Chapter 690: Great Yu Appears!!
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
That was not nearly ten thousand, but several tens of thousands!
Several tens of thousands of Immortals descended at the same time. This was something incredibly rare even in the past. Besides the massive invasion launched by the Immortals a long time ago, when they attacked Great Yu Imperial City, the same thing had never happened again.
This was because descending in such a large scale within a short amount of time would waste too many of the Immortals' resources. But this was just secondary. What was really important was that they would also need to bring out what little remained of Morning Dao's power as well.
Morning Dao's power was the strongest power in True Morning Dao World, and that power was bestowed upon them by Dao Chen himself. But there was already very little left of that power. After all… it had been a long, long time since Dao Chen had performed any miracles.
Besides using up Morning Dao's power, each cultivator would also have to personally sacrifice some of their life to be able to suppress the laws in Yin Death Region. The amount of life they had to sacrifice was incredibly huge, and it was not something tens of thousands of people could withstand. They would need people that numbered to nearly a hundred fold to the amount of Immortals descending to sacrifice part of their lives to do so, and they could not regain those parts after. The amount of life they lost could never be recovered.
There were some other conditions as well, such as they even needed to use some of their supreme and priceless treasures to be able to send a massive amount of people over. And they would also not be able to have these Immortals over at Yin Death Region for a long period of time.
It was just like when the millions of Immortals had descended to the land of Berserkers all those years ago. Those Immortals might have won that battle, but if they factored in the price they'd had to pay, then it could only be considered as a pyrrhic victory. The Immortals had been in a state of recovery for many years after that.
This time was a far cry from back then, and so it meant that they wouldn't need to bear such huge consequences. However, even if they only sent several tens of thousands, they would still… have to pay quite a large prince.
A glint appeared in Su Ming's eyes. He could sense that the connection between him and the Great Yu Imperial City in the Dead Sea was growing greater. He first cast a cold glance at Ji An, then swept his gaze across all the tens of thousands of Immortals on the land. All of them had become shocked silent because of him, and all of them lowered their heads when his gaze landed on them.
Almost at the moment Su Ming saw this, his chilling voice immediately reverberated in the air. "All Berserkers, hear me! Kill all the Immortals that fight back against us!"
At the instant Su Ming spoke those words, the close to sixty thousand Berserkers in the area instantly started roaring "Kill them!" These roars screaming of bloody murder instantly shook the sky and earth, and the tens of thousands of Berserkers sliced through the sky to charge towards the Immortals who had just descended.
Su Ming took a step forward and disappeared to appear right above the crowd. He charged towards the Rune used by the Immortals to descend and lifted his right hand to strike it.
He was not aiming to kill, but to destroy the Rune!
With his previous power, Su Ming could not even dream of accomplishing this, but now… once he had stepped into Life Cultivation Realm, he possessed incredibly great combat abilities. And he also possessed the right to do as he wished.
Almost at the moment he struck the Rune, causing it to tremble, Ji An's expression changed. While he was full of hesitation and struggle, Su Ming's eldest senior brother, Xing Gan, lifted his gigantic battle axe and looked over at him with a cold gaze.
At the same time, the sounds of battle between tens of thousands of people swiftly rose into the air. The Immortals who had descended were clearly prepared. At the moment they landed, before their bodies even gained physical form, their still invisible hands crushed something, and they completed the process of gaining corporeal form instantaneously. Their bodies manifested fully and they started fighting against the Berserkers.
"Send the orders of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors to all. The Berserkers have rebelled! Slaughter all Berserkers in Eastern Wastelands and South Morning to serve as a warning!"
A voice filled with a mighty pressure came from the Runes in the vortex. Immediately, hundreds of people walked out, and the ripples of power from their bodies were those of Ascendance. Not all of them had reached great circle in that Realm, but the intimidating force coming from hundreds of cultivators in Ascendance was incredibly strong.
Almost at the same time that voice reverberated in the air, a violent boom rang out. It was Su Ming ramming his fist against the Rune in the sky. A wave of ripples spread out, and the Rune instantly started shaking.
That loud noise lifted the curtains of battle, and the sounds of fighting spread out, surging into the sky. Tens of thousands of Immortals fought against the Berserkers, resulting in the sight of blood raining down from the sky. This blood splashed down on the ground and corpses plunged down after it. Torn pieces of flesh fell from above, causing the Immortals on the ground to shiver as they continued staring at the sky. That wasn't entirely correct though, they were staring at Su Ming.
No one could say who was the first to let out a low growl before he flew into the sky, intending to join the battle with a ferocious look on his face, but before he flew even a hundred feet into the sky, a shudder wrecked his body. He looked as if he had knocked into an invisible barrier, and his body exploded. He was instantly reduced to bits and pieces.
This brutal sight immediately made all the Immortals who wanted to rush out stop moving. At some unknown point in time, a barrier had been placed in the air a hundred feet above their heads. All those outside could enter the barrier, but those inside could not rush out. It was like a cage.
Su Ming was the one who had set up this barrier, and he had his own reasons as to why he had chosen not to kill these Immortals who were stunned to the ground.
The battles in the sky became even more intense. Su Ming lifted his right hand and threw another punch. The ripples of destruction spread out from his body in all directions. At the same time they crashed into the Rune, they also destroyed all the Immortals who had wanted to get closer to him.
"The Immortals' Rune…"
Murderous aura flickered in Su Ming's eyes. During that instant, a large amount of black aura of death surrounded his body. Due to it, Su Ming seemed to be filled with malice and ghastliness.
He lifted his right hand and threw another punch.
At the instant he did so, the Immortals' Rune let out a loud bang that shook the entire area. With it, an endless amount of cracks appeared on the Rune, and they continued spreading until they covered the entire thing.
However, almost the instant those cracks appeared, they instantly closed up, and vast waves of Bright Yang Aura spread out. The Rune then was surrounded by a golden light and looked like it could not be destroyed.
Long arcs charged forth from all directions in the Immortals' galaxy towards the region with the endless continents. There were tens of thousands of these Immortals.
There was an incredibly huge Rune on one of the floating continents. At that moment, there were thousands of people defending it by meditating on it. Among them were three old men with incredibly great power, and they were sitting at the center of the Rune.
With each Relocation, these thousands of people would instantly become older. Quite a large number of them would instantly turn into ashes, but new people would immediately take their place and offer up their lives to keep the Rune running. And so they would continue sending their warriors to the land of Berserkers.
As booming sounds echoed in the land of Berserkers due to Su Ming, the Rune in the world shone. Even if cracks appeared, they instantly recovered under that light from the Rune as thousands of people continued suppressing it.
As the Rune continued running, more Immortals rushed into it and were swiftly Relocated.
"Shatter!"
Su Ming's roar sounded as if it could tear apart space it as it rang in the world of Berserkers. His body shot through the air like a black shooting star. At the instant he crashed into the Rune, it started shaking violently.
But it did not shatter!
Su Ming lifted his head and let out a roar. He shot into the Immortals' crowd, and as he charged through their midst, all the Immortals were unable to resist his attack wherever he went. From the distance, the blood that gushed out where Su Ming passed through looked like a blood dragon, and Su Ming was the dragon's head that was causing more and more blood to flow.
After making a circle, Su Ming brought with him the blood that had been spilled by all the people he killed and surrounded himself with it. At the moment the blood dragon was formed, he charged towards Yin Death Vortex.
"With the Immortals' fresh blood, I summon the aura coming from Yin Death Fog. All of you whom I can sense… are you willing to lend me the aura of death to destroy the Immortals' Rune?!" Su Ming stopped before Yin Death Vortex, while the fresh blood around him charged into it.
Muffled excited roars immediately came from the vortex. Black aquatic dragons showed up and sucked in a portion of that fresh blood. More strange beasts then manifested in the fog and started devouring madly.
At the instant Su Ming became a Berserker in Life Cultivation Realm, not only did he sense the endless amounts of voices calling to him from the land of Immortals, but he also sensed the endless ferocious spirits within the fog in Yin Death Vortex, which existed between the land of Berserkers and Immortals. These ferocious spirits were formed by the aura of death, and that was the source as well as the end of all deaths in the land of Berserkers!
When the ferocious spirits devoured the Immortals' blood, dark light appeared in their eyes, and all of them charged out of Yin Death Fog towards Su Ming.
There were a large number of Aquatic Dragons among these ferocious spirits, as well as other strange life forms. Yet no matter what shape they took, once they flew out, they turned into wisps of black smoke that surrounded Su Ming. They enveloped him in black smoke that stretched to tens of thousands of feet!
"The Immortals' Rune which they use to descend… Shatter!" Su Ming took a step forward and closed in on the Immortals' Rune, then lifted his right hand and hurled his first towards that Rune!
At the instant that punch landed, the aura of death that spanned an area that was even wider than ten thousand feet shot forward with the fist. The Rune let out a loud boom that had never come from it before, and the thousands of people defending the Rune on the Immortals' continent let out shrill screams of pain, then coughed up blood at the same time. Black smoke surrounded them, and the Curse caused their bodies to decay. The three old men at the center shuddered, and at the moment a large amount of black patches appeared on their skin, the Rune under their bodies exploded with a bang.
At the same time the Immortals' Rune exploded, Su Ming's fist landed on the Rune and caused it to be torn into pieces. A violent wave of impact instantly swept through the entire area.
Near a thousand people who were still descending through the Rune let out shrill screams of pain that were filled with their unwillingness to admit defeat as they shattered into pieces.
