Stealing the Secret from the Cover of Heaven

Chapter 467 The Great Emperor
"Another person has become an emperor. Am I seeing things?"

As Li Zhi successfully survived the catastrophe, all living things in the universe fell silent, and then there was a boiling moment.

Ye Fan from Heaven is no longer the only one, there are others who can do it. Even if someone becomes an emperor first, they can still break through the laws of heaven and earth and become an emperor against the will of heaven.

It can even be said that the significance of Li Zhi becoming emperor is even more exciting than Ye Fan becoming emperor.

Ye Fan’s becoming an emperor can be said to be the only one in the history and an exception.

And after Ye Fan, Li Zhi will also be able to become an emperor by stepping on the laws of heaven and earth. This gives others hope of becoming an emperor.

It turns out that the fact that someone became an emperor first is not the real reason that prevents later ones from becoming emperors.

It is only because they are too weak and unable to break the Heavenly Heart Seal and the suppression of the myriad laws of heaven and earth that they are unable to achieve enlightenment.

Ye Fan and Li Zhi successively demonstrated to everyone what it means to become an emperor by stepping on heaven and earth.

This gave hope to some of the most talented people whose paths had reached the end.

In the spiritual world, "hope" is often more important than practicing the Tao.

With hope, you will have a goal to strive for, and only then will you have the motivation to practice hard.

The fact that two people successively became emperors by stepping on all the laws of heaven and earth had a huge impact on many geniuses. Some geniuses who had originally planned to proclaim themselves emperors canceled their plans and entered a new round of hard training.

Just like when Ye Fan walked out of the ancient forbidden area, after understanding the meaning of "immortal" from the ruthless emperor, he swept away the confusion in front of him, regrouped, and created glory again.

However, the fact that Li Zhi followed Ye Fan in overcoming the tribulation and becoming an emperor was a matter that made some people happy while others worried.

Inside the Heavenly Palace, Ye Fan no longer used his injured body to fish, but quickly repaired the extremely horrific-looking wounds on his body.

Seeing that Ye Fan was fine, everyone in Heaven was excited.

Those forbidden zone supreme masters who planned to launch a sneak attack on Ye Fan while he was seriously injured also retreated back into the forbidden zone.

It's so scary.

Actually, there are people who are able to do it one after another. They become emperors against the will of heaven while being suppressed by the great emperor of the time. Where is the majesty of the emperor?

The emperor who was the only one in the world was once so unattainable.

One Dao suppresses ten thousand Daos, one person becomes a Dao, ten thousand Daos bow to him, what an intoxicating feeling it is.

However, he never expected that after lying dormant in the forbidden zone of life for eternity, in this life he not only saw someone successfully land in the fairyland, but also saw someone achieve enlightenment by stepping on the head of the contemporary emperor.

It wasn't just one person, but two people appeared in succession.

The great emperor of the time would one day become a stepping stone for someone else to become an emperor.

Speaking it out loud, it sounds like I was talking in my sleep.

If this trend is allowed to continue, will there come a day in the future when the Emperor becomes a unit to measure the combat effectiveness of others?

It's terrifying to think about it. If they can't figure out the deep-seated reasons behind this, it will be impossible for these restricted area supremes to sleep or eat.

This was not only an event that made the Golden Crow Emperor, who had attained enlightenment in the contemporary world, feel aggrieved. Even the Supremes of the Forbidden Zone felt the same way. After all, they were once the beneficiaries of the throne of the Emperor.

Like the Golden Crow Emperor, he is of the same class.

After the examples of Ye Fan and Li Zhi appeared one after another, it indicated that the mysterious forbidden aura surrounding them, who became emperors because of the integration of the Heavenly Heart Seal, would disappear from the eyes of the world.

From now on, there will be a steady stream of younger generations standing up to challenge the current emperor.

In other words, they did not know at this time that Li Zhi had already found a way to allow a cultivator to reach the pinnacle of the ultimate path without the need for the Heavenly Heart Seal.

If they knew about the existence of this method, the supreme masters of the forbidden area would probably come out in full force.

The premise for them to be able to cut themselves with a sword and then lie dormant in the forbidden zone of life waiting for eternity is that they, like the contemporary emperor, are the only ones of an era.

Only the emperors of later generations can truly threaten their lives and safety.

It is because of this uniqueness that they can sleep peacefully in the forbidden zone of life.

