming chose to Curse the planet… and have it destroyed.
If the planet was destroyed, then it would no longer possess such dense life force. If it had no life force, it would no longer be able to offer protection. In fact, Su Ming even had an idea in his mind. Since the planet had a soul, he wanted to know whether… the planet would absorb the remaining Heaven Traversers' life force to replenish its life force once it was almost completely drained.
Su Ming smiled faintly. A freezing glare shone in his eyes, and the power of the Curse spreading out from his right hand continued expanding on the ground. The earth trembled. The trees swayed so violently that it sounded like they were roaring. The ocean howled, and the thunder in the sky rumbled.
"I curse you… that your ground will be shattered!" As Su Ming spoke, the red ring on his finger began flashing as if it was a red eye. Immediately, cracks appeared on the spot against which Su Ming had pressed his palm. The cracks continued spreading outwards, and in the blink of an eye, they had already spread in all directions.
"I curse you… that your trees will wither!" Su Ming stated flatly, and the trees around him started withering rapidly. Wails shot up into the air. They were without sound, but Su Ming could detect them, and they were reverberating all through the air.
"I curse you… that your ocean will dry up and your stones will shatter!"
"I curse you… that your life force will disappear!"
Su Ming pushed his right hand even close to the ground, and immediately, the planet rumbled. An incredible rebound shot up from the earth, the sky, the forest, and the ocean. That rebound swiftly rushed towards Su Ming.
It was as if it wanted to dispel the Curse and send it back to Su Ming's body so that the Curse would turn against Su Ming and attack him.
Su Ming smiled coldly. He raised his right hand and seized the withered grass under his feet before swiftly beginning to weave the blades of grass together. In just ten breaths, a round ball of withered grass was woven, and in Su Ming's eyes, this ball was made in the cultivation planet's image.
He bit the tip of his tongue and coughed up a mouthful of blood on the ball of grass, then with the ball in his right hand, he pushed down on the ground once more.
"I curse you… that you… will be destroyed!"
Su Ming's voice was calm, but at the instant his words tumbled out of his mouth, anyone who saw this cultivation planet in the outskirts of Heaven Traversers' territory would be able to see that its green lands were swiftly turning gray right before the eyes. As that gray shade spread out, the ground rumbled, and countless cracks covered it. The trees withered and rotted together. The water from the ocean evaporated until it turned into black drops of rain that fell on the ground.
A cultivation planet that was filled with an abundance of life fell into decay in the blink of an eye, as if it had died!
"I curse you… that your sky will become dull from here onwards and forever more!" Su Ming raised his head at the withered forest.
Translator's Note:
1. Ring: Su Ming obtained it in his fight against Madam Ji. In chapter 'The Death of Madam Ji'.
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Chapter 948: Four People
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The withered ball of grass in Su Ming's hand had become yellow, as if it would turn into ashes the moment he poked it gently with his finger. At the instant Su Ming raised his head to speak, black clouds formed under the black rain pouring from the sky. Those clouds spread to the horizon, covering the land in darkness.
The cracks on the ground became larger. The withered trees turned into ashes. The ocean in the distance turned into a basin, and within that deep pit was limitless mud and withered plants.
An aura of death spread out from the withered trees, the basin, and the ground. Once it gathered together, it grew incredibly dense.
Su Ming looked at the area around him. As he swept his gaze across it, he found that everything had fallen into ruin. In fact, he could even see dozens of Heaven Traversers fleeing while wailing and shrieking.
Clearly, not all Heaven Traversers had taken action previously. The dozens of survivors were withering away right then, and no matter whether they were willing or unwilling, a large amount of their life force was being rapidly sucked out of their bodies by the ground, or rather, it was being absorbed by the dying cultivation planet.
If it could acknowledge these Heaven Traversers living on it, then similarly, it would take away its acknowledgement when it needed to, and even take away the life force of these living creatures.
Su Ming watched the dozens of Heaven Traversers being reduced to only skin and bones while screaming in pain after traveling less than several hundreds of feet. When all of their life force had been sucked out from them, they were reduced to dust.
However, their life force was inadequate for this gigantic cultivation planet. It could only allow this planet remain alive for several more breaths under Su Ming's Curse.
Ten breaths later, cracks no longer appeared on the ground. The trees stopped withering, and the basin in the distance fell into silence as well. Only the black rain remained as it continued pouring from the sky, and the black clouds remained to blot out all light from shining onto the land.
This was… a dead planet.
The stench of decay and the aura of death filled all corners of the planet. They were so strong that anyone who arrived to this planet for the first time would think that it had died a long time ago.
Su Ming lifted his right hand in which the ball woven from withered grass had turned into powder. Once it was drenched by black rain, the powder seeped through the cracks between his fingers and fell on the ground.
"They should be here now." Su Ming sat down cross-legged and swung his right hand in the air. Once he flung off the wet powder from his hand, he pushed his palm lightly against the ground.
He lifted his palm, then pushed it down once more. With the same rhythm, he performed this action again and again.
When Su Ming pressed his palm against the ground nine times, the cracks in the earth started closing up before his eyes. After a moment, not a single crack could be found anymore.
When Su Ming pressed his palm against the ground eighteen times, the withered trees suddenly became illusions. Once they faded away, trees overflowing with life appeared. After a short while, the cultivation planet was green once more. It made it seem as if the trees in the planet had never withered. There was no end to the forest here, and all of the trees possessed endless life force.
When Su Ming's hand pressed against the ground twenty-seven times, a hazy fog covered the basin in the distance, and soon after, seawater started surging in. Within an instant, the basin that had previously lost its water became a vast ocean once again.
The dark clouds in the sky started swiftly changing as Su Ming struck the ground. When he pressed his palm against the ground thirty-six times, the black clouds disappeared, and a clear, blue sky as well as a brilliant sun reappeared before his eyes and above the ground.
The black rain became clear as well as it fell on the ground, creating a curtain that made the cultivation planet look as beautiful as it had been in the beginning.
"They're here… it's a pity none of them is Heaven Traversers' Progenitor."
Su Ming's right hand paused for a moment on the ground. As he lifted his head and spoke faintly, loud booms came from the sky. As they echoed in the air, three long arcs approached the place. They did not come from the distance, but appeared in the planet's sky as if they had walked out of space.
These three people were two men and one woman, and all of them appeared to be in their forties. They were dressed in long, deep blue robes. As they spread their wings, flowing streams of light could be seen moving about them. Their long hair danced in the wind, and an astonishing power spread out from their bodies.
If anyone observed them closely, they would be able to see that the shadows of moons could be seen between their wings. The trio… were powerful warriors in Lunar Kalpa Realm!
One of the two men had a moon made of water, while the other's moon was made of fire. As for the woman, she had a moon made of flower petals behind her.
All of those in Lunar Kalpa Realm belonged to the central power of a race, and it was the same for Heaven Traversers as well. These three were clearly people with extremely high status in this venerated race.
At the instant they appeared in the sky, the trio immediately looked towards the ground, and they were all momentarily stunned.
"We received a call for help earlier, saying that a powerful enemy has invaded the planet, but there's only peace here now…"
"I sensed ripples of death from the planet just now, but now this place is filled with life." The trio exchanged glance. The woman's eyes shone, and she raised her right hand to sweep it across her eyes before closing them. When she opened them again, the forest still covered the ground, and nothing strange could be detected.
"It's not an illusion."
Just as the trio were hesitant and uncertain, dozens of people flew up from the ground. Those people… were Heaven Traversers.
They were traveling swiftly towards the trio, and the trio instantly looked towards them.
"What exactly happened here? Where are your Garrison Elders Ze Du and Han Duo?" the man with the water moon behind him demanded with a frown.
When he asked this question, the dozens of Heaven Traversers immediately seemed to have gained sentience.
"Was the intruder a ferocious beast or someone from another tribe?" the other man asked. As his words echoed in the air, the minds of the dozens of Heaven Traversers became even clearer, and they looked no different than before they had died.
The woman's expression changed at that moment. But just as she was about to speak, a loud bang suddenly came from the sky. Four long arcs rushed over, and the crowd immediately turned to them.
Even Su Ming looked towards them as he sat in the forest.
The four were all cultivators, and all of them were men in their thirties. They did not stand far apart from each other, so it was clear that they were in a group. Once they appeared, they immediately came to a halt and stopped in midair. With shock and bewilderment on their faces, the four of them gathered together.
"I am a cultivator from the galaxy beyond, Xuan Shang, and I am good friends with the tribe leader of Dust Burners, Lu Ka. I have come to this galaxy due to his invitation. This is our authentication token. However, we ran into some trouble on our way there and passed by this place by pure coincidence. We did not know that this is Heaven Traversers' territory, so please don't take it to mind. We will leave now, we will leave immediately."
The person who spoke was a man dressed in a long, dark green robe. There was a smile on his face, and he looked incredibly polite. As he spoke, he brought out a black wooden block from his bosom. With a swing, that wooden block floated up and was ignited in flames. The flames were green and looked like a ball of phantasmal fire, but they did not exude hot air. Instead, they let out a chilly aura.
The four cultivators all had outstanding power, and they seemed to be in the later stage of World Plane Realm. If they were outside Divine Essence Star Ocean, then any one of them would be able to become the pillar of a family, and they could even work out some conditions with the forces of power from the four Great True Worlds.
However, in the alien race filled Divine Essence Star Ocean, they were incredibly cautious with their actions. Their words were filled with courteousness because they were afraid of causing a misunderstanding.
In truth, the four of them had indeed passed by this place by pure coincidence, just as they had said. They did not come from Western Ring Nebula but from another galaxy and were prepared to head deeper into the inner parts of Divine Essence Star Ocean.
They ran into plenty of troubles on their way and had wasted almost a hundred years to reach this place. The dangers they faced time and again had reduced their initial group of seven to only four. After arriving here with much difficulty, they saw Outer Skies Planet. The green planet caused them to hesitate for a moment before deciding to come to this place to rest. However, they did not expect that they would run into an alien race there.
It was clear that the one who spoke just then understood the alien races in Divine Essence Star Ocean quite well. Because of that, once he saw the wings on the people's backs, he could immediately tell that they were Heaven Traversers of the four venerated races.
As the four retreated, they swiftly sent their thoughts to each other, prepared to immediately fight back when Heaven Traversers blocked their path. They might have sensed that the three strongest were in Lunar Kalpa Realm, but cultivators who dared to step into Divine Essence Star Ocean would not carelessly come here without some powerful Enchanted Treasures and divine abilities. It would be impossible for them to reach the inner parts of the galaxy without them. They would die on the way there.
Su Ming swept his gaze across the four cultivators. He could see their fatigue and also tell that their words were not lies. However… without great temptation, no one would dare to step into the inner parts of Divine Essence Star Ocean. These four people… must certainly be harboring some secrets.
The two men out of the three people in Lunar Kalpa Realm in the sky frowned, but when they heard the name of Dust Burners' tribe leader, they paused for a moment. When they saw the authentication token the man brought out, they averted their gazes and ignored the four cultivators.
The four immediately retreated, intending to distance themselves from trouble. They could vaguely tell that there was a hostile expression on these Heaven Traversers' faces, as if something had happened among them. No matter what it was, the four did not want to participate in it.
Yet right at the instant they were about to leave, the expression of the woman in Lunar Kalpa Realm changed several times before she went charging after them. She also started speaking hurriedly.
"There's something off about the four! We can't let them leave!"
The woman flew really fast, and the expressions of the four cultivators changed. They began fleeing at full speed. The other two Heaven Traversers in Lunar Kalpa Realm frowned, clearly puzzled by their companion's actions, but they still chased after the group instinctively.
Su Ming sighed in the forest on the ground.
'There are still some flaws within the Illusion of Stars, Sun, and Moon which now contains the power that will exist when I believe in it. If the appearance of these four people did not serve as a comparison between illusion and reality, then this flaw would not have been so clear.'
Su Ming shook his head. He knew that the woman had discovered that there was something off, but she did not dare to voice it out loud due to her surprise and bewilderment, which was why she had chased after the cultivators in an attempt to mask her desire to leave this dead cultivation planet.
"Since you're already here, then don't leave," Su Ming said faintly and stood up. At the instant he did so, the cultivation planet turned into a withered and dead planet from its previous state of overflowing with life force!
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Chapter 949: Path of Life Extermination
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As the ground withered and died, the pupils of the three Heaven Traversers in Lunar Kalpa Realm shrank, and their bodies froze for a moment in midair.
This pause was clearly not of their free will, but because their feet had started withering at that instant!
It was as if their feet had started withering with the planet's ground.
At the instant their expressions drastically changed, all the trees in the cultivation planet withered before shattering and returning to their previous dead state. Soon after, a large portion of the Heaven Traversers' skin began sinking. Then, in the blink of an eye, their hair fell off. As their bodies withered, they were reduced to merely skin and bones.
Disbelief appeared in their eyes, and they began fleeing rapidly without hesitation, but…
The ocean rumbled in the distance, and the moment a foggy layer appeared above the water, the seemingly vast ocean turned into a deep basin in the span of a breath. The decaying mud in the basin exuded a foul stench. Then, as if affected by the basin, a large amount of black patches appeared on the three Heaven Traversers. Black blood oozed out of those patches, and it was a terrifying sight to behold.
"What is this divine ability?!"
"Everything we saw was fake, and everything we now see is also fake! Don't look at the ground of the planet! We must leave this place! Once we reach the galaxy, this Art will naturally lose its effect!"
It was clear that this was the first time the trio had encountered such a bizarre divine ability. At that moment, they flapped their wings and had their power burst forth from their bodies to turn into three long arcs and charge into the sky.
The four cultivators in the distance were stunned by this scene. Their expressions changed swiftly, and as they retreated, they began flying into the sky.
Yet at that moment, Su Ming stood up from the withered ground, and his aloof voice tumbled out of his lips.
"I curse the sky that its color will be black from now onwards…"
When his words were spoken, the world roared, and the sky which originally appeared clear and bright was instantly torn apart. This was a veil that hid the truth, and now, once it was lifted, an expanse of sky filled with tumbling black clouds was revealed.
"I curse the falling rain that it would become dust that will cause the ground to decay."
When Su Ming spoke once again, black rain poured down from the sky. The raindrops brought with them incredible corrosive properties. If they touched a person's body, they would feel as if their bodies were being corroded.
The path of the three powerful Heaven Traversers in Lunar Kalpa Realm was blocked by the black clouds. The feathers on their wings also fell off at that instant the weather changed. Black smoke surrounded them, as if it wanted to corrode them.
The three people's faces were incredibly dark. They looked down and saw everything on the planet as well as the skeletons on the ground, along with… the dozens of dried up corpses that belonged to Heaven Traversers smiling at them.
These corpses floated in midair and were staring at them before pouncing on them as if they had been resurrected.
"Who are you?!" the woman shouted out in a sharp voice as she glared at Su Ming, who was on the ground staring at them with his head raised.
His long hair danced in the air, and purple light shone faintly in his eyes. His expression was calm, but the purple line at the center of his brows made it difficult for him to hide the strange and malicious air spreading out from him.
"You are the one who saw through my illusion." Su Ming smiled faintly, but it brought a chill to the spines of all who saw it, especially the four cultivators. Their expressions were solemn as they gathered together while staring at him warily.
They were groaning in their hearts. They had originally intended to rest in this place, but they had run into the Heaven Traversers. Although they gave them the slip, they then ran into an existence that seemed to be even more terrifying than Heaven Traversers.
Based on this person's clothes, he did not seem like a cultivator, but was a member of some tribe in Divine Essence Star Ocean, though they could not tell just which tribe he came from.
