Stealing the Secret from the Cover of Heaven

Chapter 494: Fighting Heaven's Will and Slaying Heaven's Way
"Kill, kill, kill..."

On the battlefield in the border desert, Li Zhi, surrounded by a vast ocean of enemies, finally felt what despair was.

There are too many enemies and they are too strong to kill them all.

Even if he used up his last drop of blood, even if he wanted to die together with the enemy, he couldn't do it.

Faced with overwhelming enemies, even if he had killed them all and their corpses were scattered all over the ground and their bones piled up like a mountain, it was of no avail. The enemies still surged towards him like waves.

Death may bring him relief.

However, that despair seemed not to disappear with his death.

Powerless, deeply powerless.

It cannot be said that you are powerless. The feeling of powerlessness only occurs when you face an enemy that you cannot resist.

But now, even though Li Zhi has shed the last drop of blood in his body, with his extreme fighting will, he can still kill the enemy with his only remaining arm, but he still does not see any hope of annihilating the enemy.

As for the simple thought that this was just a trial that emerged in my mind at the beginning, it had long disappeared.

At this moment, Li Zhi devoted himself wholeheartedly to this battle with no end in sight. He seemed to be really in this desperate battlefield, isolated and helpless. Looking around, he saw enemies everywhere, in the sky and on the ground.

When the last bit of Li Zhizhan's flesh and blood was completely dried up, his mind entered a special state.

It seemed that he had spared no expense in order to break this despair.

The dried flesh began to spontaneously combust, the weak soul began to transform, and even the invisible true spirit began to roar.

"I will sacrifice my blood and bones to heaven and earth, and I will use my spirit to slay all enemies."

As the mysterious shouts floated over the battlefield, an altar emitting a mysterious aura emerged from Li Zhi's body.

Above the altar, there emanated a strange aura that seemed to be able to bury all living things and sacrifice the world.

It seems that Li Zhi, in desperation, wants to sacrifice himself in exchange for infinite combat power, using this technique as the ultimate means to wipe out all enemies.

"Crack!"

But at this moment, the world suddenly showed signs of breaking apart, and the originally vivid desert battlefield and enemies instantly became illusory.

At the same time, one Dao rune after another appeared between heaven and earth, and then those runes were shattered one after another.

The entire trial stairway began to shake violently as a result, as if it could not withstand the force that was beyond its limit.

One by one, the runes that constructed this spiritual trial battlefield world went out, and the entire spiritual world collapsed.

The other buildings in the Supreme Palace seemed to be affected and suddenly shook.

Even the giant turtle under the Supreme Palace seemed to sense the abnormality in the palace and suddenly woke up, and then terrifying power began to revive in its body.

In an instant, countless golden chains of order appeared on its body, as if hindering its recovery.

Even the protective magic circle outside the Supreme Palace showed signs of instability.

At the same time, the ground outside seemed to shake.

Countless ancient species in the wilderness suddenly felt a shudder coming from the depths of their souls, and were so frightened that their bodies became stiff and they dared not make any sound or move.

Inside the Stone Village, the Willow God's body, which had grown five willow branches, suddenly emitted a green glow that enveloped the entire Stone Village.

All the villagers rushed to the Willow God and knelt there to pray with worried looks on their faces.

"God Willow, is there a new crisis in the Great Wilderness?" The little Shi Hao was the only one in Shi Village who could communicate with God Willow. He ran to God Willow and asked.

Willow God did not answer him, but looked into the depths of the earth.

A pair of immortal eyes seemed to be able to see through the earth directly and see what was happening in the Supreme Hall on the back of the giant turtle.

And on the rocky steps, a mysterious altar appeared above Li Zhi's head, emitting a mysterious aura that enveloped him completely, making it impossible to see his current condition.

Fortunately, Willow God knew the altar. After looking at it for a moment, he withdrew his gaze and said to the villagers of Shi Village, "Don't worry."

