Stealing the Secret from the Cover of Heaven

Chapter 435 Years of Jiazi
Ziwei Ancient Star, the land of the North Sea, the supreme Taoist temple.

Above the central divine island, fairy mist is lingering and auspicious air is rising. Spiritual birds and beasts are frolicking and walking among the fairy mountains and ancient forests. There is even a colorful phoenix dancing among the auspicious clouds and mist, making the entire divine island look like a dream.

Ever since he survived the catastrophe of the seventh level of the Quasi-Emperor in the independent starry sky behind the nine imperial gates, Li Zhi returned to the Taoist temple on the Ziwei Ancient Star.

The vast universe and the mundane world are no longer obstacles that interfere with his progress.

Since returning, Li Zhi has never left the dojo.

In fact, only the four major maids went to the Changshou Temple and saw his true body on the day he returned.

Since then, Li Zhi has been sitting on the Taoist platform in the temple, comprehending the laws of nature and the inner principles of the human body.

Grab Li Zhi, who used his body as a seed coat, and while practicing, he created his own single secret realm practice scripture.

The purpose is to break through the limits of the five secret realms, so that he can transcend the limits of heaven and earth, instead of being restricted to a certain level and unable to make any progress.

Now Li Zhi's cultivation level of the seventh level of quasi-emperor is enough to protect himself. As long as those forbidden area supreme beings do not attack him personally, he is not afraid of anyone in the world.

After returning, he practiced in seclusion for sixty years. Although his realm did not break through to the eighth level of the Quasi-Emperor, his Taoism increased to the peak of the seventh level of the Quasi-Emperor.

Practicing in the realm of Quasi-Emperor is not an easy task. Even if one has the best talent in the world, it will take two or three hundred years to advance from the first level of Quasi-Emperor to the ninth level of Quasi-Emperor.

Moreover, the practice of the Quasi-Emperor is extremely dangerous.

The slightest mistake when realizing the truth will affect one's own practice and may even directly hurt oneself.

Among the eight generals under the Immortal Emperor, several retired because of problems in their enlightenment.

From ancient times to the present, the number of quasi-emperors who died in meditation due to problems in their enlightenment is no less than the number of quasi-emperors who died in battle.

Especially when one reaches the late quasi-emperor realm, each level advancement takes hundreds of years.

This is true even for the most talented person in the world.

Often after breaking through the Quasi-Emperor level, it takes five to six hundred years of practice to reach the ninth level of Quasi-Emperor.

After the geniuses have raised their cultivation to the ninth level of Quasi-Emperor, they will need hundreds of years of accumulation before they are qualified to try to become emperors.

The accumulation required for achieving enlightenment is extremely huge. Even if there is no interference, the probability of a cultivator achieving enlightenment is not high.

Since ancient times, there have been countless examples of cultivators at the quasi-emperor level nine failing to achieve enlightenment.

Even if it is an alternative way to achieve enlightenment, it is not an easy thing.

Looking back, more than two hundred years have passed since I became a quasi-emperor.

Li Zhicai raised his cultivation to the peak of the seventh level of Quasi-Emperor.

If one wants to break through to the peak of the ninth level of Quasi-Emperor, it will probably take another two to three hundred years of practice.

If one wants to attempt to achieve enlightenment or another way of achieving enlightenment after reaching the ninth level of Quasi-Emperor, one will need at least another two to three hundred years of accumulation.

In other words, according to the normal growth rate, if Li Zhi wants to try to become an emperor, he will need at least four to five hundred years of accumulation.

However, Ye Fan only practiced and accumulated for a hundred years, and his Taoism soared directly from the realm of the initial seventh level of quasi-emperor to the level of half-step alternative enlightenment.

This leap is extremely exaggerated.

It was because he saw how difficult his own cultivation was that Li Zhi realized how incredible it was that Ye Fan had spent only a hundred years to advance directly from the seventh level of Quasi-Emperor to the level of Great Saint Body.

However, although Li Zhi was also shocked by Ye Fan's cultivation speed, he determined another thing from Ye Fan's performance.

That is, the improvement of one's own Taoism has little to do with the external environment of heaven and earth, and it is not necessary to go through the test of heavenly tribulation.

After raising one’s cultivation to the eighth level of the Quasi-Emperor, one does not necessarily have to go through the tribulation before one can continue to advance towards the ninth level of the Quasi-Emperor.

Instead, as long as you ensure that the level of the Tao you cultivate is not sensed by the outside world, your own practice will not be affected.

Therefore, since returning to the Taoist temple, Li Zhi has not only improved his Taoism step by step, but has also been perfecting and sublimating the secret method "Eternal Life Locking Body" that comes with the "Innate Longevity Art".

Li Zhi wants to create a secret method to seal all of his energy within his body, forming a small physical universe that is independent of the heaven and earth.