"He's only someone who has attained great completion in World Plane Realm. We'll attack him at full strength. Once we kill him, we'll be able to break out of this illusion."
A glint appeared in the woman's eyes. Once she said her plan, she charged down at Su Ming from the sky. The two men behind her gritted their teeth, and the full power of those in Lunar Kalpa Realm erupted from their bodies. When the illusory water moon and burning fire moon appeared clearly behind them, they took a step forward, turned into long arcs that rushed at Su Ming.
"An illusion, hmm?" Su Ming said faintly. "This was a grand feast prepared for your Progenitor, but the three of you… can join it beforehand.
"Planet who is so starved you are near death, the life force from these three should be able to let you recover by quite a large margin. Are you going to protect the Heaven Traversers you acknowledged… or absorb the life force of these life forms you acknowledged?
"This your choice."
Su Ming smiled, but it was an incredibly malicious expression. He was not someone who had been acknowledged by the planet, which was why it was difficult for the planet to form a connection with him and absorb his life force through it… but it was different for Heaven Traversers.
Once Su Ming spoke, a feeble buzz that was full of rage shot out from the ground and echoed in the world. Su Ming could hear this roar, and all the other people in the area could hear it as well.
This was the roar from the spirit of the planet as it struggled with itself.
As its roar echoed in the air and the trio closed in from the sky, Su Ming laughed. His laughter fused with the roar from the ground, exuding a domineering air and a malicious presence that surged into the skies.
Almost at the instant his laughter traveled outwards, the roars from the ground became even more intense, and the trio coming towards him from the sky spotted drastic changes in their expressions. Large parts of their bodies began withering swiftly, for their life force started being absorbed by the sky in an unseen manner at a speed that left them in disbelief.
It was as if they were rejected by the planet. However, it was not due to Su Ming's actions, but the spirit of the planet devouring them for its own survival.
It was devouring all the beings that it had acknowledged and who had acknowledged it in return.
An average cultivator would immediately have his or her body and soul destroyed if he or she was devoured in this manner, but powerful warriors in Lunar Kalpa Realm had the qualification to fight against this force devouring them, but the prerequisite to fight against it… was to cut off the connection formed between them and the planet after they had acknowledged each other.
The hundred something planets within the territory of the Heaven Traversers had always had a strange connection with the tribe's people since ancient times. This connection was formed based on an agreement accepted by both parties. The planets would provide whatever Heaven Traversers needed to practice cultivation, while Heaven Traversers would provide protection and time for growth for the spirits of the planets.
Yet this connection that had existed for a long period of time was completely broken off by the three Heaven Traversers as they roared in anger.
As powerful warriors in Lunar Kalpa Realm, when the three of them worked together, they possessed the right to revoke the agreement they had formed with a planet.
While withering, the three powerful Heaven Traversers in Lunar Kalpa Realm revealed conflicted looks on their faces before pressing their right hands against the center of their brows and their left hands against their chests. Once they did so, they gritted their teeth and spoke.
"I, son of La Song Ya, Song Yan, represent the descendants of La Song Ya in revoking the agreement between us and Outer Skies Planet!"
"I, son of Dong Nuo, Dong Tao, represent the descendants of Dong Nuo in revoking the agreement between us and Outer Skies Planet!"
"I, daughter of Yan Di Fei, Ruo Ke, represent the descendants of Dong Nuo in revoking the agreement between us and Outer Skies Planet!"
At the instant they said these words, the roar from the ground turned into one of sorrow. This mournful cry reverberated through the entire cultivation planet, and the suction force surrounding the trio disappeared.
Su Ming smiled and shook his head, then took a step forward. He shifted, appearing right in front of the man with the water moon. He raised his right hand, clenched his fist, and hurled a punch forward.
At the instant he did so, Divine Essence Runic Symbols appeared swiftly in his eyes. Because of that, his punch burst forth with the power of Lunar Kalpa Realm when it landed on air, despite the fact that the power contained within the fist when Su Ming had thrown it in the beginning only possessed the force those who had attained great completion in World Plane Realm.
The man with the water moon retreated swiftly. A ferocious look appeared on his face, and the water moon seeped through his body to charge towards Su Ming.
In the blink of an eye, the water moon crashed into Su Ming's fist.
Bang!
The man with the water moon coughed up blood and started falling backwards like a kite whose string had snapped in the wind. Su Ming swayed and was forced two steps back. When he raised his head, the fighting spirit in his eyes burned even greater.
"As expected of Heaven Traversers, a venerated race indeed. Even after having a considerable amount of your life force sucked out from your bodies and the Curse corroding your internal organs, you were still able to bring forth such great amount of Lunar Kalpa power."
Su Ming smiled. At the same time, the other two Heaven Traversers in Lunar Kalpa Realm closed in on him from two different directions. The fire moon and flower moon became a source of bright light in this darkened world at that instant.
The Divine Essence Runic Symbols shone in Su Ming's eyes. They rose and fell in waves on his body, causing his level of cultivation to rise once again. At the same time, another presence appeared around Su Ming's body. It was… Ecang's presence.
When that it appeared, Su Ming's offensive abilities rose once again, and he broke through Lunar Kalpa Realm. He took a step forward, and with an indescribable speed, he appeared behind the retreating man with the water moon and grabbed his wings. With one vicious yank, he ripped off the man's wings in the mid of the man's pained screams.
Blood gushed out. Su Ming raised his right hand. With a speed akin to lightning and power equivalent to those in Solar Kalpa Realm, he pointed with his index finger at the back of the head of the man with the water moon.
Bang!
The man's head exploded, but his Nascent Divinity had left his body beforehand and was fleeing swiftly. Su Ming looked over at it with an aloof gaze.
"Do the four of you want to live?"
Once Su Ming said that, the four cultivators who had been watching everything immediately turned pale. Expressions of conflict appeared on their faces, but soon, they gritted their teeth and chased after the fleeing man with the water moon. The person called Xuan Shang was the fastest. His body flashed once before he struck his forehead and spat out a pearl.
That pearl instantly rushed towards the Nascent Divinity of the man with the water moon. It closed in on him within an instant and crashed with a bang, causing that Nascent Divinity to let out a shrill cry. At the same time, the pearl exploded and turned into a huge net that enveloped the Nascent Divinity of the man with the water moon inside.
"Hua Yu!"
Xuan Shang's face was pale. Clearly, he had used up all his strength in the attack just then. At that moment, he let out a low growl, and a man in white by his side spotted a glint in his eyes before he rushed to the Nascent Divinity of the man with the water moon. Once he closed in, he raised his right hand, and a crack appeared on his palm.
"Seal his soul!"
The crack was like a gaping mouth. At the instant he pushed his palm towards that Nascent Divinity, the shrill screams from the man with the water moon fell silent, and his Nascent Divinity was devoured by the hand.
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Chapter 950: Beginning of Light Summer
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Su Ming did not pay any attention to the actions of the four cultivators. If they wanted to live, then they had to show their sincerity. If they did not want to offend Heaven Traversers but did not want to provoke Su Ming as well, then he alone would decide whether they would live or die.
If they wanted to complain, then the only thing they could blame was that they had terrible luck. They should not have entered this place at this moment, but since they were here, then it was no longer up to them to struggle against Su Ming's control. They had to make a choice.
The screams from the Nascent Divinity of the man with the water moon fell into Su Ming's ears. He thus knew of the four cultivators' choice, but he did not look towards them. Instead, with one move, he charged towards the two with the fire moon and flower moon.
This was a massacre where the parties involved had a great disparity in their levels of cultivation. Ecang's presence spread out from Su Ming, and Ecang's power circulated in his body, allowing him to possess the offensive power equivalent to those in Solar Kalpa Realm.
Even though he only possessed power equivalent to them and was not truly in Solar Kalpa Realm, it was enough to make him the strongest person among all those below Solar Kalpa Realm.
As he watched the male and female Heaven Traverser rushing towards him, Su Ming narrowed his eyes. He did not retreat, but charged forward, and during that moment, he raised his right hand, formed a seal, and touched the center of his brows before pointing towards the fire moon since it was closer.
"The Life Matrix of midwinter is the beginning of my life."
With it, moaning gusts of chilling wind immediately rose within the world covered in black clouds. In the mid of these cold winds, snow appeared, as if the world had been frozen, but the snow was not white—it was black!
The black snow floated in the world, turning the black rain into ice that filled the whole space. A piercing cold will froze the area, and the incoming fire moon started letting out cracking sounds when Su Ming pointed towards it before freezing mid-move.
The man with the fire moon who was glaring at Su Ming while charging towards him was also frozen.
He struggled while shouting angrily. In fact, at the instant he was frozen, he brought out a large amount of Enchanted Treasures and even executed his divine abilities to fight against the ice, but all of them were instantly frozen in midwinter.
This was the Art brought by Su Ming's Life Matrix—the power of midwinter!
"After winter, crimson will be the ruler of the world. This red symbolizes autumn… and it is the pinnacle of autumn's red!" Su Ming said flatly, then pointed towards the flower moon with his right hand.
The flower moon formed by countless petals immediately turned yellow and withered when Su Ming pointed at it. In the blink of an eye, a red hue that was similar to autumn appeared on it, causing the expression of the woman behind it to change. Her face became pale.
This was a divine ability she could not hope to fight against. It was a transformation of an Art she had never seen before. Midwinter and the crimson red of autumn should be the changes of the four seasons in the world, but when Su Ming executed them, the woman felt as if he were the four seasons in the universe.
The transformations of the four seasons were at his fingertips, but there was nothing strange about it, as if… the world had always be like this, as if the four seasons had always… always been changed at will by this man in front of her.
'I Possessed Ecang, my cultivation base clone is in the later stage of World Plane Realm, and the physical body of my clone that practices the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows Whole has become complete. All of this… is like the light summer during the beginning of autumn. As it continues being brewed like wine and accumulates power in the process, it would erupt forth with flames rife with life, which would only appear during the scorching summer.
'This fire is still not strong right now. There is only one ball of flame, but this fire of life is the burning sun I lit up when I burned the universe as I walked out of midwinter!'
Su Ming raised his head. When he lifted it, his long hair swayed in the wind, looking like flickering flames. His body also looked as if it had been lit aflame at that instant!
These were the flames of his life. He had obtained them after he moved from winter to autumn, then from autumn to summer. When these flames burned at their brightest, Su Ming move into the summer of his life!
When that time came, what would await Su Ming would be the final step in his life – spring, where all manner of living was resurrected!
The resurrection of all lives also symbolized a rise in power, as well as… rebirth!
When that moment came, it would be the time for Su Ming's rebirth and a burst of power in upon having reached the pinnacle. This step… was no longer far away!
At the instant the light flames of summer burned on Su Ming's body, he formed a seal with his hands and flung them outwards. A sea of fire erupted from his body and tumbled outwards. In the blink an eye, it devoured the frozen fire moon, surrounded the withered, red flower moon, and enveloped the male and female Heaven Traversers.
There were no shrill screams of pain, no shocking booms, just the burning sea of fire in the black snow that filled the entire world with red. Yet the scene brought forth by winter, autumn, and summer fusing together brought an even greater impact than any loud bang or shrill scream, and it caused the breathing of the four cultivators in the distance to quicken and their hearts to tremble.
When the sea of fire disappeared, Su Ming stood in midair with a calm expression. There was no longer any fire moon or flower moon before him, and no traces of the man and woman.
These two had already been burned to ashes by Su Ming's flames of life.
The cultivation planet was filled with silence at that moment. After a long time, when Su Ming turned his gaze towards the four cultivators, they immediately bowed to him with respect on their faces.
"Tell me your names," Su Ming said flatly.
They were stunned and terrified by Su Ming's divine ability, and their will to fight ha been suppressed by Su Ming's mighty display of power. At that moment, after they lowered their heads to bow to him, they quickly told him their names.
"I am Xuan Shang. Greetings, senior."
"I am Hua Yu. Greetings, senior."
"I am Yun You. Greetings, senior."
"I am Nian Yin. Greetings, senior."
"Why did you come to Divine Essence Star Ocean?" Su Ming's tone was flat. When he swept his gaze past the four, he fixed his eyes on Xuan Shang, who had previously brought out the authentication token from Dust Burners' tribe leader.
Xuan Shang hesitated for a moment before lowering his head and saying, "We were invited by the tribe leader of Dust Burners to head to their tribe because of some personal matters…" Since the moment he saw Su Ming, he never once thought of him as a cultivator, and even now, he still believed that Su Ming was a powerful warrior from some tribe in Divine Essence Star Ocean.
Even the three people beside him believed the same. After all, Su Ming's clothes, bearing, and that indescribable presence on him was not that different from the locals they saw in Divine Essence Star Ocean.
If he was a cultivator, then he would have the same vague presence they had because they were unable to fuse with Divine Essence Star Ocean, making them seem as if they were solitary existences in this place. Even if there were some methods that would help them cover this presence, anyone who had the intention to find them would still be able to detect it. However, they found none of this presence on Su Ming.
"Oh?"
Su Ming smiled. When they saw his smile, they immediately felt their skin crawl. There was nothing eerie about that smile, but when Su Ming smiled, the purple line at the center of his brows seemed to squirm slightly, as if a tiny crack had opened up. A feeling as if they were being watched instantly rose in their hearts, and they felt as if they had been stripped naked in an instant. They could hide none of their secrets, and the small slit at the center of his brows could see all of them clearly.
In fact, they had a strong feeling that… there was an eye in the slit between Su Ming's brows!
"I was also planning to visit Dust Burners. I wonder if it would be troubling for you if I asked to join you?" There seemed to be a ghost of a smile on Su Ming's lips, but the piercing cold glare in his eyes made the hearts of all who saw it to tighten in fear.
How would they dare say that it was troublesome? Even if they were extremely unwilling, they had to smile and nod.
"Senior, it would be great if you joined us. With you around, we would be much safer. It is our honor. I, Xuan Shang, thank you for joining us, senior." Bitterness rose in Xuan Shang's heart, but he did not dare to show even a single hint of it. Instead, he put on a delighted face and quickly wrapped his fist in his palm to thank Su Ming.
"Alright, you can leave now. Search for any random place and wait for me. Once I settle matters with Heaven Traversers, I will naturally come find you," Su Ming said flatly.
The four immediately experienced shock and bewilderment in their hearts, but did not show a single hint of their emotions on their faces. Instead, they wrapped their fists in their palms towards Su Ming, then turned into long arcs and intended to quickly leave the planet they now regretted coming entering.
But the black clouds in the sky were still around and continued to seal the place…
"You're leaving just like that?" Su Ming landed on the ground, then sat down with his legs crossed.
The four people in the sky were momentarily stunned, then Hua Yu's expression changed. When he lowered his head, he raised his right hand, and a crack appeared on his palm. The Nascent Divinity of the man with the water moon had his eyes closed and was unconscious. Once Hua Yu flung him out, he drifted towards Su Ming.
At the same time, black clouds tumbled about in the sky to open up a tunnel. They stepped into it swiftly, and with the fastest speed they could muster, they quickly left the dead planet.
"Fellow Daoist Xuan, we…"
"Don't say anything else. We have to leave in a hurry. That malicious person is far too audacious. He actually dared to kill Heaven Traversers. This should be Heaven Traversers' territory, and powerful warriors are bound to arrive soon! We must leave in haste!" Xuan Shang immediately said. He bit the tip of his tongue and coughed up a mouthful of blood to activate Fleeing Blood – an Art common among cultivators, but rarely used.
The other three did the same thing. Their blood red shadows left into the distance within an instant.
