Chapter 1414 - 984 - 991

Chapter 984: Located in the Origin of Heaven

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The clouds and smoke swam forth swiftly before Su Ming's eyes, as if a thousand years were going past. It only lasted for an instant, but the length of that instant seemed to be continuously lengthened, which would cause most people to be at a loss at what to do.

It lasted only for the blink of an eye, but that action itself seemed to carry fatigue, and it brought with it the powerlessness of struggling against the passage of time.

This was what Su Ming felt once he walked out of the crack in the sky from the first dimension.

The body of the supreme treasure might seem to not have changed much, but within it, Su Ming, Xuan Shang, Yun You, Nian Yin, Hua Yu, and even Xu Hui found their minds in a state of chaos. Xu Hui was in a slightly better condition, but Xuan Shang and his group were hit by a clear, heavy fatigue.

"I lost about a hundred years of my life…"

"It's the same for me…"

"I lost nearly one hundred and fifty years…" The voices from Xuan Shang and his group echoed in Su Ming's mind.

Su Ming's fatigue was even greater, because he was the main soul. The life force he lost was about three hundred years.

If he added the years of life they lost together, it would amount to a total of one thousand years.

Every single time they moved through a dimension, one thousand years of life would be taken away from them. This was… something the jade slip from Dust Burners' Progenitor had not mentioned. Su Ming stayed silent. Xuan Shang and his group remained silent as well.

"Thankfully, those one thousand years of life were divided among us. This is also our strength. We can move even further that others, so why did you fall silent?" Xu Hui's voice traveled faintly into the group's minds.

"Since we're already here, there's nothing we can't afford to lose. Now, even more so, we cannot split up, or else each of us will have to bear the burden of having one thousand years of life flowing out from us. With just a few times, we might end up dying in the fifth kiln."

"No wonder those old monsters who could clearly withstand fire did not come, and only the Almighties who are Masters of Fate, Lives, and Death stepped into the fifth kiln. The main reason might be because the loss of life force every single time they move through dimensions."

"That's right, even if we are in the later stage of World Plane Realm, Fellow Daoist Xu is in Lunar Kalpa Realm, and even if you are in Solar Kalpa Realm, senior, there is still a limit to our life force. We aren't like the Almighties who are Masters of Fate, Lives, and Death and have nearly eternal life. They can afford the loss." Sighs filled with various emotions from the group traveled into Su Ming's mind. A barely noticeable glint shone briefly in his eyes.

He knew that even Almighties who were Masters of Fate, Lives, and Death would not have eternal lifespans. They would eventually have their health fall into decline, and the loss of life force would cause this period of decline to arrive quicker.

A freezing glare shone in Su Ming's eyes as he asked faintly, "Then where… did the life force that was absorbed by the fifth kiln go?"

After he asked this question, the voices of the people in his mind instantly fell silent. All of them began pondering.

'We waste our life force when we move through the dimensions here. Do Dust Burners know about this… or do they not?'

Su Ming's eyes shone as he looked at the area around him. He was clearly in another dimension at that moment. The sky in this place was gray and dull, as if there was endless dust in it. The land was not silent, with occasional howls ringing in the air.

Those howls were like shrill wails, so anyone who heard them might be shocked, but compared to the tranquility in the previous dimension, Su Ming liked this place more. Being able to see and hear was better than not being able to see and hear.

He did not immediately act rashly, but instead started thinking.

'It's highly impossible that they did not know about this… Only Dust Burners can activate the fifth kiln, so why… do they do it once in a while?' A glint appeared in Su Ming's eyes again. He had a vague feeling that he caught onto some form of clue.

'Judging from an analysis based on what I've seen so far, Dust Burners use the activation of the fifth kiln to help the Fire Spirits who possess intelligence to choose whether they want to leave or stay. This is method to increase the number of their people besides newborns.

'Dust Burners' Progenitor might not have told me this in a straightforward manner, but the underlying meaning is clearly this. It's the first reason a person would think of when they ponder about this.

'But… there might be other reasons behind it!' The glare in Su Ming's eyes became sharper.

'Could it be that the fifth kiln is in truth a trap?!' Su Ming's pupils shrank when this thought surfaced in his mind.

'Dust Burners intentionally activate the kiln once in a while. With the supreme treasures as well as the complementary treasures, they attract powerful warriors to the fifth kiln, and while the powerful warriors move through the dimensions, they have their life force continuously sucked away. But the temptation of the treasures make them persist in continuing onwards even if their life force continues to flow away.

'Then, if I am right about this, why do Dust Burners do this? Where does the life force the people lose go?!' Su Ming's breathing quickened slightly.

'There are still two questions to this. Did Dust Burners set this trap for their own needs… or did someone else ask them to do it?!' Su Ming sensed the veils of mystery surrounding the fifth kiln. At that moment, he was peeling off those veils layer by layer, about to reveal the truth.

'If it is the race's needs, then it's much simpler. It would simply be because they want to become the masters of the fifth kiln and make their own race stronger… but if it isn't because of their personal needs and actually because someone told them to do so, then there is a great secret contained within this!

'If there is someone controlling them, then besides Su Xuan Yi, who else could it be?!' A brilliant light shone in Su Ming's eyes. A thought that even he thought was impossible formed in his head again.

'Could it be… that Su Xuan Yi hasn't died?!' Su Ming's expression was incredibly complicated. Once this thought took shape in his head, it refused to leave and disappear. It lingered in his mind until it was deeply ingrained there.

'If he… If he hasn't died, then where is he? Could he be in the fifth kiln?' Su Ming remained silent. After a long while, a lost look appeared in his eyes, and he sighed softly.

There was melancholy contained in that sigh, along with an emotion that even he could not identify well.

Su Ming sucked in a deep breath, then forced down those complicated feelings in his heart. He looked at the area around him, then sat down on the Resentful Wei's back. The two dragon-headed horse quietly moved forward, then turned into a long arc and galloped into the distance.

Su Ming spread his Atman outwards to search for the exit in the area. With that one scan, he saw a mountain in front of him. At the center of that mountain was a cave.

The air in the cave distorted, as if there were some cracks in there. Waves of aura that did not belong to this place spread out from those cracks, making it obvious that this was the exit out of this dimension.

However, with his experience in the previous dimension, Su Ming did not immediately move there. Instead, he observed the area carefully and saw several living beings that were half the size of an average man.

Their appearances were indistinct, for surrounding them. They drifted over the ground in a daze, as if they were searching for something. They did not seem to notice Su Ming's Atman at all, and continued drifting about mindlessly.

After observing them for a moment, Su Ming narrowed his eyes. The Resentful Wei beneath him rushed forward and disappeared from the spot to appear beside the mountain. Based on what he did previously, Su Ming sent out one of the divine senses from Xuan Shang's group. Once it fused into the mountain cave, it did not disappear. In fact, based on what he could sense in his mind, Su Ming saw the exit to the place through the distortions in the mountain cave. The power of time that absorbed life force was also contained there.

A resolute look appeared in Su Ming's eyes. The Resentful Wei beneath him rushed forward again. This time, it charged towards the mountain cave, but right at the instant Su Ming entered it, a muffled voice echoed in the world in an indistinct manner.

"Su…"

Once it spoke, Su Ming's mind immediately shuddered. This voice might be echoing in the world outside, but it managed to surge up into the depths of his heart. The drifting indistinct figures stopped at once, lifted their heads to look at the sky collectively, and let out roars that surged into the sky.

Their roars connected and turned into waves of sound that resulted in a single word, "Su…".

Soon after, a powerful call rose in Su Ming's mind. He could clearly sense that there seemed to be a will that was unfamiliar yet familiar summoning him through countless dimensions, as if it had noticed him.

As this call spread through his body, a shudder ran through the bald crane while it was within the body of the supreme treasure Su Ming controlled. It was as if that voice had a strange power over it, causing a cold look to immediately appear in its eyes, though there was also a look of struggle within them as well.

While that sound spread out, the Resentful Wei beneath Su Ming paused for a moment, then instantly charged forward again. In the blink of an eye, it rushed into the distortions in the mountain cave and disappeared without a trace.

Another one thousand years flowed away from everyone's bodies. Soon after, the third dimension appeared in front of Su Ming's eyes. At that time, an ancient air surrounded the body of the supreme treasure he controlled. The people in the body were swathed in fatigue, once again havin felt the terror of having their life force flow away as they moved through the dimensions.

"Su…"

Almost the moment Su Ming walked out, the voice that brought an unfamiliar yet familiar feeling to him spoke in his head again. That voice seemed to have traveled through time and was slowly closing in on him at that moment.

Before Su Ming could do anything else, Xuan Shang, Yun You, Nian Yin, Hua Yu, and Xu Hui's expressions changed, because at that moment, all of them noticed the drastic change in the bald crane and heard its shrill scream of pain.

"Go away! GO AWAY! You are you, and I am me! We aren't one!"

"You are me, and I am you. You were created to fulfill the mission…"

"I am not. I am the bald crane. I like crystals, I…"

"You are not. You are Kong Mo. You are the Kong Mo from Saint Defier's camp. You forgot your mission! Wake up, Kong Mo! Kill the person behind that voice who confused your mind. Kill him, use his blood to dye your soul red. Awaken… to my existence, which lies in the depths of your memories!"

"Get lost! I'm not Kong Mo! I'm Su Ming's bald crane!"

"I have been injured thrice badly, and your will was split up from mine. You should not exist… You, who exist in the Origin of Heaven and within Dark Dawn's ballad will forever and ever belong to Saint Defier's camp…"

Chapter 985: The Tree's Ancestor

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

"Su…"

When that unfamiliar yet familiar voice spoke again, it had intended to only call out to Su Ming, and there was a feeling within that call that Su Ming could not describe. He could sense… that there was not a single hint of ill will in that voice towards him.

