The area instantly fell into dead silence. Kong Huan shuddered and looked at Su Ming with fear. The three hundred cultivators in black armor on the ancient bronze sword did not dare to get closer.
They might have seemed to be filled with the aura of stillness, but in truth, their minds were still the same. It was only because they practiced the same cultivation method that they possessed the same presence. This cultivation method could make their hearts nearly stop and make them callous and merciless.
However … at the instant Su Ming's Divine Essence Runic Symbols covered the area, a vast, mighty pressure instantly descended on their bodies. That pressure crushed their callousness, causing fear to grow in their hearts.
It was especially so when … he had nearly killed the middle-aged man with one punch and the old man in white with another. Clearly, Su Ming had done this intentionally, or else the two of them would have definitely died.
Those in the later stage of World Plane Realm could suppress all cultivators beneath them. This sort of strength turned into despair in the hearts of the people in the area.
The air was locked down, and even the ancient bronze sword was covered in runic symbols, causing the sword to lose its function and be unable to be controlled. There seemed to be only one path left before all of them: death.
"Either you die, or you step into the foreign land," Su Ming said flatly. He swept his gaze past the three hundred cultivators in black armor. All those who met his gaze felt their hearts tremble, and they instinctively lowered their heads.
Some of them gritted their teeth after some hesitation and charged towards the crack to the foreign land. When some of them lifted their heads, the others turned into long arcs in the face of the threat of death. In an instant, all three hundred people in black armor stepped into the crack to the foreign land and disappeared without a trace.
Su Ming and Kong Huan were the only ones left. Kong Huan, who had a green thread fused into the center of his brows, had a ferocious expression on his face. Veins popped up on his face, but the fear in his eyes grew stronger, and he could not help but let out a low growl.
As he growled, a green mark gradually appeared at the center of his brows. That mark looked like a peacock spreading its tail. Behind him, as the air distorted, a gigantic shadow of a peacock manifested.
The peacock was blurry and seemed to be extremely weak. However, the moment it appeared, Kong Huan's cultivation rose rapidly. However, as it rose, his appearance changed from that of a teenager to that of a middle-aged man, and then to that of an old man. His hair also turned from black to gray, and in the end, white.
It was as if his own life force had been set aflame, transforming into fuel for his cultivation base to explosively increase. It had become the foundation that allowed him to form this peacock. At the same time, his eyes were bloodshot, and filled with madness. It was a madness that had no intelligence.
At this moment, it was as if his mind had been replaced, and he had become a wild beast that had lost all reason.
Su Ming watched Kong Huan's transformation quietly. There was a question in his heart. The virescent sword should not have discovered him, but had discovered … his storage bag.
Or rather, it had discovered a certain living being or item in his storage bag.
'Could it be …' An answer rose in Su Ming's head, but at the same time it appeared, grief appeared in his eyes.
Su Ming had never been a magnanimous person when the four Great True Worlds chased after him in the past. The bounty offered by the forces of power from the four Great True Worlds keeping a lookout over the barren lands had forced him to step into the foreign land. All of this … Su Ming had sworn an oath in the past that he would definitely return the favor several fold.
However … he had an even more important matter. This matter was far more important than taking revenge on the four Great True Worlds, which was why he had been prepared to ignore Kong Huan and the other two.
Su Ming touched his storage bag gently. The sleeping bald crane was in that storage bag.
It … was slowly disappearing, as if it was a change that could not be reversed. This change was not too obvious in the foreign land, but once he walked out of it, it became several times faster.
Su Ming did not know the reason for this, but he knew that if it was not to help him, the bald crane would not have done this. If it was not to help Su Ming succeed in his Possession, the bald crane would not have burned its soul and was now on the verge of death.
In fact, Su Ming did not even dare to bring out the bald crane from his storage bag. He was worried … that the instant he brought it out, it would instantly disappear. From then on, the bald crane would no longer exist in the universe. It would no longer be the creature that loved money as much as its own life, but had accompanied Su Ming to the Barren Lands of Divine Essence and possessed plenty of secrets.
'Looks like there are different voices among the forces of power from the four Great True Worlds keeping a lookout over the barren lands. Some of them are for me, and some … are for it.' Killing intent replaced the grief in Su Ming's eyes. He had always been a person who would protect his own. At that moment, when he looked towards Kong Huan, he let out a cold harrumph.
At that moment, Kong Huan threw his head back and roared. He had completely lost his intelligence. When he opened his mouth, a large amount of saliva flowed out, and he roared furiously at Su Ming. He looked like a crazed peacock that was swiftly charging towards him.
'His level of cultivation has actually risen to near the peak of the middle stage of World Plane Realm, but … it's still not enough.' Su Ming lifted his right hand and swung it forward. With it, the ten thousand runic symbols in the area immediately charged towards Kong Huan from all directions. At the instant Kong Huan was still several hundreds of feet away from Su Ming, they completely covered the area around him, turning into an existence that looked like a grave.
"Make the runic symbols underground. This is … the grave."
Boom!
The Runic Symbol Grave buried Kong Huan. At the same time it turned into a stone monument and scattered, a green thread flew out, but before it could fly too far away, Su Ming grabbed it. Another green thread also appeared in his palm. That green thread was the one that had been trying to escape into the distance just now, but had been stopped by Su Ming with the runic symbols, and he had managed to take it into his hand.
