Bald crane

*“You don’t want to give up on me, to leave me behind and live alone outside… then how can I let you fight with all you have to win and lose the possibility of your future because of me?! I… don’t want to lose my memories again. I don’t want to forget my home after I lose them, and neither do I want to forget my best friend…Su Ming, this is my choice!" -* **Chapter 1377 - The Bald Crane’s Choice**

The **bald crane** (秃毛鹤, Tū máo hè), also known as **Kong Mo**, is a being from Saint Defier. At some point, it started following Su Ming.

## Appearance

The usual appearance it takes is a small crane with few feathers. The bald crane often has an incredibly smug or sleazy expression on its face. To it, who was a being that could transform, this form was the one it adapted the most, but in the past it had been a cultivator.

After it fused with its physical body, black feathers grew all over its body. Its aura instantly grew, and once it reached an astonishing degree, a seven-colored light instantly erupted from its body. Its eyes instantly grew aloof, and its presence became cold. Its roars shook the universe, and it spoke in an aloof, ancient voice.

## Personality

As Kong Mo, he was aloof, cold and ruthless, but had strong feelings towards Fei Hua and Loulan.

As Hei Mo, it was incredibly sly as well as ruthless. It loved killing and plundering, and wherever it went, all the sects would be destroyed and all medicinal cores taken away. It is said that it was also very perverted.

After suffering from memory loss, the crane's obsession shifted from medical cores to crystals.  This obsession is so extreme that if it was missing even a few crystals from the set amount it would be whiny and crying for days.

It is sleazy, shameless, avaricious and willing to scam anyone if it benefits itself, especially if crystals are involved. It loves boasting  and can become incredibly jealous if someone else steals the limelight. It loves to hold grudges. Even if it's just a small matter, it would remember it for life.  It is very eager for knowledge and has a studios nature. If it believes that someone is better than itself in some aspect, it will learn from or imitate that person.

The bald crane is very loyal and values friendship extremely, even more than its obsession for crystals. Multiple times, it was willing to sacrifice itself and risk death to save Su Ming or die with him if necessary.

## Background

Kong Mo was a famous cultivator from Arid Triad's third era and part of Saint Defier.

As a boy, he spent his time with Fei Hua and Loulan.

At one point, he would take the form of a crane as great as the universe and a woman sharing Fei Hua's features would sit on his back, pat his head and speak softly to him. One day, as the woman started crying staring at a distant galaxy, in anguish, he promised to help her find her husband even if he had to risk entering Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos or his soul scattering and vanishing. After the woman received her husband's corpse, she arrived in Divine Essence Star Ocean and destroyed half of it to build a grave for her husband. Kong Mo could only watch helplessly as death filled her body, she lost consciousness and turned into stone to accompany her husband. With sorrow, Kong Mo wondered if it was worth it.

To snatch the Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos, Dark Dawn and Saint Defier both executed their own methods. Dark Dawn's camp sent Old Man Extermination, while Saint Defier's camp sent Kong Mo.

 Extermination sought to become an Ancestral Spirit, but lacked offerings, so he used the ballad to gather the the power of the entire Expanse Cosmos to find the offering and destroy the third era. Appearing as a black crane, Kong Mo gave Extermination offerings multiple times in exchange for a spot in the ballad.

Kong Mo fought with Extermination, but lost. His physical body was torn apart and his memories were scattered, but he did not die. Kong Mo's will fell into deep sleep, and the bald crane's will was born. Sui Chen Zi fought against Ecang, who was also given a spot in the ballad, but Ecang survived and developed a hatred for him and Kong Mo. For fighting Extermination after being given a spot in the ballad, Ecang saw Kong Mo as a failure and traitor, who went against the will of heaven.

During the fourth era, it arrived from Black Ink Planet to the the Fifth True World, where it appeared as a huge crane calling itself Hei Mo. It was gravely injured and needed to rob medical cores in a frenzy to recover. It was incredibly sly as well as ruthless. It loved killing and plundering, and wherever it went, all the sects would be destroyed and all medicinal cores taken away. It was only interested in medical cores. If one didn't resist, they would be fine, but if they resisted, they would bring upon themselves a disaster. It had done practically every despicable thing in the book. It poked fun of all sorts of old monsters, snatched people's medicinal cores, changed its appearance so that no one could fend against it, causing all the cranes in the fifth True World to almost be massacred for a time being. Its bad name could even make a huge sect migrate and turn a galaxy into dust.

It is said that it was also very perverted. There were quite a number of female cultivators in the fifth True World in the past who were associated with it. Every single time they mentioned it, they would grind their teeth in anger, and they would look as if they badly wanted to kill it with their own hands.

It had only failed twice in its life. The first was when it went to the Abyss Builders' homeland and was defeated by their Progenitor. However, it was only injured at that time, and since the Sovereign didn't chase after it, it successfully escaped. The second time was when it stole the True Progenitor Lu Ya's medicinal cores. Daoist Lu Ya chased after it for a thousand years and tried to kill it with his Immortal Slaying Gourd.  The crane created female gourds to take revenge on him. It created them to disgust him and seduce the small human from his gourd.

At some point, it was severely injured again for a third time and lost its physical body completely. It lost its memory and its obsession shifted from medical cores to crystals. It wandered about until it arrived in Yin Death Region. There, it had turned into various things, enjoying acting a menace to others. It became the Sacred Progenitor of Black Crane Tribe.

Before losing its physical body, it met Wu Li Zi. For whatever reason, Wu Li Zi harbored complex emotions and hatred towards Kong Mo. True General Huo Zhu managed to obtain a small portion of Kong Mo's physical body from some unknown place and used it to train. She also fused Kong Mo's blood and feathers in Wu Li Zi's body in an attempt search for Kong Mo's secret.

## History

### Book 3

The bald crane was acting as the Sacred Progenitor of Black Crane Tribe. After Su Ming's Ji Yun Hai clone arrived in Black Crane Tribe, the Patriarch summoned the bald crane by offering his heart. The bald crane appeared as a one thousand feet black crane. Uncertain of being able to defeat Su Ming, it offered him a chance to walk away. When Su Ming didn't listen, the bald crane attacked using its feathers, burying Su Ming inside a pit in the ground. As all tribe members cheered, the large crane looked incredibly pleased with itself. But then Su Ming's Nascent Soul flew out and the large crane, frightened, thought he was an Immortal. The bald crane started to feel more and more panicky as it realized that Su Ming could see this form was only an illusion with only the black feathers being real. Its real form was hiding inside a stone and ran away when Su Ming approached itself. Su Ming's Nascent Soul gave chase, but the small crane used the Sacred Light of Celestial Dao to push him away. The attack was very weak in its eyes and it was surprised that it had become so weak. After shouting about holding grudges, the small crane left.

While the Catastrophe of the Eastern Wastelands was incoming, the bald crane had transformed into a handsome young man and had created its own harem. After it was attacked by birds from the Dead Sea, it transformed into a similar bird and joined their flock to avoid danger. A few moments later, it ran into Su Ming, who was being chased by a five-colored peacock. The black crane noticed how powerful the peacock was and it turned itself into a seven-colored peacock to appear even more powerful than the five-colored peacock. Under the name of *Mo Que*, the bald crane, transformed into a seven-colored peacock, lived at Scour Sieve Island. Using visually spectacular divine abilities it awed Mo Luo. From that point forward, the bald crane was once again receiving offerings as a powerful beast. When Su Ming invaded the island and massacred its inhabitants, Mo Luo besought Sir Mo Que into helping him kill Su Ming. The crane recognized Su Ming and immediately started acting humble in front of him. Mo Luo was dumbfounded to discover that Mo Que was not a peacock, but a bald crane with half its feathers gone.

Since then, the bald crane started following Su Ming. They went to the Ninth Summit. After hearing about Si Ma Xin, Su Ming entered the Heaven Gate. Inside, the bald crane started collecting storage bags and costly things from people Su Ming killed. It was happy about its decision to follow Su Ming.

Later, the bald crane, now transformed as an old man, was running cons in the Eastern Wastelands. One day, Qian Chen ran into it. The bald crane noticed how clever Qian Chen was and decided to make him its partner in crime. Soon after, the both of them ran into a beautiful woman and a yellow dog. The bald crane tried to trick the young woman. When Qian Chen was licked by dog, he felt something strange about the mutt. With his divine ability, he could see that this yellow dog was actually a dragon. At the same moment, unaware, the bald crane proposed to kill the dog, cook and eat it. Hearing the bald crane's words, Qian Chen fainted. After Yu Xuan and Xiao Huang revealed their power, the bald crane and Qian Chen could only follow them submissively. Yu Xuan took out her anger at Xiao Huang. The dragon took out its anger at the bald crane. And the crane took out its anger at Qian Chen.

