Chapter 1294: Lowly
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Su Ming's voice rumbled like thunder in the air. It spread in every direction, causing the hearts of the near one million cultivators in the area to tremble violently. They shook at an intensity of the earth and mountains during an earthquake. Not only everyone begin to shiver, but their cultivation bases were instantly thrown into chaos. They could not gather them at all.
The one million cultivators coughed up blood at once, and a bloody stench instantly filled the area. Patches of red also appeared on the leaves of the ancient tree.
The pain the one million cultivations in the Emperor of Abyss' True World felt at that moment surpassed what they had felt when they were suppressed by the mighty pressure formed by the True World's will roaring. They felt as if their bodies were being torn apart and their cultivation bases were on the verge of exploding and surging out of their bodies. Shrill screams of pain rang out everywhere.
The thirty-six Generals of Abyss were all present for the wedding. Their levels of cultivation varied while ranging between Fate Realm to Life Realm, but no matter what level of cultivation they possessed, shock appeared on their pale faces at that moment.
The eight Kings of Abyss were also there. They sat near the hall and were looking at the Sublime Paragon with smiles on their faces. At the instant Su Ming's voice echoed in their ears, their souls immediately shook. Their bodies jolted, and they could not control it.
They felt as if their minds had been forcefully suppressed by a will to such an extent that it was difficult even to breathe. Even if they were in Death Realm, right then, they felt like helpless mortals in the face of a disaster.
The Emperor of Abyss' face went stark white at that moment. He held a tight grip over the leaf under him with his right hand. The buzzing sounds by his ears did not stop, and for a time, he could not hear everything around him.
Compared to him, the Sublime Paragon was in a better condition, but there was also blood trickling out of the corners of his mouth. He staggered a few steps backward and lifted his head. Swiftly, he hid his shock beneath a ferocious look when he met eyes with… Su Ming, who had walked out of thin air in the distance!
Dressed in white, he looked like a cloud drifting elegantly in the sky. His long hair spilled over his shoulders like ink. His expression was one of indifference. His gaze was as calm as water, which came from seeing through all vicissitudes of life. He looked as if he had walked out of a picture, and he gave off an otherworldly air.
At the moment he saw Su Ming, a brilliant light shone in Su Xuan Yi's eyes. His killing intent instantly rose to its peak as he glared at Su Ming, and his breathing immediately quickened. His hate for Su Ming had grown so deep that it was embedded into his bones. This hate was mainly due to Su Xuan Yi being forced to leave after he was defeated when the two of them had fought over Possessing True Morning Dao World. The preparations he had made for years had all been in vain, and the effect of this event on his plans was quite great.
If it was anyone else fighting over True Morning Dao World with him, his hate would not have been so intense, but Su Ming had been the one who fought over it against him, and Su Xuan Yi could not accept this. He could not accept that the boy who could only be used, who was discarded after he finished nourishing the Seed of Life Extermination, and had even been stupid enough to think that he was his father had snatched away Su Xuan Yi's True Morning Dao World.
To him, Su Ming was incredibly stupid and destined to be manipulated for his entire life. If Su Xuan Yi wanted Su Ming to live, he would live, and if he wanted him to die, he had to die. His destiny was bound to be controlled by Su Xuan Yi, and Su Xuan Yi could manipulate him at will.
It did not matter whether Su Ming was in Dark Mountain, the Barren Lands of Divine Essence, Morning Dao Sect, or Arid Triad's gap. In Su Xuan Yi's eyes, Su Ming had always been incredibly stupid. He could use Su Ming to the limit, until he no longer had any value. It was especially obvious when Su Xuan Yi fully used him up to nourish the Seed of Life Extermination. Once he served his purpose, Su Xuan Yi would have killed him a long time ago if it had not been because Sang could not bear to see him die.
He was an existence akin to an ant, and it was impossible for him to compare to his son, much less to Su Xuan Yi himself. Su Ming was a slave, and Su Xuan Yi was his master!
When Su Ming had demanded why Su Xuan Yi had sent Yu Xuan away in that incredibly ludicrous manner of his, Su Xuan Yi's real thought had been to laugh coldly and regard him with contempt, regardless of what his expression had showed at that time.
Yu Xuan was the second person Su Xuan Yi chose to nourish the Seed of Life Extermination, and she was also the partner he had chosen for his real son. There was no way he would let Su Ming touch her with his lowly status!
To Su Xuan Yi, while Su Ming was an Abyss Builder, he was destined to be a slave for his people. He was not worthy of the partner he had chosen for his real son.
Everything was in his control. With one word, he could sentence Su Ming to death. This feeling had existed in Su Xuan Yi for such a long time that he could not accept Su Ming's sudden appearance when he was Possessing True Morning Dao World. Su Xuan Yi was a fierce and ambitious person, so when Su Ming had defeated him, allowing him to only watch helplessly as the ant Possessed True Morning Dao World with the preparations he had made for many years, the pain in his heart made him feel as if he was being torn apart.
Su Xuan Yi could not heal that wound, and he did not want it to heal either. He had intended to pass True Morning Dao World to his son once he Possessed it so that it would serve as the foundation for the Abyss Builders to rise to power.
But all of this had been snatched by the lowly slave before him. The hate in Su Xuan Yi's heart made his killing intent reach a monstrous degree the moment he saw Su Ming.
With a cold harrumph, he sat up straight in his seat. His killing intent might have reached a monstrous degree, but Su Xuan Yi was not a rash person. In his eyes, Mo Sang had definitely made secret preparations for Su Ming to be able to appear in this place, and since Su Ming had dared to come, he had to have someone or something to depend on.
'I am here, and my beloved son as well as the Sovereign of Dawn are here as well. This boy… will not be able to do anything!'
He did not know that Su Ming had gone to Harmonious Morus Alba Expanse Cosmos, or else he would definitely be reacting differently at that moment.
The moment Su Xuan Yi looked at Su Ming with a cold sneer, by his side, the originally arrogant-looking Sovereign of Dawn suddenly changed. His expression went through such an unprecedented shift that he shivered in his seat. Even his breathing quickened slightly. His pupils shrank, and shock as well as extreme terror filled his heart, making his skin crawl, and he instinctively wanted to stand up and run away.
His light shudders surprised Su Xuan Yi, but when he looked at him, Yan Pei's expression had already returned to normal. His fear and shock had been hidden beneath a relaxed demeanor. With his level of cultivation, there were only a handful of people who could make him so terrified, and Su Ming was one of them, which was why when he saw Su Ming and heard Su Ming's words, he was horrified. The scene in True Morning Dao World a few months ago had been enough to completely intimidate the Sovereign of Dawn Yan Pei.
He ignored Su Xuan Yi's gaze when he looked at him. Yan Pei fixed his eyes on Su Ming. When Su Ming spoke, he felt that his voice was slightly familiar, and when he appeared, the Sovereign of Dawn's heart had trembled violently. He might have never seen Su Ming before… but he would never forget his voice.
That voice was like a nightmare in his mind. It belonged to a person who could determine his life and death with a flick of his wrist. The scenes beyond Ninth Summit still made him feel lingering fear when he thought about them. Yan Pei had no doubt in his mind that this person… was the terrifying old monster who had made him utterly terrified when they were outside Ninth Summit!
'It's him!! IT'S HIM!!' a voice screamed in Yan Pei's heart. He felt chills down his spine, and his hands as well as his feet immediately became cold, but he did not show a single hint of it on his face. However, a huge storm that had never appeared before had started raging in his heart.
'Damn it, I've already left True Morning Dao World and ordered all cultivators from Dark Dawn and Saint Defier to not provoke Ninth Summit. I don't even… I don't even have the courage to take even half a step into True Morning Dao World again, so why?!
'WHY??!!
'Why did he chase me down to this place? I… I…'
Yan Pei's face turned slightly pale. Countless thoughts immediately rose in his head, but right when they appeared, they were immediately crushed by the memory of Su Ming's terrifying power.
No one could see the Sovereign of Dawn's emotions. Su Xuan Yi only saw the displeased expression on his face. He had a crease between his eyebrows as feeling some displeasure at such a matter.
"Sovereign of Dawn, it seems like we have embarrassed ourselves. This person is a lowly slave of mine, and today, he came here to destroy my son's wedding day. I will definitely have his blood spilt in this place!"
Su Xuan Yi's cold voice echoed in the air, and he turned his head to glare at Su Ming coldly.
He did not know that his words had caused an even greater storm to rage in Yan Pei's heart. The intensity of that storm even surpassed what Yan Pei had felt when he saw Su Ming's sudden arrival. It almost caused the Sovereign of Dawn's expression to change drastically, and he nearly stood up in shock.
"You… You said that… You said that he is your slave?" The storm raged in Yan Pei's heart, and as it roared, he felt that he could not quite wrap his head around what he was hearing.
