Chapter 559: Si Ma's Transformation!
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Almost the instant Su Ming was forced backwards, Si Ma Xin's face twisted into a hideous expression. He lifted his arms and formed a seal quickly, then bit the tip of his tongue to cough up a large mouthful of blood. That blood spilled on the palm under his body and started trickling down its lines, causing the originally faint palm lines to turn incredibly clear.
"As the God of Berserkers, I have the fate of all Berserkers in my hands. I control the world and the universe. The lines on this palm are like my own destiny, and I will use these lines to kill - God of Berserkers' Lines!" Si Ma Xin spoke swiftly, and as he did so, he lifted his hands and pushed forward.
While Su Ming was continuously forced back by the roar containing the power of the second God of Berserkers that traveled through the passages of time, Si Ma Xin's murderous voice reached his ears.
A feeling as if he was being torn apart appeared in Su Ming's body, but not a hint of panic could be seen on his face. Instead, a freezing glare flashed in his eyes. He might be retreating, but he lifted his right hand swiftly, and the crimson dragon's mark on his right arm flashed with a brilliant red glow, making it look like a totem. A spirited look also appeared in the crimson dragon's eyes, and it looked towards the ground, right where Si Ma Xin was sitting on the second God of Berserkers' left palm.
Right at that moment, the God of Berserkers' Lines Si Ma Xin had cast spread out, and the entire ice above them became darker in an instant. Red lines appeared in the air all around Su Ming as well.
These lines filled the entire area. They looked as if they were tangled with each other, but if anyone took a closer look, they would be able to see clearly that the lines in the sky were the palm lines on the second God of Berserkers' left hand.
A primitive presence spread out through the frozen world. Su Ming's pupils shrank. Right then, a dragon roar traveled out from his right arm, and the crimson dragon manifested itself. It surrounded Su Ming's body, and as it lifted his head to roar, it immediately grew larger.
It had all ten thousand feet of its body circle Su Ming, and as it roared angrily, the layer of ice above them shook loudly, and a large amount of it fell off. When Si Ma Xin saw the crimson dragon, his pupils shrank once again.
Su Ming's strength and the methods he employed had exceeded Si Ma Xin's expectations again and again. He had never expected Su Ming to possess a dragon, and by the looks of it, it was incredibly strong.
Si Ma Xin's face turned dark when he saw the crimson dragon. He formed a seal with his right hand, then tapped the center of his brows. With the fingernail on his little finger, he sliced up a long gash between his brows, causing blood to flow out.
As his blood flowed out, the palm lines above him turned into in a gigantic palm. However, that palm was formed by the crimson palm lines, though it still looked incredibly real.
Rumbling sounds traveled through the air. The palm formed by the palm lines clenched its fist, as if it wanted to crush Su Ming within. As it did so, the air above started trembling. The gigantic palm lines gathered together and shrank. It caused all those caught within to fall into a daze as if it contained some form of law in the world.
The instant that palm closed its fingers around Su Ming, the crimson dragon let out a roar that shook the skies. Its body grew larger once again, and it grew so large that its body started sweeping through the area, turning into a gigantic crimson whirlwind that went on to stand against the palm with its body!
Booming sounds surged through the air. As the fingers on the palm closed up and the crimson dragon roared while murderous aura spread out from its body, these two forces clashed into each other in the air, and they were equal to each other in terms of strength!
All of this happened over the span of several breaths. A shocking boom shook the entire area, and a wave of impact swiftly spread out.
Wherever it went, this wave would cause a large amount of ice above to shatter, causing the blood-red hue on the ground to look even more disorderly.
The palm in the air started shattering inch by inch and eventually exploded. However, while Si Ma Xin was unable to bring out its full strength with his current level of cultivation, it was still the God of Berserkers' divine ability. Even if he could only bring out a portion of its power, it was still enough to make Si Ma Xin proud of himself.
Right then, Su Ming's crimson dragon also shuddered and its body exploded. Fortunately, its body was made of Earthen Aura and not flesh, or else it would have surely died!
However, even if it was made from Earthen Aura, its body had still broken down. After it disintegrated, the crimson dragon gathered together behind Su Ming. It looked incredibly weakened, as if it had lost its vigor, and its body was indistinct, as if it could no longer maintain its form. It turned into the crimson mark once again and returned to Su Ming's right arm, falling into deep sleep to recover itself.
"A rather impressive divine ability, but since you're the one using it, you won't be able to kill me with it."
Su Ming's face was calm, but killing intent filled his gaze. He lifted his right foot and took a step forward, turning into a long arc that shot through the air to appear around a hundred feet away from Si Ma Xin.
The instant Su Ming closed in, he lifted his right hand, but he did not point towards Si Ma Xin. Instead, he positioned his fingers into the form of a claw and seized his opponent through the air. Si Ma Xin immediately jolted, and his body rose three feet above the God of Berserkers' left hand as if he had been captured!
This scene shook Si Ma Xin. He was already shocked by Su Ming. Over their repeated encounters, Su Ming's inexhaustible attacks surprised him time and again, and when the crimson dragon appeared just now, his shock had reached its peak. He had never expected him to be so strong!
The hatred he harbored and the failure he suffered in the past had left Si Ma Xin depressed and dejected. By chance, he had come across this serendipity that allowed him to seize the world, and he met Su Ming once again after that. However, he had failed once again in Heaven Gate. The shadow of death loomed over his head once more, causing Si Ma Xin's confidence to suffer a huge blow.
The God of Berserkers' Seven Steps were useless against him. The fan's Heaven and Earth Barrenness were also broke. Right then, Su Ming had also similarly resisted the power from the God of Berserkers' palm lines. All these things had almost caused despair to rise in Si Ma Xin's heart.
His eyes turned red. At that moment, he no longer cared that his inheritance was incomplete. In truth, he needed more time to fuse with the second God of Berserkers' left hand, and only when he completely absorbed the arm sometime in the future, turning it into his own arm, could he be considered to have finished obtaining the inheritance.
But right then, he was in danger. He could no longer care about whether his body could withstand the power and the rebound he would have to suffer if he forced himself to cast even stronger divine abilities. With bloodshot eyes, Si Ma Xin let out a piercing roar.
As he roared, nine sharp black spikes immediately shot out of the second God of Berserkers' left hand. These spikes exuded an eerie, chilling presence, and some of them even had black water droplets oozing out of their bodies. Freezing air spread out of these water droplets, and a dark, sinister presence could be felt from them.
"God of Berserkers'... bone spikes!"
Si Ma Xin turned sickly pale, and as he roared, his body withered away once again, but his recovery from that withered state was much slower than before. With a single shout, the black spikes broke off from the God of Berserkers' left hand, and with a whistle that sliced through the air as they traveled at an indescribable speed, they charged towards Su Ming.
Si Ma Xin's hair danced in the air and madness shone in his eyes. Using the chance created as the bone spikes charged towards Su Ming, he swiftly lifted his right hand and pressed it on the God of Berserkers' left hand. He closed his eyes and began mumbling under his breath, but the words sounded complicated and no one could hear them clearly.
Su Ming's pupils shrank. A great sense of danger rose in his heart. There might only be nine of those bone spikes coming towards him, but each of them exuded a murderous presence that made his skin crawl.
The black bone spikes, black liquid, and the speed at which they charged forth would make anyone's blood run cold… And wherever they went, these bone spikes would also dye the air they passed through completely black!
Su Ming could also sense the power of a seal filling the air. In fact, he had even felt that the bone spikes had locked onto his Qi, and they would endlessly chase him down. He had a strong hunch that if any of those bone spikes sank into his body, then the consequences he would have to face would be incredibly drastic.
These were not ordinary bone spikes, but were the culmination of the grudge and madness that was stored within the second God of Berserkers' body over the years, along with the seal that was placed on his body once he was torn apart. Once all of these things fused together, they transformed the bones in his left hand throughout the passage of time, giving birth to these bone spikes in the end!
Even those who had attained great completion in the Berserker Soul Realm would be shocked by these spikes. Fortunately, there was a limit to their number. It would seem that this was the amount of spikes that were present in the second God of Berserkers' left hand.
The moment Su Ming's body froze and he started retreating, Si Ma Xin swiftly lifted his head while remaining on the God of Berserkers' left hand. By then, he looked like a skeleton, and as his handsome face withered away, he looked as if a layer of skin had been ripped off from his body, revealing a bloodcurdling face that was filled with scars.
This was his real face!
His skin was brown due to it having fallen off from frostbite in Freezing Sky Cave, leaving behind only brown flesh on his real face.
The scars littered all over his flesh were a nauseating sight to behold, and that horrendous appearance was no longer something that belonged to a human.
Si Ma Xin let out a crazed roar and lifted his right hand from the God of Berserkers' palm. When he did so, a bone spike in the shape of a long blade was slowly pulled out!
The second God of Berserkers' left hand started shuddering, and during that instant, Si Ma Xin dragged the entire bone spike out with a crazed roar towards the sky!
This was a bone blade that was around ten feet long, and it was black all over. Once Si Ma Xin dragged it out from the God of Berserkers' left hand, the freezing air around the area instantly turned several times stronger, and a wave of murderous aura that was much stronger than before spread through the entire region!
A crazed look appeared on Si Ma Xin's face when he held the bone blade. He glared at Su Ming with hatred burning within him. At that moment, he only had one thought in his mind, and that was to kill Su Ming with his own hands so that he could put an end to the grudge he had harbored throughout all those years!
"Su Ming!"
Si Ma Xin took a step into midair, and for the first time, his body left the God of Berserkers' left hand completely. As he stood in midair, he gripped the gigantic bone blade with both hands… and slashed down towards Su Ming while those nine smaller bone spikes charged towards him!
Chapter 560: Battle!
