Chapter 1217: Ancient Slave
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Ta Jia's eyes shone as did the eight stars at the center of his brow. He stared at Su Ming and suddenly grinned. There was a hint of scorn in his grin.
"You might have done me a favor, but that favor isn't as great as you think. I won't make things hard for you today, but if you continue pestering me, do not blame me for crushing you."
There was contempt in Ta Jia's voice. The air of supremacy in his words was prominent, and it was no wonder he acted this way. After all, he was no longer a seven-star Ancient God, but an eight-star Ancient God, a powerful warrior who, in his memories, had the world at his beck and call.
"You can try," Su Ming said faintly.
That one sentence brought killing intent to Ta Jia's eyes. With a cold harrumph, he took a swift step towards Su Ming. He lifted his right hand and threw a punch in Su Ming's direction, which stirred up loud booming sounds.
"You do not know what is good for you!"
He laughed coldly, and the punch containing the power of the eight-star Ancient God caused the galaxy to shake and transform the instant it was thrown. It was as if the galaxy was about to collapse and the heavens were about to sink when the punch went for Su Ming.
A brilliant light shone in Su Ming's eyes. The image of the Dragon of Destruction behind him did not move though. He took a step forward and instantly closed in on Ta Jia. He lifted his right hand and clenched his fist. Then in the simplest fashion and without using any divine abilities, he threw a punch against the Ancient God's gigantic fist.
A bang shot up into the air. Su Ming jolted and staggered nearly one thousand feet back. When he stomped down at space with his right foot, the galaxy trembled, and distortions appeared. As for Ta Jia, he did not budge even half an inch. There was arrogance on his face, and the contempt on his face grew stronger. He took a step again and charged at Su Ming.
"I only used a seventh of my power just now. This time, if you still dare to move forward, your body will definitely be crushed."
'My current physical body can defeat those with seven stars, but the eight-star Ancient God is way more powerful…'
Su Ming shook his head. He quelled down his tumbling cultivation base, then lifted his right hand and clenched his fist. Countless Berserker souls from Great Berserker Tribe instantly appeared around his right hand. They fused into his right hand. left hand, his legs, and when Su Ming's entire body fused with one hundred million souls from Great Berserker Tribe, he swelled up until he was hundreds of feet tall.
An indescribable presence spread out from him. When he clenched his fist, it was full of barely contained power. This was… Su Ming's God of Berserkers Transformation!
He had turned into the God of Berserkers with a Berserker Body when his Berserker Bones merged with one hundred million Berserker souls. As if he had reverted to his roots, the most powerful physical strength of the Berserkers erupted in an instant from him!
When the God of Berserkers Transformation was activated, the pupils of Ta Jia shrank, and a sense of danger instantly appeared in his heart. Once Su Ming went through his God of Berserkers' Transformation, he took a step forward, turned into a long arc, and charged at Ta Jia.
First punch!
Booming sounds surged into the heavens. They reached a deafening degree when Su Ming's right fist crashed against Ta Jia's fist. The impact stirred up even more noise as it swept out. A disbelieving look appeared on Ta Jia's face when his body tumbled back. He was forced back ten thousand something feet back by Su Ming's punch.
Su Ming jolted. He took two steps backwards. When he lifted his head, he rushed forward with a calm face.
Second punch!
Loud booming sounds reverberated through the galaxy, and Ta Jia coughed up blood. He moved back again, and a roar tumbled out of his mouth.
"Damn it! This is impossible! I am an Ancient God! I am an eight-star Ancient God! A savage and barbaric cultivator like you should not have the power to send me back!"
Ta Jia's eyes were bloodshot. When he moved back, he turned swiftly. He wanted to change his direction and charge at Su Ming, but the moment he stopped, Su Ming instantly appeared in front of him.
Third punch!
It landed on Ta Jia's chest, causing him to let out a shrill roar. When he coughed up blood again, he shuddered and moved back. Su Ming's aloof expression seemed to have turned into a traumatic shadow in Ta Jia's eyes, and it was magnified endlessly when Su Ming threw his fourth punch.
This scene did not escape the eyes of all the cultivators in the area, and they fell silent in shock. Su Ming had an overwhelming upper hand; Ta Jia did not have the power to fight back. Under Su Ming's punches, his body started showing signs of crumbling. Blood continuously gushed out from him, and the terror in his eyes became greater.
Fifth punch!
Sixth punch!
Booming sounds continuously rang out in space. Su Ming threw six consecutive punches, and Ta Jia moved back nonstop, but he could not escape from Su Ming's speed.
All of this happened in just the span of a few breaths. When Su Ming closed in again, he lifted his right hand, clenched his fist, and threw his final punch.
Seventh punch!
This punch contained all of Su Ming's power while he was in the God of Berserkers Transformation. At the instant he threw his punch, it seemed to have become a black hole that absorbed all the light and space in the area. When it landed on Ta Jia's chest, a muffled bang came from the Ancient God's body. Ta Jia shuddered, and this time, he did not move back. Instead, his huge body was thrown back by Su Ming's punch.
He turned into an arc, and when he fell, countless cracks appeared on his body. He was a bloody mess, and his chest looked like it was about to explode. His mind scattered when Su Ming's punch had shattered his veins. The eight stars at the center of his brows faded together at that moment as if they were about to be extinguished.
Su Ming's God of Berserkers' Transformation ended then, and his body returned to normal. While standing in the galaxy, he cast a cold glance at Ta Jia, who had fallen to the side.
"His blood is not pure. If it was an eight-star Ancient God with pure blood, the God of Berserkers Transformation would not have been enough to defeat him so easily." the old man from Heavenly Spirit Tribe said faintly at that moment.
"Impure blood, huh?"
Su Ming's eyes sparkled. He had thought of Possessing Ta Jia so that he would have an Ancient God clone, which was why he had helped release Ta Jia's seal earlier, but at that moment, he got rid of that thought. If he wanted a clone, he would go for one with pure blood.
But it would be a pity to kill an Ancient God just like that. A strange light shone in Su Ming's eyes, and the instant Ta Jia tried to struggle to his feet, Su Ming closed his eyes.
The will of the universe immediately turned into the will of an Antecedental Spirit. Once he replaced the universe and became the will of heaven, he swiftly descended on Ta Jia.
"Become my slave. This is the will of heaven," Su Ming said.
At the instant he did so, Ta Jia let out a shrill scream of pain. He brought his hands to his head where the will of heaven was like an invisible net. It trapped his soul tightly, like a seal, and Su Ming's will was Branded on it.
This was an even more incisive method compared to the one South Union had used to control the Ancient God. Su Ming used the will of heaven to forcefully enslave the Ancient God without giving him a single chance to fight back.
Screams of pain echoed in space before gradually disappearing in about a dozen something breaths. In silence, Ta Jia lowered his hands from his head. He stared at Su Ming with a complicated expression. After a long while, he lowered his head and his body towards Su Ming.
At the same time, the five hundred thousand cultivators from South Union in the area knelt down simultaneously with their hearts trembling when Su Ming swept his gaze across them. Right after, they sent their souls and simply allowed Su Ming to Brand them with the will of heaven.
When all the people besides Xu Hui and De Shun gained Su Ming's Brand in their souls, a vast power of the laws of fate in the world surged swiftly at him, and Su Ming immediately turned this external fate into his own laws of fate the moment he absorbed it. This allowed Su Ming's will of an Antecedental Spirit to expand to twice its original size and spread through the area.
During that instant, a large amount of laws of fate gathered on him in an unseen manner from Ninth Summit's direction. When it enveloped Su Ming's entire body, his soul tumbled about. He had a strong feeling that with some more hundreds of thousands of cultivators' laws of fate, he could reach the point when he could Possess True Morning Dao World ahead of schedule.
He forcefully quelled that strong feeling in his heart and swept his gaze across the area before focusing on Xu Hui and De Shun. With one step, he instantly appeared in front of them.
Xu Hui shuddered, and the mark of the scorpion at the center of her brows distorted. It appeared behind her as well, and it looked incredibly nervous.
De Shun stared at Su Ming anxiously. His heart was filled with fear since he did not know what the unfamiliar powerful warrior before him wanted to do.
"When did she lose her memories?" Su Ming moved his gaze away from Xu Hui's body and fixed his stare on De Shun's face.
De Shun's expression swiftly changed. He shuddered and became hesitant.
"Senior, I do not know what you are saying…"
As De Shun shuddered, he suddenly grabbed Xu Hui and pulled her behind him. He did not know why he would do this, it all just seemed natural to him.
Xu Hui did not reject his touch either. The pressure Su Ming gave her was incredibly great, and it caused her face to turn pale. Fear appeared in her eyes, but for some unknown reason, some complicated feelings rose in her heart as well.
Su Ming watched this with a calm expression and sighed softly in his heart. He did not bother about De Shun, but walked to Xu Hui. Her expression immediately changed, and she instinctively wanted to move back.
Red appeared in De Shun's eyes. He roared, as if he had forgotten about Su Ming's power, and intended to attack.
But before he could do so, Su Ming's right index finger tapped the center of Xu Hui's brows.
"You used this strange divine ability to protect yourself during Morning Dao Sect's disaster, but this Art isn't perfect. It will split your soul into two, and a second consciousness will appear. Right now, your original consciousness is asleep, and your second consciousness has occupied your body."
