Stealing the Secret from the Cover of Heaven

Chapter 453: The Beginning of Defying Fate
The starry sky is boundless, dark and cold, and the heaven and earth did not become hot because of the explosion of the Immortal Road.

Just because someone becomes an immortal, the universe does not become brighter and warmer. Coldness and darkness are still the eternal themes of the universe.

Standing in front of a ruined sea of ​​chaos, Li Zhi looked back at the entire universe and suddenly realized how insignificant he was.

The heaven and earth are limited, the universe has boundaries, but the long river of time flows endlessly.

His successful ascent to the pinnacle of the extreme world gave him a kind of unconscious pride in his heart, and he believed that he could now stand on equal footing with those supreme emperors who lived in seclusion in the forbidden zone of life.

You are also qualified to be the chess player who sits back and watches the chaos in this world.

However, the scene on the road to becoming an immortal, where he could not defy fate, was like a loud slap in the face, which woke him up directly.

Of course, the emperor is still just an ant in front of fate. Ten emperors joined forces to attack the immortal road, but in the end no one succeeded in entering the immortal realm.

This result is so ironic.

It made their unprecedented cultivation become a joke.

Their helplessness in the face of the Immortal Gate made them no different from those mortals who only lived for a hundred years in the face of death.

If these ancient supreme emperors who truly ruled the nine heavens and ten earths are like this, then what virtue and ability does Li Zhi have to be so confident that he can truly become an immortal in this mortal world.

Ever since reaching the pinnacle of Jidao, the world has become narrow in Li Zhi's eyes, but has it really become narrow?

Li Zhi is still the same Li Zhi. His body has not grown to a point wider than the heaven and earth just because he has reached the pinnacle of the universe.

Perhaps it is not that the world has become narrow, but that his own vision has become short-sighted.

What is the universe?
Is it the boundless starry sky, or the bounded edge of the universe?

In fact, it is not entirely true. There is also the invisible river of time. Together, they are all the factors that make up the complete appearance of the universe.

The world became smaller in his eyes, but it was only because his own vision became narrow.

And in the process of reaching the pinnacle, did he really grow?
Maybe instead of growing, we've regressed.

By achieving enlightenment and becoming an emperor, at least one can experience the feeling of stepping on all the laws of heaven and earth under one's feet.

But standing at the top of the world, do you have any special feelings?
Actually not.

Still a mortal who cannot control his own destiny.

Those former ancient emperors, which one of them did not stand on the top of all living beings and overlook the entire universe?

But in the end, he couldn't even control his own life. Even if he saw the fairyland, he still couldn't go in and change his fate.

The scope of the world that Li Zhi saw became larger, but the depth of the world he saw became shorter, and it seemed that he could no longer see the world beyond his lifespan.

Fate is hard to defy, but has he really tried to change it?
Looking back on the years he had lived, Li Zhi suddenly realized that he had not experienced any event that could be considered to have truly changed his destiny.

Along the way, I have been very lucky and everything has gone smoothly. It seems so smooth that it doesn't seem real.

This time on the road to becoming an immortal, he is no longer the insignificant figure like last time, but now he has a realm and combat power that can rival the true supreme emperor. This is the best time to test whether he has the ability to change his destiny.

However, because of his overconfidence and even arrogance, he missed the opportunity to challenge fate.

Changing your own destiny is changing your destiny, so changing the destiny of others is also changing your destiny.

It is even more difficult to change your destiny.

If he could send a group of people into the fairyland when the road to becoming an immortal is opened this time, or send an ancient emperor to successfully land in the fairyland, perhaps he could prove that he is a person with the ability to defy fate and change his destiny.

Unfortunately, he did none of these things.

Instead, with a gaming mentality, he watched this once-in-a-million-year event like an outsider.

He didn't even have the thought of changing his destiny.

At that moment, did he really disdain the path to becoming an immortal, or did he not believe that he could challenge destiny and rewrite the direction of the flow of time?

Or is he actually a coward at heart?

Because you know that Ye Fan will become an existence above the Dao of Sacrifice in the future, you have been subconsciously avoiding Ye Fan in your heart, and even refuse to participate in anything related to Ye Fan?
Standing in front of the broken and cold Chaos Sea, Li Zhi suddenly felt a chill on his back.

