Stealing the Secret from the Cover of Heaven

Chapter 497 Invitation from Butian Pavilion

There are no roads in the wilderness and the terrain is complex. The best way to cross the wilderness without getting lost is to fly in the sky.

Although Li Zhi opened up nine magical caves and possessed the ability to fly on clouds, he still chose to walk in the wilderness.

To open eight caves in succession in just over a year was too fast. Even though he had enough experience and had studied all the classics left in the Supreme Palace, he could not make up for a series of problems caused by the too fast pace of practice.

The accumulation of years in the process of spiritual practice is very important, no matter at which level you are in.

When it comes to practicing Taoism, the faster the better is not necessarily true, and Li Zhi does not pursue speed in practice.

Tuoba Yaoyang, who is nearly fifteen years old, has only cultivated to the level of the Ninth Cave Heaven. Compared with any genius specially cultivated by a major force, his cultivation is considered to be relatively weak.

Most of the peerless geniuses, at the age of fourteen or fifteen, have already reached the level of spiritual perfection, or even broken through to the inscription realm.

But Li Zhi was not in a hurry. According to his plan, as long as he could break through to the perfection of spiritual transformation before the age of 20, his Taoism would not be considered a drag.

Moving Blood, Cave Heaven, and Spirit Transformation are the three realms of foundation building.

Before the age of 20 is also a critical period for the human body to develop to maturity.

During this period, it is not a good thing to over-exploit yourself in pursuit of an improvement in your realm.

On the contrary, in the process of physical growth, it is more important to constantly consolidate the physical foundation.

Of course, this does not apply to people like Emperor Huang Tian who were born for the Tao.

If one wants to cultivate the foundation of an Immortal King in this world, every step must be taken with extreme caution, especially the foundation-building stage in the initial stage of cultivation is particularly critical.

Li Zhi opened eight caves in the Supreme Palace, but he did not go through enough training, which was not going to work.

After all, if you want to build a taller building, the foundation must be more solid.

Practicing Taoism, in a certain sense, is the same as building a building.

In order to make his foundation more solid with the help of nature and the ferocious beasts in the wilderness, Li Zhi finally chose to cross the wilderness on foot.

Fortunately, even when walking, his speed was not slow, and he would not be able to cover only a few hundred miles in a day.

In just half a month, Li Zhi had traveled across 80,000 miles of wilderness and arrived at the bank of the Taiyin River.

The water in the river was so black it was a little scary, and the biting cold could be felt from a long distance away. No living creature nearby dared to approach to drink the water.

Even those powerful ancient species seem to be hiding from the Taiyin River.

However, such a cold river did not freeze over. It was still surging and the water was flowing continuously. The water surface was more than ten miles wide, with magnificent waves and the sound of water was like thunder, which was extremely shocking.

This is a very famous river, and its reputation is spread throughout almost the entire wilderness.

Taiyin River. According to legend, there were ten Taiyin stars in the sky in ancient times. In a great war in ancient times, nine of them were cut down. One of them was refined and fell into this river, causing the river to mutate and become the place where no life exists today.

But when Li Zhi arrived at the Taiyin River, he jumped into the river without any hesitation.

After jumping into the river, Li Zhi instantly felt as if his flesh was pierced by steel needles, and the bone-chilling cold air kept drilling into his body through the pores, as if it was going to freeze his bones and tear his soul apart.

But Li Zhi sank to the bottom of the river with an expressionless face, and began to box while standing in the mud at the bottom of the river.

After finishing a set of Ten Thousand Beasts Fist, his whole body began to burn like a furnace. The scorching divine power even heated up the water of the Taiyin River around his body. That small section of the river surface seemed to be boiled, with bubbles constantly rolling out.

Even the Taiyin power in the river water seemed to have been evaporated, making that section of the river water clear.

"Wow!"

Not long after, there was a loud bang on the water surface, and Li Zhi, shrouded in mist, jumped out of the Taiyin River.

Hungry, very hungry.

Practicing boxing in the Taiyin River consumes a lot of energy and blood.

Even though there is a cave to replenish essence, the body's qi and blood power are still consumed.

Li Zhi's senses were fully activated. He instantly determined a direction, then turned into a stream of light and disappeared into the mountains and forests.

