It was a weak soul, a soul that had lost its intelligence and had drifted about the land for many years in a daze …
She wandered about aimlessly, and she did not know where she would end up.
Her body could not be seen with the naked eye. Only divine sense could see her beautiful face clearly, and her dazed eyes could be seen clearly …
She was dressed in a white veil that was formed by a soul. She floated about, and there were many souls like her by her side. They did not seem to be able to see each other and were only wandering about in groups.
She originally had no memories. She had forgotten how she died and how she became like this. She only vaguely remembered that she seemed to be searching for something …
Yet she could no longer remember what she was looking for.
She walked, floated, and searched again and again. Was she looking for the direction of her home? Was she looking for the warmth in her life? Was she looking for the location of her sect..? She was the Celestial Maiden.
With her status, she should have left fifteen years ago during the drastic change. With her status as an Immortal, this place did not belong to her. She should have left the World of Nine Yin with the people from her sect …
Yet she still appeared in Su Ming's divine sense, in the form of a Drifting Roamer.
Su Ming stood there and looked at her, who could not be seen with the naked eye but could be seen clearly with his divine sense among the dozen something Drifting Roamers. He looked at her pale face, her floating soul, and the dazed look in her eyes.
This was the only person who had been worried about Su Ming when Tian Lan Meng had lowered her head during the treasure gambling event, when Wan Qiu, the Sacred Lady of Autumn Sea Tribe, had avoided his gaze, and when no one had said a single word for him.
Su Ming truly did not know much about this woman. He had only seen her in the battlefield between the Shamans and Berserkers all those years ago and heard her call him Destiny …
After that was Hong Luo's memories. He had some contact with this woman, and after that, he had no memories of her until they met in the World of Nine Yin.
He could not even remember the woman's name clearly.
He only knew that there were people who called her … the Celestial Maiden.
This was a very strange title. What was the Celestial Maiden? Was it Destiny's Celestial Maiden? Su Ming looked at her and fell silent.
The Drifting Roamers floated past him. They did not seem to be able to see him and treated him as if he did not exist. When seven or eight Drifting Roamers walked past him, the woman in the white veil closed in on him.
With a dazed look in her eyes, she approached Su Ming slowly. The instant she floated past him, she came to an abrupt halt!
She seemed to have noticed something and turned her head around to look at Su Ming. However, in her eyes, she only saw emptiness … Yet for some unknown reason, she felt that this place was incredibly warm, as if … this was the place she had been searching for all this while.
She lifted her hand slowly as if she wanted to touch the warmth. Su Ming looked at her and let her place her hand on his body and touch his face.
'Very cold.' That was the first thing Su Ming felt.
He saw that the woman's soul was originally expressionless, but at this moment, a smile gradually appeared on her face. That smile was very beautiful, and it was filled with innocence, as well as an indescribable attachment.
She touched Su Ming's face and slowly got closer to him. She slowly snuggled into his embrace and closed her eyes. A satisfied expression appeared on her face, as if she had searched for a long, long time and had finally found her home.
She was a Celestial Maiden, Destiny's Celestial Maiden …
Fifteen years ago, she could have left, but she did not. She chose to stay. There was no Destiny in the world outside, then she was no longer a Celestial Maiden. Only in this place, where Destiny existed, was she Destiny's Celestial Maiden …
She had been a weak girl since she was young, but she had changed because of a single name. She might have been one of the many Celestial Maidens, but her only goal when she descended from the land of Immortals was to see Destiny with her own eyes …
That was why she did not leave. That was why after searching for several years, she turned into a Drifting Wanderer on a rainy night. Yet even if she had already turned into a soul, even if she had forgotten everything and lost her intelligence, she still continued searching.
Su Ming looked at the woman's soul before him, and in silence, he sensed her attachment. He stood there. Day, night …
Vaguely, a feeling that did not exist in the past rose up in his memories …
It was an endless night. It was very cold, very cold, and loneliness turned into an eternity. He had no idea how many years had passed since he lost his little sister's voice.
He continued lying there. He could sense everything in the world around him, but he was already numb to it. He had already forgotten about it.
Then, a voice with a hint of youthfulness and timidity whispered weakly beside him.
"Big brother, hello … My … My surname is Bai, it means white. I … I'm Ling Er … I'm from Hidden Dragon Sect …"
"Big brother, are you Destiny..? What does Destiny mean? Why do they all call you Destiny? "
"Big brother, I miss home. I don't want to be here. Do you miss home? Where is your home..? Let me tell you, my home is really beautiful. I also have a younger brother, but I haven't seen him for a long time …"
"Big brother, Grandpa Mo said that I can be like the others and become a Celestial Maiden, but I don't want to be like them. I want to become a Celestial Maiden that belongs to you from now on … No matter where you go in the future, I will always be by your side …"
"Big brother, I want … to see you when you wake up. I'll go and find you. Will you remember me..?"
