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Chapter 1308: This Presence… Came from the Universe Beyond

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137th Expanse Cosmos was among the 180 Expanse Cosmoses of Dark Dawn. It was located far away from Saint Defier's border, and it was also far away from Arid Triad's gap. It was on the other side of Dark Dawn.

The Expanse Cosmos belonged to a race named Bear Charters. They occupied this one Expanse Cosmos, and they had grown and prospered in this place since they had inherited their legacy from the second era. There were hundreds of thousands of people in this race, so it was not really big, but not small either.

The 136th Expanse Cosmos was known as Bear Chart Expanse Cosmos, and Bear Chart Tribe was its master.

There were three altars that eternally existed in the boundless galaxy within Bear Chart Expanse Cosmos. They floated about but did not move themselves, and it had been so for countless years. Bear Chart Tribe had set down seals and Runes around the three altars. They slowly rotated around the altars, turning the place into forbidden ground.

They protected them as if this was the mission of Bear Chart Tribe, and they had kept it up to that date.

The three altars looked incredibly old. One of them was even largely damaged. It exuded an air of ancientness, as if it was falling apart. There was a huge crack in its center, and it looked like it went through the entire altar. If anyone stood on the altar and lowered their heads, they would be able to see the galaxy under it.

The crack might have gone through the entire altar, but it seemed like there was some sort of strange power contained in it, which prevented the altar from falling apart. Instead, the two parts of the altar seemed to be attracted to each other. They were stuck to each other, refusing to move.

Compared to that altar, the third one was kept in a very good condition. On that day, it suddenly shone with a dark light. It instantly grew to a piercing degree and surrounded the entire altar. When it did so, the stone platform that appeared to be sturdy looked as if it had started melting. Once it sank in, some boils even appeared on it, as if it had turned into a swamp.

"Who is it?! Who is talking about the great Grandpa Crane?"

The bald crane shuddered, then popped its head out of the altar. It flapped its wings at full strength, then flew out from the altar that now resembled a swamp. When it flew out, it immediately looked around it with suspicion. The feeling that some strange thoughts had appeared in the depths of its mind once it entered Dark Dawn and Saint Defier's universe had caused it to attempt to search for them, but no matter what, it could not find the source.

Immediately after, the Sovereign of Dawn Yan Pei's figure appeared on the swamp-like altar. He turned into a long arc and flew out swiftly, then he wrapped his fist in his palm and bowed deeply to the altar.

The instant he bowed, Su Ming's figure slowly appeared from the altar. He walked forth, and the swamp-like stone altar under his foot became something like mud, but when Su Ming put his foot down, the mud split up on its own. It was as if it did not dare to stop Su Ming. When he walked into the galaxy, the altar behind him became solid again, and the dark light dissipated as well.

Su Ming cast a cold glance at the area around him, then directed his gaze on Yan Pei.

"Master, Arid Triad's gap is in Saint Defier's camp. If we went there and wished to return to Dark Dawn, we would inevitably run into some disturbances. This is the ancient Relocation Rune connected to Dark Dawn I mentioned earlier," Yan Pei immediately said in an incredibly respectful voice.

Su Ming swept his gaze over the three altars. Once he cast them a few scrutinizing glances, he noticed a presence that did not belong to this aeon on them. It was clearly a mark that had existed since a long time ago.

However, since one of the altars was preserved in a rather good condition and Yan Pei had secretly transformed it, it became one of the methods for him to save his life. Based on what he said on the way, no matter where he was, as long as he had some time to make preparations, he could immediately Relocate to this place.

This was because he was a member of Bear Chart Tribe. He was a Sovereign of Dawn who came from this tribe, and while he had an Expanse Cosmos belonging to him since he was a Sovereign of Dawn, in the end, he belonged to the Bear Charters.

And only the Bear Charters had had the chance to examine the three altars as well as use them. What concerned Yan Pei though, he was among the best in using them.

Yan Pei was silent for a moment, but even when he spoke, he did not manage to give a detailed description, because even he was not too certain about the matter.

"Master, are you interested in these three altars? Based on Bear Charter Tribe's years of analysis and observations, we've discovered that in the beginning, the first altar seemed to Relocate people to an incredibly far away place, but we don't know the exact location of that spot.

"Compared to it, the second altar definitely Relocates over a shorter distance, because its aura has disappeared over the years, but based on some of it the tribe had kept, we can sense… a presence that is great and difficult to put to words. It seems like the place with the aura is a place where cultivators are as insignificant as ants."

Yan Pei only knew that the first and second altars were damaged. Only the third altar could allow them to return to this place from other locations. If they could use it skillfully, it could serve a critical function during dangerous moments!

"If you've stored this aura, you can try to gain a sense of it."

Su Ming averted his gaze from the altar. When he said those words, the invisible Runes and seals around the three altars suddenly shone with a gentle light. When it formed a ripple, dozens of long arcs charged forth with loud whistles. They instantly approached them, then turned into cultivators.

The person in the lead was an incredibly tall and large man. When he moved forward, the shadow of a huge bear seemed to manifest behind him. When he drew closer, he immediately wrapped his fist in his palm and bowed deeply to Yan Pei.

"I, tribe leader of Bear Chart Tribe, greet the Sovereign of Dawn."

The man's voice was as loud as waves. When it came out in loud booms, the dozens of people behind him wrapped their fists in their palms towards Yan Pei as well. Their greetings were uniform, created a wave of sound that spread through the area.

"How many Star Altar Stones in the tribe still have their whole aura preserved in them?"

The moment the ripples from the Runes and seals spread out, the obsequious look on Yan Pei's face disappeared like the wind, replaced by a dignified and aloof one. It turned him back into the supreme Sovereign of Dawn.

By his side, the bald crane had a scornful look on its face. It turned its head away in contempt, but it was noting down everything Yan Pei did in its heart. Being diligent and thirsting for new knowledge was a very good habit of the bald crane.

"Reporting to the Sovereign of Dawn, there are still… five Star Altar Stones that have been kept in perfect condition. The seals have not been broken, which is why their aura has not spread out. If you require it, I will have someone bring them over," the man from Bear Chart Tribe immediately said respectfully, then cast a brief glance at Su Ming from the corner of his eyes while he began forming assumptions about Su Ming's status in his mind.

"Bring three over. These stones with the ancient aura are limited in number. You will need to keep some in the tribe," Yan Pei said slowly after thinking the matter over.

The man immediately wrapped his fist in his palm and voiced his obedience. He turned around and looked at the old man by his side. With a nod, the old man turned into a bear of one thousand feet in height. He threw his head back and roared before he turned into an afterimage of a long arc and disappeared into the distance.

Su Ming did not bother with the talk between Yan Pei and the people from Bear Chart Tribe. His expression was indifferent. With one step, he moved forward. The bald crane quickly followed behind him, and even cast a smug look at the Sovereign of Dawn Yan Pei.

The people from Bear Chart Tribe had never seen Su Ming before, and they could not see any ripples of power from him either, but they knew that since this person came with their Sovereign of Dawn, he was definitely outstanding and not to be offended.

When the cultivators from Bear Chart Tribe looked over, their pupils shrank. Shock appeared on their faces. They could clearly see that once Su Ming came in contact with the ripples from the invisible seals and Runes, the Runes shuddered and disappeared before him as if they were moving back on their own.

Not only did this scene cause the people from Bear Chart Tribe to be shocked, even the Tribe Elder of Bear Chart Tribe turned his head around abruptly because he had sensed it. His pupils shrank, and disbelief appeared on his face.

The Bear Charters had lived around the Runes and had inherited their legacy for a very long time. Over the countless years, each generation of their tribe would perfect the Runes. Their power was perhaps not the offensive type, but their defensive properties made the Runes impossible to break within a short period of time even for the powerful warriors in Avacaniya Realm. But the Runes had not shown even a single fluctuation of power right then. It was as if…

It was as if the Runes had backed away on their own, as if they were a vassal greeting their sovereign. They did not dare to block his path even for a moment… It was this image that had arisen in the mind of the Tribe Elder of Bear Chart Tribe.

His expression changed drastically. As his mind roared, he instinctively asked, "Who-who is he?"

"A person who is unbeatable even if all of Dark Dawn worked together to fight against him… The strongest cultivator in the universe." A fanatic look appeared in Yan Pei's eyes as he mumbled his answer.

When he walked out of the Rune, Su Ming cast a glance at the galaxy in this area. With an indifferent expression on his face, he sent his will sweeping through the area, and it instantly covered the entire Expanse Cosmos.

'It's a very small Expanse Cosmos, and no will has been born here… but there's a clear border between it and the other Expanse Cosmoses. It doesn't seem as if the border was naturally formed. Instead, it looks like… someone used a great divine ability to divide this place and create it.'

When Su Ming's will spread out, Yan Pei flew out from the Rune to land beside him.

