Su Ming quietly stared at the determination in the old man's eyes. He suddenly felt slight pity for the old man. He might be incredibly powerful, but he had always lived in self-blame and regret. He was an old man who would do anything to change his people's fates in madness.
"I will keep my promise," Su Ming said softly.
"This is your serendipity. If you fail in the ascension of your spirit, you will become a soul without consciousness, but if you succeed, you will become an Antecedental Spirit from a Successor Spirit!" The determination in the old man's eyes became firmer. He stared at Su Ming, and when his words landed in his ears, a glint suddenly shone in his eyes.
"I'm a Successor Spirit?"
"Of course you're a Successor Spirit. I learned from the cultivators of the younger generation who barged into this place about the so-called Successor Spirits and Antecedental Spirits that appeared in the new era after my era ended.
"You obtained Great Berserker Tribe's Berserkers' Awakening, which is the true Berserkers' Awakening. You also obtained Great Abyss Tribe's Abyss Sense. With these two things added together, you are no longer an ordinary Antecedental Spirit, but a Successor Spirit!
"If you take another step forward, you will become an Antecedental Spirit, but the ravine of that step is the fault between two eras. If there was no All Spirits Hall, then no matter how much you cultivate, it would be difficult for you to cross it. But now, this is your serendipity!"
When Su Ming heard the old man's words, he remembered how he was different from the other Almighties in Arid Triad. When he remembered how he could fight against the cultivators from Saint Defier's camp, he understood the reason behind it.
"With my level of cultivation, I can extract three displays of spirit ascension from the passage of time. You only have three chances to observe it. Whether you will succeed or not will depend on these three chances. I hope that you will succeed, but I have to say, even in my era, there were very few people who succeeded in spirit ascension …" The old man cast Su Ming a complicated look. He swung his arm, and Su Ming immediately felt the air around him distort. In an instant, his vision blurred. When his world became clear again, they were no longer in the cave abode, but on a towering platform in a layer of white fog.
They stood on the platform. When Su Ming lowered his head to look, he saw endless white fog, along with some faintly discernible mountains.
"You've experienced the true Berserkers' Initiation, so you can be considered a Berserker. Then the first thing I'll let you see is the scene of the powerful Berserkers ascending their spirits countless years ago!" A piercing, brilliant light shone in the old man's eyes, and his cultivation base erupted endlessly with a bang. The power of his cultivation base instantly spread in all directions, causing the sky to tremble, the fog on the ground to tumble violently, and Su Ming to feel as if he was about to suffocate.
When the old man spread out his power, Su Ming immediately had the misconception that the person standing before him was not the old man, but a vast expanse of mountains and rivers, a universe, a complete world, and even an Expanse Cosmos in the galaxy!
All of this seemed to be contained in the old man's body. As Su Ming stared at the old man, his heart trembled, and he immediately compared him to all the powerful warriors he had seen before, be it Sui Chen Zi or the Predecessor of Dao Ocean. When Su Ming remembered the figure in Avacaniya Realm he saw before Arid Triad's gap was blasted open in the Immortals' Union, his heart trembled again.
'He's indeed in Avacaniya Realm!' This was the first time Su Ming witnessed the might of those in Avacaniya Realm with his own eyes. It was an indescribable strength that made it seem as if the old man could make the world disappear if he willed it. As long as he willed it, the world and the universe would change before him.
It was … a Realm that surpassed a certain Realm and stood above the universe, above space, and above the galaxy!
'This is definitely not the power of an Antecedental Spirit!' Su Ming's breathing quickened. He had seen Antecedental Spirits before, and it did not matter whether it was the Sand Spirit or the Predecessor of Dao Ocean, they had never been so strong.
"This is the power of a person who has gone through eight successful spirit ascensions. He is only one step away from becoming an Ancestral Spirit. Avacaniya … Perhaps it fits the Avacaniya Realm you speak of, but to me, if I can go through nine successful spirit ascensions, then my Realm will not be the Avacaniya Realm you speak of, but … Avacaniya!
There are no Ancestral Spirits in Avacaniya Realm! " The old man lifted his right hand and swung his arm at the sky. With it, the world roared, and a huge vortex swiftly appeared in the sky. It rotated with loud bangs and spread out in all directions. Wherever it went, the sky would be reduced to countless shards. As cracking sounds echoed in the air, the entire sky turned into the land after a great drought.
The cracks shattered, and the shards swept through the area. The fog on the ground tumbled backwards, and Su Ming immediately sensed the white ring on his finger buzzing.
That buzzing was a form of trembling. It was an instinctive shudder when it ran into a power that was much stronger than its own. It also made Su Ming understand that even though the ring was a supreme treasure in Avacaniya Realm, it was still weaker than the old man.
'The old man from Heavenly Spirit Tribe is a powerful warrior from Arid Triad who is even stronger than the one from Saint Defier who created this ring! Perhaps … he should be known as the Arid God! ' As Su Ming's heart trembled, the countless shards in the sky swept through the area. With an extreme speed, they gathered together once again, as if they had turned into another sky. Light shone in that sky, and when it descended on the ground, it was as if time and space had been switched …
Su Ming saw a person appearing on the platform before him. That person was incredibly tall and built, and the presence of the Berserker Tribe that Su Ming was familiar with spread out from that person's body without reservation.