The key to creating this method lies in Li Zhi's understanding of the Tao seed hidden in the human body.

Although the method of cultivating the five secret realms of the human body passed down by Emperor Huang Tian is based on the body as the seed.

However, there are very few cultivators who can truly achieve unity between the inner and outer worlds, and not let the great ways interfere with each other.

Today's cultivation techniques have been more or less influenced by the ancient Shinto cultivation methods.

This makes the inner practice of using the body as a seed seem a little less pure.

We can get a clue from the fact that the practice of cultivators will be greatly affected by the environment of heaven and earth.

During the period when the Beidou Heaven and Earth were severely suppressed, it was extremely difficult for a cultivator to become a king.

If the Taoism that one practices is truly based on using the body as a seed, then as long as the cultivator sets out on the path of Taoism, he or she can practice normally even if he or she is in the Dharma-Ending Age.

But the reality is that when a cultivator starts from the Four Poles Secret Realm, he must actively communicate with the outside universe with the great Dao that he has realized.

After tracing the roots and realizing the true meaning of the five secret realms being the body as the seed, Li Zhi was eager to create a practice method that fundamentally did not rely on the external environment of the universe.

However, to create this method, he needed to have an extremely profound understanding of his own Tao seed, as well as an extremely profound understanding of the Tao of heaven and earth and the practice of the Tao.

Li Zhi has no idea yet about how to create a true martial art that can be used to gain inner strength.

However, a method that can completely block all kinds of qi in the body is almost completed.

Even after practicing this secret method, one can greatly delay the loss of one's lifespan, allowing the cultivator to live many years longer than other people.

Of course, the premise is not to fight with others.

Just like the old patriarch in the God Clan who had met the Green Emperor, he never used the divine origin to seal himself off. He simply transformed his flesh and blood body into a half-stone Holy Spirit Stone Embryo, which allowed him to live thousands of years longer than his peers.

From this we can see how long a cultivator's lifespan can be extended by practicing an excellent method of longevity.

Li Zhi named the secret method he was about to create "The Art of Transformation into Mortals".

Once the cultivator has practiced the Art of Transformation into a Mortal, from the outside, he will be no different from the mortals who have not embarked on the path of cultivation.

It was like exiling myself, completely leaving the world of practice.

While Li Zhi was perfecting the "Transformation Technique" and pondering on creating a method of cultivation in the five secret realms based on using his body as a seed, the outside world was already in turmoil.

As the hundred-year period set by Ye Fan is approaching, unusual movements have occurred in many places.

First of all, it was the underworld. The vast underworld was submerged in a black fog, blocking the view of the outside world. Even someone as powerful as a quasi-emperor could not see through the changes inside, but he was certain that a remarkable figure had awakened.

If it weren't for the Heaven's No. 1 God General Chuanying who had been guarding outside the underworld, the existence inside the underworld would have probably been born. In order to deal with the threats inside the underworld, Chuanying has never left in recent decades, sitting cross-legged in the starry sky with a stone stick in his hand, guarding this behemoth.

However, this kind of wholehearted devotion took a huge toll on Chuan Ying. Not only did his hair turn completely white, but his face also looked as if he had aged thousands of years.

Facing the underworld alone is equivalent to suppressing a life forbidden zone. This kind of courage is extremely amazing, shocking and admirable.

During this period, the ancestral star of Dacheng Tyrant was also not at peace.

In order to find Ye Fan's whereabouts, the Great Tyrant Body sent out a powerful Heaven-killing Ferocious Beast. It once followed a Great Tyrant Body to conquer the world, and the road it walked was covered with blood and bones.

At the same time, people kept coming out of Beidou’s several major life forbidden zones, including mounts of ancient supreme beings, personal guards, and bloodline descendants, and each of their identities was amazing.

They appeared in various places in the universe, stirring up endless waves.

Almost no genius in the world dares to offend them.

Later, Ye Fan's disciple Yang Xi was hunted down by the Sky-killing Beast, which made everyone in Heaven angry.

Then, all the quasi-emperors of Heaven came out and killed the sky-killing beast, shocking many people, even those from the forbidden zone of life.

Ye Fan's disciples Ye Tong, Xiao Song, Hei Huang, Saint Prince, Pang Bo and others are all strong men at the quasi-emperor level. As long as the great overlord body does not appear, the high-end combat power of the Heavenly Court is not weak at all.

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That battle brought peace to the world for thirty years.

However, as the hundred-year period agreed by Ye Fan was approaching, the atmosphere of the entire universe became extremely depressing.

Those geniuses of the time who had broken through to the quasi-emperor level also went into seclusion, no longer traveling around the universe for trials as high-profile as before.

As their cultivation gradually reaches the middle stage of quasi-emperor, the possibility of them becoming the prey of the Forbidden Zone Supreme is increasing day by day.