The two green threads struggled in Su Ming's hand as if they wanted to fly out, but they could not break free from the suppression from the runic symbols of Divine Essence around him. Su Ming looked at the two green threads, and a glint appeared in his eyes. Once he seized them, banging sounds came from his palm.
When Su Ming unfurled his palm, the green thread disappeared. There was only a green feather that shone with a faint light. There was a hint of dried blood on the feather, and it exuded an ancient presence.
At the instant Su Ming noticed that presence, his heart trembled.
'This is … the bald crane's presence!' A crease gradually appeared between Su Ming's brows, and a pensive look appeared on his face.
'Just what is the goal of the person who arranged for Kong Huan to bring the feather here? One of the two green threads clearly wanted to flee and send a message. Since I stopped it, that person shouldn't know about what happened here for the time being.
'But just what is this person thinking? If he wants to harm the bald crane, why would he give me the feather? If he wants to return it, why would he attack me just now?' Su Ming fell silent.
After a moment, a glint appeared in his right eye. Immediately, the runic symbols around him that contained the power of Divine Essence covered his body. In an instant, they fused into his skin and entered his body.
Su Ming closed his eyes. At that moment, there was no longer any light around him. In fact, even his presence had disappeared, as if he no longer existed in this galaxy.
However, there was a raging storm in his body at that moment. All the runic symbols were like a huge net, and as they swiftly shrank, it was as if Su Ming's body had turned into an ocean at that moment. The Divine Essence Runic Symbols had turned into a net that could cover the entire ocean.
As it shrank in his body, it was similar to how a normal fisherman would fish out a fish. However, what Su Ming was fishing out was not a fish … but a memory.
These memories were of Su Ming when he was in Crimson Flame Planet.
'The Divine Essence Runic Symbols will serve as a seal. Seal … the root of Crimson Flame Planet's memories!' When Su Ming opened his eyes, the runic symbols in his body immediately turned into seals and sealed off all of his memories in Crimson Flame Planet.
At the instant those memories were sealed, a dark light shone in Su Ming's eyes. He had a vague feeling that an invisible thread had been cut off the instant his memories were sealed.
'The four Great True Worlds were able to chase after me in the past because they borrowed the memories of a certain person in Crimson Flame Planet and used them to cast a strange divine ability that turned them into Blood Identification Pearls.
'In the past, I could not understand it, neither could I figure it out, but now, with my Divine Essence … this Blood Identification Pearls Art will temporarily lose its effect. If I want to truly make it lose its effect, then I will need to wipe off the memories of a certain person in Crimson Flame Planet.
'Then, the four Great True Worlds will not be able to find out my whereabouts, and neither will they be able to know … that I have walked out of Western Ring Nebula's foreign land.' When Su Ming walked out of the land with the one hundred thousand stone monuments, he had already cast this Sealing Art and wiped off all traces of himself. Now that he was outside, he cast it once again, causing this matter to become complete, and Su Ming felt completely at ease.
Once he finished doing all this, Su Ming lowered his head and looked at his storage bag. After a moment, a resolute look appeared on his face. He lifted his right hand and revealed the totem formed by the Duke of Crimson Flame on his arm.
Immediately, the totem on his right arm shone with light. As that light shone dimly, the totem slowly disappeared from Su Ming's arm, but at the instant it disappeared, the Duke of Crimson Flame appeared out of thin air before Su Ming, as if he had just woken up from a thousand years of deep sleep. When he looked towards Su Ming, there was a dazed look on his face.
However, that dazed look immediately turned into shock after several breaths. The Duke of Crimson Flame stared at Su Ming with a dumbfounded expression. He immediately noticed that the disaster of the Shadow of Crimson Flame that practiced the Art of Swallowing Hollow Shadows Whole had reached its fifth disaster!
Su Ming's level of cultivation had also reached a level that was close to the peak of the middle stage of World Plane Realm. But this was still secondary. The most important thing was that he could sense a powerful sense of danger from Su Ming's body. That sense of danger was a presence that stood above all manner of living. That presence was still weak, but even so, it was enough to make the Duke of Crimson Flame apprehensive. If it grew up, then with just one thought, it might be able to reduce the Duke of Crimson Flame to ashes. This feeling caused the Duke of Crimson Flame's heart to tremble violently.
But he was still wrong. If the presence of Divine Essence in Su Ming's body truly grew up, then with just one thought, the Duke of Crimson Flame would not be the only one who would be reduced to ashes … the entire universe would be reduced to ashes.
This was the Destruction of the Universe with One Thought.
"You … How many years have passed?" The Duke of Crimson Flame was, after all, an old monster who had lived for countless years. He might be shocked, but the first question he asked had already hit the nail on the head.
If Su Ming told him that one hundred thousand years or even more had passed, then he would have an answer to everything. On the other hand, if it had only been hundreds or thousands of years, then Su Ming must have obtained some sort of unimaginably great serendipity during this period of time.
"I will tell you about this later, senior Crimson Flame. Please answer me first. Just where did the bald crane come from?"
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