When Su Ming said these words, Zhao Family's Progenitor immediately jolted. He lifted his head swiftly and stared at Su Ming in a daze. He had not expected that Su Ming would actually help him.
Su Ming's strength was incredibly mysterious in Zhao Family's Progenitor's eyes. He did not know what Su Ming had gone through in this place, but when he saw Su Ming kill nearly a hundred people with just a swing of his arm, and when he arrived, he had even made hundreds of people, including himself, kneel down and worship him.
The obedience that came from the soul caused Zhao Family's Progenitor to feel fear, and at the same time, an indescribable respect towards Su Ming rose within him. In fact, he could tell from the gazes of the people around him that there had never been a person like Su Ming in the memories of the tens of thousands of people in Western Ring Nebula's foreign land since ancient times.
What shocked him even more was that with his level of cultivation, he could vaguely sense that Sui Chen Zi's law in this place was truly listening to Su Ming's orders when he waved his hand.
All of this showed that Su Ming was different from the others in this place.
Almost at the instant Su Ming said those words, the tens of thousands of people in the area instantly fell into dead silence. They lowered their heads. Everything Su Ming had done just then had shocked their hearts, and as his words echoed in the air, they could not help but fall silent.
The crowd's silence caused a strange atmosphere to form in the place, causing Gong Sun Yin to be momentarily stunned before he looked towards Su Ming.
His pupils constricted. He hadn't been here for a thousand years, and as soon as he returned, he felt that something was off. First of all, he had never seen hundreds of people kneeling to a single person in all the years he had been here.
Secondly, a simple sentence from the person who was being worshipped by hundreds of people had caused tens of thousands of people to fall silent. Not a single one of them dared to raise their heads. All of them lowered their heads in silence. This caused Gong Sun Yin's heart to thump loudly.
He had a strong sense of foreboding.
"I've been gone for a thousand years. What happened here? This person … I've never seen him before. He must have come here after I left." A glint appeared in Gong Sun Yin's eyes. The reason why he could reach the later stage of World Plane Realm might be related to this place, but his intelligence was definitely extraordinary. At that moment, an amiable smile appeared on his face, and he nodded towards Su Ming.
"How should I address you, little brother? This old man is Gongsun Yin, this one million foot stone … "
"I'm asking you, what are you?" Su Ming asked flatly, cutting off Gong Sun Yin's words.
Su Ming's blunt words instantly caused killing intent to shine in Gong Sun Yin's eyes. Ever since he reached the later stage of World Plane Realm, no one had ever spoken to him in such a manner. He let out a cold harrumph, and the killing intent in his eyes grew stronger. He stared at Su Ming and put on a fake smile.
"Since this old man's stone stele reached one million meters, you are the first person who dares to say such words. It seems that after a thousand years of absence, the juniors here have forgotten this old man's fame.
"Fine, I won't punish you too much, but I must let you know that those who have stone monuments that are one hundred thousand feet tall are people who have been selected for the Source of God. They are not people that a junior like you can easily provoke!" Gong Sun Yin laughed coldly. He lifted his right hand and pointed at the ground.
"This old man's stone tablet!" The instant he spoke, one of the 100,000 stone steles immediately let out a rumbling sound and floated up from the ground.
Gong Sun Yin's name was carved clearly on that stone stele. It was vast and boundless, and when it floated up, it immediately caused the expressions of the people in the area to change.
"This is one of the divine abilities given to the people who have been selected. They can suppress other people's stone steles and make them shrink!"
"That's right, it's a divine ability that only the people who have been selected will possess. In the past, I once saw a stone stele of a person who suppressed a nine hundred thousand something feet stone stele to several tens of thousands of feet, causing decades of hard work to go to waste. If that person hadn't immediately begged for mercy, then as long as the person he offended was around, it would have been impossible for him to make his stone stele reach one million feet."
"Gong Sun Yin is a person who has been selected. Mo Su himself is strange, and his stone stele is also one million feet tall. I wonder how the two of them will compare."
As buzzing sounds instantly rose in the area, Gong Sun Yin's stone stele shone with a light that reached one hundred thousand feet. As it spread out, all the other stone steles immediately became indistinct, but only Su Ming's stone stele remained incredibly clear.
This was the effect of the divine abilities given to the people who had been selected. It could allow them to automatically find the stone stele of the person they wanted to find without using their divine sense. At the instant Su Ming's stone stele appeared, Gong Sun Yin frowned.
Su Ming's stone stele was also one million feet tall.
However, Gong Sun Yin laughed coldly in his heart. Even if both of them were one million feet tall, his stone stele had already been one thousand years ago, and it was clear that Su Ming had only managed to make his stone stele reach one million feet during the past one thousand years. Because of that, he could still suppress his stone stele slightly. The effects might be ordinary, but it could still make Su Ming tremble.