After a moment, they had fled into an area far away from the planet, but Xuan Shang did not stop moving. Only when he had flown very far into the distance did he turn his head around to look back at the now distant planet with fear lingering in his heart.
"Just what level of cultivation does he possess? He easily killed those in Lunar Kalpa Realm… so could he be a monster in Solar Kalpa Realm?"
"Fellow Daoist Yun, you might still have underestimated that person. I observed him and realized just how casually he killed those three Heaven Traversers in Lunar Kalpa Realm. This sort of person is definitely stronger than an average cultivator in Solar Kalpa Realm!"
"He can fight against a Master of Fate, Lives, and Death!" The person who said these words so adamantly was Hua Yu, the person with the divine ability to seal another's soul. His expression was dark, and when his words left his mouth, they immediately made the other three fall silent.
"There's something really bizarre about that person. For some reason, when I see him, I feel goosebumps all over my skin. Honestly, I've seen plenty of people in my life, but none of them were like this person. That malicious aura about him is just indescribable."
"Hmm? I had that feeling too. It's as if there's an evil about him that can suffocate others!"
"Looks like everyone had the same feeling. I felt the same thing as well… and since he actually dared to stay in that cultivation planet, it means that he is definitely in possession of power that allows him to not be afraid of Heaven Traversers' Master of Fate, Lives, and Death."
"He asked to go with us to Dust Burners. Should we wait?"
The four fell silent again, and the three looked towards Xuan Shang, which was a telling sign that he was the leader in the group.
Xuan Shang's expression changed. After a moment, he gritted his teeth. Just as he was about to speak, a loud bang came from the distant galaxy, and it was so loud that even they could hear it. In this galaxy, such a bang could only mean one thing…
A planet had collapsed!
The group's expressions changed drastically, and they immediately fixed their stares towards the source of that bang. Then, they saw the impact formed by a planet self-destructing and the brilliant light that was difficult to put into words in the distance.
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Chapter 951: Arrival
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Ten breaths before the explosion, Su Ming sat cross-legged on the withered Outer Skies Planet. He was waiting for the powerful warrior who would definitely come to him. This was one of the reasons why he came to Heaven Traversers.
He wanted… to fight against a Master of Fate, Lives, and Death!
He would fight against him with his full strength, and he would definitely lose… But even if he was definitely going to lose, Su Ming still wanted to fight. He wanted to see the difference between him and a Master of Fate, Lives, and Death. He also… wanted to figure out the strength of Heaven Traversers!
He wanted to know how many Masters of Fate, Lives, and Death they had. If there was still only one, then Su Ming would execute his plan. If there was more than one, he would need to change his plan.
Time passed breath by breath. When the sixth breath arrived, Su Ming lifted his head. Divine Essence Runic Symbols sparkled in his eyes before they filled his whole body within an instant. At the same time, his lips curled up into a cold sneer. He raised his arms and pushed his hands at the ground.
With it, his body swiftly shot up from the ground. Soon, the planet roared. As cracks continued spreading through the ground, a destructive power erupted from the planet.
At that moment, a cold harrumph came from thin air. As it echoed, the black clouds in the sky started tumbling about and turned into a vortex. Su Ming then saw… an endless amount of earth in the sky, the sort of earth formed after someone was buried under it!
Perhaps it was better to say that this was not earth, but a boundless palm. This was… Heaven Traversers' Master of Fate, Lives, and Death coming over.
"You're finally here!"
Su Ming threw his head back and laughed. When he jumped up, the destructive power of the planet beneath him became stronger. At that moment, if anyone watched from the galaxy, they would have seen that there was a group of meteors charging towards Outer Skies Planet. They were packed densely together, and it was unknown how many of them there were. They were incredibly quick, and in an instant, they approached Outer Skies Planet.
They surrounded it, and as they connected to each other, they formed a gigantic palm that was several times bigger than the planet. Once this palm was lifted, it went to seize Outer Skies Planet, and judging by its momentum, it seemed like it wanted to crush the planet.
Yet right at the moment the palm touched it, the planet… collapsed. The impact from the explosion, and the destructive power crashed against the palm made of meteors.
Deafening booms echoed through the entire galaxy, so even the four cultivators who had escaped far into the distance could hear the sound clearly.
Despite that bang, the huge meteor palm did not stop moving, and the cold harrumph still echoed in space. The palm had seized the collapsing planet, so it was hard to tell clearly whether the planet had exploded by itself or had been crushed by the palm.
Despite that, the meteor palm did not stop moving and started closing up to seize the planet's pieces. It seemed as if the owner of that palm was certain that the power that had caused the planet to collapse was in the shattered pieces, along with the culprit who had killed Heaven Traversers.
"A Master of Fate, Lives, and Death, hmm?" a low voice said from the shattered planet.
That voice was calm, and there was no rise or fall in its tone to indicate any emotions. If anyone looked at the shattered planet at that moment, they would clearly see a man standing on one of the shattered continents, his hair fluttering in space.
Needless to say, this man was Su Ming.
"You're just asking for death!" an aloof voice said in space. The meteor palm then moved even faster. In the blink of an eye, it closed in on Su Ming as if it wanted to bury him together with the shattered planet in space.
"Just who exactly is asking for death?!" At the instant Su Ming spoke, Ecang's projection manifested around him. The huge shadow of the gigantic tree swiftly appeared in the universe and crashed into the hand moving to seize him.
Booming sounds spread through the area at that instant. The hand crashed into Ecang's projection, then froze momentarily. As Ecang's projection trembled, it looked as if it was about to collapse. It swayed violently, and blood could be seen trickling out of the corners of Su Ming's mouth where he stood under the projection.
"Ecang…" an aloof voice said from space, but the owner of the voice could not be seen. "Even if you have Ecang's blood, those who offend Heaven Traversers have to die."
As the voice spread out, the gigantic meteor hand tightened its grip once again and crushed the Ecang projection with a bang. Su Ming shuddered and coughed up a mouthful of blood. With a pale face, he retreated swiftly, but there was no panic in his eyes, only calmness.
The Ecang projection behind him appeared once again and continuously crashed into the palm coming to seize him. The booming sounds that rang in space rose and fell, and every single time they collided with each other, Su Ming's body would tremble. He could sense the great strength within the palm, but similarly, he also sensed that the Master of Fate, Lives, and Death was not as strong as the one from the four Great True Worlds acting as a garrison in the Barren Lands of Divine Essence.
Su Ming needed about a dozen something breaths for his clone to truly arrive from the moment his projection appeared. To him, this time was really nothing. In truth, his preparations beforehand had been perfect, and his Ecang clone could arrive at any moment.
But he did not do so.
He stood and watched the Ecang projections be destroyed repeatedly while the giant palm closed in on him. It replaced the sky, the galaxy, and everything else, but he still did not have his Ecang clone appear.
Because he noticed that each time his Ecang projection crumbled, the projection that would appear next would be much stronger than before, just like how a normal piece of metal would need to be refined thousands of times before it turned into steel that would not bend or break. This was a form of refinement.
Booms echoed in the air. After the umpteenth time Su Ming's Ecang projection reappeared after being destroyed, the meteor hand had almost clenched into a fist. When Su Ming cast his gaze around the area, everything he saw around him was the meteor hand, and it looked as if he had nowhere to run and nowhere to hide!
If anyone looked from the galaxy, they would be able to see that as the gigantic meteor hand continued furling into a fist, it looked about to crush everything in its palm, including the planet, all its lives, and the galaxy around it.
At that instant, Su Ming raised his head, and the purple line at the center of his brows opened. Purple light shone from it, and the Malicious Eye appeared. In an instant, the meteor hand above him was magnified endlessly in his eyes. As it was continuously enlarged, he saw the cracks in it.
Su Ming's gaze focused, and he leaped up at full speed, even calling back his Ecang projection and having it fuse with him, making him even faster. He flew out in an instant. When a loud bang reverberated through the entire galaxy that belonged to Heaven Traversers and the meteor palm clenched its fist to crush everything, Su Ming flew out from the crack he had seen with his Malicious Eye!
From the distance, a long arc could be seen flying out from the palm when the gigantic meteor hand seized the galaxy. At the same time, a grim voice came from Su Ming's mouth.
"Ecang!"
Once he said it, the illusory projection of the Ecang tree immediately appeared behind him. It swiftly became clear, and a man with purple hair walked out from within!
This man's appearance instantly caused the universe to tumble about, the world to roar, and the galaxy to look as if huge waves had appeared within it. Endless visible ripples appeared in the galaxy around the purple-haired man. These ripples fell back together, though a normal person would not be able to tell just what these ripples were.
However, Su Ming knew that these ripples were the laws in this galaxy. At that moment, the laws were being forcefully expelled as Su Ming's Ecang clone appeared in the area, as if the galaxy had become Ecang's territory once it arrived. Within this territory, all laws, all wills, and all rules would work only due to Ecang's will.
A long purple robe, long purple hair… and a purple eye at the center of his brows!
At the instant Su Ming's Ecang clone appeared, his cultivation base clone moved, and his clone that practiced the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows Whole walked out of his cultivation base clone. With Su Ming's soul as a guide, these three clones of his overlapped in the galaxy.
As they did that and turned into one, Su Ming raised his head, and a sinister smile appeared at the corners of his lips. A wave of deep malice spread out from his body, as if his existence alone was the source of all evil in the world. It looked as if all light was replaced by a dark shade of purple at the spot where he stood.
His power rose ceaselessly from Solar Kalpa Realm, and even though he still had yet to become a Master of Fate, Lives, and Death, he was already infinitesimally close to it. An ancient presence also spread out from his body, and this feeling of age filled up the entire area, as if it could even cause the galaxy to fall into decay.
With a sinister smile, Su Ming raised his right hand and seized space. Immediately, a white stone appeared on his right palm. Naturally, that stone was the Enchanted Treasure he had obtained from the Yu Family – Peace Arrives When the Elephant is Here!
He raised his left hand above his head, and when the universe trembled, a huge mountain appeared in Su Ming's left hand. That mountain… was Dao Avenue Mountain!
At the same time, a vast amount of purple fog spread out from Su Ming's feet. It swept in all directions while rumbling and filled the galaxy, changing it to Ecang's galaxy within an instant.
"I want to fight you!" Su Ming looked at a spot in space in the distance, and a figure gradually appeared before his eyes.
It was a middle-aged man with long blue hair, dressed in a long, light blue robe. This man was incredibly handsome… and he had no wings. There was wisdom in his eyes, and it could make others feel as if they were in another galaxy when they looked into them, and they would be unable to free themselves from it.
The man's lips were thin, giving him a slightly unkind expression, which turned into a callous air about him. He looked at Su Ming calmly.
"Should I call you Ecang… or Tian Xie Zi's disciple?" the middle-aged man asked flatly.
"So you've been here since a long time ago." Su Ming smiled faintly.
"Leave behind your hands and feet. I will make an allowance for Ecang and let you leave with your head."
The middle-aged man's expression remained calm. As he spoke, his tone allowed no refusal. When his voice traveled outwards, the purple fog around Su Ming tumbled, and in the galaxy where laws had been chased away, laws appeared once again, but this time, they belonged to the middle-aged man.
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Chapter 952: A Fork and a Rattle Drum
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Su Ming swung his left hand, and Dao Avenue Mountain immediately enlarged endlessly. In the blink of an eye, it turned into a mountain of ten thousand feet, and when Su Ming lifted it, he threw it before himself.
The mountain immediately created a loud bang as it broke space and charged towards the middle-aged man.
It was so quick that in the blink of an eye, it was already near that person.
"You still don't understand the rise and fall of Masters of Fate, Lives, and Death." The middle-aged man shook his head and raised his right hand to swing it against the incoming Dao Avenue Mountain.
"The rise and fall of fate happens with just a single thought of mine. Fate exists in every single thing in the world, just like this mountain rock… It is connected to you through fate, which is why it was obtained by you, but if I say this fate will be cut off from you… then it will be cut off," the middle-aged man said flatly before he swung his arm. Dao Avenue Mountain then came to an abrupt halt in front of him.
Su Ming's pupils shrank. He immediately saw endless thin threads around Dao Avenue Mountain. These threads were connected to him, but when the middle-aged man swung his sleeve, they were all snapped.
As the threads were cut, Su Ming's body swayed, and a feeling of emptiness instantly rose in his heart. His connection with Dao Avenue Mountain had been cut!
This was not a simple act of taking away Su Ming's Enchanted Treasure. It was just as the man had said, he had cut off Dao Avenue Mountain's fate with Su Ming, causing them to no longer be connected through fate, and Su Ming would never be able to possess it again, unless he did something about it.
"This is the rise and fall of fate. Search for your next master."
The middle-aged man's voice echoed in space. Dao Avenue Mountain shuddered, but right at the instant it was about to disappear, Su Ming raised his right leg and stepped on the galaxy. The galaxy shuddered, and the disappearing Dao Avenue Mountain was bounced back, returning from its dissipating state.
"You should have fought against a Master of Fate before, I wonder how that person gave you the confidence… to fight against a Master of Fate with brute force?" The middle-aged man smiled. There was a hint of derision in it.
"You will not be able to enter the area one hundred thousand feet around me, because that is where the connection of our fate ends."
Once the middle-aged man said that, Su Ming's expression changed. He sensed an indescribable power erupting from space, and with it, he was forced back, pushed from his previous position of only several tens of thousands of feet away from the middle-aged man to a hundred thousand feet. After that, he had a strong feeling that he… could not step into that area.
It was as if there was a law in there that could not be expelled.
This was completely different from Su Ming's first fight against a Master of Fate. In fact, even though he sensed that this person was slightly weaker than the Master of Fate he had met in the past, he had a feeling that he absolutely could not strike back right now.
'Fate…' Su Ming's heart trembled. He suddenly understood something.
He realized why Masters of Fate, Lives, and Death were known as Masters of Fate by others!
They controlled other people's fates, and only when they had control over the fates of the whole world and universe could they be known as… Masters of Fate!
Su Ming's eyes shone. When he clenched his right hand, the mountain rock in it shone with a piercing white light. As it did so, Su Ming's power of Divine Essence fused into him, causing the mountain rock to become tens of thousands of feet big. Once it did, an enraged howl echoed in space, and the mountain rock turned into a loud bang.
It was a pity that the threads of fate connecting him to Dao Avenue Mountain were cut, but at least Malicious Spirit Weighing the Elephant, was still with him. However, as the elephant roared and rushed into the area of one hundred thousand feet… it shuddered and started shrinking rapidly before Su Ming's eyes, until it turned back into the mountain rock. The endless threads connected faintly to Su Ming then were also swiftly cut.
"You dare fight against me with just these?" As the middle-aged man asked this flatly, he raised his right hand and pointed at Su Ming.
"I see that you have three bodies, and thus have three fates. I will now cut your fate to your cultivation base!"
Once he said these words, Su Ming shuddered, for an intense pain rose in his soul. It was a feeling of being torn apart, as if his body was being forcefully ripped apart by an indescribable power which wanted to tear away his cultivation base clone that had fused with him. Once it was torn away from him, then Su Ming's cultivation base clone would be like his Enchanted Treasures and become an independent existence. He would no longer have any control over it.
Purple light shone brilliantly in Su Ming's eyes, and as his body shuddered, overlapping shadows appeared around his cultivation base clone, as if it was about to be ripped apart.
The middle-aged man smiled, and he pointed at Su Ming again. "I will cut your fate to your physical body."
A loud bang shot up in Su Ming's mind. Overlapping shadows also appeared around his clone that practiced the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows Whole. The connection he had with it started showing signs of being torn apart as the middle-aged man declared to cut his fate with it.
