Chapter 1364: Three People
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
When Di Tian's voice echoed in the air and resounded along with the mountain breeze, it turned into an echo that filled the world.
The seven figures in a state between being an illusion and corporeal were silent. None of them spoke. Once Di Tian asked his question, he did not ask anything else. He simply waited for their answer.
He had already waited for many years, and he did not mind waiting for a little while longer. After all, all of them had tried it before, but only Di Tian had succeeded.
When the sun had almost set in the distance and the sky was dyed the yellowish brown of dusk, one of the seven sighed softly.
"The others call us the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors… but only we know that we are not sovereigns, and neither are we emperors. We are the batch of people who had not chosen to build the All Spirits Hall with the members of our sect.
"They chose to sacrifice themselves to help their descendants, and we chose to achieve our own aims… How many aeons has it been? We once were in hundreds, but now… most have already lost themselves. They either gave up or forgot their original ambitions and became existences that are neither human nor beast."
Another soft sigh could be heard. It broke the peace after the man's speech.
"There's nothing to hesitate about here. Since you have been able to surpass all of our achievements this aeon… why should I hesitate in giving you this life and soul of mine?!" the figure standing the furthest on the right said resolutely, then lifted its head to look at Di Tian.
"Remember what you promised me. Once you succeed, you have to resurrect me!"
Di Tian looked at the person and nodded grimly.
"This is a pledge the eight of us swore in the past. If I succeed, the first thing I will do is to resurrect all of you!"
"If that's the case…"
The figure who had spoken threw its head back and laughed. When the man brought his right hand up, he pushed down at the center of his brow without hesitation. With a bang, his body fell apart and turned into sparks that charged towards Di Tian and fused into him. It made him jolt, and his aura increased exponentially. He endured the urge to cry out from the pain and looked at the other six.
"Honestly, I'm a little unwilling to admit defeat, but I cannot deny that you have indeed succeeded this aeon. Choosing you will guarantee that our success will be greater… The last fifty years, huh? There might be very few who know of this. After all, we have only managed to figure out this secret of the universe after gathering all our power together and trying to predict this event for a long time."
When one of the remaining six laughed and spoke, he brought his right hand up and struck his forehead. His body shattered with a bang and turned into glittering sparks that were absorbed by Di Tian once again.
"It's a pity that when we were trying to execute our plan in my aeon, we didn't run into Su Xuan Yi, Su Ming… and Dao Chen, who, due to a stroke of coincidence, tried to foolishly Possess you.
"Oh well, there's nothing left in this life that is worth me staying alive for. There's only fifty years left…
"If you don't keep to your promise, then remember the pledge we once swore!"
Booming sounds echoed in the air. Three of the five struck the center of their brows, turned into glittering sparks, and were instantly absorbed by Di Tian. He shuddered even more violently after that. His aura continued growing stronger, and a terrifying presence spread out from him.
"Become an Abyss Builder, and then you will possess the divine abilities of the Abyss Builders. Di Tian… right now, you are even more perfect that what we had planned in the past, but the probability of your success is still not great. You must be careful!"
One of the remaining two sighed softly and closed his eyes. His body turned into glittering sparks and instantly fused into Di Tian's body. Once he did so, besides Di Tian, there was only one other person left at the top of the mountain.
Gradually, his figure stopped being distorted, indistinct, and illusory, but gained corporeal form. The person showed up to be a woman dressed in palace clothing. Her expression was calm, and when she looked at Di Tian, gentleness appeared in her eyes.
Di Tian looked back at her. The two of them did not speak. After a long while, the woman sighed softly and spoke slowly.
"To continue living, no one can say if all that we did was right or wrong, because there is no right or wrong in this. If you fail, then all will return to dust, and we can forget all about it, but Di Tian… if you succeed, remember this: Do not commit wrongdoings.
"Be it Su Xuan Yi, with whom you were using each other, Su Ming, who you have chosen to understand through meditation, or Old Man Extermination, who seems to have chosen a similar path to ours in his world and who is clearly ahead of us… Regardless of whether they will succeed… do not do wrong. Do not become enemies with them, or else… destiny is unpredictable. I cannot see through it.
"And it is especially so… for Su Ming. I cannot see through him. When I was in the land of Berserkers, I could see his future, but when he left the Barren Lands of Divine Essence, his life became shrouded in fog, a terrifyingly thick and mysterious fog… And when he returned from Dark Dawn and Saint Defier… I did not dare predict his future.
"I cannot help you anymore. Destiny is unfathomable, lifelines will change even once you fuse them together… We can only respect Life. I wonder if our choice is correct, but this is the only path we could choose… Take care of yourself."
Once the woman finished speaking, she closed her eyes. Her body gradually disappeared, and she turned into a crystalline spark, but Di Tian did not absorb it through his entire body like he did with the others. Instead, it gathered entirely at the center of his brow, turning into… a third eye that was the exact same as Su Ming's!
At that moment, Di Tian trembled. He threw his head back and let out a roar that shook the skies and earth. When he did so, tears fell from his eyes. He might be merciless and aloof, but among the seven were his senior brother, his best friend, his Master… and his lover.
From then on, all the people who knew of his past would have either passed away or no longer live as cultivators, and those who would come to know him would never be able to know his true name. They would only know… that he was called Di Tian!
'I will definitely succeed. It's impossible for me to fail, because the person I have chosen to fuse my Life with is Su Ming. You have all seen his successes, and instead of saying that you trust me, it would be more accurate to say that you trust him!
'If he succeeds, then I too will succeed, because my life matrix has already become one with his!'
The presence coming from Di Tian's body gradually faded away. He lowered his head, and after a long while, when he released it again, it was incredibly similar and could practically be said to be the exact same as Su Ming's.
'Our life matrices have already fused together, which is why we cannot meet each other. Once we do, our life matrices will split up, and he will notice it… Su Ming, you definitely have to succeed, and once you do, we will meet, and then… I will Possess you!'
A ghastly smile appeared on Di Tian's lips.
…..
'There's still fifty years… It'll be soon, very soon…'
Su Xuan Yi, who had gone missing from the Emperor of Abyss' True World, was in the Fourth True World. He sat cross-legged in a floating palace in the galaxy. It looked like a huge Feng Shui compass and was incredibly strange.
Lei Chen sat in front of Su Xuan Yi, umoving. Countless black needles had been stabbed into his body, and each of them had an innumerable number of runic symbols.
Su Xuan Yi stared at Lei Chen with a kind and loving expression on his face. When he brought his arms up, he formed a seal and started refining Lei Chen like what he did with the Lotus Constellation Robe.
"Lei Chen, my son, just endure for a few more years. We've almost succeeded. Old Man Extermination is going to attack soon, and when he does, he will need me to work with him. When I do so, it will be the moment when we will rise to power!
"Lei Chen, you only know that your mother died because of me, but you did not know that she did it for you! And I will be willing to sacrifice everything fifty years later for you as well. As long as you succeed and can let the Abyss Builders reappear in the universe, our family will be able to reunite once you open the Abyss Gate!
"Don't blame me for making things hard for Su Ming either. Only by experimenting on him would I dare to use this method on you, and only after he nourished the Seed of Life Extermination could we have the chance… to succeed!
"It'll be soon, it's less than fifty years from now…"
Determination and madness appeared on Su Xuan Yi's face. As he mumbled, he continued forming seals to refine Lei Chen.
The fifth kiln levitated above Lei Chen's head. Fire spread out from it, and it burned along with the seals Su Xuan Yi made. In the flames, Lei Chen had his eyes closed. He did not move.
…..
There were countless strange creatures living in the boundless universe beyond Harmonious Morus Alba. The only way for them to become stronger was to complete the universes in their own bodies, so that lives and galaxies would be born in them.
The vast universe was the birthplace of all manner of living, but at that moment, the strange creatures were shuddering in the Vast Expanse. None of them dared move. They all knelt down, as if they were prostrating themselves, and allowed a huge Feng Shui compass to charge by them. When it did, their bodies were torn and devoured by it.
The Feng Shui compass shone with a dark, destructive light. The runic symbols on it shone, and each of them seemed to possess an ancient air that symbolized the beginning of the universe. They crowded and attended… to the black-robed young man sitting on the Feng Shui compass.
Dressed in a black long robe and with a head full of black hair, the young man sat aloofly on the compass. In his right hand he held a string of pearls, of which there were nine. At that moment, six of them were shining…
"I'm almost there…"
After a long while, the young man lifted his head. He toyed with the string of pearls in his right hand while casting his gaze into the distance. It looked as if he could see through the fog in the universe. There was a Harmonious Morus Alba with the aura of death spreading out of its body out there. Its four wings were about to overlap with each other, and it would die once they did so.
At the instant the black-robed man saw the Harmonious Morus Alba, two of his fingers stopped moving for a moment and clamped down on the seventh pearl. That pearl was originally dark, but right then, it was flashing rapidly with the shadow of a crane.
"Seventh Reversed Spirit, you cannot escape," the black-robed young man said flatly and closed his eyes, but his right hand still remained clamped down on the seventh pearl. It did not move from it.
Chapter 1365: Setting up Fifty Years of Peace
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
The moment the one hundred powerful warriors from the previous aeons were destroyed both in body and soul by the Sacred Wood sweeping sideways in True Morning Dao World, the other worlds in Arid Triad rumbled and trembled.
Those tremors did not occur in the True Worlds, but in the hearts of the cultivators.
