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Chapter 1044: The Third Time He Smiled

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

At the instant the power belonging to Life Realm spread out, the galaxy instant trembled with a loud rumble, causing the tens upon thousands of cultivators in the area to have their expressions change drastically. Their hearts trembled simultaneously, as if there was in invisible hammer striking fiercely at their hearts, causing the tens upon thousands of people to be shocked. Their cultivation bases also seemed as if they had been completely suppressed. Their minds roared, and they were completely blank.

The old man was in a better state. At that moment, his face was pale, but he was still composed. After all, he had already guessed Zhu You Cai's level of cultivation before this. At that moment, this was just proving his guess correct.

However, the middle-aged man by the side had an expression of disbelief on his face. His eyes were blank, and his mind roared, as if there were thousands of thunder cracking in his head at the same time. Normal cultivators might not be able know the meaning of Life Realm, because in their eyes, becoming Masters of Fate, Lives, and Death was just reaching a Realm, and even Su Ming himself only managed to slowly figure out the detailed categorizations much later after he learned about the Masters of Fate, Lives and Death.

Yet as an Almighty in Mastery Realm, even though he had just reached this Realm, this middle-aged man's understanding towards Life Realm was clearly much greater than the tens upon thousands of cultivators around him.

Ignorance is bliss, this was an ancient proverb. It meant that if a person did not know of the terrors about a certain thing, then they would not be afraid of it. Even though it was a rather one-sided view of things, but there was also some form of logic in it. On the other hand, the more someone understood the terrors of a certain matter, the more afraid they would be of it. This was boundlessly magnified on the middle-aged man at that moment.

While he trembled, great astonishment and shock appeared in his eyes. He came to understand swiftly why the old man by his side tried so many times to stop the middle-aged woman from provoking this group of people. If a person could make an Almighty in Life Realm follow him willingly, then even if it was not because of his power that made that Almighty be his follower, it was still enough to make a person shocked and make all powerful warriors to regard him with great important.

He also came to understand swiftly that Su Ming's threat of asking them whether they were seeking death were not just empty words. He… had his own methods of carrying out his threat.

If he was already in such a state of shock, then it was even more so for the middle-aged woman who caused all of this. This woman might be an Almighty in Mastery Realm, but just like the middle-aged man, she had just reached that Realm, and she could not be considered to have reached completion in Mastery Realm. At that moment, the woman shivered, and terror as well as disbelief appeared in her eyes. A billowing storm raged in her mind, and a great, ominous feeling instantly submerged her heart like a tidal wave.

She turned her head around in anguish and looked towards the old man by her side. When she saw that the old man was rather composed and was only looking at her with a complicated gaze, there was in no way that the woman would not know why he had been trying to stop her previously. However… everything was already too late. She already notified her junior sister, causing something that should have been simple to become more complicated… and become even more dangerous.

But that woman refused to admit to her fault. A brilliant light shone in her eyes. So what if this person was an Almighty in Life Realm? It was not as if… there was no Almighties in Life Realm among the forces of power from the four Great True Worlds stationed here!!

Based on what she knew, at the core of the vortex of planets was one of the Progenitors from True Sacred Yin World. This person had already not appeared for a long period of time and had always been in isolation to train. Besides major events linked to the place's survival or a powerful enemy so strong that the others could not fight against appearing, this person would not come out of isolation.

There was an old monster like this existing within the each of the forces of power from the four Great True Worlds stationed here. They were the strongest defense left here by the four Great True Worlds in the Barren Lands of Divine Essence. Because of it, they could control the Barren Lands of Divine Essence to its utmost possible limit.

Unless… an Almighty in Death Realm appeared in the Barren Lands of Divine Essence. However, those in Life Realm from the four Great True Worlds only numbered to nearly about a dozen people. As for Almighties in Death Realm, they were even more scarce in number. Those people were already at the level of Kalpa Lords from each true world, and they were existences that were only second to the True Progenitors. There were less than ten of them.

Under the limitations set on the Barren Lands of Divine Essence, it was impossible for a person here to arrive in this Realm, which was already very difficult to reach in the first place. Even if that person truly appeared, several Almighties in Death Realm would immediately come forth from the four Great True Worlds to directly attack, kill, or seal him.

Which was why the middle-aged woman still believed that she would be able to escape unscathed by a stroke of luck.

Zhu You Cai sent his power outwards. As his words reverberated in the air, the old man's voice from the vortex of planets instantly disappeared. After a long while, when the vortex rotated about, an old man dressed in a long robe made of sackcloth walked out.

The old man's expression was grim. When he walked out, he instantly trained his gaze on Zhu You Cai before he wrapped his fist in his palm and bowed to him.

"Senior, with your power, might I know just who you are searching for from this place," the old man raised his head and said slowly.

"Huo Zhu," Zhu You Cai did not want things to let things escalate to a point where there was no turning back and said with a low voice.

The old man waited for a moment. When he saw that Huo Zhu did not take the initiative to come forth from the vortex of planets, he frowned slightly and spoke to Zhu You Cai, "This is the main camp of the forces of power from the four Great True Worlds stationed in this place. All the people who stay here have complete freedom to do whatever they want. It is not convenient for me to interfere too much. Since this person does not want to appear, then please leave and do not disrupt True Sacred Yin World's peace."

A brilliant light shone in Zhu You Cai's eyes when he heard these words. He believed that he had already given enough consideration to the people in this place. If it was not because he was a member of True Sacred Yin World in the past, he would not have bothered about this. When he saw the old man before him saying such words, he could not help but let out a cold harrumph and took a step forward.

The old man in a long robe made of sackcloth turned his body sideways and did not even stop him. He too, knew that with his power, he had no right to stop this Almighty in Life Realm before his eyes, but this… was the main camp of the forces of power from True Sacred Yin World stationed in the Barren Lands of Divine Essence. When he moved back, the old man had a calm expression on his face, and there was not a hint of change in emotion on him.

As Zhu You Cai approached the vortex, he brought his right hand up and seized the space in the direction of the vortex of planets before him. With it, the vortex trembled with a bang. The sound was so loud that it reverberated to all directions, causing the galaxy to have endless ripples appear while it shuddered.

Boom!

While the vortex and the galaxy shuddered, Zhu You Cai raised his arms, and as if he was tearing apart space, he tore at the vortex with a fierce yang. With it, the tremors in the galaxy grew even more intense. Countless planets trembled, and a vast layer of fog shot out. A gigantic crack appeared swiftly in the galaxy with a vicious rip. When it swept past, it looked as if it wanted to tear the vortex into half.

His power in Life Realm spilled out without him holding back any of it. It filled all the corners in the galaxy, causing the countless planets in the vortex to tremble furiously and shocking awake plenty of the people who were in isolation. The desert on the planet where Huo Zhu was located trembled. The sky was in chaos. The lamp in the hall swayed viciously to reveal a woman's face. With a dark expression on her face, her eyes sparkled, and a cold sneer appeared on the corners of her lips.

"You overestimate yourself. So what if you are in Life Realm? If this was the world outside, then I would definitely die, but this is True Sacred Yin World's main camp. The laws in this land say that if I don't want to go out, then no one can force me to leave.

"If I am forced to leave this place, then all of True Sacred Yin World's dignity will be shamed. If the Rune in the vortex is ripped apart, then all of True Sacred Yin World's dignity will still be shamed. To a true world, their dignity is incredibly important!

"As long… as I don't go out, no one can do anything to me!"

At the moment the woman's sullen face in the candle flame laughed coldly, she immediately heard an ancient voice travelling into all directions slowly from the depths of the vortex of planets to spread out of the vortex. At the moment she heard the voice, the cold sneer on her lips became greater.

"You now have your consciousness formed, but your body is yet to be. You can be considered to half of an associate of mine in Life Realm… Since you must have experienced much difficulty in your path in cultivation… and on account of our past��� I will not pursue the matter of you breaking into True Sacred Yin World's main camp… leave." The old voice sounded as if its owner had not spoken in many years. The words were lacking slightly in fluency, and there was an endless, ancient air in them. When it travelled into space, it caused all the people who heard it to feel as if time was flowing away from that voice. Along with that voice came a misconception that made them feel as if all their blood, essence, and even their life force as well as cultivation base was about to wither.

It was especially so for Zhu You Cai. His body trembled swiftly, and a complicated look appeared in his eyes. That person had clearly recognized him, and he had also recognized the person who said those words. That belonged to one of his elders in True Sacred Yin World.

In his silence, a brilliant light shone in Zhu You Cai's eyes. He did not retreat, but instead moved forward and charged towards the vortex of planets.

"I am only going to retrieve a person today. If you don't open the Rune, I will not leave!"

However, at the moment Zhu You Cai approached the vortex of planets, a sigh travelled out of the vortex, and what appeared immediately after was a propelling force that brought it with a supreme, mighty pressure. With a bang, it landed on Zhu You Cai. Zhu You Cai shuddered and took a few staggering steps back. The area around his body immediately distorted, and a gigantic circle of light instantly enveloped his body completely, as if he had been sealed and had turned into a bubble floating in the galaxy.

"Kill the one in Mastery Realm, chase away the one in Life Realm, disable… the boy from Morning Dao Sect as a warning to others!" When that old voice appeared again, a mocking smile appeared on the middle-aged woman's face. She took a step forward and charged towards Su Ming.

The middle-aged man by her side also sighed in relief in his heart. With a calm expression, he too, approached Su Ming.

The old man in the long robe made of sackcloth and the old man who managed to deduce Zhu You Cai's level of cultivation fell silent. One of them took a step forward towards the Flame Fiends' Progenitor, and the other walked towards Su Ming.

When the bound Zhu You Cai saw this, he sighed softly. He saw the malicious smile appear the third time on Su Ming's lips, and he closed his eyes.

At that moment, the tens upon thousands of cultivators around the area had hostile expressions on their faces. They might not have showed themselves, the they had surrounded the area to form a large Rune to isolate them. As they circled around the area, the Rune started roaring and turned into a powerful propelling force intending to sweep up the trapped Su Ming and the Flame Fiends' Progenitor and shift them out of the camp where the forces of power from True Sacred Yin World was stationed.