Instead, it radiated warmth that caused Su Ming's heart to tremble. That warmth gave him a feeling that he had been searching for it for a long time, and he wanted to keep it forever by his side.

However, Su Ming did not expect that the voice would cause such a drastic change in the bald crane, and it was to a degree that Su Ming had never seen before. It had never happened before.

The two voices belonged to the bald crane, both of them being spoken by it. Yet while one of them sounded like the bald crane Su Ming was used to, the other had a wild tone and gave off a cold and arrogant feeling of those who considered themselves superior to others. It was completely different from the bald crane Su Ming was familiar with, even though their voices were the same.

Kong Mo. This was not the first time Su Ming had heard of this name. He knew that a long time ago the bald crane had been known as Kong Mo! This was before it had lost its memories.

When he heard the words the bald crane shouted, which sounded as if there were two wills within the bald crane's body fighting for supremacy, a loud bang suddenly erupted in his mind, especially when he heard the voice mentioning Saint Defier's camp.

He understood what was going on in an instant, as if a diaphragm had been torn apart!

He understood why Ecang's will had called the bald crane a traitor in the past with an enraged roar when it saw it. He also understood that Old Man Extermination did not belong to the Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos. Instead, he belonged to one of the camps from the 180 Expanse Cosmoses in Dark Dawn.

He could already imagine it. An unknown amount of years ago, Old Man Extermination sat on an ancient ship and came to the Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos. Over there, he created a ballad. Within it were nine living beings and four races, to whom he granted eternal life.

Within that ballad was Ecang… and also the bald crane!

However, perhaps not even Old Man Extermination had managed see through the bald crane's real identity. It did not belong to the Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos. It was Kong Mo, and it belonged to one of the camps in the 180 Expanse Cosmoses of Saint Defier!

Hence, Ecang called him a traitor. Perhaps… Old Man Extermination's death and plenty of other deeper secrets… came from it being a traitor!

'Origin of Heaven… Is the Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos known as the Origin of Heaven? Because this is an Expanse Cosmos, the camps from Dark Dawn and Saint Defier were fighting for it. If Dark Dawn had one Expanse Cosmos less, then Saint Defier could launch a preemptive strike, or vice versa. Whoever took control of the Origin of Heaven first… could wage war first!

'That's why to snatch the Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos, Dark Dawn and Saint Defier both executed their own methods. Dark Dawn's camp sent Old Man Extermination, and Saint Defier's camp created Kong Mo!

'From this, it can be seen that neither Dark Dawn nor Saint Defier could take the initiative to attack the Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos. There had to be some sort of prohibition behind this!

'Also, the disappearance of Ancient Wei, one of the three Great Ancient Kingdoms… There has to be… some connection between them!'

Su Ming's heart roared. Everything about this had only existed as scattered hints in his mind, but now, with the bald crane's changes and the two will's fight, Su Ming came to an understanding!

'Kong Mo became the traitor in Ecang's eyes. Over the course of countless years, Kong Mo was severely injured thrice, to the point it lost its physical body. Even its memories were scattered, but it did not die. It's just as Kong Mo said, the bald crane should not have appeared… It's just that Kong Mo's will had fallen into deep sleep, so the bald crane's will was born.

'The bald crane doesn't have a mission. It is obsessed over crystals. It is sleazy and shameless… but it's my companion!

'And I obtained a fragment from the Seed of Life Extermination. I activated its legacy, and based on this… it can be seen that I am Old Man Extermination's substitute. I… became part of Dark Dawn's camp, and I became an emissary in the Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos!

'Then… Xiao Hong gave me the Seed of Life Extermination's fragment in the past. Was Xiao Hong truly a Fire Ape, or…' Su Ming's breathing quickened. His trip into the fifth kiln this time gave him too much too think about.

'There's also Berserkers' supreme treasure, the Barren Cauldron. I once suspected that the Seed of Life Extermination's fragment was a fragment from the Barren Cauldron, but now, I'm thrown off again. Just what sort of secret is contained here? What sort of existence is Yin Death Region? What sort of connection is there between the Barren Cauldron and the Seed of Life Extermination? And what sort of connection does it have with Dao Chen? After all, that Barren Cauldron once belonged to Dao Chen.'

Various thoughts fleeted instantly past Su Ming��s mind.

He understood many things, but as he understood them, many other thoughts formed in his head. As they became mixed together, it looked as if they turned into a gigantic net in front of his eyes, woven so tightly that it covered the truth.

"Su…"

When that voice spoke again, the struggle on the bald crane's expression became even more prominent. Killing intent and madness appeared in its eyes. A glint shone in Su Ming's eyes. The Resentful Wei beneath him rushed forward. Su Ming could not even spare a single glance at the area around him. He knew that Kong Mo's awakening was definitely caused by some connection to the voice that reached their ears.

The voice had incited Kong Mo's killing intent in the bald crane's body, and because of the stimulation from it, Kong Mo began to show signs of awakening. It intended to destroy the bald crane and once again become Kong Mo.

It was difficult for others to help in this. The key lay in whether the bald crane could fight back. At the moment, the best thing to do was to leave the voice behind so that Kong Mo would fall asleep once more.

Su Ming could not make the voice disappear, but after he moved between dimensions, it had clearly become weaker. It could be seen that if they continued moving farther in, the voice would become increasingly weaker, until it disappeared. Perhaps it would reach them again later on, but they would still have bought the bald crane some time.

The Resentful Wei was so quick that it covered an incredible distance in an instant. With its natural instinct and Su Ming's Atman, it immediately found the exit and shot through it. They moved between dimensions time and again, rushing through all of them.

During this, they ran into several worlds filled with ferocious spirits. However, under Su Ming and the Resentful Wei's cooperation, who both did not have the heart to fight against the spirits there, they passed through some twenty dimensions after experiencing several dangerous situations. Only then did the voice completely disappear.

At that moment, the bald crane started to slowly calm down. Fatigue appeared on its face, and it fell into unconsciousness.

Su Ming let out a sigh of relief in his heart. Not a single treasure could be found in the previous twenty something dimensions. All of them had already been taken away many years ago. Once the bald crane passed out and Su Ming left the dimension to appear in another one, his pupils suddenly shrank.

This was a world whose sky was filled with green light and which was clearly a different world from the ones which possessed a blue sky. The ground was filled with plants, and it could be seen that there was a tree that was about several thousands of feet tall in the land in the distance.

Above the crown of the tree… a blade of grass floated. It had three leaves. They shone with a green light, and because of that, the whole world was dyed green.

'Complementary treasure!'

Su Ming's eyes sparkled. This dimension was not big. Based on its area, it could be seen that this was not a land with a supreme treasure. This was still a normal dimension, but the treasure here had yet to be taken away.

Xuan Shang and the others immediately saw the difference in this place and turned solemn. When they looked towards the floating green grass above the tree in the distance, greed appeared in their hearts.

Even if it was just a complementary treasure, a treasure that could exist in the fifth kiln definitely had some aspects about it that were extraordinary. Based on the grass' ability of changing the sky's color, it was definitely nothing ordinary.

Su Ming observed his surroundings carefully and did not act recklessly. Dimensions with treasures would definitely have plenty of ferocious spirits to protect them, but when Su Ming scanned the entire area with his Atman, he did not notice a single shadow.

He frowned, then sent a thought to the Resentful Wei. The black horse immediately approached the tree. As it continued getting closer to it, Su Ming's heart shuddered when they were around one thousand feet away from the tree.

Xuan Shang, Yun You, Nian Yin, and Hua Yu's hearts shuddered as well. Even Xu Hui immediately became stern and serious.

Su Ming saw four people sitting cross-legged under the big tree!

They were four cultivators, and those Su Ming had never seen before. These four people had not died. They sat there, and their chests rose and fell. In fact, their eyes were wide open as they stared at the tree, unmoving.

There were dazed expressions one their faces, along with a look of struggle. There was also an indescribable, bizarre air about them. It was unknown… how many years they had been sitting there.

Their robes were in tatters, and their faces were pale. From the mighty pressure spreading out from their bodies, it was clear that the three cultivators were in Solar Kalpa Realm, while the other one was clearly a Master of Fate, Lives, and Death.

It was because of this scene that Su Ming stopped moving.

"Progenitor Long Hai!" There was a hint of disbelief contained in Xu Hui's voice. "That Almighty Master of Fate, Lives, and Death is Progenitor Long Hai from True Morning Dao World. He was stationed to keep watch over the Barren Lands of Divine Essence. Ten thousand years ago, he stepped into the fifth kiln and never returned. His soul point shattered, so he was verified to have died!

"But… but now, with how he looks, he's actually alive!" Xu Hui immediately sent her thought to the others, and her voice echoed in everyone's minds.

Su Ming's eyes sparkled. When he observed the area again, he became certain that there were no ferocious spirits in the area… besides the tree that was one thousand feet tall!

If there were no ferocious spirits in this place, then based on the statement that there was definitely something protecting the treasures, the tree… was the ferocious spirit here!

It was also this tree that trapped the three old monsters in Solar Kalpa Realm and Progenitor Long Hai!

'A tree…' The corners of Su Ming's lips suddenly curled up into a cold sneer.

'The Ecang body I possess is also a big tree, and it is the ancestor of all trees!'

At the instant a brilliant light shone in Su Ming's eyes, he suddenly turned his head to look at the space behind him. Great distortions appeared in the spot from which Su Ming had stepped into the dimension.

'Finally, someone has stepped into the same dimension as me…'

Su Ming narrowed his eyes. He moved and landed on the ground. The body of the supreme treasure changed as well, and he had it fuse into the surroundings. When he hid himself, the space in the distance distorted, and a hunchbacked old man walked out.