The event of the near one hundred cultivators stepping in True Morning Dao World had long since caught the attention of many powerful warriors from the previous aeons. After all, a warning had once spread out that they should not enter it. While they did not pay much heed to it, there was indeed no one who dared to step into that True World to disturb or provoke the entity in it.
That was… beside the old man from a few years ago!
After him came the one hundred powerful warriors… Their deaths and the presence exuding by the Sacred Wood filled the cultivators from the previous aeons who were paying attention with astonishment. Their expressions changed drastically.
There were quite a few among them who had come from the fourth Expanse Cosmos. There were even some who had slept in the Sacred Wood before, and they had personally witnessed the Sacred Wood being taken away.
At that moment, when all of their memories were connected together, they instantly formed a complete picture. Many people recalled the seemingly undefeatable figure who had taken away the Sacred Wood in the fourth Expanse Cosmos and shaken their hearts!
"It's him!"
"This person… is that terrifying existence who took the Sacred Wood in the past?!"
"Damn it, so the one in True Morning Dao World is this old monster?! Why must he be in True Morning Dao World?! Damn it, damn it all… He's ruthless and merciless. I absolutely can't offend him."
In an instant, the numerous cultivators in Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos who had been shocked by the scene of Su Ming killing nearly one hundred powerful warriors immediately filled with shock and nervousness while their hearts trembled.
Yet there were still a number of cultivators from the previous aeons who had not witnessed the scene of Su Ming taking the Sacred Wood or who did not come from the fourth Expanse Cosmos. That was why they did not understand the terror of Su Ming. Even though they were hesitant, most of their expressions were dark and sullen.
…..
"During these fifty years, let Arid Triad be slightly peaceful ," Su Ming said flatly and walked forward. The bald crane followed behind him with a swagger. Even though Su Ming's words sounded flat and indifferent, there was a freezing quality contained in them, and it made the bald crane excited.
Su Ming walked out of True Morning Dao World and entered True Sacred Yin World, and the entire True World shuddered with a bang. Ripples spread out, and a power that could make the entire world freeze rushed out in all directions.
Once the powerful warriors from the previous aeons sensed it, their expressions changed. Even those who were previously sullen began trembling when they sensed the presence of Su Ming's cultivation base, which he did not bother to hold back.
They had not just sensed Su Ming's presence… but also the Sacred Wood's presence, which quite a number of them were familiar with! More importantly, they sensed… a presence that seemed to belong to the strongest in all of Arid Triad and Harmonious Morus Alba!
The appearance of that presence prevented Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos from continuing with its operations. It could make the universe change and felt like the darkness that could dye everything in its shade. When it filled the space, all who sensed it felt as if they were in darkness and could not see even the slightest bit of light.
That darkness was definitely not the darkness of night, but a darkness in the world that could even make night lose its color.
Su Ming's will seemed to be able to dye everything black, be it the sky, earth, planets, stars, space, or emptiness. They could either leave, or be dyed black by the endless darkness.
When the hearts of all the powerful warriors of the previous aeons in Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos trembled, Su Ming took a step into True Sacred Yin World. When his foot was about to land, his body divided into one hundred people.
There were one hundred versions of him, and all of them had the exact same presence. The next moment, they appeared in one hundred different spots in True Sacred Yin World. Some of them were in planets, some in voids, some in the galaxy, and some in abodes formed by Enchanted Vessels.
They appeared at the same time and lifted their right hands. The Sacred Wood manifested and became ten thousand feet long. When it swept sideways, no matter how the one hundred cultivators from the previous aeons in the one hundred spots howled, no matter how forlorn their screams were, no matter how they fought back, no matter how they begged for mercy, no matter how they descended into madness from despair and executed divine abilities with the intention of severely injuring both sides…
No matter what they did, Su Ming's expression was as aloof as before. The Sacred Wood swept sideways, and booming sounds spread out from one hundred places to form a loud bang that resounded through all of True Sacred Yin World. It spread out and seemed to cover an endless distance.
Amid the bang, all one hundred of Su Ming's bodies disintegrated and gathered together to form the real Su Ming. At that moment, he finished taking his first step.
All of it was done casually. His expression remained the same, but the bald crane was completely flabbergasted. It stared at everything with a dumbfounded expression, then immediately beat its chest and bent its head.
"How wasteful, oh… how wasteful… Just how many crystals did they have? They're gone, all gone! My crystals…"
Su Ming smiled faintly. When he lifted his right hand, he flipped it over, and nearly one hundred storage bags flew out, immediately lifting the bald crane's spirits. It moved forward and hugged all of them with great excitement on its face.
When Su Ming shook his head, he lifted his foot and took his second step. At the moment his was about to land, he left True Sacred Yin World and appeared in the Emperor of Abyss' True World. That True World was part of his will, and the moment he stepped into it, it shuddered with a bang, as if the disaster had arrived. When Su Ming let out a cold harrumph, a gust of wind rushed through the galaxies of the Emperor of Abyss' True World.
The wind howled and swept in every direction. In the blink of an eye, it grew incredibly strong. Su Ming's face appeared in the wind, and it was incredibly large. Wherever it went, all planets would not be destroyed, normal cultivators would be unharmed, but the powerful warriors from the previous aeons would stare up with disbelief.
"This is… the disaster? It's impossible! There's still fifty years left till the disaster, it's impossible for it to arrive beforehand!"
"But this wind and this face is clearly from when the disaster descends!"
While all the powerful warriors from the previous aeons in the Emperor of Abyss' True World were in shock, Su Ming's face formed by the wind that swept through the entire True World charged past them. Wherever it went, not all of the powerful warriors from the previous aeons were destroyed. Instead, only one hundred of them… had their bodies and souls vanquished.
It did not mean that those who survived managed to do so because they were strong enough, but because Su Ming only wanted to kill one hundred people. Even so, to the powerful warriors from the previous aeons who were still alive, this life and death experience was enough to fill their hearts with fear and a strong wave of respect towards Su Ming.
When the face in the wind disintegrated, Su Ming finished taking his step into the Emperor of Abyss' True World. With a swing of his arm, one hundred storage bags flew out. The bald crane immediately started howling in excitement while beside him grabbed numerous storage bags with each swing of its wing before putting them away. The excitement and elation on its face made it look as if it was about to faint.
'As for the fourth True World…'
When Su Ming looked at the fourth True World while in the Emperor of Abyss' True World, he brought his right hand up and seized space. The Sacred Wood immediately manifested. When it grew to be hundreds of thousands of feet long, Su Ming pointed at the fourth True World.
With it, the Sacred Wood shot through space with a bang and instantly appeared in the fourth True World. When it swung sideways, it looked as if there was a giant brandishing it at the fourth True World.
The Sacred Wood struck space and shattered it, then stirred up countless waves of impact that tumbled about with loud bangs. As they spread out, it was as if a disaster had fallen on the fourth True World.
The waves of impact took the lives of one hundred powerful warriors of previous aeons and then disappeared, but the marks of space shattering still remained. It seemed to serve as a testimony for all the powerful warriors from the previous aeons who were still alive in Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos. It would make them tremble and feel the threat of death that they had not experienced for a very long time.
By then, none of them were addicted to that feeling anymore. Instead, the fear of death had been awakened in them once more.
The previous actions had been Su Ming's warning. They were nothing to him, but to the powerful warriors from the previous aeons, it was a warning as loud as a thunderclap. Once Su Ming finished it, he left the Emperor of Abyss' True World and returned to True Morning Dao World.
After entering it again, he fell into a moment of pensive silence before he lifted his right hand and swung his arm. The Sacred Wood instantly appeared in True Morning Dao World. It continued growing larger until it eventually reached its original size in the fourth Expanse Cosmos, and then, it stood vertically in True Morning Dao World.
A supreme, mighty pressure spread out of the Sacred Wood, along with a heinous, murderous aura. There seemed to be four hundred forlorn souls of cultivators from the previous aeons contained in it, and they screamed in pain while sealed inside. The warning given by such a display was enough to shock and intimidate all lives.
"Now, we can have fifty years of peace."
Su Ming cast a glance at the Sacred Wood, then moved away, but he did not return to Ninth Summit. Instead, he appeared on top of the vertical Sacred Wood and sat down cross-legged on it. He then closed his eyes.
The bald crane was beside him, excitedly opening one storage bag after another. It busied itself with putting away all the crystals and treasures within the bags.
It was just as Su Ming had said. After he placed the Sacred Wood with the four hundred forlorn souls of the powerful warriors from the previous aeons surrounding it and howling to intimidate all the powerful warriors from the previous aeons in all of Arid Triad, no one came again.
Everyone had fallen silent, and none of them dared to approach True Morning Dao World again. In fact, some of them even stopped murdering at a large scare, which made even more cultivators from the other True Worlds to surge into True Morning Dao World. It became something akin to a true paradise in Arid Triad.
There were only a few people who knew Su Ming's name, so the cultivators who had migrated to True Morning Dao World gradually found a uniform title for him—Wood Paragon!
Because of the huge Sacred Wood and because Su Ming sat on it while meditating all year long, that title quickly became the one that the cultivators in the area used to refer to Su Ming.
As time went by and more cultivators arrived in True Morning Dao World… forty something years passed!
There were less than five years until the disaster!
Chapter 1366: Arid Triad Disaster (1)
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
There was no need to speak about cultivators when even a normal mortal would find five years to not be long. It might not be over for them in the blink of an eye, but usually, they would not even know how many cycles of five years had passed without their knowledge.
