The first day Bai Su and Su Ming truly met each other passed just like that as the sky darkened and the moon appeared. On this day, Bai Su felt that she had won. She felt that she had done her best on this day. She had successfully made Su Ming notice her, and she had even left a faint mark in his heart.
If she had not won, then there would have been no confusion when they first met. If she had not won, then there would have been no gentle breeze when they parted.
Bai Su felt that she had indeed won. Her actions before they parted had brought out the arrogance and boldness in her personality.
When she thought about it, Bai Su could still feel her heart pounding against her chest. She sat in her cave abode on the seventh summit and looked at the bronze mirror before her. As she looked at herself in the mirror, a prideful smile gradually appeared on her face.
'Su Ming, oh Su Ming, you must not have thought that I would do this in the end, right? Heh heh.' When Bai Su remembered that scene, besides her heart racing, she also felt a hint of fear.
She did not know what had happened to her. How could she have done such a crazy thing in the end? It was as if she was no longer herself at that moment, but had turned into someone else.
As she looked at her reflection in the bronze mirror, Bai Su felt a sense of unfamiliarity. In the mirror, her black hair was tied up by a red string. There were braids hanging down her shoulders, and there were some bright spots on her forehead. This was a look that Bai Su had never put on before today.
She looked at herself, and looked at herself …
'This isn't bad …' Bai Su pursed her lips into a smile and gradually closed her eyes, immersing herself in meditation and breathing. On this day, she did not go to Si Ma Xin. In fact, Si Ma Xin's name did not even appear in her head, which was a rare sight.
She looked forward to the next day with a sense of happiness that she did not even notice. With a prideful smile on her lips, she looked forward to the next day.
The ninth summit was silent in the dark. Zi Che stood respectfully outside Su Ming's cave abode. Before him were a dozen ice stones the size of a fist.
The ice stones let out a freezing air, and when the wind blew past, the cold air would fall on Su Ming's face, causing his eyes to sparkle.
"These stones won't melt when touched by fire, but they're not sturdy. You can use the freezing air to make them take on various forms. Master, we don't have much time, so this is all I can find … But don't worry, Master, I will continue to search. Give me a month, and I will collect more and more. " When he saw Su Ming nodding his head, he retreated hundreds of feet away and sat down cross-legged, waiting for Su Ming's orders.
Su Ming looked at the dozen something ice stones. Once he picked one up, he immediately felt the weight of that stone. It was only the size of a fist, but it was already as heavy as a human-shaped mountain.
"Such a strange stone, but it has a fatal flaw." Su Ming squeezed his right hand, and cracks immediately appeared on the ice stone. With a bang, it shattered and turned into several pieces, but each piece weighed more than what it should have.
Once he picked up the shattered pieces, Su Ming brought out an item from his storage bag with his left hand. The moment that item appeared, Zi Che's pupils shrank.
It was a round pearl, and it was Su Ming's Spirit Plunder!
The moment that pearl appeared, it sucked in all the light around it. It was dark, and it looked as if it had turned into a hole that floated beside Su Ming.
If one's gaze could penetrate the dim light on the outside and see the inside of the scattered stone, one could clearly see that there were wisps of smoke curling around it, slowly rotating. In the center of the smoke was an ice flower, and on that ice flower was a demonic eye. This eye had two pupils!
Su Ming did not have the freezing air to change the ice stone's appearance and turn it into the item he wanted. Even if there were many people in Freezing Sky Clan who mainly practiced the path of cold, Su Ming had Spirit Plunder.
However, Su Ming had Spirit Plunder. Contained within that pill was a manifestation of the prodigy Si Ma Xin's Berserker Mark. As Su Ming pointed at Spirit Plunder with his left hand, the dark light on the pill instantly disappeared. What replaced it was the ice flower that looked as if it was sealed within, surrounded by wisps of smoke.
That flower exuded an eerie, freezing air that surrounded Su Ming's left hand. As Su Ming pressed against the ice stones, the freezing air spread out and enveloped the area around him.
As the freezing air seeped into the stone, the dozen ice stones gradually fused together and shrank rapidly. After the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, Su Ming lifted his hand and the freezing air dissipated. What appeared before him were two bracelets formed by the dozen ice stones.
The two bracelets were of normal size and were very fragile. If he used a little more force, he would be able to break them. However, the weight of them added together was equivalent to half a small hill.
When Su Ming picked up the bracelets, a grave look appeared on his face. They were very heavy, but not to the point where he could not lift them. However, if there were a few more pairs, then unless Su Ming circulated his Qi, he would not be able to lift them with just his physical body alone.
'I hope you can help me increase my speed.' A glint appeared in Su Ming's eyes. He put the two ice bracelets on his feet, stood up, and took a step forward.
With that one step, the platform he stood on trembled slightly.
'It's still not enough.' Su Ming took a few steps back and forth. Once he found that he did not feel too uncomfortable, he no longer thought about it. Instead, he sat down cross-legged once again and looked at the moon in the sky with a contemplative look in his eyes.
