The complicated voice of Harmonious Morus Alba's will reached Su Ming's ears. It seemed to be filled with bone-deep hatred, but there was also a hint of respect within that hatred.
"Arid Triad …" Su Ming's heart trembled. The shock this time stirred up a storm in his soul, and it was not any weaker than the disaster formed when he saw the butterfly's wings overlapping with each other.
It was also at that moment that Su Ming came to a swift understanding. Perhaps Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos did not have a name in the beginning … until that person appeared, and Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos was known as … Arid Triad!
Su Ming forced down the shock in his heart. His eyes shone brightly as he focused his attention. Gradually, he saw the man called Arid Triad fuse with his other self in the right wing, and he became complete.
While he was complete, he chose to sit down in the galaxy and wait … for the day his wings overlapped with each other. Su Ming stared at the person, and he felt as if he could sense the unwillingness to admit defeat and madness in the person's divine thought.
He could not accept being destroyed by the disaster, which was why he had a crazed thought. He wanted … to Possess the butterfly's two Expanse Cosmoses. He wanted to become Harmonious Morus Alba, and he wanted Harmonious Morus Alba … to become Arid Triad!
When the butterfly's wings overlapped with each other and the disaster of the aeon descended, the person opened his eyes and executed his first Possession in the vast universe against Harmonious Morus Alba!
All lives were destroyed. He … succeeded, but he also failed.
Harmonious Morus Alba's counterattack and life-or-death Possession were said to have succeeded because he occupied half of the Possession. He completely occupied Harmonious Morus Alba's left wing, turning it into Arid Triad!
He also forced Harmonious Morus Alba's will out of Yin Death Vortex between the wings, causing it to truly become a vortex and the tunnel connecting the two Expanse Cosmoses.
While forcing it out, the person completely suppressed Harmonious Morus Alba's will in the right wing, preventing it from going out. It could only fight back passively.
They might have seemed to be evenly matched, but in truth, since the man had taken the initiative to Possess it, he could be considered to have succeeded and gained the upper hand.
He failed because Harmonious Morus Alba's will had not been completely replaced. He had only completed half of his plan.
A new aeon began. The wings separated, and Arid Triad sank into deep sleep. He waited … for the next time his wings overlapped with each other.
New lives appeared in his Expanse Cosmos, and all of them no longer belonged to Harmonious Morus Alba … but to Arid Triad.
When the aeon passed, the butterfly's wings gradually overlapped with each other again. Arid Triad, who had been waiting for an aeon, woke up from his slumber. He used the chance for the two Expanse Cosmoses to overlap with each other, and he Possessed the butterfly's right wing and Harmonious Morus Alba's will again.
One aeon after another … Several aeons passed. Every single time the wings overlapped with each other, it was a difficult test for Harmonious Morus Alba's will. In the beginning, it fought back with everything it had, but in the end, it was forced to hide. It did not want to be Possessed and devoured, which was why every single time its wings overlapped with each other, it instinctively hid itself.
This sort of concealment lasted until then. As the aeons passed, it became a guess from the old man from Heavenly Spirit Tribe. His guess that Arid Triad was searching for something was verified by Su Ming at that moment.
Arid Triad was searching for the hidden Harmonious Morus Alba so that he could complete the Possession he had failed to complete in the past.
Perhaps after so many aeons had passed, the cultivator Arid Triad had long since forgotten about his past life. He had also forgotten that he was once a cultivator, and it was precisely because he did not want to be destroyed by the disaster that he had the madness to Possess Harmonious Morus Alba. He … had forgotten all of this.
Instead, he was used to being the will of an Expanse Cosmos. He fell asleep when the wings separated, and when they overlapped with each other, he woke up to destroy the world and search for it.
"This is the truth you want to know." Harmonious Morus Alba's indistinct voice echoed in Su Ming's ears. There was a sigh in that voice. When it echoed in space, the world Su Ming saw turned into an illusion. When his vision became clear again, he was still in Harmonious Morus Alba Expanse Cosmos. He was in the galaxy of True Sky Hill World, and the area around him was still empty. The entire Expanse Cosmos was in a state of silence that seemed to last for eternity.
Su Ming was silent. All sorts of thoughts rose in his mind. Everything he saw just then brought him great complicated emotions and confusion. He had never expected that Arid Triad would have been a cultivator in the past!
That cultivator had gone to Possess Harmonious Morus Alba and succeeded halfway. He occupied the left wing and became Arid Triad's will.
Su Ming had never expected that the world he was in was actually a butterfly's wings, a butterfly born in the Vast Expanse. The butterfly's life was difficult to describe. It surpassed Su Ming's imagination, and he could only remain silent.
'So Arid Triad is indeed asleep. He was once a cultivator.