Several gigantic Radix Planets also drifted over from the perimeter at that moment. The light from them reached hundreds upon thousands of feet. Terrifying presences spread out from them. This was True Sacred Yin World activating all of their power accumulated in their camp. With this power around and without Zhu You Cai's help, it would seem… like they were capable of killing Su Ming and the Flame Fiends' Progenitor.

There was not even the slightest hint of fear on the Flame Fiends' Progenitor. Instead, he started laughing coldly. When an elated expression appeared on his face, the smile on Su Ming's face grew wider.

"If that's the case… then one of the four forces of power stationed in this place should disappear." Su Ming brought up his right hand and pointed swiftly at the galaxy above him. With it, his long hair swiftly changed color and turned crimson red. Red light shone in his eyes, and a heinous, murderous aura erupted swiftly from Su Ming's body with a bang.

As the murderous aura erupted from him. The galaxy above them shuddered furiously during that instant as well. An invisible force from space pressed down swiftly on the ground with a loud rumble!

The galaxy shuddered. As rumbles shook the sky, the Almighties in the land had their expressions change drastically in a manner that had never happened to them before, and then, in the galaxy… a corner of the fifth kiln appeared!!

Chapter 1045: His Highness, Dao Kong!

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

"This is…"

"The fifth kiln! That's impossible. Why… Why is the fifth kiln here?"

The expression of the old man who had chased after Su Ming and forced him to flee into Western Ring Nebula's foreign lands with the power of one palm in the past changed drastically. His body also started trembling furiously. There was no way he would not recognize the fifth kiln. It was a phenomenon hailed as one of the greatest mysteries that had existed in Divine Essence Star Ocean for a long time. It was an item he had seen with his own eyes in the past and which he'd only escaped by a hair's breadth after obtaining a serendipity within—an item he regarded as something incredibly sacred in his heart!

The old man had a supreme treasure in his hands that he rarely used, only taking it out when he ran into extremely major events. That supreme treasure… was what he had obtained from the fifth kiln.

He wasn't the only one who reacted like that, though. The other three people beside him also looked as if they were suffocating while staring at the galaxy above them in shock. Their faces were pale with disbelief. It was the most unimaginable thing they had experienced in all their lives, up to the point that they were so shocked that they could not describe what was going on.

The old man who had deduced Zhu You Cai's level of cultivation was pale-faced. He then started laughing brokenly. Only at that moment had he come to a realization that he had still underestimated Dao Kong. He thought that having an Almighty in Mastery Realm obey him and another Almighty in Life Realm as his follower would mean that he would have something exalted about himself, but he did not expect that there was more to than that. It was actually… absolute power. It… was being invincible in the universe!

The middle-aged man had thought that it had nothing to do with him and intended to be an onlooker and watch the fun by the side. But at that moment, he shuddered and his breathing quickened. He had also… seen the fifth kiln before, but he had only seen it from the distance, not having the courage to step inside. Instead, he had retreated at the time.

But he had still seen the fifth kiln and saw how it stood tall in the universe. Right then, the awe and fear he'd experienced when it let out the sea of fire that even Divine Essence Star Ocean had to regard as a disaster rose within from the bottom of his heart.

Yet the person with the most ghastly expression was still the middle-aged woman. All blood had drained from her face, and panic as well as great regret and fear filled her eyes. Everything that had happened had a great connection with her. If she had not warned Huo Zhu, she would not have stirred up Su Ming's desire to destroy the galaxy. If she had not acted presumptuously, then… the scene of the fifth kiln descending would not have occurred.

A loud bang rang out in the woman's head. As her body trembled, she took a few staggering steps back. Her eyes lost their focus. Not even in her dreams would she have expected that the weakest among the trio would actually be Huo Kui who was in Mastery Realm, and the strongest was not the currently sealed Almighty in Life Realm. Instead, it was Dao Kong… who by then had crimson hair and a murderous aura that radiated off of him!

Compared to the Almighties whose expressions changed drastically, the tens of thousands of cultivators around the area mostly looked perplexed. With their levels of cultivation, they might have heard about the fifth kiln or read about it in some ancient books detailing Divine Essence Star Ocean, but none of them had ever personally witnessed it.

Which was why when they saw a corner of the gigantic kiln appear in the galaxy and sensed its mighty pressure that caused their hearts to tremble… they still charged towards Su Ming.

The instructions from the person with the most sublime status in the main camp was to them the greatest order.

"Scatter in haste!"

A low roar with a force that could make people to tremble came in a hurry from the vortex in the planet. It belonged to the most powerful Almighty in the land who had sealed Zhu You Cai and ordered to kill Huo Kui as well as incapacitate Su Ming!

Booming sounds surged into the heavens from the vortex of planets. Six planets rushed out in an instant. When they dashed out, they turned into six figures that charged towards the group.

"This is just a misunderstanding! Fellow Daoist, please calm down!"

The old voice swiftly spoke again, tumbling out from the mouth of a middle-aged man leading the group of six. He… was the person who had sealed Zhu You Cai and was the strongest person in that place. At that moment, his heart was thrown into great turmoil. He had absolutely not expected that the direct descendant from Morning Dao Sect… could summon the fifth kiln.

There were men and women among the five following behind him, and all of them were Almighties in Fate Realm. However, at that moment, their expressions were ugly. They could not hide the shock and astonishment.

They were all Almighties from True Sacred Yin Realm stationed in the Barren Lands of Divine Essence acting as garrisons fending against the galaxy.

The ten of them rarely appeared at the same time… unless the alien races from Divine Essence Star Ocean invaded. But when the fifth kiln descended, they could no longer care about anything else in the mid of their shock. The greater their level of cultivation was, the more they knew about the terrors of the fifth kiln… and all of them had gone to it before to obtain a supreme treasure.

The universe changed its color. The six's previous air of supremacy instantly turned into panic, and all of this… was because Su Ming had called down the fifth kiln upon them.

"A misunderstanding?" The crimson-haired Su Ming had a bloodthirsty smile at the corners of his lips. "Sealing my War Immortal was a misunderstanding?"

Su Ming lifted his right hand into the air and pointed at the incoming six long arcs. Immediately, the fifth kiln above released a vast and mighty pressure. It spread in all directions with loud booming sounds, making the galaxy look as if it was about to collapse. It shuddered, and countless galactical cracks formed everywhere. Then, like sharp blades, they swept through the area.

This was the sign of the galaxy about to collapse because it was unable to withstand the force of the fifth kiln descending.

A large amount of cracks swept through the area, causing the speed of five people to slow down, but eyes of the middle-aged man right at front shone with a light at that moment, and with a bang, he rushed out, moved around the galactical cracks, and rushed towards Su Ming.

As long as he killed Su Ming… then everything would naturally be resolved!

"Injuring my follower was also a misunderstanding?"

There was a crazed lilt to Su Ming's voice. When it reverberated in the area, the faces of the tens of thousands of cultivators turned pale. Their bodies were almost crushed under the mighty pressure. Some of people with lower levels of cultivation let out shrill screams of pain, and with a bang, their bodies were torn apart, their blood and flesh scattering in all directions.

"Trying to disable me is also the misunderstanding you spoke of?"

As Su Ming laughed, the strongest Progenitor, the Almighty in Life Realm who had sealed Zhu You Cai closed in. When they were a thousand feet away from each other, he lifted his right hand. Killing intent flashed in his eyes and he pushed his palm in Su Ming's direction through space.

The galaxy trembled. At the instant the middle-aged man pushed his palm forward, an indistinct outline appeared around Su Ming. That outline… was of a much smaller fifth kiln. The middle-aged man's palm then crashed into it.

With a bang, the fifth kiln's outline trembled, but it did not break. Su Ming was completely unharmed within, but the middle-aged man's expression changed, and he moved several steps back. When he lifted his head, there was anguish and disbelief on his face.

"The cultivators here wanted to kill me just now, but this is also a misunderstanding, right? That strike of yours is part of that misunderstanding you spoke of too, no doubt."

Su Ming licked his lips. His bloodthirst became even clearer, and when he raised his right hand to swing it forward, a loud bang resounded in space. A monstrous sea of fire erupted from the fifth kiln in the galaxy above. The color was purple right off the bat, which was the fire that even Almighties in Mastery Realm would have to face with caution. At the slightest carelessness, their forms and spirits would be destroyed!

The purple sea of fire tumbled outwards with loud rumbles. This was the first time the fire from the fifth kiln burned in an area beyond Divine Essence Star Ocean. In the past, the disaster was only limited to over there. It was the first time it had appeared beyond Divine Essence Star Ocean's borders!

No matter how quick the tens of thousands of cultivators in the area were, they could not outrun the tumbling fires from the fifth kiln. In an instant, nearly ten thousand cultivators were submerged, and before they even had the time to scream, they were reduced to ashes. They were burned completely, and their forms as well as their spirits were destroyed!

The flames that were known as a catastrophe by those in Divine Essence Star Ocean… could easily kill all the cultivators!

Nearly ten thousand of them died. As dense flames from the sea of fire roared, killing intent rose in the eyes of the ten Almighties in the area, especially those of the strongest Almighty in Life Realm. He glared at Su Ming, and a strong wave of regret rose in his heart.

"Dao Kong, those people had no grudges nor harbored any animosity towards you, yet you…"

"No grudges or animosity? If a vicious dog shows malice to me, then I will definitely strike it down. If a poisonous snake bares its poisonous fangs at me, I will crush it.

"There is no way that I would let people who wanted to kill me just moments ag leave unscathed after they failed in killing me. Today… I will destroy this world. I will… kill all the people in this land!"

Su Ming brought his hands up and swung his arms. The galaxy roared as the fifth kiln descended completely. The gigantic treasure brought with it a suffocating mighty pressure which spread forth through the sea of fire that burned the universe. The instant of descent… brought a disaster and a nightmare to all the people in the land!