If the peerless geniuses of later generations could reach the pinnacle of the world without becoming emperors, then their uniqueness would disappear.

By then, will there still be any emperor who can sleep peacefully in the forbidden zone of life?

By then, I am afraid that these sleeping supreme masters of the forbidden area will one after another become the "opponents" or even stepping stones for the geniuses of later generations to prove themselves.

By then, even if he was not wiped out by Ye Fan, he would be killed one by one by the supreme masters among those who come later.

By then, there will probably no longer be any so-called life forbidden zones in the universe. If there is still an emperor who wants to sleep and lie dormant, he may have to secretly find a place where no one else can find him.

After all, to become an emperor one needs the Heavenly Heart Seal, but to reach the pinnacle of the extreme way one does not need to rely on this external force affected by the environment of heaven and earth.

Being able to become an emperor is certainly great, but reaching the pinnacle of the highest state is not something to be ashamed of.

The Supreme Lord of the Ultimate Dao and the Great Emperor of the Time are beings who can truly stand on the same level. The only difference is that one has the assistant with the Mark of Heaven's Heart and the other does not.

It can be expected that after Li Zhi spreads his Dharma throughout the entire universe, those who can become emperors in the future will definitely be stronger than in the past.

It is even possible that one needs to reach the pinnacle of the highest order before being eligible to compete for the position of emperor.

The combat power of the future emperor will far exceed that of the ordinary emperors in the past who would eventually choose to lie dormant in the forbidden zone of life.

Almost all future emperors have the strength of a Heavenly Emperor, and most of them may even enter the realm of immortality. However, how far they can go in the realm of immortality varies from person to person.

Thinking of the terrifying strength displayed by Ye Fan and Li Zhi, all the supreme masters in the forbidden area fell silent.

Ye Fan was able to shatter the Heavenly Heart Seal and penetrate all the laws of heaven and earth. This was an absolute strength that surpassed that of ordinary emperors.

Some supreme beings who survived from the ancient times saw in Ye Fan the peerless fighting power that the Fighting Saint Emperor had when he turned into a fighting immortal in his later years. Although the Fighting Saint Emperor had been in office for less than 10,000 years, his cultivation and fighting power were recognized by these forbidden area supreme beings, and definitely surpassed ordinary emperors and ancient kings.

Although Li Zhi's methods did not seem as powerful as Ye Fan's, they were still terrifying.

They didn't know exactly when Li Zhi set foot on the myriad ways of heaven and earth.

There was neither a shocking thunder tribulation nor any vision of backlash from the myriad laws of heaven and earth. It seemed as if Li Zhi could stand above the myriad laws of heaven and earth as easily as entering and leaving his own home.

Later, the methods Li Zhi used to overcome the tribulation in the universe were even more astonishing.

He directly sealed off the heaven and earth, and even at that moment, time and space came to a standstill. Is this something that an ordinary emperor can do?
Moreover, Li Zhi forcibly suppressed the Emperor's Seal of the Golden Crow Emperor, and directly condensed the Heavenly Heart Seal from the myriad ways of heaven and earth. His methods were so domineering.

The person who was most deeply touched was none other than the Golden Crow Emperor.

When Li Zhi was forcibly condensing the Heavenly Heart Seal from the laws of heaven and earth, he could hardly feel his own Emperor Seal in the laws of heaven and earth.

It was like he had truly fallen from the throne of the emperor.

At that moment, his aura became noticeably weaker, and there was even a slight flaw in his avenue. His state was like those forbidden zone supremes who had cut themselves with a sword.

However, he did not cut himself with the sword because he was old and weak and wanted to survive, but Li Zhi "helped" him to cut himself with the sword.

Fortunately, Li Zhi had no intention of eradicating the Golden Crow Emperor.

After condensing the true Heavenly Heart Seal within his own Dao Seed, he released his suppression of all the Daos of Heaven and Earth and released the Emperor Seal of the suppressed Golden Crow Emperor.

Let his mark of the Great Dao merge with the myriad ways of heaven and earth again, and he will be able to ascend to the throne of the Great Emperor again.

In this move, Li Zhi had already shown mercy. If he had erased the Great Dao mark of the Golden Crow Emperor at that time and left his own Great Dao mark among the myriad ways of heaven and earth, he would have been the great emperor of the time.

It’s just that Li Zhi doesn’t have that kind of idea or need.

