The pale sky looked like a gray cloth that was spread out at the end of Su Ming's sight. There was no sun, no moon, and no stars in the sky. There was only a gray color that made people feel oppressed.
There was a scent of death in that color, causing all those who saw it to feel as if they were lost in that gray color, and their hearts would also be lost.
The white land rose and fell into the distance. There were no plants, no other colors. There was only white earth, and it spread out endlessly until there was no end to it.
If anyone looked at it for a long period of time, they would feel even more lost when they saw the gray sky.
Su Ming opened his eyes. This was what he saw. After a long while, he lowered his head and looked at his own body. He could clearly see that his body was an illusion and was formed by a wisp of white fog that spread out from the ground. That fog was very weak in the beginning, but soon, it slowly gathered together to form a person.
A large amount of fog seeped out from the white land around him. As that fog gathered together, more people slowly appeared.
These people looked as if they had been reborn. Their eyes were gray, and those gray eyes gave off a feeling of despair and exhaustion that came from the soul. It was as if they had died an endless amount of times, but they would still be reborn, and in the end, they would still die over and over again, forming a cycle.
Perhaps, sometimes, death wasn't scary. What was scary was the never-ending, undying, indestructible existence, until even the soul became numb, until it lost consciousness, until it lost everything, and became … an undying soul, an indestructible walking corpse …
An unknown amount of time had passed since Su Ming woke up in the place where thousands of undying souls had fought. This battle might have happened a few breaths ago, or a few days ago, or even a few months ago. Su Ming did not know how long it had been.
He only knew that when he woke up, this was what he saw in front of him.
Su Ming might have woken up, but he was still a little lost in his heart. His eyes were still gray, and there was not much intelligence left in them. He did not know who he was, neither did he know why he appeared in this place. In fact, he did not even think about any of this. His mind was blank.
He stared at the gray sky with a dumbfounded expression. He continued watching … until the fog gradually gathered together to form his complete body. When all the Undying Souls around him also gathered together, these Undying Souls were the same as Su Ming. They all stood there with their heads lifted to look at the sky in a daze, with blank expressions on their faces.
Just like that, an unknown amount of time passed. Finally, one day, the sound of a bugle horn rang out from somewhere in the distance. It was a very faint sound, but it was impossible to tell how far it had traveled.
The instant the sound of the horn rang out, the thousands of undying souls immediately trembled. They lowered their heads and looked into the distance. Slowly, they lifted their feet and floated in the air as they slowly moved forward.
Su Ming could also hear the sound of the horn when he was among the undying souls. When that sound fell into his heart, it turned into a call, a call that made his soul tremble.
He, too, no longer looked at the sky. Instead, he looked towards the direction where the sound of the horn was coming from. He had no idea how far away he was from where he was, and he slowly floated forward with the undying souls beside him.
They floated for an unknown amount of time. Su Ming's mind no longer had any concept of time. The only thing that existed in his mind was the sound of the horn calling out to him. The undying souls continued floating forward as if there was no end to them.
Gradually, some of the undying souls among them let out shrill howls as they floated in the air. As the howls became more and more frequent, one day, one of the undying souls suddenly turned around and pounced on its companion who still had a dazed look in his eyes.
Biting, devouring, fusing with him. After a moment, as one of the undying souls disappeared, the other one's body became much more corporeal. A faint hint of intelligence appeared in the gray light in his eyes.
Almost the instant he devoured his companion, quite a number of other undying souls around him did the same thing. There was one such undying soul beside Su Ming.
That soul looked like an old man. As he roared, he charged towards Su Ming like a wild beast. Once he got closer, he pounced on him and opened his mouth wide, wanting to bite and devour Su Ming.
Su Ming did not fight back. There was a dazed look in his eyes as he simply allowed the undying soul to bite and devour him. The intense pain that came from his soul made Su Ming tremble. The feeling as if his body was about to be torn apart made him suddenly remember that before he woke up, he seemed to have gone through the same kind of pain.
"So I've already died once …" Su Ming mumbled. Half of his body had already been devoured by the old man. By the looks of it, before long, his entire body would be completely devoured.
At that time, everything about Su Ming would disappear into thin air, but he would not die. Instead, after some time had passed, he would once again be manifested from the fog on the undying and indestructible land, and he would go through the same death once again. He would continue going through it, and the cycle would repeat itself … endlessly …
'I've gone through this feeling before … I don't want to go through it again!' Su Ming's consciousness gradually faded away, but a brutal look appeared in his eyes. He turned around swiftly and started devouring the old man as well.