"Go and investigate the tunnel all of you from Dark Dawn's camp had set up in the fifth ocean in Arid Triad's Barren Lands of Divine Essence. It might not have been activated, but find out where the people who acted as the garrisons are currently located," Su Ming said faintly, then retrieved his will. He did not forcefully sweep through the 180 Expanse Cosmoses. After all… this place also belonged to Arid Triad.

Yan Pei immediately voiced his obedience. Just as he was about to say something, a long arc came charging from the distance. It was the old man who brought the Star Altar Stones. When he came over, he immediately bowed to Yan Pei and delivered three jade boxes to him.

Su Ming swept his gaze over the jade boxes, and his pupils constricted in a barely noticeable manner. He seized space with his right hand, and the three jade boxes instantly charged towards him. Su Ming caught one of them and squeezed it lightly. The jade box shattered to reveal a stone the size of a fingernail in it.

At the instant the jade box shattered, the stone exuded… an aura that caused a grave look to appear on Su Ming's face!!

He could not identify the aura, but he could deduce at first glance that it did not come from any of the Expanse Cosmoses belonging to Arid Triad, or rather… this aura did not belong to the universe in Harmonious Morus Alba!

The presence… came from the universe beyond!

Chapter 1309: Hmm?

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The entire process from the moment the aura appeared to the moment it vanished lasted for ten or so breaths. When the stone the size of a fingernail in his hand no longer had the aura that did not belong to Harmonious Morus Alba in it, Su Ming's eyes flashed.

'A universe beyond Harmonious Morus Alba, huh?'

A contemplative look appeared on his face. When Yan Pei saw Su Ming's expression, he was momentarily stunned. He had sensed the aura in the stone before and only felt that it was unfamiliar. He had sensed nothing else aside from that.

The stone pieces belonged to the second altar, but due to how unique the aura was and how it continued to dissipate, it would completely disappear in a few years. That was why Bear Chart Tribe had used the method to preserve the last batch of the stones.

But their method of preservation was not perfect, which was why once the seal was broken on a stone piece, the people around it would be able to sense its aura for ten breaths, but after that period of time, the aura would completely disappear.

Not only was Yan Pei stunned, the dozens of people from Bear Chart Tribe were also puzzled as to what had happened to Su Ming when they saw the contemplative look on his face.

The aura was just unfamiliar. Aside from that, they had never been able to find out any other benefits to the stones no matter how they investigated it.

'By the looks of it, the second altar is really a Relocation Altar, but it doesn't Relocate to any of the Expanses Cosmoses of Harmonious Morus Alba or Arid Triad. Instead… it can send a person out of the butterfly itself…'

When Su Ming thought of this, his heart trembled. With his level of cultivation, it had become rare for him to be shocked, but the aura and the altar had given him an idea of a possibility!

When the four wings of Harmonious Morus Alba split up and overlapped over the aeons, some cultivators had chosen to survive by fusing with their other selves, some chose to Possess the butterfly, and some people left behind their legacy in All Spirits Hall. However, some people… might have chosen to leave.

They left in the truest meaning of that word. They left Harmonious Morus Alba's body and went to the universe beyond. They went to the space where the other eight butterflies were.

Su Ming did not know what was there. Even after attaining his current level of cultivation, he did not know that he… was as weak as an ant compared to the entire universe beyond.

While he pondered over it, Su Ming's eyes suddenly sparkled, and when he lifted his head, he looked at Yan Pei.

"Bring me all of these stones!"

Yan Pei's heart shuddered. There was a look that allowed neither disagreement nor argument in Su Ming's eyes. It caused him to feel his skin crawl, and he did not dare say no. Without any hesitation, he immediately looked at the Tribe Elder of Bear Chart Tribe.

The expression of the Tribe Elder of Bear Chart Tribe changed several times. He gritted his teeth, then personally flew away. He was gone only for the time it takes for half an incense stick to burn. During that time, everything in the area was silent. No one spoke. Gradually, an unseen mighty pressure filled the area, pushing down on all the people to the point that they felt like they could not circulate their cultivation bases smoothly.

Soon though, the Tribe Elder of Bear Chart Tribe came charging to the area. He did not hand the other two jade boxes to the Sovereign of Dawn Yan Pei, but instead personally brought them to Su Ming. Once Su Ming took them, he cast a glance at the man and nodded.

"I will not take the items of your tribe without offering anything back…"

When Su Ming said that, he lifted his right hand and tapped the center of the man's brow. It happened so quickly that before the man registered what had happened, his body shuddered. He took a few staggering steps backwards and coughed up a mouthful of black blood. A large amount of black blood trickled out from his pores.

When the tribe members' expressions changed drastically, the man lifted his hand and gestured for them to not move. He lifted his head with strenuous effort. Crazed delight and excitement appeared on his face, along with disbelief.

He could clearly sense that his blood felt ten times purer than it was in the past. As the black blood trickled out, the shadow of the giant bear behind him instantly grew larger, and it was no longer an illusion. It now looked like it had corporeal form. This could be said to be the greatest serendipity in his life. His blood had been cleansed, causing his cultivation base to increase by leaps and bounds, and his aura also became stronger.

With excitement, the man bowed deeply to Su Ming.

"Thank you… Thank you for your kindness of recreating me, sir!���

When the man said those words in excitement, Su Ming did not speak. Instead, he lowered his head and stared at the jade box in his hand. His expression changed continuously, but after a moment, resolution appeared in his features.

'I'd like to see… just how the world of this aura looks like.'

Su Ming no longer hesitated. He lifted his right hand, and banging sounds immediately echoed in space. Two of the four jade boxes immediately shattered to reveal two stone pieces with uneven surfaces. Thick waves of unfamiliar aura instantly spread out from them.

Su Ming seized space, and the aura immediately gathered together to turn into a small ball that was about to dissipate. When Su Ming grabbed it and pushed it at the center of his brow, he closed his eyes.

His will instantly burst out. Immediately, the small ball at the center of his brow filled with it, and a loud bang shot up in Su Ming's mind. Quickly, with the aura as a lead, his will as a bridge, his Art of Time as the divine ability he needed, he executed the Divine Art of turning back time, bringing forth the effect that only he could bring!

Su Ming's body shuddered. His will seemed to have moved through an innumerable amount of time and swam through aeons until a vast expanse of space appeared before his eyes…

He had seen that space before. It was exactly the same as the universe where the nine butterflies flew.

Endless fog tumbled about continuously in that place. When Su Ming looked towards the fog, he had a strong feeling that the power contained in the fog every single time it tumbled could instantly destroy a powerful warrior in Avacaniya Realm. Even Su Ming himself would not be able to bear the fog for long if he ran into it while it tumbled about.

And this was just the most commonly seen movement of the fog in the vast space!

There were also bolts of lightning swimming in the fog. They twisted about, giving off a feeling of ferocious. They were not truly lightning bolts, but were lines that contained bright and uneven light. However… they caused Su Ming to sense death!

He could clearly tell that with his current body and level of cultivation, his form and soul would be destroyed upon touch. Only his will would remain, but even so, once the lightning bolts touched him a few times, he would definitely end up dead.

Su Ming was silent. He chased after the lead provided by the aura and moved through time, swimming through the tumbling fog and the lightning that was not real… until he saw a butterfly in the fog around him!

It was not Harmonious Morus Alba, because the picture on its wings was different. That butterfly was shuddering and falling apart. There was a Feng Shui compass about its size above it, and it was sucking something out of the butterfly. It continued doing so until the butterfly turned into glittering spots of light. Once they were completely absorbed by the Feng Shui compass, Su Ming saw a black-robed young man sitting cross-legged on the compass while holding a string of pearls in his hand.

"I have the sixth Reversed Spirit now, but I wonder… where the seventh Reversed Spirit hid itself."

At the moment his voice landed in Su Ming's ears, the young man suddenly lifted his head and looked at him. His eyes seemed to contain emptiness itself.

"Hmm?"

Chapter 1310: My Mind Will Not Be Able to Rest!

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A fierce light appeared in the black-robed young man's eyes, as if he could see Su Ming's will moving through time. When Su Ming looked back, his mind shuddered. It was as if the young man's eyes contained some sort of emperor's will.

His gaze was so domineering that it felt as if he was the one who stood supreme over everything in the universe. Those who obeyed him would prosper, and those who went against him would die. If there was even a hint of defiance in anyone towards him, their whole race would immediately be destroyed, and their bloodline would be completely wiped off!

In fact, even if there was no defiance, if anyone showed any hesitance in their words, they would have to face his thunderous rage and killing intent, which would feel as if the universe was about to collapse.

The blatant domineering air felt like it belonged to the peak existence. He had pride, confidence, and an arrogance that he was someone who stood above all lives.

His gaze was cold and aloof, but there seemed to be a voice echoing besides Su Ming's ears at that moment. That voice might not be from the black-robed young man's mouth, but to Su Ming, it felt as if it was truly echoing in his ears right then.