"Dao Kong, does True Morning Dao World really want to go to war against True Sacred Yin World?" the middle-aged man roared, and the ancient air in his voice morphed into powerful killing intent.

"Go to war? Then… we will go to war!"

The crimson-haired Su Ming laughed loudly. With a swing of his right arm, the sea of fire tumbled with a loud roar.

The Almighties retreated. The alarm and fear on their faces was something that could be rarely seen on them.

The planets collapsed and exploded into pieces. The Radix Planets might have contained terrifying power, but compared to the fifth kiln, they were so frail that they could not even withstand a single blow. All of them exploded!

"Tai An Yin, since all of you Almighties from True Morning Dao World have arrived and seen this, then True Morning Dao World will have to suffer the consequences for thi!" the middle-aged man roared towards the heavens. Veins popped up on his face.

"If anyone tries to stop me, I will destroy their world too!"

Su Ming raised his right foot and took a swift step forward. The sea of fire let out a loud bang. As it tumbled about, the light from the fifth kiln reached one hundred thousand feet. With just one thought, Su Ming could make all the life forms within the fifth kiln descend.

A sigh came from space, then a voice said with a trace of respect, "Your Highness, we will obey your orders with great caution. We will definitely not take any action."

"Your Highness? You… You aren't an ordinary member of Morning Dao Sect!" The expression of the middle-aged man from True Sacred Yin World changed swiftly. He looked towards Su Ming, his heart in shock once more.

"Of course His Highness Dao Kong is not an ordinary member of Morning Dao Sect. He is one of the ten heirs that our Kalpa Lord from True Morning Dao World has designated!" A woman's cold harrumph came from space. Su Ming was familiar with this voice. It belonged… to Xu Hui.

Chapter 1046: Which Dynast Are You?

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

When the middle-aged man from True Sacred Yin World heard Su Ming being referred to as 'His Highness', his expression changed, because this title was one that only a certain group of people could obtain. Those with the title would be chosen to receive the education required to succeed the title of a Kalpa Lord in each true world.

That was why they were addressed as His or Her Highnesses, and were also known as Dynasts!

One of such people was Chang He. In True Sacred Yin World, he was known as a Dynast. Even though there were others who shared the same address, but one of them would definitely be chosen.

It was the same for True Morning Dao World. The ten Great Dynasts were ten people who had the potential to become the future Kalpa Lord of True Morning Dao World. One of them would certainly be chosen for that role. The period of time while waiting to be chosen was known as the period of time for the heirs to be tested. The ten of them would be provided with a large amount of resources, so their power would increase by leaps and bounds.

In the end, once they were chosen, they would go through an inheritance ceremony, and they would not only inherit the previous Kalpa Lord's cultivation base and epiphanies… they would also inherit the entire True Morning Dao World.

All those who were known as Dynasts in any true world were renowned people. Most of them were known to others, so even though the middle-aged man had been in isolation for many years, he had a specially-assigned person to send a jade slip to him once every hundred years to tell him what had happened in the four Great True Worlds. Because of that, he would not be completely ignorant of the matters in the world outside even though he lived all year long in isolation.

However, the middle-aged man was completely out of the loop in regards to Dao Kong as one of the ten Great Dynasts in True Morning Dao World. There was only one possibility for this—it was something that happened during the recent years, and it was in the jade slip he had yet to see.

But based on how the others also seemed to be completely unaware of it, the matter might not have happened during the past few decades. It should… have been something that was only made public during the recent years, which was why the people in the world outside could not know about it.

What also caused his heart to let out a loud thump against his chest was that the Almighties from True Morning Dao World around the area… were not interfering in the slightest towards Dao Kong's actions. They watched unfeelingly as all the cultivators from True Sacred Yin World stationed in the area died, seeming to harbor a great deal of respect towards Dao Kong.

The abnormality in this caused the middle-aged man expression to change.

'Even the Dynasts have different levels among themselves… which… Dynast is this person in True Morning Dao World?'

The middle-aged man's expression changed, but he had already taken a swift step forward to charge towards Su Ming. At the instant he attempted to use his power to overturn the universe, Su Ming also took a step forward. The galaxy rumbled, the flames from the fifth kiln spread out in billowing waves, and Su Ming's deep voice echoed in all directions.

"The next is all of you."

The crimson-haired Su Ming had madness and the desire for destruction on his face. The appearance of the fifth kiln caused the shrunken outline of the kiln to be a constant presence around his body. It was the barrier that the Almighty in Life Realm could not destroy even after he struck it at full strength.

Once Su Ming was in possession of absolute defense, he was invincible. The purple sea of fire that surged into the heavens and which could burn Almighties in Mastery Realm became only the first disaster he stirred up.

As Su Ming took a step forward, he immediately collided with the Almighty in Life Realm in the galaxy. With a loud bang, the middle-aged man's body was sent staggering backwards. He was continuously forced back several hundreds of feet, and his expression was incredibly dark.

"Attack at full strength. Even if he possesses the fifth kiln, if we attack at full strength, we can still shake his foundation!" As the middle-aged man growled, he lifted his right hand and seized space. Immediately, a thick layer of green appeared on his palm. The green light brightened to a piercing degree, until it formed a long green blade.

A vast presence that shook the sky and earth erupted from the middle-aged man with a bang.

At the same time, the other Almighties around him gritted their teeth. While in the tumbling sea of fire, they stopped retreating. Those in Fate Realm were in a better condition; they could control their bodies and move about in the sea of fire. Even if it tumbled about around them, they could all avoid it. However, the mighty pressure from the fifth kiln caused their aura to become chaotic.

As for the Almighties in Mastery Realm, they suffered the most in the sea of fire. They had managed to stop with much difficulty, but they did not dare to remain still for too long. Resolve burst forth in their eyes. Booming sounds rose into the air, and all sorts of lights in a variety of colors flashed, and those Almighties brought out their strongest Enchanted Treasures.

Soon, a great power erupted from everyone's bodies. There were ten people in total, and all of them rushed to Su Ming. The instant the ten long arcs closed in on him as if they were breaking through the sea of fire, a bloodthirsty smile appeared on Su Ming's lips.

"You want to attack me when I have the kiln with me?"

Su Ming lifted his right hand and formed a seal. He pointed at the outline of the kiln around him. Booming sounds immediately rang out. As they reverberated in space, the supreme treasures in the hands of six out of ten people who rushed towards Su Ming from all directions instantly shuddered. As their expressions changed, the supreme treasures fell out of their hands, and once their connections were broken off, they immediately floated over to Su Ming. They surrounded him and let out buzzing sounds as if they were worshiping him. As they spun around the area, light flashed around Su Ming's body, giving him a supreme mighty pressure at that instant.

The expressions of the six people who had lost their supreme treasures changed, and three of them tumbled backwards before immediately choosing to retreat. Determination surfaced on the faces of the other three, and without any hesitation, they rushed towards Su Ming.

He laughed coldly. He brought his right hand up, and the Life Inequity Spear instantly appeared. Once he seized it, he did not spare even a glance at the incoming Almighties, the powerful warriors who would be respected, worshiped, and regarded with fervent zeal by a large number of cultivators in the world outside. He lifted his leg up and simply allowed all of them to charge towards him and bombard him with their attacks while he took a step towards the three retreating figures.

Su Ming's foot landed, and a crimson moon appeared behind him. It was so large that it instantly shocked all the people whose attacks had landed on the kiln barrier around him.

A loud bang shot up. The barrier around Su Ming shuddered violently. Withstanding the most powerful strike from the seven powerful warriors had caused it to shrink swiftly. Then… a powerful rebound was stirred up. When it swelled outwards, it caused the divine abilities from the seven people to tumble backwards, and with loud bangs, they collided against their owners.

The amount of power those people had used to attack him were reflected exactly back to them. As booming sounds reverberated in space, the seven people coughed up fresh blood, and all of them staggered backwards. Even the Almighty in Life Realm suffered the same fate. He might have fathomless power, but that one strike he delivered just then had been the strongest attack he could muster with his power. Because of that, the rebound was difficult for him to handle.

At the instant the seven tumbled backwards, Su Ming's foot landed. In the blink of an eye, he appeared beside one of the three people who had chosen to retreat.

The Life Inequity Spear turned into a freezing glare that stabbed towards the center of the person's brows. The Almighty's expression changed. He opened his mouth and spat. Immediately, a large layer of fog gushed out. It turned into a shield in front of him and collided with the incoming the blade tip. With a bang, the shield shattered, and the long spear in Su Ming's hand swayed backwards.

This minor delay allowed the Almighty to escape death, but the instant they moved, Su Ming seized the space in his direction. Immediately, a large number of branches formed on Su Ming's hand. With an incredibly quick speed, they sliced through space and closed in on that person, swiftly crawling into his body. The moment shrill, pained screams rose into the air, the person's body withered away. When he was reduced to a dried-up corpse, his screams fell silent.

Su Ming swung the numerous branches in his hand, but Ecang's presence did not spread out. Su Ming, who had now become the complete Ecang, could by then change his presence at will. At that moment, there was only malice spreading out from him. There was not a hint of Ecang's presence within it.

It had been the first Almighty Su Ming had killed in True Sacred Yin World's galaxy. That scene brought about great shock to the other Almighties in the area, and it was especially so for the two other people who had fled beforehand. One of them was the middle-aged woman who had brought about the disaster. Her face was pale, and as she retreated, she shuddered, because she saw Su Ming looking towards her.

At that moment, even if she was an Almighty, her associate's death along with the deaths of tens of thousands of cultivators sent from True Sacred Yin World to act as garrison, the endless sea of fire around her, and the bloodthirsty glare in Su Ming's eyes when he looked towards her turned into a nightmare which caused her to shriek. As she hastily retreated, a sharp pain throbbed on the spot on her left cheek where Su Ming had struck her previously.

