Chapter 499: Path of Life Cultivation!
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Su Ming continued walking forward. Heplane moved past the ravines on the ground and headed to the core of the territory belonging to the Sacred Bats - the peak of the mountain.
Over there, he saw a stone monunt. The stone monunt stood high and erect. From the distance, it looked like the peak of the mountain. There were a large amount of words carved on that monunt, and at the foot of it was an old man, sitting there with his legs crossed.
The old man’s clothes were tattered and shabby. His hair was ssy and spilled all over his shoulders. His face could not be seen clearly, because he had his head lowered as if he was ditating.
"Millions of years ago, the God of Berserkers, Lie Shan Xiu had developed the land of the Berserkers and created his own cultivation thods and skills to give to the world, and had thus brought the Berserkers to greatness, had thus built the Great Yu Dynasty, and had made all races and tribes bow down to worship him. All the leaders of these races and tribes had to be acknowledged by the God of Berserkers ere they could taketh their position… Then, to search for his own Plane Tiline, he left our world, leaving behind his legacy among us…
"There wast a man who made a na for himself. His family na was Chi Shan, and he introduced himself as Po. He gained an epiphany from the God of Berserkers’ will in Great Yu Dynasty and hath receiveth one half of the legacy, yet not the other… He was known as the second God of Berserkers, Chi Shan Po!
"The Immortals and Evil Immortals found it that they were unable to accept this, and a great calamity fell on us again. The will of Morning Dao itself joined in, causing our land to be torn to pieces. Chi Shan Po was torn limb to limb and was buried in the five continents…"
An ancient voice reverberated through the mountain. Su Ming stood before the old man, who still had his head lowered, and listened to his slow voice.
As the old man spoke, the words on the stone monunt behind him started disappearing slowly. The words seed clear at first glance, but when Su Ming took a closer look, he found that they were actually indistinct, and he had no idea what was written up there.
At that mont, he was already certain that his decision to co to Eternal Li Mountain was correct. He still rembered that he had heard the word ‘Eternal’ from the Berserker corpse in the Candle Dragon’s body. It might only have managed to say one word, but when Su Ming heard about Eternal Li Mountain, he had begun having suspicions.
"Ten thousands years later, I was born in the Eastern Wastelands. Twas writ in mine destiny that I could receive the God of Berserkers’ will, and after much trials and hardships, I arrived in Great Yu. I saw him, heard his voice, sensed his will, but… I didst not receive the half of the second God of Berserkers’ legacy. I might call myself the third God of Berserkers, but I know that I lack what it doth take to beco God… I searched for the signs of mine ancestors and died in the World of Nine Yin…
"I thought I could awaken on this day, but alas, I could not…" That ancient voice gradually faded away. At that mont, the old man sitting under the stone monunt lifted his head slowly.
His was a very average looking face. However, the signs of ti and his old appearance gave others the impression that ti was flowing from him, and that he had gone through many things in his life.
"I knew that I would be able to see thee." The old man looked at Su Ming and spoke calmly.
Su Ming stared at the old man before him. He did not speak.
"It was simply a matter of whether thou wouldst be captured here or whether thou wouldst co on thy own. If’t be true thou wast brought back hither captive, then thou art not worthy of receiving the cultivation thod of mine people, the Berserkers, for thou lacketh the power to make thy statue of the God of Berserkers!
"It is better for thee to stay hither and beco a Berserker soul, then sink and lose thyself forever.
"If’t be true that thou can arrive on thy own, then thou shalt receive mine inheritance…" the old man said slowly, and a Berserker Mark gradually appeared on his face. That Mark was at the center of his brows, and it looked like a burning moon!
"After my will scatters hence, return mine soul to Great Yu. When mine soul returns ho, I wilt beco the catalyst for those in the Berserker Soul Realm to breakthrough and reach a new Realm…
"After the Berserker Soul Realm, our blood wilt change. The cultivation for our blood, bones, and souls is done, and everything from the outermost parts of our body to the innermost of our souls is perfect. From hence, we shalt cultivate our bodies no more, but our Life Matrices!
