A red snowflake fell on Chenxin's face. It did not melt, but there was a hint of cold in it. It was just like Su Ming's words. There was an unfamiliar presence in the gentleness of his words, and they fell into Chenxin's ears and entered her heart.
There was still blood at the corners of Chenxin's mouth. The red of that blood was the same as the color of the snowflake on her face, causing others to be unable to tell whether it was blood or snow.
Perhaps, there was a reason why the word 'snow' was similar to 'blood' in terms of rhythm.
"There is no why … If there is, then you are Su Ming. You are … the Su Ming who grew up with me." Chenxin wiped off the blood at the corners of her mouth and looked at Su Ming. The complicated look on her face disappeared, replaced by a gentle smile.
Su Ming was silent. When he lifted his right hand, the killing sword in his hand shuddered in excitement. He swung it at the sky, and blood-red light shone. It was as if a blood-red bolt of lightning had been born out of nowhere in the world. It charged towards the sword descending from midair with a howl.
A sound shook the area and formed a circular wave of impact. It instantly rose into the air above Su Ming, and the descending sword was torn to shreds. The wave of air that was stirred up formed a ring, as if it wanted to draw a boundary between the sky and earth.
"Thank you," Su Ming said softly.
"Su Ming, everything in Dark Mountain was an illusion … but there was also reality. Lei Chen was real, and so was the elder … and Bai Ling … she also had a real side to her." Chenxin looked at Su Ming. She could feel that if a person's past was fake, then that feeling of unreality would come crashing down like a tidal wave and drown the person. It would make the person question everything, and they might not even know what was real.
"You killed Beiling. The prodigies from the other sects and clans who had fused with Dark Mountain and grew up with you must have died … but Su Ming, what they lost was just a Divine Clone.
"What happened in Dark Mountain is something that happened a long, long time ago. In the past, once we woke up from that cycle of life and death, we obtained quite a lot of serendipities and epiphanies, and we became the true prodigies of our respective sects and clans.
"Right now, the ones you killed in the land of Berserkers were Divine Clones that had to exist to maintain your cycles of life and death. They … are in the Immortals' sects and clans, and they did not die." Chenxin looked at Su Ming and told him the truth.
"Then … what about you?" Su Ming asked flatly.
"I am also a part of my soul. I can feel the consciousness of the original body. The moment I saw you, I could feel my own complexity and … nostalgia." Chen Xin shook her head bitterly.
"I've been practicing cultivation since I was young, and over the years, the most colorful memories in my life are the things that happened when I was in Dark Mountain. I truly hope … that I can never wake up in that cycle of reincarnation. I want to … stay in Dark Mountain forever …" Chenxin's face was pale. In the midst of her anguish, she mumbled, as if she was not talking to Su Ming, but was mumbling to herself, something she had suppressed for a long time.
As Chenxin mumbled under her breath, the near ten thousand Great Leaf Immortal Sect disciples in the sky swiftly changed their positions. As they intersected with each other, they gave others the feeling that the Sword Rune in the sky had changed once again. A sword aura that was much stronger than before gathered together with a bang and charged towards Su Ming in the sky.
"Su Ming … some of us chose to forget about you, but there are still some … who still remember you. They remember Dark Mountain, and they remember growing up together in the cycle of life and death.
"Dark Mountain has already become a thing of the past, but it … is in your heart, and it is also in our hearts." Chenxin lifted her right hand. At the instant she said these words, more blood trickled out of the corners of her mouth. Her face started rapidly withering away, and cracks gradually appeared on it.
Chenxin's words echoed in the air. When Su Ming looked over, he saw Chenxin rapidly disappearing. At that moment, her body was like ashes.
"This Divine Clone of mine went against my oath and told you too many truths in the land of Berserkers. This is the punishment of my oath. My Divine Clone's soul disintegrated, but they can't control my real self. Su Ming … don't blame Beiling … He … is no longer him …" Chenxin said softly and closed her eyes. Her body turned into ashes and disappeared from the world.
Su Ming fell silent. As a slightly complicated expression appeared on his face, the sword above him charged forward and rammed into his body, but at the instant the sword aura closed in on him, Su Ming lifted his left hand and seized the air in the direction of the sword aura. With a loud bang, the sword aura shattered. With Su Ming as the center, a large area of the mountain rocks under his feet shattered. It was as if a windstorm that could shatter a mountain had swept through the area, and in the midst of an even more intense bang, the half of the mountain under Su Ming's feet completely crumbled.
As the mountain was torn to pieces, Su Ming lowered his head and looked at the sword in his hand. It was crimson red and covered in blood. He looked at his robes and his hands. In fact, he could even sense the countless shrill, vengeful souls around him.
All of them were the Immortals who had died in his hands.
A deep wave of fatigue rose in Su Ming's heart once again. This was not the first time he had felt this sort of fatigue over the years, but this time, it was stronger than before.
