Stealing the Secret from the Cover of Heaven

Chapter 481: The Falling Dragon in the Wilderness
Great wasteland.

At night, the sky and the earth were pitch black, and you could hardly see your hand in front of you.

Thick dark clouds covered the earth, not only obscuring the starlight in the sky, but also adding a sense of oppression to the wilderness.

Everything was quiet, the birds and animals returned to their nests, and only the grass and ancient trees rustled in the wind.

"Boom!"

Accompanied by a gust of wind whistling past, as if sounding the clarion call of battle, soul-shaking muffled thunder suddenly came from the thick dark clouds, as if a storm of incredible power was about to come.

“Thunderbolt!”

A bolt of lightning that pierced the sky and the earth appeared in the dark clouds, not only illuminating the vast wilderness, but also emitting a terrifying pressure that directly stopped the magic power of the cultivators within a radius of thousands of miles.

Then, a group of monks who were speeding in the air in the distance fell from the sky one after another.

They were like cannonballs fired from a gun. After crossing the sky, they blasted huge craters one after another in the distant mountains and forests.

"boom!"

Before everyone could react, the thunder in the dark clouds suddenly strengthened countless times, as if it had directly transformed from ordinary accumulated rain thunder into a purple divine thunder that was powerful enough to create the world. An aura that terrified all living beings burst out from the thunder and lightning.

"grandfather."

Then, in the dense forest below, a little girl suddenly started crying in fear, adding a bit of sadness to the wilderness under the rainstorm.

"Chase them. We must not let the three of them take advantage of the unusual celestial phenomena to escape."

In the wilderness, a group of dusty people climbed out of the big pits they had dug. Then, they glowed like gods, and the scars on their bodies quickly disappeared. In a moment, they regained their vitality.

Then that group of people controlled the divine light, like sharp swords, directly tearing through the rain curtain, flying low over the treetops, and chasing towards the direction where the thunder fell.

"boom!"

Another divine thunder struck from the sky, illuminating the mountains and forests in the wilderness.

Faintly, in the vast mountain forest, one can see an old man running at full speed in the rain with two children on his back.

"Tuoba Hong, you can't escape." The group of pursuers behind were moving faster. Someone saw the three generations of grandparents and grandchildren from afar and shouted loudly at them.

Upon hearing this, the old man carrying the child quickened his pace again, and at the same time, his aura became even more chaotic.

He was injured, and seriously injured.

"boom!"

Another divine thunder that pierced the heavens and the earth fell from the sky. The soul-trembling pressure between heaven and earth was instantly magnified countless times, as if there was a supreme being who was fighting against the will of heaven in the thunder and was about to successfully descend on this wilderness.

In an instant, the bodies of both the pursuer and the pursued stiffened instinctively, and then the "plane crash" scene was played out again in the wilderness.

"Boom!" Another divine thunder followed, but the pressure disappeared. Instead, the color of the thunder became colorful and very beautiful.

"Grandpa, run in the direction where the lightning is falling."

At this moment, the little boy on the old man's back seemed to have seen something shocking in the lightning. He showed wit and calmness that was not typical of his age, and hurriedly whispered in the old man's ear.

Upon hearing this, the old man did not hesitate and immediately mobilized the magic power in his body and ran towards the direction where the thunder was falling.

Seeing the three generations of grandparents and grandchildren running towards the area struck by lightning, those who were chasing them stopped instantly, fearing that they would be torn to pieces by the divine power that filled that area.

"Is the old man going to die?"

Seeing the three generations of grandparents and grandchildren running without hesitation towards the forest that had been shattered by thunder, the leading pursuer adjusted his plan.

"Everyone, divide into two teams, with the minefield as the center, and spread out to surround that area."

Then the group of people formed a big circle outside the lightning strike area, as if they wanted to surround the three generations of grandparents and grandchildren in the area where the sky-high lightning struck.

"Ow..."

Suddenly, bursts of dragon roars were heard from the sky-high lightning, which instantly made people feel as if their souls were being torn apart. After all the pursuers were affected, they immediately held their heads and wailed in pain.

Even many people with weak cultivation bases died on the spot with blood coming out of all their orifices and their souls shattered.

Only a few monks with the divine fire ignited in their bodies survived.

As for the three generations of grandparents and grandchildren who rushed towards the minefield, they were also not spared.

However, the old man's cultivation was extremely profound, and he used his powerful divine power to protect the two children behind him and did not let them get hurt.

