When living beings of the same level fought against each other, they would be robbing each other of their lives. This was killing. The suppression of the strong towards the weak, the presence that could change the weather with just a flip of their hands. They called killing as granting death.
And … when they surpassed the level of life and gathered together ants with the will of the universe, then this could not be called killing, much less granting death. This was erasing.
It was as if there were pictures on a drawing board, and there were lives within those pictures. When Su Ming swiped his hand across the drawing board, the picture would be erased, and all the lives within it would also be erased.
At that moment, all the people in the land with the one hundred thousand stone monuments still had the lingering sounds of shrill cries echoing in their ears. Once they saw Su Ming killing nearly a hundred people with just a casual wave of his hand, the word 'erase' appeared in their minds.
Fear, trembling, shock, shock, and all sorts of other emotions turned into suffocation, causing the world within the one hundred thousand stone monuments to fall into dead silence in an instant. Almost everyone, including Zhou Kang, instinctively looked towards Su Ming, and their gazes were filled with deep respect.
There was no way they could not tell that this was the law formed by Sui Chen Zi in this place, and it was obeying Su Ming's orders.
There was no way they could not tell that Sui Chen Zi's law was not just obeying Su Ming's orders. In fact, it could even be said that there was a strange connection between them.
If someone had control over the law in the world with the one hundred thousand stone monuments, then no one would dare provoke them, because they could decide each person's life and death.
In fact, if Su Ming wanted to, he could make Sui Chen Zi's law instantly kill all the people here, but the result of doing so would be that he would completely break off his relationship with the nine souls of Ecang, and they would reject him fiercely. The nine souls would then be wary of him, and it would be incredibly difficult for Su Ming to devour them in the future.
Besides, once Su Ming wiped off all these people, then the nine souls of Ecang would even work together to fight against him. This … would not be worth it. That was why even if the temptation was incredibly great, Su Ming did not choose such a radical method.
Also, the law in this place was to protect and kill. If Su Ming made this request, then the law might fall silent. After all, Sui Chen Zi's law obeying Su Ming's orders was within the rules, unless … Su Ming's level of cultivation allowed him to set a new law in this place.
Su Ming's expression was calm. It was as if wiping away the lives of nearly a hundred people was insignificant to him. He did not even consider whether these people truly deserved to die. To him, this was not important.
More importantly, these people who had been wiped off their memories had come here for the bounty offered by the four Great True Worlds to kill him. More importantly, these people … had insulted him.
Just because of this, they lost the right to continue living, because they had obtained freedom. They had obtained the freedom Su Ming had granted them. They no longer needed to sink into eternal oblivion in the land with the one hundred thousand stone monuments.
When the people in the area looked at Su Ming with respect, he lifted his head and swept his gaze across the people around him. All those who met his gaze felt their hearts tremble. No matter what level of cultivation they possessed, as long as they were the people on the stone monuments, they would instinctively lower their heads. They did not dare to meet Su Ming's gaze and did not dare to anger him.
Su Ming swept his gaze across the area and paused for a moment on Zhou Kang's stone monument. He had already noticed that Zhou Kang's stone monument was blue.
In the end, Su Ming's gaze landed on the man who was twitching nonstop on the ground. He might no longer be screaming in pain, but his body was as withered as a skeleton, and he only had one breath left.
This man was the first person to attack Su Ming just now. His stone monument was purple, and Su Ming did not need to give any explanation to the nine souls of Ecang if he wanted to kill this person, because at the instant this man came to this place, he had become Su Ming's tribute.
"Since it wasn't easy for you to reach this level of cultivation, and since you are my tribute, I will spare your life," Su Ming said flatly. He swung his right hand, and the trembling and twitching man immediately stopped. Once he regained his senses, he stood up with great difficulty. His fear towards Su Ming had reached its peak, and he quickly wrapped his fist in his palm before bowing deeply to Su Ming.
When the words' tribute 'fell into his ears, they also fell into the minds of the people around him, and they turned into shock and bewilderment.
"The hundreds of you are all my tributes," Su Ming said flatly and walked forward. As Su Ming spoke flatly, he walked forward. When he arrived beside the man, he followed behind him with respect on his face.
When Su Ming arrived in front of the hundreds of people who had just descended, he did not stop. However, a mighty pressure that only these hundreds of people could sense spread out from his body.
To the hundreds of cultivators, this mighty pressure was like the might of heaven. At the instant they sensed it, their hearts trembled violently, and a feeling that Su Ming could control their lives and deaths rose in their hearts.
This feeling was incredibly real. In fact, they discovered to their shock that their hearts were beating at the same frequency as the others, and this frequency belonged to Su Ming.
When Su Ming's heart beat, their hearts would beat along with it. This strange scene caused the hundreds of people to move back simultaneously when Su Ming walked over. In fact, there were dozens of people whose faces turned pale, and their minds roared. The mighty pressure of the soul spreading out from Su Ming's body made their hearts feel as if they were about to break down. There was a powerful will in their minds that made them kneel down and worship Su Ming.