Therefore, many people choose to hide.

Whether Ye Fan can survive the disaster is not only a concern of Ye Fan’s enemies, but also of the geniuses of the time.

Just when the hundred years that Ye Fan had agreed upon was about to arrive.

Jin Ming and Li Xianer, who had been training outside for many years, returned to the Taoist temple one after another.

Jin Ming practiced diligently and had been training outside for more than two hundred years. His Taoism had made great progress. Now he had even survived the quasi-emperor catastrophe and became a powerful man of the second level of quasi-emperor.

Li Xian'er has traveled the universe over the years and gained considerable fortune. His cultivation has also reached the peak of the Great Sage. This time he returned to the Taoist temple in order to undergo his next reincarnation in the world.

It is also possible that this was her last reincarnation before she attained enlightenment.

When practicing the Dharma of Reincarnation in the Human World, the consumption of cultivation resources increases exponentially.

After each reincarnation, the resources required to reach the same level almost double.

Even though Li Zhi was wealthy, he could not afford the horrific consumption of Li Xianer's practice.

Unless she enters a place like the fairyland where cultivation resources are extremely rich, she can continue her reincarnation in the world.

To celebrate the return of Li Xian'er and Jin Ming, Li Zhi personally cooked a sumptuous meal for them.

Let Li Xian'er and Jin Ming taste the wonderful flavor of quasi-emperor meat.

"You two should not go out recently." Looking at the two people who were eating and drinking happily, Li Zhi said to them.

"Master, why?" Jin Ming asked curiously.

"Dad, are you worried that Uncle Ye will not be able to return on time after the hundred years?" Li Xianer also asked.

In recent decades, the creatures that have emerged from the major life forbidden areas have become extremely powerful. Even the chaotic body Yaoguang has been hunted down by them and had to hide.

This news caused a lot of controversy a few years ago.

"Your Uncle Ye will definitely return successfully when the hundred-year period arrives. By then, it will be the day when his holy body will be perfected." Li Zhi said.

"Since Senior Ye can return on time, why can't we go out?" Jin Ming asked.

"Because those forbidden zone supreme beings will target you after they can't find their master." Li Zhi said.

"Dad, have you also been targeted by the Supreme of the Forbidden Zone? Have the three otherworldly gods from the Forbidden Zone of Life come to cause trouble for you?" Li Xian'er asked with some concern.

"They don't know that I have returned. Even if they come to me, it doesn't matter." Li Zhi didn't take the strong people who walked out of the forbidden zone of life in recent years seriously.

Although he sat in the dojo and never left, he could basically see all the major events happening in the universe.

Wandering in the vast universe, taking in everything in the world.

This is the ability of a quasi-emperor.

Even across the endless star field, Li Zhi could see what was happening there.

As long as it is not blocked by powerful restrictions, there is almost no place in this vast universe that he cannot see.

"Dad, is your cultivation almost complete?" Li Xianer asked in surprise.

"Master, my disciple has already reached the second level of Quasi-Emperor. Have you broken through to the sixth level of Quasi-Emperor?" Jin Ming was already estimating Li Zhi's level.

After entering the Quasi-Emperor realm, she understood the benefits of Li Zhi's advice to her not to break through too quickly, but to temper her own blood first.

"My master's cultivation has reached the peak of the seventh level of the Quasi-Emperor, and I can break through to the eighth level of the Quasi-Emperor at any time." Li Zhi did not hide his true cultivation level in front of Li Xian'er and Jin Ming.

"Dad, won't you be facing the same dilemma as Uncle Ye next?" Li Xian'er said worriedly.

"It's not a big problem." Li Zhi said confidently.

“If Senior Ye can achieve the perfect holy body this time, Master’s safety in future tribulations will undoubtedly be greatly improved,” Jin Ming analyzed.

But Li Zhi shook his head and said: "To resolve the supreme difficulty, you still have to rely on yourself. The supreme difficulty is also a kind of human tribulation besides the heavenly tribulation. You still have to rely on yourself."

Li Zhi never placed his hopes of achieving great success in cultivation on Ye Fan.

Moreover, he was confident that once his cultivation broke through to the ninth level of the Quasi-Emperor, even if the true body of the Forbidden Zone Supreme came out, he would not be able to be killed.

There is even a possibility that he will kill you.

Just like back then, when the chaotic body had not yet fully matured, its combat power was so incredible that it almost took the life of a Heavenly Venerate who was at his peak state.

Li Zhi was confident that if he was given another 200 years to practice, he would be able to reach that level.

Now that he has found some traces of his own Dao seeds, Li Zhi is confident that he can improve his cultivation to the true peak of the ninth level of the Quasi-Emperor before he passes the tribulation.

That is the degree of perfection of the five secret realms that heaven and earth can accommodate.

(End of this chapter)