**Chapter: The Fall of Ming and the Dawn of Change**
I say: Dear reader, I am "Ming." Apologies for the long hiatus in writing chapters…let's go.
Ming stared at the ground, and saw a transfer array, he was shocked and said:
— Who laid a formation here?
But then, he was falling from the sky. He attempted to open the demonic crow wings, but he failed in every attempt, and could feel his Qi leaking out of his body.
An old man was watching the scene at the foot of a mountain.He saw two figures falling: one falling like the darkness of night, and the other like ice rain.
Back to Ming… He looked downward and felt that he was not falling but rising! He realized that his power was going to collapse. When he glanced back, he saw the **ice Qi**, and knew that "Wang" was behind him, but he was at a loss. All of a sudden, he was in a lake of water.
Near the lake, a woman was drawing water when she spotted a body floating—it was Ming. She pulled him quickly into a small hut. Ming awoke after two days.
He opened his eyes and saw three people. The woman smiled with joy and said:
— Finally, you woke up! I thought you were dead.
Ming replied: "Forgive me, but who are you?The woman smiled
and said:
— My name is **Mi Lin**, and these two are my brothers: the redhead with green eyes is **Liang Wei**, and the one with black hair and red eyes is **Cheng Dao**. I saw you floating in the lake, so I saved you.
Ming said:
— Thank you for saving me.
Ming glanced at Cheng Dao and saw that his cultivation platform was defiled, and that Qi was not circulating in him. He thought to himself: *This man has abused yang… he is addicted to evil things.*
Then he looked at Liang Wei, shocked, and thought: *Excellent! This man has not only an extraordinary cultivation platform, but also pure Qi.*
Ming asked:
— How many days was I unconscious?
Liang Wei answered:
— Two days.
Ming said:
— Well… I have a small request.
Cheng Dao yelled angrily:
— What do you want, stranger? We don't even know your name!
Mi Lin shouted angrily:
— How dare you treat our guest so?!
Ming smiled and said:— It's fine… you want to know my name? Very well, my name is Ming.Liang Wei apologized, saying:— Forgive my brother for what he did. Please, tell us what your request is.
Ming said:— Take me outside the house.
Liang Wei and Mi Lin both said:— No, you are injured… you must rest.
Cheng scoffed and said:— It doesn't matter, just get out!
Ming smiled and said:— Strange… I am only an injured man, and we've just met, yet you treat me as if I were from an enemy clan.
Then he looked at Liang and said:— My friend, I need to meditate to recover.
Mi Lin asked in surprise:— You are a cultivator?
Ming replied:— Yes, I am a cultivator.
Cheng Dao laughed mockingly:— Hahaha! You, a cultivator? With that body? You are no cultivator… merely the letter (C) without a dot!
Ming ignored his words and said:— Come on, Liang, take me outside.
Liang carried him and placed him under a tree beside the house, then asked:— Mister Ming, what do you want?
Ming said:
— Stay by my side and don't leave.
Liang agreed. Ming began to meditate and thought to himself:
*Damn… all the Qi is dry, not a single drop left! I need pills to restore my Qi… but I have no money.*
Then he remembered bitterly and whispered:
— The Yusfer gave me money… half I spent on renting the shop, and the other half I gave to Wang."
He struck the ground with his hand in anger and said:
— But I lost everything in a single night… damn it!"
He raised his head to the sky and added:
— Xuan… I will make you regret your betrayal.
Ming gathered his strength and said:
— But how do I solve this problem of Qi now?"
He lifted his eyes to the tree before him and suddenly said:
— I've got it.
Liang stepped back as Ming began drawing the life force from the tree. An hour passed, and Ming opened his eyes, saying:
— At last… it's done.
Liang was stunned when he saw that all of Ming's wounds had healed, but he was even more shocked when he saw the tree blackened and lifeless. Ming broke him out of his daze and said:
— Liang, I have a question.
Liang replied:
— Go ahead. Ming asked:
— Are there any spiritual herbs here?
Liang replied:
— Yes, there are a lot of spiritual herbs. We pick them up and sell them to the pill makers.
Ming said:
— I have no money, but if you bring me a herb that can restore Qi, I will make you my first disciple.
Liang agreed eagerly.
Just then, Mi Lin came out, shocked by the sight of the tree, and asked:
— What happened here?"
Liang told me everything that had happened.
Then Ming said:
— Go now, both of you."
The two agreed and stepped away—Liang and Mi Lin.
Ming took out a black stone with a star on it, and then poured Qi into it. He thought to himself:
*This stone was given to me by Yusfer, he said to contact him if anything came up.*
We shift to the underworld… ministers were gathered around Yusfer on his throne.
Suddenly the black stone glowed with a strong light. Yusfer looked at the stone and said:
— That's Ming… has something happened?
He established the link and said:
— Greetings Ming, what do you want?
Ming replied:
— Yusfer, listen… I have failed the mission. Kaman is dead, Xuan betrayed us, Shin seems to have died, Jojo is gone, Wang—I don't know what happened to him… and I am wounded."
Yusfer was shocked and said:
— Ming, you're joking, right?
Ming replied:
— No, I'm not joking with you.
Yusfer said:
— Then endure.
Ming smiled and said:
— Don't worry… my patience is like the patience of a turtle walking a thousand miles.
Yusfer said:
— Very well… farewell.
He ended the connection, then turned to his ministers and said:
— Call all the successors.