Pursuit of the Truth

by Srtyi

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

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Chapter 992: Shifting the Direction of the Disaster

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Su Ming was not the only one who shifted his gaze to the sixth platform. The other four people also looked over, especially Zhu You Cai. There was even a hint of hesitation on his face. He was incredibly puzzled as to what reason could have made Flame Fiends' Progenitor be the last one to arrive.

As for the white-robed teenager who was the centipede, a dark light shone in his eyes, and when he looked towards the sixth platform, a speculative look appeared on his face.

It could be said that Su Ming's expression was the most normal among the group. He watched the sixth platform shine and waited for Flame Fiends' Progenitor to arrive. He wanted to see whether the Progenitor would dare tell the truth.

The sixth platform shone even brighter, and after a moment, an indistinct figure manifested on the platform. The instant that figure appeared, the yellow-browed man and Reverend Zi Long let out faint gasps of surprise.

Zi Long's eyes focused on the indistinct figure on the sixth platform before he stood up slowly. With surprise in his eyes, he looked towards the white-robed teenager.

His act of getting up and his gaze instantly caused the white-robed teenager to be stunned, and the surprise in Zi Long's eyes especially puzzled him. He could not understand why Zi Long would do such a thing, because to him, the sixth platform did not seem to have anything special.

Zi Long saw the stunned expression on the white-robed teenager's face, then frowned before looking towards Zhu You Cai, but he soon averted his gaze. His eyes lingered hesitantly on Su Ming for a moment before he looked towards the yellow-browed man.

At that moment, the yellow-browed man also rose up. His expression turned incomparably grim while he stared intently at the sixth platform. His eyes shone for a few times, and then he also looked first towards the white-robed teenager who was the centipede before he swept his gaze past Zhu You Cai and Su Ming. In the end, he looked at Zi Long, and their gazes met.

Su Ming watched all of this from the platform in the distance, and while his expression was calm, his heart had already become wary. He had been able to tell earlier that Zi Long and Huang Mei were the strongest. Judging by what happened at that moment, the depth of their power was not in Mastery Realm, but the laws of fate, or else it would have been quite impossible for them to see the change in power in the indistinct Flame Fiends' Progenitor who appeared while the sixth platform shone when the white-robed teenager, Zhu You Cai, and even Su Ming himself were unable to see it.

'The two of them first suspected the white-robed teenager attacking in the dark, making it clear that he is not as he seems. Perhaps it should be said that this person has a trump card that can make both Zi Long and Yellow Brows regard him seriously.

'Then it was Zhu You Cai, and the last one is me, but it seems that the two of them aren't certain of who it was… In fact, they are even suspecting each other.' Su Ming saw all of this clearly. At that moment, his expression was not his usual calm look, but he a shocked expression he put on while he looked at the sixth platform.

Of course, this shocked expression was an act, or else the perpetrator would be a little too obvious.

Zi Long and Huang Mei's unusual behavior also caused Zhu You Cai to stand up. He had a vague feeling that something bad had happened. Almost at the instant this feeling appeared, his expression changed drastically, because at that moment, even he had finally sensed that something was wrong about Flame Fiends' Progenitor, who had now appeared on the sixth platform!

"He-he lost his physical body!" Zhu You Cai said in a low tone, his expression changing.

The white-robed teenager from the other platform had already noticed this. His expression then changed as well. Clearly, he now knew why Reverend Zi Long's expression was so grim, why he looked towards him, and why the yellow-browed man also fixed his gaze on him.

After all, even if the fifth kiln was dangerous, to them, even though there were things that could endanger their lives in the area beyond the third level's border, these dangers were rare and few in between. The real dangers would usually appear more frequently the closer they got to the core.

Even though based on their experiences there were indeed cultivators who disappeared or died in the area beyond the third level's border, there were only one or two who died among those who had truly become Almighties in Mastery Realm.

No one knew the reason behind why those people had died. There was a possibility that they were ambushed and died, and it was also possible that they ran into the rare, dangerous dimensions and died within them.

That was why when they noticed that Flame Fiends' Progenitor did not possess a physical body, their first reaction was that he was ambushed, but there was also a possibility that he ran into one of the rare, dangerous dimensions, which was why he was in such a pathetic state. In fact, they could already imagine that if Flame Fiends' Progenitor hadn't resolutely given up on his physical body, then he would have definitely ended up having his body and soul destroyed.

'Was Flame Fiends' Progenitor ambushed or did he run into a dangerous dimension that forced him to become like this?' This was the thought that appeared in all the people's hearts except Su Ming's during that moment.

Several breaths later, the light around the sixth platform reached its brightest. When it reached a piercing degree, it swiftly darkened, and the exhausted Nascent Divinity of Flame Fiends' Progenitor appeared before the people's eyes.

Huang Mei and Zi Long stared intently at him with a fierce gaze.

As for Zhu You Cai, he sighed in his heart and looked at Flame Fiends' Progenitor with an expression full of emotion.

The white-robed teenager narrowed his eyes, and a faint glint shone within them. Even though it might seem normal, those who understood him would definitely be able to see the darkness in his eyes, along with the hint of greed within there.

It was very quiet in the area. Everyone looked towards Flame Fiends' Progenitor. Su Ming narrowed his eyes slightly, but the calmness and indifference in them didn't allow people to tell what he was thinking.

With the dead silence came an indistinct mighty pressure. It enveloped Flame Fiends' Progenitor, but it did not cause his expression to change. Clearly, from the moment he decided to walk out, he had already thought of all the things he might encounter. He thought about his companions' greed and the dangers he would have to face after he lost his physical body and his power fell.

After all, not only did his power fall, he also only had his Nascent Divinity left. A Nascent Divinity that belonged to an Almighty in Mastery Realm was a great supplement for some cultivators. They could also turn it into the best Vessel Spirit for a supreme treasure.

In fact, there were other uses as well, such as turning it into a puppet or a medicinal core. There were plenty of uses for him, and the level of misery in it was enough to make people regret why they had not died right away.

Everyone was silent. Flame Fiends' Progenitor was also silent. While standing on the sixth platform, he lifted his head to look around him coldly. At that moment, under everyone's gazes, the first one he looked towards was not Su Ming… but the white-robed teenager!

When he looked towards him, a powerful resentment appeared in his eyes. That resentment was so strong and distinct that it was immediately noticed by the others.

The white-robed teenager was first stunned, then his expression changed drastically, because not only did Reverend Zi Long look towards him, even Huang Mei and Zhu You Cai turned their gazes towards him.

"It's not me!" the white-robed teenager immediately shouted and glared at Flame Fiends' Progenitor. "You old fool, what's the meaning of this?! Do you want your entire race to die?!"

Su Ming saw this, and his eyes flashed slightly. A barely noticeable smile appeared on his lips.

'What a diabolical and scheming man you are, Flame Fiends' Progenitor…' Su Ming's smile gradually grew cold.

'He knew that he would definitely be targeted by others as a Nascent Divinity, but he doesn't want to die. If he told the others that he was injured by me, it would bring no benefit to him. It would just make the others wary. After all, it's unlikely for anyone who is wary of me to stand up for him and make things troublesome for me. Besides, he is of the same value as a supreme treasure right now. That's why… he forced down his resentment against me and chose not to say it because he's waiting for others to end up in the same state as he is.

'He directed the target to the white-robed teenager, making the others suspect him. This should be a part of his plan. If I were him, then my next step would be…'

When Su Ming looked towards Flame Fiends' Progenitor, he saw the Progenitor move, and with an incredibly quick speed, he rushed out of the sixth platform as a Nascent Divinity to instantly appear on Su Ming's platform.

This scene drew all the others' attention.

"Fellow Daoist, if you ensure my safety, then I am willing to give you the planet my race calls its home as a price, and I have a deep understanding towards the fifth kiln. I can help you avoid detours. I wonder what you think about it?" Flame Fiends' Progenitor wrapped his fist in his palm towards Su Ming while he stood on his platform.

The others might not know about this, but Su Ming knew about it. The bitterness and grievances in Flame Fiends' Progenitor's heart had to be monstrous while he bowed to him.

'He's shifting the direction of the disaster.' Su Ming's expression remained the same, but he started laughing coldly in his heart.

Flame Fiends' Progenitor had to have a good relationship with Zhu You Cai, which was why he did not want to drag Zhu You Cai into this mess. The one he hated the most was Su Ming, which was why as long as he stayed by his side, the disaster would be brought to him. The Progenitor himself would be a bait to draw the other people's greed to him.

Before he came over though, he first provoked the white-robed teenager, and it could be said that the person who would definitely not let him go easily would be the white-robed teenager.

The actions might have seemed sudden, but when Su Ming thought about them carefully, this was very logical. After all, Su Ming's power was the lowest among the group, and at that moment, the weakened Flame Fiends' Progenitor looked as if he was choosing Su Ming as an equal and it was something that was fitting in other people's eyes.

If he chose other people to protect him, then there was a high possibility that he would be walking straight into his own death.

Flame Fiends' Progenitor lifted his head. When he looked at Su Ming, there was a madness within them that only Su Ming could notice, and this madness was very easy to understand.

If Su Ming refused, then Flame Fiends' Progenitor would do everything that he could, even willingly become a Vessel Spirit for the person who agreed to kill Su Ming. This was him using his death to drag Su Ming down to hell with him.

However, he didn't really want to die, so his intentions were very clear.

He was betting that Su Ming was unable to kill him instantly and betting that the others would follow after them after they stepped into the next dimension.

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Chapter 993: Put up an Act

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The Progenitor was also betting that he could live through this chaos. Besides, there was nothing left for him to lose. Even if he misjudged the situation and no one would follow him into the next dimension he stepped into, causing him to die in Su Ming's hands, then once he disappeared, everyone would know that Su Ming obtained his Nascent Divinity, and because of that, he would truly be able to shift the disaster in another direction.

This situation made it seem as if no matter what Flame Fiends' Progenitor did, Su Ming would still find it hard to not be chased down.

If Su Ming could seal him so quickly that Zhu You Cai could not save him in time and cause others to be unable to take action, then he could be considered to have destroyed this trap. But the prerequisite was that he gave the Nascent Divinity of Flame Fiends' Progenitor to someone else.

However, Su Ming… did not choose to destroy the trap this way, even if he was confident he could do so if he had Progenitor Long Hai bring forth all his power and Su Ming fused it with his Ecang clone.

A faint smile appeared on his lips.

"Very well," he said. Once he said these words, he instantly drew all the people's attention. Under the old monsters' gazes, Su Ming sat calmly, without a single change in his expression.

His words made even Flame Fiends' Progenitor narrow his eyes. The madness in them disappeared, replaced by a hint of uncertainty, but it was soon hidden when he bowed.

"Thank you, fellow Daoist." Flame Fiends' Progenitor forced down the resentment in his heart and was compelled to say these words.

Zhu You Cai frowned and scrutinized the Flame Fiend, then looked at Su Ming before looking away, occupied with his thoughts. As for the others, no one knew what they thought about, but based on their expressions, nothing much seemed to have changed. Only the white-robed teenager who was the centipede cast Flame Fiends' Progenitor a sinister look, then frowned and swept his gaze past Su Ming.

"Words are all empty promises. If you attack me while I am not on guard… It's difficult for me to make my decision, it'll be best if you swear an oath." Su Ming turned his head around and looked towards Flame Fiends' Progenitor. There was a ghost of a smile on his face, along with a calmness within his eyes that no one else could understand. Only Flame Fiends' Progenitor did.

The Flame Fiend hesitated for a moment, then looked at Su Ming, and their gazes met.

"I, Huo Kui, swear by my Nascent Divinity, and the universe bears as my witness. If you are truly willing to ensure my safety, then in the fifth kiln, I will definitely not attack you." Similarly, only Su Ming could understand his words.

This was him telling Su Ming that he only wanted to survive, and if Su Ming truly wanted to help him, then he would put all their previous enmity in the fifth kiln completely behind him.

As Flame Fiends' Progenitor swore his oath, an indistinct connection formed in Su Ming's heart, signaling that the oath had taken effect.

Su Ming nodded calmly. There were no other words exchanged between them. When he began meditating, not a single hint of what he felt could be seen on his face. Even though he knew giving his promise to Flame Fiends' Progenitor was a trap, Su Ming still stepped into it, because he had his own judgments.

If Flame Fiends' Progenitor had not chosen to provoke the white-robed teenager, he would not have bothered, but he had chosen the person Su Ming wanted to kill the most, and because of it, he could be considered to have fulfilled Su Ming's intentions.

"Alright, everyone's here now. Then let's move to the subsequent dimensions. The dimensions in this level will be much more dangerous than before. I hope that all of us will appear on the Spirit Trudging Platforms on the second border and not be buried eternally in this place," the yellow-browed man said coldly.

When he spoke, he lifted his right hand and pushed down swiftly on the Spirit Trudging Platform beneath him. Immediately, light shone, and a vortex appeared under his feet. It looked like a Relocation Rune.

The others followed his actions, and as the vortexes appeared, light blossomed under Su Ming's feet.

Once booming sounds came from the Runes on all platforms, large, tumbling waves immediately rose in the space in the distance. They were the Fire Spirits rushing over when they heard the noise.

Zi Long cast a profound look at Su Ming before he disappeared into the Rune beneath him. Then, the yellow-browed man looked as if he hesitated for a moment before he disappeared without a trace as well.

As for Zhu You Cai, he remained silent for several breaths. When he saw that the space around him was tumbling about even more and shrill roars were coming closer, he cast a glance at Flame Fiends' Progenitor before he moved and disappeared into the Rune beneath him. At that moment, only Su Ming, Flame Fiends' Progenitor, and the white-robed teenager remained on their platforms and did not move.

Su Ming's expression remained the same while he looked to his right.

The white-robed teenager stared back. After some time, when he saw that the shadows of the Fire Spirits had already appeared in the space around them, he let out a cold harrumph and disappeared without a trace. Once he was gone, Su Ming also stepped into the Rune beneath him. Flame Fiends' Progenitor's eyes flashed, and while he hesitated, he gritted his teeth and stepped into the Rune as well.

At the instant the two of them disappeared, the light on platform in which the white-robed teenager had stayed suddenly flowed in reverse, and the youth appeared again.

'My skills with Runes are above those of other people, but how could you peasants know about it?' The white-robed teenager took a step forward and charged towards the platform Su Ming had disappeared into, and when he landed, he entered the Rune there.

Once the people disappeared, a large swarm of Fire Spirits reached the platforms. In the blink of an eye, the filled the space. Shrill screams rose into the air and traveled faintly into the Rune before dissipating.

Su Ming appeared in a land filled with flames. The sky was burning, the earth was roaring, and when he looked over, volcanoes were erupting madly on the ground. Black smoke went up to the sky in billows, as if it could cover the sky, but it could not cover the sea of fire above, burning everything in all directions continuously.

There were rivers on the ground, but the water within them was red. It was not blood, but lava.

Not a single hint of green could be seen on the ground. This was a world of fire.

Once Su Ming appeared, Flame Fiends' Progenitor also manifested behind him. Almost at the instant he appeared, he moved back and maintained a set amount of distance between himself and Su Ming. There was no one else in this place, and he no longer hid the resentment in his eyes while he glared over.

"If you kill me, then everyone will know that you have my Nascent Divinity in your control, and it'll be difficult for you to escape from everyone!" Flame Fiends' Progenitor said in a dark voice.

"Why would I want to kill you?" Su Ming asked flatly and looked at the wary Flame Fiends' Progenitor.

"How would I know why you ambushed me and forced me to explore my physical body explode?! It's because of you that I'm stuck in this predicament!" The resentment in Flame Fiends' Progenitor swiftly erupted on his face. His hatred towards Su Ming had already reached a heinous extent.

"I attacked you because you harbored the intent to kill me. If you didn't direct your enmity towards me, then I would have naturally not attacked you. Destroying your physical body was just a warning. I'm warning you again now: Don't provoke me," Su Ming said calmly. As he spoke, a domineering presence spread out from his body. That presence spread in all directions, stirring up the sea of fire to tumble about even more furiously than before.

Flame Fiends' Progenitor stayed silent and did not speak.

"Since I already warned you and you chose me to protect you, then I will naturally not kill you, but do you want another physical body?" Su Ming asked faintly.

"The choice of a physical body for us Flame Fiends is extremely important. Unless it's a physical body in Mastery Realm, then the effect will be less than us with just our Nascent Divinities.

"That physical body of mine you destroyed was one I obtained after much effort in the past. Now, I have several physical bodies among my people acting as backups, but they are all just in Solar Kalpa Realm. They aren't in Mastery Realm," he began explaining in detail when he seemed to have vaguely come to understand Su Ming's thoughts. A glint shone in his eyes.

"And I am on rather friendly terms with Zhu You Cai…" Flame Fiends' Progenitor said again.

The meaning behind his words might have seemed indistinct, but in truth, it was already very clear.

"You will soon have a new physical body," Su Ming stated slowly. In truth, Progenitor Long Hai also needed a physical body, but Su Ming did not fancy giving him the white-robed teenager's physical body.

"Huang Mei and Zi Long are equal in terms of their levels of cultivation, and since they are both wary of each other, they are held back by each other. Neither of them will attack so easily, but the youth also has extraordinary power. He is also a manifestation of the Heavenly Centipede. I heard that he has the blood of Ancient Wu, which hails from the world beyond the four Great True Worlds… Once he activates his blood, he can activate the channel guiding Ancient Wu to him and turn into the Ancient Power."

Once Flame Fiends' Progenitor finished saying these words, a powerful, resentful aura instantly rose up with a bang in the originally empty spot beside Su Ming. That resentful aura swept through the entire area and caused the flames in the place to spread outwards.

As the resentful aura gathered together, the Resentful Wei manifested. The eyes of the two dragon heads shone with an eerie light as they stared at Flame Fiends' Progenitor, who instinctively took a few steps back.

"If you're added into the mix, will it be enough?" Su Ming asked flatly.

"He is so fast that he can break the universe," Flame Fiends' Progenitor said immediately. His eyes had already brightened up.

"Then let's put up an act so he won't want to run away." As he said these words languidly, killing intent shone in Su Ming's eyes, and he charged towards Flame Fiends' Progenitor.

The Resentful Wei moved, and the black, resentful fire under its hooves tumbled outwards in all directions, instantly filling the entire area around Flame Fiends' Progenitor. Su Ming had already closed in during that time. When he lifted his right hand, he seized the air in the direction of Flame Fiends' Progenitor.

With it, a myriad of thoughts appeared in the head of the Flame Fiend. He instinctively moved back, then opened his mouth to let out a shrill screech. As he did so, the power of his Nascent Divinity shone, and an arm bone flew out of his body. It was illusory, but it crashed swiftly against Su Ming's incoming palm.

Booming sounds rose into the air, and Su Ming took a few steps back. Flame Fiends' Progenitor also shuddered and staggered a few steps back, but he let out a big sigh of relief in his heart. Su Ming might have looked as if he had used his full strength in that strike just then, but in truth, since Flame Fiends' Progenitor had a marginal understanding of Su Ming's true power, he knew that he had not used his full strength.

Flame Fiends' Progenitor took a step forward, and when he attacked again, he sent a divine thought to Su Ming. "How long are we putting up this act?"

"Until he takes action."

"What if he doesn't attack?"

"Then we'll act until no one can tell whether this is true or fake." At the instant Su Ming sent this thought outwards, he lifted his right hand. The weather changed, the sea of fire tumbled about, and a gigantic palm manifested in front of him. It charged towards Flame Fiends' Progenitor with a bang.

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The battle caused the weather to change and the world to roar.

The sea of fire in the sky continuously tumbled about and fell backwards, the fire on the ground spread due to the impact, causing the lava to flow backwards, the air to sparkle in a dazzling manner, the sky to look as if black, resentful flames had sealed off all directions, and Flame Fiends' Progenitor to look as if he could not escape.

As loud, booming sounds spread out, Su Ming executed a myriad of divine abilities, and a different atmosphere gradually appeared as Flame Fiends' Progenitor continued acting in this farce of a fight.

He harbored a grudge towards Su Ming since the start, and no matter how many explanations Su Ming provided, it would be difficult to dispel that grudge. Originally, he had it suppressed, but at that moment, as they attacked, this resentment could no longer be suppressed. It fused into his attacks, causing the world to tremble in the mid of the booming sounds brought about as they fought.

As time trickled by, the two of them did not fight in one area, but instead continued moving forward as they battled in the sky. Yet no matter how much Flame Fiends' Progenitor attacked, he was still surrounded by the black, resentful flames, and that sea of fire was continuously shrinking. Each time it shrank to the greatest limit, it would force Flame Fiends' Progenitor to use his divine abilities to strike it, and only then could he send the resentful flames back once more.

The white-robed teenager still did not appear, but in truth, there was a figure hiding in lava on the ground since a long time ago. This figure was not big, only the size of a finger. It was a red centipede.

It was in the lava and did not stand out. No one would be able to notice its existence.

Through the lava, it saw Su Ming and Flame Fiends' Progenitor fighting in the sky. Its eyes shone, but it did not choose to show itself or attack. It wanted to first judge whether this was an act trying to lure him out.

It might have chased after them, but it always thought that there was some form of connection that it did not know between Su Ming and Flame Fiends' Progenitor.

While it waited, the battle between Su Ming and Flame Fiends' Progenitor became even fiercer. In fact, there were a few times that flames from the Resentful Wei almost caused the Nascent Divinity of Flame Fiends' Progenitor to be destroyed.

However, the centipede still did not attack. Instead, there was a cold look in its eyes, along with a hint of derision.

'What a fake act, and they have managed to act till now? The black horse only traps him and does not join the battle. There's something off about this. It's certain that they're trying to lure me out.' The centipede who was the white-robed teenager thought like this as he let out a cold harrumph.

Three days later, Su Ming and Flame Fiends' Progenitor were on a volcano. The divine abilities they used as they fought against each other were endless. Booming sounds spread all around. The Nascent Divinity of Flame Fiends' Progenitor was incredibly exhausted. In fact, there were several times when he wanted to escape, but he was swept up by the black resentful flames, forcing him back.

He also noticed that Su Ming's attacks were getting fiercer. His power was no longer like it was a few days ago and was continuously increasing. This caused Flame Fiends' Progenitor to immediately have endless thoughts spring in his mind.

'Could it be that he wants to kill me, and this isn't an act…' Flame Fiends' Progenitor could not decide. In fact, he could not tell clearly whether Su Ming truly wanted to lure the white-robed teenager or whether… he wanted to kill him.

'But if he wanted to kill me, he could have done so easily when he attacked at the start. Why drag on until now?' Flame Fiends' Progenitor became uncertain again.

Just as he thought that, Su Ming took a step forward. He lifted his right hand, and a huge mountain manifested in the air. That mountain was naturally Dao Avenue Mountain, and it charged towards Flame Fiends' Progenitor.

When it was about to close in on him, the Flame Fiend let out a low growl, then formed a seal with both his hands. His Nascent Divinity immediately changed and turned into a soaring bird that swiftly flew into the sky.

However, at the instant he flew up, a dark light shone in Su Ming's eyes. He formed a seal with his left hand, and the shadow of the sun, moon, and stars shone in his eyes. Immediately, the entire sky above Flame Fiends' Progenitor darkened as the world rumbled. The sea of fire spread out. A huge face appeared swiftly in the sky.

It was an illusion, Su Ming's Illusion of Stars, Sun, and Moon. It was the power which would exist if someone believed in it.

That face belonged to the body of the supreme treasure Su Ming controlled. Once it appeared, it opened its mouth wide and sucked in a sharp breath in the direction of Flame Fiends' Progenitor.

The expression of the old man changed drastically. When he moved back, he spread his arms outwards, and immediately, his Nascent Divinity changed again into a gigantic python. The python hissed, then curled up into a Rune, but at the instant he formed the Snake Rune, the Resentful Wei around it formed a sea of fire that tumbled backwards swiftly. The black flames, along with Dao Avenue Mountain as well as the gigantic face in the sky rushed towards Flame Fiends' Progenitor.

The expression of Flame Fiends' Progenitor changed again. He could sense a powerful killing intent, and it caused his Nascent Divinity to tremble. At that moment, he had no time to think about whether this was an act. The giant python he turned into immediately spread out and crashed into the incoming resentful flames with a bang.

As the resentful flames spread out, Su Ming's Dao Avenue Mountain closed in. The giant face in the sky pushed down, and Flame Fiends' Progenitor let out a roar that shook the sky. His Nascent Divinity shrank and turned into a huge ball of light. When they crashed into each other, the ball of light spread out rapidly. This was Flame Fiends' Progenitor using the essence within his Nascent Divinity. It was the first time during these three days that he did not hesitate to use his own Nascent Divinity to fight against Su Ming.

Booming sounds surged into the sky, causing cracks to appear in the sky and the ground to shatter. Amid these loud bangs, the face in the sky shattered, Dao Avenue Mountain collapsed, and Su Ming froze for a moment in midair. Flame Fiends' Progenitor retreated swiftly and turned back to human form, his Nascent Divinity had become incredibly dull.

"What are you doing?!"

Flame Fiends' Progenitor had a dark expression on his face, but he did not say these words outright. Instead, he sent his divine thought to Su Ming while he retreated swiftly. However, at the instant he retreated, the sea of fire formed by the Resentful Wei swept up and prevented him from leaving. Killing intent also spread out from those resentful flames. It and the obstruction formed by the flames immediately let Flame Fiends' Progenitor realize that he… could truly no longer escape from the ring of flames formed by this resentful aura!

After all, Flame Fiends' Progenitor had intentionally made it seem that he could not escape the previous few times. If he truly wanted to leave, he could have done so by sacrificing some of his essence, but now… he realized in shock that he… truly could not escape.

This realization also allowed him to see that this was not an act they put to lure the white-robed teenager to attack. This was… Su Ming wanting to kill him!

As for why he had not immediately attacked a few days ago, it was because he could still make his Nascent Divinity self-destruct. Once he self-destructed, Su Ming would not be able to get anything yet the others would have the mistaken notion that he was hiding the Nascent Divinity of Flame Fiends' Progenitor.

That was why Su Ming had used his words to deceive him. With this method and with the excuse of luring the white-robed teenager to attack, he slowly made him waste away his essence and… gradually lose his power to self-destruct. At that moment when he could no longer self-destruct, he was so exhausted that he even lost the right to self-destruct.

"Who are you?! There is no way for you to be an unknown person when you're so diabolical!" Flame Fiends' Progenitor roared as madness appeared in his eyes. He gathered his essence without stop, but to his grief realized that he had really wasted most of his essence during the past few days.

"You destroyed my physical body, then lied to me saying that you wanted to lure the Heavenly Centipede here, yet your true goal was always my Nascent Divinity! That Heavenly Centipede didn't even come here!"

Su Ming looked at Flame Fiends' Progenitor without speaking, then his attacks became even fiercer. The speed and rate of burning of the resentful flames around him also became much greater.

This scene was seen by the white-robed teenager hiding in the lava. He was at first uncertain, but that uncertainty was soon followed by a smile. At that moment, greed appeared in his eyes.

'What a diabolical person. He actually used this method to prevent Flame Fiends' Progenitor from self-destructing before he could obtain his Nascent Divinity. This method is incredibly sinister and vicious… but I like it!

'Looks like this isn't a trap. It seems like I've been overthinking it. If that's the case… then I'll let you know that… the words you used to lie to Flame Fiends' Progenitor… are actually real!'

The white-robed teenager's eyes flashed, but he soon forced down the greed in his heart and continued observing them. He was a skeptical person, and unless he was completely certain, he would not appear.

Flame Fiends' Progenitor had anger raging within him, but there was also despair along with it. His madness reached its peak, but by then, he had even lost his right to self-destruct. He knew that if he tried to self-destruct, he would not be able to succeed… but he still wanted to try!

"Even if I die, I still won't become a Vessel Spirit under your control!" As Flame Fiends' Progenitor roared, all his essence swiftly started boiling, and the explosive presence of self-destruction spread out from his body, but right at the instant it happened, Su Ming's eyes shone. With a step forward, his power instantly rose, and he fused with his Ecang clone, but he did not have Long Hai offer his power. Yet even so, it was enough to overpower Flame Fiends' Progenitor, who had lost his physical body.

The resentful flames formed by the Resentful Wei around the area also tumbled back. If anyone looked from the ground, it could be seen that when the resentful fire in the sky tumbled backwards, there were countless shadows of Resentful Weis in them, as if there were endless horses galloping about. In the blink of an eye, they swept towards the self-destructing Flame Fiends' Progenitor.

With a bang, the self-destruction of Flame Fiends' Progenitor and the resentful flames crashed into each other, then he froze. To his grief and despair, he realized that his Nascent Divinity was filled with resentful aura. It came from the charges from the resentful flames during the past few days.

The instant the self-destruction of his Nascent Divinity came to a halt, his body was occupied by the resentful aura. The resentful flames around him surrounded and trapped him in layers, like a seal, and Su Ming closed in on him with a step. He lifted his right hand, and a dazzling light shone in his palm. It was the light from the Soul Sealing Art, the one that belonged to Hua Yu from Xuan Shang's group.

The palm was about to land. Once it did, Flame Fiends' Progenitor would lose his consciousness, and perhaps he would never wake up again. Despair, grief, and madness turned into his last thoughts.

At the instant Su Ming's palm was about to land, a mighty power erupted from the ground, and a ray of white light instantly shot out. It was a centipede that was completely white, and this time, in contrast to the previous black centipede, it exuded a mighty power.

That centipede was so quick that it instantly rushed into the resentful flames. As a long string of laughter echoed in the air, he charged towards Flame Fiends' Progenitor in front of Su Ming and instantly pounced on him.

Needless to say, that centipede was the white-robed teenager. At that moment, he was completely certain that he… did not fall into a trap!

But did he truly not fall into a trap? Su Ming's lips curled up into a faint smile the moment the white-robed teenager stepped into the resentful flames.

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Chapter 995: Peak of Mastery Realm

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"Fellow Daoist, please don't bear a grudge against me for this. I'll be kindly accepting this old man's Nascent Divinity." A long string of laughter echoed in the air. The white centipede instantly appeared in front of Su Ming, and he was so quick that it seemed as if while his words were still in the distance, his body had already arrived like an afterimage. He opened his mouth in a hideous fashion to bite into the extremely exhausted Flame Fiends' Progenitor whose Nascent Divinity's essence had already been mostly wasted away.

When Su Ming saw that the white centipede wanted to devour the Nascent Divinity of Flame Fiends' Progenitor, a fierce look instantly appeared in his eyes. He had been waiting for this chance for a long, long time, and this cautious as well as cunning centipede had finally fallen into his trap. This was truly him using Flame Fiends' Progenitor as bait to lure him forward.

So how could he let that centipede just devour him?!

At the instant the piercing cold light shone in Su Ming's eyes, his power erupted in a frenzy. This was the power after Su Ming had his Ecang clone fuse completely with the supreme treasure's body. Under Su Ming's will, Progenitor Long Hai also brought forth all of his power and fused it in, creating the most powerful force Su Ming could muster at that moment!

He was no longer infinitesimally close to the power that belonged to Masters of Fate, Lives and Death. This was… the true power of Mastery Realm, and he was not just a normal Almighty in Mastery Realm. Instead, he had already reached the terrifying power of those at the peak of Mastery Realm!

After all, Progenitor Long Hai was an Almighty who was already near the peak of Mastery Realm. Because of it, when all the other people's power was added into the mix, they could bring forth the peak of Mastery Realm!

It was difficult to call this level of cultivation as being in Mastery Realm. This was already… half a step into Fate Realm! If Su Ming could understand fate, then he would reach the Fate Realm. He would be the same as Heaven Traversers' Progenitor, but his true power could far surpass that of that person.

As for fate… even if Su Ming did not understand it himself, he still had the three-leafed grass, and since this item could let the one thousand feet tree execute the power of fate, then it was naturally the rare type of treasure which had the same effect as Heaven Traversers' legacy treasure.

The body created by Xuan Family's supreme treasure, this extremely powerful, law-defying treasure forced Su Ming to admit that he was tempted. He was not just slightly tempted, but incredibly tempted to obtain it!

The offensive power at the peak of Mastery Realm turned into a mighty pressure, and at the moment it erupted from the body of the supreme treasure Su Ming controlled, wind rose, clouds surged, weather changed, and even the sea of fire that surrounded this world tumbled backwards.

A shocking scene appeared in the sky. The sea of fire tumbled about as if there was an invisible hand that swept it aside, as if the fire in the sky had turned into a veil, and when that hand lifted it, it revealed the sky after the flames had burned it!

The ground trembled furiously. Cracks appeared as it shattered. Booming sounds reverberated ceaselessly in the air, and a large number of volcanoes instantly collapsed. Lava flowed through the land while roaring, but an invisible gust of wind blew past it, and it instantly froze.

It was as if the world, the sky, and the earth had frozen up under the mighty pressure from the power brought by the peak of Mastery Realm that belonged to the body of the supreme treasure Su Ming controlled.

Almost at the instant that power erupted from Su Ming, the white centipede who intended to devour Flame Fiends' Progenitor had a swift and drastic change in his expression. Disbelief and shock appeared on his face. Even though Flame Fiends' Progenitor was by his mouth, he instantly felt chilled.

'A trap! This is a trap!'

The centipede was screaming at that moment, but he did not have time to think about it. With one move, he let go of Flame Fiends' Progenitor's Nascent Divinity, which was already by his mouth. Instead, he moved, about to use the speed it was proud of and which even the Almighties in Mastery Realm would have a headache with to instantly escape…

But Su Ming had taken precautions against this. It could be said that the real goal of his trap was to suppress the centipede's speed. How could Su Ming let him escape? Almost the instant the centipede was about to flee, the black resentful flames in the area tumbled backwards with a bang, and Flame Fiends' Progenitor also let out a furious roar to rush towards the white centipede.

The reason why he chose to rush out even though he was in a horrible condition was because Su Ming had said a few words to him at that moment.

"Do you want to make this act real, or make this real thing happening right now into an act?"

The white centipede let out a piercing roar. With one move, he was about to rush out of the resentful fire, but at the instant he touched it, the resentful fire at the spot he touched manifested into the Resentful Wei. It charged straight into the centipede.

Booming sounds surged into the sky. The Resentful Wei let out a loud roar. As it moved back, a powerful hatred appeared in its eyes. The resentment in the two dragon heads was incredibly great, and a great amount of resentful fire burst out.

"Wei… You are the manifestation of Ancient Wei's soul!"

The white centipede was also forced back by the impact and instantly turned into the white-robed teenager. Disbelief appeared on his face, and there was even a distorted tone in his piercing voice.

His expression changed drastically. He had harbored incredible hate towards Su Ming's black horse earlier but was unable to find the source of that hate. Yet during the clash just then, both of their presences were forced out of their bodies. Because of that, he immediately found the source of his hatred.

This was… Ancient Wei's presence. It was an ancient arch nemesis that had hidden since the beginning of time in the white-robed teenager's blood!

The three ancient kingdoms had waged constant war. Their hatred towards each other was branded into their people's souls, and as it was transferred through generation after generation, their descendants fought and killed each other generation after generation. If they did not destroy the others' country, they would definitely not stop!

"You are… a Resentful Wei!" The white-robed teenager's expression was incredibly sour. There was also madness on his face. He could not see any flaws in this situation. It had been his greed that tempted him to step into this trap.

In truth, even though the Resentful Wei was also in Mastery Realm, it was an inferior life form compared to the white-robed teenager. After all, the white-robed teenager could take human form, while the Resentful Wei could not. After all, the teenager possessed the blood of Ancient Wu, while the Resentful Wei was a life form formed by Ancient Wei's resentment.

However, during the battle Su Ming had waged for the past few days, the Resentful Wei had executed its power continuously. It had already changed the laws in this place. As they changed and the Resentful Wei burned the area, it could be said that a powerful prison had been formed in the place.

It would have been fine if that jail had been left alone, but once it started shrinking, then even with the white-robed teenager's speed, he would not be able to rush out within a short amount of time. At the instant he moved back, Flame Fiends' Progenitor pounced on him. The madness on his face was no less than that on the white-robed teenager. When he rushed out, there was a look on him that made it seem as if he wanted to die together with him.

Su Ming had made his point very clear with his words just then. If he did not take action, then he would make the conclusion to make the act real! After such words, how would the old man not use his full strength? Even if he was already extremely exhausted, he still rushed out as if he had gone mad.

There was also bitterness in his heart. He knew that he had completely outclassed by Su Ming this time. If the white-robed teenager had insisted on not coming out, then he would have ended up truly dead.

Even if the white-robed teenager appeared and he obtained his physical body, since he had already used up too much essence of his Nascent Divinity, he wouldn't be able to have his full power erupt for a short period of time. At the very least, while he was in the fifth kiln, he would only… be able to bring out power that was little different from his Nascent Divinity.

It could be said that Su Ming had not suffered any losses in this battle, but had obtained a great amount, and due to the situation that he had planned, he seized the upper hand. No matter how things developed, he would definitely not suffer any losses.

'These sorts of schemes, these kinds of diabolical plans… This person doesn't even bother with principles, and he's not a kind and merciful person. He's one of the fiendish, demonic, heartless people who are temperamental and suddenly turn hostile. Why did I think about provoking him? Damn it, I'll definitely not provoke this person again!'

In bitterness, wariness rose in Flame Fiends' Progenitor towards Su Ming. It even surpassed what he felt when Su Ming had destroyed his physical body. That wariness and respect that came from his heart and soul made him unable to harbor any intentions to exact revenge on Su Ming at all.

He did not dare.

The madness within Flame Fiends' Progenitor and his desperation caused the white-robed teenager to be unable to help but freeze for a moment.

If that was just this, then it would not have been able to make the white-robed teenager to descend into frenzy, but Su Ming exuded power that belonged to those in the peak of Mastery Realm at that moment, and it was enough to make the white-robed teenager break down in this situation.

At the instant he was held back by Flame Fiends' Progenitor, Su Ming lifted his right hand and threw a simple punch forward, but that punch was a punch that belonged to those in the peak of Mastery Realm.

The world crumbled, and all things in the world roared. The volcanoes on the ground shattered. The vortices in the sky looked as if space had been shattered. At the instant the punch was hurled forward, it brought about a great sense of danger to the white-robed teenager. He wanted to dodge, but Flame Fiends' Progenitor held him back in a frenzy, and the resentful fire from the Resentful Wei shrank and closed in while tumbling about and surging into the sky. The loud bangs caused the white-robed teenager to let out an indignant roar in despair.

Su Ming's punch landed on the air in front of the white-robed teenager. As the air distorted, the youth coughed up a large mouthful of blood, and as his body tumbled backwards, Flame Fiends' Progenitor remained stuck to him. He instantly burned up. The Resentful Wei closed in, its resentment surrounding the youth like venom, and it corroded his body, inside and out.

