At the instant Su Ming hurled his fist forward, the cold harrumph also came from the air. A violent bang rang in the air, and Su Ming shuddered. Cracking sounds that sounded as if he was about to shatter came from his body. He grabbed Fang Cang Lan and tumbled backwards without any hesitation. In an instant, he disappeared, and when he reappeared, he was already several thousands of feet away.
Fang Cang Lan's face was pale, but there was determination on her face. When Su Ming pulled her back, she lifted her hand without panicking and pointed forward.
With it, the protective screen of light around Southern Swamp Dao Sect immediately shone with a powerful light. Streams of light spilled out and gathered together at the edge of the screen to turn into a powerful ray of light that charged towards the indistinct, illusory figure before Su Ming.
They instantly crashed into each other, and as booming sounds reverberated in the air, Su Ming let go of Fang Cang Lan's hand with a grave expression on his face. The power of the Bone Sacrifice Realm erupted from his entire body, and he took a step towards the incoming illusory figure.
Almost the instant he took that step, Fang Cang Lan immediately sat down cross-legged by the side. She did not care about the dangers in this place, neither was she worried that Su Ming would be distracted. Instead, she closed her eyes, and after casting some unknown divine ability, she suddenly spoke.
"Thirty-two feet to the left, seventy-nine feet to the right, and two thousand eighty-four feet to the front, the dimensional boundary point!"
The instant Fang Cang Lan said those words, the eyes of the translucent figure charging towards Su Ming shone, and it looked straight towards Fang Cang Lan. Su Ming closed in on her in an instant, and as golden light shone around his body, he pressed his finger against the air thirty-two feet to the left of Fang Cang Lan. Instantly, cracking sounds reverberated in the air, and the translucent figure froze.
At the instant it froze, Su Ming turned his right hand into a palm and pushed it towards his right. A huge force surged into the seventy-nine feet to his right. Booming sounds reverberated in the air, and the cracking sounds rose up once again. The translucent figure let out a low growl and lifted its arm, as if it was forming a seal. It did not attack Su Ming, but instead pushed towards Fang Cang Lan through the air!
It was also at that moment that Su Ming clenched his left fist and rammed it against the third spot on the dimensional world boundary. It was two thousand and eighty-four feet in front of him. At the instant his fist landed, the area around the semi-transparent figure distorted, as if space itself had collapsed. A great suction force seemed to be tumbling backwards, causing the figure to be sucked into it and disappear without a trace.
However, even though he had disappeared, the killing intent from the palm strike he had sent toward Fang Cng Lan was still there, and it seemed that it was about to touch Fang Cng Lan.
With Fang Cang Lan's level of cultivation, it was impossible for her to dodge. She lifted her head and looked at Su Ming. There was a reluctance to part in her eyes, but she was smiling.
When he saw that he could not change anything, a focused look appeared in Su Ming's eyes. He lifted his left hand and pointed towards the sky, then pushed his right hand towards the ground.
"Past … Future …" As Su Ming mumbled softly, overlapping and intersecting with each other appeared on his body. The time around him looked as if it was flowing backwards. The entire world seemed to have frozen for an instant, and the palm seal pressing down on Fang Cng Lan also froze for an instant. It even started showing signs of moving backwards.
Without any hesitation, Su Ming took a step forward and warped to appear before Fang Cng Lan. When he lifted his right hand, the time around him instantly returned to normal. Everything in the area started circulating at a speed that was several times faster than before, as if it wanted to catch up to time.
The palm seal crashed into Su Ming's right hand. With a loud bang that shook the sky, the palm seal crumbled. Blood trickled out of the corners of Su Ming's mouth, but he continued standing there without moving, because behind him was Fang Cng Lan, the woman who had fallen into a life and death crisis because of him.
Fang Cng Lan stared at the back of the person before her in a daze, and the gentleness in her eyes grew stronger.
The palm seal disappeared, and everything in the air returned to normal. Strangely, the powerful ripples of power and the booming sounds that surged into the sky did not attract any attention from the other people in Southern Swamp Island. It was as if they did not hear or feel anything.
"It's this power, but it's a little more agile compared to last time …" Fang Cng Lan said softly. She stood up and went before Su Ming to wipe off the blood at the corners of his mouth.
Yet at the instant her hand touched Su Ming's blood, both Su Ming and Fang Cng Lan were stunned. The blood started rapidly decaying on Fang Cng Lan's finger, and in the blink of an eye, it turned black before turning into an aura of death that dissipated away.
Fang Cng Lan's eyes went wide. She did not know what had happened, but when she lifted her head to look at Su Ming, she saw a hint of grief in his eyes.
Her heart trembled. Just as she was about to ask something, Su Ming closed his eyes.
Su Ming was not unfamiliar with that semi-transparent figure. He could sense a hint of Di Tian's presence on it. However, that presence was incredibly faint, and it was as if it had blocked off an endless amount of space from coming towards him.
Fang Cng Lan had executed her divine ability just now to help Su Ming see through his memories at a deeper level, but in the end, she had still failed, and she had even attracted Di Tian's presence. If it was not because Su Ming was no longer the same as he was in the past, then Fang Cng Lan would have definitely died.
