Su Ming's eyes focused. There were times when the old man's expression was stern, causing others to be unable to tell when he was truly stern and when he was just pretending.
However, when Su Ming looked at the old man at that moment, for some unknown reason, he had a vague feeling that the old man had never been so stern before. It was as if … this was indeed the serendipity the old man had mentioned.
In silence, a contemplative look appeared in Su Ming's eyes. The old man did not speak. Instead, he returned to the house. The door was ajar, as if it was a choice …
"Accepted …" Su Ming mumbled softly. The ajar door was a very simple notification. Once he stepped through it, it would mean that he had joined the sect and become the old man's disciple!
With the status of a disciple and a Master who was basically a tyrant in Ancient Zang, it could be said that Su Ming's path in the future would be smooth. This was clearly Gu Tai's goal. He had brought Su Ming to this place for this!
After several months of tests, Su Ming had obtained the old man's acknowledgement at that instant, and that was why the half-open door had appeared.
If he was truly the third prince, then once he stepped through the door, it would be the same as him taking half a step into the realm of the emperor. He would be ahead of the first and second princes, and with the old man's personality, he would definitely be an incredibly protective person.
However … what stopped Su Ming from taking that step was not the door, neither was it the unreliability of the old man, and neither was it the beautiful woman who had fallen in love with him. Su Ming did not care about these things, because he knew that sometimes, in a person's life, what he saw with his own eyes and heard with his own ears might not be the truth. There was naturally a deeper meaning behind the old man's actions, and when he saw the half-open door, Su Ming understood the old man's thoughts. However … what he cared about …
He was not the third prince. This thought echoed continuously in Su Ming's heart. He continuously told himself that this was a Possession between him and Xuan Zang!
He could enter Seven Moons Sect, get to know Gu Tai, and acknowledge Xu Zhong Fan slightly, but in truth, all of these were just on the surface. In Su Ming's heart, he did not acknowledge any person or thing in the world.
That was because he didn't want to have any ties or shackles in this world. If he did … he was afraid that he wouldn't be able to tell where he was.
Entering the sect was a small matter, but with Su Ming's personality, he knew that if he chose to step through that door, then he would truly form a connection with the old man, and once that connection appeared, it would be the same as the first thread appearing in a huge net that was about to be woven. Once the threads and threads formed a perfect net, Su Ming would be enveloped within it …
How could he not be silent?
Time trickled by. When an hour later, the door to the house slowly opened completely, and the woman walked out with a pale face. Her clothes were still intact, and when she walked into the courtyard, she turned her head around to cast a glance at the house with terror on her face, then looked at Su Ming with a complicated expression before she wrapped her fist in her palm and bowed deeply.
"I have offended you in the past. From now on, wherever you go, I will avoid you. If you become a Great Dao Paragon, I will give you a great gift," the middle-aged woman said. Once she bowed deeply again, she turned into a long arc that charged into the sky and instantly disappeared.
Once the woman left, the old man walked out of the house and sat down on the doorsill. There was no longer any playfulness on his face. Instead, he sighed softly.
"I've never taken in a disciple in my life, and I don't know how to take in a disciple either. I thought that if I wanted to take in a disciple, I would have to give him a great gift.
"That's why I thought that I might as well give you the power of a Great Dao Paragon. Once you absorb Ji Wu Meng's cultivation base, I will transfer it to you. With my help, even if you can't become a Great Dao Paragon, you will still be able to reach Dao Immortal Realm.
"I don't believe that you don't understand. Why … did you refuse?" The old man sat on the doorsill. When he spoke, he brought out his tobacco pipe and stared at Su Ming in the middle of the night.
Su Ming was silent. He did not know how he should explain it. Over the months he spent with the old man, he had come to like this sort of life. He liked cutting wood like this, and he could tell that the old man did not harbor any hostility towards him. Instead, it gave Su Ming a very warm feeling.
"Do you know that if you come under my tutelage, with your royal blood coursing through your veins, I can bring you straight to the royal capital to meet your father? Once I tell him what I want, even if he is the Emperor of Ancient Zang, he will still agree to let you become the heir!
"If he doesn't agree, I can kill your two royal brothers! "Even if that bastard Tian Xiu Luo tries to stop me, if he dares to say no, I won't be able to kill him, but I can destroy Asura Clan!
"Do you know … what sort of serendipity you are refusing?! "This is the first time I'm taking in a disciple, and it's the first time I've thought about it seriously ever since I started practicing Dao. I've thought about it for a long time about how I should prepare a serendipity for my disciple and how I should help him reach the peak of Ancient Zang!
"With me as your Master, you might even be able to reach the ninth level of Dao Divinity Realm! "Why … did you refuse me?! You rejected a pitiful old man like me, a lonely old man … How could you bear to do that?! "As the old man spoke, he sighed repeatedly.
"Those two white dogs were originally prepared for me as your Spirit Beasts in the future, because in my eyes, all the Spirit Beasts in Ancient Zang are not worthy of being my disciple's. The Spirit Beasts by my disciple's side must be cultivators who have turned into Spirit Beasts. Only then would they be arrogant enough!
