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Chapter 1029: Try It

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Zhu You Cai's expression changed. He could not dodge it in time. At that moment, a freezing glare shone in his eyes, and he did not bother to dodge it at all. Instead, he closed his eyes, and his power erupted from his body to collide against the incoming hand with brute force.

As a loud bang rang in space, that hand trembled. Zhu You Cai coughed up blood, and his body fell back like a kite with its string snapped. He crashed into a rock in the distance with a loud bang, and his body withered swiftly. In an instant, his plump body was reduced to only skin and bones.

All of his life force seemed to have been taken away by the hand. At that moment, it shone with a gentle light, and flesh as well as blood grew swiftly on it.

"Such a powerful Endless Cycles of Life… This nourishment is a small supplement for me." As a hoarse voice echoed in space, a freezing glare shone in Zhu You Cai's eyes.

"Dao of Longevity. With a thought, I can continue living, and with a thought, I can… cause an explosion!"

When those words were spoken, the old voice that had been echoing in space fell into abrupt silence. At the same time, the hand formed by powder shuddered, and the flesh as well as blood growing out on it fell apart with simultaneous explosions.

"Dao of Life Inequity! You're connected to Hong Yue! You're his disciple!"

At the instant the voice spoke, Zhu You Cai's body trembled fiercely. He swiftly opened his eyes wide and glared at the crumbling hand. Echoing in his ears were the three words the ancient voice had spoken just then—Dao of Life Inequity!

What he executed was the Art within the Dao of Longevity his Master Hong Yue had taught him. As for Life Inequity, his pain had turned into the thoughts in his heart after he lost his lover. Yet that strange existence within the Reng Wu Race said that the Art was the Dao of Life Inequity. The impact of that sunk Zhu You Cai into a state of bewilderment. In the mid of it there was also deep fear… as well as his memories towards his Master's actions in the past.

"Kill him! We must absolutely not let this person remain alive! All those who practice the Dao of Life Inequity must be killed! They must all be killed! They have to be killed!"

A crazed voice spread out through space, and a large amount of black smoke came out of the hand before it fell back and disappeared into space. At the same time, the current Progenitor of the Reng Wu Race charged towards Zhu You Cai.

Zhu You Cai trembled, bemusement in his eyes.

Flame Fiends' Progenitor was on a shattered stone in the distance, and his facial color was dull and without luster. He was already severely wounded.

At the moment Reng Wus' Progenitor closed in, the gray-haired Su Ming, who had been sitting and meditating all the while through the six months without moving, opened his eyes.

At the instant he did so, the Life Inequity Spear let out a buzz and turned into a black light that charged towards him. Once Su Ming got up and seized it, he took a step towards Reng Wus' Progenitor and thrust the spear forward.

"You overestimate yourself!"

Reng Wus' Progenitor laughed coldly and lifted his right hand to swing it towards the incoming long spear. To him, if Zhu You Cai held that spear, it could make him tremble, but when it was that gray-haired person's hands, it was not better than a useless piece of trash. If he swung his hand, he could reduce it to ashes.

Without Zhu You Cai, the boy who obtained the fifth stone was just useless garbage,so weak that he could not even withstand a single blow!

Reng Wus' Progenitor's confidence was incredibly great, but the instant his hand touched Su Ming's Life Inequity Spear, he trembled. A vast amount of energy that astonished him erupted from the Life Inequity Spear. A layer of sand spread out from within it, and it turned into a palm made of sand in front of Reng Wus' Progenitor. With a bang, it pressed on the center of his brows.

A life-threatening sense of danger rose within the heart of the Reng Wus' Progenitor in an instant. His pupils shrank, and full of fear, his body tumbled backwards. At the same time, he let out a shrill call in the depths of his heart.

"Spirit of our ancestors, please protect me!"

As a rumbling rose into space, the palm made of sand touched Reng Wus' Progenitor, and his body was torn to shreds with a bang. All of his laws of fate could not bring forth any form of resistance under that palm. This was a difference in Realm. The suppression formed by that difference was a destruction that Reng Wus' Progenitor could not hope to stand against.

His body fell apart. Even when he was reduced to flesh and blood and scattered through the area, the spirit of his ancestors did not descend to protect him, because the hand that had been formed by the powder just then was the spirit of Reng Wus' ancestors.

The legacy spirit formed by generations of ancestors might be powerful, but there was a fatal defect in it. That defect was just a guess among the four Great True Worlds, and they did not know about the details… but the four guardians of the fifth ocean did know of it.

Hence, Dust Burners' Progenitor also knew about it, and Su Ming knew everything that had been carved into the jade slip.

The defect was that it was at its strongest when it was in the territory that belonged to its race, and it was at its weakest when it was outside the area. That's why the spirit of Reng Wus' ancestors seldom ventured out. Unless… there was something that forced them to go out.

The fifth stone which released a ripple of power so incredibly great that it was unprecedented and surpassed all that came before it was one such thing. Yet even so, it only tempted the spirit. It was still highly impossible for it to personally venture out.

Unless… an Almighty in Life Realm was added into the mix!

The fatal defect lay in the spirit of Reng Wus' ancestors losing plenty of their basic functions in the stillness of the endless passage of time until only the most basic will and the deepest memories remained. That was why the spirit would need to replenish its life force once in a while, and the best replenishment was to devour an Almighty in Life Realm.

While it was not that Almighties in Life Realm did not exist in Divine Essence Star Ocean, most of them had long disappeared, and those that did not disappear were like the Progenitor of Sand Earthlings. They had chosen to fall into silence. Forcefully devouring them would not bring about great effect. Instead, it would just pollute one's power in Kalpa Realm.

What the spirit needed was an Almighty in Life Realm who had exuberant life force. However, it could not go into the world beyond Divine Essence Star Ocean. After all, its foundation lay among the Reng Wu Race.

Which was why when Zhu You Cai showed off the power of Life Realm, the spirit of Reng Wus' ancestor immediately became greedy with what little remained of its intelligence, and it… came to the fifth ocean.

"I fulfilled the end of my promise with you. It is your turn to do what you promised me."

Zhu You Cai closed his eyes. When he reopened them, he had already buried the bewilderment deep in his heart. He struggled to stand up from the shattered stone and look towards Su Ming.

"Did you notice a long time ago?" Su Ming looked back at him.

"I didn't at the start. But everything that happened later allowed me to notice some hints. You used me as a bait to lure out that person just then. I believe this is your promise with the four people from the fifth ocean."

When Zhu You Cai said that, the expression of Flame Fiends' Progenitor recovered, though his face was still pale. When he looked at Su Ming, the gray-haired man gave him a feeling that his cunning was unfathomable, and it terrified him.

"I am an Abyss Builder." Su Ming cast Zhu You Cai a glance and sent a thought to him.

Once these words were passed over, a brilliant light shone in Zhu You Cai's eyes. After a long time had passed, he nodded.

Su Ming turned around and looked at the fifth ocean. The four masked people floating in space had aloof expressions. Su Ming brought his right hand up and patted his storage bag. Immediately, a jade slip appeared on his palm, and he flung it towards the four people before speaking,

"I'll return this to you now." The jade slip was what Dust Burners' Progenitor had given to Su Ming in the past. He once said that the person with the jade slip could open the path to the fifth True World without being interrupted.

The person with the Mask of Happiness lifted his right hand and seized the air. Immediately, the jade slip charged towards him. Once he held it in his palm, he tightened his grip around it slightly. Immediately, the jade slip turned into ashes.

"Offering," the person with the Mask of Happiness said faintly.

"Thousands of Virtue Rooters, nearly a thousand of the ferocious beasts, several Almighties, and…" As Su Ming listed it all calmly, shrill screams of pain rose behind him. The sand behind him swept past, and as violent gusts of wind howled, the powerful existence that was the Sand Spirit destroyed Reng Wus while sweeping through the area with ease.

Even the three heavily injured Almighties from the Reng Wu Race could not escape from the predicament.

As the shrill and forlorn voices echoed in space, the gray-haired Su Ming continued speaking.

"… along with thousands of Reng Wus, three Almighties in Mastery Realm, one Almighty in Fate Realm, and the injured spirit of the race's ancestors. This is the offering."

The four people with the Masks of Happiness, Anger, Grief, and Resentment were silent. After a moment, they swung their arms, and countless dark glowing spots appeared in the previous battlefield beyond the fifth ocean. Within them were soul fragments, and they… were all the people who had died there moments ago.

They had dazed expressions on their faces while floating towards the fifth ocean. Once they fused with it, the fifth ocean tumbled about and spread out by almost ten thousand feet before becoming silent again.

The four turned around at that moment. Just as they were about to disappear and return to the depths of the fifth ocean to continue fulfilling their mission in protecting it, Su Ming suddenly spoke again.

"I request that you cut down the time and reduce the remaining half a year to one day!" When he spoke, the four people who were about to disappear came to an abrupt halt.

"Offering!" the voice from the person with the Mask of Happiness said again.

Su Ming's long gray hair changed at that instant. It turned crimson in the span of a breath, and a madness that screamed of destruction appeared in his eyes. He raised his right hand and pointed at the galaxy. It began to roar. The whole fifth ocean tumbled once again. At the same time, a sea of fire appeared out of nowhere in the galaxy. As it tumbled about and spread out, the illusory outline of the fifth kiln formed in the distance.

"Why don't the four of you try requesting for an offering again?" The red-haired Su Ming had a domineering tone in his voice. His expression showed that he was looking down on the entire world, and the aura he exuded shook the entire galaxy.

When he was gray, he obeyed absolute rationality. He would do things to pay the smallest price for the greatest rewards. That was his principle. However… the red Su Ming was a person of arrogance, imperiousness, madness, and destruction. While he was in that state, there were no reason or principles before him. There was… only killing intent that could be triggered at any moment.

