Stealing the Secret from the Cover of Heaven

Chapter 462 Returning to Earth and Strange Appearance

A huge ship, covered by endless starlight, cut through the void and finally stopped on a blue planet.

The azure stars exude a vigorous vitality, but their size is rather small. Their sizes are far from comparable to those of the vast life stars such as the Beidou Ancient Star and the Ziwei Ancient Star, and they are even inferior to some of the life stars attached to the ancient trial road of the human race.

But when getting closer, one can feel an inexplicable and vast aura inside his tiny body, as if there is a living emperor lurking above, which makes one tremble uncontrollably.

Huo Yan, who was following Li Zhi, carefully observed the entire picture of the earth for a while, and asked in surprise: "Teacher, is this the ancient star that is famous in the universe? Why does it look so small?"

Li Zhi did not explain, but tapped Huo Yan's brow, and a divine light emitting mysterious runes attached to his eyes.

In an instant, the tiny star expanded countless times.

Countless towering fairy mountains and divine veins appeared in his field of vision, as well as the vast land, the vast ocean, the endless primeval forests, and a grand world appeared in his eyes through a layer of light curtain.

"The ancient star Honghuang actually has such a vast magic formation that almost covers the entire star. The world outside the formation is less than one ten-thousandth of the area of ​​the entire ancient star. Teacher, whose masterpiece is this?" Huo Yan was extremely shocked when he saw the vast world shrouded by numerous magic formations, which was no smaller than the ancient star Ziwei.

There were even many places shrouded in thick fairy mist. Even if Li Zhi opened his third eye for him, he could not see clearly what was hidden behind the fairy mist.

Now Huo Yan has been promoted to the Great Sage realm, but he is still unable to discover traces of those large formations in the first place.

It can be seen that those large formations are extraordinary and are most likely the perfect formations of the great emperor.

"Teacher, I see that the areas covered by the formation are extremely vast. Why aren't they open to humans living outside?" When Huo Yan's gaze shifted from inside the formation to outside the formation, he discovered that in such a small area, there were actually tens of billions of people living there. It felt incredible.

Such a large population living in such a small area will inevitably give rise to a huge amount of worldly energy, thus affecting the practice of monks.

It will even suppress the cultivators so much that they cannot practice at all.

He also discovered that almost all the powerful cultivators on Earth lived in areas covered by formations.

However, the number of cultivators is far from comparable to that of the Ziwei Ancient Star, and is even less than the number of cultivators in a big city on the Ziwei Ancient Star.

Although Ye Fan took away the Cauldron of Immortality that year, allowing the Earth to breathe, and the essence of heaven and earth and the Great Dao were restored a little, the cultivation environment was far from the average level of the major life stars in the universe.

Unless all areas covered by the imperial formation are opened up, it is impossible for more cultivators to be born on Earth.

Moreover, because the resources for cultivation are limited, the fighting and killing between monks are bound to be much more than in other places.

Although he has not yet entered the earth, Li Zhi has already sensed the strong murderous aura accumulated between heaven and earth.

If the areas covered by the formation are not opened to the cultivators in the future, the cultivation process on Earth will definitely be full of blood and killing.

Every step forward requires stepping on the corpses of countless people.

The limited resources are not enough to train all the people with the qualifications to practice cultivation from such a large population base to embark on the path of cultivation.

Although Kunlun Immortal Land no longer absorbs the essence of heaven and earth from the entire ancient planet, most of the essence that Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountain returns to heaven and earth is still retained within the imperial formation.

The outside world actually doesn’t get much profit.

In the vast world covered by the formation, only a few areas have traces of human cultivators' activities.

It can be said that the cultivation environment on Earth is still extremely harsh, yet extremely superior.

For those cultivators who have the ability to enter and exit the areas covered by the formation, the cultivation resources are simply unimaginable.

But for the common people outside the formation, they have to fight like a river of blood just for a little bit of cultivation resources.

However, Li Zhi had no intention of changing the status quo.

Above the earth, there are people from the Heavenly Court stationed here, which is considered to be the territory under the rule of the Heavenly Court.

