Stealing the Secret from the Cover of Heaven

Chapter 479: Overcoming the Tribulation and Becoming an Immortal
It took millions of years to become an immortal and forge the Dao. I was worried about the years before the Dao was completed. With a strong Dao and a ruthless heart, I traveled to other worlds. Now the Dao is revealed after the calamity.

In a foreign land, in the extremely secret ancestral land of the time beast, deep in an ancient cave where the laws of time were extremely chaotic, Li Zhi was sitting on a Taoist platform like a clay sculpture.

I don't know how long he sat here, so that the dust covering his body formed a layer of hard armor.

On this day, as if stimulated by external factors, some dust on the armor was suddenly shaken off.

In an instant, countless mysterious paintings appeared in the silent ancient cave.

All kinds of worldly affairs flashed in that mysterious painting, as if the long river of time was disturbed at this moment, directly splashing countless waves. Those waves turned into one dreamlike world after another, flashing around Li Zhi.

As the clay sculpture cracked, mysterious nine-colored fairy light shot out from the cracks, illuminating the entire ancient cave with colorful lights. The turbulent river of time seemed to be suppressed and disappeared without a trace in an instant.

"Oh!"

With a crisp explosion in the silent ancient cave, the dust armor outside Li Zhi's body turned into dust and fell back to the ground.

When the colorful light in the cave disappeared, Li Zhi, dressed in a purple and gold Taoist robe, appeared from the Taoist platform.

Then, the ancient cave seemed to be illuminated by sunlight, and it instantly became bright.

Behind the Taoist platform, there is a mysterious magic circle.

At the center of the magic circle, a time beast whose bloodline had almost reached the pure-blood level was instantly turned into ashes after being exposed to the light.

Li Zhi, who had just opened his eyes, exuded a sense of vicissitudes of life, as if his mind had just traveled through eternity.

After carefully recalling his previous experience, Li Zhi secretly admired in his heart: "The Immortal King is indeed extraordinary."

In order to solve the future troubles.

After settling Tai Shang Dao Zong, Li Zhi went out alone to look for the great elder of Shiguang Zong who was in seclusion.

Finally, he accidentally found the ancestral land of the Time Beast, and discovered the great elder who had already stepped into the realm of the Quasi-Immortal King in the Time Cave.

There were no accidents at that time and the great elder was easily suppressed by Li Zhi.

It’s not because Li Zhi’s cultivation is higher than his, but because the other party is practicing a great time magic that allows his mind to travel through the long river of time.

However, his cultivation level had not reached the state where time would not affect him. During his cultivation, time took its toll on him, leaving him in a half-dead state.

One moment he is about to die of old age, and the next moment he becomes young again. It looks quite strange.

Li Zhi took action immediately, suppressed him, and freed him on the spot.

Afterwards, this time cave became Li Zhi's trophy, and he also understood the function of this time cave.

Here, monks can more easily touch the mysterious river of time.

The ancient ancestor of the Time Beast Clan once received great fortune here and was successfully promoted to the Immortal King.

Later, the Red King stayed here, traveling through the long river of time to hone his spiritual fruits, standing out from the group of immortal kings, and finally being promoted to the realm of giants.

During the chaotic ancient times, after the fall of the Red King, the Time Beast Clan was also liquidated, and the whereabouts of the Time Cave became a secret.

Seven million years ago, the Grand Elder of the Time Sect, who had 10% of the time beast's blood in his body, accidentally found the ancestral land of the time beast, and discovered the time cave where the Red King had been in seclusion.

He received great fortune here, which enabled the time beast blood in his body to evolve rapidly.

Afterwards, he continued to advance with great strides, restored the power of the time beast clan, and finally became immortal in the new era.

If Li Zhi had not come to suppress him, he might have had a chance to break free from his magical powers, become a new generation of quasi-immortal king, and restore the imperial style of the Time Beast Clan in this world.

Unfortunately, all of this is just hypothetical.

That year, when Li Zhi came to him, his fate was already determined.

At that time, Li Zhi also found the inheritance of the Red King in the great elder.

Later, after dealing with matters within the sect, Li Zhi returned here to meditate.

Now, the essence and blood of the time beast in the great elder's body has been burned out in the time magic array.