The eyes of the other cultivator who had fled flashed with a knowing light when he saw that. He immediately changed his direction. He could tell that Su Ming's current target was the middle-aged woman, and at that moment, he no longer had any form of care for his companion in his mind. Leaving the place as soon as possible was the only thing that mattered to him.

When he did that, six of the seven people behind Su Ming did the exact same thing. Even if the Almighty in Life Realm was as awe-inspiring as ever, he could not stop the traitorous thought from rising in the people's hearts. No one knew who was the first to retreat. In an instant, besides the Almighty in Life Realm, all the other six chose to run. They turned into long arcs that fled in six directions.

To them, their battle was simply impossible!

The instant they chose to retreat, Su Ming lifted his right hand and pointed at the first person who ran in the opposite direction, and who so happened to be the closest to him. Immediately, the fifth kiln in the galaxy swayed, and with an indescribable speed, it charged towards the cultivator. The man could not even dodge. With a bang, the huge fifth kiln crashed into him, tearing his body to pieces. He was reduced to a bloody mess, and his spirit was destroyed.

This was the second Almighty who died. At the instant it happened, Su Ming lifted his foot. When he placed it down, he appeared beside the middle-aged woman.

"You're next."

Chapter 1047: Huo Zhu

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

A disaster that True Sacred Yin World had never met before had come with the spread of the purple sea of fire. When Su Ming appeared beside the middle-aged woman, her face turned pale. She knew that it was already too late for her to retreat. She gritted her teeth. Murderous aura appeared in her eyes, and she swiftly bit through her tongue.

At the instant she did that, the broken part turned into a thick layer of fog that swept towards Su Ming.

With a bang, it disintegrated against the outline of the kiln around Su Ming. At the same time, the middle-aged woman's body swiftly withered. In the blink of an eye, it turned into a layer of blood essence that was reduced to tens of thousands of droplets before surging backwards.

"She bit her tongue to scatter her soul!" came a surprised cry from a person from True Morning Dao World hidden somewhere in space.

Su Ming let out a cold harrumph. Among the group of ten, the person he wanted to kill the most was the middle-aged woman. There was no way he would let her escape. At that moment, the droplets of blood were tumbling backwards in all directions at an extreme speed. Su Ming lifted his right hand and pointed at the fifth kiln. Immediately, it spun swiftly, and as it did so, a great, suction force was created. With it, the galaxy immediately trembled, as if the rotations from the fifth kiln had turned it into a gigantic black hole.

The tens of thousands of blood essence drops shuddered before being sucked back. They instantly disappeared into the fifth kiln and were completely absorbed.

As for the middle-aged woman, with just one thought, Su Ming could determine whether she would live or die within the fifth kiln. However, he would not kill her for the time being. Once her soul was sucked in, Su Ming formed a seal with his right hand and pointed at the fifth kiln. Immediately, shrill screams and wails came from inside. It lasted for a few breaths, then a dim light flew out, charging towards Su Ming. When it landed on his palm, a small human could be seen within it. That small human had her eyes shut tight, and her appearance… was that was of the middle-aged woman.

However, by then, she had already lost her intelligence. The only thing left… was a soul with memories contained in it.

Su Ming clenched his right hand and immediately crushed that soul. Pieces of memories entered his mind, for he was not interested in anything else. The only thing he wanted was all the things regarding Huo Zhu.

After a moment, he turned around and looked towards the six other people who had turned into long arcs to charge into the distance. His gaze then shifted to the sullen Almighty in Life Realm.

With his offensive powers, Su Ming had demonstrated his will to destroy. Tens of thousands of cultivators had been burned to death, countless planets had collapsed, Radix Planets had melted… and three Almighties had died. All of that turned Su Ming into an incredibly terrifying existence in the other people's eyes.

"Enough!" A low growl tumbled out of the Almighty in Life Realm. He glared at Su Ming with a dark expression.

"This galaxy has already been reduced to this state. Do you really want to kill all of us? If you truly insist on killing us, then even if you are one of the heirs to Morning Dao Sect, you will find it hard to escape being targeted by our Kalpa Lord." The voice of the Almighty in Life Realm boomed and echoed in the area like thunder. The intent to destroy flashed in his eyes, but a bloodthirsty smirk appeared on the lips of the crimson-haired Su Ming.

"Enough? It's indeed enough, but that word should be spoken by me." Su Ming licked his lips, and the third eye opened at the center of his brows. It shrank, and the world before him was instantly magnified several times its original size. The galaxy instantly became boundless in his eyes. His gaze landed on one of the old men out of the six fleeing from the area.

He was not the cultivator who was the first to deduce Zhu You Cai's level of cultivation. Instead… he was the first Almighty in Mastery Realm Su Ming had ever met in his life, the person who had chased him with the power of one palm, forcing him to flee into Western Ring Nebula's foreign lands!

At the instant Su Ming looked towards him, the rapidly fleeing old man felt a chill creep up his spine. He turned around and saw Su Ming in the distance watching him.

A dark light shone in Su Ming's third eye at that instant. He lifted his right hand and pointed towards the fifth kiln. It let out a loud bang, and with an incredibly quick speed, charged towards the old man.

His face turned pale. As despair appeared in his eyes, the fifth kiln closed in on him. At the instant it was about to touch him, he roared, lifted his right hand, and pushed towards it.

That one push caused the space in front of the old man to tumble about. As it did, a gigantic, illusory palm appeared, swelling up instantly to the size of the fifth kiln and knocking into it.

Boom!

When the two collided, the kiln did not even shudder, and its speed also did not reduce. However, that palm shook violently before it was torn to pieces. The old man's bloodied right hand shattered.

He laughed brokenly, and the fifth kiln crashed into his body with a bang. Immediately, a layer of blood appeared in the galaxy. When it disappeared, the old man's Nascent Divinity also disappeared, sucked into the fifth kiln.

"Now, it's enough," Su Ming declared flatly. When he did so, the color of his hair gradually turned from crimson to gray. When he turned around, he looked towards the True Sacred Yin Realm's Almighty in Life Realm with calm gray pupils.

That old man stared at Su Ming with a dark look. After some time, he turned around without a single word and took a step towards space, but just as he was about to leave and the remaining five people in the distance were about to disappear, the fifth kiln let out a hum, and a layer of ripples spread out to cover the area like a seal. It froze up the whole galaxy, causing the people to come to an abrupt halt.

"What is the meaning of this now?" The Almighty in Life Realm rarely felt so outraged in his life. At that moment, he turned around swiftly, and suppressed rage appeared in his eyes.

"Before I, Dao, retrieve the item I need and locate that person called Huo Zhu, just wait here," Su Ming said calmly, and his gaze fell on the area in front of him.

The sea of fire surrounded the place. The collapse of the planets and the melting of the Radix Planets caused the galaxy to be an empty space. Only… the vortex formed by countless planets continued rotating slowly.

All the living creatures in the vortex had fled during the disaster just then.

Perhaps she had also fled during the chaos, but she would have definitely ended up dead then. If she did not die, there were only two possibilities. One of them was that she was still in the vortex of planets, and the other… was that she was hiding among the Almighties who were about to escape.

It did not matter which it was, since Su Ming would still be able to seize the initiative in his hand. He stared at the vortex in the galaxy, then lifted his right hand to point forward. Immediately, the purple sea of fire around him tumbled about. As it swept outwards in all directions, it went surging towards the vortex of planets with a loud bang. He did not care whether Huo Zhu was still in there nor what her wishes were; he simply decided to use a crude method to forcefully melt those planets and blast her out if she was there.

With a loud bang, the Rune in the vortex of planets crumbled. The planets were then immediately burned to ashes.

As they were destroyed, a planet was revealed several breaths later. When Su Ming looked towards it, a cold sneer appeared on his lips.

He took a step forward, and his body instantly disappeared. When he reappeared, he had already closed in on the planet. He took another step, and stood on the land in the planet. The place was a desert, but it was burning with purple flames at that moment.

In the distance was a hall. There were great waves of resentment spreading out from inside it. Su Ming stared at that place, then saw a distorted shadow beyond the hall. It had the shape of a woman's face, and she was glaring at him.

"I have never offended you, senior! Why did you do this?"

A shrill voice came from the shadow of the woman's face beyond the hall, no longer possessing any composure. Clearly, the things that happened in the world outside had already stunned Divine General Huo Zhu, so much so that she was shivering to the point that her soul had almost shattered from fear.

She could not think of when she had brought about such a disaster upon herself. In fact, she was certain that she had never met the young man in front of her, and it had been a long time since she left her planet.

With a calm look, Su Ming took a step forward. Each time his feet landed on the desert sand, the planet would tremble. As he approached the hall, the illusory face beyond it continued to look at him with resentment.

Su Ming walked forward. Just as the woman was about to interrogate him again, he said flatly, "Bring Kong Mo's physical body here."

His sentence caused the expression of the woman, who had been about to speak, to instantly change. Disbelief appeared in her eyes. When she looked towards Su Ming, dark light shone in her eyes, and when she opened her mouth, a piercing howl rang out.

As she howled, the illusory face broke down with a bang to turn into the faces of tens of thousands of men and women, the elderly and the young. They charged towards Su Ming as if they wanted to devour him.

"You overestimate yourself."

Su Ming had already closed in on her. Not a single hint of emotion was contained in his gray pupils. He lifted his right hand and punched forward. At the instant he did so, the world roared. Before the tens of thousands of faces could get close, all of them tumbled backwards and collapsed with a bang. In fact, even the hall fell into pieces. When it exploded, it revealed a table and the burning candle on it.

As the candle's flame distorted, a woman's face showed up, and she spoke urgently towards Su Ming. "Who is Kong Mo? I don't have his physical body! This is a misunderstanding! Senior, do not believe in other people's slander!"

"We will know whether or not this is a misunderstanding once I extract your soul and search through your memories." Su Ming stepped into the collapsed hall and moved towards the candle flame.