The Heavenly Court doesn't care about this, so why should Li Zhi do anything unnecessary?

"Let's go." After observing outside the domain for a while, Li Zhi walked out of the ship with Huo Yan and landed directly on the earth.

However, their arrival neither attracted the attention of the people in Heaven nor the attention of Yi Xi who was guarding Hangu Pass.

For the Supreme Beings, even a perfect imperial formation cannot really stop them.

After entering the earth, Li Zhi let Huo Yan move freely.

He returned to his hometown alone.

After two thousand years, I returned home again. A lot has changed and my hometown is no longer the same as it used to be.

The former village has disappeared and turned into a flat piece of farmland.

There is no trace of the ancestral graves anymore, as if they had turned into soil and merged completely into the earth over the years.

Looking around, Li Zhi could hardly see anything related to him.

Li Zhi was originally looking forward to coming back to visit his hometown.

Let’s see if the village can survive another two thousand years.

He even checked to see if his father, Li Daqiang, had practiced some strange magic that could keep his body from decaying after his death.

Now even the ancestral graves can’t be found, let alone the remains, which makes people feel helpless.

Even when Li Zhi wanted to use his divine sense to capture his bloodline descendants, he did not find any trace of them.

"Could it be that Jizu's bloodline has been cut off?" Li Zhi couldn't help but wonder.

He had calculated back then that after the recovery of heaven and earth, Li Jizu would also embark on the path of cultivation.

Even if he failed to cultivate and passed away, he should have left behind quite a few descendants.

Li Zhi broke through to become the Supreme Being. Although he did not receive the blessing of heaven and earth like in the ancient times, nor did he allow his descendants' bloodline to undergo a transformation like the emperor, the blessing of luck that it brought to a certain extent should be able to affect the cultivation talent of his direct bloodline.

No matter how you look at it, it's impossible for his bloodline to be cut off so cleanly.

Just as Li Zhi was about to leave his hometown to look for the descendants of Li Jizu, he suddenly heard the sound of monks fighting in the mountains hundreds of miles away.

Then he turned his head and looked over, and saw a valley surrounded by mountains, where a group of monks surrounded three people, one big and two small.

Among them there were many powerful men at the second level of immortality, but they disguised their cultivation as cultivators from the Dragon Transformation Secret Realm, which immediately aroused Li Zhi's interest.

"Li Hun, hand over the dragon-seeking ruler, otherwise don't blame us for being ruthless and destroying the last bloodline of your Li family." A leader in the crowd shouted at the two children who were surrounded.

"You are dreaming to take away the inherited magical treasure of my Li family." The man who looked to be in his early thirties protected the two children tightly behind him, with almost no trace of blood on his pale cheeks.

At this moment, he seemed to be at the end of his rope, but he was holding on to his last breath just to keep the two children behind him alive.

"Li Hun, are you still daydreaming, expecting people from Heaven to descend from the sky to save the last bloodline of your Li family. I tell you the truth, the Great Commander Long from Heaven is my brother-in-law. Now he is traveling with my sister and can't take care of a poor family like yours." Another cultivator in the crowd said with a smile.

Upon hearing this, Li Hun's eyes became even darker, and even the last trace of blood on his face completely disappeared at this moment.

"Uncle, we are not afraid. Please do not hand over the inherited spiritual treasure of our Li family for us. Even if we die today, my brother and I will die with you, uncle, fighting the enemy. In my Li family, there are only ghosts who die in battle, and no one kneels and begs for mercy." At this moment, the little boy about ten years old behind Li Hun said with a firm face.

Next to the little boy was a little girl who looked only six or seven years old.

Although the little girl's face was filled with fear and her hands were tightly grasping the corner of the little boy's clothes out of fear, she said, "Uncle, Ling'er is not afraid either."

"Haha," after hearing the two children's heroic words, Li Hun's eyes turned completely cold. After a sneer, he said to those people: "You hyenas who smell the scent want to take advantage of the weakness of my Li family to divide up the treasures of my Li ancestors. As long as there is one person in my Li family alive, you will never succeed. Don't think that my Li family can reproduce until now because of the protection of the heaven. Today, I will let you dirty playthings know the true foundation of my Li family."