"If you provoke me, no matter where you hide, what level of cultivation you have, what protection you have by your side, whether you come from the past or the future, as long as you provoke me… I will kill you, destroy your race, wipe off your bloodline, and erase all traces of your existence!

"Begone!"

The faint voice had endless aloofness. At the moment it finished speaking, Su Ming's will let out a bang, as if the voice and the aloof expression was a storm that could destroy his will.

That storm went on a rampage in the space where Su Ming was. As his mind roared, his will felt as if it had turned into a huge vortex, and then he was instantly devoured by it.

Su Ming's body jolted. His eyes flew open, and he found himself still in Dark Dawn's camp, the 137th Expanse Cosmos.

Before him was the man from Bear Chart Tribe. Next to him was the Sovereign of Dawn Yan Pei. Around him were the people from Bear Chart Tribe. They did not know what Su Ming had experienced, but their faces were pale, and it was especially so for Yan Pei. His level of cultivation was the greatest among the rest, which was why his ability to sense was the strongest too.

During the instant just then, Yan Pei had clearly sensed that Su Ming's presence had vanished and had been filled by an ancient will. He stood there, but had been shrouded by fog. If he had just become indistinct, it would have been nothing, but Yan Pei had clearly sensed an unfamiliar presence appear around Su Ming at that instant. That presence was so strong that it was enough to make all of Dark Dawn, Saint Defier, and Arid Triad tremble.

Yet… while they could sense that presence in this place, not a single bit of it presence spread outwards…

Su Ming knew all of that. He also understood that the black-robed young man's presence could not just make Arid Triad tremble… Even the former complete Harmonious Morus Alba would quiver in fear before him, because Su Ming had personally witnessed another butterfly with the exact same form as Harmonious Morus Alba be easily… devoured by the Enchanted Vessel in the form of a Feng Shui compass.

'Who is he?!'

Su Ming's pupils shrank. That man was the greatest threat he had sensed ever since he became the strongest of his aeon. Before that moment, he had never imagined that there could be such a powerful warrior in the universe!

He exceeded Su Ming's imagination. He fell into silence, but suddenly, a brilliant light flashed in his eyes. This thing was like a thorn embedded into the depths of his heart, and it also let Su Ming himself know… that he could still be afraid.

It was something he had not felt for many years. The last time he felt like that was when he was in Divine Essence Star Ocean. At that time, he had not wanted to succumb to his fear, because he could not lose. If he lost… he would die.

Right then, he could not succumb to his fear either, because when people reached his level of cultivation, once they showed any signs of backing down… they would no longer be themselves.

When the brilliant light shone in his eyes, Su Ming lifted his right hand and swung his arm. Two of the three jade boxes before him immediately shattered, and the ancient aura immediately spread out again.

Su Ming seized space with both hands, and the aura immediately charged towards him to surround him and form a vortex. It rotated swiftly, and the ancient presence of time grew stronger within it.

As Su Ming stared at the vortex, determination appeared on his face.

'If I give up on this just like that, my heart will be filled with indignation!

'If my heart is filled with indignation, my thoughts will not be clear!

'If my thoughts are not clear… then my mind will not be able to rest!'

A ferocious look appeared on Su Ming's face, which was the first time since his will had been perfected. It made Yan Pei's heart tremble. He had never seen such an expression on Su Ming's face before, and it made him feel as if his heartbeat was about to freeze.

If he was in such a state, then it was even more so for the other people from Bear Chart Tribe. They were all intimidated and stunned by Su Ming's expression. Their minds instantly went blank, and they lost their ability to think.

'If my heart is filled with indignation, if my thoughts are not clear, if my mind cannot rest easy, I shall break this state!'

Killing intent appeared in Su Ming's eyes. He lifted his right hand and swiftly seized the space in the direction of the vortex. It swiftly shrank, and when Su Ming held it in his hand, it became the size of an egg. He then placed it at the center of his brow without any hesitation.

At the instant he pushed his hand, Su Ming's mind let out a bang. Everything in his field of vision turned into a vortex again, and he saw the vast expanse of space once more. His world began reversing swiftly to allow him to return to the past again, and he returned… to the scene he saw previously—the black-robed young man absorbing the butterfly on the Feng Shui compass.

He saw the black-robed young man raise his head again and let out a cold harrumph towards him.

The moment the young man did so, Su Ming's will froze, as if the world had collapsed, as if the person before him was an emperor, and Su Ming himself was an ant which could be wiped off in the next breath… but Su Ming gritted his teeth, and all his will gathered with the power of Morning Dao, Immortal Sect, Sky Hill, and the Emperor of Abyss' True World, allowing him to turn it into an incredibly powerful wave of madness that would make him into a sword that could slice through the laws governing his destiny.

That sword charged towards the person who had let out the cold harrumph, sending a strike… that seeped through an endless number of years from an unknown amount of time in the future, all so that it could have that madness explode in the man's face.

Su Ming had to deliver that strike. He had to cut through the indignation in his heart, the unclear state of his thoughts, and the restless state of his mind!

Loud booms instantly filled the universe. Su Ming could not see the results, because at the moment his will touched the young man, he shattered to pieces!

'If I cannot break it, then I can choose not to touch it, but when the day comes when I will have to come into contact with it, I will go against… I will go against all lives who seized my kismet!'

This was the roar that came from Su Ming's soul before his will crumbled.

It seemed to still be echoing around him when Su Ming's eyes opened and found himself still in the galaxy belonging to Dark Dawn's camp. Everything was still the same as before. Fatigue appeared in Su Ming's eyes… but a graveness only he understood had entered them as well!

Chapter 1311: Spirit!

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When Su Ming had borrowed the aura from the stone pieces in the jade boxes to return to the vast space an unknown number of aeons ago and did not run from facing the black-robed young man but instead turned his will into a sword and charged forward…

… Lord Saint Defier Xuan Jia sitting in the hall belonging to the three Lord Saint Defiers closed his eyes. His body trembled nonstop. The beast bones in front of him instantly crumbled. His predictions had received interference from a huge force, causing him to look as if he wanted to open his eyes. Pain appeared on his face.

It was as if the power to allow him to open his eyes had come from space itself. It was as if there was a power there that somehow prevented Xuan Jiu from being able to predict anything about Su Ming.

However, he was Lord Saint Defier who had the longest lifespan in both Saint Defier and Dark Dawn's camps. He had the greatest amount of accumulated experiences, and his thoughts covered so many aspects that an ordinary cultivator in Avacaniya Realm could not hope to compare to him!

The moment these beast bones shattered and were reduced to ash and his eyes were forced open, Xuan Jiu pushed himself to close his eyes. At the same time, he lifted his right hand and seized space with his fingers before he said one single word, "Duo [1]!"

When he said that word, his right hand shuddered. The other two Lord Saint Defiers saw Xuan Jiu's right hand instantly melt into a puddle of blood. The bones in his arm were revealed, but he did not stop moving. It was as if he could not feel pain. He stretched his arm into space, and the instant he touched it, all 180 Expanse Cosmoses in Saint Defier's camp shuddered with a bang.

At the same time, the old man's fingers seemed to have caught onto something concrete. He yanked it out, and the bones of his index finger were crushed. Another finger was soon crushed, and it was soon followed by a third. When three of his fingers were gone, a ball of fog was yanked out of space.

That fog was a cyclone. It rotated nonstop before Xuan Jiu and exuded… waves of ancient presence. It seemed to have come from the past. If anyone came into contact with it, they would feel as if their entire bodies were about to rot.

Cold sweat dripped down from Xuan Jiu's forehead. The other two Lord Saint Defiers watched everything with fixed stares. This was not the first time they had seen Xuan Jiu making predictions… but it was the first time they saw him in such a wretched and horrifying state while casting his Art.

After a moment, Xuan Jiu's eyes flew open. They were bloodshot, and the blood capillaries even reached his pupils, as if they had formed a blood-red Rune. He coughed up blood, and in an instant, he became older.

The cyclone in front of him started showing signs of dissipating.

Xuan Jiu looked as if he had become much older. When he coughed up blood, he did not stop once he started. He coughed up nine consecutive mouthfuls of blood, and with each time, his aura became weaker. When he coughed up the ninth mouthful of blood, he took a few steps back, and he looked so old that he resembled a corpse that had rotted for years in a coffin.

He might have aged and coughed up nine mouthfuls of blood, but Xuan Jiu began laughing loudly. It was hoarse, but there was even surprised delight in his voice. He might have been weakened, but his laughter seemed to be telling the other two Lords that he… had predicted what he wanted to see!

"The broken army [2] will descend!

"Harmonious Morus Alba's disaster!

"Su Ming's disaster!

"He will definitely die in that disaster, and he can't run away from it. This disaster… has already appeared. His will shall be destroyed in the past, and without the past, there is no future. He… is already dead… Hmm?"

Before the old Xuan Jiu could finish speaking, his expression changed, but before he could do anything else, his body shuddered. The dissipating cyclone before him suddenly looked like a withered tree suddenly blooming once more. It… stopped dissipating, and it looked like it was rapidly returning to space.