Even though he could only see his back, the resonance from the Berserkers made Su Ming feel as if he was looking at someone incredibly familiar. The man's entire body was covered in scars that had already healed. When he stood on the platform, he looked as if he was standing above the world. The ground had to submit to him, and the sky had to lower its head.
"Berserker!"
"Berserker!"
"BERSERKER!!!"
Low roars came from below. When Su Ming lowered his head to look, he immediately saw an innumerable number of Berserkers on the ground under the platform. They stood there and were roaring loudly. Their presence was so strong that they were like long arcs that pierced through the sky, causing the ground and sky to tremble.
"This is the scene of your Berserkers' eighty-third Elder ascending his spirit countless years ago. This is the first time his spirit ascended, but in the end, he failed. Watch carefully. I used my power to tear apart the sky to hide from Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos' will and extract this scene from his memories." The old man's voice echoed in Su Ming's ears. Beside him, the old man's figure slowly appeared. With a sentimental gaze, he stared at the back of the man on the platform.
Su Ming's pupils shrank. He remembered the old man's words in his heart. 'So once you reach a certain level of cultivation, you can tear apart the sky, hide from Arid Triad's will, and extract its memories …'
However, he could only hide it. That one word alone was enough to tell that there was still a difference between the old man's level of cultivation and Arid Triad's will's.
He could only hide it … and not ignore Arid Triad's will and forcefully extract his memories.
When Su Ming remembered all of this, he placed all his attention on the Berserker in front of him. He saw the man throwing his head back and roaring. Veins popped up all over his body, and a thick power of Qi erupted from him with a bang. Not a single ripple of power could be detected in that eruption, but the powerful power of Qi was enough to suppress all levels of cultivation and crush all barriers.
"Berserkers … are a tribe that can fight against the Gods of Sichuan's sacred land. Their physical strength has already reached an indescribable state," the old man beside Su Ming mumbled. He seemed to be mumbling to himself, but at the same time, he seemed to be speaking to Su Ming.
At that moment, as the Berserker roared, a ripple spread out from his body. That ripple was a wave of air, and as it rumbled, it reverberated in the sky, causing it to immediately distort as if it was about to be torn apart. A hall Su Ming had seen before appeared!
It was the Spirit Descending Hall, the place where countless red figures had appeared when Su Ming had been chased down!
Once the hall descended, it floated in midair. Soon after, the sky behind it distorted again, and a huge hall that shone with endless golden light appeared!
Compared to the Spirit Descending Hall, it was like comparing an adult to a child. The golden hall that descended was completely revealed in the midst of the booming sounds. It looked as if there was no end to it. Su Ming could vaguely see a plate on it, and there were two words written on it.
All Spirits!
"During the first spirit ascension, only one Spirit Descending Hall appeared. During my eighth spirit ascension, eight Spirit Descending Halls surrounded all spirits," the old man beside Su Ming said faintly.
At the instant the gigantic golden All Spirits Hall appeared, golden light that reached one hundred thousand feet spread out to the ground, causing the sky and earth to instantly turn golden. Then, countless shadows swiftly appeared in the hall.
These shadows were not the red figures who had chased down Su Ming. Instead, they were people dressed in long robes. There were men and women among them, and they floated outside the golden hall. They seemed to have an incredibly strict hierarchy. The person at the top shone with a golden light that reached one hundred thousand feet, and he was filled with a mighty pressure that could suffocate others. Below him were three people, and below them were eight people, seventeen people, thirty-nine people, eighty-six people, and the last eight hundred and eighty-one people.
"These are …" Su Ming stared at the two thousand something shadows outside the hall. He could tell that they were not real people, but were formed by some sort of aura that looked like seeds of power. They were arranged according to some sort of rule. There were ten horizontal rows, and if the only figure at the top was not included, then there were nine rows below it.
"These are the positions of the Ancestral Spirits. There are a total of 2,603 Ancestral Spirits! "Spirit ascension means choosing one of these Ancestral Spirits and fusing with them. The first time you fuse with them, you can only choose from the bottom row, and so on and so forth. There is a need for luck in this. If you have enough luck, you can slowly fuse with them until the ninth time, until you reach the only figure at the top.
"The different choices also represent the strength of the compatibility between the Ancestral Spirits and themselves. You will need to try again and again, and only one precious member of your race who has the right to undergo spirit ascension will appear every few hundred years. They will gamble with the mentality of sacrificing themselves for their race … Once they fail, they will die, and they will turn into mindless killing souls!
"The members of each race will remember the order in which the people who tried to fuse with them failed, so that the latecomers will not have to choose, but will try the next one," the old man said slowly with a soft sigh.
"I've seen all of them in Mudan Jiang's hospital. When I saw the faces of the doctors, I really wanted to hit them. When I saw the scans of the children, they said that they needed surgery, and the children were so scared that they cried. I was anxious and wanted to ask them in detail, but most of them had impatient looks on their faces. They kept saying that they needed to be hospitalized for surgery, how they should be operated on, whether it was due to allergies, whether conservative treatment was possible, whether the proliferators were large, and they didn't explain any of these things.
"I can only ask for help from all of you here. If it gets worse over the next few days, I plan to go to a better hospital in another city to have it checked out.
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