Stealing the Secret from the Cover of Heaven

Chapter 495: Opening Eight Caves

Despair is nothing but the helplessness of not having enough spiritual power.

Despair is nothing but a lack of mental strength.

Despair is nothing more than hope being too slim.

Despair is nothing but oppression from a specific environment.

However, despair has never been a barrier that can block a monk's path forward.

Despair is never a reason to be depressed.

Despair has never been an obstacle that can cloud one's spiritual heart. Instead, it can become sandpaper to polish one's spiritual heart, and even a stubborn stone can be polished to become translucent.

It makes people feel desperate, but isn't it just the last carnival of another group that has fallen into the devil's way?

To borrow a phrase from mortals, all despair in the face of the enemy comes from insufficient firepower.

In the world of cultivation, as long as one's cultivation is sufficient, even if it is just one person's heaven, one can quell all the darkness and unrest in the world.

Practicing Taoism does not mean blindly following the will of Heaven. Sometimes, taking advantage of the situation and going against Heaven's will can lead to more glorious results.

At the end of the ancient times of immortals, the primitive ancient world was defeated by foreigners, resulting in the shattering of heaven and earth, the slaughter of all living beings, and the destruction of all laws of heaven and earth.

When practicing in such an environment, don’t think about following the will of heaven.

The ancient immortal law that followed the will of heaven had been abandoned, and a modern law that seemed to be put together hastily was born.

Although no true immortal has been born in this world's practice system, let alone an immortal king, it does not mean that this world's practice is not effective.

The method that can lead to the supreme level of humanity has its own unique features.

Even since the birth of the present-day Dharma, even after millions of years of refinement, the practice system still appears very crude.

There has not yet been a peerless genius who is of great significance to the cultivation system and can completely evolve this cultivation system to a level comparable to the ancient immortal methods.

Some people would say that Emperor Huang Tian has cultivated the laws of this world to the extreme.

In fact, the method that truly allowed Emperor Huang Tian to become an immortal, a king, and an emperor was the secret realm of the human body.

In Li Zhi's view, the cultivation system of this world's law is like a rough jade waiting to be carved by the right person.

Because of this, this cultivation system that was born in the environment of a broken heaven and earth has countless possibilities.

Because the system is not perfect, it is easier for people to play freely.

However, when the environment of the great Dao of Heaven and Earth is lacking, the performance after surpassing the limits of Heaven and Earth becomes varied.

In the realm of cave heaven cultivation, there is a saying that there are ten cave heavens to be the masters.

Moreover, in the eight realms of the lower world, the ways in which cultivators open the tenth cave heaven are different.

The cave heaven realm, in the eight realms and nine cave heavens in the lower realm, is already the upper limit of the realm that the heaven and earth can accommodate.

If you want to open the tenth cave heaven, you must find your own way to open the tenth cave heaven.

But are there really only ten cave heavens in the cave heaven realm?

The essence of spiritual practice is to constantly break the shackles on your body, constantly make leaps in life, and eventually become an existence that cannot be trapped by any Tao or law.

After Emperor Huangtian opened the ten cave heavens, he recreated the cave heavens and turned them into real cave heaven worlds, reaching the ultimate realm that predecessors had explored.

But Emperor Huang Tian was not reconciled, and merged the caves again, opening up the prototype of the eleventh cave in his body. Finally, he merged all the caves into a single vast cave.

Beyond the limits explored by predecessors, we have once again blazed our own trail.

Although it is different from the twelve great caves deduced by Li Zhi, it is impossible to measure the difference between the two.

The disadvantage of practicing in the environment of a broken heaven and earth avenue is that the avenue cannot be truly perfected, but the advantage is that it is easy to walk out of all kinds of strange and bizarre paths.

The practice of the Dharma in this world is a process of constantly breaking limits. Perhaps this limit is not as good as the realm limit of the cultivators when the Great Dao was perfected, but it is also possible to directly surpass the limit when the heaven and earth were perfected, thereby broadening one's own foundation of the Dao, and even possibly surpassing the foundation of the Immortal King.

Therefore, in the process of cultivation, no matter it is the limit of a greater realm or the limit of a smaller realm, you should try to break through it. Every time you break through the limit, it is a process of breaking free from the shackles.

Sitting in the enlightenment room of the Supreme Palace, Li Zhi's body and mind became ethereal, and various sparks of enlightenment began to bloom.

