Su Ming felt as if his heart had been struck by a hammer. He took a few steps back with a dark expression on his face. Three scenes flashed in his head!
The first was when he saw Bei Ling and Lei Chen on the Chains of Han Mountain in Han Mountain City, along with that one sentence.
"You're clearly dead. I buried you with my own hands …"
That scene disappeared in an instant and was replaced by the moment Hong Luo disappeared. At the instant he touched the coffin in the land of the Shamans, the darkness that appeared in his memories like a dream appeared in his head.
"Of the two babies in the past … the one who was alive was her, and the one who died was me …"
Soon after, all these scenes shattered, and Di Tian's figure occupied all of Su Ming's memories. Those two aloof words continuously echoed in his head … and did not disappear even after a long time had passed.
"Destiny!"
Su Ming stood there and looked at the old man in yellow robes, then at the world behind him. After a long, long while, he asked in anguish.
"Am I dead?"
"Perhaps, perhaps not." The old man in yellow robes cast Su Ming a glance and shook his head.
"What do you mean?" Su Ming remained silent for a moment before he asked languidly. It was not that he could not accept the old man's words. In truth, he had already seen some clues about this many years ago, but he just could not connect them together.
"There are two sides in the world, positive and negative. If we compare positive to life, then negative to death … But who can say clearly what is death and what is negative?
"Perhaps we can treat the boundary between positive and negative as a mirror. The people outside the mirror are looking into the mirror, and the people in the mirror are also looking outside the mirror. They are looking at themselves, but perhaps they are also not themselves.
Do you understand? "the old man in yellow robes asked languidly.
Su Ming frowned. After some time, he cast his gaze towards the world in the distance.
"Are you saying that the people in the mirror have their own lives, and this is something the people outside the mirror don't know about? Just like you and I, we are both in the mirror?"
"Your comprehensive abilities are pretty good. If Lie Shan Xiu values you, then you must have something outstanding about you … My homeland, the True Sacred Yin World, has been researching positive and negative, yin and yang since a long time ago, and we came to the conclusion that the universe also has positive and negative!
"We call negative Yin Death Void, and positive Bright Yang Emptiness." When the old man in yellow robes said those words, he suddenly smiled and no longer spoke.
Su Ming fell silent. He lifted his right hand and looked at the lock of hair on his finger. After some time, a resolute look appeared on his face.
"How can I help your people return home?"
"This place was transformed from my clan's magical artifact. This magical artifact was damaged while traversing through space. However, the spirit of this realm, which is the soul of the magical artifact, did not die. Instead, it fell into a deep slumber!
It needed a sufficient amount of power to wake up, and only by waking it up could the Enchanted Vessel be activated once more so that it could return to True Sacred Yin World based on the path it had taken in the past!
"Over the years, our tribe has accumulated a lot of materials, but it is still not enough. That is why we are working with the Shaman Tribe. That is why we need this Earth Qi Dragon Soul!
"As long as you send this power into the Tribe's Rune, we send into the Ming's power, we will calm, you all, we can as you, as I say, as you, you, I will will that you have.
"Once the World Spirit wakes up, I will be able to open a Relocation Rune that will lead to the inner part of the Enchanted Vessel. With Lie Shan Xiu's power, I am seven-tenths certain that I will be able to make the World Spirit wake up within a short period of time!
"Once the World Spirit wakes up, I will be able to open a Relocation Rune that will lead to the inner part of the Enchanted Vessel. I might not be able to use it too much due to the Enchanted Vessel's power, but I can still send you and your people out of this place and back to the world that belongs to you!
"I will also tell you about the connection between Yin Death Void and Bright Yang Emptiness at that time. I hope that it will be of help to you …
"If you want to truly see this world clearly and dare to take the risk, then you can be the last to leave this Rune. At that time, you will see the galaxy and the universe …" When the old man in yellow robes said those words, he took a few steps back, wrapped his fist in his palm towards Su Ming, and bowed deeply.
"Everything I said is true. Sir, I hope that you can help me. If you can leave True Morning Dao World one day and head to True Sacred Yin World, you can search for Sacred Spirit Continent. That is where we Spirits of Nine Yin are. I hope that we can meet again in True Sacred Yin World!"
Su Ming fell silent. As he looked at the old man before him, he nodded.
Everything the old man said made Su Ming feel as if he was in a dream. Based on his own judgment, perhaps the old man's words were not just some random nonsense.
Yet no matter what, for the answer in his heart, Su Ming would agree to this. Even if everything the old man said was a lie, even if everything he said was fake, Su Ming would rather believe that everything the old man said was false.
When he saw Su Ming nodding his head, the old man in yellow robes sucked in a deep breath and swung his arm. Immediately, the hall in the mountain where he stood started distorting. Once it gradually disappeared, the eight gigantic statues in it also disappeared, as if everything was just an illusion. Only the gigantic Rune left behind by the crimson dragon on the ground after it left was still there!