After a cup of tea, Li Zhi, carrying a five-colored deer weighing hundreds of pounds, appeared on the bank of the Taiyin River. He lit a fire and started roasting the meat. Then he drank the deer's blood and ate the deer meat. He enjoyed a delicious meal and the coldness in his body was completely dispelled.

It seemed that the energy of qi and blood had become more condensed, and the body had become stronger.

In this way, Li Zhi walked upstream along the Taiyin River, because he needed to find a place where the Taiyin power was more concentrated to practice.

Taiyin Refining Body is an excellent method to consolidate one's foundation.

For Li Zhi, who is currently building his foundation, the effect is very significant. It can not only consolidate the foundation of flesh and blood, but also consolidate the foundation of spirit, and even more consolidate the foundation of the Great Dao.

Under the dissolving effect of the power of Taiyin, the runes in his body can become more resilient.

Walking along the river bank, Li Zhi suddenly saw a magical bird flying across the sky in the distance.

The divine bird cried loudly, and five-colored divine light surged. From time to time, it shot a beam of five-colored divine light towards the surface of the Taiyin River, blasting the river water out of the river channel and forming a lot of solid ice around it.

It seemed to be chasing something in the river. Li Zhi quickly hid in the surrounding mountains and forests to avoid being harmed by this angry bird.

"Five-colored Peacock, who angered this ancient relic?" Li Zhi looked up at the ferocious bird in the sky and muttered curiously.

The five-colored peacock is the top ancient relic species in the Great Wilderness. The blood of the ancient divine bird Peacock King flows in its body. Its background and origin are extraordinary. It is like a king among the ancient relic species in the Great Wilderness. No ferocious beast dares to provoke it easily.

Moreover, the magic of the five-colored peacock is very powerful, and it seems to possess some secrets of the magic of the heavenly-grade ferocious beasts.

It is a powerful magic technique that many forces dream of, and it is powerful enough to become the guardian magic of a large tribe.

Looking at the five-colored peacock soaring along the Taiyin River, Li Zhi suddenly remembered that when Emperor Huang Tian was completing the training arranged by the God of Willow, he and Zhu Yan once stole a five-colored peacock egg. It was by jumping into the Taiyin River that they survived the danger.

"Could it be that peacock?" Li Zhi muttered to himself. Li Zhi's memory of the details of Emperor Huang Tian's life had long been a little fuzzy.

However, this five-colored peacock was not a being he could afford to provoke for the time being. Its powerful aura was suspected to be comparable to that of a king or prince in the human race's formation realm.

Li Zhi trained along the Taiyin River, and most of the opponents he chose were ferocious beasts at the Shoulder Transformation Spirit Realm.

When encountering a ferocious beast at the inscription level, he would usually turn around and walk away, or stay away from it.

This move can not only hone himself through fighting, but the flesh and blood of those ferocious beasts can also become his source of food after he finishes practicing boxing in the Taiyin River.

The delicacies Li Zhi ate along the way were more than all the delicacies he had ever eaten on the ancient star Beidou combined.

Eating is a skill that must be mastered in practicing the Dharma of this life.

Emperor Huang Tian likes all of this. As long as they are not humanoid creatures, they can all be made into food by him.

And Li Zhi was not willing to fall behind.

Having come to such a vast world, how can we not use the talents and skills of the descendants of a great country of foodies?

When the piece of Void Divine Gold was refined into a big pot, it might have been intended as a preparation for cooking delicious meals in the future.

In later generations, due to limited food materials, many things could not be eaten. Moreover, every non-human race with strong blood would transform into human form for cultivation after reaching a high level of cultivation, which greatly added to the psychological difficulties for foodies.

But now it is different. Except for humans and a few humanoid races, creatures of most races will not transform into human form after reaching a high level of cultivation.

This cleared the spiritual troubles for the foodie. After practicing and eating all the way, more than half a month later, Li Zhi finally arrived at the source of the Taiyin River.

It was a small pool surrounded by mountains, but it could also be said to be a huge spring.

In the pool water, the power of Taiyin is surging, almost dozens of times that in the river.

He thought he would not encounter other living creatures in such a place, but he never expected that he would meet a group of people as soon as he arrived here.

There were old and young, male and female, and they seemed to be collecting the Taiyin energy in the pool.

