At the instant he stepped into the courtyard of the seventh palace, Su Ming saw that there were only five statues in the courtyard. These five statues had already woken up, and the instant Su Ming appeared, they took a step forward simultaneously.
The moment their foot landed, the ground trembled. Each of the five statues possessed power similar to that of the sixth palace's old Ze Long Shen. When they took a step forward together, a mighty pressure that seemed to be able to topple mountains and overturn seas instantly rushed towards Su Ming.
Su Ming's body froze. Under that pressure, he felt as if his entire body was about to shatter. As he coughed out a mouthful of blood, he formed a seal with his right hand and pointed forward. Immediately, bell chimes reverberated in the air. Those bell chimes spread out, and Han Mountain Bell appeared before Su Ming, right before the five statues!
As the seals on Su Ming's right hand changed, Han Mountain Bell grew larger. A roar traveled out, and as it reverberated through the nine heavens, the Nine-Headed Dragon manifested in midair above the seventh palace!
At this moment, the heads of the nine-headed beast were howling as they charged towards the five powerful Spirits of Nine Yin.
However, every single one of these five Spirits of Nine Yin was comparable to an End Shaman. Their strength was unimaginable. Besides that, at the instant the Nine-Headed Dragon appeared, an old man walked out from the main hall of the Seventh Palace.
That old man was dressed in green robes. He might look like a withered tree, but he was not tall. There was not much difference between him and Su Ming. As he stood there, he looked incredibly small, but that insignificance was just a figment of his eyes. He looked at Su Ming coldly, and the instant he took a step forward, Su Ming felt as if the earth had trembled and the mountains swayed. It was as if the world had instantly darkened due to the old man's appearance.
Su Ming sucked in a deep breath and lifted his right hand. His palm was facing downwards, and the back of his hand was facing upwards. He lifted his left hand as well, but this time, his palm was facing upwards, and the back of his hand was facing downwards!
"The palm represents the past, and the back of the hand represents the future …
"The fusion of the past and the future is akin to a power that comes from the fusion of the past and the future when our palms touch each other!
"I call this power that fuses the past and the future … Destiny," Su Ming mumbled.
Su Ming mumbled, and as he spoke, his left hand and right hand touched each other! His body immediately trembled and veins popped up on his face. His long hair danced madly in the air, and an illusion appeared behind him.
Surprisingly, that phantom was a baby that did not cry or weep, and its eyes were completely gray, as if it was dead!
The baby seemed to be looking at the sky and did not move. However, if one looked closely, one could see that there was resentment towards the heavens and earth in his gloomy expression!
Almost at the instant the baby appeared, the air before Su Ming distorted, and a purple figure manifested. It was a man with purple hair, and his face was filled with grief, as if there was an endless amount of grief contained within it. He looked at the sky and seemed to be mumbling, but his words could not be heard clearly.
"Fusion Destiny, First Fusion!" At the instant Su Ming said those words, the purple-haired man in front of him and the dull-eyed baby behind him immediately charged into his body and fused into it. At the instant they did so, Su Ming's body turned into a gigantic vortex. As it rotated with loud bangs, no one from the outside could see what was going on inside.
However, this rotation did not last for long. Almost at the instant the Nine-Headed Dragon charged forward while roaring madly and the old man in green robes from the seventh palace walked over, the vortex crumbled with a bang and started spreading outwards rapidly like a violent gust of wind.
In midair, when the vortex disappeared, a pale-faced young man appeared before all the Spirits of Nine Yin. Half of his hair was purple, and the other half was white!
The young man looked to be only eight or nine years old. Not only was his face pale, even the other parts of his skin were gray. He looked up at the sky, then slowly lowered his head. His gaze met the old man who had walked out from the seventh palace.
The old man's footsteps came to an abrupt halt, and a strong sense of danger rose in his heart. In fact, he could even sense an ancient air within the teenager's eyes!
"I only have fifteen breaths …" Su Ming, who had turned into a teenager, mumbled. This time, he had turned into Destiny, and he could clearly feel the time limit. It was different from when he was in the Undying and Imperishable World. When he activated the fusion of the past and the future in the world outside, he only had fifteen breaths.
A glint appeared in his eyes, and without a hint of hesitation, Su Ming took a swift step towards the old man from the seventh palace. With that one step, his body looked as if he was still standing on the spot, but the old man who had walked out of the seventh palace lifted his right hand and swiftly pushed forward.
With that one push, rumbling sounds reverberated in the air, and the air before the old man distorted. Su Ming walked out, and he did not stop. As he walked towards the old man, he lifted his right hand and seized the air. Immediately, a layer of purple light manifested on his right hand, and he pointed towards the old man.
With that one finger, that layer of purple light charged towards the old man. A grave look appeared on the old man's face. Just as he was about to cast a divine ability to resist, Su Ming lifted his left hand and swung it in the air.