With the possession of the fifth kiln, he was an existence that would cause even Zhu You Cai's pupils to shrink. He was… the strongest person in Divine Essence Star Ocean at that moment!

Chapter 1030: The Exact Same

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Su Ming's voice had a strong domineering tone in it. That domineering will was filled with madness and destruction, and there was not a hint of rationality in it. There was only… a madness that screamed, "If you go against me, then I will kill you."

His voice reverberated in space. The four masked people in the fifth ocean stopped moving. They turned around slowly and their gazes instantly fell on the red-haired Su Ming.

"As you wish." After a moment, the person with the Mask of Happiness among the four people spoke hoarsely. He raised his right hand and swung his arm. The three people beside him immediately acted the same.

Wind immediately stirred and clouds surged in the fifth ocean. As the world rumbled, it looked as if a wave was rushing to the heavens. It instantly devoured the four of them, and the galaxy above the tumbling fifth ocean had a piercing, brilliant light appear swiftly.

At first sight, this light was a glowing spot. Almost at the instant this glowing spot appeared, from the end of the pillar of light that shot out from the depths of the fifth ocean came another pillar of light, which shot out of the fifth ocean. It charged towards the glowing spot above it and swiftly connected with it. The light from the glowing spot grew bigger, and the third pillar of light shot out from within it, and its direction… was the fifth stone beside Su Ming!

If that pillar of light was connected to the fifth stone, then there would be three pillars of light that existed in the fifth stone. They were connected together and formed a triangle!

The triangle was like a Rune. It would open the path to the fifth True World and send the person in possession of the fifth stone to the fifth True World.

The flow of time seemed as if it had become faster during that instant. A day later, the pillar of light in the sky let out a bang and shot through the endless space before it finally descended at the edge of the fifth ocean. It descended beside Su Ming, on the fifth stone that was shining in the same light.

At the instant the pillar of light crashed into the fifth stone, the Rune which took the form of a triangle on the fifth ocean appeared swiftly. As it did so, booming sounds echoed in all directions. Those loud bangs were deafening to the ears and stirred up the fifth ocean, making it turn into a gigantic whirlpool that began swiftly rotating under that bang.

As it rotated, the originally vertical triangle formed by the pillars of light in this place slowly inclined, as if it was about to be laid flat in space. As it was laid down, a power of Relocation erupted from the fifth stone beside Su Ming. The appearance of this power of Relocation instantly caused the universe to tremble, causing the galaxy to look as if it was about to be torn apart.

During that moment, if anyone looked from the highest spot in the universe, the first thing they would notice would be the whirlpool formed by the fifth ocean. The shape of the whirlpool was round, but within that circle was a triangle!

That triangle was… the complete Rune that was formed once the three pillars of light were laid flat, and it looked as if it was set in the circular whirlpool!

And the spot where Su Ming stood was one of the corners of the triangle. This galaxy was covered in a powerful light at that moment. Under that light, booming sounds surged into the heavens… and the power of Relocation was swiftly activated.

The path of the fifth True World was opened as the Relocation Rune was activated!

Bang!

A power that was great enough to make even the Almighties in Life Realm apprehensive erupted swiftly from the Rune. When it rushed into the heavens, it could be seen that the light that rushed out was also in the shape of a triangle as it charged towards the void in the galaxy.

Su Ming was contained in one of the corners of that triangle. As the power of Relocation rushed out, his body was instantly swept into the Rune and was pushed into the endless void with the pillars of light.

Booming sounds shook the sky and earth. The pillars of light continued pushing forward and looked as if they had turned into pillars that were used to push up the galaxy above them and support it once it was torn apart.

At the instant the three pillars of light forming the triangle appeared, almost all the living beings in Divine Essence Star Ocean could see it.

The statue of the first God of Berserkers, Lie Shan Xiu, had its head risen to stare at the sky while it stood on a cliff in a mountain within Black Ink Planet. No one knew whether it was just a coincidence, but the spot where it was staring at was coincidentally the pillars of light that surged into the heavens and led to the fifth True World, which could be seen even from this place.

Lie Shan Xiu's statue looked as if it was deep in thought. The meaning Su Ming had deciphered previously was the other message he wished to convey. If he could stand at this spot to look at this scene at that moment, then he would discover in shock that the understanding he gained in the past… was not wrong… but he missed the deepest message Lie Shan Xiu hid in it!

Within Divine Essence Star Ocean was the spot where Ninth Tribe was previously located. It was also the place where Tian Xie Zi had lived for a long time. At that moment, it had turned into wasteland. The statue of Tian Xie Zi built into the wasteland was… also coincidentally staring into the direction where the pillars of light had risen.

His gaze… also contained a message that Su Ming had deciphered incorrectly in the past. However, if he saw it with his own eyes at that moment, his heart would definitely tremble as well.

The pillars of light lasted for about three months. Within those three months, the pillars of light attracted too many people's gazes. Some of them did not understand what it was, but some of them did.

Time passed. One year… and yet another year…

The Flame Fiends' Progenitor waited beyond the fifth ocean and stared with eager eyes at the fifth ocean, which had long since become calm once more. He stared at the space where the pillars of light had disappeared, and vaguely, he seemed to still be able to see… Su Ming's figure in the past.

When the tenth year arrived, the Flame Fiends' Progenitor sighed and chose to leave. Even if Su Ming had yet to release the seal in his body, all of this was no longer important to the Flame Fiends' Progenitor.

He slightly reluctant to part with Su Ming just like that. It was as if that thought had risen in him while they were acquainted with each other through the series of events that happened between them. His animosity towards Su Ming had turned into wariness before it changed into a strange form of trust, and right then, it had turned into a form of nostalgia.

With that nostalgia in him, he left the fifth ocean and moved through the galaxy to return to his homeland, and in that burning planet, he continued… to be the Progenitor his people worshipped.

However, when it was night and it was quiet, he would also lift his head to look at the dazzling, starry sky, and all the things that happened during the period of time when he was in the fifth kiln and the edge of the fifth ocean would appear in his head.

'He will come back.' The Flame Fiends' Progenitor closed his eyes. His body blended with the lava before he turned back into a statue and fell into deep sleep, remaining still and unmoving.

On the 72nd year after the Flame Fiends' Progenitor left, Zhu You Cai also chose to leave the edge of the fifth ocean. Even though Su Ming still had yet to tell him how to resurrect his wife, Su Ming's declaration that he was an Abyss Builder had already given Zhu You Cai endless hope.

Even though… during the past seventy something years, he fell into deep thought pondering over his Master's Dao of Longevity and the Dao of Life Inequity he declared for himself in the midst of his confusion and wondered about their similarities and differences. Even though these thoughts caused his heart to ache in more pain and caused him to be increasingly agitated, he still persistently believed… that Su Ming would return!

When he returned, he would tell Zhu You Cai… how to resurrect his wife.

With that persistence in him, Zhu You Cai left quietly and returned to the mountain to rest in his cave. Beside his ears were the woman's faint hums coming indistinctly from the summit. He closed his eyes, tears fell, and in his hand he always held… a medicinal core.

One hundred years passed in Divine Essence Star Ocean. Everything had long since regained their original peace. Many people no longer paid any attention to the scene from one hundred years ago. The eternity in the sun, moon, and stars, as well as the change in the state of affairs for all things was always a continuous dream. After one of it happened, another would arrive.

However, there were some people who would always remember that one hundred years ago, a cultivator stirred up… a storm that caused Divine Essence Star Ocean to tremble within this galaxy.

Xu Hui had long since reunited with the nine old Frail Darknesses. She sat on the warship, and with the three thousand fearless warriors and all the people from Morning Dao Sect who belonged to Dao Kong, she left Divine Essence Star Ocean and returned to the region in the Barren Lands of Divine Essence where the forces of power from True Morning Dao World were stationed. Over there, she waited quietly for the day of Su Ming's return.

Xuan Shang was still struggling in the fifth kiln and did not have a way out.

Dijiu Mo Sha was still expanding his tribe and continuously fighting against the other races all for the sake of finding a place for his tribe where they would stay permanently.

Everything went on their course. Without Su Ming, Divine Essence Star Ocean continued as it did in the past. This gigantic galaxy would never tilt because of a single person's will, and neither would anything change because a person was missing from the galaxy.

The past glories, the rise to power that seemed to go against the laws of heavens, the endless disasters were like fleeting clouds. Perhaps they would be remembered, but perhaps they would also be forgotten. Compared to this eternal galaxy, these tiny, insignificant lives were still as tiny and as insignificant as ever…

However, the legends regarding Su Ming were slowly remembered by plenty of people, since he did not leave behind his life. They remembered that there was once a period of time where a person had talents that shone brilliantly for thousands of feet in Divine Essence Star Ocean, but had appeared only briefly like a queen of the night.

From the barren lands to Western Ring Nebula, then from the foreign lands to Black Ink Planet, before he moved from Divine Essence Star Ocean to the kiln, and from Divine Essence Star Ocean to the fifth kiln… Wherever Su Ming went to, he took away his shadow and left behind… his legend.

…..

When Su Ming woke up, he saw a dazzling universe. This universe was incredibly unfamiliar to him, and it did not belong to Divine Essence Star Ocean.

This place was filled with dead silence. There was not a single sound in the place, and it was so quiet that it gave off a terrifying feeling. When he looked at it from the distance, the galaxy was not empty. There were plenty of shattered stones floating in it, and it was a dishevelled mess, making it seem as if war had wreaked havoc in this place for an eternity and left behind the wreckages caused by the war.

All of this was the exact same as the image of the fifth kiln Su Ming projected in his mind based on the analysis he made from other people's words.

All of this was also… the exact same as the appearance he believed the fifth True World should take based on his speculations in his mind.

There were no discrepancies, no differences. It was as if Su Ming had come here before. At first glance, it was unfamiliar, but when he glanced at it again, it was familiar.