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Su Ming's pupils shrank. Those nine black bone spikes that were charging swiftly towards him were not the only things that worried him. The large bone blade in Si Ma Xin's hands also gave him a sense of danger, and it was even greater than from the spikes!
The air behind the nine bone spikes seemed to have been torn apart, and it was rotting away, turning into a layer of darkness. A chilling, murderous aura also came crashing into Su Ming's face, as if the blade had brought the second God of Berserkers' grudge and madness through the passages of time before him.
Si Ma Xin's change in appearance and his withered body had entered Su Ming's eyes, causing him to be able to understand after just one glance that these God of Berserkers' bone spikes were incredibly difficult to control, and even Si Ma Xin did not have complete mastery over them. This could practically be said to be a double-edged sword!
If Si Ma Xin could control it from the start, then there would have been no need for him to continue with this fight. This was a treasure that was born from the second God of Berserkers' left hand, an item formed by the gathering up of power from the seal after many years. This divine ability… was definitely not something that Su Ming could stand up to with his current level of cultivation!
However, Si Ma Xin's forceful execution of that divine ability was a chance for him!
Su Ming did not hesitate. Almost the instant those nine bone spikes came to him, he pushed his left hand downwards and lifted his right hand into the sky, with his palm facing the sky and the back of his hand turned towards the ground. His hair started changing swiftly, and the moment the bone spikes closed in on him, half his hair had turned white, while the other purple.
As a raging whirlwind suddenly appeared around him, his body abruptly shrank, and he… turned into Destiny!
Destiny's appearance caused Su Ming's combat powers to instantly rise to their peak, and he could now fight against those who had attained great completion in the Berserker Soul Realm!
A grave expression appeared on his face, and the instant he turned into Destiny, he lifted his left hand and flung his arm outwards towards the incoming bone spikes. With it, time looked as if it was reversing right before him, like it was forced to flow backwards.
As the nine bone spikes rushed forward, they crashed into the invisible force causing the past to repeat itself. The nine bone spikes froze, but only for an instant before they started moving towards Su Ming once again. However, their speed was much slower than before, and it looked as if they were moving against the stream of time.
As for Si Ma Xin, who was right behind those nine bone spikes, madness appeared on his face, and as he swung the bone blade downwards, his body froze for a moment, pain filled his face, but he gritted his teeth and continued.
A glint appeared in Su Ming's eyes. He clenched his right fist and punched forward. It turned into a wave of force that exploded before him. Once that wave crashed into the bone spikes and Si Ma Xin, the roaring sounds became even stronger, causing the space around them to collapsed in an instant.
Su Ming did not stop. When he retreated once again, he swung his left arm forward the second time. This time, not only did he change the speed within Si Ma Xin and those bone spikes, the space that had collapsed due to his punch was immediately restored before it exploded once again, repeating itself again and again. In the blink of an eye, this process had already repeated itself a dozen something times!
Su Ming knew that he could not cause much change towards the bone spikes' impact. The strength of it could not only fight against his power to return to the past, but had also clearly gained the upper hand in the exchange.
However, he could change the punch he just delivered. He could make that punch repeat itself endlessly, causing its might to reach a terrifying state.
If each punch contained the strongest power a Berserker who had attained great completion in the Berserker Soul Realm could deliver, then even though the power would not reach a state where the nature of the punches would change, the fusion of the dozen something of them gathered together would still surpass the power of a normal Berserker who had attained great completion in the Berserker Soul Realm. The hint of presence that belonged to Life Cultivation within Su Ming's body would also reach its maximum potential as his punch continued repeating itself.
A loud boom exploded in the air. It caused a powerful impact that shook the ground and caused a large amount of the ice above to crumble. It was the impact caused by the strongest power Su Ming could muster after the punch he delivered repeated itself for the dozen something times, crashing into the incoming Si Ma Xin and his bone spikes.
Since the power for the ice above was too great, the instant that impact reverberated through the air, pieces fell of and started flying all over the place. Cracks that stretched to tens of thousands of feet tore through the ice, and eventually, as the layer of ice exploded… seawater swiftly rushed in..
Water surged around them as if rain had started pouring down from the sky, and it continued as if it wanted to drown the entire place.
The seawater started rushing down and spreading through the whole area. As the booming sounds lingered in the air, Su Ming retreated a dozen something steps and his face turned slightly pale, but his eyes remained calm. He took a swift step forward, then rushed straight at Si Ma Xin!
Not a single one of the nine bone spikes before Si Ma Xin were destroyed under that impact. However, they had become much slower, and the direction in which they traveled also changed slightly due to the impact caused by Su Ming's punches.
Si Ma Xin coughed up a large mouthful of blood. After all, he had yet to receive the full inheritance, and he had already reached his limit when he forcefully brought out those God of Berserkers' bone spikes. As he coughed up blood, his face turned dull and lifeless while his body shuddered. He might be moving forward, but it was clear that the bone blade was the one dragging him forward!
With that extreme speed of his, Su Ming closed in on the bone spikes within an instant. If it had been the bone spikes from before, Su Ming would not have been able to dodge them no matter how fast he was, but it was different now!
They were slow. These spikes that were traveling against the stream of time looked as if they had an invisible obstacle between them and Su Ming. What was more, due to the change in their direction, while it looked as if Su Ming was rushing towards them, in truth, the moment they closed in on each other, Su Ming's body shifted several times.
Every single time he moved, he would avoid the bone spikes, making them pass by him. From the distance, this scene would give the false impression that Su Ming had come into contact with the projectiles that had turned into black long arcs, but there was no sound of impact. Those bone spikes looked as if they had shot through Su Ming's body and landed in the submerged ground with loud banging sounds reverberating in the air.
The seawater had submerged half of the erect God of Berserkers' left hand on the ground. As the bone spikes shot in, the entire water… turned black!
Freezing air rushed out with loud wailing sounds and filled the entire area.
Even after Su Ming avoided the bone spikes, he did not relax his guard even a single bit. He lifted his right hand and rammed his fist against Si Ma Xin's body. He was so quick that before the bone blade in the other's hand sliced down, his fist had already landed on his chest.
A loud bang echoed in the air. Si Ma Xin widened his eyes and coughed up blood once again. He should have been retreating, but the bone blade he held dragged his body along and made him swing it down.
Because of that, the two forces traveling in different directions erupted within Si Ma Xin's body, causing him to be torn apart with a loud bang at that moment. He was ripped into two parts. One of them was his right hand holding the bone blade, and the other part was his remaining body. As he tumbled backwards, his life force started dwindling away rapidly.
However, even though Su Ming's fist had caused Si Ma Xin's bone blade to be separated from his body and even though Si Ma Xin was once again gravely injured, that ten feet long bone blade let out a piercing howl and cut down on Su Ming.
There was no way he could dodge it. Even with the Art to reverse time, he could do nothing at this moment. He watched the bone blade reach a distance less than twenty feet above his head and felt the chill fill his whole body with coldness. He lifted his head.
Han Mountain Bell swiftly manifested around him, and the Nine-Headed Dragon's shadow appeared, crashing against the bone blade.
A shocking bang reverberated in the air, and a shrill roar shot out. Three of the Nine-Headed Dragon's heads exploded and whatever remained of its body dissipated in an instant as well to return to Han Mountain Bell. At that moment, the bone blade cut down on Han Mountain Bell with a murderous aura that surged into the sky.
Bell chimes rang violently in the air, and with a loud sound, a fine crack appeared on the seemingly impenetrable Han Mountain Bell, right where the bone blade cut down on it.
The instant that crack appeared, Han Mountain Bell started shrinking rapidly, sent back into Su Ming's body while trembling. The bone blade's presence had become slightly weaker, but it still brought with it a strong killing intent that rushed towards Su Ming.
If it did not kill him, this blade would not back down a single inch.
Si Ma Xin's body was still broken in the distance, but his life force was no longer flowing away. Instead, a large amount was surging into him in invisible waves, causing his body to rapidly recover.
However, his recovery speed was clearly much slower compared to the time he fought in Heaven Gate.
"Su Ming, you will definitely die under the God of Berserkers' bone blade!"
Si Ma Xin withdrew and lifted his head to laugh maniacally at the sky as his body recovered. He glared at Su Ming, and as his laughter fused with his voice, it reverberated in the air while the ice above them collapsed and the sea submerged most of the God of Berserkers' left hand.
"I'm not so sure about that!"
Su Ming smiled coldly. The bone blade closed in on him in an instant and he lifted his right hand to push against it. At that instant, a medicinal cauldron immediately appeared on Su Ming's palm!
This item was what he had used to refine and create his medicine, but it was, after all, a cauldron, and the Barren Cauldron… was the sacred item of Great Yu Dynasty, as well as the entire Berserker Tribe. This medicinal cauldron might not be the Barren Cauldron, but it was shaped in the form of a cauldron, and it would definitely contain the power it should.
Another violent bang rang out, and the instant the medicinal cauldron crashed into the bone blade, a crack appeared on it, and the bone blade froze once again!
At the same time, Su Ming lifted his left hand and seized the air. Immediately, the spiked club manifested in his hand. Once he grabbed it, he put away the medicinal cauldron and swung that club right against the incoming bone blade!
The clash between the bone blade and spiked club stirred up the strongest boom to ever appear in this place, causing the ice above to crack, shatter, and explode once again, and even more seawater surged in!
As that boom continued shaking the area, Su Ming's weapon shattered. When that spiked club that had followed him up to this point… exploded, after shattering inch by inch, the speed and strength of the bone blade that had been slowed time and again shot through the spiked club with less than a third of its previous strength.
The moment it cut down on Su Ming, he lifted both of his arms, not caring to bring out anymore Enchanted Treasures, and clasped his hands around the incoming bone blade with a low roar!
