Wind stirred and clouds surged in the sky. As the world roared, fog tumbled about in all directions, and a gigantic shadow appeared out of nowhere. It looked as if it had walked out of space to stand in the sky.
That figure was several hundreds of feet tall. He was dressed in golden armor and looked like a war immortal. As his long hair danced in the air, his golden face was revealed. There was not a hint of emotion on that face, and it was as aloof as metal.
However, there was a long chain wrapped around the figure's shoulders. It was a chain that stretched to the depths of the sky!
However, what caused Old Ya Mu's pupils to shrink was not this person. Ya Mu's gaze did not land on this person either. Instead, he was staring at the depths of the space where the chain stretched.
This person … was not Su Xuan Yi!
At that moment, an incredibly powerful will descended on the ground with a bang. The fog tumbled about beside the golden figure, and golden light spread to one hundred thousand feet. Another golden figure walked out from the air.
They had the same height, the same awe-inspiring presence, the same expressionless face, and the same … chains wrapped around their bodies.
Almost at the instant the second golden figure appeared, another boundless golden light shone beside it. In a piercing manner, a third golden figure appeared.
Three golden-armored giants, three golden figures with chains on their bodies, roared in unison after they appeared. All of them bent down, as if they were pulling on the chains, and walked forward.
Booming sounds shook the sky and earth, but Su Ming could not hear a single sound while he was in the fog. In fact, he did not even have the time to pay attention to the tumbling fog above him.
At that moment, as intense pain filled his entire body and the God Ascension Nectar in his body spilled out, the madness that made him want to explode erupted in response to the drastic change in his Ecang clone.
As it erupted and the three ferocious spirits screamed in pain around him, Su Ming's mind cleared up once again. With just one glance, he saw the three ferocious spirits beside him floating in the air. Their bodies were pierced through by numerous branches, and those branches … were growing out of Su Ming's body.
Shrill howls burst from the mouths of the three evil spirits. Their faces were filled with pain. Their bodies were withering rapidly, as if the branches that had penetrated into their bodies were rapidly devouring their flesh and blood essence, their cultivation bases, and their souls.
In fact, Su Ming could clearly see veins popping up on the three ferocious spirits' bodies and squirming nonstop. However, that was not due to blood, and neither was it due to spasms. Instead … it was because Su Ming's branch was swiftly spreading through the three ferocious spirits' bodies.
To Su Ming, the branches were a part of his body, and they were inseparable. He could clearly sense their actions, and he could even control them slightly.
As he sensed this, Su Ming's heart trembled furiously, because he saw that the branches that had spread out from his body could devour the three ferocious spirits' flesh, blood, and cultivation bases, and make them let out such shrill screams of pain … It was because …
The branches were not simply devouring them, but were swiftly breaking down the three ferocious spirits' bodies. It was as if … the branches were using an incredibly fast speed to search for the flaws in the three ferocious spirits' bodies and the parts they lacked. Once they used them, they would get rid of them in one go. This scene was similar to when Su Ming had encountered the Waves of Tears in Divine Essence Star Ocean. He had turned into Old Man Extermination, and after conducting countless years of research, he had found the flaws that caused the Waves of Tears to be exterminated!
Su Ming's heart trembled. A picture swiftly rose in his head. It was the one he had seen in the Seed of Life Extermination before. In it, Old Man Extermination was facing the numerous living beings offering sacrifices to a gigantic, ancient ship in the galaxy. With just one wave of his hand, he instantly learned of the flaws in their lives.
This scene had shocked Su Ming. He had once longed for it, but he knew that it was something far beyond his reach. Yet now … a brilliant light shone in Su Ming's eyes. He noticed that he was no longer so far away from the Old Man Extermination in the picture!
'Ecang's transformation … is due to the God Ascension Nectar, but the main reason is because of the Seed of Life Extermination!' Su Ming did not know just how great of a shock his Ecang clone had caused to the entire Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos when he fused perfectly with his body, neither did he know that Old Ya Mu was staring at space warily in the world beyond the fog above him.
In the void, as the three golden-armored giants bent their waists and took a step to turn the iron chains, booming sounds reverberated in all directions. Gradually, a huge silhouette appeared in Ya Mu's eyes.
It was a war chariot, a war chariot that was completely golden and looked like the sun!
The war chariot was one thousand feet big. Just its outline alone immediately brought about a powerful, mighty pressure to Ya Mu, causing the fifth kiln to roar. Endless seas of fire surged into the sky.
"Su Xuan Yi!" Old Ya Mu lifted his right hand and clenched his fist in front of him. Immediately, black light shone in his fist. When he opened his hand to reveal his palm, a black ball of light appeared on his palm.
The blackness of the ball of light was like an abyss that devoured all light in the world. There were countless illusory figures constantly flashing within it, and every time they flashed, a different mountain would appear. In just a few breaths' time, tens of millions of mountains had appeared within it.