Chapter 1048: Kong Mo's Physical Body

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The one thousand something years was a long time. But if anyone would go back it, then when everyone was on this spot in the past, in the same camp belonging to the forces of power from True Sacred Yin World, in the same vortex of planets, in the same planet with the desert, and in the same hall…

… the cultivator from True Sacred Yin World who once chased down Su Ming would be kneeling on the ground, telling Huo Zhu the story of a person called Mo Su in Western Ring Nebula. He would even tell her that there was a crane by his side.

In the past, Huo Zhu stood in a superior position. Her voice was filled with an awe-inspiring might and could make the person kneeling tremble in respect. With just one sentence, she could decide whether Su Ming would live or die in Western Ring Nebula.

In truth, if anyone was to get to the bottom of things, then in the past, Su Ming had been forced into Western Ring Nebula's foreign lands… because of that conversation.

One thousand something years had passed since then. Su Ming returned and stood in front of Huo Zhu once more. Echoing by his ears was her quivering voice addressing him as senior. It was a pity that Su Ming did not know of what had happened in the past, or else he would definitely feel a great amount of emotions.

It was a pity that Huo Zhu, too, did not know that the Mo Su whose fate she had decided in the past with just one sentence was standing before her right then, having destroyed her world and the galaxy in which it was situated.

Destiny was that confusing, that troublesome, and would cause the people involved in it to shift places without their knowledge… It was also why it could make people so persistent and addicted to it. It made them struggle and fight against it in an attempt to escape the set ups… but that struggle and resistance was akin to moths trying to avoid flames. In the end, those who could be reborn in the fire would not be those who ran away, but those who were willing to fall in fire—the undying phoenixes.

Su Ming approached the woman. When he lifted his right hand, there was an aloof look on his face. At the instant he seized the air in the direction of the candle flame, a piercing screech came from it.

It was not unpleasant to the ears, sounding like a ballad. Even though Su Ming could not hear the lyrics clearly, all those who heard melody would still know that it was a ballad.

At the same time, the ancient book on the table started unfurling swiftly. As its pages turned, it was as if the flow of time around Su Ming was swiftly flowing away at a pace of thousands of years in an instant.

This was Huo Zhu's divine ability, the one which allowed her to stay in that place!

Time Is Akin to a Song!

Su Ming's lifted right hand started withering away rapidly right before his eyes as if one thousand years had passed while he stretched it out. Huo Zhu had executed that divine ability many times in her life. Every single time she used it, an astonishing effect would be seen, but this time…

"A child's play!"

The instant Su Ming's right hand began to wither, he let out a cold harrumph. One of the Abyss Builders' inborn ability was the Art of Time. Perhaps Huo Zhu's divine ability would be effective when it was used to fight against other outsiders, but when it was used on Su Ming, there would be no effect.

When he let out the cold harrumph, his right hand immediately returned to normal. The power of time around him instantly disappeared in an unseen manner. The ancient book shuddered, and half of its pages were immediately reduced to powder.

At the same time, the candle fire was also mostly extinguished. It struggled with great difficulty. When she saw that Su Ming's right hand was about to touch it, the woman's face in it became distorted, and she screeched again.

The ancient book on the table was originally flipping rapidly from left to right, even though half of its pages had been destroyed. However, the instant Huo Zhu let out her screech, the pages immediately started flipping from right to left, in the opposite direction.

At the same time, a power reversing the flow of time swiftly spread out from Su Ming's body.

"My strongest attack isn't the passing of time, but the reversal of time. With my life as the price, I will reverse time!"

Huo Zhu's voice was piercing to the ears. At the instant it rang out, Su Ming's body immediately seemed to go back in time. His cultivation base and his Nascent Divinity also flowed away from him. The presence of that power caused the cold sneer on Su Ming's lips to become wider, and he decided to just let go of his control over himself to let that power of time reversal to spread out around him

"Three thousand years!" Huo Zhu roared.

Immediately, Su Ming's body started shrinking rapidly. In an instant, it seemed as if he had been reduced to nothing, as if he no longer existed. An unsophisticated presence appeared came from him. The reversal of time had brought back the presence he possessed when he was in Dark Mountain back, but soon, all of it disappeared without a trace. Another presence appeared… although one that he also had when he was in Dark Mountain.

"How could this be?!" Huo Zhu eyes went wide, and disbelief appeared in them before she roared again. "Three thousand years!"

The reversal of time continued, but the smile on Su Ming's lips did not change. When his body turned semi-transparent, he looked as if he was going through cycles of reincarnation, and the presences he possessed the multiple times he was in Dark Mountain surrounded him.

All of this caused Huo Zhu's expression to change continuously. Disbelief appeared in her eyes, and she roared again while offering up her life.

"Thirty thousand years!" At that time, she gave up everything. As she roared, the power of time caused thirty thousand years to reverse for Su Ming. Huo Zhu let out a sigh of relief, but then suddenly screamed shrilly in pain.

Su Ming's body remained semi-transparent, but the inside of his body was as empty as a black hole. This was time returning to the point when he had not been born… when the power of the curse had surrounded him in his mother's womb.

The instant Huo Zhu touched the curse via her divine ability, it immediately spread out and invaded her soul. Her scream reverberated only for an instant before the ancient book shattered, and the candle flame… was extinguished.

Su Ming's expression remained as calm as ever. He had been able to tell that this would happen from the start, or else he would not have put up no resistance. In truth, he had wanted to use that chance to verify just how strong was the curse.

The moment Huo Zhu's life was extinguished, the candlestick crumbled with a bang to reveal… a corpse hidden in the dimension within it!

It was a woman's corpse. It was old and rotting away swiftly, its stench filling the area in no time. Su Ming lifted his right hand and seized the air in the direction of the storage bag on the carcass. Immediately,it landed on his hand. When he struck it, it instantly crumbled, and a black coffin fell to the ground.

A powerful mighty pressure spread out. The strength of it caused Su Ming's heart to tremble at the instant he sensed it. His pupils shrank. This presence… surpassed all that Su Ming had ever sensed in his life.

In fact… the only presence that could compare to this was the one whom Su Ming had seen in the pictures provided by the fifth kiln—Chang He's Master, the Sublime Paragon from True Sacred Yin World!

At the instant the coffin appeared, the bald crane flew out of Su Ming's storage bag. Shivering, it stared at the coffin… and the carcass within it.

Based on it, one could see that it was a ferocious beast. However, by then it was a bloody mess. The blood might have dried long ago, but it was impossible for anyone to tell how the creature had looked like in the past. Yet the presence spreading out from the carcass was astonishingly similar to that of the bald crane.

It shuddered while staring at the carcass in the coffin with a stupefied expression. It mumbled to itself, or maybe it was to Su Ming. "What a strange feeling… Darn it all, this was my physical body in the past?

"I have a strong feeling that once I fuse with it, most of my memories will return. I'll remember plenty of things I've forgotten… my origins, my identity, and how I became an entity that has a soul as a body.

"I'll also be able to remember… Darn it all, I'll know just who it was that nearly caused my soul to scatter…" The bald crane shuddered. It raised its right claw, but just as it was about to touch the carcass, it suddenly shuddered.

"I also have a strong feeling that once I remember all that… I-I will no longer be me. I will no longer be the bald crane, and I will no longer be Su Ming's companion… Who… Who will I be then?" The bald crane trembled even more fiercely, and conflict appeared on its face.

"I will turn into another person, or rather, I will become my past self, and then I will no longer exist… but I will become stronger… much stronger!" The bald crane's mind was a little muddled. It threw its head swiftly and roared with struggle and conflict on its face.

Su Ming saw this, but chose to remain silent. He had helped the bald crane retrieve its physical body not because it was a pet to him… but a friend.

Even though this friend was a little unreliable and very avaricious… a friend was a friend.

However, Su Ming could not help it choose. It would have to choose how it wanted to walk down its path.

"Darn it all, why do I feel like I despise my past self very much… Once I fuse with it, I will become it, but… but I want to fuse with it very much. I want to remember everything. I want to know… what I lost in my life… why I would cry when I stare at Husband Gazing Mountain, why I would feel horrible when I stare at the galaxy, and why I would remember a certain group of people during certain times…" As the bald crane struggled with itself, its eyes turned bloodshot and it turned around to stare at Su Ming.

"Darn it all, I'm living a merry life right now. I won't fuse with it, but I'll help you keep it. When you'll collect all of my physical body in the future, then I'll fuse with it; it won't be too late by then, anyway," the bald crane said through gritted teeth while putting on an unconcerned expression for Su Ming.

He cast the bald crane a glance, respecting its decision. When he lifted his right hand, he swung his arm, and the coffin exuding the presence that caused him to shudder was instantly put away into his storage bag. Soon after, the mighty pressure in the land vanished.

The bald crane slumped down. There was still a hint of a reluctance to part in its eyes, but it soon turned into determination. As Su Ming turned around, the bald crane transformed into a long arc with Su Ming and left the planet.

Everything ended. When Su Ming left the vortex, he released the seal from the fifth kiln placed on the galaxy that was previously the camp for the forces of power from True Sacred Yin World. The Almighty from Life Realm cast Su Ming a deep glance before turning around and disappearing. He left the galaxy. The other five people in the distance also disappeared to flee… from all the wreckage.

Chapter 1049: Goodbye, Barren Lands of Divine Essence!

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Su Ming stood in the galaxy and stared at the group heading into the distance with an aloof expression. As the space behind him distorted, around a dozen people walked out.

Among them was Xu Hui, the nine old Frail Darknesses, as well as six old men with complicated expressions. One of them was an old man with a purplish black face. The mighty pressure spreading out from his body was the thickest, and it was on par with the Almighty in Life Realm from True Sacred Yin Realm. It was clear that he was someone with the same status in the camp that belonged to the forces of power from True Morning Dao World as the middle-aged man from True Sacred Yin World.

"Greetings, Your Highness! We welcome you back!"