His body shuddered, but he managed to stop the bone blade at a spot seven inches away from the top of his head!
Chapter 561: Snatching the Blade!
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
The instant Su Ming clasped his hands together and stopped the bone blade, a large amount of freezing air immediately spread out from within it, flowing into his body through his hands. The cold froze him for a moment.
However, his eyes remained clear, and there was even a hint of ferociousness within them. Blood trickled out of the corners of his mouth. This was the first time his blood was spilled when he was Destiny.
"A blade that swore loyalty to a wrong owner is not worthy of killing me!" Su Ming roared, and his sinking body came to a halt as he lifted his head and glared at the bone blade.
"I, Su Ming, am your master. From now on, you belong to me!"
Right when he said these words, his hands turned pitch black, as the freezing air spread out, and his hair started floating. His Nascent Divinity shot out of his body and turned into a gigantic shadow behind him before charging towards the bone blade.
The instant he touched it, he felt a strong force repelling him. Yet since Su Ming had continuously cut down the blade's power previously, even though the force repelling him was strong, it was frozen in its place and unable to escape. This allowed the Nascent Divinity to crawl inside in a frenzy.
If it was a normal will trying to take over this blade forcefully with Nascent Divinity, perhaps it would not be able to do so, but the strongest aspect of Su Ming was never his power of cultivation or his combat powers, but the will that was formed after going through endless cycles of reincarnations in the Candle Dragon's Undying and Imperishable World!
The strength of his will far surpassed his power of cultivation, and even those who had attained great completion in the Berserker Soul Realm might not be able to compare to it!
The strength of his will might not possess too much practical combat power and was like empty air, possessing a superficial feeling, but once he fused it with his Nascent Divinity, even though the power that would erupt forth might not be anything close to any sort of combat power, but it could let Su Ming be completely unrivaled in his attempts to Possess anything.
Moreover, unless there was someone else who had an equally strong will as his, then if he went on to Possess someone else, he would not find a single person who could stand up against him. Possession had its similarities to forcefully Branding an Enchanted Vessel, that was why Su Ming had chosen to weaken the blade first, because all of his actions had been for this moment - to forcefully claim this bone blade as his own!
As Su Ming's Nascent Divinity rammed in, the bone blade started resisting violently, but in an instant, a piercing sound came from within the blade. A huge force spread out from inside—it was trying to struggle free of Su Ming's hands!
"Nothing I've set my eyes upon can run away!"
Su Ming's expression turned dark. He clasped his hands firmly on the blade and did not let go. Once his Nascent Divinity rushed into the bone blade with an extreme speed, he started suppressing all forms of thought trying to resist him like a hot blade cutting through butter.
When Si Ma Xin saw this scene from the distance, a look of shock filled with disbelief appeared on his face. Su Ming's actions had once again stunned him. He did not think he would be so determined… to snatch that bone blade from him.
"You're biting off more than you can chew. This blade was born from the God of Berserkers' left hand. It has already gained sentience a long time ago. Even if I am the God of Berserkers' scion, I can only borrow its power. Even I can't control it, and you're thinking about snatching it away? You're mad!"
Once Si Ma Xin suppressed his shock, a cold sneer curled up his lips. He did not believe that Su Ming would succeed. To him, this action was simply too crazy.
Yet even though he did not believe Su Ming would succeed, this was a chance for him, because right then, his opponent was focused solely on snatching the bone blade.
He did not hesitate. The moment he said those words, Si Ma Xin, who had now mostly recovered, charged towards Su Ming. He closed in within an instant and lifted his right hand to strike his forehead. Killing intent shone in his eyes, and that strike also contained the irreconcilable hate he harbored towards Su Ming.
The instant his palm arrived, a glint abruptly appeared in Su Ming's eyes. He let his left hand fall from the bone blade and seized it with his right, not caring about blood flowing down. Once he made sure the bone blade would not be able to escape, he swung his left hand towards Si Ma Xin the instant he approached him.
The power to reverse time arrived once again, and its appearance made Si Ma Xin's face instantly turn pale. Once again, he miscalculated. He originally thought that Su Ming would be paying full attention to snatching the bone blade and did not expect that he would still be able to cast that terrifying divine ability.
He had made many miscalculations and experienced many setbacks as he fought against Su Ming, and all of these things struck a severe blow towards Si Ma Xin's confidence. In fact, he had a feeling that no matter how many serendipities he received, he would still be unable to fight against the speed before his eyes, that he was bound to fail.
Only a small hint of that feeling could be detected within him in the beginning, but as time continued passing by, it filled his whole heart, especially when he was dragged into the cycles of repetition once again.
The instant Si Ma Xin's body was filled with the power of the past and he started moving backwards instead of forward, Su Ming clenched his left hand into a fist and slammed it against his opponent's body. When his body collapsed and he coughed up blood, Su Ming waved his left hand again.
The process repeated itself. The span of time Su Ming could remain as Destiny this time had clearly become much longer. This was related to the serendipity he received from Blood Absconsion Tribe and connected to the increase in his level of cultivation.
Su Ming might look as if he was occasionally in a disadvantage during this battle, but in truth, since the both of them truly attacked each other, he could be said to have been completely leading the course of the battle!
He had completely suppressed Si Ma Xin with his power!
It was especially so during this moment. Su Ming had his right hand around the bone blade as his Nascent Divinity continued fusing into it and suppressing all forms of resistance to forcefully leave his Brand on it, while his left hand executed the Art to return to the past, causing Si Ma Xin to sink into depression.
Si Ma Xin's eyes turned red. He could not accept this! He absolutely could not accept this!
He had received the second God of Berserkers' inheritance. This was an incredibly rare serendipity in the entire land of the Berserkers. This was a fortuitous chance that would make an endless stream of people go mad with jealousy, but… he was still suppressed by Su Ming!
He… did not possess a single ounce of strength within him capable of fighting against this state where he was caught in the cycle of repetitions, even when Su Ming was still holding onto the bone blade with his right hand. This made Si Ma Xin roar in his heart, unable to accept his fate.
But he… could not even give voice to his roars!
As rumbling sounds reverberated in the air, Si Ma Xin's body shattered again and again, and his recovery began to slow down with each passing moment. If this continued, then before long, he would completely die!
However… Su Ming gasped in his heart. Si Ma Xin could be said to be the hardest person to kill ever since his power grew exponentially. All of this was because of that Great Art of Heartless Berserker Seed he practiced. If Si Ma Xin did not have this Art, Su Ming would have killed him a long time ago.
Even if he had received the second God of Berserkers' inheritance, Si Ma Xin would still not be Su Ming's opponent!
But Si Ma Xin's life force remained as an unending stream within him, and Su Ming's time as Destiny was limited. Even though his time limit had increased by quite a huge margin due to the increase to his power of cultivation, his time as Destiny had to end now.
Su Ming's hair was returning to its original state swiftly, and his body was gradually changing. The power of the past was also rapidly becoming weaker.
Si Ma Xin immediately noticed this. As he slowly began to recover from his collapsed state, a murderous glare appeared in his eyes, and he finally obtained the chance to speak.
"Can't go on anymore, Su Ming?! Can't go on anymore?!"
Si Ma Xin laughed maniacally. There was a wound on him that had pierced through his chest, and it was quickly recovering at the moment. When he saw that Su Ming's divine ability was weakening, he laughed loudly as a ferociousness expression appeared on his face.
"You're noisy!" Su Ming said coldly.
The instant his appearance returned to normal, his hair turned black, and he reverted from being Destiny, Si Ma Xin's laughter resounded in the air, and his body was no longer bound by the power of returning to the past. Right at the moment he could finally swiftly retreat, a piercing buzz rang forth from the bone blade in Su Ming's right hand.
That buzzing sounded like a cry of submission, like a final, unwilling roar once everything within the blade had been suppressed. At the same moment that sound echoed in the air, Su Ming released the hold of his right hand. The bone blade immediately turned around, causing the blade's hilt to fall in Su Ming's palm. Once he held it in his hand, the power of all the Berserker Bones in his body started circulating within him.
During that instant, a shocking, black murderous aura erupted from the bone blade in his hand. It might be unwilling and might have subjected itself in humiliation, but at that moment, it could be controlled by Su Ming!
Because once Su Ming's Nascent Divinity fused with his incredible will, he had forcefully subjugated the bone blade, even though it had been born within the God of Berserkers' left hand, and even though… it had existed for millions of years!
The instant Su Ming held that blade, he took a step towards the retreating Si Ma Xin. That man was originally laughing loudly, but his expression was rapidly changing to that of shock. Like a long arc, Su Ming charged towards him with the bone blade in hand and cut down with it!
Before the blade even cut Si Ma Xin's body, a piercing sound that sliced through the air as if it had cut through space itself resounded and a black ray of light traveling in an arc flashed in the air. During that instant, Su Ming's bone blade had already arrived at the top of Si Ma Xin's head and cut through his skull, his body, right until it cut him in half.
A rumbling sound so loud it shook the sky and earth rang out. Si Ma Xin let out a shrill scream of pain once the blade cut him completely apart.
Su Ming lifted his head. With the black bone blade in hand, his black hair dancing behind his head, the profound, strange light in his eyes, and the aloof expression on his face, he was filled with an indescribably enigmatic and mysterious air!
The left half of the two sides of Si Ma Xin's body turned into a layer of darkness once he was cut in half, eventually turning into black liquid that fell into the sea beneath them.
However, the remaining half of his body fell into the sea as he continued falling backwards while remaining a bloody mess.
A glint appeared in Su Ming's eyes and he charged straight into the sea with the bone blade in hand. However, right when he came closer to the surface of the sea, a sense of danger rose within him. Without hesitation, he disappeared in the span of a breath, and when he reappeared a thousand feet away, he immediately saw the spot where he had previously been collapsing with a bang and turning into a vortex.
