Su Ming brought the fog with him. He did not care about the passage of time or how many times the universe had gone through reincarnations. He continued searching for the faces in his memories and the traces that belonged to them.
Then, he found his second senior brother. In the flower formed by the fog, he found his second senior brother, who had changed his state of life. He was a life form similar to a ghost.
Su Ming found Hu Zi beyond the flower formed by the fog. He seemed to have never been separated from his second senior brother. His second senior brother had turned into the specter of another life, and Hu Zi had turned into the endless wind of the Vast Expanse that was beyond the specter.
There was also Xu Hui, Flame Fiends' Progenitor, and the traces of other faces. After an unknown amount of time, as the vortex in the universe rotated and tumbled about, Su Ming found them one after another.
Then, he found Bai Ling, Zi Ruo, and … his elder.
In the end, Su Ming found a tree in the Vast Expanse. It was not Ecang, but an incredibly ordinary looking tree. Under it, Su Ming found Arid Triad.
When he found everyone, Su Ming returned to the depths of the universe where his Feng Shui compass was located. Over there, he chose to sit down cross-legged and meditate once more. He cast one last glance at the world.
"Are you … lonely?" Su Ming was silent. After a long while, he slowly sent his divine thought out. He did not say a single word. Only his divine thought echoed in the universe and lingered for a long time without disappearing.
Only one person could hear his divine thought.
"How many years has it been? Are you alone? Are you lonely?"
Su Ming sent his divine thought outwards again. When it reverberated in the vast universe, a cold harrumph came from the vortex in front of him. Along with it was an ancient ship that seemed to have torn through the vast universe, and it had endless lightning swimming about it.
Old Man Extermination sat cross-legged on the ship. When the ancient ship appeared, he slowly opened his eyes. When he stared at Su Ming, Su Ming also lifted his head and stared at Old Man Extermination.
Old Man Extermination was silent for a moment before he said hoarsely, "Our Daos are different … This is the path I chose. With this path, I can live alone for endless years and sacrifice everything … to complete my Dao!"
"Is this path lonely?" Su Ming sent his divine thought once again.
"There's no point in saying so much. From the moment you successfully Possessed Xuan Zang, I had already lost half of my battle. Now, countless years have passed. Tell me your request, and I will do everything in my power to fulfill it." Extermination fell silent again. This time, after a long while, his voice was filled with determination as it spread through the Vast Expanse.
"Help me search … for the bald crane. It's in a world that might exist. Help me search for it … and bring it back … No matter what it has done in that world, no matter what sort of life it has become, bring it back. Bring it … home." He lifted his head and stared at the Vast Expanse in the distance. Longing appeared in his eyes, along with melancholy and regret. He had found everyone, but he could not find the bald crane.
Because the bald crane … was not here.
As Su Ming spoke, he lifted his right hand, and a pearl appeared on his palm. It was the seventh pearl from Xuan Zang's Bracelet. The shadow of the crane originally existed in it, but it had long since disappeared.
"If you can't find it, how am I supposed to? Why don't you search for it yourself?" Old Man Extermination frowned.
"If you follow its tracks, you can find the bald crane … I can no longer search for it myself," Su Ming said softly. When Su Ming asked softly, Extermination fell silent. He cast Su Ming a scrutinizing glance, and a complicated look gradually appeared in his eyes.
"Is it worth it?" He asked softly. When he looked at Su Ming, he could already see Su Ming's body slowly stiffening up. His life force was slowly being reduced, and he had already fused all of it into the world in his body. He used his life force to allow life to exist in that world, and he used his life force to wake up the signs of life he had found in the Abyss Gate.
"This is my Dao … I no longer want … to continue being alone." A smile appeared on Su Ming's face. He did not answer Extermination's question, but when he said it, it could be considered as an answer.
Once he said it, Su Ming unfurled his right hand. The pearl on his palm turned into a long arc, but it did not fly to Extermination. Instead, it stared at the space in the distance, as if it wanted to break through the Expanse Cosmos and rush to the world in which the bald crane was located. No one knew how far away it was … but perhaps it existed.
At the same time, the Feng Shui compass under Su Ming stopped spinning and turned into a long arc that charged towards the pearl. It gradually shrank, and when it caught up to the pearl, it fused with it!
"Perhaps there will be a person in that world … who will be the white piece in this life," Su Ming said softly. He gradually closed his eyes. At the instant he did so, the pearl that had fused with the Feng Shui compass turned white.
Old Man Extermination was silent. After a long while, he sighed softly and swung his arm. The lone ship beneath him flew up and charged in the direction where the Feng Shui compass pearl had broken. It charged out of the Expanse Cosmos, and when they disappeared from it, they went to the Expanse Cosmos that might have existed. They left … Su Ming's Expanse Cosmos.
"I will bring it back. This is the bet I owe you." Extermination left.
Su Ming closed his eyes. This would be the last time he would close them in his life. His body had completely stiffened, and all his life force had been gathered into his body. The life force that spread out from him gradually turned into a thick aura of death.
His life force fused with the world in his body and the brands of life formed by the marks. Only by doing so could he make them open their eyes in his world.