Light shone in Su Ming's right hand, and a ripple surged into Xu Hui's body. Immediately, a look of struggle appeared on her face. Her gaze when she stared at Su Ming was occasionally one of familiarity, at other times full of complicated emotions, and sometimes like she was looking at a stranger.
Yet soon, the unfamiliar feeling gradually started showing signs of disappearing. Su Ming's action caused a fluctuation to appear in Xu Hui's sleeping soul, and it showed signs of waking up.
"You can't…" De Shun trembled.
Madness and pain appeared in his bloodshot eyes as he stared at Xu Hui while mumbling. He knew that even though he had constantly been bullied during the past few years he was in contact with her, they had still kept each other company for years, which had resulted in him unknowingly falling in love Xu Hui.
He knew that the one he liked was not the previous Xu Hui, but the second consciousness in her body, which was why he had not brought Xu Hui out to search for Su Ming, but had instead joined South Union.
Chapter 1218: Startled to Retreat
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
De Shun knew that when the real Xu Hui woke up, the second consciousness would disappear. This was something he could not accept, and he did not want to let this happen. That was why… he went against Xu Hui's request.
He had always been careful and cautious to not have her come into contact with too many people, much less help her search for Su Ming. In his point of view, if a long period of time passed, Xu Hui's new consciousness would become stronger until she completely suppressed her original soul, and then he would succeed.
He had also noticed that the new consciousness seemed to harbor a bit of a strange feeling towards him. This made De Shun become excited and even more sure of his own theory.
"You can't do this! She's mine! You can't wipe away her consciousness!"
De Shun's eyes became bloodshot. He roared at Su Ming and wanted to pounce on him, but there was a layer of light around Su Ming and Xu Hui's bodies, which forced him to fall back when he came into contact with it.
But he had gone mad and pounced on it time and again, regardless of the cost or how many times he was sent back. Blood trickled down the corners of his lips, but he did not care. His madness made it seem as if Su Ming was murdering his lover.
This scene caused Su Ming to frown. When he lifted his right hand from the center of Xu Hui's brows, her eyes shut. After a long time, she opened them, and they held a gentleness when she looked at Su Ming.
His appearance might have changed, but when he touched the center of her brows and awakened her soul, she knew that the person before her was Su Ming.
"How long have I been asleep?" she asked softly.
"Very long," Su Ming said slowly, then lifted his hand and caressed Xu Hui's long hair.
When De Shun saw this scene from beyond the light screen, despair appeared in his eyes, and a hatred he had never felt before rose within him. All of it was directed at Su Ming.
It might seem unreasonable and others might not be able to understand it, but it took root in De Shun's heart as he continued blaming Su Ming for what happened. That hate overtook his mind.
However, that hatred hid a deep sadness. When De Shun's gaze landed on Xu Hui, it became greater and turned into tears. They fused with his blood and landed on his clothes.
The pain in his heart when he looked at Xu Hui made him feel as if his body was about to be torn apart. He turned around swiftly and transformed into a long arc. He wanted to leave the place that broke his heart. He might know that Xu Hui had never belonged to him, but he could not accept this. He also understood that he was being unreasonable… but he still hated Su Ming.
This hatred would make him exact revenge without regards of the cost. He would search for a chance to kill Su Ming with madness and desperation fuelling him. He might be too weak right then, but he knew how to bear troubles patiently. He buried the hate deep in his heart to wait for a day when it could be allowed to spill out from him.
Xu Hui's gaze landed on De Shun who was already leaving into the distance. A complicated look appeared in her eyes, but at the same time, there was a cold, fierce glare in them.
"The matter with that person is connected to my oversight. I will handle this. There is a sect called Ninth Summit in my memories, is it yours?" Xu Hui asked softly.
Su Ming nodded.
Xu Hui did not speak. Once she walked out of the light screen, she turned into a long arc and rushed off after De Shun. There was a chilling intent around her.
"You don't have to kill him. After all, if not for him, we would not have met each other right now," Su Ming said slowly.
Xu Hui did not stop for even a moment and did not say a single thing. She simply left into the distance and disappeared into space.
Su Ming stared after her, then sighed softly. This matter was slightly complicated. There was no right or wrong in it. Su Ming did not have the right to handle this, and the only person who did was Xu Hui herself.
In silence, Su Ming swept his gaze across the cultivators of South Union in the area.
"Go to the Ninth Summit. From now on, you will be disciples of the Ninth Summit."
As Su Ming's words echoed in space, the five hundred thousand cultivators in the area bowed to him, then turned into long arcs that left into the distance. They naturally knew where the Ninth Summit was located since their initial goal of coming was to destroy it.
As the cultivators in the area left into the distance, the galaxy regained its silence. Su Ming had forced down the powerful sensation of the laws of fate in him, but when the area became quiet, it rose up again. He moved his gaze slowly to the whirlwind in the distance.
"On the other side of the whirlwind there are still quite a number of cultivators from South Union…"
A brilliant light lit up in Su Ming's eyes. But when he was about to step into the whirlwind, a great sense of danger suddenly rose in his heart. It was life-threatening, which was something Su Ming had not experienced for some time. It caused killing intent to spread out from his body, and next to him, the old man from Heavenly Spirit Tribe lifted his head with a growl.
"Begone!"
He had only said one word, but the universe instantly distorted and became a muddled mess. Space disappeared as if the entire universe had turned into a black hole. Ripples spread out, and an indescribably mighty pressure swept out in every direction.
The whirlwind disintegrated straight away. It did not do so in one spot, but the space in Su Ming's line of vision completely disappeared in an instant. An unparalleled will descended in that area and swept outwards. A domineering intent that could destroy all lives was contained within it.
In fact, Su Ming felt as if the entire galaxy had been crushed. However, it instantly gathered together once more. This scene caused Su Ming's heart to tremble. He then heard a muffled sound in the disintegrated whirlwind.
A woman coughed up a mouthful of blood. She moved back swiftly and in an instant disappeared into the distance.
As she left, the life-threatening sense of danger instantly disappeared from Su Ming's heart.
Soon after, the old man from Heavenly Spirit Tribe lifted his right hand calmly. He beckoned to the area where the whirlwind had disintegrated, and a ball of blood went to him. It floated to his palm and distorted for a moment before turning into an ice phoenix that charged straight towards the old man's eyes.
He let out a cold snort. He did not do anything else, but the ice phoenix froze in front of him.
"Summon that divine mirage of the Dragon of Destruction from your soul. This thing will be a very good supplement for it," the old man said faintly.
"Divine mirage of the Dragon of Destruction?"
A thought appeared in Su Ming's heart. He immediately summoned the black Dragon of Destruction above the top of his skull and had it charge at the ice phoenix.
It devoured the phoenix in an instant and threw its head back to roar. Its body grew to two thousand something feet before it returned to Su Ming's soul.
"Within Dark Dawn, those who have divine mirages filled with cold attribute are Wu's Spiritlings. This race's souls are like spirits, and they call them divine mirages. That black Dragon of Destruction of yours is a supreme entity among the Spiritlings because one of the original forms of the three Ancestral Spirits the Spiritlings respect was a Dragon of Destruction.
"The person who wanted to attack you just now is a Spiritling. That lass actually tried to fight back while fleeing after I shouted at her. From this alone, it can be seen that she is quite powerful. You… Without being in your God of Berserkers Transformation state, you are not her opponent. Do you want me to get rid of the problem for you?" the old man from Heavenly Spirit Tribe asked flatly and cast Su Ming a glance.
Su Ming was silent. With his intellect, there was no way he would not be able to guess that the woman was a Spiritling. Since a Dragon of Destruction was born in the nucleus of his soul, it was more than enough for him to know that the portion of the soul's power which belonged to his mother's race had awakened.
Perhaps this was the reason behind why the woman had come. Judging by the looks of it, she was hostile to him, but Su Ming shook his head and did not speak. He merely kept this in mind.
"I will handle this matter myself. Since I can only fight against her when using the God of Berserkers Transformation, then once I Possess True Morning Dao World…" Su Ming said calmly.
The old man from Heavenly Spirit Tribe smiled faintly and did not push the matter. Instead, he cast a glance in the direction in which the woman had disappeared as if he was deep in thought.
Su Ming took a step forward. Since he had already decided that he would bring forward his schedule to Possess True Morning Dao World, he moved through the whirlwind without any hesitation. His goal was to turn all the remaining cultivators of South Union into his laws of fate.
Once Su Ming left into the distance and stepped into the whirlwind, the ripple from the ring appeared under his feet, making his speed to be so fast that he instantly disappeared without a trace.
…..
In a certain region within True Morning Dao World was an area where space distorted, and when it did, a woman walked out. She was dressed in a long blue robe, and her beautiful face was pale at that moment. When she appeared, blood immediately trickled down the corners of her lips.
She staggered a few steps backwards. When she turned her head around to look behind her, a murderous look appeared in her eyes, but within it was a hint of shock and astonishment.
'Who is that old man?!
'That person's power is so terrifying that it is incredibly rare to find someone else with his power in the 180 Expanse Cosmoses in Dark Dawn. With one growl, he instantly made the galaxy shatter before it gathered together again. It shattered my body as well, which injured my original soul…
'His existence is practically on par with the three Sovereigns of Dawn!'
'This person… is definitely an Antecedental Spirit as well!'
The woman was pale. The terror on her face only disappeared after a long while had passed. When it did, her expression suddenly changed again, and she coughed up blood once more.
