The sky in the third layer was red.
The sky looked as if it had been dyed in blood, causing the ground to also look like a sea of blood.
There were thousands of men standing in that sea of blood. All of them lifted their heads and looked at Su Ming quietly. At the center of them, as the sea of blood tumbled about, stood an old man whose face was covered in wrinkles.
He looked at Su Ming, and Su Ming also looked at them.
"Si Ma, you planted a Berserker Seed in our tribe. If I cut off one of your arms, we will regain our freedom." The old man in the sea of blood was dressed in a long blood-red robe. He looked at Su Ming, and his voice was hoarse, but it spread through the entire area.
Su Ming remained silent. He did not speak.
"But why must we do this? We've already been humiliated to the extreme, and we have no future. If we can only obtain our freedom based on Si Ma's will, then … we don't need this freedom!
"The only thing we can control now is our will. We can control the right to die!" The old man in blood-red robes laughed loudly, and there was an ancient air to his laughter.
"Lad, remember our tribe's name. Blood Absconsion Tribe. With our legacy, if you kill Si Ma Xin, help us find a way to continue living in the world outside!
"There will definitely be members of our tribe who are still alive outside. There will forever be a brand of blood at the center of our brows!" As the old man spoke, a crimson drop of blood appeared at the center of his brows. He was not the only one. All the people in the sea of blood had the same drop of blood.
"We have no children, no women, because if they continue living, they will not be the only ones who will suffer, we will suffer as well … I don't want a Berserker Seed to be planted in a newborn baby. I don't want the women in my tribe to see the red veins in their husbands' eyes. I don't want the warriors in my tribe to see their women being unable to protect them and having to endure that unimaginable darkness …
"Lad, accept our tribe's legacy. I, Xue Lun Hai, will give you a serendipity. I will help you … kill Si Ma Xin!"
As the old man in blood-red robes' voice echoed in the air, he sat down cross-legged in the sea of blood. All the people who sat down with him were Blood Absconsion Tribe. Not a single one of them refused the offer. In all of their eyes was a fearlessness towards death and a deep hatred towards Si Ma Xin.
At the instant all of them sat down in the sea of blood, Su Ming saw with his own eyes all the Blood Absconsion Tribe members melting and fusing with the sea of blood.
The old man was the last to melt, and before he did so, he said the final words of his life.
"Kill him!"
The instant he said those words, the old man's body melted and became a part of the sea of blood. At the same time, the sea of blood tumbled about with a bang and erupted as the clouds surged, turning into a blood rain that rushed from the ground to the sky, straight towards Su Ming!
Not a hint of danger could be sensed from that blood rain. Instead, it exuded a persistent will. When it closed in on Su Ming, it turned into a gigantic blood-red ball that enveloped him within.
As a large amount of blood rain descended, when the sea of blood rose from the ground, the blood-colored sphere in the sky trembled like a beating heart!
That heart came from Blood Absconsion Tribe. It came from the Berserker Seed planted in them by Si Ma Xin. They could not control life, but they could control death!
Su Ming sat down and meditated in the ball of blood. Grief appeared on his face, and his heart trembled. That shock came from Shepherd Tower Tribe's Elder's sacrifice and the determination of the entire Blood Absconsion Tribe.
This was also a form of resistance against fate, just like the Fated Kin. Perhaps more accurately speaking, the Fated Kin was not a race. All of them could become a Fated Kin, as long as they desired to control their own fate, as long as they were willing to take that first step despite their unwillingness to give up!
All of them were Fated Kin, and all of them were Fated Kin!
Su Ming's mind was clear. At that moment, he had gained a deeper understanding towards fate.
'What … is Fate? It is life, because it is a form of inheritance of life.
'It is also Fate, because if there is no Fate in the inheritance of life, then it will not be complete …
'Fate, life, fate. A person is born with Fate, but fate is something that can only be fought for and controlled after birth …
'The word' Fate 'has a person above it, the sky above it, and the sky below it … Can I become a person if I knock down the sky?' Su Ming mumbled to himself in the ball of blood, and at that moment, he opened his eyes.
'Knocking down the sky to become a person is Fate. Then, if I knock down the sky to become a person, I can also call myself Fate! ' Su Ming closed his eyes. At the instant he did so, the fragment formed by the power of the One World that the Candle Dragon had blessed him with only existed in Su Ming's body, but there had never been anything strange about it.
Yet now … the fragment shuddered. Its edges looked as if they were melting, and a small part of it fused into Su Ming's body. At the same time, the ball of blood around Su Ming's body shrank swiftly and covered his entire body.
Waves of life force and the power of the world spread out from within the ball of blood, along with the struggle and resistance towards fate. They continuously fused into Su Ming's body.
This was the serendipity the old Blood Absconsion Tribe had mentioned!
This ball of blood was formed from the essence of their entire race. It was the accumulation of their entire race's fate, and they were giving it to Su Ming. At the instant the power within the ball of blood surged into Su Ming's body, his flesh, blood, and bones immediately started absorbing it.