Soon after, they all were noticed by Su Ming. After Yu Xuan introduced herself, Su Ming's second senior brother suddenly asked her, if she would marry Su Ming. Everyone present was stunned. The bald crane was surprised by his shrewdness and ability to notice Yu Xuan's power. It got a feeling of a veteran from him and wanted to learn from him. The bald crane turned from an old man into a boy and it learned few skills from second senior brother. Everyone was enjoying each other's company and talking. The bald crane stated its goal was to make Dao Chen into its steed. Then it tested its new skills on Qian Chen and made him its steed.

After arriving at the God of Shamans Island, Yu Xuan made Xiao Huang destroy the fog protecting the island. Immediately a lot of shamans charged out, but Su Ming suppressed all of them. The bald crane moved to the ground and started robbing those who lost consciousness. When Yu Xuan threatened the other shamans to hand over their treasures or getting killed, the crane had an epiphany. It didn't need to steal treasures. It could just coerce people into handing over their treasures. On the Western Sea Island, the bald crane successfully took advantage of the chaos made by Yu Xuan extorting Western Sea Clan's berserkers and earned a lot.

Because of Heavenly Phantom Art used by Su Ming's second senior brother, a black longship arrived at the Ninth Summit. The newcomers were hostile and were recognized as members of Morning Dao Sect. Yu Xuan and Xiao Huang decided to help Su Ming. They all fought against Dao Slaves. When Su Ming was gravely injured, Dao Yuan stepped in and wanted to kill him himself. At that moment, the bald crane imitated the presence of a Solar Kalpa cultivator, which caused Dao Slave 21 to grab his young master and retreat in haste. But after Dao Slave 21 used a Kalpa Seeking Core, he determined that there wasn't anyone with such a power at their location. Angered, Dao Yuan moved towards Su Ming again, but then people from the Ninth Summit charged out. They wanted to repay Su Ming for saving them from Si Ma Xin and so self-destructed to keep Dao Yuan and his guards away from him. However, their sacrifice wasn't enough and Dao Slave 21 killed whoever remained. With a kiss, Yu Xuan transferred her Abyss Death Aura to Su Ming, after which she lost consciousness. Xiao Huang escaped with Yu Xuan. Four Dao Slaves had been killed, but Dao Yuan summoned a thousand black longships to descend. Willing to fight till the bitter end, Su Ming made Qian Chen faint, sent him inside a cave abode and asked the bald crane to help him take care of his senior brothers. Before Su Ming could fight, the ancient will from Yin Death Region descended and Su Ming accepted to become its Yin Death's Child in exchange for the Ninth Summit's rescue. The ancient will planned to send Su Ming to the Barren Lands of Divine Essence in the near future. Su Ming decided to visit the Alliance of the Western Region before leaving and the bald crane followed.

### Book 4

When Su Ming left the Land of Berserkers to go to the Barren Lands of Divine Essence, the bald crane sneaked after him. They landed on a planet filled with volcanos at the edge of the Barren Lands of Divine Essence. The bald crane had a feeling of familiarity from its surroundings. After noticing a group of people approaching, it turned into a stone next to the injured Su Ming. The group carried Su Ming of to offer him to their gods. The bald crane was shrewd and took Su Ming's storage bag, so that it wouldn't fall into anyone else's hands. It followed them to a large volcano. After Su Ming was thrown into the volcano, the bald crane thought he was eaten by a Crimson Python Phoenix, but Su Ming created new body from the flesh of the creature. After Su Ming and some other Crimson Python Phoenixes appeared, the latter started growling at the bald crane. The bald crane transformed into a yellow dog that looked like Xiao Huang's transformation and bared its teeth back at them.

A few years later, the bald crane, after transforming into an old man dressed in a robe with nine black dragons sewn on it, opened the seal around the volcano releasing the Crimson Python Phoenixes inside. The seal's release created a tiny gap in the Rune sealing the Duke of Crimson Flame. After Su Ming felt his third change of heart, he decided to carve the Ninth Summit out of some mountain. The bald crane was watching and felt sorry for him. Later, Su Ming and the bald crane joined Tian Lin in his plan of breaking the Rune sealing the alien races inside the planet and absorbing their power of World Planes. During the operation, the crane decided to snatch Long Li's gourd while it was on a stroll. It exchanged the gourd with Su Ming for a few shining crystals.

While Su Ming was trying to figure out how to use the gourd, the bald crane suddenly remembered some of its past and recalled seeing a similar gourd before. After True Guard Jing Nan Zi arrived at the Crimson Flame Planet, he started fighting everyone trying to break the Rune. After Sun Kun was killed and Tian Lin self-destructed, the Duke of Crimson Flame sent some power for Su Ming to absorb. When the bald crane and the Duke of Crimson Flame's gazes met, they felt a sense of familiarity between each other. Jing Nan Zi turned serious after he noticed that the Rune sealing the Duke of Crimson Flame's skull had been halfway forced out. He quickly activated the subsidiary seal, reinforcing the Rune. While the Duke of Crimson Flame was gradually getting weaker, the bald crane arrived next to his skeleton and easily pulled out the short red sword sealing him, which stunned everyone on the scene. The Duke of Crimson Flame pointed his finger at Jing Nan Zi and used the Ultimate Secret Art of the Surging Indulgers, killing him on the spot. The Duke of Crimson Flame wanted to make a deal with Su Ming. In exchange for his physical power and protection, Su Ming was suppose to promise, that once he created his own Abyssal World, he would retrieve the Abyss Soul Flags that belonged to the Surging Indulgers and resurrect the millions of his people who died during the war. After Su Ming agreed, the Duke of Crimson Flame warped the core of the Crimson Flame Planet to a distant location to escape from the incoming True Guards.

When Su Ming was searching for the storage bags of everyone that died on the Crimson Flame Planet, he couldn't find them. He quickly figured out that the bald crane had taken them. He forced it to give back Long Li's World Stone, Jing Nan Zi's Enchanted Treasure and his World Stone, and Tian Lin's Growth Armor. While travelling on a solitary meteor, the bald crane, Su Ming and the Duke of Crimson Flame ran into a flying ship with cultivators on it. Three cultivators on the ship each had a Blood Identification Pearl, which flashed detecting Su Ming as a wanted man by the True Guards. After killing them, the Duke of Crimson Flame figured out the workings of Blood Identification Pearls and they ran away deeper into the Barren Lands of Divine Essence.

Su Ming was wondering how the True Guards were able to find him time and time again. He came to the conclusion that it must be some Rune that monitors the galaxy. He asked the bald crane to break it. The bald crane was about to refuse, but Su Ming threw two storage bags with crystals. The bald crane changed its mind and gave its best. The Duke of Crimson Flame was astounded by the bald crane's avarice. He had some guesses concerning its identity, but stayed quiet. The bald crane's first try to break the Rune was not succesful, but Su Ming threw two more bags towards it. The bald crane almost went mad from excitement, but still didn't succeed in destroying the Rune. After every attempt by the bald crane to destroy the Rune, an alert sounded in the planets of the True Guards. The bald crane pretended it couldn't break the Rune so Su Ming would toss two more storage bags. Su Ming threw two more, but said that if the bald crane still couldn't break it, then he would take away all the bags. After hearing Su Ming's threat, the bald crane truly started making an effort, seriously alerting the True Guards. The True Guards moved towards the crane, but before they could arrive, the bald crane broke the Great Divinity Incarceration Rune and smugly took control of it.The Duke of Crimson Flame was amazed by its abilities. The bald crane made use of the Rune to relocate Su Ming and the Duke, exhorting them several times in the process.

