Stealing the Secret from the Cover of Heaven

Chapter 431 The Great World Arrives

Just after Li Zhi and the Dragon Girl fulfilled their agreement that was not really an agreement, the Golden Age officially arrived.

First, after resting for ten years, Ye Fan became an emperor in his physical body, defeated millions of soldiers from the Divine Court, and entered the Emperor's Pass, defeating Yao Guang and Yin Tiande successively. After leaving behind an invincible reputation, he left the Emperor's Pass again.

Afterwards, on the battlefield of the Emperor's Sons, ancient princes successively defeated their opponents and advanced to quasi-emperors, showing their unparalleled brilliance.

Ten years later, Ye Fan led his men into the battlefield of the Emperor's Sons and once again showed his divine power and killed a forbidden zone son.

Unfortunately, the dragon girl and the old dragon of the Wanlong Clan were forced to withdraw from the battlefield by Li Zhi, causing them to miss out on a meal of roasted dragon meat.

A few years later, Yin Tiande, Zhonghuang, Shenzun and others were successively promoted to quasi-emperors, which completely opened the prelude to the Golden Age.

The era of powerful people being like clouds and the surge of quasi-emperors has finally arrived.

What's more, the Immortal Queen came out in the Phoenix Nest and fought with the old man who chopped wood behind the nine imperial passes, showing her extremely strong strength.

The occurrence of these events one after another made everyone realize that a vast era full of challenges and disputes had arrived.

Whether it was the monks living on the ancient life planets or the sages walking in the universe, they all felt the tense atmosphere.

Thousands of ships are racing against each other, and in this great era, if you don't move forward, you will fall behind.

The geniuses fought bloody battles, often destroying their families and clans. I don’t know how many holy places had their inheritances cut off and how many immortal lands were reduced to ruins.

Many people even feel like they have returned to a dark and turbulent era.

Blood and chaos spread throughout the heavens and all realms, and there was almost no pure land in the entire universe.

Li Zhi bathed in the starlight and walked between one ancient land of life after another. Whenever he saw the bloody chaos, he would be silent for a moment.

Whether it's chanting sutras to liberate the souls of those who died unexpectedly, or rebuilding the mountains and rivers to prevent the source of life from being destroyed, they do their best with their own hands.

Thereby, I realized all kinds of joys and sorrows in the world.

"The sufferings of the world, the tears of all living things, the sympathy between heaven and earth, the great way is gone."

While traveling through the mortal world, Li Zhi's heart gradually resonated with the laws of heaven and earth, as if he had become the incarnation of heaven, judging the actions of all living things.

"The path to immortality is nowhere to be found, and immortality is impossible. All the desires of living beings are ultimately in vain."

"There are hundreds of thousands of great ways, millions of combat power, but there is no way to immortality, so why bother?"

Sometimes Li Zhi seemed like a Taoist master with compassion for the world, walking in the world, persuading those who practice cultivation to focus more on the great way and commit less sins of killing.

"It is said that: fighting power is easy to cultivate, but the great way is difficult to understand. If you don't cultivate the great way, how can you live forever?"

"The Tao has no order of precedence, virtue has heaven and earth, all things have spirits, and all living things can be expected."

The more he walked in the world, the more he felt that the world was filled with a warlike spirit that disgusted him.

"If you do not seek for yourself, do not cultivate the Great Way, and take without limit, you will be doomed to eternal damnation."

Walking in the world, Li Zhi kept asking himself whether he had taken the wrong path.

Is the method of cultivating the five secret realms of the human body passed down by Emperor Huang Tian really aimed at pursuing unparalleled combat power?
Do you need to rely on the environment of the outside universe to practice?

Once the golden age comes, it is as easy as practising Falun Gong for all living beings to cultivate. Once the period of silence comes, it is as difficult as ascending to heaven for all living beings to cultivate.

Since one's own practice is so greatly affected by the changes in the natural environment of the outside world, is this still the original intention of Emperor Huang Tian in passing down the five secret realms of the human body?

In the ancient times of immortals, monks practiced the Tao seed method of the immortal way, using the Tao seeds to communicate with the outside world and transform the power of heaven and earth for their own use.

During the chaotic ancient times, the practice of Shinto emphasized the cultivation of the physical body, igniting the divine fire, and absorbing the divine power of the heavens for one's own use.

During the era of Emperor Huangtian, he created the secret realm of the human body, tapped into the potential within the human body, and became an immortal in the Dharma Ending Age, preventing his own practice from being affected by changes in the external environment.

But in this era, after going through the ancient times of the underworld, the mythological times, the primeval times, the ancient times, and the methods of cultivation in all realms of the heavens, there has been no step by step process that has allowed cultivators to break away from their dependence on the outside world.

On the contrary, the forward direction of the cultivators in the heavens seemed to be trapped by the position of the great emperor who could possess the Seal of the Heart of Heaven and suppress all others.

The cultivators in the mythological era pursued becoming emperors, the cultivators in the ancient times also pursued becoming emperors, the cultivators in the prehistoric times also pursued becoming emperors, and the cultivators today are still pursuing becoming emperors.