"That's impossible. This is…" Madness appeared in Xuan Jiu's eyes. At the instant he was about to grab the cyclone again…

In Dark Dawn's camp, Su Ming's eyes flew open.

"Spirit!"

Su Ming was in the 137th Expanse Cosmos in Dark Dawn's camp, and the Sovereign of Dawn Yan Pei was staring at Su Ming. The man from Bear Chart Tribe and all his people were pale-faced. During that instant just then, they could clearly sense a thick wave of aura of death coming from Su Ming's body.

That aura was so strong that it felt like it could drown the entire Expanse Cosmos… but at the instant it was about to fill the Expanse Cosmos to the brim, it disappeared without a trace. It was at that moment that Su Ming opened his eyes and said that one word.

His will returned to his body, and it was as if everything before had just been an illusion. They were a series of events that had never occurred in the real past, but from them, Su Ming felt as if he had been baptized and become different in a manner that no one else could see, but he himself could sense clearly!

When he opened his eyes, he had said that one word: Spirit. Su Ming did not know why he said it, but somehow, with this aura as a lead, he had been able to travel to the ancient past, moving between the illusory past and reality. Due to his will being destroyed in the past, he had let out that indistinct word that would last for an eternity until his will gathered together again.

That one word was spirit!

It was a single word, but it felt as if there was a supreme form of profundity contained in it.

At the instant Su Ming opened his eyes, light shone in them as if the indignation he felt in his heart previously had went away. His thoughts, which had not been clear became such, and his restless mind immediately returned to its previous state!

And all of this was related to that one word that seemed to be one of a kind in the Vast Expanse since time began an eternity ago. Su Ming did not know what that connection was, but he could vaguely sense that when he came to understand it in the future, his cultivation base and his level of cultivation would rise again… reaching a Realm that would perhaps allow him to become the same as the black-robed young man!

It was a goal that had never appeared in Su Ming's heart before, but right then, it formed. The young man was a danger. Perhaps he was Su Ming's disaster, but Su Ming was no longer feeling indignant or had an unclear, restless mind, because he had found his direction. When he unintentionally said that word Spirit, he felt as if he had been reborn. A powerful belief was born in his soul.

If Su Ming had not had the determination to face the black-robed young man earlier, Su Ming would have been unable to do this. Only by facing it, only by not being fearful, and only when his heart, thoughts, and mind were all calm could he make that one word last for an eternity. And only by doing all of it… could he truly go through a metamorphosis and gain his new belief.

"If I can face you once, then I can face you a second too… It doesn't matter whether it's Arid Triad or Harmonious Morus Alba…"

A brilliant light shone in Su Ming's eyes. As he mumbled under his breath, he lowered his head and looked around him. All cultivators who met his gaze felt their hearts shudder, and they lowered their heads.

He lifted his right hand and swung his arm, putting away the final jade box floating before him. When it landed in his storage bag, he spoke to Yan Pei.

"I want you to obtain the results for the matter I asked you at the fastest speed you can muster… Other than that, I want you to give me a full map of Dark Dawn's camp."

When Yan Pei hears his words, he immediately lowered his head and voiced his obedience. He was in an incredible state of shock. Besides Su Ming, Yan Pei's level of cultivation was the highest in this place, which was why he could see things that other people could not see.

During that instant just then, he had a strong feeling that Su Ming seemed to have died. He was shrouded by the aura of death, which came from the past. It had oppressed everyone so much that they could not breathe.

But when Su Ming uttered that one word, everything seemed to have instantly moved in reverse. It was as if a withered tree had bloomed again, and as if something rotten had transformed into something amazing. This scene repeated itself in Yan Pei's mind. While a storm raged in his head, the level of mystery surrounding Su Ming in his eyes became greater.

Yan Pei brought out a jade slip. Once he handed it to Su Ming respectfully, he took a few steps back and waited for other orders.

Su Ming took the jade slip. When he cast a glance at it, he turned his head back and stared at Yan Pei. He lifted his right hand and pointed at him. A vortex suddenly appeared at the center of Yan Pei's brow, and a hint of his soul instantly flew out. Once it fused with the jade slip, Su Ming put it away.

"Your soul has fused with the jade slip. Once you have the results, call out my name in your heart, and I will be able to read your mind."

Su Ming turned around and took a step into space, instantly disappearing from the 137th Expanse Cosmos belonging to Bear Chart Tribe.

The bald crane followed him after him. Before it left, it turned its head back to cast a smug look at Yan Pei. However, that smugness was only surface level. When Su Ming had filled with the aura of death, it had sensed a fear and a chill it had never sensed before.

It was at that moment that Lord Saint Defier Xuan Jiu of Saint Defier's camp had tried to grab the cyclone again. He had indeed managed to seize it, but the moment he touched it, his right hand broke down. His body fell backwards, and he coughed up blood again. This time, his blood had black spots in it, as if he had suffered some sort of backlash. As he staggered back, the cyclone fused into the vortex and disappeared without a trace.

"That vortex is his life. I used my life in exchange for his so that I could lure it out… But I can do it only once in my life. I… had clearly seen his death and seen his will crumble. He died under the power of the broken army…

"But he… had clearly died in the past. Why is he still alive now? Why? How could this be?" Xuan Jiu mumbled as coughed up blood again.

He then closed his eyes. While he did not die, his constitution was severely damaged, and he fell unconscious.

A wave of cold air instantly rose in Xiao Song and Fei Hua's hearts, who were beside him. The two of them looked at each other and fell silent.

It was also at that moment that Cang San Nu, the strongest Sovereign of Dawn opened his eyes in the spot where he meditated. Fighting spirit and killing intent appeared in his eyes. At the instant Su Ming left the 137th Expanse Cosmos, he sensed Su Ming's existence.

"I will fight you, and after that fight, I will be known as Si Nu!"

Chapter 1312: What a Load of Nonsense

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Su Ming walked through the galaxy in a long arc. Wherever he went, the space behind him would shine with a brilliant light. There were circles of light produced when his body scraped against the galaxy. Because of that, wherever Su Ming went, the sky and earth would shake.

He did not intentionally conceal his presence, but neither did he specifically have his will spread out. He walked calmly in space with an indifferent look on his face, heading straight to the Spiritling's Expanse Cosmos based on the map of Dark Dawn, which was now an image in his head.

He wanted to go to the Spiritlings. That place was his mother's homeland. There weren't many reasons to visit it, but he wanted to take a look. He was not returning to his roots, because Su Ming's roots were not in that place, and neither were they in the Fifth True World.

His roots were once in the land of Berserkers, and at another moment in time, in the ninth summit, but right then, Su Ming's roots… were in his heart. It would be everywhere he went. There was no constant place for it, but that did not mean he drifted about either. It was, in fact, a Domain.

The Expanse Cosmos where the Spiritlings were located was incredibly far away for an ordinary cultivator. It would require a journey of hundreds or more than one thousand years to reach that place after moving through Expanse Cosmos after Expanse Cosmos. Even if they used Relocation Runes, the number of crystals that would require would reach astronomical figures.

There were few in Dark Dawn's camp who were worthy of moving through Expanse Cosmoses, but, in truth, there was no need for people to move through many Expanse Cosmoses. Most cultivators would only have to move through two or three in their entire life while practicing cultivation.

But once a cultivator reached Avacaniya Realm, everything would be different. While they still could not cross immeasurable distances with one thought, it was incredibly easy for them to move through Expanse Cosmoses, and if that was the case for those in Avacaniya Realm, then it would be even more so for Su Ming. Practically every time he took a step forward, he would cross half of an Expanse Cosmos. Usually, it took him only two steps to move through an Expanse Cosmos.

He continued walking until a barrier of another Expanse Cosmos appeared before him. Based on the description of the map in his mind… it was where the Spiritlings lived.

Su Ming stood beyond the barrier. He did not immediately step in. Instead, he closed his eyes, and after quietly sensing the presence of the barrier for a moment, he opened his eyes and took a step forward.

When he came into contact with the barrier, he disappeared into it. The bald crane, who had followed him throughout the journey, stepped into the Spiritlings' Expanse Cosmos as well.

Ripples spread out in a distant galaxy at that moment, and Cang San Nu's figure appeared. Killing intent was in his eyes, and there was an awe-inspiring expression on his face. With a swing of his arm, he turned into a long arc. Instantly, he came into contact with the barrier of the Expanse Cosmos, and as ripples resembling those of a disturbed lake appeared on the barrier, he disappeared as well.

There was a huge block of ice floating in the galaxy belonging to the Spiritlings. The eyes of the woman Su Ming had seen while in Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos flew open at that moment.

At the time Su Ming had went into Yin Death Vortex, she had chosen to leave. She returned to Dark Dawn's camp from Arid Triad's gap, and once she returned to the Spiritlings, she chose to isolate herself to train again. Since she had already given Su Ming the sword and did not have the power to retrieve the power of the Spiritlings from him, she decided to give up. She did not continue pursuing the matter, because aside from it being related to the Sacred Lady of the previous generation… the more important reason was that Su Ming had awakened the Spiritlings' Dragon of Destruction.