The five years, no, since Su Ming had shown his might forty something years ago, it could be said that the fifty years were the quietest period of time that Harmonious Morus Alba had ever enjoyed over the countless one hundred year periods before the disasters of each aeon.
The slaughters of the past did not occur, and neither did the madness that appeared every single period of one hundred years before the disaster. Instead, everything was peaceful. Most of the powerful warriors from the previous aeons were silent. Some of them had even chosen to leave. After all, Su Ming's existence in that Expanse Cosmos brought a great terror to them, and they were traumatized.
With the threat of him looming over their heads, no matter how crazed they were and how they unleashed their madness, it was impossible for them to maintain themselves for a long period of time. They would always feel uneasy and anxious. To them, the forty something years were boring.
Compared to them, the cultivators who had fled into True Morning Dao World seemed to have found the peace they once had, but the prerequisite was that… if the ripples that were like the waves of an ocean brought forth by the tremors in Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos did not appear in the galaxy.
Over the forty something years, the tremors in Arid Triad had become stronger. The ripples covered the galaxy, making it so that there were no longer any blue in the sky for the last decade. Instead, the sky had become muddled. The sun did not appear, and moonlight had vanished a couple years after it.
Nearly half of the planets and continents had sank into emptiness when Arid Triad trembled. Everyone could only see the shadows of those planets and continents, but not all of them. It was as if the galaxy had been split into two.
One part of the galaxy had the endless ripples, and the other part was the galaxy that seemed to exist under them like a mirror. A mirror was used to describe that part of the galaxy because over the course of the past few years, all those who walked through there could see another world under some planets and continents.
Harmonious Morus Alba's other wing… had already come close enough that people could see it!
The four wings had been brought so close together that there was only a tiny crack that the naked eye could no longer see between them. Only when someone magnified that crack countless times would they be able to see that the wings had yet to perfectly overlap with each other.
Over the course of the forty something years, Su Ming had opened his eyes three times. The first was during the first decade. His body in All Spirits Hall had completed its final spirit ascension, and his state of being had completely changed. He became an Ancestral Spirit, and as his body, spirit, and cultivation base fused together, he opened his eyes. He saw the unrest as well as the terror of the lives in Harmonious Morus Alba Expanse Cosmos.
He opened his eyes the second time during the second decade, and it was as if he woke up from a deep sleep. He saw Arid Triad, Harmonious Morus Alba, Su Xuan Yi, and Di Tian.
Su Ming could somewhat guess what their plans were. While he might not know them in detail, he still had a vague understanding of them. Most of his attention was directed at the galaxy beneath him. When he almost closed his eyes again, he cast a glance at the galaxy above him in a seemingly casual manner, and a hint of understanding dawned on his face.
Later, he opened his eyes for the third time. There were less than five years left until the disaster descended… and he no longer closed his eyes.
He stared at the world, the galaxy, space, the lives in True Morning Dao World, and there was a reluctance to part in his gaze, along with memories of the past, the happy moments from his childhood in Dark Mountain… as well as a deep sigh in regards to the world that was his home.
He knew that everything was about to end. It was unavoidable. Even if he had reached his level of cultivation, it was impossible for him to change the truth of it. In fact, he even lacked the strength to protect himself. He did not even know whether he could survive through the disaster and whether he had the chance to find his senior brothers as well as Cang Lan, Xu Hui, and Yu Xuan.
While he watched the galaxy, another four years passed. Su Ming never once closed his eyes during that time. It seemed like he wanted to engrave the image of every galaxy, every planet, every continent, and every face into his mind.
He knew that soon, if he wanted to see all of it again… he could only do so in his dreams and his memories.
Not everyone could have the chance to witness the world's destruction, and not everyone could see the brilliance of it. Similarly, not many people could lament life before destruction arrived.
Su Ming could be said to be lucky, because he could sit and watch the universe's destruction. He could gaze at every single beautiful thing turn into emptiness in the end. He could see his homeland fade into a dream.
When Su Ming lifted his head and looked at the space above him, he could vaguely see a vortex in the boundless space above him. There was a river known as the River of Forgetfulness within it, and on the other side of the river was a riverbank.
That was the place he sent all his friends and family, and they brought with them his blessings. He hoped that they could avoid the disaster while they were there and avoid the disaster where even he did not have the confidence to survive.
As he watched, a smile appeared on the corners of Su Ming's lips. In that smile was gratification and satisfaction. He had always valued his relationships. All the people he had sent to the other side of the river were the most precious people in his life.
Su Ming watched all of that for half a year until he felt the rumbles from Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos surpassing all the other sounds. The entire Expanse Cosmos began to sway, and the ripples became stronger.
From it, Su Ming knew that… the disaster had begun.
Yet when he moved his gaze away from the river and was about to prepare himself for the most important battle in his life, his body suddenly shuddered.
His pupils instantly shrank. He stared at the end of the space above him, at the riverbank on the other side of the river, and he could clearly see that the waters in the River of Forgetfulness… had started flowing backwards!
This scene instantly disappeared, and when Su Ming looked at the river again, he saw the River of Forgetfulness flowing in its usual manner, but that instant where it had flowed backwards had caused a great change in Su Ming's heart.
He stood up swiftly, and a grim look that had never appeared on his face showed up. The brief instant when the waters flowed backwards was definitely not a trivial matter. If the River of Forgetfulness could flow backwards… then it meant that the people on the other side of the river could move back as well. If he described the river as the passage of time, then perhaps someone had cast an Art… to cast out all the people Su Ming had sent to the other side, making them return!
Fortunately, the reversal of the water's flow disappeared after an instant. With his blessings and his divine ability, Su Ming could fight the invisible battle of Arts and maintain the River of Forgetfulness' flow so that not a single accident could happen to the people he sent out.
A glint appeared in Su Ming's eyes. He lifted his right hand and pushed his palm at the center of his brow, then he opened his mouth and coughed up blood. Once it landed in his left hand, he clenched his fist, but he did not fling it at the boundless space above him. Instead… he flung it at the galaxy below. His blood immediately turned into nine blood-red runic symbols that fused with the galaxy beneath him.
"Seal all Arts that reverse time!"
At the instant Su Ming spoke, his third eye turned blood-red. Space roared and let out a loud bang that shook the heavens.
The people who he sent to the other side of the river were all Su Ming's taboo, and even if there was just the slightest possibility for anyone to harm them… there was no way Su Ming would allow it.
When he got up, a chilling and murderous look that had not appeared on his face for years showed up, causing the freezing aura that spread out from his body to make the galaxy show signs of being frozen over. The first place he looked at was the fourth Expanse Cosmos. Only the Old Man Extermination was qualified enough to violate his taboo.
However, when he cast his gaze there… he did not find the Old Man Extermination, and neither did he notice the signs of anyone casting the Art to reverse time.
Su Ming scowled. He narrowed his eyes, and a contemplative look appeared on his face. Suddenly, a loud bang that sounded like the one which had appeared when the galaxy was initially created resounded.
The echoes of the sound filled Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos and affected Divine Essence Star Ocean. It spread to Dark Dawn and Saint Defier, echoed in the fourth Expanse Cosmos, and reached the outer pace outside Harmonious Morus Alba Expanse Cosmos!
It sounded like the bell signalling the disaster. It did not feel like a bang either. Instead, it was like the sigh that would come from a person who was about to die breathing his last!
The cultivators from the previous aeons who were experienced with it fell silent at that moment. They had a certain melancholy on their faces as they stayed in their spots and stared at the galaxy. This was not the first time they heard that sound, and they knew that at the moment it appeared… it meant that the disaster had descended!
When it echoed in space, the ripples in the galaxy of Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos disappeared without a trace… The galaxy looked as if it had become invisible, causing the people to be able to see another galaxy underneath it!
Waves of something shattering spread out nonstop during that instant. The presence of destruction and the power of the disaster… descended in all the Expanse Cosmoses in Harmonious Morus Alba.
Boom!
The second loud bang shot up. The echoes of the sound felt like the funeral song that had come forth to harvest souls. At the instant it spread out, the expressions of most of the cultivators in Arid Triad turned blank. No matter what they were doing, smiles showed up on their faces, and while smiling, they turned into ashes.
"The disaster, this is the legendary funeral bell when the disaster arrives… The disaster… Haha…" An old man laughed madly while sitting on a mountain. He pointed at the sky, and his laughter was shrill and forlorn.
Thousands of cultivators in a sect were sitting cross-legged and meditating at that moment, but right then, with smiles on their faces, they turned into ash, becoming the tears flowing down from their Sect Master's eyes, who was sitting in front of them.
Scenes like these appeared all over the four True Worlds in Arid Triad. The races and tribes in Divine Essence Star Ocean were also destroyed. Shrill roars filled the galaxy, but they always abruptly fell silent, meaning the complete disintegration of a race.
The powerful warriors from the previous aeons watched it happen in many regions of Arid Triad and remembered the sadness they felt when their own aeons fell into the hands of the disaster. They no longer seemed to have the inhuman maliciousness at that moment, but were back to being cultivators again. The rumbles that sounded like bell tolls had caused them to truly wake up.
Chapter 1367: Arid Triad Disaster (2)
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
The boy was in the fourth Expanse Cosmos opened his eyes at the mountainside as if he had only slept for a short moment. When he looked at the sky, he mumbled in anguish, "The disaster has descended…"
At some unknown point of time, the Sword Immortal had appeared beside him. He watched the sky with the boy, but the difference was that there was a sharp look in his eyes, along with a strong will to fight.