After True General Huo Zhu gave permission to shut down the Great Divinity Incarceration Rune, the bald crane was angry and filled with resentment, because the it couldn't extort Su Ming for more crystals anymore. Angered, Su Ming wanted to make the lives of the True Guards and everyone who was after him a living hell. He visited over thirteen cultivation planets and freed sealed ferocious beasts and cultivators of alien races with the bald crane's help, who was very cooperative and excited because of its hatred towards the four Great True Worlds for closing down the Divinity Incarceration Rune. Their actions displeased the authorities from the the four Great True Worlds. All the True Guards from the True Sacred Yin World were ordered to attack, two World Elders in Lunar Kalpa Realm were sent after them and their bounty increased. While Su Ming wanted to hide at some planet, the Eye of Solar Kalpa suddenly appeared and revealed his location. The Duke of Crimson Flame wanted to sacrifice himself, but Su Ming told him to shift to the foreign land. Right before the War Radix Celestial Body appeared, the Duke of Crimson Flame shifted them to the foreign land in Western Ring Nebula. The Duke of Crimson Flame used up all his strength during that shift and fell into deep slumber.

In the foreign land Su Ming was competing for Divine Essence's legacy of Sui Chen Zi. During last test to make his stone monument grow to milion feet, so that he would be able to leave, Su Ming was strugling against the Ecang|golden tree on the golden planet in the illusionary world. Su Ming came up with an idea to use the life force of that golden tree to form new clone. He motivated the bald crane to help him, by promises of thousands of crystals. When Su Ming's soul occupied a third of the tree, he saw a picture of a gigantic tree in a galaxy in his soul. The bald crane recognized it as Ecang and wanted Su Ming to possess it. Ecang and the bald crane were insulting each other at the same time their wills fought. The bald crane was giving its best, but needed stimulation and Su Ming offered more an more crystals. It was so motivated, that even started burning its own soul. The bald crane overpowered Ecang and hold it back for some time. Then it shrank and fell unconscious, but not before it remainded Su Ming, that he own it one million and thirty thousand crystals. Su Ming managed to occupy a half of the tree.

After Su Ming's Surging Indulger Clone left Western Ring Nebula's foreign land after 1000 years, he was sensed by Verdant Flames given to Kong Huan by Vice General Wu Li Zi. Kong Huan was stationed to keep a lookout over the foreign land. As Su Ming defeated Kong Huan, he got a green feather from two green wisps of Verdant Flames. That green feather had the bald crane's presence. Su Ming woke up Duke of Crimson Flame to ask him about origins of the bald crane. Duke of Crimson Flame told Su Ming a legend from the fifth True World about a despicable crane named *Hei Mo* that commited all sorts of crimes. Su Ming had no trouble believing that was about the bald crane. He decided to go after person who gave Kong Huan that green feather. Crush her schemes, and take back what belonged to the bald crane. Su Ming called his Ecang Clone and Duke of Crimson Flame was astonished when he saw his power. Grand respect arose within the Duke. He started to treat Su Ming as his Young Master and a new hope for the fifth True World. They headed to the main camp of the forces of the four Great True Worlds. There Su Ming learnt about scheme of Huo Zhu to lure Kong Mo with green feathers.

After an escape from a Master of Fate, Lives, and Death and return to Western Ring Nebula's foreign land, Su Ming examined a green feather from Wu Li Zi and an illusionary green peacock manifested from it. The bald crane rushed out of the storage bag and devoured that peacock too. Then the bald crane with great struggle wanted to say to Su Ming that it needs a stimulation in form of crystals, but Su Ming didn't fall for that and told it to stop pretending. When the bald crane was still feeble, Su Ming took out spirit stones that were last of his savings. The bald crane tried very hard to look weak, but a spark in its eyes could be seen. As the bald crane tried to ask for more crystals, Su Ming just walked away, leaving it alone. When the bald crane noticed that its scheme didn't work on Su Ming, it suddenly stood up, shouted about miraculous recovery and followed Su Ming. They set out towards Black Ink Planet, where the bald crane's physical body could be.

But before leaving Western Ring Nebula, Su Ming, Duke of Crimson Flame and the bald crane returned to Crimson Flame Planet. The bald crane visited places, where he stashed crystals. Duke of Crimson Flame went to the place where he was sealed. And Su Ming went to go see Yue Hong Bang. When Su Ming sealed everyone's memories about him, they left the planet. The bald crane was agonizing about lost nine crystals. The Divinity Incarceration Rune was restored by forces of the four Great True Worlds and the bald crane could fuse with it again. After five years of travel, they encountered an Abyss Dragon with familiar presence. By seeing Su Ming, Xiao Huang was relieved and just fell asleep. Su Ming seeing its wound, killed everyone, who was chasing it. When Su Ming started to destroy meteors, Yu Han came out and tried to resolve the situation peacefully. He gave Su Ming a map of Divine Essence Star Ocean. And when he offered crystals, the bald crane suddenly appeared out of nowhere. When Yu Han said three million crystals, the bald crane got too excited and grew in size. The old man mistook this action and offered ten million, because he was scared. As the bald crane heard about that, it just fainted from emotions. Yu Han summonned Yu Chen Hai, but the latter opened a dialogue with Su Ming, which was not what Yu Han expected. The old man tried to instigate a fight, but was completely subdued by a sealing power of Divine Essence Runic Symbols. Yu Chen Hai was impressed he quickly assessed a situation. He offered apologizes and a place of a guest in their family on Black Ink Planet. Yu Chen Hai wanted Su Ming's help with sealing items during his auction, which was a competition amongst young generation in Yu Family. When payment of crystals was mentioned, fainted bald crane immediately regained consciousness. When Su Ming heard that all those from the Yu Family definitely fulfill their promises, he used Yu Chen Hai's need and extorted them for one billion crystals. Sealed Yu Han was fuming, but couldn't do anything. The bald crane trembled in agitation and was admiring Su Ming's deviousness. Yu Chen Hai had his suspicions, but he went along with a wryly smile and wanted to sacrifice Yu Han.

The bald crane was elated and was singing praises for Su Ming. It felt unparalleled admiration towards him. They used Relocation Rune with Yu Chen Hai to arrive at Black Ink Planet. After resolving a matter with the Three Gates of Heavenly Dao, Su Ming was studying the map of Black Ink Planet and a portion of Divine Essence Star Ocean and contemplating about Peace Arrives When the Elephant is Here. Yu Rou acted as a maidservant for him. The bald crane was moaning about crystals, which Su Ming used to refine jade slips with a map. Next to Yu Rou was Xiao Huang in form of a big yellow dog. It was glaring at her, because she was as pretty as its Young Lady Yu Xuan and she was too close to Su Ming. There was also present Yu Chen Hai, who stumbled upon description of Lie Shan Family. Yu Chen Hai wanted to look at the other family's auctions, before his own was suppose to happen. Su Ming decided to go with him with intention to visit Lie Shan Family. Su Ming accompanied by Yu Rou holding an umbrella like a maidservant, Yu Chen Hai acting like a guide and the bald crane sitting on Xiao Huang transformed in a big yellow dog arrived at Black Water City. Lie Shan Kang Jiu, who was one of the managers of the auction hall, greeted them. Su Ming recognized him as a Berserker with just a glance. Kang Jiu couldn't help, but be filled with awe and veneration towards Su Ming and he felt like he could not refuse him. After they settled in a room, they watched the auction. The bald crane was watching Xiao Huang, who seemed powerful for it. Then it transformed into a big black dog and started imitate the Abyss Dragon turned into a big yellow dog. There was a statue of the God of Berserkers put up on an auction by Elder Feng. Yu Rou started bidding it for her Young Master. Tai Ci Yong was bidding against her. After offering 20 millions, Tai Ci Yong conceded, but he sent two of his guards for Yu Rou and crystals. Yu Rou easily subdued them, but a guest of Tai Ci Family, Yun Long Hu stepped in. Then Duke of Crimson Flame killed two guards as Su Ming ordered. Tai Ci Yong came out with three puppets and threatened Yu Family. Su Ming ordered to kill them. Then he also came out and asked to see Lie Shan Xiu. Yu Chen Hai was not faring well against one of Tai Ci Yong's guards. But he had help, Su Ming punched the old man, Xiao Huang bite half of his body and the bald crane poked him at a groin and stole a storage bag. This cooperation of the bald crane and the Abyss Dragon was planned. The bald crane's attack was experimental though. But when it saw reactions of male cultivators, that attack seemed really terryfying and the bald crane decided it should use it more often. Yun Long Hu and Tai Ci Yong started to run away. They were shouting to Lie Shan Family to appear and resolve this matter. Then members of Lie Shan Family finally appeared. Tai Ci Yong and Yun Long Hu were relieved. As the young man was already thinking about revenge on Yu Family, they found out, that the auction hall was sealed. All the members of Lie Shan Family just stood in place. Elder Feng appeared and a suffocating pressure spreaded. Only the bald crane wasn't affected. Su Ming greeted Feng Lai as the Master who taught him his craft. Yun Long Hu quickly tried to call it a misunderstanding, but Elder Feng shut him up. Then Su Ming and Feng Lai exchanged their techniques, like Sun Genesis, Lunar Burial and Wind Separation. Elder Feng was pleased and introduced himself as the Wind Berserker. After Tai Ci Yong was killed, Tai Ci Family declared a war on Lie Shan Family. Elder Feng recognized Duke of Crimson Flame as the general of the seventh army in the Fifth True World. Many cultivators from Great Kindness Palaces started killing each other. Even Progenitors and a secret force of Tai Ci Family had internal strife. In meantime, Elder Feng told Su Ming how the First God of Berserkers had to leave Berserkers, because of ancient will from Yin Death Region. How he longed for his home and his people. And how they were waiting for him, new God of Berserkers, for whom Black Ink Planet was prepared. When a Master of Fate, Lives, and Death, Tai Ci Shan descended. Elder Feng came out to meet him and explained how all his live, he was poisoned and everything about him was planned by the First God of Berserkers. He was another Berserker Seed. After that, Elder Feng led Su Ming to the place, where Lie Shan Xiu was seen last time. His soul was absent, but his body was there standing and turned into a stone. Su Ming stood in the same way. Elder Yu and many other Berserkers joined them. Yu Rou and Duke Of Crimson Flame were staying there with him. The bald crane and Xiao Huang took off somewhere. After three years of centemplation, Su Ming discovered Lie Shan Xiu's call for help from Divine Essence Star Ocean.