'My divine mirage fused… No, it was devoured by the Dragon of Destruction!'
The woman gritted her teeth, and annoyance appeared on her face. She had not attacked back then, but when she saw Su Ming step into the whirlwind, she had unwittingly let loose a hint of killing intent.
But there was hesitation and complicated emotions in her killing intent. However, once it attracted Su Ming's attention, it had caused the old man to attack, startling her so much that she fled after his single growl.
'An existence like that old man will stay beside the boy for only a little while. He won't stay for long. There will come a day when he will leave.'
The woman was silent for a moment, then brought out some medicinal cores with her right hand and swallowed them. Then, with a single move, she turned into a gust of cold that disappeared into the galaxy. She had to search for a place to regulate her cultivation base. The old man's growl had injured her original soul, and she wanted to avoid him temporarily.
Chapter 1219: Fang!
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Time trickled by, and three days passed. Su Ming charged through the whirlwind under Arid Triad's gap. The ripple from the ring surrounded him, which allowed his speed to be even faster than normal. The old man from Heavenly Spirit Tribe was by his side. He would occasionally lift his head and gaze at Arid Triad's gap, but he looked calm, which didn't let other people tell what was on his mind.
After a long while, the old man said languidly, "Within a year, the tribes of Wu and Shu will descend through Arid Triad's gap. Right now, the two sides are starting to show signs of reaching a compromise to the war they waged beyond the gap…"
Su Ming was silent. He might not be able to see things as clearly and as detailed as the old man, but he could deduce that it was impossible for either Saint Defier or Dark Dawn to win the war. It would end with both sides reaching some sort of agreement and descending at the same time.
Instead of saying that the war was a fight to determine who will obtain Arid Triad's gap, it would be better to say it was a fight to gain the initiative to modify and limit the other party.
At that moment, it would be apt to say that Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos was in grave danger. In truth, Su Ming was not the only one who was struggling to make himself stronger. There were plenty of cultivators who were searching for serendipities to become stronger everywhere in the other True Worlds.
Only by making themselves stronger could they build a foundation that would allow them to survive the upcoming disaster.
But compared to them, the serendipity Su Ming obtained in the broken True Morning Dao World was much greater. The areas he could exploit were also more complete, because the entire True Morning Dao World could be used by him. Due to a large number of deaths and the damage dealt to True Morning Dao World, Su Ming had the chance to Possess a True World.
Resolve appeared in his eyes at that moment. While he charged through the whirlwind, the old man from Heavenly Spirit Tribe kept on staring at Arid Triad's gap above them. With his power, he could see plenty of things Su Ming could not. He could see the war in the world beyond, and he could see the galaxy belonging to Saint Defier Expanse Cosmos as well as the powerful warriors within it.
"Making this gap, what a move…" the old man mumbled, and a strange light appeared in his eyes.
"Arid Triad's will ignore those who have not become Antecedental Spirits and will not bother about those who have not surpassed Death Realm… So it's impossible for those foreigners to have created this gap. Even if they worked together, they still couldn't fight against Arid Triad's will.
"Only a cultivator of Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos cold make this gap, and he couldn't have surpassed Death Realm. He also couldn't be an Antecedental Spirit.
"But because of it, it's practically impossible to open a gap… This gap did not appear by accident, but was bound to be formed… It isn't just a tunnel for Wu and Shu to descend, but also… a path for all tribes in Wei to rush out of Arid Triad!
"If Arid Triad's will had not acknowledged it… there is no way that this gap could have formed!"
The old man's murmurs reached Su Ming's ears, and he came to a sudden stop, but soon, he continued charging forward.
"Arid Triad's will, Arid Disaster… I will soon find the truth of your relationship. Let's see whether my guess is truly correct. It should… come again soon…"
A dark light shone in the old man's eyes. He did not speak again and averted his gaze from Arid Triad's gap.
Another day went by like that. When Su Ming had been charging for approximately four days, he rushed out, completing his journey through the entire whirlwind under Arid Triad's gap. At the instant he appeared, Su Ming saw the galaxy over at the other side of True Morning Dao World.
It was where Yin Death Region and South Union were located.
Su Ming swept his gaze across the area, then charged into the distance, heading to the spot where he located South Union when he used his divine sense to scan the place.
It was a continent formed by various floating pieces of land. It was incredibly huge, and there were five planets surrounding it. Each planet had a Protection Rune, and together they formed a great Rune that enveloped the continent within it. From the distance, it looked like a gigantic ring of light.
There were three cities on the continent. They were the core regions of South Union, and each of them was defended by a union leader in Death Realm. However, as of then, there was only one South Union leader left among the three cities.
The other two had died in Su Ming's hand on the other side of the whirlwind.
As for the five planets beyond the continent, they were kept in an incredibly good condition. They were the five great forces of power belonging to South Union besides the three cities. They were five rather powerful and prosperous races.
At that moment, each person in South Union felt danger looming over their heads. There were less than three hundred thousand cultivators in South Union, but each of them had used their own methods to learn of the destruction of their army dispatched for an expedition.
Their dread became especially strong when the three hundred thousand cultivators chosen to control the Ancient God had died simultaneously. The hearts of the cultivators of South Union had trembled at that moment.
All the Protection Runes on the five planets had been activated, which further proved the people's terror, causing South Union to be enveloped in panic.
But none of them had expected that Su Ming would arrive so soon. In just four days, he had moved through the whirlwind and arrived right outside South Union's doorstep.
As he stared at the distant South Union, an aloof look appeared in Su Ming's eyes. To obtain a sufficient amount of laws of fate so that he could make the final preparations to Possess True Morning Dao World, he cast his strongest divine ability on South Union without any hesitation the instant he approached it.
"Mountain Shifter!"
The world rumbled, the galaxy trembled, and one hundred thousand mountains appeared with a howl outside South Union. They instantly charged at the protection formed by the five planets. They descended in an instant with an astonishing bang.
The five planets jolted simultaneously. The continent they surrounded, too, trembled. The three hundred thousand cultivators in the land were shocked awake. When they flew up and raised their heads, their expressions instantly changed. They saw one hundred thousand mountains beyond the Protection Rune ramming down on them continuously with an earth-shaking presence.
But that was not all. In just a few breaths, at the instant the Protection Rune formed by the five planets distorted and trembled, a ghastly voice traveled through the galaxy. There was a chilling tone in that voice along with a heinous murderous aura.
"Mountain!"
The voice only uttered one word, but the instant it landed in the ears of all the cultivators, the mountains on the five planets shuddered together and rose from the ground as if they had become sentient and wanted to rush out to worship their king.
There were also countless mountains on the continent. They rushed out at that moment, and from the distance, millions of mountains could be seen charging into the sky like sharp blades. With piercing whistles, they rammed themselves against the protective screen of light from within.
As the one hundred thousand mountains belonging to Su Ming descended as well, an astonishing bang came from the screen of light formed by the five planets. It shattered straight away and disappeared. In the eyes of all the cultivators, the world turned into a world of mountains.
"Ocean Remover…" Su Ming said faintly from beyond their world.
Black light shone on his body, and the Light of Extreme Darkness spread out over one hundred thousand feet, causing the galaxy to turn completely black. The black light looked like it had turned into an ocean that charged towards the five planets and the continent that had lost their protection.
Wherever it went, all the mountains would shudder, and the vision of almost all the cultivators turned dark. They instantly lost their consciousness. Their minds were enveloped by a layer of cold.
But at that moment, five gigantic pillars of light shot out of the five planets. They belonged to the Enchanted Vessels placed on the five planets, which were South Union's killing moves. Once they shot out, the five planets immediately started withering before Su Ming's eyes.
The Enchanted Vessels had absorbed the five planets' Essence. They spared no pains, even causing the planets' death, to shoot out the five powerful pillars of light. Each one of them could force back a powerful warrior in Death Realm, while together they could seal off the entire area where Su Ming was, and they were so fast that it felt as if there was life contained in them. It was a madness that would constantly linger in them and would not disappear unless they died, even if they could not hit Su Ming in one strike.
When he saw the five pillars of light charge towards him, a glint shone in Su Ming's eyes. He raised his right hand and struck the top of his skull. A black dragon of one thousand something feet immediately shot out with a roar.
When the Dragon of Destruction appeared, it roared at the five pillars of light, and the whole galaxy seemed to tremble. A boundless amount of freezing aura instantly gathered around him from all directions as if the Dragon of Destruction was the master of cold, and it could summon all the cold air in the galaxy to itself.
As cracking sounds echoed in space, the five pillars of light were instantly frozen. Ice swiftly spread through them, and in the blink of an eye, it spread through the five planets, turning them into blocks of ice.
A loud bang shot up, and the ice shattered. The five planets crumbled as well. The Dragon of Destruction then returned to the top of Su Ming's skull. With an aloof expression, Su Ming took a step forward and stepped onto South Union's continent.
When his food landed, the continent shuddered with a bang. Cracks instantly spread out as if the continent was about to fall apart.
"I am Ninth Summit's Great Sect Elder Mo Su! From today onwards, South Union will exist no longer. All of you will now offer up your souls and surrender!"
Su Ming's voice echoed in the area with an imposing tone. At that moment, mountains surrounded the sky of South Union while there were cracks and loud rumbles coming from everywhere on the ground. The shattered ice from the five planets around them were still shooting out into space, and the Light of Extreme Darkness surrounded the area like a tidal wave that had been swept up from the surface of an ocean and would spill down on them at any moment.