The act of these two undying souls devouring each other was everything to them, but to the thousands of undying souls around them, it did not attract even a single bit of their attention.
Time trickled by slowly. Once the undying souls who clearly had a hint of intelligence devoured a few of their companions, they seemed to have reached saturation. Their bodies became much more corporeal, and they lifted their heads and let out shrill roars towards the sky.
Their roars reverberated continuously on the empty land, as if they were using their voices to announce their new lives! As the roars increased in number, a total of twenty-seven of the thousands of undying souls let out the roars of new lives one after another.
As they roared, the other undying souls around them started trembling, and fear appeared on their faces. It was as if the level of these twenty-seven souls had already surpassed them, causing them to feel a sense of oppression and fear in their souls no matter how numb they were.
As for the old man who was devouring each other with Su Ming, he was roaring madly and fighting against Su Ming in a brutal manner. Gradually, as Su Ming continued devouring, the old man gradually became weaker, and eventually, his entire soul turned into nutrients for Su Ming to become stronger.
Once Su Ming devoured the first undying soul, his body started trembling faintly. He could feel a wave of power swelling up within him. That power crashed into his body until it rushed into his mind, causing struggle to appear in Su Ming's eyes. A pain as if he was being torn apart reverberated in his heart.
As the feeling of being torn apart grew stronger, Su Ming felt as if his mind was about to crumble. As he crumbled, he gradually remembered some things from his empty memories.
"What is my name..?" Su Ming lifted his head swiftly and let out a roar towards the sky. That roar was the twenty-eighth roar of a new life in the land!
His roar resonated with the twenty-seven souls and gradually fused together, shaking the sky and earth in that small area, causing the other undying souls in the area to kneel down on the ground as they trembled. Only the twenty-eight souls, including Su Ming, remained standing in that area!
At first glance, the twenty-eight souls looked incredibly similar, but as they continued devouring, they would slowly change and become different, and they would slowly remember all their memories …
At that moment, the sound of the horn in the world came from the distance once again. As the moaning sound reverberated in the air, Su Ming's roars gradually stopped. The other twenty-seven souls also slowly calmed down, and with a speed that was much faster than that of a normal soul, they floated forward.
Su Ming's eyes were gray. As he calmed down, he, too, flew forward with the twenty-seven souls. He brought the thousands of undying souls behind him, and as if they were carrying out some sort of mission, they floated forward.
Time trickled by. Su Ming did not know how much time had passed. At that moment, besides thinking about what his name was, everything else in his mind was blank. Only the sound of the horn served as a guide and a summon, making him slowly walk in the direction from which the sound came.
During this process, he devoured eight undying souls in succession. Similarly, during this process, some of the undying souls also seemed to have gained intelligence, and they started devouring each other.
Every single time Su Ming devoured a soul, his body would become more corporeal. When he devoured eight undying souls, besides his feet, his upper body was no longer in a semi-transparent state, but looked as if it had flesh and blood.
His long black hair floated behind his head. His eyes might still be gray, but besides intelligence, there was also a hint of aloofness in them.
There were already nearly fifty undying souls like him in this group of thousands, and they continued floating towards the direction from which the sound of the horn came …
On this day, in this world where there was no distinction between day and night, Su Ming saw another group of undying souls appearing on the ground before him. When these two groups of undying souls saw each other, the figures that were clearly much stronger than the normal souls let out shrill howls!
A war appeared once again!
Su Ming looked at the group of undying souls charging madly towards him, and the feeling as if his head was being torn apart gradually grew sharper. He suddenly remembered that he had experienced this before …
He remembered that in his previous experience, he had died in that war, and his entire being had been devoured … until he woke up once again.
Killing intent appeared in Su Ming's eyes. He did not want to die. In his heart, he had a vague feeling that every single time he died, he would lose something. He might not know the details, but his instincts were telling him that he could not die!
Roars reverberated in the air. The two groups of thousands of undying souls were closing in on each other madly. Five thousand feet, three thousand feet, two thousand feet … Up to five hundred feet, two hundred feet … [If you like this work, please come to Start Point and vote for me. Your support is my greatest motivation.]
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