When they fused with Su Ming's life force, Yu Xuan, Cang Lan, and Xu Hui's heart stirred.
"I couldn't give you anything in the past … Now, I can only give you … a child formed by my life to continue the story between us …" Su Ming murmured in his heart. His voice fused with the marks of life in Yu Xuan, Cang Lan, and Cang Lan, and his life, which was not Su Ming's life force, also fused with them.
Time trickled by. Su Ming did not have a Feng Shui compass under him. He just sat in the cycle of reincarnation in the Expanse Cosmos and gradually sank. His body was gradually covered by the vortex, and he was gradually immersed in the cycle of reincarnation. No one else … could find him.
A sigh echoed in the Expanse Cosmos. Tian Xie Zi's indistinct figure manifested and walked out of the air. He stared at Su Ming, who had disappeared into the vortex, and grief appeared on his face.
"Oh well, I … will accompany you." As he mumbled softly, Tian Xie Zi walked towards the vortex where Su Ming had disappeared and disappeared with him.
…..
When Su Ming closed his eyes, the world in his body that was already full of life became blue. The ground was green, and there was a vast ocean in the distance. Mountain ranges rose and fell, and there was a mountain known as Nine Summits …
Then, a door appeared in the sky.
It was a violet door, and as it slowly opened, the entire world turned violet.
The purple light lasted for a very long time. When it dissipated, the door disappeared without a trace, as if it had never been there.
Hu Zi was the first to open his eyes on Nine Summits. He stared at the sky in a daze and shook his head vigorously. He lifted his right hand and instinctively touched the area beside him, but he did not manage to touch the pot of wine.
"Darn it, why do I feel like I slept for a very, very long time?" Hu Zi scratched his head in surprise. He looked at his second senior brother, who had opened his eyes not too far away from him.
Second senior brother stared at the ground in the distance quietly. There was a slightly dazed look in his eyes, but soon, he seemed to have remembered something. He lifted his head to look at the sky, and as he stared at it, the corners of his eyes became moist.
Footsteps could be heard. Eldest senior brother walked towards them. He already had a head, and his strong body seemed to shudder weakly when he arrived beside second senior brother and Hu Zi.
"Where's youngest junior brother..?" His voice was a little hoarse as he mumbled, but he could not find the voice to answer …
"Where's youngest junior brother..?" Second senior brother looked at the sky and bit his lip. A bitter look appeared on his face.
Hu Zi widened his eyes and quickly stood up to shout at the area around him, "Stop hiding, youngest junior brother. Hu Zi is getting anxious. Come out quickly."
His voice echoed in the air …
"Haha, Hu Zi got it. Youngest junior brother, you must be hiding in the cave abode. Heh heh, I guarantee that I'll be able to find you." Hu Zi's voice seemed to have come from a place far away. It echoed in the ninth summit and lingered for a long time. At the foot of the mountain, Zi Che stared at the woman beside him in a daze. It was Zi Yan, his older sister.
In the distance … Bai Chang Zai looked at his surroundings in a daze. As he mumbled, he seemed to be unable to recall what had happened.
Further in the distance was a plain. Chang He woke up and opened his eyes. He felt as if he was holding a person in his hand. When he instinctively turned his head around, a bang went off in his head. In his daze, tears fell down from the corners of his eyes as he looked at his wife, who had also woken up at that moment and was still in his memories.
The elder sat quietly at the foot of Dark Mountain and looked at the setting sun in the distance. By his side were Beiling and Chen Xin. Besides Su Ming and Lei Chen, all the other members of Dark Mountain Tribe were there.
However, they were all looking around them in a daze, as if they did not know where they were in this world that was unfamiliar yet familiar to them.
Su Xuan Yi sat quietly by a lake and looked at its surface. He was mumbling something that no one else could understand. His expression was sometimes complicated, sometimes downcast, and sometimes deranged.
In the distance, Bai Ling walked alone on the snow in the wind and gradually disappeared into the distance …
Only the shrill cries of apes could be heard echoing in the wind and snow, reflecting the red figure on Dark Mountain.
By the shore, Fang Cng Lan watched the waves rise and fall. She sat on the beach and quietly picked up a handful of sand. When she clenched her fists lightly, the fine sand would flow down nonstop, as if … she could not hold on to too much.
Tears fell from the corners of her eyes and slid down her cheeks before falling on the sand. Perhaps when the next tide came, these tears that had fused with the sand would be taken away by the seawater and become a part of the ocean.
Scenes of all lives and scenes appeared in this world …
Yu Xuan hugged her knees and sat on a cliff. She buried her head on her knees. Her hair covered her face, but it could not hide the sparkles that could be seen through the gaps. It was already dusk. The remaining light shone on her body, elongating her shadow … very, very long. Xu Hui's long robes fluttered in the wind.
Xu Hui's long robes fluttered in the wind. She stood at the peak of a mountain, the place closest to the sky. She stood there and stared off into the distance. When dusk began to fade, she turned and left. As her long hair danced in the wind, a single tear left her cheek and flew off to some unknown place.
"If you continue down your path, in the end, you will be the only one in the entire universe.