It would not be a lie to describe this sight as the world on the verge of ruin.
This scene along with Su Ming's voice echoing in the air immediately created an indescribable presence that broke the hearts of all the cultivators. Even those in Death Realm would tremble under it.
After a long while, a voice filled with complicated emotions came out from the broken continent. Gradually, it was followed by other people saying the same thing.
"We are… willing to surrender…"
As many voices came from the ground when the cultivators offered their souls, Su Ming's will of an Antecedental Spirit descended on them and turned into a cry of heaven that swiftly enveloped the area. Once Su Ming left his Brand on the hearts of the three hundred thousand cultivators, a vast amount of laws of fate came to him.
This vast increase allowed Su Ming to see hope in Possessing True Morning Dao World!
'I want to Possess… True Morning Dao World!'
Su Ming swiftly lifted his head like a wolf revealing his fangs!
Chapter 1220: Possessing True Morning Dao World (1)
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
The power of laws of fate are divided into external and internal fate. Su Ming could sense that he had left his Brand on many cultivators' souls and felt that those people's destinies were in his hands. With this method, he could forcefully turn all of those cultivators into his own fate.
This Art was not something honorable, but Su Ming did not care. All that mattered to him was making himself stronger before the disaster descended, because only by doing so he could have the ability to protect those he wanted to protect.
The three hundred thousand cultivators in South Union, the five hundred thousand cultivators on the other side of the whirlwind, the hundreds of thousands of cultivators from New Dao Sect, and the people in Ninth Summit might not total to two million, but once the power of this much external fate surged into Su Ming's heart, his aura increased exponentially.
At the same time, it was as if one million something glowing spots appeared in his mind. They might have been weak, but they continuously exuded a presence that strengthened Su Ming's soul.
With the cultivators serving as his external fate, he could fuse them into his heart and turn it into his internal fate. With the power he would gain once he perfected internal and external fate, he could make the universe tremble. If he used it along with his cultivation base, he could envelop the galaxy with his soul, then with his will, he could replace True Morning Dao World's will!
This was the path Su Ming had chosen, and he had already traversed most of it. At that moment, as the one million something laws of fate gathered in his mind and Su Ming closed his eyes, a storm began raging in his heart.
Booming sounds echoed in his mind. All the glowing spots fused into Su Ming's soul, making him feel as if he had split into one million parts. He felt as if he could sense every single person's thoughts and past. In fact, he felt that if he wanted to, he could instantly turn into every single person linked to him.
'Gather… the internal fate!'
At the instant Su Ming opened his eyes and a ray of dark light appeared in them, his aura increased by leaps and bounds. Right after, a power just a sliver away from Death Realm erupted from him in abundance. It was his cultivation base.
It was not as powerful as his physical body, but to Su Ming, as long as he could gather the laws of fate on himself, he could reach a state of completion, and his cultivation base would break through Life Realm and truly move into Death Realm!
In fact, if he successfully Possessed True Morning Dao World, Su Ming's level of cultivation would jump to a terrifying Realm. He had no idea how strong that Realm would be, but he knew that if he succeeded… he would be True Morning Dao World!
At that time, at his thought, True Morning Dao World would rise to power, and he dismissed it, True Morning Dao World would die!
And since True Morning Dao World was part of Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos, if he was successful in his Possession, Su Ming would ascend to an even higher plane of existence. Then, he would truly be able to call himself a part of Arid Triad.
Besides the Abyss Builders, no one else in the entire Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos could do this. In fact, based on the words of the old man from Heavenly Spirit Tribe, the will to control the abyss filling True Morning Dao World had immediately allowed Su Ming to determine that he was not the only one who wanted to Possess True Morning Dao World. Su Xuan Yi, too, wanted to do it!
At that moment, Su Ming had come to understand what was going on. As the laws of fate gathered on him, he understood another truth.
It was not only because he was sealed and Di Tian was lurking around outside that Su Xuan Yi had isolated himself in Morning Dao Sect. It was because he had a crazy ambition. It originated from the words he had shouted at True Morning Dao World the year his wife died.
"This World shall be built for Abyss!"
These words might be an Art and a Curse. But no matter what, from that moment onwards, Su Xuan Yi had started making preparations to Possess True Morning Dao World. From then on, be it the war between the Immortals' Union and Morning Dao Sect or the gap torn in Arid Triad, Su Xuan Yi's madness was hidden in everything.
As he continued making his preparations and weakened True Morning Dao World bit by bit so that the will to control the abyss filled it and caused more people to die, it reached a state where it could be Possessed.
It might be because his soul was not that of an Antecedental Spirit which made him unable to Possess the True World just yet. There were still some problems lurking around for him, but before long, once he completed the final stage of his plans, he would immediately Possess True Morning Dao World.
Su Ming had come to completely understand this once he returned.
"I'm faster," Su Ming muttered, and the one million something glowing spots in his body melted to fuse together with his soul.
Once they did, a loud bang echoed in his head, and his soul instantly grew endlessly. During that moment, all the cultivators who were Branded by Su Ming shivered.
While trembling, the three hundred thousand cultivators below Su Ming knelt down and worshiped him. On the other side of the whirlwind, the cultivators from Ninth Summit, New Dao Sect, and the five hundred thousand cultivators from South Union who had surrendered did the same.
At that moment, a figure appeared in their heads. That figure… belonged to Su Ming.
At the moment it appeared in the minds of one million something cultivators, it meant that Su Ming had perfected his external fate and that once his internal fate fused with it, it would reach a state of near perfection.
When booming sounds echoed in Su Ming's mind like drum rolls, they also echoed in the minds of the one million something cultivators. The map of a galaxy immediately appeared in Su Ming's eyes, as if his eyes had become the galaxy itself. The light within his eyes was the light from the planets.
His soul grew and his will spread out rapidly at that moment. A feeling that he was in control of his own destiny and his own laws of fate immediately rose in Su Ming's heart. It was a feeling akin to being the will of heaven, and it made it easier for Su Ming to be the will of heaven, since it provided a great help!
The appearance of this aid meant that Su Ming's internal fate… had been perfected!
His cultivation base broke through Life Realm at that instant and moved into Death Realm. This meant that his physical body and cultivation base were in Death Realm at the same time, and it also meant that Su Ming's offensive abilities had become stronger again.
A piercing, bright light appeared in his eyes. He made his mind scatter, and his will of an Antecedental Spirit spread out to replace the will of the universe in the area before it turned into the will of heaven that swiftly spread in every direction.
At the same time it spread out, the will to control abyss with Su Ming's Brand which filled all of True Morning Dao World seemed to turn into a path that guided Su Ming as his will spread out, allowing him to swiftly increase his speed.
When his will covered all of True Morning Dao World, he would begin his Possession!
Almost at the instant Su Ming spread out his will, a sigh echoed faintly in the sealed Dao Ocean within Morning Dao Sect…
"So finally… someone is here to replace Morning Dao, huh?"
It was also at that moment that Su Xuan Yi opened his eyes while in the palace floating in the galaxy within the Emperor of Abyss' True World. There were seventy-nine oil lamps around him. Sixty-three of them were lit.
'Damn it, this person really wants to replace True Morning Dao World! It's mine! This is a chance to Possess it I created after preparing for countless years! It's mine!
'No matter who you are, how dare you try snatching True Morning Dao World from my hands?! What right do you have to snatch it from me?!'
A hint of anxiety appeared in Su Xuan Yi's eyes. He cast a glance at the burning oil lamps around him, then gritted his teeth.
'No matter. Even if there's still a bit left, I cannot afford to wait any longer!'
Resolve appeared in Su Xuan Yi's eyes. He shut them and had his divine sense spread out with a bang so that it would rapidly fuse into the sixty-three burning oil lamps!
Chapter 1221: Possessing True Morning Dao World (2)
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
'The seventy-two oil lamps symbolize my soul ascending seventy-two times. By doing so, I can temporarily allow myself to obtain the will of an Antecedental Spirit. When I Possess True Morning Dao World, I will successfully have my soul ascend, and I will… become an Antecedental Spirit even without using the Spirit Ascension Hall!
'And that inert Predecessor of Dao Ocean has been sealed in that endless Dao Ocean. It has a tight connection with True Morning Dao World, which is a telling sign that it is True Morning Dao World's servant.
'It will then become the servant of whoever becomes True Morning Dao World… It's a pity that I only have sixty-three oil lamps lit right now. If I could have more time…'
Su Xuan Yi's soul swiftly spread out and turned into sixty-three portions to fuse into the sixty-three oil lamps. In an instant, they began to shine more brightly, and their light grew stronger.
As the light spread out endlessly, it enveloped the entire palace. Then it went forward as if it had entered space, and with a unique method, it allowed Su Xuan Yi's will to appear in True Morning Dao World.
"This world shall be built for Abyss!"
The Su Xuan Yi who appeared in True Morning Dao World was the soul and the mind. The next moment, his voice spread out in an unseen manner.
At the same time, Su Ming's soul spread out in True Morning Dao World, and his voice too echoed in space in an unseen manner.
"This world shall be built for Abyss!"
Two Abyss Builders were about to Possess one object at the same time. This sort of thing was incredibly rare. Even when the Fifth True World was still around, Abyss Builders would not readily do such a thing.