Seeing Li Zhi carrying a black tiger king to the edge of Taiyin Pool, everyone turned their heads to look at him.

"Hello, seniors." Li Zhi threw the Black Tiger King weighing thousands of pounds aside and greeted the older monks.

"My friend, what are you doing?" A middle-aged man pointed at the Black Tiger King that Li Zhi had thrown aside and asked. He did not sense any aura of a cultivator from Li Zhi, but he could tell that the dead Black Tiger King was comparable to a late-stage human cultivator.

"I'm sorry to have made you laugh at me, senior. I'm just a greedy person. This black tiger has an extraordinary bloodline, so I wanted to find a cool place to eat meat." Li Zhi explained.

Li Zhi could tell that this group of people were very powerful. Judging from their attire, they did not look like cultivators from the Great Wilderness. Except for the young men, the cultivation of the other middle-aged and elderly cultivators was almost all above the Spiritualization Realm. This was not the average strength that the human cultivators in the Great Wilderness should have.

"You mean, you hunted this Black Flame Tiger King just for its meat?" a young man said in surprise.

"Can't we eat its meat? The flesh and blood of the black tiger is a pure yang substance that is very nutritious." Li Zhi said.

"That's not what I meant. I meant, did you kill this Black Flame Tiger King by yourself?" the young man confirmed again.

"This black tiger is not difficult to kill." Li Zhi said.

"Senior Brother Tao, don't be surprised. This young man was able to kill the Black Flame Tiger King because of his extraordinary strength." At this time, a very beautiful girl spoke.

The woman was dressed in white clothes as white as snow, and she was extremely beautiful. Her hair was black and smooth, as smooth as silk. She had a gentle smile on her fair face. She looked Li Zhi up and down with her big, watery eyes, then walked up to him and asked, "Little brother, my name is Xia Youyu, and I'm from the Butian Pavilion. What's your name?"

"Tuoba Yaoyang comes from the human king family." Li Zhi responded seriously.

"The Human King Family?" Everyone present was puzzled. It seemed that there was no powerful family with this surname in the wilderness.

"Brother Tuoba, can you tell me about your Human King Family? Our Butian Pavilion is also a big sect in the Wilderness, why have I never heard of the Human King Family?" After Xia Youyu pondered for a moment, she looked at Li Zhi with her clear big eyes.

"It's not convenient to say." Li Zhi shook his head and had no intention of explaining it to them in detail.

Xia Youyu didn't seem disappointed that Li Zhi couldn't speak, and directly changed the subject, saying, "Brother Tuoba, this black flame tiger king is huge, do you need us to help you deal with it?"

Li Zhi then shook his head and said, "I can handle it myself."

At this time, an old woman from the Butian Pavilion sent a voice transmission to Xia Youyu and asked, "Youyu, what are you going to do? This person's origin is unknown, and his enemies and friends are unknown. Moreover, your uncle and I cannot see through his depth. The skills he practices are certainly extraordinary. That person's Wang family may be an extremely powerful hidden family."

"Master aunt, Master uncle, don't you think this little brother is destined to be with our Butian Pavilion?" Xia Youyu said in a voice transmission.

"Do you want to bring him into our Butian Pavilion?" the middle-aged man asked in a voice transmission.

"Yes, uncle-master, this little brother Tuoba gives me the same feeling as the naughty kid who stole the five-colored peacock eggs we met before. It seems that they both have extraordinary talents." Xia Youyu responded through voice transmission.

"But the eight talismans in your hand have been distributed." said the middle-aged man.

"Uncle-master, this little brother Tuoba is definitely worth winning over. Perhaps during the trip to Baiduan Mountain in the near future, he will bring a huge surprise to our Butian Pavilion." Xia Youyu responded.

"According to Youyu, this young man came here carrying a black flame tiger king. He should be undergoing some kind of trial. And I didn't sense the presence of his protector nearby. Maybe he is the kind of peerless genius who can cross hundreds of thousands of miles of wilderness alone without the need for a protector." The old woman also said in a voice transmission at this time.

"A peerless genius, he doesn't look like one?" The middle-aged man seemed to have sized up Li Zhi.

"Trust Youyu's intuition. We misjudged the little guy named Haotian whom we met before." The old woman transmitted the message again.

