Stealing the Secret from the Cover of Heaven

Chapter 473: The Peak of the Red Dust Immortal
It took four hundred and seventy thousand years and six lifetimes to finally achieve immortality in this world.

Not fast, but not slow either.

Li Zhi felt a little proud that he had achieved immortality in the mortal world without having to live eight or even nine lives in reverse.

Living in reverse for eight lifetimes to achieve immortality is the path to immortality in the mortal world that belongs exclusively to Emperor Huang Tian and Emperor Ye Tian.

Li Zhi expanded his cultivation system and eventually achieved the nirvana reconstruction of the five secret realms, thereby promoting the growth and transformation of his own path, and finally found a path to longevity in the mortal world that belonged to him.

To this end, Li Zhi recorded the path he had taken in a book, turning it into a scripture that future generations could use to practice Taoism and achieve longevity.

Li Zhi named it "The Great Dao of Longevity Sutra", which can be regarded as the subsequent practice method of "The Great Dao of Longevity Sutra".

According to Li Zhi's method of dividing the practice process into four stages, "The Great Way of Longevity Sutra" is an induction and conclusion of his first stage, that is, the practice stage in the human realm.

The "Great Way of Longevity Sutra" written today is the practice and summary of the second stage, which is the field of longevity.

Future generations only need to follow the steps and based on this scripture, they can achieve immortality in this human world.

Of course, the prerequisite is that you can understand the scriptures and can start practicing this scripture.

Otherwise, it would be like some people with mediocre qualifications practicing the Great Emperor Ancient Scriptures. Although the Great Emperor Ancient Scriptures can reach the Great Emperor realm, there are very few people who can truly rely on the ancient scriptures to practice and become quasi-emperors.

Various ancient scriptures of cultivation have never been the main factor in determining the upper limit of a cultivator. The cultivator's own talent is the key to the upper limit that a cultivator can eventually reach.

Although Li Zhi also lived for six lifetimes, his method of longevity was not the same as that of Emperor Huang Tian and Emperor Ye Tian, ​​who lived through eight lifetimes in the mortal world.

Just like the Henren Emperor, although he also lived for many lifetimes, the method he finally cultivated to become a mortal immortal was not achieved by living in the mortal world for lifetime after lifetime.

Instead, he studied the Nine Wonders of Immortality Elixir in depth, and created a method of using the old body to nourish the soul, and eventually unite all the soul and body into one, thus achieving the ultimate transformation and completing the feat of becoming an immortal in the mortal world.

This method has the same effect as Emperor Huang Tian's method of splitting his original spirit into ten parts and letting them grow together in ten reincarnation seals.

The only difference is that one uses the Seal of Reincarnation to carry the soul, while the other uses his shed old body to nourish the soul.

Although the methods are different, the effects are the same.

It is no wonder that the ruthless emperor in later generations was able to ascend to the realm of sacrifice besides the three heavenly emperors, and even had the opportunity to become an existence above the sacrifice.

Perhaps from this time on, the ruthless emperor had already walked her own path and even started her own cultivation system.

As for Duan De's accumulation of the supreme reincarnation seal in his body, and eventually the combination of the nine reincarnation seals into one to become an immortal in the mortal world, it was somewhat mediocre. He was not even able to accumulate the ten reincarnation seals that represented the perfection of this path.

After accumulating nine reincarnation seals, he hastily merged them into one, so that his foundation in the great way has not reached its true limit. Perhaps it will be very easy for him to walk on the path to becoming the Immortal King in the future, but the path above the Immortal King will be extremely difficult for him.

As for the Great Emperor Wu Shi, I'm afraid that's another story. Back then, he relied on his powerful strength to break the barrier between the two worlds and ascended to the world with rare immortal matter. Although when Ye Fan and his friends entered the fairyland, his Taoism had also been promoted to the level of a mortal immortal.

However, it is doubtful whether the path he is taking is the true path to immortality in the mortal world.

Perhaps, like the true immortals in the immortal cultivation system, at the true immortal stage, they still need to absorb the spiritual essence of heaven and earth from the outside world to maintain their own longevity.

After surpassing the peak of the extreme way, the cultivators of the human body secret realm system, after entering the realm of longevity, can also achieve immortality like true immortals by absorbing immortal substances from the outside world.

You will be like a true immortal, without the need to live life after life, and will eventually be able to cultivate to the level of a mortal immortal.

