Su Ming was so quick that as he moved through the Expanse Cosmoses, he stopped in a rather remote Expanse Cosmos. It was a wasteland, and the barrier of the Expanse Cosmos around it had been sealed.
The person who had sealed it was Cang San Nu. Once he destroyed the Viridian Gods, he had sealed the Expanse Cosmos and turned it into a forbidden land. No one could step into it.
The seal was so strong that only those in Avacaniya Realm could break it, which was why no one dared to try. Cang San Nu was also strong, and he was the leader of the Sovereigns of Dawn. Hence, even those in Avacaniya Realm would not dare to break the seal.
At that moment, once Cang San Nu died, the seal in the place started to crumble like a rootless duckweed. Su Ming stared at the barrier of the Expanse Cosmos in front of him. He took a step forward, and the bald crane was the first to fly out. As it clamored, it rammed its head against the barrier. When it shot through it, Su Ming also walked out.
In front of him was a wasteland. Countless corpses floated in the galaxy, but they had not rotted away. They were the remains of planets, and as the aura of death filled the air, it looked as if the place had turned into hell.
Su Ming swept his gaze across the area, and his eyes landed on a tall palace at the center of the Expanse Cosmos. It was in ruins, but it had not collapsed. It exuded an ancient presence, and the interior of the opened door was dark. It was like a ferocious beast that had opened its mouth before it died.
Based on Cang San Nu's memories, he had obtained the fragment in the palace. Su Ming swept his gaze past the palace, then took a step forward and shot through space to appear outside the palace. With one step, he walked inside.
The instant he walked in, the oil lamps around the palace lit up on their own, causing the palace to shine with light. With that light, Su Ming saw a chair at the center of the palace, and there was a corpse sitting cross-legged on it. It looked like an old man, but he had lost all signs of life and was sitting there quietly. His right palm was turned upwards, as if he had been holding something there before.
Su Ming stared at the old man's corpse. Based on Cang San Nu's memories, when he stepped into the place, the old man was already dead, and what he held in his right hand was the fragment.
Su Ming swept his gaze past the old man, then looked at the area around him. There were some strokes in the area, but they were very indistinct. Due to the passage of time and the destruction of the Viridian Gods, everything in the place had become a thing of the past.
But this did not affect Su Ming. He walked to the old man's side, then lifted his right hand and pressed it against the old man's right hand. The Art of Time.
He was still standing in the hall, but what he saw before his eyes were countless pictures that looked as if they were going backwards. They flashed before his eyes as if time was flowing backwards. The murals became clearer, and the dust in the area gradually lessened. When everything returned to normal, Su Ming saw Cang San Nu's figure in the hall.
The high-spirited Cang San Nu brought with him a monstrous stench of blood and slaughter. When he appeared before the old man's corpse, his expression was incredibly complicated. After a long time … he finally took the fragment from the old man's hand.
"Elder … when you chased me out of the tribe in the past, did you ever think … that I, Cang San Nu, would end up like this?!" A ferocious look appeared on Cang San Nu's face, but after a moment of silence, he still sighed. He only took the fragment before he turned around and left.
Time continued flowing in reverse. Su Ming saw that before Cang San Nu came to the palace, there would often be people cleaning, tidying up, and worshiping the palace. All of the Viridian Gods thrived, but while the murals were no longer indistinct, they were carvings of ordinary worshiping ceremonies. There was nothing useful to Su Ming.
Then, Su Ming saw many people carving them. The murals turned from clear to indistinct, and when they turned blank, new murals appeared. The cycle repeated. The murals were continuously carved and replaced, but none of them were useful to Su Ming. However, he was not in a hurry. He continued circulating the Art of Time and watched quietly.
The murals around Su Ming had no idea how many times they had been changed. When life force slowly appeared on the corpse in front of Su Ming, and when it became so thick that the corpse returned to its previous state before he died, he stood in the palace with pain on his face while scolding a teenager. The teenager knelt on the ground with his head lowered, but there was an unwillingness to admit defeat and resentment on his face. Su Ming could tell that the teenager was Cang San Nu.
Then, Su Ming saw that the palace had become even more complete, and then … the person who had turned into a corpse stared at the fragment quietly. Once he lifted his right hand, he wiped off the murals around him.
At that moment, Su Ming's eyes focused. He saw that the murals that had been wiped off before his eyes were completely different from the ones he had seen in the passage of time. As Su Ming stared at them, he saw that the murals that had been wiped off had been personally carved by the living figure!
The entire murals were divided into four parts.
The first part was of a young man who left his tribe after he worshiped his ancestors. His tribesmen sent him off, and he stepped on the path that would bring him to adulthood.
