Su Ming lifted his left hand and pushed at the vortex gate behind him through the air. Immediately, a large amount of freezing air spilled out from Su Ming's body and enveloped the gate. Cracking sounds reverberated in the air, and the Gate to the Void immediately turned into a gigantic block of ice.
Once he was done, Su Ming let out a boisterous laugh and looked at the small snake on his palm. It might have only been half a year since he last saw it, but to Su Ming, he had gone through a lot during that time. It felt as if a long time had passed since he left the cave abode he created and returned.
The small snake hissed in Su Ming's palm and hissed. Its chilling eyes were now replaced by joy, and it lowered its head to rub against Su Ming's palm a few times.
Its body was too small and was only the thickness of a finger. Now that it was acting this way, it looked incredibly cute.
Su Ming sucked in a deep breath. He might have returned to his cave abode, but the freezing aura in his body had yet to completely disappear. At that moment, as it spread through his feet and spread to the ground, the ground within a circular area of several thousands of feet around Su Ming was instantly covered in frost. Wisps of white smoke spread out and floated into midair, causing the temperature in the area to instantly drop by half.
That was not all. A large amount of water droplets appeared on Su Ming's body. These water droplets seeped out from his skin and looked like sweat, but in truth, Su Ming knew that this was the freezing air in his body.
A glint appeared in his eyes and all the pores on his body immediately closed up. The instant he did so, the freezing air spreading out from his body calmed down, but there were still wisps of it spreading out weakly.
'I can't let all the freezing air in my body go out, or else my body might need a long time to get used to it if I return to the glacier at the bottom of the Dead Sea.' Su Ming thought in his heart and lifted the small snake with his right hand. Once he placed it on his shoulder, the small snake immediately flew out and landed on his shoulder. It crawled down and looked as if it was doing nothing but laziness.
As he looked at the familiar cave abode around him, the excitement in Su Ming's eyes slowly disappeared. When his gaze fell on the two corpses on the ground, a freezing glare appeared in his eyes.
'Ji Yun Hai …' Su Ming looked at the dried up and thin corpse and could not help but remember the scenes of him fighting against Madam Ji that day. He walked slowly towards Ji Yun Hai's corpse.
Su Ming crouched down and placed his hand on Ji Yun Hai's corpse. After observing it closely for a moment, a pensive look appeared in his eyes, and he lowered his head to look at the large number of black beetles that were not dead but just sleeping beside Ji Yun Hai's corpse. The strength of these insects had left an incredibly deep impression on Su Ming that day.
'I don't know how many years it has been since Ji Yun Hai died, but he was turned into a puppet by Madam Ji. Now that Madam Ji is dead, if I can control this puppet, it will be able to help me gain something in that glacier!' Su Ming lifted two of his fingers and picked up one of the black beetles on the ground. He placed it before his eyes and scrutinized it for a while.
'This insect … isn't a puppet. How did Madam Ji control it?' Su Ming stared at the insect, and after a long while, his eyes suddenly lit up and he looked towards Ji Yun Hai's corpse.
'Could it be that these insects aren't controlled by Madam Ji but by Ji Yun Hai? Even if Ji Yun Hai has turned into a puppet, these insects are still affected by his instincts?' Su Ming lowered his head and looked at the red ring on his right hand. His eyes sparkled, and after a moment, he stood up and started pacing around the mountain range with a frown on his face.
Occasionally, a pensive look would appear on his face, and at other times, delight would appear on his face, but eventually, his expression would change, as if there was something that was hard for him to make a decision on.
After the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, Su Ming's footsteps came to a halt and he turned his head sideways to look at the oval-shaped vortex that had brought him back to this place, which was also known as the Gate to the Void.
That gate floated there quietly. It was covered in ice and had already turned into a gigantic block of ice.
'I might not know how long I was unconscious, but judging by the changes in this mountain range, it shouldn't have been more than a year if I add all the time together … And it's been about three months since I woke up in the glacier …' Su Ming remembered his experiences during the past three months when he was at the bottom of the suspected Dead Sea, in the black glacier world.
He had used half a month's time to walk out of the glacier for the first time, but the instant he did so, he immediately found it difficult to move even an inch forward due to the pressure from the black seawater.
He had used one and a half months' time to get used to the pressure from the seawater. He could now move about 1,000 feet forward, and with each step he took, if he did not lift his foot quickly, then his feet would immediately be frozen by the glacier. This made it difficult for him to stop moving on the glacier. He had to constantly be moving quickly.
Eight hundred something feet away from the block of ice he was on was the one closest to him among the countless living beings sealed in the glacier when he used his divine sense to check the area.
It was a ferocious looking man covered in green scales. That man was sixty feet tall, and his muscles were swollen, as if they contained an astonishing amount of power. He had his left hand clenched into a fist, and in his right hand was a gigantic club. Su Ming had no idea what that club was made of. It was entirely black, and there were nine sharp teeth sticking out of it. Not only did it give off a barbaric air, it also made Su Ming's heart palpitate.
That gigantic spiked club was clearly a treasure!
Su Ming had checked the ice for several days, and once he was certain that the frozen man no longer had any signs of life, he used half a month to try all sorts of methods to break the ice, but in the end, he could only break a few inches of ice, and once he stopped, the ice would automatically close up.
With his level of cultivation, breaking a few inches was already his limit. Su Ming was also puzzled by this. After all, he could break the ice where he was, but why did he have to spend so much effort to break the layer of ice where the man was?