'I can use this ice stone to increase my speed, but it can only increase the speed of my body. If I use it to fly, I won't be able to increase my speed …
'That's no longer a part of my body, it's an Art …' Su Ming looked at the moon in the sky, and a picture gradually appeared in his eyes.
In that picture, there was a golden light at the end of the world. That golden light traveled tens of thousands of li in the span of a breath and stirred up a huge gust of wind. As it closed in, it shook the sky and earth and turned into a Golden Roc that was about 10,000 feet in size.
"This is the fastest speed I've ever seen," Su Ming mumbled and closed his eyes. Su Ming mumbled and closed his eyes. After a moment, when he reopened them, he brought out his drawing board and drew a few lines on it with his right hand. Immediately, a Golden Roc appeared in Su Ming's eyes on it.
'In terms of speed, I'll use the ice stone to refine my physical body so that my body can withstand the pressure brought by even faster speeds. It'll make my physical body's speed even faster!
'Similarly, in terms of speed, I'll copy the instant the Golden Roc spreads its wings and close in on me as the second Style for my Picture Creation. With this, my speed will be completely increased.' Determination appeared in Su Ming's eyes.
'As for the power of defense, I'll have to wait for third senior brother to send me the Runes before I can try it.' Su Ming fell into a moment of pensive silence before he focused his mind and started copying the drawing board again and again.
He was so focused that he ignored everything around him. His entire mind was on the drawing board, and as he continued drawing, the Golden Roc charging through the sky appeared one after another.
Every single time the Golden Roc flapped its wings, every single time its feathers changed, and every single time its body changed, the Golden Roc gradually appeared under Su Ming's fingers.
It was just like when he copied Si Ma Xin's sword slash. As he continued copying, he searched for his own Creation.
When morning arrived and the sun had just lifted its head from the horizon, Bai Su appeared on the ninth summit once again.
She was still dressed in the same attire, revealing her two canine teeth when she smiled. There was a hint of pride in her expression as she walked past Zi Che and stood before Su Ming. She looked at Su Ming sitting cross-legged and drawing on the drawing board with the rays of the rising sun shining on his face.
Bai Su watched by the side for a long time. She only saw Su Ming drawing on the drawing board with his hand, but she could not see what he was drawing. In her eyes, the drawing board was completely blank.
After waiting for a moment, Bai Su grew impatient.
"Hey, I've been here for a long time. Don't pretend you didn't see me!"
Su Ming ignored her and continued drawing. When Zi Che saw this from the distance, he smiled wryly and turned his head away. He could not understand Su Ming's actions. If he hated this woman, then why did he let her come? If he did not hate her, then why did he refuse to see her in the first place?
Zi Che did not understand just what sort of mystery lay behind this.
When Bai Su saw that Su Ming did not seem to have heard her, she let out a harrumph and was about to snatch his drawing board away, but just as she was about to take action, for some unknown reason, when she saw the concentration on Su Ming's face, her outstretched hand froze for a moment.
As if she hesitated for a moment, Bai Su still grabbed the drawing board. The moment she touched it, her hair suddenly floated up. The red string tying her hair together immediately shattered, causing her long hair to float in the air. Her robes also started fluttering violently as if there was a huge gust of wind blowing past them.
Bai Su's face turned pale in an instant. Her vision blurred, and she felt as if she had lost her soul. She was sucked into the drawing board and appeared in an unfamiliar world.
In that world, she saw a ray of golden light flashing through the dark sky. Once that ray of golden light disappeared, another ray appeared.
Bai Su did not know how much time had passed, but the rays of golden light she saw were already endless.
When she looked as if she had completely lost herself and her mind was in a daze, a cold voice seemed to echo in the muddled world.
"This is a lesson. Do not interrupt my training."
As the voice spoke, Bai Su felt as if her soul had returned to her body and she had regained control over it. She shuddered, and the world before her eyes shattered. Once it reassembled itself, she saw Su Ming's eyes.
There was calmness in those eyes, but within that calmness was an awe-inspiring presence that made Bai Su's heart tremble. Si Ma Xin did not possess that awe-inspiring gaze.
Under that gaze, an indescribable fatigue and weakness appeared in Bai Su's body. She staggered a few steps back, and her vision blurred before she fell to the ground.
She had fainted because she did not have Su Ming's divine sense, which surpassed most of the Berserkers. With her weak mind, she could not withstand the Golden Roc's light as Su Ming continued drawing.
"Send her down the mountain. We can have a few days of peace now," Su Ming said slowly and continued immersing himself in copying the drawing.
Zi Che quickly walked over and with a wave of his arm, he swept Bai Su up and left the ninth summit.
"Thank you to Helan Mountain's soul, the Sacred King of Golden Spirit, and the three Alliance Masters for your support. Thank you for sending the three Golden Rocs to protect us. May the three of you achieve great things, just like how the Golden Rocs spread their wings and cover the heavens. "To be continued. If you like this work, please come to Qidian.Com to vote for me. Your support is my greatest motivation.)
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