"Suppress!" Gong Sun Yin let out a cold harrumph, and immediately, his stone stele charged towards Su Ming's stone stele and pushed downwards!
Su Ming's expression remained the same as ever. Not a single hint of change could be detected on his stone stele. In fact, it was the same for his stone stele … but the instant Gong Sun Yin's stone stele was pushed downwards, it started shattering from the bottom. With a bang, it even started showing signs of crumbling.
This scene immediately stirred up an uproar in the area, and it also caused Gong Sun Yin's expression to change drastically. He quickly controlled his stone stele to lift it up, and as if he had just seen a ghost, he looked towards Su Ming.
In Su Ming's eyes, Gong Sun Yin's stone stele was blue, and it was a tribute from Blue Ecang. There were ten thousand blue stone steles in this place, and Zhou Kang's stone stele was also one of them.
If this was the world outside, Su Ming would need to use his power to fight against this old monster in the later stage of World Plane Realm, but in this place, he did not need to. He lifted his right hand and pointed towards Gong Sun Yin's stone stele.
With it, booming sounds reverberated in the air, and Gong Sun Yin's stone stele started showing signs of crumbling even more violently. Cracks appeared on it like ferocious scars. Gong Sun Yin's expression changed drastically, and a monstrous shock appeared on his face. He immediately became anxious.
The damage to his stone stele could directly affect his soul, so there was no way he would not be terrified.
"No! Damn it, how dare you destroy my stone stele?! If you can use the divine abilities of the primary selectees, then so can I! " Gong Sun Yin had clearly misunderstood something. Su Ming's one finger had stirred up the laws in this place, but as a primary selectee, he had thought of another unique Art that belonged to the primary selectees.
"Master, I, Gong Sun Yin, beg of you to descend with your will and use the power of the laws in this place to protect my stone stele and suppress this person!" Gong Sun Yin immediately roared. On the year his stone stele became one million feet tall and he became a primary selectee, he saw an endless amount of blue light. The strength of that blue light was so strong that with just one will, it could destroy him.
In fact, he had a feeling that his soul had obeyed the blue light in the past, as if it was his master. His master had given him the unique Art that belonged to the primary selectees and allowed him to use his stone stele to suppress the other people's stone steles. He had also given him the right to summon his master three times, and every single time he was summoned, he could ask his master to help him with one matter.
This was the second time he had used this right. The first time was when he had summoned his master's will before he left and opened up space so that he could go out for a thousand years.
This was a thousand years of freedom to others, but only the primary selectees knew that this freedom had to be exchanged, and … the longest they could go was one thousand years. They could not ask for it again.
Right then, at the instant he spoke, he was filled with great confidence that his master's will was the strongest in this place. It could affect the laws and change everything. It was a strength that he had never seen before in his life. Now that his master's will had descended, he would definitely teach this boy a lesson. He would let this person know that provoking a primary selectee was the greatest mistake he had ever made in his life!
He could even imagine that after a moment, the boy's expression would change drastically, he would let out shrill screams of pain, and he would kneel down before him to beg for mercy.
He would also use this chance to deliver a vicious blow to Zhao Tian Gang and make this person fall into even greater despair. He would make him taste the pain he had suffered in the past.
A cruel smile appeared at the corners of Gong Sun Yin's lips. He looked at the indifferent Su Ming, and his smile turned into a mocking one.
Almost at the same time that mocking sneer appeared, he immediately sensed his master's familiar will descending on him with a great bang. In an instant, it filled his stone monument … but the shattering of the stone monument … continued!
It might have become much slower, but it was still continuing. It was as if even his master could not completely stop the stone monument from crumbling.
Gong Sun Yin's expression immediately changed. This surpassed his expectations, causing his mind to instantly turn blank. However, he still had a sliver of hope that he would be lucky.
"Purple!" A mighty voice echoed in Gong Sun Yin's soul. He immediately recognized that it was his master's voice, but it was not directed at him. He could only hear it. At the instant he was momentarily stunned by those two words, he heard another voice.
"Blue."
He was familiar with that voice. It belonged to the young man whom hundreds of Zhao Family's Progenitor and the others had knelt down to. Gong Sun Yin had mocked him just now and was prepared to teach him a lesson.
"This person is my initial tribute. Can you spare him this once?" His divine thought echoed in the air. This was a voice that only Gong Sun Yin could hear among all the people in the area, because the blue Ecang's will was summoned by him.
However, what shocked Gong Sun Yin to the point of disbelief was that his master's voice was actually speaking in a tone of negotiation. This caused his heart to tremble violently, and his breathing almost froze. He did not know just what sort of existence he had provoked that even his master would want to negotiate with him.
