Su Ming stood up. His gaze fell on Bai Su's drawing and he gradually closed his eyes. After a moment, when he opened them again, he took a few steps forward and stood at the edge of the platform outside his cave abode.
The sky had already darkened, but the snow underneath was shining with a white light, causing the ground to not look dark.
The platform Su Ming was standing on was located near the top of the ninth summit. The distance between the platform and the ground below could be described as hundreds of thousands of feet. If a normal person lowered their head and looked down, their heart would start racing and they would feel dizzy.
Su Ming stood there and looked down. His eyes sparkled.
'The Golden Roc roars between the sky and earth and flies above the nine heavens. This sort of sacred beast of the Shaman Tribe is definitely not something that can be created with a simple copy …
'If I don't have the Roc's heart, if I can't sense the Roc's will, then it'll be difficult for me to understand its spirit … Then what is the Golden Roc's heart and will..?' Su Ming stood there in silence for a long time before he closed his eyes once again. He lifted his right foot and took a step towards the edge of the platform, towards the hundreds of thousands of feet deep abyss.
With that one step, his body floated into the air. Without activating a single hint of the power of Transcendence or Enchanted Treasures, his body fell down the mountain like a giant rock.
The speed of his fall was incredibly quick. It was as if the friction against the air had stirred up a whistling sound. Su Ming closed his eyes and spread his arms wide. As he continued falling, the scene of the Golden Roc commanding the sea of clouds appeared in his mind.
'The Roc's heart and will are reflected in its flight between the sky and earth. In its eyes, there will never be anything blocking its path. It will fly endlessly in the vast sky.'
Su Ming's body fell faster and faster. The moaning sounds of the wind reached his ears. That sound seemed to be able to tear apart everything, and as it traveled into his ears, there seemed to be a strange sound within it.
10,000 feet, 20,000 feet, 30,000 feet … As Su Ming continued falling, his eyes remained closed. Besides the Golden Roc's figure, there was nothing else in his mind.
Forty thousand feet, fifty thousand feet … When he fell eighty thousand feet and was already incredibly close to the foot of the mountain, he descended like a shooting star. At that instant, all the blood in Su Ming's body surged to his head as if it was flowing in reverse, causing booming sounds to ring in his head.
The booming sounds became even stronger, gradually causing Su Ming's consciousness to become clouded. Gradually, the golden Roc looked as if it was an illusion, and at that instant, Su Ming opened his eyes.
The moment he opened his eyes, the booming sounds in his head shook the sky and earth. The Golden Roc let out a roar towards the sky in Su Ming's head.
"The Great Roc's heart represents freedom. Its will is a kind of freedom, a kind of unrestrained pursuit! Therefore, it was extremely difficult to tame, because once a tamed roc lost its freedom, it was equivalent to losing its soul!
"It's clear that Master's Golden Roc's freedom was not restricted by him. It can run as it pleases in the land of the Shamans, and only when Master needs it will it appear … There must be some other reason behind this, or else even if it's just this, it would still be very difficult."
Understanding appeared in Su Ming's eyes. As he fell, he did not stop. Instead, he simply allowed his body to get closer to the layer of ice on the ground. However, he only lifted his right hand and drew two lines towards the sky!
Those two lines contained all of Su Ming's strength, contained his understanding, and also contained his perception towards the Golden Roc's will. The instant he drew those two lines, Su Ming was already less than 1,000 feet away from the ground. A sense of danger enveloped Su Ming's body and mind, but he did not fight against it. The instant he was less than 200 feet away from the ground, he drew a perfect arc with his body practically stuck to the ground, only several dozens of feet above the ground.
He charged into the sky. Su Ming was so quick that he felt as if he had crashed into a mountain, but there was clearly a vast expanse of empty sky before him.
That feeling was incredibly strong. In fact, it could even be said that it was no longer a feeling, but a feeling brought about by the pain of his body crashing into the ground. As he felt as if he had crashed into a mountain, the distance between the ground and the sky seemed to have shrunk by several times in Su Ming's eyes. It was as if the sky and earth were two points, two lines, and once they fused together, their positions changed abruptly.
This was what Su Ming sensed at that instant. His body instantly turned into a black dot and appeared in the sky. Excitement appeared in his eyes, but waves of intense pain traveled through his body. During that instant just now, he had appeared in the sky from the ground at an astonishing speed. His body could not withstand that sort of speed for long. Su Ming could sense that with his physical body's endurance, if he used that speed again, his flesh and blood would be torn from his body.
'Is this … the Great Roc's speed..? No, it's not as fast as the Great Roc. It's still a little lacking … but just this alone is already shocking!' Su Ming quelled the excitement in his heart. He did not dare use that sort of speed again. He walked slowly towards the ninth summit's platform and immediately sat down cross-legged on it. He coughed out a mouthful of blood.