"Fellow Daoist, please forgive me. I've been reckless in this, but I only wanted to kill this damn Flame Fiends' Progenitor. I didn't have any form of hostility towards you. Fellow Daoist, could you let me go this once? I'll remember this for the rest of my life and will definitely repay you!" the white-robed teenage said swiftly with a pleading look in his eyes as he moved back in a disheveled state. His whole body was enveloped in flames and resentful aura. His skin withered, and black spots appeared on it.

What answered him were not words. Instead, with an aloof expression, Su Ming took a step forward, then lifted his right hand and struck with his palm to deliver an attack that caused the world to roar as if it was going to crumble!

A strike… in Mastery Realm!

It was a palm that covered the entire sky and earth. It manifested in front of Su Ming, then swept through the sky as well as the ground. With a presence that could destroy everything, it aimed to destroy the world.

"There's no enmity between us, yet you really intend to kill me?!"

The white-robed teenager retreated swiftly, but he could not escape from Flame Fiends' Progenitor's frenzied pursuit and the attacks from the resentful fire behind him.

"No enmity?" Killing intent shone in Su Ming's eyes, and his right hand swung down.

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Chapter 996: Ancient Wu Shocks the World

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"You're pushing this too far!"

Once the white-robed teenager heard Su Ming's words, he was momentarily stunned, then he lifted his hands to strike his chest while roaring madly. This strike caused his bones to let out cracking sounds.

"Blood of Ancient Wu, I call upon the spirits of my ancestors to descend on me, and I will burn my blood to inscribe the will of Wu on me!" The white-robed teenager threw his head back and roared. At the instant he did so, the sky became cloudy.

Tumbling fog could be faintly seen above. It spun around in the mid of loud booms, until it turned into a gigantic vortex that replaced the sky. It didn't stop spinning then, and a vast, mighty pressure descended on the ground.

Soon, a gigantic golden pillar of light that was thousands of feet wide and born in an unknown place came out of the vortex. It descended on the ground to envelop the white-robed teenager.

At the same time, Flame Fiends' Progenitor let out a shrill scream of pain. His body started tumbling backwards as if it was evaporating. Only when he retreated thousands of feet back did he stop disintegrating. Fear appeared on his face. It was a look of pure terror.

He could clearly feel that there was a horrifying power within the golden light that appeared just then, and it was a power that could even kill Masters of Fate, Lives, and Death.

Thankfully, its area of effect was not big, or else Flame Fiends' Progenitor would have definitely died.

As for the Resentful Wei, under that golden light, a large amount of black smoke started spreading out from its body. Once the smoke distorted, it turned into indistinct figures. They lifted their heads and let out soundless screams towards that golden light.

The figures might look indistinct, but the hatred in them was obvious at first glance, as well as the golden light's disgust and madness.

The hatred was especially deep in the Resentful Wei. It roared towards the golden light and looked like it wanted to crush whatever was at its end!

Su Ming shuddered. When the golden light enveloped him, a cold chill filled his heart. That chill came from the golden light and seemed to be able to seal even a soul. However, Su Ming's current body possessed the offensive powers of those in the peak of Mastery Realm. He retreated one thousand feet away.

But even if he retreated, shrill screams of pain from Xuan Shang and his group rang out within the body of the supreme treasure. Just being enveloped by the golden light for a moment had severely injured their hearts and souls.

Brilliant light shone in Su Ming's eyes. He lifted his head and looked at the foggy vortex in the sky, from which the golden light was coming.

"I burn my blood and borrow the power of the ancient kingdom. Spirit of Wu, descend on me!"

As the white-robed teenager in the golden light roared madly, his body started withering swiftly while numerous veins popped up on his skin. Bumps swam about within them. It was all the blood in his body tumbling about, as he was swiftly turning gold.

In a dimension at the third border within the fifth kiln was Reverend Zi Long sitting cross-legged on a meadow. There were endless weeds swaying around him. The sky was black, but it was this black sky that caused the weeds to exude a boundless, bizarre air amid the rustling sounds.

Reverend Zi Long's expression was calm. The moment the golden light appeared, the black sky was replaced by gold. It illuminated most of the land. Shrill screams of pain instantly rang out in the air, and it could be seen that there were spiders the size of a fist in the weeds.

They disintegrated under the golden light. Screams of pain reverberated in the air, but it did not attract any attention from Reverend Zi Long. He stared at the sky. He had already stood up, and as the emotions in his eyes changed swiftly, he sucked in a deep breath.

"The power of Ancient Wu… Who… forced fellow Daoist Wu into such a pathetic state that he would spare no pains in burning his soul to borrow the power of the spirits of Ancient Wu?!"

At the same time but in a different dimension, the yellow-browed man was striding forward on the ground. A large number of ferocious beasts in the shape of bears were in front of him, but the man was not bothered by them. Wherever he went, the skulls of the ferocious beasts would be crushed. Their brains would gush out and fly towards the man. When he sucked in a breath, their brains would all be sucked into his mouth.

He was chewing when the sky suddenly brightened and a piercing golden light swiftly covered it. This golden light was very distinct and did not dissipate. The yellow-browed man's footsteps came to a swift halt, and when he lifted his head, his expression instantly turned incomparably grim.

"The power of Ancient Wu…"

At the same time, Zhu You Cai was about to step out of a dimension through the exit when his gaze was attracted by the golden light that suddenly appeared in the sky. When he looked at it, his body swiftly came to a halt. His expression changed constantly, and he fell silent without saying a word.

If this was just a drastic change in the fifth kiln, it would not have caught others' attention, but now… a powerful golden light had completely enveloped the fifth kiln. That golden light that was sent into the kiln… had come this way!

The direction from which the golden light came was not the depths of the galaxy, but from above it!

It came from above the endless galaxy!

Because of it, it wasn't just a few people who saw the golden light. Even though Dust Burners had disappeared from the galaxy, they were still around. Thus, they saw the golden light descending from above the galaxy. They also sensed a powerful, mighty pressure coming from within it.

Dust Burners, Virtue Rooters, and even Reng Wu Race saw that golden light.

Deeper into the inner part of Divine Essence Star Ocean were countless ferocious beasts. They were hiding from the sea of fire formed by the fifth kiln, but the instant they saw the golden light in the galaxy, their hearts were in shock.

Those in the region between the inner part and the periphery of Divine Essence Star Ocean also saw it. In fact, the tribe members of Ninth Tribe also saw the golden light while they were in the region in the periphery!

It was a pillar of light swiftly descending from above the galaxy, like a straight line!

In fact, those in Black Ink Planet could also see it clearly. Even the… forces of power from the four Great True Worlds keeping watch over the Barren Lands of Divine Essence could see it!

Within the forces of power from the four Great True Worlds were the Almighties who were in isolation all year long. At that moment, they walked out of their training grounds, and when they looked at the golden light, different expressions appeared on their faces.

"This is the power of Ancient Wu from fellow Daoist Wu…"

"What sort of danger did he run into that he brought the Ancient Wu's spirit here? Based on what I know, when he uses this power, he is unable to handle it. His blood is… too thin."

Farther away was the territory beyond the Barren Lands of Divine Essence. The people there could not see the golden light, but if there were those who had sent their divine senses into the Barren Lands of Divine Essence and pushed them continuously upwards, then based on different levels of cultivation… perhaps there would be some who could see the end point.

The spot where the golden light came from was the end of the area above the galaxy. Over there… was a foggy vortex. It was the exact same as the one seen in the fifth kiln. If there was anyone who had enough power, then perhaps their divine sense would allow them to see through the end of the vortex above the galaxy, and… a new galaxy there.

That was the galaxy… that belonged to the three Ancient Kingdoms.

The golden light came from the galaxy that belonged to Ancient Wu. The source… was a planet in the shape of a pentagram located at the edge. At the center of this planet… was a gigantic blade that was pushed into the planet!

Golden light shone through the entire blade. Under it was a centipede's carcass that was the size of three fingers' breadth. It had long withered away and was now lying there without moving.

It was the blade's light that shone through the endless space and descended on the fifth kiln. In the world where Su Ming was at that moment, he saw with his own eyes the white-robed teenager's body turn golden under the light. A fathomless, mighty pressure continuously grew stronger within him.

"The power of Ancient Wu…" Su Ming's eyes shrank. His expression was calm as he frowned when looking at the ground. He had noticed faintly that there seemed to be a presence waking up down below.

In the depths of the endless volcanoes was a world that was rarely ventured into, and was one that Su Ming hadn't noticed even after he'd been fighting against Huo Kui for several days.

It was an underground maze formed by countless tunnels densely packed together. In the depths of it was an incredibly spacious cave.

This place was completely dark. But if there had been light there, then it could be seen that… Fire Spirits were sleeping there while a weak wave of heat exuded from their bodies, but there was no light coming from them!

They overlapped one another. There was no end to them, possibly tens of thousands of them packed together. There were big ones and small ones among them, and there were even those who exuded the presence akin to those who were Masters of Fate. This was… clearly a Fire Spirits' nest!

In the depths of this underground cave where tens of thousands of Fire Spirits slept was a skeleton that laid at the end of the cave. This skeleton leaned against the wall, and no one could tell how many years it had been since its owner had died. His robes had decayed, leaving only his bones.

But not even the skeleton remained whole. Only his upper half was left. In one of the hand's was a long, purple spear. Even if this person had died, they still held the spear tightly in their hand.

This bizarre cave, peculiar skeleton, and the spear in the skeleton's hand were hidden in the depths of the ground. No one could say how many years they had gone unnoticed by others, since no one ever came to this place.

Yet at that moment, as the golden light descended on the ground, the originally dark underground cave was lit up by a golden light. It shone through the ceiling above, immediately illuminating the whole cave.

To the living creatures who were used to darkness, the light was incredibly piercing to the eyes. Almost at the instant it appeared, the countless Fire Spirits in the underground cave swiftly began roaring. When they opened their eyes, there was ruthlessness within them. Gradually, the roars became louder and stronger, and when all the Fire Spirits had opened their eyes, their roars reverberated through the whole underground cave.

What Su Ming noticed was the presence of the Fire Spirits waking up!

Almost at the instant that happened, the expression of the white-robed teenager that was enveloped in golden light in front of Su Ming twisted. Unbearable pain appeared on his face. Seven-tenths of his body had turned gold, and even his eyes gained that shade. At the moment, he was glaring at Su Ming with madness shining in his gaze.

He lifted his right hand and seized the air in the direction of the golden light above him.

"Lend me the ancient power to crack the heavens and split the earth!"

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Chapter 997: I Promised

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As the white-robed teenager seized the golden light, it started distorting. At the same time, endless ripples stirred up. Immediately, the shadow of the golden blade appeared clearly in the white-robed teenager's hands.

When Su Ming looked over, it looked like the white-robed teenager had extracted th shadow of the golden blade straight from the golden light. Once it took shape, a great mighty pressure so powerful it was impossible to put to words descended on the ground with a bang. A loud bang rang out in Flame Fiends' Progenitor's body, and his Nascent Divinity plummeted to the ground as if it had been pushed to the ground by the mighty pressure that seemed to have gained corporeal form. He could not move an inch. His Nascent Divinity also started showing signs of disintegrating, which caused his expression to change to one of shock.

The body of the supreme treasure Su Ming controlled also shuddered under the mighty pressure. He began descending slowly, as if the entire universe was collapsing and its weight was pressed on his body. It pushed him to the ground until his feet sank into the earth.

All forms of life had to bow down and worship before this mighty pressure. If they did not, their bodies and souls would be destroyed. Su Ming remained standing with strenuous effort, his head raised to stare at the white-robed teenager in the sky. A cold glare appeared in his eyes.

The only being who was mostly unaffected by the mighty pressure was… the Resentful Wei.

This two dragon-headed black horse let out a roar filled with a sinister tone the moment the power of Ancient Wu from the white-robed teenager descended. This roar echoed in the air and turned into thick, black smoke around the black horse. As it distorted, it turned into indistinct figures. The shapes of these figures could not be seen clearly, but based on their outlines, it could be guessed that they were men and women, the elderly and the young. As if they had gone mad, they roared at the golden light around the white-robed teenager and the golden blade in his hands.

A hatred that even mortals could sense gushed out of the Resentful Wei's without restraint and it seemed to want to fight against the golden light.

"Crack the Heavens!"

The white-robed teenager had now mostly turned gold. He lifted the golden blade in his hands with much difficulty and cut down at the ground. It could be seen that this slash put a huge strain on him.

His body instantly turned incomparably thin, as if all his flesh, blood, essence, and even his soul had turned into the source to execute this one slash from the blade.

As he swung the blade down, the ground beneath Su Ming's feet immediately roared, and cracks appeared on it. His feet sank in deeper because of the mighty pressure, so only half his body remained above the ground. That mighty pressure caused all of Su Ming's blood to freeze, and this was when he possessed the body of the supreme treasure. If he did not have it and the mighty pressure was not divided among the people in the body, then even his Ecang clone would have almost shattered under the mighty pressure.

After all, Su Ming's Ecang was incomplete.

This slash was not aimed at Su Ming, but the roaring Resentful Wei beside him, and Su Ming could see clearly that since the color of the white-robed teenager was replaced by gold, he showed a spark of consciousness that did not seem to belong to him. Instead, it was a gaze of someone who regarded themselves superior to all, who looked down on the universe as if it was an ant.

"Filthy ants of Lower Realm, thou dost dare fight against the mighty Wu?"

The voice tumbling out of the white-robed teenager's mouth had a strange rhythm to it, along with a cold, merciless gaze that made him seem as if he was standing above the nine heavens and looking down at the universe.

It did not matter whether he was looking at Huo Kui or Su Ming, he regarded them the same. Only when he looked at the Resentful Wei did a grim look appear on his face, as if this Resentful Wei was the only thing worthy of his attention and could be regarded as an equal.

"An Immortal from the Higher Kingdoms!"

Flame Fiends' Progenitor shuddered. There was also a quiver in his voice. His words might have been faint, but Su Ming could still hear them. At the instant he did so, the freezing glare in his eyes became even colder.

The people from the three Ancient Kingdoms were indeed known as Immortals from the Higher Kingdoms in the eyes of the people from the four Great True Worlds.

With one slash, the youth cut through the sky, and the slash turned into a dazzling ray of golden light. There was an indescribable ray contained within it. This light was as breathtaking as the light that split apart space when the universe was born. It was the divine ability: Crack the Heavens!

That one slash contained the power to tear open the chaos in space, to turn the heavy parts into the earth and the light parts into the power of the sky. Even though the white-robed teenager could not bring forth the full power of the slash, but by activating the power of Ancient Wu within his blood, he still managed to bring forth a certain amount of power from the blade.

This was a divine ability that the white-robed teenager had to cast with his life. He could only burn his blood once in his life, so once he died, he would definitely die, but even if he died, he still wanted to burn his blood and reach his peak, to activate the pride of Ancient Wu in his blood.

With one slash, the weather changed. The dimension where Su Ming was instantly fell silent. Flame Fiends' Progenitor shuddered. The ruthless and rampaging Fire Spirits in the ground also fell silent at that instant.

It was not just them. All the living beings in the fifth kiln, even the one thousand feet tall tree, sensed the might of Ancient Wu cracking the heavens.

Reverend Zi Long's expression turned dark. He still stood on the meadow and looked at the sky. His expression continued changing, but after a long while, he sighed. He knew that the white-robed teenager would definitely die.

"It's a pity that we didn't manage to go through with our alliance. If that's the case, I might really have to work together with Huang Mei for the supreme treasures later." Zi Long shook his head.

In another dimension, the yellow-browed man frowned. When he looked at the gold hue in the sky, a hint of wariness shone in his eyes.

"I didn't expect that the fellow with the blood of Ancient Wu would be able to bring forth such offensive power…"

Su Ming stared intently at the slash the white-robed teenager executed. His body was forcefully suppressed by the mighty pressure, which enveloped him in a way that he was unable to move even a single inch. He could only watch helplessly as the golden blade went charging at the Resentful Wei.

As for the black horse, as it roared, the black smoke around its body started spinning. It turned into a vortex that looked like a black hole.

In the face of the incoming slash that cracked the heavens, the Resentful Wei did not retreat. Instead, it charged forward.

But before it did so, it turned its head around to cast a glance at Su Ming, who was suppressed on the ground and unable to move. In that one glance was a farewell. When the black horse turned its head back, it had already turned into a black shooting star that rushed at the golden blade that cracked the heavens.

This was its mission. It was the brand formed by the resentful aura from Ancient Wei left in its soul. The resent towards the universe reached its peak when it saw a blood descendant of Ancient Wu. It wanted to rush out and fight against him!

Su Ming saw the Resentful Wei cast that look, the farewell within it, and his heart trembled. Faint hints of red then appeared in his eyes. He remembered his promise to the Resentful Wei!

"Resentful Wei, from now on, I will kill all living beings who want to kill you. This is the promise I made with you, and it is my promise to the whole universe!"

"My promise…"

The red deepened in Su Ming's eyes. His heart was trembling, his soul boiling, and all the willpower in his body fighting furiously against the mighty pressure that came from the outer world.

At that moment, a violent bang rang out in the world, as if it wanted to separate the world again. It reverberated through the area, and it was the sound of the golden blade that could crack the heavens crashing against the black shooting star that was the Resentful Wei.

As booming sounds echoed in the air, the Resentful Wei fell backwards. Its body was forcefully sliced apart in midair, and amid the loud bangs, it turned into black smoke. Quite a large part of it instantly dissipated, while the remaining part gathered together to turn into the Resentful Wei. Its body was filled with injuries, and it was a startling sight to behold. The presence spreading out from it was also incredibly faint and weak.

A thick aura of death surrounded the black horse.

As for the golden blade, it paused for a moment in mid air. The golden light became weaker, but its attack did now slow down. With the white-robed teenager holding onto it, it slashed down at the Resentful Wei again.

Su Ming's body trembled furiously. A low roar came from his mouth, and it was as loud as a clap of thunder. He had made a promise with the Resentful Wei, and he would fulfill that promise!

Even if the price was too great, but since he made that promise, he could not just let the Resentful Wei bear the attack executed by the white-robed teenager when he was in no danger. After all, the white-robed teenager would die soon after, and Su Ming would win just like that.

However, while other people might hesitate before they chose to interfere with this, Su Ming would definitely not do so!

He could not rush out with the body of the supreme treasure under the mighty pressure, but he still had his methods. At the instant the slash that cracked heaven from the golden blade charged with its remaining might towards the nearly dead Resentful Wei, Su Ming sent forth a thought to Xuan Shang, one so firm that it allowed no one to refuse him.

"Open the body of the supreme treasure, I want to go out!"

Almost at the instant Su Ming mentioned that, a huge force erupted with a bang from his soul within the body of the supreme treasure, causing Xuan Shang's mind to tremble and immediately choose to obey him. However, he did not dissolve the body of the supreme treasure. He only nullified the connection between Su Ming and the body.

At the moment he did so, a powerful light suddenly flashed between the brows of the body formed by the supreme treasure. As it shone, overlapping shadows immediately appeared. Su Ming's real body stepped out of them in one step.

At the instant he walked out, the mighty pressure descended on him with a bang. Su Ming lifted his right hand and clenched his fist. Within it, there was a certain creature.

It was… the poisonous wasp that contained the God Ascension Nectar.

The stinger from the wasp was already out. When Su Ming clenched his fist, no one noticed anything unusual about it. But right then, the stinger pierced his palm. Poison that was fused with the God Ascension Nectar instantly surged into his body.

Su Ming felt as if his heart was going to burst. During that instant, as a loud bang rang out in his mind, the blood in his body started boiling. As the God Ascension Nectar swam through his blood, veins popped up on Su Ming's face while he fought against the mighty pressure from the sky.

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Chapter 998: Stand Till the End

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As Su Ming resisted it, intense pain shot through his body. That indescribable pain came from his body being crushed and his soul tearing under the pressure.

There were certain times when pain was the source of a person's madness, and it was the case for Su Ming at that moment. The more pain he felt, the more bloodshot his eyes became, and the more the God Ascension Nectar in his body fused with his blood.

"Ecang!"

At that moment, Su Ming no longer cared about whether he would expose himself. He had made a promise with the Resentful Wei, and he would definitely deliver on it!

When Su Ming said the word, his Ecang clone let out a projection with a bang, and under it, Su Ming rushed forward swiftly. With it, he crashed into the mighty pressure.

With a bang, Su Ming coughed up blood. The Ecang projection that appeared behind him crumbled, but this collapse completed the arrival of the Ecang clone. Once it appeared and fused with Su Ming, his strongest offensive power erupted from his body, and he took a step forward again.

This step immediately caused cracks to appear on his body. Blood covered every inch of him, but as he threw his head back to laugh, he did not bother to wipe away the blood at the corners of his mouth. Instead, he summoned the clone that practiced the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows Whole!

When it fused with him, Su Ming's physical strength reached its strongest. When he took a step forward again, the sky roared. He coughed up a large mouthful of blood, and his vision became blurry. By then, he had already turned into a blood-soaked person.

A thick fragrance from the God Ascension Nectar spread out. Under the stimulation provided by the nectar in his broken body, he started rapidly recovering. An abundance of life force filled him. It felt as if even if he was a dead person, this life force would bring him back.

The God Ascension Nectar, his Ecang clone, and his clone that practiced the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows Whole allowed Su Ming to take his fourth step forward. All of this might seem to have happened over a long period of time, but in truth, only a few breaths had passed since the moment Su Ming appeared to the instant he took his fourth step. At that moment, when the fourth step landed, he appeared right in front of the incredibly exhausted and nearly dead Resentful Wei!

Su Ming stood by it while drenched in blood. At that moment, he looked as if he had turned into a blazing sun, causing everyone's gazes to be unconsciously attracted to him.

Flame Fiends' Progenitor was already struck dumb. His mind was blank. As he looked at Su Ming and his unfamiliar face, he instinctively looked at the body of the supreme treasure, and soon seemed to come to a vague understanding.

The moment he grasped it, his body was stimulated by Ecang's presence spreading out of Su Ming's body and the God Ascension Nectar. It caused his breathing to quicken, and disbelief appeared on his face.

The sight of Su Ming fighting back head-on against the mighty pressure caused a storm in his heart.

The people in the body formed by the supreme treasure were also in shock. Xu Hui was relatively calm, but Xuan Shang, Yun You, Nian Yin, and Hua Yu's expressions had turned into a mess. They originally thought Su Ming was very powerful, but when they looked over at him at the moment, all of their previous impressions of him were overturned.

It was especially so for Progenitor Long Hai. His eyes sparkled brightly. He might have been able to tell that this body was formed by the Xuan Family's supreme treasure, but he did not manage to tell that there were so many secrets contained in Su Ming's body.

As for that God Ascension Nectar, even he desired it.

While standing in front of the Resentful Wei, Su Ming lifted his head to look at the golden blade the white-robed teenager had swung down with much difficulty. He did not know that the Resentful Wei was looking at his back quietly at that moment.

Just then, when it cast that one glance, Su Ming had remembered his promise.

As the Resentful Wei stared at Su Ming, he also remembered the promise he was given. At the moment, Su Ming was using his actions to fulfill that promise, even if the price for it was incredibly great.

Su Ming's appearance caused the now golden-eyed white -robed teenager's pupils to shrink, but the golden blade slicing down did not stop. It charged towards Su Ming, who threw his head back and roared. Even if his body was about to shatter, he still lifted his left hand, then formed a seal and pointed at the incoming blade.

With it came Su Ming's greatest Origin divine ability—winter, autumn, summer, spring!

The Art of his Life Matrix—the flames of summer brought forth a thick sea of fire that instantly erupted from the blood of Su Ming's body. They fused into his left index finger, which then turned into a fire finger that pointed at the incoming golden blade.

This finger contained Su Ming's determination, his promise, and the explosive charge of his willpower. At the instant it crashed into the golden blade, the world roared!

Loud booms shook the sky and earth and turned into an impact that swept through all directions. Su Ming coughed up blood and retreated, but forced himself to stop in front of the Resentful Wei. His face was pale and he trembled, but the light from the golden blade had grown weaker again. However, it still continued drawing closer.

At that moment, Su Ming was already severely injured. If he did not have the God Ascension Nectar with him, even if he had not died from the slash just then, he would have definitely been unable to stand up.

However, he the God Ascension Nectar, which allowed him to stand up. Its domineering power was a force that would allow a person to possess life force no matter what condition their bodies were in.

In fact, it could even be seen that the God Ascension Nectar had formed thin threads in Su Ming's body and connected it together. If anyone could within it, they would realize that there were countless injuries to his organs and even his soul, but they were all connected by the power of the God Ascension Nectar.

This was the God Ascension Nectar!

Su Ming could not retreat. Behind him was the Resentful Wei, whom he had promised to protect no matter what. At the instant the golden blade came forth, Su Ming closed his eyes, then lifted his right hand to point at the sky, and pushed his left hand at the ground.

"That which exists between the past and the future is Destiny!"

This was a divine ability that he had not used for a long time. A purple-haired man immediately appeared above him, and beneath his left hand was an infant with his eyes closed.

Once these two figures overlapped with Su Ming's body, a ripple of power erupted with a bang from his body, causing his hair to fly. His appearance instantly changed to that of a seven- or eight-year-old child. He rushed out swiftly and charged towards the incoming golden blade.

The boy Su Ming turned into lifted his right hand to form a seal and pointed forward. Immediately, the golden blade looked as if it had stopped in midair, then as if it had sliced apart space itself, it let out a loud bang and charged towards Su Ming once more.

Su Ming tumbled backwards and coughed up blood again. The injuries on his body grew even more severe, but the previous test had allowed him to know that he could not change the trajectory of time for the golden blade!

However, during this battle, the white-robed teenager had been reduced to mere skin and bones. He was so thin that he looked as if he was going to die if wind blew against him. An incredibly thick aura of death surrounded his body. That aura of death spread out to bear witness to him walking swiftly towards death.

The youth glared at Su Ming. The hand holding onto the blade was already trembling, and he was gritting his teeth to persevere.

This was a battle where the first to fall would be the first to die!

When Su Ming moved back, blood capillaries filled his eyes, and a hint of madness appeared about him. His transformation into Destiny did not have any effect. Then… what would happen if he went through another transformation while he was Destiny?!

Su Ming had thought about this before, but he had never tried it. However, he wanted to try it right then.

As he moved back, he stopped once again in front of the Resentful Wei. Then, Su Ming lifted his head and closed his eyes. With his right hand lifted towards the sky while his left hand was lowered to the ground, he once again… executed the transformation into Destiny!

"That which exists between the past and the future is the present!"

Su Ming's voice was hoarse when he spoke. The moment his body went through the transformation into Destiny again, pain that surpassed what Su Ming had ever experienced was suddenly reflected on his face, and he threw his head back to roar.

As he did so, a large part of his skin cracked. Fresh blood gushed out of his body, but a presence that had never come from Su Ming's body erupted.

The explosive charge of this presence caused Su Ming's hair to instantly turn white. As his face charged, he turned into a teenager of about thirteen- to fourteen-years-old from a child of seven- to eight-years-old. The powerful presence about him lashed against the world. When Su Ming opened his eyes, there was an aloof look within them.

Three breaths!

At the instant Su Ming went through the second transformation of Destiny, he immediately gained an epiphany. He knew that he only had three breaths in the second transformation. However, within these three breaths, the offensive power he could bring forth…

… was no longer below Mastery Realm. He could execute… the power of Mastery Realm!

When Su Ming moved forward, he instantly closed in on the white-robed teenager, and booming sounds instantly echoed in the air. Two breaths later, when the two of them fell backwards, Su Ming stopped once more in front of the Resentful Wei. A decaying presence spread out of his body, and his appearance instantly changed. When he turned into his original self, his body trembled and he coughed up blood as if he was about to fall over.

When he looked at the white-robed teenager, he saw that when he was forced back, he also coughed up blood. The golden hue on his body was disappearing right before his eyes. The golden blade in his hand was also turning into golden light. By the looks of it, it was about to dissipate.

As the youth laughed brokenly, a bit of the white-robed teenager's consciousness seemed to have returned to him. The golden hue in his eyes had already become so faint that it could barely be seen. The burning of his blood had reached its end.

"I… still have one skill left… Split the Earth!" The white-robed teenager swung the golden blade that was about to dissipate, having forced himself to gather up his final strength.

Su Ming's pupils shrank. When he sucked in a deep breath, he prepared himself to summon the Sand Spirit.

He could still summon the Sand Spirit twice. Su Ming did not want to use it so easily; if he could afford not to use it, he intended not to use it. Yet if the white-robed teenager still had strength in him to fight, Su Ming would have to summon the Sand Spirit.

But the moment the white-robed teenager lifted the blade, it suddenly disintegrated. A confused look appeared on the youth's face. His body trembled, and his presence disappeared without a trace. He… plummeted to the ground.

He had already burned all of his blood. As he plummeted, the golden light within his body completely disappeared. Even what was beyond the fifth kiln in the world outside had also vanished completely.

The battle ended with the white-robed teenager burning all his blood. Su Ming… won, but his victory did not mean that he was stronger than the white-robed teenager. Instead, due to the existence of the God Ascension Nectar, he could last longer, and this fight was one where the one who could last till the end would win!

But at the instant the white-robed teenager plummeted to the ground, before Su Ming could relax, the ground roared. A huge crack tore through the earth. Countless Fire Spirits that seemed to have been suppressed for a long time surged out from the crack. In the blink of an eye, they filled the entire area.

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Chapter 999: A Chessboard

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The appearance of the Fire Spirits instantly caused the world to turn fire red. The seething sea of fire, the high temperature, the ruthless expressions on the Fire Spirits, and the mighty pressure coming from their sheer numbers instantly caused the hearts of all people to tremble!

The corpse of the white-robed teenager with the blood of Ancient Wu fell in the region where the crack had formed on the ground. Almost at the instant the Fire Spirits surged up and their roars reverberated in the air in a shocking manner, his corpse vanished without a trace deep in the crevice.

No one dared to chase after him to search for him. Even the expression Flame Fiends' Progenitor changed the instant he saw that large number of Fire Spirits. Since he longed greatly for the white-robed teenager's corpse, he would have gone right after if the Fire Spirits were just normal ones. But among them, there were around a dozen who were nearly Almighties in Mastery Realm. They… were the reason why everyone's expressions changed.

Roars echoed in the air, Flame Fiends' Progenitor had his Nascent Divinity shrink. A large amount of flames instantly shot out from it. They enveloped his entire body, and he did not dare move a single inch. Based on his experience, this method was not really effective when there was no one else around him, but if there had been someone, he might escape death.

After all, the element spreading out from his body was also fire.

Su Ming's eyes shrank. At that moment, he was already like the last embers of a dying flame. There was no way he could hide. The only thing he could do was to use his fastest speed to take a few steps backwards. He swung his arm and put away the severely injured Resentful Wei into his storage bag.

Almost at the instant he finished doing this, the large number of Fire Spirits that had surged out split into two parts. One of them charged towards the body of the supreme treasure, while the other came roaring after Su Ming.

Before the ruthless expressions, ferocious gazes, and endless sea of fire spreading out of their bodies closed in, the ground looked as if it was about to melt from the heat. This was a fire that could burn a world!

During that moment of danger, after Su Ming gritted his teeth and put away the Resentful Wei, he prepared himself to summon the Sand Spirit to neutralize this impending disaster. But suddenly, he saw a scene that caused his gaze to focus and a strange expression to instantly appear on his face.

The Fire Spirits who were charging towards him came to an abrupt halt in midair once he put away the Resentful Wei, as if they had charged towards him because of the black horse. Right then, no traces of the Resentful Wei could be found, so as if they could not see Su Ming, they turned their to look around, then their expressions regained their ruthlessness. As they roared… they rushed towards Flame Fiends' Progenitor who was enveloped in flames in hopes to pass off as a ball of fire.

The pupils of Flame Fiends' Progenitor shrank, and he immediately began cursing. He had used this method many times to lie his way through disasters, but this time, much to his grievance, he realized that even though Su Ming was standing in midair, those Fire Spirits… did not even spare him a glance. This matter caused Flame Fiends' Progenitor to feel aggrieved, but at the same time, he did not have time to think too much about it. In a flash, he turned into a long arc that escaped into the distance.

There was the sound of air being sliced, and a large number of Fire Spirits rushed madly after Flame Fiends' Progenitor.

After Su Ming had left the body of the supreme treasure, Xuan Shang had become the main soul once more. When the Fire Spirits closed in on him, his heart shuddered, and he instantly had the body of the supreme body to shoot up from the ground. He turned into a long arc and fled into the distance. Like before, a portion of the Fire Spirits split up to chase after him like a swarm of bees.

Su Ming was momentarily stunned, because all of that had happened in the span of a few breaths. The Fire Spirits had surged into the sky and filled it in the start, but in an instant, the land became empty… All the Fire Spirits had split up to chase after Flame Fiends' Progenitor and the body of the supreme treasure, but they did not come after Su Ming, as if they didn't care for him at all…

Su Ming blinked. He remembered his previous assumption: It seemed like the Fire Spirits in this land did not harbor any hostility towards him.

A faint glint shone in his eyes, then he looked towards the crack in the distance. He did not act rashly, but instead sat down cross-legged and began circulating his cultivation base to swiftly heal himself.

After the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, Su Ming opened his eyes. He managed to suppress some of the injuries in his body, and without any hesitation, he charged into the crack on the ground. He did not care about the white-robed teenager's corpse, but he cared about his storage bag… because the catwoman was clearly in it.

The reason behind why the situation in which either he or the white-robed teenager had to die was in truth caused by the catwoman. Even though she did not have much of a connection with Su Ming, but he had taken over everything that belonged to Dao Kong, and that catwoman had thus become one of his subordinates. Because of that, there was no way he would allow her to be used as a blood source.

The crack was very big, and it was dark inside. The area was incredibly spacious. At full speed, Su Ming charged into the depths. Before long, when he stepped into the bottom most layer of the crack, his pupils constricted, and he began observing the area around him carefully.

This was a secret tunnel, but the crack above it had allowed the Fire Spirits to rush out. When he looked around him, his gaze landed in the distance, where the white-robed teenager's corpse lay unmoving.

While walking closer, Su Ming stared at the white-robed teenager, whose eyes were still open, but had long become dull and lifeless, and who had died without peace. A cold sneer curled up on his lips.

"You are the first Almighty I killed, but you definitely won't be the last."

Su Ming swung his right hand, and the white-robed teenager's storage bag flew out to him. Once he caught it, he scanned it with his Atman. Due to the white-robed teenager's death, his storage bag had become an item without an owner. With his Atman, Su Ming immediately saw the catwoman sealed inside. She was unconscious at the moment. There was a mark of a centipede at the center of her brows, which was slowly fading away.

Su Ming stared at it, then his eyes shone suddenly. Without batting an eyelid, he patted the white-robed teenager's corpse with his right hand, and immediately, he put away his corpse. Only once he finished doing this did he stand up. Almost at the instant he did that, his left index finger pointed behind him as his body moved.

However, the gust of wind from his finger formed by his divine ability did not shoot outwards. Not too far away behind him was a Fire Spirit that was clearly a baby. It had its eyes wide open and was gawking at Su Ming.

This Fire Spirit was very small and did not even reach Su Ming's knees. It was crouching on the ground, without a hint of malice on its face. Instead, it was filled with curiosity.

When Su Ming looked towards it, the baby Fire Spirit looked as if it had been scared by him and immediately took a few steps back. At the same time, interest appeared on its face. This hen caused it to move forward slightly. When it looked at Su Ming, its expression gradually grew gentle. There was no fear on it, only a look of ease and comfort.

This comfortable feeling allowed it to get closer to Su Ming. When it was only dozens of feet away, it moved in a flash and charged towards Su Ming. A fierce look appeared in Su Ming's eyes, but he did not dodge. He wanted to verify his guess, and so allowed the Fire Spirit to come towards him. When he saw the small Fire Spirit lying by his feet with a delighted expression on its face while hugging onto his calf and refusing to let go, a thought rose in his heart.

'Could it be that the Fire Spirits are also like the one thousand feet tall tree?'

As Su Ming contemplated it, he moved, intending to leave the crack, but the moment he moved, the baby Fire Spirit let go and swiftly returned to the spot it had been crouching in earlier. Then once it beckoned for Su Ming to come over, it moved in a flash and disappeared without a trace into the tunnel.

A pensive look appeared in Su Ming's eyes. The meaning behind the young Fire Spirit's actions was clear. It wanted him to enter the tunnel. After he pondered over it silently for a moment, Su Ming took a step forward and walked into the tunnel. When he stepped inside, he saw the small Fire Spirit waiting for him at a fork in the distance. When it saw him following, it immediately grinned and ran forward again.

Like this, Su Ming followed after the baby Fire Spirit in a place that was filled with tunnels which created a complicated maze. He continued moving as time trickled by. After about an hour, when the Fire Spirit had allowed Su Ming to approach it, he saw an incredibly large and spacious underground cave!

This was a place that was several tens of thousands of feet tall. It was dark in the area, Su Ming could clearly see hollowed pits all over the ground; there were countless caves on the walls. If he was to describe this underground world as a maze, then this was surely its core.

In silence, Su Ming stared at a skeleton leaning against the wall of the cave on the ground beneath him. Only half of that skeleton remained, but Su Ming saw… a long spear that the skeleton held in its hand!

The spear was purple at first, but when he took a few closer looks, he saw it turn black, as if it was occasionally changing between black and purple.

Near the skeleton were two old Fire Spirits. They were clearly very old and were sitting cross-legged like cultivators. Between them was a chessboard with a couple chess pieces on it. The two Fire Spirits… were clearly playing chess!

The baby Fire Spirit was crouching beside the chessboard and beckoning Su Ming to come to its side.

Su Ming focused. As he pondered over it, he moved. Since he had already come to this place, then he might as well get to the bottom of it. When he approached the chessboard between the two old Fire Spirits, his gaze first swept past the creatures, but they did not seem to have noticed his arrival. They did not even lift their heads, but continued moving the chess pieces about the chessboard while contemplating their next moves.

This scene was incredibly bizarre. In silence, Su Ming looked over the chessboard.

This was a board game he had never seen before. There were only ten chess pieces scattered over it. Five of them were gray, and four of them were white. There was only one that was black.

No matter how he looked at it, that black chess piece looked as if it had appeared out of nowhere and gave off an incredibly discordant feeling. After all, nine was the peak of all numbers, so the additional black piece gave the entire chessboard a feeling as if a powerful sense of slaughter was contained within it.

Four white chess pieces looked as if they had surrounded the black piece so that they could kill it in order to restore harmony to the chessboard.

Su Ming stared at it. When his gaze landed on the black piece, he frowned.

Time trickled by slowly, and after a long moment, the old Fire Spirit on the right side of the chessboard let out a sigh filled with an ancient air.

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Chapter 1000: Then Let's Fight!

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The old Fire Spirit who had sighed shook his head and mumbled under his breath, "Why is it like this?"

"That's right, why is it this way?" The Fire Spirit sitting by the left side of the chessboard revealed anguish.