"You are Zhou Kang, a tribute. Leave your stone monument and become my tribute." Su Ming sent his divine thought outwards in a flat tone, but in Gong Sun Yin's ears, this was a tone that was completely equal to his master's. When he remembered his master's will speaking in a tone of negotiation, a terrifying guess instantly rose in Gong Sun Yin's head. This guess made his heart tremble, and when he looked towards Su Ming, his expression was one of extreme shock.
This scene was incredibly bizarre to the people around them, because they could only see Gong Sun Yin standing stunned in midair. He did not move, but his face was filled with shock and fear.
"Very well." The blue Ecang's will did not hesitate and agreed to this.
"This person can be spared from death, but he cannot escape punishment. To show fairness between us ten souls, he should sink into depravity once more to serve as a warning to others."
"Very well, but you cannot use this as an excuse to make my tributes disrespect you."
"Very well."
The blue Ecang's will retracted, and Su Ming's will also dissipated. Gong Sun Yin's stone monument immediately shrank rapidly from one million feet. Eventually, it was only thirty thousand something feet tall, and it landed on the ground once again.
This scene immediately stirred up a great commotion among the people around them.
"The stone monument of the primary selectors … has regressed to only several tens of thousands of feet!"
"Gong Sun Yin's right to be a primary selector has been revoked. This … How could this be? Could it be because he provoked Mo Su? How could this Mo Su be so powerful? I remember clearly that he was the same as us in the past!"
"Just what sort of serendipity did this Mo Su obtain? Could it be … Could it be …"
"We absolutely cannot provoke this person. There is practically no one in this place who can stand above this sort of existence!"
"I remember that he entered the world with the Five Illusory Echelons. Could it be that those who fuse with their stone monuments with the Five Illusory Echelons will eventually become this powerful? But there have been quite a number of people who fused with their stone monuments with the Five Illusory Echelons since ancient times, but … no one has ever done this."
At the same time, the color of Zhou Kang's stone monument changed abruptly and turned purple. One of the empty stone monuments among Su Ming's ten thousand also turned blue.
However, no one could see this. In fact, even Zhou Kang himself did not notice it.
Gong Sun Yin's face turned pale and he fell to the ground while trembling. He looked at Su Ming, and the terror in his heart could not be described with words. At that moment, he could already be certain that this person was definitely an existence similar to his master. In fact … this person was no longer a cultivator, but a part of the foreign land.
He did not dare provoke this sort of existence, much less have a single word of complaint.
"Thank you for not killing me, Sir Zi."
As Gong Sun Yin spoke, the buzzing sounds in the area became even stronger. Su Ming did not bother himself with Gong Sun Yin, neither did he look at Zhao Family's Progenitor, who was already stunned by this scene. Instead, he looked at the dazed Zhou Kang.
"Big brother Zhou, do you want to leave this place?"
"Can I … leave?" Zhou Kang lifted his head in confusion and looked at Su Ming.
"As long as you're willing."
"Can … she be resurrected?" A strong sense of hope appeared in Zhou Kang's dazed eyes.
Su Ming remained silent, then shook his head.
"I'll stay here." Zhou Kang laughed brokenly, as if he had lost his soul. He knew that if he left, he would never be able to see his wife again, but in this place, at the very least … he had his memories in the world of the stone monuments to keep him company, even if he knew that they were just memories.
Su Ming sighed softly. A few women's figures appeared in his mind. After a long while, he shook his head. He respected Zhou Kang's infatuation, but besides the love between a man and a woman, there were other kinds of love in the world that needed to be protected.
As he turned around, Su Ming tapped the center of Zhao Family's Progenitor's brows with his right hand, and the memories from the past one thousand years appeared in his mind. Once Su Ming scanned through the changes in the world over the past one thousand years, he pulled his finger back and swung it at his own stone monument.
Immediately, Mo Su's name gradually disappeared from Su Ming's stone monument. The one million feet tall also instantly shrank, eventually turning into an empty stone monument that was only several thousands of feet tall.
Su Ming no longer needed the stone monument.
The crowd could not understand this. They could only remain silent and shocked. The only one who understood this was Gong Sun Yin. At the instant he saw this, he came to a complete understanding of everything.
'He … is indeed the same as Master. He's not a candidate, but an existence that chooses others.'
Su Ming cast a final glance at Zhou Kang, then turned around and took a step into the air. Right before the tens of thousands of people's gazes, he stepped into the air and gradually fused into it before he left.
At the same time, Su Ming's voice echoed in the minds of the hundreds of people on the purple stone monuments, including Zhao Family's Progenitor.
"I am the will of this land. Train and gain an epiphany. I promise you, when I complete my Dao, it will be time for all of you to be completely free."
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