The sun could not be seen in the sky. The entire sky was dark, as if the ghosts needed the night sky when they moved about, not the sun. Under this sort of sky, Su Ming walked into the city. At the moment he approached the city gate, he turned his head around to cast a glance at the palace. He could still vaguely sense Di Tian's presence over there.
That presence had an air of farewell to him. It filled the city, as if it was slowly fusing with the ancient city that had been dead for an unknown number of years. Di Tian lived in his own world, deceiving his own consciousness to tell himself that everything in the place was real.
Su Ming sighed softly. He understood Di Tian's resolve. That resolve was the resurrection of the corpses placed in the Rune beside the throne.
'Only when I believe that this place is real can the people who have been resurrected not think that this place is fake. Di Tian …' Su Ming fell silent. He felt as if he had gotten to know the person who had been embroiled in a grudge with him for thousands of years in Harmonious Morus Alba's world.
'For the people he wants to resurrect, he chose to be lost and willingly sink into this place. Where … is my path?' In silence, Su Ming walked out of the city. When he was outside the city gate, he turned his head around for the second time and looked at the headless figure sitting cross-legged and meditating like a statue.
'Eldest senior brother …' Su Ming stared at the figure on the city for a long, long time. When the boy in his arms opened his eyes, Su Ming turned around and walked into the distance.
The boy lay in Su Ming's arms. He lifted his head and cast his gaze on the city before he asked softly, "Big brother, do you know the person who appeared on the city before?"
"He's my senior brother," Su Ming mumbled without turning his head back.
The boy did not continue speaking. He just stared at the headless figure on the city …
Su Ming did not disturb his eldest senior brother's training, because his choice was different from Di Tian's. He chose another path, and it was not to be lost. Instead, he chose to break through all emptiness and open his own eyes to search for the true world.
If he chose to be willing to be lost, then once Su Ming made his choice, he knew that he would see the headless figure open his eyes and see his eldest senior brother in his memories. In fact, Su Ming believed that he would definitely find a way to make other familiar faces appear before him in this world.
However … all of this was still an illusion. Su Ming did not want to walk down this path. The path he wanted to walk down was different from Di Tian's.
That path would be even more difficult, and it would be even longer. Di Tian did not manage to finish walking down that path. He chose to get lost, but at that moment, as Su Ming left into the distance under the dark sky, there was a faint sense of desolation in his eyes. He … would absolutely not give up on his own path.
Su Ming could understand why Di Tian did not continue down this path, but he himself would definitely reach the end of the path!
In silence, Su Ming left into the distance until he disappeared into the horizon. He disappeared beyond the ancient city … and left into the distance.
"I saw tears at the corners of your senior brother's eyes …" the boy said softly while lying on Su Ming's shoulder.
Su Ming's footsteps came to a halt. When he turned his head around, he stared at the city he could not see and sighed softly.
Time passed, ten years, twenty years … until another hundred years passed.
In the once glorious world, Su Ming had already walked for a total of three hundred springs and autumns. Year after year, day after day, he walked past ruins, mountains, rivers, deserts, and continents.
When Su Ming arrived in front of a mountain on the sixth continent, he stopped quietly and closed his eyes. He chose to meditate under a night sky filled with stars.
He sat there for ten years.
When Su Ming opened his eyes after ten years of meditation, the entire world seemed to have become slightly different. Su Ming did not bother about his level of cultivation, neither did he check just what Realm he had reached. It was as if all of this was no longer important to him.
What he cared about was not his level of cultivation, but his epiphany. His level of cultivation and his offensive abilities were just side effects in the process of gaining an epiphany. They were not his main focus.
"Let's go." Su Ming stood up. The boy tugged at the corner of his robe and followed him into the distance. Time flowed by and did not change because of a person's will. Gradually, another ninety years went by.
It was the four hundred years Su Ming had spent in the world. He arrived at the seventh continent, and it was black. There was no end to it. There were no mountains, no rivers, and no plants. There was only endless darkness, as if it was cursed.
From the distance, the black land without mountains looked like a black ocean, but there were no waves on it. It was like a dead sea …
Perhaps there would be an ancient ship that would swim eternally on this ocean, and the person meditating on it would be the Old Man Extermination from Su Ming's memories.
"He's here." When Su Ming stepped on the continent, he spoke softly. Su Ming did not intentionally search for him on the continent. Instead, he naturally sensed the first prince's presence, or rather … it was Lin Dong Dong's presence.
That presence was a mixture of Old Man Extermination's life and Su Ming's childhood playmate, Su Xuan Yi's son, Lei Chen's presence.