However, the old man who had faced the dragon's roar head-on was in an even worse condition. He spat out a mouthful of blood mixed with pieces of internal organs. At the same time, his aura began to weaken rapidly. Even the divinity in his body became dim, and the fire of life was even more shaky.

"boom!"

At this moment, a strong golden light suddenly burst out from the terrifying thunder, and a huge amount of life essence illuminated the earth with the golden light. The mountains and forests that were originally shattered by the thunder recovered instantly.

After bathing in the golden light, the old men seemed to be reborn, and the flickering fire of life quickly grew stronger.

Under the shocked gazes of the three generations of grandparents and grandchildren, nine golden thousand-foot-long dragons pulled a mysterious ancient coffin, rushed out of the endless sky thunder, and then crashed into the depths of the earth.

"Boom!"

There was a landslide and the earth cracked. The nine dragons crashed into the earth and created a bottomless pit, and also changed the surrounding mountains.

It was as if nine huge, top-grade dragon veins suddenly appeared here.

The mountains and rivers were reshaped almost in a moment.

However, in the place guarded by nine dragon veins, there appeared a cave that was only more than one person tall.

Then, all kinds of divine lights flew out from the cave. Each ray of divine light seemed to contain the power of time and record the picture of the years.

In an instant, the brand new cave seemed to have been carved through thousands of years and became extremely weathered and ancient.

With the appearance of the ancient cave, the heaven and earth seemed to be enraged, and the divine thunder in the sky became even more violent.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

Billions of divine thunders fell at the same time, directly destroying the newly restored forest. The nine ancient veins that resembled real dragons were no exception. They were shattered under the destruction of billions of divine thunders.

A beautiful and blessed land was turned into a ruin in an instant.

Of course, if there are people with supernatural powers, they will still be able to see through the ruins and see the natural terrain of nine dragons guarding a tree that suddenly appeared deep in the earth.

After destroying the mountains on the surface, the divine thunder in the sky seemed to have vented its anger and dissipated in an instant.

After a few breaths, the dark clouds dispersed, the stars and the moon returned, and the mountains and forests became dim.

Then, a cold wind blew across the earth, directly dispersing the smoke and dust in the sky, making this nameless wilderness peaceful again.

If the area within a radius of thousands of miles had not been turned into ruins, no one would have been able to associate it with the scene of thousands of thunders striking at the same time just now.

"Grandpa, what's wrong with you?"

In a ruined forest, the little girl suddenly hugged the old man's arm and cried softly.

The old man, whose life fire had recovered a little strength, had withstood the thunder in order to protect his two children from the thunder in the sky. Now he was breathing in but not out.

"If you want to see him alive, you must see him. If he's dead, you must see his body. Search him for me."

Not long after, a group of Divine Fire Realm monks with unstable auras appeared between the mountains at the edge of the ruins, walking towards the ruins with murderous intent.

"Oh!"

After hearing the noise coming from afar, the old man showed a look of reluctance on his face.

Then his flesh and blood seemed to be ignited, and his entire body turned to ashes in a ball of dark blue flames.

The old man turned into a humanoid creature composed purely of divine flames.

"Yao'er, Yu'er, live well. You two are the last hope of our Tuoba clan. Grandpa will not be by your side in the future, so you two brothers and sisters must take care of each other. Remember what grandpa said. Before you become the Supreme, never seek revenge for your clan members. Hatred cannot make you truly strong. Remember the glory of our Tuoba clan flowing in our blood. Only by firmly believing that glory will always be with us, can you become truly strong in this cruel world."

"Grandpa, we don't want you to leave." Although the two children were young, they were both monks who had already stepped into the threshold of cultivation. Unlike ordinary children, they knew that the old man had turned into a fire man, which had burned his flesh and ignited the origin of his soul, forcing it to turn into the divine flame of the Great Dao, and would soon disappear completely.

“Child, don’t cry. As the descendants of the Human King, you should have the pride of the Human King and never show weakness in front of the enemy. Dry your tears and watch carefully how grandpa kills the enemy.” The old man, who had turned into a divine fire, encouraged.

Afterwards, the old man sent the two children into the ancient cave created by the Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin.

Then, the old man who turned into a divine fire flew above the sky. His whole body began to expand. In just two or three breaths, he turned into a towering flaming giant.

"You sons of bitches from Sword Valley, today I will let you die under the wrath of the Human King."