"You are Su Xuan Yi's son and an Abyss Builder, so could you tell me why this game turned out like this?" The Fire Spirit on the right of the chessboard lifted his head and for the first time cast his gaze on Su Ming.

At the instant he looked over, Su Ming's heart shuddered. This old Fire Spirit's eyes might seem clouded, but there was an indescribably fierce look in his eyes. In fact, there was even a type of mighty pressure in that gaze. That mighty pressure was even more powerful than that of Dust Burners' Progenitor. Su Ming could sense that faint, indistinct cracks had immediately started appearing in the space around the area when the Fire Spirit looked over.

This was… an Art governing the laws of fate!

"What is this game?" Su Ming asked.

He was not surprised by the fact that he was recognized. He could tell that these two old Fire Spirits were the ones that Dust Burners' Progenitor had said possessed intelligence and incredibly great power, but who did not wish to leave the fifth kiln to become part of Dust Burners. They obeyed the ancient promise and acted as guardians in the fifth kiln.

Since the one thousand feet tall tree could recognize him and the Fire Spirits completely ignored him when they saw him, it was not surprising that the two powerful Fire Spirits who possessed intelligence could recognize him.

"It is a game Abyss Builders' Progenitor played with Su Xuan Yi in the fifth kiln when the fifth True World was surrounded and attacked by the four Great True Worlds. He then left the fifth kiln and fought against the enemies in the world outside.

"Before he left, he let out a long string of laughter… and shook his head…"

Su Ming's expression was calm. He had experienced far too many things. At that moment, he stared in silence at the chessboard, especially that black piece. Time trickled by slowly, and it continued flowing away until a long, long had time passed.

"Even you don't understand it…" The old Fire Spirit to the right of the chessboard shook his head and sighed.

Su Ming did not speak. He only stared at the chessboard. Gradually, the Fire Spirits returned to the underground cave from the world outside. They were roaring when they returned, but once they entered the spacious underground cave, they fell silent and crouched down in the area around.

More of them came back as time passed. When all the Fire Spirits returned, they were once more densely packed in the place, illuminating the area by the faint light coming from the fire around their bodies.

Two of them were very tall, and they possessed power that was nearly that of Almighties in Mastery Realm. The Nascent Divinity of Flame Fiends' Progenitor was captured in their hands. He was shuddering with fear on his face, but when he saw Su Ming in the distance, he was stunned.

Su Ming lifted his head and said softly, "This game is very easy to understand,"

His words immediately attracted the gazes of the two Fire Spirits.

"Have the both of you never left the fifth kiln? And did you gain your power not because of any form of training in the path of cultivation but because you naturally gained it as time passed after you gained intelligence?" Su Ming swept his gaze past the two old Fire Spirits.

"What do you mean?" The Fire Spirit to the left of the chessboard spoke hoarsely after remaining silent for a moment.

"There are nine worlds in this universe, so it's clear that nine is the peak of all numbers, but there are not just nine worlds on the chessboard. Instead, a black piece was added to it, causing this game to no longer be in harmony. The signs of chaos had appeared within it.

"The additional black piece should be the Abyss Builders. More accurately speaking, it was once the Abyss Builders' Progenitor," Su Ming said calmly. There was a sentimental tone in his voice that no one could detect. He lifted his right hand and lifted the black piece from the chessboard.

Once it was taken away, a harmonious air immediately radiated off the layout of the chessboard. Five gray and four white pieces. Albeit filled with a fragmented and incomplete air, it still gave off a feeling of a complete universe.

"These should be the nine worlds in the universe. These four white pieces are the four Great True Worlds, and the five gray pieces are the five Great True Worlds that were once destroyed and are now in the void." Su Ming shook his head, then put down the black piece in his hand back to its original spot.

"The Fifth True World… is not one of the nine worlds in this universe," Su Ming said softly after lowering his head. In truth, he had come to understand this earlier, but only then was he certain of his guess. The Fifth True World… was the fifth, and also the tenth.

"This game is the epiphany of Abyss Builders' Progenitor. He laughed because he was proud of himself, and he shook his head because he was filled with regret. He was proud that he disturbed the game, and regretful because he did not manage to complete it.

"He left this game… for Su Xuan Yi, because he wanted Su Xuan Yi to continue and finish the game," Su Ming's stated calmly, his expression not changing.

"Then what did you see?" the old Fire Spirit to the right of the chessboard suddenly asked.

Su Ming stayed silent. After a long while, he sighed. "He wants me to complete the game."

The secrets of the Fifth True World were revealed before his eyes when he least expected it.

When he thought about it carefully, if he connected all the clues he discovered in the past, then the outline of the string would form a secret that no longer was something complicated.

There was nothing worth hiding about this secret either. The four Great True Worlds surrounding and attacking the Fifth True World in the past had always been a fact.

Perhaps these two old Fire Spirits truly did not understand it, but there was also a possibility that they understood it…

If they really did not understand it, then it would be because they had never walked out of the fifth kiln. Perhaps they did not know that there were worlds and disasters existing in the Cultivation Worlds outside.

Worlds possessed Essences of Worlds. It could make a limited number of cultivators become Lords of World Planes. It could be described as a place with only a certain amount of fixed spots. Once they were occupied, other people could either leave to search for other worlds to obtain their acknowledgement, or kill the current holders and snatch their spots.

Beside these, there were no other options. Unless they could endure having their cultivation base eternally remain at one level, they had to choose one of the two options.

As they trained and obtained the acknowledgement of ten thousand Essences of Worlds, they could reach Plane Kalpa Realm. Once they surpassed this Realm, they would reach Lunar Kalpa Realm, and as they continued gathering their power, they would reach Solar Kalpa Realm.

This was the law of the universe. All lives could only practice cultivation if they obeyed this law… Su Ming had been uncertain about the Fifth True World previously, after he gained his understanding about his inborn ability of an Abyss Builder.

This inborn ability was blatant robbery. It was a domineering, malicious ability, a madness that ignored laws and stood above them. He did not need Essences of Worlds, and neither did he need to fuse with ten thousand worlds to reach Plane Kalpa Realm, because his ability to Possess others could surpass everything.

It was due to the uncertainty towards this inborn ability that Su Ming… had formed guesses towards the Fifth True World in the bottom of his heart.

He could already imagine that Abyss Builders' Progenitor was the prodigy of his generation. With his inborn divine ability, he could Possess all living beings, overturn the universe, ignore rules, and reach an incredibly terrifying state.

Because of that, he would naturally attract the other powerful warriors' attention and bring about the disaster of death on himself. It seemed to make sense if that was the case.

However, there was always a question in Su Ming's heart. If he could solve it, he would be able to understand what had happened.

The stronger Abyss Builders' Progenitor became, the more of a threat he posed to others. However, this was not enough for the four Great True Worlds to work together to surround and destroy all living beings in the Fifth True World. They also nearly killed all the Abyss Builders, with even Su Ming not escaping from being cursed when he was just a baby in his mother's womb.

This… was slightly illogical.

Unless Abyss Builders' Progenitor did something that angered the heavens and all lives in the universe, forcing the other four Great True Worlds to attack… But with the power and wisdom Abyss Builders' Progenitor possessed, how could it have been possible for him not to see the end result of his actions. How could it be possible that he would do something that would incite such wrath in the four Great True Worlds that it could not be resolved?

'There's another possibility…'

Su Ming lifted his head. He looked at the walls of the cave above him. There was a hint of deep emotion in his eyes. He remembered the Duke of Crimson Flame once mentioning that Abyss Builders' Progenitor was only half a step away from becoming the supreme, unparalleled existence in the world. He might have been half a step away, but his offensive power back then had already been sufficient for him to fight against two supreme existences!

The Duke of Crimson Flame might only have been in Lunar Kalpa Realm, but during that generation, cultivators in Lunar Kalpa Realm could see far ahead down the path of cultivation. The supreme existence he mentioned was a Master of Fate, Lives, and Death, but once Su Ming came to understand the Masters of Fate, Lives, and Death, he understood that those in Mastery Realm were Masters of Fate, Lives, and Death, and those in Death Realm were also the same. In fact, even Sublime Paragons could be said to have been born from Masters of Fate, Lives, and Death, but different Realms meant a difference between heaven and earth.

If that was the case, then it would mean that there was a high possibility that that supreme existence… was a Sublime Paragon, which would also mean that Abyss Builders' Progenitor had only been half a step away from becoming a Sublime Paragon!

However, his offensive power had already been great enough for him to fight against two Sublime Paragons!!

'This possibility is… No matter what path of cultivation we practice, there will always be a checkpoint. Breaking through this checkpoint is the same as the Essences of Worlds all lives in the world practice. It is in a fixed position.

'Every single world out of the nine worlds in the universe can only have one Sublime Paragon. This is the law.

'Which is why there are only four Sublime Paragons in the four Great True Worlds. They stand above Kalpa Lords like Dao Chen. If the Fifth True World is one of the nine worlds in the universe, then the matter of it being destroyed would not have happened.

'But the Fifth True World was not one of the nine worlds in the universe. Because of it, once Abyss Builders' Progenitor became a Sublime Paragon, one of the four Sublime Paragons in the four Great True Worlds would definitely die!

'There were only four spots, and they had already been occupied, but then came a person who became a great threat to the four… Abyss Builders' Progenitor!'

Su Ming stayed silent. This was his guess, but he was quite certain that it… was the real reason behind why the Fifth True World was destroyed.

He sighed softly, then lowered his head. He looked at the black piece on the chessboard, then after he remained silent for a moment, a bright spark appeared in his eyes. He lifted his right hand and picked up the black piece once again.

Su Ming did not want to take this path at first, but he knew that it did not matter whether it was Su Xuan Yi or he himself, as long as they took that one step, they would definitely fall to the same fate as Abyss Builders' Progenitor.

If that was the case…

"Then let's fight!"

A freezing glare shone in Su Ming's eyes. He clenched his right fist, and the black piece disappeared from his palm.

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Chapter 1001: Zhu You Cai

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At the instant the black piece disappeared from Su Ming's palm, the two old Fire Spirits sitting on the left and right of the chessboard exchanged glances before lowering their heads. Their eyelids fell shut.

At the same time, the other Fire Spirits around the area also crouched down and looked like they were falling into sleep again. There was not a hint of aversion in them towards Su Ming standing there, and neither did they pay any attention to him.

Su Ming swept his gaze across the area, until eventually his eyes landed on the half of the skeleton lying against the wall not too far away. He also stared at the long spear it held in its hands, and his eyes flashed with light.

"This person came ages ago. He killed seven powerful warriors in succession, and even the two of us were not his opponent… In the end, we had to have our people offer up their lives to activate three-tenths of the fire in the fifth kiln to refine him alive…

"But this person was so strong that this was only enough to melt half of his body and seal his soul in this place. And this happened just because he already harbored the desire to die in his heart, or else… if he had wanted to leave, we would not have been able to make him stay.

"The long spear in his hands is dyed with a large amount of Fire Spirits' life force. If you're not worried that this person will one day be resurrected and rush out of this place, you can take away the spear."

The old Fire Spirit's voice echoed in the cave. Su Ming stared at the remaining half of the skeleton, and after a period of pensive silence, he walked over.

When he came beside the skeleton, he cast a few scrutinizing glances at it, and eventually became certain that this person… was not Lie Shan Xiu!

In truth, when he saw this skeleton, an assumption had formed in his heart. After all, Lie Shan Xiu had a spear named Undertaker of Evil's Spear. Su Ming had received an imitation ot it in the past, but he then remembered that the real Undertaker of Evil's Spear was under the imperial city in the land of Berserkers. It was used to suppress evil, so Lie Shan Xiu should not have taken it away.

At the Su Ming observed the skeleton carefully, his assumption disappeared from his mind. His gaze landed on the long spear that alternated between black and purple, he lifted his right hand to grab it.

The instant Su Ming touched it, a thick murderous aura spread out from the spear with a bang. It traveled up Su Ming's right hand and charged into his body. Within an instant, it filled him up. The murderous aura was so strong that as it traveled through him, it turned into a wave of impact that went surging to his brain.

Under this impact, an absent-minded look appeared in Su Ming's eyes. Blurry pictures flashed through his mind. Those pictures seemed to be the spear's memories, and they were all revealed before Su Ming's eyes.

Within one picture was a middle-aged man dressed in black with a long spear in his hand. The place where he stood was the underground cave. There was no expression on the man's face, but there was no longer any attachment towards life in his eyes, either. There were countless Fire Spirits surrounding him, and there were nine huge Fire Spirits exuding the presence of Masters of Fate, Lives, and Death fighting against him.

There was no expression on his face, but with each spear thrust, the earth would move, and the mountains would tremble. As the Fire Spirits died one by one, they began to chat. Before the man's eyes, the spirits began aging, and as the ground rumbled under his feet, an endless sea of fire gushed out of the land. That sea of fire… instantly submerged the middle-aged man.

The picture changed. The middle-aged man appeared in a world where the sky was blue, but once he pierced through it, it turned black. The hundreds of living creatures on the ground collapsed and died. It could be seen that the world where he was located was still a dimension in the fifth kiln.

A third picture appeared, and it portrayed a galaxy. Su Ming could see that before the middle-aged man was an endless sea of fire gushing out of the fifth kiln. Clearly, this time, the memory he saw was the one before the middle-aged man had stepped into the fifth kiln.

These pictures were flashbacks that were sketching out the man's memories. They were a recollection kept by the spear.

A fourth picture appeared in Su Ming's mind. It was set… within the Barren Lands of Divine Essence. It was the galaxy in which the four Great True Worlds used to keep watch over the barren lands. Even though Su Ming did not know to which true world the man belonged, he saw five-colored light on the middle-aged man's hands turn into a rope that bound his hands. There were nearly one hundred runic symbols surrounding him as if they were sealing him. Behind him were seven old men. They looked at the bound man with complicated expressions on their faces, their heads lowered to bow to him.

The man turned around. There was a hint of a defeat and grief on his face. He lowered his head to look at his bound hands. When he relaxed them slightly, Su Ming saw that there was a faint red medicinal core between then. The middle-aged man clenched his fists tightly, then walked into the distance.

The fifth picture allowed Su Ming to see a galaxy with which he was incredibly familiar. The color of that galaxy was not black, but red!

The middle-aged man held the long spear in this galaxy. Soon, he let out a string of shrill and forlorn sounding laughter before he rushed towards a bald teenager ahead of him.

This teenager was dressed in a blood-red long robe. He did not seem old, but there was an indescribable ancient air about him. He stared at the middle-aged man coldly. After just a lift of his right hand, the middle-aged man coughed up blood as he tumbled back.

"Are you done fooling around?" The teenager's voice was calm, and there was a dignified air within it that signified someone who regarded himself as a supreme entity.

"I'd rather not learn the Extermination Dao and enter Death Realm!" the middle-aged man roared and charged forward in a mad dash again.

The picture changed, the sixth picture appearing in Su Ming's mind. In it was a cultivation planet. The sky was still red, but the middle-aged man was now on the ground. In his arms was a woman's corpse. Tears trickled down his cheeks as he roared at the sky.

The woman's corpse slowly disintegrated, until she turned into a faint red medicinal core!

At the same time, the teenager in red walked calmly into the picture. He picked up the medicinal core and handed it to the middle-aged man.

"Eat it. When you do, you can practice Sacred Yin's Extermination Dao. Once I take that one step forward, it does not matter whether I'll succeed or not, you will still become the next Kalpa Lord of Sacred Yin World."

When Su Ming heard this, his entire body shuddered, but he did not let go of the spear in his hand. Instead, he gripped it tighter before slowly lifting it up, slowly extracting it from the skeleton's palm.

Immediately after, the picture in his mind changed again, and the seventh picture appeared. This time, the teenager in red stood in a world with birds chirping and flowers blooming. Before him was a child of about eight or nine years old. That boy knelt under the teenager's feet, and with his young voice, he said…

"Master."

Su Ming opened his eyes swiftly and looked at the half of the skeleton before slowly bringing the spear in his hand before him. The hand which the skeleton used to hold the spear was lifted up high as well when Su Ming raised the spear. If anyone saw this, it would seem as if the skeleton himself had lifted his hand to give Su Ming the spear in his hand.

When the skeleton let go of his grip and Su Ming held the purplish black long spear completely by himself, it shone and disappeared into his hand. However, a purple and black ring appeared on Su Ming's right index finger. With a swing of his arm, that ring immediately disappeared, hidden away.

After a period of silence, Su Ming took a few steps back, wrapped his fist in his palm, then bowed deeply towards the skeleton.

He knew the reason behind why this person longed for death, which was mentioned by the Fire Spirits just then. He was the Sovereign of True Sacred Yin World and was the disciple of Sacred Yin's Kalpa Lord. If everything had went smoothly, this person would have become the next Sacred Yin's Kalpa Lord.

But during this process, an accident happened. His wife passed away, and it was due to the Master he idolized since he was young. His body was exiled to the Barren Lands of Divine Essence, but his soul had already died a long time ago when the woman in his arms closed her eyes.

Su Ming looked at the skeleton in front of him. He did not even know his name, but he knew that a person who could enter Death Realm through the Extermination Dao… was definitely an Almighty in Life Realm. This sort of powerful warrior… was surely a shocking person whose name rang through the galaxy.

There was practically no force in the universe that could make a person who reached Life Realm die. Even if there was, it was definitely rare and hard to find. That was why he was still alive, even if there was only half of his skeleton remaining.

However, Su Ming did not sense this person's soul from the skeleton or the long spear in his hand. The memories he saw just then were only some residual ones left behind in the spear. When it disappeared into Su Ming's hand, the residual memories also vanished.

After bowing once, Su Ming lifted his head, then turned around to walk towards the exit. The Fire Spirits continued crouching in the area, their eyes closing slowly, as if they wanted to fall asleep again. Su Ming took a few steps forward, and after a pause, he looked at Flame Fiends' Progenitor who was looking at him anxiously.

"That Nascent Divinity is mine," Su Ming said calmly.

When he said these words, the Fire Spirit holding onto the Nascent Divinity of Flame Fiends' Progenitor let go of it. Flame Fiends' Progenitor immediately flew to Su Ming's side, who lifted his feet and turned into a long arc that charged towards the exit. Flame Fiends' Progenitor followed after him closely. At that moment, there was no longer any hint of hostility in him towards Su Ming.

The two of them moved through the tunnels underground extremely quickly. After some time, Su Ming rushed out of the crack in the ground.

Flame Fiends' Progenitor followed behind him. Once he rushed out, he looked at the crack in the ground with lingering fear in his eyes, then looked at Su Ming. HE wrapped his fist in his palm and bowed to him.

"Thank you, fellow Daoist."

Su Ming turned around and cast Flame Fiends' Progenitor a look. He did not speak, but instead lifted his head to look at the sky. He scanned the area with his Atman and found that he could not find the body of the supreme treasure in this world. Clearly, they had already escaped from Fire Spirits' pursuit and went into another dimension.

However, with the bald crane, Xu Hui, and Progenitor Long Hai around, Su Ming would be able to immediately notice them the moment they both entered the same dimension.

Flame Fiends' Progenitor hesitated for a moment, but did not dare to mention the matter about them agreeing that he would have the white-robed teenager's physical body. He was incredibly weakened at the moment, and he was worried that if he brought this up, he would displease Su Ming.

"Let's go."

Su Ming had already found the exit with his Atman, and with one move, he charged towards it. Flame Fiends' Progenitor quickly followed behind him, and after some time, they arrived at the distorted region which was the exit. They stepped in and disappeared from the world.

What the two of them did not know was that at the instant Su Ming took the purple-black spear from the skeleton's hands, the big and ferocious looking Zhu You Cai shuddered in another dimension. He slowly lifted his head and looked into the distance, his face filled with complicated emotions.

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Chapter 1002: Life Inclination Spear

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"Have I been freed?" Zhu You Cai lowered his head and sat down quietly on the floor. The world where he was located was formed by lakes. At that moment, there was one beside him, and the blue sky reflected off it.

Zhu You Cai looked at his thick palm, and after a long while… a faint red medicinal core appeared on it!

He looked at the medicinal core, and his expression slowly became gentle, but there was also anguish on his face.

"No matter who did it, I am free…" Zhu You Cai mumbled and stood up before casting a glance at the lake beside him. In silence, he walked over and lowered his head to look at the surface. When he did so, he saw his reflection in the water.

A body as plump as that of a boar met his eyes. He had a hideous look formed by layers of thick fat on his face. Bloodshot eyes, messy hair… After Zhu You Cai took a good look at himself, he closed his eyes.

When he opened them again… he was still Zhu You Cai. He moved and turned into a long arc that charged into the distance.

"The Abyss Builders of the Fifth True World have an Art that can resurrect the dead. As long as they have a fragment of a soul, they can make the dead come back to life. Even though the Fifth True World has disappeared and it is said that the Abyss Builders have been wiped out… as long as there is a fragment of hope, I must go to the Fifth True World. I must find an Abyss Builder and resurrect you…"

As Su Ming and Flame Fiends' Progenitor moved through the passages of time and had their life force flow out from their bodies time and again, Su Ming began to feel exhausted, and he could not help but remember the promise of a thousand years to the cultivators in Western Ring Nebula's foreign lands.

That promise was related to time. Originally, it was for everyone, but once Su Ming Possessed Ecang, it disappeared, but the prerequisite was that… he had to have his Ecang clone devour the other Ecangs so that he would continue growing stronger until he occupied the entire Western Ring Nebula and turned it into his personal abode.

This was Su Ming's goal. At that moment, such a goal was still a little far away, but there was no doubt… that at that moment, his Ecang clone was already stronger than the other Ecangs. However, he was still not strong enough to devour the other souls in one go.

As Su Ming traveled forward, he moved through one dimension after another. He did not stop in any of them for long. Usually, after he came to a dimension, he would scan it with his Atman, and upon not discovering the body of the supreme treasure, he would immediately leave.

Because of it, things were hard for Flame Fiends' Progenitor. He was a Nascent Divinity. Each time he moved through another dimension, he would become even more tired, but he did not dare say a word because he was worried that he would stir up Su Ming's desire to kill him.

As he followed after him, he sighed continuously in his heart. When he came to the fifth kiln, he did not expect that he would end up like this, and it was not the first time he regretted his decision in his heart… Why did he show hostility towards Su Ming in the beginning?

'This person is ruthless and cunning. I absolutely can't provoke him again.'

Flame Fiends' Progenitor cast a wary glance at Su Ming in front of him. He might not have forced the Progenitor to follow him, but he could already imagine that if he did anything abnormal, it would be the same as giving the other an excuse to attack.

"After moving past the Spirit Trudging Platforms on the second border, the dimensions will reduce in number, and the chances of dimensions with supreme treasures appearing will increase. How much do you know about this?" Su Ming suddenly asked while rushing forward.

"The third border in the fifth kiln isn't really that dangerous, in comparison. After all, the chance of everyone running into each other isn't that high…" When Flame Fiends' Progenitor said this much, he stopped talking, and he sighed in his heart again.

"It's the similar between the third and second borders. The chances of us running into each other are higher, but if we're careful, huge accidents won't happen.

"However, the dimensions in front of the Spirit Trudging Platforms of the second border, before the first border, will be incredibly intense. There aren't many dimensions there to begin with, so when several people appear in a dimension and there is a supreme treasure in there…" Flame Fiends' Progenitor cast a glance at Su Ming.

"They'll be engaged in a battle to the death! I've come to the fifth kiln several times before. Each time, there will be powerful warriors who will die between the second and first borders.

"Once the remaining few people step onto the Spirit Trudging Platforms of the first border, the place they will want to go to would be the core of the fifth kiln. Over there, their fights will reach their most intense state, because when they are there, the nine greatest supreme treasures will appear, and that temptation… is not something a normal person can resist.

"But during the past few times, I would at most go to the area between the second and first border. I chose to leave before I stepped into the core, which is why I'm still alive," Flame Fiends' Progenitor said in a low tone.

Su Ming's expression remained calm, but several thoughts had emerged in his head. As he moved forward, he walked out of a crack of a dimension and stepped into a new one. This was already the umpteenth dimension he had moved through, and based on his calculations, he should soon be arriving at the Spirit Trudging Platforms at the end of the second border.

Almost at the instant Su Ming took a step in the dimension, his expression changed. At the same time, the eyes of Flame Fiends' Progenitor by his side lit up with delighted surprise.

Right before their eyes, an intense battle was being waged in the sky. Booming sounds reverberated in the air, stirring up many waves of impact that swept through the area. They created violent gusts of wind that threatened to collapse the sky and shatter the earth.

The two sides fighting were Zhu You Cai and the body of the supreme treasure of Xuan Shang, Xu Hui, and the others!

The bottom half of the dimension was a blue ocean. Huge waves were swept up by the wind caused by the battle in the sky. The waves roared, causing a huge whirlpool to appear on the entire surface of the ocean.

As this whirlpool rotated ceaselessly, it allowed all people to see the bottom of the ocean!

There was a statue over there. It was a strange, with three heads. Its entire body shone with a white light that illuminated the sky, and it looked like a piece that was placed as a garrison at the bottom of the ocean.

Near the whirlpool, there were nearly one hundred ferocious sea dragons. They were swimming around, occasionally lifting their heads to roar at the sky, but they did not dare to get close to the white statue.

"A supreme treasure!" Flame Fiends' Progenitor immediately exclaimed.

This was the first time Su Ming entered a dimension with a supreme treasure. The ripples of power and the presence spreading out from the treasure were clearly stronger than from a complementary treasure. It was enough for all people to be able to tell how different and unique it was at first glance.

The statue had three heads. One of them was crying, the other smiling, and the last one raging!

Three heads and one body. The statue stood at the bottom of the ocean, tempting all those who saw it, but at the same time, they would be unable to help themselves but find that there was something bizarre about that treasure.

Flame Fiends' Progenitor and Su Ming's appearance immediately caught the attention of the parties fighting in the sky. The body of the supreme treasure had a calm expression on its face, but the hearts of Xuan Shang and his group trembled.

Xu Hui was very calm. She knew that Su Ming would definitely be able to catch up, hence when she saw him at that moment, she was not surprised. Progenitor Long Hai was the same. With his age, his farsightedness, and his cunning, he naturally knew that with the draw in the connection provided by the promise between him and Su Ming, this person would definitely be able to find him. He might have the body of the supreme treasure around, but this person was previously its main soul. Progenitor Long Hai would obviously not believe that Su Ming did not have any backup plans around.

In truth, besides the bald crane, Xu Hui, and Progenitor Long Hai drawing Su Ming to this place, there was also a hint of a trace that belonged to Su Ming on the body of the supreme treasure, which Su Ming had left on it previously.

The trace was not within the body, but outside. Doing something like this was not difficult for him, since he had previously been the main soul of that body.

When Zhu You Cai saw Su Ming, his pupils constricted. Su Ming's face was incredibly unfamiliar to him, but when he saw Flame Fiends' Progenitor by Su Ming's side, he turned his head to cast a deep glance at the body of the supreme treasure.

"Xuan Family's supreme treasure!!" A fierce look instantly appeared in Zhu You Cai's eyes. If it was anyone else, perhaps they would not be able to see through it so quickly… but he could do it.

The body of the supreme treasure was the first to arrive in this dimension, and Zhu You Cai arrived after it, which was why the battle had occurred. When he saw Su Ming's unfamiliar face and Flame Fiends' Progenitor by his side, a glint had appeared in Zhu You Cai's eyes. He instantly knew the reason why there was an unfamiliar feeling in him when he fought against the body of the supreme treasure just then.

Clearly, the one who previously controlled the body of the supreme treasure was the cultivator next to Flame Fiends' Progenitor, and he could easily tell who had the priority in controlling the body when he saw that Flame Fiends' Progenitor was following this person.

A barely noticeable glint shone in Zhu You Cai's eyes. Almost at the instant he understood the connection between Su Ming and the body of the supreme treasure, he moved and charged at the whirlpool in the ocean. Judging by the direction he was going, he was heading straight for the three-headed statue, and he was so fast that he closed in on it within an instant.

As Zhu You Cai took action, the expression of the body of the supreme treasure changed. Just as the group was about to chase after Zhu You Cai, a brilliant light shone in Su Ming's eyes. When he lifted his right hand, a ring instantly appeared on his thumb.

At the instant the purple-black ring shone, a purple-black long spear appeared in Su Ming's hands. When he lifted it, he threw it without any hesitation at Zhu You Cai's charging figure.

With a screech, it sliced through the air. The sharp sound was akin to a woman's forlorn wail. As it reverberated in the air, the body of the supreme treasure froze in midair. Xuan Shang, Nian Yin, Yun You, and Hua Yu let out screams of pain within it. Their minds and souls had been directly attacked by this sound.

"Life Inclination Spear! It-it's actually here?!" As Xuan Shang screamed in pain, an expression of disbelief appeared on his face.

In fact, even Xu Hui's mind was reduced to a mess, and her consciousness instantly turned blank.

If that was all, it would have been nothing, but even Progenitor Long Hai's Nascent Divinity began showing signs of instability at the instant the piercing sound appeared. His emotions changed drastically.

"Life Inclination Spear, the weapon that belonged to War Immortal Chang He of True Sacred Yin World!!"

Zhu You Cai was originally charging at the three-headed statue, but at the instant the piercing screech rang in the air, his body shuddered, and he came to an abrupt halt in midair. When he turned his head back, he stared at the incoming long spear with a dumbfounded gaze, then looked at Su Ming, who stood in the distance with his long hair dancing behind him.

Dressed in black, Su Ming dazed Zhu You Cai. He seemed… to be able to see a vague shadow of a middle-aged man. One who with grief, gratitude, and hatred for his Master in him, with his loss and regret for his lover, in desolation… scattered his soul in the Barren Lands of Divine Essence.

He saw… himself.

"So… it's him…"

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Chapter 1003: Inequity, Not Inclination [1]

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Zhu You Cai stared at the long spear letting out the sound that was akin to a woman's wails echoing in all directions while it charged towards him. With an extreme speed, the spear sliced through the air and closed in to arrive in the blink of an eye right in front of him.

Zhu You Cai fell silent. His body stopped in midair, and at the instant the spear approached him, he lifted his right hand to form a seal. When he did so, the act was very choppy, but it still gave off a feeling as if he was incredibly familiar with it.

These two feelings that should not coexist were mixed together in Zhu You Cai's lifted right hand. It appeared in a flash, and the shrill screeches from the Life Inclination Spear went silent.

The spear… appeared swiftly in Zhu You Cai's hand. Once he seized it, he gave it a simple swing in front of himself, and the screech immediately rang out again. It stirred up a loud bang as if air had been sliced apart, and an even stronger screech echoed in the air.

This scene caused the incoming body of the supreme treasure to freeze in midair while disbelief appeared on its face. By Su Ming's side, Flame Fiends' Progenitor also widened his eyes. He had known Zhu You Cai for thousands of years, but this was the first time he saw such a presence about him!

This presence was formed from a will which made it seem as if he was looking down on the entire universe naturally erupting from his body once he held the Life Inclination Spear. It was as if at that instant, Zhu You Cai had turned into another person. He was somebody whose ugly appearance could be ignored, whose gigantic size could be ignored…He became a person about whom the only thing that mattered was his shocking ability when holding the spear.

The shock was especially felt by Su Ming. As he stared at Zhu You Cai, the astonishment in his heart was difficult to describe with words. He remembered the seal Zhu You Cai had formed just then, and it was this seal that allowed him to snatch the long spear out of thin air. In fact, the spear had not shown a hint of resistance, and Su Ming had even seen… the spear trembling when Zhu You Cai held it, but it was not trembling in fear. It was trembling in surprised delight!

Su Ming did not know whether this was just a figment of his imagination, but this surprised delight made it seem as if the spear had finally been reunited with its master after a long, long time.

As a myriad of thoughts spun in Su Ming's head, Zhu You Cai lowered his head and stared at the long spear in his hand quietly. Complicated emotions and anguish appeared in his eyes. After a long while, he averted his gaze, lifted his head, and looked at Su Ming.

"Is this… yours?"

Su Ming stared at Zhu You Cai and nodded slowly. Only at this moment did he realize that Zhu You Cai, who was originally the weakest among the old monsters, was clearly a person with secrets, and he definitely did not merely possess the power he showed to others.

Su Ming remembered the half of the skeleton that had held the purple-black long spear… He also remembered the Fire Spirits mentioning that the skeleton's soul… was still around.

"The name of this spear is Life Inclination. This is what it was once called, but it also has another name, and it is Life Inequity. This has an absolutely different meaning from inclination… Do you understand?"

Su Ming frowned. He did not speak, and Xuan Shang was momentarily stunned while in the body of the supreme treasure, which he had made to stop in midair. He could understand what Zhu You Cai said on the surface level, but if he had to think about them more in-depth… He would not understand them.

And he wasn't the only one. The other people were also at a loss. Only Progenitor Long Hai seemed to be deep in thought.

The eyes of Flame Fiends' Progenitor focused, and he fell into a pensive silence.

"If you don't understand, then it's better… if you don't have this spear." Zhu You Cai sighed softly. He lowered his head to look at the spear in his hand again, and a hint of grief as well as regret appeared in his eyes.

At the instant Su Ming saw the grief and regret in Zhu You Cai's eyes, a thought suddenly formed in his head. He remembered the pictures that had flashed before him the first time he held that spear.

"When holding the corpse of your lover, your sadness and the sense of injustice will become the rulers of your life. So what if you reach the Great Realm of Life? You will just waste away," Su Ming said calmly.

When his words landed in Zhu You Cai's ears, he lifted his head and looked at Su Ming for a long, long time before suddenly beginning to laugh. He laughed long and hard. At that moment, the presence he exuded and that ugly as well as huge body of his formed a great contrast.

As he laughed, he hid away a grief that no one else could see. Zhu You Cai swung his hand, and the Life Inequity Spear turned into a purple-black light that charged at Su Ming. It stopped before him and did not move, but there was a buzzing coming from within it. After listening to that noise, Su Ming seemed to have come to understand something.

"This spear is yours!"

Zhu You Cai laughed loudly. When he turned around, he took a huge stride forward. He did not even cast a glance at the three-headed statue at the bottom of the ocean in the whirlpool, which was already not too far away from him. It was as if even if this item was a supreme treasure, it could not catch his attention. He left into the distance.

"The statue of the Sea God has not completed the Fate Realm. Don't touch it. If you do, you will bring a great disaster upon your own heads. Take care."

Zhu You Cai strode into the distance until he stepped into the exit of the dimension. He fused into the distortions in the air and disappeared without a trace.

Su Ming watched him for a time. When he disappeared, understanding appeared on Su Ming's face. He lifted his right hand and seized the floating long spear in front of him, then swung his right arm. The Life Inequity Spear disappeared, turning into a ring that appeared on Su Ming's thumb.

"Well, aren't you coming here?" Su Ming lifted his head and looked at the hesitant body of the supreme treasure.

At that moment, Xuan Shang was the one in control, and his heart was in incredible conflict. He had become the main soul after much difficulty, and if Su Ming fused into the body again, he would immediately become an existence akin to an auxiliary soul. This inevitably caused him to be hesitant.

"You aren't willing for me to fuse with you?"

When Su Ming said this faintly, he sent his thought forward. At the instant he did so, a powerful light shone on the body of the supreme treasure. As it sparkled, several overlapping shadows instantly stepped out.

The first to appear was Xu Hui!

She pulled back a lock of her hair when she took a step forward. With a single move, she appeared right next to Su Ming. She smiled while looking at him.

"I still prefer you with this appearance," she said with a soft chuckle.

The second overlapping shadow that appeared on the body of the supreme treasure was the bald crane. It was still unconscious, but with Su Ming drawing it out through the connection between them, it was separated from the body of the supreme treasure and charged towards him. With a swing of his arm, it was put away into his storage bag.

The third to appear was Progenitor Long Hai, who was a Nascent Divinity, the same existence as Flame Fiends' Progenitor. That old man moved and immediately left the body of the supreme treasure. When he appeared beside Su Ming, he looked at Flame Fiends' Progenitor.

"Long Hai!" The expression of Flame Fiends' Progenitor changed swiftly, and he instinctively took a few steps back. Needless to say, he knew Long Hai. Forget how the both of them knew each other previously, just the fact that Flame Fiends' Progenitor had once wanted to devour his physical body when they were at the one thousand feet tall tree alone was enough for them to have formed a relationship.

"Fellow Daoist Huo Kui, it's been a long while." Long Hai stared at Flame Fiends' Progenitor with the ghost of a smile on his lips. There was a strange look in his eyes. The two of them were both Nascent Divinities, but it was precisely because of this that it would be easy for them to devour each other.

As Xu Hui, the bald crane, and Progenitor Long Hai left, the presence of the body within the supreme treasure weakened swiftly. At that moment, its offensive power was only equivalent to those in Solar Kalpa Realm. Even if Xuan Shang, Yun You, Hua Yu, and Nian Yin had skills they had yet to execute… at most, they would only be capable of fighting against someone who had fully completed Solar Kalpa Realm.

This power could perhaps allow them to run amuck in the world outside, but in the fifth kiln, this power was insufficient for them to even move an inch forward.

Su Ming, on the other hand, could already fight against a normal cultivator in Mastery Realm on his own. With Progenitor Long Hai and even a bit of power from Flame Fiends' Progenitor as well as the two chances he still had for Sand Earthlings' Progenitor to attack along with the God Ascension Nectar, not forgetting the three-leafed grass that allowed him to control the laws of fate too, his power was not that much different from before. He was not worried about what sort of thoughts or schemes Huang Mei or Zi Long would have once they noticed it.

He did not even cast a glance at the body of the supreme treasure, whose expression had changed drastically at that moment. Su Ming turned around and moved to the exit of the dimension. The people beside him immediately followed at. The group turned into a long arc and left into the distance, with Su Ming not paying any attention to the three-headed statue at the bottom of the ocean in the whirlpool.

He had instinctively chosen to believe in Zhu You Cai regarding this. Besides, the entire fifth kiln would definitely belong to him in the future. Unless he ran into a treasure that he was incredibly anxious to get right then and there, he would not be in a hurry to obtain it. This was something that was completely different about Su Ming compared to the others.

When Xuan Shang, Yun You, Nian Yin, and Hua Yu saw that Su Ming was leaving into the distance, they immediately panicked inside the body of the supreme treasure, especially Xuan Shang. At that moment, he came to a realization that Su Ming did indeed need the body of the supreme treasure, but the four of them needed Su Ming even more.

They were lucky that it was Su Ming. If it had been anyone else, they would have been killed a long time ago and their treasured snatched away.

However, this was also in part because Su Ming did not believe that there was a necessity for it. If he truly believed that he absolutely needed the supreme treasure, then even if that treasure was created by the Sublime Paragon who was the Master of the Life Inequity Spear's owner as well as the teenager in red Su Ming saw in the pictures, it would not have mattered to him!

"Senior, please wait!" Xuan Shang's heart was immediately filled with the other three's anxious complaints. At that moment, he quickly chased after Su Ming.