During these three years, the bald crane and Xiao Huang ran scams on several small families with marriage interviews of Xiao Huang turned into Yu Rou. They looted a lot of crystals. They befriended Nine-Headed Dragon from the Black Water City's swamp and then took few scales from it. Several families in Black Ink Planet hunted them. Then they managed built an auction hall in Ink Kirin City and became Hua Family's guests in Worldly Star City. Then they were announcing the auction of Su Ming's own treasures. They were known as The Dual Fiends, the Crane and the Black. After the bald crane that had a form of old man, sold some book for crystals, it noticed incoming danger. It tried to frame Xiao Huang as a mastermind that made it transform into an image of Yu Rou. At that moment, murderous Yu Rou arrived, but the bald crane and Xiao Huang faked their deaths. Their realistic performance totally fooled Yu Rou, who didn't know the nature of bald crane. That all was prepared plan. Transforming in Yu Rou was also intentional by Xiao Huang to ruin her reputation.

Lie Shan Family were looking for the bald crane's physical body, but they found nothing. After possessing Dao Kong as his Cultivation Clone, Su Ming decided to go to Divine Essence Star Ocean to look for Lie Shan Xiu. Before leaving Black Ink Planet, Su Ming fused his Surging Indulger Clone with Cultivation Clone, Duke of Crimson Flame was fused into his right arm as a totem, and they picked up the **bald crane** and Xiao Huang, who were trying to sell alleged dirty secrets of powerful families or cultivators from Black Ink Planet. With Dao Kong's identity, Su Ming boarded his galactic warship accompanied by nine Frail Darknesses, a catwoman, three thousand fearless cultivators and Xu Hui. The bald crane was frightened, but was throwing threats around. Su Ming's Cultivation Clone, which looked like Dao Kong, threw a crystal on a deck. The bald crane pounced on it without a thought. Su Ming's Cultivation Clone hired tham as attendants. Then with all thirteen galactic warships they headed towards Divine Essence Star Ocean.

On they way, they got attacked by Waves of Tears. After Su Ming discovered another function of the black stone fragment, he exterminated thousands of Waves of Tears. Su Ming gave choice to remaining creatures to worship him or be killed. They chose to kowtow, even Waves of Tears' King. The bald crane was envious how Su Ming got respect of everyone else, although it was just hiding in the room throughout the fight. It was calling him pretentious and imagining itself in glorious scene. The bald crane took Su Ming as wasteful and wanted to talk some sense into him, but it got into an intense debate with Xiao Huang.

After they met Dijiu Mo Sha, who Su Ming recognized as a Shaman, Su Ming left his group and followed that person with the bald crane and Xiao Huang. When they went past Husband Gazing Mountain, the bald crane was feeling very sad. Once Su Ming learned of his Master Tian Xie Zi from Dijiu Mo Sha, he went to Heaven Traversers to massacre them as a revenge for chasing after his Master's life in the past. After sealing Heaven Traversers' Progenitor for a month, Su Ming let out the bald crane and Xiao Huang out of his storage bag. The bald crane was unhappy for being locked up for dozen years and wanted to part ways, but it changed mind after Su Ming mentioned crystals. After very quick negotiations, the bald crane agreed to do what Su Ming would say. Then Su Ming used the poison wasp to inject the God Ascension Nectar into the bald crane. Immediately all ferocious beasts in Divine Essence Star Ocean sensed it. The bald crane was stunned. Su Ming said the more beasts lured, the more crystals it would received. Xiao Huang was pitying the bald crane, because it fell for Su Ming so easily. As Su Ming offered help to recover Dragon Tendon for the Abyss Dragon, it agreed to do anything for Su Ming, who sent it with the bald crane. They draw attention of many ferocious beasts. They headed deeper into Divine Essence Star Ocean. After some time, more beast were after the bald crane and Abyss Dragon. Xiao Huang miscalculated the numbers and they were already a million beasts lured, but they were still running around. Xiao Huang came to idolize the bald crane during their adventure. The bald crane led all these beasts into Heaven Traversers' territory. While they caused destruction, the bald crane went on to loot crystals.

Later, they met with Xu Hui. She recognized Xiao Huang as an Abyss Dragon and its young lady, Yu Xuan. The Abyss Dragon was spooked by deduction skills of Xu Hui. Su Ming recovered from the fight against Heaven Traversers' Progenitor and went deeper into the inner parts of Divine Essence Star Ocean. Su Ming mentioned four cultivators he met and suggested punishing them for not keepeing to their promise to go to Dust Burners together. Xu Hui proposed to use an Art changing sex. The bald crane thought that she was sinister. They caught up to the four cultivators near the Relocation Vortex. They recognized the bald crane, and it was having already a master. Xu Hui's grin terrified them. When Nian Yin was turned into a woman by Xu Hui, everyone was shocked, even Su Ming felt weird. Xu Hui figured out Nian Yin's identity. And Nian Yin was suprised and afraid, when he learned the indentity of that woman, as the Scorpion Lady Xu Hui. Su Ming told to change Nian Yin's sex back and let them go. They gave him map and went first into the Relocation Vortex. Inside the vortex, Su Ming saw the black horse again. He really wanted to leave a deep impression of himself in that beast to tame it later. The bald crane had a moment, when he remembered information from his past. It explained Resentful Weis and about the Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos. Everyone was shocked by this knowledge and that concept of the universe. Xuan Shang asked Su Ming for help with entering fifth kiln. Their plan was to infiltrate Dust Burners, because they were connected to fifth kiln. They all fused into Xuan Family's supreme treasure, which transformed into a member of Dust Burners. Su Ming was in control, because his blood was the strongest. He imitated a longing for home from his own experience. Dust Burners' Progenitor was happy with power of the person Su Ming impersonated. He tried to convince Su Ming to stay in their tribe. He wanted to train him personally to become next Master of Fate, Lives, and Death, but Su Ming only told him, that he wanted to go to the Fifth True World. The Progenitor respected his wish and gave all information about the fifth kiln. He also told Su Ming about Abyss Builders and Su Xuan Yi, one of master of the fifth kiln.

Before entering the fifth kiln, Su Ming tamed a Resentful Wei. Then Su Ming and his group in the body created by Xuan Family's supreme treasure entered the fifth kiln, alongside Zhu You Cai, the Flame Fiends’ Progenitor, Huang Mei, Sir Wu and Reverend Zi Long. Su Ming noticed the Dao Kong's catwoman with Sir Wu. Because of echoing *"Su..."* inside the kiln, a will awakened in the bald crane, remainding it about its identity of *Kong Mo* from Saint Defier and its mission. As they they passed through many dimensions, the voice disappeared. The bald crane calmed down and fell asleep. After Su Ming's three clones absorbed cultivation bases and life forces of Ya Mu's ferocious spirits and a dimension, they made a breakthrough to Lunar Kalpa Realm. It also created three distinct personalities of him. When they arrived at the first border near the core of the fifth kiln, the bald crane woke up. Su Ming was unstable and the color around Su Ming's body changed into crimson red and a vast murderous aura spreaded out. Moment later, he returned to how he usually looked. Su Ming needed to fuse with his real body. The bald crane was suprised by changes in Su Ming, but it came to conclusion, that the stronger Su Ming, the more the bald crane can bully others and snatch crystals. Then Su Ming, who was gray, encounterd ghosts, which he killed. The bald crane noticed small female human in the Immortal Slaying Gourd and he was reminded of the female gourds he created to take revenge on Lu Ya.