After saying that, Li Hun took out a dragon-seeking ruler that exuded dragon energy, then he sprayed a mouthful of blood on the ruler and began to chant an incantation.

"Descendants of the future generations are unfilial, sleeping ancestors, wake up!"

When the group of monks saw this, instead of stopping him, they all showed excitement, as if Li Hun's actions were exactly what they wanted.

The dragon-seeking ruler in Li Hun's hand, after being unsealed by the spell, quickly released a large amount of dragon energy, and turned into a black dragon more than three meters long on the spot. The dragon's aura was strong, and it faintly had a strong aura that could rival the two great immortals.

"There really is a dark dragon sealed inside the Li family's dragon-hunting ruler." Someone said this after seeing the black dragon, but he didn't show any fear. Instead, he showed an expression of "as expected".

"This dark dragon seems difficult to deal with. Should we use the forbidden weapon given by our master?" A cultivator who had reached the ninth level of the Dragon Transformation Realm asked the people around him.

"Junior brother, don't worry. This dark dragon is not used for fighting. Instead, it is the key to open a mysterious little world." said another person.

"Brother Kong, does the Li family really control a complete small world?" After hearing this, someone else asked the two brothers.

"Yes. According to legend, that small world contains something that even saints would envy."

While they were staring at the Nether Dragon, Li Hun quietly sent a message to his nephew and niece behind him: "Qiang'er, Ling'er, uncle will use the earth vein shifting technique to send you away later. Qiang'er, you are the elder brother. The responsibility of reviving the family in the future will be handed over to you. After you leave, don't stay, take Ling'er to Kunlun Mountain immediately to find the entrance to Kunlun Fairyland. There is an ancestor of my Li family sleeping in Kunlun Fairy Mountain. As long as you can find that ancestor, the bloodline of my Li family will really die out."

The little boy didn't seem to expect this would be the outcome, and wanted Li Hun to go with them.

But Li Hun continued to transmit his voice: "The world they want has long been transformed into the underworld full of corpses and ghosts. There is nothing they want in it. As early as eight hundred years ago, that small world was abandoned. As for the reason, it is recorded in the family's inherited magic weapon. That magic weapon has been sealed in your sea of ​​consciousness. When your cultivation breaks through the immortal stage, you will naturally understand everything. Later, the gate to the underworld will open, and the world will appear gray for a moment. Uncle will use that opportunity to send you away."

"Uncle, we don't want to be separated from you, let's go together." Although the little boy's cultivation was not high, he had reached the level of Life Spring and could already fly on the rainbow.

"No, uncle has opened the seal of the Dragon Seeking Ruler and released the Hades Dragon. The cursed power is entangled and will definitely kill you. Qiang'er, you must protect your sister. The gate to the underworld is about to open. When the time comes, their attention will be attracted to the gate to the underworld, and that will be the time for you to escape."

"Uncle." Tears finally welled up in the eyes of the strong little boy.

"Qiang'er, don't cry. Men of my Li family are ready to face death. Why should we fear death? I, your second uncle, am just going to see our ancestors first." Li Hun said in a carefree voice.

In a short while, a dark portal appeared in the sky, and the Nether Dragon seemed to have become a part of the portal.

A gap appeared between the two pitch-black doors as the Nether Dragon sank into the door frame.

A thick aura of the underworld instantly rushed out from the crack in the door.

The dark energy that could almost turn an area of ​​a hundred miles into a den of ghosts on earth did not scare the cultivators. Instead, it aroused the greed in their hearts, and they all showed excitement.

There were even two monks who could not wait until the two gates were fully opened and could not help but ride their light of escape towards the two gates.

However, soon, the two monks who rushed in through the crack in the door let out a scream, as if they had encountered an extremely terrifying existence inside the door.

After hearing the scream, Li Hun burst into laughter and a gray-black mist burst out from his body.

He even shouted: "In the underworld, corpses and ghosts are everywhere. Kill them!"