A brilliant light shone in the middle-aged man's eyes. He raised his right hand and cut down swiftly in Su Ming's direction through space. "And I will also cut your fate… with your Ecang clone!"
Bang!
The clones fell in three different directions. When Su Ming saw that they were about to be torn from him, expressions of intense pain appeared on all three of the clones' faces.
Su Ming even had the feeling that his will was about to be torn into three. If that really happened, then he would become three independent entities, and by then, he would have lost his true self.
In fact, even his memories were being ripped apart, which brought them up to the front of his mind. These memories were shattering, but Su Ming did not panic. He had a way to resolve this danger, and the easiest way to do so was the summoning of the Sand Spirit. This was part of the plan, but he did not do so, because when his memories were being torn, he remembered a particular Art he had learned when he was in Dark Mountain.
When Su Ming remembered this Art, he suddenly gained an epiphany.
While Su Ming was in danger, far away from Divine Essence Star Ocean and the Barren Lands of Divine Essence… war engulfed True Morning Dao World.
Within True Morning Dao Sect was a lofty altar. It was located at the center and had nothing on it, but for single crack on its surface.
This was an incredibly ordinary place in Morning Dao Sect, since there were plenty of such altars in Morning Dao Sect. No one knew what purpose they served, but the ancestors had left instructions that no one was allowed to step into Morning Dao Sect's altars.
There were around ninety-seven thousand such altars, and there was an equivalent number of cracks. Only the ancient existences within Morning Dao Sect knew that these cracks were existences akin to coordinates.
When they were connected together, they would turn into a set that would point… to the isolation grounds of Kalpa Lord Dao Chen, the Progenitor of the entire True Morning Dao World.
That isolation grounds was a fragmented void connected to the entire space of Morning Dao World. It was a fault dimension [1]. Besides those in True Morning Dao World, no one knew just how it looked like.
Kalpa Lord Dao Chen had been in isolated training for a long, long time…
If Su Ming could stand on one of the altars and execute the full power of his Malicious Eye… No, he would need a power that surpassed his current level of cultivation. Only when he became a Master of Fate and used his Malicious Eye would he be able to see… that there were endless cracks in space within the altar's crack. If his gaze could pierce through all of them and connect them together, he would be able to see a door.
Behind that door was a dimension that existed in space, and it was the dimension where Dao Chen isolated himself.
At that moment, there was a large amount of white fog in that dimension. Within its depths was a person. He was sitting cross-legged in there with his head lowered. His entire body was surrounded by fog, making it impossible to see his face clearly. There was no life force on him, only stillness.
Placed before him were two items. One of them was a fork, and the other a child's toy – a rattle drum.
At that moment, the rattle drum was shivering. In fact, some cracks could be seen on it. Those cracks continued spreading, as if preparing to shatter that rattle drum.
It could not be seen whether the person sitting in the fog opened their eyes, but it could be seen that as the cracks on the rattle drum appeared, the body, which seemed to not have moved for a long time, shuddered, and the person raised their right hand slowly.
Once the person did this, an endless amount of booms immediately rang in the dimension. In fact, those booms even affected the world outside, causing a galactic windstorm throughout the entire True Morning Dao World.
The windstorm swept through whole land, shocking all the people fighting against each other, stunning both Morning Dao Sect and the entire Immortals' Union. This galactic windstorm caused the entire True Morning Dao World to seem like a bottle that was swaying about violently.
This was not the first time a windstorm like this had appeared. It was… the second time!
The first time was one thousand something years ago. No one knew why that windstorm had appeared, and several breaths after it did, it disappeared on its own, becoming a mystery that countless people tried to figure out, but could not.
Now, one thousand something years later, the windstorm appeared once more.
No one knew that its cause was the figure in the fragmented dimension, who had brought about this phenomenon with the wind he stirred up when he raised his hand. The figure was slowly lifting their hand, looking as if they intended to touch the shattering rattle drum.
But before the hand could touch it, the cracks on it no longer continued spreading, but instead moved in reverse and closed up on their own, causing the figure's hand to pause in midair.
The figure could be seen smiling then. That expression was incredibly amiable, but there was a hint… of guilt in it.
As the three clones were being forcefully torn from Su Ming's soul in Divine Essence Star Ocean, he raised his head, and at the instant the light of understanding shone in his eyes, the process of him being torn stopped for a moment.
"I have indeed been careless about a Master of Fate's strength and overestimated myself… but this battle also let me understand what it means to control fate!
"It means to control the fate of all the living in the universe… but while other people's fate might be easy to control, controlling your own fate is the hardest. You… can control the fate of the entire universe, but you cannot control your own fate.
"This is why you did not seem as strong as that person I met in the past." As Su Ming raised his head, he lifted his right hand. "This battle also allowed me to understand an Art I learned when I was a child and why it left a deep impression on me. Every single time I thought about it, I found it difficult to figure out, because the Art I learned in the past was not any normal Art. It was… an Art of Masters of Fate."
While enduring the intense pain, Su Ming raised his right hand. He then slashed down at the middle-aged man one hundred thousand feet away from him.
"Execution… of the Three Evils!"
Translator's Note:
1. Fault dimension: Fault here is a geology term, and the idea to translate 断层空间 (duan4 ceng2 kong1 jian1) as fault dimension came from fault rock, since 断层 is a fault.
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Execution of Three Evils, an Art which could even kill Tai Sui!
The three evils were also known as the three murders.
Between heaven and earth, there were three forces – Sever, Beginning, and Nurture. Sever was known as the evil of theft, Beginning was known as the evil of disaster, and Nurture was the evil of time!
They were also known as the murders of theft, disaster, and time!
This was the Execution of Three Evils Su Ming had learned when he was in Dark Mountain.
Su Ming had used this Art in the past to break the divine ability his elder had placed in the house to lock him up when he was in Wind Stream Tribe. He brought forth the power of murder of theft and broke the screen of light that sealed him in the house. That was the first time he had used the Execution of Three Evils.
At that time, he had not understood the fundamentals of this Art.
The final time he executed this Art had been in the land of Shamans. When he opened the gap to the mountain, he lured in the miasma in the area and turned it to Yin Aura, causing the corner of the mountain range to seem like a breathing dragon. Because of it, he changed the pattern in the area and brought about the power of the murder of disaster to the area, laying down a Rune formed out of nature itself.
Su Ming had executed the Art after he had gained a deeper understanding towards the Execution of Three Evils.
Now, Su Ming cast this Art once again in Divine Essence Star Ocean. But this time, he had come to truly understand this Art. It was not a normal Art… but a Master of Fate's Art!
This Art could cut the laws of heaven, could change the patterns of the world, could disrupt the harmony between Yin and Yang, could overturn the universe, could go up against the heavens… The core of this divine ability was in truth using the slashes contained within the Art to eventually separate a person's kismet and fate from the galaxy itself.
Once all of a person's connections to the universe were separated and they became an isolated, lonely presence, Su Ming could make it so that the person would seem to have lost their eyes and roots, so that they would not be able to exist harmoniously with the universe.
It would be as if he had separated the person from his fate, causing him to be unable to control it. Hence, it would perhaps be more accurate to say that the Execution of Three Evils more apt name would be Execution of Three Fates!
"You only managed to control the fate that lies around me, but you can't control my personal fate, that is why…" Su Ming lifted his head and stared at Heaven Traversers' Progenitor with understanding in his eyes. His expression was calm. Even though the overlapping shadows of his clones were still being torn from him, this pain was something Su Ming could ignore.
Because he had found the strongest Art buried in his memories among his divine abilities through this battle. As Su Ming swung his right hand down in a slash, he took a step forward. At the same time, the ends of his hair started to turn white.
"This is the Realm that belongs to a Master of Fate. Fate is law. With my first slash, I will cut the evil of theft and have it fuse with the universe. Fate will act as its guide. If there is no fate, then the evil of disaster will not exist in the universe. There is a connection between fate and theft, and now… I will cut your fate with the universe!"
The galaxy roared. The expression of Heaven Traversers' Progenitor changed for the first time. When Su Ming executed his first slash, ripples that surged into the heavens rose around Heaven Traversers' Progenitor. These ripples continued spreading outwards, making it seem as if endless threads had appeared around him. These threads were all in the form of rings and were spreading outwards continuously, looking like waves.
The fate in the universe Su Ming had cut off was the law of fate connecting Heaven Traversers' Progenitor with the universe. He could see clearly that there seemed to be an invisible blade around Heaven Traversers' Progenitor that was swinging down and cutting all the threads. In the blink of an eye, as the blade swept through the area, the galaxy tumbled and fell backwards like waves.
At that moment, Su Ming finished taking his first step and stepped into the area seventy thousand feet away from the Heaven Traversers' Progenitor. The Progenitor's expression changed, and a third of Su Ming's hair turned white, but he did not stop. He took his second step and moved forward once more.
"With my second slash, I will cut the evil of disaster. Disaster stays in earth and comes from the ground. It originates from the spot beneath our feet and is hidden in space. With this slash… I will cut your fate with space!" Su Ming raised his right hand, and without any hesitation, he executed his second slash.
The galaxy immediately swayed intensely, as if the universe had been overturned and the cosmos were going through a transformation. All laws and rules dissipated within a moment. Numerous ripples appeared in the space under the feet of Heaven Traversers' Progenitor again, but when Su Ming executed his second slash, these ripples shattered, as if the connection between Heaven Traversers' Progenitor and space had been cut.
The fate of the universe and the fate of space might seem like abstract concepts, but in truth, the cosmos were formed from endless universes and spaces. When these two fates were cut, it would mean that… Su Ming had segregated Heaven Traversers' Progenitor from the galaxy in the area, causing him to lose his connection with it in this place.
This was Heaven Traversers' galaxy, so all the cultivation planets here as well as the galaxy here had acknowledged them. Su Ming's actions thus had forcefully cut off this acknowledgement and this law of fate.
At that moment, Su Ming finished taking his second step and stepped into the area thirty thousand feet away from Heaven Traversers' Progenitor. A two thirds of his hair then had turned white, and the ancient air about him was incredibly distinct. All of this might have seemed to have occurred over a long period of time, but in truth, when it happened, it only lasted for a few breaths before it was over.
"With my third slash, I will cut the evil of time. I will cut your fate with the galaxy. You still have the concept of time in your head, and because of it, your shadow will last in the passage of time in this place. If time has a spirit, then everything about you will exist within the memories of this spirit. With this slash, I will cut off your fate with time!"
At the instant Su Ming lifted his foot swiftly to take his third step, the galaxy looked as if it had been overturned. Heaven Traversers' Progenitor threw his head back and let out a furious roar. This sound was astonishingly loud, and it shook Su Ming so much that he coughed up blood, but it did not manage to prevent him from taking that last step forward and slashing down the third time with his right hand.
Slash!
The universe changed. A cyclone centered around Heaven Traversers' Progenitor swept outwards with a loud bang. The galaxy where that cyclone passed through looked as if it was suffering from time reversal, all of its memories being wiped off. Once the cyclone disappeared, the shadow of Heaven Traversers' Progenitor no longer existed in the passages of time in the spot where the Progenitor stood, and the connection between the galaxy and the Progenitor could no longer be found.
Su Ming's Execution of Three Evils was not aimed at Heaven Traversers' Progenitor, but the universe, the galaxy, space, and time. That was why Heaven Traversers' Progenitor could not fight against it. In fact, the divine ability Su Ming executed at that moment was one that the Progenitor had never seen before; it was the first time he saw the likes of it. In fact, from this divine ability, he sensed two emotions that had been long absent from his life – fear and wariness!
What Su Ming had cut was the passage of time in the galaxy, but he also indirectly cut… the fate of Heaven Traversers' Progenitor!
Bang!
When Su Ming took his third step, his hair turned completely white, and some signs of time appeared on his face, but the overlapping shadows of the three clones on his body disappeared and returned to their original state. He stood at a spot nearly a thousand feet away from Heaven Traversers' Progenitor, and as his foot landed, Su Ming raised his right hand before he hurled a punch through the air in the direction of Heaven Traversers' Progenitor.
This was a punch delivered by his cultivation base clone, his clone that practiced the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows Whole, and his Ecang clone. At the instant it came hurling forward, Ecang's projection manifested behind Su Ming. Booming sounds shot up, shaking the sky and earth and causing the galaxy to tremble. A large number of cracks appeared in it as the punch charged swiftly towards Heaven Traversers' Progenitor.
Before, the Progenitor hadn't even needed to attack. With just the use of words and the power of the fate's law in the universe as well as all manner of living, he had been able to render Su Ming almost completely unable to fight back. Now, the Progenitor spotted a change in his expression. He raised his right hand, then swung it in Su Ming's direction, who was coming towards him with his fist in the air.
With it, an incredibly large palm appeared in front of Heaven Traversers' Progenitor while the universe roared. That palm stood vertically in the galaxy, and as if it was being pushed forward, it charged towards Su Ming. Wherever it passed through, the galaxy would be broken. In the blink of an eye, it crashed against Su Ming's punch.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Deafening sounds rang in space. Su Ming coughed up blood. Once he staggered several tens of thousands of feet backwards, he coughed up blood again, but there was a ferocious smile on his lips, and a brilliant light shone in his eyes.
As for Heaven Traversers' Progenitor, his expression was as dark as a swamp. He might not even be swaying, but from the expressions of both his and Su Ming's faces, it was clear that he… was at a disadvantage!
Because he could no longer use fate and was forced to use the power of a Master of Fate to force Su Ming back. This was the same as someone sealing up his divine abilities and making him fight only using his physical strength.
A runic symbol had appeared at the center of his brows. This runic symbol looked as if it was branded on his forehead. It did not appear just then, but it chose this moment to manifest. However, this runic symbol was dull and lusterless. Su Ming could see countless threads floating around it, trying to connect with the threads of the universe, galaxy and the passage of time Su Ming had cut off just then. But the separation between it and the galaxy caused it… to be unable to connect with those threads.
This item was incredibly discordant with Heaven Traversers' Progenitor, as if it had been forcefully branded to the center of his brows. Clearly… this was not something that came from the Progenitor himself, but was a treasure from an external source.
In truth, he had only completed a small part of the Mastery Realm and could not compare to the person Su Ming met in the past, who had fully completed the Mastery Realm [1]. The Progenitor had been able to step into the Fate Realm because of this item, which allowed him to control the fate of the universe and all manner of living.
However, by doing so, his level of cultivation came to a stop, and he would never be able to control his own fate like the truly powerful warriors who had completed the Fate Realm. If he had been able to control his own fate, Su Ming would not have been able to cut the law of fate around him with the current Execution of Three Evils.
"This is your true power, it is also the reason why you were more difficult to deal with even though you gave me a feeling that you were weaker than the Master of Fate, Lives, and Death I met in the past."
Su Ming wiped off the blood at the corners of his mouth. Without bothering about his white hair, he said flatly while standing tens of thousands of feet away, "How does it feel like to have the laws of fate cut from you?"
"I underestimated you. This Art created to specifically cut fate is incredibly rare… and can only be executed after you offer up your life force. When you executed it, you must have lost quite a large amount of your life force. But… even so, with the supreme power I possess in Mastery Realm, I can still kill you."
The killing intent in the eyes of Heaven Traversers' Progenitor grew incredibly strong. At that moment, he no longer regarded Su Ming with the same scorn and inattentiveness as he did moments ago. Instead, he looked at Su Ming as an equal, and an incredible amount of greed also rose in his heart.
He knew well just how rare the divine abilities to cut fate were in the world, and the Art Su Ming executed just then was one he had never seen before. This caused him to be unable to help but desire to possess that Art.
