Once Southern Swamp Island appeared on the surface of the sea, the seawater tumbled outwards. On the island, the Shamans and Berserkers on Southern Swamp Island looked at Su Ming and Zong Ze in the sky in silence under the screen of light.
Zong Ze lifted his right hand, and a jade slip immediately appeared on his palm. He flung it towards Su Ming, and the jade slip turned into a long arc that instantly appeared before Su Ming. Once Su Ming caught it, he focused his attention on it. There was a simple map inside, and on the map were three smaller continents in the direction of South Morning. They were separated by the Dead Sea, and while they were called continents, they could be seen as larger islands.
There were numerous small islands near Eastern Wastelands. As for Eastern Wastelands, there were also quite a number of islands at the edge of a gigantic continent. One of them was an island that was several times bigger than Southern Swamp Island, and there were two words written on it: Scour Sieve.
"I, Zong Ze, have left my homeland in the south, and I cannot go with you. I can only … bow to you for this." Zong Ze looked at Su Ming, and the complicated look in his eyes gradually turned into a sentimental one. He wrapped his fist in his palm and bowed towards Su Ming.
Su Ming averted his gaze from the jade slip and looked at Zong Ze as he asked out of thin air, "Senior Zong Ze, please tell me whether my eldest senior brother came to the land of the Shamans in the past."
"The young master came to Autumn Sea Tribe during the calamity, but he did not go to the God of Shamans Temple. Instead … when the calamity happened, he went to Eastern Wastelands …" Zong Ze said in a low voice.
Su Ming frowned.
After a moment of silence, Zong Ze said, "According to what I know, the reason why Young Master wants to go to the Eastern Wasteland is because his master went there many years ago and never came back. It seems that something happened to him."
He knew the relationship between the young master of Nine Li Tribe and Su Ming. He could not hide this from him.
Su Ming lifted his head swiftly and looked at Zong Ze.
"Senior Zong Ze, please tell me in detail."
"I didn't understand the details because of the conflict between the Shamans and Berserkers at that time, but based on what I know, senior Tian Xie Zi crossed the Dead Sea alone and went to Eastern Wastelands, as if he wanted to try and stop the calamity … but he never came back. But the calamity did arrive much later.
"I remember that before you went to Eastern Wastelands in the past, you stood on the mountain one night with a broken wooden plate in your hands, and your face was filled with grief …" Zong Ze looked at Su Ming and spoke softly.
A shudder ran through Su Ming's body, and a bang instantly rang out in his head. He could tell that Zong Ze was not lying, and there was no need for him to lie about this either. A scene seemed to appear before his eyes.
In that image, the sea was surging, and a mountain peak was in the clouds. Eldest Senior Brother stood there silently, looking at the roaring Dead Sea from afar. He looked at the huge Eastern Wasteland that was crashing towards them. His expression was filled with sorrow. In his hand was a wooden tablet, and on that wooden tablet were written three words: Tian Xie Zi!
There were cracks on the wooden tablet, as if it could shatter at any time …
As the sea roared and the Eastern Wasteland smashed into it, Eldest Senior Brother's lonely figure stepped into the void with sorrow and charged toward the Eastern Wasteland!
"Master! Eldest senior brother! "Su Ming turned his head around and looked in the direction of Eastern Wastelands. A crazed killing intent appeared in his eyes.
He did not want to think too much about it. He was afraid that the more he thought about it, the more answers he would obtain, and the more he would lose.
He suddenly understood what Zi Yan had said before. His second senior brother had left the ninth summit and never returned. He had been slightly puzzled when he heard this before. His second senior brother loved the ninth summit, and the ninth summit was his home. If the sky had not fallen, he would definitely not leave the ninth summit!
Yet he still left, and … he never came back. Su Ming had originally been wondering where he had gone, but now, he was absolutely certain that his second senior brother … had gone to Eastern Wastelands!
He had gone to search for his Master!
Eldest senior brother had gone after him, and he had also gone to search for his Master, or perhaps he was still searching for his second junior brother!
"What about Hu Zi..? Is he still in the ninth summit..?" Su Ming mumbled.
He suddenly had an urge to return to the ninth summit and see whether Hu Zi was still around. Then, he would go to Eastern Wastelands and search for his eldest senior brother and second senior brother's tracks, search for them, search for his Master!
Zong Ze looked at Su Ming. This young man had given him different feelings each time he met him three times, and he remembered the Young Lord of Nine Li Tribe. He remembered the person who had forgotten about Eastern Wastelands. He also remembered how his Autumn Sea Tribe had fallen apart and most of his tribe members were scattered. He remembered the little amount of life he had left, and he remembered the awe-inspiring manner he had when he was young.
Gradually, with melancholy, Zong Ze turned around and left.
The sky gradually darkened. The sound of waves crashing on the surface of the sea traveled into Su Ming's ears. He sat on a mountain in the mountain range and looked at the darkness in the distance without a single word.
At some unknown point in time, Fang Cang Lan walked out of the darkness behind him and stood beside him. She looked at him gently, but did not speak. Instead, she sat down beside him.
The sea splashed, and the world was dark. They did not speak, neither did they meet each other's gazes. Fang Cang Lan stayed by Su Ming's side quietly and spent the entire night on the mountain.
