Half a month later, Su Ming opened his eyes, and a hint of fatigue appeared in them. He stared at the tall mountain, the river in the sky, and the desert on the ground. He … could not understand the hint of meaning that existed between the mountains, rivers, and the yellow sand, and the meaning of Life.
Su Ming stood up quietly and walked slowly in the direction he had come from. When he returned, everything was as usual. He walked past the mountain and arrived at the spot where he had stepped out previously. That was the center of the ninth layer, the place where he could leave this place.
Su Ming sighed in his heart as he stood at the center of the ninth layer. He did not have enough time to gain an epiphany in this place. He still had many things he needed to do. He had to suppress the killing sword as soon as possible, walk out of Eastern Wastelands Tower, check on his eldest senior brother, search for his second senior brother, search for his Master, and fulfill his oath to the God of Berserkers and lead the Berserkers to destroy all the Immortals in the land of Berserkers.
Time was of the essence. The Immortals might descend at any moment.
As he sighed, Su Ming stood at the center of the ninth layer and spread his Atman outwards to fuse with the area around him. Golden light filled the area under his feet and surrounded him, gradually becoming stronger. When it was about to bring Su Ming back to the first layer, he turned his head around with great reluctance and cast a glance at the tall mountain in the ninth layer.
His body gradually became indistinct, and at the instant he was about to disappear, Su Ming turned his head back to look. Perhaps it was due to the golden light filling the area and the Relocation Rune causing his vision to distort, but when he turned his head back, a scene that made his heart roar, as if a bolt of lightning had sliced through his head, suddenly made him understand something!
The first thing he saw when he turned his head back was the towering mountain. When he looked at it the second time, due to the golden light filling the area, the mountain had become indistinct in his eyes. When he looked at it the third time, due to the Relocation Rune activating, the mountain had become distorted in his eyes.
When he looked at it the fourth time, which was also the last time he saw it before he left, the mountain … was no longer there!
It had disappeared, as if the mountain had never existed. Su Ming's gaze pierced through the mountain and saw the complete river in the sky behind it, which he had not been able to see previously!
There was no mistaking it. Su Ming remembered clearly that when he stood at this place, a small part of the river in the sky had been covered by the mountain. It had definitely not been complete, but now … the river in the sky was complete. The mountain had disappeared from Su Ming's sight.
Su Ming's heart roared, and a vague form of epiphany rose in his heart. His body had already started disappearing along with the Relocation, but at the instant he disappeared, he lifted his right hand and pushed it against the ground. With it, the ground trembled, and the Relocation came to a halt.
At the instant he came to a halt, Su Ming rushed out. As he disappeared, he charged forward. At the instant he stepped out of the Relocation area, his body gained corporeal form, and he stood on the desert.
He gave up on leaving. Once he stood outside the Relocation Rune, he stared at the river in the sky that no longer had the mountain. The circulation of the river in the sky became even clearer, and when it became so clear that it could no longer be seen, a bang rang out in Su Ming's mind, and the river in the sky … disappeared from his eyes.
There were no mountains or rivers in the sky!
An epiphany rose in Su Ming's heart. His cultivation base circulated with a bang, and he immediately reached the peak of the initial stage of Life Matrix. In fact, he was already not too far away from the middle stage of Life Matrix.
'I understand now … The mountain is still there, and so is the river. They are in my eyes, but not in my heart!
'If there is a mountain in my heart, then the mountain will be there. If there is a river in my heart, then the river will be there … That's why the mountain has no peak, and the river has no end … It's my heart that affects my eyes!
'My Life Matrix is moving from death to life, from winter to spring. It's the same for my heart. Because I'm in death, because I'm in winter, my heart is silent.
'My heart affects my soul and my eyes, or perhaps they are affecting each other. That's why I couldn't see through all of this before, because my heart was dead … but the instant I left just now, the Rune distorted and the golden light enveloped me, allowing me to see something I could not see in the past.
'I understand now. To move from death to life, from winter to spring, the first step is for my heart to contain intelligence and wake up from its deathly stillness. Only then will I be able to see autumn!
'Intelligence … Intelligence … How can I make my heart become intelligent..?' Su Ming mumbled to himself as he stood there, as if he had gone mad. A large amount of blood capillaries instantly filled his eyes. He stared at the sky, and even though he could no longer see the mountains and rivers, he still did not want to blink. This state was incredibly precious to him, and Su Ming was afraid that if he blinked, he would wake up from this epiphany.
'If my heart can affect my eyes, then … my eyes can definitely affect my heart as well. If I want my heart and soul to become intelligent from their deathly stillness, then my eyes can do it.
'Moving from winter to autumn is a process. The color of autumn is red … The color of blood is also red … Let the world be dyed red, let the world be dyed in blood. When everything I see is red, my eyes can affect my heart and make my heart and soul become intelligent. This will be the autumn of my life!' Su Ming lowered his head swiftly and looked at the barren sand on the ground. The grains of sand were there, and when they landed in Su Ming's eyes, he laughed loudly.