The bald crane was in Su Ming's storage bag, when he left to the fifth True World, but when being there Su Ming noticed the bald crane was gone. It was because, that fifth True World was fake. The ancient will from Yin Death Region wanted Su Ming to accept the Mask of Cessation and become fifth guardian of the fifth ocean.

### Book 5

After Su Ming's clash with the ancient will from Yin Death Region, the fifth ocean evaporated. People with the Masks of Happiness, Anger, Grief, and Resentment disappeared. Several days later, Su Ming walked out of the fog with the bald crane. Su Ming suspected Lie Shan Xiu and Tian Xie Zi being two of the four masked people. To find them, he needed to find the ancient will from Yin Death Region. He was also wondering about his Su Xuan Yi. Since he couldn’t find the real entrance to the Fifth True World, he decided to return to True Morning Dao World. The bald crane happily agreed about going back to True Morning Dao World for all crystals there.

They picked up Flame Fiends’ Progenitor Huo Kui and Zhu You Cai. At the Husband Gazing Mountain, the bald crane felt miserable again. All four of them arrived at Western Ring Nebula's foreign land. As the bald crane noticed fawning look on Huo Kui, he felt threatened about his position and pretended being solicitous to Su Ming. Su Ming did not bother with them and he stepped into foreign land. Both Huo Kui and the bald crane put on amiable expressions and were fighting passive-aggressively with words. After absorbing all remaining Ecangs except the yellow and indigo, Su Ming led them to the camp of the forces from True Sacred Yin World to retrieve the bald crane's physical body. With bald crane hidden in storage bag, Su Ming, using Dao Kong's identity, was domineering and forced his way to Huo Zhu by killing several Almighties and many other cultivators from True Sacred Yin World. Once he killed her, Su Ming took her storage bag, in which he found a black coffin. The bald crane came out and sensed his presence from the carcass inside the coffin. It was reluctant to fuse, so decided to leave it for other time. After arriving at the the camp of the forces from True Morning Dao World, Su Ming was greeted by Xu Hui, nine Frail Darknesses, Tai An Yin and other Almighties. Nine Frail Darknesses were very excited seeing their Young Master. Tai An Yin was very impressed by Su Ming skills. They told him, that Dao Kong was designated a Dynast, at the time when Su Ming had walked out of the fifth kiln. Then they explained about competition between ten Dynasts. Tai An Yin let Su Ming know what might await him in True Morning Dao World. They also mentioned war with Immortals' Union. Tai An Yin added how grateful he was to the Progenitor and wished honestly best of luck. Su Ming boarded a galactic warship and left the Barren Lands of Divine Essence.

Su Ming arrived to True Morning Dao World with the bald crane, Xu Hui, Huo Kui, Zhu You Cai, Nine Frail Darknesses and other his servants. As a member of the alien race from Divine Essence Star Ocean, Huo Kui was filled with uneasiness towards that place, so he had instinctively hidden his presence. As they were passing by a planet, many cultivators appeared from it to greet them. The bald crane couldn't hold its excitement any longer and flew to them and demanded crystals. Because of the awkward scene, old man in Solar Kalpa Realm gave the bald crane a storage bag with one million of crystals. After several days of counting, the bald crane found that three crystals were missing from full million. The bald crane was crying for ten days, begging Su Ming to go back. The serving cultivators came to respect the bald crane's thoroughness and Su Ming's strong mentality of not going mad. As they went by more planets, the bald crane extorted more crystals, but never forgot about missing three.

As Su Ming joined Morning Dao Sect, the bald crane was spending a lot of time in his storage bag.

When the challenges started during the Anointment Ceremony for Dynasts, De Shun appeared on Su Ming's platform. He didn't dare to fight Su Ming, he only shouted to everyone about his selling offers to promote his business. That marketing stunt drew everyone attention for a moment. Then he quickly ran away. After that, De Shun was busy talking to interested cultivators. The bald crane thought he was a genius and it wanted Su Ming to announce, he was buying crystals. But when Su Ming asked it, what it will use to buy crystals, the bald crane was stunned and it silenced.

Later, Su Ming learned, he had lower rank in the Striking Lands than other Dynasts, so he rushed there. At the fourth Striking Land, when the person with black feathers used the black light, the bald crane started yelling that black light was its. It was in frenzy and it charged forward, unharmed by the black light. The person with black feathers recognized the bald crane and was stunned. The mountains were crumbling and the black light was flashing. Su Ming blocked the gazes from the outside. As the bald crane was breaking into the pillar of light, the person with black feathers was terrified and wanted to flee from it, but couldn't. When they touched, the bald crane absorbed a black feather from the person with black feathers. That person disappeared and the bald crane was happy.

After the challenges, Sect Master Bei Bang was healing Su Ming with a Rune, but he notice that he couldn't stop healing him. The Sect Master wasn't aware that the bald crane changed the Rune. The bald crane was very smug and told Su Ming to absorb the Life Realm cultivator as much as he wants. After Su Ming finished absorbtion, Bei Bang was little pale.

When Su Ming was in Dao Chen's secret chamber, the figure of Dao Chen admitted he was Su Xuan Yi, his father. Su Ming didn't want to stay there. He didn't want to his father to use him as a chess piece in his plans. Su Ming wanted the bald crane to help with a Relocation. When it noticed bizarre atmosphere, it didn't kick up any fuss as usually and just obeyed. Su Xuan Yi was speaking in anguish about making up for the past, but Su Ming flashed his madness. He was furiously asking how Su Xuan Yi would make up for all the time Su Ming was alone in the Land of Berserkers, thirty cycles of his life in the same Dark Mountain Tribe, Di Tian manipulating him time and time again and controlling his destiny. He was asking where was he all this time.

After the Anointment Ceremony, the full-scale war against the Immortals’ Union was about to begin. Dynasts received their orders. After seeing his orders, Su Ming gave up an idea on leaving Morning Dao Sect and he left with the bald crane, Xiao Huang, Huo Kui and Zhu You Cai. He was to kill Bai Feng, the Sacred Lady of Phoenix Sect. They met with the army from the Earthen Pole of War Chamber. After seeing the army full of thick murderous aura, Huo Kui was pale, the Abyss Dragon shuddered, Zhu You Cai's pupils shrank and the bald crane was not impressed. Su Ming's expression didn't change a bit, knowing it was War Chamber’s intentional intimidation. Then Su Ming released his own murderous aura. His body exudeded a malicious presence, which seemed to be the source of evil in the universe. In the cultivators from the War Chamber’s Earthen Pole a respect was formed. Wild Dog greeted Dao Kong, who was really Su Ming. He treated him to a Fiend Wine, which the bald crane happily drunk, after transforming into a ferocious-looking bald man to fit to others. Wild dog only smiled at the bald crane. After explaining their role of bringing Su Ming to his destination, they moved out.

