'Four years …' The boundless Vast Expanse, the endless fog, the humidity around him, and the occasional sound of water dripping that came from the distance accompanied Su Ming for four years in this strange place.
The fog in this place was divided into different colors. It would occasionally change, and at other times, it would intersect with each other …
At this moment, within the purple mist, there was a figure staggering forward. The figure's footsteps were extremely slow, as if every single step he took would cause his body to suffer immense pain. It was only after a short while that figure was revealed from within the purple mist.
He had a head full of white hair and a face full of wrinkles. He looked as if he had crawled out of a grave. Not a single ripple of power could be sensed from his frail body. He was just like a mortal.
If it was not because of the determination in his eyes and the old face that allowed them to vaguely see Su Ming's face, no one would be able to imagine that this old man who looked as if he would fall from the slightest gust of wind … was Su Ming, who had been Relocated to this place four years ago.
Su Ming panted harshly and slowly walked out of the fog, but at the instant he did so, a long arc charged out from the purple fog and charged towards him. It instantly shot through his body and brought with it a trail of blood that was almost black. When it fell on the ground, it let out sizzling sounds. What had shot through Su Ming's body was a flying fish.
At the instant the flying fish shot through Su Ming's body, it was melted by the black blood he coughed up. Su Ming's feet trembled, and he fell to the ground, unmoving.
Time trickled by. When the time it takes for half an incense stick to burn passed, the purple fog started showing signs of changing color. When it slowly turned red, a figure suddenly flew out from within. It was a wild dog with flames spreading out from its entire body.
The wild dog had six eyes, and all of them were sparkling at that moment. It was so quick that it instantly closed in on Su Ming, but it did not immediately approach him. Instead, it circled around him a few times, occasionally lifting its head to look at the changing color of the fog. When it saw that the fog was about to turn red, hesitation appeared in its six eyes, and it lowered its head swiftly to bite Su Ming's neck.
Yet at the instant it opened its mouth to bite him, Su Ming lifted his right hand from his unmoving body, and he was so quick that he instantly threw a punch at the wild dog's gaping mouth. He grabbed its tongue, and in a clean and efficient manner, as if he had done this countless times during the past four years, he yanked the tongue out. At the same time, he stood up and rammed his body against the wild dog's body. As the dog let out a pained cry, Su Ming seized the wild dog's neck with his left hand and pushed it forward. At the instant the fog behind him turned from purple to red, Su Ming had already disappeared into the distance with the wild dog in tow.
There was a black mountain about ten thousand lis away from this place. It was barren, and not a single plant could be found on it. In the heart of the mountain was a cave abode, and with a flash of light, Su Ming appeared outside the cave abode with the wild dog in his hand. Almost at the instant he appeared, not only did the fog in the distance turn completely red, an indescribable wave of heat instantly erupted from it. Wherever it went, the ground would immediately melt, and all existences would disappear. Su Ming could vaguely see a few wild dogs fleeing swiftly in the area, but in the blink of an eye, they were devoured by the wave of heat and turned into ashes.
Without any hesitation, Su Ming stepped into the cave abode. At the instant he did so, the wave of heat charged towards him with a bang and crashed against the black mountain. A huge force rushed into the cave abode, and at the instant it touched Su Ming, he charged forward. Once he avoided it by a hair's breadth, he entered the depths of the cave abode in the mountain.
A dark look appeared in his eyes. He turned his head around and cast a glance behind him. In silence, he lifted the dead wild dog, bit its neck, and drank a large mouthful of its blood. Blood trickled out of the corners of Su Ming's mouth, and it was a faint golden color!
As he drank the blood, the wrinkles on Su Ming's face slowly disappeared. His hair also gradually changed. When he swallowed all of the wild dog's blood, his appearance changed drastically. He was similar to how he was four years ago, but there was an indescribable awe-inspiring air to him. That awe-inspiring pressure did not come from his expression, but from his blood and presence.
He loosened his grip and flung the wild dog's carcass to the side. It landed on a pile of skeletons that was pushed high up in the cave abode. There were thousands of them, and they were densely packed together, giving them an incredibly ghastly sight.
'Four years … This damn All Spirits Hall! It trapped me for a total of four years!' Su Ming wiped off the blood at the corners of his mouth and sat down cross-legged by the side. He stared at the sky beyond the tunnel. The color of the sky was red, and there was a wave of heat there that could instantly burn even him.
That wave of heat surpassed that of the fifth kiln and all the destructive power Su Ming had experienced previously.
'All Spirits Hall … This damn All Spirits Hall is one of the three great mysteries in Divine Essence Star Ocean. It's actually connected to the Sun Sinking Talisman. They're one entity!