When Su Ming stepped into the territory of the Spiritlings, her eyes flew open while in the block of ice. A hint of hesitation appeared in her gaze as she looked into the distance.

With her power, it was impossible for her to not notice Su Ming's arrival, and no matter what, she was the Spiritlings' Sacred Lady. Su Ming's presence contained the will of the Dragon of Destruction, which was the brightest light in the darkness for her, and because of it, she could immediately sense it.

After all, besides her status as a Sacred Lady, this Expanse Cosmos… belonged to the Spiritlings. They had lived there and grown in numbers for countless years. The Expanse Cosmos was filled with the wills of countless Spiritlings.

Su Ming's arrival caused all of them to feel as if they were boiling. They sensed… the presence of the Dragon of Destruction, the supreme Spiritling spoken in their legends.

"Is he… here?" The woman was silent for a moment before she mumbled under her breath and stood up to disappear from the ice.

There was a planet that was not very bright in the Spiritlings' Expanse Cosmos, but it was regarded as an incredibly sacred existence. Its name was Bright Violet.

Bright Violet Planet was the place where all the past tribe leaders, Tribe Elders, and the Sacred Ladies were laid to rest. The ancestors of the Spiritlings over the countless years were also buried there. Once they died, every single generation of the important people in the Spiritlings was buried on that planet.

The sky was blue, and not many stars could be seen in it. The surface of the planet was a boundless ocean, making it clear that this was a planet occupied by ocean. There were quite a lot of islands on it, but no continents.

Buried on each island were the tribe leaders, Tribe Elders, and Sacred Ladies of a generation. Those islands were densely packed together and were as numerous as the stars. They were protected by the Spiritlings every day and every night, which was a tradition which had lasted throughout many ages.

At that moment, Su Ming stood quietly in the sky of the planet and looked at the seawater below him. Waves billowed there. When they tumbled about, they looked like sea dragons swimming about. When the sea was calm, it looked like a mirror. However, it was a mirror that could not reflect any images. It only showed the color of the sky.

If anyone looked in the direction of Su Ming's gaze, they would see that he was looking at one of the many islands on the sea. That island was not big, but filled with a brilliant green due to all the plants growing on it. There were three altars on it, which was similar to the other islands. Each of them had three altars, and they were set up to form a triangle.

The altar at the top belonged to Tribe Elders, the one on the bottom right to tribe leaders, and the one on the bottom left to Sacred Ladies.

Su Ming looked over the altars quietly, his gaze penetrating through the distance to land on the tombstone of the Sacred Lady on the left of the island. The tombstone there… was empty.

All the islands with the tombstones of Sacred Ladies had the names of their Sacred Ladies carved on them. The records of their lives were also carved out. Only that one tombstone… was empty!

The empty state did not mean that the Sacred Lady was still alive, since there was no need to erect a tombstone for the living. She had died and was buried in the passage of time, but there were no words on her tombstone, and this provoked much thought…

After a long while, Su Ming took a step forward and disappeared. When he reappeared, he was already standing on top of the altar, directly south of the tombstone. He stared at the empty tombstone. There was not even a name on it. There was only the faint remnant of a soul gathered there, but even it was fading away.

The remnant of the soul caused Su Ming's heart to tremble when he sensed it. He stared at the stone monument in a daze… having sensed his mother's presence.

'Why are there no words on this tombstone? Is it because she did not want the descendants of her tribe to know of her existence, or is it because… she doesn't want me…'

Su Ming was silent. There was a slightly melancholic look on his face. He could not describe what he felt at that moment. There were mixed feelings in him, sentiment, and also anguish.

"Tell me, why?" Su Ming asked while staring at the tombstone. His words were not directed at the empty tombstone, but the person who had appeared behind him.

It was not Cang San Nu, but a woman. She… was the Spiritlings' current Sacred Lady, the woman Su Ming had met in Arid Triad… his aunt.

"Before she reached the end of her time, she left behind a will saying that we were not supposed to say anything on her tombstone, because she felt… that she had wronged the Spiritlings… She did not want her descendants to know her name. She…"

The woman who appeared behind Su Ming hesitated for a moment. When her voice echoed in the air, Su Ming brought his hand up swiftly and pushed his hand on the stone monument.

His act of pushing his palm against the stone monument stunned the woman. Her first thought was that Su Ming wanted to crush the tombstone. Her expression changed. But just when she was about to move forward, Su Ming lifted his hand from the stone monument. Some stone powder appeared on his hand, and on it were traces of the remnant of the soul. Su Ming held it in his hand, then pushed it at the center of his brow. The marks of time immediately appeared on him.

It was there only for a moment before disappearing without a trace. Su Ming turned around and took a step forward, immediately disappearing from the woman's gaze. She did not know where he was going, but her expression kept on changing nonstop…

"She…"

She did not manage to finish her sentence. She only uttered that one word before she stopped speaking. In silence, her gaze turned complicated, and she cast a glance at the altar of the previous Tribe Elder, which was situated at the top of the triangle. With a sigh in her mind, she turned around to leave.

But right when she was about to leave, Su Ming's figure appeared out of nowhere. It was as if he had never disappeared before. The only thing that had gone away was the woman's vision of him.

Su Ming had tried to sense the past by fusing himself with time when he cast the Art of Time. Because of that, he would give other people a misconception that he was gone, but in truth, he was always there.

At the moment his figure appeared, Su Ming's expression grew dark. There was an anger that was rarely seen in his eyes. It was not a small spark of annoyance, but rage that could burn the heavens!

When a weak person became angry, no one would be afraid of them, but when a powerful person became angry, they would affect the universe. When a cultivator was angry, they would cause blood to spill in all directions, but when Almighties grew angry… they could reduce the universe to a wasteland!

Everyone could see the ferocious look on Su Ming's face. The fire in his eyes felt like it could burn all lives, like a volcano that was about to erupt and bring about the end of the world.

"What a load of nonsense!" Su Ming's voice was gloomy and dark when he turned around to face the woman.

Her expression changed. At that moment, she felt as if Su Ming had turned into a murderous fiend from ancient times. With just one sentence and one glance, he caused her heart to roar, and she felt as if she was about to break down. She instinctively took a few steps back.

But when she started moving back, Su Ming closed in on her. He raised his right hand and seized her throat.

"I won't kill you…"

The moment Su Ming said those words in a cold tone, he squeezed her throat with his right hand. Her face became pale, but her expression did not change.

However, numerous cracks appeared on the huge block of ice she used all year long as her isolation grounds in a spot far away from the island. With a bang, it crumbled to pieces.

"I destroyed your Life Nourishment Crystal as punishment for your silence in the past!"

The woman looked as if she still wanted to say something, but when she heard Su Ming's words, her face turned stark pale. She did not say anything anymore. When Su Ming released his grip, she took a few steps back and coughed up a mouthful of blood. In silence, she cast a glance at the empty tombstone, and tears fell from her eyes.

"Big sister, I'm sorry…"

"Next is you. You… who seized your people's kismet for longevity, today… your longevity comes to an end!"

Su Ming turned around and lifted his head to cast his gaze on the tombstone of the Tribe Elder of the same generation.

Chapter 1313: Whose World is This?!

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

To Abyss Builders… the past was just a jade slip with history recorded in it, and it coincidentally had time fused into it. Perhaps other people would not be able to find or see the jade slip, which was why it would be difficult for them to know about it.

But among the Abyss Builders, who possessed the Art of Time, some of the powerful warriors could see the ancient past.

Su Ming could be said to be the strongest among the Abyss Builders. Without a lead, he could reverse the time to ten thousand years ago, while with a lead, he would have a specific timeline to go to. He could move further down the passage of time and see everything that he wanted to see.

Such as the young man in black robes and… his mother.

She was a woman with a gentle personality. She had waited quietly for Su Ming's father to return, but before he did, Su Zhan died in battle, and Su Ming vanished with him. Such an event had a great impact on her, and she… stopped smiling.

When she reached the end of her life and she was buried beneath the altar, Su Ming saw in the memories of time that the words on the stone monument had been wiped off by an aged hand!

The Spiritlings were a curious tribe. Their strength did not lie in the living, but in the ancestors who had died. Their ancestors might have passed away, but in truth, due to the uniqueness of the Spiritlings, it would be better to say that they were asleep.

As they slept, they could absorb the beliefs of their people who worshiped them to maintain the strength of their souls so that they could gather together to gain corporeal form, and then, they would wake up…

They believed that they would surely wake up. This was what was unique about the Spiritlings. It was just like Su Ming's version of Fate Realm among the four Realms. He needed external fate to form his own laws of fate, and the ancestors of the Spiritlings needed a similar form of power to maintain a certain degree of being imperishable.

