Su Ming left behind all of Seven Moons Sect in silence. His figure seemed to have turned into a fleeting sight before the morning sun. He disappeared from the people's eyes and stepped into the fifth layer of Sky Beyond the Sky.
Someone clearing the eighteenth formation from the first formation was something rarely seen in the history of Seven Moons Sect. At the very least, most of the Seven Moons Sect disciples had never heard of it.
It could be said that the day and two nights had been a shock to the disciples of Seven Moons Sect. In the midst of their shock, they firmly remembered Wang Tao's name.
As for Ye Long … when Su Ming challenged the formations, Su Ming was the leaf, and Ye Long was the flower, but when Su Ming challenged more than ten formations, Ye Long became the foil that served as Su Ming's foil. Yet now … he did not even have the right to serve as a foil.
Chen Tao and Yue Yan stood at the edge of the cliff in the fourth layer of Sky Beyond the Sky. When Su Ming left into the distance, they gradually averted their gazes.
"He could have continued," Chen Tao said after a long while. Chen Zhao said slowly after a long while. His expression was grave as he looked at Yue Yan next to him.
"I, Fei Feng, had the right to continue after clearing the nineteenth formation, but he did not challenge it," Yue Yan said softly. When she turned around, she drifted into the distance.
Chen Tao narrowed his eyes on the cliff. After a long while, he swung his arm, turned around, and walked back to his cave abode.
Fei Feng had already walked out of his cave abode at the top of the mountain. He stood outside the gate of the first line and averted his gaze from the disappearing Feng Shui compass. A profound smile appeared at the corners of his lips.
"Looks like you've noticed it as well … I wonder if I will be able to go further next time, or if you, Sect Elder Wang, will gain an epiphany faster." Fei Feng smiled, and a fierce glare appeared in his eyes.
When dawn arrived and sunlight scattered on the ground, a new day arrived in Seven Moons Sect. Su Ming sat outside his house in the fifth layer of Sky Beyond the Sky and quietly closed his eyes.
The eighteenth formation was not his limit. If he wanted … he could still clear the nineteenth formation, the twentieth formation, or even more. Based on his level of cultivation, he should be able to clear the twenty-second or twenty-third formation.
But Su Ming did not.
'Once you reach the eighteenth level of the Rune, you can only clear it if you have a Dao Shadow. Even if you manage to clear it, you won't gain any serendipity. It's just an empty title. Only when you form your own Dao Shadow will you be able to gain an epiphany from the Rune.' A dark light shone in Su Ming's eyes.
"That person called Fei Feng must have noticed this as well. That's why he didn't continue after passing the nineteenth formation. Clearly … he hasn't formed his Dao Shadow yet.
And Seven Moons Sect's Dao Shadow requires the fusion of Seven Lives Art! " In silence, Su Ming closed his eyes. What he wanted to do next was to enter isolation for a long period of time. During it, he would fuse his human, earth, sky, and seven shadows together in an attempt to turn them into a Dao Shadow. He wanted to see whether he could use it to reach a breakthrough in his level of cultivation and … step into Dao Spirit Realm!
In the blink of an eye, another ten years went by. During them, Su Ming meditated and did not open his eyes. He was immersed in the fusion of his human, earth, and human shadows. He did not bother about anything else around him and searched for a chance to fuse them together while he gained an epiphany.
During the ten years Su Ming was in isolation, some minor incidents happened in Seven Moons Sect, such as some disciples going missing for no reason, and signs of the sky shattering would occasionally appear in the sky beyond Seven Moons Sect. It might have soon returned to normal, but it still gradually caught the attention of the people.
When another ten years passed, more signs of the sky shattering beyond Seven Moons Sect appeared. Gradually, they looked as if they were about to connect with each other to form cracks. There were also faint booming sounds that rose and fell and echoed in the air. In fact, it even affected the cultivation of the outer sect disciples in Seven Moons Sect.
At that moment, with Sect Elder Mu Zhen in the lead, he led the disciples in the sect out of Sky Beyond the Sky to investigate the matter. No one knew whether he had discovered something, but when he returned, he went to the sixth layer of Sky Beyond the Sky and did not venture out again.
Another ten years passed. The sky beyond Seven Moons Sect was filled with cracks. In fact, countless cracks had appeared on the ground, and some of the places where Seven Moons Sect was located. In fact, the mountains surrounding the sect also gradually cracked, and this matter caught the attention of the disciples in Seven Moons Sect.
Finally, when another ten years passed, the cracks in the world beyond Seven Moons Sect were so numerous that all those who saw them would feel their hearts tremble. In fact, the mountain gate and the mountains around Seven Moons Sect were also covered in cracks, as if Seven Moons Sect was about to collapse at any moment.
The first layer was not the only one affected. Even the second layer of Sky Beyond the Sky had similar cracks. Then, in the fifth layer of Sky Beyond the Sky, the Council of Seven Moons of Sect Elders was held!
The Council of Elders named after Seven Moons was a major event that required all the sect elders to participate in, and as a sect elder, Su Ming naturally had to attend it.