It was Flame Fiends' Progenitor!

Chapter 986: Waiting for a Chance

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The old man was thin and shriveled. His head was slightly big, and he had several locks of hair trailing down from it. There was red in his eyes, and there was also a fierce glare shining in them. Once he appeared, he sprawled down on the ground and did not move.

Only after a moment did he get up and look around himself carefully. He stared at the blade of grass with three leaves on the one thousand feet tall tree, and a brilliant glint shone in his eyes.

He moved, and in an instant, he appeared nearby. He lifted his right hand, then swiftly seized the ground. Immediately, his fingers sank into the earth. When he closed his eyes, Su Ming felt a light shudder traveling through the ground.

Su Ming's eyes sparkled. The supreme body he controlled at that moment had blended with the area around him. He was confident that he would not be found so easily. After all, this treasure was created by a Sublime Paragon. It was not something that could be seen through by a normal Master of Fate, Lives, and Death.

After a moment, when the tremors in the ground became weaker then completely subsided, Flame Fiends' Progenitor lifted his fingers from the ground. After licking his lips, he moved and instantly appeared beside the one thousand feet tall tree. He shifted his gaze from the blade of grass with three leaves above the tree's crown to the four people sitting and meditating below.

The spot in which Su Ming hid allowed him to see Flame Fiends' Progenitor. He noticed that when the old man swept his gaze past the four people, he placed his attention on Long Hai. The old man licked his lips, and a hint of greed appeared in his eyes.

"What a great body that has been nourished for ten thousand years by the spirit of the tree. The value of this body is even greater than the flower above it," Flame Fiends' Progenitor mumbled to himself softly.

"Especially since their souls and their cultivation bases are still around!" The eyes of Flame Fiends' Progenitor grew brighter. He closed in on the cultivators, but the moment he approached them, the one thousand feet tall tree suddenly swayed.

The world immediately roared. The sky turned from light green to dark green. The change was especially prominent on the ground, which filled with endless blades of grass. At the instant they sprung up, they charged towards Flame Fiends' Progenitor, as if they wanted to surround him and wrap him up like strands of hair.

Flame Fiends' Progenitor grinned. The moment he was surrounded by those blades of grass, he stretched his arms out, and immediately, a purple sea of fire erupted from his thin and shriveled body. The sea of fire instantly spread out, and once it crashed into the incoming blades of grass, violent booms rang out.

It stirred up a wave of impact that swept outwards. Su Ming remained still not too far away, watching the actions of Flame Fiends' Progenitor. He saw the old man rush to one of the cultivators in Solar Kalpa Realm right when the purple flames from his body crashed into the grass.

The Solar Kalpa Realm cultivator had his shoulder seized by Flame Fiends' Progenitor, and in a flash, Flame Fiends' Progenitor bit into his neck. With one vicious suck, the cultivator's body started trembling violently, a telling sign that he was in intense pain, but his expression remained numb, and his eyes were still dazed.

His body started withering away right before their eyes. After a moment, he was reduced to only skin and bones. A large amount of black spots also appeared on his body. These black spots spread out rapidly, and judging by the looks of it, he was not rotting away. Instead, it seemed like a brand left on him after fire had eroded his body. All of this happened in the span of a few breaths. When Flame Fiends' Progenitor lifted his head from the Solar Kalpa Realm cultivator's neck, blood still trickled down the corners of his lips, and there was excitement as well as an expression of being revitalized on his face.

As for that cultivator in Solar Kalpa Realm, his entire body was covered in black spots. It had turned black like charcoal. When Flame Fiends' Progenitor swung his right hand, the cultivator turned into powder.

At that moment, the one thousand feet tall tree seemed to have become angry. It swayed again, and quite a large number of tree leaves fell off to turn into talismans. They shone with a dense, green light and charged towards Flame Fiends' Progenitor.

The eyes of the old man sparkled. He rushed to another cultivator in Solar Kalpa Realm, and almost at the same time he closed in on him, the talismans reached him. Flame Fiends' Progenitor lifted his right hand and pushed his palm straight at them.

Loud bangs shot up in the world. A gigantic palm appeared in front of Flame Fiends' Progenitor. It charged towards those talismans, and at the instant they crashed into each other, booming sounds reverberated in the air. Flame Fiends' Progenitor used that time to reach another Solar Kalpa Realm cultivator. This time, he did not bite down on his neck. Instead, at the instant he closed in, he seized the cultivator's chest with his left hand, and what Su Ming saw caused his pupils to shrink.

He saw with his own eyes that the chest of Flame Fiends' Progenitor tore itself open. It was like a gaping mouth that was filled with flames. With this appearance, he pounced on that cultivator in Solar Kalpa Realm. From the distance, it was as if he was using that mouth on his chest to devour that cultivator.

With just one bite, the head was devoured, and with another bite, the whole body disappeared from the spot. The cultivator was completely eaten by Flame Fiends' Progenitor.

It was difficult to imagine the thin and shriveled Flame Fiends' Progenitor to be able to swallow a cultivator whose body was much bigger than his, but it was what had happened. As Su Ming's eyes sparkled, he watched Flame Fiends' Progenitor fighting against the tree. After a moment of hesitation, he decided to give up on attacking.

'If this tree was only this powerful, it'd have been impossible for it to trap an Almighty like Progenitor Long Hai. Judging by the looks of it, the tree has yet to execute its full strength…

'Then the reason why it did this…' Su Ming's eyes focused and he cast Flame Fiends' Progenitor a glance. Clearly, if he could think about this, it was impossible that the old man did not guess it as well.

'That's why he chose those three cultivators in Solar Kalpa Realm.'

The one thousand feet tall tree swayed furiously. A large amount of leaves fell off, and as they floated down, they turned into talismans to charge towards Flame Fiends' Progenitor, who laughed loudly and moved. He did not bother himself with the arrival of those talismans and pounced on the last remaining cultivator in Solar Kalpa Realm.

The talismans were so quick that they touched the old man's body the moment he pounced on the last Solar Kalpa Realm cultivator. As booming sounds rose in the air again, the last of the trio died in Flame Fiends' Progenitor's mouth.

As for the old man, he swayed and was forced back a few steps, but a cold glare appeared in his eyes.

At that moment, a pair of eyes suddenly appeared on the tree's trunk. Those eyes were yellow. They shone with a merciless light and were staring at the Flame Fiend coldly.

"Are you done eating them?"

A loud, buzzing sound came from the tree and echoed in the world, turning into booms which sounded like thunder. They swept through the land in all directions.

"I'd have to thank you for intentionally letting me devour those three cultivators. Now, I just lack one more," Flame Fiends' Progenitor said in a ghastly manner while laughing and licking his lips. His body shook with his mirth, and it filled him with a bizarre air.

When Su Ming heard this, he did not move. In fact, even his eyes remained still. Everything was just as he had guessed previously. The tree was the only ferocious spirit in this land. Everything just then might have made the situation seem intense, but in truth, it was just for show. The tree had intentionally let Flame Fiends' Progenitor devour the three cultivators.

With it, it could make the blood and essence of Flame Fiends' Progenitor become even more robust, and it could turn him into a puppet like Long Hai.

"I lack a member of an alien race like you under me. Stay." As the tree spoke with a buzzing sound, Progenitor Long Hai's eyes opened. A sharp and fierce glare appeared in his eyes, and at the same time, he stood up slowly. His body started floating.

It could be seen clearly that branches which had crawled out from the ground had fused into Long Hai's feet, making him look like a puppet which was held up by strings.

The moment the tree finished speaking, Long Hai's eyes shone. He lifted his right hand, and the shadow of a green dragon appeared on his palm. That green dragon threw its head back and roared, then rushed towards Flame Fiends' Progenitor. At the same time, Long Hai flew forward as well.

The one thousand feet tall tree swayed, and cracking sounds rang out. One thousand leaves fell off and turned into one thousand talismans. Then, another thousand leaves went down. When they did, they began burning on their own. As they did so, there was no smoke, but a thick wave of resentment rose up

When it spread out, another thousand leaves drifted down. They turned into human faces that belonged to all sorts of living beings. Piercing roars reverberated in the air, and the three thousand leaves rushed towards Flame Fiends' Progenitor.

"I am the ancestor of all trees. I have existed since the world was created. These three thousand leaves and the three thousand Great Daos in the world. You… how dare you still not submit to me?!" That buzzing sound was like thunder. The three thousand leaves turned into a gigantic battle axe in midair and swung down at Flame Fiends' Progenitor.

When he saw this, a hint of surprise appeared on his face. He sensed the mighty pressure of those in Mastery Realm from the tree, but if it could trap an Almighty in Mastery Realm, so it was clearly impossible for it to be weak.

When Flame Fiends' Progenitor saw the attacks, his pupils contracted, but not a single hint of fear could be detected on him. Instead, he grinned. Without even looking at the incoming Long Hai and the axe formed by the three thousand tree leaves, he pushed his hands against the ground.

After that, he lifted his head and let out a shrill roar towards the sky. A purple sea of fire that surged into the sky instantly erupted from the Flame Fiend's body and rushed down into the ground through his arms.

"So what if you can trap an Almighty in Mastery Realm? If you were a person, I might be wary of you, but you are a tree, and trees… are dependent on the ground. I will burn the ground which serves as your foundation and turn this world into nothingness. I'd like to see how exactly you will make things hard for me when your foundation is gone!" As the Flame Fiend shouted, the ground burned, and a dense sea of fire filled the entire world.

While the ground burned, it started disappearing swiftly. The layers in the sky turned into nothingness. Flame Fiends' Progenitor's flames were his Origin Flames. He was a life form different from Dust Burners, but like them he had emerged from flames as well.