The giant turtle seemed to be suppressed by the mysterious altar and fell into sleep again.

The sudden tremor in the wilderness disappeared, and the trembling feeling that weighed on the hearts of all living things also dissipated instantly.

However, most of the ancient species seemed to be overly frightened, and after gaining freedom of movement, they all fled back to their nests.

The more powerful the ancient species, the deeper their sense of danger.

For a period of time thereafter, the wilderness became extremely safe.

Li Zhi, whose soul was protected by the altar, gradually woke up.

However, although he did not look hurt at all, an extremely complicated look appeared in his eyes.

"Despair, it is really a despairing experience. I just don't know what hope you have prepared after despair?" Li Zhi, who took back the altar, suddenly said to himself.

Looking at the silent rock steps, Li Zhi did not stay for too long. After his mind returned to normal, he continued on his way.

I walked all the way to the end of the stairs, but never encountered the trial ground again.

Then, he saw a mysterious bone tablet emitting a white fairy aura.

There is a pile of stones scattered around the bone monument. It seems that these stones were once a complete monument, but were suddenly destroyed by external force and turned into a pile of stones.

"Go beyond your limits and break through despair."

After staring at the ancient stele for a long time, Li Zhi finally recognized the eight big characters written on it.

But these eight simple words seemed to contain infinite fighting spirit, and a momentum of fighting against heaven and earth emanated from the white bone monument.

It seemed that the ultimate secret of the Supreme Palace was hidden in those eight words.

Li Zhi immediately began to comprehend, and soon he figured out a special method of cultivation, which enabled him to break the limits of his cultivation by condensing his own fighting spirit.

However, the method does not seem to be perfect, but its intention is very profound.

It seems to be a method specially prepared for the monks who are now practicing in the ruined world.

The theoretical basis of this special method comes from the saying "Heaven and earth can limit the upper limit of a cultivator's cultivation, but cannot limit the upper limit of his mind."

Use your mind to transform your fighting spirit to cut through the Heavenly Dao, thereby breaking the shackles imposed on the cultivator by Heaven and Earth, and ultimately cultivating a powerful Dao fruit that transcends Heaven and Earth.

After a period of in-depth study, Li Zhi discovered the shortcomings of this secret method.

It uses its own emotions and desires as the source of its spiritual power, thus transforming them into spiritual fighting spirit to break the shackles of heaven.

However, this method requires too high a level of mental cultivation from the cultivator. If one is not careful, he will go astray and die.

Although this method of fighting against heaven's will and slaying the heavens is extremely powerful, it is an incomplete method with hidden dangers.

It is said that "the world is as big as your heart".

But the same thing is also true the other way around: "How big your heart is depends on how big the world is."

As the saying goes, one cannot imagine what he has never seen.

For monks, it is generally similar.

It is theoretically possible to break the limits of heaven and earth through this secret method, but it is difficult to do in practice.

Unless someone is like Li Zhi, who is in a world where the Immortal King is the end of the Great Dao, but whose cognition exceeds the limit. Not only does he know that there is a heavenly land on the other side of the boundary sea where the Immortal Emperor can be born, but he also knows that there is a world above heaven, that there is a sea of ​​sacrifice, and that there is a plateau where the strange ancestor sleeps. At the same time, he knows that outside the long river of time, there is a supreme land that can allow Emperor Huang Tian and others to revive in extinction, rise in ruins, and finally set foot in the realm above the sacrifice.

After sitting cross-legged in front of the white bone monument and meditating for several days, Li Zhi stopped meditating.

Although the material of this bone tablet is extraordinary and is made from the skull of a true immortal, there are no immortal laws on it. It can only be regarded as an excellent material for refining weapons.

Therefore, after Li Zhi finished his comprehension, he had no intention of taking it away. Instead, he pieced together the broken stones around it.

Then I saw a stone tablet with the three characters "Huaxianchi" written on it.