It's not like you need to practice Shintoism, pursue the authority of heaven and earth nurtured in the outside world, and have your own way recognized by the outside world.

The methods of the five secret realms and Emperor Cheng seem to be in fundamental conflict.

To become an emperor, one needs to merge the cultivator's own Tao with the Tao of the outside universe.

However, those who seek to become immortals in the mortal world through the five secret realms pursue freedom and ease, and ultimately achieve the state where the world changes but I remain unchanged, and I can travel freely among the heavens.

Just as Emperor Huang Tian said, practicing the secrets of the human body is a process of constantly exploring one's own potential.

After achieving success in Taoism, cultivators can freely travel among the various realms of the heavens, and their own Taoism and combat power will not be affected by the myriad realms of heaven and earth.

Whether in the mortal world, in the fairyland, in a foreign land, or in the burial realm, after achieving enlightenment through the secret realm of the human body, one will not be affected in any way.

For a cultivator who truly achieves enlightenment through the secret realm of the human body, there will never be a situation where his own great laws are replaced by the laws of the outside world.

Once that situation occurs, it will undoubtedly be a mockery of the monks who practice the secret realm methods.

It can be concluded that that method has deviated from the original intention of the secret realm method to seek self-realization.

When the gate to the immortal realm opened wide, those supreme emperors were worried that the imperial laws in their bodies would be replaced by the laws of the immortal realm.

From this perspective, the imperial laws they cultivated did not completely belong to them. A large part of them were bestowed upon them by the heaven and earth in the human world.

Walking in the world, Li Zhi no longer absorbed the essence of heaven and earth, but began to focus on exploring the potential within his body.

After crushing and destroying the fragments of the imperial law scattered in each cell, they turned into sharp knives to dissect his own body and tap into the potential in his body.

Gradually, the "doors" in the human body were opened.

Not only various kinds of essences were released from behind those "doors", but also various fragments of laws were released.

At the same time, Li Zhi used five instruments to confine his own Dao within the five secret realms, constantly drawing the potential released from the doors of the human body.

The human body has five secret realms, but that does not mean that all doors in the human body are covered by these five secret realms.

It’s just that the doors in those places are more concentrated.

As the doors at the extremities of the human body were opened, Li Zhi's cultivation level began to grow rapidly again silently.

Moreover, this time his Taoism growth was entirely due to his continuous unlocking of the potential of his physical body, so there was no vanity in the growth of Taoism.

It is not like the kind of comprehending the great principles of the outside world to drive the growth of Taoism, which will lead to an unstable foundation of Taoism.

This kind of growth that comes from within is more like water overflowing when it is full, rather than the water level being pulled up by gravity due to external forces.

While Li Zhi was constantly exploring his own potential, the changes in the outside world were one wave higher than the other.

After Ye Fan’s physical body became an emperor, he successfully broke the shackles on his body and completed the task of killing the forbidden area boy in the quasi-emperor realm.

Moreover, it marked the beginning of the great war between Heaven and God.

In the end, the Divine Court was unexpectedly destroyed.

There is also the confrontation between the Taoist palace built by the woodcutter and the dynasty established by the Immortal Queen.

It is also a powerful divine organization composed of descendants of heaven.

This terrifying legacy of the underworld finally showed its fangs and began to operate openly during this period.

Eventually, the universe formed a situation where five superpowers coexisted across many galaxies: the Dynasty, the Dao Palace, the God Organization, the Underworld, and the Heavenly Court. However, the disturbances and struggles in the outside world did not affect Li Zhi's practice.

He still wanders slowly among the various life star fields in the universe, feeling the joys, sorrows, anger and happiness of all living beings, and tapping into his own human potential.

As he walked, Li Zhi came to an ancient star shrouded in mysterious mist.

The ancient star is extremely large, almost half the size of the ancient Big Dipper star.

However, the entire ancient planet was devoid of any life, and a faint sadness permeated the heaven and earth.

A strong wind blew by, and the gray mist between the sky and the earth changed rapidly, and soon turned into all spirits of heaven and earth, making the entire ancient star look lush and green.

There are thousands of years old ancient trees, thousand-year-old elixirs, and all kinds of life.

It was as if the ancient star had instantly regained the prosperity it had thousands of years ago.

Li Zhi had a clear mind and was not fooled by this appearance. It was just a result of his obsessions.

"Young man, come in and have a cup of tea before you leave." When passing by a city, a waiter in a shop greeted Li Zhi.

Along the street, there are all kinds of hawking sounds, which looks very lively.

But Li Zhi acted as if they didn't exist, and even passed through their bodies.

It even traveled through layer upon layer of pavilions and towers.

Finally, they stopped in front of a lake with a radius of only a thousand miles.

The water in the lake has a very strange color, as if it contains all the colors in the universe.

Li Zhi stared at the lake for a moment, nine colors of light reflected in his eyes, then he sat on a big rock by the lake and began to chant.