During one battle, while Su Ming was killing Immortals, the bald crane was stealing their storage bags. Then black-robed Greatmaster made an Ancient God suddenly self-destruct. Su Ming tore a crack in space and escaped into the world under space and beyond the universe. The bald crane was mad, that they ended up there. Then it remembered that, it was already in that world before. It tried to relocate somewhere away. Su Ming was left in the ocean of light. The powerful lights destroyed his body. Only his Nascent Divinity, right arm, Abyss Gate and the Seed of Life Extermination were left. The bald crane was carefully swimming through the ocean of light. Some rays of light would caused a lot of pain to it, while others only slightly injure. The bald crane was scared and bargained for its life, when Su Ming in form of the Light of Extreme Darkness grabbed it. Su Ming teased it for a moment, after which he revealed himself. The bald crane was angry, but after Su Ming thrown a couple of crystals, it became happy. Several days later, they came back to True Morning Dao World, near border of the Immortals’ Union. Su Ming had black-hair and was dressed in black robes, but he was only a Nascent Divinity. He wanted to get back his real body, but he knew he had too low cultivation level. Su Ming turned into the Light of Extreme Darkness to bring him inside the Union themselves. They tricked Greatmaster Zhang Ji Dao, who took Su Ming in form of the Light of Extreme Darkness as a Treasure for himself. When the bald crane felt Avacaniya’s presence spreaded from the treasure brought by Greatmaster Xing Ji Dao, it remembered something. It wondered if Fei Hua has became Lord Saint Defier using the bald crane's path, which it discovered based on the calculations from its whole life. As both Greatmasters were helping Sublime Paragon Di Tian to change his Life into an Abyss Builder using Su Ming's real body, Su Ming sent his divine sense into his real body, which he longed to fuse with, he sensed danger. The bald crane explained it was One Billion Corpse Soul Seal, a diabolical Art of the Sacred Lady of Dark Dawn’s camp. Su Ming couldn't believe that. He was devastated that his physical body was fake too like his past in Dark Mountain. As his will to live was extinguishing, the bald crane tried anxiously to motivate him to not give up. The bald crane's reminders about learning the truth about all manipulations, caused a madness and a hatred to rise in Su Ming. He also saw the sealed memories from his soul about his real father Su Zhan. After that visions, Su Ming had clearer mind. He left his physical body with the bald crane and returned to Zhang Ji Dao's body. The explosion of One Billion Corpse Soul Seal created massive destruction in True Morning Dao World and a gap between Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos and Saint Defier. It would allow cultivators from Saint Defier below Avacaniya Realm to descend with non limited cultivation levels. That in return would force Dark Dawn to attack Saint Defier at full force to seize the gap themselves. That was the first stage of Su Xuan Yi’s plan to escalate the war between Dark Dawn and Saint Defier.

Su Ming managed to possess both wounded Zhang Ji Dao and Xing Ji Dao and took control over white ring. Su Ming used Mortal Refinement Art with the bald crane's help to refine that supreme treasure. While Su Ming enterd cycles of reincarnations, the bald crnae was waiting for him. It was remembering some drawback about Mortal Refinement Art, but couldn't specify it. Then it noticed Bai Feng were also involved in cycles of reincarnations with Su Ming. While Su Ming was still in meditation, they were attacked by some cultivators, but the bald crane transformed into black peacock defended him valiantly. As bald crane was in weakened sate after an effort, Su Ming opened his eyes and subdued hostile cultivators. After they sworn him allegiance, they travelled together. Su Ming was also musing about gathering survivors in True Morning Dao World and creating his own force. Everyone was quiet except the bald crane. It was smug as usual and was taunting new members of their group. It believed, it could killed them all with its mighty divine abilities.

Later, the bald crane only woke up, when Su Ming reunited with his senior brothers. As everyone rejoiced, second senior brother recited a poem, leaving others in daze. Only the bald crane complimented his poem with idolization. Second senior brother was happy to meet the bald crane, who could appreciate and understand him. When Hua Yan Yue was creating another poem, three brothers beat him up. While they sat together, Su Ming sensed loosing connection to his Surging Indulger Clone. After Hu Zi, Su Ming and the bald crane arrived in the area of Heavenly Incense Rune, Hu Zi was impressed with his junior brother's clone. As Su Ming got closer to the Heavenly Incense Rune, he got vague epiphany about his cultivation. Since Hu Zi was a spirit of a Rune, the effect of the Heavenly Incense Rune on him was stronger than on the other cultivators. The bald crane was scared of his soul scattering, because of the Rune, but it didn't want to ruin its own reputation, so the bald crane volunteered to stay behind watching Hu Zi. Due to power of Heavenly Incense Rune, Su Ming reached the completion in Fate Realm, but he knew it was fake. When he got to his clone, it tried to fight back, but Su Ming easily supress it. Hu Zi was really suprised by Su Ming's power. The bald crane insinuated that Su Ming was that strong, thanks to it and he used that situation to offer Hu Zi a tutelage and help him raise his cultivation level for tens of milions of crystals per year. Su Ming was able to see two visions thanks to the Rune's spirit. First was of him wounded among his dead friends and allies. Second was of him walking with merciless gaze in Dark Dawn with the sea of blood behind him and being called Arid Triad’s *Devil Paragon*. The spirit called it the *secret of universe*. After the clone escaped, Su Ming, Hu Zi and bald crane went after it. The bald crane was keep trying to manipulate Hu Zi, which only annoyed him. They found the clone on broken planet after 19 days. Su Ming used his power of Fate Realm to seal the clone, but it got away again. Hu Zi was sent back to eldest senior brother and second senior brother to build Ninth Summit Sect. Su Ming and bald crane rushed after the clone. They got to to the galaxy where the Sun Sinking Talisman was. As Su Ming caught the clone, but was relocated to All Spirits Hall, the bald crane went back to his storage bag.

### Book 6

As Su Ming's will grew more powerful, the bald crane couldn't come out on its own from the storage bag anymore. It only could wait to be let out. Over time, it grew bitter. Every single day, it was counting crystals, sleeping, and hitting Xiao Huang, then it was counting the crystals, sleeping, and hitting the Abyss Dragon again. Gradually, the Abyss Dragon could no longer bear with it, and it began to resist and fight back violently, but it was difficult for it to defeat the bald crane.

When Su Ming was going to the Emperor of Abyss' True World, he released the bald crane and Xiao Huang from the storage bag. The bald crane was resentful that Su Ming kept it in the storage bag for so long. When he pull out one crystal, the bald crane didn't yield, fighting its instincts. As Su Ming manifested countless crystals with his new powers, the bald crane was astounded and called him a walking crystal mine. The bald crane motivated Xiao Huang by letting him have all the female dragons and they went to loot all the crystals in the Emperor of Abyss' True World. As Su Ming was finally leaving that True World with Yu Xuan and elder Mo Sang, the bald crane and Xiao Huang joined them. The crane was happy from looting many crystals and the Abyss Dragon was elated from fulfilling its fantasies.

After ten years of staying in Ninth Summit Sect, Su Ming went to Dark Dawn with the bald crane to look for his mother's race and for his Master, Tian Xie Zi. At Arid Triad's gap Yan Pei was waiting for them. After throwing many compliments, the bald crane thought he was shameless and tried to snatch his position, but was still amazed. Then it duelled with Yan Pei with words. In Spiritling Expanse Cosmos, Sovereign of Dawn Cang San Nu challenged Su Ming. The bald crane considered him an idiot and was smug that no one from Dark Dawn's camp compared to him in intelligence. As Su Ming was travelling through Expanse Cosmoses and changing their wills into his own, the bald crane looted all the crystals it oculd get using any method. Next, in the Heavenly Fox Expanse Cosmos, Su Ming was greeted by many females on Sovereign Zi Ruo invitation. He was carried by them forming the erotic sedan chair. The bald crane was not impressed. It only wondered when it would meet a beautiful female crane, who could fly with it. Su Ming was even massaged, but he didn't get distracted with his strong willpower. Once he met Zi Ruo, she explained about people using the power of the tunnel to come from fifth ocean to Dark Dawn's camp and how they ended up in the Old Man Extermination's tomb.

When Fei Hua was injured with Arid Curse, the bald crane felt what happened to her and decided to go to Saint Defier. It stayed with her at Falling Dust Cosmos for 120 years. Because of the lost memories, it couldn't remember why it cared about her. The crane was very sad and even shedding tears. After Su Ming found it, the bald crane refused to fuse with it's physical body again. Then they returned to Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos.

When it was less than 50 years before the last disaster of Harmonious Morus Alba, 100 cultivators in Avacaniya Realm from previous aeons tried to invade True Morning Dao World. The bald crane got Sacred Wood from Su Ming and was told to kill them. With an arrogant smile, it saved weaker cultivators, but tried to extort millions of crystals. After taking an appearance of an old man, the crane delivered a monologue how it practiced cultivation even before Arid Triad, gave him few pointers and created a galaxy. As it was yammering, old cultivators attacked, but Su Ming showed up and killed them. When Su Ming killed many cultivators from previous aeons in other True Worlds, the bald crane collected their storage bags.