Yan Pei stared at the galaxy in a daze while in Dark Dawn's camp. His body trembled, and he could not control those shivers. An indescribable feeling that he was about to die rose in him, and it was a feeling that was stronger than everything else that he had felt in his life, causing him to swiftly remember… the legendary disaster!
He laughed brokenly in anguish, then threw his head back as if he had descended into madness. But no matter how deranged he appeared, he could not stop the tears of despair flowing down the corners of his eyes.
Zi Ruo sat quietly on a mountain in the Heavenly Foxes' Expanse Cosmos and watched the sky. The purple-robed woman was not thinking of destruction or the disaster at that moment, but the figure who constantly appeared in her mind during the hundreds of years.
Fei Hua was in Saint Defier's camp and looked like a teenager after her appearance had been restored. She had once sat beside the lake near a wooden house in her Expanse Cosmos and stared at the waters with the bald crane for a hundred years. Right then, she was sitting there again without lifting her head. Instead, she closed her eyes, hiding the melancholy in them.
"This is a death no life can avoid."
As she sighed softly, Fei Hua kept her hands clenched tightly around a picture scroll. Even if she had to die, she wanted to walk down the path of death with the scroll.
Boom!
The third rumble echoed through Harmonious Morus Alba, and wind immediately rose up in Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos. It came from Divine Essence Star ocean, and it had no end to it. In an instant, it turned into a huge face. That face carried with it an ancient air and mercilessness. At the moment it appeared, the entire galaxy… started shattering!
The first to shatter was Divine Essence Star Ocean. The galaxies there did not collapse, however. It was as if an indescribable mighty pressure had descended from above, and it only wanted to flatten all existences!
This scene did not just appear in Divine Essence Star Ocean. It could be seen in all four of the True Worlds in Arid Triad, in Dark Dawn, and in Saint Defier. The cultivators who had yet to die all sensed the mighty pressure that seemed to want to crush the world. Once they noticed it, they instinctively lifted their heads and saw… a scene that they would never forget even if they died!
The disaster did not come from the seemingly transparent and mirror-like galaxy beneath them nor the other Expanse Cosmos under the transparent galaxy. Instead… it came from above!
The mirror in the galaxy was a reflection of everything above. It might seem transparent and create the misconception that there was another world under it, but in truth, it was just a reflection.
It reflected… the other world that had appeared right then, the one that all of them could see when they looked at the space above them!
It was a totally different world.Galaxies, planets, continents, and all lives in that Expanse Cosmos could be seen… Not only did those in Arid Triad manage to see it, even those in Dark Dawn and Saint Defier could see the other Expanse Cosmos charging towards them from the galaxy above.
However, what the cultivators in Dark Dawn and Saint Defier saw was the fourth Expanse Cosmos, and what those in Arid Triad saw was Harmonious Morus Alba Expanse Cosmos!
They could not tell whether it was Arid Triad crashing into Harmonious Morus Alba, or whether it was Harmonious Morus Alba ramming into Arid Triad!
Su Ming stood up on the Sacred Wood and lifted his head to look at the galaxy above him. His expression was calm, but he had narrowed his eyes slightly.
'The disaster is indeed not from the Expanse Cosmos beneath us overlapping with us… but from the area above pressing down on us, and due to it, we're overlapping!'
Harmonious Morus Alba's universe was within its wings. When the disaster descended and the four wings overlapped with each other, the first thing that happened was the crash between the sky and the earth, between the stars and the planets, between the emptiness and space. It was a flattening of two Expanse Cosmoses, and it looked like two palms pressing against each other. Once they destroyed everything between them, only then would they fully overlap with each other.
Due to Harmonious Morus Alba, Arid Triad, and even the Old Man Extermination's misleading words, Su Ming had thought that another Expanse Cosmos would overlap with theirs from below, and because of it, everything would disappear.
A cold sneer appeared at the corners of Su Ming's lips. It had indeed misled him, but when he sent the people of Ninth Summit to the other riverbank, he had come to understand how the disaster worked.
It was especially so when he opened his eyes the second time during the period of forty years. When the disaster was about to arrive, he became even more certain of it—the disaster… did not come from the galaxy below them, but from the space above them!
Howls reverberated through all of Harmonious Morus Alba at that moment. When Su Ming lifted his head, he could see the other galaxy approaching nonstop. It looked as if it would not be long before the four Expanse Cosmoses would flatten and destroy everything, thereby allowing Harmonious Morus Alba's four wings to overlap with each other, and then, the four Expanse Cosmoses in the four wings would completely fuse into one.
To cultivators and all other life forms, there was nowhere to run. The Expanse Cosmoses from below and above had crashed into each other, and they could only flee around the area around them, but they would be flattered no matter where they moved.
How could they run? How could they hide? Only the powerful warriors from the previous aeons could be unbothered by the Expanse Cosmos coming down from above them, because once they had fused with their other selves, they could ignore the Expanse Cosmoses trying to flatten one another.
When the Expanse Cosmos from above neared the one below and the fourth bell-like loud bang sounded, the wind between two Expanse Cosmoses started howling in a manner like never before. The face in the wind was aloof when it swept through all areas. Wherever it went, lives withered, and all manner of being was destroyed. Shrill screams filled with unwillingness to lay down dead rang out, becoming the only melody in the world right then.
Arid Triad also began waking up!
As the wind grew stronger, Divine Essence Star Ocean was reduced to a wreckage. Be it Black Ink Planet or the fifth ocean, all the lives and races in them were reduced to nothingness. The wind that stirred in Divine Essence Star Ocean had Arid Triad's face and grew more corporeal with each passing moment. When the wind blew towards the four Great True Worlds, the face became incredibly distinct, but its eyes were still closed. Arid Triad did not open them.
When the wind swept through the fourth True World and swept past True Sacred Yin World, the entire galaxy was squashed by an Expanse Cosmos above it and the endless space beneath it. In the middle of the galaxy was Arid Triad's wind. It swept through the area as if searching for the signs of a certain life, and while doing so, it harvested the life force from all lives, causing the face to form a young man's figure.
The young man was bald and dressed in a long green robe. His eyes were shut, however. He walked in the wind, and when he arrived in True Morning Dao World…
Su Ming, who was standing on the Sacred Wood, turned his head around and looked at the young man who had stepped into True Morning Dao World.
"Arid Triad…"
When Su Ming spoke softly, he took a step forward. He knew that Arid Triad had come seeking him, and the battle between them was an unavoidable struggle between life and death!
Either Su Ming would die and Arid Triad would no longer have any worries left, or he would live… and Arid Triad would perhaps no longer be Arid Triad!
Su Ming's foot landed, and his body vanished from the Sacred Wood. When he reappeared, he was already right in front of Arid Triad's wind. Behind him was True Morning Dao World, above him was Harmonious Morus Alba Expanse Cosmos charging forth with a howl, and under his feet was space, now no longer endless, because he could already see its end.
It was also at that instant that Arid Triad… opened his eyes in that aeon!
He woke up!
When Arid Triad opened his eyes, Su Ming slowly closed his. His world became dark, and the instant he shut his eyes, wind appeared behind him. It was black, and Su Ming had created it using the wills of the two Great True Worlds in Arid Triad belonging to him.
Another gust of wind also came charging from the Harmonious Morus Alba Expanse Cosmos, and it was the wind from True Immortal Sect World and True Sky Hill World!
The wills of four Great True Worlds fused together, and the wind they formed swept up Su Ming, whose eyes were shut. At the moment Arid Triad opened his eyes, the two of them… approached each other.
The resounding bang turned into the fifth bell-like boom as the world was destroyed. At the instant it rang out, Arid Triad's wind covered Su Ming, and Su Ming's wind submerged Arid Triad. The two of them merged together while surrounded by the wind. Even the Old Man Extermination, Di Tian, and Su Xuan Yi would not be able to see anything inside clearly.
Only… Harmonious Morus Alba could! This butterfly who was originally the strongest in its universe had showed up after waiting for an unknown number of aeons. It was an almost transparent butterfly. Its colorful body seemed to seize all the world's brilliance at the moment it appeared.
Harmonious Morus Alba Expanse Cosmos, which descended from above, looked like it was sinking. At the moment it appeared, it turned into a five-colored wind. While howling, it charged at the spot where Arid Triad and Su Ming had fused together… and swiftly merged with them!
At the same time, on a mountain within the trembling and crumbling Yin Death Vortex, Di Tian shuddered. His expression changed continuously, and after a long while, when he coughed up fresh blood, he formed a seal and pushed his palms against his body.
"Su Ming, I will gain an epiphany through you, and I will fuse with your life matrix. You can choose to hate me or be unbothered by me, but no matter what… I will help you this time, because only when you succeed will I succeed. You… cannot fail!"
Di Tian threw his head back and roared. When he formed another seal with his hands, all his cultivation base and his soul fused with the other seven's divine souls. The next moment, his cultivation base and soul erupted from his body.
"As long as our life matrices don't shatter, neither of us will die!!"
A round picture showed up above Di Tian's head. It was formed by black and red threads intersecting with each other, and it shone with endless brilliance. The strange light was mostly black, and if anyone took a closer look at it, they would be able to see Su Ming's while life within it. And Di Tian's life was in it too!
They intersected with each other in a manner that made it difficult to separate them!
Chapter 1368: Arid Triad Disaster (3)
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Di Tian's eyes were filled with red. It looked like tears of blood were about to fall from his eyes. His robes fluttered even though there was no wind. Even the hair under his crown floated up. There was a grimness about him that had never appeared before, and he used practically all of his strength to maintain the life matrix floating above him so that… it would not shatter!
