Vast Expanse.
Vast Expanse was the color of the sky, and light was the meaning that it was vast and boundless. When these two words were put together, they meant the sky and also the endless sky.
As for the sky, the galaxy was the sky, the universe was the sky, and space could also be considered as the sky. Hence … the vast expanse beyond the gap appeared.
Su Ming did not know how big it was. He believed that perhaps even the black-robed young man on the Feng Shui compass did not know just how far the vast expanse stretched.
This place was different from the galaxy. At the instant he stepped out of Harmonious Morus Alba, Su Ming felt his body suddenly become heavy, as if there was a mountain pressing down on him. It was so heavy that he found it difficult to breathe, and he found it a little hard to get used to it.
In fact, there seemed to be invisible chains binding his limbs, causing him to be slightly jerky when he lifted them.
There was also the thin fog around him. Su Ming sensed a certain degree of danger in it, as if it could devour life force and destroy all signs of life.
In silence, Su Ming lifted his right hand and touched the thin fog. At the instant he did so, his right hand started decaying right before his eyes. In fact, the tips of his fingers turned gray, as if they were about to turn into ashes. But soon, as Su Ming circulated his cultivation base, his fingers reached a balance with the corrosion in the world around him.
'If this is the case even with my level of cultivation, then those in the middle stage of Avacaniya Realm can stay here for decades. As for those in the initial stage of Avacaniya Realm … they will die in at most half a year. As for those below Avacaniya Realm … once they step into the vast expanse, all traces of them will be instantly wiped off.
'And …' Su Ming frowned. He did not sense any signs of a will or the power to restore his cultivation base in the vast expanse. This meant that … his cultivation base could not be restored in this place. The amount of power he used was equivalent to the amount he used up.
To most cultivators, this was something they could not bear, but Su Ming did not find it too difficult to get used to it. After all, regardless of whether it was in Divine Essence Star Ocean or the universe where All Spirits Hall was, he had experienced similar things.
Su Ming was already incredibly skilled in releasing the limited power of his cultivation base bit by bit. He could do it in exquisite ways … but aside from that, while Su Ming did not have his will spread out in the Vast Expanse, he could sense that his vast will was constantly flowing out of his body in the place.
Based on this speed, Su Ming's will would dissipate completely in just one hundred years, as if he had been devoured by the universe.
He sighed softly. The thought of hiding from the disaster in the Vast Expanse had mostly disappeared from his mind. This was not a region where cultivators could exist.
Besides, the thin fog around Su Ming was just the most common thing in the Vast Expanse. There were plenty of existences that even Su Ming was wary of, such as the vortices and all the strange life forms that were born in the Vast Expanse.
Perhaps others would not understand much about it, but Su Ming had experienced the black-robed young man's life in the past, and he had seen plenty of mysteries and terrifying aspects of the boundless universe.
Now that he had personally experienced it and verified it, he felt even more deeply.
Su Ming fell into a moment of pensive silence before a glint shone in his eyes. A hint of resolution appeared in them, and with one move, he turned into a long arc that charged into the distance. He was not a person who was willing to give up easily. There were three paths in the face of the destructive disaster, and he could not casually give up on one of them because of a simple judgment.
If he could live in the Vast Expanse and find a way for people to survive, it would mean that Su Ming had found a way for his family and friends to avoid the disaster.
However, Su Ming was not certain whether Cang Lan and the others could leave Harmonious Morus Alba Expanse Cosmos. After all, their levels of cultivation were not high. Over the years, the difference in their potential and fortune had caused the gap between their levels of cultivation to grow larger. Su Ming could not do anything about it. Forcefully increasing his level of cultivation could only solve the problem for a while, and he could not make everyone step into Avacaniya Realm.
But no matter what, the Vast Expanse … was one of the three paths. Only when he was certain that this path was feasible could Su Ming think of other ways to solve the other problems.
With a resolute gaze, Su Ming moved at an incredibly fast speed. He instantly left into the distance and disappeared into the Vast Expanse, which seemed thin but was in truth filled with thick layers of fog.
As Su Ming left into the distance, the thin fog turned into gray marks on his body. At the most, Su Ming's entire body looked like it was about to turn into gray marks, but he maintained the balance of his cultivation base, causing him to be unharmed even though he looked like he was about to die.
If it had been the boy, he would not have dared to venture too far away from the Vast Expanse. Instead, he would have lingered in the vicinity, but even so, every single time he moved forward, he would have to make a lot of preparations. The fog was also quite damaging to him. Almost every one hundred breaths, he would have to swallow a medicinal core and circulate his cultivation base to regulate his breathing.
He was unlike Su Ming, who did not stop while charging forward. When he reached the Vast Expanse, a glint appeared in his eyes. He lifted his right hand and seized the air in the direction of the fog to his right. With it, all the fog in that region shrank, and a face with three eyes appeared. It was an illusion and shone with a dark light. At that moment, there was a ferocious look in its eyes, but it gave off a feeling that it did not possess intelligence.
It let out a piercing roar and charged at Su Ming. He seized the air with his right hand without hesitation, and with a bang, the face was torn to shreds, but it did not disappear. Instead, it turned into a dozen something parts that charged at Su Ming.