Yet the moment the Rune shattered… three more instantly appeared in the sky, and together with the Rune that had not been yet destroyed, they started shining with a brilliant light, and more Immortals descended. It was as if the Immortals were launching a counterattack towards Su Ming for destroying one of their Runes!
Su Ming felt a strange impulse at this moment. It came from the connection that felt as if it had now gained physical form within him. It tied him to Great Yu Imperial Palace, and he had a feeling that… if he just summoned it, the city would appear and respond to his call!
"Great Yu Imperial City!"
At the instant these four words tumbled out of Su Ming's mouth, a loud bang immediately rang out in Su Ming's heart and soul.
An infinite amount of freezing air erupted madly from within the whirlpool that spanned tens of thousands of feet in the Berserker's Dead Sea. That air could freeze the universe, and as it exploded, the entire Dead Sea instantly stopped howling.
A… city so great that it was difficult to describe with words appeared after it had been buried for ages!
It was Great Yu Imperial City!
The Berserkers' holy land!
Chapter 691: The Berserkers' Advancement!
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
The Great Yu Imperial City rose up. At the instant this ruin that had been buried for an unknown amount of years in the depths of the Dead Sea completely showed up in the world, a freezing air instantly spread through the area.
Wherever it went, the Dead Sea would look as if it had been frozen as it remained still. The rotations within the vortex in the sky also slowed down.
The entire climate in the world of Berserkers became much colder.
Great Yu Imperial City was incredibly big. As it rose from the Dead Sea, the city moats and walls as well as the numerous palaces within were revealed before everyone's eyes. These buildings gave off an awe-inspiring air, but all of them were frozen. It did not matter whether it was the city moats or the palaces, all of them were encased in thick layers of ice.
It looked like Great Yu Imperial City, but in truth, it was a gigantic block of ice!
It possessed its own intelligence. Due to Su Ming calling to it, it had appeared after being buried for years. At the instant it rushed out of the surface of the sea, the ice on the city distorted and fell off.
However, the freezing air did not disappear. It instead became even stronger. Immediately after, the air before Su Ming distorted, while he stood in the battlefield between the Immortals and Berserkers held in the spot where the Immortals descend in Eastern Wastelands!
An inconceivable, mighty pressure violently spread out from the city that had suddenly risen up. That mighty pressure felt as if it had corporeal form, and wherever it went, the entire world would instantly become still. The expressions of Immortals instantly changed drastically. They could clearly feel their bodies, their Nascent Divinities, and even their souls being squashed with a crazed force. All of them could no longer remain in the sky and plunged to the ground.
"This is… This is Great Yu Imperial City!"
"It's the holy land! It's Great Yu Imperial Palace! It's the Great Yu Imperial Palace which had disappeared countless years ago!"
The Berserkers burned with fevered ardor. In the midst of their disbelief and their endless excitement, they looked at Great Yu Imperial City. A bang rang in their heads, and they knelt down to worship the city as their bodies trembled.
Tears fell down the cheeks of all Berserkers. To them, Great Yu Imperial City symbolized everything that was the Berserkers. At that moment, when they saw Great Yu Imperial City with their own eyes and saw the ice that had encased it for an unknown number of years, a fire born from rage blazed through their blood.
All the Immortals, on the other hand, instantly turned pale. Even the four Relocation Runes in the Sky stopped operating at the instant Great Yu Imperial City appeared, and no more Immortals descended.
This was Su Ming's retaliation towards the four Runes!
He stood high above and looked at the city he had summoned. At that moment, the faint connection in his heart binding him to the city had become stronger. It was especially so when he saw an old man sitting on a lofty altar under all that ice.
He was Great Yu's Court Diviner.
Su Ming also saw the numerous dead corpses kneeling under the frozen altar in the imperial city. All of these were the warriors of the past.
The air was still extremely cold. Once Great Yu Imperial City rose up, all the battles stopped. Su Ming took a step forward and appeared above the imperial city, stepping on the gigantic block of ice.
Around him were tens of thousands of Berserkers who were kneeling on the ground as they wept. No matter what level of cultivation they possessed, at that moment, all the Berserkers only had one single thought in their heads. That thought was like a storm in their minds and a fire that had been buried after being oppressed for a long time.
Great Yu Imperial City… It was their Berserkers' holy land!
"With a single thought, I have made Great Yu Imperial City rise up from the endless Dead Sea!" Su Ming declared, his voice reverberating in all directions, as he stood on the ice.
All the Berserkers were kneeling and worshiping the city at this moment, and tens of thousands of Immortals were shuddering, still in a state of shock.
"Melt Great Yu Imperial City's ice with the Berserkers' tears! Dispel the ice on Great Yu Imperial City with the Immortals' blood! Make Great Yu Imperial City stand tall in our land once again!
"From now onwards, we swear… to kill all Immortals who descend in our land!!" As Su Ming spoke, his Nascent Divinity, which was formed through the Immortals' cultivation methods, melted and fused with his will and his soul due to his level of cultivation having reached Life Cultivation Realm. It then turned into… Atman [1], a soul unique to those in Life Cultivation Realm!
Su Ming lifted his right hand and swung it. Immediately, the tears flowing down the cheeks of all the Berserkers who were kneeling in the air worshiping the city flew up. These tears then gathered together and charged towards Su Ming.
To be more precise, they were charging towards the ice encasing Great Yu Imperial City. With their hot tears, the Berserkers would melt the ice, with their tears, they would make Great Yu Imperial City stand tall!
The endless amount of tears brought with them everything within the Berserkers' hearts and souls. At that moment, tears poured down like rainwater and scattered on the ice encasing Great Yu Imperial City. Within an instant, that ice started showing signs of melting!
"Not enough, it hasn't melted enough. My fellow Berserkers, my fellow people, let us use the heat of the Immortals' blood to melt the ice on our holy land!"
Su Ming swiftly lifted his head. At the instant his words reached the Berserkers, they immediately lifted their heads, and a crazed killing intent appeared in their eyes.
"With the heat of the Immortals' blood, we will melt the ice on our holy land!"
These were the words shouted out by all the Berserkers at the same time. These roars had reverberated in the air when Su Ming became the God of Berserkers and caused the Berserkers' blood to burn and their cultivation base to increase exponentially. It was also there at the time when Berserkers' soul was born. When Great Yu Imperial City appeared and lit up the flames in the souls of all the Berserkers in the place, waves of madness crashed about in their hearts…
A Berserker who had attained great completion in the Awakening Realm suddenly found his cultivation base erupting with a bang as the roars that symbolized all the Berserkers rang in the air. At the time he wrapped his fist in his palm and bowed towards Su Ming, he broke through great completion in the Awakening Realm and reached the initial stage of the Bone Sacrifice Realm!
Almost at the instant this person's level of cultivation reached a breakthrough, more people's cultivation bases erupting within their bodies, and many of those who were in the Awakening Realm reached Bone Sacrifice Realm!
Similarly, those who were the backbone of the Berserkers' power, the people in Bone Sacrifice who had attained great completion in Bone Sacrifice but did not have the confidence to reach higher found their cultivation bases breaking through, allowing them to reach Berserker Soul Realm!
This was not a single person's cultivation base increasing, either. It was something fel by all the Berserkers in the place at the same time. All of their levels of cultivation increased by a stage when their blood started burning and Great Yu Imperial City rose up!
Those in the initial stage reached the middle stage, and those in the middle stage reached the later stage. As for those in the later stage, they attained great completion, and those who had attained great completion… reached a new Realm!
It was especially so for Xue Sha and Tian Qi, who were originally powerful Berserkers who had attained great completion in the Berserker Soul Realm in Eastern Wastelands. They might not have truly stepped into Life Cultivation Realm, but as all the Berserkers' blood evolved and their roars shook the sky, they took half a step forward in their level of cultivation. They were no longer Berserkers who had attained great completion in the Berserker Soul Realm, but were people who were half a step into Life Cultivation Realm! They might not be able to compare to Su Ming's strength, but their existence alone caused a tremendous change in the Berserkers' overall power.
The same change happened among the tribal leaders who were in the Berserker Soul Realm since the beginning. The increase in their levels of cultivation not only brought out their roars that shook the sky and earth, but also symbolized the rise of the Berserkers!
"Kill them!" Su Ming shouted out and lifted his right hand to point towards the Immortals on the ground. The black aura of death around him then immediately charged forth and turned into a black Aquatic Dragon, rushing into the Immortals' midst.
At the same time, all the Berserkers, now filled with excitement born from the explosive increase in their cultivation, turned into long arcs to charge towards the Immortals..
As booming sounds exploded into the air and Su Ming pointed forward, the black Aquatic Dragon started ripping apart the Immortals. The tens of thousands of Immortals that were trapped in the barrier Su Ming had set up previously shuddered, filling up with despair. In the midst of it all, most of the people found their bodies exploding with a bang, and blood spilled into the air.
An even more brutal fight begun.
The Immortals who died did so with their minds broken as they watched Su Ming and Berserkers' rise to power. If Su Ming had not set up other plans for them, it would have been impossible for them to live up to this moment.
Right then, their value was their blood, and it was to be used to melt the ice on Great Yu Imperial City.
This was Su Ming's retaliation towards the Immortals sending three other Runes after one of them had collapsed!