However, Li Zhi expressed doubts as to whether raising one's Taoism to the level of a mortal immortal in this way could be considered becoming an immortal in the mortal world.

Therefore, Li Zhi was not sure whether the Immortal Emperor, Emperor Zun, Beginningless Emperor and others were real mortal immortals.

After all, none of them have proven themselves in a world without the substance that can produce immortality, and have never found out whether they can achieve immortality in this world without the substance that can produce immortality.

Whether the Great Dao can withstand the rigorous test of time.

Strictly speaking, the path opened up by Li Zhi is not very picky about the cultivation environment.

If you have the substance for longevity, you can transform slowly. If you don't have the substance for longevity, then you have to hurry up and transform. If you practice in a perfect world like the primitive ancient world, even in the Dharma-Ending Age, theoretically, the practice in the field of longevity will be much faster than it is now.

There is no need to live life after life. If one has high enough talent, it will only take thirty to fifty thousand years to complete the transformation and sublimation of the five secret realms, thus cultivating the true fruit of immortality.

Of course, achieving the fruit of immortality does not mean that you have reached the pinnacle of the field of immortality. Rather, it is just the beginning.

Just like the practice in the human realm, becoming a quasi-emperor is only the beginning of the supreme realm, and standing at the pinnacle of the extreme is the end point of human practice.

Now that Li Zhi has cultivated the fruit of immortality, he is like a cultivator in the human realm who has entered the quasi-emperor realm. He is still far away from the true peak of this realm.

The peak of immortality is equivalent to the peak of true immortality in the immortal cultivation system, or the peak of mortal immortality.

Just think about the gap between a cultivator at the first level of the Quasi-Emperor realm and the Great Emperor, and you will know how big the gap is between initially obtaining the fruit of immortality and reaching the pinnacle of this realm.

Fortunately, after achieving the immortality fruit, I no longer have to worry about my lifespan running out, and I can freely try out all the wonderful ideas that were suppressed in the past.

Li Zhi never thought that his talent in cultivation was so extraordinary, but standing on the shoulders of giants, he could still see farther and broader than other cultivators.

If someone stands on the shoulders of giants but still cannot surpass them, he can only be said to be a real waste.

Living six lives in the mortal world can help one achieve immortality, which Li Zhi believes is an alternative form of progress.

After all, Emperor Huang Tian and Emperor Ye Tian both lived through eight lifetimes before they were able to prevent the passage of time from affecting them.

Although he and Ye Tiandi are now in the same era, according to cognition, Ye Tiandi can be considered his predecessor, and even the future Chu Feng can be considered his predecessor.

They are all predecessors who can make him successful, that is, giants who are willing to be stepping stones.

It can be said that Li Zhi has been practicing on the shoulders of the three Heavenly Emperors from the very beginning, and therefore he can see higher and farther than others.

This kind of enlightenment was something he gradually came to understand after he had lived out his sixth life and achieved immortality.

Without the sense of urgency of being chased by time, Li Zhi's mind truly entered into a state of great freedom and ease.

It can allow his mind to transcend the mundane world and examine his past from another perspective.

It is easy to see that he is not a good leader, but a follower, a learner, and ultimately wants to become a surpasser.

Learn from the wisdom of predecessors, consolidate your own foundation, carry forward the past, develop and innovate, and ultimately walk your own path.

Today, he still practices within the framework opened up by his predecessors, but he does not feel this is a shame.

After all, the prerequisite for creating a law is sufficient accumulation.

The reason why Emperor Huang Tian was able to create the method of cultivating the five secret realms of the human body was because he personally experienced the flaws and shortcomings of the two cultivation systems, the ancient immortal system and the Shinto system.

In addition, he inherited many Immortal King-level inheritances, which enabled him to initially develop methods for cultivating the five secret realms of the human body.

Now, Li Zhi does not have the same opportunity as Emperor Huang Tian, ​​and even his understanding of the secret laws of the human body is still very rudimentary. It is simply wishful thinking for him to talk about creating a law and paving his own way now.

The founder of any spiritual practice system is always a knowledgeable person.

Back then, the cultivation system of the fairyland even required the joint efforts of multiple fairy kings to develop.

It is conceivable how difficult it is to open up a cultivation system with a very high upper limit.

It doesn't mean that by simply opening up a path of cultivation, one can become a Taoist ancestor.

Instead, only the founder of a cultivation system that can cultivate to the quasi-immortal emperor realm will be called the Dao Ancestor.