"He once was. I pitied his lowly birth and gave him the status of a slave, but this boy did not know what was good for him and repaid my kindness with ingratitude. He destroyed my plans!" The killing intent in Su Xuan Yi's eyes became greater.
Yan Pei shuddered. When he looked at Su Xuan Yi, a strange emotion was hidden in his eyes, but at the same time, he released a sigh of relief in his heart, glad that the terrifying old monster had not come searching for him this time, but had instead come searching for Su Xuan Yi, who did not know how grossly he had overestimated himself.
'He's lowly? Uhh… If he's lowly, then I've never effing saw a noble person in my life. If HE'S lowly, then what am I? Who would dare say they have an even more noble status compared to him in all of Dark Dawn and Saint Defier?
'I would want to seek an audience with him, even if I am afraid that he would want to kill me. If I could obtain some guidance, I would definitely be able to gain a serendipity! Is this Su Xuan Yi mad or does he not know the truth? How dare he say that this terrifying senior is of lowly status? He even dared to say that he is a slave…'
The Sovereign of Dawn Yan Pei stood up without hesitation and quickly took a step to the side to be further away from Su Xuan Yi. He was afraid that Su Ming would misunderstand him due to his seat at the wedding…
Before he left, he did not forget to grab Elder Mo Sang, intending to take him as well. After all, he had promised Su Xuan Yi that he would personally kill this person. Despite what might happen, the principle he valued the most in his life due to his status as the Sovereign of Dawn was promises.
In truth, he pitied Su Xuan Yi greatly in his heart. He was sure that the man did not know how terrifying the old monster before them was. For a moment, Yan Pei wondered whether he should give him a warning, but if he did, he might risk offending Su Ming.
However, it would not be good for him to watch Su Xuan Yi sink into this mess, since he was the chess piece Yan Pei had chosen. The Sovereign of Dawn felt like he should do something due to moral obligations..
Chapter 1295: You Set Me Up
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
As the Sovereign of Dawn hesitated over what to do and his hand was about to touch Elder Mo Sang, Su Ming strolled over. A ripple of emotion appeared in his eyes, which had previously been as calm as water. That ripple instantly turned into a cold glare reminiscent of moonlight reflected off the surface of a lake when he cast a flat stare at the Sovereign of Dawn Yan Pei.
Su Ming's footsteps came to a halt. A gentle look appeared in his eyes when he directed his gaze at Mo Sang. He seemed to forget his status and his level of cultivation at that moment, and instead felt like he was a child in Dark Mountain, a boy who laughed happily beside his elder… Su Ming wrapped his fist in his palm and bowed deeply.
This bow was directed to his elder, to Dark Mountain, and how deeply Su Ming valued his relationships.
"I, Su Ming of Dark Mountain, greet my elder…"
The Sovereign of Dawn's hand came to an abrupt halt while he was in the middle of stretching it out. His expression immediately changed; he was completely stunned. Su Ming's bow and his words repeated in his mind nonstop, and he soon registered what was going on. An enraged, monstrous killing intent instantly arose in his heart, transforming into a roar that went straight into his head.
'Damn you, Su Xuan Yi… you set me up!'
During that moment, the Sovereign of Dawn no longer thought about principles, and he threw all his moral obligations to the back of his mind. He immediately began to hate Su Xuan Yi to the core. To him, regardless of whether Su Xuan Yi did this intentionally or not, it was the same as Su Xuan Yi setting him up. He had almost driven Yan Pei to his grave, setting him up against this old monster who he had been fleeing from with everything he had.
The Sovereign of Dawn did not believe that Su Xuan Yi did not truly know how terrifying Su Ming was. In fact, in Yan Pei's eyes, Su Xuan Yi definitely knew that Su Ming would come on this day, and he had dragged Yan Pei to his side and asked him to kill Su Ming's elder so that they would be bound together.
'Damn it… Damn it… Thank goodness I didn't kill him yet.'
The moment Yan Pei registered the situation, with his mighty power and the reaction he had as a Sovereign of Dawn, he was able to stop his hand from reaching Elder Mo Sang. Then, he did not hesitate to immediately touch the elder.
But he only placed his hand on the elder. He did not grab him, but instead supported him gently, and it even looked like he had a great amount of reverence for the elder. The threads of time binding Elder Mo Sang immediately shattered. When they disappeared without a single sound, the Sovereign of Dawn Yan Pei helped the elder up with his right hand, and a gentle smile even appeared on his face. There was even a hint of respect in it.
"I admire heroes like you the most in my life, fellow Daoist. Even if you knew that your level of cultivation was lacking, you were willing to risk everything for your family members. People like that must be respected!
"This is a gift and a lesson for any family. I am like that too. I have the same personality as you do, and I cannot bear with you being captured, fellow Daoist, which is why I interfered with this matter. I will definitely not allow someone like you to die before me. I acted so that I could save you!
"My fellow Daoist, I wasn't clear with my words just now. In fact, I even joked with you just now, because I am a guest Su Xuan Yi had invited with all he had. I might not be familiar with this person, but he had invited me to this wedding after showing me great hospitality, so I had come here reluctantly, but I did not expect myself to meet someone like you here. This trip was worth it!
"That joke was to test whether you are truly a hero. Right now, I am certain of it. Fellow Daoist… I hope that you will not mind the words I said to you earlier. I hope that someone like you will accept a bow from me."
Yan Pei's expression was incredibly sincere, and his words sounded as if they were truly what he had in mind. As he spoke, he took a few steps back, wrapped his fist in his palm, and bowed deeply to Mo Sang.
Mo Sang was stunned. When a barely noticeable glint appeared in his eyes, the Sovereign of Dawn lifted his head and stared coldly at Su Xuan Yi, who was frowning and looked a little surprised.
"Fellow Daoist Su, I did not expect that you were someone like this!"
"Sovereign of Dawn…"
Su Xuan Yi's pupils shrank. Yan Pei had changed sides so quickly that Su Xuan Yi's heart let out a thump. Before he could even finish speaking, his words were cut off by Yan Pei.
"You disappoint me too much. If your daughter does not want to marry someone else, then why must you place so many seals on her? Not only did you seal her thoughts, you even sealed her soul. How could you treat your own family like this? You are practically trying to curry my favor, but you disappointed me. I am ashamed to be associated with you!
"Treat my actions as me sticking my nose into someone else's business, but I have long since been unable to tolerate this. I have reached the end of my patience!"
As he spoke, the Sovereign of Dawn successfully stole Su Ming's limelight; he became the center of everyone's attention. Then, he lifted his right hand and pointed at Yu Xuan. The bells he had given Yu Xuan started shuddering on their own, and when they knocked against each other, they let out a string of clear ringing sounds.
Every single time the sound echoed in the air, a look of struggle would appear on Yu Xuan's face. Clouds seemed to cover her eyes, but they were swiftly swept away by the wind. Clarity slowly appeared in her gaze, and when the ringing of the bells ended, Yu Xuan shuddered. All the seals on her body disappeared without a trace, and she regained her mind.
When he saw this, Yan Pei released a sigh of relief in his heart, feeling fortunate that he had given her the bells as a gift earlier. By doing so, everything he did could be backed by evidence, and no one would be able to find any clear problems with his actions. He should not have offended that terrifying old monster too much.
As clarity appeared in Yu Xuan's eyes and her body shuddered slightly, she remembered many things. After all, Yan Pei was a Sovereign of Dawn. When he took action, he did not just wipe off the seals placed on Yu Xuan in the recent years. He had wiped off all the seals in her body, which had been placed on her since many years ago, causing Yu Xuan… to truly regain a clear mind for the first time after being lost for a long period of time!
She immediately looked at Su Ming, who was standing not too far away and watching everything with a ghost of a smile on his face. After the single glance, she could no longer look away. Tears filled her vision and made the world before blurry, but that one figure in the world remained clear. It belonged to a person who remained clear in her mind no matter how many cycles of rebirth he went through.
Her childhood memories rose in her head. The thin and frail teenager lying silently was her older brother. He was not her family, but he was someone who was closer to her than family. He grew up with her and accompanied her every day. He was her older brother who could not speak and open his eyes. He was the most important family to her.
She remembered that she stayed by his side and spoke to him about the blue sky, the darkness during night, her training, her grievances, her future…
She held his hand so that his cold hand could slowly gain bodily warmth. During that period of time, she was very happy. Training might have been difficult and she might have been bullied and mocked by others, but she had remained strong. She wanted to protect her older brother his whole life.
Yet one day, she was taken away. She still remembered that when she cast a final glance at him before she left, he was still lying there without moving. He could neither open his eyes nor his mouth. On that day… she cried.