He took a step forward. His supreme physical power burst forth from his body, and it could be said that the body of Heaven Traversers' Progenitor reached a state where he would not be destroyed if the world did not perish, and where he could not fall into decay if the universe did not rot.
Translator's Note:
1. Mastery Realm, Fate Realm, Life Realm, and Death Realm: Mastery Realm is Mastery Realm. There is no short form for it. It's the first Realm for the Master of Fate, Lives, and Death.
Fate Realm is the Rise and Fall of Fate.
Life Realm is Reincarnation of Life, not Life Cultivation Realm, they are two completely different Realms.
Death Realm is Death of the Universe.
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Chapter 954: I Want to Fight!
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'This is what it means to be a Master of Fate… There must be detailed categorizations in this great Realm. It can even be said that being able to control fate and being unable to control fate are two different realms, even though they are still Masters of Fate, Lives, and Death!
'The existence I met in the past acting as a garrison to the four Great True Worlds could cover an endless stretch of galaxy and chase me down until I returned to the foreign land. Clearly, he displayed an unimaginably powerful physical strength.
'But he did not understand the laws of fate. If that is the case, then I understand it now. The main focus of that Realm is mastery, which is why he could be known as someone who had completed the Mastery Realm.
'This Heaven Traversers' Progenitor used that supreme treasure at the center of his brows to forcefully control the fate around him, but his true power is really just in the Mastery Realm, and he's not as powerful as the one I met in the past either. He had only completed a small part of the Mastery Realm.
'If I separate it this way, then I can understand what it means to be a Master of Fate, Lives, and Death. The Mastery Realm exists within this state, and this Realm is the pinnacle of physical power. If someone can reach a breakthrough, then they will be able to step into the Fate Realm. To complete this Realm, you would need to control your own fate.
'Because of that, there is certainly a Life Realm and a final Death Realm as well. Only those who complete the Death Realm could be truly known as… Masters of Fate, Lives, and Death!' The light of understanding shone in Su Ming's eyes.
'It's worth it… to learn about these and understand the true method of using the Execution of Three Evils!' Su Ming glanced at Heaven Traversers' Progenitor, who was taking big strides towards him with a presence as if he was looking down on the world, with a cold glare. He raised his right hand slowly.
'Now, I want to see just how great the difference is… between me, after I fused with all three of my clones, and you, who has completed a small part of the Mastery Realm, Heaven Traversers' Progenitor!' When Su Ming lifted his head, he clenched his right hand into a fist. He did not retreat but instead charged forward, turning into a long arc that rushed towards Heaven Traversers' Progenitor.
Ecang's projection manifested behind him. As the galaxy shook violently. A vast aura erupted from Su Ming's body with a bang, and he drew increasingly closer to Heaven Traversers' Progenitor. In the blink of an eye, the two of them crashed into each other, and each of them threw a punch forward.
The Progenitor was in Mastery Realm. Without using divine abilities and Arts, he raised his hand, and brought forth a supreme physical power!
Bang!
A loud bang shook the universe and echoed all around. Su Ming coughed up a mouthful of blood and staggered backwards continuously, while the Ecang tree swayed intensely. Even after Su Ming was forced several thousands of feet back, he did not stop, and at that moment, killing intent shone in the eyes of the Heaven Traversers' Progenitor. With a cold harrumph, he walked forward once more.
He might seem calm, but his heart was filled with shock. He might have only used a fifth of his strength in the punch he threw just then, but that fifth was enough to kill all those in Solar Kalpa Realm.
In fact, it could even break apart all divine abilities cast by those in Solar Kalpa Realm and then kill them without being bothered by them.
However, when the punch landed on Su Ming's body, it only caused him to cough up blood, shattered his organs, and forced him back. To the Heaven Traversers' Progenitor, this was something he did not want to accept. The killing intent in his heart grew even stronger. No one would want his own race to have such a powerful enemy lurking around alive.
This was why when the Progenitor took that step forward, he raised his right hand, and this time, he used all his strength, intending to finish this battle with one punch. He was so quick that his attack arrived before Su Ming could even regain his footing. When the Progenitor threw his punch outwards, the universe roared, and an indescribable power erupted from the fist.
The galaxy quivered. In fact, all the cultivation planets in the galaxy trembled at this moment. Even the four cultivators who were a distance away from the place shuddered as they charged forward. They turned their heads around swiftly, and shock appeared on their faces.
If anyone lowered their heads from the highest place in the galaxy to look down at that moment, they would be able to see that the galaxy had turned into a gigantic fist. As it stirred a rumble, it charged towards Su Ming.
All of this might have seemed to have happened over a long period of time, but in truth, the moment Heaven Traversers' Progenitor threw his fist forward, it closed in on its target.
Su Ming's pupils shrank. A life-threatening sense of danger instantly filled his entire body. At that moment, the most logical course of action for him was to instantly execute the next part of his plan to avoid this life-threatening crisis.
But Su Ming did not do so. A monstrous fighting spirit rose in his eyes, and his rationality was replaced by impulsiveness, a sight rarely seen on him. This impulsiveness was not recklessness, but a fighting spirit so great that he could not control it.
He wanted to fight. Even if this person was a cultivator in Mastery Realm, he still wanted to fight!
Even if his body and spirit would be destroyed, he had a fighting spirit in him that urged him to throw a punch forward as well, to fight against the punch the Progenitor had thrown towards him. The intensity of that emotion caused Su Ming's eyes to become bloodshot. It made him lift his head and roar towards the heaven. Something within him was screaming that even if he died, he still had to personally face the Progenitor and learn how strong were the people in Mastery Realm.
'I already fled once in the face of someone in Mastery Realm… This time, I will not run. I will fight!' Su Ming clenched his right hand into a fist. The fighting spirit within him grew to a monstrous degree, stimulating the will to never give in within Su Ming.
Death might be frightening, but Su Ming believed that escapism was even more terrifying. He wanted to fight, wanted to throw his fist forward and not think about the consequences or whether he would die. All of these thoughts gathered in his fist. He had a strong feeling that if he could successfully land this punch and not die, then his state of mind would rise once again, and even his soul would become stronger.
It would be as if he had broken some sort of seal, some sort limit. That would be… a metamorphosis in his state of life [1].
"I want to fight!"
Su Ming raised his right hand. His expression was ferocious, and his eyes were bloodshot.
"I want to fight!"
He swung his right fist forward, and the Ecang projection behind him swiftly gained corporeal form, as if a formless vortex had appeared on Su Ming's right hand, guiding the gigantic Ecang projection behind him into it.
"I WANT TO FIGHT!!!"
Su Ming threw his head back and roared. At the instant he threw his fist forward, his body disappeared, replaced by a gigantic tree. This was a tree with a size that was unmatched by anyone, and it was currently twisting about. All of its branches tangled with each other and turned into a huge fist, crashing in an instant against the galactical punch that was the Progenitor's attack.
Bang! Bang!
A deafening sound that could not be described with words echoed in the galaxy and throughout all the hundred something cultivation planets within it. It reverberated through the entire Divine Essence Star Ocean in this area and caused the blood to pour out of the eyes, ears, nose, and mouth of the four cultivators in the distance. Their bodies shook so much that their organs were in intense pain.
The Ecang tree disintegrated…
It turned into countless wooden splinters that crumbled apart. As they did so, Su Ming was revealed within. Overlapping shadows appeared on his body, and his cultivation base clone was the first to be expelled from him while falling backwards.
Soon after, his clone that practiced the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows Whole also separated from him as the overlapping shadows appeared around his body, and he fell a hundred thousand feet backwards.
Under the Progenitor's full power strike, the fusion of the three clones was broken, and they were forced apart. All three of Su Ming's clones coughed up a large mouthful of blood at the same time, and as their faces turned pale, they staggered.
But… he did not die!
Because most of the impact of the force was canceled by his Ecang clone, and Ecang was a life form written in the ballad. It was an eternal being. This sort of grievous injury was not enough to kill it.
The Progenitor's face turned dark. He stood in his place and did not even sway, but only he knew that the little finger on his right hand had become numb for a single breath when his punch collided against Su Ming's fist.
It might have been just one breath, but in his understanding, this was impossible. He was almighty in Mastery Realm, and the Mastery Realm was the symbol of supreme physical power in the universe, a wall that was impossible to be shaken by cultivators who were weaker than him.
However… the numb sensation during that moment just then was real. It was as if a crack had appeared on a sturdy wall, and Progenitor's killing intent grew even stronger when he looked at Su Ming.
"Today, you are going to die!"
The eyes of Heaven Traversers' Progenitor shone with killing intent, and he took a step once more. This time, he executed power that surpassed the full force of what he could muster. It was the first time he brought forth this strongest power within him after he became a Master of Fate, Lives, and Death.
As he moved forward, the galaxy cracked and shattered, a sign that it could no longer bear his existence.
Su Ming smiled. He wiped the blood off the corners of his mouth, and the three clones instantly fused together once more. This time, he did not continue fighting but instead immediately retreated.
His action fell into the eyes of Heaven Traversers' Progenitor, and he laughed coldly in his heart. If there was someone he wanted to kill in Divine Essence Star Ocean, that person would not be able to escape.
However, Su Ming's subsequent action made the Progenitor's pupils shrink.
Su Ming raised his right hand and swung it forward.
"Sand Spirit, my first request for you is to kill this person! If you can't kill him, then trap him for a month!"
When he said these words, the Progenitor's expression changed drastically. He sensed a vast power surging forward from the galaxy all around him. He was rather familiar with this power, and it made him think of far too many things.
As his expression changed, he took a step forward and instantly disappeared. When he reappeared, he was already behind Su Ming. He raised his right hand, intending to immediately kill him.
However, just as he was about to throw his fist against Su Ming's back, who did not even attempt to dodge, a layer of thin sand appeared between his fist and Su Ming's body.
The Progenitor's fist landed on the fine sand with a bang. It rose into space and reverberated continuously. During that moment, the thin sand behind Su Ming turned into a gigantic palm made of sand.
The galaxy trembled, and a gigantic face appeared in space. This face… was that of the Ancestral Spirit of the Sand Earthlings who had destroyed his own kin so that he could obtain a promise to be entered into the ballad!
"The first request… This is an existence who has reached the middle stage of the Mastery Realm. If I was at the peak of my condition, I could kill him, but now… I can only trap him. One month… is possible!"
A muffled hum echoed in the galaxy. The Sand Spirit's gigantic spirit existed in the galaxy, and its boundless body formed an indescribable wave of shock that was powerful enough to tremble the hearts of all those who saw it.
"Ancestral Spirit of the Sand Earthlings! You-you-you were someone who completed the Fate Realm in the past! You haven't died?! I know, you are already half a step into Life Realm, that's why you've obtained a part of eternal life!" The expression of Heaven Traversers' Progenitor instantly changed drastically.
Translator's Note:
State of life: This is derived from the Buddhists' Ten Worlds, also known as ten conditions or states of life. It is believed that a person moves from one to another through the experiences he/she gains in the world. The Ten Worlds are Hell, Hunger, Animality, Anger, Humanity, Heaven, Learning, Realization, Bodhisattva and Buddhahood.
For those interested to know more, you can go on ahead to this website: http//resources/introductory-materials/ten-worlds.html
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Chapter 955: It Would Do It
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This was Su Ming's plan. He wanted to first fight against a Master of Fate and measure the level of his current combat abilities, search for his direction, and find his breakthrough as he fought against a powerful warrior.
Then, he would make his first request to the Sand Earthling. If the spirit could kill the Master of Fate, that would be good. If he could not, then Su Ming would ask the Sand Earthling to trap him and buy a month's time.
In truth, Su Ming could have asked the Sand Earthling to attack and exterminate all Heaven Traversers for his first request, but after some thought, Su Ming did not choose to do so.
If the Sand Earthling had attacked, not only would it have been held back by Heaven Traversers' Master of Fate when he appeared, what would await Su Ming would still be the same outcome as now.
More importantly, Su Ming wanted to exact revenge, not cause a simple massacre. He wanted all of Heaven Traversers to pay the price for chasing after Tian Xie Zi in the past and make them perish as they escaped.
Perhaps in the eyes of Heaven Traversers, Su Ming's actions were an unpardonable evil, a heinous crime, a deed that would get him punished by the universe. He seemed brutal and merciless. After all, the people who went after Tian Xie Zi's life in the past were the powerful warriors among the Heaven Traversers, not their common people.
However, Su Ming still did it. No matter whether they were powerful warriors of the race or just normal members, they were all Heaven Traversers. Su Ming did not have the distinction between good and evil. The only thing he held true was doing what he believed he should do. When such thoughts appeared in his head, he had to do them, even if those actions were beyond the understanding of those around him and filled with a malicious air as well as could be considered to be temperamental.
However, Su Ming still did them. This was his monomaniacal determination.
He was sagacious, but that sagacity was all set by himself. He also had principles, but similarly, he was the one who set those principles. The core of all of his sagacity and principles was… 'Do not provoke me, do not provoke my friends, do not provoke my family, and do not provoke my Master and my fellow brothers.
'The price those who violate these principles must pay… is the extermination of their entire race!'
Booming sounds echoed through the entire galaxy. They were a loud howl mixed with the furious roars of Heaven Traversers' Progenitor. Endless sand surrounded him, and when Su Ming looked over, the Progenitor looked like a ball of madness who was enveloped by a gigantic Sand Earthling.
More sand kept appearing around the Progenitor. After a moment, that sand turned into a gigantic planet, and in its core was Heaven Traversers' Progenitor.
Muffled booms came from the sand planet, but as it grew larger, the sounds were gradually drowned out. The Sand Spirit's body also shrank, and in the end, what appeared before Su Ming was a gigantic planet with an ancient old man sitting on it.
The old man naturally took the form of the Sand Spirit. He sat there as if he was guarding the planet, suppressing Heaven Traversers' Progenitor, who was trapped inside.
The old man who was the Sand Spirit lifted his head to look at Su Ming and said, "I am already declining. My power grows weaker day by day. I can only help you trap this person for a month…"
His tone was faint, as if his presence was slowly atrophying. An archaic presence mixed with a thick aura of death surrounded him.
"One month is enough." Su Ming lowered his head to look at his body. He was heavily injured at that moment, but he had already accepted these injuries, because the benefits surpassed them in value.
He could sense that his soul was going through a metamorphosis and his Ecang clone had understood plenty of things after the battle. His clone that practiced the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows Whole had also seemed to come into touch with a power that existed in the universe and which only those in Mastery Realm could feel.
His cultivation base clone had also obtained a form of enlightenment during that battle.
Yet the most important thing was that Su Ming was no longer afraid of those in the Mastery Realm. This was incredibly important to him, because in the depths of his heart, he could never forget how he had fled when he was within the territory of the forces of power from the four Great True Worlds keeping a lookout over the Barren Lands of Divine Essence. The Almighty in Mastery Realm had left behind an impression of his strength and how hard he was to fight deep within Su Ming's heart.
This impression was like a seed. Sometime in the future, it would sprout, and when that time came, Su Ming's level of cultivation would retrogress due to the shoots from the seed binding him.
Yet now, the influence ended due to this battle. It was wiped away from Su Ming's heart!
Su Ming turned around and charged towards the distant galaxy. He did not move further into the Heaven Traversers' territory, but headed to the galaxy beyond it, and he traveled so quickly that he was gone in the blink of an eye.
After a moment, as Su Ming charged through the galaxy, he raised his right arm and swung it in space. Immediately, the totem of the Duke of Crimson Flame on his arm vanished, and the person manifested in front of him. He bowed respectfully towards Su Ming.