The appearance of that vortex caused a whirlpool to appear at the surface of the sea. At the center of it was the God of Berserkers' left hand, which had already been submerged by the sea!
Chapter 562: Welcoming of Deities!
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
"Su Ming, I will not be able to reconcile with myself if we do not end our grudge today! With my identity as a Berserker, I will burn my blood and revert my body… to that of the second God of Berserkers!" Si Ma Xin's looming voice traveled out of the whirlpool in the sea. As the waves roared, his voice spread in all reactions, and Su Ming frowned.
The difficulty in killing Si Ma Xin was something he had rarely seen in his life. Even now, this person had not died, and this made Su Ming gain a deeper understanding towards that Great Art of Heartless Berserker Seed.
He suddenly came to understand why the Immortals deployed so many powerful warriors just to kill the second God of Berserkers, and even tore his body into pieces even though he only had half the first God of Berserkers�� power.
All of this must surely have been because the second God of Berserkers was even more difficult to deal with and kill compared to the current Si Ma Xin. No matter who it was, they would surely frown when they came face to face against this sort of enemy.
Su Ming had already mortally wounded Si Ma Xin numerous times, and if he looked at it based on the number of times the man had recovered, then Su Ming could say that he had killed Si Ma Xin a countless number of times… but even now, the man still remained alive.
The presence he exuded from the whirlpool in the sea was also slightly stronger than before!
As his voice echoed and the roars from the sea reverberated in the air, the second God of Berserkers' left hand shuddered, and the spot where the bone blade had been pulled out from its palm started shining with a powerful light. Si Ma Xin's body appeared within it!
He still looked as he did previously, as if his body had never been torn apart. However, he did look even more dried up than before. He was now really just skin and bones. His eyes were crimson red, and his face was was filled with murderousness.
He did not stand up, but had his hands pressed on the God of Berserkers' palm instead. He lifted his head to glare at Su Ming. His body was vague and indistinct in the powerful light. At the instant he looked over, a strange voice tumbled out of his mouth.
"Hear my Chant for the breaking of souls within one incense stick - Let my blood be set ablaze!"
Si Ma Xin lifted his head and roared. Then, as if fire had been kindled within his body, a wave of heat abruptly spread through the area. At the same time, Si Ma Xin's face started changing quickly. The God of Berserkers' arm beneath him started withering away rapidly, as if it had been sucked away.
A roar filled with madness slowly traveled into midair. That roar did not belong to Si Ma Xin, neither did it belong to Su Ming. It appeared out of nowhere, as if it had originally existed in the world, but only a certain set of people could hear it during certain moments.
This was… the second God of Berserkers' roar, filled with his grudge towards the Immortals, and his unwillingness to accept death!
The instant that roar filled the area, Si Ma Xin also lifted his head and roared. It practically fused together with the second God of Berserkers' roar to turn into a frequency, causing the people who heard it to be unable to differentiate the voices.
A glint appeared in Su Ming's eyes. When he narrowed his eyes, he took a step forward and appeared beside the God of Berserkers' left hand in an instant. At the moment his bone blade drew an arc in the air, it swung down towards Si Ma Xin.
While he moved, Si Ma Xin's body swiftly swelled up and his hair grew much longer. His flesh started squirming in his body, and he became much sturdier than before. As his body transformed, he grew to become thirty feet tall!
At that moment, he was no longer Si Ma Xin. He had instead changed into another person. A power filled with madness erupted from his body, and at the same time he stomped the God of Berserkers' left arm with his right foot and flew up to throw a fist towards Su Ming's incoming bone blade!
Perhaps it was no longer accurate to say that the punch belonged to Si Ma Xin, because his mind had become muddled at that point. Setting his own blood ablaze to forcefully receive the full inheritance and executing the power within the inheritance was not something he could control at the moment. The damage dealt to him as he forcefully executed that ability was something that he could only heal using his life!
The life spoken of was his own vitality. He had used his life as a sacrifice, used all the life force within his Berserker Seeds in exchange for this, and all of it was for the sake of killing Su Ming!
Si Ma Xin's fist reached an extreme speed as he hurled it in a punch forward. In fact, his afterimage was still left on the God of Berserkers' hand when his true body had already appeared before Su Ming.
Su Ming's pupils shrank due to that punch. He just felt an indefinable pressure coming swiftly at him from the front.
His robes fluttered backwards and all his hair stood up on his body. A strong sense of danger swiftly rose within him. He did not have time to think. He lifted the bone blade in his hands and slashed down at the air before him.
A shocking boom surged into the sky at that instant. As it reverberated in the air, the entire area shook. Su Ming, however, only felt a huge rebound coming from the direction before him. It shot up the bone blade and traveled into his arm before going through his entire body.
As that rebound shot through him, Su Ming gained the feeling as if a hundred thousand mountains had fallen on him. He coughed out a huge mouthful of blood and staggered several thousands of feet backwards. A grave expression appeared on his face as he looked towards the spot where he was moment ago.
Si Ma Xin's body materialized from the void. His entire right arm exploded in that instant, torn into a bloody mess, but it was strangely recovering at a swift pace. His face was emotionless, and his eyes were lifeless, but there was a powerful presence coming from his body.
This was the God of Berserkers' Blazing Blood Art. It was a mysterious Art within his inheritance that could allow the caster's combat powers to instantly escalate. This Art… was astonishingly similar to Su Ming's Destiny!
When the second God of Berserkers cast this divine ability in the past, he managed to make all the Berserkers bow down and worship him, had managed to shock the Immortals with it, and had left a memory of the second God of Berserkers carved into the Immortals' bones even after the first had left.
It was also the source for his death!
At that moment, Si Ma Xin's lifeless and apathetic eyes looked towards Su Ming. Not a hint of emotion could be seen within him as he lifted his right foot and walked towards him. At the instant his foot landed, the world rumbled. Su Ming immediately vanished, continuing to retreat.
The moment he disappeared, the air in the spot where he was previously immediately shattered to turn into a gigantic black vortex. It swept in all directions, and Si Ma Xin walked out of the vortex to look towards Su Ming, who had appeared in the distance.
Su Ming's expression had turned incredibly sour. The change of Si Ma Xin had increased his combat powers explosively. In Su Ming's eyes, that punch he delivered just now could completely suppress a Berserker who had attained great completion in the Berserker Soul Realm by force.
If Su Ming could still turn into Destiny, then he would be able to fight against him, but he had just ended his transformation as Destiny, and he would not be able to turn again within such a short period of time. Because of that, fighting against this Si Ma Xin who had just received an increase in strength became a slight headache.
When Si Ma Xin looked towards him with the expressionless face which made him look as if he had no soul, then lifted his right foot to come closer, Su Ming's pupils shrank. The entire area within this region had turned into chaos as the second God of Berserkers' faint and indistinct roars rang in the air, giving voice to his unwillingness to accept his fate throughout the ages.
The seawater beneath them roared, and the ice above them continued shattering, as if it wanted to completely submerge this place in water. During this critical moment, a thought appeared in Su Ming's heart. Right when Si Ma Xin's foot landed and he closed in once again with a boom in the sky, Su Ming lifted his right hand swiftly and patted his storage bag. Immediately, a round medicinal pill appeared on his palm!
That pill was the Welcoming of Deities!
It could absorb all the soul fragments in the world. If anyone swallowed it, they would be able to turn into that soul itself. Its might could not be predicted, because it was largely connected to the soul the pill took in!
"Receive the spirits from all directions, absorb the remaining wills in all universes. If the souls are empty, then they all… can be taken." With two fingers pinching the Welcoming of Deities, Su Ming quickly mumbled under his breath, a strange light in his eyes.
The instant he said those words, a piercing dark light immediately erupted from the Welcoming of Deities in his hand. That dark light looked as if it came from a dark colored sun, causing the entire area to be illuminated by it in an instant. During that moment, the entire ice above them, the seawater below them, and the surging sea was completely illuminated in that dark light.
As it filled the area, Si Ma Xin's body swiftly appeared hundreds of feet away from Su Ming, looking as if he had been forced out by the dark light.
Almost the moment his body appeared, the second God of Berserkers' roar instantly reached an extreme volume within this this world of ice in the sea.
"ROAR!"
It reverberated in the air, and became clearer with each passing moment. In the span of a breath, the roars sounded as if they came from right next to Su Ming's ears. As they echoed in the area, black shadow threads appeared out of thin air from all over the place. Instantly, they all rushed towards Su Ming's Welcoming of Deities.
The God of Berserkers' left hand standing erect in the whirlpool in the sea underneath shuddered violently. This was the first time it shook because of someone else other than Si Ma Xin!
Si Ma Xin had been able to receive the second God of Berserkers' inheritance entirely because he practiced his cultivation methods and because of this arm. No one else would be able to obtain this sort of chance and serendipity. Even those before Si Ma Xin who had managed to find the arm were not able to receive the inheritance.
That was why it was impossible for Su Ming himself to receive this inheritance, especially since Si Ma Xin's Brand had been left in the second God of Berserker's left hand.
It would be impossible for him to try and receive the inheritance in this sort of situation even if he tried to use the black stone fragment and changed his presence to deceive it.
However, the appearance of the Welcoming of Deities had changed everything completely!
This pill could absorb all soul fragments in the world… and the second God of Berserkers' soul was included among these fragmented souls!
If the second God of Berserkers' soul did not exist to this day, then the legend of a certain set of people being able to sense his presence during certain periods of time would not have come to be, and clearly, the largest amount of the second God of Berserkers' fragmented parts of the soul could be found on his arm.
If Su Ming activated the Welcoming of Deities in this place, then he would… definitely be absorbing the second God of Berserkers' soul!