The person who took her away told her that if she was obedient, he would wake up, so she chose to be obedient and leave. After that… it felt as if an eternity had gone by.
That period of time seemed to be too far away from her now, so far away that her memories about it had become unclear. In truth, they had become faded away not because of her will. Instead, due to an unknown reason, she had completely forgotten about her past.
She became a direct descendant of a family in the Emperor of Abyss' True World. She had a father, a mother, and other family members. She was very happy during that period of time as well, but every single time night fell and everything was quiet, she would have a feeling as if she had forgotten the most important person in her life.
But no matter what, she could not remember that person. The shadow of a person's back would often appear in her dreams, but it was muddled, and she could not see it clearly…
On the day her mother returned to earth, she wept while watching her mother gradually close her eyes. During that moment, on her deathbed, her mother stared at Yu Xuan with a look that spoke volumes. Her gaze was filled with compassion and a reluctance to part, and after appearing to ponder whether she wanted to speak, she said a few words,
"The meaning for Xuan is daylily. You are a daylily in the rain… I want you to forget sadness in your life and be happy forever…"
She had been ignorant of the meaning of that sentence in the past. Later on in the future, she always thought that she had understood what it meant, but only during that moment did she know the profound meaning behind those words…
Perhaps it was the figure in her dreams, or perhaps it was due to the emotions in her memories that could not be sealed no matter how strong the seal was, but before her wedding, she fled. While feeling lost and not knowing where to go… she had returned to True Morning Dao World by a stroke of chance.
She also remembered that when she fled and captured the Abyss Dragon, she seemed to have seen a figure, but when she turned her head back to look, she saw nothing. When she thought about it after all that time, she knew that the figure she had seen was that of her father's; he had been watching her in silence from not too far away. He watched her leave as if sending her off with a great reluctance to part.
During the days Su Xuan Yi was in isolation, Yu Xuan had went to True Morning Dao World to search for the feeling she could place her finger upon, and it had brought to the place in which she was born—Yin Death Vortex!
It was not her personality that caused her to immediately stick close to Su Ming when she saw him while not feeling a single hint of unfamiliarity towards him. It was because the aura of her life had affected her sealed memories.
She did not know that once she appeared before Su Ming, the voice calling out to him as its older brother which he only heard in his dreams gradually disappeared.
Yu Xuan remembered everything from her birth to the present. All her memories appeared in her head at that instant. Once the seals vanished, she stared at Su Ming with a dazed look, and tears that seemed to have come from thousands of years ago fell from the corners of her eyes.
"I am Yu Xuan. I am a daylily in the rain. My father is the second God of Berserkers. My home is in the land of Berserkers…" Yu Xuan mumbled. She lifted her head, and when she looked at Su Ming again, she bit her bottom lip and whispered two words that once echoed in Su Ming's dreams for many years.
"Big brother…"
Su Ming approached her. There were few forces of power who could stop him now in Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos. When Yu Xuan raised her head, Su Ming had already arrived before her. He gently embraced her crying form.
"I promised you that I would one day come and find you. Today is that day."
Su Ming caressed Yu Xuan's long hair. When he spoke, he raised his head and looked at the silent third prince standing beside them. The two of them met each other's gazes, and Su Ming saw the complicated look in the third prince's eyes, while Lei Chen saw the sentimentality in Su Ming's eyes.
Chapter 1296: You Should Not Have!
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
When Su Ming flipped his palm, he could cause clouds to surge, and when he flipped it again, he could cause rain to fall. His arrival had changed the unseen laws in the place without a sound.
The hearts of the one million cultivators had trembled, and then, the Sovereign of Dawn Yan Pei's actions had become strange. When Su Ming looked at the third prince and their gazes met, it was as if a sleeping volcano… had started showing signs of an eruption.
"Sir, how dare you act so arrogantly when you have intruded on this capital of ours? I would like to see what sort of divine abilities you have."
At that moment, a freezing glare shone in the Sublime Paragon while he forced down the nervousness in his heart. With his level of cultivation and his intelligence, there was no way he would not see how terrifying Su Ming was, but he had no choice at that moment. As the Sublime Paragon of this True World and with Su Xuan Yi behind him, he could only put up a bold front and say such words. Su Xuan Yi's strength was unfathomable in his heart, and compared to the person before his eyes, he would rather believe that Su Xuan Yi held the upper hand.
In fact, he had other thoughts in his mind as well. Since Su Ming had come in such a shocking manner, it was going to be difficult to avoid a fight. If Su Xuan Yi was powerful enough to win, then everything would be alright, but if Su Xuan Yi lost… then perhaps this would be a chance for him.
At the instant this thought appeared in his head, the Sublime Paragon charged at Su Ming. He lifted his right hand and swung his arm, and a vast amount of power surged out with a bang. It turned into a huge Abyss Statue in front of him that rushed forward to suppress Su Ming, but it did not harbor much killing intent, appearing to only wish to force Su Ming back.
Howling sounds echoed in the air. A loud bang shot up, deafening everyone. The Abyss Statue instantly closed in on Su Ming. Without even sparing a glance for the Sublime Paragon, he lifted his right hand and pointed casually at the statue.
With it, the weather changed. Wind stirred and clouds surged. It looked like the will of heaven had descended on the sky of the entire cultivation planet. It turned into a huge vortex that rotated with loud rumbles. An astonishing will descended on the Sublime Paragon with a gentleness when Su Ming pointed at him.
With it, a loud bang shot up. The Abyss Statue the Sublime Paragon had formed shattered to pieces. He coughed up a mouthful of blood, and he seemed to have been stunned by the sight of the will of heaven descending from the sky. He could not dodge, and it crashed into him.
He shuddered and coughed up eight mouthfuls of blood in succession. His body was like a kite with a snapped string, and he was thrown into the distance. While he was flying, blood gushed out of him rapidly. His body fell from the ancient tree, and he plunged into the sea and disappeared.
'He's a cunning one, alright. He attacked me with a divine ability that didn't contain much killing intent. He was rather certain that I would not kill him, and so he took the gamble. He did not even dodge and went to take the hit. By doing so, he was injured badly, and he could avoid having to fight any longer, causing Su Xuan Yi to be unable to say anything against him even if he wins, and if I win, I won't cause trouble to him either.'
With a single glance, Su Ming was able to tell what the Sublime Paragon thought of, but he did not expose him. Every person had a chance to make a choice before danger, and it was correct of the Sublime Paragon to make such a decision.
When Su Ming's will descended and the Sublime Paragon coughed up blood before plunging into the sea, the expression of the one million cultivators who had been stunned earlier changed drastically, and shock appeared on their faces.
They did not know Su Ming, but at that moment, his figure turned into a nightmare. His image was forcefully branded into their minds, and he became an eternal existence in their heads.
The third prince was silent, as if he was not surprised by all of this. The Sovereign of Dawn also seemed to have been expecting this. He knew just how terrifying Su Ming was, and he had grown to admire this Sublime Paragon whom he had not paid too much attention to previously, thinking to himself that this person was highly aware of his surroundings and that he could perhaps guide him in the future.
Su Xuan Yi's pupils shrank at that moment. A freezing glare as cold as ice and as sharp as needles appeared in his eyes when he looked at Su Ming.
"I only came here for three things."
Su Ming shifted his gaze away from the third prince and looked at the sullen Su Xuan Yi. This person, once an unfathomably powerful warrior in Su Ming's eyes, was now just a joke to him.
The appearance of Arid Triad's gap, hiding in Morning Dao Sect, his plans and aims towards True Morning Dao World's will, his prevention of Dark Dawn's camp in Divine Essence Star Ocean, and everything else were due to Su Xuan Yi.
He had used Su Ming. Everything that he did to him in the past rose in Su Ming's head, including using him to nourish the Seed of Life Extermination, before all the memories returned to the back of his mind in the form of dust.
"The first matter would be taking Yu Xuan away with me. You've taken care of her for many years, so I should notify you about this." Su Ming caressed Yu Xuan's hair. When he spoke, his eyes were calm.
"The second thing would be returning you an item that you have left in my care for a long time."
While saying that, Su Ming lifted his left hand and seized the air. The fifth kiln swiftly appeared with a loud bang. Fire surrounded the fifth kiln before it shrank exponentially. It floated above Su Ming's palm, but he simply allowed the flames to surround his left hand. His expression remained as indifferent as ever while he pushed the fifth kiln forward.
"A clone of yours is in there, along with your wife, who is waiting to be resurrected. Why would you leave something so important in my hands? You did not even mention wanting it back. Could it be… that you don't want it?"
Su Ming smiled faintly. He could already see through the complicated emotions Su Xuan Yi had towards the fifth kiln. He could tell that Su Xuan Yi did not want to face the fifth kiln, which was why… he decided to not ignore it.