The boy tugged at the corner of Su Ming's robe and asked softly, "Will we run into him?"
"He will run into us." Su Ming lowered his head and stroked the boy's hair. As he mumbled to himself, he walked into the distance. When Su Ming reached the fourteenth winter on the seventh continent, he did not stop. Snow fell from the sky, but he continued walking forward.
Gradually, the land turned white, and Su Ming saw the first mountain on the continent. It was a mountain that looked like a person's palm that pierced straight into the clouds.
It was … the Dark Mountain from Su Ming's memories. Perhaps the mountain had never existed, but had been created by someone to stand tall in the land. At the foot of the mountain, Su Ming saw a house, and there was a figure sitting cross-legged outside it.
At first glance, that figure was the first prince, but when Su Ming looked at him again, he became Lei Chen. When Su Ming approached him, Lei Chen opened his eyes.
"You're here." A smile appeared on Lei Chen's face.
Su Ming stood there quietly. After a long while, a smile also appeared on his face, and he sat down beside Lei Chen.
"Where are they?" Su Ming asked.
"Once we came to this world, we split up. I … don't know where they went." Lei Chen lifted his right hand and swung it. Immediately, a few pots of wine appeared between him and Su Ming.
"It's … been a long time since we drank together, right? I still remember when we stole the elder's wine when we were in Dark Mountain. It was at the foot of the mountain, "Lei Chen said softly, and nostalgia appeared in his eyes.
Su Ming fell silent. After some time, he picked up the pot of wine and placed it by his mouth, but he did not see any wine in the pot. It was empty … But Su Ming could clearly see the wine that flowed out of Lei Chen's mouth and fell on the snow.
This scene caused a hint of sadness to appear on Su Ming's face, and he slowly put down the pot of wine.
"Why aren't you drinking? Do you know … that I … waited four hundred years for you to drink with me this time? "Lei Chen looked at Su Ming with a smile, and an ancient look gradually appeared on his face.
"Why?" Su Ming asked softly while looking at Lei Chen.
"I'm tired … I'm tired from the bottom of my heart. It's been so many years, and I'm really, really tired …" Anguish appeared on Lei Chen's face. He picked up the pot of wine and took a big swig from it before he let out a deep breath.
"The way I am right now is very good. I'm very satisfied. You, the elder, my father, the people of Dark Mountain, and my world are here." Lei Chen smiled, and his smile seemed to be filled with satisfaction.
"My only regret is that it has been a long, long time since I drank with you … In our previous life, we were brothers … In this life, are you willing to drink with me until the end?" Lei Chen stared at Su Ming. Clarity appeared in his eyes as he waited for Su Ming's choice.
Su Ming was silent, but the boy beside him became nervous. He tugged at the corner of Su Ming's robe, as if Su Ming's choice this time was incredibly crucial to him.
"Big brother … don't make this choice …" Hao Hao stared at Su Ming. Almost at the moment he said those words, Su Ming had already picked up the pot of wine.
With the pot of wine in hand, Su Ming slowly closed his eyes in silence. Time passed by without a single sound. Only the falling snow seemed to ignore the arrival and departure of time and continued falling on the ground …
When Su Ming opened his eyes again, he stared at the snow in the world, at Dark Mountain, at Lei Chen, and vaguely, he saw the familiar tribe beyond the house. Not too far away from the tribe was the elder, and he was staring at him. Beiling, Chen Xin, and the faces of the past were also staring at him.
When Su Ming lowered his head, the pot of wine in his hand was no longer empty. There was wine in it, but the boy beside him was no longer around.
As he stared at Lei Chen, Su Ming drank the wine in the pot in one gulp. A smile appeared on his face, and it seemed to have released his fatigue and the gloominess in his heart. He drank with Lei Chen, his first friend and brother in his life, at the foot of Dark Mountain and in the tribe.
Time passed, and it was already night. Lei Chen and Su Ming's laughter echoed in the air as they drank pot after pot of wine. They talked about the past and talked about the beautiful moments in the past.
"I still remember how you looked the first time you saw Bai Ling. Haha! Speaking of which, if we hadn't gone to the market between the tribes that day, you might not have met her." Lei Chen put down the pot of wine with a smile.
"I also remember the girl you liked at that time, but I never agreed with your taste …" The smile on Su Ming's face was very beautiful. It was as pure and untainted as it was in the past.
When Lei Chen heard this, he immediately smiled as well. When he shook his head, he seemed to be filled with a myriad of emotions.
"At that time, I was still young. When I saw how close you were with Bai Ling, I thought that I should have a close companion as well. I don't know why, but I thought that she was pretty good, but now that I think about it, I can't remember her name."
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