"Over the course of the next few days, protect me. Act according to the plan I told you previously," Su Ming said faintly. The Duke of Crimson Flame hesitated for a moment before lowering his head and voicing his obedience.
Then, Su Ming patted his storage bag with his right hand. Two arcs, one yellow and one black, flew out and turned into the bald crane and the Abyss Dragon in front of Su Ming. These two creatures had been locked up in his storage bag for quite some years as a punishment for their deeds in Black Ink Planet.
When they appeared, the bald crane immediately lifted its head and started letting out shrill screeches. As it did so, it looked like it was crying.
"Oh heavens, this bloody bastard locked me up for a full twelve years, seven months, and twenty-one days! It's been twelve years, seven months, and twenty-one days since I last saw crystals! I may have sinned, gods in heaven, but don't punish me this way! Next time, lock me up in a crystal… I swear! I swear I will cut all ties with Su Ming! I swear it!"
Once the bald crane finished screaming, it glared at Su Ming. Its expression as it gnashed its teeth exuded a deep hatred born after it had suffered greatly.
"Su Ming, this great, handsome, loaded Grandpa Crane will now part ways with you! We are now enemies! Heh heh, let me tell you, no one can lock me up for twelve years, seven months, and twenty-one days, no…" The bald crane was shouting furiously, but with just one flatly spoken sentence from Su Ming, its voice fell silent, as if its throat was seized.
"An entire race's crystals."
"What? What did you say?" The bald crane shuddered violently, and its eyes immediately went wide. Brilliant light shone in them as they focused on Su Ming.
The Abyss Dragon sighed by the side. As it shook its head, it felt that the bald crane would never be able to escape from Su Ming's palm its whole life. As it thought about it, it thought that it was slightly smarter. At the very least, it did not really like crystals that much.
When it thought about this, the Abyss Dragon instinctively looked at its own belly. Within it were the sparkling treasures it had hidden away during the past few years.
"Didn't you say that you want to cut all ties with me? Go, then," Su Ming said flatly.
"Who said it? Damn it, which bastard said it? I am the best of friends with the great, handsome, and powerful Su Ming. Who wants to drive a wedge between us? Is it you?" The bald crane glared at the stunned and innocent Abyss Dragon standing next to it.
"Didn't you say you want to part ways with me? You can leave now." Su Ming cast the bald crane a sideways glance without any expression on his face.
"Damn it all! Just who was it?! If I knew just who this diabolical person was, I would definitely bite him to death! I would bite his bum! This is too abominable, too shameless! How can such a kind crane like me say such callous words?! Su Ming, we respect each other so much, we love each other so much… No, I mean, we…
"No, there is definitely something wrong in this." Anxiety filled the bald crane's face. As it gnashed its teeth, it whipped its head around and glared at the Duke of Crimson Flame, looking as if it wanted to pounce on him.
"You are the one, you old coot. You're jealous of the beautiful relationship your master and I share, you…"
Su Ming frowned. The bald crane was getting increasingly out of hand with the words it said. He let out a cold harrumph.
The bald crane blinked and immediately grabbed its bald body, looking extremely regretful, but knowing it was too late for it to repent. It stared at Su Ming pitiably.
"O handsome master, o great master, o evil master, this bald crane has committed a wrongdoing. Every single thing that went wrong is my fault, but crystals are innocent. Speaking of, you were talking about an entire race's crystals just now?" Excitement appeared on the bald crane's face.
"Yes, and they are not any ordinary race. They are one of the four venerated races in Divine Essence Star Ocean, and those are the crystals they had accumulated among over the course of countless years," Su Ming replied calmly.
When he said this, the bald crane became so excited that it almost fainted. It hastily went forth and hugged Su Ming's leg while wailing.
"Master! This is a great deal! Don't abandon me and go on your own! I, bald crane, can help you count your crystals! I swear I will not put even a half of one into my pocket! I can even search for those crystals for you! My nose is extremely sensitive, and I'm fast too! Think about it, with how quick I am, I can immediately run once I steal those crystals, and no one will be able to catch up.
"AND I also know how to transform. I can transform into crystals, and no one will be able to tell."
"You really want to join?" Su Ming lowered his head and looked at the bald crane.
The bald crane bobbed its head up and down while staring at Su Ming with excitement.
"You'll have to pay a certain price…" When Su Ming said these words, the bald crane was immediately stunned, and its claws around Su Ming's leg loosened slightly.
"But I can give you a third of those crystals." Once Su Ming said this, the bald crane immediately hugged his legs tightly and refused to let go.
"Two thirds!" it said through gritted teeth, already prepared for Su Ming's haggling next.
"Deal, but you'll have to listen to me completely."
Su Ming nodded without any hesitation. The bald crane was momentarily stunned before its heart filled with slight surprise and bewilderment, but before it could say anything else, Su Ming raised his right hand and patted his storage bag. A buzzing echoed in the air, and the poison wasp with the God Ascension Nectar flew out, then stung the bald crane.
A slight bit of God Ascension Nectar instantly surged into the bald crane's body. Su Ming swiftly raised his hands and tapped a few parts in the bald crane's body. Immediately, a thick wave of God Ascension Nectar's fragrance spread out from the bald crane's body.
This fragrance instantly filled the entire area, and at that moment, endless piercing roars rang out in the originally calm galaxy.
At that moment, the thick fragrance of God Ascension Nectar coming from the bald crane had already turned it… into a thing that would cause all ferocious beasts in Divine Essence Star Ocean to go mad for it!
The Abyss Dragon was originally observing this by the side with the heart of an onlooker for something entertainment, but once it witnessed this, a shudder ran through its body, and it quickly moved backwards.
The Duke of Crimson Flame's pupils shrank as well, and without any hesitation, he grabbed the Abyss Dragon and retreated.
The bald crane was momentarily stunned before it lowered its head and sniffed its body, then immediately let out a shrill cry as if it had gone mad.
"God Ascension Nectar! Damn it, this is… this is Divine Essence Star Ocean, there are countless ferocious beasts in here! I-I!" As it cried, it even forgot its usual act of referring to itself as 'Grandpa Crane'.
"Lure one hundred thousand ferocious beasts, and I will give you seven-tenths of one-tenth of the crystals. Lure three hundred thousand ferocious beasts, and I will give you eight-tenths. Lure five hundred thousand, and I will give you nine-tenths. Lure one million… and I will give you all the crystals!" Su Ming stated flatly.
The bald crane shuddered, then gritted its teeth. It would do it!
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Chapter 956: Attracting Monsters…
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The bald crane shouted out in in a tone as if it was about to risk everything. It screamed in a language Su Ming could not understand. This was the bald crane after it was excited by Su Ming once he said it could obtain all the crystals if it lured one million ferocious beasts.
The bald crane shuddered, but brilliant light shone in its eyes. This light could fuse into the universe, could overturn it, could make a weak being instantly turn peerless in terms of power, and could even make the bald crane go mad.
"Damn it all, I will do it! When a bird dies, its feathers will point towards the sky, but I don't have feathers! I'm destined to not die! I'll do it! I'll definitely do it!"
The bald crane's eyes were bloodshot as it shouted continuously. Those who understood it knew that this was just it boosting its own morale because it had gone into a frenzy due to the stimulation of the crystals, despite the fact that it was incredibly terrified.
However, if those who did not understand it saw the bald crane acting this way at this moment, they would definitely think that this bird… was a mad bird.
As it roared, it even circled around Su Ming, instinctively flopping about. Its screeches grew stronger, causing the Abyss Dragon to widen its eyes by the side, and it looked down on the bald crane for flinging all caution to the wind for crystals.
'Hmph. I am a noble Abyss Dragon. I won't lose my composure in such a manner for such a small benefit. The bald crane looked very smart during our journey, but in truth, it's just an idiot, huh?'
As the Abyss Dragon regarded the bald crane with scorn, Su Ming's voice suddenly reached its ears. That voice immediately stunned the Abyss Dragon, and then, it started shuddering like the bald crane.
"Abyss Dragon, do you want the Dragon Tendon you lost in the past?"
The Abyss Dragon stared at Su Ming blankly, speechless.
"You don't want it? Then forget it."
"I want it! But taking away my Dragon Tendon was the Emperor of Abyss' will in the past. He is a Kalpa Lord who is a Master of Fate, Lives, and Death!"
"The Heaven Traversers are one of the four venerated races. They lived in Divine Essence Star Ocean for many years, so you think there aren't any Masters of Fate, Lives, and Death among them?" Su Ming asked faintly.
The Abyss Dragon shuddered violently.
"I can promise you. When I leave Divine Essence Star Ocean and gain my footing in True Morning Dao World, I will go to the Emperor of Abyss' True World. I will let you reunite with Yu Xuan and seize back the Dragon Tendon taken from you in the past," Su Ming promised calmly.
"… I'll do it! I'll do it!" As the Abyss Dragon shuddered, its eyes turned red. Even in dreams, it thought to seize back its Dragon Tendon so that it would no longer be in this state.
"I don't need you luring those ferocious beasts. You can just run with the bald crane, and the rules will be the same for you. If you lure one hundred thousand ferocious beasts, I will give you seven-tenths. If you lure three hundred thousand, I will give you eight-tenths. If you lure five hundred thousand, I will give you nine-tenths, and if you lure one million… I will give you all of it. And I'm talking about your Dragon Tendon."
Once Su Ming finished speaking, the screeching bald crane stopped moving, and it looked at him with an expression filled with deep emotion, thinking that he was a great person. He was worried about its safety, which was why he sent the Abyss Dragon to be its companion.
"Alright, bald crane. Whether or not you can get those crystals will now depend on you!"
Encouragement appeared in Su Ming's eyes. This was the first time the bald crane saw this, and its heart was instantly filled with excitement. It began to think even more that Su Ming was truly great to it. Blood rushed to its head, clouding its judgment, and the excitement from the crystals caused it to roar. With a single move, it rushed forward.
The Abyss Dragon's eyes had also turned bloodshot. It flew forward swiftly, its goal one million ferocious beasts. After all, what it would receive was not crystals. It did not matter to it how many crystals there were lying about. In the end, they were just crystals, but if a portion of its Dragon Tendon went missing and it only received seven-tenths of it, it would no longer be a Dragon Tendon…
For a period of time, only Su Ming and the Duke of Crimson Flame were in the galaxy. The Duke of Crimson Flame looked at the bald crane and the Abyss Dragon leaving into the distance with a pitying gaze, then shook his head.
Su Ming sat down cross-legged and averted his gaze from the bald crane and the Abyss Dragon to look in the direction of Heaven Traversers. After a long while, he closed his eyes and immersed himself in meditating and training.
Su Ming might not know the full extent of the bald crane's abilities, but he could still somewhat guess that crane's origins. He knew that no matter how many ordeals it went through, it would not die, unless it ran into ferocious spirits that were on the same level as Ecang.
Besides, Su Ming had controlled the poison wasp when it injected the God Ascension Nectar into its body, and the amount in its body was just a tiny little bit. It would not be able to attract ferocious beasts that were on Ecang's level.
Most importantly, Su Ming had left a hint of his Atman in the bald crane's body, so he could learn of all the crane's actions clearly. This was something Su Ming had done intentionally after leaving Black Ink Planet because the bald crane had made itself infamous with the Dual Fiend's name there.
At that moment, when Su Ming closed his eyes, he trained with half his attention on the Atman inside the bald crane's body, just as if he was multitasking. If the bald crane ran into a danger it could not solve, then he would immediately have the Duke of Crimson Flame shift with him.
The bald crane roared, and with a presence that screamed it would not turn back until it reached its goal, it charged forward like a shooting star. As loud whistles were stirred up due to its movements, it rushed forward. The Abyss Dragon followed behind it, and it was just as crazy as the bald crane.
The two old partners could be said to be giving their all, one for crystals, and the other for its Dragon Tendon. With a solemn, tragic air about them as well as excitement, a thick wave of God Ascension Nectar spread out, and like a bright lamp in the galaxy that was as dark as night, they attracted the attention of all the ferocious beasts in the area.
After the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, a muffled roar came from the space before them. Three incredibly huge Void Beasts manifested in the galaxy. They possessed bodies that resembled crocodiles, and once they appeared, they fixed their stares on the bald crane and the Abyss Dragon who passed by them in a flash. With loud roars, these three Void Beasts rushed out to chase after the bald crane.
The fragrance from the God Ascension Nectar had stimulated them so much that they had entered a frenzy.
"Come! Come to me, I've been waiting for you!"
The terror in the bald crane's heart had already reached its peak, but the excitement brought by the crystals had also reached its peak, which was why it continued screeching as it charged forward in its craze, as if it could only provide an outlet for its fears by doing so.
While roaring, the bald crane and the Abyss Dragon turned into two long arcs that charged about in the inner parts of Divine Essence Star Ocean. Gradually, a den of flying snakes that had the bodies of pythons but possessed human faces and wings on their backs closed in while hissing. There were tens of thousands of these ferocious beasts, and their tails were shivering. Their eyes had already turned crimson due to the stimulation by the God Ascension Nectar. With monstrous aggressiveness, they charged towards the bald crane as if they had gone mad.
Some time later, loud booms reverberated in a spot even farther away. Those sounds came from a swarm of speckled poisonous wasps packed densely together, each of which was as huge as an average man. They came towards the bald crane and the Abyss Dragon with a loud buzzing.
The bald crane roared and turned around to change its direction. It charged ahead once more, traveling at the fastest speed it could muster. There were nearly one hundred thousand ferocious beasts behind it at that moment, and they were all chasing after it as if they had gone mad. The moment the bald crane and the Abyss Dragon slowed down even a single bit, those creatures would immediately catch up to them.
"How many?!" The bald crane shouted. Fear had occupied most of its heart at that moment, and the thought of giving up rose in its subconsciousness.
"One hundred thousand!" the Abyss Dragon quickly said behind the bald crane. It was also incredibly terrified, especially of the murderous presence the horde of ferocious beasts exuded. That presence caused it to shudder.
"Damn it all, just this little?"
The bald crane was conflicted. There was not even three hundred thousand of these ferocious beasts yet, and Su Ming might not give it those crystals. Then a thought struck its head: Since it had already become bait, it should definitely not work for nothing.
It gritted its teeth and went charging in another direction. As it flew, it continued roaring fiercely. The God Ascension Nectar's fragrance spread even farther as it continued moving about in Divine Essence Star Ocean.
About an hour later, roars echoed in space, and hundreds of giants walked out. Each of them was nearly one hundred thousand feet tall, and all of them held giant wooden clubs in their hands. They had no eyes on their faces, only huge mouths. Their hair was made of countless thin threads that looked like snakes, and as they spilled over their shoulders, they exuded an incredibly great primitive presence.
Behind them were nearly a hundred thousand ferocious beasts of all sorts of appearances. At that moment, with a madness they had never experienced in their lives, they charged forward like an ocean of beasts coming forth in the form of a tidal wave.
All the roars caused Divine Essence Star Ocean to tremble, and it stirred up a storm that had not been raised for a very long time.
The bald crane shuddered. As it continued flying forward, it shouted out, "How many?!"
"Almost three hundred thousand… Huh?"
The Abyss Dragon had just said half of its sentence when it suddenly stopped. It looked ahead with a terrified gaze. At that moment, the bald crane also saw the galaxy roaring before them. Countless ripples spread out, and they had appeared due to more than tens of thousands of whirlwinds coming into existence.
Each of them was several tens of thousands of feet tall, and they were sweeping forward at a rapid speed. If anyone took a closer look, they would be able to see that there were purplish red things the size of a palm inside. All of them were spinning rapidly, which was how they turned into whirlwinds.