'Since you brought out three other Runes, I summoned Great Yu Imperial City and killed all the Immortals to melt the ice with their blood. If you create more Runes and send more Immortals here, then this war between the Immortals and Berserkers will last until one side is completely destroyed!'
The sounds of battle echoed through the world, and Ji An's face was pale. Even he would not be able to fight against the Berserkers, who had now risen to power, especially since Di Tian's magical body had died. Su Ming's might shocked his heart and soul, and the world of Berserkers' suppression towards the Immortals was becoming stronger rapidly.
Perhaps before long, as this suppression increased, the Immortals' power would become even more limited.
Ji An knew that all laws were balanced. If there was a powerful law around, there would also be weak laws lying about. The evolution of the Berserkers' blood, the increase in their levels of cultivation would make the laws in the world of Berserkers become stronger. Once that happened, then it was only natural that the power the Immortals could bring out in the land of Berserkers would once again be suppressed.
This was also why the Immortals had not dared to step into the world of Berserkers when the first God of Berserkers was still around, because the Berserkers were too strong at that time, resulting in the laws in the world of Berserkers reaching an inconceivable level. Even powerful Immortals who had reached the Third Step would instantly find themselves only able to bring out the power of those in Ascendance when they arrived in the land of Berserkers.
At that moment, Ji An lifted his right hand without hesitation, and a simple jade slip with an endless amount of runic symbols carved on it appeared on his palm.
An ancient air spread out from that jade slip. Clearly, it was a relic, and it was definitely no ordinary item. The runic symbols glowed on the jade slip as if they contained the laws in the galaxy.
At that moment, Ji An did not hesitate and crushed that jade slip. At the instant it was destroyed, a powerful light erupted from Ji An's magical body. As that light shone, his body immediately disappeared.
Su Ming looked coldly at the spot where Ji An had disappeared. He could feel the waves of relocation coming from a Rune over there, which was a sign of Ji An leaving the land of Berserkers. This body of his might just be a magical one, but as one of the three Sovereigns, he was definitely not someone normal Immortals could compare to. His jade slip could break through the space separating worlds, allowing him to leave this place.
Translator's Notes:
1. Atman, 意魂(yi4 hun2) : 意 is thoughts/will, 魂 is soul. Will/Thought/Mind Soul doesn't really encapsulate the idea behind it all, because the word 意 in Confucianism means the attitude towards the things in the world, and these views can affect the perception towards good and bad. If you then link it to the word soul, doesn't it mean how a person acts and behaves due to his/her inner soul?
So after searching through some words associated with soul and attitude in different religions, these four came up → Pneuma (Christianity), Atman (Hinduism), Psyche (Greek), Anima (Greek).
Anima was automatically eliminated since it was used in ISSTH and it meant a state of subconscious, not very suited here.
Psyche was then eliminated because it was more geared towards creativity, apparently.
Pneuma was eliminated next because it had the meaning of governing a person's attitude based on external force (Holy Spirit).
Atman was left, and it was the closest. First, it is born from the self, represents the inner self, and also means the essence of the individual, so it was practically perfect for this context.
Chapter 692: His Atman Leaving his Body!
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
At the instant Ji An left, a large amount of Immortals' blood flew into the sky towards Great Yu Imperial City and scattered on the ice, causing a large portion of the ice to melt.
The more it melted, the stronger became the mighty pressure spreading out from it, and the stronger the pressure was, the more powerful grew the laws in the world of Berserkers. This was a cycle, and one that was built upon the Immortals. It made all the Immortals that descended to the land of Berserkers be continuously oppressed and weakened.
Because of that, the Berserkers' slaughter filled with even greater madness.
Su Ming did not join in the slaughter too much. He lifted his head and looked towards the four Runes which had stopped operating once Great Yu Imperial City rose up. This was not due to the pressure caused by the city, but due to the Immortals in their land becoming hesitant.
The slaughter continued, and shrill screams of pain reverberated in the air. The whole world filled with a bloody stench, and the Immortals' blood was continuously swept into the sky, as their bodies were destroyed, becoming a part of what would melt Great Yu Imperial City.
The large amount of blood caused the ice on Great Yu Imperial City to be dyed in crimson, and the speed at which it melted increased.
At that moment, the four Runes that sent the Immortals to this place suddenly started flashing after remaining silent for a moment. In an instant, that light grew much stronger, and more people descended swiftly.
Once these people came down, nearly ten thousand Immortals let out a powerful presence from their bodies. At the instant they revealed themselves, their powerful presence immediately froze, as if an invisible hand was pushing down on them. It caused their presence to spread out and so be reduced, and the power they could bring forth in the land was now limited to about the beginning stage of Ascendance.
This was the Berserkers' kismet, its law, its soul, its Great Yu Imperial City, and its people's evolution in their blood affecting the power of the law within the world of Berserkers!
At the same time, Berserkers from smaller tribes and scattered groups of people continuously charged towards the place from all directions in the form of long arcs. They could sense the blood boiling in their veins and their cultivation bases erupting. They saw Great Yu Imperial City, and based on their blood's guidance, they all arrived to join the war.
Su Ming took a step forward. The black smoke around him gathered swiftly to turn into an armor, and he seized the air with his right hand. Purple fog appeared out of thin air and turned into… the Undertaker of Evil's Spear in his hand!
He seized the spear, and as the murderous aura all over his body surged into the sky, he took a step forward. The world rumbled at that instant, and an illusory foot manifested in the air. This was Su Ming's God of Berserkers' Seven Steps!
He took seven steps in succession, and the seven gigantic illusory feet instantly fused together to turn into a scene that seemed as if a giant was walking high above. Its foot stomped on the near ten thousand Immortals who had descended from the sky.
As violent booming sounds reverberated in the air, Su Ming turned into a long arc and charged into the crowd. Not a single Immortal could make him pause for even a single instant wherever he went.
This was a massacre where there was a huge disparity in power between the two sides. It could be said that Su Ming, who had stepped in the Life Cultivation Realm and reached the initial stage of Life Matrix… was invincible in the world of Berserkers!
This sort of invincibility might have several causes, but the most obvious one was that there was a law suppressing the Immortals. No matter what, at that moment, Su Ming… was invincible!
Even if there were people who could dominate Su Ming in terms of power in the world of Immortals, but when they were in the world of Berserkers, they would be limited by the law. It would then be difficult for them to defend against even a casual strike from Su Ming.
The Undertaker of Evil's Spear swept through the land, and as Su Ming moved forward, he pierced through the center of an old Immortal's brows. An unwillingness to accept defeat and despair appeared on the old man's face, which was born from him being a cultivator who had arrived at the Second Step. He believed that if he was in the land of Immortals, this person would definitely not be able to kill him, but in this place… he could only swallow his hate.
Su Ming flung his Undertaker of Evil's Spear, and the old man's body immediately shattered. His blood then charged towards the ice encasing Great Yu Imperial Palace. Su Ming took a step forward, and without even looking back, he seized the air behind him with his left hand.
A middle-aged man who was charging towards him from behind in an attempt to kill him felt an intense pain coming from his neck. He could not breath, and this was because Su Ming's left hand was like a clamp that had seized him up. Without even a moment of hesitation, Su Ming squeezed harder, and with a bang, the middle-aged man's head exploded. The aura of death from Su Ming's body surged into that man's corpse and destroyed his Nascent Divinity as well as his soul.
As Su Ming continued with his slaughter, the Immortals fought back violently. The bloody stench in the world was so thick that it was difficult to describe it with words. The only thing that could be said was that the ground was red. Besides the vortex in the sky, everything that the people could see… was red.
"Kill them!" Su Ming swung the Undertaker of Evil's Spear before him, and it let out a series of loud booming sounds which resulted in a huge number of Immortals bodies crumbling and disintegrating wherever it went.
The scenes of Su Ming's slaughter greatly stimulated the Berserkers. His invincibility made all the Berserkers let out excited roars.
They wanted to kill all the Immortals and chase them completely out of the land of Berserkers!
"God of Berserkers!"
"God of Berserkers!"
Such roars reverberated in the air and shook the sky and earth. The entire battlefield looked as if it had turned into hell.
During that instant, the four Runes in the vortex in the sky let out a powerful ray of light once again. However, this time, the number of Immortals who descended was not as high as before; there were only about seven thousand of them. Their power was immediately suppressed by the law in the world of Berserkers from the moment they arrived, so they could only show power that was around the Ascendant stage. In other words, they were… absolutely not Su Ming's opponent.
With an unparalleled presence, Su Ming swept through the battlefield and brought with him an infinite amount of blood to melt the ice on Great Yu Imperial City. At that moment, Su Ming's presence was matchless.
However, the Berserkers' enemies were the Immortals. The depth of their power was not something the Berserkers could compare to. Even though Immortals had been unable to make all worlds worship them as the Berserkers had done, but they still existed to this date and continued to be strong while the Berserkers had reached an extreme state of decline. If Su Ming had not appeared, they would not have been able to rise to power at all.
They could only slowly lose their blood inheritance, being like the orchid cactus, which can only bloom once in its lifetime.
Almost at the instant Su Ming lifted the Undertaker of Evil's Spear with his right hand and threw it towards the seven thousand Immortals who descended from the Rune, that spear turned into a violent dragon that charged towards them. But at that instant, right when Su Ming was about to move forward, in an incredibly strange fashion, he… suddenly froze!
The Undertaker of Evil's Armor, which was formed from black smoke, immediately exploded. Blood trickled down the corners of Su Ming's mouth, and a sharp pain that was almost unbearable came from his chest.
