Su Ming turned his head sideways and cast a glance at Lie Shan Xiu's statue, then sighed softly.
He understood now. It could be said that he completely understood now. This was a choice Lie Shan Xiu had no other choice for himself, or rather, for the God of Berserkers who had come to the land of Berserkers.
Su Ming was number one, and Lie Shan Xiu was also number one.
This was … a competition between the Gods of Berserkers. The victor would obtain the legacy of all the Berserker Seeds and reach an incredibly high level of cultivation, which would then lead the entire Berserkers to rise to power.
The competition this time did not seem cruel, because there was no killing or fighting in it. It was … a search.
If Su Ming found Lie Shan Xiu, then he would win, and if he could not, then he would lose.
As for the time limit … it was ten thousand years. However, eight thousand years had passed since then, so there were only two thousand years left.
'The first God of Berserkers, Lie Shan Xiu … hesitated in the past because of the cruelty inherent in this competition between the Gods of Berserkers. It was something he did not want … That was why he gave ten thousand years. If the God of Berserkers from his homeland came during these ten thousand years, then he could go through this competition where he had no other choice. There was a possibility of him winning.
'But if no God of Berserkers came within ten thousand years, then … he would replace the Berserkers in Yin Death Region and bring about … a storm that would bring about their rise to power.
'Then … what reason could it be that made Lie Shan Xiu believe that there could only be one God of Berserkers in the land of Berserkers? What reason could it be that made him give his descendants this path? This is illogical, but he still did it. ' Su Ming closed his eyes. In his mind, the hint of sadness spreading out from Lie Shan Xiu's statue appeared.
'Perhaps there are many answers hidden within this sadness. 'Su Ming opened his eyes. He had his own answer.
'I will not fight for it, and neither will I search for it. I have my own path. ' Su Ming swung his arm and walked towards Elder Feng and the others. As he arrived, the near one hundred Berserkers stood up and looked at him with complicated expressions. They were waiting for his choice.
"I …" Su Ming looked at the Berserkers, at the ancient Elder Feng and Elder Yu, and the moment he said one word, he suddenly froze. He had thought of a possibility.
This possibility made his words fall abruptly in his throat. His pupils shrank, and he slowly turned around to look at Lie Shan Xiu's statue.
"Sorrow, hesitation, gazing at the sky, contemplation … an illogical choice, all of this … is it really that simple …"
'The first God of Berserkers, Lie Shan Xiu, stood here for three years in the past … Berserker Seed No.1 …' Su Ming's breathing quickened. He seemed to have grasped the key to this, but it was still unclear.
As the near hundred Berserkers waited for Su Ming to make his choice, he looked at Lie Shan Xiu's statue once again. He walked slowly to the statue's side once again and focused his attention on the man's face.
He saw hesitation, sadness, and contemplation. However, when these three emotions fused together, it caused Su Ming's heart to tremble, because he saw that once they fused together, there seemed to be … a hint of anguish hidden deeply within Lie Shan Xiu's expression!
Su Ming fell silent. He stood beside Lie Shan Xiu's statue once again and lifted his head to look at the sky. Time trickled by, and seven days later, a hesitant look appeared on Su Ming's face.
This was a hesitation he had intentionally created. He was recalling all the memories that made him hesitate, and once they fused together, they gathered on his face.
Another ten days went by. In the midst of the hesitation on Su Ming's face was sadness. Once that deep sadness and hesitation fused together, it caused Su Ming's expression to look incredibly complicated.
Another half a month went by. Besides hesitation and sadness, there was also a third expression on Su Ming's face, and that was … contemplation.
Only at that moment did he lift his head and look towards the sky. After remaining silent for a month, his voice echoed in the air.
"Yu Rou, tell me, what is the first description that appears in your mind when you look at my expression now?"
As Su Ming spoke, Yu Rou, who had been accompanying him quietly by his side, looked at his face in an elegant and quiet manner. After a moment, she spoke softly.
"Anguish. Struggle."
Su Ming's heart trembled. Perhaps he could be mistaken, but the verification this time allowed him to know that the hint of anguish he saw on Lie Shan Xiu's face was not a figment of his imagination!
There was struggle within that anguish, but it was easy to understand. It could be understood that Lie Shan Xiu did not want the competition to become the God of Berserkers to happen, but he had to do it, that was why there was anguish and struggle within him.
But … there was another explanation. Perhaps there was a hidden truth hidden behind that anguish, and it was a truth that Lie Shan Xiu wanted to convey in a subtle manner.
Su Ming fell silent. As his pupils shrank, he maintained his expression and lifted his head to look at the sky.
"First God of Berserkers, Lie Shan Xiu, let me see what you want to tell me." Su Ming continued looking at the sky and simply allowed time to pass, allowed the wind and rain to fall on him, allowed the clouds in the sky to continue changing, disappearing and reappearing as time passed.
One day, two days, three days …
One month, two months, three months …
The near one hundred Berserkers behind him also noticed something strange, especially Elder Feng and Elder Yu. Once they looked at each other, their expressions turned incredibly solemn.
Ever since the Duke of Crimson Flame acknowledged Su Ming as his young master, he had never left him. At that moment, he stood by the side, keeping his guard up against the people from the Lie Shan Family. He would not allow anyone to threaten Su Ming.