In fact, the galaxy behind them looked as if it had shattered, which was due to black ferocious beasts that looked like elephants that numbered more than a hundred thousand. With a brutal and crazed intent, they charged towards the area.
"Three hundred thousand… four hundred thousand! There are definitely more than four hundred thousand ferocious beasts!" the Abyss Dragon immediately roared. It could not see the end nor the edge of the swarm. There were ferocious beasts in front and after them. There was no end to them, and it was unknown just how wide of an area they occupied.
"Ah! Damn it, why is it only four hundred thousand?!"
The bald crane had almost gone mad. As it roared, it became conflicted again. If it was three hundred thousand ferocious beasts, it would have immediately chosen to bring them to Su Ming and complete its mission without any hesitation, but there were around four hundred thousand of them, and with just a little more, there would be five hundred thousand ferocious beasts, which would mean nine-tenths of the crystals…
The bald crane seized its bald scalp with all its strength. As it gritted its teeth, it let out a loud roar and did not choose to leave. Instead, it chose to change its direction to head deeper into Divine Essence Star Ocean. It sped up madly and charged forward.
The Abyss Dragon too gritted its teeth, then changed its body into that of a huge dog to flee swiftly with the bald crane.
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Chapter 957: Idolization
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In the deeper parts of Divine Essence Star Ocean were three planets. For some unknown reason, they had become connected together in the passage of time.
Xuan Shang and the other three cultivators were cautiously heading forward. Their expressions were of extreme vigilance, and they were occasionally observing their surroundings.
"There's something off about this place. There's a ruthless presence in this galaxy…" the person called Yun You said in a low voice.
"Perhaps it's due to the battle those two terrifying people instigated…"
"Quiet. Based on the marks on the map, Violent Flame Beasts are within these connected planets. The creatures are usually deep in sleep, so as long as we don't bother them, we will be safe."
The four of them fell silent. While their hearts beat nervously, they slowly approached the connected planets. Their actions made it clear that they were aiming for some sort of item in the planets, or else they could have just circumnavigated this place.
"Is the map accurate? Is the Flame Fiend really there?"
"It should be correct. We also saw it when we were on our way here. Now, as long as we can obtain Flame Fiend's blood, we will be able to open the Violent Sun Path leading to the Dust Burners."
The four of them spoke to each other softly while slowly approaching the connected planets. Suddenly, a piercing screech came from the connected planets. The ruthlessness and heat within that voice caused the expressions of the four people to change drastically, and without any hesitation, they retreated, rapidly casting their divine abilities. With nervousness, they prepared for a huge battle.
However, the scene they saw next made the four instantly lose all their will to fight. Terror appeared on their faces, and they brought forth a speed that was equivalent to the one they mustered when they were avoiding Su Ming. They coughed up blood and instantly executed Fleeing Blood, intending to hastily leave the area.
Because they saw…
Shadows of flames rushing out with loud howls from the connected planets. Within them were ferocious beasts in the shape of wolves. They formed large packs and numbered to about one hundred thousand. They rushed out together, and this sight was enough to shock all those who saw it.
Behind them were tens of thousands of human-shaped living beings. Their bodies were enveloped in flames, but there was indeed a person within those flames. However, these people's eyes were gray, and there no sign of life within them. Yet there was no aura of death in them either.
Some of them possessed wings, and some were cultivators. Some of them were members of the tribes in Divine Essence Star Ocean and were part of the alien races. All of them had been killed by the ferocious beasts in these connected planets over the course of countless years, and their bodies had been Possessed by Flame Fiends.
This scene was enough for the skins of the four cultivators to crawl. The shadow of death loomed over their heads and hearts, and even after they executed Fleeing Blood, broken smiles still appeared on their faces. In fact, before they even had the time to regret anything, they already made preparations to self-destruct.
They would rather die than become those puppets and be Possessed by Flame Fiends.
However, the hundred thousand something flame wolves, tens of thousands of puppets Possessed by Flame Fiends, and the flames they brought about in their wake did not even spare a glance at the four people at their doorstep. Instead, as they roared, they charged forward as if they had gone mad.
The four cultivators stood by the side of these ferocious beasts and watched wide-eyed as they were ignored and the creatures left into the distance. The cultivators were completely stunned.
The four of them looked at each other, speechless.
They remained silent for a moment before Xuan Shang mumbled, "What happened?"
"Could it be that a supreme treasure has appeared?!" Yun You immediately exclaimed, and his eyes shone with a bright light.
"That should be the case, or else the swarm of Flame Fiends wouldn't have ignored us."
"Yes, judging by their looks, they were very anxious… All of them must have left their nest!" The four of them exchanged glances, seeing the excitement in each other's eyes.
With shining eyes, they immediately turned into four long arcs that charged towards the connected planets. After a moment, they flew out, and when they did so, excitement could be seen on their faces. Clearly, they had not expected that things would go so smoothly for them.
They had successfully obtained the blood they needed in the connected planets. It might not be very fresh, but it was sufficient.
At that moment, there were two choices before them. They could leave and head to Dust Burners… or search for the swarm of Flame Fiends and see just what sort of supreme treasure it was that attracted these creatures, but there was a danger in the latter choice.
However, cultivators constantly ran into all sorts of dangers in the universe as they continued growing. This was something natural to them. After discussing among themselves in low murmurs, they made their choice.
They turned into long arcs and charged at full speed towards the direction where the Flame Fiends had headed. They wanted to see just what sort of supreme treasure it was. It would be best if they had the chance to obtain it, but even if they did not, it would still be better than avoiding it.
They had already obtained the Flame Fiend's blood and they now had freedom in their actions. If they ran into danger, they would not need to be bothered about anything and could just run at full speed. In fact, they had already discussed among themselves where they would meet if they parted ways.
As the four people charged ahead to search for the Flame Fiends' tracks, they dashed forth at full speed. About two hours later, their footsteps came to an abrupt halt. They had already been stunned once on that day, but now, they felt their jaws falling slack due to shock for the second time.
They heard indescribable roars, and they came from a swarm of ferocious beasts numbering to seven hundred thousand. They were all letting out astonishing roars, and the four cultivators saw a huge ocean in the distant galaxy.
That ocean was formed by ferocious beasts of various types occupying the entire galaxy. Among them were the Flame Fiends, but most of the ferocious beasts there were creatures that the four cultivators did not recognize. Yet the presence and mighty pressure coming from them as well as the feeling they gained from the Flame Fiends were enough to make their hearts beat with fear.
The edge of this sea of ferocious beasts could not be seen. The only thing they could see was… a bald crane that was being chased down in a frenzy at the front of this swarm of beasts. There was also a huge dog behind it, and they were both fleeing at a breakneck speed.
The four cultivators could not help but stare in shock. They watched the incredibly dazzling bald crane in dumbfoundedness as it shook its bum to lure the swarm of beasts in an incredibly coquettish manner.
"Is it in heat?" one of the four cultivators instinctively asked.
Soon, the bald crane's loud cries reached their ears from the distance.
"Damn you all! Come, chase after your Grandpa Crane! I'll trounce all of you! I'm invincible! I'm the greatest crane in the universe!"
Due to extreme terror, the bald crane suffered a mental breakdown. It could only continue shouting so that it would not fall limp due to its fear.
"I've walked through the universe and ran into all sorts of things! What are you?! You're not birds! I am the true bird here… Come! Come on! Make this beast swarm greater! I'll pummel all of you!" the bald crane roared and shook its butt fiercely while flying even faster. The dog that was the Abyss Dragon had already reached its limit while running and was incredibly exhausted at that moment, but it did not dare to relax. The beast swarm behind it made it think that if it relaxed, it would immediately be torn to shreds.
'Well damn me, why have I never discovered that I'm actually so fast?'
Not for the first time, this question rose in Abyss Dragon's mind as it charged forward. It did not know that their speed had been increased as Su Ming's Atman continued circulating in the bald crane's body. This was also one of the reasons why Su Ming dared to have them lure the beast swarm.
Their fatigue was mostly distributed between Su Ming and the Duke of Crimson Flame, or else the bald crane and the Abyss Dragon would have been caught a long time ago.
As the bald crane fled from the roaring beast swarm behind it, it asked loudly, "How many of them now?! Tell your Grandpa Crane!"
"Seven hundred thousand to eight hundred thousand! Maybe a few more or less!" the Abyss Dragon immediately roared.
"Damn it, damn it…" The bald crane was immediately in conflict once more. It did not dare to look back. It was afraid that at the moment it looked, it would faint in terror.
While feeling conflicted, the bald crane swiftly asked, "Say, just how many crystals do you think a venerated race would have?"
"No matter what, there would be around thirty to fifty million…" The Abyss Dragon turned its head back to sneak a glance at the beast swarm behind it, and already regretted promising Su Ming to do this. In its eyes, this was the same as it risking its own life. At just the slightest mistake, it would die here.
"DAMN IT ALL!!!"
When the bald crane heard these words, it was immediately stimulated. The conflict it felt in its heart instantly disappeared, and the light from crystals completely replaced the original shine in its eyes.
"I can get nine-tenths with the beasts I've lured now, so by one-tenth less, I will lose from three million to five million crystals. I won't allow it! I absolutely won't allow myself to lose three million to five million crystals! I'll give it my all! Abyss Dragon, do you want your Dragon Tendon to be missing a portion?! Darn it all, what's a Dragon Tendon when it misses a portion?! That's a belt!"
When the Abyss Dragon heard this, it was instantly furious. "Your tendon's the one that's a belt!"
"I want those three million to five million crystals!" the bald crane roared furiously.
"I don't want a belt!" the Abyss Dragon roared as well. The two old partners looked at each other and charged forward in a mad dash before changing their direction to lure in more hordes of beasts.
The sea of beasts behind them had grown to a monstrous degree. The galaxy trembled as it was swept by what seemed like a windstorm.
When they left into the distance, the four cultivators still continued to stare ahead blankly. They could hear the bald crane's words, but they were incredibly vague, and they were unable to know the details. At that moment, when they looked at where the bald crane had disappeared into the distance, their gazes were filled with terror and shock.
"That crane must be an incredibly powerful existence in Divine Essence Star Ocean!"
"Yes, it must have definitely done something that all of these creatures cannot forgive, that is why it's being chased by such a large swarm…"
"That dog is pretty pitiful. It must have gotten itself accidentally dragged into the mix…"
"But judging by their looks, they don't seem to be too willing. Still, no matter what, they must be very famous beasts in Divine Essence Star Ocean."
"When I have enough power, I will definitely tame a creature like this!"
The four of them exchanged glances with each other, and enchanted expressions appeared on their faces. They appeared to idolize the bald crane incredibly greatly in the depths of their hearts. Clearly, to them, being chased down by a million ferocious beasts in Divine Essence Star Ocean was an incredibly great feat.
That was right, there were already more than a million beasts behind the bald crane and the Abyss Dragon, but since the bald crane did not dare to turn its head back to look, it did not know that the Abyss Dragon… had an inborn, crippling flaw when it came to counting…
This flaw was one that not even Su Ming had noticed. At that moment, sweat broke out on his face, and the Duke of Crimson Flame's face had also turned pale. Only after using their full power were they able to have the bald crane and the Abyss Dragon maintain their speed. However, the duo… had clearly lured a million beasts already, yet they were still luring more…
"Damn it, just what does it want to do?!" Su Ming shouted angrily.
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Chapter 958: The Frivolous Crane
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"Eight hundred thousand something, eh..? No, looks like seven hundred thousand something…"
"Damn it all, we reached seven hundred thousand something just now! Do you know how to count?!"
As the bald crane and the Abyss Dragon shouted at each other, endless dust storms rose in the galaxy in front of them. They were due to meteors that were charging forth, but while these meteors might seem like stones at first glance, all those who looked closely would find that they actually had human faces.
These were clearly stone people. When they curled themselves into a ball, they would turn into meteors. At that moment, they were traveling forth and closing in on the bald crane and the Abyss Dragon. There was no end to them, and they numbered more than a hundred thousand.
The bald crane's eyes went wide. As it let out a shrill shriek, it heard the Abyss Dragon's voice behind it.
"Eight hundred thousand something. This time, I'm certain there are eight hundred thousand something of them. There's no mistaking it."
The bald crane turned around swiftly, and for the first time, looked behind, but when it did so, it nearly fainted. Even though no one would be able to tell with one glance just how many creatures there were, the densely packed and endless swarm of beasts behind the bald crane would allow all those with some experience and knowledge of how to count to be absolutely certain that there… were more than one million creatures.
"Well, damn me…"
The bald crane no longer knew how to express its indignation and grievance. With a loud roar, it charged into the distance. It had already decided that it would no longer lure the ferocious beasts in the area. Since there were already a million of them, then it would leave in the direction Su Ming had told it to go. The bald crane was so fast that it looked like a shooting star rushing through the galaxy.
"There's only eight hundred thousand of them! There's still a little more before we reach one million! Baldy, while you can be content with a few less crystals, I don't want a belt!" When the Abyss Dragon saw that the bald crane was fleeing, it immediately knew what it decided to do and became nervous and extremely anxious.
The bald crane was burning with anger and ignored the Abyss Dragon's words. It honestly did not want to pay any attention to this stupid mutt who did not know how to count and nearly brought about its death.
"Bald crane!" the Abyss Dragon roared.
"You idiot, you stupid mutt, y-y-you… Turn your head around and count properly. I could tell with just one glance that there is at least a million in that swarm of beasts, and you tell me there's only eight hundred thousand?! Do you want to bring about my death?!" The bald crane roared, and without turning its head back, it continued charging forward.
The Abyss Dragon was momentarily stunned before it immediately became perturbed. It remembered that Yu Xuan had once told it that it had some weaknesses when it came to counting…
While feeling awkward, the Abyss Dragon immediately stopped speaking and lowered its head to follow behind the bald crane, charging into the distance with gritted teeth.
At that moment, if anyone cast their gaze across the galaxy, they would see an incredibly magnificent sight. There was a beast swarm that occupied a boundless expanse of galaxy, and it was a swarm rarely seen in Divine Essence Star Ocean. It seemed like there was an ocean roaring, tumbling, and chasing after the bald crane and Abyss Dragon.
There were all kinds of ferocious beasts in the swarm, and even the weakest possessed power in Heaven Cultivation Realm. In fact, some of the powerful beasts even had power equivalent to those in Solar Kalpa Realm, but this was not important. The number of beasts in the swarm would make even the pupils of a normal Master of Fate, Lives, and Death shrink.
When the numbers of a certain group reach a certain extent, the strength of the individuals in the group would no longer play a big role. The presence and impact brought by the entire group would crush all barriers.
In the mid of this, all living creatures and races would have to face the threat of having all of their kind massacred, especially…. when the amount of creatures in this swarm was not just one million. There was actually more than one million and five hundred thousand of them.
Even though there were countless ferocious beasts in Divine Essence Star Ocean and these one million five hundred thousand something beasts were just a small speck of the total that lived in this small area, to Heaven Traversers, who only numbered to one hundred thousand something, this would be a disaster that their tribe had never faced before.
Even after they had lived in the inner parts for countless years, they had never met a swarm like this. In the past, there would only be form a hundred thousand something up to hundreds of thousands of beasts that would attack. This was the limit. There would also only be one kind of creature that attacked them. Hence, the presence brought by a sea of beasts like this, formed by multiple species and many ferocious beasts that usually moved alone, could crush all forms of willpower.
With its obsession with crystals, the bald crane rushed towards Heaven Traversers in long charges, without caring about its own fatigue, with a will that screamed that it would not turn back without getting its crystals, and with a fearless expression akin to the tragic heroes in songs.
