More accurately speaking, there were not ten thousand rays of purple light spreading out from Ecang's clone, but nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine rays. The one remaining ray was Su Ming's stone monument.
As the one hundred thousand stone monuments were completed and the near ninety thousand people in the area fell into a suffocating silence, gradually, more people noticed the vortex that had appeared on Su Ming's stone monument and the powerful light that was slowly spreading out from it. That light illuminated the entire world of the stone monuments, causing all the people in the area to be unable to not look at it.
For a period of time, the gazes of tens of thousands of people gathered on the stone monument with Mo Su's name carved on it, causing Su Ming, who had walked out of the stone monument, to feel as if he had instantly walked into all their eyes.
With an indifferent expression on his face, Su Ming walked out of the vortex. When he completely walked out, the vortex disappeared. Su Ming looked at the familiar land around him, and the hundreds of years he had spent went by in an instant, turning into a sentimental sigh. Three hundred something years ago, he had gone in search of a serendipity with an indomitable determination. Hundreds of years later, he had returned with a monstrous serendipity and a miracle that could change his life.
The tens of thousands of people's gazes gathered on him did not stir up a single ripple in Su Ming's heart. He swept his gaze across the space around him, then eventually turned around to look at his stone monument.
The one million feet stone monument stood tall among the many stone monuments. It might seem normal, but in Su Ming's eyes, he could see Sui Chen Zi's law in this place. He could see the shadow formed by Sui Chen Zi's law in the space above him, and that shadow … was bowing towards Su Ming.
It was as if he was congratulating Su Ming, as if he was waiting for his orders. That action was a form of obedience, obeying Sui Chen Zi's will, obeying the orders of the person who had been chosen by the Art with just one thought.
"What is the law Sui Chen Zi set?" Su Ming asked with his divine thought.
"The first law is supreme. As long as the first law is not touched, the law will protect and wipe out the people in this place. It will protect the people in this place from being killed by Ecang's soul and wipe out all those who go against the law." Sui Chen Zi's ancient voice traveled into Su Ming's mind.
"The first law?" Su Ming seemed to have come to an epiphany.
"The first law is that Ecang can pay the price of Divine Essence, and I will help it kill the people in this place. However, if the person who I want to kill is asked to be killed because he failed to Possess Ecang, then I will not allow him to do so no matter what price he has to pay. He can only let that person perish on his own."
Su Ming nodded. This could be seen from the fact that the purple Ecang had been unable to kill him previously, or else it would have sent its will to this place and killed him. It would not have needed to wait passively.
He no longer asked Sui Chen Zi about the rules. Su Ming looked at his stone monument quietly. In his eyes, that stone monument was formed by layers of purple crystals. However, its surface was rough, causing others to be unable to see it.
In fact, even if he probed it with his divine sense, he would not be able to find any clues. Only he, who had mastered Divine Essence, possessed his Ecang clone, and became one of the people who would get a share of the spoils in this place, could see the secret of the stone monument.
"This person … is … is Mo Su?"
"He's the person we came here to capture alive. This … He is …" Buzzing sounds gradually reverberated in the ninety thousand something people in the area.
"Just what happened just now? Why were we suddenly forced out of the world in the stone monuments? Damn it, I was just about to reach a breakthrough. I was just one step away from it."
"Three hundred years ago, something similar happened. At that time, he was the only one who didn't appear. Three hundred years later, this happened again, but he appeared right after it. If this has nothing to do with him, then I'll definitely not believe it."
"Just what did this Mo Su do in the world of the stone monuments..? He could make ten thousand stone monuments disappear and make ten thousand stone monuments gather together again." The sounds of discussions gradually increased, but Su Ming turned a deaf ear to them. He looked at his stone monument and saw a purple leaf in the depths of it.
At the instant he saw the purple leaf, Su Ming came to an understanding. He averted his gaze and looked at the near ten thousand stone monuments that had just appeared around him. He saw that all of them were formed by purple crystals, and there was a purple leaf in each of them.
When he looked at the purple leaf, a feeling as if they were in perfect harmony rose within him. It was as if with just one thought, he could make these near ten thousand stone monuments disappear, and with just one thought, he could make these near ten thousand stone monuments become one million feet tall.
In fact, when he closed his eyes, these ten thousand stone monuments would become his eyes.
"I see, so that's how it is," Su Ming mumbled softly to himself. When he swept his gaze past the other ninety thousand stone monuments around him, he nodded.
Su Ming saw nine different colors on the other ninety thousand stone monuments. There were ten thousand stone monuments of each color. These stone monuments were also formed by crystals of different colors, and within them were leaves of different colors.
When Su Ming saw through the stone monuments and swept his gaze past the leaves, waves of will that repelled him immediately spread out and prevented him from looking at them. There were nine wills in total, and they belonged to the nine colors of the stone monuments and the leaves.
A smile appeared on Su Ming's face. When he Possessed the purple Ecang, there had always been a question in his heart. Why had he Possessed the purple Ecang?
Based on his understanding, the purple Ecang was a test for the one hundred thousand stone monuments to grow to one million feet tall. With this thought in mind, he thought about it for a long time, but he could not find an answer.
When he reached the end of this train of thought, he realized that if that was truly the case, then the purple Ecang was definitely the strongest among the ten souls, because it had controlled the beginning of the stone monuments. Among the one hundred thousand people, there were ninety thousand something of them who were under its control.