Yu Rou's personality had always been elegant. Time might have passed, but she continued sitting there quietly and watching the sun rise and set.
As for the bald crane and the Abyss Dragon, these two dogs were originally still lying on the ground, but the bald crane grew impatient and managed to persuade the Abyss Dragon with some unknown method. It then ran away quietly a month ago, disappearing without a trace.
In the blink of an eye, half a year went by. Su Ming continued standing in the middle of the wind and rain. Even when the weather turned cold and snow started falling from the sky, he still did not move. He was immersed in an almost ethereal state as he stared at the sky and the clouds.
When winter slowly passed and spring arrived, all manner of living came to life. More clouds slowly appeared in the sky, and Su Ming's body suddenly trembled.
He had been standing there for nearly ten months. At that moment, as his body trembled, the Berserkers behind him immediately focused their gazes on him.
In fact, Elder Feng even lifted his head to look at the sky, but he only saw clouds. Besides that, there was nothing else.
Su Ming stared at the sky. He could clearly see that the clouds in the sky seemed to have gone through some sort of change at the instant they intersected with each other.
It seemed as if they were about to reveal something, but in the end … there was nothing.
Su Ming gradually calmed down and continued looking at the sky quietly. Time passed once again, and in the blink of an eye … a year passed by. Su Ming had been standing beside Lie Shan Xiu's statue on the mountain for a total of two years.
During these two years, the Yu Family became the masters of Black Water City, and they also became the strongest family in the world. Even though … the Yu Family did not have a Master of Fate, Lives, and Death, they still became one of the three strongest families in the world.
Black Ink Planet had organized multiple auctions during these two years, and the people coming and going were incredibly lively. However, the area around Su Ming seemed to have been locked down. Not a single person appeared during these two years.
It was as if this place … had turned into a forbidden ground in Black Ink Planet!
During the third year, as the seasons of spring, summer, autumn, and winter passed by, Su Ming stood on the mountain for three whole years!
On the last day of those three years, when the sun set, Su Ming shuddered once again. He moved, and there was anguish as well as conflict on his face. He stood there for three years without blinking, just like Lie Shan Xiu.
Three years had passed, and he had not seen anything. However, he had a feeling that he had seen something. When he closed his eyes, that feeling turned into tremors on Su Ming's body.
At the instant he closed his eyes, all the clouds rising and falling in the sky he had seen during the past three years swiftly appeared in his mind like fleeting smoke. It was as if the sky was the same, but there were slight differences in the changes in the clouds. They were swiftly connected together in Su Ming's mind, and as they flashed past his mind …
They formed six words!
These six words had existed in the sky to begin with, but he needed three years to form them as the clouds in the sky changed!
There was only one way to see these six words, and that was to look at the sky without blinking, just like Su Ming was doing right now. He would Brand all the changes in the clouds in his mind, and only at the instant he closed his eyes would those six words appear.
"Divine Essence Star Ocean, save me …"
Su Ming's heart trembled. He opened his eyes, and what he saw were precisely these six words — the cry for help hidden behind anguish and conflict!
It was clear that this cry for help could not be heard by anyone else. In fact, it could not even be said. Otherwise, Lie Shan Xiu would not have pointed it out in such a vague manner. He had even spent three years slowly changing the clouds in the sky with his divine sense, causing them to change so that the person who had been looking at the sky for three years would hear his cry for help.
The cry for help from eight thousand years ago caused Su Ming's heart to tremble, and he gained an unprecedented understanding towards Lie Shan Xiu's so-called competition between the Gods of Berserkers.
"Was there anyone else who came here before me and stood here for three years?" Su Ming suddenly asked, then turned around to look at Elder Feng and the near one hundred Berserkers.
"No." Elder Feng shook his head.
Su Ming remained silent. After some time, he sighed in his heart and said languidly, "Prepare a map of Divine Essence Star Ocean for me. The more complete, the better."
Su Ming could not turn a blind eye to the first God of Berserkers' cry for help. It was not for any other reason, but because he respected Lie Shan Xiu's glorious life.
"This isn't difficult. We have a very detailed map of Divine Essence Star Ocean to begin with, but there are plenty of changes in the galaxy, and the map changes every few hundred years. However, a month later, the Black Ink Auction will be held jointly by the families in Black Ink Planet, and it will be held once every few hundred years. At that time, the alien races from Divine Essence Star Ocean will come, and they will have an even more detailed map of the changes in Divine Essence Star Ocean over the past hundreds of years," Elder Feng said in a low voice after casting Su Ming a deep glance.
"Black Ink Auction?" A glint appeared in Su Ming's eyes.
"Will the people from the forces of power from the four Great True Worlds come?"
"In the past, the forces of power from the four Great True Worlds would send people to Black Ink Auction," Elder Feng said.
"If the forces of power from Lie Shan Family could find out the details of me being listed as a wanted criminal in the past, then could they … find the list of all the people with incredible potential among the forces of power from the four Great True Worlds who are incredibly outstanding in terms of cultivation?" Su Ming asked languidly.
It will either happen tomorrow or the day after tomorrow! I can't be certain of which day it will happen, but it will definitely happen one of these two days. (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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