Stealing the Secret from the Cover of Heaven

Chapter 423 Quasi-Emperor Third Heaven

The universe is vast, the starry sky is infinite, and the distance to each source of life is quite far away.

In addition to the vast expanses of brilliant sea of ​​stars in the universe, there are also vast expanses of dead silent areas lacking any starlight.

In a dead star region extremely far away from all sources of life, there is not a single living star and no still burning sun.

All the stars in the entire starry sky are dead stars whose internal energy has been exhausted. Even the original essence of heaven and earth that spreads throughout the entire universe is extremely thin in this vast star field.

But in such a desolate star field, the space was suddenly torn apart, and then a star gate ten feet high appeared in the void.

Afterwards, Li Zhi walked out of the star gate alone and appeared in this dead star area.

A moment later, it seemed as if a volcano erupted inside Li Zhi's body.

Then, a huge roar came out from his body, shaking the entire starry sky slightly.

At the same time, something in his body seemed to be shattered by the powerful force of Tao, and in an instant a pillar of the Tao law emitting an immortal aura grew out of his body.

The Great Dao Pillar, after breaking out of the body, instantly began to grow wildly.

In just a few breaths, it grew to terrifying heights reaching the nine heavens and the nine underworlds.

Suddenly, an extreme breath of life appeared in the originally dead star field.

Under the influence of this life energy, the cores of thousands of dead stars were reheated, and volcanic activity began to occur on the surface. Later, signs of life revival appeared on the entire surface of the stars.

The terrifying fluctuations of the aura of the Great Dao directly "resurrected" this star field filled with dead stars.

If anyone saw this scene, their jaw would drop.

Then, endless chaotic energy emerged from the void, and there were also chaotic thunders that struck towards Li Zhi's Great Dao Pillar.

At the same time, the chaotic energy contained in the Chaos Divine Thunder was directly transformed into a huge amount of the original essence of heaven and earth after being counterattacked by Li Zhi's Dao Law.

Then, various star-forming elements appeared in the Death Star Region.

As endless chaotic sky thunder fell, various basic substances appeared. Soon, new suns appeared in this dead star field under the influence of Li Zhi's avenue.

With the birth of the new sun, the dark star fields were illuminated.

This strange sight was just a side effect of the quasi-emperor calamity that Li Zhi had to endure.

It was as if the world was being created.

In this process, Li Zhi's constantly changing laws of the Dao seemed to be reshaping the life order of the universe.

Li Zhi, who had originally returned to the Taoist temple from Kunpeng's Nest, was planning to consolidate his cultivation again, and to deeply comprehend and experience the impact of the spirit in the physical body on his cultivation.

By the way, you can also comprehend the mysterious rune belonging to the ancient immortal Kunpeng, which was summoned from the Demon Cave in Kunpeng's nest by the "Demon Summoning Sutra".

Although that rune can only evolve into a true form of Kunpeng at the quasi-emperor level.

However, it has great reference value for Li Zhi's practice.

The laws of the chaotic ancient times are different from those of the immortal ancient times. The various inheritances of the chaotic ancient times are not directly recorded in the scriptures, but are directly presented in the form of runes of the origin of the Tao.

The more profound the inheritance, the richer the information contained in the runes.

Even the Immortal King's inheritance of the Dao can be integrated into one Dao rune.

The various inheritances from the ancient times of immortals are recorded in immortal scriptures, and they also need to be carried using the characters of the ancient times of immortals.

However, during the chaotic ancient times, the inheritance evolved into a great Dao rune.

I have to say, this is a great improvement.

Turning the Tao that one has cultivated into a rune is undoubtedly closer to the true nature of the Tao than describing it in words.

Li Zhi suspected that it was the powerful men of the ancient times who, after comprehending the "Original True Explanation" that had drifted to this world, abandoned the commonly used characters of the ancient times and directly used the Dao runes to express the fundamental reason for their respective inheritances.