As the God of Berserkers' left arm trembled, a large amount of black smoke immediately erupted from within, turning into an illusory fog that rushed towards Su Ming's Welcoming of Deities.
In an instant, that fog fused into the pill, causing it to tremble violently, and its color changed abruptly. A primeval presence spread out from inside, and as if the pill had turned into a gigantic vortex, it started absorbing all the soul fragments within the place!
Chapter 563: A Different Inheritance!
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
All of this might seem to have happened slowly, but in truth, several breaths had only passed since Su Ming brought out the Welcoming of Deities to the moment it absorbed the soul fragments in the area. Right before his eyes, fog surrounded the the pill, and a large amount of black smoke was still surrounding it, causing his right hand to be enveloped within.
The roars from the second God of Berserkers did not sound as if they came from the surroundings, but were now coming from the Welcoming of Deities. A glint appeared in Su Ming's eyes, and without any hesitation, he swallowed the pill!
The instant he did so, Si Ma Xin closed in once again after he was forced to reveal himself. He appeared before Su Ming, and with an apathetic and expressionless face, he hurled his fist straight towards him!
Rumbling sounds echoed in the air. Su Ming retreated seven steps, and when he withdrew, Si Ma Xin followed him, then clenched his fist and struck again.
When Su Ming took his first step backwards, dark light started flickering in his eyes.
When he took his second step, he calmed down, and strangely, his hair grew longer.
At the instant he took his third step, the dark light appeared in Su Ming's eyes. That flickering light was a peculiar sight to behold.
When he took his fifth, sixth, and seventh steps, his body became slightly thinner. The dark light in his eyes became stronger, and his hair grew to reach his feet. Right when he took his seventh step, a power that did not belong to him erupted from his body.
When that power erupted, Si Ma Xin caught up. Su Ming saw him delivering the same punch as before, straight towards his skull, and at that moment, a dark light flashed in his eyes. He opened his mouth and let out a roar so loud that it shook the sky and earth!
Si Ma Xin's incoming punch froze, and his flesh was immediately torn apart. Even his body started shattering inch by inch as if a violent gust of wind had swept past him, and at the same time, he started retreating abruptly.
When he did so, his apathetic face changed instantly. His eyes went wide, and shocked disbelief appeared on his face once again. His breathing quickened, his body shuddered, and his disbelief caused him to be overwhelmed by an indefinable shock towards Su Ming!
"God of Berserkers' roar… This is the God of Berserkers' roar! This is impossible! This shouldn't be possible!" Shock was evident in Si Ma Xin's voice. That attack just then was indeed the God of Berserker's roar!
Su Ming stood in midair and looked towards Si Ma Xin, the dark light in his eyes shining. At that moment, his head was clear, but he was still a little rusty in controlling his body. It was as if there was another force besides him that was controlling his body and fighting according to his will!
This power came from the Welcoming of Deities, or more accurately… the soul fragments in the world that the pill had absorbed!
In fact, there was a strong feeling raging in Su Ming's heart. That feeling came from the God of Berserkers' left hand in the sea, and it was a feeling of a blood bond so strong that it was thicker than water. It was as if this left hand belonged to him!
In truth, he could even sense something calling out to him from the God of Berserkers' left hand, as if he was connected to it!
However, Su Ming knew that this feeling was not because of him. It came from… the soul fragments within the Welcoming of Deities, which it had absorbed from the world!
Su Ming! Si Ma Xin!
When they had their first battle in Freezing Sky Clan all those years ago, all the people watching had thought that their divine abilities were incredibly similar, and even their temperament was similar. Many people had remembered this feeling in their hearts.
Right now, while there might be no one watching their final battle, but the skills and divine abilities both Su Ming and Si Ma Xin revealed were still… similar!
If Si Ma Xin had received the second God of Berserkers' inheritance and used the power stored in the God of Berserkers' arm to boost his combat powers to the max, as well as to let himself gain his current appearance, then the Su Ming now could also be said to have gained the second God of Berserkers' inheritance!
However, his method was different from the one used by Si Ma Xin. He had absorbed the second God of Berserkers' soul, had the soul enter his mind, and had that mind fill his whole body!
Si Ma Xin had inherited the God of Berserker's power, had that power enter his body, then had his body cause his mind to scatter!
They had different inheritances, different manners of manifesting their inheritances, different methods to obtain those inheritances, but what was similar… was the second God of Berserkers!
Su Ming closed his eyes and spread out his will through his body to fuse with the power contained within the Welcoming of Deities. Once he did so, his eyes flew open, and he lifted his right foot to take a step forward.
An illusion immediately appeared on the ice above them. A huge foot appeared with a bang within that illusion.
This… was what Si Ma Xin had cast earlier - the God of Berserkers' Seven Steps!
As Su Ming executed that Art, Si Ma Xin's body tumbled backwards. He lifted his right hand and hurled a punch towards the incoming gigantic foot from above. With a loud bang, the footprint collapsed and vanished. At the same time, Si Ma Xin was forced back several hundreds of feet. When he lifted his head, madness appeared in his eyes.
"This is impossible! I'm the one who should be the second God of Berserkers' scion! I'm the one who should be!"
In his madness, Si Ma Xin lifted his hands swiftly and clasped them together above his head, then with his index finger and thumb, he formed a round mark above his head!
At the same moment, Su Ming's eyes sparkled. He lifted his hands as well and had four of his fingers connect above his head to form the exact same mark Si Ma Xin had done!
"I know… all the divine abilities you inherited!" Su Ming declared languidly. Dark light shone in his eyes, and at that moment, he had let go of his control over his body, allowing the power of the Welcoming of Deities to control it to fight!
"God of Berserkers' alteration towards the stars, sun, and moon. First Alteration… Disaster of the Stars!" Si Ma Xin shouted, and his hands parted swiftly from the top of his head before he swung his arms towards the sky. With it, a large amount of the ice above them immediately crumbled and shattered away to reveal an illusionary shadow above.
The illusion was of a sky with numerous stars glittering in it. As they moved and shone, they grouped together to form a huge arm. It looked as if it stretched out of the sky and was swiftly descending on Su Ming.
The same words tumbled out of Su Ming's mouth in whispers. With a swing of his arm, another piece of sky filled with stars appeared above them. However, this one was completely different from the one Si Ma Xin had brought up!
It was an unfamiliar sky to the people of South Morning. This was the night that belonged to Su Ming's memories - Dark Mountain's night sky!
As the stars shone in the sky, they also formed an arm. Once the two arms made appeared, they crashed into each other with a bang. A power strong enough to cause the sky to crumble and the earth to shatter erupted swiftly at that instant.
The skies filled with stars were torn apart, and the ice above them crumbled completely. A large amount of seawater charged in madly, causing the space within the ice to be filled rapidly the sea. By the looks of it, before long, this place would truly become a part of the seabed!
Si Ma Xin coughed up blood and took several steps back. Just as he wanted to go and absorb the power from the God of Berserkers' left hand so that he could recover his vitality, he discovered, much to his shock, that he could no longer absorb any more power from it!
It was as if there was a will contained within the God of Berserker's arm that stopped him from absorbing his inheritance!
"Si Ma Xin, it's my turn to attack now," Su Mint stated calmly. As he stood in midair, he lifted his right hand and bent his body slightly, making it look as if he had taken the form of a crescent moon!
Right as he did so, a string of words that made Si Ma Xin sink into despair fell out of his mouth.
"God of Berserkers' alteration towards the stars, sun, and moon, Second Alteration… Shift in the Moon!"
Once those words were spoken, an intense dark light spread out from Su Ming's body. As it shone, his entire body turned into a crescent moon. Moonlight shone through the entire area, and wherever it went, the place would be filled with a cold and murderous air!
Almost the instant he activated his divine ability, an illusion of a moon immediately appeared around Si Ma Xin's body. That illusion covered his entire body, and a true life-threatening sense of death rose in his heart.
With Si Ma Xin's inheritance and his current level of cultivation, he could execute the Disaster of the Stars from the alteration towards the stars, sun, and moon. As for the other two styles that came later, he could not execute them. At that moment, when he saw Su Ming executing the stronger Shift in the Moon, he lifted his right hand and struck his chest viciously in despair.
From that one strike, he coughed up a mouthful of blood. The Berserker Bones in his body were crushed, the foundation he built in the Awakening Realm collapsed, his thoughts as a Berserker Soul shattered, and all the cultivation bases in his body became a muddled mess.
This sort of chaos would definitely kill him if he did not have any life force providing nourishment to him! However, Si Ma Xin knew that if he did not do this, then he would definitely die. It would be better if he did something crazy instead. Before his death, he would drag Su Ming to hell with him!
"You're… dying together with me!" Blood trickled out of the corners of Si Ma Xin's lips. A ferocious expression twisted his face. As he roared, he lifted his right hand and positioned himself in the exact same pose as Su Ming.
"God of Berserkers' alteration towards the stars, sun, and moon, Second Alteration… Shift in the Moon!" As Si Ma Xin roared, his body became the same as Su Ming's. He, too, turned into a crescent moon in the depths of the sea!
If he did not cause his cultivation bases to fall into a muddled mess, did not cause them to completely shatter and explode, then he would have been unable to execute the second Alteration from the the alteration of the stars, sun, and moon. At that moment, he could no longer care about anything. With death as the consequence, he executed this Art, and immediately, the illusion of a crescent moon also appeared around Su Ming!
"Moon Slaughter!"
"Moon Slaughter!"
Two voices shouting the exact same words exploded from the world in the depths of the sea. At the instant they erupted forth, the dark shadows of the crescent moon around Su Ming and Si Ma Xin shattered and crumbled at the same time. Booming sounds came from their bodies, which seemed to have fused together with the shadows.