The worship required the ancestor's names to be known, which was why the ancestors of the Spiritlings who died all had their names carved onto their tombstones.

The hand that appeared on the tombstone belonging to Su Ming's mother had wiped off her name, which made it impossible for the descendants of the race to worship her, making the soul of Su Ming's mother to dissipate!

When the words on the tombstone were wiped off, the current Sacred Lady—Su Ming's aunt—had witnessed everything with her own eyes. While shivering, she tried to stop the man… but once the owner of the hand cast her a glance, her mind went numb, and she forgot to stop him, allowing him to wipe off all traces of the words on the tombstone.

This was the past. It existed in the passage of time, allowing Su Ming to see it clearly.

He also saw that the hand who wiped off the name on the tombstone belonged to a middle-aged man. He had no aura of flesh and blood, which meant he was a pure soul. Once he wiped off the words on the tombstone, he returned… to his own tomb. The place where he disappeared was the spot where Su Ming had directed his gaze at that moment.

It was… the grave that belonged to the previous Tribe Elder!

At the instant Su Ming looked over, the tombstone let out a piercing rumble. As it did so, a huge crack appeared on the stone monument, as if it could not withstand the rage in Su Ming's gaze. It was as if everything that Su Ming saw had to be destroyed.

Even the dead would have to die again! Because the person who wanted to kill them was Su Ming!

With a loud bang, the stone monument shattered into pieces. Su Ming took a step forward and raised his right hand to press down on the altar.

With that one push, the world roared. It looked like an invisible hand landed on the altar, and it started shattering, layer by layer, starting from the platform. In an instant, it was reduced to ashes. A huge mark of a hand appeared on the ground!

Beneath it… was a shattered coffin!

It was red in color, just like blood. At the instant it shattered, a hand shot out from its depths. That hand was withered and bony. Its fingernails were black and three feet long. When that arm appeared, a thick aura of death shot up into the sky.

The hand pushed forward, and the coffin fell apart to reveal a thin middle-aged man dressed in a Daoist robe. His hair was graying, and his eyes were long and narrow, but a red light shone in his pupils.

A heinous murderous aura revealed itself, and it immediately caused a disturbance in Spiritling Expanse Cosmos. Endless fluctuations of power appeared in it.

"You…"

The man had a strangely monstrous yet awe-inspiring air that could shock and intimidate all manner of lives. His words were slow, and his presence made him look like a supreme entity. He seemed to have gathered together the most supreme form of power in the world. Even the ghastly air about him seemed to have descended from all of Spiritling Expanse Cosmos.

But he only managed to say one word. Before he could utter a second one, Su Ming appeared before him. He lifted his right hand, and before the middle-aged man could react to the situation, Su Ming seized his neck and squeezed it tightly. A cracking sound shot up into the air, and he threw him violently to the ground.

Su Ming used his full strength in his grip, so the middle-aged man's neck was completely crushed and his head shattered when it hit the ground. The throw had shaken the whole island. If Su Ming had not wanted the cultivation planet to be destroyed, his throw could have made the cultivation planet crumble.

The middle-aged man's soul was shaken by Su Ming's sudden action. He let out a shrill scream of pain, and his body disappeared with a bang. He turned into fog, then instantly gathered together in the distance. When he looked at Su Ming, shock was in his eyes. The bizarre and monstrous air about him when he just appeared was gone. Instead, his eyes were wide-open with disbelief.

"Who are you?!"

The middle-aged man was the previous Tribe Leader, and he had met the Sovereign of Dawn plenty of times in the past. His level of cultivation was also just below Avanicaya Realm. If it was not because of the uniqueness of the Spiritlings and him being forced to die, there was a high possibility that he would have reached Avacaniya Realm by then. However, since he was forced to die, he had become a soul that no longer had a body.

With the years of nourishment, his soul had become stronger, and he had begun to gather together a shell that possessed some flesh and blood. However, when Su Ming seized him and threw him just then, all the power of worship he had absorbed was immediately crushed to bits. Su Ming's level of strength made his skin crawl, since it was something he had never encountered in his life.

The anger on Su Ming's face also made the middle-aged man feel a chill in his heart.

Su Ming did not even bother answering him. Instead, he moved forward, and in an instant, he appeared before the middle-aged man. He lifted his right hand and grabbed him. The Tribe Elder might have died once, but that intense feeling that his life was being threatened instantly rose in his soul again, but he did not dodge. Instead, madness appeared in his eyes.

If Su Ming's killing intent was not strong, he would definitely find another way to solve this predicament, but he knew that Su Ming was intent on killing him. It was something he would be unable to resolve or neutralize no matter what!

It was because of this that the middle-aged man instantly descended into madness. He did not dare to relax his guard even in the slightest bit since the pressure Su Ming gave him was just too great!

"This is the Spiritlings' Expanse Cosmos. Ancestors, please protect me!" the middle-aged man immediately roared. At the instant Su Ming came to seize him, the middle-aged man swiftly formed a seal with his arms before him.

The tombstones on all the altars on the islands in the planet shuddered. Countless sleeping souls flew up with their eyes shut. In an instant, they surrounded the middle-aged man's body.

Those were the ancestors who had fallen asleep over the countless years. Some of them had already woken up, and some of them were still sleeping, but no matter what, the moment the middle-aged man called out to them, they flew out and fused to fight against the great disaster of their race!

They had rushed over not because the middle-aged man had great power, but because this was an inborn ability belonging to all Tribe Elders. They could summon the spirits of their ancestors!

The Tribe Elder of each generation could do this!

When all the souls of the ancestors of the Spiritlings surrounded the middle-aged man and formed a vortex to handle Su Ming's hand, the world became dark. Countless ripples appeared in the Spiritlings' Expanse Cosmos. It filled with the Spiritlings' presence, and it seemed like the place completely transformed into the Spiritlings' world. In fact… there was even a will in this Expanse Cosmos, and it was the Spiritlings' will!

"No matter how strong you are, when you are among us Spiritlings, then if you suddenly harbor killing intent against me for no reason, you must die, you mad man!"

While the middle-aged man roared out his words, Su Ming's hand touched the vortex. As loud bangs rang out in the air, most of the vortex disintegrated and swept up the middle-aged man a hundred thousand feet away. A small portion of his soul immediately dissipated, causing his face to turn pale. The shock on his face became greater, but an air of arrogance also filled him.

"This Expanse Cosmos belongs to us Spiritlings. This is our sacred land. All the souls in this place and all the presences here, be it the past, present, or future, belong to the Spiritlings, and this is how this Expanse Cosmos' will is formed. Can a mere person like you withstand the will of an Expanse Cosmos?!��

The middle-aged man had a ferocious expression on his face as he glared at Su Ming. There was an intense madness in his voice. In his mind, since Su Ming wanted to kill him, he would completely destroy him, because he believed that Su Ming's strike could do nothing to him!

Su Ming cast the middle-aged man a cold glance, and when he opened his mouth, his words were like a cold breeze that traveled into every direction.

"Alright. I have never intended for you to compensate for your mistakes alone. If that is the case… then I will use all of the souls of your deceased to write down my mother's name on her tombstone again!

"Did you say that this Expanse Cosmos belongs to your people?"

At the instant Su Ming spoke, he lifted his right hand and seized the space in the direction of the sky. With a swift yank, the master of the galaxy changed once more!

The will of Spiritling Expanse Cosmos was just like a firefly's light when compared to Su Ming's will, which was like a bright sun. When Su Ming grabbed it, it crumbled. With a yank, the entire Expanse Cosmos was instantly filled… with Su Ming's will!

The middle-aged man was stunned. He was completely dumbstruck as he stared at the sky with a blank expression.

Chapter 1314: Life Extermination Hall

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The Expanse Cosmoses in Dark Dawn's camp could not have any wills born within them. However, over the course of countless years, since every Expanse Cosmos only had one single race residing in it and there were no mixed races who could be in conflict with each other, singular and weak wills had gradually been born over the years. They could not be counted as real wills, however. They were formed by countless beliefs grouped together. If they had enough time, and if the tribes in these Expanse Cosmoses could become stronger, they could even invade and occupy the other Expanse Cosmoses.

One day, a real will could eventually be born like that.

However, at that moment, even if the Spiritlings had managed to accomplish this with much difficulty and their unique inborn abilities, the will born in the Expanse Cosmos was still not complete. It could be said that it did not belong to Arid Triad, because this sort of weak will was something Arid Triad would not pay attention to in the slightest.

Su Ming also did not pay much attention to them either. With a swing of his arm, he could chase away all such wills. Compared to him, they were so weak that they could not even take a single blow from him.

However… when Su Ming swung his arm and the owner of the galaxy was replaced with his will, he could sense clearly that the will he had chased away… was shattering to bits before they came forth to fuse with him. This scene caused Su Ming's eyes to constrict in a barely noticeable fashion.