The nine old Frail Darknesses had excited looks on their faces. They bowed together towards Su Ming. They had followed him into Divine Essence Star Ocean in the past, and though they remained at the periphery, they had still experienced quite a number of things. They were incredibly worried about Su Ming, and even though they had returned to the camp where the forces of power from True Morning Dao World were stationed, they were still worried about his safety. At that moment, when Su Ming saw their excitement, he could not help but wrap his fist in his palm and bow to them as well.

When Su Ming turned around, the color of his hair had already changed to its normal shade. He also saw Xu Hui. At that moment, there was a smile on Xu Hui's lips. It was so gentle that it looked as if it could melt anything.

"I am Tai An Yin. Greetings, Dynast Dao Kong." The old man with the purplish black face wrapped his fist in his palm towards Su Ming and bowed deeply. In truth, with his level of cultivation, even if he met True Morning Dao World's heir, he did not need to do this. Unless that heir truly became the master of Morning Dao World, he was not worthy of the old man bowing to him.

However, the things that happened just then had shocked him deeply. At that moment, he was not bowing in respect to Su Ming as the heir, but was using the form of greeting for those of equal status. No one in the area felt that there was anything amiss about him choosing that. The five people behind him also wrapped their fists in their palms and bowed simultaneously.

"Greetings, Dynast Dao Kong."

Su Ming stared at the people in front of him, and a faint smile gradually appeared on his lips. At that moment, Flame Fiends' Progenitor cast a sideways glance at the people around them while beside Su Ming. Zhu You Cai, who had walked out of being sealed a long time ago.

"I remember that when I entered Divine Essence Star Ocean, no one referred to me as a Dynast." Su Ming looked towards Xu Hui.

"Your Highness, you might not know about this, but three months ago, a sealed order came from within Morning Dao Sect to designate you as one of the heirs." Xu Hui was not the one who answered. Instead, it was one of the nine old Frail Darknesses beside her.

"Three months ago…" A barely noticeable glint shone in Su Ming's eyes. Three months ago… that was the time when he had walked out of the fifth kiln.

Su Ming remained silent for a moment before he suddenly asked, "Did you say that there were ten heirs?"

"That is correct. There are ten designated Dynasts. All of them possess the right to become the heir. The future master of True Morning Dao World will be chosen among the ten. However…" An Almighty in Mastery Realm beside Tai An Yin said respectfully. When he reached the contradictory part, he hesitated for a moment. When he saw Su Ming look towards him, he continued.

"However, based on Morning Dao Sect's rules, you will need to return as soon as possible to receive the challenges and trials from the members of your sect, Your Highness. Only when you receive the Progenitor���s blessing will you truly be able to receive the world."

Su Ming's expression remained the same, the smile still on his lips.

"It has been a long time since Morning Dao Sect chose heirs, but based on the records in ancient scrolls, every single time it happens, the heirs would be tested by the members of their sects. If there they manage to complete the challenges successfully, they will obtain the right.

"Then. they would receive the trials of the heirs. The sect would distribute a mission for each one, and those who complete it are examined. If they succeed, they receive Progenitor Dao Chen's blessing, and will then be conferred the official title.

"Your Highness, to you, everything will not pose too much of a problem. But you will still have to be careful. There are nine other heirs," Tai An Yin said calmly as he stared at Su Ming.

"I only know that the other nine are all older than you. Three of them are even from the same generation as I am." Tai An Yin did not say much, but those few sentences already told Su Ming plenty of crucial points.

"So there will be plenty who will challenge, and there will also be plenty of people who won't want me to complete my trial. Even if I eventually succeed, I will have to protect myself against the other nine." Su Ming smiled faintly.

"I hope that there will come a day when you will become the master of True Morning Dao World, Your Highness…. but your actions here might become a weapon used by the other factions of the other heirs from the sect to attack you.

"Also, the source of your sudden increase in cultivation as well as the fact that you are in possession of the fifth kiln will become the source of other people's suspicions. After all, there are plenty of Possessions in the world, so please be careful." Tai An Yin smiled. As he spoke, the other Almighties by his side lowered their heads and closed their eyes, as if they did not hear his words.

The nine old Frail Darknesses also lowered their heads and closed their eyes, as if they did not hear those words.

When Su Ming heard them, his expression remained the same; the smile was still on his face.

"I received enlightenment from the Progenitor in the past, and it was only because of him that I gained my current power to protect all my fellow Daoists in this land, who were the people the Progenitor occasionally sent here while being in isolation. Each of them… are eternally grateful to the Progenitor." Tai An Yin smiled and wrapped his fist in his palm to Su Ming.

"We of the nine old Frail Darknesses originally failed in the cultivation method we practiced. The bodies of eight of us crumbled, and we were bound to die when with nine souls sharing one body. It was the Progenitor who sent us a Spirit Core in the past that allowed us to separate and form our bodies again. We… will never forget this grace." The nine old Frail Darknesses bowed again to Su Ming.

"The war in True Morning Dao World is still ongoing. Right now, half of True Morning Dao World belongs to the Immortals' Union. Once you return, you must be careful of them… There isn't much time. There is a space separating everything in Divine Essence Star Ocean from the worlds beyond. They will need some time before they'll know of what happened here. Your Highness, to prevent all of us from suffering long nights fraught with dreams, I will not send you off."

Tai An Yin swung his arm. Immediately, distortions appeared behind him. Booming sounds came from within, and hundreds of gigantic battleships flew out. When they arranged themselves in a horizontal line, the near ten thousand cultivators in black armor stood up and knelt down on one knee to Su Ming. Their voices roared like waves.

"Greetings, Your Highness!"

The echoes of their words boomed and lingered for a long time in space. Su Ming cast Tai An Yin a glance before wrapping his fist in his palm towards him. Then, he appeared on the largest battleship. He was incredibly familiar with it, for it was the one he rode on when he headed to Divine Essence Star Ocean and ran into the Waves of Tears.

Flame Fiends' Progenitor and Zhu You Cai followed Su Ming and went to stand behind him on the battleship. The nine old Frail Darknesses turned into long arcs and landed on the deck around him as well. As for Xu Hui, she naturally stayed with Su Ming with a smile on her face.

Under Tai An Yin and the others' gazes, the hundreds of battleships turned into hundreds of long arcs and rushed out from the galaxy. They charged forward, and about a quarter of an hour later, a gigantic vortex appeared in front of them.

Divine Essence Star Ocean was in the shape of a gourd, and the vortex was located at its mouth. Once they passed through it, they could leave Divine Essence Star Ocean, then through the Runes belonging to the different forces of power from the different True Worlds head to different True Worlds.

As Su Ming stared at the vortex, he could not help the excitement that rose in his heart. When they drew closer to the vortex, he turned his head around and looked towards the galaxy behind him. He stared at the Barren Lands of Divine Essence, and the events that had happened over the past almost two thousand years rose in his head. When he was still a cultivator in Earth Cultivation Realm, he had been forced in there, and he lay on the ground in Crimson Flame Planet, completely immobile.

At that time, he had that mask on his face and could feel no emotions. He was so weak that anyone could control him. Back then, he did not dare to think about how he could leave the Barren Lands of Divine Essence which was like a prison.

Yet after all that he had gone through, he had risen to power in the Barren Lands of Divine Essence. He became the master of Ecang, awakened the Seed of Life Extermination, destroyed the fifth ocean, became the master of the fifth kiln, and also became a legend among the alien races in Divine Essence Star Ocean. At the same time… he also destroyed the galaxy where True Sacred Yin World was stationed.

The events passed like fleeting clouds and smoke through Su Ming's eyes. When he turned his head around, he stared at the vortex that had drawn closer and could not suppress the excitement in his heart. He… Su Ming, was about to return to True Morning Dao World!

He was about to have True Morning Dao World at his beck and call, and he would let all his acquaintances in the past know… that he, Su Ming, had returned!

Bright Yang Region would no longer be dangerous to Su Ming, because he no longer possessed a body from Yin Death Region. In the Barren Lands of Divine Essence, he had gone through a metamorphosis.

He would step into True Morning Dao World and into Bright Yang Region like a normal person!

Di Tian, the will in Yin Death Region, and all the people he was familiar with in the past, unless some of them had already passed away, Su Ming knew that when he returned after being separated from the place for nearly two thousand years, he would meet all of them again.

His childhood playmates, the prodigies from the sects, and his elder as well as Lei Chen, whom he had yet to meet… Su Ming believed that he would be able to find traces of all of them in True Morning Dao Sect!

His eldest senior brother who possessed the blood of Nine Li, was headless, and who swung his battle axe to fight against the heavens.

His second senior brother who was the Phantom King, but looked like a flower, was gentle, and liked the sun to shine on his side profile.

His third senior brother who was formed by the Vessel Spirit of the Rune sealing Yin Death Region, who snored while he slept, who looked as if anger was contained in his eyes when he opened them, who had an honest and straightforward demeanor when he laughed, who loved wiping the corners of his mouth when he drank, who taught himself everything about Runes, and who practiced the Dao of Entering Dreams.

Once all of these people flashed past Su Ming's eyes, he remembered Fang Cang Lan, Tian Lan Meng, and the Sacred Lady, Wan Qiu, from the Shamans.

When Su Ming remembered Fang Cang Lan's gentleness, the image of a person always standing facing the sea breeze rose in his head.

Tian Lan Meng's quiet personality and the faintly discernible thread between them always seemed to be connecting them with a sigh of regret. There was also Wan Qiu. The pride the woman possessed in the past caused him to constantly think of a fish flying in the sky when he remembered her.

There was also… a woman who had left behind an incredibly deep impression in his mind, and who was a person Su Ming could not forget. Her name, her face, and all her smiles turned into one single sentence in Su Ming's memories.

"Do you know why I'm called Yu Xuan..? The meaning for Xuan is daylily. I'm a daylily in the rain. My mother wanted me to forget sadness in my life and be happy forever…"

Su Ming closed his eyes. The last person he remembered was a woman standing beside his physical body with an aloof expression that held no emotions, but whose words were the exact opposite, because they were born from a desire to confuse Su Ming's mind and cause him to harbor deep affection for her.