The negative emotions that had accumulated in the battlefield of despair were constantly being transformed by Zhan Tianyi's secret method of Zhan Tianyi into a source of power for him to attain enlightenment.

The layout of the twelve caves within the outer nine and three is probably not the true end point of the cave realm.

The essence of the cave heaven is to open up immortal channels inside or outside the body that connect to the outside world.

Since the essence of cultivation at this level is to create a channel connecting the inside and the outside.

Then why bother to worry about the number of caves and their ultimate form?

Sparks of inspiration continued to explode in Li Zhi's mind, as if the world was created, all things were born, the great way began, and all order was evolving in chaos.

Nine small worlds that looked like paradise surrounded Li Zhi.

They emit infinite light, melting the essence of heaven and earth, evolving the essence of heaven and earth, and infusing it into Li Zhi's body.

His body was glowing, and he looked like a god made of gold. But the next second, the golden light retracted and turned into long rivers of divine power flowing through Li Zhi's body.

Those divine powers continuously circulated along the twelve main meridians and eight extraordinary meridians in Li Zhi's body.

Although the times are different and the origin of the body is also different, the concept of meridians in later generations does not exist in the body.

However, the absence of meridians does not mean that meridians cannot be reshaped in the body. Now the twelve main meridians and eight extraordinary meridians in Li Zhi's body were reshaped by him.

The reason for reshaping the meridians in the flesh and blood is because Li Zhi wants to create 365 acupoints in the body to communicate between the inside and the outside.

Although the acupoints in the physical body are not as efficient and immortal as those in the cave heaven, they are superior in number. Although their efficiency is less than one percent of that of a real cave heaven, if 365 acupoints of the Zhoutian are running together, they can be equivalent to one or two real cave heavens, right?
Ever since he picked some holy medicinal fruits in the spiritual medicine garden, Li Zhi, who had no shortage of energy, opened up eight caves in succession.

And they were all reshaped a second time, turning them into cave worlds as well.

However, for the time being, he has not yet touched the opportunity to open up the tenth cave.

But Li Zhi was not in a hurry. After all, his goal was not to improve his Taoism quickly, but to practice the current law to the extreme.

After all, there are still hundreds of thousands of years before the real great reckoning comes, which is enough time for him to cultivate the current world law to the extreme. The Immortal King's re-cultivation is extraordinary. Although it is not the same cultivation system, the vision is not something that ordinary small cultivators can have.

Only by knowing to what level each realm must be cultivated can one be considered the true foundation of the Immortal King.

Li Zhi sat in the enlightenment room of the Supreme Palace and began to slowly create acupoints in his body that could communicate the inside and the outside.

One, two, three, ..., thirty, fifty, eighty, ...

A year later, Li Zhi finally opened up 362 acupoints in his body.

The reason why it is not the 365 acupoints of the Zhoutian cycle is because the acupoints at the upper, middle and lower dantian positions cannot be opened normally.

Because those three acupoints were the places Li Zhi prepared to open up three great physical caves.

The first physical cave opened up in the body is the tenth cave in the cave realm in the ordinary sense.

In the eight realms of the lower realm, the tenth cave heaven opened up by the cultivators is a cave heaven that breaks the limits of heaven and earth, so not only is there no fixed way of opening it, but even the effects are different.

The reason why Li Zhi chose to open up three physical caves in his body was that he wanted to use them to nourish his own energy and spirit.

The lower dantian cave stores essence and nourishes blood, the middle dantian cave transforms essence into qi and the upper dantian cave captures the soul and conceives the spirit.

Use the essence, energy and spirit of the outside world to nourish your own essence, energy and spirit.

The heaven and earth are alive. Although ordinary cultivators cannot feel the life of the heaven and earth, Li Zhi knows that They are indeed alive.

It’s just that the way the spirit of heaven and earth is expressed is very different from that of flesh and blood creatures.

After Li Zhi created 362 acupoints in his body, he suddenly discovered that the nine originally independent caves had an inexplicable connection.

It seems like they are just one step away from connecting to each other.

Li Zhi knew that the caves in the human body could actually be connected to each other, but ordinary cultivators were unable to connect them.

When the long river of golden divine light in Li Zhi's body stopped flowing, the nine great caves that originally surrounded his back like the Dharma Wheel of the Heavens returned to their positions again.

The nine caves are located in nine places on Li Zhi's body, and the environment in each cave is different.