This familiarity came from the effect of the image of the fifth True World in his mind. It was like someone imagining their future lover in their minds, and when they truly saw that person, he would realize… that she or he was exactly as they imagined.

Su Ming fell silent. As he stared at the fifth True World before his eyes, a glint appeared in his eyes and he charged into the distance. When he lifted his right hand, a jade slip appeared on his palm.

Chapter 1031: A Wasteland

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The jade slip was what Dust Burners' Progenitor had given to Su Ming in the past. Marked on it were certain regions of the Fifth True World. Su Ming memorized the contents, and as he moved forward, he saw a white river several days later.

'The Fifth Abyss River…'

Su Ming's footsteps came to a halt and he looked at the Abyss River that seemed to cut apart the galaxy. He also saw two… gigantic voids at the two distant ends of the river.

He had no idea where those two gigantic voids went. They existed in the galaxy, and the white Abyss River flowed between them, making those two voids look like two eyes with empty gazes.

When Su Ming read the jade slip with the Fifth True World's map he'd gotten from Dust Burners' Progenitor, he saw the Fifth Abyss River carved on it. It was just a simple carving, but its head was white.

That was because white symbolized the abyss. It did not mean death, but was the manifestation of an idea. Right then, Su Ming saw the Fifth Abyss River.

He realized that the river was the exact same as what he had imagined in his head. The two voids that looked like eyes and connected the two ends also fit with Su Ming's imagination.

"On one end is a planet called Burning Dust…" Su Ming mumbled. It was on the carved map within the jade slip. When he raised his head, he headed for the Fifth Abyss River.

The closer he went, the thicker the aura of death became. Su Ming saw corpses drifting about in the Fifth Abyss River, and when he left, he suddenly stopped before turning his head around to look back.

He had a vague feeling that something was off, but he was momentarily unable to figure out just what gave him that feeling. In silence, Su Ming said softly, "Baldy…"

He was calling out to the bald crane in his storage bag, but he obtained no answer. When he frowned, he fused his Atman into his storage bag and saw… that the bald crane was not in there.

A glint shone in Su Ming's eyes, and the feeling that something was off became stronger.

After remaining silent for a moment, he chose to leave.

When he left, the numerous corpses in the Fifth Abyss River continued drifting about. However… all them looked as if they were lying face down in the river. One could only see their backs, but not their faces.

Su Ming walked through the galaxy. He had no idea how much time had passed. He seemed to have forgotten about the passage of time while he traveled through the Fifth True World. He just continued walking until he saw a planet in the distant galaxy.

It was a burning planet. Thick waves of fire spread from it, enveloping it in a sea of fire.

That planet was the origin of Fire Spirits which Dust Burners' Progenitor had spoken about.

Su Ming stared at the planet, and the feeling that something was off became stronger in his heart, but he still could not find what in particular gave him that feeling. His heart was on guard, but even so… he still could not discover any form of threat.

From the moment he stepped into that place to the moment he saw the planet, he was the only person in the galaxy. He did not see another living being.

Su Ming was silent. With hesitation, he walked towards Burning Dust Planet. He walked past the sea of fire, and when he stepped on the planet, he spread out his Atman, but he still did not find any signs of life.

The ground was a desert, a plain of sand burning in a sea of fire. The sky was crimson red and filled with flames. There were no… rivers or trees in the planet. The only thing there was sand.

Su Ming grabbed a burning lump of earth and put it into his storage bag. He cast a scrutinizing glance at Burning Dust Planet again before turning around quietly and leaving.

He walked absentmindedly within the Fifth True World, which was completely devoid of life. He was the only person in the whole world and the entire universe. The silence around him gradually turned suffocating, which gave Su Ming a feeling as if there was a depression in him that he could not vent out.

However, he also felt that everything was as it should be. The Fifth True World was supposed to be an existence void of life. It was a dead universe. The destruction here, the wastelands, and everything else were the exact same as he had imagined. There was nothing different…

Time passed year by year, with Su Ming continuing to charge forward through the galaxy. He only had one goal—a planet marked on the map that was located far in the distance.

A planet called Abyss Vessel.

It was Abyss Builders' homeland and also his race's holy land. In the past, Abyss Builders' Progenitor lived over there.

Time passed quietly, without notice. Then one day, when Su Ming felt that he should be near the planet, he saw an aquamarine blue cultivation planet ahead of himself.

That color was incredibly unique in the galaxy, making it hard to forget after seeing it once.

'Abyss Vessel Planet…'

When Su Ming saw the blue planet, his body trembled. In silence, he walked closer to it. When he came onto the planet, stepped into its atmosphere, he saw that it was a wasteland.

Only the azure blue shade of the seawater moved about as waves formed on the water's surface. It was all silent, and even the sound of the waves seemed to be completely cut off.

There was wreckage all over the ground. Shattered rocks were everywhere, and Su Ming could vaguely see an image of numerous cities, but all of them had been reduced to ruins.

There were no mountains that were too tall. All of them were broken, as if they were the proofs that a war that shook the entire Fifth True World had happened there in the past.

While in midair, Su Ming stared at the ground and the wreckage on it. He walked down in silence, then went past the ruins of numerous cities until he reached the center of the planet. He saw an island in an ocean there, and on it was a gigantic palace, most of whose structure had collapsed.

Once, there had been plenty of statues standing tall at the square in front of it, but there were only three of them left.

Two were headless. Clearly, they had been shattered during the war in the past. Only one statue was still complete, and it portrayed a woman.

Su Ming stared at it, for it was his mother, the woman who was currently lying in the coffin within the fifth kiln and absorbing life force to preserve her life. It was her statue.

Based on the statues' positions, one of the headless two stood at the center. It should have belonged to the most important person. He might not have a head anymore, but Su Ming could tell that it should have been of Abyss Builders' Progenitor.

By his side was Su Ming's mother, so on his other side…

With a complicated gaze, Su Ming looked at the other headless statue, and his appearance was just as indistinct and vague as in his imagination…

Su Ming remained silent for a long time before turning around and walking through practically the entire Abyss Builders' planet. Several days later, when he returned back, he sat down cross-legged in front of his mother's statue. He just sat there quietly and stared at the statue before he looking at his surroundings and sinking into a pensive silence.

Time slowly passed by him. One year, two years… five years… ten years…

Su Ming still sat there without moving. However, as time passed, a brilliant dark light gathered in his eyes, and he gradually closed them.

In the core of Divine Essence Star Ocean was the fifth ocean, and the deepest part of it was a place the world outside could not see. The sea of fog there tumbled about, surrounding a gigantic altar.

On the altar there was a huge mirror made of aquamarine blue. It was crystal clear and exuded a powerful, mighty pressure. It spread out as if it was suppressing the entire fifth ocean and forced the sea of fog tumbling about to quiet down when it reached a certain point.

At that moment, the four people with the Masks of Happiness, Anger, Grief, and Resentment were sitting cross-legged around the huge mirror. They did not close their eyes but were staring at the crystal-like surface before them.

After a long while, the person with the Mask of Grief lowered his head and sighed softly. There was no longer cold detachment within his eyes, but a complicated look.

As he sighed, the person with the Mask of Anger turned his head towards him before asking in a low voice, "Can take it anymore?" There was a magnificence to that voice, along with a domineering air that made him seem as if he was looking down at the universe.

"I am indeed unable to bear with it any longer, but you are the same." When the person with the Mask of Grief said those words flatly, he cast a glance at the person with the Mask of Anger.

That person lowered his head in silence. After a long while, he let out a long sigh and mumbled under his breath, "Perhaps I made a mistake in the past."

"From the moment we gave up on our identities from the Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos and became the guardians of Dark Dawn Ocean, we drew a line between ourselves and our pasts. We cut off all ties with all the emotions we had in the past.

"This is just the first test by Dark Dawn Ocean. If he can't even see through the test in this place, then he is not a person needed by the 180 Expanse Cosmoses in Dark Dawn," a low voice said, coming from the person with the Mask of Happiness.

"You once mentioned that besides the four great legacies of happiness, anger, grief, and resentment, there is in truth still another legacy. There should be five guardians in Dark Dawn Ocean. Who is the fifth person?" a hoarse voice asked faintly and abruptly, coming from the person next to the Mask of Anger who had not yet spoken before.

"Happiness, Anger, Grief, Resentment, and Cessation. The fifth legacy has absolutely no emotions within it. It is the Mask of Cessation that disperses all seven emotions and six desires," the person with the Mask of Happiness said flatly.

"I have a question. The three of us have had many scions, but you once said that there is only one generation for the legacy of happiness. I'm very curious. Just… who were you when you were in Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos?" the person with the Mask of Grief immediately asked.

"When it will be time for the three of you to know, you will naturally know," the person with the Mask of Happiness said calmly.

The people with the Masks of Anger, Grief, and Resentment fell silent when they heard it, but they still looked at the person with the Mask of Happiness with curiosity.

At that moment, the crystal mirror around they sat suddenly became muddled. As clouds and fog surrounded it, it looked like there was wind stirring up and clouds surging around them. Buzzing sounds reverberated in the area, and the people with Masks of Anger, Grief, and Resentment immediately looked over. Only the person with the Mask of Happiness remained as aloof as ever.

Chapter 1032: Mask of Cessation

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

At the instant the three of them looked towards the crystal mirror, Su Ming, who had been sitting and meditating for nearly a century on the Abyss Vessel Planet in the fifth True World, opened his eyes.

His gaze was calm. When he looked at his mother's statue, Su Ming sighed softly.

'I only managed to see my mother's statue here because I saw my mother before… I never met Su Xuan Yi, that's why his statue is headless. I never met the Abyss Builders' Progenitor either, that's why… his statue is also headless.' Su Ming stood up and looked towards the entire Abyss Vessel Planet.

"The planet is the exact same as I imagined…

"This true world is also the same as I imagined…' Su Ming shook his head. He took a step towards the air, and within an instant, he appeared in the galaxy.

