Su Ming was silent. He stared at the man before him, then lifted his right hand to take the three-leaf clover that was exuding a thick green hue. He did not have the urge to examine the treasure. With an apathetic expression, he put it away.
"Release Long Hai's soul," Su Ming said faintly.
The man formed by the one thousand feet tall tree did not hesitate. He closed his eyes, and when he reopened them, a crack instantly appeared at the center of his brows. It was pitch black inside, and a ball of dark light flew out from within. It was a Nascent Divinity, and once it left the crack at the center of the man's brows, it turned into an old man.
The old man's expression was one of excitement. His Nascent Divinity trembled, and his thoughts surged like a tidal wave. All that had happened during the past ten thousand years rose in his heart.
He had once thought that he would have to live his life like this, become a puppet until he died. In fact, he would have to live without freedom, and even death would not be under his control. He could only wait for a long time. This sort of pain was enough to make a person break down. He was not like the people in Ecang's foreign land. After all, they still had their memories to keep them company. After all, they still had hope placed before them.
But the old man did not have any of that. If he was not an Almighty Master of Fate, Lives, and Death and had a will that a normal person could not possess, he would have lost himself a long time ago.
"Make up for your unfinished oath." Su Ming's voice interrupted the thoughts in the old man's heart. His Nascent Divinity floated in front of Su Ming. When he heard Su Ming's words, he looked over. After remaining silent for about two breaths, he wrapped his fist in his palm and bowed deeply towards Su Ming.
"I, Long Hai, am willing to protect you for ten thousand years to repay you for saving my life. This is my oath, and I will definitely keep my word!" As he bowed, the indistinct connection in Su Ming's heart instantly became clear and fused into his mind.
That connection might not allow him to control Progenitor Long Hai, but it had already turned into an oath. If Progenitor Long Hai obeyed it, then he would be suppressed by the entire universe. After all, this was an oath he swore with his power.
In truth, the main reason why Su Ming had chosen to save Progenitor Long Hai was because this person … came from True Morning Dao World. After all, Su Ming had Possessed Dao Kong, which meant that he had also indirectly obtained True Morning Dao World's kismet from Dao Kong. When he destroyed Ye Wang's kismet in the past, his own kismet became the only one left.
Because of it, if it was a cultivator from another True World who swore an oath, then perhaps there would be some changes to it, but the people from True Morning Dao World swore to the kismet who had obtained the favor of the entire True World, so it was only natural that the oath would not be easily changed.
Su Ming cast Progenitor Long Hai a glance, then swung his arm. Progenitor Long Hai's Nascent Divinity immediately charged towards him. He did not fight back, but allowed himself to be led by Su Ming. At the instant he touched Su Ming's body, he fused into it and stepped into the body of the supreme treasure to become its seventh soul.
"The Xuan family's supreme treasure …" Forefather Long Hai's eyes suddenly flickered. He immediately sensed the souls of the other people within the body of the supreme treasure.
"Do you know about this item?" Su Ming sent a thought to him.
"I went to the Xuan family in the past and was somewhat acquainted with their ancestor, which is why I know about this treasure." As Progenitor Long Hai spoke, Su Ming controlled the body of the supreme treasure and cast his gaze towards the man who was the one thousand feet tall tree in front of him.
The man continued bowing respectfully, and the zealous look on his face was still very strong.
Su Ming remained silent for some time before he asked calmly, "Can you leave this dimension?"
"I can't. Unless you step into the core of the fifth kiln and become its true master … and repair the fifth kiln, only then can we leave," the man immediately said.
Su Ming remained silent for a moment before he nodded at the man. Under the man's respectful gaze, Su Ming turned around and walked into the distance. With one step, he arrived at the edge of the exit of the dimension, and his footsteps came to a halt.
However, he still did not turn his head back. After a moment of pause, he stepped into the exit and entered the dimensional crack, disappearing from the dimension.
Su Ming did not pay any attention to the loss of one thousand years of his life in the dimensional crack. Once he stepped into the crack, he closed his eyes.
When he did so, the voice of Dust Burners' Progenitor echoed in his head in the past.
"The baby in his wife's womb was cursed …
"Su Xuan Yi used all his divine abilities, but he could only prevent the curse from worsening, but he could not get rid of it …
"Then, one day, he brought his wife and left this place. No one knows where they went …
"The fifth kiln has two masters. Su Xuan Yi is the second, but in truth, there is a third master, and that is his son. It's a pity that this person … never came."
Su Ming walked through the crack in the dimension. His expression was as calm as ever, but he had his eyes shut, hiding away the complicated emotions that had arisen in his heart due to these thoughts. He also hid away the voice of the man that was the one thousand feet tall tree echoing in his head at that moment.