While he watched the fifth kiln drift towards him, Su Xuan Yi's expression turned darker, but only he knew about the anguish and the complicated emotions he had under the sullen facade he put on.
At the instant the third prince saw the fifth kiln and heard Su Ming's words, he jolted. He looked over swiftly, and a hint of sadness appeared on his face.
"I've now finished with those two things. Right now, I only have the third matter remaining… I will end this enmity between us."
Su Ming looked at Su Xuan Yi. At the moment he finished speaking, Su Xuan Yi suddenly threw his head back and laughed.
There was a sense of freedom and wildness to his laughter. It sounded like he looked down upon the entire world, like he was certain that all manner of lives were in his hands and that he could manipulate them at will.
"You unfilial son, you…"
"Things have already progressed to this point, so is there even meaning to you saying any of this?"
Su Ming's expression remained calm, but a chilling tone had entered his words. It made Su Xuan Yi instinctively stop speaking. He stared at Su Ming, and after a moment, he started laughing coldly.
"As expected of the son between Su Zhan and the Sacred Lady of the Spiritlings from Dark Dawn. You have the inborn divine abilities of the Abyss Builders and the Spiritlings' powerful might, which makes their souls imperishable.
"Growing up among the Berserkers has also allowed you to possess the power of the Berserkers. Divine Essence Star Ocean has taught you how to be sly. Not bad, you are not at all weaker than my real son in this regard.
"Then, I would really like to know how you will end this enmity between us."
As Su Xuan Yi smiled coldly, he stood up, looking like a towering mountain. Even if Su Ming had arrived and he had personally seen just how powerful he was, Su Xuan Yi's pride did not allow him to show any weakness. He was still as aggressive as ever.
Su Ming was silent. He lowered his head and looked at Yu Xuan. A gentle look appeared in his eyes.
"You could have manipulated me and used me to nourish that Seed of Life Extermination of yours. You could have made me do everything that you wished, but you should not have… told me that you were my father."
When Su Ming lifted his head, a chilling glare appeared in his eyes. The moment he said those words, Su Ming took a step forward, and he was so fast that he instantly appeared right in front of Su Xuan Yi. He lifted his right hand and pressed it against Su Xuan Yi's chest.
When his palm almost touched his chest, Su Xuan Yi threw his head back and roared. He had been prepared for this since much earlier, so the moment Su Ming closed in on him, he immediately crushed the ancient jade that had appeared in his hand at some unknown point of time.
A crack appeared on the ancient jade, but it did not completely shatter. A huge eight-headed figure manifested behind him, and an astonishing mighty pressure and presence immediately erupted from him. That presence was so strong that it went straight to Avanicaya Realm, causing the Sovereign of Dawn's eyes to sparkle, and the pressure on the one million cultivators in the area increased again.
It caused the world to tremble and the weather to change, and it also caused the laws in the area to instantly become disorderly. This was one of Su Xuan Yi's killing moves. As an outstanding figure in this True World, he dared to scheme against True Morning Dao World and blast a hole in Arid Triad, so there was no way that he would not have any powerful backup plans.
At that moment, Su Xuan Yi no longer held back. Once the eight-headed figure appeared, it fused into Su Xuan Yi's body before it appeared between the two men to collide against Su Ming's palm.
Bang!
A loud bang reverberated through the air. The eight-headed figure instantly crumbled. Su Ming's palm seemed to be able to tear through everything. Once the eight-headed figure that exuded the powerful presence crumbled to pieces, Su Ming's hand pressed against Su Xuan Yi's chest.
Booming sounds echoed in the air, lingering there. Su Xuan Yi coughed up blood and staggered backwards. His expression changed. His pupils shrank, and for the first time ever, shock appeared on his face.
"What level of cultivation do you have?!"
It was impossible for him to not be shocked. The eight-headed figure came from the ancient jade, and it was not something of this aeon. It was a remnant of the previous aeon and possessed the power of those in Avacaniya Realm. It might only appear for a short time, but it could allow Su Xuan Yi to step into Avanicaya Realm and fight against the Sovereign of Dawn Yan Pei.
And since the item was from the previous aeon, the laws governing it were different. It also meant that it could weaken the will of their aeon. In Su Xuan Yi's mind, it should have been perfect to go against Su Ming, who had Possessed True Morning Dao World.
But… he had not expected that the eight-headed figure in Avacaniya Realm would shatter before Su Ming at the first touch!
The Sovereign of Dawn had seen it, and it made him instinctively take a few steps back. He had once again witnessed how terrifying Su Ming was, which made sure that what his clone had seen was not a misconception. This man was definitely the strongest person in their aeon!
By his side, Elder Mo Sang stared at Su Ming dumbly before pride appeared on his face. An ancient air that was far older than his actual age appeared about him…
The Sublime Paragon had just come up to the surface of the sea under the ancient tree at that moment and had spread his divine sense outwards to observe what was happening. Once he saw the fight, his heart shuddered violently, and without any hesitation, he lifted his right hand and fiercely struck his chest. He coughed up more blood and sank to the bottom of the sea again.
Chapter 1297: I Am Here!
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"With my strike, I severed your ties with the years of your life, and I injured your soul. You are now like a rootless tree. You no longer have karma affecting you, and you have also lost your right to be reincarnated. This is your punishment for calling yourself my father."
When Su Ming declared this in a flat tone, Su Xuan Yi's expression changed drastically. Only at that moment did he realize the indescribable pain coming from his body.
It felt like there was a plant growing in his body. In shock, he directed his attention at the internal structure of his body, and he immediately noticed that his soul had become semi-transparent and much weaker. His Qi and blood were scattered and in a mess, as if they were being devoured by some unseen force. It left them increasingly weaker.
"You could have used me. Even if you gathered my soul together for your use to accompany your son so that he would grow and even if you left the mark of a slave on me so that I would continue being your slave, it would have been fine.
"But you should not have… spread your hands outwards and used the people around me. You should not have used Yu Xuan…"
Killing intent shone in Su Ming's eyes. Once he finished speaking, he took a swift step forward once more.
Su Xuan Yi's pupils shrank swiftly, and he immediately began withdrawing. A ferocious and crazed look appeared on his face. He squeezed the ancient jade in his right hand again, and as cracking sounds shot into the air, it split into two. An astonishing will immediately erupted from within and surrounded Su Xuan Yi.
There was a primitive air to that will, along with an ancient feeling that made it seem as if it had existed for an endless amount of time. This will was not part of the present aeon. The ancient feeling about it was possessed only by those in the previous aeon, and it was so strong that it instantly gave off a presence equivalent to Su Ming once he Possessed True Morning Dao World!
It was a will which belonged to one of the strongest warriors of the previous aeon, who was an old monster who had surpassed Avacaniya Realm. He was probably still alive, which would explain his will being so great. It was filled with indestructible life force, but similarly, there was a thick aura of death contained within it.
The appearance of the will immediately caused the air around Su Xuan Yi to distort and form into an ancient face. Marks of time were contained within it, but the face itself was incredibly hideous. The man's eyes were bloodshot, and when he appeared, he let out a crazed howl that shook the sky and earth.
It was the first time that will had appeared in the present aeon. At the moment it did, it caused the rapidly fading will of the Emperor of Abyss' True World to shudder and Arid Triad to focus his gaze on the area.
This was the first time… the sleeping old monsters who had fused with their other selves showed their presence before the people! This was not a clone like the ones belonging to Di Tian and the others. After all, they were just clones. The one that appeared at that moment was the person's will in its truest sense. This was his complete will!
For the first time, a different expression appeared in Su Ming's eyes. Even he had not expected that Su Xuan Yi would have this sort of ancient jade with him… but even if the will was as powerful as a True World, to Su Ming… it was still too fragile and would not be able to withstand even a single hit of his.
At the moment his right hand touched the face formed by the will, the face's roars came to an abrupt halt. Disbelief and madness appeared on the face, and it swiftly charged at Su Ming with a howl to suppress him.
Su Ming let out a cold harrumph. Morning Dao's will, Immortal Sect's will, Sky Hill's will, and part of the will of the Emperor of Abyss' True World instantly gathered on him to suppress the rampant will, who had grossly overestimated itself.
This was a clash between wills, and an unbalanced battle that was similar to a toddler challenging an adult for a fight.
Booming sounds instantly filled the cultivation planet before they spread into the galaxy. When they echoed in all directions, the face formed by the will around Su Xuan Yi shattered to pieces, and as if a huge gust of wind had blown against it, it disappeared without a trace.
Su Ming's right hand pushed down on Su Xuan Yi's chest again. With it, Su Xuan Yi coughed up a dozen mouthfuls of blood. When he moved back, he was stark pale, amd for the first time ever, fear appeared on his face.
"With this strike, I made your cultivation base fade, I destroyed your Qi, and I crushed your divine sensem," Su Ming said while looking at the pale Su Xuan Yi.
