Su Ming closed his eyes and calmed himself down before opening the first brocade box. The moment he did so, a medicinal fragrance wafted into his nose. The fragrance was very faint, but when he smelled it, Su Ming felt as if he could hear a tune that was being played by an unknown instrument.
That tune was filled with sounds that were beautiful and pleasant to the ears. It made people think that this sound could only be the sound of nature …
After a long while, Su Ming looked at the brocade box. There were three herbs inside. These herbs looked very strange. They looked like tree branches, but there were some small holes on them. As for the beautiful music, it was not an illusion. It was formed when wind blew through the holes on the herbs.
"Sky Flute Branch." Su Ming lifted his right hand and slapped the box. Immediately, the three Sky Flute Branches disappeared from his hand along with the brocade box. He put them away into his storage bag.
His gaze fell on the second brocade box, and his breathing quickened. He might have known that the map inside might not be complete, but it was still a ray of hope.
He placed his hand slowly on the brocade box, and just as he was about to open it …
"If you open it, then you must cure Fang Mu." A delicate voice came from beside Su Ming, and along with it was a light and elegant fragrance.
That fragrance might have come after the medicinal fragrance from Sky Flute Branch, but it gave off two different feelings. The medicinal fragrance was like old wine, and the fragrance was like a dream.
Su Ming's expression remained the same. There was no change in his expression. He had noticed Han Cang Zi's arrival a long time ago. He did not stop because of her words. Su Ming opened the brocade box calmly and saw a folded beast skin inside.
As he looked at the beast skin, a complicated look appeared in Su Ming's eyes. He suddenly did not dare to look at it. He was afraid that what he saw would be different from what he knew. He was afraid that … Dark Mountain would no longer exist in this world!
Han Cang Zi arrived before Su Ming with light steps and sat down cross-legged. She looked at the masked man before her quietly. She could see the complicated look in Su Ming's eyes that he did not bother to hide.
The two of them did not speak. After a moment of silence, Su Ming picked up the beast skin from the brocade box and opened it before him. He looked at it intently.
"Are you disappointed?" Han Cang Zi said softly. Her voice was very soft, and there was an indescribable feeling in the ears of those who heard it. Just like her, she was delicate and beautiful on the outside, but her heart was so strong that it surpassed many men.
Su Ming looked at the map before him. The map was drawn in great detail. Not only did it include all the terrain around Han Mountain, even the area around it was drawn in great detail. From this map, the Land of South Morning was incredibly vast.
However, while the picture was detailed, it was not what Su Ming wanted. He closed his eyes and was silent. In truth, Su Ming himself knew that the map he wanted was not something a middle-sized tribe could give him, but knowing was one thing, and having hope was another.
"A little." At this moment, his heart was as complicated as his gaze just now. He hoped to see the topographic map that he longed for, but at the same time, he faintly didn't want to see it. This kind of complexity originated from the bewilderment buried in the bottom of his heart.
"You can only look at it. You can't take it away," Han Cang Zi said softly as she looked at Su Ming with pity in her eyes.
"I know." Su Ming opened his eyes, but he did not look at Han Cang Zi. Instead, he looked at the darkened sky in the distance. He did not know that in Han Cang Zi's eyes, he saw loneliness.
"You once said that if I remember something one day, I can come and find you," Su Ming mumbled.
"Yes," Han Cang Zi answered softly.
There was another period of silence. This time, it lasted a little longer. A bright moon appeared in the darkened sky, and there were stars surrounding the moon.
Wind blew on the ground and lifted Han Cang Zi's black hair. As it floated in the air, it gave her a different kind of beauty under the moonlight.
"What did you see?" Su Ming broke the silence and mumbled.
Han Cang Zi did not speak. She bit her bottom lip and looked at Su Ming. There was a charming light in her eyes. After looking at Su Ming for a long time, she seemed to have made a decision.
"Can you … make a promise with me..?"
The moment the word 'promise' came out of her mouth and Su Ming heard it, his heart trembled. That shock was not something he could control with his calmness. No matter how deeply he hid it and how thoroughly he covered it up, it was still a sadness that would be stirred up by some things and some words.
Now that his wound was touched, it turned into sadness that spread through Su Ming's body and soul like a tidal wave. It made him look normal, but no one could know what was going on in his heart.
However, even if Han Cang Zi did not know, with her woman's instincts, she immediately noticed that besides loneliness, there was also an indescribable sadness in Mo Su.
"You …" Han Cang Zi was stunned. She was smart. She could almost immediately guess that there was a word in her words that was the source of Mo Su's sadness.
"Promise..?" Han Cang Zi did not say it.
"Promise …" Su Ming felt a sharp pain in his heart. His body did not tremble, but the sadness within him could not be controlled. That word had a special meaning to him.
Once upon a time, there was a woman who stood in the snow and looked at him with a smile.
"If we continue walking in the snow, will we be able to walk until our hair turns white..?"
Once upon a time, there was a woman who hugged him on his back. Their hearts seemed to rise and fall at the same time, and the face buried in his back turned red.
"Can you walk in circles with me..?"
