Time passed, and in the blink of an eye, three cycles of sixty years passed!
To a mortal, nearly two hundred years was more than two lifetimes. It was an unimaginable luxury, but to cultivators, this amount of time might pass naturally if they immersed themselves completely in isolated training.
More than five hundred cycles of sixty years had passed since Su Ming came to Western Ring Nebula's foreign land. It had been three hundred something years, but the Duke of Crimson Flame still had not woken up. He had turned into a Brand on Su Ming's arm. He did not know whether it was because of the strangeness of this place, but he was still asleep.
Su Ming had been puzzled about this in the past. Why had the Duke of Crimson Flame come to this place with him, but there was no sign of the stone monument? He could not understand it no matter how much he thought about it, so he did not continue investigating it.
There was also the bald crane. It could not leave Su Ming's storage bag. Su Ming had tried a few times, but he discovered that the bald crane could only appear in the world of the stone monuments. However, once it returned to the place where the one hundred thousand stone monuments were, it was like a seal that even the bald crane could not break.
Perhaps this was not a seal, but a part of the laws in this place.
Fortunately, Su Ming had tried once in the golden ocean, and the bald crane … could appear. Once he promised a large amount of crystals, the bald crane excitedly patted its chest and agreed to Su Ming's plan. This made Su Ming's plan even more perfect.
After he failed the first time he Possessed the tree, Su Ming had sunk into a state of obsession. After that, he made his stone monument reach nine hundred thousand something feet seven times and stepped into the cultivation planet in the golden ocean seven times.
He tried to Possess the tree again and again, failed again and again, and faced the golden tree's frenzied and enraged attempts to kill him. However, with Sui Chen Zi's laws around, the power that could instantly kill him hundreds to thousands of times was forcefully turned into a reversal of time, causing Su Ming to not be in danger even though he failed.
Of the seven attempts, the shortest one was when the other party instantly discovered his possession and failed. However, the longest one lasted for a full nine breaths of time.
This caused Su Ming's previous guess to be wrong. He could not quite tell just why the tree would make such a mistake when it discovered that he was Possessing the tree.
The span of one breath and nine breaths might not seem long, but these few breaths were usually crucial in a life and death battle. With the tree's strength, it should not have been possible for it to become so unstable.
This matter became a major issue that troubled Su Ming. He needed time. Only with enough time could he complete the Possession. In fact, Su Ming had once made some calculations and found that he needed nearly nine hundred breaths before he could succeed.
As long as he was not stopped during the span of nine hundred breaths, he was confident that once he filled all the venous pathways with his soul, with the Abyss Builders' inborn talent, he would have a higher chance of success compared to the other people who wanted to Possess him.
Because other people Possessed the tree's main body, but it was different for Su Ming. His Abyss Builders' Possession was completely different from other people's. In fact, this could no longer be considered as a Possession, but a form of rebirth!
With its essence, life force, and all its power, Su Ming gathered together a new body in the golden tree's body. That body would be the same as being reborn, and it would be Su Ming's clone.
This was a form of Possession and rebirth from the inside to the outside. Compared to other people Possessing someone from the outside to the inside, Su Ming's chances of success were naturally higher. It was just like how an insect that wanted to crawl into a person's body could be easily crushed to death, and a parasite that lived in a person's body was difficult to kill.
'Just what is the reason that caused the tree to notice a change in the time needed for me to Possess him..?' This was a question that had been bothering Su Ming for three hundred years. If he did not solve this question, then even if he had perfected most of his plan to successfully Possess the tree, he would still not be able to obtain nine hundred breaths.
This question continued on for another half of sixty years. When Su Ming attempted to Possess the tree for the ninth time, he finally discovered a crucial point. This time, the time needed for him to Possess the tree was fifteen breaths!
Fifteen breaths was something that had never happened before, but the crucial point was that when Su Ming still failed for the ninth time, he saw that the stone monuments belonging to the fourteen people around him had shrunk from nine hundred thousand something feet to several tens of thousands of feet.
This meant that, including him, there were a total of fifteen people who had gone through the test to reach one million feet before him.
This discovery made Su Ming excited. He tried it again, and when a total of six cycles of sixty years passed, he was certain that the time it took for the other party to notice him when he Possessed them was largely related to the number of people who had gone through the test before him.
Once he was certain of this, Su Ming made his stone monument reach nine hundred thousand something feet again. He did not choose to immediately go through the test and Possess the tree, but chose to wait.
He waited quietly for the best chance, the chance for the largest number of people to go through the test.
As Su Ming waited, time trickled by. One year, one year … Su Ming waited for fifty years, then one hundred years. His stubbornness could not be described with words. He sat in front of his stone monument and would rather give up on the chance to train to continue waiting.
He waited for seventeen people to go through the test within a short period of time. He waited for nineteen people, then twenty-one people, but he gave up on all of them. He refused to believe that there would not be more than one hundred people who would go through the test among the one hundred thousand people.
As time passed, Su Ming waited for three hundred years. If he added the amount of time he had spent before this, he would have been trapped in the foreign land for seven hundred years.
Seven hundred years was the life and death of several generations. Su Ming's hair was long, his body was thin, his eyes were filled with madness, and his will seemed to have been stretched taut into a straight line.
At that moment, he was completely different from when he had just stepped into this place seven hundred years ago. There was an air of ancientness and ancientness about him, along with a hint of madness. In fact, some of the people who had come to the foreign land over the years could not find any clues about Su Ming after the Blood Identification Pearls lost their effectiveness.