Every character from the ancient immortal period represents a special meaning and a truth that exists between heaven and earth.

Therefore, although every character in the ancient immortal period is a Dao pattern, there are too many types and they are too complicated, which is not conducive to the inheritance of the Great Dao.

The cultivators of the ancient times condensed the great Dao into a series of original runes and passed it down, which seemed much more brilliant.

Even in the present era of Shrouding the Heavens, if one wants to fully comprehend the Great Emperor's scriptures, it is not enough to simply study the scriptures. Only by comprehending the nine characters "Emperor" left by a Great Emperor-level powerhouse can one understand the true meaning of the Great Emperor's scriptures.

The strong ones at the level of the Great Emperor condense their own great principles into nine characters of "Emperor" to explain their principles.

However, the nine characters of "Emperor" cannot be further condensed into one rune like the Immortal Kings in the ancient times.

This is undoubtedly a pity.

Maybe it’s not that they don’t want to, but that they can’t do it.

Li Zhi guessed that when the emperor was able to fuse the nine emperor characters they condensed into a Dao rune, that would be the time when their Dao laws transformed into Immortal Dao laws.

Thinking of this, Li Zhi inexplicably thought of the Wuliang Tianzun from the mythological era.

Not only did he create a sacred fighting method that could simulate all means of attack in the world.

At the same time, it was he who melted the flesh of the chaotic body into the ancient star of Beidou, completing the prototype of a shocking fairy formation.

Being able to melt together the myriad ways and the ways of different emperors, and thus transcend, this method, seemingly ordinary, is actually shocking.

To melt all the laws of heaven and earth together, almost every emperor who has integrated the Heavenly Heart Seal can do this.

However, the ability to perfectly fuse the imperial laws of different emperors is not something that every emperor can possess.

Because the Tao of every great emperor transcends the limits of all Taos in heaven and earth, and is unique.

When the paths of two different great emperors meet, they will only repel each other, not attract each other.

Earlier, when Beidou's path to immortality was opened, clues could be seen when the seven powerful emperors joined forces to attack the Chaos Cave.

They attacked together, but they were unable to break the stone door in front of the ancient cave. Finally, they relied on the power of the Big Dipper Immortal Formation, which perfectly integrated the power of all the ways of heaven and earth and the power of the seven supreme emperors, and finally broke through the stone door blocking the chaotic cave.

It can be seen that it is a very difficult task to integrate the ways of different emperors.

There is also the ancient stele used by Tianzun to perform rituals in Daoyi Holy Land.

All the ways of heaven and earth can only be integrated into four great way runes and cannot go any further.

It is impossible to reach the supreme state of "all things return to three, three return to two, two return to one, and one returns to the Tao."

Just like the Great Emperor can only split his own Dao into nine characters of "Emperor" in order to allow them to last forever, this world does not seem to allow the Dao patterns that transcend the limits of heaven and earth to last forever.

Unless it is a magical weapon or elixir of life that existed in the world before this era began.

Although the immortal weapons refined by cultivators in later generations were called immortal weapons, their owners never said that they were immortal weapons.

Whether it is the Emperor’s Cauldron of the Source of All Things, or Duan De’s Tongtian Mingbao.

It is claimed to be an immortal weapon, but it is slightly different from the real immortal weapons - the immortal bell, the desolate tower, and the bronze immortal palace.

The reason why Li Zhi hurried to this dead star field to transcend the tribulation was because when he was comprehending the Kunpeng rune, he activated his own avenue. When he tried to condense the avenue into a avenue rune and engrave it on his body, something unexpected happened.

He broke through the barrier between the Great Sage and the Quasi-Emperor on the spot.

I thought the barrier between the Great Sage and the Quasi-Emperor was strong enough.

But to Li Zhi, it seemed as thin as a piece of wet toilet paper, which would be torn with a little force.

When others face that barrier, they may not be able to break through the bottleneck even after trying a hundred times and making a million efforts.