Su Ming frowned. He might not have used his full strength in that palm strike, but it could still kill a cultivator in the initial stage of Avacaniya Realm, yet he could not kill the strange life form in the Vast Expanse.
With a cold harrumph, Su Ming swung his arm in the face of the dozen something faces charging at him. This time, he used his will. As it swept outwards, booming sounds tumbled in the Vast Expanse, and the dozen something faces let out shrill screams of pain before disappearing into thin air.
But Su Ming's expression was slightly sour. He might have noticed that his will would disappear in the Vast Expanse, but he did not expect that the speed at which he used his will would be one hundred times faster than when he did not use it.
If this continued, then in just one year … Su Ming's great will would wither in the Vast Expanse Cosmos.
When Su Ming killed the strange life form just now, he had used his will equivalent to the limit of a cultivator in the initial stage of Avacaniya Realm, which was why he had managed to wipe it off. Clearly, such strange life forms were definitely not rare in the Vast Expanse Cosmos …
Su Ming was silent for a moment before he sighed in his heart. There was no longer any need for him to verify anything in the Vast Expanse Cosmos. This place … was completely unsuitable for cultivators, because even he could only stay in this place for a short period of time. He could not stay for long, and in the end, he would only die.
In silence, Su Ming did not continue moving into the distance. Instead, he turned around and walked towards Harmonious Morus Alba. From the distance, he could only see a slanted wing that was completely different from the one in the Vast Expanse.
The wing was so big that Su Ming could not see its end.
The difference in the angle of view caused the size of objects to also be different. It was just like how Su Ming had seen the butterfly in the past. When he saw the ancient memories under Harmonious Morus Alba's guidance, it was the same. It was as if each butterfly was the size of a baby's palm.
Yet at that moment, what he saw in the Vast Expanse Cosmos was so great that it could not be described with words.
Su Ming stood in a daze and stared at the huge butterfly before him. He could not see the butterfly's face, only its fourth wing. In fact, he could not even see the entire fourth wing.
It was difficult for him to describe this feeling. It was very complicated, and there was also an inexplicable sentimental feeling. He saw the aura of death on the butterfly, and it was so thick that he might be able to sense it even if he was very far away.
He did not know whether it was because the thick aura of death had attracted the strange life forms in the Vast Expanse, but when the fog to Su Ming's left gathered up and shrank again, a dark shadow that looked like a soul appeared.
In silence, determination suddenly appeared in Su Ming's eyes again. He still did not want to give up on the path to the Vast Expanse. Even if his hard work would not bring him any results in the end and he would even have to pay a certain price … he still wanted to see just how big the Vast Expanse was. He wanted to see just how many strange life forms there were in it. He also wanted to see … Harmonious Morus Alba's face in its entirety from another angle!
The determination Su Ming was born with was the same as when he had swallowed a large amount of herbs to rush out of the room his elder had sealed for Dark Mountain Tribe when he was young. His determination was the same as when he had sealed off all his emotions and desires in Divine Essence Star Ocean, but he still used straw dolls and bled to record the faces he did not want to forget. His determination was the same as when he learned that Su Xuan Yi was not his family and wanted to kill him, and when he learned that Su Xuan Yi was not his family, he rose to power in the midst of his depression.
All of this was determination. If he did not have determination, it would have been impossible for him to reach his current state. If he did not have determination, Su Ming … would no longer be Su Ming. He would not have possessed his current level of cultivation, and he would have become an ordinary person among the masses.
In the midst of his determination, Su Ming suddenly chose the one thing that he should not do the most in the vast universe … He spread out his will. He spread it out completely and completely.
It was just as he had said — he wanted to see!
It was just as the Elder of the Berserkers had said in the past — the world he saw was a world no one else could see!
It was just like when Su Ming lifted his head to look at the galaxy when he was in the land of Berserkers. The desire in his heart had been to see a world that not everyone could see!
At that moment, as Su Ming's will spread out, countless shrill roars rang out in the Vast Expanse. At the same time, the fog in the area tumbled about rapidly. It was as if his will was a lamp in the dark of the Vast Expanse. While it shone brilliantly, it was also something that could not exist!
Su Ming … saw it!
He saw thousands of strange lives in the Vast Expanse. He saw … that there was no end to the Vast Expanse that surpassed his will, and he also saw … Harmonious Morus Alba's entire body in the Vast Expanse!
It was a beautiful butterfly. All four of its wings were upright, and at that moment … they were just a hair's breadth away from overlapping with each other. In fact, at first glance, it was already difficult to see the gaps between its wings!
It was finally completed! I also announced that the last reader of the iPad was Wang Cheng. He signed his name and said that he was Wang Lin, and he was a good student who spoke practically every day.
"In a few days, I will give you another laptop. I have listened to some suggestions, and in the end, the right to choose the laptop will no longer be up to me. My fellow Daoists will be able to decide who to give it to. As long as you mention the person's name in my public reputation, I will calculate the name that is mentioned the most, and I will be able to take away the laptop.
"The time limit is now, and it will end on Monday night.
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