The formation failed, and Li Zhi's mind also broke free from the long river of time.

He even felt that his own cultivation of the Dao had reached a level of perfection, where water would overflow naturally.

His cultivation has truly reached the pinnacle of the mortal immortals. With just a little more advancement, he will be able to truly step into the realm of the Immortal King.

Moreover, Li Zhi's soul has also been baptized by the long river of time and has received the purest tempering and sublimation. The immortal aura emanating from his soul is almost no different from that of a real Immortal King.

It seemed as if Li Zhi had gone through billions of years, and he was full of vicissitudes of life.

Then, a spiritual force overflowed from his brows and transformed into a spiritual sword emitting an immortal aura, which went straight to his immortal platform to cut himself off.

"Hoohoo!"

Just like autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves, all the dust of the years that had accumulated on Li Zhixiantai was instantly shattered, and the platform became bright and clear again.

At the same time, the vicissitudes of life in Li Zhi's eyes disappeared without a trace.

After taking another look at the empty ancient cave, Li Zhi walked down the Immortal King's Dao Platform.

Then, he walked out of the cave. The chaotic time laws in the cave could not shake him at all.

After walking out of the ancient cave, Li Zhi appeared in a mountain with lush vegetation and abundant spiritual energy.

After counting with his fingers, Li Zhi was slightly surprised that three hundred thousand years had passed.

No wonder people say that the Immortal King never travels to the mortal world. Indeed, every time the Immortal King goes into seclusion, the mortal world undergoes tremendous changes.

Some Immortal Kings even go into seclusion for several epochs.

The ordinary mortal concept of time has long been lost.

Then, Li Zhi stepped on the Avenue of Divine Light and walked quickly towards the Supreme Taoist Sect, just like the Emperor of Heaven.

After crossing endless territories, three hundred thousand years later, Li Zhi finally returned to Tai Shang Dao Sect.

Then he was shocked by the prosperous scene before him.

The Taishang Dao Sect has developed into one of the most powerful sects in this world.

Moreover, after three hundred thousand years, his disciples have made great progress in their cultivation.

Dao Wuchen, in particular, has already reached the pinnacle level of immortality and is only one step away from reaching the immortal realm of the mortal world.

He is the strongest person in the sect.

He also serves as the chief elder of the sect.

In addition, Jin Ming and Fu Zang also broke through the bottleneck in the field of immortality and officially became immortals who could rival the immortals in this world.

In today's world, it is an extremely shocking thing for a sect to have several immortals and two-digit human supreme beings.

In the past, such a grand occasion would only occur within an imperial clan headed by an immortal king.

As for the other registered disciples, although they are still accumulating experience in the realm of the pinnacle, it is only a matter of time before they break through to the realm of immortality.

Most of them have already shown the longevity aura unique to the cultivators in the longevity realm. Only the four maids have not yet reached the pinnacle of the extreme way after 300,000 years of practice.

"Master, you are back."

Upon learning that Li Zhi had returned from seclusion, all the disciples quickly gathered from various places in the sect at the foot of Changshou Mountain to greet Li Zhi.

"Where are Xiaobai and Qilin?" Li Zhi asked when he saw the disciples arriving but there was no sign of the little Qilin and the divine deer Xiaobai.

"They went out to accompany Junior Brother Long for training." Jin Ming said as if he was trying to hold back a laugh.

"Junior Brother Long?" Li Zhi asked in surprise. He didn't remember anyone among his disciples with the surname Long.

"Junior Brother Long, he is the son of you and Master Longnu." Jin Ming said.

"What? He was born. When did it happen?" Li Zhi asked hurriedly.

"It was the one hundred thousandth year after you went into seclusion, Master. At that time, Junior Brother was nurtured to the limit, and then he broke out of the divine egg and was born. We were all shocked at the time. He really grew very fast. He could crawl in one day, speak in three days, and grow up to be no different from a three or four-year-old child in five days."

Jin Ming told Li Zhi in detail about Longzi's growth after birth.

Afterwards, after listening to the disciples' report on the situation in the Taoist temple, Li Zhi returned to his residence on Changshou Mountain accompanied by Jin Ming.