'So the disaster Arid Triad faced after he woke up was Harmonious Morus Alba's instinctive destruction, and then Arid Triad searched for a chance for Harmonious Morus Alba …
'So this is the answer to all of this …'
Harmonious Morus Alba's will was silent for a moment before it slowly asked, "What … will you choose?"
Su Ming remained silent. He understood that Harmonious Morus Alba's will was asking him to choose a side … but based on his emotions, Su Ming leaned towards Arid Triad, because Arid Triad was once a cultivator. He was unwilling to be destroyed by the disaster, which was why he Possessed Harmonious Morus Alba. This was something that was very similar to Su Ming's.
However, even though Arid Triad had succeeded halfway, he had still become Arid Triad's will. However … he did not choose to no longer face the disaster. The overlapping of the wings and the destruction were the exact same as before he Possessed Harmonious Morus Alba.
The disaster was still the disaster, and the destruction was still destruction. However, Arid Triad had joined the previous Harmonious Morus Alba.
'The overlapping of the wings and the destruction are not something I can control. To me, the lives in the World with the Wings, their existences, and their return to dust are another form of life born on my body during the process of my wings dispersing and overlapping with each other.
'Perhaps this is my mission when I was born in the Vast Expanse … but I have also thought about a question for a long time …
'Since all of you are lives born on my body, then … whose life was I born on? You will all die when my wings dispersing and overlapping with each other. This is not my will, but the instinct of my wings. Unless I die, it is impossible for me to not move … and if I die, all of you will cease to exist.
'Then … will I also disappear when the other existence breathes instinctively, and it is not his will?
'This is the origin. Mine, yours, and the origin of all lives.' Harmonious Morus Alba's voice was ancient and sentimental. It spread out and reached Su Ming's ears, causing him to fall silent, and he gained quite a large amount of epiphany as well as confusion.
'Arid Triad is the first person to fuse two versions of himself together and become a complete life form. There are some people who managed to do it after him.
'But no one can compare to him, because they can't Possess me and Arid Triad at the same time. That's why they are bound to fail, and they are also bound to not dare to do so.
'Even if I gradually began to consciously choose the lives who can communicate with me in my Expanse Cosmos and name them Children of Morus Alba, I still did not manage to do as I wished.
'Until you … I saw hope in you. You were able to Possess Arid Triad's True Morning Dao World because of the existence of the other you in Harmonious Morus Alba Expanse Cosmos.
'The other Children of Morus Alba in Arid Triad did not manage to do what you did … That's why you … are different. You are the only one who can help me and the only one who can threaten Arid Triad.
'Help me. I don't want to continue staying here. I … want to go home. I want to search for my companions. I've stayed here for far too long. I want to search for them …'
"Help me … Possess Arid Triad. Tear off my left wing … and let me go … The left wing I've torn off is my gift to you. Help me, or else … when the wings overlap with each other, all your friends … will be reduced to ashes by the disaster!
'Even though you have become complete because you have fused with your other self and have become an existence that will not be extinguished even by the disaster, your friends, your family, and everything about you will become a thing of the past.
'Help me, and you will also be helping yourself, because even if you are complete and will no longer be affected by the disaster, you will fall into a state that is close to eternal sleep. You will only wake up one hundred years before the wings overlap, and you will fall asleep again one hundred years after the wings are separated.
'You will only be awake for two hundred years in one aeon. The rest of the time, you will be asleep, or else you will not be able to withstand the changes of the new aeon.
'Even if you wake up, you will be neither a human nor a ghost. This sort of life … will be no different from death. In fact, it will be even more wretched until you choose death and do not want to continue living like this.' When Harmonious Morus Alba's will's voice echoed in space, Su Ming's heart trembled, and he lifted his head swiftly.
This was the first time he heard these words. A huge storm stirred up in his heart, and a myriad of thoughts instantly appeared in his head.
He had never expected that once he fused with his other self, he would be able to survive the disaster. If that was the case, then just how many powerful warriors in Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos and even Harmonious Morus Alba Expanse Cosmos would struggle to survive the disaster after they fused with their other selves and only wake up one hundred years before the disaster?!
In fact, during that instant, a scene from the secrets of the universe appeared in Su Ming's mind …
In that scene, all the people beside him had died. Only he remained standing in the galaxy filled with countless corpses while he threw his head back and roared forlornly …
'You won't be able to take away any of the people here. Even if they use some unique method to enter the vortex … they will definitely not be able to step into Arid Triad. Once they do, Arid Triad will immediately send disaster down on them due to the difference in their wills!
'Even you will not be able to fight against that disaster!
'And if two people from two different Expanse Cosmoses appear in the world in the vortex … then both of them will be instantly wiped off. This is the law in the vortex, and it is also the eternal rule set by Arid Triad's will based on its strength that surpasses mine.' Harmonious Morus Alba's will's voice caused Su Ming to fall silent.
After a long while, a glint appeared in Su Ming's eyes, and he asked in a ghastly voice, "How can I help you?!"
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