"You could use me to nourish the Seed of Life Extermination, but you should not… have made Yu Xuan continue my path and forced her to give up on everything for the Seed of Life Extermination. And then, since you were worried that she would resist and struggle against you, you sealed her thoughts, soul, and her memories so that she could make the Seed of Life Extermination complete once she became one with your son.
"You should not have done this. If dragons have taboos, then so do people. You have done things that are taboo to me several times. How… do you think I will end this grudge between us?"
Killing intent appeared in Su Ming's eyes. The next moment, he took another step forward and charged at Su Xuan Yi.
The killing intent had been buried in Su Ming's heart for a long, long time. From the moment he had learned that everything was fake and he thought that he was an incredibly ludicrous existence, he harbored great murderous intent towards Su Xuan Yi.
Right then, that killing intent finally erupted from within him after accumulating for a long period of time. Murderous intent appeared in Su Ming's eyes, and he closed in on Su Xuan Yi like a blade wanting to take his life.
Su Xuan Yi laughed brokenly. When he saw Su Ming move towards him, ferociousness and desperation suddenly appeared in his smile. The two halves of the ancient jade in his hand were swiftly crushed to pieces.
At the moment the ancient jade was crushed, Su Xuan Yi's hoarse voice traveled swiftly into the air with a shrill tone.
"Yr Morkh!"
The two words sounded like an incantation, but it was even more… like a name. It was a name that was completely different from the people of his aeon used and was also had a different pronunciation. In other words, it was the name of a powerful warrior of the previous aeon.
The moment Su Xuan Yi called out that name, the world roared. The Emperor of Abyss' True World trembled violently, and all of Arid Triad seemed to have become different. Immediately after, the land and mountains in the capital planet shattered and crumbled. Huge cracks that went through the entire planet spread rapidly, and they stretched to the sea, which began to roar. A low growl shot out from the cracks in the underground.
A huge hand made of blood fog shot into the air and seized Su Xuan Yi before it turned around so that the palm was facing outwards. Then, with the force of the back of the hand, it fought back against Su Ming's incoming palm strike.
Booming sounds surged into the heavens. The blood fog swiftly dissipated, but it managed to resist Su Ming's palm strike.
Once Su Xuan Yi was saved, the growl from the crack underground became several times stronger. It echoed in the air, and when the sky turned red, it caused the entire cultivation planet to instantly turn crimson, making it seem as if the planet had turned into a red sun, and its red hue even spread out into the galaxy.
A crimson figure rushed out from the crack at the bottom of the sea. The moment it showed up, the sea tumbled. Loud rumbles surged into the sky. The figure traveled at an astonishing pace and instantly appeared besides Su Xuan Yi to catch him.
The unknown person was a middle-aged man who exuded great bloodthirst and had bloodshot eyes that shone with madness. He was half-naked, which revealed countless scars on his body. They gave him a furious and murderous aura that filled the world.
"Who made me wake up beforehand?! Who interrupted my great plan for invincibility?! Who dared provoke my disciple?! Damn it! All of you deserve death! All of you must die! Die! Die! DIE!!"
The man seemed to be off in the head. When he roared, he lowered his head swiftly, and his gaze swept past all the people on the ancient tree. All those who met his gaze immediately felt their blood flow in reverse. Their eyes instantly filled with blood capillaries, as if their bodies were about to explode.
All of them were affected, except Su Ming and Yu Xuan, who was under his protection, his elder, and the third prince!
Only the four of them were unaffected. Even the Sovereign of Dawn of Yan Pei felt his heart tremble at that moment. In his mind, he immediately started cursing the other two Sovereigns of Dawn and the three powerful warriors in Avacaniya Realm from Saint Defier.
He had thought that he had managed to seize an opportunity by being able to step into Arid Triad, but he had first run into the terrifying Su Ming, and right then, he met this old monster shining with a red glow. Both of them had the ability to kill him, so entering Arid Triad had been opportunity. It was clearly a dangerous place that could bring about his death if he made the slightest mistake!
"I didn't expect to see two complete fellow Daoists in this place, as well as one… who achieved the same results, even though the method he used is wrong… but this does not mean you have the right to interfere with my plan and wake me up ahead of schedule!" the blood-red figure roared madly.
The world howled, and rain began to pour down from the sky. The droplets were red, and even the sea beneath them instantly turned into a sea of blood during that instant.
Su Ming frowned and snorted coldly. The sound traveled through the air, and it immediately made the blood-red figure in the sky freeze. The middle-aged looked at Su Ming, and his body instantly vanished.
The moment he disappeared, Su Ming blended into the air as well. Booming sounds shot out rapidly into midair, and each one was deafening to the ears, causing the sky to look as if it was about to crumble and the world to look as if it was about to collapse. The middle-aged man appeared then and fell backwards. On his face was a graveness, great fighting intent, and an even greater wave of madness.
Blood trickled out of the corners of his mouth. His chest had already collapsed, but his fighting spirit and madness became even wilder.
"You should be the strongest person in this aeon. I can sense that accursed True World's will on you!"
When the blood-red figure began to rar, Su Ming walked out of the air. His expression was one of indifference. His white robe and long hair were spotless, but there was a cold and biting chill in his eyes.
When Su Ming and the blood-red figure attacked each other, a young man dressed in a long robe walked over the surface of the sea with a calm expression on his face. He was beneath the ancient tree and above the red sea of blood. Wherever he went, no one noticed him. It was as if… he was one with the universe.
He did not lift his head to look at the sky, but instead moved to stand under the ancient tree. As he stood on the surface of the sea, he sighed softly.
"I'm here."
Chapter 1298: Five-Faced Beast Deity
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"Go back to the place you sleep. It is not time for you to wake up just yet," the white-robed, long-haired Su Ming said flatly while standing in the air.
The presence of the strongest person of the current aeon radiated from Su Ming's body and swept through the land. When he spoke, a voice that made the entire True World tremble came from his mouth.
As the air around him distorted, it turned into a huge hand that went forth to grab the blood-red figure.
Madness appeared in the blood-red figure's eyes. He formed a seal with his hands and pointed forward. Immediately, the space where he stood distorted, and the blood fog tumbled about, letting out a roar like a malicious spirit. The blood fog immediately turned into a ferocious face of a ghost. It charged at the hand, and they instantly crashed into each other with a loud bang that shook the sky and earth.
Amid the noise, the hand shattered. The face of the ghost let out a shrill scream of pain and crumbled as well. Su Ming swung his arm, and when a freezing glare appeared in his eyes, the blood-red figure took a few steps back again. When he raised his head, he fixed his stare on Su Ming. A crazed, ferocious smile appeared at the corners of his lips, as if he was completely unbothered even if he was at a disadvantage.
"As expected of the strongest person in this aeon, but aren't you a little too conceited? You still don't have the right to make me go back to sleep. You can't kill me, for not even Arid Triad's disaster can destroy me. All the people who have reached our status are already indestructible!"
As the blood-red figure laughed madly, he lifted his right hand and seized the air in the direction of the sky.
"Five-Faced Beast Deity, descend in this aeon!"
The world immediately roared. With loud booms, the air was torn, and a huge crack appeared out of nowhere. A boundless, malicious presence surged out from within it. Five waves of mighty pressure intersecting with each other could be detected clearly in that presence, and it was incredibly astonishing.
It was the famous Five-Faced Beast Deity from the previous aeon. This beast was not created by cultivators, but was born from the Essence of the universe. When it appeared, it was already in Avacaniya Realm. It devoured countless cultivators and stirred up a disaster in the previous aeon in which countless lives had died.
Even if they gathered together the might of all the powerhouses from all True Worlds at that time, they were still defeated by the beast, and the more it ate, the stronger it became. In the end, it gained sentience, and its level of cultivation reached its peak. For a period of time, it could be said to have been unbeatable.
When the beast roared at the skies, it sensed the existence of Arid Triad's will… and it went to challenge him.
It was completely defeated in that battle. Its body was crushed and its soul disintegrated. It perished under Arid Triad's will, but while its real body died, thousands of years after the aeon in which it was born, gradually, cultivators who could vaguely sense its fragmented soul appeared.
When more cultivators like that were born, the religion of the Five-Faced Beast Deity came into being. Each convert to this religion was someone who killed to a monstrous degree. They were all cruel and merciless and worshiped the Five-Faced Beast Deity.
They built statues and worshiped them every day. As time passed, the leaders of the religion grew to be able to gradually summon the shadow of the Five-Faced Beast Deity, but most of them could only summon three of its heads.
But even if the shadow only had three heads, it was enough for them to obtain the great power equivalent to those in Avacaniya Realm.
