Sinful Barren Lands.
Within the core of Western Ring Nebula, which was one of the four Great Galaxies, was Western Ring Nebula's foreign land.
Broken cracks in space filled the endless galaxy, and it was quiet. Not too far away from the foreign land was a gigantic ancient bronze sword. That sword was thirty thousand something feet long, and it was unmoving in the galaxy.
There were three people sitting at the tip of the sword. Among them was an old man, a middle-aged man, and a teenager. The three of them were just sitting there, but they had already caused the galaxy around them to distort. It was a telling sign that their levels of cultivation were extraordinary.
All of them were in the middle stage of World Plane Realm, and they were the True Guards of the forces of power from the four Great True Worlds keeping a lookout over the barren lands.
Behind the three of them were three hundred people in black armor who were meditating quietly on the huge ancient sword. Their eyes were closed, and an aura of stillness spread out from their bodies, making them look like dead people.
"So many years have passed. Lord Vice General, aren't you making too much of a fuss over this? There's no meaning in taking turns to monitor this place every two hundred years." In the midst of this silence, the middle-aged man among the three people sitting at the tip of the sword spoke languidly with a slightly displeased expression on his face.
"Lord Vice General, you must have your reasons for doing this. After all, that Mo Su caused quite a stir in the past." The person who answered the man's question was the old man by his side. He was dressed in a white robe and had an indifferent expression on his face. His white hair spilled over his shoulders.
"What other reasons could there be? That Mo Su is just a cultivator in the initial stage of World Plane Realm. It's difficult to kill him because it's hard to keep track of his whereabouts. If that wasn't the case, I alone could have easily killed him.
"He fled into the foreign land, so he must have already died inside, causing us to have to wait here bitterly. There are still fifty something years before someone can take his place." The man shook his head, and his gaze fell on the teenager who stood right in front of the three people.
"Kong Huan, you're the Lord Vice General's third sword attendant. What do you think?"
"You're very noisy." The teenager called Kong Huan had his eyes closed. There was a green sword on his knees, and he had his hands pressed on it as he spoke flatly.
The man was not angry. As he laughed, a hint of derision flashed briefly in the depths of his eyes. The Lord Vice General had nine Great Sword Attendants, but over the past one thousand years, Kong Huan was the only one who kept watch over this place. He did not see anyone else. Every single time they took turns, they would only take other True Guards, while Kong Huan stayed for a long time.
In his opinion, this person was not favored by the Deputy General and was exiled in disguise.
After all, this place was barren, and it was difficult to improve one's cultivation. It was better to cultivate in the faction guarding it. A thousand years would allow one's cultivation to improve greatly.
As the three of them chatted, they did not notice that in front of them, in the foreign land that was filled with countless cracks, stood a person.
In the eyes of the three of them, this person was transparent, as if he did not exist.
"A thousand years passed so quickly … I originally thought that the flow of time in the foreign land was different from the outside world, but the memories of the Zhao Clan's Patriarch clearly let me know that the flow of time is the same." The three True Guards could not see him, but he could see them. In fact, Su Ming had known since a long time ago that there was someone monitoring them from beyond the foreign land. This was something he knew very clearly from the memories of Zhao Family's Progenitor.
However, these three people and the three hundred people behind them were ignored by Su Ming. The things that had happened after he was forced to step into the foreign land one thousand years ago flashed in his eyes, and he gradually fell silent.
A thousand years had passed, and the stars in the sky had turned into stars in his eyes, but they were still as brilliant as ever. When people looked at them, they looked as if they had just seen the light of yesterday, causing them to be unable to tell the difference between the years.
They were like human hair. Wisps of them floated in the air, intersecting with each other to show the times that seemed the same, but were actually different.
Su Ming stared at the galaxy. He originally did not intentionally make himself seem ancient, but when he thought back on the one thousand years that had passed in Western Ring Nebula's foreign land, as his emotions rose and fell, he could not help but let out an ancient air.
It could be said that a drastic change had happened to Su Ming during these one thousand years. It could be said to be one of the greatest serendipities in his life. He had broken free of the control of Yin Death Region's will, dispelled Di Tian's seal, obtained his Ecang clone, reached completion in Heaven Cultivation Realm, and was only a step away from World Plane Realm.
In fact, if it was not because he still did not have a cultivation base clone, then once he did, he would have immediately isolated himself to try reaching World Plane Realm.
His clone that practiced the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows Whole had also obtained an incredibly great serendipity. He had risen from the initial stage of World Plane Realm to nearly the peak of the middle stage of World Plane Realm. Besides that, Su Ming had also obtained Divine Essence.
If anyone else saw the overlapping shadows of the runic symbols that would occasionally flash in his right eye, they would definitely be shocked, and their thoughts would be filled with strangeness.
Western Ring Nebula's foreign land was a seemingly broken land with countless cracks, but it was no different from how it was in the past. If it was not because he knew that one thousand years had passed, Su Ming might not have been able to tell just where time had passed when he came out.
It was quiet all around him. He could not see much light from the stars, and neither could he see any cultivators. It was as if this place had turned into an ocean that was almost completely dark.
"I'm out." Su Ming lifted his head and stared at the endless galaxy above him. When he spoke flatly, his gaze fell on the ancient bronze sword that was not too far in the distance for the first time.
Su Ming averted his gaze, placed his hands behind his back, and took a step forward. With one step, he walked out of the foreign land, and with the other, he approached the ancient sword. Then … he moved past it with an indifferent expression.
Su Ming did not want to kill these three people. After all, if they died, it would make the forces of power from the four Great True Worlds keeping a lookout over the barren lands become wary, which was why Su Ming had ignored them.
