'This is impossible! ' Jing Nan Zi's expression changed drastically, which had never happened before. As he retreated swiftly, his pupils shrank, and shock and disbelief appeared in his eyes.
What he saw surpassed the understanding of the many seals in the Barren Lands of Divine Essence that he had obtained as a True Guard. In his mind, it was impossible for the seal in the Barren Lands of Divine Essence to be broken so easily. If anyone touched it, their bodies and souls would be destroyed.
Even if the sealed person wanted to break the seal, they would have to pay an incredibly devastating price. Even if they managed to break the seal, they would become incredibly weak, and a cultivator in Human Cultivation Realm would be able to injure them badly.
This was why the Barren Lands of Divine Essence were cruel to the mighty cultivators of the alien races. It was also the reason why Jing Nan Zi had dared to come here alone. As for the change in Black Ink Planet, it was an accident that had happened a long time ago, and it was just an accident.
However, the scene before his eyes overturned Jing Nan Zi's understanding, especially when he saw the hands and feet the bald crane had manifested. It looked like a birdman, and there was an incredibly smug look on its face as it held the shortsword in its hand. Jing Nan Zi could not help but put on an expression as if he had just seen the most terrifying malicious spirit in the world.
'It's an illusion. This is the divine ability of an illusion. It's an illusion that the person named Su cast just now! ' As Jing Nan Zi retreated, a dark light shone in his eyes. He did not believe that this person could truly break the seal so easily. If that was truly the case, then Jing Nan Zi knew clearly just how terrifying and grave a disaster this was to the entire Barren Lands of Divine Essence would be.
He would rather believe that this was an illusion!
'Even if it's not an illusion, this mighty cultivator of the alien race has just broken the seal, and it's only the first of the three seals, so he must be incredibly weak. The powerful presence he has right now is just a little of what he has accumulated over the years. With his true power, it's impossible for him to kill me with just one finger! ' Jing Nan Zi's intelligence was definitely extraordinary for being able to become a True Guard and reach his current state from a nobody in True Sacred Yin World. At that moment, a glint appeared in his eyes, and he resolutely stopped retreating.
'Whether it's real or fake, whether it's strong or weak, we'll know once we try!
'If it's real, I won't be able to escape. If it's strong, I'll definitely die!
'If that's the case and I can't escape, then I'll have to see if it's real or fake. ' Jing Nan Zi roared, and his armor shone with a crimson light. Once he tightened his grip on the long spear in his hand, he did not retreat. Instead, he moved forward and charged towards the Duke of Crimson Flame's finger.
Even Su Ming's heart sank at that moment. Jing Nan Zi might be arrogant, but the resolution in him was rarely seen. If Tian Lin, Long Li, or the others ran into him, they would have a different reaction, but Jing Nan Zi chose to turn back after a brief moment of hesitation.
Almost at the instant Jing Nan Zi turned around, a hint of derision shone in the dark light in the eyes of the Duke of Crimson Flame's skeleton. At the instant that derision appeared, Su Ming's pupils shrank. He could clearly see an invisible vortex forming on the Duke of Crimson Flame's right index finger when he pointed forward. That vortex could absorb the light around the area, absorb a person's gaze, and absorb all matter in the world, just like that finger. It did not contain any sort of power on its own, but the power of the law contained in it could turn something rotten into something miraculous, turning that simple finger into the will of the world.
At the instant the invisible vortex appeared, the Duke of Crimson Flame's weak but mighty voice suddenly reached Su Ming's ears.
"An ally of the sacred Abyss Builders, with your soul's age, you should be the youngest of your race … Look carefully at my finger. This is the Ultimate Secret Art of Surging Indulgers - Indulgence!
"This Art does not contain any law. Instead, it uses pure physical power to create a black hole in space. Once it devours all the aura and matter in the area … then shatter that black hole. At the instant it shatters, the power of this Ultimate Art will erupt forth.
"You sacred Abyss Builders have plenty of clones. Since you chose to use the Art of Surging Indulgers to refine your clones, then I will let you know the Surging Indulgers' true power.
"Look carefully!"
As the Duke of Crimson Flame spoke, Su Ming immediately felt a wave of impact rushing into his body from all directions. At the same time, his soul surpassed his physical body with a bang and started spreading outwards. In the blink of an eye, Su Ming sensed that his soul had covered every single spot in the collapsing sealed region.
It was as if a clear projection had appeared before him. He saw every corner of the sealed land. He saw shattered rocks and shattered areas everywhere. He also saw an illusory figure charging forward in the sealed land. The illusory figure exuded a thick aura of Divine Sense. It was Jing Nan Zi's Divine Clone.
At the same time, Su Ming also saw … Long Li, who was being chased by that shadow.
The slightly hunchbacked Long Li's face was pale at that moment. He was fleeing desperately, and by the looks of it, he had already reached the edge of the sealed region. He was not too far away from the exit.
Yet during that instant, Su Ming looked like an outsider. At the instant the invisible black hole appeared on the Duke of Crimson Flame's finger and devoured everything in the sealed region, Jing Nan Zi's Divine Clone, who was chasing after Long Li, started trembling. His body started distorting in an incredibly bizarre manner, as if he was being sucked away, and in the blink of an eye, he disappeared while trembling.