"That year, I imagined that the planet was near, and then Abyss Vessel Planet appeared. Now, I will have this thought: The fifth Abyss River is in front of me…" Su Ming mumbled. He lowered his head, and when he lifted his head again, the fifth Abyss River appeared in front of him.

He saw the corpses in the river. All of them only had their backs revealed before him. Their faces were not shown.

'This is also because I have never met you, that's why I can't imagine different appearances for all of you,'

Su Ming shook his head, then walked towards the galaxy.

'I might not want to believe it, but during the past hundred years, I already guessed at the moment I saw the statue… this isn't the fifth True World. There is no Abyss Vessel Planet here.'

"The real fifth True World isn't here as well. What a lie, what an outrageous lie!" A fierce glare appeared in Su Ming's eyes.

At the instant Su Ming spoke, the universe around him suddenly trembled. All the shattered stones in it vanished. All the air around him swiftly distorted and turned into an arc.

This arc was formed after the entire galaxy was distorted. As it slowly spun in front of Su Ming, its turned to face him, and when it did, it's appearance caused Su Ming's heart to shake.

Because he saw… a gigantic mask appear in front of him once the galaxy distorted!

The white Abyss River was a line between the eyes on the mask, and the two voids at the two ends of the Abyss River which looked like eyes to him in the past… were now the blank eyes on the mask.

Su Ming would never forget that mask. That mask… was the one forced on him when he was in Yin Death Region. The mask that cut off all seven emotions and six desires within him… the Mask of Cessation!!

Due to this mask, Su Ming came to Divine Essence Star Ocean. Now, more than one thousand years later, he saw the mask again, and understanding rose swiftly in Su Ming's heart.

'That so-called searching for your king you told me in the past and the rumors in the worlds outside about the fifth True World's entrance being located here is a lie! You didn't just lie to me, you also… lied to the first God of Berserkers, Lie Shan Xiu!!' A brilliant light shone in Su Ming's eyes. At that moment, he had come to completely understand everything.

'This is a legacy… A legacy that is similar to that of the four guardians with the masks in the fifth ocean. If my guess is correct, then there should not be originally four masked people here, but five!

'And after happiness, anger, grief, and resentment comes the Mask of Cessation that cuts off the seven emotions and six desires. At the moment you made me wear the mask to come to Divine Essence Star Ocean, you didn't want me to search for your king or search for the entrance to the fifth True World. You wanted to make me the fifth guardian in this place!!

'I now understand the complicated emotions and the confusion on Lie Shan Xiu's statue in the past as well… because at that time, he might have already noticed the hints… but in the end, he still stepped into your fraud.

'One of the four masked people… is Lie Shan Xiu!!' A brilliant light shone swiftly in Su Ming's eyes. At that moment, his understanding caused his mind to suddenly be clear.

Su Ming's heart trembled, because he remembered his Master, Tian Xie Zi, and he was almost certain that if Tian Xie Zi was still alive, then one of the four masked people… was Tian Xie Zi!!

It did not matter whether it was Lie Shan Xiu, Tian Zie Zi, or Su Ming. The three of them all had one similarity, and that was… the three of them… came from Yin Death Region!

When he looked at it this way, Su Ming's heart was in shock again. Who… exactly was the third and fourth person among the four?!

"Wear the mask and become the fifth guardian of Dark Dawn Ocean. Envoy of Cessation… you will know everything that you wish to know. You will know all the secrets regarding Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos, the fifth True World, and the Abyss Builders.

"Become the Envoy of Cessation and you will never have any worries as well as uncertainties… and you will be given eternal life as well!!

"This is your life. You cannot fight back against it. From the moment you wore the mask and was sent into Divine Essence Star Ocean, your path in your life has already been decided. No matter how hard you try to change it, you cannot escape from it… Your fate is to become the bearer of the Mask of Cessation in Dark Dawn Ocean!" An ancient voice with a cold detachment and a supreme mighty pressure tumbled out in roaring waves from the mouth of the gigantic galactical mask.

There was in no way Su Ming would forget that voice. That voice belonged to the ancient will from Yin Death Region, the one that had threatened him with his senior brothers' lives and forced him to wear the mask!!

"You are unable to refuse, you cannot refuse… and neither do you have the right to refuse. You are chosen… to become my Envoy of Cessation!" That voice echoed and shook space. The mask formed by the gigantic galaxy rushed forward swiftly to cover Su Ming with a loud bang.

A powerful, mighty pressure gathered swiftly on Su Ming's body, causing Su Ming to instantly be unable to move even a single inch. However, at the instant that mighty pressure descended on him and Su Ming felt that he could not move… a power that swiftly allowed him to regain his mobility travelled out rapidly from his cultivation base clone—Dao Kong's original body.

Or rather, this was not a power. It was an aura!

That aura was long-lasting and similarly brought with it a supreme will that crashed head-on against the incoming mask with a bang.

Su Ming could sense that aura. That was… an aura from True Morning Dao World. That was… the power of kismet! That was the kismet from the entire True Morning Dao World, and it was forcibly interfering with everything, because Dao Kong's body was something loved dearly by True Morning Dao World's kismet, and now, it was clear that there was a power from a world beyond clashing fiercely against that kismet.

"Su Xuan Yi, even if you have already calculated all of this and specifically delivered a physical body so that this child will possess kismet, I have also long since predicted this. There is no way I will let you succeed!" As the mask charged forward, that ancient and cold voice echoed in the air with a loud bang.

At the instant the voice echoed in the air, that gigantic mask instantly turned around and had its back facing Su Ming. Countless white threads also crawled out swiftly from within it. As they squirmed around, they spread out, making them look incredibly terrifying, and during that time, those white threads intersected with each other to form a gigantic face.

That face was ancient, and its expression was numb. It looked like a piece of human skin, and it was filled with those white threads from within. At the same time it rushed towards Su Ming, it immediately crashed into that invisible kismet.

When booming sounds echoed in the air, that ancient voice from the mask spread out again.

"To deal with that kismet from True Morning Dao World, I've been preparing for tens upon thousands of years and gathered together the Face of Misfortune from True Morning Dao World to break the kismet you brought to this place. Now, scatter!"

When he said these words, booming sounds shook the universe and made the space in all directions tremble. The kismet from True Morning Dao World gathered on Su Ming's cultivation base clone immediately tumbled backwards in the midst of those booming sounds and collapsed.

Without the kismet from True Morning Dao World, that face where the interior was filled with thin threads also spread out to turn into countless squirming thin threads again. At the instant it charged towards Su Ming, the mask in the galaxy shrank swiftly, but at the moment it closed in on Su Ming, Ecang's presence erupted swiftly with a bang from Su Ming's body, and Ecang's body appeared behind him.

"Puny little Ecang, if you were at the peak of your strength, you would still have some abilities that would pose as a threat. After all, you were one of the lives in Old Man Extermination's ballad… but for your current self, shatter!" That cold voice echoed in space again. With a bang, Su Ming's entire body was covered in blood. The Ecang behind him was swiftly torn to shreds before it crumbled.

"This is your fate, the fate you cannot avoid. You… are my Envoy of Cessation!" The cold voice was emotionally wrought up, and the mask formed by the galaxy continuously shrank before it turned into a normal size. It instantly covered Su Ming's face and countless white threads crawled swiftly into Su Ming's skin and flesh in a frenzied pace. They connected tightly with his flesh and blood, intending to forcefully make Su Ming wear the mask again.

"From now on, you will no longer have a name. You will only have one title… Cessation!" As the old man's voice echoed in space, Su Ming's entire body shuddered. The mask covered his face, and intense pain rose in his entire body. At that moment, madness appeared in his eyes.

'Black stone fragment, Seed of Life Extermination, take off this mask for me, find its flaw!' When Su Ming roared in his heart, the Seed of Life Extermination in his soul shone swiftly with a powerful light. Once that light spread out rapidly from Su Ming's soul, it shot out of his body and erupted quickly from within him.

That light was made of an intersection of nine colors. When Su Ming's body was enveloped in that light, it was as if another figure had appeared faintly on his body. That was an old man, an existence dressed in a white robe and stood above all lives.

That was… the Old Man Extermination.

However, in the Old Man Extermination's eyes was Su Ming's madness. He lifted his right hand slowly and pushed his palm on the mask over his face. At the moment his right hand touched the mask, it let out a shrill scream of pain as if it possessed life. As it screamed in pain, it changed swiftly under Su Ming's right hand, as if all the structures within it were being rapidly disassembled.

It was also during this moment that the old voice, which might have come from the mask or space itself, had astonishment appear in his voice for the first time ever, and his voice echoed swiftly in space.

"This… this is… the Old Man Extermination. You are the Extermination of this generation. This is impossible, this is…" For the first time ever, there was panic in that voice, and there was also a great amount of shock that had never appeared before in his tone. As it reverberated in space, the mask immediately melted at the instant Su Ming's right hand touched it. It disappeared layer by layer until Su Ming's face was shown.

The mask disintegrated with a bang. During that instant, the space around him completely crumbled. As it shattered layer by layer, everything in this place was crushed. As it was pulverized, the old man's voice from space let out a roar that showed he was unwilling to accept defeat.

"Dark Mountain… Xiao Hong… the fragment… Seed of Life Extermination… Su Xuan Yi, so your counterattack is here! I won't accept this! I can't accept this!!"

Bang!

The space completely collapsed to reveal the fifth ocean, along with the blue crystal mirror that had been reduced to shards and was sweeping to the entire area. The strongest ever wind storm also stirred up to rage and sweep through the entire fifth ocean.

End of Arc Four.

Chapter 1033: I Want to Go Home

Arc Five: My Morning Dao World

The storm spread out of the blue crystal mirror with a bang, so strong that it couldn't hand it. As it shattered into countless shards, they swept through the whole area.