Since the establishment of Taishang Dao Zong, Li Zhi transformed this immortal mountain into his residence and named it Changshou Mountain.

In addition to Li Zhi's courtyard, the Dragon Girl's Wanlong Palace is also on this mountain.

Before the dragon son was born, he lived with the dragon girl in the Ten Thousand Dragons Palace.

After returning to the mountain, Jin Ming said to Li Zhi, "Master, my junior brother's cultivation talent is unrivaled in the world. When he was just over a hundred years old and went out to gain experience, none of the young geniuses in the ten academies could match him, and he directly jumped to the top of the genius list."

Upon hearing this, Li Zhi began to secretly calculate Long Zi's secret, but found that his secret was extremely vague.

"Master, there is one more thing you may not have thought of. After Junior Brother's cultivation reached the pinnacle of the Extreme Dao, he did not continue to practice the secret realm of the human body, but began to combine the cultivation methods of this world and spent 100,000 years to create his own cultivation system. Now he has cultivated three-color true blood, and his cultivation is comparable to that of the late immortals. According to him, in another 200,000 or 300,000 years, he will be able to cultivate five-color true blood, which represents the realm of the Immortal King."

As they walked, Jin Ming introduced Longzi's terrifying talent for cultivation to Li Zhi.

The bloodline evolution practice method that she wanted to create back then was officially created by Longzi.

According to the levels of blood, this evolutionary path can be divided into mortal blood, spiritual blood, holy blood, divine blood, supreme blood, chaotic blood, true blood, two-color true blood, three-color true blood, five-color true blood, seven-color true blood and nine-color true blood.

It is said that above the Nine-Colored True Blood, Long Zi also deduced the supreme realm where the final Nine-Colored True Blood merged into one and transformed into the Blood of the Great Dao, which is also his conjecture about breaking the king and becoming the emperor.

The more Li Zhi listened, the more surprised he was. He actually possessed such a terrifying talent for cultivation.

This was originally what he wanted to do, but it was created by Longzi.

After returning to the Changshou Temple on Changshou Mountain, the golden dragon incarnation that Li Zhi had left behind to practice in the outside world turned into a golden light and flew back into his body. Li Zhi instantly received the memory of the golden dragon for three hundred thousand years.

He also practiced the blood evolution method created by Longzi, and not long ago he incarnated in the place where the Immortal King of the Five Elements fell. He obtained a group of original power belonging to the Immortal King level, which allowed his own blood to evolve directly to the level of five-color true blood.

In one fell swoop, he became a powerful man at the level of quasi-immortal king.

You must know that back then Li Zhi let the Golden Dragon incarnation practice independently, and the method of practicing was body-building, so that after the incarnation broke through to the level of quasi-immortal king as a body cultivator, it could merge with himself, so as to enhance his physical strength.

I thought three hundred thousand years was far from enough.

Unexpectedly, the bloodline cultivation method created by Longzi greatly shortened the process of physical evolution.

As the incarnation's physical essence merged into his own flesh and blood essence, Li Zhi's body also began to transform rapidly.

In the blood, the originally faint nine-colored divine light gradually became solid.

Five of the colors are the most solid, while the other four, although dim, are no longer illusory.

When Li Zhi's physical body completed its transformation, he immediately felt that the bottleneck of the Immortal King had been broken through.

Jin Ming, who was originally still talking about Longzi's deeds, suddenly felt a suffocating sense of oppression from Li Zhi.

"Master, you have made a breakthrough?" Jin Ming asked in surprise.

Li Zhi just nodded, and then said: "Take good care of the temple, I am going to the outer world to survive the tribulation."

Then, Li Zhi disappeared directly from the dojo.

When he appeared again, he was already deep in the starry sky.

The terrifying light of the Great Dao burst out from his body, causing all the laws of heaven and earth to tremble and the starry sky of the universe to shake. Countless living beings between heaven and earth felt it and instantly looked up at the sky.

Endless avenue runes crushed in from all directions, transforming into the most terrifying calamity in the world to stop King Li Zhicheng.

There were even many runes that did not come from the heaven and earth of this world, but penetrated from the outside world, and together turned into disasters and fell on him.

This is the true calamity of becoming an Immortal King, and also the true calamity of becoming an Immortal. The tribulation that one has to face is unimaginable.