It was as if if they did not kneel down and worship him, they would die, and if they did not kneel down, their souls would not obey them. One of the young men shuddered, and with a thud, he became the second person to kneel down and worship Su Ming.
Soon after, the second, third, fourth … These hundreds of people knelt down and worshiped Su Ming when he walked over. When he arrived in front of Zhao Family's Progenitor, the hundreds of people on the purple stone monuments around him had all knelt down and worshiped him.
Zhao Family's Progenitor had long since averted his gaze from the space above him to focus on Su Ming. As Su Ming walked over and the hundreds of people around him knelt down and worshiped him, the powerful will in his mind pressed down on him, causing his breathing to quicken, veins to pop up on his face, and sweat to cover his entire body.
He was fighting against the will in his body and his own soul. As Zhao Family's Progenitor, he would definitely not kneel down and worship anyone, but the strength of the will in his body was not his cultivation base, but his soul. It was a suppression of a different level, and it caused Zhao Family's Progenitor to tremble even more violently. He even let out low growls.
"We meet again," Su Ming said calmly while standing in front of Zhao Family's Progenitor.
Zhao Family's Progenitor did not say a single word, because at that moment, he could not speak. All his strength was used to fight against his soul. If he relaxed even the slightest bit, he might immediately lose control of his body and kneel down.
But this was secondary, because even if Su Ming wanted him to kneel down, it was just his body. What truly terrified Zhao Family's Progenitor and made him regret stepping into the foreign land to avoid being killed was what he felt at that moment. As his soul fought against his own, he discovered that not only was he afraid of Su Ming, he was also filled with respect. In fact, there was even a will to obey him that he could not fight against.
This was not just a feeling from his body, but also from his soul and mind. It was as if once he stepped into this place, a controller had appeared in his life, a master had appeared.
Su Ming no longer spoke. He just stood quietly in front of Zhao Family's Progenitor. The hundreds of people around him were kneeling down and worshiping him. The tens of thousands of people further away were already dumbfounded when they saw this scene.
At that moment, the words Su Ming had said just now appeared in their minds.
'Tribute.'
'Just what sort of serendipity did he obtain in the world in the stone monument? How could he … How could he be so strong?!'
'Even the laws obey him, and the abnormalities in the stone monument have appeared twice. This must be the reason why he can be so strong!'
'Just what did he do? Just what did he obtain? Why are those hundreds of people kneeling down and worshiping him..? Could it be … that he has become the law?'
'Even if his stone monument has reached one million feet and he has mastered a portion of the power of Divine Essence, in my memories, none of the people who had their stone monuments reach one million feet in the past could compare to him.
In fact, forget about one million feet, even those who have reached two million feet, three million feet, or even more would not be able to do this. '
There was no buzzing discussion, but guesses that appeared in the minds of the tens of thousands of people in the area turned into an invisible storm that was swirling in the hearts of the tens of thousands of people in the area.
Sweat poured down Zhao Family's Progenitor's entire body. He trembled even more furiously, and red filled his eyes. As despair appeared on his face, he slowly … knelt down. When his knees touched the ground, he knelt down and worshiped Su Ming, just like the others around him.
Almost at the instant Zhao Family's Progenitor knelt down and worshiped Su Ming, a loud rumble suddenly came from the air above him. A gigantic crack looked as if it had been torn apart, and as a long string of laughter reverberated in the air, a person walked out of the crack.
"It has been one thousand years, and I've returned to this place. Zhao Tian Gang, you old bastard, did you think that you could find the reason behind my strength just because you escaped to this place? In truth, my true goal was to force you to this place!
"I'll let you sink into endless oblivion and experience the pain I felt when you forced me to hide in this place all those years ago. I've already sentenced thousands of your people to death. Don't worry, once my stone monument reaches two million feet, I will leave this place for another thousand years and kill all your people." As that long string of laughter spread in all directions, all the people in the area noticed an old man dressed in a long blue robe walking towards them from the air.
"The owner of the one million feet stone monument. That person is … Gong Sun Yin!"
"It's him. He's the Gong Sun Yin who left this place one thousand years ago. He's back." Quite a number of the people in the area immediately recognized the old man.
The old man was ugly, and his hair was a mess, but he had already reached the later stage of World Plane Realm. There was an arrogant look on his face as he walked towards Su Ming, but when he saw Zhao Family's Progenitor kneeling before Su Ming, his voice immediately came to a halt, and he was momentarily stunned.
Zhao Family's Progenitor fell silent. The long string of laughter and the voice that reached his ears caused him to lower his head. A complicated emotion that he could not describe with words turned into sorrow and anguish in his heart.
He did not lift his head to look at the enemy who had killed most of his family members and forced him to step into the foreign land to hide, because at the moment he knelt down, he had already fallen into despair.
However … Su Ming, who stood before him, lifted his head.
"Only I can reprimand my tribute. Who do you think you are?" Su Ming asked flatly. (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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