Ya Mu stared at space, and the wariness in his eyes was replaced by a powerful fighting spirit. It was as if he was waiting for the indistinct outline to become corporeal and reveal … the second strongest Abyss Builders in the Fifth True World … Su Xuan Yi. This was the prodigy that Abyss Builders' Progenitor predicted would definitely surpass him in the future.
At the instant Ya Mu looked at space, the booming sounds reached their strongest point. As they rumbled, the three giants in golden armor roared at the same time and took a swift step forward to tug at the chains. The indistinct war chariot looked as if it had been dragged out of an illusion and into the real world.
The world instantly turned golden. The golden sky, the golden land, the golden fog, and the golden space revealed a golden war chariot!
There was also a figure dressed in a golden robe standing on the war chariot. His white hair fluttered in the wind as if it had been dyed gold.
It was a man, an extremely handsome middle-aged man who seemed to have experienced the vicissitudes of life. His eyes were cold, and his countenance was like metal. His body exuded a merciless coldness, as if there was not a shred of human emotion on his body.
Old Ya Mu stared at the aloof man on the golden war chariot and asked in a low voice, "Which clone of Su Xuan Yi are you?!"
"The third clone." As the middle-aged man spoke flatly, he lifted his right hand. Immediately, an endless amount of golden light shone on his right hand and turned into a longsword. That sword was about ten feet long, and its edges were sharp. With just a slight swing, the sound of space being torn apart rang out.
"Are you the one who wants to hurt my Ming Er?" The coldness in the middle-aged man's eyes became even colder. He did not speak much, but when he did, the entire world instantly felt as if it had been plunged into ice that had been frozen for ten thousand years.
Cracking sounds rose in the air around them, and signs of freezing appeared. That ice spread out swiftly like a spider's web, causing the sky to instantly turn into a huge ice flower!
Old Ya Mu's expression changed. Just as he was about to speak, the middle-aged man at the center of the ice flower in the war chariot in the sky lifted the longsword in his hand and swung it at the ground in a simple slash.
That slash sealed the world in ice. The ice flower instantly covered the ground, causing the world to turn into a complete ice flower. That slash also cut through the laws, causing the world to rumble as if it had been cut in half.
Fighting spirit rose in Old Ya Mu's eyes. The black ball of light in his right hand instantly shone with a black light. That light spread through the ice flower, as if it wanted to dye it black. When he lifted his right hand, he swung it at the incoming slash.
Immediately, the black ball of light charged into the sky and crashed into the middle-aged man's slash in midair.
"Mountain Shifter!" Old Ya Mu formed a seal with his hands. Once the mark of a mountain was formed above his head, he swung his arms outwards. Immediately, an even deeper black light erupted from the black ball of light in the sky. The tens of millions of mountains within it seemed to have appeared in the sky at the same time. This scene might seem bizarre, but in truth, at that moment, the sky had already been filled with mountains.
Booming sounds reverberated in the air. Those were the booming sounds formed by the continuous crumbling of mountains. Old Ya Mu's face turned even paler. Once he swung his arms, he immediately gathered them in front of him. He pressed his palms together to form the shape of a mountain's tip before he thrust them at the sky.
Booming sounds shook the sky once more. As the tens of millions of mountains in the air trembled, a ray of golden light swept through the area and cut down from the mountains. It moved like a hot knife through butter. Once they crumbled layer by layer, the golden light formed by the longsword instantly cut through all the mountains.
Old Ya Mu's face turned pale. He coughed up a mouthful of blood. When he fell back, the mountains in the sky crumbled, and the golden light cut down from the sky. It appeared three inches away from Old Ya Mu's head and stopped moving.
However, the chill spreading out from it had already frozen Old Ya Mu's entire body. The sharp glare on the sword also caused a crack to appear at the center of his brows.
"I respect you as a senior. Go and fulfill your promise. Let him inherit your Mountain Shifter Art and give Ming Er a serendipity." An aloof voice came from the sky, and the ice flowers in the area became even colder.
"If my real body was in Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos, your Sword Mold Style would not have been able to withstand my Mountain Shifter Art before it reached the fifth echelon!" Old Ya Mu lifted his head. He did not even look at the golden sword above his head. Instead, he stared at the indistinct golden war chariot in the sky as the mountains crumbled.
"This is the fifth kiln, and I am just the third clone," the middle-aged man on the war chariot said flatly. Said the middle-aged man in the war chariot coolly. His body gradually disappeared, and the three giants in golden armor slowly merged into the air. When he completely vanished, the ice crystals in the world slowly shrank. When the world returned to normal, the golden sword above Old Ya Mu's head turned into nothingness.
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Crooked Wai's third anniversary. The event will start at eight in the evening. If you have time, you can go and interact with it through voice chat. Later on, I will go and take a look as well. (To be continued. If you like this work, I welcome you to come to Starting Point and vote for me. Your support is my greatest motivation.)
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