Once upon a time, there was a woman who stood there biting her lips. Her beautiful eyes shone with a wild charm as she swept away the snow on his robes.
"Su Ming, this is a promise … I'll wait for you …"
This was a promise, and Su Ming was a person who did not fulfill his promise …
'It's been almost five years … Perhaps it's not five years …' Su Ming's heart hurt even more, and there was bitterness in it.
There were many sorrows in the world. Perhaps he was not the one who suffered the most, but if the deepest sorrow was between life and death and the endless passage of time, then Su Ming's sorrow was the sorrow of not knowing whether life and death existed within him, and not knowing whether the passage of time existed within him. This sort of sorrow that was mixed with confusion was the greatest pain.
"I'm sorry …" Han Cang Zi bit her lip and whispered softly. She could not understand Su Ming's sorrow, but she could feel his sorrow at that moment.
"What promise?" Su Ming's voice was hoarse. He looked at Han Cang Zi standing before him and at the unfamiliar face covered by her black hair that was blown by the wind. At that moment, he felt as if he could see Bai Ling.
It was a different time, a different place, and a different person, but it was the same word – promise!
"Help me kill Si Ma Xin. Kill him, and I'll tell you everything I saw!" Han Cang Zi said softly. The moment she said Si Ma Xin's name, her breathing quickened and she instinctively clenched her right hand.
"Who is Si Ma Xin?" Su Ming saw these small actions.
"He is known as the person with the greatest potential in the history of Freezing Sky Clan … He was able to hear the second God of Berserkers' soul roar during the Day of Eternal Creation, and he's known as one of the people with the highest possibility of becoming the fourth God of Berserkers!
"My senior brother … He's also the one who injured Fang Mu," Han Cang Zi said softly with her head lowered.
Su Ming looked at Han Cang Zi calmly and did not speak.
"I know you must be puzzled. With Si Ma Xin's status and power, how could he injure a child like Fang Mu..?" Han Cang Zi lifted her head. Under the moonlight, her face might not be incredibly beautiful, but it could still make people's hearts pound. However, that did not include Su Ming.
"Continue." Su Ming lifted his head and looked at the moon in the sky.
"Have you heard of the Great Art of Heartless Berserker Seed..? This Art was created by the second God of Berserkers. Si Ma Xin practices this Berserker Art. Ever since the second God of Berserkers created this Art, no one in the Berserker Tribe has been able to practice it completely. It's difficult for them to bring out its full power, and they can't reach Heartless Berserker Seed. That's why they can't master it.
"Once they master this Art, all the growth of the Berserker Seed will be given to them. The second God of Berserkers used this Art in the other worlds and gained his status as the God of Berserkers.
"Si Ma Xin's potential is indeed shocking. He was originally a sentimental person, but he found a new path. He used his emotions into his heart and split the Berserker Seed into emotions. Because he was heartless, he became heartless!
"When Fang Mu was born, the Elder observed his potential and recognized him as the future hope of Tranquil East Tribe … Si Ma Xin came with the envoys from Freezing Sky Clan to Han Mountain City to choose disciples …
"Fang Mu became his Berserker Seed, and he planted love in me." Han Cang Zi spoke calmly, as if she was not talking about herself, but the calmer she was, the more Su Ming could feel the hatred in her heart.
"Fang Mu wasn't injured. He's Si Ma Xin's Berserker Seed. If you can really cure him, then you'll offend Si Ma Xin."
Su Ming fell silent and looked at Han Cang Zi. He did not completely believe in her words.
"If Fang Mu was seen as Tranquil East Tribe's hope, then why didn't Tranquil East Tribe stop him when this happened?"
"Could they have stopped him? Even my brother, who's the tribe leader, doesn't know about this. He thinks that Fang Mu was only injured by someone else. In the entire Tranquil East Tribe, besides me, the only one who knows about this is the Elder.
"He won't stop him. In fact, even if my brother knew about it, he would remain silent. Si Ma Xin has a lot of Berserker Seeds. To many people, becoming his Berserker Seed and contributing to the birth of the fourth God of Berserkers is an honor.
"In fact, I don't even know whether Fang Mu would think that it's an honor if he knew the answer himself … But I don't think so!" Han Cang Zi lifted her head and looked at Su Ming with her beautiful eyes.
"Is that what you think?"
Su Ming did not speak.
"Not only do Berserker Seeds think that it's an honor, even people like me who have been planted with love also think that it's an honor. The Berserker Tribe is no longer the Berserker Tribe led by the first and second God of Berserkers …
"This is a sick Berserker Tribe. A Berserker Tribe where everyone is asleep. A Berserker Tribe that sacrifices themselves and enslaves others for glory! "Han Fei Zi won't be able to escape this fate either!" There was a hint of urgency in Han Cang Zi's voice.
Su Ming looked at her. The words of the woman before him made him feel that there was something different about this woman.
After a long while, Su Ming asked slowly, "How can I believe you?"
Han Cang Zi fell silent for a moment before a red flush appeared on her cheeks. She cast Su Ming a glance and gritted her teeth.
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