Causing the Dao Avenue Mountain to emit such a cry in four days was something that had never happened in the Yu Clan. All those who'd passed through the first door had persisted for ten days before the Dao Avenue Tune resounded in the mountain.
Even the only Progenitor of the Yu Family who had cleared the Three Gates of Heavenly Dao had used seven days to make that voice appear in Dao Avenue Mountain.
When that voice appeared again, it immediately shook the entire Yu Family. As people rushed over from all directions, the expressions of the five old men changed. The shock in their hearts caused their breathing to quicken slightly.
Only Yu Chen Hai clenched his fists in excitement in the distance.
"Who is challenging the first gate of the Three Gates of Heavenly Dao?!" At that moment, a buzzing voice traveled into the air, and along with it came the first member of the Yu Family who had rushed over.
He was a middle-aged man with a fair face and no facial hair. He was dressed in a long gray robe, and his hair spilled over his shoulders. He came over through the air and stood in front of the five old men.
The five of them immediately stood up and wrapped their fists in their palms to bow towards the middle-aged man.
"Greetings, Third Sect Elder." The five of them spoke at the same time, and there was respect on their faces. Even though they were all members of the Yu Family and the middle-aged man before them did not seem to be older than them, the five of them knew that the middle-aged man's true age could not be determined.
The five of them had seen him like this thousands of years ago, and even after thousands of years had passed, he still looked the same. In fact, they even knew that even their elders had to be respectful towards this person.
It was especially so when the family offered sacrifices to their ancestors once every sixty years. This middle-aged man's appearance was practically the same as one of the Progenitors in the family's ancestral hall.
Even if they did not mention this, just his status alone was enough to make the five of them feel inferior to him. They had to be respectful towards him. This middle-aged man was ranked third among the Yu Family Elders.
That was why most of them addressed him as Third Sect Elder.
"My son, Chen Hai, recruited someone, and he agreed to come here to take the test of the Three Gates of Heavenly Dao." When the five of them faced the middle-aged man's question, they hesitated for a moment after greeting him, but they did not dare hide anything and answered him in low voices.
"Hmm? Since when did the temporary guests of the Yu Family need to challenge the Three Gates of Heavenly Dao? " When the middle-aged man spoke flatly, his gaze fell on Yu Chen Hai, who had stood up a long time ago and had a respectful expression on his face.
"Greetings, Third Elder!" Yu Chen Hai felt slightly uneasy. With his status in the clan, he would usually not be able to see this middle-aged man. He would only be able to see him from the distance when he was offering sacrifices to the ancestors. At that moment, he quickly knelt down on the ground.
"Suppressing others and fighting between factions is a matter between the younger generation. I will not interfere in it, but … regarding the matter of using the Three Gates of Heavenly Dao … once you are done, go and isolate yourselves. Do not let me see you for the next one thousand years," the middle-aged man said flatly, then changed the topic and spoke slowly to Yu Chen Hai.
"You're a member of Yu Hao's bloodline, aren't you?"
"Third Elder, I am indeed a descendant of Progenitor Yu Hao," Yu Chen Hai said in a low voice, not daring to get up.
"Tell me what happened." The middle-aged man placed his hands behind his back and looked at Dao Avenue Mountain while waiting for Yu Chen Hai to speak.
Yu Chen Hai quickly told him the entire process of how he got to know Su Ming, from the beginning to the end. As he spoke, people rushed over one after another. Once they saw the middle-aged man, they bent their backs and greeted him with respectful expressions.
When Yu Chen Hai finished speaking, there were already nearly a hundred members of his family surrounding the area. They had also heard Yu Chen Hai's story.
"What's the name of the temporary Guest that you recruited?" The middle-aged man's expression remained the same after listening to the story.
"His name is Su Ming," Yu Chen Hai immediately answered in a low voice.
"Su Ming …" The middle-aged man no longer spoke. Instead, he continued looking at Dao Avenue Mountain.
"Dao Avenue's Voice appeared in four days. How did you do it..? I wonder if you will fail, or perhaps you will need a few more days before you can make the Spirit Bat fly and reveal the second Gate, the Sun and Moon Shine Together." The middle-aged man's expression was indifferent. He spoke softly, as if he was talking to himself, but also as if he was talking to someone else.
Time trickled by. His presence caused Yu Chen Hai to feel incredibly nervous, and it was the same for the other members of his family. Even the sounds of discussion had disappeared, and in the end, the place fell into dead silence.
…..
Su Ming sat cross-legged on a never-ending mountain range. When he cast his gaze around him, he saw a vast expanse of mountains that rose and fell. There were valleys everywhere, and there were also endless plains.
In this place, he forgot about the flow of time. He looked at the sky calmly, and the sun, moon, and stars were circulating in his eyes. He had already executed the divine abilities of illusions he had come to understand to their fullest extent during this period of time.
However … he still could not stop his body from rotting away. He could not stop his physical body from slowly fading away. Most of his sitting body had already rotted away to the point that only his bones remained.
From the moment Su Ming stepped into Dao Avenue Mountain, he had been sitting on the spot without moving. He did not sense any danger in this vast world, as if there was no danger in this place at all.
However, he still did not move, because … the ground, the mountain ranges, the plains, and the valleys in this place … Su Ming's heart trembled the moment he saw them.
He was definitely the first cultivator among the countless people who had challenged the first gate of Dao Avenue Mountain to be able to recognize this land at first glance.
He recognized what this land was, because several years ago, he had seen the same thing with his own eyes when he was in the camp of the forces of power from True Sacred Yin World keeping a lookout over this place. It was precisely because he had been chased by that thing that he had managed to summon the ten souls of Ecang in Western Ring Nebula's foreign land.
A Master of Fate, Lives, and Death!
The land under him was the palm of a Master of Fate, Lives, and Death. The mountain ranges were the palm lines, the plains were the empty spaces between them, and the valleys were the cracks.
However, the land on this palm was even larger than what Su Ming had experienced in the past!
This made Su Ming remember the gigantic statue of the mountain he had seen outside Dao Avenue Mountain. The existence that was like a malicious spirit had a gigantic bat that could not fly out of its right hand.
That bat was black, just like the color of his body as it rotted away.
"As long as you believe in it, it will exist," Su Ming mumbled. Su Ming mumbled. This was what Yu Chen Hai had told him. It was the experience the Yu Family had gathered over the countless years, but even if he had learned about this beforehand, it would not have been of much use. It still made it incredibly rare for any member of the Yu Family to clear the first gate.
"There's a power I've never come into contact with in this place. This power is so strong that it can exist together with the universe …" Su Ming said softly. His body was still rotting away, and as he spoke, the bones in the places where he had rotted away gradually started disappearing. From the distance, his body looked as if it had turned into a bat.
A bat that could not fly out of its palm.
"I just reached home. My body was tired, and my heart was also tired. I suddenly felt a little lost, as if I had no direction …
"Too many things have happened this time, and I've spent too much time on the flight.
"It's especially so since I didn't sleep last night, and I was so tired when I reached Tsingtao that I slept past the time the plane took off. In my current condition, I can write an entire chapter, but I can't guarantee the quality. It'll be very bad.
"I forced myself to write a few hundred words just now, but I deleted them. The fatigue in my body and mind has caused me to be in no condition at all.
"I misspoke today, but I don't ask for forgiveness, because I misspoke to begin with. Tomorrow, I will organize my mind and not think about the unknown. I will focus on bursting forth with all of you!
"In March, I will explode! "(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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