The life matrix shone with a brilliant light while the darkness held a black hue that even night could not dye darker. It looked like the world was about to turn black, submerged beneath a black ocean.
Di Tian was an existence akin to an archenemy in the first half of Su Ming's life, while at that moment, he did his utmost best to maintain Su Ming's life matrix. This was rather ironic, but the attentive expression on Di Tian's face and his efforts made the irony of the situation not seem ludicrous, but quite tragic.
He was helpless in the face of the destruction, but when his friends and family willingly died to help him, he could not fail, did not want to fail, and simply could never accept failure.
There was nothing that was absolutely right or wrong in the world. Be it Su Ming, Di Tian, Su Xuan Yi and even Old Man Extermination, all of them were the same. Perhaps some of their methods had compromised another's interests or harmed another person, but from their point of view, they believed that they were right, and all of them had their own determination!
For example, Arid Triad could be taken. No one could say that he was cruel or wrong, besides Harmonious Morus Alba, but if Arid Triad wanted to live and continue to be, he had to become stronger. He could not accept only being one of the lives born in the Expanse Cosmoses in the wings. He wanted to be the master of the universe. This was his Dao, and he was not wrong!
For another example, Harmonious Morus Alba could be looked at. It kept itself apart from the workings of the world, but in the end, ended up in such a way. It believed that everything in the universe was wrong and only it was right… but while it existed as the creator of all the lives on it, it was also their destroyer. It wanted to be in possession of its complete self, to not die, and to go home, but to the others, its home would mean their deaths as well as the deaths of all their loved ones. There was… no way they would be able to accept this.
Di Tian was also the same!
Once someone reached a certain level of cultivation and obtained a certain amount of wisdom, others would be able to see through them, and similarly, they would be able to see through others and understand everything. They would be able to tell that all serendipities and all paths taken surrounded only Dao!
All different Daos, but they were all Daos!
Instead of saying that the disaster of Harmonious Morus Alba descended to destroy everything, it would be more apt to say that the chosen of Harmonious Morus Alba were each trying to verify their Dao at that moment in Harmonious Morus Alba's universe. They wanted to know… who would be the one who would truly succeed, and whose path was the Great Dao!
Su Ming had understood this a long time ago, which was why he had never gone to find Di Tian, because he had already seen through Di Tian, just like how Di Tian had seen through Su Ming.
Su Ming knew that all the things Di Tian had done in the first half of his life were definitely not out of a whim, but part of some plan. Su Ming did not know the details of it, but from the countless clues, he could somewhat guess what it was…
Di Tian was going to copy him!
And if he wanted to copy Su Ming, he would need to observe him. In fact, a normal observation would not suffice. He would need to be completely in his shoes, for only then could he perform a perfect copy. It would allow him to overlap with the real Su Ming until they could never be separated from each other!
Because of that, Su Ming had long since known that when he fought against Arid Triad, Di Tian would not be the enemy he had to deal with the most urgently at that moment. After all, that person would not want him to fail.
If he failed, it would mean that Di Tian's copy was ineffective.
And Su Xuan Yi… He might be a conniving, incredibly sinister, and calculative person, but when Su Ming had cut all ties with him, he knew that no matter how sinister this person was, at the end of the day, he was not scheming against him.
To Su Xuan Yi, Su Ming was just a tool to be used in the initial stages of his plan, not a pawn to be used for eternity, and Su Ming's rise to power was an accident, but an accident who would not cause any changes to his plan.
Su Xuan Yi's target… was Old Man Extermination!
That why when Su Ming left the fourth Expanse Cosmos in the past, he had mumbled that when he met Old Man Extermination in the future, would he still be Old Man Extermination… Su Ming had not stepped into the fourth True World when he killed the powerful warriors from the previous aeons because he knew that Su Xuan Yi was there.
Su Xuan Yi's enemy was Old Man Extermination. With that being the case, Su Ming would not interfere with his plans. The situation might seem chaotic and complicated, but in truth, Su Ming had long since smoothed it out in his mind.
His enemy was Arid Triad, Old Man Extermination… as well as someone he just realized was his enemy too—Harmonious Morus Alba!
It was just as Arid Triad had once said. He was a cultivator, and Su Ming was also a cultivator, but Harmonious Morus Alba… was just a life form. Arid Triad had once demanded to know why Su Ming refused to help him and instead chose to help Harmonious Morus Alba.
At that time, Su Ming had indeed wanted to help Harmonious Morus Alba, but once he experienced everything and saw the black-robed young man as well as Old Man Extermination, he no longer planned to help anyone… because he belonged to his own camp!
That was the situation in the disaster. It was a picture that seemed incredibly chaotic, but was in truth very clear!
When Su Ming and Arid Triad's winds mixed together, Harmonious Morus Alba joined the fray. Di Tian maintained Su Ming's life matrix so that it would not shatter, while Old Man Extermination opened his eyes on the ancient ship beside the gap in the fourth Expanse Cosmos.
The next instant, an aura that spoke of his awakening spread out from his body.
"The time… has finally arrived!"
When Old Man Extermination spoke, a brilliant light shone in his eyes. He lifted his right hand and cast his gaze on it as if he was staring at his palm lines.
During that instant, in the floating palace in the fourth True World within Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos, Su Xuan Yi shuddered and lifted his head. A mysterious smile appeared on his lips, and a look of expectation like never before appeared in his eyes. It seemed like he had waited countless years for just that moment.
"My son… Lei Chen, I have killed many in my life, and my hands are stained with blood. Perhaps I have wronged many people in my time… but all that I have ever done was for the Abyss Builders to rise to power. And… for you!
"You will be the Abyss Builders' hope, and you will make the Abyss Builders rise again in the future. You are our future leader!"
Su Xuan Yi stood up slowly, and when he raised his head, a rattling drum appeared in his hand.
Su Ming had once had this sort of drum as well, but at that time, while Su Ming was in Dark Mountain, he did not know that Lei Chen had one as well… However, the one Su Ming had was made by his elder, and the one Lei Chen had… was made by Su Xuan Yi.
'Lei Chen, my son, I will create a chance that has never existed before. A chance… to Possess Old Man Extermination!
'This is the plan I, Su Xuan Yi, have worked on my entire life!'
Su Xuan Yi swung his arm, and madness appeared on his face. He had been waiting for that day for far too long. He had witnessed his father, the Abyss Builders' Progenitor die due to his foolish loyalty and had even seen that the one responsible for the fifth True World's destruction… was actually his father!
He saw everything, and he also saw Old Man Extermination control his father, the Abyss Builders' Progenitor. He also knew many others secrets that his people did not know, such as the Abyss Builders being a race that only appeared because of Old Man Extermination's actions.
Such as… that the only reason they existed was for Old Man Extermination to examine them. It seemed like he was searching for something among the Abyss Builders, and Su Xuan Yi could only helplessly watch his race die and his family be reduced to ash while screaming shrilly, his home—the fifth True World that now only existed in his memories—be reduced to ruins…
He grew to hate the Abyss Builders' Progenitor and his own bloodline. He hated all the lives in the universe, and from then on, his personality completely changed. An idea so crazy it drove him to obsession appeared in the depths of his heart.
'With the Abyss Builders' inborn talent, we will Possess… Old Man Extermination! If I can't do it, then I will have my son do it!'
Su Xuan Yi threw his head back and laughed. It was his plan, and only by accomplishing it could he be considered to have taken revenge for his kin, the Abyss Builders, and the fifth True World!
For revenge, he could sacrifice his wife. For revenge, he could sacrifice his best friend's son. For revenge, he could give up on being human until finally… all of it would come to an end.
Su Xuan Yi's gaze fell on Lei Chen, who sat meditating before him.
A father's pride for his son and a loving look gradually appeared in his eyes. After a long while… when a vortex slowly appeared behind Su Xuan Yi, he turned around and stepped into it without any hesitation.
At the instant he stepped into the vortex, Old Man Extermination's ancient voice echoed in his heart.
"Son of the Abyss Builders… based on the promise your people made to me, turn into my palm, turn into the funeral bell that will bring chaos to the flow of time. Stir up… the resentment that will seal wills!
"Only the resentment born from a universe can seal the strongest born in that very universe. Only the resentment born from the same origin as the strongest can seal the strongest!"
As Old Man Extermination's words echoed in space, Su Xuan Yi's figure swiftly distorted in the vortex. In the blink of an eye, he turned into a palm. It was white and looked pure, as if it could not be tainted. With a swing, it shot out from the vortex, but it was no longer in the fourth True World. Instead… it was in Dark Dawn and Saint Defiers' Expanse Cosmos!
"You are my palm. Turn into the palm lines that I wish!"
Old Man Extermination's eyes shone in the fourth Expanse Cosmos, and the palm print Su Ming had once left behind on the wooden plate in front of him disappeared. However, the palm Su Xuan Yi had turned into gradually showed… the exact same palm lines as the palm print Su Ming had left behind!
For the first time in years, Old Man Extermination stood up. His long hair moved without wind, and with a swing of his arm, he spoke in a deep voice.
"The offering… begins!"
When his voice echoed in space… the huge Feng Shui compass appeared abruptly in the Vast Expanse near Harmonious Morus Alba!
The black-robed young man sitting and meditating on the Feng Shui compass still had his fingers clenched around the seventh pearl. His eyes were aloof as he stared at the Harmonious Morus Alba shrouded in the aura of death.