Yet at the instant Su Ming walked past the ancient bronze sword, Kong Huan, who was meditating on the tip of the ancient sword, suddenly let out a sword whistle from the ancient green sword placed on his knees.
The sword whistle was weak, as if it was trembling. At the instant it rang out, Kong Huan's eyes flew open. The two True Guards behind him were also stunned, and they looked towards Kong Huan's sword together.
This was the first time they had heard a sword whistle in the one hundred something years they had been keeping a lookout over this place. It was also the first time Kong Huan had heard a sword whistle in the one thousand years he had been keeping a lookout over this place.
Kong Huan's expression changed drastically. Almost instantly, he stood up and looked around him. In his head, the words the Lord Vice General had said when he handed the sword to him one thousand years ago appeared.
"This sword is known as Verdant Flame. Take it, and when it lets out a sword whistle, the existence I've been waiting for will appear. I will give you this sword to keep a lookout over the foreign land.
"Once the sword lets out a sword whistle, immediately let go!" It was these words that had brought Kong Huan to this place and had caused him to sit there for a thousand years with his hands still pressed on the sword.
Now, he had waited for a thousand years. At the instant the sword let out a sword whistle for the first time, Kong Huan stood up and looked around him, and without any hesitation, he let go of the sword he had been holding for a thousand years.
The instant he let go, green flames immediately appeared on the green sword. With a bang, the sword turned into a green arc that charged towards the spot where Su Ming was in the air to the side.
Su Ming turned around, and his gaze fell on the incoming green arc. A wave of sword aura charged towards his waist, and Su Ming could not help but chuckle.
'It's rare to see a sword with such intelligence, but by the looks of it, it doesn't seem to have discovered me. Instead … 'Su Ming lowered his head and cast a glance at his waist. There … was a storage bag there.
Su Ming shook his head. At the instant the green arc closed in on him, he lifted his right hand and pointed forward. With it, the shadow of a runic symbol immediately appeared in his right eye. At the same time it gathered on his finger, he tapped the green arc with the tip of his finger.
Boom!
A loud bang shook the sky and earth, and the Emotion Sword immediately fell back while shuddering. The body of the sword melted and turned into two green threads. One of them charged towards the center of Kong Huan's brows, and the other charged into the air at an indescribable speed, intending to flee.
This scene caused the eyes of all the people on the ancient green-bronze sword to widen. Their expressions changed. They saw the green sword stab into the empty space, but at the same time as the booming sounds rang out, the green sword fell back and melted into two green threads. At that moment, they saw ripples that looked like flowing water appear in the space before them, and a tall and straight figure gradually appeared within those ripples.
He was a young man with long gray hair, a dark long robe, and an ancient air spreading out from his handsome face. Runic symbols shone in his right eye, causing all those who saw it to feel a strange feeling rise in their hearts.
"Mo Su!"
"You're Mo Su!" The man and the old man immediately recognized Su Ming, and delighted surprise appeared in their eyes. After all, the bounty on Su Ming's head was still there. As True Guards, they did not care about their freedom, but the Enchanted Treasure that contained a hint of Solar Kalpa Realm's presence made them desire it to an extreme degree.
"I originally didn't want to make things difficult for you." Su Ming lifted his head and looked at the air above him. The overlapping shadows of the runic symbols in his right eye shone, and ten thousand runic symbols immediately appeared with a bang. They spread out and instantly surrounded the entire area. Each of the runic symbols was shining, causing the entire area to look as if it had been sealed and was practically frozen.
The green thread that was about to flee into the air was also frozen by the Divine Essence Runic Symbols, and it was struggling, wanting to continue fleeing into the distance …
"But since you discovered me … then you can become my tributes," Su Ming said flatly. He took a step forward, and at the instant he did so, he appeared on the ancient bronze sword. He clenched his right hand into a fist and threw a punch downwards.
Before him was the man in the middle stage of World Plane Realm. He did not even have time to check Su Ming's level of cultivation, but a sense of danger rose within him. With an enraged roar, he formed a seal with his hands, and armor immediately appeared on his body. A gigantic runic picture also appeared before him, and as it rotated, it charged towards Su Ming.
Boom!
When Su Ming's fist landed on the Rune Picture, it immediately shattered to pieces. In the midst of the man's shock, Su Ming's fist landed on his chest before he could even retreat a few dozens of feet.
He coughed up blood, and his armor shattered. A loud bang rang out in the man's heart, and almost all his bones were crushed. As he coughed up large mouthfuls of blood, disbelief appeared on his face.
"Later stage of World Plane Realm!" His body was instantly swept up and thrown away by a great force. He landed in a crack in the area of the foreign land and instantly disappeared, sucked into it.
"The next one is you." Su Ming's expression remained the same. When he turned around, he threw a punch through the air towards the old man who was swiftly retreating with a face filled with shock.
Booming sounds reverberated in the air. A punch that had fused with Divine Essence and could temporarily bring forth the power of those in the later stage of World Plane Realm could completely suppress those in the middle stage of World Plane Realm. Unless the old man had a Kalpa Treasure or a serendipity like Su Ming, then … there was no way he could fight against it.
The old man coughed up blood, and his body pounded against the ground. His face instantly turned pale, and his body was swept away by a great force. He fell into the crack in the foreign land and disappeared without a trace.
[Recommended for readers: Promotion. Book ID 2609802. Ambition in the heart, feet on the road to greatness. (To be continued. If you like this work, please come to Start Point and vote for me. Your support is my greatest motivation.)]
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