In the heavens and myriad worlds, true immortals refer to creatures at the level of Immortal Kings. No matter if they are the Immortal King, the Burial King, or the Immortal King, once they ascend to that realm, they are almost all immortal.

A strong person at that level is an almighty being who can achieve "the world will be destroyed while I am the only one left alive".

Therefore, if one wants to ascend to this realm, whether becoming an Immortal King or an Immortal King, the difficulty is extremely high.

Li Zhi's real body was surrounded by endless Dao runes. The terrifying power of the Dao contained in the Dao runes seemed to melt him into a part of the laws of heaven and earth.

In the past, in the present, and in all the rules and orders that have appeared in this world, they are targeting him, judging him, and killing him.

Under this horrific test, part of Li Zhi's body shrank directly, and even exploded directly into a ball of blood mist and was swallowed by the world.

At this time, Li Zhi's five secret realms glowed, and the Tao seed of the human body emerged. The power of the physical body, the power of the soul, and the power of the Great Dao were all integrated into the Tao seed, in order to promote his ultimate transformation.

However, under the horrific catastrophe of the Great Dao, the perfect and flawless Dao seeds showed signs of shriveling, as if the water in the seeds had evaporated, making the transformation extremely difficult.

He thought that his accumulation was already strong enough, and even after experiencing the trials of the long river of time, his cultivation of the Great Dao had reached a terrifying level of overflowing Dao. The Immortal King Tribulation was not a problem for him.

However, when he really faced the test of the Immortal King Tribulation, Li Zhi realized that the so-called overflow of Tao was nothing but an illusion.

Under the attack of the endless Avenue runes, Li Zhi was like a piece of metal full of impurities, being hammered continuously by the Avenue hammer forging machine.

If you are not careful, the Tao seed will explode and your body and soul will be destroyed.

Under this terrifying test, the Tao seed that Li Zhi incarnated continued to shrink.

However, as the Tao Seed shrank, an even more powerful vitality was born within it.

And as the challenges from the outside world continue to intensify, that vitality is also constantly increasing.

It was as if a brand new Tao seed was about to be born within the old Tao seed.

Deep in the starry sky, the laws of heaven and earth are manifested, the divine light of the infinite avenue is overwhelming, and the whole world seems to be illuminated.

The shocking sight shocked countless people.

Even the ancient ancestor Moxian, who was practicing in the fairy palace outside the world, opened his eyes and looked at Li Zhi who was transcending the tribulation outside the sky.

Huge waves were also stirred up in the Devouring Sea, as if the Sky-Devouring King was also awakened.

As the test of the Great Dao entered its later stages, some cracks appeared on Li Zhi's shriveled Dao seed, and endless laws of the Great Dao poured out.

Then, a world tree with most of its branches broken suddenly appeared, extending its branches directly to the depths of the sky, and began to devour the laws of the Tao emanating from Li Zhidao's seed.

"It's over. This person failed to survive the tribulation. All his accumulation will become nutrients for the recovery of the World Tree."

After seeing the broken World Tree appear, the immortals of the world had this thought in their minds almost at the same time.

Since the end of the Chaos Ancient Era, Mo Xian and Tian Tun Beast are not the only two quasi-immortal kings who have attempted to break through the Immortal King realm.

It’s just that most people fail on the way to breakthrough, and after they fail, the World Tree will suddenly appear like it is now, and absorb all the laws of the universe that they left behind.

Before the world was destroyed, when cultivators tried to break through to the Immortal King realm, the World Tree would often provide them with the necessary assistance instead of waiting for them to fail.

The success of Mo Xian and the Sky-Swallowing Beast was only barely successful, and the Dao Fruit of the Immortal King that they cultivated was flawed.

In the center of the foreign land, a group of three people consisting of the little Qilin, the divine deer Xiaobai and Longzi, after sensing the aura of catastrophe coming from the depths of the sky, walked out of an abandoned ancestral temple.

"Is this the longevity boss trying to overcome the tribulation of the Immortal King?" The little Qilin looked up into the depths of the sky and said in shock.

"Oh no! Something might have happened to the master. The World Tree has appeared and is already devouring the master's laws." The divine deer Xiaobai immediately worried after seeing the World Tree.