Because at that moment, he was not much different from the old monsters who had been trapped in this place for an unknown amount of time.
However, there was a ball of fire burning fiercely in his heart. It was suppressing the madness within it, waiting … for the day it would explode.
Su Ming had waited for nearly one hundred years for this day. When he had been trapped in Western Ring Nebula's foreign land for nearly eight hundred years, it finally appeared!
Within a short period of time, the one hundred and twenty-four people's stone monuments had all reached nine hundred thousand something feet. They might not have done so at the same time, but they had all gone through the test one after another. This was the first time Su Ming had seen more than one hundred people go through the test after waiting for four hundred years.
Perhaps this was not the highest number of people who would go through the test. Perhaps if he continued waiting, within the next one thousand or ten thousand years, or even longer, more people would appear at the same time, but perhaps … even after a long time, this sort of thing would not happen again.
That was why at the instant the one hundred and twenty-four people went through the test, the dull light in Su Ming's eyes, who had been meditating for four hundred years and had not moved, instantly brightened, as if the flames of his life, which had been suppressed for four hundred years, had erupted and burned at that instant.
'This is it. If I still fail this time, then my chances of success will be incredibly slim. This time … is my greatest hope, and it's also the time where I have the highest chance of success! '
Su Ming lifted his head swiftly. The overlapping shadows of the runic symbols in his right eye might not have changed over the four hundred years, but during the previous few times, they had already reached ten thousand runic symbols. He had also noticed a long time ago that once he reached ten thousand runic symbols, the number of runic symbols could no longer continue increasing.
This was one of the reasons why he had chosen to wait for four hundred years.
At that moment, as the overlapping shadows of the runic symbols in Su Ming's right eye shone, a vortex appeared on the stone monument that had already reached nine hundred and eighty thousand feet four hundred years ago. As it spun rapidly, Su Ming's body instantly became indistinct.
When everything before his eyes became clear, Su Ming appeared once again in the galaxy where the golden ocean was. He had not seen it for four hundred years, and now that he had returned, a brilliant light that surged into the sky shone in his eyes. Within that light was fighting spirit, madness, and also the eruption of Su Ming's four hundred years of forbearance.
With his fastest speed, he shot through the golden ocean that had been incredibly difficult for him in the past in the time it takes for an incense stick to burn. Once he lost thousands of runic symbols, he rushed out of the highest layer of wind in the cultivation planet and stepped into the sky of the cultivation planet once again.
In the face of the countless familiar figures and the branch that was slicing through the air and charging towards him from the distance, a brilliant glint appeared in Su Ming's eyes. At the instant the branch touched his body, his soul … shot out with a bang.
At the same time, the bald crane let out a piercing screech and flew out of Su Ming's storage bag to charge towards his soul. The bald crane had always been an illusion and did not have a corporeal body. After Su Ming had tested it multiple times in the world in the stone monument in the past, he had discovered that his soul could accommodate the bald crane's existence.
Su Ming's soul enveloped the bald crane and fought against the power of reversing time. Once he touched the branch, as if he was familiar with the process, he used his fastest and strongest speed to make his soul explode and spread out. In the blink of an eye, it covered a small area of the golden venous pathways, causing the venous pathways that were covered to turn black.
Time trickled by, and Su Ming roared in his heart. He did not want to fail again. He wanted to succeed!
'Faster! Faster! Faster! ' Su Ming roared in his heart. His soul swiftly spread out, and by the twentieth breath, he had occupied nearly three-hundredths of all the venous pathways.
This was the first time he had occupied so many venous pathways, and in an instant, he had surpassed his previous limit. As time passed and Su Ming roared in his heart, when the fortieth breath arrived, the golden tree still had not sent its will to him, and Su Ming had already occupied seven-hundredths of all the venous pathways!
Sixty breaths, eighty breaths … When the hundredth breath arrived, Su Ming's soul sensed that the world within the golden venous pathways let out a loud rumbling sound, and his soul had already occupied ten-hundredths of the venous pathways!
Not only was this an unprecedented glory for Su Ming, it also meant that less than ten of the thousands of people who had tried to Possess the golden tree over the countless years had reached its peak.
There were still twenty something breaths left!
Twenty breaths later, at the instant Su Ming's soul occupied fourteen hundredths of all the venous pathways, he gave up on continuing. Instead, he roared in his heart, and his voice reverberated in the air.
"Bald crane!"
Almost at the instant Su Ming's voice traveled out, the bald crane, which was enveloped by his soul, let out a piercing screech.
"Change! Change! Change for your Grandpa Crane!" The bald crane knew about Su Ming's plan a long time ago. Su Ming had told it about it in the world in the stone monument, and it also knew that this was incredibly important to Su Ming, especially since he had promised it a large amount of crystals. This made the bald crane so excited that it did not allow itself to lose crystals due to failure. That was why it used an even greater amount of strength than when it fused with the Divinity Incarceration Rune.
As the bald crane roared, all the venous pathways that were occupied by Su Ming's soul were immediately covered by a layer of ripples. When the ripples disappeared, the venous pathways turned from black to gold, and not a hint of Su Ming's presence could be found. It looked exactly the same as when he had not Possessed it.
It was also at this moment that an enraged roar came from within the tree in a frenzy.
"Damn it, you're here again. You … You … Hmm?" (If you like this work, please come to Qidian.Com and vote for me. Your support is my greatest motivation.)
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