Due to the mirror crumbling, the fifth ocean looked as if there was no longer anything suppressing it, and because of it, the ocean let out incomparably loud roars as its impact rushed out.

In the mid of them, the ocean's frenzied rampage caused waves to tumble about. A large amount of fog surged, rising then falling. When the impact spread out and touched it, it immediately disintegrated as if evaporating layer by layer.

If anyone looked at the fifth ocean from above, they would be able to see clearly that as it tumbled about, the force formed a circular ring of light. It traveled through the area with loud booms, as if a shocking destruction had just occurred.

After a moment, the whole place evaporated under the impact. The booming sounds formed echoes in the inner parts of Divine Essence Star Ocean. The vast and boundless seawater… started showing signs that it was about to vanish.

Disappearing along with it were the people with the Masks of Happiness, Anger, Grief, and Resentment, who had began retreating swiftly after the mirror shattered. Dark waves of light shone on the masks on their faces at that moment before it covered their bodies, which then disappeared without a trace.

Perhaps leaving like that was not their intention, but that light from the mask circling round them and the roars from the fifth ocean formed a power that did not allow them to resist. It was forcibly interfering with everything regarding their intention to escape.

Booming sounds continued resounding in space. The fifth ocean roared as it tumbled and gradually evaporated, slowly disappeared forever from the core of the inner part of Divine Essence Star Ocean.

The spot where the fifth ocean had originally existed was surrounded by a thick fog, and from then on, it would be like that.

Several days later, when the booming sounds gradually grew fainter, a figure appeared in the fog, slowly approaching from the distance. With one step at a time, that figure walked out of the fog, and gray light immediately spread out. It was… the gray Su Ming.

Beside him was a sleazy bald crane whose existence was incredibly discordant with him. Su Ming did not see the crane when he was in the fake Fifth True World, but once he walked out of it, the crane appeared on its own.

Clearly, all of it was related to the fake Fifth True World.

At that moment, as the bald crane followed behind Su Ming, it had its head held high.

Su Ming's expression was dark. When he walked out of the fog, he turned his head around to cast a glance behind him. By then, the fifth ocean was already distorted beyond recognition.

'One of the four people with the Masks of Happiness, Anger, Grief, and Resentment is definitely my Master, and the other is Lie Shan Xiu. I wonder just who are they… and who are the remaining two…

'Now that the fifth ocean dispersed and the four of them disappeared, I cannot find any traces leading to them, but no matter what, all of this has a great connection with the ancient will from Yin Death Region.

'Once I find that ancient will, I'll be able to find them!'

A freezing glare shone in Su Ming's eyes. When he lowered his head, he fell silent. During that time, he remembered his fight against the ancient will within the fake Fifth True World.

That fight might have seemed simple, but it contained the accumulation of countless years' worth of preparation as well as an invisible battle between Su Xuan Yi and the ancient will.

'My previous guess was indeed correct. Dao Kong entering Divine Essence Star Ocean… was due to him being led there by Su Xuan Yi's will. He sent me this body, and his goal was to have me Possess him.

'Once I Possessed Dao Kong, I would obtain True Morning Dao World' kismet, but all of that was just to blind Yin Death Region's will. The true blow… was the Seed of Life Extermination, which is the black stone fragment Xiao Hong gave me in the past!

'All of that was prepared by Su Xuan Yi.' Su Ming's expression was slightly complicated. He remembered the ancient will roaring with refusal to admit defeat before eventually disappearing.

Clearly, that ancient will could learn everything it wanted in Yin Death Region. However, Su Xuan Yi had used some unknown method to hide the fact that Xiao Hong had given Su Ming that black fragment in the past, or rather, he had made the ancient will form an incorrect perception about the stone fragment, because of which it was then ignored.

However, the ancient will understood everything in the end, which was why it uttered that sentence.

When Su Ming remembered all that had happened, complicated emotions rose within him towards Su Xuan Yi. There was resentment there, but also a sigh that meant too many things.

Even though he had never met his father, the man��s actions were filled with great fatherly love, no matter whether it was the matter of giving him the Seed of Life Extermination or delivering Dao Kong for Possession. In fact, there were definitely other things that Su Ming had not noticed even till then, and he could sense the fatherly love from them.

"If that's the case, why did you leave me alone in the land of Berserkers? Why did you separate my soul from my physical body? Why did you… leave my mother lying in the fifth kiln?

"Just… where are you? Who… are you?" Su Ming mumbled. He knew that everything would be revealed before him when he returned to True Morning Dao World.

After remaining silent for a while, a brilliant light shone in his eyes.

"Since I can't find the real entrance to the Fifth True World… then it's time for me to leave the Barren Lands of Divine Essence… and return to True Morning Dao World!" Su Ming turned his head around and looked at the galaxy in the distance. A hint of resolve and fierceness appeared in his eyes.

He wanted to return to True Morning Dao World and retrieve his physical body. He wanted to know the answers to all the mysteries around him, and he wanted… to find out who was Su Xuan Yi!

"That's right! Let's go back to True Morning Dao World! Darn it all, I want to go back too! I can hear all the crystals in True Morning Dao World calling out to the great me. They're all waiting for the great and supreme me, myself, and I to love them. Hurry up! Let's go quickly!"

The bald crane stood with excitement on its face while shouting with joy. It expression was of someone mesmerized, a telling sign that it was imagining something happy and glorious.

"Dao Chen…" Su Ming moved forward, and the sound of air being sliced apart rose swiftly as he charged forth.

With the fifth kiln in his possession and as the current scion of the Seed of Life Extermination, he was already the strongest person in Divine Essence Star Ocean. Even if he did run into an enemy who was an Almighty in Mastery Realm, so what? Su Ming did not even need to activate the fifth kiln to fight against that Almighty on his own!

Even if he ran into an Almighty in Fate Realm, Su Ming had the Art to cut fate, and with the fifth kiln, he could fight against that person.

The only regretful thing about it was that Su Ming did not want to take the fifth kiln away. If he left it in its place, it would reach its optimum state in terms of effectiveness.

'I will leave this place and return to True Morning Dao World. I… want to go home!'

Su Ming became faster. As he turned into a long arc and charged forward through the galaxy, his hair color gradually changed. It was not red, but neither was it gold. Instead, it returned into its original color, and nostalgia appeared in his eyes.

"Eldest senior brother, second senior brother… and Hu Zi…" Su Ming became even faster. He shifted and shot across the galaxy.

"Yu Xuan too!" the bald crane immediately shouted by the side. As the Abyss Dragon's boss, it felt that it needed to help the Abyss Dragon speak during that moment.

"Yu Xuan…" A reminiscent look appeared in Su Ming's eyes. In his recollections was a girl who ate roasted seeds with a grin while staring at him.

Several days later, he appeared beyond a burning planet in the region between the inner part and the periphery of Divine Essence Star Ocean. There were thick flames raging in that planet, and that place… was where Flame Fiends' Progenitor lived. It was his territory.

Su Ming looked at the planet. After some time, he suddenly opened his mouth, and his voice rang with thunderous booms that echoed in all directions while it went to Flame Fiends' Planet.

"Progenitor Huo Kui, do you remember your old friend from the fifth kiln?"

"Huo Kui, do you still remember your Grandpa Crane?!" the bald crane shouted loudly as well. It intentionally stood in front of Su Ming. By doing so, it would make it felt that it was the true center of attention. Since Su Ming was behind it, he was just a guard.

The man and the crane's voices went into Flame Fiends' Planet and into each of Flame Fiends' ears. The thunderous roar formed from those voices turned into a mighty pressure. When it descended, the whole planet shuddered, and all the Flame Fiends immediately shuddered as well. Absolutely no thought of resistance could rise in them under that mighty pressure; they felt like the world was crumbling and nothing existed in it anymore. As they quivered, they let out shrill roars as they prostrated themselves on the ground, unable to stand.

In the depths of Flame Fiends' Planet was a karst cave filled with lava. Within it was a statue which jolted at that moment, and a large number of cracks swiftly appeared on it to reveal the body of Flame Fiends' Progenitor. His eyes were shut, so he opened them swiftly and looked in the direction of the galaxy and spoke in a wild and untamed manner.

"Which old friend… Hmm?"

Before he could finish speaking, Flame Fiends' Progenitor started shuddering, and excitement appeared on his face. Without any hesitation, he turned into a long arc and shot from the ground with a bang, shaking the whole planet. In an instant, he rushed out and stood in the galaxy. When he did so, he saw Su Ming looking at him.

"You… you are…" Flame Fiends' Progenitor stared at Su Ming. The excitement on his face turned into surprised delight. He knew that Su Ming would definitely return one day.

"I've come back."

Su Ming stared at Flame Fiends' Progenitor, and a smile appeared on his face. He could be said to have gone through many things together with Flame Fiends' Progenitor in the fifth kiln. At the start, the two of them had fought against each other, then Huo Kui had submitted to him. In time, they got acquainted with each other and slowly formed a bond that gave them the feeling as if they were friends.

In the end, when Flame Fiends' Progenitor gritted his teeth and stayed after Zi Long and Long Hai had left, Su Ming no longer treated him as an enemy… but a friend.

"Thank you for the matter in the fifth ocean," Su Ming said to Flame Fiends' Progenitor as he wrapped his fist in his palm and bowed.

His act of bowing immediately made Flame Fiends' Progenitor nervous. He instinctively took a few steps back and stared at Su Ming with uncertainty. The impression Su Ming left in his mind was too strong, so when he spoke with such courtesy, Flame Fiends' Progenitor found it uncanny, and he became suspicious of it.

Chapter 1034: Entering Western Ring Nebula Once More

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

When Su Ming saw Flame Fiends' Progenitor reacting that way, he laughed wryly in his heart before making his expression turn aloof and letting out a cold harrumph.

When Flame Fiends' Progenitor heard it and saw the icy expression, he calmed down, finding it normal. Just as he was about to say something, Su Ming raised his right hand and pointed at him.