"I understand my wrongs, please forgive me, senior, and please give me another chance. I will absolutely not harbor any other thoughts in my head, I swear with the soul of my family's ancestor in heaven!" This was where Xuan Shang's intelligence came into play. He did not try to argue or hide his hesitation just then.

Instead, he said it directly and lowered his stance to an extremely low degree to admit his wrongdoings. Because of it, he could avoid causing Su Ming to be displeased again when he tried to argue or hide.

While rushing after, Xuan Shang immediately scattered his soul. Once he showed his stance, Su Ming paused and turned his head around to look at the body of the supreme treasure, which had lost its main soul.

"I will allow this just this once. Do not let this happen again!" As he spoke, Su Ming moved. He swung his arm and swept up Flame Fiends' Progenitor, who had come to understand what was going on a long time ago and was laughing bitterly at that moment. Then, with the others, he charged into the body of the supreme treasure.

They fused into it instantly, and Su Ming became the main soul, while Flame Fiends' Progenitor was added to the auxiliary souls!

This was also part of the reason why Su Ming did not kill Flame Fiends' Progenitor. In truth, he had come up with a different plan at the start, but he gave up on it midway. That plan was to have Flame Fiends' Progenitor Possess the white-robed teenager and cause Huang Mei as well as Zi Long to misunderstand him, thereby shifting most of their attention to Flame Fiends' Progenitor.

But after thinking carefully about it, he gave up on that course of action.

Translator's Notes:

1. Inequity, not Inclination: I tried, honestly, but this was the best I could come up with. The original is 此枉,非往 (ci3 wang3, fei1 wang3). If you look at it, the word wang sound the same. 枉 means to perform injustice or waste, and 往 is look forward to something. They sound the same, but are very different from each other. The original translation is supposed to be: This wang… is not wang - This injustice… is not aspiration.

Which made no sense in English, so I had to make some tweaks.

Also, there was a part where Xuan Shang said he could not understand Zhu You Cai's words.

It's supposed to be: If he could read it (since homophone), he could understand, but if he was only to hear it, he could not.

But when translated to English, the meaning is pretty clear, so I decided to make it seem as if Zhu You Cai had an underlying meaning to his words, which is what happened as well in the raws anyway.

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Chapter 1004: This Art is Named Mountain Shifter

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When Su Ming moved out of the dimension, it was just as he had predicted, he appeared on the Spirit Trudging Platform on the second border. The platforms had reduced from six to five.

The white-robed teenager's death was reflected on the five Spirit Trudging Platforms floating in space, and at that moment, it exuded a brutal air.

While in control of the body of the supreme treasure, Su Ming walked out calmly and sat down cross-legged on his platform.

There were three platforms that were empty at the moment. Zhu You Cai was the only one who had arrived before Su Ming. He sat quietly with his eyes closed.

Su Ming scanned the area and frowned slightly. The yellow-browed man and Reverend Zi Long had not yet come.

'It'll be even more brutal from the second border onwards due to the appearance of dimensions with supreme treasures and because there will be less dimensions the further we go. That's why it'll become a common sight for many people to appear in one dimension at the same time.

'Because of that, the fight over the treasures will become very intense.'

Su Ming pondered over this. His goal was not the supreme treasures, but the core of the fifth kiln. He wanted to see whether Su Xuan Yi was there.

If he was, then everything would become clear, but if he was not… Su Ming wanted to know whether his other guess would be true. In fact, when he thought of this, his heart clenched in pain.

Because his second guess was that there was a corpse in the core of the fifth kiln. It would be of a woman who held onto her child before death and wanted to protect her baby even after she had died.

That person was a mother. One who was unfamiliar but somehow vaguely familiar to Su Ming.

In truth, in the depths of his heart, the memories of his mother far surpassed those about his father. After all, the illusion of the memory he saw in Western Ring Nebula's foreign ring had shocked his soul and caused him to be unable to forget even a single bit of it.

In silence, Su Ming quietly waited for the yellow-browed man and Reverend Zi Long's arrival.

Time trickled by slowly. About two days later, two out of the remaining three Spirit Trudging Platforms suddenly shone brilliantly at the same time. This light attracted Su Ming's gaze.

He saw two figures appear almost at the same time on the two Spirit Trudging Platforms. These two figures swiftly gained corporeal form, and several breaths later, when the light dissipated, Huang Mei and Zi Long came into view.

The yellow-browed man coughed up a mouthful of blood when he appeared. He staggered a few steps back and nearly stepped off his Spirit Trudging Platform.

As for Zi Long, his face was also pale, but the killing intent in his eyes was incredibly strong. When he appeared, he staggered back a few steps before he forced himself to stop, then he lifted his head and glared at the yellow-browed man.

When Su Ming saw this, he immediately came to an understanding. Clearly, these two had come to blows for a treasure, but Su Ming did not know… who had come out with a treasure.

However, based on Reverend Zi Long's expression, an answer didn't seem that hard to guess.

"Despicable!" Zi Long said slowly, his voice filled with frost.

"So what if I'm despicable?" The yellow-browed man wiped off the blood at the corners of his lips before laughing. That laughter was incredibly boisterous, and it looked like he found everything logical and as it was supposed to happen.

"As long as I get the treasure, it doesn't matter if I'm injured by you!" As he spoke, the yellow-browed man lifted his right hand, and a jade bracelet appeared on his palm.

It was emerald green. Countless runic symbols were on it like small bumps. They surrounded the bracelet and spun around it, making the bracelet shine with a brilliant light. There was a powerful and mighty pressure that radiated off the treasure, and the others could not help but squint at it.

When Zi Long saw the bracelet, his expression turned even darker. He glared at the yellow-browed man coldly, but did not say another word. Instead, he sat down, closed his eyes, and exercised his breathing.

The yellow-browed man smiled and put away the bracelet. When he swept his gaze across the area, he ignored Zhu You Cai and looked at Su Ming. An amiable expression appeared on his face before he nodded with a smile.

He did not even bother asking about Flame Fiends' Progenitor!

'He's searching for an ally.'

Su Ming knew this in his heart. If the yellow-browed man was not injured, he would definitely not let Su Ming off so easily for not having Flame Fiends' Progenitor by his side, but since he was injured, he avoided this and expressed amiability towards Su Ming with the intention to work together with him.

As for Zhu You Cai, he was clearly ignored by the yellow-browed man, making it clear that he had misjudged the situation. Su Ming cast a glance at Zhu You Cai and discovered that this person had opened his eyes at some unknown point of time and was daydreaming while staring into space.

His appearance and the power he exuded made it understandable why others would not value him highly. However, after witnessing the scene in the dimension just then, Su Ming would definitely not underestimate him.

'If my guess is correct, then among these people, the most frightening of them all… is not Yellow Brows or Zi Long… but this Zhu You Cai!'

In truth, among the three, Zhu You Cai's attitude was pretty unclear, but Su Ming was about eight-tenths certain that his guess was true. This person definitely had some form of connection with Chang He, the owner of Life Inequity Spear, but he did not know how great was that connection.

As for Zi Long and Huang Mei, Su Ming leaned more towards Zi Long. The yellow-browed man might seem frank and straightforward, but Su Ming could sense an indistinct sinister air about him.

As Su Ming was immersed in his thoughts, Reverend Zi Long opened his eyes and stood up. Once he swept his gaze across the area, he lifted his right foot and stepped near the edge of the Spirit Trudging Platform.

A bang shot into the air, and it instantly echoed in all directions. Once that sound rang out, the yellow-browed man's expression changed.

"All of us are already here, so why waste any more time lingering around this place? Let's head to the dimensions between the second and first borders." When Zi Long said these words, the space in front of him distorted, and a huge vortex appeared before him.

This vortex was naturally the tunnel leading to the dimensions between the second and first borders.

Almost the instant the Spirit Trudging Platform under Zi Long's feet let out that loud bang, Fire Spirits roared in the space all around them, coming from afar. Clearly, the loud bang in the area had attracted their attention, and they were rushing over.

The roars drifted about, but there were only two explanations to the appearance of this sound within the spacious and empty space. One, there were few Fire Spirits that were coming forth, which was why the voice was so faint, but there the other possibility was that they were so large in number that their roars had begun echoing already, which was why this sound had formed.

"You were saying that I was despicable, but your action right now is the same as cutting down the time we use to regulate our breathing. If you're just targeting me, you could have just said a word. Why did you have to trouble this fellow Daoist and fellow Daoist Zhu? You must know that the dimensions between the second and first borders are incredibly dangerous, and each additional breath we have to rest is incredibly rare," the yellow-browed man said in a ghastly manner after letting out a cold harrumph.

Zi Long looked over coldly.

"You talk too much. If you want to stay, then stay. The one who doesn't have time to regulate their breathing isn't them, but you." A fierce glare shone in Reverend Zi Long's eyes, and he turned around to walk towards the vortex that had appeared beside his Spirit Trudging Platform.

A barely noticeable glint shone in Su Ming's eyes. He did not feel any form of aversion to Zi Long's actions. If Su Ming was in his place, he would have definitely done the same thing.

Zi Long's injuries were lighter when compared to those of Huang Mei, which was why he could heal most of his injuries after just regulating his breathing for a few moments. As for Huang Mei, the most important thing for him was time, and he needed quite a bit of it to be able to recover.

Zi Long's action of walking out of the Spirit Trudging Platform early and stirring up such a loud bang cut down on the time Huang Mei needed. This was a blatant plot against him, and it was done in an incredibly straightforward manner.

Once Zi Long left, Zhu You Cai also stood up slowly. After a single step, booming sounds came from the Spirit Trudging Platform where he stood. Once a vortex manifested beside him, he did not even spare a glance at Huang Mei before stepping in and disappearing without a trace.

Fire Spirits' roars echoed in the air, and they were getting stronger. They arrived in no time, and it could be seen that the air around them was tumbling rapidly, exuding a presence that made it seem as if it wanted to devour the sky and earth.

Su Ming looked at the sullen looking yellow-browed man and put on an apologetic expression. He wrapped his fist in his palm towards Huang Mei and opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but in the end, it only turned into a sigh.

Huang Mei frowned, but he still nodded towards Su Ming. After all, he had already offended Zi Long from the four of them here. As for Zhu You Cai, he completely ignored him. If Su Ming had not expressed goodwill to him, he would have just started plotting on how to kill him so that he could prevent him from working together with Zi Long.

However, when he saw Su Ming's expression, he forced down the other thoughts in his head. The idea of getting closer to Su Ming and forming an alliance rushed to the forefront.

Once Su Ming bowed to Huang Mei, he lifted his foot and stomped on the Spirit Trudging Platform. When a booming sound traveled through the air, a vortex appeared beside him. Su Ming cast an apologetic look at Huang Mei again, then stepped into the vortex and disappeared.

When the yellow-browed man could no longer see him, the apologetic look on his face disappeared, replaced by an aloof expression.

Since everyone was scheming against each other, Su Ming would naturally not face them head-on. The apologetic look just then was completely fake, since his goal was to have the yellow-browed man attempt to draw him to his side. Because of that, Su Ming's existence would become incredibly important to Zi Long and Huang Mei.

Besides, since Su Ming knew some details about Zhu You Cai and they had interacted in the previous dimension, Zhu You Cai was at the very least much better than Huang Mei and Zi Long.

Su Ming chose to stand in a spot where he would not lose.

How could he dance around in circles among these powerful warriors and obtain the greatest benefits? With Su Ming's intelligence, he could stand on equal grounds when in a fight against the scheming, calculative, and farsighted people.

'We're already very close to the core of the fifth kiln…' Su Ming felt his life force flowing away in the vortex and looked at the chaotic state within it while resolve and a wave of longing rose in his heart.

He wanted to use the fastest speed he could muster to reach the core of the fifth kiln and see… whether… the mother he saw in his memories was there.

The complicated feelings, those of anxiety and longing, caused Su Ming's heart to be slightly unable to calm down.

When Su Ming stepped out of the vortex with these thoughts and moved into a new dimension, they were all chased away from his heart by the sight before him. A fierce glare instantly appeared in his eyes.

In the dimension, he saw Zi Long and Zhu You Cai. These two people were the same as Su Ming at that moment, staring at the ground. Their expressions changed, and a solemn look that had never appeared before showed up.

There was a mountain that towered into the clouds on the ground. It was blue from an endless blue light that enveloped it. On the mountain, there was a stone platform that was about several dozens of feet big and held an iron scroll!

"In this book is an Art, the name of which is… Mountain Shifter," an ancient voice said from the top of the mountain, its words echoing throughout the whole dimension.

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Chapter 1005: Twelve People

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At the instant the voice reverberated in the world, Su Ming's pupils shrank. He saw that a figure had appeared beside the stone platform, as if he had forced his way into his field of vision.

That figure was originally within Su Ming's field of vision, but it seemed to have appeared out of nowhere. It turned into a white-haired old man whose body was so faded away that he gave off a feeling that he was not real.

The sky was behind him. Amid the blue sky and the white clouds, the old man was filled with an insubstantial air as well as an endless mysterious aura. Since the mountain was very tall and fog and clouds surrounded it, a veil was added to the mysterious air that existed around the old man.

Needless to say, the echoing voice came from the old man's mouth. He lowered his head to look at the iron scroll on the stone platform, then lifted his right hand to stroke it gently. For a long while, Zi Long and Zhu You Cai remained quiet. In this comparative silence, the old man's ancient voice echoed in the air again.

"You are all very fortunate…"

The old man's voice was deep. As he spoke, the clouds and fog around him swiftly tumbled about and moved, as if the time in the space around him had started flowing hundreds and thousands of times faster. When Su Ming saw at this, he wasn't impacted much, but Reverend Zi Long's expression changed swiftly, as if he had seen a clue from this. He instinctively took a few steps back, and his originally cold eyes were instantly lit with a fervent look that had never appeared on him before.

The pupils of Zhu You Cai also shrank viciously. He stared at the time flowing by in the space around the old man, and his breathing quickened in a barely noticeable manner. He could see much more than Zi Long, and it was precisely because of this that the changes in his heart were so great that others would find it difficult to understand even a single bit of it.

A thought appeared in Su Ming's heart. He did not speak, but only continued listening to the old man's voice.

"In all the times that the fifth kiln was activated, no one had managed to step into this dimension of mine… All of you… are the first batch!" The old man turned his head and cast his eyes on the ground before he swept his gaze across Su Ming, Zi Long, and Zhu You Cai.

"The fifth kiln is the supreme treasure of the Abyss Builders form the Fifth True World. I am old friends with the Abyss Builders' Progenitor and once borrowed his kiln to refine a treasure, but I had to pay a certain price for it. I branded the first of my seven Ultimate Arts here, and I intend to give it to the person who is fated to get it.

"I've already left the Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos and headed to the war between the two camps. Right now, the one you see in this land is a projection. If my real self is yet to die, then the person who will learn the Mountain Shifter Art might be fated to meet me someday. If my real self has died, then this Mountain Shifter Art will be the final Art you will learn from me," the white haired old man said flatly. As his words echoed in the air, the feeling of time flowing away from the space around him became stronger.

His words caused the light in Reverend Zi Long's eyes to become brighter. This attracted a high amount of attention from Su Ming. He could tell that Zi Long was not like this before; his expression had only changed when the time in the space around the old man had started flowing. It was as if he had not paid too much attention to it, but in an instant, incredible desire appeared in him.

This change was because of the flow of time in the space around the old man.

'Could it be that once your level of cultivation reaches a certain extent, you will naturally be able to change the space around you and then form a type of mighty pressure?! Or perhaps this is a change that appeared after he practiced some form of divine ability, and through this change, he got to know of the old man's identity?' A glint appeared in Su Ming's eyes, and all sorts of guesses formed in his head.

"Mountain Shifter… is the first style in my Ultimate Art, but even the first style is already powerful enough to kill all those in Mastery Realm, shocking the laws of fate! Once you understand it, you can move all the mountains in the universe and make them come to the place where you want them to be. This… is Mountain Shifter!

"Once someone understands my Art, my projection will dissipate, and the dimension I had opened up on my own will crumble. At that time, I will use the power that caused the destruction of this dimension to send the fated person who understood my Art to the fifth kiln's first border so that he would have the chance to step straight into the core!

"If you give up, I can also instantly send you out of the fifth kiln," the man on the mountaintop said flatly.

Suddenly, the space behind Su Ming and the others distorted, and the yellow-browed man stepped into the dimension.

At the instant he walked in and saw the mountain as well as the old man on it, his expression changed and he stared intently at time flowing away at the space around the old man. His breathing instantly quickened intensely.

At the same time he appeared, the old man at the summit lifted his right hand and pointed at him. With it, Su Ming instantly felt as if the sky had crumbled and the earth had shattered, as if the universe was replaced by that one finger. This finger was an indescribable oppression and a vast force that simply could not be fought against.

It was also at that instant that Su Ming found himself completely unable to determine the old man's level of cultivation. This person was just a projection, but even by itself it was already much stronger than all the powerful warriors Su Ming had seen in his life.

If he really had to pick someone from his memories who could fight against him, then perhaps it would only be True Sacred Yin World's Sublime Paragon, whom Su Ming had seen in the pictures provided by the Life Inequity Spear!!

'Is he in Death Realm… or is he a Sublime Paragon?'

As Su Ming's heart trembled, he saw that the space around the yellow-browed man had started showing signs of having time flow away once the old man pointed at it. The yellow-browed man's expression changed again. When his body shuddered, the flow of time around him disappeared, and excitement appeared in his eyes.

During that instant, not only did Su Ming understand what was going on, even Zi Long and Zhu You Cai had all seen it. The yellow-browed man was someone who had arrived late. He did not know what the old man had said previously, but the old man decided to change some of the flow of time around him, so he would get caught up to date.

He might have seemed to have arrived late, but after the flow of time around him had changed, he had arrived in the dimension with Su Ming and the rest. He also naturally knew all that the old man had said previously.

All of this was incredibly abstruse. It looked as if it was quite difficult to puzzle out, but if they thought about it carefully, they would be able to understand it.

However, as they gained an epiphany about it, inevitably, a great amount of respect rose in them towards the old man. He was strong, and his power in changing the flow of time caused Zi Long and Huang Mei's hearts to tremble.

Zhu You Cai's eyes sparkled, though no one knew what was going on in his mind. However, compared to these three, Su Ming's shock was the greatest… because while others might not know much about the power to change the flow of time, there was no way he would not know about it… since this was one of the Abyss Builders' inborn abilities!

"The fates of the… twelve of you had led you here. There is only one method to obtain this Art. No matter what method you use, be it Enchanted Treasures, your cultivation bases, or physical bodies… the first person who places his or her hand on the iron scroll on the stone platform before me will obtain it.

"I've left a Brand on the iron scroll. The first person to touch it will definitely gain an epiphany and learn it!"

The old man swung his arm, and the world roared. The sky turned into a gigantic vortex that rotated with loud booming sounds. The ground trembled as well, and the mountain, which was tall to begin with, shot up considerably higher, until it went straight into the clouds. No one could see the summit with their naked eye any longer.

"The legacy begins."

At the instant the old man's voice came from the summit, Zi Long moved. He might have been uncertain about what the old man meant by twelve people being in this place, but this was not the time to think. His body turned into a long arc that charged at the summit. Killing intent shone in the eyes of the yellow-browed man, and without any hesitation, he rushed over as well.

Zhu You Cai frowned. He did not even bother looking at Zi Long and Huang Mei, who had rushed out, but instead stared at the summit and took a few steps forward while seemingly deep in thought.

Almost at the instant Reverend Zi Long and Huang Mei turned into long arcs that rushed to the peak, their expressions changed drastically. The first to react was Huang Mei, whose body shuddered before he plunged down. With a loud bang, he crashed to the ground. Trembling, he stood up and lifted his head to look at the mountain, and fear appeared on his face.

At the instant he flew up, he sensed all of his cultivation base disappear. He had never had this sort of experience before. It was as if he had been reduced from an immortal to a mortal. This unfamiliar feeling of weakness all over his body sowed a seed of fear within him.

Immediately after, Reverend Zi Long also plunged to the ground. Once he fell with a bang, his face became incredibly sullen, but as his eyes sparkled, he hid that deep wave of wariness which had risen within him. He also noticed the weakness in his body, and it was a feeling he had not experienced in a long, long time. It was as if even a small creature could tear him apart right then.

He lifted his head to look at the towering mountain, then gritted his teeth and started walking with strenuous effort.

Compared to Zi Long and Huang Mei, Zhu You Cai was much more relaxed. He had not flown up just then, but chosen to stride forward instead. It was just as difficult, but he was in a much better condition compared to Zi Long and Huang Mei.

All of this landed in Su Ming's eyes. If he still had not figured out what was going on, then he would not have been able to live up to this point nor obtained such great power, much less entered the fifth kiln.

'There's a seal in this place!' A glint appeared in Su Ming's eyes, but he was not thinking about it at the moment. His mind was focused on the old man saying that there were… twelve people!

'Zi Long, Huang Mei, Zhu You Cai, Flame Fiends' Progenitor, Progenitor Long Hai, Xuan Shang, Yun You, Nian Yin, Hua Yu, and Xu Hui only number to ten people. Even if I'm added in, there are only eleven people. Who is the twelfth?

'Is he talking about the bald crane, or is he?' As Su Ming pondered over it, he took a step towards the summit, but the moment his foot landed, his expression changed.

A feeling of weakness instantly surged up Su Ming's body, but he did not find this feeling surprising. After all, he had seen hints about it earlier. What caused his expression to change though was…. the quiet appearance of overlapping shadows on the body of the supreme treasure where he was at the instant that feeling appeared.

This was the sign that the body of the supreme treasure was about to split up, and the surprised cries from Xuan Shang and his group rang out in his mind.

While their voices were still resounding in Su Ming ears, the overlapping shadows grew in number, and in the end, with a loud bang, the body of the supreme treasure shattered!

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Chapter 1006: One Person Died

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As the body of the supreme treasure was torn apart, Progenitor Long Hai and Flame Fiends' Progenitor became the first to be forced out. They turned into two long arcs that landed by the side, and when they fell on the ground, their expressions turned incredibly dark.

Then it was Xu Hui's turn. She was also flung out in an incredibly pathetic manner. She was followed by Xuan Shang and his group. When they appeared one by one in the area, Su Ming was also forced out of the supreme body.

The next moment, the body of the supreme treasure melted into a palm-sized red jade that floated in midair and did not move.

Xuan Shang's face immediately turned pale. He realized that he had lost the connection between him and the body of the supreme treasure, which meant that during that instant, for some unknown reason, the supreme treasure became an item without a master!

If he could notice this, the other people could naturally notice it as well.

When the body of the supreme treasure began to be torn apart, Zi Long and Huang Mei turned their heads around to look. They trained their gazes on the numerous people that had appeared seemingly out of nowhere.

Zi Long did not speak. He turned around and continued moving to the summit. Huang Mei's expression changed, and the ghost of a smile appeared on his lips, along with a hint of derision and anger.

"I see, so it's a treasure you managed to obtain somewhere. The lot of you grouped together, and only then did you manage to get into the fifth kiln. I've been fooled by all of you for a long time. I wonder who among you was the main soul of the supreme treasure."

There was panic on Xuan Shang and his group's faces at that moment. Everything had happened too suddenly, so they did not have the time to prepare themselves. When they heard Huang Mei's words, their hearts trembled, and either intentionally or instinctively, they cast their gazes towards the calm Su Ming.

Due to their actions, Huang Mei's gaze fell on Su Ming. He cast him a few scrutinizing looks before letting out a cold snort. Derision flashed briefly in his eyes, before a freezing glare replaced it.

He was an Almighty, but he had been deceived by a bunch of puny cultivators. When he remembered how he had lost the bet and had been prepared to pay a certain price to draw them to his side, he felt that this was a form of humiliation!

"It would have been better if you could have lied your way till the end, but you just had to have the bad luck of coming here and your body being torn apart. Useless pieces of trash!" Huang Mei laughed coldly, then turned around and refused to spare another glance for Su Ming. He then continued climbing up towards the peak of the mountain with great difficulty.

By then, Zhu You Cai was in the lead. Zi Long and Huang Mei were behind him, but all three of them were still incredibly far away from the summit. They were also far apart from each other, because they were not walking on the same path.

Zhu You Cai was moving forward in a straight path. As for Zi Long and Huang Mei, due to them plunging down just then when they tried to fly, they were in different places and were walking on different paths.

"You've heard the old man's words. Since the body of the supreme treasure has been torn, there's no need for us to fuse together again. It'll depend on our own luck from now on," Su Ming said, calmly enunciating his words. He then turned his head around to cast a glance at Xu Hui.

She smiled at him, showing that he did not need to worry about her.

Su Ming nodded. He no longer paid any attention to the group and moved forward. The others longed for Mountain Shifter Art, and Su Ming desired it as well. He had already noticed that as his level of cultivation increased, he lacked Enchanted Treasures… but he lacked divine abilities even more!

While he could fight against those who were weaker than him, if he ran into those who were as strong as he was or the old monsters who were stronger, then he would find himself without powerful divine abilities that he could bring to the table.

Those that he had learned previously were either not powerful enough or were abnormally abstruse and not effective within a short period of time. At that moment, he yearned to obtain this one style… This Mountain Shifter, which the old man said could shock even Almighties!

Besides, Su Ming had also recounted the number of people in the area again, and he still found… that one person was missing!

Who was missing? Just where was he? Su Ming believed that he was not the only one thinking about it. The others must surely be wondering about it as well.

Since he could not figure it out, he decided to bury this matter in his heart. He lifted his head to look at the summit and walked towards it. As he continued moving, the mighty pressure from the peak of the mountain became increasingly stronger. It was not the type of power that would make a person break down and collapse, but a power that could disintegrate cultivation bases and turn powerful warriors into mortals.

And it was clearly hard mortals to walk up this mountain.

As time trickled by, the other people behind Su Ming also chose to climb up the mountain. Xuan Shang and his group stuck close to each other and moved forward with great difficulty. Xu Hui was panting while moving forward with gritted teeth as well.

Since Long Hai and Huo Kui were both Nascent Divinities, they had it much easier compared to the others when they moved forward. In fact, the mighty pressure from the mountain was much less to the both of them compared to everyone else.

Because of that, the two of them were much faster than everyone else. Even though they were the last to move, they were already moving side-by-side with Su Ming, and were only hundreds of feet away from Zhu You Cai.

As time continued passing and the group climbed up the mountainside, Huo Kui and Progenitor Long Hai surpassed Zhu You Cai and became the people closest to the summit.

Their expressions were different, but both had excitement in their hearts. They continued climbing upwards as if they could see the iron scroll on the stone platform waiting for their arrival.

Zi Long's expression was dark, but he persevered with gritted teeth. Zhu You Cai frowned for a moment, but after a bit of hesitation, he shook his head and chose not to speak. As for Huang Mei, a cold sneer appeared at the corners of his lips.

He did not believe that there would be such a loophole in this place that would allow Nascent Divinities to move with greater ease.

At that moment, the mountain shuddered. It looked as if the whole place had started swaying, and a powerful rebound spread out.

Su Ming's body swayed. At that moment, he had a strong feeling that the mountain he was climbing was not in fact a mountain, but a living ferocious beast. When it moved, he felt as if he was about to be flung off.

His expression changing, Su Ming gripped tightly onto a mountain rock. His fingers had already turned white, but his grip was very steady. Even though he had lost his cultivation base and become similar to a mortal… Su Ming was not unfamiliar with climbing mountains.

He grew up in Dark Mountain Tribe when he was young, and before he practiced the Ways of the Berserkers, the mountains in that place were his playground, which was why his reaction was incredibly quick. Once he seized the rock, he pressed his body tightly against the mountain wall and simply allowed that mountain to move about while remaining still.

If he could do this, then the others could do the same, but the expressions of Long Hai and Huo Kui at the forefront changed drastically. They noticed that when the mountain began swaying, their Nascent Divinities began swiftly withering away. This discovery immediately made them let go of the rocks they were gripping onto, and their bodies plummeted to the ground. In an instant, they became the last. Only when the mountain stopped swaying did they continue climbing upwards with a touch of hesitation.

However, this was just the first wave of tremors!

After about the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, the second wave of tremors arrived. They were several times stronger than before. The mountain swayed, and muffled booming sounds echoed in the air. All those climbing instantly stopped. With ashen complexions, they gripped onto rocks and only continued climbing when the swaying stopped after several breaths.

If this was all there was and they continued like this, the mountain… would not be that hard to climb.

However… when the group managed to conquer about three-tenths of the mountain's height, the ground below them suddenly changed. It disappeared. Booming sounds echoed in the air, causing all the people to lower their heads and fix their gazes at the spot below them. Their pupils shrank at the same time, and it was especially so for Xuan Shang and his group. Their expressions changed drastically.

There was no longer any land beneath them, only a pitch black canyon, which was filled with the aura of death. There was also a vortex that rotated with loud booming sounds. It looked incredibly terrifying.

If they still possessed their cultivation bases, they would not be bothered, but right then, their cultivation bases were gone, leaving them no different from mortals. If they slipped…

As the crowd fell into pensive silence, the third wave of tremors arrived.

They were much stronger than the previous two times, and they did not last for just several breaths, but nearly twenty. Within Xuan Shang's group, Nian Yin was the one who suffered the worst luck. The mountain rock he held onto shattered, and he plunged into the vortex below.

His face was pale. When shrill screams escaped from his mouth, his body sank into the pitch black vortex. The sound of chewing and screams of pain came from within, and then, they abruptly became silent.

This scene not only caused Su Ming to feel a chill down his spine, even Zi Long and Huang Mei immediately felt their skins crawl as they stared at the canyon below them.

"Eleven left," an ancient voice stated from the distant summit, filled with endless indifference.

"Senior, you previously mentioned that no one managed to come here before, so it's only obvious that coming to this dimension requires luck and chance. If we die here in the canyon, then who will learn your Mountain Shifter Art?! You'll also need to wait for another eternity!" Huang Mei immediately shouted.

"Did I say that? Then I must have remembered incorrectly. Before you, there were also some others who came to this place… but they were not fated for this Art," the old man said calmly from the summit.

Huang Mei found himself speechless for a long period of time after that.

He was not the only one, the others also fell silent. The old man's words and a cultivator's death all turned into a dark shadow that loomed over the entire mountain and shrouded each of their hearts.

In silence, Zhu You Cai quietly lifted his hand and continued climbing. Zi Long and Huang Mei also continued heading towards the peak in silence. This was their only goal.

At that moment, Xu Hui was already ahead of Xuan Shang and his group. With gritted teeth, she continued moving upwards bit by bit. The disappearance of her cultivation base and the feeling of becoming mortal made her remember all that had happened to her during her childhood.

Suddenly, the fourth wave of tremors arrived with a bang and an intensity that far surpassed the previous few waves. It was also at that instant that Xu Hui had lifted her right hand in preparation to grab a mountain rock ahead of herself.

However, the swaying of the mountain caused her to seize empty air, and her body was flung outwards, into the vortex below her that had caught Nian Yin as well.

Below her were Xuan Shang, Hua Yu, and Yun You. If Xuan Shang extended his hand, he would have had the chance of catching her, but he hesitated for a moment, and Xu Hui passed by him.

Her expression was calm. She looked at Su Ming on the mountain, sighed softly, then closed her eyes.

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Chapter 1007: I… Won't Die!

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Xu Hui did not make a single sound. At the moment she closed her eyes, she saw Su Ming lift his hand to continue climbing.

She could call for help, but she did not. In this perilous mountain where no one possessed any sort of power any longer, what would Su Ming choose if she cried out for help?

If he ignored her… then her heart would hurt badly. That pain would be mixed with bitterness, along with a deep wave of disappointment and sadness.

However… if Su Ming chose to save her, she believed that there would only be death waiting for him. If he was to die like this, then Xu Hui would rather he chose to ignore her.

That was why she did not call out. At the moment she closed her eyes, she also tightly shut her mouth.

Vaguely, Xu Hui seemed to be able to see the darkness of twilight closing in on her, and in the mid of it all, a lone ship swaying about. A thin moon was fading away. Petals were scattered on the ground. The man left into the distance, leaving only the image of his back for her.

Past the wind and past the mountain, she watched his lone back gradually leave into the distance…

Partings always came suddenly and made others unable to find the time to get used to and accept it, though in the end, they had to accept it.

On the Three-Life Stone [1] was a beautiful but morose flower of reincarnation, and whoever passed it would reach the spirit's Nirvana. The desolate and drawn out wails from the River of Forgotten Love [2] symbolized… reaching the end of the world, and it was the place where all relationships would come to an end.

Xu Hui's body plunged down. At the instant she closed her eyes, for some unknown reason, Su Ming's heart trembled. He did not notice Xu Hui falling, because the swaying in the mountain caused him to be unable to think about anything else. The reason his heart trembled was because Zhu You Cai had turned his head back at that moment, and he sighed.

This sigh seemed to have fused together with the sigh from below him, and during that instant, it moved Su Ming's soul and caused him to lower his head with a trembling heart. He saw…

… her with her eyes closed, her mouth shut. She was a petite figure by then akin to a kite with its string snapped plunging into the canyon.

If Su Ming still had his cultivation base with him, he would use his power to save Xu Hui.

Even if he did not have it, but still had his inborn ability, he would change the flow of time so that she would stop falling.

But he no longer had his cultivation base with him, and neither did he have his inborn ability. At that moment, Su Ming was like a normal person, a mortal.

That was why he let go.

He did not let go of his grip over Xu Hui in his heart, but the grip he had on the mountain rock. At the instant he did so, his body plunged down into the canyon below him.

It was just like when he had wanted to capture Yu Xuan's unconscious body when she fell in the distance in the land of Berserkers and how when he wanted to capture Bai Su's body while she dissipated with a sad but beautiful smile. Yet in the end, he had only been left with a lock of hair fluttering in his hand. One to his left, one to his right. One in front of him, one behind him.

In the end, he did not manage to catch a single one of them. What he seized was just the endless pain in the depths of his heart.

That was why he did not think nor hesitate this time. There were certain things that one might lose the courage to do once they thought about it, and once they hesitated, they might come to regret it for the rest of their life.

Sometimes, one had to move based on instinct and walk down a path… where one would not regret anything, and it would be enough.

'If you can close your eyes and shut your mouth to not cry out for help so as not to affect me, are willing to fall into the depths of hell alone, parting with me, and can even sigh in such a light manner after that, still unwilling to let me notice you, then…

'I can lower the hand reaching for heaven. If I can't capture you… then I will fall to hell together with you.'

The release of Su Ming's grip on the stone and his subsequent fall was so sudden that the other people were left stunned. When they lowered their heads, they saw the shadow of Xu Hui being devoured by the vortex in the canyon.

Su Ming watched her falling body come closer to him. To fall faster, he used his dexterity to catch a protruding piece of mountain rock to use it to provide a boost to his speed.

As the mountain swayed, Su Ming used the force of it to push his body forward, thereby becoming even faster. At that speed, he almost instantly rached the vortex in the canyon.

This was a place filled with fog and muffled bangs. When Su Ming saw the falling Xu Hui. he stomped fiercely on the wall beside him, becoming so fast that he closed in on her with a loud whoosh and caught her in his arms.

The two of them fell together into the seemingly endless canyon.

At the instant Xu Hui was held, the familiar presence and warmth beside her caused her to open her eyes and look at Su Ming.

He was also looking at her.

The two of them stared into each other's eyes while they fell amid the moaning wind.

There were people in the world who would never voice their affections, but the affection that lay in the depths of their hearts was such that if one understood it, they would be able to smile for the rest of their lives.

There were also people who always smiled. The mature charm of it might make one look like an elder sibling, but one should not be fooled by the gentleness. What was hidden behind that gentle demeanor was the other side of the personality. Yet no matter which side was shown, both of them would choose to adhere to the resolve in the heart and walk to the end of their path with unrelenting determination.

'If you go to the sky, then I will stay by your side right before everyone's eyes. If you go to hell, then I will stay by your side and sink with you.

'If you are white, then I am willing to make myself white. If you choose black, then I… will be the same as you. I will become the darkness in the sky.'

"You saved me again… This time, I saw your face clearly." A beautiful smile blossomed on Xu Hui's face.

"Why didn't you call out to me?" Su Ming asked softly.

"I was the one who didn't manage to hang on to the mountain rock, not you…" Xu Hui also wrapped her arms around Su Ming. Her hair danced in the air as the wind swept them up. They surrounded Su Ming's face and covered his eyes.

While tightly holding onto him, Xu Hui buried her head into his shoulder before closing her eyes. As a faint smile appeared on her lips, there was also anguish within her that Su Ming could not see.

At that moment, a low growl that was very close to them reached their ears. A gigantic head suddenly emerged from the obscure fog around them. It was black and covered in boils. Judging by looks… they could tell that this was Nian Yin, the cultivator who had fallen into the vortex previously!

However, his body had grown several times larger. Just his head alone was ten feet big. His entire person floated in the fog, and he was grinning hideously at Su Ming and Xu Hui.

The fog dissipated over there, and Nian Yin's body, which was around a hundred feet tall, was completely revealed before their eyes. Su Ming saw countless boils covering his skin. In fact, quite many of them had burst, and yellow liquid was leaking out of them. There was also a thick, foul stench spreading through the area.

With a low growl, Nian Yin charged towards Su Ming and pounced on him.

He opened his mouth wide, dragging out a large number of strands formed by sticky liquid in the process, making him look an incredibly hideous sight. At the same time, he looked as if he wanted to devour Su Ming and Xu Hui in one go.

Su Ming's heart trembled, but he had lost all his power, and there was simply no way he could fight back. When he saw that the ferocious beast in which Nian Yin had turned was closing in on him, a huge hand similarly covered in boils shot out from the fog to seize Nian Yin's body, and it yanked him back.

Nian Yin's hundred something feet tall body tumbled backwards swiftly. Once he was flung away, a ferocious beast that was several hundreds of feet tall and much bigger than Nian Yin appeared from the fog.

This creature had also once been a cultivator, but he was even bigger. There were countless boils on his body as well as veins popping up on his skin. As he roared, his eyes turned bloodshot. He glared at Su Ming with madness and pain in his eyes.

"You… are mine!" he shouted out and rushed at Su Ming.

At that instant, Su Ming saw around a dozen something of these ferocious beasts that were originally cultivators coming out from the fog.

Clearly, these people were all those who had fallen into the vortex when they came to the mountain in the past. For some unknown reason, after they died, they became existences that were neither human nor monsters.

If Su Ming still had his cultivation base with him, he would not be bothered by these ferocious spirits that might or might not be dead. However, he was as feeble as a mortal at that moment. It was the same for his physical body. Forget a dozen something of them, he did not have hope of fighting against even one of them.

The ferocious beast that just shouted out his claim rushed towards Su Ming with a roar. The dozen something ferocious spirits by the side along, with Nian Yin who had been pushed aside just then, also roared and charged over.