'I've come back…' The hundreds of battleships shot through the vortex without a single sound.

Chapter 1050: True Morning Dao World

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

There was an unfamiliar air in the galaxy. It was empty, unlike how galaxies were usually. Within that emptiness was some dazzling starlight. A gigantic vortex appeared to the northwest of True Morning Dao World. As it vortex rotated, the sound echoed in all directions.

There were ninety-nine giant stone platforms floating around that vortex. Complicated runic symbols were carved on all of them. When they shone with a dark light, ninety-nine cultivators could be found sitting on them.

There was a rotten presence spreading out from all of them. Their expressions were of indifference, as if they had been sitting there for countless years. There was a huge black sword stuck into the stone platforms, and it was positioned right in front of each person. The weeping of the swords could be heard faintly.

They were crying, roaring, because they were in a state akin to being abandoned. It had been many years since they had drunk a living being's blood. They could only stay there and accompany their masters in silence, protecting the area for all eternity.

The ninety-nine stone platforms formed a circle. Anyone who looked over would feel as if the vortex had been formed by those stone platforms.

As it spun about, the ninety-nine cultivators continued sitting and meditating as if they were deep in slumber and completely unbothered by everything around them.

Time trickled by. When the time taken for an incense stick to burn had passed and booming sounds shook the galaxy, the vortex's rotations stopped, and battleships came out from within.

Once they appeared, wave after wave of mighty pressure spread through through the galaxy. The cultivators on the battleships had already stood up with serious expressions on their faces. The mighty pressure instantly reached an incredibly high level, but even so, it still could not make the ninety-nine people on the stone platforms open their eyes.

After a moment, when the huge battleship that belonged to Su Ming located right at the center of the hundreds of battleships appeared from the vortex, the mighty pressure spreading out from it immediately caused a large amount of ripples to spread through the galaxy. Su Ming stood at the bow of the ship and stared ahead of him. The galaxy was unfamiliar to him, but at the same time, he knew it well; he had never seen it himself, but Dao Kong had possessed many memories regarding the place.

Su Ming knew that it was… True Morning Dao World!

It was the universe in which he had never stepped into, but was where his homeland was located.

When the hundreds of battleships appeared from the vortex, the mighty pressure that was formed instantly caused the ripples spreading out to become stronger. That was not only due to the collection of power from the near ten thousand cultivators from the hundreds of battleships, but also due to… Flame Fiends' Progenitor, Zhu You Cai, and Su Ming.

The mighty pressure spreading from them alone was enough to make the galaxy tremble.

Su Ming's eyes were calm, but there were emotions hidden within them that no one else could see. He knew that the moment he stepped inside, he would be reduced from the strongest in Divine Essence Star Ocean to an ordinary cultivator.

The fifth kiln had to remain in Divine Essence Star Ocean. Without it, if Su Ming came face to face with Almighties in Life Realm again, he could not push his will on them. It was precisely because of it that when he was about to leave the Barren Lands of Divine Essence, he did something as mad as destroying an entire galaxy.

He believed that before long, this matter would be known to all four Great True Worlds. As countless people would be stunned his his audacity, his name would instantly ring through all True Worlds.

And what Su Ming wanted was not to remain an unknown entity in True Morning Dao World that did things under a low profile… What he wanted was ostentatiousness, arrogance, and domineeringness!

Because of it, those who would dare to provoke him would be few in number. No one would ever even consider that Su Ming might not have brought the fifth kiln with him.

A barely noticeable glint shone in his eyes. The shadow of a kiln fleeted past the third eye at the center of his brows.

Su Ming had indeed left behind the fifth kiln in Divine Essence Star Ocean… but the connection he shared with it was not something he would lost just like that. If Su Ming had enough time on his hands during battle, he would be able to make the fifth kiln appear briefly like how he had summoned Ecang's real form in the past.

However, unless he absolutely had to, Su Ming did not want to do it.

'True Morning Dao World…'

Su Ming stared at the galaxy, and a smile slowly appeared on his lips. It grew wider, and in the end, it turned into loud laughter. It echoed in the galaxy, but all the cultivators around him looked as if they had not heard it. They continued to stand still on the battleships.

Su Ming had come back. Few people would be able to imagine that he would return in this manner—walking out of the Barren Lands of Divine Essence's exit in a straightforward manner and with his head held high.

The power of Bright Yang was even stronger and thicker in this galaxy compared to when he was in the Barren Lands of Divine Essence. It existed everywhere, but that presence did not manage to make Su Ming uncomfortable. The effect had already been reduced to its utmost limit. In fact, it could already be ignored.

Behind Su Ming, Flame Fiends' Progenitor had an excited look on his face. He might be an Almighty, but this was still the first time he had ever stepped into the four Great True Worlds, and he could even do it with his head held high. This filled him with intense excitement.

By his side, the bald crane's eyes rowed around. When they did so, a smug, naughty grin appeared on its beak. Its eyes sparkled. It seemed to be able to see that there were countless crystals waiting for it, and this was the highest form of enjoyment in its life.

"This area is the fixed Relocation spot near the Barren Lands of Divine Essence. We'll still need about three months before we arrive in Morning Dao Sect," Xu Hui said softly while standing beside Su Ming.

His eyes shone. He stared at the ninety-nine stone platforms around him and sensed an ancient and archaic presence from the cultivators whose expressions had yet to change. He could sense a sharp, glaring presence hidden within them. If it spread out, it would shake the universe.

When Xu Hui saw Su Ming looking towards the ninety-nine people, she told him all she knew. "These ninety-nine seniors of ours are powerful warriors sent from Morning Dao Sect to defend the exit. Their levels of cultivation are a mystery, so the only thing we know is that they practice a cultivation method that is different from ours. It's a strange legacy Art. The sword is their Art, and their swords are like their lives.

"They might be under Morning Dao Sect's jurisdiction, but they only listen to Progenitor Dao Chen's orders. No one else can order them. Their current orders are to stop anyone from the other True Worlds from stepping into this place."

When Su Ming heard it, he stared at the ninety-nine cultivators for another moment before averting his gaze. The hundreds of battleships headed off into the distance. They turned into hundreds of long arcs that charged towards Morning Dao Sect.

They would bring Su Ming to receive his challenges and trials, and to be given the entire True World to become the real Dynast!

Su Ming stood at the bow of the ship. As he watched the galaxy, he sensed that the power of Bright Yang truly did not cause any form of discomfort to him. By then, seven days had passed.

During them, the galaxy had been empty. Not a single planet appeared within sight. At that moment, seven days later, Su Ming saw an array of planets before him.

"This region belongs to Morning Dao Sect. The cultivators in all the planets are tribes under its jurisdiction. The west and north still belong to Morning Dao Sect, but the west and east regions have been conquered by the Immortals' Union and have become a war zone," Xu Hui said softly while pointing towards the planets before them.

"There lies the Tadris. They are people of Sect Elder Mo Da, who is one of the three thousand Great Sect Elders in Morning Dao Sect. The categorizations of social status are very strict and like a tower. There is only one person at the top of the tower, and he is Progenitor Dao Chen, who has been in isolation for many years.

"He is not just the master of Morning Dao Sect, but also the Kalpa Lord of True Morning Dao World. He protects the entire True Morning Dao World, and the only person above him is the True Progenitor, who is also known as the Sublime Paragon.

"However, there is a veil of mystery surrounding the Progenitor. No one knows where he is and who he is.

"Under the Progenitor is the Council of Sect Masters. It decides most of the things in Morning Dao Sect. There are a total of seventy-two people in the Council of Sect Masters, and each of them is an incredibly powerful existence.

"These people seldom venture out, and they are in isolation most of the time. Three of them will wake up once every century to decide the matters in Morning Dao Sect for a decade.

"Under the Council of Sect Masters are… the ten Great Dynasts, who are usually just empty existences, but who now have shown up. Including you, all ten Great Dynasts have to be in control of a chamber. It is originally empty, so you will have to add things in it on your own.

"Under the ten Great Dynasts are 333 Gods, 666 Immortals, and 999 Saints. These people have incredibly noble statuses, and they can be said to be people in Morning Dao Sect who decide the destiny. They are usually deep in slumber and will not venture out easily. Once they appear, they will destroy everything.

"All of these are the powerful of Morning Dao Sect's Inner Sect. Unless it runs into a disaster that threatens to destroy it, they will not appear.

"The ones in Outer Sect are Morning Dao Sect's four chambers: Sect Elder Chamber, War Chamber, World Protection Chamber, and last… is the chamber which only the ten Great Dynasts can control. It has been a decoration for many years, and even the Council of Sect Masters cannot interfere with it—the Palace Chamber!"

As the battleships moved forward, Xu Hui explained the structure of Morning Dao Sect to Su Ming in a soft whisper. Some of the things she told him were part of Dao Kong's memories, so as they overlapped with the things Xu Huy said, Su Ming got a clearer picture of Morning Dao Sect.

Xu Hui continued speaking, telling him everything that she knew. The battleships continued forward, and after a moment, they approached the planets.

Long arcs flew up from those planets. They were packed densely together and numbered to tens of thousands. When the cultivators flew up, they bowed together towards the battleship where Su Ming stood.

There were around a dozen people who bowed towards Su Ming with respect on their faces while standing in front of all the cultivators.

"Greetings, Greater Sect Member!" As these people spoke, the tens of thousands of people behind immediately bowed and repeated the words. "Greetings, Greater Sect Member!"

Their words echoed in all directions. Even in the galaxy, their voices still sounded like thunder roaring. There was fervent zeal and respect on their faces, as if just one sentence from the Greater Sect Member they addressed would be enough for their whole race to rush out in obedience!

Chapter 1051: Hang It at the Bow of the Ship!

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

��Besides the Palace Chamber, the other three chambers from Morning Dao Sect are under the jurisdiction of the Sect Masters who awaken once every century. All the people have to listen to their orders and fulfill all their requests.