However, Su Ming felt that it was worth it for him to cough up that blood. By coughing out a mouthful of blood as the price, he managed to understand the will of the Golden Roc spreading its wings. It was enough!
'My body's not strong enough. If I was strong enough, then I could last a little longer. With this sort of speed … even the small virescent sword wouldn't be able to catch up to me!' Su Ming's heart pounded against his chest. It could be said that he had come to understand the Golden Roc's speed purely by chance. If it was not because of what Bai Su drew on her drawing board, Su Ming would not have thought of this.
He swept his gaze across Bai Su's drawing board and slowly closed his eyes. In his head, he kept replaying the speed he had just now and the two strokes he had drawn.
When the night passed and the sky became bright, Su Ming opened his eyes. There was still excitement in his eyes. Once he lowered his head and looked at his body, a glint appeared in his eyes.
"At this moment, if I were to wear the Battle God's Armor, if the armor was equipped with an array formation to increase its defense, and if I were to remove all the ice stones … then how fast would I be if I used the speed of the Golden Roc?" As Su Ming mumbled, he decided to give it a try. However, the chances of him forming a Rune in the Divine General Armor was still not high.
Just as he was about to give it a try, Su Ming's expression suddenly changed. He charged towards his cave abode and stepped inside. Without any hesitation, he walked towards the spot where He Feng and the Wings of the Moon had fused together.
There, He Feng was opening his eyes slowly. His eyes were bloodshot. He lifted his head and roared towards the sky. Cracks rapidly appeared on his skin, but there was no blood within them. Instead, there were waves of black mist spreading out. The Wings of the Moon were on his body, and as he flapped them, he looked as if he wanted to rush out of the cave abode. However, Su Ming walked towards him, lifted his right hand, and swung his finger downwards.
At the same time, Han Mountain Bell manifested above He Feng. Bell chimes reverberated in the air, turning into a wave of pressure and sound that shook He Feng. At the same time, He Feng froze for a moment, as if he had regained consciousness. A pained expression appeared on his face.
"Master … I'm about to succeed … I can feel that if I can get through this and go through another fusion, I'll succeed …" He Feng's voice rose and fell. When it reached He Feng's ears, Su Ming's finger had already touched the center of his brows.
The instant Su Ming's finger fell, Su Ming's robes fluttered furiously. His hair was also lifted. A grave look appeared in Su Ming's eyes. A mighty pressure that was equivalent to those who had attained great completion in the Awakening Realm and could even fight against powerful Berserkers who had just arrived at the initial stage of the Bone Sacrifice Realm erupted forth from Su Ming's body and surged into He Feng's body through his finger, as he fused with the Wings of the Moon.
He Feng's body trembled. Gradually, he sat down slowly.
"Master … I … When I was fusing with them … I saw … their … memories … I …" As He Feng spoke, his teeth suddenly grew in a bewitching manner. In an instant, he bared them, and his unfinished words turned into a roar.
"Fire …" That was the only word in He Feng's roar. As he roared, flames abruptly spread out from his body, as if they wanted to burn and melt Su Ming's cave abode in the ninth summit. Yet the moment they appeared, the blood red moon in Su Ming's right eye shone. He lifted his left hand and pressed it against the palm he had placed on He Feng's forehead. With a fierce push, the fire spreading out from He Feng's body froze and tumbled back into He Feng's body.
Time passed by. This time, the process of Su Ming helping He Feng fuse with the Wings far surpassed what he did in the past. Once the first day was over, he was still not done.
Bai Su arrived at the ninth summit a long time ago. After waiting for a moment, she entered Su Ming's cave abode, but the moment she stepped in, she was immediately pushed away by a wave of power. After trying a few times, she sat down by the side in anger. Only when night arrived did she leave unwillingly.
This process lasted for seven days. When dusk fell on the seventh day and night fell, Su Ming opened his eyes. Before him, He Feng had once again turned into a gigantic ball of black light. It was quiet, but there was a powerful pressure spreading out from within the ball of light.
A feeling of being connected by blood rose in Su Ming's heart when he looked at the ball of light. He looked slightly tired, and after looking at it for a while longer, he walked out and sat down cross-legged to meditate and recover.
It was also at that moment that an uninvited guest appeared outside Bai Su's cave abode on the seventh summit. That person was also a woman, and she lived on the seventh summit. However, her level of cultivation was not high, and she was usually quiet, which made it easy for others to overlook her.
When the woman arrived, she gave Bai Su a bamboo slip.
The words' Sima 'were written in beautiful handwriting on the bamboo slip.
"Senior brother Si Ma wants to see you." Once the woman gave her the bamboo slip, she spoke coldly and turned around to leave.
Bai Su held the bamboo slip and stared at it dumbly. Her mind was in a mess. This was the first time she felt this way when she heard that Si Ma Xin wanted to see her.
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