The towering old man of fire laughed wildly and loudly, instantly attracting the attention of those who were pursuing him.

"Oh no, Tuoba Hong is about to self-destruct, retreat quickly." The leading man instantly felt a fatal threat from the fire giant, and then turned into a sword light and rushed out of the ruins.

Unfortunately, it's all too late.

Tuoba Hong has locked onto the aura of all of them.

"The divine fire burns the sky, the sun removes sins, the wrath of the human king explodes!"

The old man, who had burned everything in his body, exploded into a bunch of fire meteors on the spot after performing the forbidden secret technique, and then caught up with those who were fleeing at a speed far exceeding that of the ones who were fleeing.

"what……"

Any cultivator who was hit by the fire meteor left by Tuoba Hong's self-explosion instantly felt as if his soul was ignited and felt boundless pain, as if he was thrown into a frying pan in the eighteen levels of hell and fried.

"Bangdang..."

A shrill scream resounded through the heavens and earth, and then in the surrounding mountains and forests, the only sound left was the sound of swords falling to the ground.

"How dare you, the remnant of sinners, massacre my Sword Valley disciples."

At the moment those people died, a horrifying roar suddenly came from the sky, and a shocking sword energy instantly crossed the endless mountains and rivers and slashed towards the forest.

The majestic sword energy and sharp sword light washed over the land indiscriminately like a rainstorm.

The remaining balls of divine fire after the old man's self-explosion were all extinguished by the baptism of this stormy rain of swords.

Inside the ancient cave, the brother and sister who saw this scene gritted their teeth and dared not make any sound.

Then they snuggled up to each other and walked towards the depths of the ancient cave.

A moment later, a white-haired old man carrying a sword appeared above the sky. He was like a peerless divine sword, standing proudly in the void.

A sharp aura burst out from him, cutting across almost every inch of the ground below.

However, the ancient cave in the ruins seemed to be undetectable by the magical power, causing the white-haired old man to frown frequently.

He seemed to be wondering why there was no trace of the two children.

But at this moment, a loud voice suddenly appeared in the sky: "Brother Jianyu, what wind blew you to my Five Elements State?"

"Hmph! Do I need to report my actions in Jian Valley to you in Bulao Mountain?" The white-haired old man seemed to be in a bad mood because he did not detect the presence of the brother and sister, and said coldly in the direction where the voice came from.

"Brother Jianyu, do you want to have a fight with Qin?"

Then, a middle-aged man covered in five-colored divine light appeared a hundred feet away from the white-haired old man. The powerful aura emanating from him seemed to be no weaker than that of the white-haired old man.

The white-haired old man ignored him and once again used his huge divine consciousness to carefully search the broken land below. He still did not find any trace of the two children, and finally had no choice but to leave.

He didn't even say a word to the god named Qin.

After watching the white-haired old man leave, the middle-aged man surnamed Qin also frowned. Then he looked at the ground below that had been almost shattered into a desert by the sword energy of the gods, and said, "Who are the people of Sword Valley killing again? Have they discovered another descendant of sinful blood with a powerful bloodline? No, I need to inform the ancestor about this."

Then, he also used the powerful divine mind to scan the ground below, and just like the white-haired old man, he did not find anything unusual.

Deep in the darkness of the ancient cave, the little girl suddenly sobbed, "Brother, did Grandpa die in battle to protect our escape, just like the rest of the tribe?"

"Don't be afraid, Yu'er. I'm here." The little boy's voice was a little sad, but his tone was very calm. It seemed that after his grandfather died in the war, he had become his sister's support, and he must not show any weakness or fear.

The brother and sister encouraged each other as they moved forward in the dark ancient cave, gradually burying their sadness deep in their hearts.

"Brother, those nine divine dragons dropped from the sky pulling an ancient coffin bathed in divine thunder. Is there a priceless treasure in the coffin?" After the little girl finally calmed down, she asked the little boy.

If the brother and sister who have lost the protection of their tribe want to grow up, they must make use of all the opportunities they can get.

Although they were too young, the bloody experience made their minds grow rapidly.

"There must be treasures in the ancient coffin pulled by the nine dragons."

The little boy said with determination, as if no treasure would live up to its strange appearance. At the same time, he also placed his hope of revenge on the ancient coffin.

Because they knew that apart from the Nine Dragons Coffin that fell from the sky, they, the brother and sister, no longer had any chips to resist fate.