"When the old master returned to the kiln for the last time, with fatigue in his eyes, he sent his will to all the existences in the kiln and told us … to continue waiting. His children will descend into the fifth kiln many years later!"
There was a complicated look on Su Ming's face. He opened his eyes and stared at the flow of time in the dimensional crack around him. He did not care about the disappearance of his life force. There was an epiphany in his eyes, but the complicated look in that epiphany was a sadness that no one could see through.
He could vaguely see Su Xuan Yi bringing his wife with him when the Fifth True World was destroyed by the four Great True Worlds working together and borrowing the power of the fifth kiln to leave the fifth dimension in a dejected manner.
In Divine Essence Star Ocean, he watched the baby in his wife's body continuously being tortured by the curse. He watched his wife become thinner with each passing day, and grief seeped into his heart, but he could do nothing about it. He used all his methods and all his divine abilities, but he still could not get rid of the curse in his child's body.
Many years later, he left with his wife. He should have found a way to get rid of the baby's curse. With excitement and hope in his heart, he walked out of Divine Essence Star Ocean.
However, the twists and turns in the process caused a huge change when they passed by True Morning Dao World. Dao Chen's greed and the entire Morning Dao Sect's pursuit made him, who had been continuously paying the price of his cultivation base for his wife and child over the years, incredibly tired. Besides, he had to protect his wife and child, so he could not bring out his true power.
During that battle … his wife died. Filled with grief, he, who had already gone mad, threw his head back and laughed forlornly. There were tears in his laughter, along with a madness that wanted to destroy the world and collapse the universe.
Once he said that the True World's Abyss Builders … he disappeared.
Perhaps … at that time, he had also given up on the method he had originally thought of to get rid of the curse in the baby's body and chose another path.
He should have succeeded in this path, or else why would he return to the fifth kiln in exhaustion and say those words to the living beings in the fifth kiln?
These words could clearly express that he had already been separated from his son, but he was certain that his son would definitely come to the fifth kiln one day and find traces of him there.
The grief on Su Ming's face was complicated, but there was also confusion. He was unfamiliar with the term 'father'. When he was young, he had seen his companions in the tribe who had fathers but he did not. He had been sad and asked his elder about it, but he had not obtained an answer.
He had always thought that he was a child who had been picked up. This might have been a child's thought when he was young, but it had followed him for thousands of years. Even now, when he thought back to it, he could still sense the envy and anguish in his heart at that time.
He envied others for having a mother and a father, but he did not have one.
'He … fought against Dao Chen in the past, and his wife died … He went mad … but why did he return to the fifth kiln..? Did he just come back to say those words? Or did he choose to … heal his wounds here?' Su Ming stared at the dimensional cracks around him and watched his life force disappear. He fell silent.
'If he's healing his injuries, then does that mean … that he's currently in the fifth kiln?!' A strange light shone in Su Ming's eyes. This thought caused him to be unable to control his thoughts.
'Or perhaps …' Su Ming shuddered. He had another guess, and it was based on the life force and life force absorbed by the dimensional cracks.
'When he returned in the past, he wasn't alone, but had a corpse in his arms. It was a woman's corpse, and it was his wife …
'When he returned to the fifth kiln, he placed his wife at the core and changed the structure of the fifth kiln. He had Dust Burners carry out a plan that lasted for countless years, causing the fifth kiln to be frequently activated and use the supreme treasure in this place to attract countless powerful warriors.
'He made them give up a large amount of their life force when they moved through dimensions while fighting for the supreme treasure … so that he could save his wife!' Su Ming shuddered. This thought continued echoing in his head until it became everything in his mind.
'Which of these two guesses is true …?' Su Ming closed his eyes.
After a long while, when Su Ming stepped out of the dimensional crack and entered another dimension, he opened his eyes. There was still a complicated look on his face. There was a dazed look in his eyes, but there was also a hint of … nervousness in his heart!
This nervousness was not due to excitement or fear. Instead, he remembered the time when he was in Western Ring Nebula's foreign lands. In the illusions in the depths of his memories, he had sensed a woman holding him in her arms when he was still a baby. That unfamiliar but warm feeling, along with her determination to protect her child even in the face of death, was branded into Su Ming's life, a mark that would never fade away.
This unfamiliarity and warmth turned into a soft murmur that reached Su Ming's ears at that moment.
"Su …" Su Ming shuddered. He lifted his head, but he did not look at the world in this dimension. Instead, he looked at the sky.
"Is it you..?" he mumbled.
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