Only the Taoist Ancestor who created this system will have the opportunity to reach the realm of Immortal Emperor, reach the end of the Great Dao, and become a creature at the end of the road.

After completing his self-positioning, Li Zhi felt relaxed and felt that the whole world had become wonderful.

He even hummed an unknown ditty happily.

"Everyone says immortality is good, but who knows how wonderful it is? I am proud to have enjoyed immortality..."

Looking at the somewhat deserted courtyard, Li Zhi suddenly felt that perhaps it was time to recruit a few disciples he liked to keep by his side.

But before he could take any action, the Longevity Mountain under his feet suddenly shook, as if something was about to jump out from under the mountain.

Li Zhi saw this and said with a smile: "I almost forgot about you."

With just a light stomp of his foot, the entire Longevity Immortal Mountain stopped shaking. At the same time, the powerful aura that erupted from the bottom of the mountain was instantly restrained.

Then he came to an ancient cave at the foot of the mountain. Inside the cave, there was emerald green fairy light rolling, thousands of laws flowing, and a humanoid creature with an emerald green body had just broken out of the rock.

After hundreds of thousands of years of gestation, the once spiritual Fairy Tear Green Gold Ore has finally been conceived and completed, turning into a Great Perfection Holy Spirit and being born.

As soon as he was born, his aura was comparable to that of a flawless emperor. He had reached perfection in the great way and did not need to make the ultimate leap like other great perfect holy spirits. Only after he had attained enlightenment and become an emperor could he transform into the perfect imperial laws.

At the same time, as a holy spirit born from the spirit of immortal gold, his physique is even stronger than that of ordinary emperors. Although he has just been born, his combat power is almost comparable to that of a peak emperor.

Judging from his aura, he seems to be no weaker than the Emperor Yuhua who lived another life after achieving the Great Perfection of the Holy Spirit tens of thousands of years ago. If he can become an emperor again, there is a great probability that he will be able to break through the peak of the extreme way and become an existence like the Emperor or the Heavenly Emperor above the extreme way.

"From now on, you will stay with me as a disciple." Li Zhi looked at the newly born holy spirit in the cave and said directly.

"Impossible." The Immortal Tear Green Gold Holy Spirit directly rejected Li Zhi's proposal.

"Are you planning to fight for the throne of the emperor and enjoy the glory of being an emperor for a lifetime? Or do you want to speak up for the Immortal Mountain?" Li Zhi asked curiously.

Seeing that the Immortal Tears Green Gold Holy Spirit suddenly became silent, Li Zhi continued, "Those are all false. You have been nurtured here for so many years and have received my grace. Otherwise, it would be impossible for you to transform into a flawless imperial holy spirit that can rival the Stone Emperor as soon as you were born. Don't you understand what is truly worth pursuing in this world? Or did you not take my teachings and enlightenment to heart over the years?"

"Please give me a name, teacher." The Holy Spirit of Fairy Tears Green Gold had already possessed his own intelligence. He naturally understood the difference between Li Zhi and those supreme beings in the Immortal Mountain back then. After thinking for a moment, he came directly to Li Zhi and said.

"That's right. Follow me and you can enjoy the fruit of immortality. Don't turn yourself into a loser like those immortals, streaking across the night sky like a shooting star. You are a fairy with green gold spiritual connection, a rare talent in the ages. You can go much further on the road of immortality than they can. Don't waste this talent.

Now that you have been born and are no longer a cold and heartless object, you must have a suitable name.

When the Green Emperor was born from the Green Lotus of Primordial Chaos, his name was taken from "a lotus in the eternal blue sky", and he was named Wan Qing.

Since you are the Immortal Tears and Green Gold, your real name should naturally start from the source. Immortal Tears represent the sufferings of the mortal world; Green Gold represents the immortal origin. Nothing between heaven and earth is immortal, only the Tao is immortal. From now on, you will be called Dao Wuchen, borrowing the meaning of the eternal immortality of the Great Dao Wuchen. "Li Zhi said.

"Dao Wuchen, Dao Wuchen..." After the Immortal Tears Green Gold Holy Spirit pondered over it several times, he was very satisfied with the name and said to Li Zhi, "Thank you for the name, teacher."

"Okay, come with me." Then Li Zhi took him to live in his own courtyard and began to teach him how to practice.