Su Ming sighed and looked at Xu Hui. She also looked at him before closing her eyes.

Yet at the moment she did so, a low roar suddenly came from above the abyss.

"Catch this!"

After those words, a gigantic chain shot into the canyon, straight towards Su Ming. It closed in on them in an instant, and Su Ming lifted his right hand to grab it. At the moment he caught it, a huge force came through the chain from above and pulled Su Ming and Xu Hui upwards.

While roaring even louder, the dozen something ferocious spirits rushed forward together. If they continued with this pace, then as the chain continued pulling them upwards at that swift speed, Su Ming and Xu Hui would have a certain amount of chance of rushing out of the canyon.

But the moment the chain started moving faster, it suddenly paused for a moment.

"Huang Mei, what's the meaning of this?!" An enraged voice came from above again. It was the same voice as before, but this time, it was much clearer. It was… Zhu You Cai's voice.

Due to the chain freezing, the ferocious spirits' roars closed in. Just when they were about to pounce on them, Xu Hui opened her eyes and cast a deep look at Su Ming before shoving him away so that she would leave his embrace and die in the ferocious beasts' mouths. Then… Su Ming would have a chance of leaving the place with the chain.

This was her choice.

Su Ming's heart trembled. When he saw that Xu Hui's body had left his arms, he moved while still holding tightly onto the chain with his left hand and caught her shoulder with his right hand. Without any hesitation, he pulled Xu Hui back before binding her body with the chain in his left hand and tying a knot around her.

"Wait for me up there. This is my kiln. I… won't die!"

Once Su Ming finished saying this, he used every ounce of his strength to shove Xu Hui, whose face was filled with anxiety, upwards.

Translator's Notes:

1. Three-Life Stone: A crimson stone located at the end of Naihe Bridge/Helpless Bridge. The three lives are a person's three lives, his past life, his present life, and his future life. When people die, they walk past this stone, and if they carve their name on it with someone else at the same time, they will be together in their future life/next life. So if lovers carve their names on the stone together, they will still be together in their next lives.

2. The River of Forgotten Love: In the Chinese version of hell, the Naihe Bridge/Helpless Bridge is set over the River of Forgetfulness. All people who die have to cross it to head to their next lives.

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Chapter 1008: The Gate to Enter the Earth!

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"Pull the chain!" Su Ming roared. At the same time he pushed Xu Hui upwards, he let go of his grip on the chain, and his body plunged down again. Within an instant, the ferocious spirits rushed towards Su Ming at the same time and submerged his figure in the canyon.

The chain was pulled upwards swiftly, while Xu Hui simply allowed the chain to rise with a stupefied expression on her face. There were no tears in her eyes, but there was a blank look that made it seem like she no longer had a soul.

The chain whistled as it moved up. Without the ferocious spirits chasing after, it swiftly moved through the layers of fog in the vortex. When it was yanked out of the canyon, Xu Hui saw the sky, the mountain, and also Zhu You Cai holding the other end of the chain.

There was also Huang Mei standing by the side with a dark expression on his face, along with a trickle of blood at the corners of his lips. A black dagger was in his hand. That dagger should have been something that he had on his person and not in his storage bag, or else he would not have been able to take it out.

"He…" When the chain was brought up, Xu Hui seized a mountain rock and dipped her head down quietly. When she looked down, Zhu You Cai sighed, and he did not finish his sentence.

"He won't die." After some time, Xu Hui whispered a few words as if she was answering Zhu You Cai, but it also seemed like she was saying those words to herself.

A barely noticeable glint shone in Progenitor Long Hai's eyes. He could have taken action before, but he did not. After all, even though he owed Su Ming a big favor for saving his life, the oath he swore was not something small. If the youth died like this, then it would be good for Long Hai.

Flame Fiends' Progenitor was also deriving pleasure from Su Ming's misfortune. A cold sneer was at the corners of his lips.

Xuan Shang, Yun You, and Hua Yu let out breaths of relief in their hearts. The mighty pressure Su Ming exerted on them had become so strong that it had reached an extent that he could control their thoughts, and it had all happened without their knowledge.

"Won't die? The canyon beneath the mountain is filled with a sinister aura, along with a thick aura of death. Forget him, even if I fell in there, I would also die," Huang Mei said flatly with a cold smile.

The others might not have said anything, but they agreed wholeheartedly to his words. Nian Yin and Su Ming's fall frightened them to no end. They did not know… who the next one might be.

Xu Hui did not speak. She glanced at the canyon beneath her, watching it for a time silently. In her head were the words Su Ming had told her before he let go.

She made up her mind. If Su Ming did not appear in the end, she would fall into the canyon once more. Even if she was going to become a hideous ferocious spirit, she would still rather be with Su Ming.

That was why she did not react a single bit to the other people's words.

Soon, Huang Mei's expression changed. He lifted his head to stare at the distant summit above him. He was not the only one. Reverend Zi Long also frowned and cast a glance at the summit before becoming absorbed in his thoughts.

Zhu You Cai should have been the first to discover this abnormality. He cast a glance at Xu Hui and remembered the certainty in her voice when she spoke just then.

Gradually, Progenitor Long Hai and Huo Kui also revealed changes in their expressions. In the end, when even Xuan Shang, Hua Yu, and Yun You reacted to the situation, their expressions turned dark.

Because… when Nian Yin plunged into the canyon, the old man at the summit mentioned that there were eleven of them left. Logically, he should have mentioned that there were ten of them left by then.

However, he did not say a single word. The meaning behind it left everyone uncertain.

Time trickled by, but the old man at the summit still not say a single thing. Thus, everyone continued to climb the mountain which occasionally swayed at a much greater intensity than before.

In the canyon under the mountain, Su Ming closed his eyes. His memory was frozen at the moment he plunged down and was surrounded by a bunch of hideous ferocious spirits. Due to intense pain, he lost his consciousness.

Before that though, he could sense that his body was being continuously torn.

He had no idea how much time had passed. When he opened his eyes, he found himself lying in a puddle of murky water. Ripples would occasionally spread out on the surface, and a rotten stench would fill the area.

"There is truth in heaven, and there are gates to the depths of earth. You may step onto the road to heaven, and you may stare at the distant land." An old voice reverberated in all directions, causing Su Ming's mind to instantly become clear.

When he struggled to stand, he discovered that his cultivation base had already recovered, but Su Ming still fell silent… because he saw that his body was covered in countless boils!

He lifted his hand to touch his face, certain that he had become like the ferocious spirits he'd seen not long ago.

However, Su Ming swiftly stopped thinking about his body's situation, because the voice just then brought him a familiar feeling. It was something that stemmed from an event that happened in the distant past. When he thought about it carefully, he could find the answer to the familiarity.

That voice belonged to the old man on the summit, which he had heard when he was beside the mountain.

Su Ming stood up, and a freezing glare appeared in his eyes. If he was in the world outside, then he would absolutely not be able to hold any advantage over the old man. However… this was the fifth kiln, and Su Ming was an Abyss Builder.

With a cold harrumph, he rose and flew in the direction from which the voice had come. When he was in midair, he cast a glance over there, and he immediately saw an old man sitting cross-legged on a black lotus atop a stone platform in the distance.

There were a dozen something ferocious spirits prostrating on the ground around him, their faces filled with pain. As they worshiped him, the old man's voice reverberated in all directions once more.

"The path to heaven has been shut for you, but the gate to earth has been opened. My Art is split into two parts… One is the Mountain Shifter that blends with the will of the universe, and it is a gentle Art.

"The other is… the Mountain Shifter that overrides the will of the universe. This is the ferocious part of the Art… Go. The gate to enter the earth has been opened. You can go and search for the menacing version of the Mountain Shifter Art," the old man said flatly, then lifted his right hand to swing his arm in the air. Immediately, fog started tumbling about in the air behind him. The ground rumbled faintly, and Su Ming saw the ground gained a murky look, because it had been entirely filled with fog.

A gigantic mountain appeared under the ground.

This was an inverted mountain that stood upside-down beneath the ground. It made one feel as if the ground was not the ground but was formed by fog. If a person looked at this upside-down scene, they would be able to see the inverted summit in the fog.

'A mirror…' Su Ming's heart trembled. This was the first time he had such a direct perception of the theory of the mirror he'd heard mentioned when he was in the World of Nine Yin.

If he described this fog as a mirror, then the mountain in which Su Ming stayed previously was the area beyond the mirror, and the inverted mountain in the fog was the area within the mirror.

Or perhaps it was the opposite. The mountain where he was previously was actually the area inside the mirror, and the one Su Ming saw at that moment was the true mountain beyond the mirror.

He could not see through it. He could not differentiate it. Perhaps everything would change endlessly with just the span of one thought.

Su Ming stared at the old man in midair and frowned before shifting his gaze to the mountain under the fog. A contemplative expression appeared on his face.

At the same time, the ferocious spirits prostrating themselves around the old man stood up. As they roared, they rushed to the inverted mountain under the fog. Their cultivation bases did not disappear, but as they charged forward, the mountain trembled, and ten light circles appeared around the ferocious spirits. The ferocious spirits closed in on the regions where the light circles were at once, but there were about a dozen of the creatures, and there were only ten of the light circles.

A fight over the light circles instantly broke out, and within an instant, all the ferocious spirits beyond the light circles let out shrill screams of pain. Once their bodies disappeared, they appeared around the stone platform where the old man was while hugging their heads and wailing nonstop. It was as if there was something that they treasured being extracted from within them.

That something turned into lines of various colors that fused with the old man's body.

The ferocious spirits remaining on the mountain continued onward while roaring.

"There is a gate leading to the depths of the earth, but every single time you fail to enter it, a hundred years of your memories will be taken away from you. When you no longer have any memories, the seven emotions and six desires within you will be extracted. When you no longer have even your seven emotions and six desires, your lives will be extracted," the old man said flatly and no longer looked at the wailing ferocious spirits. Instead, he lifted his head and cast his eyes on Su Ming, who still remained in midair.

"Welcome, current master of the fifth kiln. I am Mu Ya." The old man smiled faintly.

Su Ming stared at the old man and did not speak.

"Do you want to join this game? If you don't want to, leave behind a thousand years of your memories. I will also extract three out of your seven emotions and six desires. Then, on behalf of your father, I will let you leave this place." The old man smiled, but in Su Ming's eyes, that smile was filled with a strange, wicked air. The indifference in his eyes was a disregard for all forms of life in the universe.

"Why would I not want to?" Su Ming stared at the old man. After a long time, a smile appeared on his face. That smile was also filled with a strange, wicked air. Fine veins appeared on his body. They might seem normal at first glance, but in truth, they were Ecang's venous pathways!

When Ecang appeared, the wicked air about Su Ming's body immediately turned sinister. It spread out in all directions and swept up the fog in the area before turning it into a rotating vortex around Su Ming.

The old man was originally smiling, his expression calm, but when he saw Su Ming's smile and the sinister air about him, his eyes brightened swiftly. He even stood up and stared at Su Ming. His eyes sparkled several times before bellowed, "Very good! I've only ever admired one person in my life, but I also greatly despised his thickheaded stubbornness and that pitiful, ridiculous, foolish loyalty of his. That person is your ancestor. He held the same rank as Lu Ya and me, and he is Abyss Builders' Progenitor, one of the three Sublime Paragons of the Fifth True World.

"I didn't expect that someone like you would appear among his descendants. You managed to Possess a being like Ecang who obeys the evils in the universe. With one step further… you will be able to become a unique, nightmarish existence!

"Has your father never told you that Abyss Builders are to never Possess the nine great lives in Old Man Extermination's ballad?!" The old man laughed. The delight on his face did not seem to be fake. He swung his arm, and the fog beneath the area in front of Su Ming tumbled about before spreading out to reveal an entrance to a tunnel.

"The gate to the earth has been opened. I look forward… to you becoming my scion. If you succeed, then not only will I give you the Mountain Shifter Art, I will also grant you… a great serendipity!"

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Chapter 1009: Your Rules

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Su Ming stared at the fog beneath him spreading outwards to reveal that so-called gate to enter the earth. With a sparkle in his eyes, he asked flatly, "What serendipity?"

"A great serendipity that will let this clone of yours enter Mastery Realm!" A strange light shone in the old man's eyes. As he laughed long and hard, his words resulted in a loud bang. A brilliant light shone in Su Ming's eyes when he heard it.

He did not continue asking about it. With one step, he walked into the entrance of the fog, and his body entered the gate to the earth.

Once he entered it, the world turned upside down. A powerful light covered his eyes. A loud bang reverberated beside him, and he had the feeling as if he was moving through water.

After a moment, when this feeling disappeared along with the powerful light in front of Su Ming's eyes, he saw everything around him clearly. He found himself standing… on an inverted mountain.

But he was standing at the highest part of the mountain, where the foot of the mountain was located.

Right away, he could see the ferocious spirits formed by the ten cultivators at the mountain beneath him. They were charging forward, their goal being the summit at the lowest part of the mountain!

A freezing glare shone in Su Ming's eyes. At that moment, he might look hideous, but his cultivation base had been completely restored. With one move, he charged downwards, and he was so fast that even though he was the last one, he was closed in on everyone in no time.

In the span of around a dozen breaths, the mountain suddenly began swaying violently. The intensity of these tremors was one that would bother Su Ming if his cultivation base had disappeared, but at that moment, they were completely insignificant.

With a leap, he charged forward, as if he was plunging downwards.

But after the tremors lasted for several breaths, circles of light appeared in nine spots on the mountain. There were nine spots, but there were eleven ferocious spirits formed by cultivators that were on the mountain.

Su Ming was the last among them. He immediately saw the ten ferocious beasts beneath him acting as if they had gone mad at the instant the circles of light appeared. They charged towards the nine circles right away, and some of the more powerful ferocious spirits could completely occupy one in an instant. However, the slightly weaker ones began fighting among themselves in a frenzy.

Booming sounds echoed in all directions. While Su Ming continued charging down, he saw Nian Yin fighting against another cultivator for a circle of light. At the same time, a powerful sense of danger rose swiftly in Su Ming's heart.

It was as if the mountain on which he stood was sending a divine thought signaling danger to all the living creatures on it at that moment. With this divine thought around, the light from all nine circles of light swiftly began to fade. At that moment, Su Ming had a powerful epiphany that when the light from those circles faded away completely, those who did not manage to enter them… would have their right to be in the mountain this time canceled. Their memories would be extracted to become the price for desiring the legacy.

The moment Su Ming approached the circle of light, the ferocious spirit that was Nian Yin let out a shrill scream of pain. His head had been gobbled up by another ferocious spirit. While chewing his head, that person stood in the circle of light and began howling.

When Su Ming saw that the nine circles of light were swiftly fading away, the sense of danger in his heart grew even stronger. He did not have much time to think about it. With one step, he charged at the circle of light that was the closest to him.

There was a ferocious spirit that was about one hundred feet tall in that circle of light. Many of the boils on his body had burst, and some of them had already dried up. His eyes were bloodshot, and there was confusion and madness in them. Clearly, he had failed several times before, and an unknown amount of years' worth of memories had been extracted from him.

However, no matter how little memories remained in him, a faint will from his soul still existed. He knew that he could not have someone else snatch the circle of light in which hewe as standing and that he could not be forced out of his circle of light, or else the pain of having his memories extracted as well as his seven emotions and six desires taken away from him would come upon him again. That pain was an unimaginable nightmare to all people, no matter who they were.

At the instant Su Ming closed in, the ferocious spirit roared. He lifted his swollen right hand and formed a seal before pointing swiftly at Su Ming. With it, the world roared, and a powerful gust of wind appeared out of thin air. It surrounded the area and gathered on the ferocious spirit's finger. Then, it turned into a long arc that seemed to be able to rip apart space and shot towards the incoming Su Ming.

Killing intent shone in Su Ming's eyes. He did not move back, but instead charged forward even faster. With a leap, he headed downwards and lifted his right hand. The purple-black ring on his thumb shone, and the Life Inequity Spear appeared. Once Su Ming held it in his hand and the instant the circle of light was about to completely fade away, he turned into an afterimage that crashed straight into the incoming long arc.

Booming sounds echoed in the air. Su Ming shot through the long arc and stepped straight into the circle of light. He was so quick that it was impossible to describe his speed with words. When the other ferocious spirits in the area looked over, they only saw a piercing light and heard loud booms surge into the sky.

When the powerful light dissipated and the loud bangs faded away, what appeared before the other ferocious spirits' eyes was Su Ming standing in the circle of light. Beyond it was a twitching corpse whose right eye had been stabbed by a long spear!

With an indifferent expression, Su Ming slowly pulled out that long spear before he looked around him with a cold glare.

It was at that instant that the circle of light beneath his feet disappeared, and immediately after, circles of light appeared some distance below everyone. This time, there was no longer nine, but seven of them!

Almost the instant the seven circles of light appeared below the eight remaining ferocious spirits besides Su Ming rushed out at their full speed. They intended to snatch at least one spot for themselves.

Su Ming did not say a single word. He did not think about snatching a circle of light from another ferocious spirit, but chose a circle and fixed his gaze on it. Whoever tried to snatch it from him, he would kill them!

When the ferocious spirits were still cultivators, none of them were weaklings. They might have become even more driven by insanity after staying in this place for so many years and losing their memories as well as their seven emotions and six desires through failure after failure, but their strength was definitely no longer comparable to that of their past selves.

'This is a game for that old Ya Mu. Over the years, none among these people have managed to succeed. This alone is enough proof that Ya Mu doesn't want anyone to succeed.

'So there is definitely some other form of obstruction in the final fight.' A glint appeared in Su Ming's eyes. As he moved forward, he stared at the first circle of light among the seven. 'I'll choose that one.'

Roars reverberated in the air. The ferocious spirits in the mountain spread out and charged towards the seven circles of light. After a moment, when Su Ming drew close to his target, another ferocious spirit came, having also chosen that circle.

That ferocious spirit was nearly two hundred feet tall. As he strode forward, he arrived almost at the same time as Su Ming. With a roar, he swung his right fist forward, stirring up a thunderous boom and sending a punch straight in Su Ming's direction.

Su Ming positioned the Life Inequity Spear horizontally in front of himself. Once he blocked the attack, booming sounds rose into the air, and he immediately pressed his left hand on his right before swiftly pushing forward.

With a loud bang, Su Ming was forced back three steps and stopped at the edge of the circle of light. As for that ferocious spirit, it staggered back four steps. It stepped out of the circle of light, then opened its mouth wide to roar at Su Ming. As it did, killing intent shone in Su Ming's eyes, and before the ferocious spirit even finished opening his mouth, Su Ming roared first.

This was the first time Su Ming had roared after transforming into his current hideous appearance. A murderous aura that surged into the sky erupted from his body with a bang. It swept through the area, causing the air to distort, and the ferocious spirit instinctively took a few steps back. As his pupils shrank, he moved and avoided the circle of light where Su Ming was and rushed to another one.

The brutal slaughter that surrounded the seven circles of light instantly reached its most intense state. After a moment, with the price of two ferocious spirits dying, one ferocious spirit stood in each of the seven circles of light.

What caught Su Ming's attention was a ferocious spirit that was about seventy or eighty feet tall standing in the seventh circle of light. All the boils on his body had dried up. His eyes were drooping, and there was a tuft of white fur on his forehead.

An ancient air would occasionally appear about his body. His eyes might have seemed bloodshot, but Su Ming noticed that there was a clear look hidden beneath it.

This was a ferocious spirit that possessed intelligence.

What interested Su Ming was that once he occupied a circle of light, no other ferocious spirits would try fighting for it. While he mulled over this, he figured out what was going on.

The creature seemed to have noticed his gaze and turned his head to cast Su Ming a glance.

Above the fog beyond the mountain was the old Ya Mu watching the scene with a smile. A bright light shone in his eyes.

"Not bad, not bad at all. The murderous aura around him is very thick. He's not the type that has never gone through hardships before. If this lad can obtain my legacy, then I will definitely not hold back in providing him with his serendipity.

"An Abyss Builder who Possessed Ecang. Interesting, how very interesting! But I'll have to make this fight even more intense, only then will I be able to see more." The old man licked his lips. Coupled with his smile, his expression made that strange, wicked air on him become even stronger. There was even an endless wave of wicked air coming from his body.

He lifted his right hand and pointed at the mountain beneath the fog.

At that instant, the circles of light on the mountain immediately faded away. Once they disappeared, new circles of light appeared further down the mountain, but this time… there were only two!

Seven circles of light were instantly reduced to only two, and it almost immediately caused this competition over the legacy to reach a frenzied state.

Su Ming lifted his head and looked at the fog above him. He could vaguely see the old Ya Mu's figure.

Once the two circles of light appeared below, the remaining six ferocious spirits besides Su Ming let out intense roars, and with bloodshot eyes, they madly charged forward at full speed.

Two circles of light. It meant that five out of the seven would fail!

"Is this the rules you set?" Su Ming ignored the six ferocious spirits that rushed out. He lifted his head to look at the indistinct old man in the fog above him. A piercing, cold glare appeared in his eyes.

"You'll choose two among the seven, and then you'll have them fight in a manner that will please you. Whether or not the person who eventually emerges victorious will obtain your legacy will depend on your mood. If you are not willing, then you will make him fail, or perhaps you will not extract his memories as a reward.

"I believe that's what you have been doing over the years. But those are your rules, not mine!" Su Ming turned his head around and looked at the six charging ferocious spirits before closing his eyes.

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Chapter 1010: Su, Xuan, Yi!

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The instant Su Ming closed his eyes, countless veins appeared on his body. They filled his entire body, and a malicious as well as ancient presence erupted with a bang.

This presence belonged to Ecang.

By then, Su Ming had already had his Ecang clone descend and fuse with him. When he opened his eyes again, the veins made it seem as if branches were growing over his body. A powerful presence spread out when Su Ming took a step forward.

'Two circles of light. Two slots. Then I'd like to see how you'll continue with your game when I am the only one left.' When Su Ming walked forward, the mountain trembled. He leaped up and lifted his right hand. The Life Inequity Spear shone with a brilliant light, and he threw it in front of him.

With a loud buzz, the spear turned into a long arc that sliced through the air. It instantly closed in on a roaring ferocious spirit, who lifted his arms to seize the projectile.

But the instant he touched the spear, his arms disintegrated. A pained scream rang out in the air. The Life Inequity Spear shot straight through that spirit's chest. With a bang, his body was pinned to the mountain. As the Life Inequity Spear let out a loud buzz, the ferocious spirit's pained screams grew even shriller before fading away.

"Five more."

Su Ming rushed forward like a purple shadow that charged towards the other ferocious spirits who were fighting against each other. To them, someone dying was not something they needed to pay attention to. In the mid of the battles for the two circles of light, Su Ming saw something again…

Within one of the circles of light was the ferocious spirit with that tuft of white fur on his forehead, but there was no other competitors around him. He calmly stood in that circle of light, while the ferocious spirits around him did not even spare a glance at him. It was as if… wherever he was, that place would turn into a forbidden ground for the other ferocious spirits.

His expression was calm. It was as if there was nothing around him that could catch his attention. Even Su Ming was worthy, for he had only met his gaze for a moment before ignoring him.

He left behind a powerful image to the people who had their memories continuously extracted from them, and that effect was so strong that it even affected their actions. It was to such an extent that they no longer remembered him in a normal manner, but remembered him as if his existence had been branded into their souls.

There was only one possible way for him to do this!

'This person… has always been the one who succeeds in reaching the end of Ya Mu's game in this dimension. There has never been a single exception where he was not the winner. The wariness branded in these ferocious spirits' souls took form after they were killed by him numerous times.

'That's why he can retain his intelligence, because the reward for winning every single time… is for his memories to not be taken away.'

Su Ming's pupils constricted, and he cast a deep glance at the ferocious spirit with the tuft of white fur before rushing towards the spot where the four ferocious spirits were fighting against each other.

As if they had sensed a great threat coming from Su Ming, they turned around simultaneously. Once they saw Su Ming, they rushed at him in unison.

In the face of the four ferocious spirits who were clearly ready to work together, Su Ming let out a cold harrumph. Before both parties even closed in on each other, he lifted his left hand and patted his storage bag. Immediately, a longbow appeared in his left hand.

This treasure Su Ming had obtained when he fought against the Sand Earthlings. Upon taking it into his hands, Su Ming drew the bowstring with his right hand. With a loud buzz, three sand arrows gathered out of thin air before shooting out.

The three arrows let out the same whooshing sound that was piercing to the ears. A sound as if the air had been sliced apart reverberated through the area as the arrows charged towards three out of the four ferocious spirits!

Booming sounds echoed in the air. The three ferocious spirits looked as if they were about to dodge when the three arrows exploded simultaneously. The impact of that caused the three incoming ferocious spirits to freeze for a moment.

Because of that, the final ferocious spirit stood out like a sore thumb. He was forced to have a face off against Su Ming alone.

Su Ming was not unfamiliar with this ferocious spirit. He was the one who flung off Nian Yin when they were in the fog and was also the one who had shouted out those words.

Both parties closed in on each other instantly. Booming sounds shook the sky and earth. The ferocious spirit let out a shrill roar, but his body froze in midair for a moment while Su Ming swept past him.

When Su Ming left into the distance, the ferocious spirit's head crumbled while still in midair. He fell onto the mountain and stopped moving.

Without stopping for even a single moment, Su Ming rushed towards the three ferocious spirits who had been blocked just then by the three arrows. When he closed in, he clenched his right hand, and the poisonous wasp pierced him with its stinger.

The God Ascension Nectar was injected into his body, causing Su Ming to lift his head swiftly. The veins on his face grew denser, and a powerful and domineering life force ran wild through his body, filling Su Ming's eyes with blood. With a single step, he charged forward.

An uncomfortable feeling formed in his stomach, as if he would only feel better once he threw up whatever was in his stomach. It was a feeling akin to that of the body being about to burst, and waves of unbearable pain surged through Su Ming. Under that intense pain, he felt as if his entire body was about to burst into flames. Due to the stimulation of the God Ascension Nectar, the Ecang clone in his body… also seemed to be going through a transformation he had never expected.

The source of that change was at the origin of a cracking sound coming from Su Ming's body, one that only he could hear.

This change made Su Ming immediately choose to give up on the Illusion of Stars, Sun, and Moon he was prepared to execute in order to kill the three ferocious spirits.

He initially intended to kill one of them with a divine ability, this way making it easier to handle the remaining two.

Yet the moment the Ecang clone in his body changed and the feeling as if his body was about to burst grew to its most intense state, he realized that if he did not let it out, then this time, his body would immediately crumble.

This was something he had not expected. What Su Ming did not know was that when he saved the Resentful Wei, there was still a huge amount of God Ascension Nectar left in his body. He might have suppressed it at the time, and if he'd had more time, he could have slowly absorbed and refined it, but only a short period of time had passed since then. When he injected more God Ascension Nectar into his body, he made his body start boiling.

It was this that caused his body to be in danger at that moment, and it was precisely this danger and the large amount of God Ascension Nectar within him that brought about the change in the Ecang clone.

Su Ming did not know whether this change was good or bad. He did not have time to think about it, because as the three ferocious spirits roared, they had already closed in on him. Ripples of power erupted from their bodies, and they brought forth their strongest power to kill Su Ming in one go!

Su Ming's eyes were bloodshot. During that moment of crisis, he hesitated no longer and acted based on the will of his Ecang clone—he went along with Ecang's transformation!

The instant Su Ming chose to go along with the flow, the intense pain throughout his body descended on him again. Blood gushed out from various body parts, and purplish red branches grew out of him!

In the mid of the intense pain, Su Ming discovered to his shock that his Ecang clone, which had originally fused into his body in the shape of a human, had turned… into Ecang's real self at that moment!

The body that should be incomparably huge and could occupy the entire galaxy had now shrank numerous times to exist in Su Ming's body.

This was Ecang's transformation, and it was also the first intense change that happened to Su Ming's body.

The three ferocious spirits closed in on him, as booming sounds rose into the air. When they spread out in all directions, shrill screams of pain that were far louder than the roars from the ferocious spirits rose up madly.

Just listening to those shrill and forlorn voices was enough to cause people's skin to crawl. Within those screams was indescribable pain and misery.

In fact, during that instant, the pupils of the ferocious spirit that had a tuft of white fur on his forehead shrank. He was already standing in the circle of light with a calm expression on his face, as if there was nothing around him that could attract his attention, and even when it came to Su Ming, he treated him with indifference, but at that moment, he fixed his stare on Su Ming, and his breathing quickened. Disbelief appeared in his eyes.

He was not the only one. The drastic change of the Ecang clone in Su Ming's body, the endless branches that stretched out from him, and the booming sounds that could not drown out the shrill cries that were obviously not from Su Ming also caused Old Ya Mu, who was sitting above the fog and watching the battle underneath with a calm and composed manner, to instantly stand up from his seat.

Distortions appeared in the air around him. His hair moved without wind, and rarely seen shock appeared in his eyes. His breathing quickened, and his eyes flashed.

"This… This is…

"Abyss Builders cannot Possess the nine great lives in Old Man Extermination's ballad. This is something prohibited for them. This child's act of Possessing Ecang was already something that goes against the laws of heaven.

"But no matter what, that Ecang isn't complete. What he Possessed is only a part of Ecang. While the act of Possession itself is against the laws of heaven, it still could be accepted, but Ecang belongs to the law and definitely does not belong to this child. In the future, once Ecang becomes complete, this child will definitely have his actions limited by the laws. He will either be devoured by Ecang, or will be separate from it.

"However… he just fused perfectly with that part of Ecang's will he possesses. It has become an even more superior life form, and with just a part of its body, it became the life form that it was when it had its complete body!

"From now on, these two have fused into one, and they can no longer be separated. He is Ecang, and Ecang is him. This is a fact that not even the laws can change. Even if Ecang is completed in the future, it will still be the same!"

While Old Ya Mu was shocked, the dimension in the land trembled, and signs of it about to crumble appeared. In truth, those signs did not just appear in this place. The entire fifth kiln was trembling. With the old man's divine ability, he could sense that the galaxy beyond the fifth kiln and the entire Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos was trembling together at that instant.

This trembling caused the four Great True Worlds and the entire Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos to instantly burst into an uproar. Ripples appeared in the galaxy, planets shuddered, and the universe looked as if it was about to fade away and disappear.

It was especially so for the foreign lands within the Barren Lands of Divine Essence's Western Ring Nebula. The remaining Ecang souls roared together, and in their roars was endless fear and shock.

"Su Xuan Yi, you… just what did you do for your son?" The old man's heart shook furiously. He instinctively wanted to raise his hand, as fierce killing intent appeared in his eyes.

"As one of the inspectors from Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos, I have the duty to kill all lives who interfere with the laws. This child's existence is a change that interferes with the laws!"

But the instant the old man wanted to attack, his expression changed drastically again. He lifted his head and stared at the sky. An incredibly wary expression appeared on his face, and at the same time, he spat out three words.

"Su, Xuan, Yi!"

A will that shook the sky and the earth as well as caused an endless sea of fire to burst forth from the entire fifth kiln descended into the area!

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Chapter 1011: The Third Clone

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Wind stirred and clouds surged in the sky. As the world roared, fog tumbled about in all directions. A gigantic shadow appeared as if he had walked out of thin air to stand in the sky.

This figure was several hundreds of feet tall and dressed entirely in golden armor. He looked like a warring immortal. As his long hair danced in the air, a golden face was revealed. There was not a shred of emotion on that face, for it was as cold as a piece of gold.

However, there was a long chain wrapped around that figure's shoulder. This was a chain that stretched into the depths of space in the sky!

But the thing that caused old Ya Mu's pupils to shrink was not the person. His gaze did not rest on him even for a moment. Instead, he fixed his eyes on the depths of space, from where the chain came.

That person… was not Su Xuan Yi!

At that moment, an incredibly powerful will descended on the ground with a bang. Fog tumbled about beside the golden figure, and golden light stretched out to one hundred thousand feet. Then, another golden figure walked out from space.

He was as tall, as dignified, and as emotionless as the other figure. There was also… a chain wrapped around his shoulder.

Almost at the instant the second golden figure appeared, golden light surrounded him as well. When it reached a piercing degree, the third golden figure appeared.

Three golden-armored giants. Three golden figures with chains wrapped around their shoulders. Once they appeared one after another, they roared before bending their backs. Then, as if they were pulling the chains, they started moving forward.

Booming sounds chook the sky and earth, but Su Ming could not hear a single thing as he remained under the fog. In fact, he did not even have time to pay attention to the fog tumbling about above him.

At that moment, his entire body was filled with intense pain as the God Ascension Nectar spilled out from hi. The burst of force had erupted from him in a frenzy once he conformed to the drastic change within his Ecang clone.

As that force erupted from him and the three ferocious spirits let out shrill screams of pain around him, Su Ming's mind became clear again. With a single glance, he could see that the three ferocious spirits beside him were floating up. Numerous branches had pierced their bodies, and those branches… grew from Su Ming's body.

Shrill wails tumbled out continuously from the three ferocious spirits. Pained expressions were on their faces, and their bodies were swiftly withering away, as if those branches that pierced through their bodies were rapidly devouring all their blood, flesh, essence, cultivation base, and spirits.

In fact, Su Ming could see veins having popped up on the three ferocious spirits' bodies. They wriggled about, but that was not because of the blood in them, nor were they wriggling about due to spasms. They were… the branches spreading throughout the three ferocious spirits' bodies.

In Su Ming's senses, those branches were a part of his body. They were dense and could not be told apart. He could clearly sense them moving, and in fact, he could even control them slightly.

With that feeling, Su Ming's heart trembled furiously, because he saw that those branches which had stretched from his body were devouring the three ferocious spirits' blood, flesh, and cultivation base while they screamed in shrill voices.

The branches were not simply devouring them, however. Instead, they were swiftly disassembling the three ferocious spirits. It was as if… the branches were rapidly looking for flaws within the creatures' bodies, searching for the parts that were lacking in their lives to use it to their advantage in disassembling them in one go. This scene was similar to how Su Ming had searched for the Waves of Tears' flaws once he turned into Old Man Extermination after going through endless years of research, which had happened after Su Ming had run into the Waves of Tears in Divine Essence Star Ocean!

Su Ming's heart trembled, and a scene appeared in his mind. It was the one that he once saw in the Seed of Life Extermination. Within that scene was a gigantic ancient ship. With the various lives offered to him, Old Man Extermination only needed to swing his arm to instantly know what flaws lay in their lives.

This scene had initially shocked Su Ming, and he once desired this, but also knew that this was incredibly far away from him, but right then… a powerful light shone in Su Ming's eyes. He noticed that he was not that far away from reaching the state of Old Man Extermination in that scene!

'Ecang's transformation… is due to the God Ascension Nectar, but the bigger reason lies in the Seed of Life Extermination!'

Su Ming did not know how great of a shock he had brought to the entire Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos when his Ecang clone fused perfectly with his body. He also did not know that Old Ya Mu was looking at the space in the distance while he stood in the world beyond the fog above him.

As the three golden-armored giants bent their backs and pulled the chains forward, booming sounds echoed in all directions within the space. Gradually, a gigantic outline appeared clearly in Ya Mu's eyes.

That outline belonged to a chariot, one which was entirely gold and looked like the sun!

The chariot was one thousand feet big, and its outline alone brought about a great and mighty pressure on Ya Mu, causing the fifth kiln to roar and seas of fire to surge up in countless dimensions.

"Su Xuan Yi!"

Old Ya Mu lifted his right hand and clenched it in front of himself. Immediately, black light shone in his fist. As he unfurled it and revealed his palm, a black ball of light appeared on his palm.

That black ball of light looked as if it was the abyss that could devour all light in the world. Endless illusory figures shone nonstop within it. Each time this happened, a different mountain would manifest in it, and in just several breaths, more than ten million mountains appeared.

Ya Mu stared at the space. The wariness in his eyes was replaced by a powerful fighting spirit, as if he was waiting for the indistinct outline to gain corporeal form and reveal… the second most powerful person among the Abyss Builders in the Fifth True World – Su Xuan Yi. This person was the prodigy the Abyss Builders' Progenitor had predicted to be their Chosen that would someday surpass him.

As Ya Mu stared at the space, the booming sounds reached their strongest. Under the loud noise, the three golden-armored giants let out a roar at the same time. They took a swift forward to yank the chain forward, and the indistinct chariot seemed to be pulled out of space, entering the real world.

The world instantly turned golden. Within the gold sky, gold earth, gold fog, and the gold space, a golden chariot was revealed!

Standing on the chariot was a figure dressed in a golden robe, whose fluttering white hair also seemed to be dyed in gold.

This was a man, an incredibly handsome middle-aged man filled with an ancient air. His gaze was icy cold, and his face was like metal. There was a merciless and aloof air about him, as if there was not a single shred of emotion that belonged to a person within that body.

Ya Mu stared at the aloof man on the golden chariot and asked in a low voice, "Which clone of Su Xuan Yi are you?!"

"The third clone," the middle-aged man said flatly and lifted his right hand. Immediately, endless golden light converged there and turned into a long sword that was around ten feet tall. Its edge was so sharp that with just a light wave, the sound of space tearing apart could be heard.

"Are you the one who wants to harm my Ming'Er?" The icy look in the middle-aged man's eyes gained an even more freezing edge. He did not speak much, but when his sentence was spoken, the entire world seemed to have been submerged in boundless ice.

As cracking sounds came from the space around him, signs of it being frozen manifested. The world looked to be covered in a spiderweb that spreading swiftly. The sky instantly looked like a giant ice flower!

Old Ya Mu's expression changed. Just as he was about to open his eyes and speak, the middle-aged man who was at the center of the ice flower while standing on the chariot in the sky lifted the longsword in his hand and slashed at the ground with a simple swing.

That slash froze the world. The ice flower instantly covered the ground, freezing all of it. The sword cut through the law in the world, causing it to roar, as if it had been cut in half.

Fighting spirit sparked in Old Ya Mu's eyes. The black ball of light in his right hand instantly erupted with black light. It spread along the ice flower, as if it wanted to dye it black. When he lifted his right hand, he swung his arm at the incoming slash.

Immediately, the black ball of light charged at the sky and crashed against the middle-aged man's slash in midair.

"Mountain Shifter!"

Old Ya Mu formed a seal with his hands. Once he formed the mark of a mountain above his head, he spread his arms wide open. An even darker light erupted from the black ball in the sky. The tens of millions of mountains in it seemed to appear in the sky at the same time. This scene might seem incredibly bizarre in words, but during that moment, the sky was filled with mountains.

Booming sounds echoed furiously in the air. They came from the mountains collapsing, which caused Old Ya Mu's face to turn increasingly paler. Once he spread his arms wide open, he gathered them in front of himself and pressed his palms together to form the shape of a summit before he stabbed the air in the direction of the sky.

A loud bang that shook the sky rang out once more. The tens of millions of mountains in the air shuddered simultaneously, and a ray of golden light swept through the area. It cut through the mountains one after another as easy as a hot knife cuts through butter. When the mountains crumbled layer by layer, the golden longsword turned into a ray of golden light that instantly went through.