He… had come!
Chapter 1369: Arid Triad Disaster (4)
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
When the other Expanse Cosmos came from the space above in Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos, the Expanse Cosmoses began to be pressed flat. All lives began to be destroyed, and everything sank into a chaotic state that was equivalent to the end of the world.
Death was everywhere!
The wind between the two Expanse Cosmoses formed a nonstop rumble in space. Amid the noise, in a place no one could see, Su Ming and Arid Triad engaged in a fight to the death.
They did not use any sort of divine abilities, but had their wills crash into each other. As space rumbled, their figures could no longer even be seen in the wind. It was as if they had fused together to become one.
"Su Ming, why must you refuse to realize your error? We are cultivators, and Harmonious Morus Alba is just one life form! Why must you do this?!"
"I'm not doing this for Harmonious Morus Alba, but for myself. If I want to survive, then I must do this!"
"Survive? This isn't difficult. Once we become Harmonious Morus Alba, it won't be impossible for us to continue living. Be it your family or your friends, all of them will be able to continue living!"
"I once told you about the black-robed young man sitting on the Feng Shui compass. I told you he symbolizes destruction. Do you… still not believe me?"
"I know of that person from the memories I Possessed. His name is Xuan Zang, but he is dead. I didn't tell you about this in the past, but I will tell you about him right now, and I will do so clearly. He… is dead!
"He has been dead since a long time ago. In fact, when the nine Harmonious Morus Albas were born, he was already dead. How could he have possibly appeared again?!
"No matter what you saw, those things happened in the past. It's… impossible for him to appear in this place, and the aura of death on Harmonious Morus Alba isn't because of him either, but because if Harmonious Morus Alba does not devour me and become whole again, it will truly die.
"And its death would mean our rise to power!"
"Then… what about Old Man Extermination?"
"I've long since taken note of Old Man Extermination. He has indeed come from another Harmonious Morus Alba. I once suspected that he was the same as me in his Harmonious Morus Alba, that he had also Possessed its will, but his arrival here does not mean that his Harmonious Morus Alba has already died!
"If it died, he would have died a long time ago too. You didn't Possess Harmonious Morus Alba. You Possessed me, that's why you don't know that once you perform the first Possession, unless you become the complete Harmonious Morus Alba, then when one dies, the other will die as well!
"That's why if Old Man Extermination has completed his Possession, it would be easier to explain why he is here. There's definitely another universe in him. But if he hasn't completed his Possession, then his appearance here could only mean that his Harmonious Morus Alba is still around. It's not dead yet, and neither is the black-robed Xuan Zang around. Su Ming, can't you wake up a little?!
"The so-called black-robed Xuan Zang is just someone Old Man Extermination created intentionally. In fact… the Harmonious Morus Alba we are in intentionally showed that illusion to you so that you won't work together with me and so… that you will be obsessed with your beliefs!"
"You… still don't believe it."
With a sigh in his voice, Su Ming's words echoed in space, then he and Arid Triad went to devour and Possess each other. Su Ming was Possessing Arid Triad, and Arid Triad was devouring Su Ming. Their wills erupted with the most brilliant rays of light in their lives.
The devouring and Possession immediately dyed the wind black and white. The white hue was Arid Triad, and the black was Su Ming. The contact of those two colors caused the black and white shades in the wind to look as if they were trying to devour each other.
Either light would devour darkness, or darkness would Possess light. It was… a battle of wills in which someone had to emerge as the winner.
When it became clear that it would be difficult for a result to appear within a short period of time, the butterfly formed by Harmonious Morus Alba fused into the wind. When its will descended, five new colors immediately appeared in the wind.
The original shades of black and white were then matched by a seven-colored light.
Arid Triad was not surprised by Harmonious Morus Alba's appearance. He knew a long time ago that Su Ming and Harmonious Morus Alba were working together. When it happened, Arid Triad's wind swept through the entire universe and harvested one life after another. Once Arid Triad absorbed their life force, he launched a counterattack against Su Ming and Harmonious Morus Alba.
When Harmonious Morus Alba flew around the area with its five colors, a deep-seated hatred appeared in its eyes. It hated Arid Triad and even all the lives in its Expanse Cosmos. It glared at Arid Triad and erupted with hatred it had suppressed for countless years.
"Harmonious Morus Alba, if I could Possess you once, then today… no matter how you poisoned Su Ming with your words, I can still Possess you a second time!
"Since you dared come to this place, let's see… just who among us can persevere till the end and not break!"
There was an air of superiority in Arid Triad's voice. When it reverberated through space, the white wind he formed howled and crashed against the five-colored wind of Harmonious Morus Alba.
At the same time, the black wind Su Ming had formed created a vortex that seemed to pull at the other winds. When Arid Triad and Harmonious Morus Alba crashed into each other, he too joined the fray.
Boom!
The three great wills of that universe had crashed into each other at full strength for the first time. What would shatter because of it would be their wills, what would be reduced to madness would be their souls, and what would be Possessed would be the fragments left behind.
The crash caused Su Ming's whole body to jolt, and the wind he formed looked about to crumble. It was the same for Arid Triad, but it was worse for Harmonious Morus Alba. It looked as if it was about to scatter. Its aura of death was already thick enough, and at that moment, it became even stronger.
At the same time, Di Tian coughed up a huge mouthful of blood. The life matrix floating above him let out cracking sounds and started shattering. Di Tian's eyes were bloodshot, but he growled and formed a seal with both his hands, sparing no pains in using his life to mend the life matrix.
"Arid Triad… die!"
For the first time since the start of the battle, Harmonious Morus Alba's voice appeared in the wind. It was full of hatred that would not weaken in the slightest even if tens of thousands of years passed. When it spread out, it caused the entire world to tremble.
The five-colored wind formed by Harmonious Morus Alba turned into a vortex. It spread out, swept outwards, and crashed into Arid Triad again.
"Su Ming, use the Harmonious Morus Alba Art I taught you!"
At the instant Harmonious Morus Alba crashed into Arid Triad, it quickly spoke. Its voice echoed in Su Ming's ears, but Su Ming… had a calm expression on his face, as if he did not hear it.
A string of incantations had indeed appeared in his mind. They were complex and difficult to understand, but it did not look like there was any danger lurking inside it; it was just a method to shift wills around. However, Su Ming was already in possession of a Dao Divinity. When the incantations appeared in his mind, his Dao Divinity sent him a strong warning of danger.
Boom!
The second crash caused Arid Triad to tumble backwards. The white wind he formed almost disintegrated, and it was the same for Su Ming. As for Harmonious Morus Alba, three of its five-colored light had vanished, and a shrill cry came from it.
"Su Ming!"
"I can help you Possess Arid Triad, but this doesn't mean that I will change my own will to assimilate with yours and become a part of you," Su Ming said slowly.
The instant he spoke, the butterfly formed by Harmonious Morus Alba jolted, and its body disintegrated, causing the wind it formed to regain all five colors. It swept towards Arid Triad, then spread out to form a vortex that surrounded Su Ming as well.
"Harmonious Morus Alba's form!"
A hoarse, ancient voice echoed in space. The vortex formed by the wind created by Harmonious Morus Alba turned into a huge five-colored butterfly. When it flew around them, Arid Triad closed his eyes, and in an instant, his body vanished. As the wind around him howled, he turned into a white butterfly as well.
The third eye at the center of Su Ming's brow flew open. His Dao Divinity opened his eyes as well, and his body vanished too. He turned into the third butterfly in the wind of the disaster—a huge black butterfly!
Three butterflies crashed into each other. It was Harmonious Morus Alba's full powered strike, Arid Triad's attempt to devour Su Ming, and Su Ming's… try to Possess Arid Triad!
When the three of them turned into butterflies and crashed against each other, the huge Feng Shui compass with the black-robed young man in the Vast Expanse Harmonious Morus Alba appeared above the butterfly, and what Su Ming had seen in the past repeated itself. The black-robed young man brought up his left hand and pushed down gently on his Feng Shui compass.
With it, all the runic symbols on the Feng Shui compass immediately shone. Waves of power that could destroy all space erupted from the Feng Shui compass and turned into a great suction force that instantly enveloped the butterfly.
From a distance, it could be seen that the Feng Shui compass was thousands of times larger than the butterfly, and only when it was compared to the butterfly could its size truly be understood!
When it was in the vast universe, due to it not having any sort of comparisons around, its size could not be seen, but right then… the size of the Feng Shui compass also indirectly verified just how large the black-robed young man was.
Before him, the butterfly was the same as a normal butterfly before a mortal!
When the Feng Shui compass began sucking the butterfly and the usual aloof look appeared in the black-robed young man's eyes, Harmonious Morus Alba, who was fighting in a battle to the death against Su Ming and Arid Triad within its universe, shuddered. The five-colored butterfly filled with an unprecedented fear and disbelieving shock.
"This… This presence is…"
The butterfly formed by Harmonious Morus Alba revealed its despair while shuddering. It wanted to give up on devouring Su Ming and Arid Triad and return to its body so that it could see the source of the presence in the Vast Expanse… but there was no longer a need for that. At the moment it noticed the presence, it understood everything.
"He… didn't die?"
Chapter 1370: Arid Triad Disaster (5)
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
"He didn't die? Then all Harmonious Morus Albas in the vast universe have to die… This is our predestined fate!"
