"The Sublime Paragon's inheritance … This is … This is the Sublime Paragon's Divine Essence's inheritance! This is the foreign land! So this is the foreign land! "As the old man mumbled under his breath, he suddenly started laughing loudly. Excitement and excitement appeared in his eyes.
He had come to Western Ring Nebula's foreign land for freedom and to capture Su Ming alive, but he did not expect that the foreign land would be like this. To him, the chance to obtain the inheritance was something he had longed for even in his dreams.
However, even as his laughter echoed out, one of the 100,000 stone steles suddenly began to crack. Blood oozed out of the cracks, and a bloodcurdling cry could be heard echoing out from within the stone stele, filled with a longing for life.
Su Ming looked towards the stone monument from which the shrill cry came. Once he saw clearly which stone monument it was, he was momentarily stunned, then instinctively cast his gaze on the man from before.
The man was trembling at that moment. His hands were locked tightly on his legs, and his eyes were bloodshot. Tears fell down his cheeks, turning into soundless cries. The stone monument that was letting out the longing for life was the one beside him that was only two hundred thousand feet tall. Si Ma Yue's name was carved on it.
He watched as more cracks appeared on the stone monument and as more blood flowed out of it. More tears streamed down the man's cheeks.
"Take care …" A frail woman's voice came faintly from within the stone monument. That voice was incredibly faint, and the old man in the distance could not hear it as he laughed. Even Su Ming could only hear it faintly. The one who could truly hear it was the man.
That voice belonged to Si Ma Yue. She did not know whether the man waiting for her outside was still there, but she knew that regardless of whether he could hear her words or not, they had already parted ways.
Her voice gradually faded away. At the same time her stone monument shone with light, her name was wiped off. The two hundred thousand feet tall stone monument shrank in the light, and when it was only twenty thousand feet tall, the light faded away.
When Su Ming saw this, his heart trembled. During the instant the old man appeared and his long string of laughter reverberated in the air, Su Ming had felt a chilling will fill the air and cover him and his stone monument. Once it swept past them, it gathered on Si Ma Yue.
Su Ming could already imagine that if that chilling will had gathered on him, then the one who would have died would have been him.
"Haha, is this this old man's stele?" As the old man laughed, he jumped up and arrived before his stone tablet. His pupils suddenly shrank, and it was clear that he was in a state of excitement when he noticed that there were other people here.
His gaze first fell on the burly man, but when he looked over, the tears on the burly man's face had already disappeared, and his red eyes were already closed. He couldn't see any clues.
When the old man looked around him in puzzlement, a brilliant light suddenly shone in his eyes, and he stared at Su Ming, who was sitting in the distance. The brilliant light in his eyes grew brighter, and a hint of greed appeared in them.
"Mo Su!" The old man let out a long string of laughter, and his cultivation base swiftly spread out from his body. A thick presence of World Plane Realm erupted with a bang, and his level of cultivation was equivalent to that of Zhao Family's Progenitor. He had reached the peak of the middle stage of World Plane Realm.
However, he did not immediately attack. He was not a fool since he could survive until now in the Barren Lands of Divine Essence and even possess this level of cultivation. In fact, he could be said to be a cunning old fox. He could not tell whether there was a seal that prevented people from killing each other in this strange and unfamiliar place. That was why he only had his cultivation base erupt from his body, but he did not move forward. Instead, he stared at Su Ming. After all, Su Ming had come to this place earlier than him, so he definitely knew more than him.
A glint appeared in Su Ming's eyes. He had guessed since a long time ago that the old man was definitely the one who had come after him. He immediately stood up, intending to place his hand on the stone monument and fuse with it to activate the test of the legacy. This would allow him to avoid the old man's killing intent, but a thought suddenly appeared in his heart, and he did not choose to do so. Instead, he took a few steps back with a solemn and wary expression on his face.
He did not choose to fuse with the stone monument because of the man. He might have seemed calm at that moment, but Su Ming would never forget the gentleness in his eyes when he looked at Si Ma Yue's stone monument. He would never forget the tears he had shed when the stone monument shattered and blood flowed out of it. He would also never forget the two words that had come from Si Ma Yue's stone monument.
'Anyone else would have attacked and killed this old man, but not only did he not attack, he even hid his tears and covered his red eyes. There must be something off about this!
'Could it be … that we can't attack each other in this place?' Su Ming narrowed his eyes warily. He was certain that the old man had yet to leave his name on the stone monument, which was why he did not know that he needed to place his hand on the stone monument to fuse with it.
All of these thoughts might have been described slowly, but they had only happened in a single thought in Su Ming's head. At that moment, panic appeared on his face, and as his expression changed drastically, he started tumbling backwards.
Su Ming's expression, his actions of retreating, and his panic were all seen clearly by the old man. When he saw Su Ming retreating hastily, looking as if he wanted to escape, the old man's doubts towards this place disappeared slightly, but he still remained wary. Before he knew whether he could attack and kill anyone in this place, he would not attack easily.
However, he still took a step forward, and killing intent flashed in his eyes. He looked as if he was about to attack, but at the same time, he glanced at the burly man out of the corner of his eye. Perhaps he would be able to see some problems with the burly man.