That pain appeared incredibly suddenly, and Su Ming was completely unprepared for it. He felt as if there was a needle piercing his body, attempting to stab him through the heart.
Veins popped up on Su Ming's face. As his body shivered, he lifted his head swiftly upwards and glared at Yin Death Vortex. He could clearly sense that no one around had ambushed him. This strange pain seemed to have appeared out of nowhere.
Almost at the instant the pain in his chest begun, Su Ming experienced an even greater pain at the center of his brows. It was as if a needle had pierced through the spot between his brows and stabbed his brain!
Su Ming trembled, but the two waves of pain did not disappear. The unbearable sensation spread to his arms, and even his legs. The pain was like a tidal wave that submerged him, and it infuriated him.
He coughed up a huge mouthful of blood and staggered backwards. His sudden change stunned all the Berserkers who saw it, while crazed delight rose within all the Immortals.
The numerous Immortals in the sky charged towards Su Ming without any hesitation. Booming sounds echoed in the air, and their divine abilities crashed into Su Ming's body. His face turn pale, and he coughed up blood once again. He retreated, but just as he was about to retaliate, a sharp pain that far surpassed what he had experienced just then came from his Dantian region!
It was as if a hand had reached deep into his stomach and yanked his organs in an attempt to drag them out of his body. Sweat drenched Su Ming's body, and even his consciousness became unclear.
The Immortals around him started executing their divine abilities once again in the midst of both excitement and ferociousness. At that instant, a figure flashed next to Su Ming, and his eldest senior brother stood in front of him with a gigantic axe in his hand. Like a huge mountain, he blocked all the divine abilities that were coming for Su Ming.
Blood continued trickling down the corners of Su Ming's mouth. This sudden incident could change the whole situation in the battlefield. Berserkers' anxiety gave Immortals time to regain their bearings and gain momentum despite them having suffered huge losses moments before, and they launched their counterattack.
"World of Berserkers' kismet, Yin Death Aura!" Su Ming bit the tip of his tongue and forced himself to regain consciousness. He lifted his right hand and pushed against the ground, then pointed towards Yin Death Vortex with his left hand.
"Who was the one… who injured me?!" Su Ming let out a shocking roar that shook the sky and earth. At that moment, his power in the initial stage of Life Matrix erupted with a bang.
Su Ming closed his eyes, and a shadow separated from his body. That shadow was the soul of his will, and it was something that only those who had reached Life Cultivation could do!
When Su Ming's Atman appeared, Eastern Wastelands, the islands in South Morning, Northern Province, the Alliance of the Western Region, and the Dead Sea started showing the gray shade of decay. During that instant, a large amount of life force from the land was extracted by the world of Berserkers' kismet and charged towards Su Ming, then surged into his body through his right hand, which was directed to the ground, towards his Atman.
An infinite and boundless amount of aura of death charged down from Yin Death Vortex, fusing into Su Ming's Atman through his left hand. The Atman charged into Yin Death Vortex while bringing with it black smoke and the world of Berserkers' kismet. With a bang, he shot through it.
'Who injured me?!' That sharp pain drove Su Ming deeper into madness. The Atman he had sent out brought with him his killing intent and his madness as it shot out through the vortex over Yin Death Region based on a faint trace.
He appeared... in the Immortals' galaxy.
He did not stop there. At the instant the black aura of death around started rapidly evaporating, the Atman shot through the endless boundaries and saw an infinite amount of continents in the distance, and he also saw tens of thousands of Immortals.
But they could not see him!
Su Ming had a strong feeling that the source of the pain was right before him!
Chapter 693: Physical Body!
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Su Ming could see the Immortals' galaxy, could see the endless amounts of continents floating there, and could also see the innumerable Immortals on these continents as well as the flashing Runes.
His Atman felt a sharp pain, and a large amount of aura of death enveloped his body. At that moment, as Su Ming charged forward, large quantities of that aura of death were scattering away. It did not matter to him though, for he was filled with madness. He wanted to see just what was the source of his pain.
His Atman shot through the continents. He could see numerous altars on the various continents in the place, and on each of these altars was a corpse.
He also saw more than a dozen Runes. All of them were letting out waves of Relocation, but there were only four that were letting out a piercing light.
He saw thousands of people sitting on the four flashing Runes, and he also saw Immortals continuously stepping into these Runes and getting Relocated.
However, these were not the source of his pain. Once Su Ming's Atman swept through the place, he charged towards the depths of the region of floating continents in the galaxy.
Perhaps a long time had passed since then, but perhaps it was only the blink of an eye before the largest continent appeared in front of Su Ming. That continent far surpassed the others in size, and it was the most astonishing region of them all. There was only one gigantic altar there.
Su Ming could vaguely see a person lying on that altar.
This was not the first time he had come to this place. When he killed Si Ma Xin all those years ago, he had come here, but had been unable to see the area clearly. However, now that he was here again, he could see more than he did in the past, and everything was also clearer.
He saw a mighty pressure that could not be described with words spreading out from that lofty altar. And there was also an endless amount of powerful seals surrounding the area, as if the person in the seal was incredibly important to the Immortals, but they were also extremely wary of him, which was why they had placed all those layers of seals around the place.
In fact, Su Ming could even see that the continents in the galaxy were grouped together to form a gigantic galactic Rune, and at the center of that Rune was this place - the biggest continent in the area with only one altar with layers of seals placed on the person lying on the altar!
Su Ming was too far away and could not see the person's face clearly, but at the instant the Atman saw that person, a storm immediately started raging in his heart.
A summon. It was an incredibly powerful summon. The strength of that call almost made Su Ming's soul shatter. It was as if the person lying on the altar was even more important than his own life.
Under that powerful summon, Su Ming immediately sensed that the source of his pain was over there!
The Atman charged forward, and as he closed in, he saw that the person who was calling to him was not the only one on that altar. There were three other middle-aged men standing beside him.
These three people stood around the person calmly, but they gave Su Ming a feeling as if they were ancient, ferocious beasts. It was as if the entire galaxy was trembling because of them, and a mighty presence that almost made Su Ming suffocate surrounded the area.
These three people were dressed in white, black, and red respectively. The middle-aged man in white was holding a black needle in his right hand, and there was a transparent bottle in his left.
There was red liquid inside the bottle, and it looked like blood.
At the instant Su Ming closed in, he saw the man in white pushing the needle deep into the bottle, and once some of that red blood stained the needle, he brought it out and stabbed the sealed person between his brows.
Instantly, Su Ming felt a sharp pain at the center of his brows, and his Atman shuddered violently, as if it was about to disintegrate. At the instant that man stabbed the sealed person, Su Ming finally saw the appearance of that person on the altar.
A loud bang that was strong enough to shatter Su Ming rang out in his heart.
The sealed person was a young teenage boy of about eighteen to nineteen years old. He was dressed in a sackcloth, and his face was as pale as that of a dead person, or perhaps it would be more apt to say that this was a dead person, a corpse.
He was incredibly thin and feeble. His pale skin and shut eyes gave people a feeling of a naive child from the mortal world.
There were black needles embedded deep into the center of his brows, his chest, his limbs, and his Dantian region, but that was not all. Besides these spots where black needles could be found, there were also a hundred something white needles on his body.
At the instant Su Ming saw this boy, his Atman shuddered. These shivers came straight from the depths of his soul, and it was as if… he was one with this corpse. It was as if… as long as his Atman could fuse into that corpse, then the corpse could open its eyes, and the boy… would be revived!
The boy's appearance was also… incredibly similar to Su Ming's!
'He's me…'
This thought swiftly rose up in Su Ming's mind. He could also sense a hint of familiarity with the blood in the black needles, and that familiarity seemed like a faint voice addressing him as big brother.
At that moment, right when Su Ming saw everything, the three people standing beside the corpse lifted their heads, and their gazes fell on the spot where Su Ming's Atman was.
Su Ming could not see their faces clearly, because the presence spreading out from the trio's bodies was too great, but at the instant they lifted their heads to look at him, Su Ming immediately sensed… Di Tian's presence from the man in white's gaze!
He did not have time to see more. A bang resounded in the air, and Su Ming's Atman disintegrated, disappearing in the Immortals' galaxy.
At the instant his Atman vanished, Su Ming swiftly opened his eyes in the world of Berserkers. Right before him was his eldest senior brother, and before him were thousands of Immortals charging towards them with ferocious looks on their faces.
The disappearance of that trace of the Atman affected Su Ming, but this effect was not great. He could recover after taking some time to heal and nurture himself. Yet that trace of his Atman had been able to see everything, and so there was a dazed expression on his face when he opened his eyes.
He had finally obtained the answer to the final question in his heart!
The boy on the altar was him. He was the baby from all those years ago. However, while that baby might have been dead, if anyone looked at him from another angle, he was also not a dead person.
Over the years, this dead infant had slowly grown up into a teenager, and this was enough proof to show that there were mysteries within him that perhaps other people were unable to fully comprehend.
But he was still dead, because his soul was no longer in his body, but was in…
'Yin Death Region!'
Su Ming trembled. The dazed look in his eyes disappeared, replaced by clarity, as well as madness. He understood now. That boy was him, and Su Ming himself was currently… just a soul!
He was a soul that was sent to Yin Death Region!
When he combined all the memories he'd restored, a clear picture appeared in Su Ming's head.