In the blink of an eye, the earth turned into ashes and disappeared. The sky was devoured by emptiness. Within an instant, there was no longer a sky or earth in the world, only a tree that was one thousand feet tall floating around.

The tree had countless roots. Due to the lack of soil, they all started twisting.

Chapter 987: Now

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Progenitor Long Hai's green dragon rushed out from the flames and closed in on the Flame Fiends' Progenitor in the blink of an eye. As the old man laughed ferociously, he lifted his right hand and struck the center of his brows. When he opened his mouth, he coughed up a mouthful of fresh black blood.

It seemed to contain the power of searing heat as well as some sort of strange life. It charged towards the green dragon, and the instant they collided, no bangs shot up. Instead, the black blood seemed to have fused into the green dragon's body. Countless lumps appeared on its skin. Those lumps burst and turned into human faces with black patches. Those faces matched one of the three cultivators in Solar Kalpa Realm whom Flame Fiends' Progenitor devoured just then. They spread out and filled the entire body of the green dragon, reducing it to ashes.

"You're just a tree that no longer has a foundation. How dare you fight against me?!"

As the Flame Fiend laughed ferociously, he looked as if he was about to rush over, but right in front of him, the battle axe formed by three thousand leaves closed in with a bang. Once it swung down, Flame Fiends' Progenitor did not bother dodging, but instead opened his mouth wide and coughed up a mouthful of blood again. That black blood burned in midair and turned into another human face.

That person was also one of the three cultivators in Solar Kalpa Realm. At that moment, with a ferocious expression, he charged at the battle axe formed by the three thousand leaves. With a loud bang, the human face shattered, but the battle axe also shattered with it.

For a time, Flame Fiends' Progenitor enjoyed unlimited splendor. His tactic was incredibly successful. He first pretended to have fallen for the tree's plan and devoured the three cultivators in Solar Kalpa Realm, but in truth, he did not fuse with them. Instead, he gathered the power in their bodies and turned it into his own power.

Then, he burned the ground and the sky in one go. Su Ming remembered Flame Fiends' Progenitor previously seizing the ground with his right hand, and perhaps this was the reason why he could burn the entire world so quickly.

Clearly, Flame Fiends' Progenitor had started making preparations right from the start, and even Su Ming had to be wary of him. He had not been able to see through the old man's actions.

With the act of instantly burning the world, the Flame Fiend destroyed the tree's foundation in one go. Because of it, he seized the upper hand in the battle.

Flame Fiends' Progenitor had only spent a short amount of time thinking about it and had already brought it to action, causing all of this to happen. Based on this, it could be seen that those who had become Almighties were so calculative and intelligent, so quick with their schemes, that it was not something an ordinary person could think match.

If things continued progressing in this manner, then there was an incredibly high chance that Flame Fiends' Progenitor would obtain the treasure in this place and even devour Long Hai. If that was the case, Su Ming would not choose to walk out. He would choose to wait. If no opportunity presented itself for him to attack, then he would have no problems with giving up on the treasure.

As the three thousand leaves shattered, Flame Fiends' Progenitor laughed ferociously and charged towards the tree. He was so quick that he was just about to close in when his pupils suddenly shrank, because he saw no panic or anger in the eyes on the tree's trunk… Instead, there was scorn!

It was the contempt of those who regarded others as below them, a derision mocking Flame Fiends' Progenitor for overestimating himself. It was the omen that caused the old man's expression to change and his heart to let out a loud thump.

"You aren't the first person to do this. In the past, the cultivator named Long Hai also wanted to use this method to kill me… He nearly succeeded, but after him, no one can succeed." A buzzing sound reverberated in the air from within the tree.

"All lives possess fate. This fate is most intriguing and cannot be touched by all except those who have mastered fate…" A voice filled with an ancient air came from the tree. At the instant its words echoed in the air, a strange power seemed to have entered the world.

That power and the words immediately caused Flame Fiends' Progenitor's eyes to go wide. An expression of disbelief appeared on his face, and a wave of terror that he could not hide revealed itself on his face.

"Fate Realm! You're in Fate Realm! Could this not be a dimension with a complementary treasure but a dimension with a supreme treasure?!"

The expression of Flame Fiends' Progenitor changed drastically. Based on his understanding, even the strongest ferocious spirits in the dimensions with complementary treasures were only in Mastery Realm. Only the ferocious spirits in the dimensions with supreme treasures might be powerful beings in Fate Realm.

But everything before his eyes at that moment was something that could not have been known beforehand. Just the difference of one single Realm could make all his previous actions turn into a joke.

Su Ming's heart also shuddered, but his eyes shone swiftly. The Almighty in Fate Realm he understood the most was Heaven Traversers' Progenitor. That person relied on a treasure to move himself to half a step away from Fate Realm.

As a barely noticeable glint shone in Su Ming's eyes, he cast a glance at the three-leafed grass floating above the tree, and a strong hint of desire appeared on his face.

'Unless the tree itself reached Fate Realm, then it must be… this treasure's effect! As for the tree's real level of cultivation… Well, it'll all depend on whether I can cut it with the Execution of Three Evils! If I can cut it, then it means that the treasure serves a critical role!'

Su Ming narrowed his eyes. His gaze landed on the currently rapidly fleeing Flame Fiends' Progenitor, waiting for a chance that would benefit him the most if he attacked.

Flame Fiends' Progenitor retreated swiftly. He knew that he had no chance of striking back with his power when he compared himself to the Almighties in Fate Realm. With his heart in shock, he noticed the strange power contained in the world. This power surrounded him and had already interfered with his perception.

From what he knew, this power could only come from one source… Fate!

"The earth possesses fate, as do the heavens."

When the ancient voice spoke again, the ground that had vanished due to being burned returned. It buried the roots of the tree, and a green tint reappeared in the formerly empty sky. Everything returned to how it had been before.

"Thy fate shalt end!"

At the instant the face on the tree's trunk said those words in a cold voice, Flame Fiends' Progenitor let out a shrill scream of pain. A large amount of fire suddenly erupted from his entire body. While purple flames surged and tumbled about in the area, the voice from the tree echoed once more.

"Fire is thine fate. This fate shalt be thenceforth devoured."

Once these words were spoken, the sea of fire immediately stopped spreading outwards. Instead, it tumbled backwards to burn the body of Flame Fiends' Progenitor.

An incredible expression of terror appeared on the Progenitor's face. As he swiftly retreated, he formed a seal with his hands and struck a few parts of his body. With each strike, he would cough up a mouthful of black blood and become faster.

"Thou shalt be mine second child. So shalt be thine fate."

When the voice from the tree reverberated in the air, Flame Fiends' Progenitor let out a shrill scream of pain. His whole body shuddered. A power that he found difficult to resist surged at him from all directions in an invisible form. It crushed his body, causing him to be unable to move forward. Instead, his body was pulled backwards against his will.

He moved closer to the tree, and a blood-red branch crawled out of the trunk. It closed in on the old Flame Fiend as if it wanted to crawl into his body and turn him into a puppet like Long Hai.

The latter stood by the side with an apathetic expression. He had only released that green dragon and not done anything else. Clearly, the will of the tree believed that it needed to take action personally to deal with this Flame Fiend.

Su Ming was still waiting. He did not believe that Flame Fiends' Progenitor only had these methods at his disposal. If this was true, then even if Su Ming did not attack, he would definitely die.

But if Flame Fiends' Progenitor still had other methods at his disposal, then Su Ming would prepare to deal the finishing blow to him. After all, this person had already showed the intention to kill him due to the yellow-browed man's words. Su Ming could sense the killing intent, and he naturally did not feel any pity for the Progenitor.

When the time came, Su Ming was quite confident about himself being able to escape. This confidence came from the one thousand feet tall tree executing its power of controlling fate to create soil and bury its roots instead of killing the Flame Fiend.

This matter might seem small, but if the tree could control its own fate, then it would naturally not need its foundation. Just like Ecang, due to its existence as a superior life form, it could move about the galaxy without any need for soil to provide nourishment to it.

When Flame Fiends' Progenitor was oppressed by the invisible power around him, his body continuously approaching the tree, he saw the red branch close the distance to less than one thousand feet away from him.

A resolute look then appeared on his face. He gritted his teeth and lifted his right hand to strike the center of his brows again. This time, he did not cough up black blood, but a loud bang shot up from his body, and during that instant, he swelled up rapidly.

This was not him self-destructing. Instead, once his body swelled up, countless runic symbols appeared on his skin. These runic symbols were like tadpoles. Once they appeared, they started swimming about his body as if they were alive. A powerful presence immediately erupted from the Progenitor's body.

At the same time, beyond the fifth kiln and in the planet where Flame Fiends lived were an innumerable number of Flame Fiends shuddering. They coughed up blood as their bodies withered, and some of them immediately fell to the ground burning to ashes before leaving a puddle of blood. In a short while, most of the Flame Fiends died.

This was Flame Fiends' Progenitor activating the divine ability of his race. He had discreetly absorbed his people's lives in exchange for a moment when he could be at his strongest.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Intense bangs shook the world. Even if there was someone several dimensions away from the place, they would still have been able to hear it. At that moment, black blood gushed out of the Progenitor's body before everyone's eyes. That blood spread out ceaselessly and turned into a layer of black blood fog. It contained a powerful corrosive power that even corroded space. All forms of power, including the existence of fate, were halted in that blood fog before they were forcefully cut off.

The one thousand feet tall tree let out an enraged roar. The face on the trunk showed a refusal to accept what was going on, but the tree itself could not move. As the blood fog tumbled about, it blocked off its power of fate and even caused its connection with the puppet Long Hai to be cut off for a moment.