That had lasted until the final days of the aeon when a peerless genius had appeared in the religion of the Five-Faced Beast Deity. That person's potential was so great that it could be said that he was matchless, and he seemed to be born suitable to fuse with the Five-Faced Beast Deity.
His rise to power was so quick that in a short ten thousand years, he managed to form three heads of the Five-Faced Beast Deity. From then on, he searched through the entire Expanse Cosmos and gathered nearly eight-tenths of the Five-Faced Beast Deity's soul, causing the shadow that he formed to show five heads, which was the first since the Five-Faced Beast Deity had died!
That prodigy was the blood-red figure before Su Ming. The genius of the religion of the Five-Faced Beast Deity had fused with his other self and become the imperishable and indestructible Yr Morkh.
He killed so many people that he gained immense popularity in the previous aeon. He was one of the two strongest people during that aeon, and he managed to survive through Arid Triad's disaster, but he had to fall into deep sleep in one hundred years. During the first one hundred years of the new aeon, he used all his time to form the religion of the Five-Faced Beast Deity and to pass down its legacy. Hence, most of those who were born later did not know of his existence.
At that moment, the crack that appeared in the world was the sign that the Five-Faced Beast Deity was about to appear. As its malicious presence spread out, a loud roar came from the crack. Immediately after, a huge head of a fierce creature manifested.
The head resembled a snake. It had a forked red tongue that came out of its mouth when a piercing hiss traveled rang the air. The next moment, the huge head charged out like a bolt of thunder from the crack.
The snake head was the first head of the Five-Faced Beast Deity!
When it charged out, it instantly closed in on the white-robed Su Ming. It was large enough to cover the sky and earth, and a foul stench of rotting things came from its breath. It caused a large part of the world around Su Ming to immediately start showing signs of rotting.
Su Ming's face was calm. It might have been the first time that he ran into a powerful warrior from the previous aeon, but Su Ming was not at all wary. As the strongest person in his aeon, he wanted to see just… who was the stronger between him and a powerful warrior of the previous aeon!
The moment the huge snake head closed in on him and the foul stench came crashing into his face, Su Ming let out a cold harrumph, and he lifted his right hand to swing his arm forward. With it, the world immediately roared. A huge hand swiftly manifested in front of him to seize the snake head and lift it upwards.
At that moment, another roar came from the crack, and a huge wolf head rushed out. With a presence that made it seem that it wanted to devour the sky and earth, it opened its mouth and charged at Su Ming.
Immediately after, the third roar shot out of the crack in the sky and reverberated through the air. A huge head of a tiger with an incredibly distinct mark of the tiger at the center of its brow appeared. It exuded a supreme and domineering air. When it roared, a powerful wave of sound surged into the sky and made the entire planet shudder.
And this was just the third head. At the moment the tiger's roars traveled through the planet, the fourth head appeared. It belonged to a huge dragon that was entirely black.
Right when the fourth head came out, the fifth manifested as well. It was the head of a child with a contorted face. At the moment it appeared, it let out a piercing howl at Su Ming!
A great, mighty pressure spread from the five heads, and like a Rune, it charged to Su Ming from five different directions.
At the same time, the body of the Five-Faced Beast Deity was revealed from the crack in the sky. It looked… like a human which was incredibly huge, standing nearly one hundred thousand feet tall. Right then, only a small part of it was revealed, but it was still enough to shock everyone.
"Five-Faced Beast Deity, five heads… But I don't understand… How could something like you be worthy of being called a deity?"
Su Ming watched the five heads charging at him with ferociousness. Each head gave Su Ming the feeling that they possessed the power equivalent to those in Avacaniya Realm, but once they were connected, a power similar to the one Su Ming sensed from the old man from Heavenly Spirit Tribe erupted from them.
That was a powerful presence equivalent to someone who had had their spirit ascend eight times… but to Su Ming, this sort of presence was still not enough!
After all, while they were both the strongest in their respective aeons, there was still a difference in strength between them. This was something that would definitely not be the same!
At the moment Su Ming spoke and the five heads closed in on him, he seized the air with his right hand. A purple sword immediately appeared in his grip. It let out an indescribably fierce presence, for it was… the End of Wills Sword!
The sword's level once surpassed Su Ming's, and the sword had been in control of his actions instead of him being control of the sword, but right then… the sword in Su Ming's hand was merely his weapon. The sword could not behead the Five-Faced Beast Deity by itself, but when it was in Su Ming's hands, it could!
Su Ming's eyes shone with a freezing glare. With the sword in his right hand, he moved forward instead of retreating. At the instant the snake head came to devour him, the sword shone with a monstrous purple light.
It blinded all the cultivators who had been paying attention to the fight. At the moment the purple light pierced the people's eyes and their field of vision turned black, a shrill scream of pain tumbled out from the snake head's mouth.
Loud booms filled the area. At the same time, another incredibly shrill roar that sounded like it came from someone who was struggling at death's door rang out. The booming sounds became even louder, but nothing had ended just yet.
When the third pained scream let out through great struggle was heard and the darkness before the people's eyes disappeared so they could see normally once more, they saw that the snake head had been cut off from the huge five-headed ferocious beast. The wolf head plunged to the ground as well, and a large amount of red light gushed out at the center of the tiger head's brow, as if it had been pierced by a sword.
During that instant, shock appeared on the remaining dragon head and the boy's head, but before they could retreat, Su Ming's eyes sparkled. He brought his right hand up and pointed into the distance before he flung his arm. The tiger head instantly screamed in pain. Its head shattered to pieces, and purple light shot out from it. It sparkled above the dragon head and the boy's head before it disappeared.
In an instant, purple light shone in front of Su Ming when the End of Wills Sword manifested. A drop of black blood fell from the tip of the sword, and the dragon head jolted; it had been cut off.
The boy's head let out a roar filled with the unwillingness to admit defeat, but a gash appeared between his eyebrows, and with a bang, he was cut into two.
The End of Wills Sword trembled because of excitement. After it had been crafted, Su Ming was the strongest master it had ever followed, and because of it, it had beheaded the strongest enemy in its life. Once it absorbed the blood of a powerful being of this calibre, it became excited and exhilarated. In fact, it could sense that before long… its power would increase!
"The Five-Faced Beast Deity is only this much."
When Su Ming spoke, he lifted his right hand and pushed in the direction of the giant who had lost all five of its heads.
"Go back from where you came. Seal."
Those words were spoken flatly, and there were only a total of seven of them, but the crack in the sky immediately turned into a vortex. When it rotated with loud rumbles, a huge suction force came from within it, and no matter how the giant struggled, it couldn't change its fate of being sucked into the vortex. Once it lost the fight, the vortex vanished… and the sky returned to normal!
Chapter 1299: Changing the Ruler of the Emperor of Abyss!
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
The area instantly fell into dead silence…
Nearly one million cultivators looked at Su Ming. Shock appeared on their faces, and their minds went blank. The sight of Su Ming sealing the giant became a memory they would never forget.
Su Ming's elder watched him, and a smile showed up on his face. He saw Su Ming's growth and knew that the young La Su had grown up into a person he could have never imagined.
Yu Xuan looked at Su Ming with a gaze as soothing as water. It felt like she could watch him her entire life, and she wished to do it as well…
Su Xuan Yi's face was pale when he looked at Su Ming. His mind trembled. Su Ming's strength had surpassed his expectations repeatedly, and right then, the power he showed had reached a degree where it cast him in disbelief and made his skin crawl.
There was also the Sovereign of Dawn, Yan Pei. At that moment, while remaining cautious, he had started cursing the other existences who shared the same status as him in Dark Dawn and Saint Defier. He regretted his choice to be the first to descend into Arid Triad…
Only the third prince, or rather, Lei Chen watched everything silently. His expression remained complicated, but he did not open his mouth to say a single word.
"What other methods do you have? If you don't bring them out now, you will no longer have the chance."
Su Ming looked at the blood-red figure in the distance. When he said those words, a low growl came from the mouth of the blood-red figure.
"Damn it, I forgot about this. I overlooked the fact that you are a life in this aeon!"
Once the blood-red figure said that, a thought formed in Su Ming's mind. At the same time, the blood-red figure lifted his hands, formed a seal, and flung his arms outwards.
"Blood, Malice, Fiend!"
A low and almost bizarre voice came from the blood-red figure's mouth. The blood fog around him tumbled swiftly, and when it spread outwards, it formed a huge blood-red vortex. A monstrous evil air spread out from it. There was also a powerful, murderous air rising swiftly from inside.
"First style, Activation of the Blood World!" the blood-red figure roared.
He flung his arms outwards, and a red ripple immediately spread out from him. It was a divine ability that belonged solely to him. It was a famous Art in the previous aeon, and with it, he had been invincible in his time.