'The mountains and rivers are in my heart. As for this desert … it's formed by an endless amount of sand. Each grain of sand represents a life, and each life represents a cycle of spring, summer, autumn, and winter … That's why my thoughts aren't wrong.' Birth represents spring, growth represents summer, blood represents autumn before death, and death is midwinter!
'Ninth layer, open!' Su Ming let out a long string of laughter and swung his arm. As the entire ninth layer trembled with a loud bang, he no longer cast a single glance at the mountains, rivers, and desert. He turned around and took a step into the center of the ninth layer. As golden light shone, he disappeared into the Relocation Rune.
When Su Ming disappeared, the mountains, rivers, and desert in the ninth layer trembled violently. They did not immediately shatter like they had in the previous eight layers every time Su Ming gained an epiphany. Instead, they seemed to be hesitating about something, as if Su Ming's epiphany … was not the will contained in the ninth layer.
Even the first God of Berserkers, Lie Shan Xiu, who had created Eastern Wastelands Tower in the past, had not expected this. He had set up a mountain, a river, and a desert in the ninth layer of Eastern Wastelands Tower because once he gained an epiphany towards the Immortals' Concepts, he had never copied them for his descendants.
In Lie Shan Xiu's eyes, there was only one true answer to the mountains, rivers, and desert.
A mountain was a mountain, a mountain was not a mountain, and a mountain was still a mountain.
A river was a river, a river was not a river, and a river was still a river.
This answer was a general outline of Concepts in the Immortals' cultivation system. It was a law that changed a person's consciousness. Even Lie Shan Xiu agreed with it. Once he gained an epiphany in the past, his epiphany towards it had been incredibly deep.
As for the desert, it was a barren veil formed by an endless amount of sand. Lie Shan Xiu wanted the others to understand that each grain of sand was a world, and that the entire world was formed in this manner.
However … the answer and epiphany Su Ming obtained in the ninth layer was completely different from what Lie Shan Xiu wanted the others to understand. They might not be completely different, but they were still two completely different types of epiphanies that originated from the same source.
That was why hesitation appeared in the ninth layer. That hesitation symbolized two different types of epiphanies crashing into each other. One of them was the Immortals' Will, which was Lie Shan Xiu's will, and the other was the epiphany born from Su Ming. If he failed to clear these two epiphanies, then he would not be considered to have cleared the ninth layer, and the ninth layer would not shatter either. It would return to normal.
But if Su Ming won with his epiphany, then the ninth layer would shatter.
The hesitation appeared in the ninth breath, and the entire ninth layer crumbled with a bang. It shattered and disappeared, just like how it had happened when someone cleared the eighth layer. As it shattered, Su Ming's epiphany replaced the ninth layer's original meaning. At the same time, the entire Eastern Wastelands Tower shuddered a few times. Another light ring appeared in the world outside, and it spread out with a bang in all directions from Eastern Wastelands Tower.
The ninth light ring … was blood-red in color!
Its original color should have been white. It symbolized the purification and epiphany of a person's mind, the indifference and detachment after seeing through everything. Yet now, the blood-red light brought with it a murderous aura that surged into the sky. At the instant it reverberated through the entire Eastern Wastelands Tower, all the Berserkers who saw the ninth light ring felt the murderous aura in their blood ignite.
An endless amount of long arcs charged through the sky and earth towards Eastern Wastelands Tower. Quite a number of those who had been rather close to the tower had already arrived. They knelt down and worshiped the blood-red light around Eastern Wastelands Tower. Zealousness and respect appeared on their faces as they waited for their God of Berserkers to walk out of Eastern Wastelands Tower and lead them … to dye the land of Immortals with blood!
It was especially so for the Fated Kin. They had arrived a long time ago and were kneeling down on the ground by the side of Eastern Wastelands Tower. The zealousness on their faces far surpassed that of the Berserkers. The other Berserkers were fanatical because of their blood and their God of Berserkers, but they … were fanatical because of Respected Senior Mo and Su Ming.
It was different. It was absolutely not the same!
Nan Gong Hen was right in front. He looked at Eastern Wastelands Tower, and his eyes were calm. However, hidden under that calmness was a volcano about to erupt. He was waiting for Su Ming to walk out, waiting for him to bring the Fated Kin and shake the galaxy.
As the Berserkers charged towards Eastern Wastelands, the Immortal sects in Eastern Wastelands sealed their sects. The Immortals within them could also sense the rippling light rings in the sky, especially the ninth blood-red light ring. The murderous aura and madness exuding from it was enough to make the hearts of all Immortals tremble.
As the nine light rings spread out from Eastern Wastelands Tower, they covered the entire Eastern Wastelands, the Dead Sea, the Alliance of the Western Region, and the Northern Province.
The Immortal sects were not limited to Eastern Wastelands. There were also Immortal sects in the Alliance of the Western Region and the Northern Province, which worshiped the Fallen Berserkers. At the same time the nine light rings spread through the entire land of Berserkers, the hearts of all the Immortals in the Alliance of the Western Region and the Northern Province trembled. They could sense the madness within the ninth blood-red light ring that wanted to dye the world red with blood.
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