Time trickled by, and seven days passed.
The old man did not walk out of the house, causing the courtyard to lose its usual liveliness. Only the sounds of Su Ming cutting wood continued echoing in the air every single day.
He would occasionally turn his head around to look at the house. In silence, there was a hint of worry on his face. Tian Xiu Luo's arrival and departure as well as the words regarding Dao did not affect Su Ming greatly. It was clear that there was some sort of pressure that Su Ming could not understand to the old man.
That pressure had nothing to do with life and death. It was a determination towards Dao, or rather … it was an invisible battle of Arts. It was a battle of Arts between three ninth level Dao Gods in Ancient Zang.
When the sun set on the seventh day, Su Ming gently placed his axe to the side. He had sensed Gu Tai's call. With a flip of his hand, the jade slip appeared on his palm. It shone with an increasingly brighter light. It was a sign that a Relocation was about to be activated.
Based on their agreement, when the Relocation began, it meant that Seven Moons Sect had almost accurately located the location of the Space Whip. They only needed to wait for Su Ming to go over, and the entire Seven Moons Sect would attack and help him obtain … the Space Whip!
When Su Ming stared at the Relocation light from the jade slip in his hand, he quietly put it away and stood up. He went to the door of the house and stood there quietly. After a long while, he wrapped his fist in his palm and bowed deeply.
"Master, I will be leaving. Once I leave … I don't know when I will return," Su Ming said softly. The year they had spent together had allowed Su Ming to get used to the peace in the place. He was also used to the old man's personality, so when he left, he felt slightly reluctant to part with him.
It could be said that the year Su Ming spent in the courtyard in the ordinary mountain village was the calmest he had ever been in Ancient Zang.
The door to the house was slowly pushed open, and the old man walked out. He looked slightly older than he was seven days ago. His eyes shone with a wise and farsighted light. He stared at Su Ming, and a kind smile gradually appeared on his face.
"Go. This is not a place for you to stay for long. Take the five dogs away. I hope that the next time I hear your name … you will already be a Dao Paragon!" the old man said softly while staring at Su Ming with a smile.
Su Ming stared at the old man before him. After a moment of silence, he bowed deeply again.
"Wait." The old man held Su Ming in his mouth.
"I have no use for that axe," said the old man with a smile. "You can take it with you. Remember the three realms of using the axe that Master has taught you. The first is to chop people. The second is to chop wood. The third is to chop anything you want to chop." The kindness in his eyes was clearly different from the madness he usually displayed.
Su Ming remained silent. He turned around and picked up the axe. Once he put it away, he turned his head around and looked at the old man.
"Master, I'm leaving," Su Ming said softly.
"Let's go. Remember, I, Loneswan's disciple, can't provoke anyone. If someone provokes you, go cut him down. If you can't cut him down, go absorb him. In short, you can't lose!" The old man raised his head and a look of arrogance appeared on his face. It was as if at this moment, the craziness that he had once possessed had resurfaced once again.
Su Ming looked at the old man. Once he nodded, the jade slip in his hand shone with a powerful Relocation light. That light instantly enveloped the area around Su Ming, separating him from the old man's gaze. At the instant Su Ming was about to be Relocated …
When the old man saw that Su Ming was about to leave, he seemed to have suddenly remembered something and quickly shouted, "Remember, if you run into a girl with a big rump, you must bring her back to me. You might not like girls with a big rump, but I like them."
His voice shot through the screen of light and fell into Su Ming's ears, causing a smile to appear on his face. As he smiled, he instantly disappeared from the courtyard.
The five white dogs also disappeared with him.
When the courtyard regained its silence, the old man stood in a daze. After a long while, he sighed softly. The frivolous look could no longer be seen on his face. It was as if he had returned to a year ago. His lonely shadow was in the courtyard, and it seemed to bring with it a desolate air. He quietly walked out of the doorsill of the house and sat down on a wooden stump.
He was like a real old man in the mortal world. When the sun set and the sky gradually turned dark, he brought out his tobacco pipe and quietly took a few puffs. In the dark night, the flickering light from the tobacco pipe became a thought that would never be extinguished in the courtyard …
…..
To the southwest of Ancient Zang was a seemingly endless mountain range. There were more than one million of them, and they stretched out endlessly. If a person stood in them, they would feel lost and at a loss, because when they cast their gaze over the area, the mountains rose and fell, causing them to be unable to find their way out.
The suppression of divine senses was incredibly strong in that place. Unless they were Great Dao Paragons, all the cultivators in the area would lose the ability to sense their divine senses once they came here.