"Dimensional World Junctions. The three spots that connected the space in this place just now and allowed that semi-transparent figure to come here … Are they called Dimensional World Junctions?" Su Ming opened his eyes and looked towards Fang Cng Lan.
"How did you know?" he asked calmly.
"I … I don't know what's going on either. The instant I sensed that presence coming towards me, I saw these three spots around him, and he seemed to have used them to come here.
"The distance between him and those three spots will never change," Fang Cng Lan said softly. Confusion appeared in Fang Cang Lan's eyes as she spoke softly. She was still immersed in the scene of Su Ming's blood turning black and turning into the aura of death on her finger.
Su Ming's expression became even more complicated. The scene of his blood turning into the aura of death and the three dimensional world junctions Fang Cng Lan had mentioned kept appearing in his head.
After a long while, Fang Cng Lan looked at Su Ming and bit her bottom lip.
"Why did your blood turn like this when it was in my hands?"
"I'm tired, Cang Lan." Su Ming fell silent and sat down cross-legged on the ground, then slowly closed his eyes.
Fang Cng Lan stood by his side quietly for some time. In her anguish, she had a feeling that the Su Ming before her was different from how he was in the past. At that moment, his emotions kept changing, and he was sometimes cold, sometimes warm.
"All of this must be related to his blood turning into the aura of death in my hands. I will definitely know the reason behind this!" Determination appeared in Fang Cng Lan's eyes. She cast Su Ming a glance, then turned around and left.
Once she left, she could not hear Su Ming mumbling those words.
"Thank you, Cang Lan."
Based on Su Ming's plans, he was prepared to have Fang Cng Lan use her unique ability to look through the memories of Di Tian's servant he had captured, but the scene just then had made him temporarily give up on that thought.
It was very easy for accidents to happen. If he lured the semi-transparent figure with a hint of Di Tian's presence over, then Su Ming knew that with his current level of cultivation, it would be difficult for him to protect Fang Cng Lan once that person was prepared for it.
He sat there quietly and watched the sky gradually turn from light to darkness, then watched the darkness slowly fade away to reveal the arrival of a new day. During the past few days, the people on the island had been continuously strengthening the Runes under Zong Ze's arrangements in an attempt to make the island sink to the bottom of the sea once again. It was not impossible, but they needed some time.
Su Ming was not worried about Fang Cng Lan. She had changed greatly, and the feeling she gave Su Ming was different from the one in the past. It did not matter whether it was her intelligence or her resolution, all of them were enough for her to protect herself with her strange divine abilities, even if her level of cultivation was not high.
After all, this was a woman who dared to kill a Berserker in the middle stage of the Berserker Soul Realm when she was only in the Bone Sacrifice Realm. Su Ming would not underestimate this sort of person.
Besides …
"You're different. You're the first time I've seen someone like you. Just how many of these continents in the land of Berserkers are there..?" Su Ming mumbled. At the instant his blood turned into the aura of death on Fang Cng Lan's hand, Su Ming remembered how he had flown out of the vortex with the ancient bronze sword from True Sacred Yin World. At the instant he saw the galaxy, he remembered how his entire body had been drowned in a thick aura of death.
That feeling was similar to how it looked on Fang Cng Lan's finger when it shrank several times and turned into a drop of blood.
"Thirty-two feet, seventy-nine feet, two hundred and forty-eight feet …" Su Ming looked at the interface between the sky and the sea in the distance and mumbled. His expression became even more complicated, and nostalgia appeared in his eyes as he thought about the three so-called dimensional coordinates.
When Fang Cng Lan mentioned the three coordinates, Su Ming did not think too much about it, but once his blood turned into the aura of death, he was shocked, and the three numbers continued appearing in his head.
He had a vague feeling that the three coordinates were very, very familiar … That familiarity was a feeling that was carved into his soul, that was etched deep into his bones, and that he would never be able to forget.
"If there's a fourth dimensional coordinate, then is it 3,771 feet … If there's a fifth, is it 5,663 feet … If there's a sixth dimensional coordinate, then is it 7,800 feet..?" Su Ming mumbled softly to himself in anguish. There was no way he could forget those six numbers. There was no way he would not be familiar with them!
"Thirty-two, 79, 248, 371, 563, 781 … Elder, just what are you trying to tell me? You told me these six numbers when we were at the steps leading to the sacred mountain in Wind Stream Tribe. They're numbers I've always remembered. I originally thought they were just places for people to rest, but only now do I know that they … aren't." Su Ming closed his eyes, and tears fell down his cheeks.
"Elder … are you … really the elder of Dark Mountain Tribe? Are you really the elder who raised me since I was young? Are you really the elder who taught me how to be a person? Are you really the elder who taught me how to be cautious, how to think, and how to kill?
"Elder, who … are you?" More tears streamed down Su Ming's cheeks.
"Elder, is Dark Mountain real? Bei Ling, Lei Chen, Wu La, Bai Ling … Are all of them real?" Su Ming opened his eyes and looked at the sky and sea. He continued looking at it until his tears dried up, until a thick wave of sadness appeared on his body, until he stood up and did not see the girl who had been watching him for the past few days on the mountain in the distance.
Then, he took a step toward the sky.
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