This sort of Possession would not allow two people to Possess half of the same object in the end. Instead, the two would have to fight each other over it to the death. Unless one of them gave up beforehand, they would have to fight until a victor emerged.
If Su Ming's struggle and subsequent escape from Su Xuan Yi's control was a fight in the dark, then right then, it would be straightforward battle between Abyss Builders.
There was only one True Morning Dao World. Whoever Possessed it would be the winner and obtain the right and the upper hand in surviving the next disaster. This was something Su Ming knew, and it was also something Su Xuan Yi understood.
It was a battle about which no cultivator in True Morning Dao World knew about, and one outsiders would not notice. At the instant Su Xuan Yi's mind fused into True Morning Dao World, it began.
Su Ming sat in space when his soul spread out with a bang. The will to make the Abyss grow extended swiftly, and the constant ripples made his soul spread out, gradually covering distances further and further away from him. When he enveloped the entire True World, just like when he had asked the old man from Heavenly Spirit Tribe to help him leave his Brand in the will to make the Abyss grow, he saw countless broken planets in True Morning Dao World, the whirlwind, and the cultivators.
At the same time, he saw another will within True Morning Dao World. It was filled with an invasive air as well as a supreme, domineering air. It was as if all those who antagonized it would be brutally killed by it.
At the instant he noticed this will, Su Ming knew who it was—Su Xuan Yi!
Su Xuan Yi's will had also noticed the person whom he hated to the core and who he treated as the person who snatched his chance as well as someone who wanted to steal the thing he had prepared for tens of thousands of years to enjoy the benefits for himself.
"Su Ming!"
A storm immediately raged in Su Xuan Yi's mind, but within it, there was also disbelief. No matter what, he had not expected that Su Ming, who should have become a mortal, would be the cultivator who wanted to snatch the fruits of his preparations.
At the moment the two people's souls noticed each other, the very first unseen crash between them happened in True Morning Dao World.
"You ungrateful wretch! How dare you fight your father for True Morning Dao World?! You're asking for death!"
Boundless killing intent wafted off Su Xuan Yi. His will charged towards Su Ming's soul with a bang. By the looks of it, he wanted to use his will of an Antecedental Spirit which came from using the sixty-three oil lamps to kill Su Ming straight away.
He did not care what method Su Ming had used to obtain the same right as him to Possess True Morning Dao World. He did not care whether Su Ming had outside help. In Su Xuan Yi's eyes, no matter how strong the outside help was, their strength would fall far behind that of Su Xuan Yi himself, and it was especially so when Possessing True Morning Dao World. This action relied on a person's soul and will. In this aspect, Su Xuan Yi was incredibly confident in himself.
'Unless he's a real Antecedental Spirit, then no one can shake the will of my soul right now!' With confidence and killing intent, Su Xuan Yi swept up his soul and instantly sent it crashing forward.
Su Ming was silent. In truth, he still had a myriad of mixed feelings in his heart while faced with the person he had regarded as his father in the past… but Su Ming had also completely cut off that false father and son love when the Seed of Life Extermination was extracted from him. He might have mixed feelings in his heart, but when he came face to face to Su Xuan Yi's soul, a chilling intent appeared in his soul despite him remaining silent.
The next moment, Su Ming's soul acted without any hesitation and charged against the incoming Su Xuan Yi's will. He did not use any divine abilities, no Arts, or even his physical body. He only used his soul and will to crash against him. This crash would not cause any sort of bang, but during the instant their souls and wills collided against each other, a loud rumble swept through all of True Morning Dao World was stirred up.
Booming sounds surged into space and enveloped the entire galaxy. Many broken planets shattered straight away. The galaxy distorted, and cracks appeared in it. The cultivators who survived instantly turned pale, and their cultivation bases became chaotic. The blood in their bodies seemed to have stopped flowing as well.
A feeling as if the world was being destroyed immediately rose in each cultivator's heart.
Only Su Ming alone could hear Su Xuan Yi's disbelieving voice. When the two people's souls and wills crashed, Su Xuan Yi's soul fell swiftly backwards. Su Ming's soul, too, tumbled back. The two of them were on par on the first collision!
However, Su Xuan Yi knew that his soul and will was not Su Ming's opponent. While their first crash might have made it seem as if they were equals, six of his sixty-three oil lamps were extinguished straight away, leaving him with only fifty-seven oil lamps. When all the oil lamps were extinguished, he could no no longer Possess True Morning Dao World, and it would mean that he had failed.
More importantly though, he had to complete his Possession or leave before it happened. Otherwise, if all the oil lamps were extinguished and his soul as well as his will were still in True Morning Dao World, he would never be able to return to his body.
'How can this be? How can this ungrateful wretch's soul… be so strong?! Someone is helping him. There must be someone helping him… It's impossible that his soul has surpassed mine! I've already taken a leap and become an Antecedental Spirit! It's impossible that he can fight against an Antecedental Spirit!'
Su Xuan Yi's soul fell back in disbelief and no longer came into contact with Su Ming. Instead, he swiftly began Possessing True Morning Dao World.
'He's not an Antecedental Spirit, but used a unique method to forcefully make himself raise to the status of an Antecedental Spirit. But by how anxious he is, there should be drawbacks to this method. He can't… last for long!'
Su Ming had his soul move. In an instant, he grasped the key of the problem. That was why when his soul fell back, he started Possessing True Morning Dao World as well.
If anyone compared the huge True Morning Dao World to a person's body, then whoever between Su Ming and Su Xuan Yi could occupy more of it within the shortest period of time would seize the upper hand. As long as the person continued holding onto it, their chances of success would be increased.
If True Morning Dao World's will was a blank slate, then it would be much easier for Su Ming and Su Xuan Yi to Possess it. However, True Morning Dao World's will was sentient, and it would not just allow them to Possess it.
The instant Su Ming and Su Xuan Yi began Possessing True Morning Dao World, a will which was weak but still great enough awakened. It appeared within True Morning Dao World. The will was ancient and had the mighty pressure of a True World. It was a supreme life form, a noble existence which even the wills of Antecedental Spirits would have to avoid.
It was True Morning Dao World's will. Originally, it was a hundred times stronger than it was right then. It was one of the four Worlds of Arid Triad, so it was definitely not something a cultivator could compare to. However, Su Xuan Yi's preparations and plans that spanned tens of thousands of years had weakened True Morning Dao World's will bit by bit until it was severely weakened… This went until the will reached the threshold beneath which it could be Possessed despite appearing as if it was still an unbeatable force.
If True Morning Dao World's will was slightly stronger, Su Xuan Yi would not have been able to forcefully Possess it due to it being a higher state of being, but right then, while it was difficult, it was still within his capabilities.
But it was different for Su Ming. After all, he was a real Antecedental Spirit who had received his inheritance from All Spirits Hall. Because of it, Su Ming's chances of being successful in the Possession business were higher than those of Su Xuan Yi.
After all… he had time, while Su Xuan Yi did not have a single moment to spare.
Even if Su Xuan Yi had yet to bring out his moves which he had prepared for tens of thousands of years, Su Ming, too, still had the old man from Heavenly Spirit Tribe.
To Su Ming, this was a battle he would definitely win.
'Su Xuan Yi… there is no way you will win this time.'
Su Ming's soul spread out swiftly. With the will to make the Abyss grow as his lead, he crashed and fought against True Morning Dao World's will while continuously Possessing and occupying it. His soul was the will of an Antecedental Spirit, and all the places he covered would instantly turn into his will of heaven. This also meant that those places would be completely separated from True Morning Dao World's will and become a galaxy which belonged to Su Ming's will.
The fight and Possession of the two people against True Morning Dao World's will might have seemed to have no dangers involved, but distortions that caused True Morning Dao World to roar had been stirred up in the outside world. The remaining cultivators in the True World had pale faces. Almost all of them had a strong feeling that… the galaxy seemed to have split into three portions. There were three wills that caused them to tremble, and they were madly devouring each other.
'What is he doing?!'
Beyond a planet that had shattered due to the distortions formed by Su Ming and Su Xuan Yi's Possession of True Morning Dao World was Su Ming's aunt… The beautiful woman had a slightly pale look at that moment. She stared at the galaxy and sucked in a breath when disbelief appeared on her face.
'He… wants to Possess this World?!'
The woman's heart trembled. She was shocked by Su Ming's actions.
Chapter 1222: Possessing True Morning Dao World (3)
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
It was a fight between three wills. One of them was True Morning Dao World's, and it was fighting back fiercely. It absolutely would not allow itself to be Possessed. Once it happened, everything about it would be wiped off. The struggle was its natural instinct to live.
The other two wills belonged to Su Xuan Yi and Su Ming. The two of them were wary of each other while swiftly occupying True Morning Dao World. A battle on three fronts went on fiercely as loud booming sounds echoed in True Morning Dao World.
Su Ming continuously sent his soul and will outwards. In the blink of an eye, he had already occupied one-tenth of True Morning Dao World, and he was still going on. Due to the existence of the will to make the Abyss grow, Su Ming's soul could fill up True Morning Dao World much faster.
As for Su Xuan Yi, after his initial clash against Su Ming's soul, he no longer wanted to fight against him. Instead, he fought against time to occupy True Morning Dao World. To him, time was precious, and it was the key to his victory.
In the blink of an eye, seven days went by. To others, they might have been just an instant, but to Su Ming and Su Xuan Yi, it felt as if several years had gone by.
