After an unknown amount of time passed, the pupils of the old man from Heavenly Spirit Tribe suddenly shrank. A solemn look appeared on his face, because he saw the golden light around Su Ming becoming dimmer. In just the span of a few breaths, it completely disappeared.
Once it disappeared, Su Ming's eyes flew open!
At the instant he did so, the sky roared, and the ground trembled. A ripple filled with a powerful presence spread out from Su Ming's body uncontrollably. Wherever it went, the sky would distort, and the fog on the ground would disappear. An ethereal feeling spread out from Su Ming's body.
At the same time, Su Ming's eyes became incredibly bright, as if there were stars contained within them. The feeling he gave off was different from before. In fact, he gave off an otherworldly air. As he stood there, it was as if the sky had lowered slightly, as if the ground had sunk. It was as if his existence was a person who could make the world and the universe tremble.
He swept his gaze across the land. At the instant his gaze met the old man's from Heavenly Spirit Tribe, a brilliant light shone in Su Ming's eyes. The old man's eyes also shone with a piercing light. When the two of them cast each other a glance, they sensed that there was an astonishing similarity between their presences.
It was not the presence of a cultivator, but the power of an Antecedental Spirit!
It was the same Realm and feeling as the Predecessor of Dao Ocean and the Predecessor of the Sand Earthlings. It was a state of life that stood above all lives. It was as if a human had taken a huge step forward and turned into an Antecedental Spirit!
The laws of the world could be changed at will. The laws of the universe could be seen when he closed his eyes. In fact, Su Ming could even sense Arid Triad's will in the distance. The increase in his state of life gave Su Ming an indescribable feeling. It was as if … his existence had broken free of some sort of shackles and reached a state that surpassed his previous imaginations.
If Arid Triad's will was compared to a huge fireball that was comparable to the sun and all the people in the area were compared to fireflies, then at that moment, if the flames of Su Ming's life burned, he could destroy all lives. His flames of life might not be able to compare to Arid Triad's will, but they far surpassed all lives.
This was especially true for his soul. After devouring all the split souls, his soul had become so powerful that if it were to be released, it would be able to obliterate the will of others.
With just one will, he could kill a cultivator. Even if that cultivator was an Almighty, he would still be unable to fight against Su Ming's will sweeping past him. Even if there were some Almighties who could fight against it, Su Ming's will would still intimidate them greatly.
He was like the universe in a certain area. At that moment, Su Ming could even be said to be the will of heaven in a certain area. If the heavens wanted him to die, he had no choice but to die, because Su Ming's will could change laws, throw them into chaos, and crush space.
This was the power of an Antecedental Spirit. It was a state of life that a Successor Spirit could never reach no matter how hard they cultivated.
The power he had never felt before and the feeling of having his life and death in his hands caused Su Ming to experience the madness of existence the instant he opened his eyes. He sucked in a deep breath and took a slow step forward.
With it, the world distorted. Booming sounds surged into the heavens, and a huge vortex appeared in the sky. It rotated with loud bangs, and there seemed to be an indistinct human face in it, but if anyone took a closer look, they would find that the vortex was just a vortex. It was as if everything was just an illusion.
"You are …" A barely noticeable glint shone in the eyes of the old man from Heavenly Spirit Tribe.
"Our deal will continue," Su Ming said calmly. He did not tell the old man whether he was still the same person he was in the past, but Su Ming had already come to understand that he was still himself. The soul shining with blue light was indeed where his origin soul was. It was the blue light that had guided Su Ming, and it was the blue light that had allowed him to find himself while he was lost.
In the beginning, he did not understand what the blue light was, but now that he had become an Antecedental Spirit, with his great soul and his state of being that could turn into the will of heaven, he understood that it was the power of an alien race that had fused with his soul. It was just like what the old man from Heavenly Spirit Tribe had said when he was born.
The old man from Heavenly Spirit Tribe narrowed his eyes. Just as he was about to say something, a thought suddenly appeared in his mind. He lifted his head to look at the vortex in the sky. Su Ming also lifted his head. He might have been slightly later than the old man, but he was only slower by one breath.
'As expected of an Antecedental Spirit after he split up nine times and fused back together, he became an Antecedental Spirit. This is just his first success …' A thought appeared in the old man's mind, but he did not have the time to think about Su Ming's changes, because roars came swiftly from the vortex in the sky. At the same time, dozens of figures appeared from the vortex.
Those figures were not ferocious beasts, but humans!
They were clearly cultivators. They were dressed in all sorts of clothes, but most of them were torn and tattered. There was a brutal look in their eyes, but there was also a dazed look on their faces.
Their presences were incredibly strange. There was an ancient air to them, along with a powerful destructive presence. In fact, there seemed to be a will on them. That will seemed to be asleep and was not strong, but it gave off a feeling that it could destroy the universe.
At the instant Su Ming saw the cultivators, his heart trembled. He saw that one of them was Zhan Bai's Master, whom he had seen in the picture of the legacy of the Ancestral Spirits!
The old man who was originally dressed in a long robe, had a head full of white hair, and had the air of an immortal was like a wild beast at that moment. When he opened his mouth, saliva dripped out. Once he appeared from the vortex, he glared at Su Ming with a brutal look in his eyes.