The text of "Hou Tu's Rebirth Sutra" was slowly spoken out from Li Zhi's mouth, and a pure and flawless area formed beside him.

Gradually, as the scope of the domain expanded, the mundane world behind him began to shatter and once again turned into a mysterious mist that enveloped the entire world.

As the sound of Li Zhi's chanting resounded throughout the entire ancient star, the mysterious mist that originally enveloped the ancient star seemed to be suppressed and retreated back into the lake in front of Li Zhi.

The originally colorful lake water gradually turned dark red.

When the last wisp of mist between heaven and earth returned to the lake, Li Zhi immediately used his great power to cut the entire lake off from the ancient star.

Holding it in one hand, he entered a chaotic area.

After casually clearing up a piece of airspace in the chaotic area, Li Zhi settled the lake.

"There really is a sea of ​​sin in this world."

Looking at the dark red lake in front of him that he had sealed, Li Zhi felt filled with emotion.

Everyone knows about karma and the fire of karma.

But they don’t know that there is something more terrifying than karma, and that is the sea of ​​sin.

To put it simply, it is a liquid collection of negative emotions that appears when the essence of the karma of all living beings and special substances combine together.

Even in terms of the destructive power of monks, it is more terrifying than hell fire.

It is specifically designed to pollute the seven emotions and six desires of monks, so that they will directly fall.

In this period of time, a cultivator can become a quasi-emperor only by surviving a thunder tribulation.

But in the chaotic ancient times, if a cultivator wanted to become the supreme being, he had to survive the calamity of being burned by the fire of karma.

When a cultivator is going through the supreme tribulation, Heaven and Earth will send down boundless karmic fire, which carries with it the will, judgment, and the cruel suppression of the universe.

The sins of the heavens, a large amount of cause and effect, came down together, turned into karma, and burned his body.

In the chaotic ancient times, it was much more difficult for a cultivator to become a supreme being than it is to become a quasi-emperor today, and the tests he had to endure were also much more rigorous.

If you are not careful, you will be burned to ashes by the fire of karma.

Even in the chaotic ancient times when the Great Dao was incomplete, it was more difficult for a cultivator to become a supreme being than it is for a cultivator to become an emperor in this period.

Although the laws of immortality no longer exist in this world, the laws of humanity are still intact.

Moreover, heaven and earth are not beings of the same level, so the strength of the thunder tribulation that comes down in each realm will naturally not be at the same level.

Without going through the test of the calamity of being burned by the karmic fire, one could not be considered the supreme being in the chaotic ancient times.

Although the supreme being of the ancient times and the quasi-emperor of today cannot be completely equated.

But true immortals can be equated.

Quasi-Emperor and Supreme are both the last major realms under the True Immortal realm.

Naturally, there is an opportunity for horizontal comparison.

In terms of the difficulty of the thunder tribulation test they endured, the creatures who had just become supreme in the ancient times were stronger than the creatures who had just become quasi-emperors in this period.

Li Zhi looked at the sea of ​​sin in front of him, and then jumped in without hesitation.

Then he used a secret method to ignite this sea of ​​sin. The horrifying karmic flames formed a huge furnace that wrapped Li Zhi inside.

When the flames began to burn Li Zhi's real body,
He instantly felt as if countless ants were tearing at his soul, and his solid and immortal spirit seemed to be stimulated by billions of steel needles, and began to show pits and flaws.

The strong body seemed to lose moisture under the burning of the karma fire and gradually shriveled up.

The crystal bones gradually lost their essence and became gray and fragile.

No one knew how much time had passed before the furnace of karma fire drained away all the evil sea that was a thousand miles in radius.

The flames were so raging that even the chaos around them became a little blurry. It was like an eternal furnace suppressing everything there, burning away all the sins in the world.

In the turbulent ancient times, being subjected to the fire of mortal karma was a tempering and the best baptism for becoming a true supreme being. Persisting in it would bring enormous benefits to oneself.

Although Li Zhi was not the supreme being of the chaotic ancient times, he did not practice the Shinto of the chaotic ancient times.

However, he used the sea of ​​sin as fuel to condense a unique furnace of karma fire to burn himself.

Throughout recorded history, there have not been many monks who dared to burn themselves with karmic fire.

There are records on Earth that Sakyamuni used this method to practice when he was cultivating his six-foot-tall golden body.

Now Li Zhi is also using the power of karma fire to burn his body in order to forge the most powerful supreme combat body.

In the end, when the sea of ​​sin burned dry and the furnace collapsed, Li Zhi was buried in a pile of ashes.

It can be vaguely seen that he can still maintain his human form, but his whole body is fragile, and only some areas are still shining, while other areas are either dry or charred.

Li Zhi shook violently, and all the ashes fell off. His dry body regained vitality, and divine light flowed all over his body, as if his immortal golden body was reshaped.

The terrifying aura of a quasi-emperor burst out from him like an overwhelming force, even breaking through the chaos and rushing towards the vast universe.

The terrifying aura affected more than one star field.

It makes people feel as if a huge monster that has been sleeping for eternity has awakened at this moment.

(End of this chapter)