Yet the instant he looked at the man, the man opened his eyes. They were no longer red, but were instead calm with a hint of unruliness.
"If you want to kill someone, do it somewhere else. Don't disturb my training. Get lost." The man let out a cold harrumph. When he spoke, he lifted his right hand and swung it at the old man.
With it, a vast amount of power of World Planes erupted from the man's power in the later stage of World Plane Realm. As he swung his hand, it instantly turned into a violent gust of wind that charged towards the old man.
The speed of that gust of wind was incredibly quick. If the old man did not dodge, then once he touched it, even if he did not die, he would be heavily injured. This was the difference between those at the peak of the middle stage of World Plane Realm and those in the later stage of World Plane Realm. There was no way for him to fight against it.
The old man's expression changed drastically. He had long since noticed that the man's level of cultivation was unfathomable. He should be in the later stage of World Plane Realm, but he had always been uncertain as to whether he could attack in this place, which was why he had used his body as a test, but he did not expect that the man would attack in an unruly manner. By the looks of it, if he had been even the slightest bit slower, he would have immediately been heavily injured.
Besides, the man's attack did not seem to be an act to the old man, and it was definitely not fake either. However, the old man still forced his body to stop for an instant even though he was about to dodge.
He glared at the man. He wanted to test whether the man's attack was real or fake. The violent gust of wind closed in on him with a loud bang, and the destructive power was about to touch the old man's body, but the man's expression remained the same. His aloof and unruly air was on full display.
'I can kill in this place!' The old man's expression changed. There was not a single hint of doubt in his heart. Almost at the instant the destructive gust of wind closed in on him, he immediately retreated and brought out a jade slip. At the instant the gust of wind closed in on him, he crushed the jade slip.
As the jade slip shattered, the old man disappeared without a trace. He simply allowed the gust of wind to charge past him, and he appeared several thousands of feet away. He was no longer too far away from Su Ming.
'This person is incredibly strong. I can't afford to provoke him, and it's impossible for him to know that I have a shifting jade slip that can allow me to avoid the seals placed on me by World Paragons in the later stage of World Planes. Then … Mo Su, you won't be able to escape!' The old man turned around swiftly and fixed his gaze on Su Ming, who was fleeing not too far away. As he laughed ferociously, his cultivation base erupted with a bang, and the power of World Planes spread out from his body. He lifted his right hand and let out a low growl. Immediately, an endless amount of runic symbols appeared out of nowhere and gathered together in midair to turn into a horsetail whisk. As it swept through the area, it instantly appeared in front of Su Ming and swung towards him.
Su Ming's footsteps came to a halt and he turned around swiftly. He did not dodge, but stared at the old man. In fact, he did not even attack. He simply allowed the horsetail whisk to close in on him. He was confident that this strike would at most injure him badly, but it would be impossible for it to instantly kill him. Su Ming was using his injuries as a bet to gamble on the mysteries of this place. When he remembered the things he had analyzed previously, he was eight-tenths certain that he would win.
The man's attack just now had also confirmed Su Ming's thoughts.
'His tears can't be fake. The crimson red and grief in his eyes are incredibly real. When he told me to take care of myself, his body trembled, and that's the only explanation.
'He might have looked as if he was attacking, but in truth, I'm certain that this person is seeking death. Either he succeeds in taking his revenge, or he seeks death. He's using his own death as the price to make the old man believe that … he can attack in this place!'
Su Ming stopped moving, and the horsetail whisk instantly arrived. This scene caused a glint to appear in the eyes of the man in the distance, and it also caused the old man's expression to change. In an instant, the horsetail whisk touched Su Ming's body. Su Ming had already prepared himself to be heavily injured, but the moment the horsetail whisk touched him, it immediately disappeared without a trace, as if it had never existed.
This scene caused the old man's expression to change drastically, and fear appeared on his face. He realized that he had been tricked, but before his heart could even tremble, his body was swept by a cold and sinister will in midair. Without a single sound, his body disappeared like ashes.
He died completely, his body and soul destroyed!
The area was filled with dead silence. Su Ming sucked in a deep breath, and with a calm expression, he walked slowly towards his stone monument. Once he sat down cross-legged once again, his gaze fell on the man. The man was also looking at Su Ming at that moment, and their gazes met in midair.
"Thank you," the man said softly after some time.
"You're welcome," Su Ming said flatly.
The man fell silent. He no longer looked at Su Ming, but instead looked at the stone monument that once belonged to Si Ma Yue. Tears fell from his eyes once again, and the grief on his face became incredibly great.
He felt as if he could see the things that had happened many years ago when he and Si Ma Yue came to this place. She was his everything, and he was also her everything, but now, he was the only one left.
"I, Zhou Kang, do not owe anyone any favors in this life. You're also a newcomer, so you must have questions. Ask away … I will tell you everything I know and my experiences. Consider it as me repaying you for helping me take revenge for my wife's death just now," Zhou Kang said softly.
"I'm very touched today. It's been a year since the Celestial Renegade ended, and there are still readers who persistently created songs for her. It's especially so for the second song. I spent a lot of money on it, and it's the first song that the Celestial Renegade has ever created. I hope that everyone can listen to it.
"You can find it on my Tencent Weibo. I have to forward it so that all my readers can hear it. (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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