At the instant Zi Yan recognized Su Ming as her fellow disciple from the ninth summit, her eyes went wide. She could not believe what she was seeing. In truth, she had been a little uncertain before, but when Su Ming called her his disciple nephew, it had struck her like a bolt of lightning, causing her to be stunned.
"Are … Are you really Su Ming?" Zi Yan looked at Su Ming. Even at this moment, she still found it difficult to fuse the person from the ninth summit in her memories with this person who could kill a powerful Berserker in the middle stage of the Berserker Soul Realm with just a wave of his hand.
"You have to call me uncle master." Su Ming looked at Zi Yan and a smile appeared on his face. To him, this woman before him was not only Zi Che's older sister, she was also the person his second senior brother seemed to admire.
"Uncle … uncle master Su." Zi Yan hesitated for a moment, then instinctively wrapped her fist in her palm and bowed towards Su Ming. There was still shock in her eyes.
"It's been many years since I returned to the land of Berserkers. I wonder how the ninth summit is." Su Ming looked at the woman before him. She was no longer as glorious as she was in the past. The slim and graceful girl of the past did not look like a middle-aged woman either. The wrinkles at the corners of her eyes might not be very obvious, but some of them could still be seen.
Time passed by gently on the woman's body. It did not take away much of it, but it left behind an ancient air and maturity. The girl of the past had now turned into a woman with a great charm.
She had been beautiful in the past, and even though she was old, she still looked captivating. There was a charm about her that was completely different from that of a young girl. However … judging by the distance between her and Ya Mu, it seemed like their relationship was not ordinary.
At that moment, when Zi Yan heard Su Ming's question, she forced down the shock in her heart and replaced it with a complicated look. She had not expected that Su Ming, who had disappeared twenty years ago, would appear before her and become so powerful. This sort of strength was something that she had not even dared to dream about.
At that moment, he could be said to be her uncle master in name and in reality, causing respect to appear on Zi Yan's face without her knowing it, mixed with complicated feelings.
"Freezing Sky Clan … split up five years ago. Heaven Gate left with many outstanding disciples to fight against the calamity of the Eastern Wastelands above the nine heavens with the power of Heaven Gate.
"The Earth Peak is still there, but it has already been abandoned … Most of the people from the other peaks have scattered, and I left with a few of our sisters … We went through many things on the way, until … we met senior Yun Lai …" When she said this, Zi Yan's expression became a little gloomy, and she found it hard to speak.
"As for the ninth summit, the sect was in chaos at that time. I … I didn't pay too much attention to it." When Zi Yan said those words, she saw Su Ming frowning slightly.
"But I remember that Second Martial Uncle went out a few years before the great chaos, and he never came back," Zi Yan hurriedly said.
Su Ming fell silent. After a long while, he lifted his head and looked in the direction of the Berserkers in the distance.
"Where's my master?"
"Grandmaster Tian Xie Zi, I … I don't know. But I know that Martial Uncle Su, your First Senior Brother finished his closed-door training five years after the Great War of Voodoo-Barbarians. I don't know whether he has returned or not." She looked at Su Ming. They might not have met for twenty years, but the memories of the past were still fresh in her mind. There was no way she could not tell that the second uncle master of the ninth summit liked her.
However, as she thought back to it, besides bitterness, Zi Yan also felt as if the world had changed.
'If I had been with his second senior brother, then now …' Zi Yan felt a stab of pain in her heart, but she remained silent.
Ya Mu was in a daze as he listened to Zi Yan and Su Ming's conversation. Gradually, his eyes went wide and he looked at Su Ming with a dumbfounded expression. His breathing instantly quickened.
'Mo Su … Respected Senior Mo … Su Ming …' As Ya Mu looked at Su Ming, his mind was in a mess. He recognized Su Ming. He recognized him as the person who had talked to him for a long time by the bonfire in Autumn Sea Tribe.
He also recognized him …
"I am Ya Mu. Greetings, senior. I will never forget your kindness in giving me a new lease of life!" Ya Mu took a few steps back and wrapped his fist in his palm before bowing deeply towards Su Ming.
He was bowing to Hong Luo, as well as to how Hong Luo had given Autumn Sea Tribe's Latter Shaman's life force to Ya Mu when Hong Luo had killed him. That was why Ya Mu was now half a step into becoming a Latter Shaman.
As time passed by, most of the things that happened in the past were slowly learned by those who paid attention to them, especially those who had met Su Ming before and were acquainted with him.
"I didn't expect that senior Mo would be from the same clan as my wife. She's from the Berserkers' Freezing Sky Clan …" Ya Mu's expression was incredibly respectful, and once he stood up, he sighed with emotion.
"Wife?" A focused glint appeared in Su Ming's eyes. He did not know Ya Mu for long and could not be considered to be friends with him. He could only be considered as an old friend, and his relationship with Zi Yan was completely different.
The focused look in Su Ming's eyes was like a flash of golden light in the eyes of others, and a mighty pressure that pressed down on people's souls abruptly shot out from his eyes, causing Ya Mu to feel as if his mind was about to crumble once he saw it. He moved back once again, and a loud bang rang in his head. It was as if he had turned into a lone boat in a raging sea and was about to collapse at any moment.
That pressure made Ya Mu's expression change drastically, and he almost stopped breathing. In his eyes, Su Ming had occupied his entire mind at that moment, and it was as if he only needed one thought, and Ya Mu's life force would immediately be extinguished and he would die.
