The first breath.
Su Ming was shaken by the four Great Divine Essence Arts. In the midst of his confusion, the four Great Divine Essence Arts echoed before his eyes, and in that short span of a breath, they had repeated themselves hundreds to thousands of times.
As the first breath passed, Su Ming suddenly felt that he was no longer Sui Chen Zi. He seemed to have seen a layer of black smoke spreading out from the white-robed and white-haired Sui Chen Zi's body. There were one hundred thousand faces within that black smoke, and all of them belonged to Su Ming.
When the second breath arrived, Su Ming's one hundred thousand faces made of black smoke spread out from Sui Chen Zi's body. Once they gathered together behind him, Su Ming felt that he had regained a body and was no longer a lost soul in this place.
The third breath arrived in an instant. Su Ming looked at Sui Chen Zi's back, and the shock he felt from the four Divine Essence Arts still appeared in his head. It seemed as if it had fused with his entire life, and he felt that he had come to understand.
When the third breath was over, Sui Chen Zi, who had his back turned towards Su Ming, looked as if he was shaking his head. He gradually left into the distance, and when Su Ming's body was about to become indistinct once again, he suddenly spoke.
"My Life Matrix is the beginning of midwinter. The world is dead, and there is no life force. It is as if a vast expanse of snow has covered the land, and all living beings have died … This is … known as One Thought to Destroy the Universe," Su Ming mumbled, and the light of understanding shone in his eyes.
"After midwinter, my Life Matrix is Bloody Autumn. With my blood, I dyed the sky red, turning it into the color of autumn. However … the will of autumn is the transformation between life and death. It is the only Realm in my Life Matrix that contains both life and death at the same time. It is not like the complete stillness of midwinter, nor is it like the vast life force of summer …
"In the coexistence of life and death, all manner of things will die, and the rebirth of living beings will also appear … This is known as One Thought to Create the Dao of Heaven." Su Ming only spoke in a low whisper, as if he was not talking to anyone but himself. However, Sui Chen Zi, who had his back turned towards Su Ming in the distance, froze for a moment when he heard Su Ming's words. He did not move, as if he was thinking about Su Ming's words and waiting for him to continue.
"The Life Horoscopes that I've comprehended are moving from death to life, just like moving from midwinter to spring. This is an irreversible cycle of heaven and earth, but this is what my Life Horoscopes lack. Even if it's irreversible, I have to continue down this path.
I was originally confused about the path after the bloody autumn, but now I have gained some enlightenment. The scorching summer after the bloody autumn should be filled with boundless life force. This life force is so hot that it can incinerate anything. This life force is so vast that it can illuminate all living things.
This life force … seemed real, but in truth, it was fake. However, it was also real. It could burn me, and it could also use its heat to burn all living things in the universe, extinguishing the fire of life in all living things.
Perhaps, before it is extinguished, it is illusory, but after it is extinguished, it becomes real. Burning Summer … Burning Summer … Burning all living things, igniting one's own life, causing it to become even more majestic … This is what it means to extinguish all living things with a single thought. " The sparkle in Su Ming's eyes grew brighter. It was just like how he had gained an epiphany that was different from the others when he was in Eastern Wastelands Tower in the past. He had gained an epiphany that even Sui Chen Zi had not expected from the four Great Divine Essence Arts.
This was an epiphany that belonged solely to Su Ming.
Sui Chen Zi turned around slowly. At the instant he looked towards Su Ming, Su Ming mumbled his final words.
"After the scorching summer is spring … The spring when all living things are revived, the spring when all living things rise to power. This should be the first step in life, but to me, this is the final step for me to move from death to life. With the power of spring, I will complete my awakening.
"If I succeed, then with a single thought, I will give birth to all living things, and if I fail … then with a single thought, I will extinguish all living things!" A glint appeared in Su Ming's eyes. He lifted his head and looked towards Sui Chen Zi. As he looked at the old man with white hair and a wise and ancient look in his eyes, a determined look appeared on Su Ming's face.
"This is my epiphany!"
At the instant Su Ming said these words, a slightly strange look appeared on Sui Chen Zi's face. He looked as if he wanted to say something, but in the end, he did not speak. Instead, there was some sort of epiphany in his eyes, and there was a dazed look on his face. His body gradually disappeared.
Almost at the instant Sui Chen Zi's body disappeared, the space around him also disappeared. Ecang's low roar reverberated in Su Ming's heart once again. Its powerful will swept through the area, and booming sounds that came crashing into Su Ming's soul could be heard.
However, to Su Ming, these sounds felt as if they were incredibly far away from him. At that moment, his soul had already been completely set on fire, but in the midst of it, Su Ming noticed … that he had not disappeared.
"I was a dead person to begin with, and even my soul is a dead soul. What will I become after I die?" Su Ming mumbled.
"It's thought … It's my thought …" Su Ming mumbled softly to himself. He remembered when he had first mastered the art of reversing time in Yin Death Region, and it was known as the sign of the Abyss' awakening.
When Dao Yuan arrived and the three seals in Su Ming's soul were broken, the words "This world … is built for Abyss" appeared in his head, and he could sense that he had truly stepped into the state of the Abyss' awakening.
Only then could he Possess the Crimson Python Phoenix in the Barren Lands of Divine Essence and form a new physical body. Su Ming might not have known about this Possession before, but it had practically become an instinct.