It’s like going to the Qixing Dojo to look for Li Zhi’s ancestor Kunpeng.

Although he had accumulated enough, he just couldn't grasp the breakthrough opportunity that existed in the dark and couldn't become a quasi-emperor.

Li Zhi, on the other hand, was just the opposite. He didn't want to break through immediately, but his level of cultivation couldn't hold him back any longer.

The more you understand the truth, the higher your level of cultivation will be.

Before he could try to condense a Dao rune, his cultivation level had broken through.

Originally, Li Zhi planned to follow the example of the first generation in the chaotic ancient times and condense his own avenue into origin runes and engrave them on his own bones to form a body of acquired supreme bones.

Unexpectedly, before he could finish a rune, his cultivation level would break through.

He could only immediately come to the place where he had chosen before to begin his quasi-emperor tribulation.

Just as he had imagined, his quasi-emperor catastrophe was extremely terrifying, and its momentum was extremely vast, shocking the entire world, and its aura spread to dozens of star fields.

Fortunately, the place chosen by Li Zhi was relatively remote, and there were no ancient stars with life even dozens of galaxies away.

"boom!"

The terrifying Chaos Divine Thunder seemed to possess the power to destroy the world. After the initial tentative attack, the lightning directly covered an entire vast star field.

The star field that had just recovered some vitality from the dead silence was once again wiped out of all vitality. Even the dead stars left no debris, all of them were shattered into powder under the bombardment of thunder.

Lightning intertwined, and each divine thunder was as thick as a galaxy, shining with dazzling light, cutting through the dark universe, so brilliant that it was shocking.

Even across dozens of star fields, one can still see the light emitted by the vast thunder that appears here.

In the endless lightning, Li Zhi's figure seemed as tall as a star field, with his feet on the nine netherworlds and his head on the nine heavens. His appearance was shocking, like a great emperor who was undergoing a tribulation.

It simply exceeds the intensity of all quasi-emperor calamities that ordinary people can imagine.

Even Li Zhi couldn't resist the thunder tribulation as hard as before. He had to use all kinds of means, and even had to manifest the strongest fighting form to fight against those terrifying divine thunders that could destroy the world. Fortunately, his accumulation was deep enough. Although he was scarred in the thunder tribulation, his body had never exploded in the thunder tribulation.

As more and more chaos thunders came down from the heavenly calamity, the entire Death Star Region was covered by chaotic energy.

It was as if the world had returned to chaos.

After struggling in the sea of ​​thunder for nine full days, the dazzling lightning in the star field covered by chaotic energy gradually disappeared.

The scarred Li Zhi officially transformed into a quasi-emperor.

Almost every cell is madly devouring the essence of heaven and earth.

It can even tear apart the void and devour the most original essence between heaven and earth to strengthen itself.

The laws of the universe that were originally unable to be condensed into runes began to intertwine with the flesh, blood, and bones in the body.

The aura of fragments of the law exists on every inch of skin and every bone.

Moreover, under Li Zhi's guidance, those fragments of laws condensed into runes of various shapes.

Some of the runes on the bones look like towers, some look like bells, some look like tripods, some look like seals, and some look like mountains...

The runes in the flesh and blood looked more like powerful mythical beasts, some resembling real dragons, some resembling heavenly phoenixes, some resembling unicorns, some resembling black tortoises, and some resembling soaring snakes...

There are tens of thousands of runes in total, just like the tens of thousands of leaves engraved with different runes of the Great Dao that are condensed by the ancient tea tree of enlightenment during each great reincarnation.

Different parts of Li Zhi's flesh and blood were engraved with runes formed from fragments of different great laws.

These were only the changes in his physical body. After he was promoted to Quasi-Emperor, the changes in his soul were the most important.

According to the guidance of the scriptures in the Xiantai volume of Li Zhi's "The Great Way of Longevity Sutra".

After being promoted to quasi-emperor, Li Zhi's soul began to transform.

