Under the setting sun was Ancient Zang, far away from the center of the land and the capital of Ancient Zang, where Seven Moons Sect was located, snow fell from the sky.
Snowflakes fell from the sky and covered the land. They connected to the sky and seemed to cover up quite a bit of Seven Moons Sect's glory.
Time flowed by just like how Su Ming had accompanied Hao Hao. To Ancient Zang, two thousand and seven hundred years had passed.
To any country, the changes during those two thousand and seven hundred years were not short. Even in the world of cultivators, there were too many deaths and deaths during those two thousand and seven hundred years.
Seven Moons Sect was a powerful sect among the seven sects and thirteen clans in Ancient Zang nearly three thousand years ago. By then, it had already fallen into decline. From the distance, the entire sect was filled with an oppressive air. The falling snowflakes might not be able to land in Sky Beyond the Sky, but the withering air spreading out from Sky Beyond the Sky made a person standing at the top of a mountain in the distance and staring at Seven Moons Sect sense an ancient air.
It was a young man dressed in a simple long black robe. He had a head full of white hair and looked to be about twenty-six or twenty-seven years old, but there was an indescribable ancient air about him, as if he had lived for far too long.
"Five thousand something years of practicing Dao … I've walked through many worlds and met many faces. The number of people who died in my hands is innumerable … and now, I have become a Great Dao Paragon." The young man stared at Seven Moons Sect in the distance, and in the snow and wind, he let out a long sigh.
He was Su Ming, the Su Ming who had walked out of the once glorious world.
Su Ming stared at Seven Moons Sect and remained silent for a moment before he lifted his foot and walked forward. He walked into Seven Moons Sect's Outer Sect and saw that there were no longer as many Seven Moons Sect disciples as he remembered. There were only a few hundred of them.
Most of the outer sect disciples were unfamiliar to Su Ming. In fact, even the attendants of the outer sect did not exist in his memories. Too many things had changed. When Su Ming reached the first layer of Sky Beyond the Sky, he went to the second layer, the second layer … When he reached the fifth layer of Sky Beyond the Sky, he did not see Lan Lan, but he did see her memorial tablet.
It was placed in the palace belonging to the third line's mountain in the fifth layer of Sky Beyond the Sky. It was placed in the temple behind the palace.
There was a middle-aged woman dressed in a Daoist robe outside the temple. She held a broom and sat under the roof of the temple while staring quietly into the distance.
Su Ming had some impression of the woman. She was Lan Lan of the third line. However, after more than two thousand years, the delicate and pretty girl from back then had already become middle-aged.
Su Ming walked into the courtyard outside the spirit hall in the wind and snow. As he stepped on the snow, he left behind a trail as he walked to the middle-aged woman's side.
As if she had just noticed that there was someone in front of her, the middle-aged woman raised her head.
"Lan Lan of Sky". "Lan of Sky Beyond the Mountain. Su Ming's face was incredibly unfamiliar to her, but the presence coming from his body made it impossible for her to feel any hostility towards him. In fact, for some unknown reason, she felt a sense of familiarity towards him, and that was why she instinctively asked this question.
"I came to visit Sect Elder Lan Lan." Su Ming's gaze fell on the door to the spirit hall, and a hint of melancholy appeared on his face as he spoke softly.
His words fell into the middle-aged woman's ears, and she fell silent. Su Ming's arrival might be unfamiliar to her, but at that moment, it was as if her heart had been affected. Not a single hint of change could be seen on her face. Instead, she stared at Su Ming in a daze, as if all the words and actions of this person before her had fused together with the world. Everything was so natural.
It was as if his arrival had been predestined by the heavens.
"You …" The middle-aged woman hesitated.
After a moment of hesitation, the middle-aged woman softly said, "Master died 1,900 years ago …"
Su Ming remained silent. After a long while, he lifted his foot and walked towards the spirit hall. The middle-aged woman did not stop him and allowed him to push open the door to the spirit hall. Once he stepped in, the door slowly closed behind him.
Within the Spirit Temple, dozens of memorial tablets could be seen on the tribute dais, all of which belonged to the third bloodline. From ancient times until now, all of the people who qualified to be enshrined here had perished, and had been carved into memorial tablets by the sect, so that future generations would never forget them.
Su Ming stood there and his gaze fell on the last memorial tablet. There were four words carved clearly on it.
Sect Elder Lan Lan.
Su Ming stared at the four words quietly, then slowly closed his eyes. In the darkness where he closed his eyes and the silence in the spirit hall, Su Ming felt as if he had returned to the time when he first saw Lan Lan many years ago.
Lan Lan, who gave Su Ming the feeling that she was Fang Cang Lan, made him understand a long time ago that she was the Fang Cang Lan of this world. Su Ming had always avoided having too much contact with her, because he was afraid of losing himself in the end.
Memories rose in his mind. When the time it takes for an incense stick to burn passed, Su Ming opened his eyes. When he turned around, he walked out of the spirit hall.