When the sky started turning gray and light seeped through the layers of clouds, Su Ming, who had been sitting there for the entire night and thinking about many things, closed his eyes. The scenes of the ninth summit kept appearing in his mind.
"Thank you," Su Ming said softly.
Fang Cang Lan did not speak. She looked at the sky in the distance, which might have been dark, but it was much brighter than night, and shook her head.
"If you don't want to stay in Southern Swamp Island, you can go to the Fated Kin's island with Zi Yan. She knows where it is." Su Ming opened his eyes and looked at the woman who had been sitting beside him for the entire night. He looked at the side of her face. Her face was incredibly beautiful.
"You don't have to worry about me. My level of cultivation might not be high, but the preparations I've made over the years are very detailed. I won't run into any dangers I can't resolve.
"As for you, Scour Sieve Island …" Fang Cang Lan turned her head around and looked at Su Ming with her beautiful eyes, not averting her gaze.
"I know that Yun Lai is refining an Enchanted Treasure. He needs my divine ability to fully activate it. The origins of that Enchanted Treasure are unknown. If you go and get it …" Fang Cang Lan immediately spoke, and Su Ming saw the concern and worry on her face.
"There's no need. Since he needs your divine ability to fully activate it, then you should be able to use it."
"But …" Fang Cang Lan panicked. Just as she was about to continue speaking, a smile appeared on Su Ming's face. That smile was very faint, but contained within it was confidence.
"The memories you saw from the past twenty years are just fragments, not all of them." Su Ming looked at Fang Cang Lan and smiled.
Fang Cang Lan was momentarily stunned, but she soon remembered that even with Yun Lai's strength, he still had no way of fighting back before Su Ming. This sort of strength had already surpassed Fang Cang Lan's understanding.
Fang Cang Lan remained silent for a moment before she asked softly, "What … What is your level of cultivation now?"
"Bone Sacrifice." Su Ming looked at Fang Cang Lan.
"That's impossible …" Fang Cang Lan's eyes went wide, and a dark light shone in them. As she lifted her right hand, the jade bone appeared on her palm. Once she pressed her palm on it, she lifted her left hand to hold Su Ming's hand and closed her eyes.
Su Ming did not refuse. After a moment, Fang Cang Lan shuddered and her eyes flew open.
"The Candle Dragon's blessing … Bone Sacrifice of your entire body …" she mumbled, and as she looked at Su Ming, disbelief appeared in her eyes.
Su Ming did not speak. He only nodded.
Fang Cang Lan only recovered after a long while. She looked at Su Ming, and her eyes became even brighter, but there was a hint of hesitation in them. She bit her bottom lip, and after a moment, a grave look appeared on her face, and she spoke softly.
"Su Ming, do you remember the first time we met? At that time, after you left my big brother's place, I … saw your memories."
Su Ming's expression was calm. There was no way he could forget this. That was the first time he doubted himself, and all of it was because of the pity on Fang Cang Lan's face and the words she said that he could not understand at that time.
"Destiny, huh..?" Su Ming asked faintly.
"You … know about it?" The pity she had in the past gradually appeared in Fang Cang Lan's eyes once again, and she asked softly.
"I saw you spending fifty years in a void … I also saw you being chained up, and I saw you dying …" Fang Cang Lan finally told Su Ming the secret she had kept in her heart for twenty something years.
"I saw them calling you Destiny … I saw you dying more than hundreds of times … I also saw a place called Dark Mountain, but when I wanted to continue looking at it, I was forcefully broken by a power from the world outside.
"That power was too strong. I couldn't fight against it at all. I could feel that this power originally wanted to destroy me, because I saw something I shouldn't have seen.
"But for some unknown reason, the moment that power was about to wipe me off, it disappeared …" Fang Cang Lan mumbled. She held Su Ming's hand and closed her eyes once again.
At the instant she did so, a bang went off in Su Ming's head, and moving pictures appeared in his head. Those pictures showed everything that Fang Cang Lan had seen in the past.
"Over the past twenty years, my level of cultivation has been increasing very quickly, and the main reason for this is because of the power that wanted to destroy me when I saw your memories in the past. Gradually, I noticed that it didn't disappear, but stayed in my body …
"I want to help you. I want you to know just what you've lost. I want you to know just how many of your true memories have been changed and sealed away. That's why I'm working hard in my training and fusing with that power … I want to push this unique divine ability of mine to its pinnacle. I believe that one day, I will definitely be able to help you.
"If you believe me, then let me try to take another look … at your past memories …" Fang Cang Lan's mumbles echoed in Su Ming's ears. In silence, Su Ming gradually spread out his mind, and under Fang Cang Lan's guidance, he returned to the passage of time.
The hole appeared in front of his eyes, and he saw himself chained up. He saw the figure sitting cross-legged on the gigantic head, and there was that sentence ….
"You … disappoint me …"
After an unknown amount of time, Su Ming's eyes flew open. Fang Cang Lan shuddered before him, and a mouthful of blood flowed out of the corners of her mouth. Su Ming dragged her behind him with his left hand, then lifted his right hand and hurled a punch at the spot where Fang Cang Lan had been sitting previously.
That punch instantly caused the air to distort, and a cold harrumph that seemed to have come from the distance traveled forth swiftly!
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