"Sir, please pour your power into this Rune with Lie Shan Xiu's power!" The old man wrapped his fist in his palm and bowed to Su Ming once again.
In silence, Su Ming walked slowly towards the Rune. When he stood within it, his gaze fell on it. After a long while, he lifted his right hand, and a powerful light and a mighty presence that surged into the sky erupted from the strand of hair on his finger.
That presence reverberated in the air, causing the sky to rumble. The air around him looked as if it could not withstand the pressure, and cracks started appearing on it. Right at the instant Su Ming's finger looked as if it was about to fall, he suddenly turned his head around, and his gaze landed on the old man's face like lightning.
What he saw was excitement, bitterness, reminiscence, and longing to return home.
"I'll believe you this once!" Su Ming swiftly brought his right hand down. At the instant he tapped the Rune, the strand of hair on his finger started burning rapidly, and an unimaginably large amount of power erupted as it burned and rushed into the Rune through Su Ming's finger.
At the same time, the mountain where Su Ming stood crumbled inch by inch and turned into ashes that scattered into the air. However, the Rune remained. It floated in midair, and the light on it gradually grew brighter!
Soon after, all the halls and statues around the disappearing mountain vanished into thin air and turned into ashes. The statues looked as if they had been swept by a destructive wind and fell down one by one, becoming a part of the ground.
When the windstorm disappeared and the light from the Rune pierced the eyes, there were no longer any mountains or halls in the area. There were only ten statues left of the Spirits of Nine Yin!
These ten statues were all incredibly broken, and they exuded an ancient air of decay, as if they had gone through an endless amount of time.
The light from the Rune in midair grew brighter, eventually turning into a piercing pillar of light that erupted from within the Rune and rushed towards the end of the sky.
The instant that pillar of light shot into the sky, another pillar of light shot out from the ground further away. Soon after, pillars of light continuously appeared in the boundless World of Nine Yin.
Su Ming might not be able to see everything, but he could feel the world trembling!
There was only a small amount of hair left on Su Ming's finger. When the pillar of light erupted, his body was bounced off by a huge force and he was forced back several thousands of feet. His face turned pale and he coughed out a mouthful of blood. He looked at his surroundings with a dumbfounded expression. He looked at the disappearing halls and the disappearing statues. All of this felt incredibly real to him, and it also meant that what the old man had said just now was not false.
"I'll remember your kindness!" The old man in yellow robes had an excited look on his face. Once he wrapped his fist in his palm towards Su Ming, he charged towards the pillar of light from the Rune.
"The Rune will be activated one after another. I'll summon the World Spirit with all my might to wake up. If I'm fast, it'll take half a month. If I'm slow, it'll take a month. The World of Nine Yin will be turned upside down. Benefactor, please gather your people quickly. When the World Spirit wakes up, I'll open the tunnel for all of you!"
Su Ming looked at the old man in yellow robes disappearing into the pillar of light and remained silent for a moment. With an anguished look on his face, he gave up on trying to turn into Destiny once again at all costs.
This was the final preparation he made just in case. If everything the old man said was false, then Su Ming could still use the span of fifteen breaths to make some slight changes.
However … it did not matter whether it was the drastic change in his surroundings or the actions of the old man in yellow robes, all of these proved that the old man did not harbor any ill will. If Su Ming were to make these deductions, then the credibility of his words had already reached a level where they were practically the truth!
This was what Su Ming desperately wanted to know, and it was also what he did not want to face.
In silence, Su Ming put away the crimson dragon, causing it to turn into a totem on his left arm. The dragon had used up too much of its energy and had fallen into deep sleep. No one knew when it would wake up.
With the Poison Corpse and the small snake, Su Ming turned around and walked towards the direction of the Fated Kin's valley.
His back was incredibly bleak, and there was a lonely and lost air about him as he gradually left into the distance. The pillar of light behind him surged into the sky, the ground under his feet trembled, and the clouds above him tumbled about. All of these were signs that a drastic change was about to happen.
"Half a month … one month … All the answers will be revealed the instant I leave," Su Ming mumbled. Determination slowly appeared in his eyes. No matter what the answer was, he would continue walking down this path.
No matter what the answer meant, there were some things that Su Ming felt he had to find out!
His body disappeared into the distance. As he walked in the sky, he spread his divine sense outwards and covered the area in the distance, until the ruins of Shaman City appeared in his divine sense. He then saw a wandering soul drifting about in those ruins, and it belonged to Ahu.
There was also a woman Su Ming was familiar with standing among the group of wandering souls that could not be seen with the naked eye outside the ruins of the Shaman Tribe.
'She … didn't leave in the past..?' Su Ming's footsteps came to a halt in midair and he turned his head around to look at the spot where the woman was in his divine sense.
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