"Why did she die?" he asked faintly.
The middle-aged woman was silent for a moment before she answered softly, "One Dao Sect …"
Su Ming nodded and did not say anything else. He walked forward and left the palace at the top of the mountain. He arrived at his lodgings in the fifth layer of Sky Beyond the Sky in Seven Moons Sect. That place was not much different from how it was in his memories, but it was now covered in dust.
Su Ming stood by the cliff and stared at his former lodgings. After a long while, when he turned his head around, he saw Ye Wang meditating on the mountain belonging to the first line in the fifth layer of Sky Beyond the Sky.
His middle-aged appearance, his great power, and the level-headedness on his face meant that Ye Wang … had already become a sect elder.
Su Ming averted his gaze and walked to the sixth layer of Sky Beyond the Sky. When he arrived at the seventh layer of Sky Beyond the Sky in Seven Moons Sect, a brilliant light slowly shone in his eyes.
That quiet light shone in Su Ming's eyes, which had mostly been calm over the years, and it had not appeared for a long time. Even though he had told himself many times that Ancient Zang was just a Possession between him and Xuan Zang, killing intent still gradually appeared in his eyes.
The seventh layer of Sky Beyond the Sky had already been reduced to ruins …
There were once around a dozen continents, but now, only three remained. The others were reduced to ruins and floated in the world like dust. The mighty pressure belonging to Great Dao Paragons still filled the land faintly. Su Ming could already imagine that many years ago, a Great Dao Paragon had come with a monstrous rage and nearly destroyed the place, which was why his presence still remained.
The remaining three continents were in dead silence at that moment. Only Su Ming sensed the presences of three people at the highest peaks of the three continents.
They belonged to Dao Han and the other two former great sect elders. Gu Tai and Xu Zhong Fan were not present.
The three people's presences were incredibly weak, as if they were heavily injured. At that moment, they were in a state of hibernation and would need an endless amount of time to slowly recover.
The killing intent in Su Ming's eyes was gradually suppressed. Once it fused with his presence, he swept his gaze past the three continents. In the end, his eyes landed on the first continent. He moved forward, and in an instant, he appeared at the highest peak of the continent.
There was a huge platform at the top of the mountain. There was a huge Rune on it, and at the center of the Rune was a spot about the size of a fist. It was like a small pit.
As a former disciple of Seven Moons Sect, Su Ming knew about Seven Moons Sect's existence as he stared at the small pit. During each generation, if there was nothing major happening, only one great sect elder would wake up and take charge of Seven Moons Sect. The other great sect elders would sleep to train.
The method to wake up a great sect elder required blood that had been infused with Seven Lives Art to wake up the sleeping great sect elder. It was just like how Lan Lan had used this method to wake up Xu Zhong Fan in the past.
Su Ming stood on the Rune and remained silent for a moment. When he lifted his right hand, he cut the tip of his finger, and his blood dripped down into the small pit at the bottom.
When nine drops of blood dripped down, Su Ming swung his right arm, and no more blood dripped down. Instead, he stood there and waited quietly.
The blood in the small pit at the center of the Rune instantly disappeared. At that instant, the entire Rune shone with a blood-red light. At the same time that light shot into the sky, a roar that seemed to have come from hell came from the mountain with a loud rumble.
At the same time, as the light from the Rune shone, the Rune looked as if it had started rotating. As booming sounds reverberated in the air, a gigantic crack immediately spread out from the center of the Rune. A dark ice coffin slowly floated up, then stood erect before it landed on the ground with a bang, right in front of Su Ming.
Through the lid of the dark ice coffin, Su Ming saw Dao Han, who was withered and had his eyes tightly shut. He also saw a hideous gash on Dao Han's chest. That gash had pierced through his body and severed his heart meridian.
His body was as withered as a skeleton. When Su Ming looked over, the entire coffin instantly turned blood-red. Gradually, the mummy-like skeleton started squirming. In just the span of a dozen something breaths, Dao Han returned to his previous appearance in Su Ming's memories.
"Who … Who woke me up?!" Another roar rang out. Dao Han's eyes flew open in the coffin. This was the first time he opened his eyes since he fell into a deep slumber after being heavily injured during Seven Moons Sect's disaster nearly two thousand years ago.
Almost at the instant he opened his eyes, Su Ming's figure appeared in his pupils. At the instant he saw Su Ming, Dao Han's pupils shrank. He could clearly sense … the power of a Great Dao Paragon from Su Ming's body!
At that instant, he also noticed that the area above his chest where his heart meridian had been cut … was showing signs of healing.
"You are …" Dao Han's expression was solemn. His expression did not relax even though his injuries had healed. Instead, his gaze became even fiercer, but there was a hint of excitement hidden in the depths of that fierceness.
He was not unfamiliar with Su Ming's presence. Even though it belonged to a Great Dao Paragon, he would never forget it. However, Su Ming's appearance had changed quite a lot. At that moment, what appeared before him was Su Ming's true appearance in Harmonious Morus Alba.
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