The expansion of their will over True Morning Dao World caused the feeling as if they had turned into the True World fill Su Ming and Su Xuan Yi's hearts. This feeling grew stronger as they occupied more land, and the sensation of his will becoming stronger caused Su Ming to imagine the glory he would receive in the future in this path he was certain to take.
When the eighth day arrived, Su Ming's soul occupied nearly three-tenths of True Morning Dao World. The further he progressed, the harder the Possession became. The resistance from True Morning Dao World's will caused a large amount of ripples to appear in Su Ming's soul. If it was not because he was an Antecedental Spirit, his will might have shattered a long time ago. He then would have become a soulless, living dead.
The will of an Antecedental Spirit provided great aid to Su Ming at that moment, helping his soul not to collapse. No matter how strong True Morning Dao World's will was, it couldn't Su Ming's soul from spreading.
As he continued Possessing and occupying the True Morning World, epiphanies continuously rose in Su Ming's heart. He could clearly sense his state of being raise ceaselessly, which made his soul become greater. The regions taken over by him were filled with his will, which turned into the will of heaven. It was a supreme will that allowed him to decide the life and death of the World with just one thought.
Yet while Su Ming was continuously occupying the True World, Su Xuan Yi was no slower. After all, he had been preparing for this for years. During the seven days, around a dozen of his oil lamps had extinguished. By then, there were only forty-one left, but he had also Possessed three-tenths of True Morning Dao World.
At that moment, a stalemate appeared between the three wills filling True Morning Dao World. It was difficult for Su Ming to continue because True Morning Dao World's will had already reached an incredibly violent state. If he approached it in the slightest bit, he would feel as if his soul was about to shatter.
It was the same for Su Xuan Yi, and anxiety appeared in his heart. Three more of his oil lamps had extinguished, so he had only thirty-eight lamps left. His window of time was growing smaller and smaller. At that moment, he could no longer care much about anything else. His hate for Su Ming had grown to a heinous degree.
'You ungrateful wretch!'
At the instant Su Xuan Yi's will shouted those words in its mind, the thirty-eight burning oil lamps in the Emperor of Abyss' True World looked as if a gust of wind had blown over them. They swayed simultaneously, and six of them were immediately extinguished, but because of it, the remaining thirty-two oil lamps instantly burned several times brighter than before.
In the meantime, on more than three hundred planets within the Emperor of Abyss' True World were more than ten million cultivators sitting and meditating. They coughed up blood simultaneously, and their bodies instantly withered. It looked like their life force had been extracted to become the oil needed to make the flames burn brighter.
With the momentum provided by the light from the oil lamps burning brighter, Su Xuan Yi's will instantly swelled up. While True Morning Dao World roared, the areas Su Xuan Yi occupied filled with endless lightning. He felt as if there was lightning swimming in his soul along with a blinding light, so the galaxies he had occupied were no longer dark but as bright as day.
At the same time, firelight filled his soul. This scene could be seen by those around him, but what they could not see was that Su Xuan Yi's soul seemed to have become a huge lamp. When it shone, he occupied even more areas. From the previous three-tenths, he reached four-tenths, forcefully snatching one-tenth of the area belonging to True Morning Dao World's will.
This was the trump card Su Xuan Yi had prepared!
"Do you need me to take action?" While Su Ming stared at that scene coldly, the voice of the old man from Heavenly Spirit Tribed echoed in his mind.
"Not for the moment."
"Oh? That is also someone from Great Abyss Tribe. If you don't take any action to stop him, True Morning Dao World won't belong to you." The voice of the old man from Heavenly Spirit Tribe was calm, but there was a faint hint of curiosity in him.
"True Morning Dao World's will may be extremely weakened, but unless the person Possessing it occupies all of it in one go… it will not be so easy to take it over. It would not have remained gasping for its last breath to this date if that wasn't the case."
Su Ming's words were cold, and his heart was calm. He did not attack, but retained the three-tenths of the area belonging to him while he watched Su Xuan Yi and True Morning Dao World's will clash against each other violently.
Booming sounds rose continuously in True Morning Dao World, stirring up uneasiness and fear in many cultivators. Even the cultivators from the Ninth Summit felt the same way. Only Su Ming's senior brothers were watching the galaxy in the distance quietly.
They could vaguely sense that… one of the three wills in the galaxy was familiar to them. They felt as if they were looking at Su Ming.
Within the sealed Morning Dao Sect was the Predecessor of Dao Ocean silently watching all of the happenings. It did not take any action but only waited quietly for the final results. It was waiting for the arrival of the person who Possessed True Morning Dao World, if anyone eventually succeeded, that is.
Booming sounds echoed in space. With the vast power of the firelight, once Su Xuan Yi occupied four-tenths of True Morning Dao World, he pounced on True Morning Dao World's will once more. He had to do this. It did not matter whether it was attacking Su Ming or Possessing True Morning Dao World, he had to continuously spend the power of the firelight, since he could not waste any time. That was why he temporarily let Su Ming off the hook and chose to focus all his power on Possessing True Morning Dao World.
Still, he retained some strength to prevent Su Ming from suddenly coming over. He had been preparing for the Possession for tens of thousands of years, but the end result came up to be so frustrating. This made Su Xuan Yi feel so much hate for Su Ming that he wanted to tear him apart alive.
While True Morning Dao World's will continued shrinking and Su Xuan Yi occupied it forcefully, a flash of crimson suddenly shone. It was like a sharp blade that instantly charged at Su Xuan Yi.
No one besides Su Ming and Su Xuan Yi could see the red flash. This was not any divine ability, but a drop of blood gathered together by countless laws. It blood was crimson and contained in it was a power that could destroy all lives. It was a drop of origin blood which True Morning Dao World's will had formed from its own body.
When the red light shone, the blood touched Su Xuan Yi's soul and immediately broke down without a sound to turn into a layer of red fog. It instantly fused into the soul, and Su Xuan Yi roared. The thirty-two oil lamps in the Emperor of Abyss' True World swayed simultaneously, and three more were extinguished. Once there were only twenty-nine left, the remaining light immediately became brighter to fight against the red fog.
But at that moment, eight more drops of blood swiftly came from True Morning Dao World's will. When they flew out, they gathered together to form a long red blade. It swung on Su Xuan Yi despite a boundless distance between them.
With it, Su Xuan Yi's soul fell swiftly backwards. A small portion of him was cut off. When he fell back, the four-tenths of the galaxy he had occupied shrank to only three-tenths.
Su Ming's eyes shone at that instant. Once he sent a divine thought to the old man from Heavenly Spirit Tribe, his soul moved with a bang and charged at Su Xuan Yi.
"Senior, please help me by temporarily trapping True Morning Dao World's will. Let me have some time to fight against Su Xuan Yi!"
Su Ming did not ask the old man to help him persecute Su Xuan Yi. He… wanted to personally take action and make him lose his right to fight in the battle to Possess True Morning Dao World!
When his divine thought echoed in space, Su Ming's soul and will instantly closed in on the retreating Su Xuan Yi. He did not use any divine abilities, Arts, or Enchanted Treasures. Instead, he simply had his will of an Antecedental Spirit turn into the will of heaven and crash into Su Xuan Yi.
Booming sounds surged into space and reverberated through True Morning Dao World, causing ripples to appear in the galaxies. Space was torn, and planets roared while the cultivators were in shock.
Su Xuan Yi let out an unresigned roar in his soul. "Ungrateful wretch!"
The attack had instantly extinguished two of his twenty-nine oil lamps in the Emperor of Abyss' True World, which meant that only twenty-seven remained.
Su Ming's soul surged forward. He did not stop and crashed into Su Xuan Yi again. His presence screamed that he would not stop until he died. It also contained the complicated emotions Su Ming had towards his past, his intent to die back then, and his counterattack towards his previous destiny.
Booming sounds reverberated through space, and Su Xuan Yi's roars grew even shriller. When he collided against Su Ming, his oil lamps were reduced from twenty-seven to twenty-five, then to twenty-three, and the area he occupied shrank from three-tenths to two-tenths. The remaining portion was mostly occupied by Su Ming's soul, and the moment the other showed weakness, he started invading Su Xuan Yi's territory as if he was showing his fangs.
"I was never your son to begin with! On what grounds can you call me an ungrateful wretch?!
"You used me for years by planting the Seed of Life Extermination in my heart. When I learned this, I gave up on life, and from that moment onwards, there was no longer a bond between us.
"Right now, I am Possessing True Morning Dao World… If you dare snatch my future path from my hands, we will never be able to live under the same sky!"
When Su Ming sent his divine thought forward, his soul crashed violently into Su Xuan Yi's, and loud bangs surged into space. Su Ming also suffered pain as if he was about to shatter from his constant attacks, but his heart was full of viciousness. He was certain that Su Xuan Yi would not be able to last long, so he crashed into him again and again.
Chapter 1223: Possessing True Morning Dao World (4)
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Sixteen, fourteen… countless soundless booms reverberated through Su Xuan Yi's soul. His firelights in the Emperor of Abyss' True World were burning at their last, but Su Ming was not showing any signs of weakness. Instead, as Su Xuan Yi moved back and Su Ming continuously pressed onward, his side started growing bigger.
"Damn it!"