The tree could only watch helplessly as the Flame Fiend escaped.

Once Flame Fiends' Progenitor swelled up several hundreds of times his original size, he managed to free himself of the binds created by the power of fate around him. With a shrill scream and a heinous amount of resentment, he rushed forward.

His power was falling swiftly. This was the result of him having executed the previous divine ability. However, if he could escape from this place and find a spot where he could isolate himself to heal for a few days, he could recover.

However, right at the instant he escaped, killing intent appeared in Su Ming's eyes.

'Now!'

Chapter 988: A Puny Shoot

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Killing intent shone in Su Ming's eyes, and with one swift move, he came out of hiding. His appearance did not cause the one thousand feet tall tree any surprise. Clearly, it had noticed his presence before. After all, when Su Ming entered the dimension earlier, he had not hidden himself.

However, Flame Fiends' Progenitor did not expect that Su Ming was hiding in this place.

This was what it meant to get out of a frying pan and into the fire. Flame Fiends' Progenitor might have escaped, but his power was swiftly falling. At the instant he sensed the killing intent behind him, he saw Su Ming swiftly rushing towards him!

In just a flash, Su Ming caught up. This was not his own speed, but the Resentful Wei executing its extreme speed. At the instant they closed in, Su Ming lifted his right hand. The power of Ecang within him gathered, and he also took away Xuan Shang, Yun You, Nian Yin, and Hua Yu's power, who could do nothing about it. All these forces of power gathered on his palm, and he pushed it in the direction of Flame Fiends' Progenitor through the air.

The world roared. Su Ming's strike turned into a whirlwind that charged towards the Progenitor with a loud bang, and madness appeared in the old man's eyes. As he shouted, a fierce note manifested in his voice. When he saw that he was about to be swallowed up by the whirlwind, a look as if he was about to risk everything showed up on his face. He pressed his hands on his chest and tore it outwards.

With it… he tore his body into half. Half of him continued running, and the other rushed to Su Ming, then chose to self-destruct!

Flame Fiends' Progenitor was an Almighty in Mastery Realm, yet he was forced to an extent that he had to self-destruct. If this news went out, Su Ming's name would ring through the universe.

In truth, this was not all of his own doing. The main reason behind it was the existence of the one thousand feet tall tree. It had heavily injured the Flame Fiend beforehand, and with Su Ming's body formed by the supreme treasure as well as the Resentful Wei, he was able to do this.

However, if he had hidden for so long only to destroy half of Flame Fiends' Progenitor's body, then he Su Ming would end up with a huge threat to his future. There was no way he would be willing to accept this. Since he had already attacked, he would do his best to kill the other.

The self-destruction of half of the Progenitor's body caused a loud bang to surge into the sky. At the instant the destructive ripples spread out, a glint appeared in the Resentful Wei's eyes. The two dragon heads roared and rushed towards the ripples brought by the Progenitor's self-destruction.

A black sea of fire formed by resentment swept out in all directions and instantly swallowed up the impact formed by the Progenitor's self-destruction, making it so that it could not spread out. At the same time, Su Ming let out a long roar, and the full force of his power erupted from his body. He even called forth his Ecang clone, causing his combat power to reach its peak during that instant. With one step, he disappeared from the spot.

During the instant the explosive power was halted, Su Ming's foot landed on air, and he left the area of the explosion to appear behind Flame Fiends' Progenitor who now only had half his body and was already far into the distance. He had already found the exit and was about to enter it.

"Stay here!" Killing intent shone in Su Ming's eyes. As he spoke, he lifted his right hand, then seized the air in the direction of Flame Fiends' Progenitor, who was just about to leave.

With it, the body of Flame Fiends' Progenitor trembled. When he whipped his head around, strong resentment and wariness appeared in his eyes as he looked at Su Ming. He knew that if he did not discard his body, then it would be impossible for him to leave this place on this day. Compared to his life, everything else was nothing.

Without any hesitation, Flame Fiends' Progenitor threw his head back and roared. A red spot appeared at the center of his brows. It went backwards and shot through the Progenitor's skull, then flew out of the back of his head. It showed up to be a red jade!

That jade only appeared for a moment before it turned into a semi-transparent shadow. Naturally, that shadow was in the image of Flame Fiends�� Progenitor. This was clearly his Nascent Divinity!

His Nascent Divinity had left his body!

At that moment, the remaining half of his body exploded with a bang. This was Flame Fiends' Progenitor sparing no pains in having in getting injured to block Su Ming with the power of the self-destruction and at the same time having his Nascent Divinity borrow the impact from the explosion to be pushed into the exit.

This act of discarding the body and the resolution within caused Su Ming's pupils to shrink. As a booming sound surged into the sky, his right hand crashed into the explosion brought by the remaining half of the Progenitor's body.

Su Ming staggered a few steps back. When he lifted his head, he saw the Nascent Divinity's almost crumbling form disappear in the distortions which formed the exit of the dimension.

What welcomed him there was the loss of one thousand years while he was moving through the dimensions. He, who only had his Nascent Divinity left, would definitely be injured badly when those one thousand years flowed away. Since he no longer had a body and life force to be absorbed, then what would be absorbed would be the essence in his Nascent Divinity.

If he was lucky enough to survive this encounter, he would no longer be Flame Fiends' Progenitor of before, but would be incredibly weakened.

The gaps between the dimensions were endless and insubstantial, and they might not even lead into the same region. Because of it, the thought of chasing after the Progenitor only appeared briefly in Su Ming's mind before he gave up on it.

He swung his arm to wave away the smoke, and only then did he see a red beast skin pouch where the remainder of the Progenitor's body had self-destructed. He seized the air with his right hand, and the beast skin pouch immediately flew to him. Once Su Ming caught it, he turned his head around and looked at the tree and the Resentful Wei.

The explosion where the Resentful Wei was had already ended. The horse moved and appeared beside Su Ming. It looked slightly tired, but it was not injured.

At that moment, Su Ming stood beside the dimension's exit. It could be said that he had seized the initiative in his hand. Even if he wanted to leave, with just one step, he could do so.

He stared at the one thousand feet tall tree in the distance, and the tree was also staring at Su Ming through the gradually dissipating blood fog. By its side was Progenitor Long Hai.

At the instant Su Ming met the tree's stare and then averted his gaze to look at Progenitor Long Hai, a faint voice suddenly reaching his heart. That voice drifted about, and there was anxiety as well as a strong wave of desire in it.

"Fellow Daoist, save me! I am Long Hai, and I come from True Morning Dao World. My soul was seized by this devilish tree, and I lost myself… Now, with the blood fog Flame Fiends' Progenitor brought forth, the connection between me and the tree has been cut off temporarily, and I was able to regain my mind. Save me…

"I, Long Hai, swear by my power as a Master of Fate, Lives, and Death that no matter whether you choose to save me or not, if I regain my freedom, then I will acknowledge you as my master. If I go against my oath, then my Nascent Divinity will scatter into the universe, and all generations of the Long Family will die!" As Long Hai said these words, a strange connection suddenly appeared in the depths of Su Ming's heart.

This connection was faint and indistinct, and it drifted about just like the voice.

"An oath from a person in Mastery Realm!" Xu Hui immediately said swiftly. Long Hai's voice, which had traveled into Su Ming's mind, had also been heard by Xu Hui, Xuan Shang, Yun You, Nian Yin, and Hua Yu. Xu Hui clearly became agitated.

"This oath cannot be made easily. Not only did he swear it, he even activated the indistinct fate lingering all around us. It has already been branded in the universe and has turned into a promise!

"Progenitor Long Hai… what resolute courage!"

As Xu Hui spoke, Su Ming narrowed his eyes into slits. A brilliant light shone within them. It was just as Xu Hui said, this Progenitor Long Hai was indeed incredibly courageous. This was clearly a rare moment when he could be conscious, which was why he seized it, and without even waiting to see whether Su Ming would agree to his request, he handed Su Ming everything about himself and swore the oath.

This was him using the fastest time and the shortest amount of words necessary to show his greatest sincerity. He was clearly worried that Su Ming would not believe in his words and he would miss this opportunity, which was why… he decided to spare no pains and give up everything about himself!

Because of it, he could instantly obtain Su Ming's trust, causing his request for help to turn into a temptation. This temptation was the thought of having a Master of Fate, Lives, and Death serving as a guard from then on. It also caused the matter of saving Long Hai to turn from being important to only Long Hai to become equally important to Su Ming.

The change in his thoughts, the appearance of these words, and the swearing of this oath made it clear that Progenitor Long Hai was indeed an Almighty in Mastery Realm. If it had been anyone else, they might have spent a long amount of time in obtaining each other's trust, and since this had nothing to do with Su Ming, there was a high possibility that he would have just turned around and left. Even if he attacked, he would feel as if he was doing it for someone else, so once any danger appeared, he would immediately give up.

But now, it was completely different.

Su Ming pondered over it quietly for a moment before a cold sneer appeared on his lips. He swiftly appeared beside the one thousand feet tall tree and took a step forward. Before he could close in, the one thousand feet tall tree swayed, and the eyes on the trunk stared at Su Ming with a dark light.

"You didn't choose to leave? Then stay."

Buzzing sounds reverberated in the air. The one thousand foot tall tree started swaying intensely, and numerous leaves floated into the air. There were three thousand of them, and they were gathering together to form a long sword. As they charged forward, they moved away from the disappearing blood fog and straight at Su Ming.

"These three thousand leaves signify the three thousand Great Daos. Within them are three thousand fates. This fate is too intriguing and mysterious for words, and this fate is how I, the ancestor of all trees, will bring about the rise and fall of fate!"

The buzzing from the one thousand feet tall tree reverberated in the air, and the long sword formed by the three thousand leaves immediately appeared in front of Su Ming as if it had sliced through space.