Flame Fiends' Progenitor instantly started trembling furiously. Gradually, a large amount of black sweat broke out on his skin. Once it was forced out of his body, it swiftly gathered together and turned into a drop of water that was the size of a fist and gave off a foul stench. When it disappeared before Flame Fiends' Progenitor, an incomparably light feeling rose within him

"The seal has been broken. Huo Kui, don't go to the fifth kiln anymore. If we are destined to meet again, the both of us will surely see each other in the future. I bid you farewell." Su Ming cast a glance at Flame Fiends' Progenitor before leaving. When he turned around and was just about to leave, his footsteps suddenly came to a halt. He turned his head around and asked, "Where does Zhu You Cai live?"

"In Husband Gazing Mountain," Flame Fiends' Progenitor quickly replied. The excitement of seeing Su Ming had already disappeared by then. The wariness and the powerful impression the other had left one hundred years ago rose again in his mind.

Su Ming nodded. When he cast a glance at Flame Fiends' Progenitor, he saw his cautious demeanor, and his lips slowly curled up into a smile. However, he did not know that when Flame Fiends' Progenitor saw that smile, his heart let out a loud thump, and panic instantly rose in his heart.

'What's going on? This person… kills without batting an eyelid. He's ruthless, merciless, and a calculative man, and now… he's smiling? Something's off! Something's very off!' Flame Fiends' Progenitor became even more cautious, and he took a few instinctive steps back.

"I'm going back to True Morning Dao World. Come… with me," Su Ming said faintly, then turned around without bothering himself with whether Flame Fiends' Progenitor would be conflicted about this. He simply walked into the galaxy.

By his side, the bald crane let out a fake cough before casting a profound glance at Flame Fiends' Progenitor.

"This is very important. Huo Kui, it's best that you think about it carefully. Heh heh…"

At the end, the bald crane still decided to intimidate him. It felt that its current situation was the most wonderful moment in its life. When it frightened Flame Fiends' Progenitor, it did not forget to let out a few snorts.

Flame Fiends' Progenitor was instantly conflicted. He watched Su Ming walking into the distance, then listened to the bald crane threatening him before turning his head around to cast a glance at Flame Fiends' Planet behind him. Hesitation rose within him.

He was actually not worried about his people. With Flame Fiends' divine abilities, even if he was not around, no great accident would happen to them while they were in Divine Essence Star Ocean. And if he followed Su Ming, he might run into a great serendipity.

He was especially certain of it when he remembered Su Ming's actions on their trip one hundred years ago. It immediately gave Flame Fiends' Progenitor confidence. He gritted his teeth, and resolve appeared on his face.

'If I follow such a calculative and conniving person, at the very least, I won't suffer any losses in the hands of other people…' Flame Fiends' Progenitor immediately turned his head around and let out a few shouts at Flame Fiends' Planet.

Immediately, commotion rose within it. Numerous Flame Fiends flew up and stared at their Progenitor. There was a reluctance to part in their eyes, but all of them knelt down and worshiped him simultaneously.

Flame Fiends' Progenitor let out a few more shouts, a telling sign that he was leaving instructions as to what his people were to do after he left. Then, under the gazes filled with the reluctance to part from his people, he turned his head around and turned into a ball of purple flames that charged in the direction Su Ming had left.

…..

Husband Gazing Mountain was like an eternal existence in the galaxy. There were murmurs from the summit coming down all year long. The beautiful legend surrounding the mountain always stirred up the curiosity of those who came when they heard the murmurs.

At that moment, Su Ming was standing on a stone rising from the ground at the center of the mountain. By his side was the bald crane and Flame Fiends' Progenitor while in front of him was a dark cave.

"Senior Chang He, I would wish to see you." Su Ming wrapped his fist in his palm and bowed to the mountain cave while he spoke calmly.

The mountain cave was quiet. After a long while, a muffled bang came from the mountain cave, and an incomparably plump, hideous, and ugly figure walked out from within.

Zhu You Cai!

His eyes were crimson red. When he walked out, he stared at Su Ming. Conflict and madness were in his eyes. After some time, a calm expression slowly came to his face. He sat down limply by the side, and when he lifted his head to stare at Su Ming, his expression had already returned to its usual calmness.

"You're back," he said faintly.

Su Ming nodded.

"Thank you for helping me when we were in the fifth ocean. About your wife…" When Su Ming said those words, he paused for a moment.

With a calm expression on his face, Zhu You Cai looked at Su Ming's face while waiting for the second part of his words.

"When my level of cultivation is high enough and I can activate the Abyssal World, I will definitely resurrect her," Su Ming stated slowly. His understanding towards Abyss Builders was not great, but he had a general idea that they had an inborn ability to resurrect the dead. However, the prerequisite for it was that Abyss Builders needed to activate their Abyssal Worlds.

Su Ming did not know much about that. The Duke of Crimson Flame did not know about it clearly, but Su Ming believed that as his level of cultivation rose, there would surely come a day when he would understand his race's inborn ability.

"Senior, before that time comes, if you believe me, then I can activate the fifth kiln and have your wife's soul fuse into it to be nourished. With this, we could ensure that during this period of time, her soul will not scatter and vanish." With sincerity on his face, Su Ming bowed.

Zhu You Cai was silent. After a long time, he stood up, lifted his head, and looked up at the summit.

After some time, Zhu You Cai asked calmly, "Have you heard of the legend regarding this mountain?"

"I've heard of it before." Su Ming nodded.

"A woman in the past waited for her husband's return on the mountain. As time passed and things changed, she did not manage to see him. Her body turned into stone, and the presence of her yearning… turned into the mountain.

"When I was in the fifth kiln, I thought that I was already dead, and I was bent on seeking death… but when I died, I woke up again. Yet when I woke up, I was already here, and my body had become as such.

"I don't know the answer to all of this, but I can sense that there is another person in this person. He… coexists with me. And his name is Zhu You Cai." He stared at the mountain as his voice echoed in the area.

"Do you want to go to the summit and meet the woman who has turned into stone?" Zhu You Cai moved and turned into a long arc that charged at the summit.

Su Ming stared at the man leaving into the distance. The legend Zhu You Cai had spoken of might not matched with the legend Su Ming had heard, but he still chose to turn into a long arc and charge towards the summit.

When the bald crane arrived at the mountain, its spirits became slightly downcast. At that moment, it stared at the mountain cave with a blank look on its face before also following behind Su Ming in silence.

Ordinary people could not step into the mountain's summit. However, it was different for Zhu You Cai and Su Ming. They did not spend much time before arriving there.

Su Ming saw a stone human at the peak of the mountain.

Based on its appearance, it should have been a woman. She stood at the summit and stared into the distance, her thoughts unknown.

Zhu You Cai stared at the stone, and a complicated expression appeared in his eyes. Perhaps he was not what he claimed to be—he did not wake up not knowing the reason behind his awakening after he died.

Perhaps he knew the reason, but he did not want to say it; it was his secret.

Behind Su Ming, the bald crane shuddered. Grief appeared in its eyes when it looked at the statue. As it watched it, eternity seemed to envelop it. Its current demeanor was something that could not be seen on usual days.

"Why do I feel so miserable, as if my body is about to disappear?" the bald crane mumbled. At that instant, a few scenes flashed in its mind.

Those pictures were indistinct, containing a vague form a woman. She had her back turned toward the bald crane and was staring at a distant galaxy just like the statue.

The bald crane could only sneak peeks at her while standing behind her and hiding its emotions since it did not want to show them.

That lasted till one day when the woman began crying while staring at the galaxy, and the bald crane heard itself speak in a murmur, "So what if it's Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos? So what if my soul will scatter and vanish? I will help you find him!" That voice echoed in the bald crane's mind. As it listened, it heard the anguish contained in the voice.

The bald crane's vision became blurry. The pictures in its mind shattered and turned into fragments. When they were swept away, the bald crane felt awful and sad.

"In other words, before you have enough power to activate your Abyssal World, I will need to protect you." After a long while, Zhu You Cai averted his gaze from the stone human and turned his head around.

Su Ming remained silent for a moment before he met Zhu You Cai's gaze.

"You can understand it that way."

"I don't need the fifth kiln to provide nourishment to her. With my power, I can constantly ensure that her soul will not scatter and disappear." Zhu You Cai closed his eyes. When he opened them again, a hint of fatigue appeared on his face.

"Then… if you don't fulfill your promise to resurrect her, I will make you suffer… the same pain," Zhu You Cai said calmly and lifted his foot to take a step into the galaxy.

"Once I've made a promise someone, I will definitely not go back on my word. Only death will stop me." Su Ming enunciated each of his words clearly.

He then took a step forward. But just as he was about to leave, he suddenly had a stranger feeling and turned his head around to cast a glance at the bald crane before leaving into the distant galaxy while deep in his thoughts.

While they were going forward, Su Ming walked in front. The bald crane was beside him while occasionally turning its head around to look at the mountain. Behind them were Zhu You Cai and Flame Fiends' Progenitor. The strange expression on the bald crane's face had attracted Zhu You Cai's attention, but he did not say much about it. He also seemed to be immersed in his thoughts.

As the group charged forward, they left the periphery of Divine Essence Star Ocean and moved past Black Ink Planet to step into Western Ring Nebula.

'Western Ring's foreign lands…'

At the moment Su Ming stepped into Western Ring Nebula, a brilliant light shone in his eyes. Before he left the Barren Lands of Divine Essence, his final stop had been Western Ring Nebula's foreign lands.

Once he arrived there, it would be the time for his Ecang clone to devour the other Ecang souls.

When he succeeded, his level of cultivation would increase by an incredible margin. Only then… would he be able to stir up the disaster in True Morning Dao World once he returned to that place.