At the same time, he remembered the decisiveness of the Ten Thousand Dragon Emperor and his attitude towards failure.

If it were him, would he be able to trust him as much as the Ten Thousand Dragon King?
Can you be as free and easy as the Ancient Emperor Xuanwu?

Emperor Xuanwu and Emperor Wanlong failed in their Nirvana one after another. Was it really because of their own poor conditions?

Is there no reason that there is something wrong with his method?
Li Zhi was constantly sorting out his practice in his mind.

I examine my body three times a day.

When did he start to neglect reflecting on his own shortcomings?

If it weren't for what he saw and heard on the road to becoming an immortal, he would probably still be obsessed with the pride of being at the top of the world.

Did he create a method of Nirvana rebirth that surpassed the highest level of the highest order, really surpass the immortality methods that those supreme emperors had spent their entire lives researching?

Fate, unknowingly, shaped Li Zhi into the person it wanted him to be.

Smart, confident, arrogant, but essentially cowardly.

This seemingly calm and composed behavior is actually a gesture of surrendering to fate.

Is it really useful to know the past and the future?

Does he really know how many times the Scroll of the Heavens has been changed?

Can his previous choices allow him to change from a person in the painting to a person outside the painting?
Perhaps, everything is arranged by fate invisibly.

The real power of fate lies in its subtle and silent influence.

The moment Li Zhi changed from being a viewer of the painting to being the person in the painting, the "plot" he knew had already become a test of fate for him.

Just like the future ancestor of the plateau, he saw the ending in advance, but did it really change the ending?

In the end, he still couldn't escape the reckoning of fate.

In the eyes of Gao Yuanzu, the truth was that Huang Heye, who had been completely killed, had simply entered an unimaginable place for recuperation.

In the end, they rose from the ruins and revived from the desolation, thus turning defeat into victory.

This is the charm of fate.

Beyond these worlds, there is a vaster world.

The relationship between the plateau and that unimaginable place may be like the relationship between people living in this universe and the fairyland.

Almost all mortals practice to enter the fairyland and become immortals.

So, if the people of the strange plateau knew that outside of all other worlds, there was a place where time did not exist, space did not exist, and fate was unchangeable, would they look upon that place in the same way as the mortals living in this world with limited lifespans look upon the fairyland?

Only by challenging fate and not succumbing to it can one perhaps transcend fate and enter that supreme place that even the ancestors of the high plains could not perceive.

Above the Heaven back then, it was also known to be eternal and difficult to be reversed by reincarnation, it was a supreme place.

However, in the end, he still couldn't escape his fate.

Li Zhi couldn't help but start thinking, what fate would be worth challenging next?
Is it to live life after life and eventually achieve immortality in the mortal world?

No, after he used four frameworks to divide the process of cultivation to reach the Immortal Emperor into four stages, immortality in the mortal world was no longer a problem.

So what is an act of challenging fate?

What is the greatest destiny in the world?
Feeling the suppressing force of the Great Dao of the Golden Crow Emperor coming from the universe, Li Zhi instantly had the answer in his mind.

When one person becomes emperor, all the nations will submit to him. This is the destiny of this era.

Ye Fan broke through all the suppression and became the emperor against the will of heaven, which was an act of breaking the destiny.

So is Li Zhi's imitation of Ye Fan an act of breaking destiny? Perhaps not.

Perhaps, in the coming period, the greatest act against the will of heaven would be to condense a position of emperor that could suppress all others while the Golden Crow Emperor was still in power.

Moreover, it is a true emperor's Dao fruit recognized by the Heavenly Heart Seal just like the Golden Crow Emperor.

If this is accomplished and someone has become an emperor before, he can continue to be recognized by the Heavenly Heart Seal, allowing all the ways of heaven and earth to be in harmony with it, and then produce the Great Emperor's Dao Fruit, thus achieving the supreme feat of giving birth to two great emperors in one lifetime.

Perhaps, it is even more astonishing than Ye Fan's performance of penetrating all the laws of heaven and earth, leaving the imprint of the Great Dao on all the laws of heaven and earth, and achieving the Dao Fruit of the Heavenly Emperor.

If this is achieved, it is undoubtedly challenging the true destiny.

After correcting his understanding of destiny, Li Zhi's state of mind also underwent some changes.

