Stealing the Secret from the Cover of Heaven

Chapter 539: Divine Fire Transformation
"Boom!"

In the Three Thousand Dao States, deep in the vast uninhabited area, countless divine thunders evolved in the void and eventually turned into terrifyingly powerful heavenly punishments that smashed down.

The divine thunder is endless. Sometimes it is normal lightning, sometimes it turns into various kinds of thunder beasts, and sometimes it turns into real dragons, celestial phoenixes, unicorns, Kunpeng and other ferocious beasts.

Every divine thunder seemed to be able to kill a true immortal.

The few remaining immortals hiding in the Three Thousand Dao States woke up collectively after feeling the aura of heavenly punishment at the immortal level, and all turned their gazes towards the no-man's land of light.

However, with their perception as true immortals, they could only sense the infinite divine thunder falling from the void.

But they could not see where the divine thunder finally fell.

It was as if there was a chaotic sea of ​​thunder beneath the thunder that could swallow up all the divine thunder of heavenly punishment.

The divine thunder seemed endless and lasted for several months.

The terrifying noise coming from the no-man's land also attracted the attention of the supreme beings in the three thousand Dao states.

However, the sense of impending crisis made them dare not act rashly.

"What kind of incident has occurred in the no-man's land?"

"Is there another fellow Taoist trying to become an immortal?"

"The calamities of Ye Qianyu and the Demon Lord in their journey to immortality were not this strong."

A group of supreme beings communicated only through divine thoughts.

It seemed that that level of divine punishment was beyond their comprehension.

And the Immortal Kings in several forbidden areas above the Nine Heavens all fell into deep thought as they looked at the divine thunder of heavenly punishment that had lasted for several months.

"What is Fellow Daoist Changshou doing? Is he creating a law? But why is the thunder tribulation of creating a law so strange?" The lord of the forbidden area, Immortal King Mingli, felt strange when he saw the heavenly punishment that looked like a thunder tribulation of creating a law, but was also plausible.

Then he began to deduce, and soon revealed a hint of surprise, thinking to himself, "It's actually a brand new Shinto practice system's creation of thunder tribulation, and it's different from the Shinto system of the ancestral spirits. Using the heaven and earth as a placenta to breed the acquired gods and demons, it's really an amazing and ingenious idea."

Afterwards, the lord of the forbidden area, the Immortal King Mingli, turned his attention to the source of the catastrophe that caused the creation of the law, the Void Immortal Island where the Immortal Medicine Garden was located in the ancient immortal world group.

The restrictions of the ancient fairy world can block the gaze of true immortals, but they cannot block the gaze of the Immortal King.

Under the observation of the Immortal King's Dharma Eye, the restrictions outside the Human Immortal Palace seemed transparent.

Tuoba Yaoyang's every move was watched by the Lord of the Forbidden Zone.

At this time, Tuoba Yaoyang was mobilizing all the laws of heaven and earth to burn his own divine fire, as if he wanted to use the power of all the laws of heaven and earth to help promote the sublimation of the divine fire.

At the same time, in the Human Immortal Palace, one seemed to feel the aura of thousands of burning bodies, and a mark left over from the ancient immortal era emerged.

A young man who called himself Little Immortal King, in order to break through his limits and to take a wider path, mobilized all the laws of heaven and earth to burn his body, and cultivated himself in this way.

However, in the end, the little immortal king successfully survived the burning of his body, but his soul disappeared forever, leaving only a physical body in the human world.

Under the burning of the heaven and earth, Tuoba Yaoyang's divine fire finally underwent a qualitative change.

It seems to be comparable to the perfection of the physical body.

But Li Zhi's warning suddenly emerged in his mind.

“To make your own path, you must break free from the influence of other people’s paths.”

"Although the help of the Ten Thousand Daos has enabled my Divine Flame to complete its nirvana transformation and surpass the limits of heaven and earth, this is not my Dao. I cultivate the Divine Dao, and the final form of the Divine Flame should not be confined to the previous flame forms. Although the Divine Flame is the flame of God, it is also the fire of the Great Dao. The Great Dao is invisible and formless, and the Divine Dao does not need flames to represent it. The Dao follows nature, and the Ten Thousand Daos of heaven and earth are compatible and orderly, and there is no such fierce appearance."

Tuoba Yaoyang placed the transformed divine flame in front of his eyes, constantly observing the law runes jumping in the divine flame, and finally began to appease those runes and laws.

As he comforted it, the divine flame that was derived from the violent collision of the Dao runes seemed to be extinguished.

However, when Tuoba Yaoyang saw that the divine fire was about to go out, he was not worried at all, but showed a hint of surprise.

Finally, when the divine flame reached its peak, the runes in the divine flame still gathered together and eventually turned into a mysterious rune that looked like the Ancestral Dragon's Mountain Seal.

As the rune was successfully shaped, the divine flame that had been extremely dim suddenly burst into a light that was ten times brighter than before.

"Success!"

After Tuoba Yaoyang felt the core of the divine flame transform into a large seal, he cried out in excitement.

In the Divine Fire Realm, he finally broke through the limit based on his previous achievements and condensed the true divine core of the Shinto system.