"Then what about your path? If you continue down it, in the end, you will be the only one who will disappear from the universe!" The words Su Ming had said to Old Man Extermination in the past seemed to echo in the world at that moment. They echoed in the ears of all those who remembered Su Ming.
Time passed, and in the many cycles of life and death, one person was eternally missing, and that person was Su Ming.
In the thirty-three skies, Su Ming did not choose to cut off his past and choose his future, just like Old Man Extermination had done. He chose to cut off his future and keep the beauty of the past.
It was just like how his path was filled with pursuits. It was filled with twists and turns and desolation. It was just like how he pursued Dao throughout his life. It was lonely and persistent. Perhaps … this was the path of a Demon.
It was the path of a Demon that lasted for thousands of years. It watched Morus Alba transform into the world of mortals alone.
With one sigh, it sought the Demon for millions of years. How many cycles of life and death had it returned to the edge of the Ancient Zang?
…..
Time passed. Besides the lives that Su Ming had resurrected, the lives that belonged to the world also gradually appeared on the continent. Cities and sects appeared. Time flowed by year after year, and the cycles of life and death seemed to be able to bury all the stories of the past.
Only … a legend regarding the world that was eternally circulated in the sect known as Nine Summits. It was said that the world was formed by a Progenitor of Nine Summits called Su Ming. Every time night descended … he was the one who watched his sect and all the lives in it.
There was also a similar legend in Dark Mountain on the continent. The only difference was that there was day in this world because the legendary Su Ming could not forget about night, and the reason there was night was because the sparkling starlight could make his blinking eyes even brighter, allowing him to look at his homeland.
There was also a land belonging to the Berserkers in the world. There was a legend regarding the God of Berserkers. That legend gradually changed, and gradually, the world was known as the God of Berserkers' World.
…..
The wind blew, and the snow drifted in the distance.
In his dreams, he did not know how old he was. In the hazy world, who would ascend to the highest heights?
The night was vast, and smoke rose in spirals.
There was a bridge between truth and falsehood. How many cycles of life and death were there?
Many years later, on a rainy evening, a woman held an oil-paper umbrella under a pavilion in the rain. Her beautiful hair spilled over her shoulders, and only her beautiful back could be seen. Her face could not be seen clearly.
Standing beside her was a child about six or seven years old. It was a girl with two pigtails. While holding the woman's hand, she hugged a doll. There was a hint of unhappiness on her pink face at that moment.
"Mum … I dreamt about Daddy again last night. Pipi dreamt about him too. Just where is he? This time, you have to tell me …"
The woman lowered her head and seemed to be smiling kindly at the little girl. She stroked the little girl's hair, and her gentle voice echoed in the rainy evening.
"Close your eyes. He's right beside Tong Tong. You can feel … that he'll always be there." As the woman spoke, a smile appeared on her face as well, and she looked into the distance.
The little girl did not seem to understand. As she listened to her mother's words, she slowly closed her eyes.
When the afterglow of dusk shone through the rain, a man's figure seemed to have appeared to the little girl's right. That figure gradually turned from indistinct to clear. He was tall and straight, had a head full of purple hair, and gave off an amiable presence.
When he lowered his head, he looked at the little girl, revealing the side of his face, along with the gentle smile on his face.
From the distance, under the pavilion in the rain, this scene looked like a family of three. It was filled with warmth and happiness …
"Mum, Tong Tong can feel it." The little girl immediately opened her eyes and looked to her right with pleasant surprise …
…..
"Big Brother, you have to come back … When you come back, I'll tell you a secret …
"Big Brother, this secret is very fun. Last night, I dreamed that many years later, you would become my dad …"
(End of the book)
Epilogue, Defying Celestial Chapter.
"Wan Er, the path of cultivation never ends. There must be a fifth step, a sixth step, and even a seventh step …
"Then I'll accompany you. Even if we can't finish the path of cultivation, we can walk a lifetime of reincarnation."
On the Immortal Astral Continent, Wang Lin gently looked at Li Muwan. He held her hand and walked into the distance … Until he saw an ancient ship floating in the endless stars.
There was an old man sitting on the ship. The old man was smiling at Wang Lin, and Wang Lin was also looking at him. This old man was the person who had played chess with Wang Lin.
"In this world, I met you, and I have no regrets. You have already surpassed me. This old man's dao … In the end, I didn't fail completely … Wang Lin, your road is still long, keep walking …"
Wang Lin looked at the old man on the ship and smiled. He didn't speak but held Li Muwan's hand and walked further and further away...
After a long time, the old man on the ship withdrew his gaze and looked at the Immortal Astral Continent.
"I've searched for you for countless years, and I've finally waited for you to awaken. Bald crane, I, Extermination, owe Su Ming a promise. I'll take you … home!"
"My homeland … Morning Dao …" A confused murmur echoed in the void of the Immortal Astral Continent. A black crane … suddenly flew out from the void. Its eyes were filled with excitement. After losing countless reincarnations, a figure finally appeared in its eyes … In the depths of its memories, no matter how many years had passed, no matter what it had become, it would never forget.
It was a smiling man, a man who had reached out to it.
His name was Su Ming.
"Home …"
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