"Can it shake those in Avacaniya Realm?" Su Ming looked at the old man from Heavenly Spirit Tribe.
"This Art can cause Arid Triad's will to be in danger, which is why it shows signs of awakening. It can naturally shake those in Avacaniya Realm, but the prerequisite is that it is in your True World. If you leave this place, the Art's power will be much weaker." The old man from Heavenly Spirit Tribe nodded slowly. The astonishing sight of Su Ming's Art had caused the old man to look calm, but there were still waves that had yet to calm down in his heart.
The old man from Heavenly Spirit Tribe was silent for a moment before he suddenly asked, "Does this divine ability that is mainly based on the power of the Curse have a name?"
"Arid Curse." Su Ming carefully went through the process of executing the Art and remembered Arid Triad's will, which stood high above everyone else and stood above everything, before he answered slowly.
"Arid Curse … Arid Curse, what a Curse!" A glint appeared in the eyes of the old man from Heavenly Spirit Tribe. When he mumbled to himself, his body gradually disappeared and fused with space, causing Su Ming to be the only one left in the galaxy.
Su Ming swung his arm, and a slit appeared in his third eye at the center of his brow. At that moment, what appeared in his third eye was no longer a pupil, but a galactic vortex. That galactic vortex was True Morning Dao World, which had become one of Su Ming's clones. Right then, it had spread out, but its core had fused into Su Ming's third eye.
As a cultivator of a True World, Su Ming only needed a single thought to descend in any region of True Morning Dao World. At that moment, he took a step forward and instantly disappeared. When he reappeared, he had moved through the sealed Relocation Rune and stepped … into Morning Dao Sect.
Ever since Su Xuan Yi left, mountains had crumbled and the earth had cracked. The sky had collapsed, and the ground had shattered. There was not a single trace of life in the place. It was a wasteland.
Su Ming stared at the quiet Morning Dao Sect around him. As he looked at everything, he could not help but remember the things that had happened when he stepped into the sect. After a long while, Su Ming walked through the crumbling world with a calm expression. He walked past the wasteland and the shattered continents. Along the way, he saw countless skeletons.
These skeletons had been dead for many years, and very few of them were complete. Most of them were fragmented, and the expressions on their faces before they died were filled with despair and unwillingness.
Su Ming had met some of the people in Morning Dao Sect before, but most of them were unfamiliar to him. The presence of death surrounded Morning Dao Sect. Even though Su Ming had deduced that Morning Dao Sect should have been destroyed, he was certain of it when De Shun and Xu Hui appeared.
But when he saw it with his own eyes, Su Ming could not help but sigh. The glory of the past had been reduced to ruins. The huge sect in the past, the strongest sect in Morning Dao Sect … had now turned into dust.
As he walked, Su Ming saw the broken carcasses of the four sacred beasts. This made him remember the Anointment Ceremony. The four beasts had lifted the continent in a mighty and graceful manner, but now … they had disappeared in the passage of time.
In silence, Su Ming could not help but feel complicated in his heart. When he looked back at everything that had happened after he returned from Divine Essence Star Ocean, it was like a dream. At that time, he had been forced to return with the identity of Dao Kong, but now … he had become the master of True Morning Dao World. All of True Morning Dao World was just a clone of his.
Everything he had experienced on the way made Su Ming sigh. He lifted his right hand and swung it. With it, the collapsed sky distorted, and as if time was flowing in reverse, it swiftly healed and rose. Countless fragments gathered together. Even if they had been reduced to powder in the past, they appeared out of nowhere and gathered together until a blue sky rose in the sky once more.
Su Ming stepped lightly on a shattered stone with his right foot. Immediately, a layer of ripples spread out from under his feet. In the blink of an eye, they covered the entire Morning Dao Sect. Countless shattered stones floated up and swiftly gathered together. Gradually, a continent appeared under Su Ming's feet. It swiftly spread out and turned into the first continent in Morning Dao Sect.
In the distance, the same three continents were formed one after another. As if time was flowing in reverse, all the dust returned to its previous brilliance. In fact, countless fragments appeared on the four continents and swiftly gathered together to form a tall tower that shot into the clouds.
Continents appeared further down with loud bangs. Some of them were formed out of thin air, some were formed from shattered stones, and some rose from the fog at the bottom of Dao Ocean. After a moment, continents filled the sky, and when anyone looked over, they looked as if the world had returned to its former glory.
All the corpses disappeared without a trace at that moment. Even the thick aura of death in the place was chased away …
As Su Ming walked forward, the world behind him continuously changed as it flowed in reverse. When he arrived at the endless Dao Ocean under Morning Dao Sect, he was beyond it.
Su Ming watched the fog tumble about, but he did not step into it. Instead, he stood there quietly, as if he was waiting for something.
After some time, Dao Ocean tumbled about. As booming sounds echoed in the air, the fog in front of Su Ming spread out to reveal a path leading to the depths. Su Ming still did not move. He continued standing there with a calm expression on his face.