Old Ya Mu's face was pale. He coughed up a mouthful of blood, and when he staggered backwards, the mountains in the sky crumbled, and the golden light slashing down came to three inches above Old Ya Mu's head. Then, it stopped moving.

However, the freezing will coming from it froze Old Ya Mu's entire body. The glare from the tip of the sword also caused a crack to appear at the center of his brows.

"I respect you as someone older than me. Go and fulfill your promise. Let Ming'Er inherit that Mountain Shifter Art of yours, then deliver a serendipity for him," the aloof voice said from the sky, and the ice flower around Ya Mu became even colder.

"If my real body was not in Arid Traid Expanse Cosmos, then with this Abyss Sword Style of yours, which hasn't even reached the Fifth Heaven, you wouldn't be able to fight against my Mountain Shifter Art!" Old Ya Mu lifted his head and did not even spare a glance at the golden sword above his head. Instead, he stared at the indistinct golden chariot as the mountains crumbled around him.

"This is the fifth kiln, and I am only the third clone," the middle-aged man on the chariot said flatly. His body gradually disappeared, and even the three golden-armored giants slowly fused into space. When all of them were gone, the ice flower also shrank until the world returned to normal. The golden sword above Old Ya Mu's head vanished.

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Chapter 1012: Drawing a Circle with Words to Form a Prison

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When the golden chariot disappeared, the world returned to normal, and the old man fell silent. After a long time, he let out a soft sigh, then lowered his head and looked at the area beneath him.

He saw Su Ming in deep thought while the screams of the three ferocious spirits beside him became incredibly faint. Their bodies, which were one hundred feet tall, were already so withered that their original form was impossible to tell.

With a complicated expression, Old Ya Mu sighed.

"Oh well, even though I am an inspector… Abyss Builders' Progenitor was a friend of mine. That Su Xuan Yi's growth is also incredibly terrifying, so why should I get involved in this mess?

"But while I can choose not to interfere with that lad, trying to learn my Mountain Shifter Art won't be so easy."

The old man let out a cold harrumph. When he saw that only Su Ming and the ferocious spirit with the white tuft on his forehead remained in the mountain beneath him, he lifted his right hand and formed a seal. Just as he was about to change it, his eyes focused, and he let out a soft gasp of surprise.

He saw Su Ming moving in the fog-shrouded mountain. He was not moving to the other circle of light… but charging towards the spot in which was the ferocious spirit with the white tuft of fur on his forehead.

"Damn it, could it be that besides Abyss Builders' Progenitor, all the other Abyss Builders also have a grudge against the laws? Abyss Builders' Progenitor lived his life showing foolish loyalty, but his two descendants are each more overbearing than the last.

"Forget Su Xuan Yi, even you dare to challenge the laws I laid?!" The old man let out a cold harrumph. But just as he formed a seal with his right hand and was about to change the law, he suddenly froze.

Because he heard Su Ming utter one sentence when he rushed forward.

"That circle of light belongs to me."

Countless branches filled the area beyond Su Ming's body while he was in the mountain. Those branches shrank swiftly as they swayed until all of them returned into his body. A brilliant light shone in Su Ming's eyes while he rushed to the ferocious spirit with the tuft of white fur on his forehead.

He had said that sentence intentionally. The gaze in his eyes could be understood even without him having to say anything.

The ferocious spirit who was originally standing in the circle of light saw Su Ming closing in. But just as he was about to step out, his foot froze in the air, and a chilling glare rose in his eyes, but he did not step out of the circle of light. Instead, he stood inside and lifted his right hand to form a seal before pushing his palms forward in the direction of Su Ming coming towards him.

With it, a whirlwind appeared out of nowhere in front of the ferocious spirit. That whirlwind charged forward with a loud roar and became larger with each passing moment. In an instant, it became more than one hundred feet tall, and it swept up everything around it while charging towards Su Ming.

At the instant the whirlwind closed in, Su Ming swung his right arm forward. Immediately, the Life Inequity Spear which had impaled a ferocious spirit on a mountain rock in the distance charged over with a howl. Once Su Ming held it in his hand, he rushed towards the incoming whirlwind without any hesitation.

With a bang, they clashed. The Life Inequity Spear in his hand turned into a purple-black light that shot through the whirlwind and rushed out.

Su Ming's face was slightly pale, but whatever he lost was instantly filled by the power of the flesh, blood, and essence spreading out from Ecang's real form in his body. Needless to say, that power came from the three ferocious spirits that Su Ming had devoured just then.

The moment Su Ming rushed out of the whirlwind, the eyes of the ferocious spirit with the tuft of white fur shone with a brilliant light. He lifted his right hand, and when he swung his arm again, nearly one hundred gigantic whirlwinds appeared around him. Those whirlwinds took over all the area with a roar, and in the blink of an eye, they turned several hundreds of feet tall. Faces then manifested within them.

Those faces belonged to an old man. His face was pale, but there was an awe-inspiring air to him. He existed in all the whirlwinds, which numbered to nearly one hundred, and he charged to Su Ming with them.

As the whirlwinds closed in, mumbles tumbled out of all the nearly one hundred mouths that belonged to the same face. The voices fused together and turned into a buzzing sound that echoed throughout the area. If anyone listened to it for a prolonged period of time, they would find the world spinning in a manner that they could not endure, as if their Qi and blood were flowing in reverse, and as if their souls were about to be torn apart.

Su Ming came to an abrupt halt. A strange light flashed in his eyes. The shadow of the sun appeared in his left eye, and the shape of the moon appeared in his right eye. Once they replaced his pupils, they overlapped with them and gained the light of stars.

The Illusion of Stars, Sun, and Moon!

At the instant Su Ming used this Art, he formed a seal with his hands and moved forward. Immediately, the pupils of the ferocious spirit in the circle of light shrank. A grim expression appeared on his face. When he looked over, Su Ming had turned into hundreds of people that were rushing towards him from all directions, and he could not tell which was real one!

Perhaps all of them were real!

The key to this change lay in whether the ferocious spirit with the white tuft of fur would believe in what he saw. If he did not believe in it, then all of them would be fake. If he believed in it, then all of them could be real.

The profound aspect of this Art lay in the heart.

"An amazing Illusory Art. I see, it's one where illusions lie in reality and can turn real," the ferocious spirit with the white tuft of hair spoke for the first time. His voice was hoarse and ancient. After speaking, he lifted his right hand, bent his back, and pushed his palms against the ground beneath his feet.

At the instant his right hand touched the ground, the near one hundred whirlwinds exploded at the same time. It formed a powerful impact that rushed towards the hundreds of Su Mings in his eyes.

At the same time, the mountain trembled, and mountain rocks appeared on all the Su Mings before his eyes!

The hundreds of mountain rocks appeared at the same time and looked as if they were suppressing him to stop him in his tracks. The impact brought by the explosion of the whirlwinds was also coming for him, which formed a net that allowed no escape.

Booming sounds echoed in all directions, but in the eyes of the ferocious spirit with the white tuft of fur, the hundreds of Su Mings who were suppressed moved at the same time, and then, there were no longer just hundreds of Su Mings around him, but thousands.

"I see, so that's how it is," the old man with white fur said flatly. He shut his eyes swiftly. At the instant he did so, he had his left hand cut his right palm, opening up a gash. When blood poured out, he flung his right arm outwards, and a blood-red mountain appeared.

"Mountain Blood," the old man said calmly. When he flung his arm forward, the ground instantly turned red. The sky also turned crimson to welcome the blood-red mountain in the world!

When it descended from the sky and the ground turned red, it did not matter whether it was the mountain rocks, the exploded whirlwinds, or the thousands of Su Mings, all of them turned red.

Only one… among the thousands of Su Mings not too far away from the old man with that white fur did not turn red!

"You are here." When the old man with the white tuft of fur spoke flatly, he turned his head around to cast a cold glance at Su Ming.

Almost at the moment he looked over, the blood mountain in the sky crumbled on its own and was reduced to countless mountain rocks that charged towards Su Ming. A large number of red whirlwinds appeared out of nowhere as well and close in on him simultaneously.

Booming sounds shook the sky and earth, and Su Ming coughed up blood. He staggered a few steps backwards, and when he coughed up blood again, he lifted his head to stare at the composed ferocious spirit with the white tuft of fur in the circle of light before he sucked in a deep breath.

It was not that no one had ever managed to break his Illusion of Stars, Sun, and Moon before, but usually, they would choose not to believe in it before they could dispel it in a simple manner. After that, the Art would still be around.

This was the first time he saw someone who could see through the Art and still chose to believe in it, all so that he could forcefully break all that he believed in once he discovered the real body.

If he was able to do this, then he had to have great confidence in himself, or else it would be incredibly difficult for him to do so.

It was just like a mortal's dream. If someone died in their dream and believed in it, then most people would choose to return to the earth. However, there were certain people who would still ferociously choose to force themselves to rise from the dead even after they were certain that they had died.

This was the power of will, and Su Ming belonged to that category of people. The ferocious spirit with the white tuft of fur before him was clearly also someone like this.

A powerful enemy!

Su Ming stared at the ferocious spirit with the tuft of white fur. In truth, he had never underestimated this person. The situation at that moment was also within his expectations.

The ferocious spirit was also staring at him. At the instant their gazes met, Su Ming suddenly spoke,

"Why do you insist on standing in the circle of light and continue to play a part in a game that others watch for their pleasure?"

"It doesn't matter whether it is within the circle or beyond the circle, it is all a game. It is the same for you and me," the ferocious spirit replied calmly.

"I have the intention to break this game, and you don't," Su Ming said once more.

"A game? What is a game? You can see the game in this place, but how are you going to break or change a game you can't see?" The ferocious spirit's expression remained calm.

A barely noticeable glint appeared in Su Ming's eyes. He took a step forward and spoke without mincing his words. "I cannot see the game beyond the circle of light, but I know that I can choose whether to walk out or not. I won't change because of someone else changing the rules. As for the game that I can't see, if I can't see it, then it doesn't exist. But for you, that isn't the case."

When the ferocious spirit heard him, he suddenly laughed.

"Whether it is so or not, I, Chen, know full well in my heart. If… I want to walk out of this circle, I will. If I don't want to, I won't. Nothing you say will work."

When Su Ming heard the ferocious spirit say these words, he also laughed. He then lifted his right hand as he rushed forward and pointed at the sky.

"Dao Avenue Mountain!"

The world roared, and Dao Avenue Mountain manifested itself.

"Peace Arrives When the Elephant is Here!" As Su Ming spoke, a gigantic scale appeared in the space above him. A white elephant stood tall like a piece of jade beside it.

Su Ming flung his arms apart. The power of Divine Essence in him erupted from his body and fused swiftly into Dao Avenue Mountain. The malicious spirit let out a roar and rushed out to catch the scale. The white elephant landed on the scale tray, and the malicious spirit pointed at the ferocious spirit in the circle of light with a finger.

"Malicious Spirit Weighs the Elephant!"

But that was not all. When Su Ming executed the Divine Essence Treasure that was Peace Arrives When the Elephant was Here, he lifted his right hand and pointed at the sky while pushing down on the ground with his left hand.

"That which exists between the past and the future is Destiny!"

Destiny's first transformation!

This was Su Ming intending to use the power he possessed while he was in his first transformation as Destiny to weigh the elephant. The mighty pressure and damage he would bring through this would be several times more than in the past.

As the ferocious spirit with the white tuft of fur in the circle of light had a change in his expression, Old Ya Mu's eyes shone while he was in the fog above.

"Chen Bai, if you win against this person, I will grant you freedom." The voice from Old Ya Mu swiftly echoed within and beyond the mountain beneath the fog. At the instant the ferocious spirit heard those words, his body shuddered, and a powerful presence that had never shown itself on him erupted from his body.

At the same time, the ferocious spirit called Chen Bai lifted his foot… and stepped out of the circle of light!

Yet the moment he did so, his face turned pale, as if he had thought of something. When he whipped his head around to look at Su Ming, a complicated look appeared on his face.

"You, who would not change your mind because of other people changing the rules, why did you step out now? In the end, you are still a part of someone else's game. You will never obtain this so-called freedom.

"Just a single sentence from someone else is sufficient to make you give up on your beliefs. Your heart is no longer firm, are you confident that you can win against me?" Su Ming's eyes sparkled as he asked calmly.

To destroy a powerful enemy, the first thing that must be destroyed in him was his will, then his beliefs, and in the end, his physical body. This was the strategy that Su Ming had prepared beforehand.

He did not underestimate this person. On the contrary, he placed him on a very high pedestal. The reason why he said those words previously was so that he would think that Su Ming wanted to snatch his circle and make Old Ya Mu share the same belief. Then Su Ming would use his will to land the first blow.

This was him drawing a circle with words to form a prison.

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Chapter 1013: Seven Seals Rune

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Su Ming's words were sharp and landed in the ferocious spirit's ears, causing his expression to swiftly change several times.

In his path of cultivation, he placed emphasis on cultivating his mind and heart. With a powerful will, he managed to continue down his path without any hesitation, but the remarks Su Ming had thrown before to lay his his trap as well as the step he took in the end due to his desire for freedom had formed a crack that could not heal in the ferocious spirit's heart.

One of the things damaged was his pride. It was a pride born from his will, which would not change due to anything in the world besides his own opinion. This will was not something that could be suppressed by a mighty power, because if he did not want to, then he could choose not to obey Ya Mu's words. It was just that the price for it was incredibly great.

However, he still had the right to choose.

Yet as he took that step forward, his right to choose had disappeared, just as Su Ming had said, because he changed when someone else changed their rules. Because of it, his heart immediately trembled.

"For my freedom, I am choosing to temporarily obey him. No other words can change me!" The ferocious spirit with the tuft of white fur glared at Su Ming. As he spoke, he took a step forward, lifted his right hand, then pushed it at the ground.

With it, a dense ray of blood-red light appeared on his right hand. That light spread out, and a gigantic circular Rune shining with red light appeared on the ground below his palm.

A large number of runic symbols shone at the edge of the Rune. As they continued swimming about, the blood-red light on the Rune reached a piercing degree.

"Living Fiend!"

As the ferocious spirit roared, the Rune under his hand started moving swiftly before it charged out.

Su Ming's eyes sparkled. When the red Rune closed in on him, he formed a seal with his right hand before pointing forward. The treasure that was Peace Arrives When the Elephant is Here immediately rushed towards the Rune with the malicious spirit intending to weigh the Rune and the ferocious spirit with the tuft of white fur.

Booming sounds rang out once again. Under the loud booms, the ferocious spirit lifted his right hand from the ground. The red Rune instantly rose and surrounded Su Ming within it before it crashed with the malicious spirit weighing the elephant.

A powerful impact swept through the area. The malicious spirit was torn apart, and as it tumbled backwards, it disappeared without a trace. The scale also crumbled. Only the white elephant crashed into the red Rune, causing endless cracks to instantly appear on it before it crumbled.

They were equal in terms of strength!

A freezing glare shone in Su Ming's eyes. By then, he looked like a child after going through Destiny's first transformation. He lifted his right hand and swung his arm. Immediately, the air around him started distorting. Time flowed back, and the malicious spirit appeared once again, along with the crumbled scale.

"Weigh him again!" As Su Ming took a step forward, the malicious spirit beside him roared. The picture of it weighing the elephant surrounded the area, occupying the sky. It charged at the ferocious spirit with the tuft of white fur.

"An Art that reverses time…" The ferocious spirit's pupils shrank, but he did not stop moving. Once he stepped out of the circle of light, he raised his arms and roared towards the sky.

"Break My Palms!" As the ferocious spirit roared, signs of his palm lines being about to break immediately appeared on his lifted hands. Immediately after, the ferocious spirit took a step forward and roared again.

"Tear My Lines!" A large amount of fresh blood instantly appeared out of nowhere on the ferocious spirit's palms. It was as if his palm lines were no longer palm lines, but had instead become wounds. As blood gushed out, the ferocious spirit pressed his palms flat on the ground.

The ground trembled. A gigantic blood red Rune that was several thousands of feet big manifested on the ground while flashing rapidly with the ferocious spirit's hands at its center.

This Rune was no longer round but square in shape. As it rotated, its corners shone with a blood-red light.

Booming sounds rose into the air as countless runic symbols rotated around the Rune which was expanding swiftly while charging at its target.

Su Ming flung his right hand forward. The malicious spirit behind him immediately roared and rushed out, but at the instant it did so, a vicious smile appeared on the ferocious spirit's lips. He lifted his hands from the ground.

"With the first Rune, I seal the area before me!" As his voice echoed in the air, the blood Rune that was stretching towards Su Ming was suspended in the air. It stood vertically and blocked the area in front of him before crashing into the malicious spirit.

When a loud bang spread out, Su Ming shuddered. He immediately noticed that his body seemed to have been frozen the moment the red square Rune appeared in front of him. His body came to an abrupt halt against his will.

It was as if the Rune erected in front of him had seized his body, causing him to be unable to move for an instant. During it, the piercing voice from the ferocious spirit echoed in the air again.

"With the second Rune, I seal the area behind me!"

In an instant, a blood-red Rune appeared under the ferocious spirit's feet before it coming behind Su Ming.

The Rune's appearance caused Su Ming's body, which had by then regained some mobility, to freeze for a moment again. As Su Ming's expression changed, he noticed that his power had been suppressed by these two Runes in front and behind him. His body was also forcefully fixed in place.

He was not the only one. Even the malicious spirit was the same. In fact, even the scale and the white jade elephant were frozen in midair.

'What is this divine ability?!' Su Ming's pupils shrank.

"With the third Rune, I seal the heavens!

"With the fourth Rune, I seal the earth!

"With the fifth Rune, I seal all ends!"

When the ferocious spirit spoke again, blood-red Runes appeared around Su Ming one after another. There were five Runes of them in total, but they were all connected together, forming a huge seal around him!

"With the sixth Rune, I seal the heart!"

With a loud bang, the sixth Rune appeared under Su Ming's feet. Because of it, a perfect seal was formed, and it completely sealed Su Ming within it.

The ferocious spirit then rushed forward and turned into a long arc that instantly came into the Rune. During that moment, he flung his arms outwards.

"I turn the netherworld into my hands, and with the seventh Rune, I seal the soul!"

At the instant he said those words, the ferocious spirit's body let out a loud bang and distorted before disappearing from midair. However, he appeared beside Su Ming, who was sealed by the red Runes. Yet the ferocious spirit was no longer in the shape of a human.

Instead… he had turned into a black skeletal hand that shot out from the ground!

That skeletal hand might have seemed to have stretched out from the ground, but if anyone took a closer look, they would be able to see that the hand had grown out of the Rune. This was the ferocious spirit's trump card. He fused his body into the Rune and turned into the black skeletal hand. That hand was several dozens of feet big. When it seized Su Ming, the ferocious spirit's crazed roars immediately echoed beside his ears.

"With my body, I activate the Seven Seals Rune, and I will seal you, and seal you, and seal you again…"

At the instant the ferocious spirit made his first declaration that he would seal him, a powerful whirlwind erupted from the skeletal hand. Since it was the center, it could be said that Su Ming was at the center of a whirlwind. As he was swept up violently, an intense pain surged through his entire body.

His flesh and blood were swiftly torn apart, his cultivation base dissipated nonstop, and his soul suffered the pain of being torn apart.

When the second declaration to seal him was said, a loud bang rose up with it. Su Ming felt as if his entire body was about to collapse. The sealing power from the Rune turned into an impact that was equivalent to self-destruction, and it was raining down continuous blows on his body.

At the instant the third declaration was uttered, Su Ming, who was unable to move, was seized by the skeletal hand. His body, torn by the whirlwind, had blood pouring out from the eyes, ears, nose, and mouth. A powerful sense of danger swiftly rose from the bottom of his heart, screaming at him that the shadow of death was looming over him.

"This is my strongest divine ability! Do you think it'll be unable to kill you?! I'll seal you!"

The ferocious spirit's voice appeared again, and a bang rang out in Su Ming's body. A large amount of fresh blood gushed out from all over him. Under the destructive impact of the sealing power and the whirlwind tearing at him, his body began breaking down!

His arms were torn away. His legs were ripped off. His chest was also split, as if he was being cut to pieces like paper!

However… he did not break completely. As he was torn, a large number of thin branches appeared between Su Ming's limbs. Those branches were like veins. They forcefully connected his body, preventing the tearing from completing, but the more it was so, the greater Su Ming's pain became.

Under it, he gritted his teeth and did not shout, but a crazed killing intent appeared in his eyes.

The more painful it was, the greater his killing intent would grow!

The longer in pain he was, the harder he would struggle to continue living!

"Die! Be sealed!"

The fifth declaration from the ferocious spirit to seal Su Ming rang out. A large number of the branches connecting Su Ming's limbs were broken. As it happened, the indescribable pain caused Su Ming to grit his teeth and turn it into a burst of his life.

Su Ming lifted his head and roared under the intense pain and outburst of life. As he did so, it was as if all the pain he felt was let out of his body. A hint of his cultivation base then seemed to be restored due to it.

"You're the one dying!" At the instant that hint of cultivation base was restored, Su Ming turned his head around with a ferocious growl. A strange light appeared in his eyes.

"Possession!"

When Su Ming said this word, a dark light shone in his eyes before instantly turning dull, but at the instant this happened, his soul spread out and rushed out of the center of his brows to charge towards the skeletal hand that was the ferocious spirit under him!

When his soul touched that skeletal hand, he heard the ferocious spirit immediately making his sixth declaration to seal Su Ming!

Booming sounds surged into the sky from where Su Ming was held. His body turned into a blood fog, for he had been torn apart. He fused into the Rune, and booming sounds echoed ceaselessly.

A powerful wave of impact stirred up from the ground. It distorted the air until even Old Ya Mu above the fog found himself unable to tell what was going on and his pupils narrowed.

But he could sense… that Su Ming had not yet died!

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Chapter 1014: Treasured Gourd, Please-

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The loud bang that lasted for about twenty breaths slowly faded away. The distortions formed in the air due to the impact also gradually dissipated.

The mountain remained as the mountain. Not a single part of it was damaged. The two circles of light were still around, and they were shining with a brilliant light.

Su Ming… disappeared, or rather, his body had disappeared, but there was a lot of blood on the ground. The blood-red Rune was also still around.

The cube formed by the six square Runes shone with a crimson light. The skeletal hand in it had already disappeared without a trace and turned into… the ferocious spirit with the tuft of white hair. He was on one knee in the Rune, unmoving.

He closed his eyes, with fatigue on his face. Not a single ripple of his presence spread out, as if he was a dead person.

Time went by quickly. In just the time it takes for half an incense stick to burn, the ferocious spirit's eyes flew open. A brilliant light shone in them as the man lowered his head to look at his body.

After a long while, when he lifted his head, he raised his right hand and pushed it against the ground. His body immediately trembled viciously. All the blood in the Rune rose up in the air and charged into his body. When it fused into him, the ferocious spirit's body started changing swiftly.

It slowly shrank. The shriveled boils contracted, and a large amount of black smoke spread out. His hair gradually grew longer, until all the blood around him merged into his body. Once it happened, he became the size of a normal person. His body recovered completely, losing that hideous appearance of before.

He was dressed in a white robe. When he lifted his head again… what was revealed was Su Ming's face!

Old Ya Mu above the fog did not reveal any surprise on his face. Clearly, he had long since predicted this outcome, but his expression was dark, and no one could say what he was thinking.

Su Ming sucked in a deep breath. He did not completely Possess that ferocious spirit with the tuft of white fur, but once he obtained the memories regarding the Seven Seals Rune, he devoured his soul and gave up on the body.

He borrowed it to form his own again.

The power of the Seven Seals Rune was so great that Su Ming's heart pounded with lingering fear even after the incident. This was why he had been so eager to obtain that Art, and the only way to do so was to devour the ferocious spirit's memories during Possession.

This was Abyss Builders' inborn ability. However, if Su Ming's previous words had not opened a crack in the heart and mind of the ferocious spirit, he would have definitely needed to go through a considerable amount of difficulty during the Possession.

At that moment, Su Ming exhaled and looked at his right palm. He lifted it and pushed it against the blood-red Rune in front of him. At the instant he touched it, the Rune shone before gradually turning dark. When it disappeared without a trace, Su Ming lifted his head again and looked at the fog above.

It obscured the view, making it impossible for him to see what was there, but during that instant, a crack appeared at the center of Su Ming's brows. The Malicious Eye manifested swiftly in the crack, and immediately, the fog in the sky was magnified endlessly. He looked through layers upon layers, and in the span of a few breaths, Su Ming saw Old Ya Mu in the fog. He also saw the dark expression on his face.

Su Ming stared at the old man, and the old man also stared at Su Ming. Their gazes met each other through the fog.

"I won," Su Ming declared flatly.

Old Ya Mu was silent. After a moment, he lifted his right hand and swung his arm forward. The mountain below him immediately roared. It started swaying violently, and Su Ming quickly lowered his head to see that a gigantic vortex had appeared at the top of the inverted mountain. That vortex rotated with loud bangs as it continued growing bigger.

It lasted only for the span of a breath before a mountain appeared underneath the vortex!

It was a mountain that was the exact same as the one on which Su Ming was standing!

It stood in the vortex in a normal manner, so its summit touched the summit of the mountain on which Su Ming stood, forming a picture that was like an hourglass. Su Ming saw Zhu You Cai at the forefront on the mountain beneath the vortex. He also saw Reverend Zi Long and Huang Mei following closely behind him.

Besides these three, Su Ming also saw Flame Fiends' Progenitor, Progenitor Long Hai, Xuan Shang, Yun You, Hua Yu… and Xu Hui!

The moment Su Ming saw the crowd, the people also saw an inverted mountain appear before their eyes in the vortex which trembled viciously while the world roared. They also saw… Su Ming!

"He didn't die!" Xuan Shang, Hua Yu, and Yun You immediately sucked in a sharp breath. At the instant they saw Su Ming, their hearts trembled.

Tears flowed down from Xu Hui's eyes. She stared blankly at Su Ming, who appeared in the inverted mountain above her, as if that one look would last an eternity for her.

Progenitor Long Hai's expression remained as calm as ever, but his heart let out a loud thump. He had mulled over it in his head and believed that even if he did not help him, Su Ming would not take any action against him. After all, with his level of cultivation, he would definitely value him highly. When he thought about this, even though his heart remained slightly anxious, not a single change appeared on his face.

The eyes of Flame Fiends' Progenitor shone, for he was very nervous. He knew Su Ming better than Long Hai, and because of that, he could not help but start regretting.

When Zi Long saw Su Ming, his expression remained the same, but his pupils shrank slightly, because he noticed that Su Ming… was the closest person to the summits of the two mountains!

When Zhu You Cai saw Su Ming, a hint of a smile appeared on his face before it disappeared, and he returned to that ugly appearance of his.

As for Huang Mei, he let out a cold harrumph and moved faster, facing the mighty pressure in the place head-on, climbing to the summit with gritted teeth.

A glint appeared in Su Ming's eyes. All the various expressions on these people's faces allowed him to see all sorts of things. The deliverance of that chain earlier had originally been to bring him and Xu Hui upwards at the same time, but an accident had occurred on their way up.

During it they had heard Zhu You Cai's voice, and in his words, he mentioned Huang Mei. Because of it, Su Ming had already guessed everything that had happened. Zhu You Cai had tried to save them, while and Huang Mei used some sort of unknown method to stop him.

Su Ming's expression remained the same. He cast a cold glance at Huang Mei, and the aloof look in his eyes was the same as when he previously stared at the white-robed teenager.

Su Ming did not speak. With one step, he charged towards the summit, and he was so fast that the crowd who had lost their power could not compare. They could only watch helplessly as he turned into a long arc and charged for the summit.

He was so quick that in just an instant, Su Ming had already stepped onto the spot where the two mountains connected – at the two summits!

Su Ming might have seemed calm from the outside, but he was prepared for a vicious battle. After all, Old Ya Mu had a hostile expression on his face just then. It wasn't beyond that person to dispel the mighty pressure on the other people's bodies an intense battle.

However, even when Su Ming reached the stone platform on the summit, the other people were still climbing slowly. The seal on their cultivation bases did not show any signs of being released. They could only stare at him going to the stone platform helplessly.

Zhu You Cai sighed and gave up on moving forward. Reverend Zi Long frowned and cast Su Ming a profound look, then also chose to give up.

A great refusal to accept defeat appeared on Huang Mei's face, but he was still hundreds of feet away from the summit. He was too far away to catch up.

"Hmph, I am not the sort of person who goes against his own word. Since I promised you that if you reach the summit, you will become my scion, I will not interfere with you," Old Ya Mu's said in Su Ming's heart.

"These two mountains are complete opposites. One of them is in the sky, and the other is in the ground. Understanding one of them will not make the Art complete. Only when you will understand them at the same time will you be able to obtain the real Mountain Shifter!

"I did not create this Art on my own, but inherited it from Mountain Shifter Expanse Cosmos, which is also part of Dark Dawn Union. This Art is the supreme Art in Mountain Shifter Expanses Cosmos that governs the changes in the world. It is equal in terms of power to Abyss Builders' Nine Heavenly Abyss Sword Styles. They are both naturally born Arts.

"Learn it. I will send you to the core of the fifth kiln, but before that, I will give you the serendipity I promised you. I will definitely not go back on my word!" Old Ya Mu's voice echoed in Su Ming's heart, but as Su Ming continued listening to it, his words were filled with a peculiar air.

It was as if… Old Ya Mu was not saying those words to him, but were saying them for someone else, but that voice was clearly echoing in his heart. The people who Su Ming could see around him did not seem to be somebodies who were worthy of Old Ya Mu explaining himself in such a manner.

"Nine Heavenly Abyss Sword Style?" Su Ming's eyes sparkled. This was the first time he heard of this Art.

"It is an Art your Progenitor created after he gained an epiphany about the change in the universe within Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos. He declared that there were nine heavenly changes, but at most, I saw only seven. Even that Progenitor of yours believed that the remaining ones could only be achieved in theory.

"You'll learn about this in the future. Now hurry up and learn that Mountain Shifter Art of mine. Once you learn it, I'll have fulfilled my promise, and my projection will be free to leave the fifth kiln."

As Old Ya Mu's voice echoed in Su Ming's heart, his eyes shone, and he swept his gaze past the two stone platforms. One of them was above him, and the other beneath him. A single iron scroll was on each of them.

When Su Ming looked over, light shone in his eyes. After a period of pensive silence, he lifted his right hand and placed it on the stone platform above him. At the instant he did so, the inverted mountain started trembling viciously. Cracks appeared on it, and in the blink of an eye, the mountain started showing signs of crumbling.

At the same time, a loud bang rang out in Su Ming's head. An epiphany towards the universe, the world, and the entire cosmos surged into his consciousness. It filled his whole mind and turned into countless memory fragments that stirred up a storm in his head.

In the storm of those memory fragments, Su Ming saw mountains. Among them were Dark Mountain, the ninth summit, and all the mountains he had seen, traversed, or touched in his life.

All of them had differing heights, but they swiftly overlapped with each other, and a vague epiphany gradually formed in his heart.

In the other people's eyes, Su Ming's hair danced in the air. The air beside him distorted, and mountains manifested. As they changed, more cracks appeared on the inverted mountain above, and the signs of its crumbling became even greater.

A powerful, mighty pressure that had never appeared before on Su Ming's body manifested with a bang, shaking everyone's hearts.

It was especially so for Huang Mei. Intense jealousy showed up in his eyes, and as his face distorted, veins popped up.

"It won't be that easy for you to obtain such a powerful divine ability!" Huang Mei gritted his teeth, then struck the gourd behind his back with his right hand. He then shouted out, "Treasured gourd, please kill him!"

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Chapter 1015: Why Do You Have It As Well…

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The shout was firm, powerful, and filled with confidence!

Even if the sound of the mountain above cracking were echoing in the air, Huang Mei's voice was still very loud and clear, and it attracted all the people's attention.

It was especially so for Reverend Zi Long. At the instant he saw Huang Mei bringing his right hand up and striking the gourd behind him, his pupils shrank.

Zi Long had always been wary of Huang Mei's gourd. He had vaguely been able to see its origins, which was why he had constantly compromised with him. Even when they had been fighting for a supreme treasure beforehand and Zi Long was ambushed by his despicable tricks, he had only attacked briefly and did not try to force him into a corner. Zi Long could only force down his anger.

The source of it all was that gourd!

Zi Long was eight-tenths certain that the gourd was definitely the legendary supreme treasure from the Fifth True World!

When he saw Huang Mei finally using that treasure and heard him pleading for the gourd to kill Su Ming, Zi Long immediately sucked in a sharp breath. His guess had been correct!

When Zhu You Cai saw the gourd and heard Huang Mei's words, his expression changed.

Xuan Shang, Yun You, and Hua Yu knew nothing about the treasured gourd's origins, but their hearts still trembled when they saw Huang Mei's actions, because after Huang Mei spoke, a powerful ripple of power erupted from the treasured gourd.

The ripples tumbled about and formed a gigantic impact in the shape of a vortex that swept out in all directions.

"Lu Ya's gourd!"

Progenitor Long Hai's expression changed continuously, until he cried out in surprise. He fixed his stare on the gourd, and his Nascent Divinity started showing signs of being close to dissipating.

Flame Fiends' Progenitor was in the same state. As he stared at the gourd behind Huang Mei, strong greed appeared on his face.

Huang Mei saw the group's expressions, and a cold sneer appeared at the corners of his lips. He had been in possession of this treasured gourd for years and had used it very rarely because he wanted to be able to wrestle victory into his hands in one go during a critical moment of a fight.

He had originally not wanted to use it just like that, prepared to attack and kill whoever it was that obtained the Mountain Shifter Art before him so that he could snatch it away.

However, Su Ming's appearance was the last straw for Huang Mei. He absolutely would not allow anyone else to obtain that powerful Art. He would do everything he could to get that Art.

'I'd like to see who will still dare to snatch that Art from me after I kill that person!'

Huang Mei laughed coldly. He did not believe that Su Ming had any chance of surviving this encounter. In his experience, as long as he used the treasured gourd, all of those who were targeted would definitely die, unless their level of cultivation was much higher than his!

As he laughed coldly, the treasured gourd behind his back lit up, shining brightly. As the vortex roared, an eye appeared on the gourd.

There was an aloof look to it. When it appeared, it immediately stared at Su Ming. With a blink, a dense wave of white fog appeared at the mouth of the gourd. That presence was filled with a thick fragrance that immediately filled the area. From the distance, it looked like there were white clouds erupting from the mouth of the gourd.

"I, Huang, am the only one who can gain an epiphany of this Mountain Shifter Art. You're just a young boy, die!" Huang Mei laughed madly, and with a loud bang, the fog from the gourd behind him erupted.

Su Ming opened his eyes at the summit before lowering them to stare at Huang Mei. Unable to help itself, a strange expression appeared on his face.

All the people saw this strange expression, but no one knew the meaning behind it.

"The time taken for that gourd of yours to attack is a little too slow," Su Ming said with a strange tone in his voice.

Once he said those words, the people were all momentarily stunned, especially Huang Mei. He stiffened for a moment. It was the truth. This particular aspect about his gourd was something that brought resignation to him. Every single time he finished the incantation, he would need about a dozen breaths before the divine ability would erupt from the fog, but fortunately, once it erupted, it would lock onto its target formlessly, causing all those who were targeted to be unable to escape no matter where they went.

"Even if it's slow, it'll still be enough to kill you!" Huang Mei said in a prideful manner.

Su Ming's expression became even stranger. He sighed. His action caused the other's gazes to flicker, because there was not a single hint of fear or panic on his face at that moment. Thus, that strange expression of his puzzled everyone.

The next instant, Su Ming no longer hesitated and lifted his right hand to strike his storage bag. Immediately, a gourd the size of a palm appeared on his right hand. When he lifted it up, he swept his left hand over it.

"Treasured gourd, please kill him," Su Ming said with a strange tone in his voice. He believed that one of the two gourds was definitely an imitation, but he trusted the bald crane. The change that had happened to it when it saw the gourd was something that Su Ming would never forget. He felt… that there was a high possibility that his was the real thing.

Almost the instant Su Ming brought out the small gourd, all the people's expressions in the area changed, and then, all of them became strange at the same time.

Even Reverend Zi Long, with his ability to remain calm, could not help but widen his eyes at that instant, disbelief appearing on his face. Zhu You Cai also blinked a couple times. He stared at Su Ming and Huang Mei before a smile that he could not control appeared on the corners of his lips. He thought that the scene right then was slightly out of expectations, and rather absurd.

Compared to the two of them, Xuan Shang, Yun You, and Hua Yu found themselves a little unable to accept the development of this situation. They stared at the small gourd on Su Ming's palm with a dumbfounded gaze before looking over at the big gourd on Huang Mei's back, and then, their minds were completely occupied by the two gourds of differing sizes.

'The… big one should be stronger, right?' Besides this one single thought, Xuan Shang's mind was empty.

As for Progenitor Long Hai, he sucked in a sharp breath. He suddenly realized that there were plenty of secrets surrounding Su Ming. Just that gourd alone could immediately overturn the world in this place.

Flame Fiends' Progenitor blinked. He was unable to tell just which one was the real deal…

Huang Mei was especially affected. As his expression changed drastically, he cried out in surprise, "You-you… Why do you have it as well?!"

At the instant he said those words, the gourd behind him let out a loud bang again, and as a large amount of white fog erupted from it, a small human rushed out.

That small human was semi-transparent and held a black blade in her hands. Her expression was slightly sluggish, and judging from her appearance, this small human was a female… When she rushed out of the fog, she fixed her stare on Su Ming.

"Treasured gourd, please kill him!"

Powerful killing intent shone in Huang Mei's eyes. When he saw that Su Ming also had a gourd, an ominous feeling rose in his heart, but when the small human appeared from his gourd, that feeling immediately disappeared. He lifted his right hand and pointed at Su Ming while roaring.

The small human from the gourd behind him immediately threw her head back and let out a piercing screech, before rushing over towards Su Ming. The fog beside her tumbled about and covered her body, making it seem like she was riding on clouds. Murderous aura surged into the sky from her.

An indescribable, mighty pressure erupted from Su Ming's gourd as well. It brought with it an extreme sharpness that seemed like it could cut through all the laws in the universe.

"So what if you also have a gourd?! It's just an imitation! How dare you bring it out against the real thing!"

Right after Huang Mei finished saying these things, seven eyes appeared on Su Ming's gourd! Those seven eyes blinked at the same time, their gazes aloof, and Huang Mei's heart let out a loud thump. He remembered how his gourd only had one eye when he used it.

However, when he recalled how his gourd would definitely succeed every time the small human appeared, a great amount of confidence rose in him again.

But right then, fog burst out of the gourd in Su Ming's hand. At the same time, a small human the size of a palm rushed out of the gourd. He was also holding onto a blade in his right hand.