The Heavenly Heart Seal, after all, is just a combination of the supreme rules bred by the myriad ways of heaven and earth. Its effect is no longer the Supreme Dao Seal that enabled the Supreme Human to forge the foundation of the Immortal King.

Even so, Li Zhi's actions were more stimulating to the Golden Crow Emperor than Ye Fan's standing above all the ways to become an emperor.

However, as with everything, there are gains and losses.

Although Li Zhi almost caused Emperor Jinwu to lose his throne, he also made him see his own shortcomings and defects.

For him, this might not be a bad thing.

The bloodline of the Golden Crow clan is already considered one of the top bloodlines in the universe.

Emperor Jinwu has not reached the true limit of what he can achieve, and theoretically he still has room to improve.

Although he didn't know whether he could transform into a true three-legged golden crow in the future, this experience made him start to re-examine what the position of emperor meant to him.

While the Golden Crow Emperor was reflecting, the supreme masters of the forbidden areas were also reflecting deeply.

"Alas! Times are really changing, and our glory is coming to an end." A supreme being said with a melancholy tone.

Although they were extremely unwilling, as former enlightened beings, they had sharp vision. As Ye Fan and Li Zhi became emperors one after another, they naturally saw the future outcome of the Forbidden Zone of Life.

"Have you ever heard, fellow Taoists, that after the destruction of the Immortal Mausoleum, only Emperor Ming survived?" After a long silence, another Supreme said.

"Does fellow Taoist also want to seek refuge with that immortal Changshou?" someone said in a slightly sarcastic tone.

"Why not join the services of Changshou Zhenren? He was able to survive the nine-year-long calamity that created the law. I'm afraid he is even more powerful than we imagined." said the supreme being.

These words reminded everyone of the great holy body that had been dormant in the ancient forbidden area.

It was because the Empress moved into the ancient forbidden area that he was able to persevere until the path to immortality was opened, otherwise he would have passed away long ago. It was also because of the Empress's move in that he had the opportunity to delay the Eternal Heavenly Venerable to death.

Now, Li Zhi seems to have created an amazing method of immortality and is able to magnanimously accept Emperor Ming. As the supreme beings, they know what this represents.

Li Zhi must have the hard power to absolutely suppress Emperor Ming, so he dared to accommodate Emperor Ming so confidently and boldly.

The news that Emperor Ming surrendered to Li Zhi might have been a secret at the beginning, but now it is no longer a secret in the eyes of these supreme beings.

"If you want to seek refuge with the Taoist Changshou and obtain his longevity method, you should think about whether you have bargaining chips in your hands. The reason why Emperor Ming was able to obtain the protection of the Taoist Changshou is that he emptied his family's wealth. If you want the longevity method in his hands, you should first ask yourself whether you have the courage of Emperor Ming."

Once these words came out, the Supreme Beings were silent again. After all, they just wanted the immortality method in Li Zhi's hands, not really wanting to surrender to Li Zhi.

As ancient emperors who were once respected by the universe, they have their own pride.

You can imagine how difficult it is to make them submit.

Back then, the Emperor spent a huge price to invite the Supreme in the restricted area to come out.

He not only gave them the Nine-Transformation Immortal Pill, but also used his astonishing secret method to extend their peak imperial destiny for two thousand years.

Now, asking them to sacrifice their lives to please Li Zhi is simply feeding a fly into their mouths.

Even the Emperor had never accomplished this before. How could Li Zhi, a mere junior, be qualified to do this?

The topic within the forbidden zone of life ends here.

But the excitement in heaven has not yet ended.

"Master, why is there a huge cauldron exactly the same as your Cauldron of the Mother Energy of All Things in the world?" Xiaosong looked at Ye Fan with his pure big eyes and asked curiously.

Everyone else remained silent, waiting for Ye Fan's answer.

"When the big cauldron appeared, I felt that the mark of the great Dao left on the myriad ways of heaven and earth was suddenly triggered." Ye Fan explained.

However, Ye Fan himself could not figure out why the mark of the Great Dao he left on the myriad ways of heaven and earth, after being triggered, did not condense into a fighting body exactly like him as it did when he was undergoing the tribulation, but instead condensed into a blood-stained cauldron.

The power of that big cauldron is obviously stronger than the cauldron of the mother energy of all things at this time.

Even its power can rival that of a real immortal weapon.

At the same time, the combat power of the Heavenly Emperor's Dharma body that Li Zhi finally summoned with the formation was so strong that Ye Fan felt that even if a true immortal stood in front of him, he would only be slaughtered.