Su Ming coughed up a huge mouthful of blood straight from his heart. He was sent tumbling backwards until he reached a thousand feet away, and when he coughed up blood once again, he lifted his head swiftly.
Si Ma Xin's right arm exploded and his right leg shattered. His body was flung out and blood filled the water. The right arm and leg he lost did not recover as it did in the past, but… was gone for real instead!
"I can't accept this! I can't accept this!" Si Ma Xin cried out shrilly. He could feel his life force fading away, and at that moment, he was already heading straight towards death, but he… could not accept this!
"This is not my fate! It absolutely isn't!"
Chapter 564: Si Ma's Death!
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Si Ma Xin's piercing howl echoed in the water. He stopped after tumbling several thousands of feet backwards. His left hand started rotting away, and as his left leg trembled, it began swiftly withering away. Signs of decay appeared on his body.
Hair fell from his head, and a large amount of black spots appeared on his face. Those black spots rotted away one by one and let out a horrible stench. This was not due to the power of Moon Slaughter, but was due to Su Ming gathering up the power of the Curse within him when he executed Shift in the Moon!
"You might know all my divine abilities… but you… definitely won't know the last divine ability I will cast in my life!"
Si Ma Xin's eyes became dull and lifeless. When he lifted his head and looked at Su Ming, a crazed sneer appeared on his lips. This was an expression formed due to his grudge, his unwillingness to accept his face, and everything else before he died. Perhaps this could not be called a sneer. It was an expression that had no name, an expression that was not of crying or smiling.
"The God of Berserkers' fate… was to suffer being quartered. His body would be torn to pieces, and he would seal the land of the Berserkers for generations to come. This… is the will of Morning Dao," Si Ma Xin mumbled. This string of words had emerged in his head the instant he touched the hand all those years ago.
This was… the power that sealed the second God of Berserkers!
This power did not belong to Si Ma Xin, but belonged to the world in the depths of the sea where he and Su Ming stood right at that moment, because this was the place where the second's left hand was sealed, and this sealing power had originally existed in this place to begin with!
Si Ma Xin was simply activating the seal, making the seal spread out to seal all the people who had any sort of connection to the second God of Berserkers!
Almost the moment he said these words, the sea stopped moving. The sea surging down from above also stopped moving as if time had stopped for them. The God of Berserkers' left hand trembled, and yellow waves of light shot out from it.
"The worlds located in the five directions [1] suppress the Berserker's arm. Once these five directions shift, the universe will close its eyes, and Yin Death… will open!"
Si Ma Xin laughed loudly. At that moment, a glint appeared in Su Ming's eyes. Just as he was about to close in on Si Ma Xin, the man closed his eyes and continued laughing.
"I lost, but I didn't lose to you, Su Ming! I lost to fate!
"God, if you already had me in the world, then why did you make Su Ming appear?!
"Could this be my destiny? Am I fated to fight against Su Ming, and the only one alive will be the one truly chosen by heaven?!" Si Ma Xin laughed maniacally, tears fell from his eyes. His left hand swiftly exploded, while his left leg rotted away into liquid.
From the moment he obtained the second God of Berserkers' inheritance up to this point, from his initial delight up to his current despair, Si Ma Xin had gone through too many things. As he looked at Su Ming, his hatred had grown to an indescribable level. Even if he had to die, he would drag Su Ming down with him!
"If this is my destiny, then I will fight against it! Neither of us will survive! I want him to die with me! I want this destiny to not be fulfilled against me!" The instant he said these words, his body shattered, turning into a large amount of black flesh pieces that fell onto the surface of the sea.
Si Ma Xin, who was the prodigy of Freezing Sky Clan, who had obtained the second God of Berserkers' inheritance, and who had called himself the fourth God of Berserkers, ended his life right before Su Ming in the place he obtained his inheritance and in the place that was the source of his great power…
As his body was torn apart, no more life force went towards him. Perhaps his life had been determined since the moment he met Su Ming in Han Mountain City…
If he did not die, then Su Ming would!
At the instant Si Ma Xin died, a ray of red light flew out from his shattered body. That red light… was a wooden red puppet!
It was built in Si Ma Xin's image, but there was a dried drop of blood at the center of its forehead, and right under that drop of blood was a white strand of hair!
It was very short and incredibly soft. It did not look as if it belonged to an adult, but looked like the fetal hair of a baby. However, it was white… there was no sign of life on that strand of hair, only a thick wave of aura of death that Su Ming was incredibly familiar with!
But he was even more familiar with the strand of hair and the dried drop of blood. He might never have seen them before, but the familiar sensation from them gave him a feeling that they belonged to him.
At that moment, cracks appeared on the puppet's body… With a bang, it broke down into smithereens. Right then, the white strand of hair got dyed in blood and floated to the air. Su Ming did not know whether it was a mere coincidence, but the strand drifted towards him and landed on his palm.
When it touched his palm, he shuddered. Then, something akin to a storm stirred in his eyes. It was as if his mind was dragged out by the strand of hair and he entered a strange world.
Su Ming could only feel booming sounds going off in his head. He saw himself rushing out of the depths of the sea towards the sky. The clouds in the sky churned, and with an extreme speed, he charged towards a protective screen of light surrounding this place, right to the boundless sky!
When he arrived at the end of the sky and shot through the dark clouds that covered the sun, a bright clear sky appeared. He did not stop. It was as if there was a string tied securely around him, guiding him to continue rising into the sky!
He did not know how much time passed. When the bright clear sky was no longer around, black fog surrounded him. He was familiar with it. It was… the fog from Yin Death Region, the fog that had surrounded the ancient bronze sword in the past and stopped it from traveling out!
Su Ming rose up through the fog in a daze until he heard a roaring. A beast lay within the fog before him. It had the head of an alligator, but the body of a dragon that stretched to an unknown distance. That beast was looking around with its head stretched outwards, as if hesitating about something.
A powerful presence that almost made Su Ming's mind break down spread from the creature's body, but the beast clearly did not see him. Su Ming could feel himself shooting through the black fog as he continued rising into the air.
On the way, he saw more than a dozen powerful and strange ferocious beasts. In fact, the ones he saw near the end gave him a feeling that they were even stronger than Di Tian's clone.
The fog above him gradually became thinner. As faint and indistinct roars echoed in the air, he shot out of the darkness, and he saw the galaxy, the stars, and everything else that he had seen on the ancient bronze sword in the past!
Su Ming also saw the vortex formed by the black fog beneath him. It was gigantic and covered an incredibly wide area within the endless galaxy. The vortex rotated with loud rumbling sounds, and as the fog surrounded it, the aura of death filled the entire area.
Su Ming's body continued rising even as he looked at the galaxy and the stars. Unable to control himself, he arrived on a large piece of land floating in this galaxy, located somewhere away from the vortex.
This was a desolate piece of land. There were signs of life here, the only structure a towering altar. On it was a person, and he was lying there quietly. His limbs were impaled to the ground, and his dried blood filled the entire area.
There was a drop of blood at the center of the person's brows, and on it was a white strand of hair.
This person seemed like a young adult, but�� the instant Su Ming saw his appearance, a bang went off in his head. This… was Si Ma Xin!
As Su Ming trembled, he whipped his head around, and then, he saw similar altars suddenly appearing on the originally desolate piece of land. Those altars were so numerous that they covered the entire area. By the looks of it, there were hundreds of them!
Moreover, the sizes of these altars varied. There were five altars that were incredibly tall and their sizes far surpassed those of others. When Su Ming saw them, he had a sudden urge to look so that he could see whether there were corpses similar to this lying around!
Yet right at the instant he wanted to go forth and look, a strong suction force appeared around his body and dragged him backwards at an extreme speed. Within an instant, brought Su Ming back to the vortex in Yin Death Region.
Su Ming's eyes sparkled. Just as he was about to cast a divine ability so that he could force his body to stay in this place, he found out… that he did not have a body, only a thread of his spirit.
In bitterness, he was forced to retreat while tumbling backwards, but in his eyes was madness as he silently engraved the image in his heart!
As he retreated, he saw... an endless amount of continents floating in the galaxy. There were altars such as these on each continent, as if they formed a gigantic Rune. Right in the middle of that Rune was a continent, and on that continent, Su Ming saw vaguely that there was… only one huge altar there.
Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that the continent in the center was in itself an altar.
Su Ming might only have managed to catch a brief glance of that place, but he had sensed… a calling towards his soul.
This was the final thing he saw. When his world cleared up again, he found himself standing at the depths of the sea, and the strand of white hair floated above his palm.
It gradually shattered and disappeared without a trace...
Su Ming stood there quietly and closed his eyes. At that moment, yellow light was shining from the God of Berserkers' left arm beneath him, and as it spread out, a loud bang rumbled in the air. The light grew brighter and illuminated the entire seabed!
A huge seal pointing in five directions manifested from the second God of Berserkers' left hand. It covered the God of Berserker's left hand, as if it was what had sealed the hand for an unknown amount of time!
That seal was naturally the Five Direction Seal that was suppressing the second God of Berserkers' left hand!
It was also the treasure that Si Ma Xin was confident could make Su Ming die with him. There was only one use to this treasure, and that was to suppress and to seal. It was to suppress all those connected to the second God of Berserkers and seal away all of the second God of Berserkers' power!
However, due to its long existence, the seals power had been greatly reduced. The mighty strength within the second God of Berserkers had also caused the Five Direction Seal to fuse with his left hand. Once they could no longer be separated, the seal's power of suppression was weakened once again, that was why Si Ma Xin could obtain the inheritance.
However… due to Si Ma Xin's madness, the seal was awakened…
The water in the depths of the sea was still. The waves at the seabed did not move. Everything at the bottom of the sea had ceased to move since the moment just now. Besides Si Ma Xin's crumbling body, the white strand of hair floating above the palm, and Su Ming himself, everything else had been frozen.