The small human from Su Ming's gourd was very small, but he was not an illusion. He looked incredibly real, and his appearance was also very distinct, just like that of a real person. He was also not female, but male.

And the small human from Su Ming's gourd did not have any sort of delay like Huang Mei's did after he recited his incantation. Instead, he flew out immediately, and compared to the small human from Huang Mei's gourd, he chose to remain silent instead of throwing his head back to roar!

One of them roared, the other remained silent. One of them had a delay, and the other moved immediately.

Even if they had yet to collide, all of the people in the area were shrewd, calculative monsters, so it was impossible for them to be unable to tell just which of the two was real.

However, the thing that made them hesitant about their answer was the fact that… one of them was too big, and the other… too small.

At the instant Huang Mei's expression changed, replaced by disbelief, the small human from his gourd turned her head around and bit down on his neck, but he was clearly already used to this. He did not dodge and simply allowed that little female to suck his blood, flesh, and essence. When she let go of him, she let out a screech and rushed out to crash into the small human from Su Ming's gourd.

In the mid of Huang Mei's nervous anticipation, his body suddenly shuddered, and he opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but his face turned pale and he coughed up a mouthful of blood. This blood was not due to being injured… but from outrage!

He was not the only one feeling out of sorts. The expressions of all the other people in the area turned incredibly strange as they looked at the scene in the sky with dumbfounded expressions.

There was no battle, no slaughter, no loud bangs that rose from any form of collision.

The small human who flew out from Su Ming's gourd stopped in midair. The female human from Huang Mei's gourd instantly closed in, but the instant she did so, she trembled… and acted bashfully in front of the male…

But that was not all. As the small human from Huang Mei's gourd started acting bashfully, she approached the small human from Su Ming's gourd, who had an aloof and prideful expression on his face. Once she did so, she knelt down in the air, and the human from Su Ming's gourd… even put on an expression as if he did not really like her.

He then nodded, as if he was forced to do something very difficult. The small human from Huang Mei's gourd stood up again and swiftly shrank to the same size as the small human from Su Ming's gourd…

All the people who witnessed this scene—no matter how they looked at it—thought that the female human was showing her infatuation to the male human.

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Chapter 1016: Three, Mountain!

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At the same time, cracking sounds rose swiftly in the air. They came from the cracks that appeared on the gourd on Huang Mei's back. Those cracks spread out, before the gourd… eventually shattered into pieces.

"Sorry about that, but I have a gourd as well."

Su Ming let out a dry cough, then a freezing glare appeared in his eyes. He brought his right hand up and pointed at Huang Mei, and the small human from his gourd as well as his 'wife' immediately lowered their heads to cast Huang Mei a cold look before charging forward swiftly.

Huang Mei was so enraged by Su Ming's words that he coughed up blood again. The outrage on his face reached an extreme state, and as he lifted his head to roar towards the sky, despair appeared on his face.

His roar was shrill and forlorn, as if no matter how he shouted, he could not vent out the extreme outrage in his heart.

When he saw the two small humans from the gourd swiftly close in on him, about to cut his neck, he quickly let go of the mountain rock and plunged into the depths of the canyon.

The two small humans from the gourd flashed and continued after him, but a big hand appeared in the air beside the falling Huang Mei and caught him. The back of that hand crashed into the incoming two small humans.

Loud bangs surged into the sky. As the two small humans tumbled backwards, chilly expressions appeared on their faces, especially on the one from Su Ming's gourd. A powerful killing intent shone in his eyes, but he immediately returned to Su Ming's side.

As for the small human who originally belonged to Huang Mei, she also came to Su Ming's side. Adoration was in her eyes as she gazed at the small human from Su Ming's gourd. It was as if just one gaze from him was enough for her to give up on everything for him.

Su Ming lifted his head slowly and stared at the fog above him, the killing intent in his eyes growing stronger. He lifted the gourd in his right hand and swung it. Immediately, the small human from his gourd flew back, and the female human that originally belonged to Huang Mei… also went to the gourd with him.

Fortunately, Huang Mei could not see this scene, since he was seized by the palm, or else he would have definitely coughed up another mouthful of blood.

"You want to save him?" Su Ming asked faintly while staring above himself.

"He is willing to enter the earth. In my path, there are gates leading to earth, so I will naturally save him," an ancient voice said from the air. That voice belonged to Old Ya Mu.

This time, his voice echoed in the air, and all the people could hear him.

Su Ming did not speak, but stared at the air above him with an aloof gaze. It might be important to him whether Huang Mei lived or died, but compared to the thoughts raging in his mind at the moment, his survival was insignificant.

Su Ming had previously wondered about one thing. Old Ya Mu was clearly speaking to him, but no matter how he listened to it, he seemed to be explaining his actions to another person.

If he was in another place, Su Ming would not think too much about this strange matter, but this was the fifth kiln, and because of it, Su Ming had to delve into it.

Since Old Ya Mu was insistent on saving Huang Mei, Su Ming immediately decided to use this matter to test what was going on.

Which was why he did not speak. Not a hint of him showing any sort of compromise appeared on his face. He stared at the sky and stood on the summit aloofly, without saying a single word.

'If Old Ya Mu softens his tone, then it would mean that my guess is correct—he ran into someone when I was engaged in that fierce fight on the mountain.

'It is then because of that person that he spoke in such a manner, as if he was explaining his actions to someone else. It would have been due to his wariness.

'But if his tone won't soften up, my guess is incorrect.' A myriad of thoughts spun in Su Ming's mind, but he did not show a single hint of it on his face.

After about a dozen breaths, a sigh came from the fog above.

"Enough now. I've been here for many years. If I want to leave this place, I need a physical body. That boy just now seemed pretty decent, so I want to borrow it for a while. Once I leave, he will no longer be him.

"Aren't you going to hurry up and gain an epiphany of my Mountain Shifter Art?"

The voice from the fog above caused Su Ming's heart to tremble furiously. He lowered his head in silence and cast a glance at the iron scrolls on the stone platforms. Once he sucked in a deep breath, he raised both his arms. But just as he was about to press his hands on them, he spoke calmly without lifting his head, as if he was speaking very casually.

"When I was fighting against that ferocious spirit, which of my father's clone did you encounter, senior?"

"The third… Hmm?" Old Ya Mu answered without much thought, but the moment he said it, a brilliant light suddenly shone in his eyes.

"The third clone, huh?" Su Ming said faintly. He had a strong feeling that Ya Mu was staring at him from the fog above. However, the habit of having his expression not change to reflect his thoughts was already something embedded into Su Ming's bones, so he was not worried about having his thoughts seen through.

His words just then were purely to fish for something from Ya Mu. He had said those words at random, so it did not matter to him even if he got it wrong. He just wanted to see Ya Mu's reaction and use it to make his judgment.

However, Su Ming had not expected that his words… would allow him to get an answer that caused his heart to tremble violently.

"What a sly lad. But I like this cunning of yours. As for what is going on between you and your father, I'm not willing to get myself involved in it." Old Ya Mu in the fog chuckled and stopped speaking.

Su Ming's heart trembled. He closed his eyes and pushed his palms against the two mountain rocks. Booming sounds echoed in the air, and everything in his mind was forced down, replaced by illusions of mountains.

As the one above crumbled, cracks also gradually appeared on the swaying one beneath him.

More cracks formed, and more mountains appeared in Su Ming's head. In the end, a loud bang rang out. The instant the mountain above him completely collapsed, the images of countless mountains gathered together in his head before turning into a black ball of light.

That ball of light was an illusion. There were numerous mountains shining in it, and it had a vast, mighty pressure. Su Ming could sense it clearly, and he found that it was also spreading out from his body. During that instant, the expressions of all people who sensed that mighty pressure from Su Ming's body changed. They felt as if there were ten thousand mountains pressing down on their heads.

Booming sounds rose into the air, and the mountain beneath began crumbling again. When all of it shattered into rocks, all the people on it were swiftly swept up. At the instant this happened, their power was instantly restored to them.

The next instant, the black ball of light in Su Ming's mind gained corporeal form. It turned into a brand on his soul.

The shape of the brand was formed of three glowing spots connected together. There was a primitive presence to it, as if it had been naturally formed when the universe was initially created.

At the instant the brand was left in him, Su Ming sensed the existences of all the mountains in the entire universe!

Their numbers were countless. They were normal mountains in an innumerable number of planets, illusory ones that could not be counted, those that existed in the minds of legions of people, and they all formed a law that had yet to be discovered by the people in Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos.

The Mountain Shifter Art practiced the laws of mountains!

"A mountain is formed of three dots [1]! These three dots form the outline of a mountain, and they mark the beginning of the universe. They are the source of power! You, my scion who inherited the Art from Mountain Shifter Expanse Cosmos, you who are a foreigner to my world, remember this… Mountain Shifter is just the first style.

"Up to now since the date this Art was created, it only has this one style [2]. If someone from the worlds beyond is destined to create the second style, he should come to my Expanse Cosmos – Mountain Shifter Expanse Cosmos, and leave behind the second style… because those in my world have never had any other desire but to inherit this Mountain Shifter Art besides this…"

At the instant the brand was left in Su Ming's soul, an ancient voice echoed in his heart. That voice felt like it had come from the passages of time and was full of sincerity.

Su Ming's heart trembled. He opened his eyes, and the shadow of mountains appeared clearly in his pupils. During that moment, he had a strong feeling that with just one thought… he could control all the mountains in the universe!

The world instantly crumbled. As the fog around him tumbled about and the mountain beneath him collapsed, a gigantic vortex appeared out of thin air above him. While it spun about with loud booming sounds, a powerful suction force swept up the people's bodies..

When Su Ming opened his eyes, he saw Xu Hui's body in the distance. She was already close to the vortex, and beside her was Xuan Shang. Xu Hui seemed to have seized him by the arm, but there was panic on his face, and fear filled him as he shook his head nonstop. In the end, his expression morphed into that of anguish.

Su Ming did not look closely at him. With one move, he took his first step forward, and when his foot landed, a glowing spot appeared.

Then Su Ming took his second step, and the second glowing spot appeared.

He leaped up and appeared right next to Xu Hui, who was above the two spots. A smile bloomed on her face. She let go of her grip over Xuan Shang's arm, which resulted in him being swept into the vortex, and allowed Su Ming to hold onto her. The third glowing spot then also appeared.

At the instant this happened, the spots connected and formed… a mountain!

That mountain might have been an illusion, but it allowed Su Ming to hold onto Xu Hui in midair, remaining tall and still with the vortex beneath him! It was as if a real mountain had appeared in the sky.

With one arm around Xu Hui, who was staring at him, Su Ming faintly spoke into the air. "Where is my serendipity?"

"There are plenty of worlds in the fifth kiln, but only this world… was created solely by me. Your serendipity is the essence of this one world I have gathered over countless years!" Old Ya Mu said from above, his voice echoing throughout the world that started rumbling furiously.

Shadows appeared beside Su Ming. There were dozens of them… and all of them had the appearances of the ferocious spirits. Nian Yin was one of them!

These ferocious spirits were the people Old Ya Mu had captured over the years. At that moment, all of them stood transfixed in the air. However, their bodies were withering rapidly, and a large amount of life force erupted from their bodies. This life force turned into thin white threads that charged towards Su Ming.

Translator's Note:

1. A mountain is formed of three dots: The original is actually supposed to be "A mountain is also three."

Because mountain is 山 (shan1) and 三 (san1) sound almost the same, but it made no sense in English if I wrote it like that, so I tweaked it again while trying to retain its original nuance. Still, please take note that this is a wordplay lost in translation.

2. Just a clarification, what he meant is that Mountain Shifter itself only has one style, and this Mountain Shifter Art, which only has one style, is the first style in his Ultimate Art, which has seven styles.

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Chapter 1017: Unmoving, Rudimentary Heavens

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Su Ming swept his gaze past the area and immediately saw that the three people he had absorbed with Ecang's true self were not among the ferocious spirits. The one with the tuft of white fur was also not among them. Clearly, those who were absorbed by Ecang and Possessed by Su Ming were in a state of having been truly wiped out. From then on, they were no longer a part of Old Ya Mu's game.

As the life force from the ferocious spirits in the area turned into thin threads and fused into Su Ming, his body let out a bang. His cultivation base increased exponentially, filling his entire body in an instant.

The life force from the dozens of ferocious spirits around him was the quintessence formed from their cultivation bases. At that moment, all of it gushed out and filled the world.

By then, all the other people in the world had been sucked into the vortex, and Su Ming had no idea in which dimension they had been transferred. At that moment, the only ones present were Su Ming and Xu Hui, who was in his arms.

In the face of the rampaging power from the cultivation bases spreading out from the ferocious spirits, Su Ming's expression changed.

"My power has already been restored. I can protect myself, so you don't have to bother about me…" Xu Hui said softly while smiling faintly.

When Su Ming turned his head around to look at her, he saw her wink at him. A sly look appeared in her eyes, and her appearance changed swiftly. Once her body distorted, she turned… into the appearance of the body formed by the supreme treasure!

"You found it rude to snatch this item, but I'm fine with it, so I got it for you," Xu Hui said with a smile and left Su Ming's arms. As she retreated, she faced the rampaging power from the place head-on.

Su Ming blinked. He remembered the anguished expression on Xuang Shang's face when he went to grab Xu Hui just then, but he had no idea what method she had used to threaten Xuan Shang into giving her that supreme treasure.

With the body of the supreme treasure around, Su Ming believed that Xu Hui would have the highest possible protection, so he stopped thinking about how she had obtained it. Instead, he sucked in a sharp breath of the vast life force coming towards him.

With it, Su Ming's body let out a bang as if he was about to explode. The rampaging life force and power from the cultivation bases spread out from the dozens of ferocious spirits from all directions and surged into Su Ming.

This scene was similar to transferring cultivation bases. Besides a few, the dozens of ferocious spirits… were all Almighties in Mastery Realm. Because of that, the transfer of their cultivation bases was a great serendipity that was unprecedented in the universe.

This serendipity could be gentle so that Su Ming would not have to suffer, but Old Ya Mu did not have the obligation to make this serendipity gentle. His thought process was simple.

'I've given you the serendipity, but as for how much you can absorb will depend entirely on you!'

"If you have the ability, then absorb all of it. If you can't sustain it and end up with your body bursting, then that will be due to your greed. It won't have anything to do with me," Old Ya Mu said flatly as he cast a cold glance at Su Ming absorbing that life force. A brilliant light shone in Su Ming's eyes.

However, at that moment, he could not speak. The rampaging life force and the power from the cultivation bases forced him to only circulate them rapidly in his body as he absorbed them. Fortunately, Su Ming had some experience with this sort of thing from the God Ascension Nectar, or else, if anyone else had been in his place, they would definitely panic.

This was a serendipity, but also a disaster!

However, Su Ming had the right to choose and give up on this disaster. If he did so, then the serendipity would stop. He could avoid endangering his life, but if he gave up on it so easily… he would not be Su Ming.

Sweat covered his body while booming sounds continuously spread out from it. A large amount of life force surged madly into him through all his pores. The pace at which Su Ming circulated his cultivation base could not catch up to that of the life force and power of those cultivation bases fusing into him.

It was at that moment that Su Ming threw his head back and roared. His cultivation base clone had broken through the later stage of World Plane Realm and attained great completion of World Plane Realm!

"Since this is a serendipity, then I might as well give you more."

Old Ya Mu cast Su Ming a glance, and a malicious smile appeared on his face. He lifted his right hand and swung his arm forward. Booming sounds immediately surged into the sky, and the dimension shattered.

As the dimension collapsed, space distorted, and the power of essence that had gathered over countless years erupted forth. It then immediately surged into Su Ming's body, causing it to instantly swell up.

"Absorb it. Remember this, when you can't absorb it anymore, don't blame me for not granting you that serendipity. When you can't sustain it anymore, search for a place to avoid the dimension's destruction. After that, you can step into the vortex that will form after the dimension fully collapses. That vortex will Relocate you to the core of the fifth kiln.

"Now, I have fulfilled my promise. Boy, it'll all depend on you for how much you can absorb." Old Ya Mu smiled faintly. He moved, and his appearance changed. His body turned into an illusion, then he swiftly gained corporeal form, and he transformed into Huang Mei.

He lowered his head to scrutinize his own body. His smile grew wider, and he turned around to take a step into the air. He then disappeared from the crumbling dimension.

"Su Ming!" Xu Hui was still in the rampaging dimension. She immediately cried out anxiously when she saw what was happening, but was continuously forced back by the rampaging power and could not get closer.

"It's fine, I can last!"

As Su Ming's body swelled up, he threw his head back and roared. Immediately, he expanded even more, and his cultivation base stirred up a storm.

The storm might have been instantly suppressed, but Su Ming's cultivation base had reached a breakthrough during that instant!

A moon appeared behind him!

It was a gray moon, and a boundless, strange and enchanting air spread out from it, along with a thick aura of death. In that crumbling dimension, the appearance of the moon caused the rampaging power to surge towards it.

Booming sounds reverberated in the air. It came from some of the dozens of ferocious spirits around Su Ming transferring their cultivation bases to him. When some of their bodies reached an extremely shriveled state, they exploded. Old Ya Mu's Art prevented these former cultivators from wasting even a single bit of their existence even after they had delivered all of their cultivation bases to him. At the time, they actually had to make their souls explode and turn into quintessence after they were reduced to ashes. If Su Ming could absorb it, then he should. If he could not, then he was not to blame Ya Mu for not giving him that serendipity.

'Your serendipity is right there. You can see it, but I'm going to make you unable to absorb it, since it'll be over your limit.'

This was a form of counterattack from Ya Mu to Su Xuan Yi. However, that counterattack was reflected on Su Ming.

'Without understanding them, cultivation bases that are forcefully gathered together are just empty.' Old Ya Mu, who had now taken Huang Mei's appearance, walked out of the distortions that manifested in the galaxy beyond the fifth kiln. He turned his head around to cast a glance at the fifth kiln, and a faint smile appeared on his lips.

In the collapsing dimension within the fifth kiln, Su Ming sensed great danger. Forget the turbulent source after the dimension crumbled, just the dozens of ferocious spirits around him already made it hard for Su Ming to continue absorbing them.

Even though he broke through great completion in World Plane Realm and stepped into Lunar Kalpa Realm, the moon that appeared for Su Ming… was a dead moon!

'The scattered life force and cultivation bases in this place and the essence from this dimension will allow my cultivation base to increase by leaps and bounds if I can absorb all of it… but it'll just be a simple increase in my cultivation base. Without an epiphany, everything will be insubstantial… In the end, I will have great strength, but I won't be able to control it with my mind. I'll have power in me, but I won't be able to use it even a single bit.

'I have to absorb this serendipity exceptionally quickly, which prevents me from gaining an epiphany. This is that Old Ya Mu's goal.' A glint shone in Su Ming's eyes.

'But I'll… be taking this serendipity!' Su Ming's eyes fell shut the next moment, and an incredibly thick aura of death surrounded him!

Once this happened, waves of cold air spread out through the area from Su Ming, freezing the collapsing dimension. Snow began to fall and swirled in all directions, and not a single bit of warmth remained in Su Ming's body. He was cold, just like a dead person.

He opened his eyes at that moment, and his eyes were gray and dull.

Su Ming did not have the epiphany that would allow him to reach Lunar Kalpa Realm, but he had… the epiphany about his own life—the path of life that would allow him to walk from winter to spring, to move from death to regaining consciousness, from Yin Death to Bright Yang.

The gray moon meant that Su Ming had died. It symbolized the midwinter of his life!

As the aura of death erupted from Su Ming's body, a cloudy film appeared on the gray moon behind him. A large amount of life force, the essence of the dimension, and the rampaging cultivation bases surged into Su Ming's body before flowing out of it to turn into the power to form the moon of Lunar Kalpa Realm.

Su Ming stood with his long hair dancing in the air and was filled with an incredibly cold air. As he stood in midair, his body swiftly returned to normal from its swollen state. The gray moon behind him shone with the light of death.

At the same time, a fierce light flashed in Su Ming's eyes. He brought his right hand up and struck the center of his brows. With a bang, overlapping shadows appeared on his body. That was… the clone that practiced the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows Whole moving out and standing to Su Ming's right.

At the instant that clone appeared, the life force and rampaging power split up and surged into the clone, causing him to immediately collapse with a bang. But while he collapsed, the blood and flesh that spread out from him tumbled backwards swiftly, as if they were being regrouped. As they were forced apart, they gathered together again and again, and each time they were forced apart before they subsequently gathered together, the body would become stronger and tougher.

Gradually, as the clone that practiced the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows Whole continued regrouping and reforming, a moon appeared behind him!

That moon's color was red. It was a shade of red that was akin to blood, and a strange, enchanting color that was similar to that of autumn leaves!

The gray moon symbolized death and midwinter, while the red moon symbolized the autumn red that marked his struggles in death and his desire to dye the sky in blood!

During that moment, with a bang, Su Ming's Ecang clone appeared above his cultivation base clone and his clone that practiced the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows Whole. His three clones formed three spots at that instant, and they formed the mark of a mountain!

It was a towering mountain. The unmoving, rudimentary heavens!

Bang!

The dimension shuddered violently, and Old Ya Mu's footsteps came to an abrupt halt while he was walking through the galaxy beyond the fifth kiln with a composed expression. When he swiftly turned his head around, his expression changed.

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Chapter 1018: The First Time He Opened His Eyes!

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Mountains had three spots.

In the crumbling dimension, Su Ming's cultivation base clone was the first spot. The gray moon where the spot was symbolized death and midwinter.

Su Ming's clone that practiced the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows Whole was the second spot. The crimson moon exuded a presence in which life force and the aura of death intersected with each other, resulting in a bright red, the shade of autumn. This was the meaning of autumn Su Ming had come to understand in his life.

Above his cultivation base clone and his clone that practiced the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows Whole was the Ecang clone. He was the third spot of the mountain mark. Once the clone materialized, a moon immediately appeared behind him.

It was… a piercing yellow!

Its light was like the color of the moon itself, but behind the clone, it symbolized endless fire and heat. They were the flames of summer, a type of arrogance that was filled with an abundance of life.

Three clones. Three moons. At that moment, as the mark of the mountain, they turned into a sight that did not move in any direction. As the rampaging power of cultivation bases swept past, the sound of the dimension shattering echoed in the air. It sounded as if the universe was being destroyed, and it would last for eternity.

The dozens of ferocious spirits were swiftly withering away. A large amount of life force surged into Su Ming, and it was immediately devoured by the mark of the mountain formed by the three clones, then rapidly spread out to be dissolved by the three moons.

Gradually, the aura of death from the gray moon became thicker. The gray light spreading out symbolized the shadow of death, and it even caused Su Ming's cultivation base clone to exude a grayish green air. It was as if he was a corpse that had crawled out of hell itself!

The cultivation clone's gaze was chilling, heartless, and aloof. It was powerful enough to make all the people who were familiar with Su Ming find him an unfamiliar sight. That appearance made him seem as if he was a god that had control over the netherworld.

Su Ming's clone that practiced the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows Whole was a powerful physical body that only cultivated the body and did not practice any divine abilities. At that moment, as the life force and cultivation bases surged into him, he continued becoming increasingly more powerful. As his body shattered and reformed, it became stronger. Each piece of his bone as well as every inch of his flesh and every drop of blood were becoming more powerful at a maddening pace, as if he was being refined repeatedly for thousands upon thousands of times.

The moon behind him was crimson, just like the blood that stained his hands his whole life. The smile at the corners of his lips gave off a terrifying feeling. The body that was dyed red by the moonlight… gave others the impression that they were looking at a crazed Immortal fighting against the heavens while he was in a state between life and death!

Above these two clones was the Ecang clone, and he looked as if he was lifting up the god of hell and the crazed Immortal fighting against the heavens. At that moment, the Ecang clone was no longer fully human. There were countless twisting branches spreading out from his body, and when they spun around the area, they made it seem as if the Ecang clone had turned into a tree.

As he threw his head back and let out a soundless roar, the branches immediately surrounded him. The yellow moon behind him immediately erupted with an indescribably vast life force!

That life force was the searing heat of summer. It came from Ecang's life, and only Ecang, a powerful life form that could be written into Old Man Extermination's ballad, was worthy of Su Ming's state of summer. Only it could sustain the vast amount of life force existing in the moon that symbolized summer!

The presence from the three great clones allowed Su Ming to devour and absorb the rampaging streams of cultivation bases around him. With three moons, he formed the mark of the mountain, and this was…

"Three Mountains Illuminating the Moon, and I created it on my own!" Su Ming's three great clones shouted at the same time. As the three moons rapidly absorbed the life force and cultivation bases, unending booms rang out from the bodies of the dozens of ferocious spirits around Su Ming.

Those booms came from the ferocious spirits self-destructing after they had delivered all their life force and cultivation bases. About a dozen breaths later, only four out of the dozens of ferocious spirits were left in the area!

They were trembling, having already been reduced to only skin and bones. Their expressions were still blank and vacant while they delivered their souls to Su Ming.

But they lasted for only several more before exploding with a bang. When all of the ferocious spirits self-destructed, a large amount of power swept through the area with an even more violent presence. It rushed swiftly to Su Ming, as if wanting to make him burst. There was a domineering will within it, one that screamed that no matter what, he had to absorb it, whether was willing or not.

A loud bang rang out in Su Ming's mind, and the mark of the mountain formed by the three great clones shook furiously under the impact. Soon after, the power that was formed by the ferocious spirits self-destructing forced its way into Su Ming's three clones to nourish the moons behind them.

However, this forceful entry was no longer a form of nourishment. It pushed the moons to swell up.

'I still lack a clone!' A glint appeared in Su Ming's eyes.

'What I need is my real physical body, the one that belongs to me as an Abyss Builder. That is my real body, and it will bear the burden… of walking from death to life, from winter to spring… He will bear the burden of walking down the path for the resurrection of all living things!'

A brilliant light shone in Su Ming's eyes. He had never longed for his real body to appear as badly as he did during that moment. He yearned to fuse with it and complete the final step of his state of life!

From death to life!

From a state where he had his eyes shut to him opening his eyes!

That desire spread out from Su Ming's three great clones and formed a calling that could penetrate the dimension and move through space. That call shot through the fifth kiln, Divine Essence Star Ocean, the area where the forces of power from the four Great True Worlds were stationed… and sent straight to True Morning Dao World!

Within it was a gigantic Rune formed by countless fragmented continents. At its core was a corpse that lay unmoving on an altar for ages. During that moment… it started shivering furiously.

Those shivers made it seem as if the person was about to wake up. As he shivered, brilliant light shone swiftly from the altar beneath the corpse. Once that light appeared, it spread out and instantly covered all the fragmented continents in the area. At the same time, booming sounds echoed in space. The gigantic Rune in the galaxy was activated and began operating.

As the Rune came into operation, a powerful, mighty pressure descended and suppressed the corpse on the altar, causing it to be unable to stand up or open its eyes no matter how much it shivered!

In the meantime, booming sounds echoed in all directions. When the powerful and mighty pressure descended, it caused many people in True Morning Dao World to instantly notice it.

Beyond the Rune were two rotating planets. Sitting cross-legged on one of them was a woman in white. She had an incredibly beautiful face, but her expression was cold. She frowned and stared at the Rune in the distance. While she watched it sparkle, she sensed the suppression descending from its self-activation.

"Someone is summoning him…" the woman said softly.

On another planet was a person in black robes. He was standing at the peak of the mountain and staring at the gigantic Rune in the galaxy. A hood covered his face, so his expression could not be seen, but based on his posture, a vague grimness could be senses about him.

"The child has grown up, and he has learned how to summon… but the time for the corpse to be used is nigh. How can I let you take it away just like this?" a hoarse voice slowly said from within the black hood. There was an ancientness to the speaker.

However, at the instant the voice reverberated in the air, the gigantic Rune formed by countless fragmented continents let out a violent rumble that shook the sky and earth. It seemed like the whole galaxy trembled from it. At the same time, eight of the numerous fragmented continents that formed the Rune shattered into pieces.

Booming sounds reverberated in the galaxy. The corpse with its eyes shut at the center of the Rune began trembling even harder, and his body slowly started showing signs of rising up in the air!

This scene caused the woman in white's expression to change. The man in black let out a cold harrumph and swung his arm. Immediately, thousands of long arcs rose into space from the two planets.

Those thousands of long arcs were thousands of cultivators. They appeared around the gigantic Rune and simultaneously sat down with their knees crossed as if they were suppressing it. In the mid of the booming sounds, the corpse that seemed as if it was about to rise up sank down and was once again pushed down heavily on the altar.

However, during that moment, a roar that seemed to have come out from thin air echoed in the hearts of all cultivators who were in the area. Within that roar was madness, along with determination and a force struggling against the world. It was a roar calling out to the real physical body—Su Ming's roar from within the fifth kiln in Divine Essence Star Ocean.

Along with that roar, loud booming sounds rose into space. As a large number of fragmented continents in the Rune shattered, the thousands of cultivators shuddered together, and at the instant all of them coughed out blood, the corpse at the center of the Rune swiftly began levitating again.

At that moment, the man in black moved without any hesitation and disappeared in an instant. The next moment, he appeared on the altar at the core of the Rune and lowered his head to glance at the corpse before bringing his right hand up and pushing it down on it.

That one push caused the galaxy to tremble. The corpse was slammed fiercely back on the altar. At that moment, it was as if the momentum of the entire galaxy was gathered on the black-robed man's right hand. It was as if he was borrowing the power of the entire True Morning Dao World to suppress that corpse!

However, the instant the black-robed man borrowed the power of True Morning Dao World to suppress the corpse, the power dissipated for an instant from his hands. It was as if True Morning Dao World was extracting the power from the black-robed man's hands.

"The kismet is not allowing me to do this?"

The man in black lifted his head to look at the space above him, and the corpse on the altar rose into the air again. The shadows of three moons also appeared beside it. Two were at his feet, and one was above his head. They formed the shape of a mountain. When the shadows of the moons took shape, numerous distortions appeared around the corpse, as if it was about to move through space and disappear.

The man in black let out a cold harrumph and lifted his right hand again. His fingernails instantly grew longer, and with one flick of his wrist, they broke off from his fingers and turned as sharp as needles. They sliced through space and stirred up sharp whistles before piercing the corpse's body.

With a bang, the distortions around the corpse instantly collapsed and disappeared. However, at the instant the five fingernails pierced the skin… the corpse opened its eyes!

This was the first time the corpse had opened its eyes. It was the first time anyone saw them not closed!

At the instant it happened, a low voice that contained countless years suppressed within it came from the corpse's mouth and shook the universe!

"Di Tian!"

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Chapter 1019: The Three Mountains Illuminate the Moon!

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"Di Tian!" The roar emitted by Su Ming's three great clones at the same time echoed through the crumbling dimension within the fifth kiln.

Just then, Su Ming had had a powerful feeling that he was summoning his real body. He even had the feeling that he was already in his physical body and could have it move through space to arrive in this dimension.

However, he was stopped again and again. During that process, Su Ming used the rampaging power around him to forcefully take away his real body, but during the critical moment, he was stopped again.

But it had allowed Su Ming to gather all his power of Lunar Kalpa Realm as well as the Three Mountains Illuminating the Moon to break all barriers and open his eyes!

His real physical body's eyes!

It might have only lasted for an instant, but it had allowed him to see a person in black robes, and the face underneath that black hood. It was… Di Tian!

"One of these days, I will snatch my real body back!" Su Ming threw his head back and roared. There might no longer be a single ferocious spirit around him, but the destruction of the dimension had reached its peak.

During that instant, the collapsing dimension was letting out deafening booms. They made it seem like the world had exploded on its own. The entire dimension completely burst apart.

As it happened, the rampaging power swept through the area and surged madly towards Su Ming. It was as if his existence was the black hole in the exploding dimension.

The eyes of all Su Ming's three clones shrank. At the instant the rampaging power surged over, they formed a seal with their hands at the same time. With a bang, a powerful light burst forth from the moons behind the three clones.

The light was formed by shades of gray, red, and yellow. At the instant it overlapped with Su Ming, he let out a low growl.

"Three Mountains Illuminate the Moon!"

The moons behind his three clones grew larger during that moment and overlapped with each other at the spot in the middle.

The three moons then turned into one. It was so big that the moment it appeared and the rampaging power in the dimension crumbling around him swept over, it absorbed and devoured it.

Booming sounds echoed in the air, causing Su Ming's moon to become larger, until it reached the height of several hundreds of feet. That moon was something that no other cultivators had ever obtained before. In fact, there was never a time that such a large moon was formed by anyone when they reached Lunar Kalpa Realm in the universe.

That was because Su Ming's moon was formed by all the cultivation bases from dozens of Almighties. It was formed with the essence of a dimension gathered over countless years. It was the moon formed when Su Ming walked from death to life and from midwinter to spring.

Rumbling sounds reverberated in the air, and the dimension shattered. Su Ming did not waste even a single bit of his serendipity. He absorbed all of it and formed… the most powerful moon in Lunar Kalpa Realm that no one before him had ever formed, and no one after him would ever form either!

Even those in Solar Kalpa Realm would be incredibly weak before his moon. This was… the one moon in Lunar Kalpa Realm that filled the world… one that could threaten Almighties who were Masters of Fate, Lives, and Death!

At the instant that moon was formed, Su Ming's three great clones gathered and fused together, instantly turning into a one person. The moon was behind him, filling Su Ming with a monstrous, malicious air!

After all, no one possessed such a large moon in Lunar Kalpa Realm. The moon shone in three colors, and they overlapped continuously. When the gray light appeared on Su Ming, he was the incarnation of the netherworld under the universe. He symbolized death and destruction!

When red light appeared on his body, he was not the only thing that was dyed entirely in red. His heart and soul were also colored that way. During that moment, Su Ming was the crazed Immortal who knew all forms of slaughter. That red was the desire for blood, which was the resolution Su Ming had made in the past – his determination to dye the sky red!

When the yellow light appeared on Su Ming's body, it meant that he no longer symbolized death or the red shade of autumn. He was no longer destruction and slaughter, but was a life force at its most supreme state. He was the type of life force that was merciful to all forms of life in the world and would nourish them. He was the eternal existence within the scorching summer where all those who followed him could obtain eternal life.

Three different lives, three different presences, and three different feelings fused together… giving Su Ming a malicious air that surged into the heavens!

The word 'wicked' could no longer be used to describe the bizarre air about him. However, one thing was certain – from then on, Su Ming was an existence that had never appeared before in Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos!

When he opened his eyes, the world before him gone. He also saw the body of the supreme treasure tumbling backwards in the turbulence stirred up once the dimension was destroyed and reduced to nothingness.

Su Ming turned his head around. During that moment, the presence of death spread out from his whole body. He was dressed in a long gray robe, had long gray hair, gray pupils, and he was… the heartless and aloof persona of death.

He took a step forward, and even with the impact of the dimension's destruction, there seemed to be no form of power that dared to stop his actions. With one step, he appeared beside the body of the supreme treasure, then lifted his right hand to catch its arm.

Xu Hui's heart shuddered. Even her breathing had stopped for a moment when she saw Su Ming's gaze and those gray pupils. A powerful sense of unfamiliarity rose in her, causing her to almost be unable to recognize the person in front of her as Su Ming.

With the arm of the body formed by the supreme treasure in his hand, the gray Su Ming lifted his head. With an aloof gaze, he moved towards the void that was formed after the dimension collapsed.

With a loud bang that sliced through space and shocked the heavens, Su Ming brought Xu Hui into the void. With a flash, they disappeared from the destroyed dimension.

At the instant they left, Su Ming turned his head around and cast a glance at the countless fragments left after the dimension beneath him had been destroyed. With a heartless gaze, he cast a glance at one of the fragments.

It was during that moment that the expression of Old Ya Mu in the galaxy beyond the fifth kiln turned incredibly dark. He had been able to sense everything that happened to Su Ming in his dimension because he had left a Brand there before he left.

He did not expect that Su Ming would be able to sense the Brand's existence. The strangeness of Su Ming was something he had expected less, and even his heart trembled from that.

"From death to life, from midwinter to spring, what a path… What a man you are, Su Ming," Old Ya Mu mumbled after a while.

"Three Mountains Illuminate the Moon… the three great clones each turn into a mark of a mountain and reflect a moon at the same time. This moon… is something that has never appeared before, and it is so strong that it can shock even an average Almighty in Mastery Realm!

"He could have used the serendipity to reach Lunar Kalpa Realm and then head to Mastery Realm… but he did not, and that shows that he is aiming for something incredibly big!

"I can tell that he is aiming for his real physical body, because if he isn't complete, then even if he reached Mastery Realm, he would… be far from the person he created right now!

"If he fuses with his real physical body someday, then he will become complete, and then based on his epiphany, he will be able to move from death to life… which is the Life Realm!

"This is what you are plotting for. You created a cultivation method, a divine ability that would allow you to step straight into Life Realm within the four great Realms for Masters of Fate, Lives, and Death!

"This divine ability is powerful enough to stand toe-to-toe with the Mountain Shifter Art and the Nine Heavenly Abyss Sword Styles!

"What a man you are, Su Ming." Old Ya Mu stared at the galaxy behind him and mumbled under his breath. A hint of respect appeared in his eyes.

"In the near future, another Almighty in Life Realm will… appear in Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos!" Ya Mu let out a sigh filled with emotion, then turned his head around to walk into the distance.

"Su Xuan Yi… with a son like this, even if you are suffering greatly now, you should be relieved and happy."

Old Ya Mu's figure gradually disappeared into the distance. Then, he vanished without a trace from the galaxy.

Within the fifth kiln, Su Ming was in the void with Xu Hui. There, they seemed to go through countless years. Vaguely, Su Ming saw Reverend Zi Long. He was fighting against some ferocious beasts in a dimension within the void.

He also saw that Xuan Shang, Yun You, and Hua Yu having split up. He saw Yun You scream in pain when a Fire Spirit burned his body and devoured his Nascent Divinity.

He also saw Hua Yu, who was skilled in sealing souls, carefully moving forward through a swamp, completely unaware of a dozen pairs of green eyes staring at his back coldly.

Su Ming saw Flame Fiends' Progenitor as well. He had a battle axe in his hand and was laughing loudly at the sky, unwilling to part with that axe because he was too fond of it.

Progenitor Long Hai was quietly following Xuan Shang. There was a cold sneer at the corners of his lips. He had been following Xuan Shang for a long time without the latter noticing him.

There was also… Zhu You Cai.

Su Ming saw him sitting on a mountain. While looking at the bright moon, tears trickled down his cheeks. In his hand was a medicinal core. His tears fell and landed on the ground. When they broke off into even smaller droplets, Zhu You Cai's murmured to himself.

"I will definitely find the fifth stone, head to the Fifth True World, and find Abyss Builders. No matter what price I have to pay… I will resurrect you!"

Su Ming saw all of this when he moved through the void. He could ignore everyone else, but when it came to Zhu You Cai, he remembered the Life Inequity Spear as well as how the other had acted to save him when they were in the mountain. Those were acts of kindness.