Zi Yan quickly moved forward and blocked Su Ming's gaze as he looked at Ya Mu. There was a complicated look on her face, and there was an ancient air left behind by time. She opened her mouth as if she wanted to say something.
"This is your personal matter. It has nothing to do with me. I just don't understand why my second senior brother isn't good enough for you." Su Ming frowned and looked at Zi Yan before he shook his head.
"You can leave."
Zi Yan's face was pale. In silence, she wrapped her fist in her palm towards Su Ming and pulled the still slightly dazed Ya Mu. Just as the two of them were about to leave, Zi Yan hesitated for a moment before she turned her head around to look at Su Ming.
"Uncle … uncle master Su, do you still remember Han Cang Zi? After the change in the school, she came here with me. If you still remember her, I would like to beg you to help her … "Zi Yan looked at Su Ming and spoke softly.
"For the sake of us being fellow disciples and for the fact that she … had a crush on you in the past, uncle master Su, please help her …"
"Han Cang Zi …" When Su Ming heard that name, the image of a beautiful woman appeared before his eyes. That woman's gentle gaze, her gentle personality, her determined gaze, the things that happened in Han Mountain City, the entanglement between him and Si Ma Xin, all of them appeared in Su Ming's memories.
These memories were filled with dust, but they were becoming clearer with each passing moment.
"Fang Cang Lan," Su Ming said calmly.
"Yes, junior sister Fang!" When Zi Yan saw Su Ming calling out Han Cang Zi's name, excitement appeared in her eyes.
Zi Yan looked at Su Ming and immediately said urgently, "Four years ago, senior Yun Lai wanted to make junior sister Fang his concubine, but due to junior sister Fang's cultivation, he delayed it. It was the same two years ago, but now, junior sister Fang's cultivation method is about to be completed, and it's difficult for us to delay it. Once senior Yun Lai comes out of isolation and makes this request again, junior sister Fang won't be able to reject it …"
Su Ming fell silent. The woman's figure in his memories became clearer, and when he recalled all the things that happened in the past, he felt as if there was a veil separating them. Twenty years was not a long time, but the countless cycles of life and death Su Ming had gone through in the Undying and Imperishable World caused an ancient air to appear on his face, and no one else could see it.
Zi Yan was still waiting for Su Ming's answer. However, as time passed by and Ya Mu regained his senses and looked at Su Ming in fear, Su Ming still did not speak. He stood there and looked into the distance, and no one knew what he was thinking.
Zi Yan's face turned paler, and eventually, she looked at Su Ming with a broken smile, and her eyes gradually became wet.
"Oh well, this isn't your problem. There's no reason for you to help me. I know that your second senior brother was fond of me in the past. If time could flow back and I could return to the past, then I would choose to accept it …
"But that's impossible, isn't it..?
"Ya Mu is right. I'm his dual cultivation partner, and I'm no longer the same as I was in my youth. Not only am I his dual cultivation partner, I was even senior Yun Lai's concubine in the past, and he gave me to Ya Mu in the form of an item!" Zi Yan's face was pale, and as she laughed brokenly, her voice sounded rather forlorn. Tears fell down her cheeks nonstop, as if she could no longer hold it in after suppressing it for many years, and her tears burst forth.
"You can look down on me, but you're not me. You'll never be able to understand how a woman can survive when she's abandoned by her sect, when she has to face the disaster of the Eastern Wastelands that can come at any moment, and when the land of Berserkers is in chaos!
"Cang Lan's personality is a little weak. The two of us were in the chaos before the disaster. There was no order in this world, and everything was a law that only the strong could survive. How could we survive?!
"Then, we met senior Yun Lai. He took a fancy to Cang Lan, but there was tenacity within her weakness. She would rather die than submit to him. I was the one who took her place and became senior Yun Lai's concubine. I tried everything I could to please him, and only then did we manage to survive the disaster and come to the land of the Shamans.
"Everyone has the right to choose to live. Even if it's wrong, as long as we can live, then it's the right choice … You don't have to help Cang Lan. Just pretend that she had the wrong person in her heart twenty years ago!"
Zi Yan wiped away her tears, and determination appeared in her eyes. She no longer looked at Su Ming, but instead turned into a long arc and charged into the sky. Ya Mu followed behind her silently. When he looked at Zi Yan, there was a deep gentleness and pity in his eyes, along with a protective look hidden within them.
He liked Zi Yan. When he saw her for the first time a few years ago, he fell in love with this woman who was usually beautiful but had sadness hidden within her heart.
That sort of adoration was something that Ya Mu had seen by chance. He had seen her standing alone next to a submerged reef, looking out at the sea. Her eyes had been filled with tears, and she had looked exhausted. That had become an eternal memory in Ya Mu's heart.
That was why he begged End Shaman Zong Ze and paid a huge price to buy Zi Yan from Yun Lai, who Yun Lai was already sick of.
Su Ming lifted his head and looked at Zi Yan and Ya Mu leaving. His expression might have been calm, but his heart had been shaken by Zi Yan's words.
"Where is she?" Su Ming asked languidly. He had never intended to refuse her, but a moment of absent-mindedness had caused Zi Yan to misunderstand him.
The first update was late today. Please forgive me, everyone. The second update will be released soon. (To be continued. If you like this work, please come to Qidian.Com and vote for it. Your support is my greatest motivation.)
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