As Su Ming pondered about this, he also found an answer. That answer was the time that the man was sealed in ice!
Based on the characteristic of being sealed in ice when he stepped on the glacier, it was clear that the ice where Su Ming was had not been sealed for a long time, which was why he could break it. However, the ice where the man was had existed for an unknown amount of time.
If Su Ming wanted to break the layer of ice where the man was, he would need to possess even greater power. After some hesitation, Su Ming used half a month to dig out the Gate to the Void from the ice. Once he studied it for a while, he went through the gate and returned to his cave abode in the mountain range.
Su Ming stared at the Gate to the Void and frowned.
'Based on the Immortals' system, I'm currently in the initial stage of the Nascent Soul Realm. I might not know what sort of Realm the Nascent Soul Realm cultivators are in compared to the Berserkers here … but I can sense that their power is about the same as my current power … It's just that the Immortals' power can last a long time, and they're skilled in divine abilities …
'If that's the case, then I can make some deductions.' Su Ming averted his gaze from the Gate to the Void and started thinking.
'The initial stage of the Nascent Soul Realm is equivalent to the four Berserker Bones I have right now … If I'm in the middle stage, I should have more than ten Berserker Bones? If this guess could be verified, then the later stage of the Nascent Soul Realm would be equivalent to twenty something pieces, and the Immortals' Soul Formation Realm would be equivalent to the initial stage of the Berserker Soul Realm …
That should be the case. Immortals needed epiphanies to form their Nascent Divinity, and if they could form their own Nascent Divinity, they would be an existence that surpassed the Nascent Soul Realm. As for the Berserkers, once they stepped into the Berserker Soul Realm, they could form their own statue of the God of Berserkers. In comparison, one was the Nascent Divinity in their bodies, and the other was the statue of the God of Berserkers outside their bodies. There were similarities!
As for Soul Transformation, which was above the Immortals' Soul Formation … that was the middle stage of the Berserker Soul Realm! And in the Immortals' cultivation system, the peak of the first step, Ascension, should be the later stage of the Berserker God Realm.
Illusory Yin Realm and Corporeal Yang Realm existed between the First and Second Steps in the Immortals' cultivation system. Based on that, Illusory Yin Realm and Corporeal Yang Realm was the completed great completion in the Berserker Soul Realm. If they could break through it, it would be the same as truly stepping into the Second Step in the Immortals' cultivation system!
'It's a pity that the Berserkers' cultivation system was cut off after we reached the Berserker Soul Realm, but I believe that the Berserkers must have a Realm that is similar to the Immortals' Second Step! 'Su Ming closed his eyes, and after a long while, he opened them.
'Now, I can be considered to be practicing both the Immortal and Berserker Path … but it's a pity that I can't fuse these two powers together. When I cast the Immortals' Arts, the power of the Berserkers will fall silent, and when I use the power of Berserker Bones, I won't be able to cast the Immortals' divine abilities … Besides having my divine sense return to normal, it's difficult for me to cast any other abilities.
'But even so, if I use them alternately, my current combat abilities … will be much stronger than half a year ago! ' Su Ming clenched his fists. Once he swept his gaze across the ground, his eyes fell on the dried up corpse of the tribe leader of Black Crane Tribe lying on the ground.
He walked over slowly and looked at the corpse coldly, eventually fixing his eyes on the person's right leg. There were clear signs that the injury had not healed, and there was also a gigantic dead centipede there.
'This person is the one I injured from Black Crane Tribe. ' A chilling glare appeared in Su Ming's eyes. He had been a little puzzled all those years ago. Madam Ji's arrival and the obvious killing intent was clearly directed at him.
White Bull Tribe and Black Crane Tribe were both suspects, but in his heart, Su Ming was even more suspicious of Black Crane Tribe. When he saw the tribe leader's corpse, a cold sneer appeared on his lips.
Madam Ji's appearance had caused Su Ming to go through a lot of things during the past half a year. Some of them were good, and some were bad, but there was no way Su Ming would let go of Black Crane Tribe, who had ordered Madam Ji to come to him!
Su Ming's expression was cold. With a wave of his arm, he swept up Ji Yun Hai's corpse and the sleeping black beetles, along with the small virescent sword that was flying towards him on its own and letting out a whistling sound, and returned to his cave abode in the mountain range.
Once he returned to his cave abode, Su Ming immediately went to the stone chamber where the medicinal cauldron was. When he saw that everything was normal, he relaxed and went to the stone chamber where the old Berserker was. When he saw that the old man was completely black and covered in bite marks, Su Ming was momentarily stunned. The small snake on his shoulder immediately lifted its head, and there was a smug look on its face, as if it was waiting to be praised.
Su Ming smiled. Once he swept his gaze past the old Berserker, a strange light appeared in his eyes.
'I'm not a Soul Catcher. It's very difficult for me to create a Soul Catcher's puppet … But with my current power as an Immortal, there are a few divine abilities that Nascent Soul Cultivators can cast from Hong Luo's legacy …' Su Ming stroked his chin and sent a thought to the small snake on his shoulder.
The small snake immediately flew out and charged out of the cave abode. It floated in midair and looked around warily to protect Su Ming.
There will be a surprise at night! (To be continued. If you like this work, please come to Qidian.Com and vote for me. Your support is my greatest motivation.)
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