Su Xuan Yi was forced back nonstop. He was already certain that Su Ming was an Antecedental Spirit. If that was not the case, Su Ming would definitely not have been able to do this, but this was simply too far-fetched and ridiculous. After all, Su Xuan Yi had been plotting for years, but he still could not enter the world where the All Spirits Hall was located and could not have his spirit ascend. If that was not the case, there was no way he would be in such a pathetic state.
Since that way was blocked, he had chosen another path to become an Antecedental Spirit. He would Possess True Morning Dao World, enslave the Predecessor of Dao Ocean, steal his identity of an Antecedent Spirit, then make himself perfect, but all of this was completely ruined by Su Ming who came charging at him in an aggressive manner.
'Fine…'
Su Xuan Yi sighed in his heart. He could no longer change anything. It was already set in stone that True Morning Dao World would not belong to him. The preparations he had made for years were bound to turn into Su Ming's serendipity.
He might feel aggrieved and unwilling to admit defeat, but his formidable warlord side allowed him to deduce that he could not change things. once he realized that, the thought of leaving immediately arose in his heart.
Possessing True Morning Dao World was just a part of his plan. If he was successful, he could continue with his plan, but even if he failed, Su Xuan Yi still had backup plans. He could give up on True Morning Dao World and in turn Possess the Emperor of Abyss' True World.
But even though the unresigned Su Xuan Yi had chosen to leave, when Su Ming's soul crashed into him, his divine thought shone. He had come up with something sinister, since his hatred towards Su Ming had grown to an unprecedented degree.
'Even if I am bound to be unable to continue this battle of Possession… I will not let things be easy for you. Even if I can't Possess it and True Morning Dao World's will make preparations, making it so that even if I want to Possess it again in the future, the level of difficulty will be significantly higher due to its vigilance, I will make it so that you won't succeed as well!'
With this thought, Su Xuan Yi's soul moved back again amid the loud rumbles. At the instant the area he occupied was reduced to only about one-tenth of True Morning Dao World…
"Fire that extinguishes Abyss, burn the will of my life force and turn it into imperishable flames. Seal… this ungrateful wretch's will in Abyss!"
When Su Xuan Yi's voice reverberated through space, thirteen of the remaining fourteen oil lamps in the Emperor of Abyss' True World were extinguished. Right after, the light on the remaining oil lamp instantly reached an indescribably piercing degree. Its light immediately charged out of the palace and spread through the galaxy in all directions.
At the same time, the ten million cultivators prepared by Su Xuan Yi for the Possession in the Emperor of Abyss' True World coughed up blood together, and all of them immediately withered. In fact, nearly three-tenths of the cultivators were instantly reduced to ashes, as if an invisible flame had burned them to a crisp.
As nearly three-tenths of cultivators died and all the cultivators withered, their life force rose in vast quantities and turned into nourishment that allowed the flame to surge into the heavens. Once it formed a boundless light, it fused into True Morning Dao World and into Su Xuan Yi's soul to turn into an imperishable flame which was a huge burning wick!
It swayed, and the sea of fire in the area roared before disappearing in a flash. When it reappeared, it enveloped Su Ming and started burning furiously while treating him as the wick.
"Ungrateful wretch! I'd like to see how you'll continue with the Possession! Abyss Seal!"
When Su Xuan Yi's voice resounded in space with a sinister tone, his soul shattered. He had cut off the soul that had fused into True Morning Dao World firmly and resolutely. With the price of a part of his soul shattering, he cut off his connection with True Morning Dao World and returned to the Emperor of Abyss' True World.
The meditating Su Xuan Yi's eyes flew open in the palace within the Emperor of Abyss' True World, revealing red within them. The man jolted and coughed up seven mouthfuls of blood. With each mouthful, his body would wither slightly, his aura would weaken, and his face would also age.
When he coughed up his seventh mouthful, his body was reduced to mere skin and bones. His aura was as weak as a trickle of water, and his face was no longer that of a middle-aged man, but an old man with a dark look on his face.
"Su Ming!"
Su Xuan Yi was practically grinding his teeth. His heart was filled with great indignation. He had prepared for tens of thousands of years to Possess True Morning Dao World, and even acquired a dozen something divine abilities to make sure that he had about eight-tenths of a chance to succeed.
But most of those methods could only be activated when he had lit all seventy-two oil lamps to form the Eternal Candle Flame. He could only execute them once he had become an Imperishable Soul. The flames then would not disappear so quickly either… but the insufficient number of lit candles caused him to be unable to execute almost nine-tenths of the methods he had prepared. There was no way that he could take that lying down.
A hint of regret rose in his heart. He should have killed Su Ming in the past and not listened to Sang's persuasions. He should not have allowed an ant who no longer had any value to perish on its own.
"If I can't Possess True Morning Dao World, then no one is allowed to Possess it!"
Su Xuan Yi panted harshly. A portion of his soul had been crushed, and the burden of it was incredibly great. It was equivalent to him being injured gravely, but he had to do that. If he did not cut off the part of his soul which had entered True Morning Dao World, then with the continued persecution and subsequent devouration of the remaining one-tenth he had of True Morning Dao World, Su Ming would come over through his soul and cause irreparable damage to his original soul.
Instead of allowing that to happen, he decided to cut his own soul off, and with that as the price, he sealed off Su Ming's path to chase after him and created… a chance to kill Su Ming.
Su Xuan Yi stared at the only flame burning in the seventy-two oil lamps. He stared at the wick of the candle as if Su Ming was its wick.
A ghastly, ferocious sneer appeared on his lips. Su Xuan Yi lifted his hands and formed a seal before he pointed at the candle.
When Su Xuan Yi cut off his soul that had fused into True Morning Dao World, Su Ming sensed a shadow of death loom over his head. The moment that feeling appeared, an invisible sea of fire arose around him. No one could see it but Su Ming. It was an Abyss Fire that could burn all souls to a crisp.
"Abyss Seal… to seal the Abyss…"
When Su Ming's soul flashed, he noticed that he seemed to have turned into a wick. The sea of fire surrounded him, and it would not be extinguished until he died.
The sea of fire roared and started spinning around Su Ming rapidly. As it did so, he saw two hands within the flames. They seemed to be forming seals, and with each movement, the sea of fire would tumble several times more violently. It charged at Su Ming with loud roars.
'Is this your final move?'
Su Ming's soul flashed. At the same time, he laughed coldly. The threat of death might be becoming stronger, the sea of fire around him might be coming towards him with loud bangs, and his soul might be restricted to an area he could not leave as if he had turned into a real wick, but he still laughed coldly. His soul roared.
"If my body does not move, my soul will not perish. If my soul does not perish, my will will not disappear. If my will does not disappear, then I, as an Antecedental Spirit will remain. If I, as an Antecedental Spirit remain, I will not perish!"
At the instant Su Ming sent his divine thought forward, the spot where his physical body sat in a galaxy far away from where his soul was immediately shone with a brilliant light. It came from the ring on his right index finger which flew out on its own and floated above him. The light drifted down his body like rainwater, enveloping it.
As the small hint of power belonging to those in Avacaniya Realm contained in the supreme treasure spread out, the light from the ring appeared on Su Ming's soul which was trapped in the wick in a distant galaxy. Then, Su Ming simply allowed the sea of fire to charge at him with loud roars since it could not injure him in the slightest. All of the fires were extinguished by the light of the ring.
Su Ming… was no longer the weakling in the past. At that moment, he was an Antecedental Spirit. He was one of the few powerful warriors in Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos who could conquer an entire region even if he was in Saint Defier and Dark Dawn's 360 Expanse Cosmoses.
The years of experiences had given him a cautious personality. The countless brushes with death had taught him to act in a resolute and ruthless manner. Once all of these things merged together, Su Ming could analyse and judge all situations before he did anything, and he would also always have backup plans.
One such example was the ring. He had not used it when he was fighting against Su Xuan Yi previously because he was looking out for any unforeseen circumstances.
When the ring surrounded him, Su Ming's soul remained unmoving. He was not in a hurry. There was no way the fire around him would burn eternally. To keep the flames burning, Su Xuan Yi would have to pay a great price. He could not last long.
'I can't last long? Ungrateful wretch, even if you've made preparations, compared to me, you are still too naive. This fire…'
Su Xuan Yi stared at the only oil lamp before him in the palace, and a dark, contemptuous sneer appeared on his lips.
'I only need to control this flame. The power allowing it to burn does not come from my life force at all, but from you!'
Su Xuan Yi formed a seal with his hands and pointed forward. The oil lamp immediately let out sizzling sounds, and the wick within it started to sway violently.
At the same time, Su Ming jolted in True Morning Dao World. He had already noticed that something was off. The sea of fire around him did not grow weaker. Instead, once it extinguished, it rose up once more. Once it gathered together, it turned into two huge hands of flames, which formed a seal and pointed at him.
Immediately after, Su Ming noticed a bundle of invisible flames alight in his soul. Once they appeared, a vast power that seemed to intend to burn his soul rose up within him. It was as if he had truly turned into a wick, and his soul was the oil on it. Once the flames were lit, it didn't seem possible to extinguish the flames. Only when the soul burned up would the oil run out and the flames be extinguished!
At the instant the flames appeared, Su Ming let out a cold harrumph.
"Dragon of Destruction!"
Chapter 1224: Possessing True Morning Dao World (5)
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Once Su Ming mentioned the Dragon of Destruction, endless cold seeped out from within his soul, which was now a wick. That cold erupted and reached its coldest straight away. It filled Su Ming's soul, making it feel like someone was howling within his soul.