Su Ming had been in isolation for forty years, and during them, he had not opened his eyes even once. Even now … the Council of Seven Moons of Sect Elders, which was the first in forty years, had sent a jade slip to all the sect elders in the fifth layer of Sky Beyond the Sky. At that moment, when the jade slip floated in front of him, Su Ming still had his eyes closed, but a shadow seemed to have overlapped with his body. Soon after, a figure stood up from where he had been meditating.
It was a shadow of Su Ming, and it looked exactly the same as him. At that moment, when it stood up, it took the jade slip floating in front of it, and with a calm expression, it walked towards the mountain of the thirteenth line.
Since Dao Han belonged to the thirteenth line, when he was in charge of the sect, the thirteenth line was supreme.
Su Ming was the last to arrive. At the instant he stepped into the thirteenth line, he saw several divine senses sweeping towards him from the mountain range. There was an observant look in those divine senses, but Su Ming's expression remained the same. With a step, he walked to the top of the mountain and stepped into the Council of Elders of the thirteenth line.
It was a region that looked like a square. It was built at the top of the thirteenth line and above the clouds. There were fifteen huge chairs surrounding the area, forming a ring.
There were fifteen chairs, and one of them was slightly larger than the others. The remaining fourteen were slightly smaller to show the difference in their statuses. At that moment, besides the largest chair, thirteen people had already walked down from the other fourteen chairs. The remaining one clearly belonged to Su Ming.
When Su Ming walked in, eight pairs of eyes instantly looked towards him in the silent meeting hall. Su Ming had seen them the first time he stepped into Seven Moons Sect. One of them was Mu Zhen, and the other was Lan Lan.
Su Ming's expression remained the same. He ignored those gazes and walked to the empty chair. He slowly sat down and closed his eyes, as if he was resting.
Soon after, a vast, mighty pressure descended on the meeting hall. At the instant Su Ming opened his eyes slightly, he saw a fiery red figure appear on the largest chair. The fiery red light gradually turned into a long robe, and it turned into a middle-aged man.
The man's expression was cold. In his right hand was a pearl, and there was an awe-inspiring expression on his face. Once he sat down, he swept his gaze past the fourteen people around him. When he saw his disciple, the black-robed young man who was just as cold as him, he nodded slightly. When his gaze fell on Su Ming, it stopped for a moment.
"I have gathered all of you to join the Council of Elders of Seven Moons Sect because the power of the world has become stronger over the past forty years. There are certain things that you will need to prepare for as soon as possible.
"Sect Elder Mu, tell us what you discovered when you ventured out twenty years ago," the red-robed man said faintly while spinning the pearl in his hand.
"My fellow Daoists, twenty years ago, I went out to investigate on the orders of the great sect elder, and when I was in the crack in the world … Heh heh … I discovered traces of One Dao Sect!" Mu Zhen swept his gaze past the crowd and said with a dark expression.
At the instant the words' One Dao Sect 'tumbled out of Mu Zhen's mouth, the expressions of five of the thirteen sect elders who did not include Dao Han and Mu Zhen changed swiftly.
"It really is One Dao Sect!"
"Only the mysterious and unfathomable One Dao Sect, which exists in all the cracks in the world, would dare to show themselves so arrogantly outside Seven Moons Sect's mountain gate!"
When cold voices spoke, Mu Zhen wrapped his fist in his palm towards the red-robed man and no longer spoke.
"Since you discovered traces of One Dao Sect a long time ago, why did you wait for twenty years?" Lan Lan asked faintly and coldly. When she spoke, the people in the area immediately stopped talking and cast their gazes towards the red-robed man.
"Because One Dao Sect formed a crack in the world beyond Seven Moons Sect. In truth, they sent a notice … or rather, instead of saying that it was a notice, it would be better to say that it was a threat." The red-robed man toyed with the pearl in his hand. When he spoke calmly, he swept his gaze past Su Ming.
"Their notice clearly told Seven Moons Sect to hand over all the disciples we took in during the past sixty years, or else, once the time limit is up and we don't hand them over, we will … launch a war between the two sects!" At the instant the red-robed man spoke, the expressions of all the people in the area besides Su Ming changed drastically.
"One Dao Sect is going overboard!"
"What a joke. How can we hand over those disciples? These people are a small matter, but Seven Moons Sect is also one of the seven sects. If we are threatened because of this, how are we supposed to face our fellow sect members in the future?!"
"One Dao Sect might be the strongest sect among the seven sects, but they can't be so forceful!" Cold chuckles came from the sect elders in the area. At that moment, the red-robed man slowly spoke.
"Of course, if we agree to their request, One Dao Sect will give us compensation, such as … the experience of those in the second level of Dao Divinity Realm stepping into Dao Spirit Realm … and an epiphany to become a Great Dao Paragon."
Once he said those words, the expressions of all the sect elders in the area changed. As they sank into contemplation, they no longer said a single word. Instead, they sank into silence.
Their calmness caused the entire Seven Moons Council of Sect Elders to instantly fall silent.
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