The butterfly formed by Harmonious Morus Alba shuddered, and madness filled its mind. It understood why it could no longer feel the presence of other Harmonious Morus Albas. It had originally thought that it had lost that ability when half of it had been Possessed.
It had dreamed that once it seized back its other half, it could make itself complete. Then it would spread its wings and search for its family in the vast universe and locate its homeland.
But right then, it came to a understanding that it had not lost its senses… but most of the other Harmonious Morus Albas had been wiped off due to their predestined fates.
"Just how long… have I stopped here?"
In its anguish, Harmonious Morus Alba sensed itself swiftly becoming weaker. It was happening so quickly that it felt like it had instantly lost three-tenths of its power. It knew that it would first become weaker and disappear, and then it would be Arid Triad's turn.
It started laughing madly at that moment, and there was a shrill note contained in the ancient voice as well as a hatred that surpassed all other emotions. The butterfly did not hate the source of that presence, but Arid Triad for having Possessed it!
"Since I'm bound to be wiped off… I will personally witness your death!"
Arid Triad had noticed Harmonious Morus Alba's rapid decline in strength, and so did Su Ming. However, while Arid Triad pounced on Harmonious Morus Alba without hesitation, Su Ming felt his heart tremble. He could vaguely guess what was happening.
"Su Ming, if you want to help me, do it now, and even if you don't want to… you still have to help me! Because only when Arid Triad dies will you have the right to send your family and friends into that world again.
"If Arid Triad does not die, his existence will mean that all entrances leading to the void will be shut. Unless you replace Arid Triad, it will be impossible for you to send the people in Ninth Summit into the other world again!
"You cannot take the risk! And I'll also tell you one thing: That world which you reached with your will does exist!"
Harmonious Morus Alba's shrill voice contained ferociousness. At the instant its words echoed in space, the Expanse Cosmos above Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos sank down and a huge vortex appeared in space.
That vortex was rotating counter-clockwise, and Su Ming could see the River of Forgetfulness in it… The river was flowing upstream, and gradually, he could see the other side of the river. There were figures there, and they were all people he was familiar with…
Their bodies seemed to be pulled by an indescribable force, as if they were about to be yanked out of the passage of time!
Su Ming had seen the River of Forgetfulness flowing in reverse, and he knew that it was not a figment of his imagination, but reality. It was his taboo, and he had searched for signs of Old Man Extermination's interference, for he could not think of anyone else who could possibly be capable of interfering with him.
But at that moment, Su Ming understood. The one who had gotten in his way was the Harmonious Morus Alba before him! This was the way it wanted to control him. If Su Ming did not work with it, it could use it to keep him in check.
Even if Su Ming had gone back on his word in the beginning and worked with Arid Triad, since Harmonious Morus Alba had dared to show up, it meant that it clearly had full confidence in the matter.
Su Ming was silent. He watched the familiar faces in the vortex beyond the Expanse Cosmos, and an unprecedented murderous look slowly appeared in his eyes. This was his taboo, and Harmonious Morus Alba… had violated it!
"You're wrong."
When Su Ming spoke, the butterfly he turned into instantly vanished to transform back to his human form. With a single move, he charged towards Harmonious Morus Alba. By his side, Arid Triad laughed loudly. The white butterfly he had turned into changed into a white whirlwind, and with a howl, it enveloped Harmonious Morus Alba.
"It's too late. You can't prevent their destiny of returning to this place. Only by Possessing Arid Triad will you be able to send them back!"
As Harmonious Morus Alba laughed shrilly, the speed at which the River of Forgetfulness in the vortex flowed upstream increased by a hundred fold. The people on the other side shuddered and were pulled back to the River of Forgetfulness. They were about to return to the other side.
At that moment, nine blood-red runic symbols suddenly appeared on the shore. They shone and turned into a layer of blood fog. It formed a barrier that impeded the reversal of time, and the vortex looked like it was about to shrink and close.
It stunned Harmonious Morus Alba.
With the murderous intent because of Harmonious Morus Alba violating his taboo, Su Ming came charging towards it. He clearly knew that his action of sealing the vortex could only last for a short while and not eternity. He had to rush out within the shortest amount of time possible and send the people of Ninth Summit who were dragged into the River of Forgetfulness back to the other world.
And if he wanted to do so, he had to suppress Harmonious Morus Alba so Arid Triad could Possess it. Only by doing so could he make Arid Triad unable to divide his attention to ruin everything. By the time Su Ming finished planning, he had already closed in on Harmonious Morus Alba.
"I can still make it!"
Red appeared in Su Ming's eyes. His heart was far from how calm he appeared to be. It was aching in pain and trembling. The scene he saw in the secrets of the universe had turned into a shadow looming over his head. It taunted him, acting as a brand that he could never wipe off.
The people in the river were those he cared about the most. They were the people he was the most reluctant to part with. He did not want the scene he saw in the secrets of the universe to become true. He did not want to lose everything and be reduced to being alone!
Even if he was already alone he still had a dream in his heart. He still had hopes and a resolve he was determined to hang onto. One day, he would find Ninth Summit, would locate everyone, and live on in that world!
More blood capillaries appeared in Su Ming's eyes. With madness in his gaze, he rushed at Harmonious Morus Alba. The strongest power erupted from his body at that moment. That will was the accumulation of the four Great True Worlds and his soul. It was the strongest strike in his life!
He had executed it before the black-robed young man, and he had also delivered this attack on Arid Triad in the flesh tunnel. Right then however… Su Ming's Dao Divinity was also added to the strike!
His strongest strike mixed with a hint of Boundless Dao's presence erupted from his body like a life blossoming into a newborn. With his body as a sword and his will as a blade, Su Ming instantly closed in on Harmonious Morus Alba. As it swiftly weakened, a loud rumble that shook the sky and earth reverberated through Harmonious Morus Alba. It even traveled out of the universe and into the vast space beyond, causing the black-robed young man on the Feng Shui compass to lower his head slightly.
Harmonious Morus Alba's body was shot through by Su Ming's attack, and Arid Triad followed closely behind. With a desire that had been building for countless years, an obsessive madness, and shock brought by Su Ming's strongest attack, he turned into a gust of endless white wind that instantly enveloped Harmonious Morus Alba.
Its shrill screams shot into space, and Arid Triad's devouring, the one he had longed for for countless aeons… fully began at that instant!
Harmonious Morus Alba had miscalculated Su Ming's determination. It thought it could control him, but it did not expect that Su Ming's personality would never allow him to submit to anything, especially when someone had violated his taboo. He would either erupt with strength without a word… or would choose to die in silence.
There was no third choice, no compromise!
The price for the butterfly's miscalculation was a swifter death. It allowed Arid Triad to succeed, and Harmonious Morus Alba could no longer see his death. It could only see him devouring it to complete its world!
At that moment, Su Ming did not care about Arid Triad devouring Harmonious Morus Alba. He charged upwards and appeared in front of the vortex. By then, the blood-red seals he had placed before the vortex had become weaker, no longer able to contend against Harmonious Morus Alba's will pulling at them and letting the time to flow backwards.
Su Ming could see the confused faces of the people from Ninth Summit he had sent away behind the thin blood fog.
His heart throbbed in pain upon seeing it. He brought his right hand up and cast his divine ability. At the instant Arid Triad went to devour Harmonious Morus Alba, Su Ming tore through space to send the people of Ninth back to the other side of the river so that it would be impossible for the scene he witnessed in the secrets of the universe to come true!
However… there were times when destiny could be changed, but there were also times… when even if one used their full strength, they would still be unable to do anything to change destiny. The key to it might be right before them, but they could not touch it…
It was just like how time flowed like water in a river, never returning. A person's life was like a dream.
Someone had once asked how long a person would live. They asked why a person's life always moved from winter to summer, why it moved from the beatings of a drum at night in a monastic temple to the bell tolls that rang in the morning to signify daybreak, who sighed in the four seasons that had already passed, and how many farewells passed in the bell tolls…
Who was the one who caused flowers to bloom and wilt with a snap of fingers? Who caused the moon to become full and then wane? When that somebody lowered their head and saw light, did they see the lamps of houses… or the flourishing life that was gradually moving away from them? And how many brilliant lives had faded away?
The only things left were the wrinkles of memories, moving past the faint layer of dust in the passage of time before shattering to pieces.
Perhaps that was Dao.
It was also a shrill laughter let out when the universe was destroyed. Messy long hair had an enchanting purple hue, and it looked like it had turned into the tears in a certain person's heart. They were the color of blood, but when they fused with darkness… they changed to a color whose name people knew, but not the meaning. That color… was purple.
Purple was the fusion of blood and darkness. It was the fierceness of blood and madness of darkness gathered together to turn into death that no one could affect anymore… It dyed the heart purple, turned his blood black, and then gave him a purple hue that no one else could understand but which would terrify them!
With the purple long hair and purple eyes, he became a lone ship that moved through the River of Forgetfulness.
If anyone cast a gentle gaze at that lone ship under the moonlight… they would find that they could no longer see the lone figure sitting on it.
Only some vague pictures remained in the reflections on the river, and only they reflections remembered… a ferryman who was once dressed in a straw cape and wore a straw hat.
Su Ming's Dao had always been one of moving from midwinter to the beginning of spring. He had ventured to autumn… had moved from death to life and opened his eyes, but at that moment… his Dao changed.
'Since the beginning of spring is no longer around, then why would there be a need for me to pursue waking up? I'd rather be in this darkness and search for the shattered figures who will stay by my side.