Su Ming opened his eyes.
Translator's Notes:
1. Five directions: Related to Buddhism, or more accurately, the Buddhas of the five directions. The directions are north, south, east, west, and the center. Each direction means something. Here is a link for anyone curious.
Chapter 565: Serendipity!
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
The instant Su Ming opened his eyes, the Five Direction Seal on the God of Berserkers' left hand exuded a gentle yellow light in the still world. That light was like sun-like, causing the still depths of the sea to be illuminated with a golden sheen, turning it to a golden world.
Su Ming's body was also illuminated by that light. His appearance had already faded away and he was shining with a gentle golden light. Nothing dangerous could be detected from the light, but it was rather strange in this still world.
Because everything that was illuminated within the area of this light would… disappear without a single sound, be it the seawater or the ice.
It was as if the golden light could devour everything, and as the things around Su Ming disappeared, the golden light looked as if it was slowly shrinking. As it moved back, the edges of the light and the sea seemed to have been separated into two different dimensions.
A sealing power filled the golden light. A glint appeared in Su Ming's eyes. His body suddenly swayed and he abruptly disappeared from his spot. Almost the instant he vanished, he reappeared in his original spot. His expression turned dark and he frowned.
He had warped just now, but he was forced out of space itself right away. The seal in this place had isolated everything!
The golden light in the area continued shrinking right before his eyes. The edges of that light were dark.
Su Ming took a step forward and turned into a long arc. He lifted his right hand and seized the air. Immediately, the bone blade appeared in it, turning into the tip of the long arc as he charged towards the shrinking golden barrier.
A rumbling sound echoed in the air. Su Ming tumbled backwards and he took eight continuous steps back. His expression turned darker. The sealing power contained within the golden barrier was something he could not pierce through.
As the light continued shrinking, Su Ming lifted his head and looked upwards. A grave expression appeared on his face. He could see a faint gold shade beyond the golden light above his head, and it was not just a single layer, there were five of them!
Five layers of light that continued becoming darker with each layer, and all of them were gold.
This was the Five Direction Seal. Each layer of gold represented one direction of the seal's power. Right then, the five directions were all present, causing the seal's power to be nothing common.
The golden light around Su Ming was continuously shrinking towards the God of Berserkers' left hand, forcing him to take a few steps so that he no longer stood at the edge. It was as if his body was trapped in an incessantly shrinking cage and he could only move with the cage as it continued shrinking.
Su Ming frowned. Si Ma Xin might have died, but this sealing power he activated before his death was incredibly strange. Su Ming could not leave no matter what he tried, and judging by the area covered by the golden light, even if he had been able to leave beforehand, he would still have been enveloped within the light, and he would still be eternally sealed in this place.
'Judging by how crazed Si Ma Xin was, this seal should be the one sealing the second God of Berserkers' left hand. Now that I've absorbed the second God of Berserkers' soul fragments with the Welcoming of Deities, it can be said that I've obtained some of his legacy. Because of that, the seal believes I fulfill its requirements to be sealed…'
Su Ming's eyes flashed. At that moment, the ancient second God of Berserkers' left hand was standing erect in this land several dozens of feet away from him. The golden light that was shrinking slowly towards them laid a hundred feet away.
The area beyond the five layers of light was an empty void. It was like a ravine that had separated the area from the seawater.
'Si Ma Xin believed that I obtained the inheritance, same as he did… But in truth, I absorbed the soul fragments with the Welcoming of Deities, so it's very simple to leave this place. As long as I make the seal believe I don't have the second God of Berserkers' presence on me, then I can leave.'
A pensive look appeared in Su Ming's eyes. He looked at the golden light and his eyes flickered before he swiftly opened his mouth. Immediately, a dark light flew out and turned into the Welcoming of Deities before him!
The instant it left his body, his presence swiftly weakened by a large margin. All the divine abilities related to the second God of Berserkers also faded away from his memories. His control over his body also reached its peak condition and he was no longer as rusty as before.
More importantly, the instant the Welcoming of Deities left, he no longer sensed the sealing power from the shrinking golden light around him.
'As I thought.' Su Ming's brows did not relax and he continued to frown. A hint of uncertainty appeared on his face.
He looked at the second God of Berserkers' left hand standing erect beside him, then looked at the golden light from the Five Direction Seal, and became uncertain.
'If I leave now, I won't be exposed to danger most likely. I can go back to surface of the sea without much trouble and return to the ninth summit… But the second God of Berserkers' left hand will be sealed up again. Even if I come back and search for it later on, I won't be able to find it.'
Su Ming's gaze fell on the empty ravine in the darkness standing between the screen of light and the seawater. Clearly, this place had been separated into two regions. Leaving this place would be much easier than trying to come in from the world outside.
'But it's quite unfortunate if I leave just like this…'
Su Ming continued to frown. He was not really that interested in the second God of Berserkers' inheritance, but he had all sorts of feelings welling within him when he thought about Si Ma Xin's Great Art of Heartless Berserker Seed. More importantly, he'd seen the second God of Berserkers' divine abilities and Arts just now. He had even experienced casting one of them himself just moments ago, and those divine abilities were what he was lacking at the moment!
'And the second God of Berserkers' left hand could make Si Ma Xin continuously recover, so there must be a large amount of life force contained within it. An eighth of all the bones in my body have been turned into Berserker Bones now, if I could absorb the second's left hand, then perhaps I could reach a breakthrough again!'
Once Su Ming thought about that, his heart started racing against his chest.
On one hand, he could leave safely, but he would not be able to receive much serendipity. On the other hand, he could stay and face danger to try and absorb the God of Berserkers' left hand. It did not matter whether he would fail or succeed, he would have to face the risk of being sealed in for eternity.
How should he choose…?
There was very little time left, and Su Ming absolutely had no time to think too deeply about this. A flicker of light appeared in his eyes and he gritted his teeth!
'Success only comes if you take risks! There is no serendipity in the world that would arrive without cause. I need to fight to gain and exchange for what I want… I might have received a serendipitous event in the Candle Dragon's Undying and Imperishable World and obtained the Candle Dragon's blessing, but the premise was that I had fought for it while exposing myself to an incredible risk!'
The golden light around him was already close to the God of Berserkers' left hand before his eyes, and the light screen above him was also sinking, causing the dimension where Su Ming and the God of Berserkers' left hand was to become increasingly smaller.
The light shining from the Five Direction Seal was no longer gentle, but gained a fierce, mighty air, as if it wanted to suppress all things related to the second God of Berserkers so that it could fulfill the mission it received in the past!
'I'll take the risk!'
A determined look appeared on Su Ming's face. If he left just like this, he would definitely be filled with discontent. That was why he decided to take the risk!
The instant Su Ming made this decision, he lifted his right hand and seized the Welcoming of Deities, swallowing it once again. The presence around his body instantly changed, and his pupils turned even darker. A faint, illusionary shadow seemed to have appeared in his eyes, and then, he took a step to land right on the second God of Berserkers' left hand!
This was the first time Su Ming stepped on there, and just like what Si Ma Xin did previously, he sat down cross-legged he touched down.
It was warm. This was the first thing Su Ming felt when he touched the God of Berserkers' left hand. That indefinable warmth made him feel… as if they had met somewhere before.
The instant he sat down, the light from the Five Direction Seal above him swiftly started shining even more brilliantly, moving from a gentle light to a piercing glare. The mighty presence contained within also started growing endlessly at the moment.
"I don't need your inheritance. I just want your life force and the divine abilities that belong to the God of Berserkers!" Su Ming stated slowly. As he closed his eyes, he lifted his hands and pressed them flat on the surface by his sides, right on top of the God of Berserkers' left palm.
Right away, Su Ming sucked in a deep breath. A vast amount of life force swiftly surged into his body through his hands and body with rumbling sounds echoing in the air.
This… was the power contained within the second God of Berserkers' left hand. This was the power that supported the arm so that it would not be destroyed, and this power was originally something no one else could absorb besides Si Ma Xin!
Due to his level of cultivation, Si Ma Xin could not absorb too much life force. He had originally intended to absorb this wave of power every single time his level of cultivation rose. Then, when he perfectly completed his cultivation, he would absorb all the power within the God of Berserkers' left hand and turn it into something that belonged to him. At that time, he would be able to obtain a portion of the second God of Berserkers' strength.
Now, with Si Ma Xin's death, no one else could absorb the power contained within the God of Berserkers' left hand. Yet due to the Welcoming of Deities, Su Ming could indirectly obtain the inheritance, which turned him into a person who could absorb this power!
Besides, the amount of life force Su Ming needed for the Berserker Bones in his body was simply too much, and it was something Si Ma Xin could not hope to compare. That was why Su Ming seemed to have turned into a bottomless pit as he absorbed the life force. When he closed his eyes and the life force surged into his body, the second God of Berserkers' left hand shuddered, and the fingers that had never moved since ancient times started moving slowly.
Eventually, those five fingers started slowly closing up to turn into a shield protecting Su Ming's body within the palm!
This protection was a vague form of acknowledgment and should have originally been Si Ma Xin's serendipity, yet now… it had become Su Ming's!
If Si Ma Xin had not died and saw this scene, he would definitely cough up blood, because this should have originally belonged to him…
Su Ming lifted his head. His long hair danced in the wind, and he looked at the golden light closing in until it completely enveloped the God of Berserker's left hand and the Five Direction Seal floated above his head, causing the area around him to be completely sealed.
The area was filled with a deadly silence. Only Su Ming could be seen sitting still and unmoving through the cracks formed between the second God of Berserkers' left hand when it closed up.