The darkness in his memories slowly faded away, and what appeared before Su Ming's eyes was still the chaotic sky in the World of Nine Yin, the trembling ground, and the pillars of light that connected the sky and earth in the dark night from a place far away.
Su Ming lowered his head and looked at the woman in his arms. She had her eyes closed, as if she was in deep sleep. There was sweetness in her satisfied smile.
"Bai … Ling …" Grief gradually filled Su Ming's eyes. He suddenly understood something, but it was still a little indistinct.
After remaining silent for a long time, Su Ming let go of her in anguish, but the woman's soul held onto him tightly and refused to let go. Even if she grabbed onto empty air, she still refused to let go. Su Ming put her away into his storage bag, then went to the ruined Shaman City and found Ahu's soul. Once he also put it away, he walked alone towards the Fated Kin's valley in the dark sky.
When morning arrived, Su Ming returned to the Fated Kin's valley. He stood on the valley and looked at the hundreds of Fated Kin before him. Suddenly, he could not tell whether these people were alive or dead …
He sat down and looked at the sky, feeling lost.
The sun rose and set. One day passed by, and Su Ming sat there, unable to obtain an answer.
'Perhaps I will only know all the answers when I leave this place.' When night fell on the third day, Su Ming opened his eyes.
'The World Spirit in this place is about to wake up, and the world will be turned upside down during this period of time. Then before I leave, I still have one more question … Eternal Li Mountain …' A focused glint appeared in Su Ming's eyes and he forced down the shock and confusion in his heart due to his trip to the Spirits of Nine Yin. He stood up and looked into the distance in the dark.
After a long while, Su Ming turned into a long arc and disappeared into the dark sky. He spread out his divine sense and charged towards the place where the Sacred Bats were.
That place would be his final stop in the World of Nine Yin. He would search for the reason behind the burning of blood, search for the reason why the Fire Berserker Art in his memories would appear in this place, and search for the parts of his memories that were wrong.
There was also the part of Eternal Li Mountain that he was familiar with. Su Ming found the answer in his heart, and he would go and verify it.
As he charged through the sky, Su Ming spread his divine sense outwards several times, but he did not find Ji Yun Hai's presence. The puppet that was Ji Yun Hai seemed to have disappeared and could not be found.
When dawn arrived and the Sacred Bats appeared before Su Ming, he still did not find any ripples of power from Ji Yun Hai.
Before Su Ming was a land filled with an endless amount of cracks and ravines. Those ravines were so deep that they could not be measured, and there were waves of freezing air spreading out and filling the area.
It was especially so for a spot on the ground in the distance. That was where all the cracks and ravines intersected. There was no pit there, and neither were there any ravines. There was only a mountain there!
A mountain that towered into the clouds, was entirely black, and exuded an eerie, freezing air!
This mountain did not exist fifteen years ago. It was as if it had crawled out of the ground and stood erect in the world!
Almost the instant Su Ming closed in on the place, he saw an innumerable amount of aloof eyes suddenly appearing in the endless black ravines on the ground in the dark night.
Those pairs of eyes were shining brightly in the darkness as they stared at him. Not only were the ravine filled with such eyes, Su Ming also saw a large number of them on the towering mountain, and all of them were gathered on his body.
Aloof, merciless, bloodthirsty, and all sorts of other meanings were contained in those pairs of eyes on the ground, and it was enough to make all those who saw them feel their hearts tremble.
But Su Ming did not. He walked forward quietly. He only had one goal, and that was that mountain. That mountain was known as Eternal Li among the Sacred Bats!
As Su Ming got closer, a piercing howl reverberated from the ground. That was not the voice of a single Sacred Bat, but the roar of all the Sacred Bats in the land at the same time.
That voice was like a wave of sound that contained a presence that could shake the sky and earth. The instant it rose into the air, it made it seem as if the sun in the sky was about to fade away, but it could not make Su Ming's footsteps falter for even a single moment.
As that voice reverberated in the air, the sounds of wings flapping could be heard, and the pairs of eyes in the darkness swiftly closed in on Su Ming as they flashed, and those eyes turned into an endless amount of Sacred Bats!
The instant these Sacred Bats rushed towards Su Ming, an ancient voice suddenly traveled forth languidly from the top of the mountain.
"Sacred Bats who worship me … Do not be so noisy … This is my guest. I've been waiting for him for a long, long time …"
As his voice reverberated in the air, the Sacred Bats who were about to rush out no longer made a single sound and returned to the canyons. Even their sparkling eyes slowly faded away, and eventually, the land was plunged into darkness once again.
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