At this time, Xia Youyu continued to say to Li Zhi: "Brother Tuoba, are you interested in visiting our Butian Pavilion?"

"Thank you for your kindness. Butian Pavilion doesn't have what I want." Li Zhi shook his head and said.

"What a pity! We won't bother you anymore then." A hint of surprise appeared on Xia Youyu's face, like a beautiful woman who was rejected by a straight man. It seemed that this was the first time she met someone who had no interest in her invitation.

This time they came out of the Butian Pavilion and came to the western border. Along the way, they encountered countless forces that wanted their disciples to enter the Butian Pavilion to practice.

Even for the dominoes in her hand that could lead directly to the Butian Pavilion, many big families even chased after them to ask for a domino.

Soon, all the people from the Butian Pavilion collected the Taiyin Water, and then drove away with their magic weapons.

Li Zhi built a fire beside the Taiyin Pond and began to stew and grill the Black Flame Tiger King.

Tiger bones are stewed with some magical herbs, and tiger meat is coated with honey brewed by magical bees and grilled.

While waiting for the food to be cooked, Li Zhi jumped into the Taiyin Pool to practice boxing.

The rich Taiyin energy in the pool froze him completely in an instant.

A set of Ten Thousand Beasts Fist only made his body feel a little warm, but it could not achieve the same effect as before, which was to make the water of Taiyin River boil.

Only after eating a whole Black Flame Tiger King, known as a pure yang spirit beast, did Li Zhi feel his body warming up again.

On the shore, he performed a set of Ten Thousand Beasts Fist to completely refine the Taiyin Qi in his body.

Sure enough, tempering oneself with the ultimate power of heaven and earth is the only way to consolidate the foundation of the Tao.

Then, taking advantage of the darkening sky, Li Zhi once again entered the distant mountains and forests to look for new Pure Yang beasts.

The effect of this Taiyin Spring is extraordinary, and he may have to stay here for a while.

At the same time, the people from the Butian Pavilion, who were already thousands of miles away, suddenly stopped.

Xia Youyu said to the elders: "Uncle Master, I always feel that Tuoba Yaoyang is not as simple as we think. I want to get in touch with him again. Maybe I can find a way to cure Master Ji Ling from him."

"The Human King Family? Why is it the Human King Family?" The middle-aged man also kept thinking.

Even in the Stone Country or the Fire Country, their rulers are known as the Human Emperor, but their families will not call themselves the Human Emperor's family.

The Human Emperor of the Stone Country was born into the Stone Clan, the Human Emperor of the Fire Country was born into the Fire Clan, and even those powerful royal families were named after their surnames, but almost no one used the royal title as their clan name.

The family of Human King. The middle-aged man always felt that the word "Human King" did not mean a royal family in the ordinary sense, nor even the family of the human emperors of those ancient countries.

"Human King, is there really a royal family among our human race?" The middle-aged man suddenly remembered what he had read in an ancient bone book about some powerful races in the upper realm having the title of royal or imperial family.

Just when everyone was about to reject Xia Youyu's proposal, the middle-aged man said, "I agree with Youyu to have in-depth contact with Tuoba Yaoyang. I suspect that he is not from a hidden family in the wilderness, but a genius from the upper realm."

"It is possible. It is rumored that Qin Yining, the previous saint of Bulao Mountain, was a genius who came down from the upper realm. If you think about it carefully, the aura of Tuoba Yaoyang is indeed a little different from the local creatures in our wilderness." Another old man also spoke up.

"It is better to have fewer people in contact with Brother Tuoba rather than more. Let me go with Youyu." said the middle-aged man.

"In that case, let Youyu try again. Everyone else, follow me back to Butian Pavilion. The Yu Clan wanted to claim a bonnet, and now that bonnet has been given to little Haotian by Youyu. I want to go back and ask the Pavilion Master for another one. I still have to give the Yu Clan face." The old woman said to the others.

"Okay." The others nodded in agreement.

Then, they split into two groups.

The middle-aged man and Xia Youyu returned to the source of Taiyin River together, while the others returned to Butian Pavilion.

At this time, Li Zhi was looking for the trace of the Chunyang beast in the wilderness.

(End of this chapter)