The primordial spirit directly transformed into a cocoon of Tao within the immortal platform and began a deep transformation.

The original power of the laws at the Great Sage level directly transformed into the power of the laws at the Quasi-Emperor level, and the laws became more tenacious and solid.

As the scriptures of the Immortal Platform Scroll sounded within the Yuanshen Dao cocoon, mysterious substances continued to precipitate from his Yuanshen.

Then it merges into the Taoist cocoon that wraps the primordial spirit.

Then, the Taoist Monument in the immortal platform began to spew out an immortal fire transformed from runes to burn Li Zhi's Taoist cocoon.

Gradually, the Dao cocoon was melted by the fairy fire and turned into a ball of mysterious liquid that covered Li Zhi's soul.

I don’t know how much time had passed, but Li Zhi’s soul finally completed its transformation.

Then, his soul immediately began to form seals, and one mysterious seal after another was integrated into the transparent film.

"Pure and flawless sky, open!"

As Li Zhi's soul shot out a blade of light, the thin film covering his body immediately broke open, and then gradually formed a palm-sized ring, floating three feet above Li Zhi's soul.

Mysterious patterns appeared on the ring, and eventually the transparent ring turned into a layer of milky white tower body that looked like a desolate tower. Inside the tower was a vast and mysterious world. It was the pure and flawless world that Li Zhixiu had created.

Then, a milky white light of the soul emanated from the tower where Qingjing Wuxiatian was located.

The entire Xiantai is filled with a mysterious fairy spirit.

After some of the essence of the soul merged with the laws of the Tao and turned into a tower-shaped heaven and earth, the Taoism that gushed out from the origin seemed to be still growing at a high speed.

Soon, Li Zhi reached the realm of the second level of Quasi-Emperor.

In the soul, bits and pieces of spiritual light once again emerged.

However, this time the spiritual light was no longer the milky white color as before, but a bright red color. After merging with the laws of the Dao that he practiced, it formed a fiery red Dao cocoon outside his soul, wrapping up Li Zhi's soul again.

An unknown amount of time had passed before the fiery red Dao cocoon became complete. The Dao Ancestor Divine Monument once again summoned out the flame that had split from the immortal fire on the tenth level of the Big Dipper Fire Domain to burn the Dao cocoon of the Yuanshen.

Undergo the second transformation of the soul.

In the process of the transformation of the primordial spirit, it would be even better if the Ten Thousand Dao Fires were used to burn the primordial spirit cocoon.

Unfortunately, Li Zhi could not find the bluestone roads that could breed the Ten Thousand Dao Fires, similar to the ones that Emperor Huang Tian used to enter the ancient land of immortals during the chaotic ancient times. He could only borrow the power of the immortal fire to burn the soul cocoon that appeared when the soul transformed.

Otherwise, using the Fire of Ten Thousand Daos to smelt the Yuanshen Dao Cocoon would be more effective.

Although each transformation of the soul cannot compare to the nirvana of the soul, but after more transformations, his soul strength may be comparable to that of the imperial masters who have undergone the nirvana of the soul.

The nirvana of the primordial spirit is not something that every emperor can do.

After the Hades' primordial spirit entered Nirvana, the Sea of ​​Samsara was left behind; after the Immortal Emperor's soul transformed, the Pond of the Soul was left behind.

The profound meaning of the text of Li Zhi's "The Great Way of Longevity Sutra" Xiantai volume simulates the process of nirvana of the primordial spirit to make the primordial spirit extremely powerful.

Only if a cultivator possesses a powerful primordial spirit can he have a longer lifespan.

After all, when one reaches the level of a saint, one can ensure that the body will not decay after death, but the soul cannot survive forever.

After Li Zhi completed his second spiritual transformation, the tower above his head had another layer of tower body emitting red light.

"Red Fire Glazed Sky, Done!"

With the appearance of the second level of the Soul Tower above his head, Li Zhi's cultivation level soared directly to the second level of the Quasi-Emperor realm.