And acts of kindness had to be repaid.

When Su Ming remembered Zhu You Cai's words, his hair no longer remained gray, but turned yellow. His pupils also gained a yellow shade, and the presence spreading out from him was a vast, indescribable life force. There was also a warmth in him that would cause a person to instinctively want to get closer to him.

At that moment, even if he was not smiling, in all people's eyes, there would be a faint smile on his lips. The warmth in it was a charm that would cause everyone to give up on everything and choose to follow him. It was… the light of God that would intoxicate people and make them want to worship it.

Su Ming had no idea how much time had passed. When he reached the end of the void, a hazy layer of fog appeared in front of him. He could tell that there was a border formed by several Spirit Trudging Platforms there.

This was the deepest part of the fifth kiln, and the place where the first border was located. Once he moved past this place, he would step into the real core of the fifth kiln!

Over there… the fifth stone would appear!

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Chapter 1020: The Bald Crane's Past Vulgar Tastes…

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Su Ming reached the first border while moving through the void. The Spirit Trudging Platforms there were not completely empty at that moment. There were a few Fire Spirits lying sprawled on them. The color of those Fire Spirits was rather dull, but the presence spreading out from their bodies was incredibly powerful.

Almost the instant Su Ming rushed out of the fog and stepped on the Spirit Trudging Platforms, the Fire Spirits turned towards him with fierceness in their eyes.

However, that fierceness disappeared right away and turned into confusion that revealed itself in screeching. Not a single hint of malicious intent could be heard in their voices. Instead, there was a feeling of closeness and intimacy.

Su Ming smiled. With his golden hair and golden eyes, he stepped onto a Spirit Trudging Platform with Xu Hui, who was pale, in his arms. The strength of the Fire Spirits gave her goosebumps.

Su Ming's arrival caused the Fire Spirits to immediately scatter from the place. When he stepped on the Spirit Trudging Platform, they sized him up with curiosity before surprised delight appeared in their eyes. Then, they ran to him one after another, as if the golden light spreading out from his body could make them extremely comfortable.

Su Ming lifted his head. He did not bother with the Fire Spirits, but stared into the distance. There was the real core of the fifth kiln. As he watched it, he lifted his foot, intending to move forward, but then he came to an abrupt halt.

"Darn it all…" A certain catch phrase from a certain bald crane who had just woken up echoed in Su Ming's mind.

"Hey? What's this light? What is this light?!" the bald crane immediately screamed, and a smile appeared at the corners of Su Ming's lips. He lowered his head to look at his storage bag. It shone before his eyes, and the bald crane flew out on its own. When it saw Su Ming, it widened its eyes.

"If you're awake, then follow me on your own," Su Ming said faintly and did not linger anymore in that place. He took a step forward and left into the distance to walk straight into the space leading to the core of the fifth kiln.

The bald crane widened its eyes behind Su Ming. As it stared at the golden light around him, it was astonished and puzzled. Suddenly, roars came from behind it. When it turned its head back, it immediately saw the Fire Spirits adopting hostile expressions, looking as if they were about to pounce over.

The bald crane shuddered, and with a loud screech, it transformed into golden bald crane with golden light spreading out from its body, but its light did not have any effect on Fire Spirits' hostility. Instead, as it pierced their eyes, they roared furiously and rushed forward.

"Unfair!" With a shrill screech, the bald crane fled, flapping its wings desperately to catch up to Su Ming. With much difficulty, it avoided being caught by the Fire Spirits, and as it escaped, its heart filled with indignation.

"Darn it all, I just woke up! Just woke up, you know? Why did I run into something like this? And why isn't that golden light I made effective?

"Something's not right. The color is the same, so could it be that there is something different fundamentally?" While feeling indignant, the bald crane continuously changed the light on its body. One moment it was golden yellow, then yellowish brown, and in the next, it had the shade of wax…

But when the bald crane caught up to Su Ming and looked at him again, its body froze for a moment before it widened its eyes. They went blank, because at that moment, the color around Su Ming's body was no longer golden yellow, but crimson red!

Long red hair, red eyes, a long red robe, and a vast murderous aura as well as madness spreading from his entire body formed a killing intent that surged into the sky and filled the area. Even the void around them trembled nonstop because of that killing intent.

After a long while, Su Ming's expression gradually changed. This time, he was no longer gray, nor gold or red. Instead, he returned to how he usually looked. With a frown on his face, he moved forward in the void, his expression slightly dark.

'I need to fuse with my real body as soon as possible, or else my clones will be slightly unstable… I couldn't control the changes previously. At the slightest stimulation, I would change.' A glint appeared in Su Ming's eyes while he was in the void. He had noticed what was wrong with him, since it was like his whole personality changed at a moment's notice.

That change was not something he could control on his own. As three personalities, three clones, and the Three Mountains Illuminating the Moon fused together, they might seem stable, but in truth, a crucial part was missing… his real self.

'Before I absorbed the serendipity and had the Three Mountains Illuminating the Moon fuse together, I didn't have those fluctuating emotions. But why did this happen once I had the three mountains illuminate the moon and turned them into the gigantic moon for my Lunar Kalpa Realm?' Su Ming frowned while charging forward through the void.

'I remember the Duke of Crimson Flame once mentioning that Abyss Builders have an incredibly mysterious divine ability which allows them to have all of their clones fuse together with a unique method so that they can reach an incredibly terrifying state of power.

'I didn't quite understand what he meant previously and thought that the previous method I used was the way, but by the looks of it now… Could it be that the method of fusion I used only now is that mysterious fusion that belongs to Abyss Builders?' Su Ming wondered.

However, the instant that thought formed in his head, a sense of danger rose in him. Fog tumbled about swiftly in the void beneath him, and shrill roars were coming from over there.

"Give me back my life…" Within the roars there were drifting words that echoed in space. They were indistinct, but were piercing and shrill to the ears!

"Keep me company…"

"Give me back my life…"

The voice rose and fell as if there were numerous people talking at the same time. They said different words, and as they echoed in the air, a powerful wave of resentment spread through the void.

Then, Su Ming saw shadows appearing out of nowhere in the void beneath him. They turned into strange life forms that resembled ghosts, and he could clearly see that there was madness and great resentment on their faces. Once they saw Su Ming, dark light shone in their eyes and they charged towards him silently.

Almost the instant he saw the ghosts, a gray tint appeared in Su Ming's eyes. His hair also turned gray, and a thick aura of death swiftly erupted from his body without reservation.

At that moment, Su Ming was cold and heartless. Not a single hint of emotion could be detected in his eyes; he was like a dead man!

And in the world of the dead… there were no living creatures. All those who lived were the enemies!

The instant Su Ming turned gray, he let go of Xu Hui's hand. Her heart trembled, and she moved back. At that moment, Su Ming was so unfamiliar to her that it was as if she had never gotten to know him. That aura of death coming from his body made her think of death.

The aura was so thick that it filled the entire void in the blink of an eye. The powerful resentful immediately dissipated, as if it was a presence that simply did not belong on the same level.

'He… He…'

The bald crane came to an abrupt halt and widened its eyes in disbelief. When it stared at Su Ming, even though it did not have any feathers on its body, it still as if they were standing up from goosebumps all over its skin.

"Darn it all, what's going on?!" The bald crane was stuttering slightly. It moved back swiftly, feeling as if it had seen a fierce ghost.

"Such a thick aura of death… Could it be that he climbed out of hell? Damn it, how could this be? This… This is…" The bald crane shuddered, but an excited glint gradually appeared in its eyes.

"Haha! The stronger Su Ming is, the more I can bully others in the future and snatch their crystals as much as I want to! Bald crane, o bald crane, you are too great, how could you follow a monster like this? You are the person I admire the most, there is no other person I admire more!"

While the bald crane was filled with excitement, the gray-eyed Su Ming was so cold it was as if he was a block of freezing ice. He lowered his head and cast a faint glance at the void beneath him, where the ghosts who originally wanted to rush out had all now come to a halt in shock once the aura of death had spread out.

"All of you should not be alive, even if you are existing in this sort of state." When Su Ming said those words coldly, he lifted his right hand and seized space. Cracking sounds instantly rang out, and the Life Inequity Spear took shape. Su Ming caught it in his hand. Sinc he'd changed, besides the coldness on his face, there had not been a single hint of any other emotion on him.

In fact, Su Ming's mind was very rational at that moment, and once it reached a certain point, it would turn… into callousness!

That rationality could allow him to use whatever method and means to destroy the existences he wanted dead.

It could be said that this particular state of his and the red madness were two complete opposites from each other.

While speaking, Su Ming had already taken a step forward. He was so quick that he instantly closed in on the ghosts. They screamed shrilly in pain, and gray light shone in Su Ming's eyes. Immediately, cracking sounds rose into the air. The aura of death from Su Ming's body turned extremely cold and spread out rapidly through the air to cover the entire area, causing the ghosts to freeze for a moment. During that instant, Su Ming threw the long spear in his hand forward.

With it, the void roared. A gigantic moon appeared clearly behind Su Ming. The color of that moon was gray. When it appeared, the screams from the ghosts became even more shrill and forlorn. Their aura immediately spread out from their bodies, as if they were about to wiped off. They wanted to retreat, but when Su Ming threw the Life Inequity Spear, a vortex was formed at the tip of the spear. That vortex stirred up the entire area, causing all the ghosts who wanted to retreat to be unable to move. They could only fade away =while screaming in pain under the aura of death from the moon.

However, there were some ghosts that escaped from the pull of the vortex. But just as they were about to change their forms and escape, Su Ming struck his storage bag with his left hand, and a gourd appeared. There were no longer just seven eyes on the gourd, but eight of them. Su Ming recited the incantation, and once a glint shone in all eight of the eyes, two small humans flew out and went after the ghosts who intended to flee.

The bald crane saw this, and its pupils swiftly constricted. It stared at the small female, and a perplexed expression appeared on its face.

'Hmm? Well, darn it all. Why does that small human look so familiar? Why does it feel like one of the female gourds I created to take revenge on Lu Ya after I was chased down by that old bastard? It really feels like one of the gourds I created to disgust him and seduce that small human from his gourd…'

The bald crane scratched its head in bemusement, filled with surprise.

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Chapter 1021: Cloud

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Su Ming's rationality reached its peak. His calmness had already become mercilessness. When he attacked, others would die. In fact, endless aura of death was spreading out of his entire body. It was as if he had taken over the right from hell of administering death to others.

This was the gray Su Ming.

When Life Inequity Spear was thrown forward, the vortex that was formed in the void looked as if it was the road heading to hell. When it was activated, it caused the ghosts that were fleeing in a state of being half-alive to scream shrilly. Their bodies were sucked into the vortex, and they were about… to enter the cycle of reincarnation because of the gigantic gray moon behind Su Ming!

As for the ghosts running away, the two small humans from the gourd charged forward and reduced all of them to ashes as booming sounds rose into the air. They disappeared into the void and vanished without a trace.

Everything had just begun when it already ended.

Su Ming, with his long gray hair, flung the Life Inequity Spear in his hand. Once it turned into a ring, he lifted the gourd, and the two small humans immediately tumbled backwards and went back after they turned into long arcs. They disappeared into the gourd.

There were no longer any ghosts roaring in the area. Everything had returned to silence.

Xu Hui stared at Su Ming blankly. A cold chill crept up from the bottom of her heart. The callous air about Su Ming was incredibly clear. It was an air that said that he cared nothing for all that lived. There was only pure rationality in him, heartlessness when all emotions were cast aside.

The destructive power from the gray moon had spread in a scattered fashion. If Xu Hui had… not noticed it beforehand and charged backwards, then there was a high possibility that she would have been affected by the destructive power.

This was still nothing, though. When Xu Hui looked towards Su Ming, she saw the gray pupils in his eyes, and she could not help but tremble.

She bit down on the bottom of her lip and said softly, "Su Ming…"

However, her voice did not elicit an answer from him. Su Ming only cast Xu Hui a faint look, the merciless look in his eyes as cold as ice. Without another glance, he turned his head around and took a step towards the void in front of him.

Xu Hui's face was slightly pale. In silence, she controlled the body of the supreme treasure to go after Su Ming. The bald crane had already registered what was going on at that moment, and as it mumbled under its breath about the gourd it created in the past, it swept its gaze towards Xu Hui.

"Hey, Big Sister Xu, don't mind him. It's fine. Everything's fine." The bald crane flew to Xu Hui's side and let out a few fake coughs before starting to comfort her, but the title he used to address Xu Hui did not sound quite right.

"I know that Little Boy Su. I'm telling you, based on my analysis, based on what my partner told me, I think, you know, that he kind of went a little off his rocker…" While the bald crane followed Xu Hui, it gestured with its claws as it spoke.

"In the words of my homeland, his emotions are now split into several parts, and he can't control them on his own either. First of all, he's someone that gets angry easily. Once he's mad, gray will immediately appear.

"Next, he's afraid of stimulation. Once he's stimulated, red will instantly appear. I'm just not entirely sure what sort of situation will cause that gold color to appear." The bald crane scratched its head and had a pensive look on its face as it scrutinized Su Ming, who was ahead of them.

Su Ming's expression was cold. While he walked in the void, he allowed the power of time to surround him. He walked past the dimensions that allowed him to step inside, but he did not go into them. Instead, he charged towards the core of the fifth kiln.

Time trickled by. Su Ming had no idea how much time had passed, but as he charged forward, he drew closer to the core of the fifth kiln.

At that moment, a voice from the distance echoed airily through the entire fifth kiln.

"Su…" That voice was powerful in a manner that it had never been before, and it was so strong that once Su Ming heard it, his body shuddered violently. He could tell… that this was a woman's voice!

When the bald crane heard that voice, its body also shuddered. Based on the look in its eyes, it seemed to be struggling. By its side, Xu Hui's expression changed. She knew the bald crane's peculiarities when it heard the voice previously, so she raised her right hand and flung it at the bald crane without any hesitation.

It turned into a long arc that charged towards Xu Hui and fused into the body of the supreme treasure. Only then did the struggle on its face become much fainter.

"Su…" The woman's voice spoke again. This time, there was an urgent tone to it. In fact, Su Ming did not know whether this was a figment of his imagination, but he heard a quiver in the voice.

A loud bang rang out in his head. He was unfamiliar with that voice, but there was something weirdly familiar about it. It was as if… there had been a point of time when his past self had heard that voice countless times.

Su Ming's long hair changed swiftly from gray to its original color. The aloof air about his body disappeared, and the original Su Ming returned once more.

His body trembled while he stared at the void from which the voice came.

"She is…" Xu Hui saw Su Ming return to his past self and approached him quietly. She stopped by his side.

Su Ming shook his head.

"I frightened you just now. That wasn't my intention. Once I fused the moons in my Lunar Kalpa Realm, some problems arose in my personality," Su Ming mumbled. He took a step forward and charged towards the place from which the voice came.

At that moment, Su Ming no longer had any sort of composure or rationality to him. There was only a resolve in his heart and an urge brought by a guess that caused his heart to pound in anxiety.

Xu Hui followed Su Ming quietly, moving beside him.

Time passed breath by breath, and Su Ming became increasingly faster. The woman's voice echoed in his ears time and again. After an unknown amount of time passed, he saw a gigantic altar floating in the void before himself. When his eyes landed on it, endless booms rang out in his head.

He saw a coffin lying on the altar!

It was a transparent coffin, and there was woman within it…

At the instant Su Ming saw the woman, he felt as if there were millions of thunderbolts rumbling in his head at the same time. His body trembled. Confusion as well as a myriad of other emotions appeared in his eyes.

This was the core of the fifth kiln, and the altar was the center of the core. The coffin on the altar lay there all year long in the void, using the space in the fifth kiln to absorb the life force from all those who came. All that life force… was then delivered to the woman's body lying inside.

This was a Rune with the fifth kiln serving as its main point. The goal of the Rune was to continuously deliver life force to the woman so that her own could be preserved and not vanish!

As Su Ming stared at the woman in the coffin, tears fell from his eyes without his notice. There was no way that he would not know this woman. She was the mother who appeared in his memories when he was in Western Ring Nebula's foreign lands, holding onto the baby in her arms and using her body to protect him even after she had died.

She was Su Ming's… mother!

He trembled. With tears trickling down his cheeks, he walked one step after another towards the coffin.

"Su…" The woman's voice appeared again. This time, it was so clear that it seemed as if it was right beside Su Ming's ears, causing more tears to flow down his face, and the booming sounds in his mind became even stronger.

"Su… My dear Ming Er…" The gentleness in the voice brought with it a warmth with which Su Ming was unfamiliar. It was a warmth born from a mother's longing for her own flesh and blood, as well as a care and devotion for her son.

"Don't be afraid. With your mother around, you'll be fine…

"I promise you that I will always protect you until your father and I grow old and until the both of us no longer have the strength to stay with you and watch you complete the journey of your life…

"Yun Er, you must be strong… Your ancestor was the one who gave you your name. He is filled with hopes for you…

"No matter what, you must remember that you are an Abyss Builder. You are a proud Abyss Builder… Your father is a highly praised powerful warrior that might be able to surpass your ancestor, and I… came from Dark Dawn…"

The last few sentences did not echo in the void, but instead echoed in Su Ming's soul. The words weren't spoken right then, but came from the past. They were from a scene that Su Ming had long forgotten!

He felt his head being torn. A loud bang rang out, and he remembered all that had happened. He remembered that at the time, he had been swathed in darkness. He was very cold, and his fragile life could not stand against that cold. However, there was a voice that continued motivating him by speaking to him every single time he wanted to give up on life.

At that moment, he understood what had happened. At that time, he was still an infant in his mother's womb, a baby that nearly died due to the curse placed on him after the Abyss Builders were massacred.

Su Ming saw a fuzzy scene in his head. In it, a woman was lying in the coffin. She stroked the bump on her belly with a kind smile on her face. Tears that he could not see flowed down her cheeks as she mumbled softly to the baby in her womb.

By her side was a silent middle-aged man. He watched the scene quietly and clenched his fists tightly. His heart was filled with madness and grief, but there was also a fire burning in him that no one could see.

The scene changed. When the next one appeared, the galaxy had already become the galaxy that belonged to True Morning Dao World. The middle-aged man held his wife in his arms and roared forlornly at the heavens. Within his roar was a disappointment towards life. It was a supreme state of suffering that came from the soul… and there were blood-red tears flowing down his cheeks.

"Four Great True Worlds, you slaughtered my entire race. You even refused to spare a baby and cursed him! Now, you took away my wife's life as well! If that's the case… then what is the point in me continuing to stay alive?!

"I lost my home, my wife, my son… but I'm still alive, and there's only one purpose in me—I will overturn the entire Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos!

"Not only will I make the entire True Morning Dao World to be made for Abyss, I will make the entire Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos… be made for Abyss!

"If my son survives, then from now on, he will no longer be known as Su Yun. He will be known as Su Ming. This name Ming means to engrave, and I will have him carve the language of the Abyss in Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos, a language that will cause all the people in the universe to tremble!"

Su Ming lifted his head swiftly. His mind was torn in the mid of the loud bangs. As memories of the past rose to the surface in his head, he remembered everything!

With tears falling down his eyes, Su Ming arrived at the altar, right beside the coffin. He quietly stood there and stared at his mother's face. Su Ming then shuddered and knelt down…

The face was unfamiliar to him, but also familiar. He could not tell just what sort of emotions were in his mind at that moment. He only wanted to watch her in this place quietly, just like how she wanted to motivate him gently even while she wept, like how she wanted to protect him in the past even when she closed her eyes.

This was his mother.

"Ma…" Su Ming murmured.

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Chapter 1022: Build

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Su Ming did not bother about time passing by him. He knelt beside the coffin and stared at his mother in it. He just watched, that's all he did.

Scattered on the altar and around it were a few stones shining with a golden light. Those stones… were the fifth stone Su Ming needed.

Yet then, he didn't even spare a glance at them. He knelt beside the coffin like a wanderer who had left his mother's side for a long, long time, and one day, he finally returned home, but he did not manage to see his kind mother waiting for him. Instead, the only thing he was met with was a tombstone.

The grief and the unstoppable flow of tears was born of the familial love shared between those of the same flesh and blood, a love that would never end. And Su Ming felt it, even though he had lived his entire life as an orphan.

Xu Hui stood by the side, then in silence came to Su Ming's side and knelt down with him.

After a long, long time, Su Ming lifted his head and cast a deep glance at the woman in the coffin before standing up slowly.

"I once thought that I was an orphan without a mother and father. The only ones who stayed by my side were my elder, Xiao Hong, and some playmates who grew up with me," Su Ming murmured.

Xu Hui stayed by his side and listened to him quietly. She knew that Su Ming did not need a person who would talk to him at that moment. What he needed was a listener.

"For my tribe, I could descend into madness. I could eat those herbs, even it meant throwing away my life in the process. I could make myself rush out of the house my elder sealed in the mid of my madness. I could fight together with my tribe members… The song of the xun in the past is something I still remember to this date. Tong Tong said she'll tell me a secret when I returned. I still remember it…" There was nostalgia in Su Ming's eyes, along with anguish.

"But one day I realized that all of it was fake. There was no Dark Mountain, no tribe. Even the playmates who grew up with me were a part of a scheme!

"In fact, for a long time I didn't want to believe that the girl whom I was infatuated with when I was a boy was also fake…" Su Ming smiled, and as he continued smiling, he started laughing loudly.

"The ninth summit is a home I found when I was lost. That is true, but fate loved playing tricks and made me come to the Barren Lands of Divine Essence… Only when I was here did I learn that I did have a mother… and a father." Su Ming lowered his head. With tears in his eyes, he stared at the woman in the coffin.

"If turning Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos into a place built for the Abyss and carving the language of the Abyss in the universe is your wish… then I will use my entire life to fulfill it!" Su Ming raised his right hand and seized the air in the direction of the coffin. Immediately, a fifth stone turned into golden light and flew into his hand

'In the past, I wanted to go to the Fifth True World to search for my Master, but now, I want to see Abyss Builders' homeland… because I am an Abyss Builder!' Su Ming did not say this sentence out loud. Instead, he shouted these words in his heart in a manner that would shock the heavens.

Before this, Su Ming might have known that he was an Abyss Builder, but in the depths of his heart, he never really acknowledged this status, and neither did he acknowledge that he was an Abyss Builder. All of the stories he had heard were just stories.

He did not empathize too much with them.

Yet now, everything had changed. The voice from his mother and the scenes in Su Ming's mind… All of these things caused him to no longer feel unfamiliar with the term Abyss Builder. It was no longer something unrelated to him. It did not matter whether it was the threat from the four Great True Worlds or his mother's words, all of them… caused Su Ming… to take the initiative and acknowledge his identity as an Abyss Builder for the first time.

At the instant he did so, the fifth kiln trembled viciously.

Multiple wills descended around Su Ming from all the dimensions of the fifth kiln. These wills manifested themselves and turned into countless powerful living spirits. At the instant their shadows appeared, they looked at Su Ming, bent their backs together, and bowed to him!

Among these living spirits was the one thousand feet tall tree, some powerful Fire Spirits, ferocious beasts with all kinds of strange appearances. All of them bowed, causing all the dimensions in the fifth kiln to tremble furiously.

Their wills fused together, and with the land where Su Ming was as the center, they formed a gigantic, illusory… kiln in the void!

The kiln was semi-transparent. Light flowed out from it and surrounded Su Ming, making it seemed like he had turned into the core of the illusory kiln. As waves of light shone, Su Ming sensed the fifth kiln's acknowledgement towards him. At that moment, it did not let out rumbling sounds that were too loud, and neither were there changes that shook the sky and earth. However, Su Ming knew… that he had already become the master of the fifth kiln!

As it shuddered, all the dimensions in it looked as if they were about to crumble. At the moment the wills of the living spirits in it descended, all the people in the kiln sensed the great change, but they did not know the reason behind it.

Xuan Shang had his hands fastened on the ground so that his body could be fixed to the place and he would not be sucked away by the enormous vortex that had suddenly appeared in the sky.

Hua Yu's face was pale. As he laughed brokenly, he lay in a sea of flowers. His body was buried in mud, most of it already melted into nutrients to nourish the plant life around him.

By his side was Progenitor Long Hai. He stared at Hua Yu with a smile, and his body, which was originally just a Nascent Divinity, was now covered in flower petals, as if he was about to have it gather together again.

Flame Fiends' Progenitor was charging forward through a dimension when he lifted his head to look at the sky in shock. There, he saw the sky swaying violently.

Reverend Zi Long had an incredibly sullen expression as he stared at the island that was only thousands of feet away from him. On that island was a tree, and on that tree was a crimson fruit.

Yet now, as the ground shook and the mountains swayed in the dimension, the ground where the tree was collapsed.

If there was one person among the people who could have a slight clue as to what was happening, then he would be… Zhu You Cai.

At that moment, he was standing on a mountain. As booming sounds came from it as it swayed, the clouds in the sky tumbled about. While the whole world transformed, Zhu You Cai's expression changed swiftly.

"This is… the fifth kiln acknowledging its master! Could it be that there is someone among us who is an Abyss Builder?!"

At the same time, beyond the fifth kiln, the continent where Dust Burners lived had long since returned to its original state, but at that moment… all the Dust Burners threw their heads back and roared. Their bodies transformed on their own and turned into those of Fire Spirits.

This had nothing to do with their levels of cultivation. Even Dust Burners' tribe leader and Progenitor could not control their bodies and turned into Fire Spirits. As they roared, all the Dust Burners heard a voice from their spirits echoing in their minds.

'The fifth kiln has acknowledged its master!'

Once Dust Burners' Progenitor turned into a Fire Spirit, a brilliant light shone in his eyes.

While in the void within the core of the fifth kiln, Su Ming sensed that the fifth kiln had acknowledged him as its master, and it would act according to his will. Su Ming remained silent for a moment before he lifted his right hand and swung it forward. Immediately, the figures surrounding the kiln disappeared. The countless dimensions around him also vanished, causing everything around him to return to normal. When Su Ming turned around, he took a step towards the void.

The coffin was still on the altar. And there would still be plenty of life force that would be sucked into the coffin to nourish the woman until she eventually woke up under the effect of the Rune.

If Su Ming wanted to, he could take away the fifth kiln, but he did not do so.

He would leave it in this place to continue attracting powerful warriors through the passage of time. Only by doing so could the Rune remain in effect, and only by doing so would his mother… have the chance of waking up someday.

When Su Ming vanished from the void, he brought Xu Hui and walked out of the fifth kiln to appear in the galaxy.

When he turned his head back, the fifth kiln behind him. Everything that he went through in it was like a dream.

Su Ming sighed softly, but the moment he did so, a flash of golden light instantly shot out of his storage bag, causing the area around him to immediately turn golden.

That golden color was different from the golden light that manifested from Su Ming. A vast amount of power spread out from the light, which seemed to possess a vague feeling that it could absorb the power of the universe. There was also a presence about it that seemed to not fit with Divine Essence Star Ocean, as if its appearance would immediately be detected by Divine Essence Star Ocean and be rejected by the galaxy!

Su Ming was momentarily stunned. When he dipped his head down to look at his storage bag, he sensed that the fifth stone he took and placed in his storage bag was now shining with a golden light that stretched to one hundred thousand feet. With a bang, it forced its way out of the storage bag.

It was as if this item was something that absolutely could not stay inside once it left the fifth kiln. When it flew out, it did not fly into the distance, but floated around Su Ming and rotated around him nonstop.

The galaxy trembled while the golden light continued spreading out in all directions. When it reached a distance when no end to it could be seen, a great disaster that could stir up the entire Divine Essence Star Ocean… appeared!

Dust Burners who had turned into Fire Spirits had just returned to their former selves. At that moment, the heart of Dust Burners' Progenitor shuddered. He could clearly sense a power that was completely different from Divine Essence Star Ocean and did not fit with the galaxy traveling swiftly towards their continent from the fifth kiln.

"The fifth stone!" Dust Burners' Progenitor immediately raised his head.

The territory of the Reng Wu Race was in the core of Divine Essence Star Ocean and was pitch-black. When the fifth stone's presence spread out, countless pairs of eyes immediately opened up in the darkness. Within each of them was a madness that was similar to that of a wild beast.

"The fifth stone… Another fifth stone appeared. Snatch it! We have to snatch it!"

Muffled cries echoed in the darkness, and the madness in the eyes immediately reached its peak.

Virtue Rooters, the race who had the bodies of snakes and heads of humans opened their eyes within the karst cave they resided in as well. Hissing sounds echoed in the air, and a great will swiftly filled the entire planet.

"Find that presence that does not blend with Divine Essence Star Ocean, find the fifth stone… and bring it to me!"

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Chapter 1023: Ashes

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Besides Dust Burners, Heaven Traversers also remained silent. At that moment, even though they also noticed the fifth stone's presence, Heaven Traversers' Progenitor only opened his eyes while sitting cross-legged. Then he closed his eyes again, not attempting to snatch the fifth stone like he would have done in the past.

He knew that each time a fifth stone appeared, that presence which did not blend with the universe in this place would sweep through the entire Divine Essence Star Ocean and attract numerous beast swarms to fight over it.

Once they seized the fifth stone, they could head to the mysterious Fifth True World through that stone, and rumors regarding the Fifth True World had circulated in Divine Essence Star Ocean for a long time.

After all, the fifth kiln flew out from that place, and from the supreme treasures in there, it could be seen just how rich was that mysterious Fifth True World.

And… that place was already empty of life. If anyone obtained a serendipity in that empty galaxy, it would be incredibly great!

Even if they did not choose to go to the Fifth True World, as long as they had the fifth stone in their possession, they could choose to do one of two things with it. One of them was to pass it to the guardian races in the fifth ocean. They would offer an incredibly high price in exchange for the fifth stone.

The other would be… to refine the fifth stone into an Enchanted Treasure. They could borrow the power that did not blend with the laws in the galaxy and create… a supreme treasure that could cut through laws. It was not that there were no such treasure in Divine Essence Star Ocean, but most of them were legacy treasures of various races.

They were just like the runic symbol on Heaven Traversers' Progenitor in the past. When they created it, they had added the fifth stone in it!

These three temptations were enough to cause crazy fights over it, and the disaster that stirred up every single time the fifth stone appeared to be one filled with blood.

After all, it wasn't only the ferocious beasts and the races at the core of Divine Essence Star Ocean sense the fifth stone's appearance. All the races and ferocious beasts within the inner parts and the periphery also sensed the stone's appearance at that instant.

In fact… some of the Ancestral Spirits who were originally deep in sleep opened their eyes under the stimulation. The booming sounds coming from the regions in Divine Essence Star Ocean reached their most intense volume at that moment.

"The fifth stone…" The ground in a planet collapsed. A huge hand clenched its fingers into fist in the depths of the ground. A giant crept out of the earth. The giant had two heads and threw both of them back to roar at the sky.

"The fifth stone appeared again…" As faint sounds echoed in a wasteland covered in dust, a strange living creature with a semi-transparent body slowly gained corporeal form. When it stared into the distance, it moved in a flash and disappeared.

Scenes like this appeared in many places within the galaxy. Everyone's attention was directed… at the fifth stone!

During that instant, Su Ming also noticed the ripples of power from the fifth stone that did not blend with the fifth stone, and a glint appeared in his eyes. He understood why Tian Xie Zi was chased down by the four great alien races because of one fifth stone. In fact, there had definitely been other races and ferocious beasts who had went after his life as well.

'A stone like this…'

Su Ming stared at the fifth stone. When it was in the kiln, it did not stand out, but when it was in the world outside, it was as dazzling as the sun, because it did not belong to this world. Because of that… it was not accepted, and became a sharp weapon that could fight against the laws in this place!

This sort of stone would definitely be desired by others!

'It doesn't matter whether it's Heaven Traversers' Progenitor or Dust Burners, neither of them told me the truth. As for Dijiu Mo Sha, with his level of cultivation, he wouldn't have been able to know too much about the fifth stone.

'Since it is such a treasure, no wonder it would stir up such a fight over it.'

Su Ming remained silent for a moment before he formed a seal with his right hand and pointed at the fifth stone with a finger. However, the stone did not move. It continued to stay beside Su Ming, shining with a golden light. It would not enter the storage bag.

Su Ming frowned, then a fierce glare appeared in his eyes. He opened his mouth and sucked in a deep breath in the direction of the fifth stone. It shuddered and rushed into Su Ming's mouth. It was instantly swallowed, and golden light spread out from Su Ming's body. After some time, it slowly vanished.

However, this was just a temporary suppression; it would not be long before the stone flew out again. Su Ming was able to hide it for a time only because his soul was that of an Abyss Builder, and they came from the Fifth True World, same as the fifth stone.

If Su Ming's real self had been there, he would have been able to completely accommodate the fifth stone and not have a single ripple of power spread out. However, he didn't have it, and so he could not hide the stone permanently.

Su Ming was silent for a moment before casting a glance at the fifth kiln and pointing at it.

When he did so, booming sounds came from the kiln, and it started trembling. A great sea of fire swiftly spread out from within it, making the kiln to look as if it was burning.

Immediately after, a couple figures were swept out by the impact of the flames and pushed out of the kiln. Among them were Xuan Shang, Reverend Zi Long, Flame Fiends' Progenitor, and also Progenitor Long Hai, whose body was no longer illusory.

The last to appear was Zhu You Cai.

These people were the survivors. As the fifth kiln trembled, they were all forcefully expelled from the dimensions in which they had been. Once they left the fifth kiln, all of them had different expressions on their faces when they looked at Su Ming.

These people had been close to the first border when they were in the fifth kiln. They had sacrificed a large amount of life force for that, but Su Ming did not feel at ease with them staying there, which was why he decided to have the fifth kiln chase all of them out.

He swept his gaze past the crowd before stopping on Zhu You Cai. This man was also looking Su Ming. The two of them met each other's gazes, and Zhu You Cai's eyes lit up swiftly.

"Huo Kui," Su Ming said faintly.

The eyes of Flame Fiends' Progenitor shone. When he looked at Su Ming, he took a few steps backwards. He might have left the fifth kiln, but he was incredibly weak at that moment, and his wariness towards Su Ming did not reduce. Instead, it had become greater.

"I promised you this corpse. Take it." As Su Ming spoke, he struck the storage bag with his right hand, and the corpse of the white-robed teenager who was the centipede immediately appeared in front of Su Ming. When he threw it, it charged towards Flame Fiends' Progenitor.

Flame Fiends' Progenitor was stunned, then hesitated for a moment while looking at Su Ming.

But the other's expression remained empty. Not a single change could be detected on him.

With hesitation, Flame Fiends' Progenitor watched the corpse getting closer to him. He could not see through Su Ming's thoughts and did not know whether there was any form of trap waiting for him in that corpse, but if he gave up on it just like this, it would be incredibly difficult for him to find another corpse in Mastery Realm.

At that moment, he gritted his teeth. He believed that Su Ming should not be intending to kill him and that even if he wanted something from him, it wouldn't be something like the position of a guard due to his level of cultivation. Hence, resolve appeared in his eyes. He charged towards the corpse of the white-robed teenager. It was much stronger than his previous physical body. Because of it, not only would he have not suffered any loss in this venture, he would have instead obtained a serendipity.

However, the instant he approached the white-robed teenager's corpse, Reverend Zi Long had already taken a step forward and appeared beside the corpse. He lifted his right arm and swung it, and the expression of Flame Fiends' Progenitor changed swiftly before he moved back swiftly.

"Fellow Daoist Zi Long, what is the meaning of this?!" Flame Fiends' Progenitor immediately demanded in a shrill voice.

"This person is a guest of the four Great True Worlds. I will take his corpse back," Reverend Zi Long said faintly, but he did not look at Huo Kui. Instead, he looked towards Su Ming.

"That's my war trophy," Su Ming said in a soft voice while staring at Reverend Zi Long with a frown. Besides a few people, there was not a single bit of fondness within him towards the four Great True Worlds. At that moment, as he said those words coldly, a gray tint gradually appeared in his hair.

"Oh? Then I'd like to see whether this war trophy of yours will belong to you."

A brilliant light shone in Reverend Zi Long's eyes. He paid no attention towards the matter of bringing the white-robed teenager's corpse back to the four Great True Worlds; he wasn't bothered by it in the least. What he paid attention to was the blood of Ancient Wu within it. If he refined that corpse's body and gathered together a hint of Ancient Wu's blood, his trip to the fifth kiln wouldn't have gone to waste.

Hence he absolutely wanted that corpse. As he spoke, he patted the white-robed teenager's corpse with his right hand and put it into his storage bag before casting a cold glance at Su Ming.

This scene caused the people around them to keep their expressions still. Xuan Shang took a few careful steps backwards. When he narrowed his eyes, he stared at Xu Hui and at the body of the supreme treasure she possessed at that moment, and a barely noticeable resentment as well as anger shone in his eyes.

Zhu You Cai did not speak. His expression remained the same, and his thoughts could not be seen.

As for Flame Fiends' Progenitor, his expression was dark, but he knew that even if he had a physical body at that moment, he would still not be Reverend Zi Long's opponent. He could only grit his teeth and tolerate it.

At that moment, Su Ming's hair had turned completely gray. This change was immediately seen by everyone, especially Reverend Zi Long. His pupils shrank in a barely noticeable manner. The Su Ming at that moment suddenly gave him an incredibly dangerous feeling. It was a feeling of death, a cold, freezing presence that was akin to the arrival of midwinter.

That feeling caused him to instantly gather up his power, and a light lit up in his eyes.

The gray Su Ming signified extreme rationality and the power of hell. He no longer cared about his methods when he did things, but only about whether he would succeed in the end.

"Long Hai, if you still don't attack, then I will immediately crush your oath and make you lose your soul forever!" As Su Ming said those words in a cold voice, he swept his gaze towards Zhu You Cai.

"Fellow Daoist Change He, it is not impossible to resurrect your wife.

"Progenitor Huo Kui. This is your physical body, since I already gave it to you, then it has nothing to do with me anymore. I will help you attack, but you also have to fight for it yourself!"

The three sentences spoken flatly immediately caused Long Hai, Zhu You Cai, and Progenitor Huo Kui's expressions to change.

Reverend Zi Long's heart also suddenly let out a loud thump, and his expression changed drastically.

A monstrous savage glare appeared in Zhu You Cai's eyes, which had turned bloodshot. At that moment, he looked as if he had gone mad. He fixed his stare on Su Ming for a moment, then whipped his head around to reveal powerful killing intent. His power went into a rampage while he stared at Reverend Zi Long.

Long Hai's expression changed. Hostility appeared on his face when he glared at Zi Long.

As for Flame Fiends' Progenitor, his Nascent Divinity went into a rage. Killing intent flashed past his face, and burning flames erupted from within him.

The three of them split up into three different directions to surround Reverend Zi Long, and the gray Su Ming lifted his right hand. The Life Inequity Spear appeared with a buzz.

A freezing glare shone in Su Ming's eyes when he asked in a freezing tone, "Are you going to give me my war trophy back, or not?"

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