Stealing the Secret from the Cover of Heaven

Chapter 447: The Desolate Tower and the Green Emperor

There were lingering immortal music, waves of Taoist rhymes, dragons and phoenixes dancing, and unicorns bringing good luck. The Wangkong City was filled with people and was silent.

No matter whether they were human cultivators, demon cultivators, or ancient cultivators, they were all immersed in the ocean of the Dao. Even the plants and grasses in the city were infected by the Dao and became extraordinary.

The whole city is like a Taoist land, which makes countless people fascinated.

After seven days, Li Zhi stopped preaching, and the various strange phenomena between heaven and earth began to slowly dissipate, leaving people with a lingering feeling.

It seemed as if I had grasped the true meaning of cultivating the secret realm of the human body, but when I thought about it carefully, it felt both real and illusory, like waking up from a dream.

Just when everyone thought that Li Zhi would leave after finishing his sermon, he opened his mouth and asked, "The Tao I have talked about before is only my own understanding and comprehension of the Tao. It is my own opinion. You can comprehend and learn from it, but you must not imitate it. It is said that the Tao is invisible and formless. Those who learn from me will live, and those who imitate me will die. In the practice of Tao, the most taboo is to walk the same path as others. Only by walking the Tao path that suits you can you reach the end of the Tao. If you have any questions, you can raise them now. I still have time to answer your questions."

As soon as these words came out, everyone was excited, and no matter men, women, old or young, they all asked for advice. The scene even became a little chaotic for a while.

"Quiet! How can you guys be so noisy?" Jin Ming, who was sitting next to Li Zhi, couldn't stand it anymore and spoke directly.

The terrifying pressure from the quasi-emperor instantly calmed the people in the audience.

"Fellow Daoist from the Hun Tian clan, do you have any questions?" Li Zhi saw a Saint King from the Hun Tian clan of the Taigu clan who wanted to speak but hesitated again and again, so he called out his name.

When everyone saw that Li Zhi did not give the first opportunity to ask questions to the human race, but gave it to a cultivator from the ancient race, they all looked at him, wanting to know what question he would ask.

“Master, I have a question in my mind, but I don’t know whether I should ask you.” The Holy King of the Hun Tian Clan said after looking at Li Xiangli.

"Just say it." Li Zhi said with a smile.

“Hundreds of us ancient royal families once formed an alliance, planning to unite the ancestral blood of each clan, fuse the fragments of the Great Dao, create a supreme being, and then lead everyone to become immortals. I wonder if this method has a chance of success?” The Saint King of the Hun Tian clan asked a question that surprised countless people.

"Why did he ask this question?" Many people discussed in a low voice.

“I heard that in this life, not only Beidou’s path to immortality will be opened, but another path to immortality located on Feixian Star will also be opened. These ancient royal families should not have given up the hope of becoming immortals and are preparing for the path to immortality on Feixian Star.” An informed person in the crowd suddenly said.

"What, there is another path to becoming an immortal on Feixian Star?" someone exclaimed.

"Why are you shouting? The specific date is still uncertain. However, I learned this news from some fellow Taoists who discussed Taoism with the Forbidden Zone Masters. Many Forbidden Zone Supremes did not appear in the world during the last immortal path, and they are waiting for the immortal path on Feixian Star to open. It's just that this news has not yet spread widely in the universe. Everyone is just silently making preparations." Someone said.

Then, everyone turned their attention to Li Zhi, wanting to hear how Li Zhi would answer them.

"Theoretically, by fusing the ancestral blood of all your races together, you can create a supreme being, or perhaps a flawed chaotic body, but the difficulty is no less than achieving enlightenment in this world. As for leading all of you races to become immortals together, that is not possible. If you want to become immortals, you can only rely on yourselves. No external force in the universe can make people become immortals." Li Zhi did not perfunctorily answer him.

"Thank you, Immortal, for clearing up my doubts." After hearing Li Zhi's answer, the Holy King of the Hun Tian Clan seemed to have unloaded a burden from his heart.

"My human friend, do you have any questions?" Then, Li Zhi named a young human cultivator, whose cultivation was at the second level of the Immortal Realm.

"Master, why are cultivators like us limited in our lifespan? In the legendary ancient times, as long as cultivators like us reached the saint realm, we could live forever. Why is it not possible now?" The young human cultivator asked a question that everyone wanted to know.

"The Tao is ruthless, destiny has an end, the heaven and earth will also grow old, let alone the living beings. Long or short life does not harm the Tao in the slightest. It only depends on the intention of seeking the Tao and whether it is sincere. The worldly life is fleeting, and only by following the Tao can one achieve immortality. What limits the lifespan of a cultivator is never this vast universe, but the sentient beings' persistence in and pursuit of the Tao." Li Zhi answered.

Everyone was lost in thought, even Ye Tong and Yang Xi were thinking about something, and asked: "Senior, is there really a way to become an immortal in this world?"

"No." Li Zhi said very affirmatively.