He could no longer Possess the other True Worlds. It was the warning Arid Triad had given to him. If Su Ming violated this rule within the one hundred years, Arid Triad would descend, and the disaster would be brought ahead of schedule.

This was not what Su Ming wanted to see, which was why he did not continue to stir up Arid Triad's wariness against him, but right then, the changes in this place caused Su Ming's pupils to shrink. At the same time, he thought of a method to get out of the situation.

The instant the Expanse Cosmos' will was changed in a manner as if Su Ming had just deceived heaven itself, the middle-aged man was rendered flabbergasted. When he sucked in a sharp breath, he instinctively moved backwards with disbelief and shock on his face.

"You… You…"

Before he could finish speaking, Su Ming had already turned his head around to look at him coldly. He moved and instantly closed in on the middle-aged man, who shuddered. He quickly moved back, spread his arms, formed a seal, then pushed one hand towards the sky, and the other downwards before he roared.

"Ancestors of Spiritlings, gather your souls on my body!"

Once he spoke, the planet trembled with a bang. The souls of the Spiritlings' ancestors on the countless islands gathered on him and fused into his body, causing his level of cultivation to continuously increase. In an instant, he surpassed Avacaniya Realm, but his cultivation base was still increasing at an explosive rate. However, Su Ming was unperturbed by it.

He simply allowed the middle-aged man's cultivation base to become increasingly stronger and his expression to become more ferocious with each passing moment. When Su Ming closed in on the man, he brought his right hand up and swung his arm. Booming sounds echoed in the air, and the middle-aged man swiftly moved back. He coughed up a mouthful of spirit aura and threw his head back to roar madly at the sky.

Many souls instantly gathered around him. They were the ancestors of the Spiritlings. At that moment, they looked like black clouds from a distance. They swept out in all directions and charged towards Su Ming. The black clouds looked as if they had turned into a huge mouth, and it was about to devour Su Ming in one bite.

But the moment they came into contact with him, Su Ming let out a cold harrumph. He seized the air with his right hand, and it immediately turned into a huge hand to catch the black cloud that came to devour him. Booming sounds echoed through all of the Spiritling Expanse Cosmos, and the black cloud that was formed by countless Spiritling ancestors gathered together let out a shrill roar. When it shuddered, it looked as if it tried to break free from Su Ming's hand, but it could not do so.

Once Su Ming seized it, the black cloud's roars shook the sky and earth. Countless shadows appeared that fought against each other to flee from the black cloud, but they could not do so. They could only be held by Su Ming and go down with him until he stood before the empty tombstone…

Su Ming grabbed the huge black cloud with his right hand, then lifted his index finger. By using the black cloud as ink, he started carving words on the empty tombstone.

"Mother… Chen Su's grave…"

Every single time he wrote a word, shrill roars that were constantly increasing in intensity came from the black cloud. Each word contained a number of the souls of the Spiritlings' ancestors. They continued dissipating as they roared because Su Ming was using them in words to worship his mother.

The black cloud continued shrinking nonstop, and a wave of despair enveloped the souls in it. It was especially so for the middle-aged man. His voice was the shrillest. The pain the souls suffered was indescribable. They felt like the entire world was inflicting pain on them.

Those who had died once would have two different reactions. One of them would be indifference to death, but most people would become even more fearful of death, and the ancestors of the Spiritlings were the latter type. As they screamed shrilly in pain, Su Ming began carving words on the tombstone again.

"Your son… Su Ming will use the souls of the Spiritlings to honor you."

When Su Ming finished writing, the black cloud in his right hand dissipated.

The last to dissipate was the middle-aged man. Once his soul was crushed, Su Ming wrote the final word. The pain of despair caused the middle-aged man to feel as if he was about to go mad. At the moment before he dissipated, he felt as if he had returned to the past. When he saw the Sacred Lady of their people giving birth to that bastard fathered by a foreigner, the jealousy and madness in his heart had caused him to wipe off her existence once she passed away.

This was the final scene in his memories, and after that… everything was empty.

The carving of the words used up all the souls of the Spiritlings' ancestors. Su Ming could not accept just punishing one Tribe Elder. If the Sacred Lady of the current generation had not stopped the event and was punished for it, then the Spiritlings' ancestors who had watched the words on the tombstone belonging to Su Ming's mother being wiped off and her soul dissipating would would not receive forgiveness either.

Since they did not stop him… they were in the wrong!

When Su Ming unfurled his right hand, everything was silent around him. He stared at the tombstone quietly, then knelt down and stayed like that for three days.

Then, Su Ming stood up. He cast a glance at the tombstone again before he turned around and walked into the air.

The galaxy was filled with his will, and countless wisps of the Expanse Cosmos' will fused into him nonstop. As they gathered on Su Ming's will, it was nourished, and he became slightly stronger than before.

He walked through the Spiritlings' galaxy, and the bald crane followed behind him. It did not speak, because it had seen Su Ming's actions on the planet. It saw Su Ming kneeling for a prolonged period of time in front of the tombstone. After that it, it stayed beside Su Ming and just walked forward quietly. It did not know where Su Ming wanted to go, but since Su Ming did not want to speak, then it would also keep quiet.

They continued walking until an incredibly ordinary looking planet appeared before them. It did not have much spiritual energy, and it was incredibly desolate. There weren't even many cultivators there.

Su Ming stared at the planet in silence for a moment before he walked over. He landed on an unbroken mountain range to the northeast of the planet and looked down on a village at the foot of the mountain. It was… his mother's homeland, which he had seen when he saw the soul fragment's past.

He watched it silently, and after a long while he said faintly, "Either you go away, or you go away."

Su Ming's murderous aura had not dissipated, and it was impossible for it dissipate just because he had wiped off all the Ancestors' souls to worship his mother. Even though he had never met his mother before… she was still his mother!

Her soul had dissipated by then, and the reason for it was because of the previous Tribe Elder. Su Ming was already being merciful by not destroying all the Spiritlings.

The murderous aura in his heart did not dissipate. At that moment, if someone who could not read the mood came to provoke him, that person… would have to face Su Ming whose killing intent had reached a murderous degree!

And precisely at that moment… a person who could not read the mood appeared.

"You're far too conceited!" A cold and sinister voice echoed in the air. Cang San Nu swiftly appeared on another mountain not too far from Su Ming. When he looked at Su Ming, an intense fighting spirit appeared in his eyes.

"I am a Sovereign of Dawn in Avacaniya Realm, Cang…"

Cang San Nu had just started speaking and had yet to say his name while swinging his arm when Su Ming turned his head around. A hint of ferociousness as well as killing intent appeared on his face.

"Get lost!"

When he said that one word, the world rumbled. The planet trembled slightly, and the entire Expanse Cosmos began shuddering. His voice was like roaring thunder, and the instant it reverberated through the Expanse Cosmos, the air in front of Su Ming distorted. Cang San Nu's expression changed drastically. The mountain range beneath him… crumbled in an instant. It did not shatter to pieces, but was instantly reduced to ash.

Cang San Nu coughed up seven consecutive mouthfuls of blood, and he was forced back about seventy thousand feet. When he finally managed to stop, he lifted his head swiftly, and shock appeared on his face.

When Su Ming's voice echoed through Spiritling Expanse Cosmos, Cang San Nu's heart shuddered. During that moment, three black-robed men appeared in Spiritling Expanse Cosmos with bodies surrounded by fog.

The three of them swiftly spread out, and as they traveled forward, Su Ming's will came into contact with them, but it would phase through them as if they were invisible. It seemed like his will could not detect the three black-robed men, like there was some strange object on the trio's bodies that would allow them to avoid his will.

The three split into three directions. When they moved, they created multiple versions of themselves and entered almost each of the cultivation planets in Spiritling Expanse Cosmos in search of the powerful warriors in this galaxy. Once they did, they would whisper to them.

"Spiritling Expanse Cosmos' will has been seized by someone else. This person has great bloodlust, is brutal and callous. Now that your Expanse Cosmos' will has been snatched away, the Expanse Cosmos' life will definitely end within five hundred years, and a disaster will fall on you.

"In fact, from now on, all of the cultivators in this Expanse Cosmos will no longer be able to advance in your levels of cultivation, because this person… has already taken away everything that belongs to you!

"This person has the personality of a demon, and his power is like that of a tree, when there are plenty of trees, a forest will be formed… We cannot cut it down, and neither can we destroy it. We can only seal it!

"We… come from Life Extermination Hall!"

The three black-robed man searched for all the powerful warriors they could find in Spiritling Expanse Cosmos and said those words to them. The powerful warriors fell silent upon hearing them. They would normally not believe in unknown people's words so easily, but the name of Life Extermination Hall… seemed to have chased away all their doubts and turned them into belief.

Chapter 1315: Cang San Nu's Confidence

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

There was one of the black-robed men in the cultivation planet where Su Ming stood. Once he said his things and walked out of a cave abode, he lifted his head and cast a glance at the sky. With it, a drop of crimson blood appeared at the center of his brow.