When Di Tian brought the two babies out of the land of Berserkers all those years ago, the Immortals saw their uniqueness in the land of Immortals. One of them was the older brother, and the other was the little sister.
Since the little sister gradually grew up, she was taken away. No one knew where she went, and the only clue about her whereabouts was Dao Chen.
The older brother was left behind in the endless darkness and could only lie quietly while madness fueled his rage. He could stop the endless amount of Immortals from using his body to practice their cultivation.
In the end, everything within his body was discovered, and they found out that a soul had appeared in his body. Once this change happened, his soul was slowly extracted as he grew up. Perhaps they could not destroy it, but it could also be that if his soul died, it would be impossible for his body to retain that aspect that made him so interesting to the Immortals.
That was probably why his soul was not killed, but was instead sent into Yin Death Region to be doomed for eternity!
Perhaps it was at this moment that Di Tian saw the uniqueness of that soul and executed that long-term plan of his!
Su Ming understood all of this at that moment.
'I will leave Yin Death Region, return to the land of Immortals, fuse with my real body, and… open my eyes!' Su Ming's expression turned dark. With madness and a hint of grief on his face, he started laughing brokenly once he understood everything.
That laughter contained his hate towards the Immortals, his determination to fight against destiny, and his desire to overturn the universe.
A roar left Su Ming's mouth, revealing his fury. He stood up from his seated position. The pain was still spreading through his body, continuously surging like a tidal wave to the rest of his body in an attempt to drown him completely.
"You strike my physical body so that you can destroy my soul… but even if you crush my body, you won't be able to truly wipe away my soul from Yin Death Region!
"Because we are in different worlds. You are in Bright Yang, and I am in Yin Death!
"This pain is nothing!"
Su Ming lifted his head and roared as his body trembled. The pain turned into madness within him. His eldest senior brother was fighting against thousands of Immortals before him, and with bloodshot eyes and immense pain, Su Ming shot forward.
Kill. He would bring forth a massacre so great that it would surge into the sky, draining away the pain in his body. Only by murdering could Su Ming make people pay with their deaths for the pain he had to suffer.
Only…
"Kill them!" With a roar and bloodshot eyes, Su Ming charged into the Immortals' army. Wherever he went, not a single Immortal could put up a fight against him.
With his invincible power in the land of Berserkers, he killed all Immortals who had most of their power limited when they descended to this place. Blood rain poured down from the sky and fell to the ground, causing the entire region to turn into a bloody hell.
Su Ming turned his pain into infinite slaughter. He drenched his body in the Immortals' lives and blood to drain away his suffering.
Su Ming lifted his right hand and threw a punch forward. Immediately, a female cultivator before him widened her eyes. She collapsed, unable to fend against Su Ming's power of Life Cultivator. As her blood spilled into the air, Su Ming took a step forward and opened his mouth to let out the God of Berserkers' roar!
That roar reverberated in the air and shook space itself, so much that distortions appeared within it.
The sound echoed in the hearts of all Immortals before Su Ming, and tremors caused by these booms wrecked their bodies so badly that they started bleeding from their eyes, nose, ears, and mouth, and they also became dazed.
Chapter 694: Bidding Farewell to His Memories!
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
"Where did I come from..?"
Su Ming waved his arm, and a loud bang immediately reverberated in the air before him. A sea of fire started up there, and from the distance it looked as if most of the world had been engulfed in flames.
"Why was I dead when I appeared..?"
Su Ming's eyes were bloodshot. He lifted his left hand and formed a seal before he pointed it forward. Immediately, the space in front of him shattered, and cracks swiftly spread out. Wherever they traveled, the bodies of all Immortals in their way would be torn apart in the places where the cracks went through them.
"Do I have any other fellow members of my race..?"
Su Ming leaped up, and as his expression twisted, veins popped up on his face. The pain in his body made him descend further into madness, and the more violent the pain inside him grew, the more frenzied his killing would become. He used this method to fight back the unbearable sensations.
Pain can make a person crumble. This is common knowledge.
But pain can also make a person go mad, and this was an overthrow!
"Do I… have parents?!"
With a roar, Su Ming charged forward and rammed his head against an old Immortal's body. This old man, whose level of cultivation was at the Second Step when he was in the land of Immortals, was now as brittle as paper. Once Su Ming rammed his head against the man's forehead, that person's head exploded and scattered like paste. His body fell to the ground, and his Nascent Divinity was instantly destroyed.
"Do I… have a home?!"
Su Ming seized an Immortal before him, and in his pain induced madness, he tore apart that Immortal's body.
"For what reason was I alive?!"
Wherever Su Ming went, blood would turn into drops of rain, and the amount of blood he shed was enough to shock the Berserkers. They roared excitedly when he passed through and then would resume killing the Immortals in a frenzy.
"If you cause me pain, then I will strike back and take several times the amount of lives from your people!"
Su Ming lifted his right hand, and the Undertaker of Evil's Spear manifested in the air. After he threw it out, a bang rang out, and shrill screams of pain reverberated in the air.
Right at that moment, the four Relocation Runes in the sky started shining with a piercing light once more. Thousands of Immortals descended, and once their bodies rapidly gained corporeal form, four powerful rays of light erupted from within the Runes. Two of them charged towards the ground and crashed into the invisible barrier Su Ming had placed there. The barrier instantly shattered, allow the Immortals on the ground to fly up.
The other two rays of light charged towards Su Ming and closed in on him in an instant. Su Ming whipped his head around, lifted his right hand, and seized the first ray through the air.
Booming sounds surged into the sky. That ray of light instantly distorted and shattered. However, the second ray of light shot through and crashed into Su Ming's body.
Su Ming staggered a hundred something feet backwards. Blood trickled down the corners of his lips, but the crimson glare in his eyes only grew stronger. Immediately after, the thousands of Immortals who had just descended charged towards Su Ming.
Once the barrier on the ground shattered, all the Immortals fighting against Berserkers on the ground instantly flew up, causing the battlefield to swiftly expand.
Su Ming continued killing. All the Berserkers let out roars that signaled their rise in power as they killed. Right then, the war had developed to a point where both sides would not cease to fight until one of them perished completely.
It would either be the Berserkers being completely wiped off, or the Immortals giving up on descending to their world. From then on, they would vanish from the world of Berserkers, and all those quietly remaining would wait for their deaths.
With a punch, Su Ming broke space itself. The ripples that spread out wrecked all the Immortals around him with tremors. He lifted his left hand and seized the air. Immediately, three Immortals were caught in the direction of his left hand. As they let out screams of despair, their bodies crumbled.
A large amount of blood was swept up from all directions of the battlefield to charge up, towards Great Yu Imperial City, and the ice on the city begun to rapidly melt. In fact, some of the areas in the city were already exposed to the air.
Once Su Ming seized these Immortals with his hand, he swiftly turned around and lifted his right index finger, pointing at a powerful gust of wind that was charging towards him from the side. Before his finger landed, Su Ming saw the person who was trying to lay an ambush on him.
That was… Jingnan!
In Su Ming's memories, the Sect Master in the land of Berserkers' Hidden Dragon Sect was the Elder of Wind Stream Tribe - Jing Nan!
"From now on, you will be wiped away from my memories!"
Red filled Su Ming's eyes. His voice was as cold and biting as the winds in winter. By the time the words fell into Jingnan's ears, Su Ming had already tapped the center of the man's brows with his right index finger.
With a bang, Jingnan crumbled and died.
"Su Ming!" a furious roar came from the crowd. It was Chenchong, who was Chen Chong in his memories!
He was a prodigy of Wind Stream Tribe. At that moment, when he saw Su Ming killing Jingnan, sorrow appeared on his face, and he charged towards Su Ming. When he closed in, he lifted his right hand and seized the air. Immediately, a jewel-encrusted purification vase appeared in his hand.
"If you attack me, you will also be wiped away from my memories. " As Su Ming stated that flatly, Chenchong closed in on him. When he lifted the vase in his hand, a gust of freezing wind shot out from the mouth of the bottle. That wind brought with it moaning sounds and sharp whistles which swept through the area and charged at Su Ming without even the slightest bit of hesitation.
A glint appeared in Su Ming's eyes. In silence, he lifted his right hand and pushed against the incoming wind, moving straight through it until he pressed his hand against the vase. The vase trembled and immediately shattered to pieces before falling backwards. However, it could not move faster than Su Ming's right hand. It shot straight through the vase and seized Chenchong's throat.
The great disparity between their power caused Su Ming to easily be able to kill Chenchong.
"You're seeking death?"
Su Ming looked at Wind Stream Tribe's prodigy in his hands as he held onto Chenchong's throat. This person had been surrounded by people in the past, while Su Ming had only been able to watch by the side.
"So what if I am? You've already killed so many Immortals, why would it matter to you if you killed me as well? Su Ming, you're no longer the same as you were in Dark Mountain, you…" Su Ming tightened his grip, and with a crack, Chenchong died before he could finish his words. Su Ming's great power also destroyed his Nascent Divinity.
"Don't speak of Dark Mountain before me… You are not worthy!" Su Ming let go of his hand, and his gaze fell on the area around him. He saw the faces from his memories among the Immortals, and they were all staring at him coldly at that moment.
There were also some of them who had complicated looks mixed with the cold glares in their eyes. Those came from Wu La, Chen Xin, Bei Ling, and Nan Song…
"You've killed Chenchong and Jingnan… then kill us as well!" The person who said these words was Lei Su. In Su Ming's memories, she was Bai Ling's grandmother.
