On the land of Black Ink Planet, Lie Shan Xiu had once stared at the mountain in the distance. On that day, Su Ming appeared in the place once again. One thousand something years had passed since then. When he stood in the place again and looked into the distance, Su Ming felt as if he could see himself.
After a long while, he took a step forward with a calm expression and walked into space, disappearing from Black Ink Planet. He stepped into the galaxy and entered Divine Essence Star Ocean.
The Barren Lands of Divine Essence remained the same, and everything in the galaxy remained the same. Perhaps it was not something that would never change, but while the one thousand something years might have seemed long to Su Ming, to Divine Essence Star Ocean, it was perhaps just a small part of its life.
Su Ming walked past the nest of Flame Fiends' Progenitor and the habitats of the ferocious beasts in the Star Abyss until he arrived at the continent where Tian Xie Zi's disciple in name had once resided.
It was just that this place was no longer the same, but the people had changed. It was a wasteland, and it was unknown how many years it had been abandoned.
He was no longer here. Perhaps his clansmen were no longer here as well. All traces of him had been erased a long time ago. After all, this was the Abyss Star Sea. The cruelty and slaughter here would often occur between clansmen.
Su Ming remained silent for a long time before he turned around and left. He walked into Divine Essence Star Ocean and arrived at Husband Gazing Mountain.
When he reached the region where the Sand Earthlings were, he once again saw the giant floating head statue.
Su Ming arrived at the top of Husband Gazing Mountain and saw a mountain rock with a woman's figure erected there. That rock seemed to have been formed naturally, and from the distance, it looked like a woman who was staring into the distance and waiting for her husband's return.
As he stared at the mountain rock, Su Ming remembered Zhu You Cai, who was in Husband Gazing Mountain. He also remembered the bald crane's complicated expression when it was in this place. At that moment, when he scrutinized the mountain rock, Su Ming suddenly noticed that the woman formed by the mountain rock … seemed to be somewhat similar to the woman he had seen when the bald crane had stared at the lake for one hundred years.
This was purely a feeling. In silence, Su Ming looked at the mountain rock that looked like a woman's figure, and he felt as if he could hear a soft murmur that came from the passage of time.
The moonlight was dim. Who was reminiscing?
Gazing at the horizon, thinking of my hometown.
Su Ming stared at the mountain rock and left. This mountain had its own story, and it had happened a long time ago. He had been staring at it, and perhaps he would only be able to see it during the final one hundred years.
Su Ming walked through the desert in the Sand Earthlings' territory and picked up a handful of sand. He had once promised the Sand Earthlings Spirit that he would give him eternity. It was just like the Old Man Extermination's ballad in the past. All the lives who were written into the ballad could live forever in their aeon.
With the handful of sand in his palm as a guide, Su Ming closed his eyes, and the sand on his palm immediately shuddered. It instantly floated up from Su Ming's palm and spun around to turn into a figure made of sand. After a long while, when Su Ming opened his eyes, the figure wrapped its fist in its palm and bowed deeply towards him.
Then, he flew up and swung his right hand at the sky. A vortex appeared out of nowhere, and the figure turned into a long arc that charged into the vortex, gradually disappearing without a trace.
As Su Ming watched her leave into the distance and when the vortex disappeared, he fulfilled another promise he had made in the past.
Su Ming walked through the paths he had once taken and saw herds of ferocious beasts. Since he was already there, he would go to the fifth ocean and see whether there was truly a path that led to the broken Fifth True World.
He still had the wish he had in the past, but he could not find his junior brother, Tian Xie Zi's disciple in name. This was a regret, but Su Ming did not force it. In truth, with his current level of cultivation, when he saw the wasteland and fell silent, he had already sensed … that his junior brother, Tian Xie Zi's disciple in name, had already returned to dust.
It was difficult for them to meet each other again. This was the fate of different people, and Su Ming could not interfere with it. But perhaps … it was destined that he would be able to make up for this regret. As he moved forward in Divine Essence Star Ocean, Su Ming's footsteps … came to a halt.
After that, he slowly turned his head around. When he looked into the distance, a dark look gradually appeared on his face, and killing intent appeared in it.
Ever since he returned from the fourth Expanse Cosmos, killing intent had practically never appeared on Su Ming's body. This was the first time.
He saw a floating continent not too far away from where he was. At that moment, all the lives on that continent were in a terrible state. Blood flowed in rivers, and all of them were killed by a thin old man with an expressionless face. It was as if he was using his slaughter to absorb the fear and the life force they once had when they died. As he killed, the thin old man's presence became stronger.
There was a skeleton on the old man's back. At that moment, the flesh and blood on that skeleton squirmed. It seemed like the more he killed, the more he could recover from the rot. He could regrow flesh from his bones. In fact, there were some parts of his body that had already grown new skin.
This scene made Su Ming remember one of Su Xuan Yi's clones in the past. He had also been trapped somewhere in Divine Essence Star Ocean and had become the host of the skeleton on his back.