At that moment, there was a flattened mountain in the mountain range. There were thousands of cultivators surrounding it. They were all watching their surroundings warily, and it was difficult for them to hide the fatigue on their faces. They were all cultivators from Seven Moons Sect. During the past year or so, they had searched through the entire southwest based on the jade slip Su Ming had given them. In the end, once they locked down on the place, they carried out detailed investigations and finally found their target.
Gu Tai could not participate in the search for the Space Whip. He had to take charge of everything in Seven Moons Sect, which was why the person who participated in the search was Xu Zhong Fan. At that moment, he stood outside the Rune and watched it shine. After a moment, when the Relocation light reached its strongest point, it disappeared, and Su Ming appeared in the Rune. Around him were five white dogs.
When Xu Zhong Fan saw Su Ming, a smile appeared on his face, and he nodded at him.
Su Ming's expression remained the same. Once he wrapped his fist in his palm, he walked out of the Rune. The five white dogs quickly followed behind him. When they walked out together, the thousands of Seven Moons Sect disciples in the area cast surprised gazes on them.
"We're pressed for time, so I'll make it short. This is the precise location you gave us based on the jade slip. If you head down the mountain range in front of you, you will see an ancient cave. That is the place where Guru Xing Chen obtained the projection of the Space Whip.
"We've never entered that cave before. Great Sect Elder Gu Tai once gave a strict order that besides you, no one else is allowed to be the first to enter. That place belongs to you.
"Based on my research and the investigations conducted by the other great sect elders over the past few days, we obtained an answer. If you fail, then it will be fine, but if you successfully obtain the Space Whip, then three-tenths of the one million mountains in the southwest will collapse, and there is a high possibility that even more will collapse.
"And because of that, a violent tremor will be stirred up. It will attract the attention of the sects and clans in the area, and when this sort of strange treasure appears in the world, an intense fight will definitely break out.
"There are three sects and six clans in the area. We don't know who will be the first to arrive, but a great battle is inevitable. You don't have much time. You only have two hours. Two hours later, you must come back here. We will activate the Relocation Rune and return to Seven Moons Sect.
"We will do everything we can to fight for you during these two hours. In fact, we have brought out quite a large number of important treasures from the sect and set them up in the area to set up powerful Runes.
"You must come back in two hours!" Xu Zhong Fan said solemnly after casting a deep glance at Su Ming.
Su Ming nodded slowly and wrapped his fist in his palm towards Xu Zhong Fan. He turned into a long arc and instantly flew out. When he flew out, his robes changed and turned into a black robe. As his purple hair danced in the air, five white swans followed behind him. They were five white dogs.
In an instant, Su Ming arrived at the mountain range Xu Zhong Fan had mentioned. When he looked forward, he saw a huge gap at the foot of the mountain range. It was like a cave, and at that moment, there was a ghastly, freezing air spreading out from it, causing the entrance to look as if it was surrounded by clouds and fog.
A glint appeared in Su Ming's eyes.
"White Five." As he spoke, a dark light shone in the eyes of the fifth white dog beside him. It instantly turned into a ray of white light that charged into the cave in the clouds and fog.
It instantly sank into the cave, and Su Ming closed his eyes slightly. Immediately, a moving picture appeared in his mind. That picture came from White Five's observations. There was a connection between Su Ming and the five white dogs in all of Ancient Zang, and even Ancient Emperor and Tian Xiu Luo could not easily sever it.
Because the connection was personally set up by the old man. Unless … there was someone whose level of cultivation surpassed his and reached Boundless Dao Realm, or powerful warriors like Ancient Emperor and Tian Xiu Luo who did not hesitate to use their Origin Force … the connection would not be severed.
After a moment, Su Ming opened his eyes. He moved, and with the four rays of white light behind him, he rushed into the clouds and entered the cave.
The cave was not dark. There was quite a large amount of faint phosphorescent light on the walls. The place was very quiet. Only the wind stirred up when Su Ming arrived could be heard. When it blew into the distance, faint moaning sounds could be heard.
Su Ming's expression was calm. He charged forward, and the five white dogs followed behind him while remaining vigilant of their surroundings.
About the time it takes for an incense stick to burn passed by, and Su Ming's footsteps came to an abrupt halt. He felt a chill that was growing stronger. That chill caused the walls around him to freeze, but this was not the reason why Su Ming stopped moving.
What made his body stop was that a huge ice door had appeared in front of him!
That door was semi-transparent, but Su Ming could vaguely see that there was a cave abode behind it. That ice door was clearly the door to the cave abode. Su Ming also saw three words carved in bold calligraphy on the ice door!
"Black Burial Abode!"
At the instant Su Ming saw those three words, his pupils shrank. He stared at them for a total of a dozen breaths.
After sending the third chapter, he went on to write the fourth chapter. Since the continuous outburst had begun, his ears would persevere to the limit that his body could endure!
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