The old woman swiftly shot out from the fighting crowd, and with a ferocious look on her face that was full of mixed feelings, hatred among them, she charged towards Su Ming.
Su Ming fell silent. At the instant Lei Su closed in on him, he lifted his right hand and pointed at her. Then, before the old woman could even manage to get close, she shuddered and her head exploded. She died, just like that.
At the moment all the people in Su Ming's memories saw Lei Su die, they fell silent in this blood-filled war zone, just like Su Ming.
He lifted his head and swept his gaze across the land. A crease suddenly appeared between his brows, and with a cold harrumph, he took a step backwards. With it, he immediately crashed into a person who had suddenly appeared behind him.
A shrill scream of pain reverberated in the air. Sky Mist's ancestor appeared behind Su Ming, and his body was torn into shreds. Clearly, when he had been knocked into, his life force had been completely shattered.
"Sky Mist's ancestor." Su Ming lifted his left hand and seized the air in the direction of the nearly dead, retreating old man. Immediately, that old man's body started twisting, and he coughed up blood. Then, he charged towards Su Ming's left hand, and Su Ming grabbed him by the chest.
"Su Ming!"
Right at that moment, two long arcs came from the battlefield. They were… Tian Lan Meng and Tian Lan You. The two of them closed in swiftly. The person who called out Su Ming's name was Tian Lan Meng. As for Tian Lan You, she was charging forward with an apathetic look on her face, looking like a moth rushing into flames as she rushed towards Su Ming.
Su Ming cast a glance at Tian Lan Meng and his left hand froze for a moment before he crushed Sky Mist's ancestor's chest. His heart and his Nascent Divinity were crushed at the same time.
Tian Lan Meng's face turned pale. She took a few staggering steps back. During that moment, Tian Lan You closed in on Su Ming. As she lifted her right hand, she formed a seal and pointed forward.
With a cold look on his face, Su Ming lifted his right hand and seized Tian Lan You's hand at the moment she closed in on him. Then, with a one push upwards, a crack tore through the air, and Tian Lan You's right hand twisted, and it was shattered instantly.
Cold sweat broke out on Tian Lan You's forehead, but she gritted her teeth and did not let a single sound escape her lips.
"Sky Mist's ancestor injured me in the past, and I wanted to kill him. As for you two…" Su Ming cast a glance at Tian Lan Meng and let go of Tian Lan You's hand. With a swing of his arm, the woman was flung several hundreds of feet backwards. She fell back to Tian Lan Meng's side with a pale face.
"You're on your own now!"
"And all of you as well…" Su Ming swept his gaze past the faces in his memories. "I will let you leave today, and from now onwards, we will be strangers!" Su Ming appeared right before Evil Dust Sect's Sikong, who trembled at his approach, and tapped the center of his brows.
"But that doesn't include you."
Su Ming took another step forward. This time, he appeared right before Bi'su. The woman's expression changed and she started retreating. With an expressionless face, he pointed forward, and as Bi'su let out a shrill scream of pain, her body torn to shreds.
"It doesn't include you either."
Su Ming turned around and looked at Bi'su's older brother - Evil Immortal Sect's Bisu. The man's face instantly turned pale, but in a fit of savagery, he chose to self-destruct. Clearly, he wanted to use the power he could bring out by self-destructing to injure Su Ming, even if it meant he would have to die in the process.
However, before he could even finish self-destructing, Su Ming had already walked past him, separating his head from his body.
"And you, too."
Su Ming appeared right in front of Bitu. This man had been Black Mountain Tribe's Elder in the past, and was the Sect Master of Blood Lust Sect in the land of Berserkers. At this moment, he did not stand a chance before Su Ming.
Chapter 695: The Immortals' Last Resort!
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
The world roared. The four Runes in the vortex started rotating again, and thousands more of Immortals descended. The ice on Great Yu Imperial City had already mostly melted, and as it did so, a large amount of cold wind spread out, causing the temperature in the area to drop by a large margin once again.
The fighting continued, and there was also quite a large number of Berserkers who had died. This was a battle that caused both sides to descend into madness. After all, Immortals' power was slightly higher overall than that of Berserkers. If it was not because of the limitations set by the laws in the world of Berserkers, not because the Berserkers' level of cultivation had risen due to the Su Ming's existence, and not because Su Ming's eldest senior brother had sent out his Shaman Souls in the battlefield, then it would have been very difficult for the Berserkers to win this battle.
Yet fortunately, as the war continued, more Berserkers arrived due to the calling of their blood and joined the battle. It made the devastation brought by this fight become increasingly higher.
Su Ming was an invincible force among the Berserkers. Since he was someone who had reached the Life Cultivation Realm, none of the Immortals whose power was limited to only the Ascendant level were his opponent. More importantly, as the ice on the Great Yu Imperial City continued melting, the laws in the world of Berserkers became stronger.
Because of that, even if the Immortals continued sending people downwards, it was still becoming incredibly hard for them to win, unless… they could send nearly a hundred thousand Immortals in one go. Only then would there be a possibility for them to turn the tides of this war.
But that was impossible. The difference in the price they had to pay between sending thousands of Immortals in different batches and sending nearly a hundred thousand in one go was huge, and this price was not something the Immortals were readily able to accept.
After sending thousands of Immortals, the Runes in the sky stopped flashing for a long time. The Immortals that were sent during the last dispatch also numbered less than two thousand.
The battle continued. The Berserkers' madness and the Immortals' despair caused the battle to slowly turn in favor towards the Berserkers. However, it did not matter whether it was the Immortals, the Berserkers, or even Su Ming, they were all filled with deep fatigue. If the Berserkers had not been joining the fray in continuous streams, their fatigue would have become worse.
At that moment, two thirds of Great Yu Imperial City had already melted. Besides a small portion that was still encased in ice, many other spots were now completely free.
Su Ming's whole body was drenched in blood. Most of it belonged to Immortals, but some were his own as well. He did not know how many Immortals he had killed; he could no longer count the number.
His breathing was ragged. There was evident fatigue in the red of his eyes. However, the battle continued, and so Su Ming could not stop. Besides, the pain in his body had yet to go away. It was still battering against his will to persevere. Su Ming did not retreat under this fatigue as well as the torment dealt on him by the pain. Instead, he endured everything and went on fighting in this war that seemed to have no end.
The Berserkers had gained a huge upper hand. There were less than twenty thousand Immortals left, and they were all surrounded by the Berserkers who were intending to whittle away their numbers from the edges bit by bit until they were all destroyed. At that moment, the Runes that had not shone for a long time suddenly burst forth with piercing light.
Once they did that, Su Ming looked over, and his pupils shrank.
He saw one of the four Runes shattering, and as it crumbled, the light from the Rune spread out, then was absorbed by the other three Runes.
At the same time, two more Runes exploded, and once their light was absorbed by the last remaining one, the light shining from it became brighter than ever before.
That light shot through everything, like a sun that was suddenly hung high in the sky. A presence that even Su Ming found terrifying spread out from that one and only remaining Rune.
The Immortals had destroyed their own Runes to gather together a power that would deliver a shocking Relocation. Clearly, this was the strongest power the Immortals had prepared for this battle, in a situation where they would not send a hundred thousand Immortals in one go.
If they were sending a person over, then this person would surely possess an item that would not be oppressed by the laws in the world of Berserkers. He would also possess a power that could completely suppress Su Ming.
If they were not sending a person over but were sending a treasure, then that treasure would surely be something astonishing and extraordinary.
Hope rekindled itself in the Immortals who were full of fatigue and despair. With loud cries, they rushed out and looked at the only Rune in the sky, which was also their only hope.
Su Ming leaped up. Right before the Immortals and Berserkers' eyes, he moved through the air and stopped right above Great Yu Imperial City's palace, looking at the only Rune in the sky.
The light from the Rune grew stronger, becoming the strongest light in the world of Berserkers. Then, a terrifying, destructive presence descended and spread out.
Then two other presences equal in power erupted right after.
"By the orders of the Immortals, the three punishments of heaven, earth, and man will descend and suppress the Berserkers!" a loud voice as great as the might of heaven itself came from the Rune. However, that voice was not clear, but rather indistinct. Clearly, these words were not spoken in the land of Berserkers, but had come from the land of Immortals through the Rune.
Almost at the instant that voice reverberated in the air, the first destructive presence exploded. A gray pillar of light appeared and shot out of the Rune.
That gray pillar of light was actually a long arc. Within it was a stone that was about the size of a head. That stone was heavily riddled with holes, because of which it stirred up piercing sounds while sliced through the air.
Its speed was inconceivable, and its mighty pressure brought with it a power that could destroy the world. It was clearly no longer that of Ascendance. It… had already surpassed the Ascendant stage and even made Su Ming, who was in Life Cultivation Realm, feel terrified of it. Clearly… this was either an Enchanted Treasure that possessed power that was at the pinnacle of the Second Step or a priceless treasure containing the power of the Third Step.
This item was also not suppressed by the laws of the world of Berserkers, and neither were there any of the Berserkers' priceless treasures coming forth to stop it. This was a telling sign that Immortals had used some sort of method to be able to make this item descend with its complete power!
The stone that was about the size of a head in that long gray arc sliced through the sky, but it was not... traveling towards Su Ming!
It was… instead charging towards the strongest person beside Su Ming in the land of Berserkers – Su Ming's eldest senior brother who had beheaded himself, Xing Gan!