"The Duke of Crimson Flame once said that the Abyss Builders can resurrect the dead … This is an inborn ability that seizes the serendipity of the world. It is not in harmony with the will of heaven, and neither is it in harmony with the universe.
"I've always been thinking about where this inborn ability came from … Now, I understand. Once the Abyss awakens, the next awakening is the Abyss Builders … Abyss Builders, Life Builders …
"So, the Abyss Builders' awakening requires … dying once, truly and completely dying once," Su Ming mumbled. As he came to this understanding, a hint of his soul, which had already dissipated due to burning, appeared once more, and as it swiftly swelled up, it instantly became complete.
This form of completion was different from before he had burned his soul, but Su Ming could not tell just what was different. He only felt that he seemed to have obtained some sort of sublimation. It was as if there was life and death in his soul, and it was no longer a simple dead soul. Instead … it was dead with life.
It was just like how he had come to understand the will of autumn. It was also at this instant that Su Ming completely understood that he had truly stepped into the will of autumn. Not only had his epiphany reached that state, his soul had also reached that state.
From then on, Bright Yang's aura was no longer as terrifying as it was in the past, because Su Ming's soul was no longer a completely dead soul. Instead, it possessed life force, and it hovered between life and death, just like autumn.
It was also at this moment that Ecang's enraged roars and disbelieving shock turned real and echoed clearly in the area. There was shock in that voice, as if it was filled with puzzlement and shock towards Su Ming's transformation.
Su Ming's soul had already occupied eight-tenths of the golden venous pathways, and it was circling around the heart filled with the aura of death at the center. As Su Ming's Body Builders awakened and his soul became complete, Su Ming Possessed Ecang once again without any hesitation.
This time, he was clearly much faster than before. As he fought against Ecang's will, Su Ming also noticed that he … seemed to be able to control some power that originally did not belong to him.
The power of law, the law Sui Chen Zi left behind before he died!
When this epiphany rose in his heart, a runic symbol suddenly appeared in the right eye of the one hundred thousand faces. This runic symbol had not been there before, and now that it had appeared, there was not a single hint of it appearing out of nowhere.
At the instant it appeared, the one hundred thousand runic symbols in the right eyes of the one hundred thousand faces flew out at the same time. At the instant they shone with an endless amount of black light, all of them turned into a black shadow.
Su Ming had seen this shadow before. It was the one who had been able to kill all the people in the world with the one hundred thousand stone monuments.
At that moment, the one hundred thousand figures appeared, and all of them … bowed towards Su Ming. A feeling that he could control them rose clearly in Su Ming's mind as they bowed.
'Sui Chen Zi hoped that a person would appear in the passage of time and successfully Possess Ecang, or else he wouldn't have helped me when I was at three-tenths, five-tenths, and eight-tenths. ' At the instant the one hundred thousand shadows appeared, one thought appeared in Su Ming's mind, and they immediately charged towards the roaring Ecang's will. As they crashed into each other and Ecang's madness and roars reverberated in the air, Su Ming's Possession immediately increased from eight-tenths to eighty-five.
All of the golden venous pathways that had turned black had already occupied a large area. Besides the heart at the center, there were very few venous pathways that were still shining with golden light.
Eighty-six, eighty-eight … ninety!
Ninety-one, ninety-two, ninety-three … The one hundred thousand shadows were formed by the law. As they fought against Ecang, Su Ming's soul swiftly spread out. As time passed, Su Ming's soul Possessed ninety-five of the venous pathways!
At that moment, besides the golden heart that was filled with the aura of death, all the golden venous pathways in the area had turned black. All of them belonged to Su Ming. The power of his soul spread out, and the ripples that were stirred up caused Ecang to let out screams of despair.
At that instant, aside from the ninety or so cultivators who had accepted the test but failed at the same time and were chased out, almost all the stone steles in the world of the one hundred thousand stone steles erupted with powerful light.
Besides the small portion of the one hundred thousand stone monuments that had already surpassed one million feet, the remaining ninety something stone monuments shone with a light that reached one hundred thousand feet. They were so dazzling that they pierced the eyes. As they shone, people with shock and cries of surprise were forced out of their stone monuments.
Ninety thousand something people!
These ninety thousand something people were the people who wanted to obtain Divine Essence in the world of the stone monuments and were immersed in their memories. All of them appeared, and this scene shook all the people's hearts. They could not help but be shocked and cry out in surprise. This was something that had never happened since Western Ring Nebula's foreign land was born.
"What happened?!"
"How could this be? I was still in the world of the stone monuments just now, but I was forcefully chased out by a great will that I cannot fight against."
"Could it be … Could it be that someone managed to reach one million feet? That's impossible. There are no stone monuments that are one million feet tall here."
"Look, this … Our stone monuments, this is …" As cries of surprise rang out, and the last voice was especially piercing as it reverberated in the air, all the people were immediately stunned. To their shock, they discovered that besides their own names, another name had suddenly appeared on all their stone monuments.
This name was above their own names, as if the person who it represented was the true master of their stone monuments and the true master of the one hundred thousand stone monuments!
The additional name was … Mo Su!
Zhou Kang stared at Su Ming's stone monument in a daze from the side. He could not help but remember the serious expression on Su Ming's face when he first came to this place and listened to his experiences. (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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