"We must break our Life Matrices and tread on the path to find what is lacking in our lives. This is called Life Privation!
"We must learn of what we lack in ourselves like we know of the regrets the world possesses and like we understand the changes in the world. This is Life Palace!
"When we have the Life Palace in our hands, then we wilt receive endless glory. We wilt be able to use the power of the World Plane, and this is called the World of Life!
"Life Matrix, Life Privation, Life Palace, World of Life, these are all after the Berserker Soul Realm, and it is the path of Life Cultivation that belongs to us Berserkers. If we step onto this path…" The old man looked at Su Ming. His words spread out and his voice echoed in the air. However, Su Ming simply continued standing there, only listening and not speaking.
"I lacked fire in my life, hence I absorbed all manner of fire in my path of Life Cultivation. Yet… in the end, to mine shock, I discovered that the fire I lacked was not of Yang properties, but the flas possessing extre Yin properties…
"These flas only exist in the moon, hence I worshiped the moon and called myself a Berserker walking down the path of Fire Cultivation!
"But alas, I could not understand the fire of the moon, and neither could I sense the flas that bring about brightness. Mine will was split into two, Yin and Yang. One of them was the Fire Berserker, and the other the God of Berserkers, just as the sky hath night and day. All that was left was my anguish, and I asked the blue sky why it cried…
"I received an innurable amount of serendipities in mine life, but in the end, I died in the Enchanted Vessel belonging to Sacred Yin. I had been sad, I had grieved, I had felt bitterness, I had been overco by greed…" the old mumbled as he looked at Su Ming, and his words were filled with endless regrets.
Most of the words on the stone monunt behind him had disappeared, and soon, there would be no words left.
"I am the third God of Berserkers, Li Shan Huo. Before mine death, I looked at the sky, and mine eyes remained gazing at it even as I closed mine eyes… If thou art one of the descendants of mine race, then doth not forget mine path… The stone monunt behind mine body is the legacy of the first God of Berserkers, yet… it ends at the third…"
When the old man finished speaking, the final line of words on the stone monunt behind him turned indistinct and finally disappeared. At that mont, the entire stone monunt was empty.
As the words on the stone monunt completely disappeared, the face of the old man who had been looking at Su Ming while mumbling began rotting away, and gradually, he crumbled before Su Ming’s eyes.
A gentle breeze swept past at that mont and blew away the old man’s ashes. It brought them along and floated into the distance. The only things that couldn’t be blown away by that gust of wind were three round pearls that remained on the ground where the old man sat. These three pearls were dark, but there was an indefinable mysteriousness about them. They looked as if they could devour light, and were incredibly striking.
The old man had already died a long ti ago. What remained of him was perhaps a wisp of his soul or a hint of his will. It might even be another sort of existence, but no matter what, the fact that he had died a long ti ago remained.
That was why Su Ming did not speak. He had been able to see since a long ti ago that his reflection did not exist in the old man’s pupils, even if he was looking at him.
Right at that mont, he understood. What the old man saw was sothing left behind since an unknown amount of years ago, not Su Ming himself.
Su Ming did not understand this whole concept of gaining consciousness. However, the instant he stood on the mountain and saw the old man, he had only been able to see the three pearls that were left on the ground.
The old man had been an illusion. He was a semi-transparent entity floating above the three pearls, as if he was just an illusory shadow that persisted through ti. The only thing he wanted to do was to say those words and pass down the legacy of the God of Berserkers…
At the sa ti the old man disappeared and the words on the stone monunt vanished, the Sacred Bats in the nurous ravines on the ground at the foot of the mountain started shuddering. Gradually, their bodies began degenerating. They started shrinking, and their human forms eventually turned into those of bats. They flew in the sky in circles, and it looked as if they had covered the entire sky. They shrieked, and after a long while, they slowly returned to the ravines on the ground in large crowds, disappearing without a trace.
As they left, the mountain where Su Ming was started trembling and began to sink down slowly. By the looks of it, it wanted to return to the depths of the ground, to the state it was before it rose all those years ago.