A piercingly cold glare appeared in Su Ming's eyes.

"You are just an impostor who pretends to be in Fate Realm. How dare you say you're in the Realm of the Rise and Fall of Fate?!" Su Ming let out a cold snort. At the instant the long sword formed by leaves closed in on him, he lifted his right hand and slashed down with it.

The Execution of Three Evils!

The entire world looked as if it had been cut by a sharp blade before Su Ming. The slash landed on the incoming sword made of leaves. With a bang, a loud bang surged into the sky, and the sword formed by leaves crumbled.

The eyes on the tree focused, and at the same time, with a proud air as if he was looking down at the world, Su Ming's voice echoed in the world.

"You puny shoot, how dare you call yourself ancestor before me?!"

As Su Ming's words echoed in the air, the full force of Ecang's presence erupted from the body of the supreme treasure Su Ming controlled, without a single hint of it being held back. The appearance of Ecang's presence swept up the sky, the air, and caused the world to look as if it had been overturned.

His presence was filled with an untamed, arrogant, domineering air, along with a madness that said he looked down on all lives, as well as an indescribable malice!

The tree's expression instantly changed drastically!

Chapter 989: He… Isn't Dead?

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

At that moment, Xuan Shang, Yun You, Nian Yin, and Hua Yu, who were in the body of the supreme treasure Su Ming controlled, felt shock in their hearts. They could vaguely sense a presence that suffocated them rising from Su Ming.

This presence caused them to feel that their hearts and minds had been greatly limited, as if ten thousand mountains had fallen on their heads, as if it had become difficult for even form any thoughts in their heads.

This was not the first time they sensed this. In truth, when the sea of fire had erupted beyond the fifth kiln and Su Ming was in the process of taming the Resentful Wei in the vortex in the world, they had sensed the same thing.

However, the feeling at that time was much more inferior to the one they felt now. At this moment, the madness, dominance, wildness, and the endless malice spreading out from Su Ming's body caused Xuan Shang, Yun You, Nian Yin, and Hua Yu's minds to tremble. Their souls were greatly suppressed.

In fact, they had a feeling in them that refused to disappear: If Su Ming wanted to destroy them, they would have no way of fighting back at all. They would be instantly devoured!

This was a form of powerlessness akin to them running into their mortal enemy, as if… they had become ants before Su Ming, and he was a universe that devoured ants to live!

The feeling Xu Hui had was slightly weaker than what Xuan Shang, Yun You, Nian Yin, and Hua Yu felt, but she was similarly shocked, but terror did not appear in her heart. Instead, there was only great wave of submission within her.

Submitting to a powerful warrior to the point that not a single desire to fight back could rise in her. This was the state of Xu Hui's heart at that moment.

However, only they, who were in the body of the supreme treasure Su Ming controlled, could sense it. If there was anyone else in the dimension at that moment, they would see that Su Ming's hair was dancing while he stood in space, the presence and mighty pressure spreading out from his body forming endless distortions around him. Those distortions spread through the sky and earth, filling the entire dimension.

When all of this landed in the tree's eyes, it saw a whole different thing. It experienced shock and disbelief that it had never felt before.

In its eyes, in the endless distortions surrounding Su Ming was a gigantic shadow. This shadow was like a tree – a tree that brought with it pride, arrogance, and a madness as if it was proclaiming that it was above all in the universe.

As for the malice that filled the dimension, in the tree's eyes, it was endless branches that had no end. And during that moment, it was shocked to see the entire world replaced by that vast tree.

All of this caused the tree's body to shudder, all one thousand feet of it. It swayed about violently. A monstrously huge wave rose in its heart, as if a storm raged there. It caused its mind to almost break down from disbelief.

It had always believed that it was the ancestor of all trees in the universe. This was something it believed without a doubt, but in the depths of its heart, it knew that if there was a tree that could surpass it in the universe, it was an existence that it longed to become and it was…

The legendary, true ancestor of all trees… and also the only existence that could call it a shoot!

"Ecang!" The shocked voice from the one thousand feet tall tree instantly reverberated in all directions. Its body swayed, and the leaves on its crown drifted down as it watched the scene before itself in shock.

"You're just a tiny little shoot, how dare you call yourself the ancestor of trees before me?!" Killing intent shone in Su Ming's eyes. He took a step forward, and with it, the world roared, and his presence pressed down on the tree with viciousness.

It was just a simple step, but to the one thousand feet tall tree, this was a vast tree that occupied the entire universe roaring at it. That roar brought forth a suppression to its soul, along with terror.

"How dare you act presumptuously?"

Su Ming took another step forward. When he raised his right hand, he slashed at the tree, and with it, the power of the Execution of Three Evils filled the air. When he cut down at the tree, the ground beneath the tree crumbled and was disassembled while shuddering, turning into nothingness.

This tree was formed by the tree's laws of fate, and if one slash from Su Ming's Execution of Three Evils could cut the fate of Heaven Traversers' Progenitor, there was no way the ground formed by the laws of fate by the small shoot would not crumble! His strike was the arch nemesis for all forms of fate that did not originate from a person.

"How dare you not worship me?!"

Su Ming took his third step forward. When he did so, he executed the third slash of the Execution of Three Evils, and the area around the one thousand feet tall shoot instantly turned into nothing. This was Su Ming cutting away all the laws of fate on the ground, causing it to be segregated from the dimension around it so that it could no longer use its ability that belonged to the Fate Realm.

With a bang, the one thousand feet tall tree shuddered, and almost all of its leaves fell. It also looked as if its whole body was about to explode. This was because it had its fate cut off, when Su Ming forcefully suppressed it!

This was not a suppression on its power. This was a suppression on its soul and its presence, based on a suppression from similar life forms—trees!

If it was any other cultivator, then only if their power was greater than this tree would they be able to use this method to suppress the tree. If they did not have a greater level of cultivation than the tree, they would definitely be unable to suppress it till it was trembling, even if they were at the same level of cultivation.

However, Su Ming was different. He was not suppressing the tree's power, but was using his Ecang clone's presence, life form status, and might as the ancestor of all trees, which would make all trees in the universe shudder and obey him.

Compared to Su Ming's Ecang clone, the one hundred thousand feet tall tree was just a small shoot!

As it trembled, Su Ming closed in on it with three steps, and the one hundred thousand feet tall tree gave up on all forms of resistance. It had to give up. All the laws of fate had already been cut off. The suppression on its soul caused it to be unable to struggle and fight back, and the respect it harbored in its heart towards a legendary existence like Ecang caused its mind to almost break down.

It did not expect that it would run into the true ancestor of trees as well as the existence it longed the most to become—Ecang!

It was like a cat had thought itself to have become a tiger, but when it ran into a real tiger, it would lose all of its will to fight back due to the great shock.

"I, Treant Ta Luo, greet… Progenitor Ecang!"

All the leaves from the one thousand feet tall tree fell off. Only the three-leafed grass remained on the tree's crown. At the same time it shone with a green light, the branches from the one thousand feet tree twisted about and slanted downwards. A red branch also swiftly crawled out from the trunk. This branch stretched out, and a red leaf quickly grew on it. This could be said to be the highest form of worship for a Treant.

The fall of leaves symbolized the tree prostrating itself and showing complete submission. The trunk bending over symbolized an unparalleled respect, and that red branch that stretched out was the manifestation of the tree's soul. As for the red tree leaf that grew out of the branch… that was the true form of the tree's soul!

It brought its soul out, and it even lifted up the red leaf before Su Ming. From the distance, if anyone likened this tree to a person, then it would like a man kneeling down in front of Su Ming respectfully, his right hand lifted while he lowered his head. His palm was facing upwards, as if this was a strange ceremony and he was waiting for something.

Su Ming's expression was calm. He could sense the tree's submission. This was the embodiment of being suppressed by Ecang. When he walked closer, the will from his Ecang clone and the ancient memories existing in Ecang's soul caused him to instantly understand what the one thousand feet tall tree was waiting for with this ceremony.

He lifted his right hand and placed it gently on the red leaf.

At the instant he touched it, Su Ming sensed the tree's soul, and the tree's soul also sensed the pure Ecang presence from Su Ming. It also sensed a ripple of power hidden under the presence that caused its expression to change drastically. It was this ripple that made the one thousand feet tree shudder again. It straightened its trunk swiftly, and when it looked at Su Ming, there was a great wave of terror and a shock that surpassed what it had previously revealed in its eyes.

"You… You…" While the one thousand feet tall tree shuddered, its trunk quickly twisted and started changing ceaselessly in front of Su Ming. In the blink of an eye, it turned into a man and bowed deeply at Su Ming. He raised his hands and brought up the three-leafed grass to respectfully hand it over to him.

"I, Treant Ta Luo, have been protecting this treasure for ages, and I have been waiting for your arrival. You have finally come! I will obey the will of the fifth kiln's previous master, and whatever your will shall be, it will be the driving force for our lives!"

A glint shone in Su Ming's eyes, and he stared at the man formed by the shoot in front of him coldly.

"What have you noticed?" Su Ming asked faintly.

"You are Progenitor Ecang, but you are also not Progenitor Ecang. You are… the master of the fifth kiln!"

Terror appeared on the man's face, but there was also zealousness. His gaze made it seem as if with just one sentence from Su Ming, he could be driven into a frenzy.

The words he said caused the brilliant light in Su Ming's eyes to become even brighter.

Even though he was already prepared for it, he still lifted his head and looked up. Echoing in his mind were the words from Dust Burners' Progenitor.

Su Xuan Yi was the previous master of the fifth kiln, and only his cursed son would have the right to become the new master of the fifth kiln.