'According to the legends of the tribes in Divine Essence Star Ocean, this is the place where all spirits originate from. It's the source where all Antecedental Spirits are born …' Su Ming's expression was dark. He stared at the crimson sky beyond the cave abode, and everything he had experienced during the past four years appeared in his head.
Ever since he was Relocated to this place four years ago, he had been continuously searching for the exit. At the same time, he had run into the changes in the fog, faced the terrifying red light, and faced the wave of heat that could burn him. He had gone through a near-death experience in this place.
He had also noticed that while his cultivation base had recovered, he could not replenish it in the slightest. Every single time he used up a bit of it, he would lose a bit of it forever. If he did not find the exit before he completely lost his cultivation base, there was a high possibility that he would die in this place.
This made him not dare to use his Enchanted Treasures recklessly, especially the white ring. In this strange place where he could not recover his cultivation base once he used it, preserving his strength was Su Ming's best choice.
Just as the scenes from the past four years appeared in Su Ming's mind, his pupils suddenly shrank, and his presence immediately disappeared. An aura of death surrounded Su Ming's body. He stared at the small patch of red sky he could see outside the cave abode. There were faint golden figures charging through it. He could tell that most of them were in human form, but there were also quite a number of them that looked like ferocious beasts. When they charged through the sky, they would let out piercing screeches that could make a person's soul ache in pain.
"Born in the world, but born in the world, beasts …
"That is why the world can last for a long time because it does not give birth to itself. That is why it can live. If I want to live, I can only seize life …
"The Ancestral Spirits came before the Ancestral Spirits, and the Ancestral Spirits came before the disaster of the universe. That is why those who obtain life must destroy life …" There were chaotic murmurs mixed in the piercing cries.
Su Ming stared at the figures in the crimson sky and listened to the murmurs he did not understand. He clenched his right hand into a fist and did not move. He would never forget these figures. He had seen them for the first time on the third month since he had come to this place. In the face of the strange existences that could ignore all divine abilities and cultivation bases, almost all of Su Ming's life force had been sucked away, and he had been forced to activate the supreme treasure, the ring. He had even spared no expense in using up his cultivation base to crush the creature.
However, he did not expect that once he crushed one, thousands or even tens of thousands of such strange existences would charge out from a hall that had suddenly appeared in the crimson sky and launch a frenzied chase after Su Ming in this strange world.
As he was continuously chased down, Su Ming's body became increasingly weaker. When his life force was about to be extinguished, the crimson sky disappeared, and the fog in the land turned white. At the instant it did so, all the strange creatures chasing after Su Ming disappeared without a trace.
Everything returned to normal.
There was red in Su Ming's eyes. He ended the scenes from the past four years in his mind and stared at the figures in the sky beyond the cave abode. After a long while, he turned his head around and cast his gaze on the ferocious beasts' skeletons.
If he had not accidentally discovered that there were strange ferocious beasts with flesh and blood in this place and that eating their blood could help him recover his life force and his cultivation base recover slightly, it would have been very difficult for him to persevere.
'But the ferocious beasts in this place are incredibly cunning. Clearly, they have gained intelligence. If I want to kill them, I have to kill them in one strike, or else even if I kill them, I won't be able to replenish my energy.' In silence, Su Ming lifted his right hand and touched the bloody mess on his chest. The blood there was black, and it was a type of poison formed after Su Ming had devoured the blood of a large number of ferocious beasts he had killed in this place.
The poison had already spread through Su Ming's entire body, but if he did not devour it, then he would not be able to replenish his cultivation base and life force. This was … a difficult choice. After thinking about it for a long time, Su Ming had chosen to devour it.
His blood might have turned black, but as he drank the blood of ferocious beasts for four years, strange changes had also happened to his body, such as his chest. The wound that had been pierced through previously had completely healed without Su Ming using a single bit of his cultivation base.
Time trickled by. The crimson red in the world outside lasted for a total of seven days before it slowly disappeared and turned white. When the sky in the cave abode outside Su Ming's eyes turned white, the aura of death on his body disappeared. Once it returned to normal, his expression turned dark.
'Over the past four years, I've walked through all the regions in the area. This is a world that seems to have no end. I didn't see any signs of cultivators in the areas around me … Perhaps the exit isn't on the ground, but in the palace that appeared in the sky all those years ago.' Su Ming fell silent. He had come to this conclusion a long time ago, but he had been slightly hesitant. He turned his head around and cast his gaze on the area around the cave abode. The signs that it had been excavated made it clear that this place was definitely not formed naturally.
Su Ming had accidentally found this place. It had been like this when he came here.
In silence, Su Ming cast his gaze in another direction of the cave abode. It was a corner near the stone wall. There … was a black skeleton there, and it belonged to a person. It was a cultivator, or perhaps more accurately speaking, the previous owner of the cave abode.
Even if he was dead, there were still waves of mighty pressure coming from the skeleton.
Tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, I'm going to explode in two days!
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