He needed this quintessential power. He needed this power that contained the struggle of fate and will, because this power was the source that would allow his Berserker Bones to continue growing stronger!
At that moment, Su Ming's will was immersed in his epiphany towards Life. As he continued gaining an epiphany and as the fragments of the power of one World melted, Su Ming looked as if he had ascended to a higher level. A hint of … the presence of Life Cultivation spread out from his body!
As the ball of blood rapidly shrank, booming sounds came from Su Ming's body. A powerful force filled his body, and a seventh of his Berserker Bones had already turned into that of a Berserker. At that moment, under the legacy of the Blood Absconsion Tribe, they were slowly increasing!
'Once I reach the Berserker Soul Realm, my blood will change. My blood, bones, and soul will all be cultivated to perfection. It will be as if everything inside and out has been perfected. Right now, I'm not cultivating my own body, but my Life Matrix!
To break through one's fate and find the path that one lacks, this is Fated Lack!
'To know one's own flaws is to know the regrets of the world, to understand the changes in the world. This is Life Palace!
Divine Master's Life Palace shines with an endless brilliance. It can attract the power of the World Plane. This is World of Life!
Life Matrix, Fated Lack, Life Palace, and World of Life. This is the path of Life Cultivation after the Berserker Soul Realm. If you step into the path of Life Cultivation! ' As Su Ming gained an epiphany towards Life, the third God of Berserkers' ancient voice from the World of Nine Yin appeared in his head.
"Those who seek after Life Cultivation will only have one Life in the future! "The first stage of Life Cultivation is Life Matrix, but what is Life Matrix..?" Su Ming closed his eyes. As the ball of blood continued shrinking, a large amount of essence fused into his body. Once it fused with his Berserker Bones, it gradually caused Su Ming's level of cultivation to continuously increase, and he started moving towards the state where eight-tenths of his blood, flesh, tendons, and bones had turned into that of a Berserker.
"Life Matrix … What is Life Matrix..?" An endless amount of voices appeared in Su Ming's head, repeating these words over and over again. With his current level of cultivation, he might be equivalent to a Berserker in the later stage of the Berserker Soul Realm, but in truth, he was still in the Bone Sacrifice Realm!
However, he was a Berserker who had turned all his blood, flesh, tendons, and bones into a Berserker, and he was the strongest Bone Sacrifice Realm Berserker in the world! Yet even so, he had not reached the stage where he could start cultivating Life Cultivation, because he still did not have his own statue of the God of Berserkers!
At that moment, he had a strong feeling that if there came a day when he understood what Life Matrix was and reached the Berserker Soul Realm, then a path would appear before him that no one else would be able to reach even if they spent their entire lives trying!
This was the path of Life Cultivation!
As Su Ming was immersed in his thoughts and understanding, the ball of blood around his body started shrinking rapidly. After a moment, the ball of blood completely disappeared, as if it had completely fused into Su Ming's body.
A red flush appeared on Su Ming's face. For the first time since he was in Heaven Gate … no aura of death spread out from his body. Even though it only lasted for the span of a few breaths, the aura of death soon surrounded him once more. However, once Su Ming noticed it, his eyes flew open.
'If I can extend the span of those few breaths endlessly, then … perhaps I can find a way to leave Yin Death Region that everyone speaks of!'
At the instant Su Ming opened his eyes, his cultivation base erupted from his body with a bang. In an instant, the third layer of Heaven Gate started trembling furiously, and layers of ripples started tumbling outwards from Su Ming.
Nearly eight-tenths of his blood, flesh, tendons, and bones had completely turned into those of a Berserker, and he was not far away from attaining great completion that belonged solely to him!
'I wonder … what sort of level I will reach if all my Berserker Bones attain great completion and I succeed in reaching the Berserker Soul Realm and understand what Life Matrix is..?' A glint appeared in Su Ming's eyes. He lifted his right hand and pushed against the sky that was filled with ripples.
With it, the entire sky of the third layer started trembling furiously. Layers of ripples started rotating at an increasingly faster speed, as if they contained a power that could tear through the sky. As they continued rotating, the sky was torn apart, turning into a vortex that led to the fourth layer!
Su Ming lifted his head. A presence that was different from before he stepped into Heaven Gate had appeared on his body. That presence was a hint of desire towards Life Cultivation, a hint of the power of Life Cultivation that he had obtained after he gained an epiphany!
There was also an even stronger presence that appeared when he lifted his hand once he had turned into a Berserker Soul Realm!
'Understanding what Life Matrix is and stepping into the Berserker Soul Realm. No matter which of these two things I do first, my combat abilities will increase by leaps and bounds!' Su Ming took a step forward, and the world rumbled as he walked into the vortex that led to the fourth layer.
His desire to kill Si Ma Xin had never been extinguished. His determination to kill Si Ma Xin had never lessened. As Su Ming stepped into the fourth layer, that killing intent grew stronger!
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