The misery it felt was something that only it knew, but compared to crystals, all of this turned into excitement within the bald crane's heart.
"Fifty million crystals! Fifty million crystals… all mine! Damn it all, it's just luring the monsters, right? It's just about attracting these beasts' attention, right?! I've been doing this since ages ago… Huh? Why would I say I'm already used to it?" As the bald crane continued fleeing, it growled, and as it did so… it discovered a familiar feeling!
This was a feeling that made it think that it had often fled with such a large swarm of ferocious beasts in the past. This thought seemed to be buried in the depths of its memories, not able to appear during all other types of life-threatening dangers. Only in certain uniquely familiar situations would it rise up to the forefront of the bald crane's mind.
'Could it be that I often did things that made others bristle in anger, and was always hunted down?' The bald crane blinked in surprise. With its understanding of itself, it seemed like this… was actually highly possible.
As the bald crane mulled over it, it turned its head around and roared based on that familiar feeling it had in its heart. "Come, you bunch of bastards! Come chase after your Grandpa Crane! Did you see it, you bastards?! I can still run!" The bald crane was facing the endless sea of beasts and moving backwards. It even noticed to its shock that it was actually moving faster in this manner…
'Could it be that I truly did this often in the past..?'
The bald crane was feeling slightly excited. It no longer just flew, but as it flapped its wings, it started swaying left and right, flying in a curve. Because of it, it discovered that not only did it become faster, it gradually discovered a feeling in the depths of its heart.
As it cackled loudly, the bald crane even twisted its body. While speaking, it even started clicking its tongue continuously at the swarm of beasts chasing after them with bloodshot eyes, in a manner as if it was spitting in their faces.
"Heh, you bunch of dudes on fire, I just looted your nest and kidnapped the beautiful lass among you, you know?! Come on! Chase after me! I'll trounce all of you!
"You too, you golems! What now? You're even glaring at me! Oh wow~ One of these days, I'll disassemble all of you and use your body parts to build my house! Hmm..? I seem to have done something like this in the past," the bald crane instinctively said. As it did, the familiar feeling became even stronger, and its body became even faster. In fact, its actions became even more practiced. It continued 'striking poses', and a mocking look even appeared on its face without its knowledge.
In fact, it even came to an abrupt halt, and when the swarm of beasts were about to submerge it, it let out a strange cry, shook its butt, cursed, moved its body, and widened the distance between them once again. It occasionally moved by swaying left, then right, and sometimes even used its claws to make provocative gestures. Those movements, those expressions, and those actions had long ago stunned the Abyss Dragon when it saw them.
There were plenty of descriptions that could be used to describe the bald crane at that moment, but if it was to pick the most accurate and direct one, then there were only two choices.
Frivolous…
Despicable crane…
The response to the bald crane's actions were roars that were almost connected to each other. Those roars came from the entire swarm of beasts. Their voices were like waves that shook the entire galaxy.
"Louder!" The bald crane became excited. That familiar feeling had become stronger, and it had even almost forgotten about the crystals. As the swarm of beasts roared behind it, the bald crane began to shout loudly.
The Abyss Dragon watched the bald crane with admiration shining in its eyes. It had never thought that the sleazy crane would have such courage and that it would be able to show such a sight on this day.
Filled with a despicable, frivolous air, the bald crane triggered the madness within the sea of beasts. This was no longer them simply attracted by the God Ascension Nectar. In fact, it could even be said that if the bald crane had acted this way since the start, then even without the God Ascension Nectar, it would still have been able to complete the task Su Ming had given to it… and it might have even been able to lure even more ferocious beasts.
Su Ming opened his eyes in the galaxy and found himself admiring the bald crane's courage. In truth, if he was in that position, he did not believe that he would do any better than the bald crane.
'There are specialists in every single profession in the world. This crane… is an oddball, all right… Could it be that before it lost its memories, it often did things like these?' Su Ming was absorbed in his thoughts.
The bald crane was flying in a frivolous manner in the galaxy. The smug expression and excited look on its face made it seem like it enjoyed luring a million beasts very much. It continued shaking its butt and making provocative gestures with its claws, even occasionally shouting loudly. Coupled with its contemptuous expression, the bald crane became the most dazzling existence in the galaxy. The sea of beasts behind it were driven completely mad and chased after it even more quickly, as if they were no longer chasing the bald crane for the God Ascension Nectar, but were instead charging forward to tear apart that detestable creature alive.
The Abyss Dragon's admiration grew stronger. Several days later, this admiration rose to fanaticism when the bald crane stepped into Heaven Traversers' territory and turned around to let out a loud roar.
"Hey, you bastards, we're here! Trample this place, wreak havoc in this place. No matter what race they belong to, keep the pretty lasses for me! Find all the crystals and treasures here, and then send them all back to Whooping Crane Mountain!
"Damn it all, we're occupying this place!"
The bald crane turned its head around and roared at the sea of beasts. The excitement on its face reached its peak, and once it finished shouting these words, it became perplexed. It seemed like… these words only caused that familiar feeling to become stronger.
ROAR!
The roars from the one million beasts shook the entire galaxy and reverberated through the entire cosmos, rousing countless Heaven Traversers from their sleep. The Abyss Dragon also started roaring loudly while looking at the bald crane with a fanatic expression.
At that moment, those who did not know the details of what was going on would definitely believe that the bald crane was the leader of the sea of beasts… Its presence, its frivolous attitude, and its expression all exuded the temperament of the leader of beasts.
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Chapter 959: What Is Your Dao
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This was a calamity! It was a disaster!
Even if Heaven Traversers were one of the four venerated races, they had never seen a sea of beasts of this size. When all one million beasts rushed into the galaxy that belonged to Heaven Traversers, they were not the only ones who were shocked, even the Sand Spirit sitting on the gigantic ball of sand was left stunned.
The old man stared at the clamoring bald crane with a blank gaze, then looked at the one million beasts behind it, and a wry smile appeared on its face.
He finally understood why Su Ming wanted him to detain Heaven Traversers' Progenitor for one month.
"This crane… I seem to have some impression of it…"
The old man stared at the bald crane and sank into deep thought, but he had lived for far too long, and the number of memories that had accumulated in his mind, so he was unable to locate the right memory and have it surface in his mind instantly. He needed time to recall. Only then would he be able to find the thoughts that were buried in the passage of time.
"Heaven Traverser bastards, come out now and welcome your guests!" the bald crane roared smugly and charged towards Heaven Traversers. The beast swarm behind it roared and surged forward, and in the blink of an eye, they filled an extremely large area.
In fact, the bald crane did not even need to specifically guide them. The swarm of beasts simply destroyed everything that blocked its paths.
The only thing the bald crane needed to do was to continue rushing forward until it reached the end of Heaven Traversers' territory. Then… it would complete its task.
There were around one hundred cultivation planets in Heaven Traversers' territory. At that instant, countless powerful presences erupted forth from them, and tens of thousands of people rushed out. Yet once they saw the sea of beasts in the galaxy, their expressions instantly changed drastically.
The bald crane looked incredibly smug. As it shrieked excitedly, it continued rushing forward. Some time later, a piercing light suddenly appeared around it and the Abyss Dragon. With a flash, the two disappeared.
Su Ming and the Duke of Crimson Flame stood in the galaxy beyond Heaven Traversers' territory. As they watched what was happening in the distance, white light shone beside them. The bald crane and the Abyss Dragon appeared, and almost at the instant they did so, the Duke of Crimson Flame raised his right hand, and a sea of fire instantly enveloped the duo.
Su Ming also swung his right hand. A sealing power appeared swiftly, and with all his and the Duke of Crimson Flame's power, they covered up the God Ascension Nectar on the bald crane.
"Crystals! My crystals!" When the bald crane was Relocated, it was momentarily stunned, then immediately looked at Su Ming.
"When the impact brought by the sea of beasts is over, you can go over and loot all the crystals you want," Su Ming said while looking at Heaven Traversers in the distance. A cold glint shone in his eyes.
"No, I want to go now. What if they take everything away?" the bald crane asked with a slightly worried tone.
"The God Ascension Nectar is still on you. If you go, you'll be walking straight into your death." Su Ming looked towards the bald crane.
"God Ascension Nectar?" The bald crane licked its beak and sucked in a sharp breath. This action immediately caused Su Ming to look at it. In fact, his expression even changed at that instant.
He could clearly sense that the presence of the God Ascension Nectar on its body disappeared the instant it sucked in a breath. In fact, the nectar became completely non-existent, as if it had been completely absorbed.
"This bit of God Ascension Nectar is nothing to me. Look, there's none of that now in me, right?" When the bald crane saw Su Ming's expression, it immediately became smug. It shook its body slightly, and with a swing, it turned into a big yellow dog and even bared its teeth at Su Ming.
The Abyss Dragon was already looking at the bald crane with an incredibly fanatic expression. In its eyes, there was practically nothing the bald crane could not do.
"Hmm? Little Su, why aren't you releasing the seal yet? Let me out. I'm telling you, Little Su, every single breath of my time you waste, several hundreds of my crystals are snatched by other people. Those are my crystals! Mine!" the bald crane shouted out loudly. It knew that it had committed a great meritorious deed and also knew that Su Ming would not berate it no matter what, which was why it was so proud of itself that it began shivering.
Su Ming remained silent for a moment before he opened the seal with a wry smile. The Duke of Crimson Flame also extinguished the flames, completely speechless. Brilliant light immediately shone in the bald crane's eyes, and it charged towards Heaven Traversers' territory.
The Abyss Dragon took the form of a big black dog at that moment and quickly chased after the bald crane. The two mutts were so quick that they charged towards Heaven Traversers' territory with a speed that would not lose to the one they used when they were escaping.
Su Ming could already imagine that the bald crane and the Abyss Dragon's arrival would definitely make Heaven Traversers suffer the heaviest blow in terms of crystals under this disaster.
Su Ming shook his head. As he took a step forward, he too moved towards Heaven Traversers' territory, where all the beasts in the swarm had now surged in. He did not move quickly, but when he stepped into the Heaven Traversers' galaxy, loud booming sounds and roars rang in his ears, moving past him like a wave of impact.
Su Ming arrived at the gigantic ball of sand where the old Sand Spirit was. He stood there and looked at the galaxy in the distance before he closed his eyes.
He might have closed his eyes, but he swiftly spread his divine sense outwards. This was Ecang's divine sense, and it could cover an incredibly wide area.
Su Ming saw an endless number of ferocious beasts. As they roared, having lost sight of the bald crane, and they anger exploded due to what happened before, they began to wantonly destroy everything in the area.
Even though they knew that the bald crane had nothing to do with Heaven Traversers, in their anger, they no longer bothered about these things. It did not matter whether it was the slaughter between the ferocious beasts themselves or the attempted counterattacks launched by Heaven Traversers, all of these things became the tipping point for this disaster.
A bloody stench filled the space and stimulated even more ferocious beasts to go mad. Their charge destroyed the planets one by one, and their slaughter brought damage to Heaven Traversers that they would never be able to recover from.
In fact, even if they were just fighting among themselves, the act of using the place as their battlefield was already enough to bring about great destruction to Heaven Traversers.
This was a disaster, a bloody feast.
In the face of this sort of beast swarm, even powerful warriors in Solar Kalpa Realm would be unable to last. Only a second Master of Fate, Lives, and Death could maybe do something.
Su Ming saw the bald crane moving through the cultivation planets with the Abyss Dragon. They continued changing their appearances repeatedly and took on various looks. Occasionally, they would roar in the beast swarm, and at other times, they would fly out of the cultivation planets in excitement. Sometimes, they would rush into a crowd of Heaven Traversers and snatch their storage bags as the people were too shocked to react.
The duo's actions were incredibly rampant, but they didn't attract too much attention to themselves with the disaster all around them.
Su Ming retrieved his divine sense. There was no longer any need for him to continue watching. Booming sounds were echoing from the ball of sand beneath his feet. They were the incensed roars and outbursts made by Heaven Traversers' Progenitor after his anger reached a boiling point. Clearly, he could sense the changes in the world outside.
"Heaven Traversers have paid the price for what they did in the past." Su Ming opened his eyes. "I know that you can hear me. You are an Almighty Master of Fate, Lives, and Death, and I am indeed not your opponent, but listen well… wanting to kill me isn't something that can be done easily.
"Your tribe has paid the price for what you've done, and I will no longer come to wreak havoc among you again… but if you try to hunt me down, then be prepared to be sealed again and have your race face the disaster of having a sea of beasts slaughter them.
"And if there really comes a time when this second swarm will arrive… then it will no longer be just one million ferocious beasts who will visit you. Instead, I will do everything that I can to lure more monsters and make sure that you are the only Heaven Traverser left. Then, from then on, we will fight until one of us dies!
"This is my threat to you," Su Ming declared flatly. As his voice echoed in the area, it seeped into the sand, falling into the ears of the trapped Heaven Traversers' Progenitor.
Almost at the instant Su Ming's words reached his ears, the roars and booms in the sand disappeared and turned into dead silence.
"You are a cultivator from the world outside. All of you talk about practicing Dao. This Dao is your heaven, and all of you practice the Dao that belong to heaven. You lured these monsters to destroy my race, does it conform to your Dao?!" The muffled voice of Heaven Traversers' Progenitor came from the sand ball with a loud bang.
"Dao…" Su Ming fell silent for a moment before he raised his head and looked at the galaxy.
"I've come into contact with quite a large number of cultivators from the galaxy beyond, and all of the Almighties possess their own Dao. I want to know. What is your Dao?
"You did this for a small matter in the past, your Master hadn't even died. He possesses the fifth stone on his person, and it is only natural that others would want to snatch it. Even if I didn't take action, others would still have tried to snatch that stone.
"And because of this matter, you harbor the desire to exterminate my race a thousand years later. Tell me, what is your Dao?!" As the muffled voice in the ball of sand echoed in space, even the old Sand Spirit sitting down cross-legged and meditating opened his eyes and looked at Su Ming.
He, too, wanted to know what Su Ming's Dao was.
Su Ming remained silent.
"You don't have Dao. You are empty!" The loud laughter from Heaven Traversers' Progenitor rang from the ball of sand. His laughter contained an ancient air as well as delight. As that laughter echoed in space, it shook the ball of sand so much that it started trembling.
"You are a person without Dao, and neither do you have a Dao heart. There are three thousand Great Daos in the universe and seventy nine thousand Small Daos, but you belong to none of them. You might seem to belong to the Killing Dao, but in truth, that is not the case. You also seem like you belong to the Life Extermination Dao, but true life extermination is not like this!
"I lost this battle. Don't worry, I will not go after you and bring trouble to you, because you don't have Dao, and you are not worth my time to kill. Because… in the laws of the universe, those without Dao are equivalent to having no future.
"I will watch you walk towards destruction. I will watch you become lost someday in the future, and continue to be lost until you perish!" The Progenitor's laughter reverberated in space, while Su Ming continued remaining silent.
"What is Dao?" He turned his head around and looked at the old Sand Spirit.
"I am an Ancestral Spirit, and I don't practice Dao. I only know a bit of it… Dao is the guiding principles for your actions as a cultivator. It is the path under your feet. As for the others, I am unable to say it clearly.
"But I do know that only those who possess a Great Dao can become a Master of Fate. Even as an Ancestral Spirit, I have a path given to me by some unseen force in the universe.
"This is not destiny. It's a trail that cannot be described clearly and distinctly. You must tread down that trail and strengthen your Dao heart, only then will you be able to break all walls and head to the end," the old Sand Spirit explained slowly, after having remained silent for a moment.
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