It seems that under normal circumstances, monks who can pass the trial of the rocky steps and come here have the opportunity to enter a place called "Huaxianchi" to practice.

Afterwards, Li Zhi searched around the stone tablet and finally found a place that looked like the Immortal Pond. Unfortunately, that place had dried up and turned into a large pit without water.

However, he could still see a lot of traces of rotten hair and bones in the mud at the bottom of the dry pool.

It seems that the Immortal Pond that once existed here really had the ability to transform people, but due to changes in the environment of heaven and earth, this immortal pond with extraordinary effects has dried up.

I touched the moist soil at the bottom of the pond, and it seemed that it had not been dry for long.

No wonder some of the ancient species in the wilderness hold the key that leads directly to the Supreme Palace.

It was obvious that a ferocious beast had successfully come here before, passed the trial and completed a transformation.

Perhaps the eight realms of the lower world are called the most dangerous places by the upper world, which is more or less related to the Supreme Palace.

However, the good fortune here has obviously been exhausted, and Li Zhi cannot enjoy the convenience of the Immortal Pond.

Afterwards, Li Zhi used the broken stone tablet again to seal the immortal bone with the eight words "Surpass the limit, break the despair" written on it inside the stone tablet.

It can be regarded as leaving a secret for future generations to explore.

After doing all this, Li Zhi returned to the small square.

After taking another look at the palaces sealed by magic circles, he decided to leave.

With his current level of skill, he cannot break those restrictions unless he uses the altar.

But doing so would destroy the layout of the Supreme Palace and might even kill the giant turtle below.

Moreover, the inheritance of the Supreme Palace is not of much use to him.

Li Zhi, who possesses "The Original True Explanation", no longer lacks the fundamental scriptures for practicing the Dharma of this world.

As for the magic treasure, the first generation magic treasure human king seal awakened in the body is enough.

After all, the quality of magic is more important than quantity.

And the magic treasure is just the embodiment of some kind of great way.

By comprehending "The Original True Explanation", the Human King's magic can be constantly innovated as his Taoism grows.

In other words, in Li Zhi's hands, the Human King's magic will almost never reach its ceiling and become unable to become stronger.

Li Zhi, who had originally planned to leave the Supreme Hall directly, subconsciously touched the formation barrier leading to the Sutra Library with his hand.

Something surprising happened.

The originally indestructible formation barrier was easily passed through by him like a water curtain, as if the formation here no longer blocked him.

Li Zhi quickly withdrew his hand and began to carefully check his physical condition.

Then he discovered a special mark in his body.

It seemed to be the reward he received for not being swallowed by despair on the border battlefield.

It was a Dao seal that could replace his life. When he was killed by others, the Dao seal would be triggered, allowing him to be reborn somewhere else. It had a similar function to the life-replacing talisman that the Immortal Heavenly Venerable bestowed upon those trialists after the Tianyuan Secret Realm was opened.

Although Li Zhi felt that the mark was only a one-time thing, under special circumstances, it was enough to save Li Zhi's life.

Of course, the person who killed him could not have a cultivation level higher than that of the Supreme Being, and certainly could not be an immortal.

That mark was a trump card bestowed by the Supreme of the Supreme Dojo to the geniuses to save their lives when they were weak.

"I told you, how can there be no reward after clearing the level?" After realizing the effect of the Dao Seal, Li Zhi suddenly laughed.

Although there is a high probability that he will not be able to use it, but with this life-saving trump card, the probability of him using the altar becomes much smaller, and therefore the force of causal backlash he will suffer will also be much less.

Then Li Zhi entered the Sutra Library of the Supreme Taoist Temple without any hindrance and saw the complete inheritance of the Supreme Taoist Temple.

There are all kinds of classics, even a lot of supreme treasures.

Those precious techniques should have been created or collected by successive supreme masters of the supreme temple.