The first one was a scarlet-red cave located three inches above Li Zhi’s head. It was filled with the breath of life, but the breath of life was very explosive and seemed to be better at being consumed during battle.

The second one showed an orange-red cave, located on Li Zhi’s left shoulder. It was still filled with the breath of life, but the breath of life was more lingering, and seemed to have a miraculous effect in maintaining the cultivator’s endurance.

The third cave was a yellow-red color, located on Li Zhi’s right shoulder. It was still filled with a strong breath of life, but the breath of life in this cave was gentler, and seemed to be more inclined towards recovery and healing.

The fourth hole appeared green and was located on Li Zhi's left palm. However, the energy inside was no longer pure life energy, but seemed to be the energy of plants and trees. Even inside the hole, there were images of countless flowers, plants and trees. It seemed that they would have the opportunity to become entities in the future.

The fifth cave was a cyan cave located on Li Zhi's right palm. In this cave, there were endless green mountains, and even the sky was cyan, which made the cave contain a strong power, as if the outside world particularly favored this cave and gave him a weak power of heaven and earth.

The sixth hole was a purple cave located under Li Zhi's left foot. In this cave, there was no physical earth, only endless purple clouds, as if it was the supreme and precious purple air that appeared between heaven and earth when a saint traveled.

The seventh cave was blue and was located under Li Zhi's right foot. Inside this cave was a vast blue ocean, as if Li Zhi had the ability to enter the sea.

The two caves under his feet seemed to give Li Zhi the ability to go to the sky and into the sea.

It should be noted that ordinary human cultivators in the Cave Heaven Realm cannot fly, unless they practice corresponding flying magic to soar in the air.

Although he had not tested the magical powers that were born after the cave was reshaped, Li Zhi knew that this ability could be called an innate magic technique.

As for the eighth cave, it was white and located in front of Li Zhi's chest. Inside the cave, there was no sky or earth, just a vast expanse of white, as if there was endless fairy air rolling, which looked particularly mysterious.

The ninth cave he finally opened up this time was pitch black and located behind Li Zhi. It looked like a black hole that could swallow everything that entered it, but it did not have the strong suction of a natural black hole.

When these caves were first opened up, they were no different from those opened up by ordinary cultivators. However, after the caves were reshaped, all kinds of magical abilities appeared. Li Zhi suspected that these abilities were not given by heaven, but came from his soul.

As the nine cave worlds of different shapes slowly disappeared, Li Zhi stood up from the enlightenment platform.

The enlightenment room in the Supreme Palace can be regarded as the best place for practice in the world.

It was because it was imprisoned on the back of the giant turtle by the magic circle that it failed to exert its best effect.

If it is placed in a place where the earth veins converge, its ability to help people gain enlightenment will definitely be qualitatively improved.

After walking out of the enlightenment room, Li Zhi went straight out of the Supreme Palace.

Having already gained the benefits, he no longer wanted to stay here to practice.

Moreover, practicing in the Supreme Palace no longer provides much assistance to his cultivation.

In order to successfully open up the remaining three caves, a special opportunity is needed.

And that kind of opportunity cannot be obtained by just sitting at home and practicing hard.

After Li Zhi activated the teleportation array on the small square, he returned to the cave.

Looking at the teleportation altar in front of him and the four precious bone keys on the altar, Li Zhi quickly discovered that the teleportation array was ineffective.

It seems that the giant turtle has left its original place and swam to other areas.

After the spatial coordinates changed, the teleportation array became ineffective.

It is no wonder that those ancient species would choose to come here at this time.

At the same time, Li Zhi also understood that this opportunity to successfully enter the Supreme Hall might be the last one.

In the future, as the giant turtle leaves the lower world, the ancient species in the wilderness will lose a treasure land.

In fact, even if the giant turtle did not leave, the dried-up Immortal Transformation Pond would no longer allow those ancient species to cleanse their blood and revert to their ancestral form and transform.

After coming out of the cave, Li Zhi came to the Cave of Beasts again, but found that the entrance had collapsed.

Calculating the time, he actually stayed in the Supreme Hall for nearly two years.

When Li Zhi punched open the rubble at the entrance of the cave, he was surprised to find a group of people searching for something in the collapsed mountain.

After hearing the sound of stones falling to the ground, the group of people hurriedly looked in his direction.

"Boy, who are you?" The group of people surrounded Li Zhi.

(End of this chapter)