Chapter 1035: Welcome Back, Our Liege

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The foreign lands were fragmented and existed in countless cracks within the galaxy, including Western Ring Nebula. Even though centuries had passed since then, the mysteries and rumors about the place remained in the cultivators' hearts and did not disappear.

Once they stepped in, then there was a high possibility that they would never be able to get out again. The mysterious veil about that place was something that only existed in name to Su Ming, but to most cultivators, the mighty pressure created by that mysteriousness was powerful enough to suffocate them .

Su Ming had not seen that place for hundreds of years, and when he returned to Western Ring Nebula's foreign land again, he stared at the cracks in the galaxy. He did not say a word. Before his eyes, he seemed to be able to see himself hundreds of years ago being forced inside by the forces of power from the four Great True Worlds. He also saw himself wreaking havoc in their territory once he walked out, and then, he was chased down by an Almighty in Mastery Realm.

If that Almighty in Mastery Realm still dared to attack Su Ming, his palm would be cut off without any hesitation.

Su Ming said faintly, "Senior Chang He, please wait in this place. I still have some matters to attend to here." Zhu You Cai did not speak, but closed his eyes and sat down cross-legged in the galaxy.

Su Ming turned his head around to cast a glance at Flame Fiends' Progenitor. The thin old man immediately looked as if Su Ming's words would be a sacred edict. A fawning smile appeared on his face, and he nodded rapidly.

Before Su Ming could even say anything about that kind of attitude, the bald crane, who no longer seemed dazed and sad as if it simply did not use its head to think, suddenly glared at Flame Fiends' Progenitor, because it sensed an incredibly great threat that rushed straight into its head.

That threat came from the fawning look of Flame Fiends' Progenitor. His expression caused the bald crane to be in an incredibly bad mood. It immediately spread open its bare wings, then put on an arrogant appearance and glared at Flame Fiends' Progenitor with a profound gaze.

It bent its back and used the same fawning gaze to look at Su Ming before quickly saying, "Boss, should I go in and check things beforehand? If there is any sort of danger, with my abilities, I will definitely be able to resolve it. I won't be like certain people whose entire bodies go up in flames and who don't know how to share danger." The bald crane's solicitous words were something rarely spoken by it. Su Ming cast a sideways glance at it and smiled faintly.

Flame Fiends' Progenitor was momentarily stunned before he cast a scrutinizing glance at the bird. An expression of wanting to face danger together with Su Ming appeared on his face. He might be an Almighty in Mastery Realm, but for living spirits, no matter how high their level of cultivation was, it was difficult for them to change their nature.

And it was the case for Flame Fiends' Progenitor as well. When he was yet to become a Progenitor, he might have had quite a promising potential, but him being able to obtain his current level of cultivation and the legacy of the previous Flame Fiends' Progenitor as well as being able to reach Mastery Realm in one go after slaughtering his way through numerous other potential successors was due to him being good at flattering his Progenitor in the past.

However, it had been a long time since he had used that skill. That was why when he used it, he was still a little rusty; he was no longer as good as he was in the past.

Su Ming did not bother with Flame Fiends' Progenitor and the bald crane's passive-aggressive fight. He moved toward the crack leading to Western Ring Nebula's foreign land and charged into the crack, disappearing without a trace.

The bald crane might have been full of bold words, but in truth, from the depths of its heart, it did not want to enter Western Ring Nebula's foreign land again. The time when it had fallen unconscious had traumatized it. When it saw Su Ming stepping into the place alone, it instantly let out a sigh of relief in its heart. However, anxiety appeared on its face then next moment and it turned its head around to glare at Flame Fiends' Progenitor.

The expression of the man did not change. He grinned and stared at the bald crane before also putting on a fawning expression, but he was laughing coldly in his heart while thinking to himself that he had managed to blind many of his people with that appearance in the past. The calculative and conniving Su Ming was someone that he could not deceive, but the little birdy was definitely something that would be wrapped around his finger.

When the bald crane saw Flame Fiends' Progenitor's demeanor, it instantly felt its heart let out a loud thump and thought that it had underestimated him before. Hence even though it let out cold snort in its heart, its expression changed. Its glare turned into a smile and it went forward to hug the thin Flame Fiends' Progenitor before laughing and acting as if they were great friends.

"Little Fire Boy, when I saw you, I instantly felt that you are someone that I can be great friends with!"

"You flatter me. Fellow Daoist Crane, you have the demeanor of an Immortal and the bones those from the path of Dao, I'm afraid that these old bones do not have to the courage to be friends with someone of such a high social position."

'Hmm? Are you looking down on your Grandpa Crane?'

The man and crane both had their own thoughts in their heads while fighting passive-aggressively with words, but despite them it was quiet in Western Ring Nebula's foreign land. Quite a large number among the one hundred thousand stone monuments had made it past one million feet and stood tall on the ground.

Among them were a certain ten thousand stone monuments. Their color might have seemed normal, but if anyone took a closer look, they would be able to tell… that they were purple!

There were plenty of people sitting and meditating beneath those the hundred thousand stone monuments. Occasionally, they would lift their heads and look at the ten thousand purple stone monuments, and all of their faces would show desire and envy.

At that moment, there were dozens of people sitting under them. They did not move and their expressions were calm. However, in that silence was a determination and an air of supremacy.

That was because they owned the purple stone monuments and because… their stone monuments were the only ones among the one hundred thousand stone monuments that would not be destroyed by the will of the law in the land. The purple stone monuments would only have people added to them, but not lose anyone of their own.

However, that was not absolute. They might not die because of outsiders replacing them… but there was another law among the purple stone monuments, and all of the people in the place knew about it.

Each year, there would be people who would die, and those ten would be the weakest ten among the lot.

It did not matter how tall was a person's stone monument. As long as their level of cultivation was at the bottom, they would be wiped off within a hundred something years. Because of that, those who possessed the purple stone monuments were somewhat unique, besides the fact that they immersed in practicing cultivation for their whole lives.

"Purple stone monument… It's a pity that when I entered this place, the purple stone monuments did not choose me, or else I would have been able to become one of their tributes… and I wouldn't have to live in constant fear every single day. I would only need to train madly to be able to avoid being killed."

"This is our lives. But why are the purple stone monuments so unique, and from what I see, they only number to about a couple thousands?"

"It's only been a short time since you came here, but this is largely connected… to a legend from the past." In the quiet land with one hundred thousand stone monuments, there would occasionally be a few gazes which would land on the ten thousand purple stone monuments, and the faint voices of a few people speaking would be heard.

While they were discussing things among themselves, the tallest purple stone monument suddenly shone, and an old man walked out from it which was one million something feet tall.

The old man had an ancientness to him. At the instant he walked out, he attracted the gazes of all the people in the area, especially the dozens of people underneath the purple stone monuments. All of them got up and bowed deeply to him.

"Greetings, Progenitor."

The old man nodded. Without saying a single word, he sat down cross-legged underneath his stone monument and closed his eyes to meditate.

"It's Zhao Family's Progenitor!" The low-voiced discussion among the people from the other stone monuments echoed faintly in the air.

"That's right. That person's stone monument has long since reached the size at which he can go out, but he never chose to go. Instead, he's training in a frenzy…"

"I heard from someone about a legend that happened a long time ago… There was a person called Mo Su…"

"Quiet! It's best not to mention his name in this place. He's not someone people like us can talk about."

"Oh? Then why can Big Brother Zhou talk about him?"

"Big Brother Zhou? You're talking about Zhou Kang [1], right? He's… different from us."

While the people from other stone monuments discussed the old events among themselves, a violent shudder ran through the land with the one hundred thousand stone monuments, as if wind had risen and clouds were surging. Rumbling sounds ring in the air.

They spread in all directions, causing the ground to tremble and the air to continuously tumble about before turning into a drastic change that swept through the land.

Cries of surprise instantly traveled in all directions. The land, which had countless stone monuments standing on it and only had some cultivators sitting cross-legged under them, trembled furiously as booming sounds reached a deafening volume.

While the stone monuments trembled, they immediately shone with dazzling light, and their cultivators were forced out. Some of them had grim expressions on their faces while others panicked openly. They looked upwards together.

Boom!

When a loud bang traveled downwards like the might of heavens, the originally indistinct purple hue above the ten thousand purple stone monuments among the one hundred thousand stone monuments in the land shone with a purple light brighter than anyone had ever seen. As it reached a piercing degree, it instantly covered the land, causing the ten thousand purple stone monuments among the one hundred thousand to be incredibly striking!

Zhao Family's Progenitor's heart shuddered. He opened his eyes, and when he raised his head to look above him, a hint of rarely seen excitement appeared on his face. The other owners of the purple stone monuments beside him started trembling furiously. They could sense an incomparably familiar presence, and there was a great urge within them to bow down and worship it. As the tremors in the land grew stronger, that urge grew stronger in their hearts as well.

The transformation in the land was something that plenty of them did not remember because they had never experienced it, but there were still a handful of people who seemed to have vague recollection, and their expressions changed to resemble something that was akin to a mix between excitement and anxiety.

Zhou Kang was sitting quietly under his stone monument. When he lifted his head to look at the tumbling air above him, a hint of sentimentality appeared in his eyes. He knew… that Mo Su had returned.

"I, Zhao Tian Gang, welcome back our liege!" Zhao Family's Progenitor stood up and wrapped his fist in his palm before bowing deeply towards the sky.

When his ancient voice echoed in the air, all the owners of the purple stone monuments worshiped the sky together.

"Welcome back, our liege!"

Their voices spread out, resulting in loud bangs that shook the people from the other ninety thousand stone monuments. As their expressions changed continuously, the sky roared, the fog and clouds tumbled back madly in two directions to reveal a gigantic crack, and a figure with an indifferent expression walked over from the distance. Slowly, it grew clearer in everyone's eyes.

Mo Su!