After Su Ming's battle with Old Man Extermination and struggle against Xuan Zang, the bald crane appeared next to him out in the Vast Expanse. They watched Harmonious Morus Alba wither. As Xuan Zang moved towards them, Su Ming noticed the shadow of a crane on one of the pearls and he run away with the bald crane. Using Dao Divinity and the God of Berserkers Transformation, he attacked, but half of his body shattered. While Su Ming didn't want to give up the bald crane, the crane made its own choice. Despite a reluctance to part away, it fused with its physical body. Black feathers grew all over its body, which also erupted with a seven-colored light. The crane charged at Xuan Zang's hand, but in the last moment Su Ming threw it into the vortex to the other world. Only one black feather was left for Su Ming. Then, as his body shattered, he proceeded to execute Abyss Builders Possession on Xuan Zang. After the bald crane disappeared, Xuan Zang shut his eyes as if falling into a deep sleep and allowed his Feng Shui compass to drift about in the Vast Expanse. He only held a black feather.

## Powers

As Kong Mo, it was confident enough to fight against Old Man Extermination.

 Its carcass's presence was powerful enough to surpass all that Su Ming had ever sensed in his life. The only presence that could compare to it was the one whom Su Ming had seen in the pictures provided by the fifth kiln, the Sublime Paragon from True Sacred Yin World's.

The bald crane is extremely skilled in Transformation Arts. It can transform into people, animals or inanimate objects and manipulate its presence.   This power can even manifest subconsciously if the bald crane starts deceiving itself.

It seemed to have been born with a talent that could break all Runes, and Sealing Arts were also of no effect against it.

Kong Mo had understood the essence of light and was known for using and being in the possession of five-colored divine lights.

**Sacred Light of Celestial Dao,**  the bald crane exhales an invisible puff of air and a strong light shines out of nowhere. The power of the world is absorbed towards it, causing the ray of light to shoot through hundreds of thousands of feet as if it was the sun and explode followed by a violent gust of wind blowing past. The bald crane claimed it could, in the past, destroy a world with just one breath by using this ability.

**Light of Extreme Darkness** **-** A chilling black ray of light that seems to be able to freeze the universe erupts from its body and surges into the heavens. The black light covers the entire galaxy in dark , makes space freeze and crumble, and envelopes its foes. They feel their eyes sting, a chilling wave surges up their bodies inflicting multiple sharp pains akin to countless arrows shooting through their body, their organs gradually freeze over, their limbs become stiff and they feel as if they had lost their power and become mortal. The intense pain freezes their body, makes them lose mobility, destroys their mind and weakens their soul to the point of forcing it into eternal slumber. The Light of Extreme Darkness can also be used in a defensive manner to block against incoming Arts, like the Immobilization Art.

## Quotes

**Catchphrase**: *"Darn it all…"*

*"Hmph, fine. Your Grandpa Crane will give you one more chance. If you leave immediately, then I will let this slide, if you don’t… then don’t blame me for attacking you. I’m telling you, I’m very powerful!"*

*"I’m a bird that holds onto my grudges! A lot! Immensely"*

*“I got it. I have a goal, and that goal is to make that Dao Chen into my steed. Damn… If I make him my stead, just how majestic will I look like at that time?”*

*"Well, darn it all. How was that? Weren't you still defeated by me?! Haha! Your Grandpa Crane is invincible! No matter what Rune it is, it is still just crystals before me, it can't escape!"*

*"For crystals, I'll fight with everything I've got against you! Su Ming! I'm exerting all my strength here! I need stimulation!"*

*"O endless galaxy, I want to praise the great Little Devious Su. His deviousness is a light that the galaxy cannot conceal. His deviousness is a dream that all manner of lives in the world cannot hope to obtain.*

*O boundless universe, I want to praise the Little Devious Su who is even greater than me. His deviousness can conceal the universe and cause the galaxy to turn black. His deviousness can cover all manner of living, causing all the people's hair to turn black.*

*His deviousness also symbolizes my determination. Little Devious Su… continue showing off your devious nature and infect all manner of lives with your deviousness. I will be by your side and walk down this black path…"*

*"Well? Your Grandpa Crane's plan was great, right? Heh heh~"*

*"Heh heh, isn't the great Grandpa Crane amazing?"*

*"Why did he capture me? Could it be… Could it be that he's little boy Su's enemy? Ah… Su Ming, o Su Ming, you really brought a disaster on my head."*

*"Think about it. Me, the handsome and elegant bald crane, standing in the sea of blood that surges into heavens, bathing in it. With a swing of my wing, I would wash my back, and one hundred thousand Waves of Tears would die. With another swing of my wing, I would wash my chest, and the remaining Waves of Tears would bow down to worship me."*

"*Crystals! Give me all your crystals! I want crystals! Give me ten thousand— No, fifty thousand— Darn it all, give me one hundred thousand crystals!"*

"*Damn it, damn it! He lied to me! This isn’t one million crystals. Three crystals are lacking. I still need three more before I reach one million. I’m going to die, this Grandpa Crane is going to die! How could I have miscalculated? I’m still missing three, aarrgghhhh… My crystals…"*

*"I’m going to be rich! Little Boy Su, darn it all, I’m going to be RICH!"*

*"Darn it all, just what sort of rotten luck do I have?! T-T-This is… This is an Essence of Light! I’m done for! I’m seriously done for! Su Ming, you thrice cursed bastard, it’s not that I don’t want to save you,but I’m in trouble myself!!"*

*"You're completely right! Darn it all, Lord Su, everything you did was right—"*

*“O Lord Essence of Light, please spare me, and you can be my grandson… This is just nonsense, what am I saying? Spare me, please, take pity on me. I have a wife and children, y-you… Damn it, you stupid Essence of Light, you’re not sentient, so there’s no use for me to even bother begging for mercy!”*

*“That’s right, I’m a kind soul. When I see people in need, I will lend a hand. When I see people dead, I will shed tears for them and bury them. When I see children, I will be happy. I—” the bald crane quickly said. “You lend yourself a hand to their storage bags to see how many crystals they have. You loot the corpses for their crystals, and since children are gullible in your eyes, you scam them for their crystals,” Su Ming said flatly.*

*"Death Realm? What even is Death Realm? Forget about him. Look, Little Boy Su grew up quickly under my help. Do you want to consider respecting me with hundreds… no, tens of millions of crystals every year? I can guarantee you that your level of cultivation will raise by leaps and bounds as well. So? Think about it, this is a rare chance. Young Hu Zi, you have to seize this chance."*

*“You’re a walking crystal mine! From now on, you’re MY walking crystal mine! Even if you lock me up for ten thousand years, I’ll acknowledge it! I’ll absolutely not grumble even a single bit. Walking crystal mine, give me more crystals, please… Say… Can you turn me into a crystal crane?”*

*“That’s it? How dare it stop Sir Su Ming’s footsteps?! Damn it, how dare it stop the great, the almighty Sir Su Ming who can create crystals?! I… I’ll fight it to the death!”*

*“I am the bald crane, and I heard that the cultivators in this continent are willing to offer one million crystals to avoid the disaster. I wonder if this is true?”*

*“Oh well, I do not care about such worldly possessions. I have practiced cultivation long before Arid Triad himself, so why would I care for these crystals. But since all of you are so sincere, I will help you this once.”*

*“Oh well, I’m in a pretty good mood today. I’ll tell you this. I have practiced cultivation even before Arid Triad, and that boy once knelt for one hundred years before my cave abode before I was willing to meet him and direct him in his path. In fact, when I began practicing cultivation, this universe was still empty. One day, when I was travelling in the void, I felt bored, and so I closed my eyes. When I opened them again, I created this world. A long time has passed since then…In the past, Arid Triad wanted to have me as his Master. Heh heh, I saw his sincerity, and so I didn’t refuse him. However, I told him that unless he did something shocking, I would refuse taking him in as my disciple.In the past, the world was created when I swung my arm, and then, all lives were created…In the past…”*

*“Damn it! Su Ming, do you actually want to die?! Are you going to accept dying here so willingly?! Are you going to give up on Yu Xuan and even stop searching for your senior brothers just like that?! Are you going to accept all of it so willingly??!! Su Ming, is this worth it?! Is it worth it?! If you want to die, then you should go fight till you die against your enemies, and I would die along with you in battle! But how do you dare to give up on your life and everything else in this place?!*

