The blood moon hung in the sky. In the world under the canyons, the moon around Su Ming was already nearly five hundred feet big. It looked incredibly huge, and a thick, bloody stench filled the area.
As Su Ming walked on the ground, gazes filled with respect looked towards him. Those gazes belonged to the hidden disciples and the cultivators whose fear had already suppressed their greed. During the short few hours, they had already imprinted Su Ming's figure in their minds.
Before this, Wang Tao was a nobody!
After that, Wang Tao's name became famous among the outer sect disciples. After all, some of the cultivators who survived knew the name of the body Su Ming Possessed. At that moment, as Su Ming walked past the blood moon, his name … rose to prominence.
The clear sounds of the one hundred something spirit plates in his hands crashing against each other floated in the quiet world, bringing with it an enchanting air of murder. It caused the hearts of the outer sect disciples of Seven Moons Sect who heard it to tremble, and they did not dare to think of offending him.
When Su Ming stopped on a mountain on the ground and sat down cross-legged at the top of the mountain, no one could see his figure from the distance. They could only see the blood moon at the top of the mountain, and it was incredibly brilliant.
The mountain had already turned into an invisible forbidden zone. It did not matter whether the Seven Moons Sect disciples outside fought against each other or snatched the spirit plates, no one dared to take even half a step into the place.
As for Su Ming, he was still sitting there cross-legged and did not venture out. He had already obtained enough spirit plates and no longer had any desire to continue obtaining more. At that moment, he sat there quietly with a calm expression on his face, waiting for the end of what was just a game to him.
There was not much time left.
The scene of Su Ming sitting on the mountain was seen by the dozen something sect elders in the field. They stared at Su Ming's side profile in the picture, at the blood moon, and at the one hundred something spirit plates in his hands. Gradually, Sect Elder Lan's words about Life Matrices appeared in their heads. For some unknown reason, even if these sect elders believed that they had reached the peak of their power, an indescribable feeling gradually rose in their hearts, and it was as if a chill had crept up their spines.
A strange glint appeared in the eyes of the man in red robes. He looked at Su Ming in the picture and was also thinking about Sect Elder Lan's words. After a long while, a confident smile appeared on his lips.
"This kid is my nemesis …. I'm showing signs of perishing …. Interesting. I'd like to see why I'm about to perish!" The red-robed man's eyes flickered, and he slowly closed them.
The incredibly beautiful Sect Elder Lan looked at Su Ming's figure in the picture, and a hint of bewilderment appeared in the depths of her eyes before she slowly lowered her head.
"Why is this person's life … so intertwined with mine? Look at the intertwining marks, it's not on me. Instead … it's on his Life Matrix.
Why … "
As the people in the field fell silent, a figure gradually walked over from the distance beyond the invisible forbidden area formed by the mountain where Su Ming was in the trial grounds in the canyon.
It was a tall and slender figure with a handsome face. He was dressed in white, and his long black hair danced in the wind, causing him to have a different kind of charm. However, there was also a calmness within that charm. That calmness was different from Su Ming's. Su Ming's calmness was because his heart was at peace and his face was still, but this person … had a supreme heart, which was why his face had to be calm.
That calmness meant that he was high above the masses and a sense of pride. However, that pride was in his heart and not on his face. He held a large number of spirit plates in his hands, and judging by the number, there were a total of one hundred of them.
He stopped outside Su Ming's invisible forbidden area. When he lifted his head, he looked at Su Ming meditating in the blood moon on the mountain not too far away. He did not say a single word. He did not continue forward, but neither did he move back. He only stared at him.
Time trickled by. When there was only the time it takes for an incense stick to burn before the trial ended, only the white-robed teenager remained outside Su Ming's invisible forbidden area. He stared at Su Ming.
Fighting spirit seemed to have gathered in his eyes. That fighting spirit was like fire, and it seemed to be burning in his eyes.
"Ye Long!" After a long while, he suddenly spoke. His voice echoed in the air and traveled into Su Ming's invisible forbidden area. It also reached Su Ming's ears.
"My name is Ye Long!" the white-robed teenager said again.
Su Ming opened his eyes and looked at the white-robed teenager's face. At the instant he saw him, a dazed look appeared in his eyes. It was as if he was not looking at Ye Long, but the prodigy he had met outside Dark Mountain and on Wind Stream Mountain in Wind Stream Tribe … Ye Wang.
It was the same expression, the same determination, the same tone, and the hidden sense of superiority in his heart.
Su Ming did not speak. Instead, he closed his eyes again.
The fighting spirit in Ye Long's eyes might have become stronger, but he never took a step forward. At the instant the trial ended, he lifted his foot, but he took a step back. When he turned around, the entire world suddenly turned dark, and shrill roars rang out.
A group of ferocious beasts with ferocious faces appeared in the clouds and fog in the sky. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that they were not beasts, but spirits, because their bodies were illusory and formed by fog. Once they appeared, they immediately charged towards the ground.
Some of them rushed towards Su Ming, but at the instant they got close to him, the spirit plate in his hand shone with a dazzling light. The light reached one hundred thousand feet, causing terror to appear on the faces of the ferocious spirits that pounced on him. Just as they were about to retreat, their bodies were sucked into the spirit plates against their will, as if they were being sealed.
Each spirit plate sealed a ferocious spirit. Su Ming sat down cross-legged, and in just the span of a few breaths, one spirit appeared in each of the one hundred something spirit plates.