Only Longzi's eyes were flashing with five-colored divine light, as if they could penetrate the endless ocean of Dao runes and see Li Zhi's true state at the moment.

"Father is fine, you don't have to worry. I feel a vitality beyond the limits of heaven and earth rapidly growing in father's body. Father's Tao fruit is about to be perfected, and the catastrophe can no longer do anything to him. In the end, the World Tree may lose more than it gains." Longzi said with determination.

"That's great! Once Boss Changshou's transformation is complete, our Tai Shang Dao Sect will be able to immediately be promoted to the number one force in this world. By then, this world will be our back garden. By then, won't we be able to have whatever we want?" the little Qilin said excitedly.

"Father won't do that. You still have to rely on your own strength to practice." Longzi shook his head and said.

Although he had never met his brother and sister, he had already learned from Qilin Xiaoshou and others that Li Xian'er and Li Jizu stayed in the human world, where the cultivation environment was far less favorable than this world, in order to find their own way.

In order not to disappoint his father, he resolutely embarked on the path of creating law.

Only he himself knows the hardships and dangers he faced during this period.

The best example is that the three plants of Resurrection Grass that were close to the level of immortal medicine in the Immortal Medicine Mountain Range have been consumed by him alone.

He also saw nine colors of light from the real blood that Li Zhi left in the dojo.

It further strengthened his determination to pursue the path of bloodline evolution.

Fortunately, the cultivation methods of foreign lands focus on physical cultivation, and there are also special research and accumulation on bloodline evolution.

In those days, many immortal kings transformed their true blood into five-colored true blood or even seven-colored true blood.

After absorbing the evolutionary knowledge of tempering blood from both worlds, he finally perfected a path of practice to complete the evolution of life through blood evolution.

Now, he has just perfected this path of cultivation and evolution to the level of five-colored true blood, which is the quasi-immortal king level.

The method of cultivation that can only cultivate to the quasi-immortal king level is not a shocking path of cultivation and evolution, but it is also a method of cultivation that suits him.

According to the conjecture left by Li Zhi, he knew that the end of the road of bloodline evolution was the bloodline of the Ancestral Dragon.

That is the bloodline of the quasi-immortal emperor level that surpasses the Immortal King, also called the bloodline of the Taoist Ancestor.

Unfortunately, the method of bloodline evolution is easy to create in the human realm, but after reaching the immortal realm, the difficulty of bloodline evolution increases exponentially.

Moreover, he could not see the path of bloodline evolution to the Immortal King level.

It is impossible to use a higher realm of Tao to guide the evolution of his bloodline.

Although the three-color true blood in his body now shows signs of evolving into five-color true blood, he feels that the most important point is missing. If the key defect is not resolved, the evolution may not be so easy to complete.

At the same time, Li Zhi's transformation has reached a critical moment.

The newly born Tao seed in the body is about to reach perfection.

But at this moment, Li Zhi felt the deep malice coming from heaven and earth.

It seemed as if the heaven and earth were unwilling to see his Tao fruit be fulfilled.

However, Li Zhi used the Taoist method of the secret realm of the human body to break through the realm of Immortal King, and he almost did not rely on the power of the outside world.

So the key transformation was not affected by the outside world.

But just when Li Zhi's Dao Fruit was completely perfected, suddenly a drop of black blood fell from the sky and directly penetrated into his body.

Endless dark power instantly filled Li Zhi's body and dyed the starry sky black, causing many strong men to recall the stories before the chaotic ancient times.

Upon seeing this, Mo Xian in the Immortal Palace immediately closed his own palace.

In the Devouring Sea, the originally turbulent sea surface returned to calm in an instant.

The World Tree, which was originally absorbing the laws of the Great Dao escaping from Li Zhi, also hid itself again at this moment.

It seemed that they had an instinctive fear of the dark power that suddenly appeared above the sky.

When the endless avenue runes in the depths of the sky disappeared, the darkness also disappeared, and Li Zhi's figure disappeared as well.

Therefore, there was no unique vision of blessing from heaven and earth that occurred after the birth of the Immortal King.

Countless people fell into silence upon seeing this.

(End of this chapter)