Then, the terrifying power of heavenly calamity appeared again in the dusty star field covered by chaotic energy.

Another nine days passed.

But after a while, an even more powerful catastrophe appeared once again in the chaotic sea filled with the aura of annihilation, and even terrifying waves rushed out from that star field, destroying seven or eight nearby star fields.

After surviving this catastrophe, Li Zhi's cultivation officially reached the third level of the Quasi-Emperor realm, and the third level of the Tower of the Soul was also born.

The third floor of the tower that is shining with orange light is the third heaven among the nine heavens of the soul opened up by Li Zhi, "The Heaven of Unpredictable Fate".

The quasi-emperor level has nine small realms, known as the Nine Heavens, and Li Zhi's soul will transform nine times, opening up nine layers of soul heaven, and finally creating a soul tower with a nine-story tower body.

After surviving three thunder tribulations, Li Zhi's Taoism no longer surged.

His cultivation had finally stabilized.

However, in a short period of time, Li Zhi broke through three small realms in the quasi-emperor realm. If the news spread, it would be shocking enough.

This is the benefit of surpassing the limits at the Great Sage level.

Once the breakthrough is made, your level of cultivation will increase rapidly.

Can't stop it.

As for the Tower of Soul, each additional layer has an additional color. This is the method of soul transformation that Li Zhi comprehended during the process of comprehending the elixir of immortality to revive the human form.

This practice process is equivalent to splitting the primordial spirit into two.

When his cultivation broke through to the ninth level of Quasi-Emperor, it was equivalent to possessing two equally powerful souls.

The only difference is that one is a spirit in the shape of a nine-story pagoda emitting nine-colored divine light, and the other is a human-shaped spirit that is flawless and not stained by any dust.

The reason for practicing in this way is to enable him to continue to break through the limits after his cultivation reaches the peak of the ninth level of the Quasi-Emperor in the future.

After all, Li Zhi knew clearly that when the five secret realms were integrated and connected, the end point would not be to become an emperor, but an immortal king.

Therefore, after reaching the ninth level of Quasi-Emperor, there is definitely great potential to be tapped in the five major secret realms of the human body.

After the catastrophe, Li Zhi opened his mouth to devour the essence and directly sucked the chaotic sea dry.

After feeling stronger than ever before, Li Zhi walked contentedly towards the star field where the Ziwei Ancient Star was located.

That’s right, it’s about walking, not opening a domain gate to cross the void.

Instead, he crosses the starry sky with his physical body, and one step is a sea of ​​stars. This is a romantic starry sky journey that is exclusive to the quasi-emperor level strongmen in this universe.

Not long after Li Zhi left, a mysterious man came to the desolate star field.

The person who came had an extraordinary aura, and there was a hint that he was surpassing the Great Sage. It seemed like a powerful person who came here to find a safe place to survive the Quasi-Emperor Tribulation.

But as he looked at the star field disappearing before his eyes, and the strong aura of heavenly calamity still remaining in the void, a gleam of brilliance flashed in that man's eyes.

"I'm late. Someone actually chose this desolate star field as the place to transcend the tribulation."

But the more he observed the state of the surrounding star fields, the more frightened he became. He couldn't help but wonder, "Who left these ruins after overcoming the calamity? The scope of the impact is too wide."

"Is it the Emperor, or Taichu, or some other freak sealed away from ancient times?"

Finally, the man looked thoughtful.

"No matter who you are, this life will belong to me."

Finally, the man spoke to himself with great confidence, but his confidence was a little lacking.

Obviously, he was very wary of those who were undergoing tribulation here.

You know, he is the third genius of the world to be nominated on the crystal monument in front of the majestic pass leading to the only true road, and his ranking is even higher than Yin Tiande, who was born in Ziwei Ancient Star and occupies the eighth position on the crystal monument.

Its strength is evident from this, and it is definitely a favorable contender on the road to becoming emperor.

(End of this chapter)