The spirit plates with spirits still looked the same, but there were faint streams of light flowing about them, making them seem to have become extraordinary.
Su Ming was not the only one who was like that. It was the same for Ye Long. All the people in the trial world who had a spirit plate had sealed a ferocious spirit in it, and once they did so, they would not be attacked in the slightest.
As for the Seven Moons Sect disciples who did not obtain spirit plates, their shrill screams of pain and the sounds of their bodies being torn to shreds rose and fell in the trial world …
The destructive spirits lasted for about an hour in the trial by fire. Then, they faded away. Shockingly, a huge vortex appeared up in the sky, which rumbled as an ancient voice echoed out from within.
"Seven Moons Sect's outer sect promotion trial has ended. Congratulations … on becoming inner sect disciples from now on!" When the voice echoed in the air, a suction force appeared, and the figures on the ground turned into long arcs that charged towards the vortex.
There were men and women among them. Some of them had excited expressions on their faces, and some had respect on their faces. Their expressions were different, and it was related to their actions in the trial ground. The excited ones were those who had avoided the disaster. The respectful ones were those who had been lucky enough to survive. There were also quite a number of people who had complicated expressions on their faces. When they looked at each other, they could see the killing intent and fighting spirit in each other's eyes. These people were clearly people who had formed grudges against each other due to the killings and robberies in the trial.
Just as the group of people flew out towards the vortex in the sky, a long beam of light shot through the sky like a white dragon. It whistled through the air, and wherever it passed, the expressions of all the disciples changed, and they quickly moved out of the way. When they looked at the figure within the white beam of light, their gazes were filled with respect.
It was Ye Long.
Ye Long's expression was calm. Wherever he went, there was not a single obstacle. He charged towards the vortex in the sky. It was also during that instant that Su Ming stood up from the mountain. When he took a step forward, the blood moon did not disappear, causing his body to look like the blood moon that had turned into a long arc. When the world trembled, he walked towards the exit of the vortex.
Almost at the instant Su Ming's blood moon appeared in the eyes of the disciples who were also heading towards the exit of the vortex, cries of surprise rang out. Unlike how they avoided Ye Long when they saw him, when Su Ming approached them, shock and terror appeared on the disciples' faces. They instantly spread out, and when they looked at Su Ming, their gazes were filled with great fear.
With Su Ming around, they did not dare to continue flying. Instead, they floated in midair. No one knew who was the first to wrap his fist in his palm, but soon after, all of them wrapped their fists in their palms and bowed to Su Ming.
"Greetings, eldest senior brother Wang Tao." Their voices were slightly scattered in the beginning, but soon, they gathered together and turned into one voice that echoed in the air.
Once he became the strongest among the outer sect disciples, he would naturally be given the title of eldest senior brother. It was the only title they had for Su Ming in their hearts.
Their voices echoed in the air and spread in all directions. They also reached the ears of the dozen something sect elders in the field. When they saw this, no one spoke. Only Ye Long, who was in a corner of the picture, felt regret in their hearts.
If Su Ming was not around, all of this would have belonged to Ye Long!
Ye Long was silent. He stared at Su Ming, and after a long while, he also lowered his head, wrapped his fist in his palm, and bowed to him.
Su Ming came to a halt. The blood moon around him gradually disappeared, and with a swing of his arm, it immediately turned into blood rain. When it scattered on the ground, he took a step forward and became the first … to step into the vortex in the sky.
Behind him was Ye Long, and then the others. When all of them entered the vortex, the trial world immediately sank into darkness, as if it had been sealed off.
Only the countless ferocious spirits in the darkness roared. Their voices were shrill and filled with madness, but they could not escape from the seal. They could only wait for the next Seven Moons Disaster. Only then would they be able to devour flesh and blood.
Gradually, the shrill roars faded away, and suddenly … a figure appeared under the stone monument Su Ming had once stared at in the depths of the dark ground. It was a person dressed in black robes. He stood there quietly and stared at the words on the stone monument. After a long while, he sighed softly.
There was an ancient air in that sigh, along with a hint of nostalgia that no one else could tell, but if Su Ming was there, he would definitely be able to understand it.
"There's good news. The physical book of Qiu Mo will be appearing in all the bookstores and Dangdang's excellent bookselling website soon. There should be an event where the book will be signed and sold. I don't know which city it will be in, but I look forward to seeing my fellow Daoists smiling in that unknown city. The possibility of it being in Wuhan is very high.
"The second good news is that the physical book of Immortal Renegade was released in the past, and I gave each of the Alliance Masters a copy. It's a pity that the physical book was released too late, and the notice was also too late. Some of the Alliance Masters could not be contacted." Now, the physical book of Qiu Mo is about to be released, and I will also give each of the Alliance Masters a physical book with Qiu Mo's signature!
"This time, I will give you a notice beforehand. Please contact the sub-editor and leave your addresses. Once the book arrives, I will mail it to you.
"The Alliance Masters are the representatives of the book fans. I want to give all the readers a copy, but I really can't … I can only give it to the Alliance Masters. The other readers should not complain.
"The third good news is that I succeeded last night. Alipay and online banking have been locked down. I went to sleep happily, but in the morning, I was struck by a bolt from the blue … My wife told me that all the things she bought can be paid for upon delivery …
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