Su Ming stood on the mountain, experiencing the mountain sinking down. He closed his eyes.
He might not have obtained the answers he wanted despite having co here, but sowhere in the depths of his mind, he felt as if he had still obtained so form of an answer.
‘After the Berserker Soul Realm is Life Matrix, Life Privation, Life Palace, and World of Life. This is known as the path of Life Cultivation…’
Su Ming lifted his right hand and waved his arm, sweeping up the three pearls on the ground and that stone monunt. Once he put them into his storage bag, he opened his eyes and cast a glance at the spot where the old man disappeared, then turned around and walked towards the sky.
After he left, the mountain sank down while rumbling, eventually disappearing from the land. The ravines on the ground closed up once again, and gradually, not a single crack could be found on the ground.
Su Ming stood in midair with a rather befuddled look on his face. He only snapped out of his daze after a long while.
He had seen the words and the illusion left behind by the third God of Berserkers before he died. Perhaps the Berserker in the Candle Dragon’s body had also heard these words before, but why would he appear in the Candle Dragon’s body? Why did he not take away those three pearls belonging to the third God of Berserkers? This was a mystery, and Su Ming could not figure out the answer.
‘The first God of Berserkers’ legacy will end at the third… This might be the reason why the words on the stone monunt disappeared. So he will only pass his legacy up to the third…?’
Su Ming turned around and headed towards the direction of the Fated Kin’s valley. As he walked in midair, the heaviness he felt in his heart could be seen from his footsteps.
"It will end at the third…" Su Ming mumbled. He could already sowhat imagine a huge and tall figure bringing the people under his command to move towards the sky as he stood in the air above Great Yu Dynasty, before the land of the Berserkers was torn into five continents. Before he left, he turned his head back and cast a glance at the land.
‘It will end at the third!
‘When Lie Shan Xiu obtained the power of the first God of Berserkers, his so called Great Yu Dynasty and his people were no longer important. He brought the Berserkers to glory, left behind the God of Berserkers Song for his descendants as a song of praise, but it was impossible for him to protect the Berserkers forever.
‘Leaving behind his legacy up to the third God of Berserkers was already his final show of reluctance to part with us. If there is soone who can surpass him among the next two God of Berserkers, then his legacy would continue, but if no one could surpass him, then the Berserkers… would no longer be of his concern.’
Clarity gradually appeared in Su Ming’s eyes as he ca to a sudden realization - the first God of Berserkers might never return to the Berserkers.
Su Ming shook his head and disappeared into the darkness.
Right at that mont, the Land of South Morning located outside the World of Nine Yin was going through a great disaster that could alarm the skies. This catastrophe could not be hidden away, and over the years, all the Cultivators in the entire continent had learned about it.
The Catastrophe of the Eastern Wastelands!
This disaster should have fallen on their heads a few years ago, but the Shamans and Berserkers had done everything they could to push it back, yet now, no matter what they did, they could not stop this catastrophe’s arrival.
The seawaters raged to the east of South Morning and huge waves surged into the sky. A large amount of seawater had already drowned out a small part of the land of the Shamans. Nurous mountains had already sunk into the sea as that seawater that surged into the sky ca upon them. A large amount of lives lost everything in this catastrophe.
The nurous ferocious beasts in the seawater and the giants that had half their heads exposed above the sea walked onto the land belonging to the Shamans as the seawater flooded the place. They started moving forward.
The seawater roared endlessly. If anyone stood at the edge of the continent, right behind the land of the Shamans that had been subrged, and looked ahead, they would be able to see that there was a gigantic, black shadow not too far away. That shadow seed so big that it seed to have no end, and it was a gigantic continent, a continent that was known as the Eastern Wastelands!
It was finally here!
What awaited South Morning was a fate that was much worse than seawater spreading to the land, and in fact, the fate of having their land subrged in seawater could not even be compared to this, their true catastrophe… the clash of two continents!
One among the two would definitely crumble and shatter!
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