When the roars began, a black Dragon of Destruction replaced Su Ming's soul. At the instant it happened, a heinous, chilling aura spread out in every direction. It was extremely thick since it contained Su Ming's will of an Antecedental Spirit and the one which had occupied about six-tenths of True Morning Dao World. Due to this, the cold was so great that it almost instantly froze the wick within it.
This could be said to be the cold of Su Ming's life. It gave off a feeling as if it could not live under the same sun as the sea of fire, as if there could not be two suns under the same sky. When it spread out, cracking sounds could be heard. Not only was the wick frozen, even all the flames in the area, including the fire hands forming seals were completely frozen.
At that moment, Su Ming's aloof voice traveled out flatly from the Dragon of Destruction's mouth.
"Shatter!"
Once the word resounded in space, the ice on the wick shattered. The fire in the area and the two hands broke down as well.
At the same time, Su Xuan Yi's body shuddered in the palace within the Emperor of Abyss' True World. A layer of frost had covered his hands that had been forming seals, and the oil lamp before him was now a block of ice. When cracking sounds rose into the air, the ice shattered, and the oil lamp was immediately reduced to pieces.
Su Xuan Yi's face was incredibly sullen. He looked as if he was completely unbothered by the frost on his hands. Instead, he stared at the shattered oil lamp. As his expression changed a few times, his face grew even more sullen.
In True Morning Dao World, when the ice around Su Ming shattered and the sea of fire and the wick were crushed, his soul rushed out as if it had been freed from a cage.
Like a bolt of lightning, Su Ming merged the region Su Xuan Yi had occupied earlier—one-tenth of True Morning Dao World—with his soul, which meant that he had nearly seven-tenths of True Morning Dao World at that moment. It could be said that he had complete advantage in his hands.
"Thank you, senior," Su Ming said in a divine thought. This thought reverberated through True Morning Dao World and stirred up booming sounds that shook the hearts of all the cultivators. It was like the might of heaven.
The old man from Heavenly Spirit Tribe did not speak. He retrieved his power and no longer held back True Morning Dao World's will. The instant he released it, the will of True Morning Dao World let out enraged roars.
Instead of saying that this rage was a form of emotion, it would be more apt to say that it was a type of instinctual fear. As True Morning Dao World's will, it did not have any sort of emotions, but as a life form surpassing cultivators, it still had a natural instinct to desire to live.
It instinctively sensed a great threat from Su Ming. This threat was so strong that it could make it disappear, causing it to lose its meaning to exist from then on, which was why True Morning Dao World's will immediately went into a state akin to madness and gathered up a large amount of its origin blood.
"It's useless…" Su Ming whispered softly. "Morning Dao World has ended…"
Su Ming's soul swiftly moved. When it tumbled in all directions, he charged at the remaining three-tenths of the galaxies occupied by True Morning Dao World's will.
"A new era is about to arrive…
"It is an era that no longer belongs to you and the past. It is an era that belongs to me, Su Ming…
"From now on, I will replace you and become the greatest will in this World. It will still be named Morning Dao, and this World… will be my True Morning Dao World!"
Su Ming's divine thought echoed in space as booming sounds tumbled in the area. The galaxies he occupied—a seven-tenth in total— went crashing down fiercely against the spot where True Morning Dao World's will was.
A loud bang shot up. Su Ming's will and True Morning Dao World's will crashed against each other fiercely. This was a deathmatch. It was True Morning Dao World's instinctual and crazed resistance and struggle. It did not want to disappear. It did not want to cease to exist.
But Su Ming had to Possess True Morning Dao World. His state of being had to go through a metamorphosis after he became True Morning Dao World so that he would have the right to survive through the upcoming disaster.
He also did not want the secret of the universe he saw in Heavenly Incense Rune… to come true one day. For that… he could give his all. No matter who blocked his path, Su Ming would crush them with the momentum he brought forth as he tread down his path. From the moment he decided to Possess True Morning Dao World…
No one could stop him from becoming a powerful warrior!
"My… True Morning Dao World!" Su Ming's soul roared.
When he crashed against True Morning Dao World's will, he brought forth a cruel Possession. He invaded the galaxies where True Morning Dao World's will was, and once he turned them into his galaxies, he turned them into the will of heaven to nourish his soul.
A bizarre event none of the cultivators could see was happening in True Morning Dao World. There were two great wills battlign in space. One was rapidly weakening and being replaced but was still unresigned to its fate, and the other was constantly devouring and Possessing the former with a domineering air, an unswerving determination, and firm persistence.
The clash between the two wills stirred up loud bangs in True Morning Dao World and made it shatter. Cracks continuously appeared in the galaxies, and space tumbled about as if it had become an illusory ocean. Planets crumbled, then showed signs of gathering together again.
The hearts of millions of cultivators trembled together. Their cultivation bases, their flesh and blood, their souls, and their everything seemed to have been thrown into chaos due to the two wills fighting against each other in the galaxy at that moment.
The Possession was cruel. It was one life rising to power in exchange of another life dying. The old man from Heavenly Spirit Tribe stared at space. He watched Su Ming rising to power step by step and True Morning Dao World's will gradually weaken. He was waiting… for the moment Su Ming would succeed.
The stronger Su Ming became, the quicker the Arid Disaster would descend, and it meant that the time he needed to spend suffering while waiting would be shortened. Soon, he could fight against the Arid Disaster!
Su Ming's aunt, the beautiful woman in blue was also in True Morning Dao World at that moment. She sensed the battle between the two wills in the galaxy, and her face was pale. There was bewilderment in her eyes. In her mind, True Worlds could not be Possessed. They were a life form that had existed since ancient times, which was not something a cultivator's will could replace.
Because of it, the event seemed like madness to her. Yet it also filled her with a reverence that made her heart shudder. It stemmed from Su Ming's will, a respect she had for him because she was not someone from the four Great True Worlds.
Su Ming's senior brothers sensed the event as well, and it was especially so for Hu Zi. He was the manifestation of a Rune Spirit, which was why he could sense the changes in the universe especially strongly. He was much more attuned to it than other cultivators. Even those who had a higher level of cultivation than him would not be as sensitive to the universe as Hu Zi.
At the instant he sensed that his youngest junior brother was one of the two wills, he also sensed that he was the will that was replacing True Morning Dao World, and he had already moved to the final stage of his Possession…
Second senior brother might not be as good as Hu Zi when it came to perception of the universe, but he was a Heavenly Phantom. He was not a cultivator, but another form of life born in the universe, which was his understanding towards the forms of life surpassed Hu Zi's.
He could sense a powerful life becoming stronger in the galaxy, as if he was going through a metamorphosis. When his strength reached a boundless state, he would turn into a True World.
And the familiarity coming from this life allowed second senior brother to not even need to think about who it was. He could find the source of that familiarity straight away… It was his youngest junior brother, Su Ming!
Due to him not possessing a head, Su Ming's eldest senior brother had to rely more on his other senses. He might not be as perceptive as his two junior brothers, but his instincts told him that the drastic change in the galaxy right then was largely related to Su Ming.
The Predecessor of Dao Ocean in Morning Dao Ocean was also paying attention to the event. It stared at the galaxy and at Su Ming while waiting quietly for the moment he succeeded.
The slumbering Rune Spirit in Heavenly Spirit Rune even showed a sign of waking up at that instant, but it quickly disappeared. Only a single sigh came from within.
"He still… moved down the path laid out for him by the secret of the universe…"
Once the sigh scattered, the Rune Spirit of Heavenly Spirit Rune did not wake up but continued sleeping.
As the change in True Morning Dao World occurred, the eternally spinning Yin Death Vortex started showing signs of stopping.
They grew more prominent with time. Judging by the looks of it, before long, the vortex would completely stop moving. When seven days passed and the eighth day arrived, Yin Death Vortex stopped, but it only lasted for a few breaths before it started spinning again. However, when the vortex resumed spinning, it spun in the opposite direction than before.
At that moment, Morning Dao Sect's Dao Ocean started raging furiously, and the hearts of countless cultivators in True Morning Dao World roared as if there was a voice echoing in them with an awe-inspiring might.
Su Ming's senior brothers also noticed that… there seemed to be only one of the two wills left in the galaxy!!
"He… succeeded…" the old man from Heavenly Spirit Tribe said languidly while smiling faintly.
"He actually succeeded!" The breathing of the woman in blue quickened. There was still disbelief on her face.
True Morning Dao World rumbled, and those sounds were no longer muted. Instead, they could be heard by all the living. Those rumbles seemed to be everywhere. They echoed continuously in all of True Morning Dao World.
The galaxy no longer distorted, the space no longer cracked, yet everything in True Morning Dao World moved in reverse at that moment. A feeling of a newborn instantly filled the entire True World.
Su Ming Possessed True Morning Dao World's will and wiped off its existence. He occupied True Morning Dao World and spread his will of an Antecedental Spirit outwards to cover the entire galaxy before he turned it into the will of heaven.
His state of being was continuously rising, and his will could descend in every corner of True Morning Dao World. With a single thought, he could destroy True Morning Dao World; and with another thought, he could make True Morning Dao World live!
He opened his eyes, and the corners of his lips curled up in a smile. When he lifted his right hand, a vortex of a galaxy appeared on his palm. He lowered his head and stared at it as if he could see himself there.
"My… True Morning Dao World."
End of Arc 5.