"But you … y-y-you … How dare you refuse me?! You look down on me!" The old man glared at Su Ming.
Su Ming stared at the old man quietly. His heart had already been touched at that moment. With Su Ming's experience, even though the old man's level of cultivation was much higher than his and he was also much older than him, Su Ming was not an ordinary cultivator. His life's experiences allowed him to tell … just who was truly good to him.
It was just like the old man in front of him. Even though the two of them had only known each other for a few months, he was one of the few people Su Ming had met in Ancient Zang who treated him sincerely.
Su Ming sighed softly. He slowly lifted his head and stared at the stars in the sky. With a swing of his right hand, the heads of the two white dogs immediately tilted to the side and they fell unconscious. From the moment Su Ming gave them names, he knew the old man's intentions. He was not giving them names, but branding their Life Matrices.
"If I was truly the third prince, then with the kindness you have shown me, how could I not come under your tutelage?" Su Ming still said those words. He knew that he should not say them, but in the end, he still said them.
There were times when he could not always think too much. He had to ask his own heart.
The old man was momentarily stunned. He lifted his head and stared at Su Ming.
"I am not the third prince. It's just as I told you, senior. My name is Su Ming, not … Xuan," Su Ming said softly. When his words echoed in the area, the old man's pupils shrank slightly.
The old man's pupils constricted slightly as he spoke slowly.
"Continue."
"I shouldn't be someone from this world. My homeland is a butterfly called Harmonious Morus Alba. I was born in its wings, and that place … is known as Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos.
"In the end, Harmonious Morus Alba died. It was destroyed by a cultivator called Xuan Zang, and I … once I witnessed all my friends and family die, I chose to Possess Xuan Zang!
"When I woke up, I was already here. I was known as a prince, and I had a new name — Xuan," Su Ming said softly after remaining silent for a moment.
Silence filled the courtyard in the middle of the night. Once Su Ming finished speaking, the courtyard instantly fell into dead silence. Su Ming did not continue speaking. The old man also closed his eyes and fell silent.
When an hour passed, the old man opened his eyes slowly, and a solemn look appeared on his face.
"You suspect that this place is fake and believe that this is a world formed from Xuan Zang's memories when you Possessed him. In fact, you are worried that everything you experienced is in truth what Xuan Zang experienced in the past!
"That is why you don't want to form a connection that you cannot sever with all the people here. You believe that as long as your level of cultivation reaches Xuan Zang's level, you can successfully Possess him!
"This is also why you don't want to come under my tutelage, but have you ever thought about … what if this place is real?" the old man asked softly. When he spoke, Su Ming lifted his head and looked at the old man without any hesitation.
"My homeland is in Arid Triad!"
The old man was silent. After the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, he sighed. A hint of bewilderment appeared in his eyes, and his hoarse voice echoed in the night.
"Do you still remember the question you asked me on the first day you came here?"
"I asked you what I wanted to sever, senior," Su Ming answered after some time had passed.
"Many years ago, when I reached the ninth level of Dao God Realm, when I commanded the winds of Ancient Zang and searched for Boundless Dao Realm, I looked at my reflection in the water beside a lake, and I suddenly felt lost …
"Was the person in the lake me, or was the person outside the lake me? "That bastard from Tian Xiu Luo said that I had gone mad, and the Ancient Emperor said that I had gone astray, but I understood my heart. At the moment I saw the lake, I asked myself that question.
"But I … couldn't find the answer.
"I practiced cultivation for my entire life and came to understand everything. I searched for the truth and searched for an answer to my questions, but at that moment, I couldn't find an answer. From then on, I didn't know whether the world I was in was real or fake … I also thought that I might have gone mad, so …
"I was cutting wood here, but when I lifted my axe, I didn't know whether I wanted to cut the real thing on the left or the fake thing on the right! "When I could cut down with my axe, I would know Boundless Dao Realm! "This is also why Tian Xiu Luo and the Ancient Emperor were wary of me!" the old man said slowly. There was a dazed tone in his voice, and it turned into a soft sigh.
"Because I came into contact with the true essence of this world! "And now … your words coincide with my Dao. Su Ming … tell me, should you be my disciple? Become my disciple and help me cut down on this Dao. What do you say?!" The old man stood up slowly and looked at Su Ming.
"If this world is real, then the two of us will stand tall in Ancient Zang. If this world is fake, then even if I have to cut down on my own Dao, I will help you successfully Possess it!" At the instant the old man stood up straight, a presence that caused the entire world to roar swiftly spread out from his body!
It was a person whose words carried enormous weight. It was … a person who never went back on his word!
"The single chapter yesterday caused some misunderstandings and troubles. I apologize to the readers on both sides for not thinking things through.
"It's just my personality. When I want to fight, I can't control my murderous aura. It's like this when I'm the Defying Immortal, but it's been a long time since I showed it to you. I hope that you can understand me.
"Tomorrow, I will start from the end of the month, and I will continue doing so at four chapters a day. When I can no longer persevere, Demon Army, Defying Immortal, support me and don't let me fall!
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