The black wooden block floated before Su Ming and let out a dark light. Su Ming's gaze fell on Bai Su's father's body, and as he looked at his lifeless body, a dazed smile appeared on his face.
Su Ming was originally not someone who would believe in anything easily, but at that moment, Bai Su's father's words appeared in his head. As he looked at his dead body, all of this made him doubt Life Arts.
'Life …' Su Ming closed his eyes, and when he opened them after some time, he looked at the black wooden block before him. He lifted his right hand swiftly and seized the wooden block. A strange light appeared in his eyes. The instant he touched the wooden block, Su Ming felt as if he could vaguely see all manner of lives growing old, falling sick, and dying before his eyes …
The unfamiliar faces and unfamiliar voices eventually turned into a gigantic smiling face. However, there were tears falling from that smiling face, and it swiftly charged towards Su Ming, causing his heart to tremble. At the same time, the dazed state before his eyes disappeared, and everything returned to normal.
Bai Su's father's corpse was still sitting there. It was still dark around him, and the occasional sound of the waves from the sea in the distance fused together with the relative silence.
However, Su Ming could not calm his heart, because in the depths of his heart, the muffled voice that echoed in the air the instant the tearful smiling face rushed towards him.
"What is Life?"
This was a question. That voice did not sound like it was asking someone else, but was asking itself as it gained some sort of epiphany. Due to that unique ripple, that epiphany filled the black wooden block, and it was precisely because of that epiphany that gathered together that the black wooden block became extraordinary!
This was a question Su Ming had asked himself when he possessed a hint of Life Cultivation's presence. However, at that time, he had asked himself that question with uncertainty and bewilderment.
Right now, the muffled voice that came from the black wooden block was a question that contained a hint of nostalgia and a hint of sentimentality after it had gained an epiphany.
The words were the same, but the meaning was incredibly different.
Su Ming opened his mouth, but he forgot the answer. He could not answer the question, because he was even more lost.
What is Life..? Su Ming fell silent. He suddenly felt that the epiphany that had appeared in some of his previous thoughts seemed a little insignificant now.
The three words that came out of the black wooden block seemed to be a question to itself, but in truth, the feeling that existed within those three words was clearly an expression of comprehension.
'The ancestor of the Bai family practiced cultivation because of the Life Scroll, and he gained a deep understanding towards it, allowing him to understand the Heavenly Art of Life … Perhaps all of this is because of these three words!' Su Ming closed his eyes, and the words' Life 'continuously appeared in his head.
These three words were filled with the vicissitudes of time, and they contained boundless wisdom and emotion. Anyone who heard them would feel their hearts sink into a trance, and even their consciousness would sink into it.
Su Ming sat on the mountain rock with his eyes closed. As the voice echoed in his head, he did not want to wake up.
Time passed slowly. When the morning of the second day arrived, the thick clouds in the distance began to emit a halo of light, causing the sea and the sky to become slightly brighter. The surrounding darkness was slowly covered up.
Su Ming did not wake up. He continued sitting there, trying to understand and think quietly, forgetting about the passage of time.
Hu Zi finally woke up three days later. He yawned, looking as if he was still slightly sleepy. When he opened his eyes and saw the bald crane, he was momentarily stunned before he fell into a daze.
The bald crane was also looking at Hu Zi at that moment. The man and crane stared at each other for some time, and the bald crane suddenly noticed that the man before it seemed to be a little silly …
Hence, a thought appeared in its head, and with a solemn expression, it spoke languidly.
"You've finally woken up. I've been waiting for you for many years. Do you know just how much effort I've spent to make you wake up, boy …?" The bald crane's voice was languid, and there was an awe-inspiring tone to it. Yet almost at the moment that awe-inspiring tone appeared, Hu Zi glared at it and lifted his hand to slap the bald crane. That slap was incredibly sudden, and the bald crane did not notice it at all. It was even confused by Hu Zi's expression. When that slap landed on its face, its entire body was instantly swept up by a huge force and sent flying to the side.
"Darn it all, I'm the smartest person in the ninth summit! How dare you try to fool me?!" Hu Zi glared at it and rolled up his sleeves, stood up, and roared at the bald crane.
"I was wondering why I kept feeling as if someone was tickling me when I was sleeping. So it's you, you bald crane! I'm going to strangle you to death!" As Hu Zi spoke, he flew into a rage and took huge strides towards the bald crane, who had nearly been dazed by the slap.
When the bald crane saw Hu Zi walking towards it in anger, it immediately screeched and flew into a rage. The few feathers on its body all stood up at that moment, and it even flapped its wings a few times.
"Ah, how dare you treat me like this, boy?! If you don't give me ten thousand crystals, then even if that boy Su is around, I will still not let you off!" As it spoke, the bald crane flapped its wings like a chick. By the looks of it, it did not want to get close to Hu Zi, but wanted to leave the cave abode.
Hu Zi's expression was one of disdain. When he lifted his right hand, a crystal immediately appeared on his palm, and he threw it towards the ground. The sound of the crystal falling on the ground was incredibly clear. The bald crane was retreating, and when it heard that sound, it almost instinctively pounced on the crystal on the ground. There was not a hint of hesitation in this action, and it was a completely instinctive action.