That stone moved so quickly that not even Su Ming could stop it. With a bang, the stone appeared right above eldest senior brother. A glint appeared in the man's eyes, which were located on his chest. With the battle axe in hand, he charged out and sliced towards the incoming stone.
Yet almost at the instant he lifted his axe, the gray stone exploded with a bang. A gray ray of light spread out and covered the area of several thousands of feet.
There were Immortals, Berserkers, and Su Ming's eldest senior brother within those thousands of feet. As that light spread out, eldest senior brother was the first to be covered in it, and once his battle axe was enveloped in that gray light, the man was immediately petrified!
His body instantly turned into a stone statue in front of everyone's eyes!
And this happened not to him alone All the people within those thousands of feet, no matter whether they were Immortals or Berserkers, turned into statues at the instant that stone exploded and the gray light spread out.
The people retained their previous poses and expressions as they became statues, existences that would bring shock to all those who saw them, in the land of Berserkers.
This was the suppression the Immortals chose to deliver to the Berserkers' uprising.
"Eldest senior brother!"
Anger raged violently in Su Ming's eyes. He took a step forward, but just as he was about to arrive beside his eldest senior brother's statue, another presence that possessed a destructive power that could destroy the world left the Rune in the sky.
It was… a human head!
It was a gigantic human head that looked like it belonged to a giant. There was black blood flowing out of its eyes, and his hair was a mess, but even after death, there was a savage and crazed presence to that head.
There was also a familiarity to it which made Su Ming and all the Berserkers' hearts tremble. It was a Berserker's presence, for that was… the head of the God of Berserkers!
"Second God of Berserkers… That's the second God of Berserkers' head. That presence, the agitation in my blood will not lie…"
When the Berserkers saw that head, madness immediately erupted within them. Sorrow and rage appeared on all of their faces. There was nothing else that could make the Berserkers so livid with rage than the head of a God of Berserkers.
Su Ming trembled. Right when his senior brother's survival was still unknown after he had turned into a statue, Su Ming was faced with the head of the second God of Berserkers. This head might still be unfamiliar to him, even after he retrieved his memories, but its presence was incredibly familiar.
It belonged the the gentle voice that had reached his ears all those years ago. It belonged to the God of Berserkers who had been frozen with Great Yu Imperial City and had died for the Berserkers.
The second God of Berserkers was torn limb to limb in the past. His body was buried in the land of Berserkers, but his head had been taken away by the Immortals. At this moment, he was brought out, and by the looks of it, he had been refined into a piece of treasure
Almost at the instant the second God of Berserkers' head appeared and all the Berserkers descended into rage and madness because of it, the head… opened its eyes.
When it did so, everyone saw that its eyes were completely black. A violent shudder wrecked the head, and the second God of Berserkers exploded right before all the Berserkers' eyes at the moment his head had opened its eyes!
A huge force instantly swept outwards. That force brought little suffering to the Immortals, but to the Berserkers who had watched that head explode, that impact… was a strike to their blood.
Chapter 696: Disaster! The Sword of Murder!
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
These were the Immortals' last resort, and they were attacks that were directed against all the Berserkers. The first treasure had broken the hope of the Berserkers rising in power again after Su Ming died by turning his eldest senior brother into a statue, who had been the strongest existence besides Su Ming.
The second treasure was aimed against all Berserkers. With the destruction of the second God of Berserkers' head, the Immortals would deliver an attack to their blood. Those without Berserker blood would be unaffected by this attack, but for those with that blood, it would be a disaster.
All the Berserkers coughed up blood at that instant. Their bodies began to swiftly wither, as if their blood had been sealed away. They fell backwards and were swept away by the wave of force.
It did not matter whether it was Xue Sha or Chi Lei Tian. No matter who it was and what level of cultivation they had, at the instant they were struck by the impact, they coughed up blood and were all heavily injured. There were even nearly ten thousand Berserkers who were reduced to ashes by this attack to their blood.
The remaining Berserkers were continuously sent flying backwards in all directions while heavy injuries. In the blink of an eye, not a single Berserker remained in the battlefield.
All the people were swept away, and none of those who remained had any idea how many tens of thousands of lis the others were sent backwards or whether those Berserkers were even still alive after this attack to their blood. All of them were gone… except Su Ming, his eldest senior brother's statue, and the other statues in this place. Aside from them, the only others that remained were the Immortals.
At that instant, the blood that the Berserkers coughed up gathered together in midair and turned into a blood red Rune that swiftly descended on the ground to cover all the Immortals.
"You will all be transferred to your sects in the land of the Berserkers. Activate the Rune to your sect and recover as you wait for the next time we descend. We will then purge the land of Berserkers!" A buzzing sound spread out from the only remaining Rune in the sky. When it reverberated in all directions, the Immortals disappeared into the blood Rune.
Once all the Immortals disappeared and there were only corpses, fresh blood, and one still alive Berserker in the area, Su Ming looked up at the sky. There was no longer any hint of madness on his face. He had instead calmed down. The Immortals' tactics had once again let him come to know how powerful his enemies were.
They were the Immortals, a race with great depth and whose reign had lasted for countless years.
However, Su Ming understood well that sending this priceless treasure that the laws in the world of Berserkers could not completely suppress had forced the Immortals to pay an incredibly devastating price as well.
He might not know what that price was, but it had surely pained Immortals greatly to part with it.
This was a battle that had no victor. The Immortals did not win, and neither did the Berserkers. That blow to their blood would have resulted in most of the Berserkers dying if it had been delivered in the past, but now it had only cause some suffering. After all, that blow had come after the burning of their blood and once all of their cultivation bases had increased exponentially.
Because of that, even though the impact from the blow might be great, there were many who managed to survive. And once they collected themselves back together, they might experience another outburst in their cultivation bases due to surviving such an attack.
This event might not necessarily have been a bad thing for the Berserkers.
For Immortals though, there were far too many of them who had died in this battle. They could not leave. They might have been sent back to their sects in the land of Berserkers, but they were no longer as arrogant and conceited as before.
The voice from the Rune telling the Immortals to return to their sects had also revealed something.
The Immortals were probably unable to send anyone to the land of Berserkers for the time being, which was why they did not use this chance to descend. Instead, they were forced to have the Immortals in the land of Berserkers activate the Runes in their sects to protect themselves.
After all, the attack to the blood was only limited to the Berserkers in the area. There were still many Berserkers who were charging forth from Eastern Wastelands and the islands in South Morning who had not suffered any damage.
This was originally a war waged between the Immortal sects and Evil Sect to decide the ownership of Eastern Wastelands Tower, but it had turned into a battle between Immortals and Berserkers. Yet no one won this battle, and the end result was both sides suffering great losses.
The only thing that did not end well was the killing intent the Immortals harbored for Su Ming!
The third presence that could destroy the world came from the Rune in the sky. The strength of this presence was so great that it caused the only Rune in the sky to start trembling violently at the instant it appeared.
As it trembled, the Rune started showing signs of crumbling, but it was quickly restored. A glint appeared in Su Ming's eyes. He had originally intended to leave, but now he chose not to.
This war might have ended, but he still had something to do.
Su Ming leaped up, lifted his right hand, and pointed towards the largely thawed Great Yu Imperial City.
"Great Yu Imperial City, crush that Rune used by Immortals to descend to our land. Make it so that it will be even more difficult for them to come from now onwards!" This was what Su Ming wanted to do. As he pointed forward, Great Yu Imperial City shuddered before it rose up slowly. Then, it charged towards the sky.
Su Ming had not done this earlier because he knew that once the Immortals' Rune was destroyed, more would appear. After all, his Atman had seen a lot more of these Runes among the endless continents in the galaxy.
However, since there was only one Rune in the Berserker's sky, since the Immortals had sent three priceless treasures to suppress the Berserkers, and since the Immortals had told the cultivators down here to activate the Runes in their sects to fend for themselves, Su Ming was certain that the Immortals had given up on this battle.
That was why there was a possibility that they would be unable to activate more Runes in retaliation if he destroyed this last Rune. As Su Ming pointed forward, Great Yu Imperial Palace traveled even faster and stirred up a roar that shook the sky and earth as it got closer and closer to the sky.
Right at that moment, the destructive presence in the Rune grew stronger. At the instant it erupted forth with a bang, a blue ray of light swiftly shot out.
It was a blue sword!
A sword's main purpose is to kill, and blue is mainly used to seal. This was… a sword that destroyed all manner of lives. The presence spreading out from it made Su Ming's skin crawl, and his heart trembled. This was a killing sword that could destroy all those with power lower than the Third Step.
"Seal off the Immortals' Rune! If I don't die from this disaster, then we will destroy all the Immortal sects in the land of Berserkers!" Su Ming lifted his head and roared. At the instant the blue sword charged towards him, he controlled Great Yu Imperial City and rammed it against that Rune in the sky.
The Rune was destroyed. At the instant it crumbled, Su Ming heard an endless amount of faint groans and sound of death from the distant land of Immortals.
The sky rumbled…
And the blue sword closed in on Su Ming!
Chapter 697: Damn it…
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Almost at the instant Great Yu Imperial City crashed into the Immortal's Rune in the sky and caused it to shatter, Su Ming tried to rush into the black stone fragment hanging on his neck without any hesitation.
The strange dimension in the black stone fragment was Su Ming's shelter. It had allowed him to avoid a series of dangers more than once.
