"Your Grandpa Crane … I won't ask for much. One spot will do. One spot. Even if you want me to call you grandpa, I'll do it. One spot!" With an expectant look on its face, the black crane flapped its wings and arrived in front of the broken ship, right in front of Su Ming.
The gigantic net behind it was boundless. There were hundreds of thousands of Waves of Tears packed densely within it, and none of them were less than one thousand feet tall. There were quite a number of them that were ten thousand feet tall, and there were even a dozen something Waves of Tears that were one hundred thousand feet tall.
What caused Su Ming's heart to tremble was that there was a Wave of Tears that exuded an old presence among the Waves of Tears. Its entire body was golden, and it was four hundred thousand something feet tall. Its eyes were closed, and it did not move.
"It's you again, little crane." An ancient voice with a strange tone came out of the mouth of the old man who was Su Ming's Host Body in an elegant manner.
This was not Su Ming's voice, but the old man's.
Su Ming might have felt that he had become the old man, but in truth, it would be more appropriate to describe his current state as a third party, and he was witnessing this scene that had once been silent in the passage of time.
He looked at the black crane before him, and he had originally been a little uncertain, but when he heard the black crane's voice and saw its arrogant and vulgar presence, Su Ming was eight-tenths certain that the black crane before him was the bald crane from the past.
If he were to make deductions based on this, then the time he was in should have been incredibly ancient …
'Nine living beings, four races …' A thought appeared in Su Ming's heart.
'Ecang and the bald crane are all life forms of the same level. Could it be … that they are among the nine lives mentioned in the ballad?' This thought caused Su Ming's pupils to shrink. At that moment, the old man's voice suddenly traveled into his ears once again.
"Whether or not I can get a spot will depend on whether the offerings you bring me have what I need." The old man shook his head and lifted his right hand to point at the black crane. Immediately, the body of a Wave of Tears that was two thousand something feet tall instantly dissipated from the net behind the black crane. It disappeared from the net, and when it reappeared, it was right in front of the old man.
As soon as the Wave of Tears left the net, it let out a piercing howl. Its eyes shone with madness and ferocity. It lifted its right claw and shot toward the old man.
The old man's expression remained the same. He only cast an indifferent glance at the incoming Wave of Tears. With that one glance, the Wave of Tears suddenly shuddered, and the ferocious glint in its eyes instantly disappeared. At the instant it closed in on the old man, it came to an abrupt stop and lowered its head to worship the old man.
Su Ming saw the old man lifting his right hand, or perhaps more accurately speaking, he sensed himself lifting his right hand and pressing it against the top of the Wave of Tears' skull. With it, a gentle wisp of power surged into the Wave of Tears' body. Once it swam through the beast's body, it started trembling viciously. It lifted its head swiftly, and its roars shook the sky. Its eyes turned crimson, and its body instantly grew at a speed visible to the naked eye. In the blink of an eye, it was no longer one thousand feet tall, but a gigantic beast that was ten thousand feet tall.
It was as if the gentle power the old man had sent into the Wave of Tears' body was a strange power that could stimulate the Wave of Tears' state of being. As that power swam through the beast's body, it caused the Wave of Tears to erupt with its full power.
This shocking scene caused Su Ming's heart to tremble in shock. He did not know just what sort of power would be needed to make a ferocious beast's state of being increase by leaps and bounds at that instant.
Clearly, this was not the end. Su Ming immediately saw that when the gentle power from the old man's right hand swam through the Wave of Tears' body a second time, the ten thousand feet tall Wave of Tears trembled even more furiously. In the blink of an eye, its entire body was drenched in blood. Its flesh and blood grew in a bizarre manner, and its body continued growing larger. Then, with a pained and crazed roar … it grew to one hundred thousand feet tall from ten thousand feet.
The shock in Su Ming's heart was difficult to describe. He stared at the one hundred thousand feet tall Wave of Tears. He wanted to see just what sort of changes would happen to it once the old man's power swam through its body a third time.
In the span of a breath, that power swam through its body a third time.
The one hundred thousand feet tall Wave of Tears shuddered. Blood covered its entire body, and its body instantly swelled up. Two hundred thousand feet, three hundred thousand feet, four hundred thousand feet … As its body continued growing exponentially, desire and determination appeared on the black crane's face. The Waves of Tears in the boundless net behind it were all stunned. As they stared at the Wave of Tears that had now become seven hundred thousand something feet tall, their bodies trembled, and they immediately knelt down to worship it, as if they were going to greet their king.
However, almost the instant they knelt down and the Wave of Tears' body nearly reached nine hundred thousand feet, the Wave of Tears let out a shrill scream of pain that shook the sky and earth. Its body … let out a bang and crumbled, as if it could not withstand the exponential increase in its state of being and had exploded.
"How was it, old man? How's the offering this time?" the black crane quickly asked with a nervous expression.
"Old man, if it still doesn't work this time, then there's nothing I can do. How many years has it been? How many offerings have I brought you? It's just a spot, is there a need for you to be so stingy?!" When the bald crane saw that the old man did not speak, it instantly became anxious.