'Since I would only see death in the world when I opened my eyes, I would rather keep my eyes closed forever. The only thing that will bloom before my eyes will be endless darkness. I will spread this darkness through the world and to all lives. Perhaps… this is my true Dao!'
Chapter 1371: Arid Triad Disaster (6)
Once the withered bark of the past was crushed and the clear water of the future was added to it, everything would become transparent. No matter what the color was, when a bowl of ink was poured into it, it would dye the whole world… It would never be able to return to how it had been in the beginning.
Su Xuan Yi's Dao was to have his son Lei Chen Possess Old Man Extermination, but before it could happen, he needed a chance and some help. That help… was the hand in which he had turned at that moment.
Right then, he was above Dark Dawn and Saint Defier, and he covered that whole Expanse Cosmos. Beneath this hand… were gazes filled with hatred along with madness before a world was destroyed. With these emotions, an indescribable resentment was formed, and it turned… into a Curse from all lives!
It was a trap, one that Old Man Extermination had prepared for a long time. Under Old Man Extermination's arrangements, the three black-robed men had turned into Su Ming and killed while traveling through the universe, which filled Dark Dawn and Saint Defiers' 360 Expanse Cosmoses with an indescribable resentment towards Su Ming.
Everyone had personally witnessed their friends and family brutally slaughtered by Su Ming and heard their people letting out shrill screams of pain. Those who did not die had to bear with the torment in their bodies and souls, which gave birth to resentment that would last for eternity. Before the world was destroyed, they erupted with unwillingness to die and their madness in an unprecedented manner.
The resentment had no corporeal form… but it could be treated as a form of will. One person's will was not powerful, but if millions, ten millions, hundreds of millions, billions, and especially all the people from 360 Expanse Cosmoses from Dark Dawn and Saint Defier Cursed a person at the same time when their most spectacular brilliance erupted, the resentment… would become real!
This was what it meant to create truth out of nothing!
In a sense, that power could be seen as Dao. If it was placed in a country whose citizens wanted it to be destroyed, then that country would certainly be destroyed!
And that was only when it was viewed in a mortal sense. This logic existed in the world of cultivators too. Once someone used it, they could create a sharp weapon, and during the most crucial moments, it would erupt with its strongest force.
When the resentment from Dark Dawn and Saint Defier's camps gathered together, it was immediately absorbed by the huge hand formed by Su Xuan Yi. It became even darker, as if the power of the universe was contained in it. The palm swayed then, and overlapping shadows immediately appeared on it.
It had split into two!
At the same time, the pupils of Old Man Extermination shrank while he sat on the ancient ship in the fourth Expanse Cosmos. One of the hands sliced through space with Old Man Extermination's will to charge to Arid Triad. The other broke through space too… but it headed to the fourth Expanse Cosmos and Old Man Extermination!
"Su Xuan Yi!"
Old Man Extermination's eyes shone. The moment his words tumbled out of his mouth, the huge palm formed by Su Xuan Yi shot through space and appeared right in front of the ancient ship. Su Xuan Yi's face had manifested on the palm, and it was filled with determination and madness along with hatred he had kept buried in his heart for an unknown number of years.
"Abyss Builders' Possession!" Su Xuan Yi threw his head back and roared. The palm immediately touched the ancient ship with boundless resentment and charged straight at Old Man Extermination.
"You overestimate yourself!" Old Man Extermination harrumphed coldly. "I was the one who created your race. How dare you try to Possess me!"
Old Man Extermination swung his arm. A gust of black wind instantly charged towards the hand while forming a huge skull. Sitting on it was a small human which had the exact same appearance as Extermination. It was his Dao Divinity!
The small human's expression was calm. The skull beneath him opened its mouth wide and charged at Su Xuan Yi.
But when the skull approached Su Xuan Yi, Old Man Extermination furrowed his brows. He swiftly seized the space in the skull's direction with his right hand, and the skull immediately disintegrated.
"Hmph, I can't waste the resentment gathered on you. If my plan for Su Ming is affected because of you, then even if you die ten thousand times, you won't be able to compensate for your wrongs!
"Since you like Possession so much, then I will reward you with the glory of being Possessed by me!"
A ferocious smile appeared at the corners of Old Man Extermination's lips. As he spoke, he swung his arm, and his Dao Divinity appeared in front of him. It opened its mouth and, with a ferocious expression, turned into a long arc that charged towards the palm formed by Su Xuan Yi.
With a loud rumble, Old Man Extermination's Dao Divinity and the palm of resentment formed by Su Xuan Yi crashed into each other. They immediately began trying to Possess one another, but Su Xuan Yi was clearly weaker than Old Man Extermination. In just the span of a few breaths, half of the palm he formed had been occupied by Extermination.
However… there was not a single hint of panic on Su Xuan Yi's face. Instead, a hint of scorn showed up on his lips. It held arrogance as well as confidence that spoke of how he had taken every possible element into account in his plan so that it would be foolproof. He also looked like he no longer had anything left in his life but instead had great hopes that the future would be better.
"Extermination, you lost!" Su Xuan Yi laughed loudly while being Possessed by Extermination.
Old Man Extermination frowned. When he furrowed his eyebrows, his expression suddenly changed. Right then, a third person's presence appeared on Su Xuan Yi's body!
That third presence belonged to Lei Chen!
Lei Chen was sitting in the fourth True World's palace. His body was covered in countless black needles. Hey shuddered, and tears fell from his eyes. His body withered rapidly at that moment. His will, his cultivation, his soul, and everything else about him appeared on Su Xuan Yi in the form of bloodlines!
That was Su Xuan Yi's plan. He knew that he could not fight against Old Man Extermination. His level of cultivation and ability to Possess were a far cry from Extermination's. He knew that if he attempted to Possess Extermination, he would definitely die, which was why he needed better arrangements. There were two requirements for him to succeed. One of them was that Old Man Extermination would not attack to kill him and would give him the chance to Possess him.
That was why Su Xuan Yi had chosen to absorb a large amount of resentment before dividing it into two portions. One of them would approach Su Ming based on Old Man Extermination's plan… and the other portion would be used by Su Xuan Yi to become the element that would cause Old Man Extermination reluctant to kill him!
As long as he hesitated, based on Old Man Extermination's personality, he would want to ensure that his plan with Su Ming would work. That would mean that he would choose to Possess Su Xuan Yi so that the resentment would not disappear and his plan would be unhindered!
That was the first element of Su Xuan Yi's plan!
The second requirement was that Old Man Extermination would not be able to fight against him at full strength. This was easy since his main enemy was Su Ming! With the two requirements fulfilled, Su Xuan Yi held the initiative, and he could execute the second step of his plan…
It was Possession, but Su Xuan Yi would not be the one Possessing Extermination. Instead, he willingly turned his body into a medium… so that his son Lei Chen could connect to Extermination!
His ambition was not to Possess Old Man Extermination completely, but to take a part of him. As long as he could Possess a portion of Extermination, he could be considered to have succeeded.
With even a little, he believed that Lei Chen, who had fused with the Seed of Life Extermination, would be able to stand indestructible… because in a sense, with the Seed of Life Extermination, Lei Chen would share some similarity with Old Man Extermination!
The Seed of Life Extermination's real use was for Old Man Extermination to pass down the creations of his soul through his blood in order to create the strongest person among the Abyss Builders to offer them up to Xuan Zang. That offering would have the Seed of Life Extermination and will go to challenge Xuan Zang.
The person Extermination had originally chosen was Lei Chen. It was why the baby of Su Xuan Yi's wife had seemed cursed. In truth, he was not under a Curse, but displaying the fusion with the Seed of Life Extermination.
However, Old Man Extermination had miscalculated one thing. He miscalculated Su Xuan Yi's ambition and madness and did not expect that he would use the mysteriousness surrounding Yin Death Vortex. That region was a place where Extermination could not peek into. While inside there, Su Xuan Yi extracted the Seed of Life Extermination from Lei Chen's body and planted it in Su Ming.
Then, he planted the seed in Yu Xuan, because she came from the second God of Berserkers' line, and while the second God of Berserker was a Berserker, he lived in Yin Death Vortex and was an existence caught between life and death. It allowed Su Xuan Yi to make some changes in the Seed of Life Extermination… When it fused with Lei Chen again, everything came back a full circle, and it also became an important part of Su Xuan Yi's plan.
"Extermination, you lost. Are you going to control that resentment to seal Su Ming, or will you fight against the Abyss Builders' Possession? To you, this must be something that you can easily decide upon!
"No matter what you choose, in the end, the crux of Possession is that… you absolutely cannot Possess yourself, and what you are doing now is Possessing yourself. You Possessed my son. You are trying to Possess him, who has completely fused with the Seed of Life Extermination, and it means you're Possessing yourself!"
As Su Xuan Yi laughed shrilly, his presence grew weaker. Old Man Extermination's Dao Divinity was rapidly shrinking while in his body. He wanted to give up on Possession, but…
Su Xuan Yi had planned for years. Since he could turn his body into a medium… he had long since made Lei Chen Possess him multiple times. A part of his body belonged to Lei Chen since a while ago.
His presence swiftly disintegrated, but his laughter still echoed in the air. He knew that he had succeeded. At the moment Old Man Extermination chose to Possess him, he succeeded!
"Su Xuan Yi!"
Old Man Extermination's eyes burned with anger. He swiftly retracted his Dao Divinity, but Lei Chen's presence felt like marrow entering bones. He fused with Extermination's Dao Divinity, then entered Old Man Extermination's body as well.