The second part was of a tomb, an ancient tomb. The young man walked into it, and there were countless living beings of all sorts surrounding him. When he reached the depths of the tomb, a Rune appeared. The young man stood on the Rune, and his figure became indistinct before he was Relocated.
The third part was that, after being teleported, the young man appeared in a strange world. It was a vast world, and within that vast world was a huge gap that led to some unknown place. Just as the young man was about to approach it, an old man suddenly appeared in front of the gap.
The old man was covered in blood, and he stood on an ancient ship. He looked as if he had wandered around the gap for a very long time before he found it and stepped into it for the first time.
The fourth part was of the young man giving the old man some medicinal cores and a jade slip map. The old man wrapped his fist in his palm and bowed to the young man. When he lifted his hand, he tore off a fragment from the gap and gave it to the young man.
The scene ended.
When Su Ming saw this, his heart trembled. When he continued watching, the scene of time flowing back had been personally wiped off by the mummy when it was still alive.
The four pictures disappeared eternally in the passage of time. It would be difficult for anyone to see them. What they saw were four more murals that appeared after they were wiped off.
Su Ming opened his eyes. In truth, he had not closed his eyes to begin with. At that moment, he opened his eyes with his will. He lifted his right hand from the mummy's hand, and everything around him returned to normal. It was still broken and ancient, and the murals were still indistinct.
Su Ming was silent. The four murals clearly depicted the mummy's experiences when he was alive. More accurately speaking, it was the process of him obtaining the fragment. Clearly, he had never told anyone about it. Even the murals had been personally wiped off after he carved them. He did not want anyone to know about it.
Su Ming knew about it, but even though he might have seemed calm after learning about it, a huge storm was raging in his heart. There was not a hint of calmness in his heart. Instead, once he closed his eyes, the scenes from the murals continuously appeared in his head.
'If these murals are real, then I can be certain that this fragment … doesn't belong to another butterfly. It is a part of Harmonious Morus Alba's wing, where I am!
'I can also be certain that there is … a gap on one of Harmonious Morus Alba's four wings. It is … a gap that leads to the Vast Expanse!
'And that gap is not in Harmonious Morus Alba Expanse Cosmos, Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos, Dark Dawn, and Saint Defier. It should be … in the fourth wing's Expanse Cosmos!
'If that's really the case … then the place you went to was the fourth wing, and the old man he saw there … he came from …' When Su Ming thought of this, he opened his eyes swiftly. His pupils shrank, and a thought that caused his heart to tremble appeared in his head, uncontrollably.
'That old man … came from the Vast Expanse!' Su Ming's breathing quickened. The scenes from the murals continuously appeared in his head, and in the end, he fixed on the scene of the old man stepping into the gap.
'He was covered in blood. He should have been heavily injured. He used the ship as an Enchanted Vessel to move through space to arrive here. Who could injure such a powerful warrior? And he came from … Hmm?' Su Ming shuddered, and he instinctively took a few steps back. He remembered the scene of the black-robed young man destroying the butterfly.
Su Ming's expression changed swiftly.
'Is there a possibility that he came from … another butterfly's Expanse Cosmos, and before this butterfly was destroyed, he managed to escape?! 'A ship, a ship … In my memories, there is a person who will forever be an ancient ship. He is … Old Man Extermination!' Su Ming took a few more steps back. His expression continued changing. After a long while, he lifted his head and looked at the mummy on the chair.
'Old Man Extermination brought a ship to search for everything he needed in Arid Triad. All those who offered him sacrifices had the right to be written into the ballad, and that ballad was a song that would not die. It could make all the lives written into it become immortal.
'He appeared in Arid Triad during the third era. The timing of this matches the contents of the murals. Then perhaps at that time … it was the first time he came to Harmonious Morus Alba's Expanse Cosmos!
'He is Old Man Extermination, and he came from Dark Dawn … Dark Dawn … This is indeed Dark Dawn!' Su Ming's pupils shrank again. A chill spread out from the bottom of his heart and spread through his entire body.
'Then … after his Expanse Cosmos was destroyed by the black-robed young man, he escaped and entered this place. What is his goal?!
"And where is he now? It is rumored that Old Man Extermination died at the end of the third era and turned into the Seed of Life Extermination. I once nurtured half of the Seed of Life Extermination. Right now, the Seed of Life Extermination is complete, and it is … with Su Xuan Yi and Lei Chen!
'Su Xuan Yi … Just what else does he know?!' Su Ming closed his eyes. Only at that moment did he realize that even if he possessed the strongest level of cultivation in his aeon, the fog before him had grown thicker as his level of cultivation grew stronger!
Today, I accompanied my mother to the hospital for a physical examination. I came back a little late, and I'm currently writing my story. Everyone, don't be anxious.
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