And Li Zhi's method of imprisoning all the laws of heaven and earth is also eye-opening.

It turns out that the power of the formation can be strong enough to destroy the world.

Ye Fan couldn't help but think of the starry sky coordinates recorded on the Xianzhen map, as well as the extremely ancient array patterns in the starry sky.

Do those ancient starry sky formations also represent a supreme formation that can cover the entire universe, prepared by a super powerful being lurking in the dark?
After all, Li Zhi was able to set up two super formations in the universe without anyone noticing.

The Zhoutian Xingdou Great Array and the Dutian Shensha Great Array, these two great arrays are so powerful that they have no rivals, and are not weaker than the killing array left by Lingbao Tianzun.

One is a range attack, the other is a single-target blast, the coordination is perfect.

But what worried Ye Fan even more was the extreme dark power that suddenly erupted from Li Zhi's body when he was undergoing the tribulation.

Although the dark force disappeared quickly, after it appeared, he felt terrified, as if he had met an enemy in his life.

While the people in Heaven were discussing endlessly, Emperor Ming outside the Ziwei Territory was still staring at the sky in thought, his expression constantly changing, as if he had encountered something that made him unable to make a decision.

Finally, Emperor Ming sighed and said, "He actually did it."

It seemed that Li Zhi's tribulation and his achievement of becoming an emperor had wiped out all the joy that Emperor Ming had felt because his Dao Fruit had been completely fulfilled.

At the same time, outside the universe, in a mysterious world unknown to outsiders, Emperor Zun also showed a hint of surprise, thinking: "He is not dead."

The appearance of Li Zhi was not within the scope of the future he had deduced. So he secretly borrowed the power of the Great Dao left by the Immortal Cauldron between the Ten Thousand Daos of Heaven and Earth to strengthen the Great Dao mark left by Ye Fan on the Ten Thousand Daos of Heaven and Earth, so that the last Heavenly Emperor Great Dao suppression disaster that Li Zhi encountered would be transformed into the shape of the Mother Qi Cauldron of All Things, and after being super-doubled, it would be used to trap and kill Li Zhi.

It's a pity that without the Emperor showing up in person and alerting other people, the calamity transformed by the Heavenly Emperor's Seal can rival the killing power of the Immortal Cauldron's strongest state of revival.

However, when facing Li Zhi's Dutian Shensha formation, it still failed.

This result forced the Emperor to re-examine the influence of Li Zhi on the future world he had outlined.

In addition, Li Zhi's tribulation and becoming emperor also affected his bloodline descendants.

After Li Zhi successfully survived the tribulation, Li Xian'er and Li Jizu, who were on Earth, also experienced some magical changes.

It seemed that somewhere along the way, under the influence of the laws of heaven and earth, their respective bloodlines completed a second awakening.

Li Xianer's reincarnation body seemed to be showing signs of reversing from acquired to innate.

A trace of black true blood was born in Li Jizu's body again, but this time the black true blood was full of sacred smell and was no longer the dark true blood that was out of his control.

With the birth of that strand of black true blood, his physical potential was essentially sublimated, and he became a top-notch physique that was not inferior to the Holy Body.

And on the dragon egg growing in the Chaos Dragon's Nest, there was also a hint of inexplicable change. The small life growing in the egg seemed to have a fairy aura.

It was as if he was no longer the offspring of a cultivator in the human realm, but the offspring of a real immortal.

There is an introverted aura of divinity, which seems to be purer than those holy spirits born and raised naturally.

There is a kind of great artistic conception hidden in it, similar to that of the Emperor's Son.

Li Zhi, who caused this change, was unaware of it.

At this moment, Li Zhi was meditating in the chaotic fairyland near the 99th level of the ancient trial road of the human race to comprehend the Heavenly Heart Seal and at the same time comprehend the changes in his physical body.

He carries the Mark of Heaven's Heart in his physical body, rather than the Great Dao and his primordial spirit.

Therefore, the benefits of becoming an emperor were used more on his physical body. Under the baptism of the supreme rules and order, his physical body completely completed a transformation like a life leap and officially surpassed the human realm.

The thickness of the origin of life directly increased by half, which also meant that his lifespan could be greatly extended on the original basis.

If Li Zhi had stood at the pinnacle of the extreme before, with his strong life essence, he could live for at least 20,000 years, then now his life span may exceed 30,000 years.