When he looked at Su Ming, Su Ming immediately noticed that his presence of an Antecedental Spirit had become chaotic. It was as if the dozens of figures had innately suppressed Su Ming's Antecedental Spirit. In fact, Su Ming had a feeling that his presence was some sort of supplement to the figures, and they would close in on him to devour him regardless of the cost.
"Thirty-six Arid Beasts. Su Ming, I will help you hold them back. You have just become an Antecedental Spirit, and you need to stabilize your body, cultivation base, and soul. This is an incredibly crucial moment. Your existence is the best food for these Arid Beasts.
"You must restrain your presence and fuse your body and soul as one so that you can completely stabilize your Antecedental Spirit Realm. I will buy you time, but you must hurry!" As the old man from Heavenly Spirit Tribe's voice echoed in the air, he took a step forward. When he swung his arm, a ripple spread out and enveloped the thirty-six figures. Once it stopped them from moving forward, a freezing glare appeared on the old man's face, and he started fighting against the thirty-six figures.
Su Ming's eyes shone with a piercing glare. Without any hesitation, he sat down cross-legged. When he closed his eyes, he spread his soul out of his body and circulated his cultivation base. Just as the old man from Heavenly Spirit Tribe had said, he swiftly fused his body and soul together and stabilized his cultivation base. Then, he slowly pulled back the aura that spread out from his body, intending to completely lock his presence in his body.
However, Su Ming's presence was too strong. Even the old man from Heavenly Spirit Tribe had paid him a few extra glances, which was why it was impossible for him to restrain his presence in his body within a short period of time. Soon, two hours passed.
During those two hours, the old man from Heavenly Spirit Tribe executed his divine abilities and cultivation base to fight against the Arid Beasts. The cultivators he called Arid Beasts roared like wild beasts. They did not possess any power of cultivation base, and neither did they possess any divine abilities. They only possessed instincts.
However, they could not be erased. Even though the old man from the Heavenly Spirit Tribe had a monstrous cultivation base, he was still able to destroy them time and time again. He could only watch helplessly as they reformed. Two hours later, more roars could be heard from within the vortex. This time, hundreds of figures appeared.
The old man's expression grew darker. He knew that what Su Ming needed at that moment was time, and he had to fight for it. With a cold harrumph, he formed a seal with his right hand and pointed at the sky. Immediately, the sky roared, and a horsetail whisk appeared around the old man. When he swung it, shadows appeared in the sky, and as booming sounds echoed in the air, they started fighting again.
Su Ming immersed himself in restraining his presence. By then, he had already restrained his presence until it was only around ten thousand feet. Slowly, it grew to one thousand feet, and when it reached five hundred feet, the vortex in the sky roared again. This time, thousands of cultivators from the Arid Beasts appeared.
When they saw that Su Ming's presence was shrinking from five hundred feet to one hundred feet and was about to be completely restrained, the thousands of Arid Beasts in the sky roared together and suddenly crumbled to turn into countless glowing spots. At the instant the old man's expression changed, the glowing spots swiftly gathered together and shot through the old man's body like a long river. In an instant, they rushed towards Su Ming. When they closed in on him, the long river formed by the glowing spots turned into a huge, ferocious face. It opened its mouth wide and went to devour Su Ming.
The face was so big that it was several hundreds of thousands of feet. When it closed in on Su Ming, it looked as if the sky was sinking. It was so quick that it instantly arrived above Su Ming's head. When it opened its mouth wide and looked as if it was about to devour him, Su Ming opened his eyes. All his presence was instantly restrained in his body.
He lifted his head and stared at the huge face above him with an aloof gaze. The face came to an abrupt halt at that moment. It was less than one hundred feet away from Su Ming. It stared at him, and Su Ming stared back at it.
In just the span of a few breaths, a smile suddenly appeared on the ferocious face. It grew even more ferocious, and the face quickly disappeared. However, at the instant it did so, a crimson bolt of lightning shot up from the center of its brows and charged towards the vortex in the sky. Soon after, the vortex returned to normal with booming sounds and slowly calmed down.
When the old man from Heavenly Spirit Tribe saw this, his expression instantly changed.
"Arid Disaster …"
"What is an Arid Disaster?" Not a single hint of the changes in Su Ming's heart could be seen on his face. He slowly stood up and stared at the sky, which had returned to normal.
"Once a spirit ascension is successful, most of the time, an Arid Beast will appear. If there is help or if the person can get through it, then there will be no future problems, but there is a rare possibility that an Arid Disaster will appear …
"The power of the Arid Disaster is enough to destroy all wills. I went through it once, and it was also during that time that all my people died. Even I don't know how I got through it, because halfway through, I had already lost my consciousness.
"When I woke up, the Arid Disaster was already gone, but all my people had died. When I woke up, I found a grandson of mine piercing his chest with my hand …
"The Arid Disaster will not come immediately, but at any moment in the next year …" The old man from Heavenly Spirit Tribe said slowly with a hint of pain on his face after remaining silent for a moment.
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