*Have you forgotten about Yu Xuan?! Without you, who will protect Yu Xuan?! Don’t you know that the damned Su Xuan Yi will continue using Yu Xuan?! Is that fine with you?! If you’re no longer around, what is she supposed to do?! I’m absolutely positive that she will die as well to be with you!! What about your third senior brother?! Have you forgotten about him?? If Hu Zi learned that you died, how sad would he be?! He’d go mad and overturn the world so that he could create a dream in which you existed! What about your second senior brother?! Have you forgotten about him?? Darn it all, Su Ming, if you died, then what would happen to your second senior brother?! He’d go mad! He’d be sad, and it’d be the worst pain he’d have to suffer in his life!! Because you’re his junior brother!! What about your eldest senior brother?! Have you forgotten about him?? He no longer has a head, so do you want him to lose his heart as well?!*

*Su Ming, you damned fool! Don’t you want to know all the answers about this place?! Don’t you want to search for the person who has been manipulating your life?! You can’t die here, you coward, you bastard! You coward, you’re giving up on them, and you’re giving up on me! Y-Y-You… If you really want to die, then I will die with you!!*

*That’s right, that’s exactly it! You have to learn the truth about everything! You have to kill until everything in the universe is dyed red! Kill until you become the Paragon of Arid Triad Expanse Cosmos! Kill until you bring forth a madness that will cause Saint Defier and Dark Dawn to fear you and retreat!! Su Ming, you… cannot die!!"*

*“I like seven colors…”*

"*What is that person’s name? I forgot… I can’t remember… even if his face is no longer clear… And… who am I?"*

## Notes

Black Ink Planet's translation - 黑墨星, Hēi Mò Xīng - is similar to one of bald crane's names - Hei Mo.

Fei Hua owns an ancient picture of two girls and a smug boy grinning brightly with a mischievous expression. It is implied the boy is the bald crane.

## **Reference List**

1. ↑ Ch. 1377
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Ch. 845
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Ch. 856
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Ch. 1051
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Ch. 896
6. ↑ Ch. 1171
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Ch. 807
8. ↑ Ch. 1306
9. ↑ Ch. 1124
10. ↑ Ch. 1135
11. ↑ Ch. 1377
12. ↑ Ch. 827
13. ↑ Ch. 1349
14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 Ch. 1349
15. ↑ Ch. 1360
16. ↑ Ch. 923
17. ↑ Ch. 1033
18. ↑ Ch. 1135
19. ↑ Ch. 924
20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 Ch. 923
21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 Ch. 1034
22. ↑ Ch. 985
23. ↑ Ch. 1186
24. ↑ Ch. 913
25. ↑ Ch. 1349
26. ↑ Ch. 984
27. ↑ Ch. 827
28. ↑ Ch. 774
29. ↑ 29.0 29.1 Ch. 1020
30. ↑ Ch. 845
31. ↑ Ch. 845
32. ↑ Ch. 828
33. ↑ Ch. 849
34. ↑ Ch. 411
35. ↑ 35.0 35.1 35.2 Ch. 412
36. ↑ 36.0 36.1 Ch. 507
37. ↑ Ch. 537
38. ↑ Ch. 543
39. ↑ Ch. 546
40. ↑ Ch. 701
41. ↑ Ch. 708
42. ↑ Ch. 709
43. ↑ Ch. 717
44. ↑ Ch. 718
45. ↑ Ch. 719
46. ↑ Ch. 728
47. ↑ Ch. 729
48. ↑ Ch. 733
49. ↑ Ch. 735
50. ↑ Ch. 736
51. ↑ Ch. 740
52. ↑ Ch. 742
53. ↑ Ch. 743
54. ↑ Ch. 745
55. ↑ Ch. 746
56. ↑ Ch. 747
57. ↑ 57.0 57.1 Ch. 748
58. ↑ Ch. 749
59. ↑ Ch. 752
60. ↑ Ch. 754
61. ↑ Ch. 755
62. ↑ Ch. 762
63. ↑ Ch. 763
64. ↑ Ch. 772
65. ↑ Ch. 773
66. ↑ Ch. 782
67. ↑ Ch. 783
68. ↑ Ch. 784
69. ↑ Ch. 785
70. ↑ Ch. 787
71. ↑ Ch. 788
72. ↑ Ch. 790
73. ↑ Ch. 801
74. ↑ Ch. 802
75. ↑ 75.0 75.1 75.2 Ch. 803
76. ↑ Ch. 809
77. ↑ Ch. 811
78. ↑ Ch. 812
79. ↑ Ch. 815
80. ↑ Ch. 823
81. ↑ Ch. 824
82. ↑ Ch. 827
83. ↑ 83.0 83.1 Ch. 828
84. ↑ Ch. 843
85. ↑ Ch. 844
86. ↑ Ch. 845
87. ↑ Ch. 846
88. ↑ Ch. 849
89. ↑ Ch. 852
90. ↑ Ch. 853
91. ↑ Ch. 858
92. ↑ Ch. 859
93. ↑ Ch. 860
94. ↑ Ch. 861
95. ↑ 95.0 95.1 Ch. 862
96. ↑ Ch. 880
97. ↑ Ch. 881
98. ↑ Ch. 882
99. ↑ Ch. 883
100. ↑ Ch. 884
101. ↑ Ch. 885
102. ↑ 102.0 102.1 Ch. 886
103. ↑ Ch. 887
104. ↑ Ch. 888
105. ↑ Ch. 889
106. ↑ Ch. 890
107. ↑ Ch. 891
108. ↑ Ch. 892
109. ↑ Ch. 893
110. ↑ Ch. 894
111. ↑ Ch. 897
112. ↑ 112.0 112.1 Ch. 898
113. ↑ Ch. 905
114. ↑ Ch. 906
115. ↑ 115.0 115.1 Ch. 907
116. ↑ Ch. 908
117. ↑ Ch. 917
118. ↑ 118.0 118.1 Ch. 918
119. ↑ Ch. 920
120. ↑ Ch. 946
121. ↑ Ch. 955
122. ↑ Ch. 956
123. ↑ Ch. 957
124. ↑ Ch. 959
125. ↑ Ch. 960
126. ↑ Ch. 961
127. ↑ Ch. 962
128. ↑ Ch. 963
129. ↑ Ch. 964
130. ↑ Ch. 965
131. ↑ Ch. 967
132. ↑ Ch. 972
133. ↑ Ch. 973
134. ↑ Ch. 977
135. ↑ Ch. 979
136. ↑ Ch. 984
137. ↑ Ch. 985
138. ↑ Ch. 1018
139. ↑ Ch. 1019
140. ↑ Ch. 1032
141. ↑ Ch. 1033
142. ↑ Ch. 1035
143. ↑ Ch. 1047
144. ↑ Ch. 1048
145. ↑ Ch. 1049
146. ↑ Ch. 1050
147. ↑ Ch. 1069
148. ↑ Ch. 1070
149. ↑ 149.0 149.1 Ch. 1078
150. ↑ Ch. 1086
151. ↑ Ch. 1097
152. ↑ Ch. 1112
153. ↑ Ch. 1113
154. ↑ Ch. 1114
155. ↑ Ch. 1119
156. ↑ Ch. 1124
157. ↑ 157.0 157.1 Ch. 1127
158. ↑ Ch. 1128
159. ↑ Ch. 1131
160. ↑ Ch. 1133
161. ↑ Ch. 1134
162. ↑ Ch. 1135
163. ↑ Ch. 1136
164. ↑ Ch. 1146
165. ↑ Ch. 1152
166. ↑ Ch. 1154
167. ↑ Ch. 1157
168. ↑ Ch. 1169
169. ↑ 169.0 169.1 Ch. 1171
170. ↑ Ch. 1173
171. ↑ Ch. 1176
172. ↑ Ch. 1289
173. ↑ Ch. 1290
174. ↑ Ch. 1303
175. ↑ Ch. 1305
176. ↑ Ch. 1306
177. ↑ Ch. 1315
178. ↑ Ch. 1319
179. ↑ Ch. 1320
180. ↑ Ch. 1341
181. ↑ Ch. 1348
182. ↑ Ch. 1362
183. ↑ Ch. 1363
184. ↑ Ch. 1365
185. ↑ Ch. 1376
186. ↑ Ch. 1377
187. ↑ Ch. 1349
188. ↑ Ch. 1048
189. ↑ Ch. 1114
190. ↑ Ch. 1363
191. ↑ Ch. 1089
192. ↑ Ch. 1078
193. ↑ Ch. 1082
194. ↑ Ch. 1119
195. ↑ Ch. 719
196. ↑ Ch. 1128
197. ↑ Ch. 1289
198. ↑ Ch. 1290
199. ↑ Ch. 1362
200. ↑ Ch. 1363
201. ↑ Ch. 1135
202. ↑ Ch. 1377