Yang Xi and Ye Tong were confused when they heard this, and then they heard Li Zhi continue, "There is a way to become an immortal in the mortal world. But whether you can take that path depends on your talent and destiny."

When they heard the word "talent", the confusion in Ye Tong and Yang Xi's eyes disappeared instantly. Isn't the ruthless emperor in the ancient forbidden area a living example?

Isn’t the little girl living in heaven the result of eternal life in the mortal world?

"Senior, do you think I can become an immortal in this mortal world?" Yang Xi suddenly asked.

"What do you think?" Li Zhi asked with a smile, which made Yang Xi scratch his head.

Then, Li Zhi selected a cultivator who came from the demon tribe.

The man asked, "Master, when we, the demon race, practice, we often need to refine the true blood in our bodies, but is there a chance to refine our own blood into a pure-blooded creature comparable to a fairy?"

Finally someone asked a question about spiritual practice, which made people wonder what the true meaning of tempering blood is?
Li Zhi replied: "Refine your blood and practice evolution. In my opinion, you can actually evolve it into an independent path of practice and evolution. This path will never end, and it is possible to surpass the immortals in the end. There is no fixed pattern for the great ways of the world, and the same is true for the practice. I know very little about refracting blood and refining the way, so I can't give you the correct answer, but I can tell you that it is a road to heaven. Whether you can walk through it depends on your own luck and talent."

"Thank you, Immortal, for clearing up my doubts." The young demon seemed to have gained something.

After answering seven or eight more questions, Li Zhi left Wangkong City.

Ye Tong, Yang Xi, and Jin Ming went back to their respective homes and did not continue to follow Li Zhi.

A few days later, in the southern region of the Eastern Wilderness, in the primitive ruins, in a vast wilderness outside the Lingxu Cave Heaven.

Li Zhi shouted at a ghost-like figure, "Excuse me, old man, but Senior Qingdi is here in person."

"Cough..." The figure seemed to be unwell. After sitting on a crouching tiger rock, he coughed for a while before revealing his true face.

He was an old man with a gaunt face, gray hair, a tall figure, deep eyes, and a wise look that seemed to show him that he understood everything in the world.

"It's me." The Green Emperor looked Li Zhi up and down with curiosity, as if he was looking at a perfect work of art.

"It is indeed the senior." Li Zhi had already noticed it. When he was preaching before, he felt that someone was watching him in secret.

"You are very good. You can get this far without becoming an emperor. This is enough to make those people in the restricted area ashamed." The Green Emperor said.

"Since the senior has shown up, I wonder if I can ask for your advice." Li Zhi asked.

"Since you have come this far, why do you still need me to teach you? Just call me fellow Taoist." said the Green Emperor.

"The junior has just reached the pinnacle, while the senior has already reached the end. There is nothing wrong with calling you the senior." Li Zhi said.

After the two chatted for a while, the Green Emperor suddenly asked, "Do you want to comprehend the immortal laws in the Desolate Tower?"

"No, the immortal laws in the desolate tower are useless to me. I want to comprehend the desolate tower itself." Li Zhi said. "The desolate tower itself?" The most precious thing in the desolate tower is the immortal laws, but it is a bit strange that he wants to comprehend the tower itself instead of the immortal laws.

"Please look, senior." After Li Zhi finished speaking, a nine-story tower of the soul flew out from the fairy platform.

"The soul turns into a god." The Green Emperor was amazed when he saw the tower of the soul transformed from Li Zhi's soul.

But soon, the Green Emperor saw the difference, shook his head and said, "Hey, this is not that kind of immortality method, but the real instrument form and soul."

Li Zhi nodded and said, "For cultivators of my generation who want to obtain the fruit of immortality in this mortal world, the strength of the soul is the most critical point. So I have created a method of soul fusion and transformation. First, the soul is divided into two, and then combined into one, so as to surpass the peak of humanity. Now my human-shaped soul has already stood at the peak of the extreme way, but this instrument-shaped soul is still a little short of it."

The predecessor of the Desolate Tower was the small bone tower that grew up with Emperor Desolate Tian in his childhood. It was also a form of Taoism that could continuously evolve through autonomous practice.

It is much more advanced than those weapons that need to be sacrificed by monks to upgrade. Li Zhi feels that the same evolutionary traces as those on the White Bone Tower must be left inside the Desolate Tower.

When Li Zhi told the Green Emperor about his path of cultivation, the Green Emperor pondered for a moment and said, "The primordial spirit is reborn, and the soul is transformed. This is the path that the Dark Emperor and the Immortal Emperor have taken. Are you imitating them?"

“It’s not imitation, I’m just borrowing some inspiration for transformation. My path has been planned out long ago. The practice of mortals starts from opening up the sea of ​​suffering, evolving the Taoist palace, exploring the four poles, transforming into a dragon, and finally ascending to the immortal platform. Then the path above mortals should start from the immortal platform, with the transformation of the primordial spirit, the leap to the extreme, the coming of the heaven and earth, the unity of the god and the self, the beginning of immortality, and finally ascending to the immortality in the mortal world.” It was the first time that Li Zhi explained to outsiders his view of the immortal path in the mortal world.