This is a very remarkable change.

His life span in one lifetime is almost equivalent to two lifetimes of an ordinary emperor.

After comprehending in this way for a hundred years, Li Zhi completely comprehended the various mysteries contained in the Tianxin Seal.

Unfortunately, the Heavenly Heart Seal is of little use to him now, but he will have fully comprehended it in a hundred years.

The current Heavenly Heart Seal can enable an emperor who has incomplete Great Dao to achieve perfection in the Great Dao, which is already the limit.

It can be said that the effect of the Heavenly Heart Mark has directly degenerated from being able to shape the foundation of an Immortal King to being able to only shape the foundation of a True Immortal.

The degree of degradation of the Tianxin Seal is even more serious than that of those immortal elixirs.

After completing his comprehension, Li Zhi crushed the Heavenly Heart Seal in his hand, allowing it to transform back into the rules and order between heaven and earth and return it to the universe.

It is Li Zhi’s principle not to have too many causal relationships with the universe.

At the same time when Li Zhi discarded the Tianxin Seal, on Huosang Star, Emperor Jinwu instantly felt that the connection between his Emperor Seal and the myriad ways of heaven and earth had returned to its previous 100% level of fit.

During the time when Li Zhi had not returned the Heavenly Heart Seal, the connection between the Golden Crow Emperor and the myriad ways of heaven and earth had become extremely weak, as if he had already passed away.

As a result, in the past hundred years, the Golden Crow Emperor has never stepped out of his imperial palace, nor has he ever received any powerful demon who came to pay homage to him.

He was afraid that others would see through his true colors.

Fortunately, after a hundred years, his connection with the universe has been restored to 100%.

This feeling was extremely frustrating, but he couldn't tell anyone else about it, so Emperor Jinwu could only digest it silently.

This is not anyone else's fault; it is the price he should bear.

As an emperor who achieved enlightenment in the Golden Age, he had never proved that he could defeat all the geniuses of the time.

He suddenly jumped out and became an emperor, catching all the geniuses off guard.

This action is a bit like someone else's fruit tree that he had worked hard to plant, and when the fruits were about to ripen, he suddenly jumped out and picked the fruits.

After his rebirth in Nirvana, the Golden Crow Emperor did not abandon his past path, nor did he start over in this golden age. His practice before enlightenment was mainly focused on restoring his past behavior, rather than starting over again to compete with the geniuses of the golden age and honing a path stronger than that of his first life.

If he could start over again, defeat all the geniuses of the world, and eventually become an emperor.

Its achievements far exceed what it has today.

It can be said that Emperor Jinwu lacked the necessary experience in the Golden Age, which made his position as emperor seem a little "empty".

At least in the eyes of most of the peerless geniuses, he was just a thief who stole the fruits and was not generally respected by those peerless geniuses.

Now, Ye Fan and Li Zhi have successively achieved enlightenment by stepping on the head of the Golden Crow Emperor, which has made many people see the hope of becoming emperors through this matter.

During the hundred years that Li Zhi comprehended the Heavenly Heart Seal, many powerful people who had achieved enlightenment in an alternative way tried to blast open the myriad ways of heaven and earth.

Unfortunately, their strength is far from enough.

In addition to the suppression of the Golden Crow Emperor's avenue between heaven and earth, there is also the suppression of Ye Fan's Heavenly Emperor avenue.

It is simply a double suppression. The difficulty of breaking the Heavenly Heart Seal and becoming an emperor above all paths has doubled.

This is also the reason why Li Zhi was in a hurry to achieve enlightenment while Ye Fan was achieving enlightenment.

Ye Fan's cultivation level increased faster than expected.

If it is delayed any further, I am afraid I can only wait until Ye Fan imprisons his avenue within his body in the future before he can try to achieve enlightenment.

Even so, the suppression that Li Zhi finally suffered from Ye Fan's avenue was also extraordinary, and its attack power was even more terrifying than that of the fully revived Chengxian Cauldron.

At one point, Li Zhi thought that it was Ye Fan from the future who was going against the flow of time.

But after Li Zhi thought about it carefully, he felt that it was not the case.

Li Zhi didn't know that it was the Emperor who was attacking him in secret.

Li Zhi used the starry sky formation to actually imprison all the laws of heaven and earth and the universe. This was simply disrupting the Emperor's plan to refine the human universe into the world cauldron.

(End of this chapter)