Dao Wuchen, as a holy spirit born from the immortal gold, has extremely high qualifications and is the most qualified cultivator Li Zhi has ever seen.

He is not weaker than the innate chaotic body at all. If taught properly, the Emperor is not his end but the starting point. There is even a great probability that he will be promoted to the Immortal King level in the future.

There are many good horses but few good horse trainers. It is similar in the spiritual world.

It's common to find people with extremely high talents, but it's rare to find people who can fully realize their talents.

Ye Fan's Heavenly Court has gathered countless younger generations with outstanding talents. It does not mean that they are the only ones with high talents in the universe. It's just that other people with talents of that level do not have a Ye Fan who belongs to them to teach.

You can only waste your time in the world and eventually turn into a handful of earth over the years.

Li Zhi kept Dao Wuchen by his side and taught him for five hundred years before letting him go out to gain experience.

Not long after, Dao Wuchen became an emperor in the outside world, and then quickly broke through the limits of the emperor and directly turned into a supreme holy spirit emperor.

Then, he went to the Heavenly Palace to challenge Ye Fan, as if to resolve the cause and effect in his heart.

As expected, Dao Wuchen returned in defeat.

At the same time, it also made him realize the huge gap between himself and the truly strong.

After the great defeat, he did not feel depressed, but began a new round of hard training.

Eight thousand years later, Dao Wuchen in the outside world felt that there was no further progress in his Taoism, so he simply severed his connection with the Heavenly Heart Seal, abandoned his position as Heavenly Emperor, and returned to the Supreme Dojo.

This move shocked everyone. They thought that he had failed in his challenge to Ye Fan that year and had suffered a great injury in his body, so he died early.

However, they didn't know that Dao Wuchen simply returned to the Supreme Dojo and continued to practice under Li Zhi.

During the years when Dao Wuchen was away, Li Zhi did not slack off.
After years of creating new techniques, he finally completed his original idea and created nine supreme secret techniques to match the nine secrets of Taoism.

Moreover, the power of each secret technique surpasses the nine secret techniques used as counterparts.

By now, Li Zhi had already mastered all the nine secrets of Taoism. Except for the four that he collected himself, the other secrets were brought by Emperor Ming when he joined the Taoist temple.

The combination of the nine secrets can indeed produce amazing power, but they are, after all, only methods created by the Supreme Being of Humanity, and their power is ultimately limited.

It can shock the True Immortals, but it will definitely not shock the Immortal King.

However, the secret method created by Li Zhi to match the Nine Secrets is a genuine secret method that has reached the level of True Immortal, or even the level of Quasi-Immortal King.

In order to match the fastest moving characters in the world, Li Zhi created a secret speed method called "Fleeting Light and Shadows". Theoretically, when this method is evolved to the extreme, it can transcend the long river of time and roam freely in the long river of time without leaving any traces, and no cause and effect.

In order to match the "Jie" secret that can trigger a tenfold increase, Li Zhi created a "finger-increasing growth method". Theoretically, after triggering this secret method, the various attributes of the cultivator can increase exponentially, and the upper limit can be nine times.

However, Li Zhi used doubling as the basis for growth, and had only triggered fifth-power exponential growth a few times. Even so, the growth when he tried the method directly increased his punching power by thirty-two times.

This is just an exponential growth based on two times. What if it is based on three times? I dare not imagine it. Anyway, Li Zhi has tried many times over the years and has never triggered an exponential growth based on three times. He has only triggered a cubic growth based on 2.5 times.

In order to match the Lin Secret among the Nine Secrets, Li Zhi created a "Method of Summoning Gods and Demons" based on the "Summoning Demons Sutra". He could integrate up to twelve summoned fighting Dharma bodies of the same level into his body at one time to enhance his strength.

In order to match the "Soldier" secret among the Nine Secrets, Li Zhi created a "Great Method of Transforming All Things into Tao", which can make any tangible or intangible object become a carrier of the Tao, thus making it possible for a blade of grass to cut down the sun, moon and stars.

In order to match the Dou Zi Secret, which is known as the sacred method of fighting, Li Zhi created the "Ming Mirror Method". After this method is performed, it can 100% imitate various fighting methods practiced by the opponent.

In order to compete with the secret of the character "者字秘", Li Zhi also created a secret healing technique called "Death Reincarnation Technique". As long as there is life or death energy in the body, one can be reborn.

