More accurately speaking, the rays of purple light that spread out from Su Ming's Ecang clone did not number ten thousand but 9,999. The one remaining ray of light was from Su Ming's stone monument.
As the number of stone monuments became the complete number of one hundred thousand once more and as the near ninety thousand people were in the midst of shock and deathly silence, more people noticed a vortex before Su Ming's stone monument and the powerful light that was gradually spreading out from within there. That light illuminated the entire world, causing all the people there to be unable to look away from it.
During that moment several tens of thousands of people had their gazes trained on the stone monument with Mo Su's name carved on it, Su Ming walked out, catching everyone's eyes.
Translator’s Notes:
1. The matter of numbers: I wonder if any of you were confused as I was by the numbers when you first saw it and went back to compare with the final ‘Ecang as His Clone’ chapter. In any case, this is how I understand it. Ecang was split up into one million parts. It has 10 colors. Each color has 100,000 parts.
There are 10 foreign lands. 4 are in Sinful Barren Lands. The remaining 6 should be in Divine Source Star Ocean. In each foreign land, there are 100,000 stone monuments. 10,000 belong to one color, so 10 colors x 10,000 stone monuments = 100,000. 100,000 stone monuments x 10 foreign lands = 1,000,000 stone monuments. By extension, it also means that 10,000 stone monuments of 1 color x 10 foreign lands = 100,000 stone monuments of 1 color.
I made this because I originally had the misconception that 1 foreign land belongs to just one Ecang of a single color, hence all 100,000 stone monuments belong to it, which is wrong.
And so, the 100,000 galaxies, planets, Ecang trees, venous pathways, and golden hearts from before were not from one foreign land, but was 10,000 worlds each from all 10 foreign lands.
Do keep in mind that this is my interpretation at the point I translated this chapter, and I might be wrong. I’m welcome to hear different views to the numbers.
Preview to next chapter: Wiping Off
People insult Su Ming.
Also, Ecang... is kinda simple-minded, huh?
You'll see why later.