Yet the instant it pounced on the crystal, Hu Zi had already lifted his right fist and rammed it into the bald crane's body.
"You little brat, I've been doing this since I was three years old! How dare you try to play tricks on me?!"
Ignoring Hu Zi and the bald crane for the time being, Bai Su calmly took away her father's corpse on the third day after Su Ming immersed himself in his attempt to gain his epiphany. She seemed to have known that this would happen, and there was no surprise on her face. However, there was grief on her face, and tears that she could not hide no matter what.
Some of the people who sought refuge in the ninth summit chose to leave in the following days. Before they left, they cast a glance towards the spot where Su Ming had isolated himself to meditate, and with respect in their hearts, they left the ninth summit to search for their homes that might have been submerged or might still exist.
The Berserker Threads on these people's bodies did not disappear. Instead, once they lost their lives, they remained deep within their bodies, and as they left, they were taken away.
The people who chose to continue staying in the ninth summit were led by the old man in white, the Lord of Heaven Gate. They stayed quietly at the center of the ninth summit. They no longer had a home, and neither did they know where they should go. This place was their only home.
Once Hu Zi understood what had happened in Heaven Gate over the past few days, the shock in his heart turned into a silly grin, and eventually, it turned into a smug look.
The ninth summit belonged to Su Ming and Hu Zi. In this place, he was the master, and the others were just guests. Due to Su Ming's existence, all the people who chose to stay in the ninth summit were incredibly polite to Hu Zi and did not dare offend him. Even the Lord of Heaven Gate, the old man in white, was the same.
As for the bald crane, it glared at Hu Zi all day long, but every single time it saw Hu Zi toss out a crystal, it would immediately smile and charge towards the crystal. However …
There was one time when Hu Zi tossed out a crystal he had researched many years ago. It looked like a crystal, and its presence was also incredibly similar, but it was not a crystal. Instead, it was a stone that had been solidified from waste crystal powder. The bald crane pounced on it, as usual. In fact, it did not even notice it, and Hu Zi despised the bald crane in his heart.
'What an idiot! I'm still the smarter one!'
'Heh heh, do you really think that I don't know what a fake crystal is? But even if it's a fake crystal, I can still use it to fool others. Why wouldn't I want it?'
Just like that, the man and the crane played around happily on the ninth summit as Su Ming immersed himself in trying to gain his epiphany.
Besides Hu Zi, there was another transcendent existence on the ninth summit, and that was Bai Su. The matter between Bai Su and Su Ming was not a secret in Heaven Gate all those years ago. Quite a number of people had seen through it, and in many people's eyes, he could be considered as half the master of the ninth summit.
Time passed by. When a month went by, Su Ming still did not wake up. He was still immersed in his epiphany, lingering on the tone contained within the words' Life '.
He was trying to find the person who had said those three words in the past and Branded them on the black wooden piece of Life Scroll. He wanted to know what sort of epiphany had caused him to say those words with a myriad of emotions in his heart.
The ancestor of the Bai Family had also walked down Su Ming's current path. With his continuous epiphany, he had obtained that powerful level of cultivation and became one of the founders of Freezing Sky Clan.
At that moment, Su Ming had also taken his first step down this path.
However, the epiphany varied from person to person. It was the same sentence and the same tone, but different people would gain different things when they tried to understand it.
As Su Ming immersed himself in his epiphany, as the other people who chose to stay in the ninth summit remained calm, as Hu Zi played with the bald crane, and as Bai Su stood quietly at the top of the mountain with her black hair lifted by the wind to reveal her beautiful figure, this quiet scene happened beyond the protective screen of light at the edge of the gigantic island where Freezing Sky Clan was located …
The Dead Sea roared and raging waves surged about. Hundreds of gigantic heads popped up from the surface of the sea, and their eyes shone with an aloof, dark light. They stared at the protective screen of light and continued closing in.
Further in the distance, as the surface of the sea tumbled about, Aquatic Dragons could be seen occasionally revealing their gigantic bodies. As their roars reverberated in the air, at the furthest spot on the Dead Sea … a gigantic ship that was one hundred thousand feet long appeared!
Standing at the bow of that ship was a tall and slender figure. His face could not be seen clearly, but his merciless and arrogant eyes could be seen. As they shone, they were like dazzling stars!
There was a woman accompanying him. That woman's hair danced in the sea breeze, and she looked incredibly elegant.
The woman looked at the island behind the protective screen of light and asked softly, "Big brother Beiling, is this Freezing Sky Clan of the Berserkers' Land of South Morning?"
I rushed home through the night on the highway. I estimated that I would only reach home around 11 at night. I'm in the service area right now. My phone has 3G signal, so I'll update this chapter.
I'll explode tomorrow!
Thank you, Union Head, thank you, my fellow Daoists, thank you for your understanding. I won't disappoint you! (To be continued. If you like this work, please come to Qidian.Com to vote for me. Your support is my greatest motivation.)
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