It was the same skeleton, but the host was no longer Su Xuan Yi's clone. Instead … he had become … Tian Xie Zi's disciple in name, who Su Ming had searched for but could not find … his junior brother.
As he stared at the old man, Su Ming fell silent. He could not ignore this matter. The presence spreading out from the skeleton made it clear that he was a powerful warrior from one of the aeons. Su Ming would not have bothered with him regardless of whether that person killed or absorbed. This was part of the rules before the disaster, and Su Ming did not want to interfere with it.
But this person … should not have used Tian Xie Zi's disciple in name as his host.
There was a saying in the past that those who did not know were not guilty, but this saying was not true for Su Ming. Regardless of whether he knew or did not know, there were certain things that once he did, he would have to pay the price, such as the powerful warriors from one of the aeons …
Su Ming lifted his right hand and pointed at the galaxy in the distance. With it, the galaxy immediately distorted, and without a single sound, an illusory figure appeared in front of Su Ming. It was the shadow of his finger, and it instantly looked real. When it gathered together, it became one thousand feet big, and it charged into the distance with a loud whistle.
As it moved forward, its size changed again. It turned into a finger that was nearly ten thousand feet big. It sliced through space and instantly appeared in the sky above the continent. It charged towards the corpse on the ground who was absorbing the life force at that moment and pressed down.
At that moment, the continent trembled furiously, as if it could not withstand the indescribable destructive will stirred up when Su Ming's finger descended from the sky. It was especially so for the corpse. He originally had his eyes closed, but at that moment, he opened them to reveal yellow pupils. They shrank swiftly, and shock appeared on his face.
"Which fellow Daoist attacked me? If you have taken a liking to this continent beforehand, I will immediately apologize and offer you all the life force I absorbed. I will also offer you a supreme treasure as an apology!" When the corpse spoke, Su Ming's finger in the sky did not stop moving. It replaced the sky and descended.
The ground trembled. In fact, the edges of the continent started shattering and crumbling, as if they could not withstand the mighty pressure. This scene caused the corpse's expression to change again. Without any hesitation, he opened his mouth and sucked in a sharp breath. With it, the old man on his back was reduced to skin and bones. He turned into a mummy, as if all his flesh and blood had been absorbed by the corpse.
When the mummy, which had long since died and turned into a puppet, fell to the ground, flesh and blood grew rapidly on the corpse's body. In the blink of an eye, it turned into a middle-aged man. There was a strange and malicious look on his face. At that moment, he threw his head back and roared. When he formed a seal with his hands, he pushed towards the incoming finger from the sky.
Almost at the instant he attacked, a gigantic shadow appeared around the middle-aged man. That shadow was in the form of a huge, rotting beast. It had nine heads, and its body swelled up to several thousands of feet in size. It let out a roar filled with unwillingness to admit defeat and charged towards Su Ming's finger.
"Damn it, no matter who you are, you can't kill me. This is a part of the laws. Since you can't kill me, why bother interfering with me?!" As the old man roared, Su Ming's finger crashed into the old man's body in midair. A loud bang instantly spread out in a manner that shook the sky and earth. Hidden beneath it was the old man's shrill screams of pain.
From the distance, Su Ming's finger replaced the sky and the universe. When he descended, he covered nearly two-tenths of the continent with just that one finger. Once he touched the huge beast that the old man had manifested, Su Ming's finger did not stop moving. In fact, it could be said that he pushed the old man's body and pressed it against the continent that no longer had any life left.
Boom! Boom!
Boom! The ground trembled, and cracks instantly filled the entire continent. In just the span of a few breaths, the entire continent crumbled, and it did not just crumble in one go. Instead, as it shattered layer by layer, it exploded and turned into ashes …
Even the old man's body was destroyed by the finger formed by Su Ming's will. He was completely wiped off the face of the earth!
"I can't bring you to the other side of the world … Since you've already returned to dust, the only thing I can do is to bury this person with you. I will use this continent that no longer has any life to build your tomb." Su Ming sighed softly. He lifted his right hand for a moment, and the continent that had been reduced to ashes gathered together from space to form an ancient tomb floating in the galaxy.
There was a tombstone on it, and a row of words gradually appeared on it.
Ninth Summit, Mo Sha's Tomb.
Dijiu Mo Sha was once Tian Xie Zi's disciple in name. At that moment, he was sleeping eternally in the tomb. He had not interacted much with Su Ming, but Su Ming had never forgotten this junior brother of his. However, it was inevitable that the emotions in his heart could not compare to those of his eldest senior brother and the others. In fact, Tian Xie Zi might have even forgotten that there was once a boy in this place who persistently wanted to become his disciple …
But no matter what … he was Su Ming's junior brother.
Even if the tomb could only exist for one hundred years, the words' Ninth Summit 'had already spoken of the regret that had risen in Su Ming's heart …
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