Time flowed slowly. At that moment, there was a great number of people gathered on the ninth summit outside this sealed world. All of these people were the survivors from Heaven Gate. At that moment, all of them had complicated expressions on their faces as they occasionally looked towards the sea.
Bai Su was also looking at the surface of the sea quietly from a corner, with a rather anxious expression on her face.
As Hu Zi continued snoring in his cave abode, the bald crane stepped on Hu Zi's back and pecked his back with its sharp beak. A thin thread was plucked out and swallowed with a snap of the crane's jaws. An incredibly contented look appeared on its face.
"Weren't you just playing hide-and-seek with me earlier?! Go on, hide! Once you hide properly, I will find you, and I will eat you!"
Chapter 566: Warmth
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
The ice had already disappeared in the depths of the sea. The entire sea was dark, filled with death-like silence.
If anyone looked from the distance, they would see no signs of light. There was nothing shining golden, and neither was there the second God of Berserkers' left hand.
Even if that someone knew precisely where it was located, they would still only see emptiness. It was as if nothing existed there anymore, and no signs of past events or things could be found there.
Yet in this region that could not be detected with the naked eye, could not even be noticed by divine sense, was a dimension that had been separated from the sea. Golden light surrounded it, and as that light spread out, it turned into golden runic symbols that circled round the area.
They could not be seen in the outside world, though.
At the center of the dimension were five layers of golden light that covered the center. They looked as if they were in an oval shape, and they inflated and deflated as if in breathing.
It was a strange dimension and a bizarre five-layered screen of light. In the deepest depths of it was a gigantic arm that was incredibly coarse. It stood erect in the light and was lifted high up in the air. It had its fingers slightly curled, and sitting on its palm was a young man who had his eyes closed.
The young man's long black hair spilled over his shoulders. He was handsome, and his cheeks were slightly flushed. He would only breathe once after a long time. His hands were pressed on top of the palm he was sitting on, and the two seemed to have fused together. Aura spread out and crawled into his body, as well as his eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
Su Ming looked as if he was silently meditating, but he was going through a tremendous change as if a storm was raging in his body. An endless wave of life force was continuously surging into him. As it swam through his body, it was quickly devoured and absorbed by the Berserker Bones.
Su Ming's cultivation base was unique. Other people would only have twenty something Berserker Bones, but every single bone in Su Ming's body had the possibility of turning into a Berserker Bone. In fact, even his flesh, blood, and everything within his body were the same.
As he continued with this rapid absorption, an unknown amount of time passed by, and he obtained his own serendipity. Almost a ninth of all his bones in his body had turned into those that belonged to a true Berserker, Berserker Bones!
Once Su Ming completely changed all of them, then his power would immediately reach a new height. At that time, what would await him would be… the true Berserker Soul Realm that no one before him and perhaps no one after him would be able to obtain!
If he could succeed, then his power would reach a new pinnacle. Even if he did not transform into Destiny, he could still fight against a Berserker who had attained great completion in the Berserker Soul Realm, and he would not be at a disadvantage.
Unless, of course, he ran into those old monsters who had been lying around quietly for years once they had attained great completion in the Berserker Soul Realm and had managed to obtain a thread of the presence in Life Cultivation through much experimentation with their great and deep cultivation. Yet even so, no one could tell who would win in the end!
However, the premise for all of these things to happen was that Su Ming could turn everything within him into Berserker Bones and step into the Berserker Soul Realm!
As he absorbed the life force, a huge figure appeared in his head. He could not see the person clearly, but that person was executing his divine abilities and Arts one by one in his head.
These Arts were mixed and varied. Su Ming could see some of them clearly, but some of them were over in a flash. When he tried to look more closely, he found that it was still difficult for him to discover any hints on how to cast these Arts.
Besides the divine abilities, he also saw some scenes. They were rather muddled, and would usually disappear soon after showing up. It was impossible to connect them together.
Only some scenes could be connected together, and one of them was a huge person floating up without moving his feet and flying into the distance. That person was in a bright galaxy filled with stars.
There was a huge round ball before him, and within it were oceans and continents, just like in a complete planet.
The instant this person closed in on that planet, an innumerable amount of long arcs flew up. As howling sounds echoed in the air, Su Ming saw the person in the picture lifting his foot and taking seven steps forward!
When he took those seven steps, the entire galaxy shook. With his first step, he stirred up a wave of impact so strong that most of the long arcs tumbled backwards. With his second step, no more long arcs could be found blocking his path. When he took his third step, he landed on that planet and the entire sphere trembled with a loud rumble. At the instant he took his fourth step, the sea churned and drowned everything.
When his fifth, sixth, and seventh steps landed, the round sphere looked as if a calamity had fallen on it. When it was torn into pieces, that person lifted his head and let out a roar.
The torn world shattered swiftly. Once it was turned into smithereens, a ray of crystalline light flew out, and that person caught it in his hand. It was a crystal shining in flowing streams of light. In it... was the power of one World.
That was the power of a World.
With the crystal in hand, the person left.
"God of Berserkers' seven steps, God of Berserkers' roar…" Su Ming mumbled.
The scene changed in a flash. The person appeared in Su Ming's mind once again. However, this time, his face was no longer too obscured. Su Ming could see a little clearer. It was a very ordinary looking face. There was even a simple and honest air about him, without a hint of solemnity.
It was especially so when he smiled, which gave him an even friendlier and more cordial feeling.
When Su Ming saw this person's face, he gradually had a sense of familiarity. It came from the gigantic head Di Tian had sat on when Su Ming had borrowed the power of Possession from Han Mountain's ancestor to search through his memories while he was still in Han Mountain City!
The person's face here was rather similar to that head he saw, but if anyone compared this kindly face and the crazed ferociousness on that head, they would very easily think that these were two different people if they did not look closely.
Su Ming remained silent. This amiable and completely lacking of any solemnity second God of Berserkers in his head lifted his left hand and swung his arm towards the sky. The sun, moon, and stars appeared above, and he started executing divine abilities and Arts so shocking that they shook the sky and earth.
He also saw the second God of Berserkers sealing the three Barren Arts of Heaven, Earth, and Man into the fang. He saw the concentration on his face and the loving smile as he created the fan, as if he wanted to give it as a present to a member of the younger generation.
It was not the only fan, either. There was another one which he Branded with the Art of the sun, moon, and stars.
Su Ming also saw the second God of Berserkers walking towards the land once he finished making those two fans, and he continued walking until he arrived before an imperial city with a number of palaces. When the sounds of a baby crying traveled out from one of the palaces, the second God of Berserkers could be found crying outside the palace with a smile. At that moment, he did not look like a God of Berserkers, but was just like an ordinary adult. He looked as if he was about to push the door to the palace open and give the two fans to the infant inside as his or her Origin Treasure.
Yet right at the instant he placed his left hand on the palace door and was just about to push it open, the sky suddenly changed and snow floated down… The second God of Berserkers froze for a moment before he brought back his left hand. His face turned cold, looking entirely different from the gentle person from before, as he looked towards the sky.
The scene changed once again. Su Ming saw the palace again, but this time, he was inside. The doors to the palace were open, and the second God of Berserkers was covered in fresh blood. The sounds of battle outside rang nonstop, and an endless amount of long arcs sliced through the air with howls, as if a calamity had fallen on the world.
The second God of Bersekers' face was pale. He walked into the palace and looked at the similarly pale looking woman standing inside. The two of them embraced each other.
After a long while, the second God of Berserkers looked towards two small beds placed together nearby. There were two babies lying on top of the beds. One of them was crying, and the other had his eyes closed. He did not move, as if he was dead.
He walked up and lifted his left hand to touch the crying baby girl's forehead, then with a complicated look, he glanced at the other baby who looked as if he was dead. He sighed and walked up to the baby.
The instant he touched the seemingly dead baby's forehead with his left hand, Su Ming opened his eyes swiftly. He started trembling. Everything in this scene - the baby's cries, the second God of Berserkers' kind and loving smile, the feeling when the God of Berserkers touched the other baby's forehead, all of these made Su Ming's breathing still.
At that moment, he was still absorbing the power within the God of Berserkers' arm, but he needed to open his eyes, because… the baby's cries gave him a familiar sensation, an incredibly familiar sensation…
As his power increased, as he was moved by what he saw, and as that feeling rose in his heart, a sudden sharp pain appeared in his heart. Cracking sounds traveled out in the midst of his pain, as if something in his head had just shattered into pieces.
At the same time, he became dazed. He saw a world covered in darkness, yet the area around him was warm. Cries and mumbling echoed in his sears. The one speaking was a woman, and her voice was gentle and soft.
"Fei Er, ma is here. Don't cry…
"You little rascal. You're still so young, and you're already crying so loudly? When my daughter grows up in the future, she will definitely be a very powerful person.
"Alright, I won't take away your toys anymore. I'll give them back to you, don't cry…
"Ah! My precious daughter, look. Your pa is back…"
Everything before Su Ming's eyes was dark. He could not see light, but he could hear a sudden change in the crying and the woman's gentle voice. The cries became even stronger, and the gentle voice fell abruptly silent. The area around him turned freezing cold within an instant, as if it had begun snowing outside.
A long while later, he felt a hand touching his forehead. That touch… was very warm, was so incredibly warm…
When Su Ming regained his senses, he sat on the God of Berserkers' left hand with a dumbfounded expression. He then lowered his head and looked at the God of Berserkers' arm beneath him, and tears slowly fell from his eyes…
He understood where the warmth he felt when he touched the God of Berserkers' left hand came from now…
"Fei Er…" This was the second time Su Ming heard that name, but it was deeply engraved in his heart. The scenes he saw before fighting against Di Tian's clone all those years ago emerged once again in his heart.
"Big brother… big brother…" The voice echoed in Su Ming's ears, and it gradually fused together with the cries.