There were four styles to his Art. Right then, he had cast the first style, and a red ripple spread through the entire planet in the blink of an eye. The planet jolted, and when Su Ming looked over, his world turned blood red.
All people turned into blood-red figures as if they had entered a blood-red hell. A thick stench of blood and a murderous aura so thick it struck fear in hearts made it feel as if a True World had been formed, and the man was using its power to suppress Su Ming.
"This Art is rather interesting."
Su Ming looked around himself. While speaking, he lifted his right hand and pointed at the sky. His great will instantly descended, and he drew a circle with his right hand. His will immediately started rotating in an unseen manner. Once it turned into a huge circle, a cold sneer appeared on Su Ming's lips.
"Su's disaster," he declared flatly. He was imitating Arid Triad Disaster and using his own name to name his disaster!
When he spoke, a red bolt of lightning flew out from the circle. It charged to the area above the blood-red world. When the world roared, the second and third disasters—Five Colors and Six Wills—appeared.
The blood-red world shook and crumbled to pieces. The blood-red figure coughed up a mouthful of blood, and the crimson light around him became dimmer. When he fell back, he formed seals with his hands and pointed forward. He then let out a shrill roar.
"Second style, Reincarnation in the Blood Ocean!"
The moment he spoke that sentence, booming sounds surged up, and the crumbling blood-red world shattered completely. It turned into a huge vortex that started rotating with loud rumbles. The vortex was red, and an invisible connection seemed to have formed between it and the blood-red figure. It seemed like the man was about to be reincarnated in a blood ocean.
The blood ocean charged at Su Ming while tumbling about. In an instant, it surrounded him and rotated.
Su Ming was swiftly submerged, and the blood-red figure laughed ferociously, but not even a moment later, that laughter froze. A loud bang shot out of the blood ocean. The fourth as well as the fifth disasters belonging to Su Ming had collapsed Reincarnation in the Blood Ocean.
"Damn it… Damn it! Third style, Eternal Existence. Eighteen Blood Kings of Hell born during my aeon… appear!"
The blood-red figure's voice was hoarse and shrill. At the moment he finished speaking, eighteen statues appeared from the shattered Reincarnation in the Blood Ocean.
The eighteen statues were entirely crimson, but their expressions and appearances were all different. The moment they appeared, they came to life as if the stone encasing them had melted. They turned into eighteen figures that charged towards Su Ming.
"Sixth disaster."
When Su Ming spoke coolly, countless bolts of lightning immediately struck out from around him. In the blink of an eye, they crashed into the eighteen figures. Booming sounds rang out in all directions, and the blood-red figure threw his head back and roared.
"Fourth style, Blood God's Head!"
Not a single ray of blood-red light remained around the blood-red figure at that moment. His body was revealed, and he showed up to be a young man with a sickly pale face dressed in a red robe. He had long red hair, and in his eyes was madness as well as killing intent.
All the blood-red light, the blood ocean from the shattered vortex, and the eighteen statues who had tumbled backwards when they crashed against Su Ming's sixth disaster fused together at that moment. As the blood ocean rotated, it suddenly stood up vertically and turned into a huge head!
Three of the statues turned into the left eye, and another three into the right eye. Three of them became its nose, another three became its mouth, six became its ears, and the Reincarnation in the Blood Ocean turned into its skull. The membrane of the blood-red World turned into the head's skin to form… the head of the Blood God filled with monstrous evil air!
Almost the moment the head of the Blood God appeared, Su Ming narrowed his eyes slightly, but he did not give time for the head to act. For the first time ever, he felt threatened by the powerful warrior from the previous aeon. Without any hesitation, he took a step forward and brought his right hand up.
Thirty million Great Berserker souls gathered together to form a powerful right hand, and this was followed by thirty million Great Berserker souls gathering on his left hand, and then his body. At the moment he took a step forward, Su Ming's… God of Berserkers Transformation was complete!
Su Ming's power increased exponentially at that time. His body grew much larger, and when his foot landed, he appeared right in front of the head of the Blood God. Then, he brought up his right hand without the slightest bit of hesitation and threw a punch.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
In just a few short breaths, Su Ming threw thousands of punches in succession. Punch after punch, without stop. Each punch contained Su Ming's will and his power. This was what Su Ming had decided upon—shatter his opponent's killing move in the shortest amount of time possible.
In just a few breaths, an astonishing bang shot out, and the huge blood-red head shattered into pieces. Su Ming moved, and like an afterimage that was hard to see with the naked eye, he charged at the young man with the sickly pale face who no longer had blood red light about him.
The moment the head of the Blood God shattered, the young man coughed up a huge mouthful of blood. He staggered a few steps backwards. When he lifted his head, Su Ming's punch had already arrived at the center of his brow.
"You can't kill me!" As the young man roared madly, he lifted his hands and struck the spot between his eyebrows.
"A Blood Offering to the World!"
When he said those words, the expressions of the one million cultivators from the Emperor of Abyss' True World watching from below changed drastically. Their blood flowed in reverse, and in that instant, three hundred thousand cultivators exploded with loud bangs. Blood gushed out from their bodies and charged up to the young man.
Killing intent shone in Su Ming's eyes. His punch landed at the center of the young man's brow, and with a loud bang, the young man's body was thrown off. Blood gushed out of him, but his body did not break down. Instead, while laughing ferociously, he shouted, "You can't kill me!"
With a bang, the seven hundred thousand cultivators on the ground broke down and exploded. With their deaths as the price, a large amount of blood gathered together to charge towards the young man in the sky. It instantly fused with him, causing blood-red light to appear around him again. Even his sickly pale face recovered quite a lot.
"I might not be able to kill you, but I can seal you!"
Strong murderous intent appeared in Su Ming's eyes, and the effect of the God of Berserkers Transformation instantly vanished. He lifted his right hand and pointed at the blood-red figure.
"Morning Dao's will!"
With a bang, the entire True World's will descended on the blood-red figure, causing his body to freeze, but his laughter sounded as conceited as ever.
"Immortal Sect's will!"
Su Ming let out a cold harrumph and pointed forward again. This time, the blood-red figure's laughter came to a halt. His body sank by one thousand feet, but that was all, just one thousand feet. He stopped sinking after that, and his conceited laughter reverberated through the air once more.
"You still don't have the right to seal me! Even if you are the strongest in this aeon and even have the advantage because of that, you still can't do this!"
"Sky Hill's will!"
Su Ming laughed coldly and pushed down with his right hand again. Rumbling sounds surged into the sky.
The blood-red figure's laughter came to a swift halt. Shock appeared on his face. His body sank tens of thousands of feet at that moment. In an instant, he was forced down to the surface of the ocean, but after reaching that point, he no longer continued sinking no matter what.
A cold and fierce glare shone in Su Ming's eyes. Without waiting for the blood-red figure to say anything, he lifted his right hand and made a tugging motion at the sky, as if he was yanking away a curtain.
"Change the rule of the Emperor of Abyss' True World!"
Su Ming's voice echoed in the planet and reverberated through the galaxy around him, resounding in all of the Emperor of Abyss' True World. At that moment, the weak struggles and resistance of the Emperor of Abyss' True World were instantly swept aside and suppressed before the will was wiped off. Su Ming's will occupied the True World, making the place… his Emperor of Abyss' True World!
It was just as Su Ming had said—the ruler of that place… had indeed been changed.
"Will of the Emperor of Abyss' True World!"
At the instant Su Ming said those words, he pushed down with his right hand, and a shrill scream of pain came from the blood-red figure.
"It's impossible. This is absolutely impossible. You… You have the advantage of this aeon with you. You are a life from this aeon, that's why you are stronger than me, but once your aeon is also destroyed, you will no longer have that advantage, and at that time, I'd like to see whether you are still my opponent!
"I… will wait for that day to arrive. I will wait for the day all the people around you die! When the next aeon comes, you will lose all your advantages… and at that time, we will fight again!"
With a bang, the blood-red figure was forced down to the bottom of the sea. He sank into the crack and was sealed once again.
Chapter 1300: The Distance of One Sword
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
That scene caused the world to tremble. The Sovereign of Dawn sucked in a sharp breath, and when he looked at Su Ming, his expression was filled with great wariness and shock. He originally thought that Su Ming and the blood-red figure were equal in terms of strength, but in the end, the blood-red figure had been suppressed by Su Ming.
In Yan Pei's eyes, suppression was much harder when comparing it to destruction!
"He… He is indeed the strongest… in this aeon. There can be no one else but him," the Sovereign of Dawn mumbled.
Su Xuan Yi watched all of this with a pale face. His eyes sparkled, but his face became incredibly dark. The blood-red figure was his greatest secret, but right then, even if he had summoned that person, he proved to not be Su Ming's opponent, and this caused the dark emotions in Su Xuan Yi's heart to turn into broken laughter.