"It's still not enough," the old man said faintly after some time.
"But this time, you can keep the offering."
When the black crane heard the old man's first sentence, its expression instantly became dejected, but when it heard the second sentence, its eyes immediately lit up. It did not think that it would be able to obtain the spot in one go. As long as the old man wanted the offering, then as time passed, it would have the chance to obtain the spot.
That was why it beamed with joy. With one move, it immediately turned into a long arc that charged towards the galaxy in the distance, disappearing without a trace in the span of a breath.
Once the black crane left, Su Ming looked at the hundreds of thousands of Waves of Tears in the net before him, and a contemplative look appeared on his face. He did not know what was the goal of the black stone fragment when the second mountain appeared and sucked his soul into this illusion that was clearly something that had existed since ancient times.
He could not help but recall the voice that echoed in his head when he touched the mountain gate in the tunnel in the black stone fragment's dimension.
"The first spirit you offered is the spirit of the Waves of Tears. This spirit has a flaw. If you find its flaw, you can kill this race … You have an endless amount of time to use the Scattering Stones you offered previously to create Decaying Spirit that can stimulate this spirit's flaw. If you give up … then the first step of nurturing the Spirit of Life Extermination will not be to choose the Waves of Tears' spirit."
Su Ming frowned, but at the instant he did so, he was suddenly stunned. He had previously felt that he had become the old man, but in truth, he was only watching from the perspective of a third party. Yet now, as the frown appeared, a thought appeared in Su Ming's heart, and a glint appeared in his eyes. He lifted his right hand, lowered his head, and slowly stood up.
In the vast galaxy was a gigantic, broken ship. Su Ming cast his gaze forward from the bow of the ship, and all he could see was darkness.
After a moment of thought, Su Ming suddenly spoke slowly.
"Scattering Stones."
Almost at the instant Su Ming said those words, the space in front of him distorted, and medicinal cores appeared. They came from all sorts of sects and sects, and they were clearly the items Su Ming had offered to open the mountain gate when he was in the tunnel leading to the first mountain in the fragment's dimension.
As he looked at them, Su Ming felt as if he was looking at his past. He saw the memories of the past hidden in the depths of his memories.
He sighed softly and focused his mind. He stared at the medicinal pills floating before him, then at the hundreds of thousands of Waves of Tears trapped in the net. Gradually, he came to an understanding.
First of all, this was an illusory dimension. Second, there were medicinal pills before Su Ming, along with the hundreds of thousands of Waves of Tears. This was the same as preparing test subjects for Su Ming.
With the different combinations of these medicinal pills, he could create a Decaying Spirit Core that could specifically target the weaknesses of the Waves of Tears' lives and wipe out their entire race!
'The creation of this Decaying Spirit Core requires repeated attempts and a full understanding of the Waves of Tears. In fact, I have to know these ferocious beasts' habits, lifestyle, and even the structure of their blood like the back of my hand. Only then can I find a weakness that can target this swarm of beasts and create this Decaying Spirit Core.
'Forget about whether I can succeed or not, even if I can create it in the end, I will still need an incredibly long period of time … Based on this, there's a high possibility that the flow of time in this illusory dimension is not the same as that in the world outside.'
A thought appeared in Su Ming's heart. He immediately looked at the net floating in the space before him. The hundreds of thousands of Waves of Tears in it had long since stopped roaring. Instead, they remained in various postures, as if they had been frozen.
'In fact, there's a high possibility … that the time in this place … has stopped compared to the world outside, because this is something that happened in the past. It does not coexist with the current time.' A glint appeared in Su Ming's eyes. He was not unfamiliar with this sort of dimension in his life. It did not matter whether it was the black stone fragment, the Candle Dragon's world, or Ecang's world, Su Ming had experienced quite a lot of them.
Time in some of these dimensions had slowed down compared to the world outside, and in some of them, it was the same as the world outside. Su Ming had once wondered just what sort of reason had caused these dimensions to be different.
However, this sort of thinking was too complicated, and Su Ming could not figure it out. At that moment, he looked at the space around him, and after a moment of silence, a focused glint appeared in his eyes. When he lifted his right hand, he pointed at the hundreds of thousands of Waves of Tears in the net.
Immediately, a spot on the net became indistinct. The Wave of Tears Su Ming had pointed at disappeared and appeared beside him. It had its eyes wide open and was staring at Su Ming, but like a statue, it did not move.
Su Ming stared at the Wave of Tears before him, then lifted his right hand and pressed it against its body. His divine sense swiftly spread out and fused into the Wave of Tears' body, and he began observing it in detail bit by bit.
He wanted to understand everything about this creature, and from there, he would find the flaw that would destroy its race and create the Decaying Spirit Core for Waves of Tears!
'The moment the old man touched the Wave of Tears, he instantly made the creature's state of being continuously increase. Clearly, during that instant, he gained complete control over the Wave of Tears' life structure, which is why he could do this.
'If he could do this to the Wave of Tears, then the old man should be able to easily do the same to other life forms.
'He only needed an instant, but I needed an endless amount of time, but our direction is the same. One of these days, I will be able to do the same.'
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