His gaze also changed from being vast enough to see the universe to being deep and unstoppable, as if the long river of time was rising and falling in his eyes.

What is cultivation? It is to cultivate the principles of the Great Dao, and also to cultivate the human heart of heaven and earth. If the heart is not settled, the Dao will not be at peace. If the Dao is not at peace, the road will not be accessible. If the road is blocked, it will not be possible to reach the destination.

After realizing the mistakes I made.

The extreme aura on Li Zhi began to rapidly recede, and eventually became no different from that of an ordinary person.

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In front of the vast universe, what qualifications does he have to be proud when he is still bound by the long river of time?

Still just a mortal with a longer lifespan.

Their level of understanding of the universe is not necessarily higher than that of ordinary people.

"Fellow Daoist Wanlonghuang, no, Senior Wanlonghuang, thank you for using your life to help me see myself clearly."

Then, Li Zhi took out the dragon egg left behind when the Ten Thousand Dragon Emperor failed in his Nirvana, and thanked him with a complicated expression.

Afterwards, Li Zhi appeared on the ancestral star of the Wanlong Clan.

"Father, are you back?"

As soon as Li Zhi appeared in the Wanlong Palace, the Dragon Girl seemed to sense something and rushed out of the Dragon Palace with tears in her eyes.

"Senior Dragon Emperor has passed away. This is what he asked me to give to you."

Li Zhi gave all the dragon scales left in his hands by the Ten Thousand Dragon King, as well as the dragon egg and some other things to the Dragon Girl.

"Father's battle to become an immortal ultimately failed. Becoming an immortal, haha, caused so much suffering to so many people."

The Dragon Girl looked at the dragon eggs left behind by the Ten Thousand Dragon King after his failed Nirvana, and a trace of sadness appeared in her eyes.

A mysterious light suddenly appeared on the dragon scales left by the Ten Thousand Dragon Emperor, and then the last incarnation of the divine consciousness left by the Ten Thousand Dragon Emperor in the world appeared in front of the Dragon Girl.

"My daughter, don't be sad. Your father has gotten what he wanted. He should have passed away in the ancient times. It is God's will that you can see the fairyland in this life. Even if you cannot become an immortal, it is also God's will. Your father believes that you will be able to inherit your father's will in the future and truly achieve enlightenment and become an immortal."

"Father." The Dragon Girl rushed forward to hug the Ten Thousand Dragon Emperor, but her hug was empty. The incarnation of divine consciousness was just a ray of light and had no entity.

"Daughter, take father to see your child." After some communication, the Ten Thousand Dragon Emperor told the Dragon Girl his last wish before he completely disappeared.

"My daughter will take you to see him now." The dragon girl hurriedly held the dragon egg and dragon scales, tore through the void, and entered a chaotic little world hidden deep in the void.

When the father and daughter met again, they seemed to treat Li Zhi as a invisible person.

Li Zhi did not avoid suspicion. Although he did not receive an invitation from the Dragon Girl, he shamelessly followed her to that chaotic little world.

And he saw the dragon egg that was still absorbing the essence of chaos to nurture itself.

A special blood connection suddenly emerged in Li Zhi's mind.

It is not the golden dragon bloodline evolved from the medicinal blood of the real dragon's elixir of immortality, but the bloodline of the humane ancestor dragon that comes from Li Zhi, the descendant of the dragon, and everyone is like a dragon.

Li Zhi immediately calculated the fate of the dragon inside the dragon egg.

But he was surprised to find that there was no trace of him in the long river of fate, just like him back then, as if the fate of this unborn dragon son did not belong to this ancient history.

At this time, the Ten Thousand Dragon King also saw the little life growing inside the dragon egg.

"His bloodline is indeed extraordinary. Even I can't see his true bloodline potential."

Afterwards, the Ten Thousand Dragon Emperor said to the Dragon Girl, "My daughter, from now on, use the Ten Thousand Dragons Nurturing Spirit Array that I passed down to you to nourish him by absorbing the essence of the dragon eggs that I failed to achieve Nirvana. It is impossible to make his bloodline grow perfectly by just relying on the essence of chaos to nourish him."