That is, the path that the human body secret realm cultivation system should take in the second stage.

It is almost the opposite of the practice at the mortal stage.

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The wise light in the Green Emperor's eyes disappeared, and instead a thick chaotic energy rolled in his eyes, as if he was deducing whether the path of cultivation above the Great Emperor realm mentioned by Li Zhi was correct.

Although he didn't see clearly whether it was correct or not, Qingdi realized that this was a path he could continue on.

"You, fellow Daoist, are truly special. You have embarked on the path to immortality before becoming an emperor." The Green Emperor said at last.

Back then, Li Zhi absorbed Qingdi's blood and energy to undergo a complete transformation. Although Qingdi was not able to use his wheel sea to be reborn, he was able to sense the specialness of Li Zhi's wheel sea.

If it is the wheel sea of ​​the Holy Body, it is the vast ocean of life.

Then Li Zhi's wheel sea is the place where life and death seem to reach their extreme point.

Although the Green Emperor could not see the truth about Li Zhi's wheel sea at this time, he knew that there was something in Li Zhi's body that was incompatible with this world.

Although he had just awakened that year, he was able to understand everything about the outside world through the imperial blood.

Whether it was the imperial blood transforming into a green lotus in Ye Fan's wheel sea, or Li Zhi using the Chaos Green Lotus Imperial Soldier to cut off the extra flaws in his body, the Green Emperor knew it all clearly.

Afterwards, Li Zhi's soul tower, led by the incarnation of the Qing Emperor's supreme soul, came to the side of the desolate tower under the East Desert.

The tower is simple and has nine floors. It is filled with the power of time, as if it has run through the entire ancient history of cultivation and is floating in the ocean of life.

The incarnation of the Qing Emperor's soul told Li Zhi that he had dismembered his body and placed his soul in the desolate tower to evolve a fairyland inside. This was the immortal path he took.

"Senior, you are a talented person and I admire you very much." After listening to Qingdi's explanation of what he did in the Desolate Tower, Li Zhi expressed his sincere admiration.

Then, the Green Emperor asked, "With your strength, you are capable of participating in the immortal path opened on Feixian Star. Why do you still want to stay in the human world and struggle to cross it?"

"The heaven and earth are imperfect, and the fairyland is also imperfect. All living beings can only struggle to survive in the mortal world. If you cannot attain the Tao, it doesn't make much difference whether you go to the fairyland or not. It's just the difference between dying early and dying late. If you can't cultivate the supreme Tao in the mortal world, then you may not be able to cultivate it in the fairyland." Li Zhi said.

The fact that the fairyland has flaws is not an impossible result to deduce for an emperor who can truly reach the pinnacle of the extreme way, or even surpass the pinnacle of the extreme way.

At least the Green Emperor knew that the fairyland was imperfect, so he opened up the divine realm in the mortal world and evolved it into the fairyland.

If he succeeds in following this path, then his great Dao laws will surely transform to a level comparable to the Immortal King laws.

By then, eternal life in the mortal world will be a natural thing.

Unfortunately, this road is not easy to walk, and it is even more difficult than living from life to life.

It also has higher requirements for talent, which is equivalent to directly becoming an immortal king in the mortal world.

The path to becoming an Immortal King, which takes a True Immortal an entire era to complete, was completed in just tens of thousands of years.

This shows how high the talent required for this path is.

Essentially, this path is even more difficult than transforming from a mortal to a war immortal.

In the ancient times of immortals, there were successful examples of people transforming from mortals into immortal warriors. However, transforming from mortals into immortal warriors was just a matter of transforming from mortals into immortals, or becoming true immortals.

The path of the Green Emperor is equivalent to a significant condensation of the path of the Immortal King.

Moreover, this was carried out without any reference to the great principles of heaven and earth.

If we were in a world where the Great Dao was complete, even in a great world in the Dharma Ending Age, perhaps this mortal immortal path would have a chance of success. However, in this imperfect world today, the difficulty of success would increase exponentially.

Then, Li Zhi told Qingdi his idea.

After hearing this, Qingdi said thoughtfully: "Thank you for your reminder, fellow Taoist."

In the end, Li Zhi's soul tower was sent into the Desolate Tower by the Green Emperor, but it did not enter the divine realm that the Green Emperor evolved in the Desolate Tower.

In order to comprehend the true meaning of the magic weapon contained in the Desolate Tower, Li Zhi's soul communicated with the spirit of the Desolate Tower and then directly attached itself to the body of the Desolate Tower.

Li Zhi's true body returned to the mountain range where the Seven Stars Dojo was located.

They built a thatched hut on the mountain and settled down there.

Time flies, and a hundred years have passed.

It was not until the ancient seal on Feixian Star showed signs of movement that people came looking for Li Zhi.

(End of this chapter)