Soon, as the fog continued to churn, the path leading to the depths was submerged, and the fog slowly condensed into a huge face. The face looked like that of an old man. The face was so huge that it seemed to occupy the entire Sea of the Path.
Once the face appeared, Dao Ocean let out a shocking roar, and the face slowly stood up from its lying position. As it floated, it rose into the sky from Dao Ocean.
When Su Ming looked over, Dao Ocean had in truth disappeared. All the fog in Dao Ocean had turned into a part of the floating face. From the distance, it looked as if there was a huge head floating in the air. Its eyes were closed, and it was staring at Su Ming.
Su Ming looked at the gigantic face. His body was like an ant compared to the face, but there was a natural, invisible presence surrounding Su Ming's body.
After a long while, the gigantic face slowly opened its eyes. At the same time it revealed its eyes, an ancient and wise look appeared in them. At the instant it met Su Ming's gaze, the gigantic face lowered its head slightly.
"Predecessor of Dao Ocean, servant of the True World, greets you, sir."
"Sir, you Possessed the True World and turned it into your clone. From now on, you are my master." When the face lowered its head, an ancient voice spoke. That voice echoed through all of Morning Dao Sect and lingered for a long time.
"I don't have a lot of memories. They should have been wiped away by a seal. I only know that I am one of the Antecedental Spirits guarding the World under the wills of the four Great True Worlds.
"Ever since I gained consciousness, I have existed in this place and turned into Dao Ocean. I am the servant of the True World's will, and I will listen to all its orders …
"Once the True World's will became weak, when it fell asleep, I maintained the balance of the True World in its place …" Su Ming still did not speak. He only stared at the face calmly, and its voice echoed in his ears.
Once the old face finished speaking, it fell silent, causing the area to gradually sink into silence once more.
"When Morning Dao Sect was destroyed, did you attack?" After the time it takes for half an incense stick to burn, Su Ming's voice echoed in front of the face for the first time.
"My mission is to maintain the balance of the True World. The matters of Morning Dao Sect are not within my mission. As for Su Xuan Yi … he has the True World's will. I cannot interfere with him."
"Your mission from now on is to protect Ninth Summit," Su Ming said slowly while staring at the face. Su Ming could tell that the Predecessor of Dao Ocean's memories were sealed, as it had said … but there were definitely some secrets about it. It did not want to talk about them, and Su Ming did not want to ask about them.
In truth, at the moment he Possessed the True World and formed his True World clone, Su Ming had sensed the will of an Antecedental Spirit in the True World. That will was attached to the True World and was controlled by it. That Antecedental Spirit was naturally the Predecessor of Dao Ocean.
In fact, Su Ming had a feeling that if Su Xuan Yi had been the only one who had weakened True Morning Dao World's will to the point where it could be Possessed, then even if he had prepared for tens of thousands of years, he might not have succeeded.
There had to be someone helping him in the dark, and besides the Predecessor of Dao Ocean, Su Ming could not think of anyone else who had helped him.
He cast a profound glance at the face, then turned around and no longer bothered with it.
The face closed its eyes calmly and slowly sank down, as if it wanted to continue turning into Dao Ocean, but at that moment, a sigh came from beside Su Ming.
There was also an ancient tone to that sigh, along with a hint of complicated and sad emotions.
"Yun Hua … the Tribe Elder of Er Cang Tribe, one of the ten great powerful warriors of the Central Wei Tribe … Is that you?" The old man from Heavenly Spirit Tribe appeared beside Su Ming. He stared at the huge face, and there was nostalgia on his face as well as an ancient air.
The face that was about to turn into Dao Ocean shuddered at that moment, but it only shuddered once before it turned back into Dao Ocean and the boundless fog in the land.
The old man from Heavenly Spirit Tribe stared at the fog in Dao Ocean in a daze. After a long while, he turned around in anguish, and with a hint of disappointment, he disappeared from beside Su Ming.
Su Ming left. At the instant he left Dao Ocean and headed to the top of the tower in the sky, the one hundred something Relocation Runes in Morning Dao Sect in the world beyond shone with a dazzling light. They were all activated at that instant.
At the same time, Su Ming's voice echoed in the hearts of his eldest senior brother and the others. It was a voice telling them to bring all the cultivators into Morning Dao Sect and change the sect to Ninth Summit.
The tower stood tall in the clouds. Su Ming appeared at the top of the tower. When he sat down cross-legged, he lifted his head and stared into the distance. His gaze shot through the galaxy and landed on a pale-faced woman in black in a corner of True Morning Dao World.
"Sir, leaving without saying goodbye is not how I treat my guests," Su Ming said languidly. As Su Ming spoke languidly, the space in front of him distorted, as if it had instantly overlapped with the spot where the woman in black was. At the instant her expression changed, her body was forcefully shifted, and she appeared in front of Su Ming.
"Hello," Su Ming said softly when he lifted his head and stared at the beautiful woman whose expression changed.
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