Although they are far less powerful than the real core inheritances of the Six Paths of Reincarnation Heavenly Art and the Grass Character Sword Art, those techniques are enough to become the core inheritance of the top sects in the upper realm.

From those classics, Li Zhi also roughly understood the origin of the Supreme Palace.

It originated in the ancient immortal period and is suspected to be a force founded by the Immortal King of Six Paths of Reincarnation.

Once in a battle in the ancient times, the inheritance of the Supreme Hall was destroyed, and all the true immortals in the sect died in the battle.

Today's Supreme Palace is the result of later generations discovering part of the Supreme Palace's traditions in the ruins after a great war in ancient times, and then reviving it.

It was not until the Supreme of the Immortal Palace took action to destroy this inheritance that the inheritance of the Supreme Palace came to the eight realms of the lower realm.

As for whether the remaining immortals in the Immortal Palace took direct or indirect action during the destruction of the Supreme Palace, it is unknown.

There is no clear record in those classics.

It took Li Zhi three full months to read all the books in the Sutra Repository, which gave him a more detailed understanding of the current world.

Then, he went to the palace where the spiritual medicine garden was located.

After entering, Li Zhi saw a medicinal field where many magical herbs were planted, and they were of high age.

There are even several holy medicines, one of which seems to have turned into a semi-divine medicine.

"Black Turtle Fruit." Li Zhi directly called out the name of the semi-divine medicine.

The Black Turtle Fruit is a legendary holy medicine that was mutated from a spiritual medicine infected by the blood of the Black Tortoise Immortal. The fruit is not only rich in huge life essence, but can also restore the youth of monks with declining qi and blood.

Of course, that ability to rejuvenate is something the Black Turtle Fruit possesses only after it has evolved to the level of a magical medicine.

Nowadays, the Black Turtle Fruit, which is at the level of a semi-divine medicine, can greatly extend the lifespan of cultivators. As for mortals, it can at least extend the lifespan of ordinary mortals tenfold.

After Li Zhi picked all the fruits from the holy medicinal plants, he left the medicine garden.

It’s not that he didn’t want to take those holy medicines away, but each of the holy medicines was engraved with a magic circle and was completely connected to the medicine garden. As long as they left the medicine garden, they would turn into ashes.

After leaving the spiritual medicine garden with the holy medicine fruit, Li Zhi entered the Enlightenment Hall of the Supreme Taoist Temple, intending to practice here for a period of time.

A previous battle in a simulated border battlefield had made Li Zhi realize the problem of his insufficient cultivation.

Although he had the ability to kill the enemies, there were too many of them and he ended up killing them to the point of despair.

This was an experience Li Zhi had never had before.

He clearly had plenty of power, and was even able to kill the enemy, but in the end, he still killed himself and fell into despair. The pain he felt was so great that it was impossible to describe it in words.

If he was killed because of his lack of strength, perhaps Li Zhi would not feel despair, but would only lament that there was not enough time.

But although he clearly possessed the power, and could even kill enemies above his level, in the end he could only watch himself fall into a hopeless situation. That feeling was truly despairing.

I really don’t know what those Immortal Kings who fought in the bloody battle in the ancient immortal war experienced.

Especially the immortal king giants like the Immortal King Wuzhong and the Immortal King Liudao Samsara.

If they were determined to survive, they would be able to escape successfully and survive even if they were besieged by multiple immortal kings from foreign lands.

But they chose to fight to the death, and eventually both died on the battlefield.

No wonder the ultimate trial arranged by the Supreme Palace did not give people any hope.

Those who have not experienced that kind of despair will never be able to understand the despair that the cultivators of this world felt when facing the attack from foreign lands.

Nor will they realize that this despair can come again at any time.

Only by turning despair into motivation and truly transcending it can we completely avoid falling into despair again.

Just like Emperor Huang Tian, ​​he constantly surpassed his limits, and finally, after surpassing the realm of Immortal King, he pacified the foreign land in one battle.

(End of this chapter)