"The most famous among them is the Sect Elder Chamber. There are ninety-nine Chamber Elders, seven hundred Grand Sect Elders, three thousand Great Sect Elders, and thirty thousand ordinary Sect Elders.

"The ordinary Sect Elders can take in disciples as they please. Their disciples form the members of the perimeter surrounding the Sect Elder Chamber, and their numbers… are difficult to estimate." While Xu Hui spoke of Morning Dao Sect's structure, Su Ming stared at the tens of thousands of cultivators worshiping him near the planets in the distance and remembered his Master, Tian Xie Zi.

His senior brothers once mentioned that Tian Xie Zi was taken in as a disciple by a Sect Elder from Morning Dao Sect. Once it correlated with Xu Hui's words, Su Ming gained a better understanding of the Sect Elder Chamber located in the Outer Sect of Morning Dao Sect.

"The Sect Elder Chamber's mission is to control all races and forces of power in True Morning Dao World like a spider web. With the passage of time, they had turned the entire True Morning Dao World into a gigantic net.

"The chaos brought by the Immortals' Union was out of Morning Dao Sect's expectations, which is related to the Sect Elder Chamber.

"The War Chamber is a force of power that makes all races in Morning Dao Sect tremble. They are like a sharp blade, and whenever it strikes, blood will flow out in rivers…

"The War Cultivators number to one million, and they execute destruction. They are the greatest force in the rebellion waged by the Immortals' Union.

"The next is the World Protection Chamber. They won't join the internal strife within the True World so easily, and they are stationed at the edges of True Morning Dao World to prevent the invasion from other True Worlds. They are the strongest chamber with such a task.

"Only when Morning Dao Sect is close to destruction will they take action, because when they take action, then there is a high possibility that True Morning Dao Sect will be invaded by the other True Worlds.

"The ninety-nine people you saw just now were members from the World Protection Chamber. As long as they are not asked to leave their spots, they will defend the exit to the Barren Lands of Divine Essence.

"The last are the ten Great Palace Chambers. Since they have only existed in name for ages, not even I know what sort of mission they'll have once Morning Dao Sect activates them."

As Xu Hui spoke, Su Ming stared at the planets getting closer to them. He watched the cultivators worshiping him, and he could sense the strength and size of Morning Dao Sect.

The people before him clearly were their own race, and they were definitely not small in number. If there were tens of thousands of cultivators who possessed the power to fly out of their planets, then there would definitely be even more people who remained below. Even though they did not possess the power to fly out of their planets, they would definitely possess combat abilities.

Su Ming even saw quite a number of people who were Lords of World Planes among who had flown out. Some of the dozen-something at the forefront of the group were clearly in the later stage of World Plane Realm. In fact, there were three among them who were in Lunar Kalpa Realm, and one of them was in Solar Kalpa Realm.

These people far surpassed what power the Berserkers possessed in Su Ming's memories. Yet… when that powerful race saw the battleships from Morning Dao Sect, all of its people came forth to pay their respects together. With the greatest form of greeting, they demonstrated their respect towards Morning Dao Sect.

Su Ming was silent. He knew that Morning Dao Sect was very powerful. After all, it was the strongest existence in a True World, and they were the master of an entire galaxy. However, it was just a thought in his mind before. Even if he had Dao Kong's memories, he had not directly perceived Morning Dao Sect's strength, but… when he saw an entire race worshiping him, he could feel the majesty and grandeur of Morning Dao Sect.

After all, there were plenty of races in True Morning Dao Sect. In fact, there were quite a number which were even more powerful than the people in front of them. However, before the chaos brought by the Immortals' Union, all of them and all the sects had obeyed Morning Dao Sect and regarded Dao Chen as their master.

A great wave of sentiment rose in Su Ming's heart. Because of that, he did not notice that the bald crane behind him looked ahead with sparkling eyes. They had a crystalline glow, as though there were countless crystals shining in them. The bald crane was so excited that it was shivering. The emotion on its face had already reached its peak. It moved forward with the hundreds of battleships, but the instant they approached the cultivators from the race worshiping Su Ming, it rushed out.

"Crystals! Give me all your crystals! I want crystals! Give me ten thousand— No, fifty thousand— Darn it all, give me one hundred thousand crystals!" The bald crane had been holding it in for half a day. As it roared, it demanded a sum that it believed to be a large number of crystals.

When it spoke, all the cultivators were immediately stunned, along with the dozen something people in front and even the cultivators on the battleships beside Su Ming. All of them had strange expressions.

Xu Hui sighed and shook her head, but did not speak. Su Ming frowned, but when he saw the bald crane's excitement, he did not take any action to put a stop to its excitement.

The entire galaxy fell silent at that moment. Only the bald crane's voice continued echoing. Several breaths later, the old man in Solar Kalpa Realm lifted his right hand and struck his storage bag with a strange expression. He then brought out an emerald green bag and pushed it towards the bald crane.

"There are one million crystals in here. Please accept it, Great Sect Member."

The bald crane's eyes went wide. It seized the bag and quickly opened it. With a solemn expression, it scrutinized its contents several times before it beamed and swiftly returned to Su Ming's side. It hugged the bag, and powerful light shone in its eyes.

'I'm rich! I'm rich! Darn it all, if we continue like this, I'll definitely be rich!'

With the respect from the tens of thousands of cultivators whose hearts were filled with a strange feeling, Su Ming and the group gradually left into the distance. The area around them was silent. No one spoke, but there would be someone who would occasionally sneak a glance at Flame Fiends' Progenitor.

The old man had originally stood beside the bald crane. But by then, he had taken a few steps backwards while sighing with great emotion in his heart. If it was him, he would have definitely asked for eight hundred million or one billion. The bald crane had shouted for half a day, but only asked for one hundred thousand, and the other party had even given it a lot more than what it initially asked. This was so embarrassing…

Su Ming decided to close his eyes. Once he sat down cross-legged, he acted as if he did not hear the bald crane counting crystals behind him. After several days, the it let out a shrill scream. That scream instantly attracted the attention of the cultivators around them. When they turned their heads towards it, they saw the bald crane shuddering and screaming with gritted teeth.

"Damn it, damn it! He lied to me! This isn't one million crystals. Three crystals are lacking. I still need three more before I reach one million. I'm going to die, this Grandpa Crane is going to die! How could I have miscalculated? I'm still missing three, aarrgghhhh… My crystals…" the bald crane screamed shrilly while its body shuddered as if it had lost the most important thing in its life.

"My cute crystals, my beautiful crystals, my crystals which are even more important than my life… Damn it, I'm going to die, I'm seriously going to die."

When the crowd heard those words, their hearts calmed down. There was no longer a strange expression in their gazes, but instead, it had turned into one of respect.

They respected… an existence that was so obsessed with crystals that it would replace everything about it.

That respect grew even more when the bald crane's pained screams and endless chatter lasted for ten days. It continued trying to persuade Su Ming to turn back and return to the planets to regain those three missing crystals. The drive powered by its obsession alarmed the cultivators, and they were ashamed that they could not match up to it.

There was also a new form of respect that took shape in their gazes when they looked towards Su Ming. If it were them, they would have been driven mad a long time ago by the bald crane, but he continued to sit with his expression unchanging. He would even occasionally respond…

In the end, even Flame Fiends' Progenitor could stand it no longer. He seized his bosom with his right hand and brought out three crystals to the bald crane.

"That's yours, not mine. Even if you give me three crystals, I'm still missing three!" The bald crane caught those crystals, but its piercing voice still echoed in space.

Su Ming was already used to it. It was not the first time the bald crane had showed its extreme obsession towards the crystals.

Time passed by slowly like that, and another month passed with the hundreds of battleships charging forward through the galaxy. They passed by various planets, and the bald crane would extort each one, which made it more and more excited. However, even so, it was still obsessed with the three crystals it had missed because it had miscalculated.

When they were only seven days away from Morning Dao Sect, Zhu You Cai, who had his eyes shut since the beginning while standing behind Su Ming, suddenly opened his eyes. A brilliant light shone in them.

Next was the bald crane. Its endless chatter fell silent abruptly. A glint appeared in the eyes of Flame Fiends' Progenitor. The nine old Frail Darknesses all opened their eyes a slit.

The battleships instantly shone with a powerful light. The expressions of the cultivators on them became grim.

All the people's gazes instantly landed on the planet before them.

More accurately speaking, it was not a planet, but a gigantic egg!

Its surface was filled was uneven. It was just like a gigantic stone, which was why it looked like a planet, but in truth, it was a huge egg.

The mighty pressure spreading out from it was so strong that even Zhu You Cai had opened his eyes, a telling sign of how strong was the life being nursed in it. There were dozens of cultivators flying around at that moment. One of them stood in space with his arms over his chest and was watching Su Ming approach the area with a cold sneer.

There was a half-naked young man sitting on the huge egg. In his hand he held a beast bone and was biting on it, making crunching noises. His hair spilled all over his shoulders, and a primitive, savage presence spread out from his body. His eyes were narrowed and starting the fleet of battleships before him.

"What a grand parade. So you are Dao Kong, one of the people who belong to those who can be considered my grandchildren, but one who still managed to become a Dynast and whom I have never met before?" The young man's eyes were as sharp as blades. They instantly swept past the people on the battleships to land on Su Ming.

As he spoke, he bit through the beast bone in his hand. Once he ate all of it, he picked up the Constellation Robe beside him and wiped his hands on it before wiping his mouth. With a glare, an awe-inspiring presence came from his body, and he held none of it back.

"I've seen plenty of your ancestors. How dare you not pay your respects to me? When your father was still a nobody, he did not have the courage to not kneel before me. Go back and ask that damn mother of yours whether she still remembers Dao Fei Feng, having seen me in the rain one thousand years ago! Who even are you? Get over here!"

"Dao Fei Feng, he is…" Xu Hui's pupils shrank. She was about to introduce him, but Su Ming was faster.

"Take his head and hang it on the bow of my ship. We'll bring it back to Morning Dao Sect."