Immediately, the old man shuddered, and as if time was flowing backwards, he took a step back against his will. The divine ability he was about to cast was instantly interrupted, and he lifted his right hand, just like before. Shock and disbelief appeared in his eyes as he watched the layer of purple light closing in on him. Once it enveloped his entire body, a loud bang rang in the air.
The old man coughed out blood and his body tumbled backwards, but before he could retreat too far, Su Ming seized the air with his right hand. Immediately, the old man's feet and body changed once again. He took a few steps forward and returned to the state he was in before he was attacked by the purple light.
In fact, even the purple light that had crashed into the old man's body tumbled backwards, as if what had happened just now had happened once again. Booming sounds reverberated in the air once again.
The cycle repeated itself. In just a short instant, the old man went through this process of retreating and moving forward thirteen times. He went through this sort of attack and reversal thirteen times, and only when Su Ming walked past him and out of the seventh palace to head towards the eighth palace did the old man's body recover from the cycle of the past and the future.
However, as he recovered, thirteen loud bangs erupted from his body. Purple light surged into the sky and filled the entire area. Once those thirteen bangs rang out, the old man coughed out a huge mouthful of blood. As he staggered, he turned his head around, and with a pale face, he looked at Su Ming in shock!
He could clearly sense that if it had not been for the fact that Su Ming's killing intent had not been too strong, then if he had endured a little more of that cycle of the past and the future, it would have been difficult for him to escape death!
This sort of slaughter, this sort of divine ability, and this sort of unbelievable transformation caused fear towards Su Ming to rise in the old man's heart for some unknown reason.
He was not the only one who was terrified. The other five Spirits of Nine Yin were also terrified!
At that moment, Su Ming was no longer Su Ming. He was … Destiny!
Seven breaths had passed since Destiny appeared until he walked into the eighth palace. When the eighth breath was over, Su Ming arrived at the eighth palace. There were only three statues in the eighth palace. At that moment, those three statues were rapidly recovering, and in the blink of an eye, they woke up.
At the same time, a cold harrumph came from the eighth palace, and a foot walked out of it. Most of the person's body was hidden in the darkness of the palace, and as he took a step forward, he gradually revealed himself.
However, all of this changed rapidly the moment Su Ming stepped into the eighth palace. As Su Ming, who now had half a head of white hair and another head of purple hair, walked forward, the three awakened statues immediately closed their eyes. Their recovered bodies started petrifying from their heads as Su Ming walked towards them. When Su Ming walked past them, the three powerful statues fell into a deep slumber once again, as if they were moving in reverse.
The cold harrumph that came from the eighth palace also started weakening. The foot that had taken a step forward also started moving backwards slowly. However, Su Ming could see that the foot was trembling, as if it was struggling with all its might!
However, as Su Ming continued moving forward, that struggle eventually turned into powerlessness, and the foot completely retreated from the palace and disappeared …
Su Ming walked past the eighth palace. Before him was the mountain that sealed the crimson dragon, and at the top of that mountain was the final palace where the crimson dragon was!
The ninth palace in this place!
At the instant Su Ming walked past the eighth palace and stepped on the mountain to stand outside the ninth palace, an illusion appeared on his body. Destiny's body gradually grew bigger, and in an instant, he turned from the appearance of an eight or nine-year-old into his current appearance.
His hair color also returned to normal, but his face was still pale. Blood trickled out of the corners of his mouth. Clearly, Su Ming had to be incredibly compatible with Destiny's form when he cast it in the world outside.
"Outsider … you are the fourth person who managed to clear the eight palaces and come to this place … over the course of countless years!" An ancient voice came from the ninth palace. The door to the palace opened slowly, allowing Su Ming to see the eight statues and the skeleton pinned to the ground at the center of the palace. Under the skeleton was a crimson dragon that looked like a totem.
The person who said those words was none other than the skeleton pinned to the ground. At that moment, the skeleton lifted his head slowly and looked towards Su Ming!
The instant he lifted his head and Su Ming saw the skeleton, he immediately recognized that the appearance of the head was the exact same as the gigantic head propped up by the stone pillar in Shaman City all those years ago!
"Your divine ability just now was very powerful … If you could last for the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, then you could come and go as you please among the Spirits of Nine Yin, and no one would be able to stop you … Even I would have to pay a huge price if I wanted to stop you …
"But clearly, you can't do it." The skeleton looked at Su Ming, and there was an endless amount of wisdom in his eyes, along with an ancient look that had existed for an unknown amount of time.
"As the fourth person to clear the palace over the course of a long time, you have obtained our respect … Leave. This Soul of Earthen Aura is very useful to our people. We will not give it to you."
Su Ming remained silent. He did not speak, but he lifted his right hand slowly. There was a strand of hair on his finger that was showing signs of burning.
A pressure that surpassed Su Ming's by an unknown amount was slowly spreading out from that strand of hair on his finger. The strength of that pressure instantly covered the entire area, causing the expressions of all the Spirits of Nine Yin to immediately change!
It also made the eyes of the skeleton in the palace shine with a powerful glare.
"This presence … This presence belongs to the God of Berserkers, Lie Shan Xiu!"
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