Translator's Note:

1. Zhou Kang: The person who briefed Su Ming about the foreign land when he arrived, was friendly to him, whose wife, Si Ma Yue, was killed, who Su Ming transferred from the blue stone monument to the purple stone monument, and who refused to leave this place because he wanted to remember his wife.

Chapter 1036: Shut Up

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Su Ming stood in midair as the clouds and fog behind him tumbled about and opened a crack in the air whose inside could not be seen. Within it purple lightning roared, giving Su Ming an air of mystery and mighty pressure in the eyes of the tens of thousands of cultivators.

His presence swept out in all directions and suppressed all the cultivation base of the people on the land. It was not a mighty pressure formed by his purple Ecang, but his own power.

With it, Su Ming was like a God as he swept his gaze across the land. The hearts of all the cultivators who entered his field of vision trembled, and they immediately lowered their heads. Unable to help themselves, they kneelt on the ground and worshiped him.

When Su Ming's gaze landed on an old man who was staring at him with a sentimental look while sitting among the stone monuments, he could vaguely recognize that it was Zhou Kang—the middle-aged man from back when he'd first come there.

Quite some time had passed since then, and the change in him was incredibly great.

'Since his love died, his heart fell into decline; he no longer has the desire to live. His body is like a puppet, without any reason to continue living in misery.' Su Ming sighed in his heart. He walked over slowly until he stood on the ground right in front of Zhou Kang.

"Big Brother Zhou," Su Ming said softly.

The white-haired Zhou Kang stared at Su Ming, and a smile appeared on his face. The two of them did not need words between them. As their gazes met, the events from the past rose in their minds.

In the past, Su Ming had been as weak as an ant. If Zhou Kang had not given him directions and pointers, it would have been difficult for him to survive, and Su Ming would not forget such kindness.

"Greetings, my liege!" Zhao Family's Progenitor sucked in a deep breath and bowed again.

Su Ming turned his head around, and his gaze turned cold. He cast a glance at Zhao Family's Progenitor. He had been chased by his enemy into the foreign land with the remaining members of his family, which then all became Su Ming's tributes for the purple stone monuments. Based on what Su Ming saw, Zhao Family's Progenitor had already reached a breakthrough in his level of cultivation. It was a telling sign that he had been training at a mad pace.

"Continue training. When you reach Lunar Kalpa Realm or become even stronger, you'll be free to leave. You can also leave… when all the people with the purple stone monuments attain full completion in World Kalpa Realm," Su Ming said faintly. He swept his gaze past all the people with purple stone monuments, then turned around and took a step into the air.

He gradually disappeared. No one knew where he went, but his short presence had left a mark in the hearts of all the people in the place.

When Su Ming disappeared, the area was silent.

Discussions only rose and echoed faintly in the air after a long while.

"That person is…"

"Who is he?! How can he make the purple stone monuments shine with such light?! He's also known as the liege by those people with the purple stone monuments!"

"Who else can he be beside the legendary Mo Su from Western Ring Nebula's foreign land?"

"Mo Su?! He's Mo Su?!"

Mo Su's name echoed in the world with the one hundred thousand stone monuments within Western Ring Nebula's foreign land. During that moment, Su Ming walked out of space and appeared in the one hundred thousand galaxies belonging to the purple Ecang.

As he stared at them, a brilliant light shone in Su Ming's eyes. Behind him, the incomparably large tree that was Ecang's real body immediately manifested. A monstrous, malicious presence instantly filled the galaxy.

Su Ming shut his eyes slowly. After a long while, when he opened them again, he threw his head back and roared. As he did so, the gigantic Ecang behind him charged over to gather on him. It was as if Su Ming's body had turned into an invisible black hole that would devour everything. Once he absorbed Ecang into his own body, cracking sounds came from within him. Branches crawled out of his body, and the whole area began swaying viciously. A purple light shone in Su Ming's eyes.

At that moment, he could be said to be a complete Ecang, but he was weaker than the Ecang sung in the ballad in the past. However, he was still stronger than the other portions of Ecang's soul, because they were incomplete. Yet due to the serendipity Su Ming had gained in the fifth kiln, his Ecang had fused perfectly with his body.

Because of it, Su Ming was already a more superior life form than the other fragments of Ecang's soul!

"Ten-colored Ecangs, I now occupy purple, and next… I will devour!"

A purple glint flashed in Su Ming's eyes. When the one hundred thousand purple dimensions shone in them, they shuddered with a bang, as if they had turned into his eyes. As they shone, the galaxies trembled.

"I wonder which color will be the first that I will devour?"

Su Ming took a swift step forward. He was so quick that in an instant, he had already crossed an immeasurable distance. The purple galaxies behind him tumbled about, as they had turned into a purple ocean. They surged and followed behind Su Ming to form a presence that shook the sky and earth.

As booming sounds reverberated in the air, Su Ming reached the edge of the one hundred thousand purple galaxies. If he stepped over, he would enter the region that belonged to another portion of Ecang's soul. There was a barrier separating them, which had been assigned by all of them at the same time in the past. It was a rule not to cross them.

It was a rule shared among the Ecangs. If it had been in the past, this rule would have limited Su Ming's actions. But once his purple Ecang had been completed, what he needed to do was not to fuse with the other portions of Ecang souls so that he could become the Ecang in the ballad. Instead… he was going to devour the other Ecangs to turn them into his nourishment, and with his will being the dominant one… he would become the new Ecang!

This was not rebirth. It was him taking over their place!

Bang!

With a crude manner and without any skill whatsoever, Su Ming brought the one hundred thousand purple galaxies and rammed against the barrier.

Booming sounds echoed in the air, and the invisible barrier started trembling furiously. The noise spread through the whole Western Ring Nebula's foreign land, and it was the sound that belonged to Ecang's one million galaxies!

One Ecang had one hundred thousand galaxies, so ten Ecangs would mean one million galaxies. They were all trembling at that moment. Even though Su Ming had crashed into just one of the barriers, he still managed to shake all the galaxies.

The place with the one hundred thousand stone monuments trembled furiously as well. As if the ground was shaking, all the stone monuments began shivering, especially… the ten thousand blue stone monuments. They trembled increasingly more furiously, because the barrier Su Ming had rammed against was the barrier connecting the purple and blue galaxies.

When booming sounds surged into the air, the people in the one hundred thousand stone monuments sported drastic changes. At the instant confusion appeared on their faces, nine great wills appeared around Su Ming. They charged towards him as if they were fuming in rage.

"Purple! What are you doing?!"

"Purple, do you want to break our promise?!"

"Get lost, purple! If you dare traverse my territory, then you're intentionally not abiding to our promise, and I will make you fuse with me!"

The furious roars from the wills echoed in the area, but Su Ming's expression was cold and aloof. He did not answer the words from those wills. Instead, he replied to them with his actions. With the power from the one hundred thousand purple galaxies, he rammed against the barrier again.

As booming sounds surged into the heavens, the barrier trembled even more furiously. During that instant, Su Ming raised his hands and stretched them above his head. The one hundred thousand purple galaxies behind him immediately shrank and charged towards his hands, causing the purple hue in the area to swiftly disappear. As they were reduced to nothingness, Ecang's will gathered on Su Ming's hands, along with the power of the one hundred thousand purple galaxies. Su Ming's own power was also gathered there, and he… swiftly slammed against the barrier.

Cracking sounds rose into the air. Su Ming's hands shot through the barrier, and the instant he ripped through, a loud crash could be heard; the invisible barrier gained corporeal form in front of Su Ming. A large crack was torn through, and dazzling blue light spilled out from inside. It illuminated Su Ming's body, making it seem as if he had turned blue.

"So this is the blue Ecang's territory." A cold smile appeared at the corners of Su Ming's lips. He rushed forward and shot through the crack. Along with him came endless purple light. When the one hundred thousand purple galaxies manifested themselves again, they invaded the blue galaxies simultaneously.

"Purple, you're just asking for death!"

"Purple, all of us will attack you and make you disintegrate. We'll make you know the price for breaking the promise."

"Purple, you've broken the promise we made in the past. You must die. You must fuse with us. You must become the nutrients for our nine wills to grow, you…"

"Shut up!"

Su Ming threw his head back and roared. When his voice spread across the one million galaxies in loud, thunderous booms, his hair turned red and crimson light shone in his eyes. Heinous murderous aura erupted from his body, and he took a step forward to charge towards the one hundred thousand blue galaxies in the distance.

The moment he did so, a gigantic Ecang appeared in the blue galaxies. The tree was large beyond comparison, and was entirely blue. At the instant his roar shook the galaxy, Su Ming had already closed in on the tree.

Bang!

The loud sound caused the blue galaxies to tremble, and the other fragments of Ecang's soul sent their wills into the area. When their bodies gradually manifested, all of them froze for a moment, and shock appeared on their faces.

In the mid of the loud bangs, Su Ming had crashed into the large blue Ecang. As he did that, countless branches erupted from within his body. Those branches seeped into the blue Ecang's body, and without stopping even for a moment, they started absorbing it in a frenzy.

"Get lost!" the blue Ecang roared.

The power of Ecang burst out from its body, but the instant it touched Su Ming, it immediately disappeared without a trace, as if it was being suppressed. This was not a suppression brought by any form of cultivation case, but… the suppression of a superior life form!

The blue Ecang began shrinking in front of everyone's eyes. As Su Ming absorbed it, its enraged roars turned into cries of surprise, along with shivers filled with fear and disbelief.

"You… you… you aren't a fragment of Ecang's soul, you're complete! This is impossible! This is…"

As the blue Ecang trembled in panic, its body shattered with a bang. Once Su Ming completely absorbed it, he turned around and looked at the eight other fragments of Ecang's soul. The countless branches around him swept across the area. A powerful aura that had never appeared around him before spilled out, Su Ming not holding even a single bit of it back. Within that aura was endless malice and bloodthirst. His murderous aura was shocking to all who sensed it, and the blue galaxies were disassembled with a bang to instantly… turn purple!