It looked like it had been branded into his forehead. When it shone with a red light, it allowed him to see far into the distance, and he saw Su Ming standing at the top of the mountain.

He also saw the shocked Cang San Nu.

"He's just a mere cultivator in Avacaniya Realm. How dare he provoke a person like this? Hmph, this person is highly valued by the Progenitor, and he has been preparing for that person for years, there is no way a mere cultivator in Avacaniya Realm can affect him.

"If it weren't because the Progenitor has given us his origin blood, we would not dare to show even a single strand of hair before this person, but now… Even if this person has already surpassed Arid Triad, he will still be unable to find us," the black-robed man said faintly and swung his arm to turn into a long arc that flew into the sky before he disappeared without a trace.

Cang San Nu stared at Su Ming in shock. His face was slightly pale, but when he gritted his teeth, the unwillingness to admit defeat appeared on his face. Madness burned in his eyes, as if he had something he could depend on that made him absolutely confident that he could kill Su Ming. His will to fight instantly burned again.

"I am Cang San Nu, and I am here to challenge you!"

'Is this person an idiot?' The bald crane laid down in a lackadaisical fashion beside Su Ming, then cast a sideways glance at the roaring Cang San Nu.

'Strange. Why is there such a strange person in Dark Dawn's camp? Su Ming forced him back seventy thousand feet with a shout, and he still dares to challenge him?' The bald crane scrutinized Cang San Nu, and it determined that he was an idiot.

'Dark Dawn's camp is quite interesting. Among the three Sovereigns of Dawn, one is Yan Pei, and another one is an idiot. I wonder what the third one is like…'

A smug look appeared on the bald crane's face. It felt that if they were to compare their intelligences, the bald crane would definitely have the upper hand.

"I have killed three people from the previous aeon who had woken up, so you will be the fourth I will kill. Then, I will change my name to Cang Si Nu!"

As Cang San Nu roared, he raised his hands and swung them. The area around him was immediately dyed crimson. A strong bloody stench instantly filled the area. Once it did, the old man lifted his right hand and pushed downwards.

"Blood Spirit!"

Roars immediately echoed in the blood-red world. Five figures gathered up in the bloody air. They looked contorted and were covered in fresh blood. At the moment they appeared, they looked at Su Ming, then turned into five long arcs that charged towards him.

As they approached him, Su Ming scowled. His murderous aura erupted from him at that moment. He brought his right hand up, then seized the air in front of him. With it, the incoming five Blood Spirits shuddered before they broke down into countless droplets of blood that charged towards Su Ming's right hand. They merged together to form a blood pearl above his palm.

With a fierce squeeze, the blood pearl shattered, and ripples even stirred up in the air around him, causing distortions to appear. Then, the blood-red world shattered in the manner akin to how a mirror would break.

Cang San Nu's expression changed again. When he staggered backwards, he coughed up blood, but he still did not give up. Great confidence showed on his face. It stayed with him, causing him to believe that no matter what, he would definitely win the fight!

He bit the tip of his tongue and coughed up blood. It immediately turned into a blood dragon, and once it roared at the sky, it sucked in a sharp breath. The crumbling blood-red world was immediately sucked into its mouth, and its body swelled up to ten thousand feet before it charged towards Su Ming.

"Since you want to die, I will fulfill your request."

Su Ming's expression was dark. When he spoke, he took a step forward. He did not try to evade the blood dragon charging at him, but simply allowed it to open its mouth and devour him.

The moment they came into contact with each other, Su Ming did not even bother to attack. However, the blood dragon let out a shrill scream of pain. Devouring Su Ming was like devouring an entire galaxy, and it was beyond what it could manage.

Even colliding against him made it feel as if it had crashed into a wall that could not be shaken. The rebound that came back at it caused the blood dragon to roar in pain, and its body instantly crumbled.

Su Ming did not stop. With one step, he instantly appeared beside Cang San Nu. He lifted his right hand and swung his arm, and Su Ming's will descended with a bang.

"Slave 1!"

Cang San Nu's expression changed. When he swiftly retreated, he opened his mouth and spat out a pearl. It let out a bang and crumbled to turn into green fog. When it collided with Su Ming's will, booming sounds filled the air, and a withered hand stretched out from the green fog.

A presence that did not belong to their aeon spread out from the arm. It moved so fast that the instant Su Ming's will came into contact with it, it tried to grab his right hand. Su Ming let out a cold harrumph and simply allowed the right hand to seize his arm, then he flipped his hand and pushed forward.

With that push, the world roared, wind blew, and the green fog vanished to reveal a mummy that was once a child of about eight or nine years old. Red light was in the mummy's eyes. It did not possess any intelligence, and once it grabbed Su Ming's right hand, it pounced on him.

Su Ming flung his arm, and a huge force erupted from his body to rush into the mummy's body. With a bang, the mummy crumbled.

"You have indeed surpassed a normal cultivator in Avacaniya Realm, and you are indeed worthy of killing some of the weaker people who woke up… but you should not have provoked me," Su Ming said flatly. With the mummy alone, Cang San Nu already possessed the right to threaten some of those in Avacaniya Realm.

"I'm very curious. What sort of method did you use to kill those who woke up, and why do you… have such confidence that made you provoke me?"

Su Ming's eyes flashed. He did not care about the old man's appearance, but the mummy and its presence made it obvious that they were a sleeping person from the previous aeon. Su Ming had met this sort of person before, but he could not kill him. He could only seal him.

Yet right then, there was clearly the aura of death on the mummy, and it its intelligence had clearly been wiped off before it was refined into a weapon.

"You can experience it yourself!"

Madness appeared on Cang San Nu's face. Once Su Ming destroyed the first mummy, he took a few steps backwards, and when he opened his mouth, he spat out another pearl that immediately turned into black air. Right after that, the third pearl flew out from Cang San Nu's mouth.

The two pearls practically appeared at the same time. Once they turned into black and white fog respectively, two mummies appeared in them. One of them belonged to a man, and the other to a woman. When they appeared, the presence that did not belong to the current aeon appeared once more.

Once the two mummies appeared, the baffling confidence showed up on Cang San Nu's face again. Su Ming did not believe that the old man before him was an idiot or a madman who lusted after battles. On the contrary, Su Ming believed that the old man definitely had a skill in hand that allowed him such confidence, and that skill… should be so incredibly powerful that it defied the laws of heaven.

This belief was incredibly strong. While Su Ming did not sense any form of danger from the old man, but that belief was strong in his heart every single time they clashed.

There was no way anyone who reached Avacaniya Realm could be a fool. If the person dared to appear before him and still chose to attack after hearing his roar, it… interested Su Ming.

In the face of the two people who had once woken up but whose consciousness and lives had been wiped off so they became puppets, Su Ming seized air with his right hand. The End of Wills Sword immediately appeared in his hand. With one slash, two rays of dazzling purple light instantly appeared.

Once that purple light sliced through the mummies, the two puppets jolted and were torn apart in front of Su Ming before they were reduced to ash. During that moment, the sword in Su Ming's hand flew out and charged towards the center of Cang San Nu's brow.

He wanted to force the old man to use that skill which gave him such confidence. He wanted to see just what caused this person to be so confident and what had allowed him to kill three powerful warriors from the previous aeon who had fused with their other selves.

The purple light from the End of Wills Sword instantly closed in on its target. Cang San Nu's expression changed. He instantly moved back, and a hint of ferociousness appeared on his face. Since all of his methods were useless against Su Ming and his three slaves—his killing moves—could not even withstand a single blow, he could only… use his final attack.

He believed that once he brought out this item, Su Ming would be just like the other three people who had woken up. He would immediately die due to the shockwave, and he would instantly be able to turn the tides of battle and become the final winner.

He believed in this firmly, because the item's strength was one which had never disappointed him before!

He had not immediately brought the item out but kept it for the final moment because he liked the excitement and striking back when it looked like his opponent had the complete advantage. He could overturn all his enemy's advantages, which meant that his target would be struck by despair at the moment they were feeling the most confident.

He loved watching how their expressions changed. That was why he did not feel any sense of loss when his three slaves were destroyed, because he knew… that he was about to obtain… a puppet who was even stronger than those three slaves!

With confidence and madness on his face, right when the End of Wills Sword closed in on him, Cang San Nu threw his head back and laughed loudly. As he did so, he brought his right hand up and viciously struck the spot between his eyebrows. The clothes covering his chest were torn, and once his chest was revealed, Su Ming saw that… there was a thin membrane the size of a palm on the old man's chest!

It looked to be stuck to his body. When Su Ming saw it, a sense of danger instantly rose within him, and his heart jolted.

It was at that moment that the End of Wills Sword closed in on the old man, and an ancient presence swiftly spread out from the thin membrane. Su Ming's End of Wills Sword shuddered swiftly, and it could no longer move forward.

Everything in the area instantly fell silent. Su Ming stared at the membrane in fixation, and a loud bang shot up in his mind.

'This presence…'