In order to match the Yuanshen Dafa of the previous word secret, Li Zhi also created a method to strengthen the Yuanshen, "Yuanshen Huafei Shu", imitating the Pingluan Jue to turn the Yuanshen into a weapon, thereby greatly increasing the strength of the Yuanshen. Fortunately, when his Yuanshen was divided into two, part of his Yuanshen was transformed into the Yuanshen Tower, so Li Zhi did not encounter many difficulties when he created this secret method.

In order to match the numerical secret among the Nine Secrets, Li Zhi created a "Tianyan Divine Calculation" to calculate the sky, the earth, the future, and everything in the world.

In order to match the word-combination secret among the Nine Secrets, Li Zhi integrated and sublimated the knowledge of formations and Taoist patterns he had mastered, and created the "Great Method of Jingtian Weidi", using time and space as the chessboard and all things as chess pieces, thus evolving various fields.

Of course, it is impossible for Li Zhi to cultivate each of these secret techniques in detail.

Even though Li Zhi is no longer bound by the constraints of time, human power is limited, while the Tao is infinite. Pursuing the infinite with the finite will eventually exhaust the finite.

Therefore, some secret methods were used purely to fulfill wishes, while some secret methods were carefully cultivated for the purpose of practicing the great way.

Therefore, the three secret methods, "Fleeting Glimpses", "Fingers Increasing Numbers and Growing", and "Heaven and Earth-Spanning" are the key points of Li Zhi's cultivation, and are also the main tools for his subsequent practice of the Great Dao.

The way of spiritual practice is the same as the art of war: you should consider defeat before considering victory.

Therefore, it is a must to have a life-saving secret method that makes others unable to catch up. The glimpse of light method is not only reflected in the speed, but also in the accumulation of Taoism. Although the number of years of practice has never been the main factor in judging the level of a person's Taoism, the Taoism accumulated over a long period of time must be polished to the limit. And this secret method can allow Li Zhi to put the Taoism in the long river of time.

As for the way of fighting, the first priority is to overwhelm the opponent with force.

When a person's strength can increase tenfold, a hundredfold, or a thousandfold in an instant, any sophisticated fighting method will pale in comparison.

Therefore, in order to have a powerful method to protect the Dao, Li Zhi also focused on studying the finger-increasing method. Compared with other methods, Li Zhi still prefers this simple and crude method of "suppressing people with force, breaking the law with force, and destroying the Dao with force".

The "Great Method of Jingtianweidi" is not only a method for practicing the Dao of Formations, but also a method for enlightenment.

The fact that Chu Feng was able to reach the pinnacle of the Red Dust Immortal in the Age of Absolute Spirits when all the great ways were wiped out had a lot to do with the field in which he practiced.

What is Tao?
The laws of heaven and earth are Tao, and all matter in the world is also Tao.

The great way of the human world is incomplete, lacking the laws of heaven and earth in the realm of immortals.

However, the material basis that constitutes the universe has not changed, and most of the matter in the universe is inherited from the ancient times of immortals.

Therefore, the great laws of the immortal level are hidden in all things in this universe.

If Li Zhi wants to reach the highest realm of a mortal immortal, he must then explore and discover traces of the Great Dao from the origin of matter.

Time flies like water, and in the blink of an eye, another two hundred thousand years have passed.

Li Zhi has traveled almost all over the universe, studying and exploring various types of materials that have survived from the previous era.

He even went deep into the underworld and studied those cosmic ruins for many years.

His cultivation also made another qualitative leap.

It has to be said that the field method created by Chu Feng is indeed an excellent tool for exploring the true nature of the material world.

Although the field theory created by Li Zhi is different from that of Chu Feng, the principles are the same and can still be used to explore the Tao contained in the material world.

Li Zhi ended his practice which had lasted for 200,000 years only when he could no longer feel any improvement in his cultivation.

After returning to the Taoist temple, Li Zhi was pleasantly surprised to find that Dao Wuchen had completed the reconstruction of the four human body secret realms and was about to start the reconstruction of the wheel sea secret realm. There were only two steps left to condense the immortal fruit in the mortal world, and the speed was much faster than when he was doing it.

Perhaps, this is the meaning of "those who plant trees will enjoy the shade."

After communicating with Dao Wuchen, Li Zhi returned to his own courtyard.

Finally, looking at the five immortality herbs planted in the courtyard, Li Zhixin said, "My path has come to an end in this world. It is time to end the cause and effect between me and all living beings in the world and all things in the world."

(End of this chapter)