At the same time, he burned the last bit of life energy in his body, activated the Dao pattern on the Heavenly Gate, and quietly teleported the brother and sister behind him away.

When the gray-black mist dissipated, Li Hun's appearance changed drastically. A thick layer of black hair grew on his body, and his hands seemed to have turned into the claws of a monster.

"Humph, you dare to show off your mere zombie transformation technique in front of me. When the sun comes, practice!"

There was a powerful immortal in the crowd. After seeing the changes in Li Hun's body, he immediately cast a spell to summon a big sun, which burned Li Hun to ashes. At the same time, he dispelled the netherworld air escaping from the heavenly gate.

Then, a group of them rushed into the heavenly gate.

However, after the group of people entered the Heavenly Gate, within less than a cup of tea, someone flew out of the gate with wounds all over his body and a look of fear on his face.

At the same time, the blood in his body seemed to have undergone a change. The blood oozing from the wound was dark black and emitted a strong corpse-like stench.

Before he flew a hundred miles, his injuries rapidly worsened and he turned into a zombie, eventually becoming a half-human, half-ghost creature that had completely lost its mind.

Even the dark energy escaping from the door began to transform the external environment of heaven and earth.

It seemed as if the entire forest was going to be transformed into a place where zombies roamed everywhere.

Seeing this, Li Zhi frowned.

He took a step forward and appeared in front of the heavenly gate. Then he waved his hand and released a magical power, which directly wiped out all the netherworld energy from the outside world and at the same time wiped out those monks who had transformed into corpses.

Then Li Zhi walked into the door and used his ultimate power to temporarily seal the door to prevent the strange aura inside from leaking out.

Standing in the small world and looking around, the entire small world is filled with a strange and underworld aura. It seems that as long as a living person is contaminated by this aura, he will turn into a monster that is neither human nor ghost.

All the monks who had entered this world before have died and been torn to pieces by some monsters in this world.

Li Zhi instantly released the extreme aura in his body. The terrifying momentum directly turned all the monsters in the world into ashes, and suppressed all the strange netherworld aura in the small world.

Let this small world reveal its true appearance.

Originally, this should have been an independent little world suitable for spiritual practice, with mountains, water, and forests.

In the central area of ​​this small world, there is a small hill less than a hundred meters high, standing there very abruptly.

Apart from this, there are no other big mountains in this world.

Li Zhi searched with his divine sense for a moment and understood the truth of this small world.

It was supposed to be a small world of saints with flourishing flowers and thriving vegetation, but for some reason, something strange happened, causing all the plants and vegetation here to become dead.

Moreover, in Li Zhi's eyes, the hill in the center of the world was not a hill at all, but a lonely tomb.

At the same time, it is also the source of the strange changes in this small world.

Almost all of the strange and dark aura erupted from that big tomb.

Even with Li Zhi's divine eyes, he couldn't see through the situation inside the tomb.

This made Li Zhi frown.

The gray-black ghost energy of the underworld is not pure yin energy, but a kind of curse power similar to that of Master Yuan Tianshi.

It seems to be comparable to the Red Haired Tornado.

But it was somewhat different. It was a strange and weird power that had never been seen before, a fusion of the aura of the underworld.

For Li Zhi today, there is nothing in this universe that can stop him.

Even a curse comparable to that of the Holy Body would not scare him.

Then, Li Zhi came to the big tomb and overturned the hill with a wave of his hand.

The mysterious underground palace under the mountain was revealed.

A purple jade coffin engraved with countless mysterious runes sits quietly in the center of the underground palace.

The strange and netherworldly aura emanated from that divine coffin.

The coffin where the great emperor was buried?

Li Zhi frowned.

Could it be that this small world was once the place chosen by an ancient supreme being to store corpses?
However, the land here does not have the characteristics of burial soil.

Li Zhi was full of doubts about this.

Then he went straight to opening the purple jade coffin.

When he saw the figure lying in the coffin, a look of shock instantly appeared on Li Zhi's face.

He even cried out: "How is it possible!"

(End of this chapter)