Su Ming stared at the air in silence for a long, long time, then sighed in his heart, but soon, once he sighed, his eyes focused. Once he pondered over the man's words carefully, a fierce look appeared in his eyes.

"Did you just say that you have been waiting for me, and I have finally come?"

"It is not just me. All the living creatures in the fifth kiln have been waiting for you, for the scion of the previous master to become the new master of the fifth kiln." The man lifted his head and looked at Su Ming with fervent zeal.

"Who told you that I would come?" Su Ming asked calmly, but in that calm voice was a thought that had never appeared before in his head. This thought caused his breathing to quicken, and he seemed to have understood everything within an instant.

"When our old master came to the kiln the final time, fatigued, he delivered his will to all the existences in the kiln and told us… to continue waiting. His child will come to the fifth kiln many years later!"

A loud bang rang out in Su Ming's head. His body trembled faintly, and his eyes sparkled.

'He… isn't dead?' That thought that caused his breathing to quicken formed into three words when the bang rumbled in his head, and those words echoed ceaselessly in his mind.

Chapter 990: Su Ming's Nervousness

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Su Ming remained silent for a time, then looked at the man in front of him and lifted his right hand to take the three-leaved grass that was shining with a thick green hue. He did not even have the urge to check the treasure, and with an apathetic expression put it away.

"Release Long Hai's soul," Su Ming said faintly.

Without any hesitation, the man that was the one thousand feet tall tree closed his eyes and then reopened them. Immediately, a crack appeared at the center of his brows. Everything within it was dark, before a ball of dark light flew out. That was a Nascent Divinity. Once it left the crack between the centre of the man's brows, it immediately turned into an old man.

The old man's face was filled with excitement. His Nascent Divinity shuddered, and his thoughts surged up in his head like waves. For a moment, all the things it went through for the past ten thousand years flashed through his mind.

He once thought that he would live the rest of his life as a puppet. In fact, while he lived without any freedom, he was not even be able to control his own death. He could only wait for a long, long period of time. This pain was enough to make a person break down, and his experience was not like those shared by the people who were in Ecang's foreign land. After all, they had their memories accompanying them and had hope placed before them.

However, the old man had nothing. If he was not an Almighty who was a Master of Fate, Lives, and Death and had a willpower that normal people would not possess, then during those ten thousand years, he would have lost himself a long time ago.

"Fulfill the promise you have not completed fully." Su Ming's voice interrupted the thoughts in the old man's heart. His Nascent Divinity floated in front of Su Ming, and when he heard it, he looked over, then after remaining silent for about the span of two breaths, he wrapped his fist in his palm and bowed deeply to Su Ming.

"I, Long Hai, am willing to protect you for ten thousand years to repay you for saving my life. My words are my oath, and now that I have said it, I will definitely fulfill my words!" As he bowed, the indistinct connection instantly became clear and fused into his heart.

This connection might not allow Su Ming to control Progenitor Long Hai, but it was an oath. If Progenitor Long Hai did not fulfill it, he would be suppressed by the entire universe. After all, this oath was sworn with his cultivation base.

In truth, the main point behind why Su Ming chose to save Progenitor Long Hai was because… he came from True Morning Dao World. After all, Su Ming had Possessed Dao Kong and also indirectly received the kismet from True Morning Dao World gathered on Dao Kong. Since he had also ruined the kismet gathered on Ye Wang, he became the one and only person to have this kismet on him.

Because of it, while changes might occur in the oaths from the cultivators who hailed from other True Worlds, but if those from True Morning Dao World swore to the person who was loved by the entire True World, then the oath would naturally not be so easily changed.

Su Ming cast Long Hai a glance, then swung his arm. Immediately, Progenitor Long Hai's Nascent Divinity charged over. Long Hai did not resist, but instead let himself be brought forward. At the instant he touched Su Ming's body, he fused into him, stepped into the supreme treasure, and turned into the seventh soul within it.

"Xuan Family's supreme treasure…" As Progenitor Long Hai's eyes began to shine, he immediately noticed the others' souls around him.

"You know this item?" Su Ming sent his thought to him.

"I went to the Xuan Family in the past and am on rather familiar terms with their Progenitor, which is why I know about this treasure." As Progenitor Long Hai spoke, Su Ming controlled the body to cast his eyes at the man that was the one hundred thousand feet tall tree in front of him.

The man remained kneeling in the air respectfully. The zealousness on his expression was as great as ever.

Su Ming remained silent for some time before asking calmly, ."Can you leave this dimension?"

"I can't leave. Unless you step into the core of the fifth kiln and truly become the fifth kiln's master… and also repair the fifth kiln. Only then will we be able to venture out," the man immediately replied.

Su Ming fell silent again for a moment before he nodded towards the man. Under his respectful gaze, Su Ming turned around and walked into the distance. With one step, he arrived near the exit of the dimension, but then, his footsteps came to a halt.

However, he did not turn his head around. After a slight pause, he took a step into the exit and walked into the crack in the dimension before he disappeared from the place.

This time, Su Ming did not pay any attention to the loss of one thousand years. Once he stepped into the crack, he closed his eyes.

When he did so, the voice from Dust Burners' Progenitor echoed in his head again.

"The baby in his wife's stomach was cursed…

"Su Xuan Yi used all his divine abilities, but he could only make it so that the curse would not worsen. He could not dispel it…

"Until one day, he took his wife and left the place. We don't know where he went…

"The fifth kiln has two masters. Su Xuan Yi is the second one, but in truth, there is a third master. That is his son, but that person… has still not arrived."

Su Ming moved about in the dimension's crack. His expression remained the same as ever, but his shut eyes hid the complicated emotions in his heart which were born from his thoughts. They also hid the words the man that was the one thousand feet tall tree had said just then.

"When our old master came to the kiln the final time, fatigued, he delivered his will to all the existences in the kiln and told us… to continue waiting. His child will come to the fifth kiln many years later!"

With a complicated expression on his face, Su Ming opened his eyes and looked at the time flowing away. He did not bother about the loss of years. Understanding appeared in his eyes, but the complicated emotions that accompanied this understanding were filled with grief that no one could understand.

He seemed to be able to vaguely envision Su Xuan Yi taking his wife and borrowing the fifth kiln's power in dismay, then leaving the Fifth True World when it was destroyed by the four Great True Worlds working together.

In Divine Essence Star Ocean, he saw the baby in his wife's body continuously tortured by the curse and watched his wife gradually becoming thinner and weaker, and his heart was filled with grief, but he could do nothing about it. He had used every method that he could and every divine ability he possessed, but he still could not neutralize the curse from which his child suffered.

Many years later, he took his wife and left. He should have found a method that could make the curse on the baby disappear, and with excitement as well as hope, he walked out of Divine Essence Star Ocean.

However, complications happened during the process. When they were passing by True Morning Dao World, a great change occurred. Dao Chen's greed and the chase by the entire Morning Dao Sect caused him, who had continuously given up his cultivation base and other sort of things over the years for his wife and his son, to be incredibly tired, and to protect his wife and son, he could not bring out his true power.

During that battle… his wife died. In extreme grief, he went mad and let out a long string of shrill laughter towards the heavens. In that laughter were tears, along with a madness that longed to destroy the world and shatter the universe.

Once he declared that Morning Dao World would be made for Abyss, he… disappeared.

Perhaps… at that time, he had also given up on the method that he originally wanted to use to get rid of the curse in the baby's body. Instead, he chose another path.

He should have succeeded in his path, or else why would he have returned to the fifth kiln with fatigue in his bones then said such words to the living beings there.

His sentence clearly showed that he had been separated from his son, but he was certain that he would some day come back to the fifth kiln and find traces of his whereabouts in this place.

The grief on Su Ming's face was mixed with complicated emotions as well as confusion. He was unfamiliar with the term 'father'. When he was young, he saw that all his companions had fathers when he was in the tribe, but he did not. He had been sad before and once asked his elder about it, but he never obtained his answer.

He had always thought that he was a child that was picked up somewhere. This might have been a thought within him when he was a child, but it had accompanied him for thousands of years. When he thought back to it, he could still sense the envy and anguish in his heart at that time.

He was envious that other people had mothers and fathers, but he did not.

'When… he fought against Dao Chen in the past, his wife died… and he went mad… but he insisted on returning to the fifth kiln… Did he just come back to say these words? Or did he choose… to come here to heal?' Su Ming looked at the crack around him, then at the years of his life disappearing from him, and he fell silent.

'If he is healing here, then could it be… that he is currently in the fifth kiln?!' A strange light rose in Su Ming's eyes. This thought caused him to be unable to control his own emotions.

'Or perhaps…' Su Ming shuddered. He had another guess. This guess was based on the vitality and life force that was absorbed by the cracks in the dimensions.

'When he returned in the past, he was not alone. Instead, he held onto a corpse, a woman's corpse, which was his wife…

'He returned to the fifth kiln and placed his wife at the core, then changed the structure inside the fifth kiln. He had Dust Burners execute a plan that would last for ages, causing the fifth kiln to be activated often, and he used the supreme treasures in this land to attract numerous powerful warriors.

'He made them fight over the supreme treasures and move through the dimensions while they offered up a large amount of their life, and he used it… to revive his wife!' Su Ming trembled. This thought continuously spun in his head until it became everything in his mind.

'Which of these guesses is real?' Su Ming closed his eyes.

After a long time, when he walked out of the crack and stepped into another dimension, he opened his eyes. The complicated emotions remained on his face, but the lost look in his eyes was now mixed… with a nervousness that came from his heart!

This nervousness was not due to excitement or fear, but because he had remembered the woman who held him in her arms when he was still an infant. She had appeared in the illusion dug out from the depths of his memories when he was in Western Ring Nebula's foreign land. That unfamiliar but warm feeling as well as the insistence of protecting the child even in death was branded into Su Ming's life and became a mark that would not fade away.