When he Possessed the purple Ecang, he saw it summon nearly ten thousand rays of purple light. After he Possessed it, as the jumbled memories surged into his mind and he saw it with his own eyes, Su Ming came to an understanding.
His previous guess was wrong.
The purple Ecang did not control the beginning of the one hundred thousand stone monuments. In truth, it only controlled ten thousand. Each of the ten souls of Ecang controlled ten thousand stone monuments, and only then could balance be formed.
When Sui Chen Zi chose Su Ming's stone monument, it was purple in color. That was why … on the first day he came to the land of the stone monuments, he naturally became one of the ten thousand purple Ecang stone monuments.
Su Ming also noticed that besides himself, none of the stone monuments that were more than one million feet tall were purple in color. Perhaps this was because nearly ten thousand purple stone monuments had all shattered three hundred something years ago, but Su Ming could clearly remember the locations and names of the more than one hundred thousand stone monuments when he had just come to this place one thousand years ago.
When he looked over now, he found that not a single one of them was more than one million feet tall.
This meant one thing. During the period of time he had come to this place, no purple stone monument had ever surpassed one million feet. In fact, Su Ming had also found the answer in the memories of his Ecang clone.
Two thousand years ago, when the person whose name was carved on that stone monument suddenly died in the world outside, the last purple stone monument had become several tens of thousands of feet tall once again.
'If that's the case, then the one hundred something stone monuments that reached nine hundred thousand something feet in one go to participate in the test … was done on purpose by the purple Ecang. At that time … it was anxious, anxious that there would not be one hundred thousand stone monuments appearing, that's why it intentionally made things easier for us.' Su Ming thought back to all the stone monuments that had reached nine hundred thousand something feet after he came to this place. Most of them should have been purple.
But clearly, Zhou Kang's stone monument was not purple.
'The one hundred thousand stone monuments are divided into ten souls, and each stone monument of a different color can grow to ten million feet tall. After I Possessed him, I thought that the stone monuments in this place would no longer be ten million feet tall because I would be the only one million feet tall. By the looks of it now, I was wrong.' Su Ming shook his head. The Ecang clone's memories were incredibly jumbled up. Time was needed for them to slowly fuse together with Su Ming, which was why he did not immediately search for the answer in his memories.
'But this is even better. My Ecang clone will become stronger with the help of the ten thousand people here, and I'll be outside killing all the other Ecang souls whose stone monuments have grown to more than one million feet tall.
'By doing so, I can stop the other stone monuments of other colors from growing. Only the people with purple stone monuments will become stronger, and it will be much easier for my Ecang clone to devour the other nine souls.'
"Mo … Mo Su?" As Su Ming was immersed in his thoughts, an uncertain voice reached his ears.
Su Ming turned his head in the direction of the voice and saw Zhou Tai standing not too far away. It had been three hundred years since they last met, but Zhou Tai's appearance was not much different from the past … except that he had become slightly older. At that moment, when he looked towards Su Ming, there was excitement on his face. This excitement was not because of the deep friendship between him and Su Ming, but because he wanted an answer, an answer that could prove that his wife was right.
"Big brother Zhou." A smile appeared on Su Ming's face and he called out to Zhou Kang in an amiable tone.
"Just what happened? You … Why didn't you come out for hundreds of years in the world with your stone monuments? Were these two changes because of you?
Was my … Was my wife's guess correct? " Zhou Kang forced down his excitement, and his voice trembled slightly. He longed to know the answer. Even if this answer could not bring him freedom, it was his wife's deepest question in the past. Even if his wife had already died, he still wanted to know everything.
Su Ming looked at Zhou Kang. If this person had not told him about his experience in the past and told him about his wife's guess, then there was a high possibility that Su Ming would not have walked down the path of the Five Illusory Echelons.
If that was truly the case, then perhaps Su Ming would still have chosen to Possess Zhou Kang, but Possession was difficult. If even the slightest mistake occurred, then there was a high possibility that he would fail. In fact, even if Su Ming was asked to Possess Zhou Kang again, he still did not have complete confidence that he would succeed.
Just as Su Ming was about to answer Zhou Kang's question, he suddenly frowned and lifted his head to look at the space above him.
At that moment, quite a number of the ninety thousand something people in the area immediately confirmed Su Ming's identity after making guesses and deliberating over it.
"You're Mo Su, the one who was wanted by the four Great True Worlds in the past!"
"Damn it, it's you! If you didn't provoke the forces of power from the four Great True Worlds keeping a lookout over the barren lands and have them issue a bounty for you, how could we have come to this accursed place and lost our freedom?"
"You little bastard, I might not be able to kill you in this place, but you'll also lose your freedom and won't be able to go out. You'll also have to face death. I'd like to see just who will be the first to die."
Malicious voices instantly rang out. The cultivators who had spoken were all people who had entered this place during the past three hundred years and knew of the rule that they were not allowed to attack in this place. However, the aggrieved feelings in their hearts during the past three hundred years caused their words to immediately turn malicious once they recognized Su Ming.
Almost at the same time their malicious words rang out, loud booming sounds immediately came from the spot where Su Ming was looking. Hundreds of people appeared at the same time, and when they descended, their expressions were filled with confusion, complicated emotions, pleasant surprise, shock, and all sorts of other emotions.
These people were newcomers, but Su Ming's gaze was not on them. He was still looking at the air. (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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