As they are currently only at the Blood Moving Realm, if they rashly leave the protection of the ancient cave, they will only die once they get out.

They either died at the hands of various ferocious beasts in the wilderness, or at the hands of those who chased them like mad dogs.

Instead of going out and waiting to die, it is better to try your luck with this mysterious Nine Dragons Coffin.

The brother and sister walked towards the deepest part of the ancient cave with determined eyes.

Along the way, they could clearly sense that the dragon energy in the cave was becoming increasingly dense.

Moreover, the energy of longevity was increasing. Even the fatigue accumulated from months of running around disappeared after absorbing the energy of longevity in the cave.

The deeper you go into the ancient cave, the brighter the environment inside becomes.

When the brother and sister came to the edge of an underground cliff, they saw the full picture of the Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin again.

At this time, a huge space had been smashed out underground.

Nine majestic dragons appear to be forged from gold, and their streamlined bodies seem to conceal infinite divine power.

Moreover, golden chains emerged from the scales of the golden dragon, and the other end of the chain was firmly connected to the mysterious coffin that exuded chaotic energy.

On the coffin, there are engravings of flowers, birds, fish, insects, and all living creatures in the heavens, as well as some mysterious scrolls that the brother and sister are unfamiliar with.

It seemed that due to the collision, the cover of the mysterious ancient coffin pulled by the nine golden dragons had shifted. A gap about a foot wide appeared on the coffin, and the mysterious nine-colored light escaped from the gap, making people feel a supreme breath.

Although the brother and sister were not very skilled in Taoism, they had a deep family background and soon realized that they might have come across a real treasure.

"Brother, there are really treasures in there." Xiao Yuer took her brother's hand and pointed at the coffin at the bottom of the cliff.

"Yu'er, wait for your brother here for a while. I'll go down and take a look at the situation first." The little boy comforted the little girl.

"No, Yu'er wants to go down with her brother." The little girl shook her head stubbornly.

Although she was young, she knew that her brother might be gone forever like her brothers, sisters, uncles and aunts at home.

"Yu'er, be good. Now there are only two of us left. We must not face danger together, otherwise our father, mother, uncle, aunt, brothers, sisters, great-grandfather, great-grandmother, and grandparents will all have died in vain." The little boy said to the little girl seriously.

Although the little girl was reluctant to part with her brother, reason eventually overcame her emotions, and she finally chose to stay on the cliff and watch her brother go on the adventure.

"Brother, you must not leave Yu'er. Otherwise, Yu'er will be buried with her people in this dirty world in the future." The little girl swore secretly in her heart as she watched her brother climbing down the cliff.

And inside the coffin, Li Zhi, dressed in a purple-gold Taoist robe, lay quietly inside the Coffin of Life like a living dead.

Although he was conscious, he was unable to move at all, as if a great causal force was suppressing him inside the Coffin of Life.

At the same time, the consciousness that had been bewitching him was also suppressed.

At this time, Li Zhi's perception of the outside world could only cover the areas that the nine golden dragons could reach. Places farther away became hazy, as if the power of cause and effect had blinded his perception of the outside world.

The reason why this happened was just an accident.

Those who manipulate time will eventually be bitten back by time.

At this moment, Li Zhi had a deeper understanding of this sentence.

In order to resolve the hidden dangers in his body, Li Zhi left the foreign land in the Nine Dragons Coffin and began a long journey outside the world.

During this period, he visited many places and met many powerful people, including some at the Immortal King level.

But no one was able to solve the dilemma he faced.

Finally, Li Zhi found the place that could connect to the sky, spirits, and the past and present in a fragment of the fairyland.

Originally, he wanted to emulate Emperor Huang Tian and let his own essence and blood circulate in the long river of time, so as to accumulate infinite Taoism.

However, he never expected that when he entered the deepest part of the ancient cave that allowed people to reincarnate, the "Demon Summoning Sutra" in his body began to operate uncontrollably.

Faintly, Li Zhi seemed to see the shadow of "The Great Law of Transmutation and Self-Realization".

Then, he and the Nine Dragons Coffin disappeared from the ancient cave.

Instead, the Immortal King's blood clone and his humanoid weapon, which he had previously prepared to use for reincarnation to accumulate spiritual power, were left behind in the ancient cave.

However, after entering the time tunnel, he did not go back directly to the era of the emperor's fall like Emperor Huang Tian.

Instead, it seemed as if it was attracted by something and came directly to this space and time.

(End of this chapter)