That unfamiliarity and warmth turned into a faint murmur by Su Ming's ears at that moment.

"Su…" Su Ming shuddered and lifted his head. He did not look at the world in the dimension, but at the universe.

"Is it you…" he mumbled.

Chapter 991: Killing Intent

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Within the many dimensions in the fifth kiln were three borders. They were like boundary lines that divided the fifth kiln into four regions.

These borders were formed by a ring of floating platforms, and each one of them was known as Spirit Trudging Platform.

At that moment, there were six platforms shining with a faint light. They were connected together, and could be seen from the distance. As for the other platforms, they were shrouded by a layer of fog, making it so people would be unable to see them clearly and tell what precisely was on them.

Six shining Spirit Trudging Platforms meant that there were six people who had stepped into the fifth kiln. If more people arrived, then more Spirit Trudging Platforms would be revealed from their indistinct state.

This was the curious aspect about the fifth kiln. It seemed to possess life and could sense the number of people who stepped in it, then use Spirit Trudging Platforms by the three borders to show their number. If anyone died, their Spirit Trudging Platform would disappear.

At that moment, there were two people who were sitting and meditating on two of the six Spirit Trudging Platforms. Needless to say, they were Reverend Zi Long and the yellow-browed man.

Their levels of cultivation were the highest, which was why they were the faster to move through the dimensions in the outer layer and arrive at the third level's border. They had been waiting in this place for a long time.

The two of them did not choose to continue moving forward, but chose to wait for the others. To them, the dimensions beyond the third level's border might be mixed up, but as long as their luck was not too bad, then with their power, they should not die. At most, they would spend different amounts of time to reach this place.

Based on their speculations, with just one more day, the others should be able to arrive one after another.

But just then, while the yellow-browed man and Reverend Zi Long were meditating with their eyes closed and not speaking to each other, because of which the area was in a state of silence, light started to shine around the third platform.

The flashing light instantly caused the space around them to brighten up, and it made Reverend Zi Long to open his eyes with a hint of surprise within them.

The yellow-browed man on the other platform also opened his eyes. His gaze fell on the flashing platform, and though his expression remained the same, his heart was also filled with curiosity. He wondered who would be the third after him and Zi Long to arrive in this place and who was clearly slightly earlier from their estimated time.

When the both of them looked over, the flashing light from the third platform instantly reached its brightest. As it flashed rapidly, it looked as if even the platform had descended into a state of chaos, continuously changing from a state of being an illusion to being something real.

After a moment, an indistinct figure appeared out of thin air and slowly gained corporeal form… Based on the figure's outline, Zi Long and the yellow-browed man could tell that this was not Zhu You Cai or Flame Fiends' Progenitor.

This could only be the white-robed teenager that was the centipede or Su Ming, who was the weakest among them in terms of their level of cultivation but seemed to possess some sort of mystery.

When that figure gained complete physical form several breaths later, Su Ming stood on the platform. His expression was apathetic, and there was not a hint of emotion about him. He looked around him in silence then sat down cross-legged in silence.

Su Ming's appearance immediately caused a sparkle to appear in the yellow-browed man's eyes. This was the second time he paid attention to this person who did not speak much in front of him.

The first time was during the previous gamble, but compared to this time, the attention he paid to him during the previous gamble was somewhat insignificant. The yellow-browed man cast Su Ming a deep glance. He knew that if luck could be used to explain why Su Ming arrived earlier during the gamble, then when he became the third person to walk out this time, it was enough to prove his strength.

For all people with power, no matter where they were, they could receive respect. The yellow-browed man fell into contemplative silence for a moment before he swept his gaze past Su Ming's body, and some thoughts formed in his head.

Once Zi Long saw that the person who walked out was Su Ming, his eyes instantly focused, but he did not say anything. Instead, he closed his eyes again and began meditating.

It was very quiet. Su Ming and the other two were all sitting cross-legged. None of them spoke. Su Ming lifted his head to look at the air. He watched the fog tumbling about, creating a cloudy look, and he recalled the two guesses he'd made.

No matter which one was correct, to him, this time, his trip to the fifth kiln would no doubt become a brand that would not be destroyed in his life.

Su Ming closed his eyes. He still had no answer to this matter, but he knew clearly that as he got closer to the core of the fifth kiln, more and more of his questions would be answered.

It would continue becoming clearer until he saw everything distinctly, and he would see… which of his two guesses were correct.

As Su Ming meditated, time trickled by slowly. When about a day passed, light shone from the fourth platform. Just like when Su Ming appeared previously, when the light from the fourth platform reached its brightest, an indistinct figure appeared inside.

Before that figure became clear, the fifth platform started shining as well, and an indistinct figure appeared there too.

As the two platforms shone, the area was basked in alternating shades of light and dark. Several breaths later, Zhu You Cai stepped onto the fourth platform. His body was incredibly large. When his foot landed on the platform, it shuddered.

Once he appeared, he immediately looked towards the shining fifth platform, but surprise soon appeared in his eyes. On the fifth platform, the white-robed teenager who was the centipede took shape.

When Zhu You Cai looked over, the white-robed teenager also met his gaze. Once the two of them exchanged glances, they did not speak, but looked around them at the same time. The yellow-browed man and Reverend Zi Long's figures did not cause much changes in their expressions, but when they saw Su Ming, their pupils contracted.

Su Ming was on the third platform and did not open his eyes because of the light flashing from the fourth and the fifth platform. However, when Zhu You Cai and the white-robed teenager looked over in his direction, he seemed to have noticed it and opened his eyes, then looked back in a brusque manner. There was an aloof and indifferent look contained in his eyes.

Zhu You Cai's eyes shone, and he chose to avoid his gaze. He did not look at Su Ming for too long and sat down cross-legged before he trained his eyes towards the empty sixth platform. He was slightly puzzled in his heart. What exactly had happened to Flame Fiends' Progenitor that prevented him from rushing over here for so long?

As for the white-robed teenager, he flashed Su Ming a well-intentioned smile before wrapping his fist in his palm as a greeting to him. Once he did so, he sat down and seized the air with his right hand. The catwoman immediately appeared. She looked thin and haggard, and the bite marks on her neck had already turned pitch black, but her eyes remained apathetic, as if she had lost her soul.

The white-robed teenager bit down on her neck again. Su Ming watched this scene with a cold gaze. Though his expression did not change, the people in the body formed by the supreme treasure all sensed a killing intent coming from Su Ming's soul.

This killing intent caused their souls to chill. Only Progenitor Long Hai thought of something when he saw the catwoman. In truth, when he fused into the body formed by the supreme treasure earlier, he noticed Xu Hui, and once he did so, a number of guesses had already formed in his heart. Progenitor Long Hai might not have seen Xu Hui before, but her presence and the unique cultivation method that belonged to Phoenix Sect could naturally not be hidden from him.

'Phoenix Sect's Sacred Lady… Supreme treasure from the Xuan Family, and this catwoman who has clearly been struck by Phoenix Sect's Transformation Curse… and he could even make that damn tree worship him. Just… who is this person?' Progenitor Long Hai's expression remained as impassive as ever, but he was already beginning to guess Su Ming's status.

Su Ming watched the white-robed teenager absorb the catwoman's blood and essence. Even though this woman did not have too much of a connection to him, she had called him her master. Since he replaced everything about Dao Kong, then with how protective Su Ming was of his friends and family, this was enough for his killing intent to rise.

If it was not because the white-robed teenager was clearly with Reverend Zi Long and Su Ming would not only not be able to achieve his goal but even be in danger if he attacked, he would have struck a long time ago.

At that moment, he swept his gaze past the white-robed teenager. His expression remained the same and no one else could tell that he had the desire to kill him. Since he could scheme against Flame Fiends' Progenitor who clearly harbored malicious intent towards him, he could naturally use a similar method to kill another person.

So what if he was… a Master of Fate, Lives, and Death?!

If Su Ming brought out his full power and had Progenitor Long Hai attack at full force, then this would no longer be just the power of Masters of Fate, Lives, and Death. Instead… he would truly possess power that belonged to a Master of Fate, Lives, and Death. This was also part of the reason why Su Ming had saved Progenitor Long Hai.

When Su Ming averted his gaze, he closed his eyes and hid away the killing intent that no one could detect under his calm gaze. However, at the instant he closed his eyes, he suddenly opened them again.

His gaze landed on the catwoman, and after a long while, when he closed his eyes to meditate again, a huge wave stirred in his heart.

During that instant just then, Su Ming had suddenly thought of something. He had replaced Dao Kong and was in control of everything about him, and the main reason behind it was that he was an Abyss Builder. He had the innate ability to Possess others.

Then with the high level of cultivation Su Xuan Yi possessed… How powerful would be his innate ability to Possess others?!

If Su Ming could Possess Ecang, then could Su Xuan Yi have… After his fight against Dao Chen?

This sudden thought caused Su Ming's breathing to quicken. He remembered Dao Chen entering isolation… remembered how he had met Dao Kong when he came to Divine Essence Star Ocean.

'If all of this is the embodiment of his will, then could it be his arrangement that Dao Kong appeared here? And Xu Hui… was also sent here together?' As Su Ming's thoughts changed, the sixth Spirit Trudging Platform suddenly shone with a powerful light.

The only person who could walk out of the sixth Spirit Trudging Platform… was Flame Fiends' Progenitor who lost his physical body and now only had his Nascent Divinity left!

When Su Ming lifted his head to look over, a piercing cold glare shone in his eyes. He wanted to see what Flame Fiends' Progenitor would say and what expression he would have once he saw Su Ming after he lost his physical body.