Su Ming wanted to close his eyes, but he could not. His expression also changed drastically during that instant. The fatigue in his eyes disappeared, and his breathing quickened, because …
At the instant the mountain was torn to pieces, he sensed … his second senior brother's presence!
Without a hint of hesitation, Su Ming lifted his left hand and formed a seal before he swung his arm forward. With it, a violent gust of wind howled and swept up all the shattered stones in the area. In an instant, all the dust that had appeared due to the collapse of the mountain was blown away, and the ground was clearly revealed.
This was the land where Great Leaf Immortal Sect's mountain was originally located. At that moment, there was a ball of light that was several dozens of feet big on the ground.
The ball of light flickered with a dazzling five-colored light, and there was a light mist around its edges. Inside the ball of light, there was a black, distorted figure. The figure's appearance couldn't be seen clearly because it no longer had a face. It was completely a black shadow formed by a wisp of black Qi.
There were six gigantic chains inside and outside the ball of light. These six chains pierced through the ball of light and were connected to the black shadow, as if they had fused into his soul, as if they were sealing him.
The other ends of these six chains were buried in the ground. There was also a gigantic Rune on the ground. That Rune was incredibly complicated, and Su Ming did not know what it was used for, but he could tell that one of its functions was to suppress things.
To suppress the black shadow in the ball of light, the entire mountain of Great Leaf Immortal Sect was needed to suppress it at the same time, causing the Rune to cause the ball of light to not let out a single hint of its presence when it was under Great Leaf Immortal Sect's mountain.
Now, as Great Leaf Immortal Sect's mountain collapsed, this ball of light was revealed.
Almost at the instant Su Ming's eyes widened and he saw the Rune on the ground and the ball of light clearly, he also saw the black shadow in the ball of light distorting as if it was about to shatter. Six wisps of black smoke that brought with them death spread out from the black shadow and charged towards the Rune through the six chains. It was clear that the black shadow was not doing this willingly, but had been forcefully sucked in by the six chains.
The six wisps of black smoke fused into the Rune on the ground, and in the blink of an eye, they turned into a vast amount of spiritual energy in the world that spread out …
Su Ming lifted his head and let out a crazed roar. As his eyes widened, blood flowed out of his eyes like tears of blood. He should have been able to tell a long time ago that the spiritual aura in the region where Great Leaf Immortal Sect was located was much thicker compared to the other sects, but he had never paid much attention to this.
He did not expect that Great Leaf Immortal Sect would do something so insane.
This was a Rune that could turn a certain form of life into the spiritual aura of the world. The six chains were the pipes that could absorb that form of life, and that form of life … was the black shadow in the ball of light.
This ball of light was a seal, and the black shadow in it was the source of Su Ming's familiarity with it. It was the source of his madness.
"Second senior brother!" Su Ming's roar was hoarse, along with his anger and madness. Chenxin's words had originally caused fatigue to appear in Su Ming's heart in the midst of his silence. In fact, he had even stopped slaughtering Great Leaf Immortal Sect.
However, once he saw his second senior brother and his body, which was so weak that it looked like it was about to disappear at any moment, Su Ming's killing intent rose once again.
"Great Leaf Immortal Sect, Immortals …" With a swift move, Su Ming charged towards the ground. As he closed in, he closed in on the Rune on the ground in the span of a breath. He lifted the sword in his right hand and swung it down. The world rumbled, and his killing sword cut down on the chain.
A great rebound tumbled backwards and rushed into Su Ming's body, causing the web between his thumb and index finger to tear. As blood filled the air, he took three steps back.
However, even though he was forced back, the chain let out a cracking sound and shattered right down the middle. This chain was definitely not ordinary. If Su Ming did not have the killing sword in his hand, it would have been incredibly difficult for him to shatter it so easily.
At the same time one of the six chains broke, the near ten thousand people from Great Leaf Immortal Sect in the sky swung their swords down once again, charging towards Su Ming with a loud whistle. In fact, all of them bit the tip of their tongues and coughed up blood. Their blood turned into small blood-red swords under the effect of the sword Rune. The near ten thousand small blood-red swords were like a rain of swords, and right behind the huge wave of sword aura, they charged towards Su Ming from all directions.
It was also at that moment that a chain broke. A faint sound came from the ball of light, and the twisting black shadow seemed to have been slightly reduced at that instant. It started gathering together slightly from its drifting form, causing the flocculent fog to turn into a person. It might still be an illusion, but its face had become much clearer, revealing … a pale but smiling face.
It was … his second senior brother's face.
He looked as if he had gone through unimaginable pain. That pale face was something Su Ming had never seen on his second senior brother before. The smile on his face was still as gentle as it was in Su Ming's memories. He persevered and lifted his head, as if he wanted to turn the side of his face towards the sun. With that smile on his face, he looked at Su Ming.
"Youngest junior brother."
"With second senior brother's smile, I ask for recommendation votes! (To be continued. If you like this work, please come to Qidian.Com and vote for me. Your support is my greatest motivation.) "
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