Then, the Ten Thousand Dragon Emperor said to Li Zhi, "Fellow Daoist Changshou, after my daughter has finished setting up the formation, please temporarily use the power of the Ultimate Dao to seal this small world. During the process of nurturing my grandson, it is best not to let him receive any blessings or interference from the Ten Thousand Daos of Heaven and Earth."

"Please rest assured, senior. I will leave the method of nurturing the human Tao seed in his body. The Tao seed will grow little by little as he is nurtured until it is complete." Li Zhi said.

At this time, Li Zhi had already vaguely realized the reason why Emperor Wanlong and Emperor Xuanwu had failed.

At the beginning of the practice, one first opens up the secret realm of the human body for practice, and then breeds the Tao seeds. Perhaps this is an imperfect path to practice in the secret realm of the human body.

The correct way to cultivate the secret realm of the human body is to first nurture a perfect divine seed of the Great Dao in the human body, and then open up the secret realms of the human body one by one, so that the cultivator can successfully reach the pinnacle of the Great Dao.

After all, Emperor Huang Tian also succeeded in using his own body as a seed, allowing his own Dao Divine Seed to be comparable to those top-level perfect Dao Seeds, and only then did he begin to practice the five secret realms of the human body.

It is precisely because people in later generations, in the process of cultivation, opened the five secret realms of the human body one by one, and the time and depth at which each secret realm was affected by the myriad ways of heaven and earth were not uniform, which caused the great way of alternative enlightened people to be incomplete, and they could not truly become an existence at the top of the ultimate way that could rival the Wuque Emperor.

There are many reasons for this result. Li Zhi speculated that this was because in the early stages of practice, the process of gradually opening up the secret realm of the human body would have a subtle impact on one's own Tao seeds, ultimately leading to the evil consequence that the Tao fruit of the alternative Taoist could not be completely fulfilled.

The Great Emperor was able to make up for the flaws in his Taoism caused by improper cultivation because of the Heavenly Heart Seal and the assistance of the Ten Thousand Daos of Heaven and Earth.

However, those who have achieved enlightenment in an alternative way have no chance to make up for this flaw.

So although they all achieved enlightenment, there were differences in the fruits of their enlightenment.

This can also explain why those who have achieved enlightenment with special physiques are stronger than those who do not have special physiques.

Not all alternative enlightened people can challenge the Great Emperor; perhaps this is the reason.

Perhaps, to change one's fate, one does not have to start from a big perspective.

Instead, you should start from the beginning of your practice.

Changing the way of practice and the process of cultivation may allow countless alternative practitioners who have achieved enlightenment but have incomplete Dao fruits to become powerful people at the top of the Dao with perfect Dao fruits.

Even if they do not have the status of a great emperor, they can still stand on the same level as the great emperor.

Only in this way can one escape from the ultimate pursuit of the throne of the Great Emperor by all the cultivators in the heavens.

Thereby changing the fate of countless people.

This seemingly insignificant trip to visit Longzi has become the foundation for countless cultivators in the future to pursue the path to immortality in the mortal world.

The great changes in destiny never take place only in a grand and magnificent manner.

Sometimes, a subtle and insignificant change can stir up huge waves in the future and even change the course of history.

Even Li Zhi today is not aware of this.

Just an act of wanting to make his child's human body more perfect actually marked the real beginning of the transformation of the human body's secret realm cultivation system.

After using the dragon wood cultivated by the Ten Thousand Dragon Emperor to forge a real Chaos Dragon Nest for the unborn dragon son, Li Zhi ended his journey to the Ten Thousand Dragons Ancestral Star and returned to the dojo.

After all, the Dragon Girl had no intention of keeping him as a guest, and he felt embarrassed to stay there.

Moreover, he did not engrave the secret rune method to breed the Tao seed inside the dragon egg.

Because after careful consideration, it is better to interfere less with the innate gestation. Only after his life source is completely formed, it is the time to nurture the Tao seed in his body.

By then, perhaps Li Zhi would have created a more complete method of cultivation.

At the same time, Li Zhi felt that there was an inevitable connection between the gestation of the human body's Tao seed and a person's innate physique.

There are all kinds of magical physiques in this world, which may be the key to perfecting the secrets of the human body and nurturing the human body's Tao seeds.

The child in the dragon egg will need to be nurtured for at least 100,000 years before it is born. This period of time is enough for Li Zhi to perfect his thoughts and ideas.

(End of this chapter)