The collapsing walls around him also disappeared. Some sort of presence seemed to have been sucked away, and once that presence was sucked away, all of them turned into powder.
In the distance, Long Li's eyes went wide. As he let out a shrill roar, Su Ming saw Long Li's flesh and blood squirming before shattering in the blink of an eye. First, it was his flesh and blood, then his bones, and finally his Nascent Divinity. An Almighty in the initial stage of World Plane Realm had his body and soul destroyed in an instant.
His storage bag also crumbled, and a large amount of his personal belongings spilled out.
Su Ming's breathing quickened. This might have seemed to have happened over a long period of time, but in truth, it had only happened when the Duke of Crimson Flame lifted his right hand and pointed forward.
Su Ming could clearly see that when the Duke of Crimson Flame pointed forward with his right index finger, the air around his fingertip shattered. It was a black hole, and it was also this black hole that devoured everything around it, destroyed Long Li, destroyed Jing Nan Zi's Divine Clone, and turned all the people and things that were destroyed into power that could be devoured. All of it was absorbed into the Duke of Crimson Flame's body in an unseen manner.
"I don't have any power on my own. I only found a weak point that exists everywhere in the air and poked it … That's how I absorbed and devoured it.
"Then, I crushed it, and that's how it crumbled and exploded." As the Duke of Crimson Flame's voice echoed in the air, Su Ming saw his finger pierce through the black hole before his finger. This action seemed to have been slowed down several times in Su Ming's eyes, allowing him to see the entire process clearly.
It was as if a sharp needle had pierced a water bag filled with water. As the water bag shattered, everything … exploded.
Boom!
The instant it exploded was also the instant Jing Nan Zi turned around. However, what awaited Jing Nan Zi was not what he believed to be fake, nor was it what he guessed to be true. He was not truly strong, and neither was he weak, as he understood him to be.
This was a battle of life and death, a fate that he could not escape from.
With a loud thud, the long spear in Jing Nan Zi's hand fell to the ground. He stood there in a daze and lowered his head to look at Su Ming. At the same time, Su Ming also saw a bloody hole at the center of Jing Nan Zi's brows, and blood was gushing out of it.
The armor over his chest shattered, hiding another bloody hole at the spot where his heart was. The blood that flowed out of that bloody hole was Jing Nan Zi's final chance of survival.
"Do you understand now?" At the instant the Duke of Crimson Flame's voice traveled into the air once again, another bloody hole appeared at the center of Jing Nan Zi's brows. At the same time, a fourth bloody hole appeared at the spot where his throat was, and it continued downwards until there were a total of nine bleeding holes between the center of his brows and his heart!
Those holes pierced through his body, and Su Ming could see what was behind him from the front.
"This is a method of using power. You might not understand it now, but when you know why there are nine holes on his body, you will understand."
As the Duke of Crimson Flame's voice echoed in the air, he pulled back his right hand. His body was still submerged in the purplish black magma. When the dark light in the skeleton's eyes looked at Su Ming, they slowly moved away and landed on the bald crane.
When he looked at the bald crane, a strange light appeared in the Duke of Crimson Flame's eyes. There was hesitation, shock, and confusion in them.
In the vast galaxy beyond Crimson Flame Planet was a strange cultivation planet in the region where the four Great True Worlds were stationed to keep a lookout over the Barren Lands of Divine Essence.
More accurately speaking, it was not a single cultivation planet, but ninety-eight of them.
It looked incredibly strange. It was shaped like the shape of an 'eye', and it looked like a twisted ladder. Each point of this strange shape was a cultivation planet. These cultivation planets were not still and unmoving, but were rotating as if there was some sort of law contained within them. Because of that, when anyone looked at the strange picture formed by the ninety-eight cultivation planets, their hearts would tremble, as if there was some sort of supreme will contained within that picture.
The picture formed by the ninety-eight cultivation planets was known as Radix in the galaxy where the four Great True Worlds kept a lookout over the barren lands.
Radix was just one word, and it was said that the four Great True Progenitors had given this name to it. No one else knew its meaning.
There were nineteen such Radix in the Barren Lands of Divine Essence that belonged to the four Great True Worlds.
At that moment, one of these Radix Planets suddenly shone with a brilliant light on its own. That light instantly illuminated the entire galaxy, catching the attention of the people from the four Great True Worlds who were stationed there.
At the same time, as the light spread out beyond the Radix Planet, an innumerable amount of faces appeared as if they were projections. Since these faces were flickering too quickly, they could not be seen clearly. After a dozen something breaths, one of the faces suddenly froze up and no longer changed.
That face belonged to none other than Jing Nan Zi!
"Jing Nan Zi, fourth tier True Guard, cultivator from True Sacred Yin World. One thousand seven hundred years ago, he was given the strange treasure, the bronze tomb. Twenty breaths ago, he died in the sealed region of Crimson Flame Planet … He died … under the hands of the alien race's Surging Indulgence Art."
An aloof and merciless voice traveled forth slowly from the Radix Planet. Once that voice appeared, an uproar immediately stirred up in the barren lands of the four Great True Worlds.
It had been some time since a True Guard died, but this was not the main point that caused the uproar. The main point was the place where he died, what divine ability, and what race he died under!
Surging Indulgence Race, alien race!
Indulgence Art, this race's inborn ability! (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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