He did not care about the deaths of the one million cultivators. Even if all the people in the Emperor of Abyss' True World died, Su Xuan Yi would not feel even a single bit of compassion towards them.
He only felt anguish. The Su Ming before him… had become that strong at some unknown point of time…
When the wills of Su Ming's four Great True Worlds fused together, they turned into a power of a suppressive seal that was just slightly less powerful than that of Arid Triad. Because of that, there was no way the red figure would be able to fight against it. With a crazed roar and a curse as well as a heinous murderous aura and an unwillingness to admit defeat, he was sent back to the crack in the ground amid loud bangs.
Because of the suppression, he returned to the spot where he slept.
It was just as Su Ming had said—the time for him to wake up had not yet arrived. It did not matter what method he used to make himself wake up ahead of schedule… he could still not avoid the destiny of spending his time asleep.
Su Ming could not kill him. This was something he had sensed earlier. Regardless of whether it was the divine abilities he used or his wills, when they descended on the red figure, it felt like there was a membrane separating them, causing his power to be diminished in an unseen manner. It was as if the membrane was time itself, the difference of the laws between aeons, which was why… as the strongest person in this aeon, he could seal the red figure, but he could not kill him.
'Unless…'
Su Ming stared at the sea, and a chilling glare appeared in his eyes, but soon, that freezing look disappeared. He could sense that different passages of time existed between him and the powerful warrior from the previous aeon. It was as if they were in two different worlds. Only when the Expanse Cosmos where he was located was about to be destroyed by the disaster and the new aeon was born would the membrane between Su Ming and the red figure no longer exist. At that time, it would be incredibly easy for him to kill that person.
But Su Ming would rather not have that result.
In silence, he stared at the depths of the sea. He could only seal the red figure's body. The crack on the ground was still around, and the blood from one million cultivators still turned the entire sky crimson.
Su Ming sighed softly. Even if the cultivators had been the Emperor of Abyss' True World and had practically no connection to him, since he had occupied the Emperor of Abyss' True World and become the will of the True World, the people in this True World were no longer unrelated to him. They were people of his True World.
With a shake of his head, Su Ming raised his right hand and swung his arm forward.
"Time…" he said faintly.
In Su Ming's hands, one of the strongest inborn abilities of the Abyss Builders—the Art of Time Reversal—was second only to Arid Triad's great will. He activated it, and when he did so, the Art in his hands was clearly much stronger than Su Xuan Yi's.
When he swung his arm, countless threads appeared over the entire cultivation planet. Those threads were like ripples. They flowed slowly and looked as if they were the threads of life of all living beings. At that moment, most of them had shattered. They were connected together to form a rotating vortex, but at that moment, the vortex shuddered and started rotating backwards.
When it did so, the threads gradually connected together. Slowly, the blood that had been scattered away in the sky charged towards the ancient tree. On the tree crown, the crushed bodies of the one million cultivators started being assembled as time reversed.
When the one million cultivators' bodies became complete, a large amount of blood charged towards them from the sky and returned to their bodies. The cultivators' unfocused eyes instantly lit up with the shine of life. Their minds and bodies shuddered, and they looked like they had woken up from a nightmare.
The Art of Time could reverse life and death, and also create life…
When this Art was executed by Su Ming, the young man staring at the ancient tree lifted his head and cast a glance at the area above him calmly. It was as if his gaze was everywhere and he could see everything he wished to see.
"He resembles my past self somewhat…" the young man said softly.
When he averted his gaze, the scenes before their deaths appeared in the minds of the one million cultivators on the tree crown. Immediately after, the impact of the scenes turned into shock and surprise on their faces, and they stared at Su Ming with dumbfounded looks…
Su Ming's expression was calm. He lowered his head and looked at the crack stretching from the sea below him to the land in the distance, and he lifted his right hand to push at it.
Su Ming activated the Art of Time again, and as the power of time filled and enveloped the planet, the crack closed up at an extremely fast speed. The earth became one. The mountains that had crumbled because of the appearance of the crack and everything else that had shattered returned to their original states, as if the crack had never appeared.
All the people could tell the difference in strength between Su Ming and Su Xuan Yi's divine abilities to manipulate time based on what Su Xuan Yi had cast previously, because the difference was too distinct.
Even when the earth was healed and there was no longer any crack on the ground, Su Ming's Art of Time did not end. Instead, it continued moving in reverse, and eventually, it affected Su Xuan Yi, causing time to return to the moment Su Xuan Yi had coughed up blood and moved back before he summoned the blood-red figure.
When time returned to that moment, Su Ming turned around swiftly. The purple light from the End of Wills Sword in his hand surged into the sky. It let out a piercing light while it was in Su Ming's hand, and it looked like the two of them had fused. When Su Ming took a step forward, he looked like a purple long arc slicing through the sky.
Su Xuan Yi moved back with a pale face. There was anguish on his face, but not any unwillingness to admit defeat. He was left with only anguish and regret.
He watched Su Ming coming towards and death falling on his head. He sighed softly, and his expression gradually became calm.
He remembered his wife in the fifth kiln, Su Zhan, and the baby whose soul and body he had gathered together in the shattered empty space in the Fifth True World.
It felt like everything from that time was a dream. When he looked back on it right then, for some unknown reason, mixed feelings appeared in Su Xuan Yi's heart. Perhaps they had always been in him, but due to his mad desire to make the Abyss Builders rise to power, he ignored and forced them down. He thought that he did not have those complicated feelings, but only at that moment did he realize… that they had always been in him.
"My wife is in deep sleep. My son holds a grudge against me in silence. My best friend died in battle… and his son became a Saint…" Su Xuan Yi mumbled. All his thoughts had fused into a sigh that echoed in his heart.
'Was I wrong?'
It was not the first time Su Xuan Yi said those words, but it was the only time that he truly asked himself this question.
'I'm not wrong!'
The calm expression on Su Xuan Yi's face was replaced by one of determination. The complicated feelings and the confusion disappeared as well.
'I wasn't wrong. I, Su Xuan Yi, have never been wrong. I didn't walk down this path for myself, but for Abyss Builders to rise to power! It was for the Fifth True World to appear once more!
'It's… impossible for me to have been wrong! Even if I'm truly wrong, it's because there are no righteous men when walking down the path to do great things. I sacrificed my wife, sacrificed my best friend, and used Su Ming. All of that… were your destinies… because I am not wrong!
'Even if I die because of this disaster, I, Su Xuan Yi, have never been wrong!'
Su Xuan Yi's thoughts raced in his mind until resolve appeared on his face. The entire process might have seemed to have lasted for a long period of time, but in truth, it was only for an instant. When Su Ming's sword approached Su Xuan Yi, he recovered from his temporary confusion.
He stared at the purple light of Su Ming's sword, and it seemed to have become everything in Su Xuan Yi's eyes, but in the end… it could not replace everything in his vision, because ambition burned in his eyes, along with the untamable fire and his pride of a fierce and ambitious person!
Even if he was going to die, he would die standing. He had the confidence to never believe he was wrong. It was the most brilliant light that shone in his life after he had reached his level of cultivation.
While looking at Su Xuan Yi, Su Ming suddenly made his sword stop when it was about to close in on its target… because at the tip of his sword, the third prince… or rather, Lei Chen suddenly appeared out of nowhere. He blocked Su Ming's sword and stood in front of Su Xuan Yi to protect him.
Lei Chen was silent, and Su Ming was silent as well. The two of them stared at each other with a sword between them as if an aeon separated them. It seemed like everything from their childhood had turned into that one sword separating them.
"Thank you," Su Ming said softly after a long while.
Lei Chen looked at Su Ming and sighed softly before he spoke. "She is your woman. I knew you would come."
"Thank you," Su Ming said again.
"He is also my elder. You don't need to thank me."
In silence, he shook his head. Others would not understand Su Ming's two different 'thank you's, but Lei Chen could. His first thanks expressed his gratitude to Lei Chen for letting their elder take Yu Xuan away.
His second thanks was for Lei Chen fusing a wisp of his divine sense in the threads of time that bound their elder. He would not let their elder run into any danger, even if the cause of that danger was the Sovereign of Dawn.
Others would not have been able to see it, but the moment Su Ming saw his elder, he sensed Lei Chen's divine sense on his body.
Su Ming was silent for a moment. He stared at Lei Chen, and a complicated look appeared on his face. He then spoke again. "Thank you."
This time, Lei Chen did not answer him. Instead, he fell silent. He knew that Su Ming was thanking him for not telling other people that he had met him in Harmonious Morus Alba Expanse Cosmos.
The two people mentioned by the red figure previously referred to Su Ming… and Lei Chen. He had also fused with his other self from the other Expanse Cosmos and possessed the right to move through two Expanse Cosmoses while being indestructible even in the face of disaster.