Yet almost at the moment Su Ming's mind touched the stone, he immediately felt as if the area around him had been completely isolated, and his mind could not obtain any sort of connection.
The blue sword closed in with a hum. It was already less than a hundred feet away. Without any hesitation, Su Ming gave up on fusing with the black stone fragment and charged towards the ground.
The blue sword gave chase behind him, as if it was embedded in its soul to do so. The killing intent and freezing air spreading out from it seemed to be capable of destroying everything.
In fact, due to the blue sword's presence locking down on Su Ming, he could not even execute warping. In the blink of an eye, he descended to the ground. There was one particular body among all the corpses that was covered in blood. It did not move even a single bit, but at the instant Su Ming closed in on it, he lifted his right leg and kicked him.
That kick contained no killing intent. Instead, a gentle force spread out of Su Ming's body and surged into the still body before it sent it charging into the distance.
"Qian Chen, wait outside Evil Spirit Sect! Once I get rid of this sword, I'll come and get you!" After saying this, Su Ming turned around swiftly. When there were only fifty feet between him and that killing sword, he turned into a long arc that charged into the opposite direction of the body that was flying away.
The body which was surrounded by the gentle power and sent into the distance suddenly blinked. That person was naturally Qian Chen, who had been pretending to be dead from the very start. He put on a long face as he used that gentle power within him to rush away.
'Damn it, damn it, damn it… Just how far is this place from Evil Spirit Sect? Just how far is it?!... How… How far do I have to go before I can get back?!' Qian Chen looked glum, but he did not dare disobey. He could sense that the gentle power was not leaving his body but had settled itself inside him. By the looks of it, this was definitely some sort of seal that would limit his movements.
Su Ming must definitely have doubts about Qian Chen's loyalty, and that was why he did this.
'Damn it, damn it all! How could he still find time to seal me when he was being chased by the blue killing sword?!' Qian Chen ground his teeth in anger, but once he thought about how terrifying Su Ming was, he immediately sighed and gritted his teeth, then ran into the distance.
Su Ming did not even turn his head back. He activated all his power and charged forward with a bang. As he sliced through the air, he stirred up piercing whistles. His expression was incredibly dark, because the blue sword was becoming faster with each passing moment. The tip of the sword was already less than twenty feet away from him. Waves of cold air and pressure pressed down on his heart and body like mountains, and a life-threatening sense of danger filled his heart.
At that moment, a blue light begun to shine at the tip of the blue sword. Immediately, an endless amount of power in the world in a circular area of several dozens of lis was forcefully extracted. It then gathered on the blue sword…
Su Ming could sense that sense of danger increasingly exponentially, and his expression instantly changed. Without any hesitation, he bit the tip of his tongue and coughed up a mouthful of blood. This blood immediately enveloped his body, causing his speed to instantly increase by several fold.
However, once the blue sword extracted the power of the world from a circular area of several dozens of lis, it distorted space itself and arrived right behind Su Ming in the blink of an eye. Blue light flashed, and as a muffled boom reverberated in the air, that blue sword pierced Su Ming's chest!
It did not pierce his heart though. When Su Ming increased his speed, the strong sense of danger had made him move slightly to the side, and because of it, the blue sword had only grazed his heart.
As banging sounds reverberated in the air, Su Ming coughed up a huge mouthful of blood. Destructive power erupted in his body. A bang rang out, and as that power spread out, his legs exploded. His left arm also shattered, and half of his body turned into ashes as well.
The destructive power was about to spread out and extinguish Su Ming's life, but he circulated all his power and crashed it against that destructive power inside him. As booming sounds reverberated in his body, Su Ming rushed forward with the speed provided to him by the power from the blood shield like a kite with a broken string flying in the air.
Su Ming lifted his head and roared, then gritted his teeth and endured the pain as he charged forward madly. He only had a small portion of his body left. The power from that one strike had almost destroyed him completely.
And this was after Su Ming had reached the Life Cultivation Realm. If he had been the slightest bit less powerful, he would surely have died right away!
In fact, if it was anyone else in Life Cultivation Realm suffering this blow, they would have found it difficult to survive that attack. It was a killing sword that would destroy all those under the Third Step.
However, Berserkers were people who mainly cultivated their bodies, and Su Ming had turned all his flesh, blood, and bones into those of a true Berserker during Bone Sacrifice Realm. The level of strength he possessed was incredibly terrifying, and it was also the reason why he could kill those who were above him in their level of cultivation.
However, even with such a strong body, Su Ming was still almost destroyed by the blue sword, and this was a clear sign of just how powerful this weapon was. Su Ming's face turned pale. From madness, his eyes became crimson red, but he continued to charge through the sky with the remainder of his body. The blue sword behind him gave close chase, as if it would definitely not disappear unless it killed him.
'Immortals!' The destruction of his body caused Su Ming's hate towards the Immortals to become even stronger.
The blue sword's killing intent did not disappear, and the life-threatening sense of danger surrounded Su Ming's heart and soul. He continued coughing up mouthfuls of blood, and every single time he did so, his speed would increase a little.
Yet even so, he still could not shake off that blue sword. The blade continued charging forward and stirring up piercing whistling sounds behind Su Ming. Blue light appeared at its tip once more, and at the same time, the power of the world from a circular area of a hundred lis were forcefully sucked in.
Su Ming felt his skin crawl. His heart was roaring. Before the blue sword had delivered that strike just then, it had absorbed the power of the world from all around just like this, and that was just an area of several dozens of lis. This time, it was sucking the power of the world from a hundred lis.
If this second strike was delivered, Su Ming knew that he would surely die!
The Immortals had sent three priceless treasures. The first had petrified his eldest senior brother. The second had scattered the Berserkers after dealing a blow to their blood while Relocating the Immortals, but if they were to be compared in terms of strength, then the third treasure would be the strongest!
The sword of murder!
After all, to the Immortals, it did not matter whether it was Su Ming's eldest senior brother or the Berserkers, they were nothing compared to Su Ming. Su Ming must be destroyed and sealed in this place. They would absolutely not allow any other unforeseen circumstances to happen.
The treasure they sent was a sword of murder and it had been given a task when it descended, which was… to murder and seal Su Ming!
Su Ming's expression turned dark. At the instant he sensed the power of the world in that circular are of hundred lis being forcefully sucked away, he stopped charging forward and turned the remaining half of his body around. During that instant, he lifted his right hand with the back of his hand turned downwards and his palm turned towards the sky.
"That which exists between the past and the future is Destiny!" As Su Ming roared, the blue sword let out a hum, less than ten feet away from Su Ming, as it continued sucking the power of the world from all around it!
It was also at that moment that Su Ming swung his right hand at the incoming blue sword.
With it, the reversal of time was executed with Su Ming's current power as a Berserker in the initial stage of Life Matrix. Its might was far stronger than what he could bring out previously. With it, not only was the blue sword affected, the world around him and even the wind as well as clouds were affected. In fact, Su Ming had a strong feeling that if he had enough power, then he could even reverse the law of the world.
In fact, once he reversed the law of the world, he could make that world's time flow backwards due to his will. He could make all his enemies rot away and return to the starting point of the universe.
At the instant this feeling appeared in Su Ming's mind, it gradually disappeared. When he swung his right hand forward, the incoming blue sword… stopped for the first time.
The blue sword started trembling. Once it was less than five feet away from Su Ming, it started moving backwards slowly, and as time started reversing, the large amount of power of the world started flowing out from that sword, as if it was returning back to its original place.
Sweat broke out on Su Ming's forehead. The power of Destiny was his Origin Divine Ability. He had always thought that he was using up his cultivation base to cast this divine ability, but only at this moment did he realize that not only did the power of Destiny use up his cultivation base, it also used up his spirit. This then resulted in a great wave of fatigue washing over him.
Before he stepped into the Life Cultivation Realm and the initial stage of Life Matrix, Su Ming's Destiny Art had been incredibly weak in terms of level. That was why it was also known as the sign of the Abyss, because it had been merely just that - a sign.
That was why the consummation of his soul had not been bad. In fact, it had been so weak that Su Ming hadn't even noticed it. Similarly, its might was of only ordinary level as well. If his past self had executed Destiny's time reversal at this moment, he would not have been able to do anything to the blue sword.
Yet at the moment Su Ming stepped into Life Cultivation Realm and reached the initial stage of Life Matrix, the might of his time reversal could bring about an effect. As the blue sword withdrew and the large amount of power of the world spread out, Su Ming reached his limit of Destiny's power. He pressed his right hand against the center of his brows.
"God of Berserkers' Statue of Life Cultivation!"
Su Ming let out a roar, and the ten thousand feet statue of the God of Berserkers manifested around him with a bang. The statue moved through Su Ming's body and clasped its right hand with its left before ramming both of them into the blue sword.
A powerful presence erupted forth from the statue of the God of Berserkers, as if it had activated the world of Berserkers' kismet and added it to its own body, and had also activated the power of the world all around it.
As a loud bang rang into the air, Su Ming turned around and charged away with a pale face. He did not stay for long in this place. He knew just how strong that blue sword was. Even if he had cast Destiny and brought out his statue of the God of Berserkers, he wasn't able to destroy it, but he could… stall it for some time!
This amount of time could allow Su Ming to seek refuge and heal his body.
At the time Su Ming retreated, he brought out a large amount of medicinal cores and crushed them. He then sucked in a deep breath, absorbing all the powder into his mouth to nurture his body. His flesh and blood started squirming within him, healing rapidly.