From then on, Tuoba Yaoyang truly stepped into the Shinto system founded by Li Zhi, which was the first step out of the cage of worldly laws.

It was precisely because he took this step that the catastrophe of law creation came.

The reason why it did not befall him but fell upon Li Zhi instead is actually easy to understand.

Although Li Zhi was in the perfect time and space, he himself did not practice the Shinto system based on the laws of this world.

Even the Shinto system practiced by the mini golden dragon has not taken the key step to gain recognition from both heaven and earth.

As a native local cultivator, Tuoba Yaoyang has truly taken the crucial step towards breaking away from the shackles of worldly laws.

This situation is actually easy to understand.

It is not difficult for a powerful Immortal King to create a cultivation system.

However, different systems can only serve as reference for the powerful Immortal Kings, but not as a decisive factor.

Therefore, unless the Immortal King rebuilds it, it is difficult to discover the advantages and disadvantages of the created system.

After all, there are many false parts in the deductions, and only by verifying them personally can you understand where the real flaws lie.

As the true core of God was born from the divine fire.

Tuoba Yaoyang felt that as long as he integrated the core into his own origin, he could achieve a leap in life and become a true god.

However, when he tried to integrate the transformed divine fire into his body, he encountered the same trouble he had encountered in the Phoenix Nest before, and ultimately the fusion failed.

After ten attempts, the fusion failed each time, as if a very critical lubricating substance was missing.

Then Tuoba Yaoyang stopped insisting and walked out of the Human Immortal Palace directly, intending to ask the mini golden dragon for advice.

The lord of the restricted area, Immortal King Mingli, also withdrew his gaze at this moment.

At this time, the divine punishment over the vast uninhabited area was still continuing, but it was also coming to an end.

In the sea of ​​thunder shrouded by chaotic energy where others cannot see the situation clearly, there is a terrifying creature who is bathing in the thunder and gaining enlightenment.

The thunder tribulations in this era are not obvious, but the power of any thunder tribulation should not be underestimated.

But for Li Zhi, who had to endure a thunder tribulation every time he broke through a small realm, the tribulation of creating a law was just an opportunity to help him realize the truth.

Although it was impossible for him to break through from the top Immortal King level to the Immortal King giant level.

However, this timely calamity of creation gave him a deeper understanding of the Shinto practice system.

Even things that Tuoba Yaoyang couldn't figure out, Li Zhi knew them clearly.

Shinto practice is also the process of rising to the authority of heaven and earth.

Just as the Lord of the Forbidden Zone, the Immortal King Mingli said, the Shinto practice system created by Li Zhi essentially regards the universe as a placenta to nurture itself, thereby nurturing itself to the pinnacle of a world. After maturing, it will eventually break free from the shackles of the world and transcend.

In theory, the more powerful the world you practice in, the higher the upper limit of this Shinto system.

In the fairyland, this Shinto system can theoretically allow a person to finally break through to the quasi-immortal emperor level at the moment of breaking the shackles of the world.

Of course, theory is theory and facts are facts. It is more difficult than you can imagine to reach the theoretical level.

Theoretically, the Immortal Realm Law can defeat a king and turn him into an emperor, but those Immortal Kings who created the Immortal Realm Law eventually fell on the eve of defeating a king and turning him into an emperor. If one wants to achieve success in the Shinto system, one must go through the baptism of heavenly tribulation.

Moreover, every time one advances to a higher level, one must go through the test of a heavenly tribulation.

Only in this way can the tested Dao Fruit be transformed into the core of God, and only in this way can one truly step into the Shinto practice system.

However, Tuoba Yaoyang lacked enough tests of thunder tribulations.

Although after he broke through to the level of Venerable and Divine Fire, they each experienced the baptism of a heavenly tribulation.

But not enough, far from enough.

At least starting from the Venerable Realm, each of the following realms must go through nine heavenly tribulations tests.

Just like the emperors in later generations who were able to integrate the Heavenly Heart Seal.

Almost all of them have experienced the baptism of thunder tribulation since they arrived at the Four Poles Secret Realm.

And none of the cultivators who started to overcome tribulation from the Dragon Transformation Secret Realm could ever become a great emperor.

This is not just a matter of talent, but also the depth of the interweaving and confirmation between one's own avenue and the avenue of heaven and earth.

According to the normal situation of quasi-emperors in later generations who are qualified to fuse with the Mark of Heaven and Earth, the more thunder tribulations they experience and the stronger the thunder tribulations, the more Dao traces they leave in the world, and the easier it will be to fuse with the Mark of Heaven and Earth in the end.

From this perspective, Ye Fan’s ability to become an emperor against all odds is related to the depth to which his path has been imprinted by heaven and earth.

Not all cultivators can encounter the heavenly tribulation formed by their own Dao marks engraved by heaven and earth when they are transcending the tribulation.

Normally, a Shinto monk should start to overcome tribulation from the Inscription Realm.

As for the Blood Moving Realm, Cave Heaven Realm, and Spirit Transformation Realm, they do not involve enlightenment, but are merely the refinement of one's own essence, energy, and spirit.

However, after reaching the Inscription Realm, it involves comprehending the great Dao of heaven and earth.

The various inherited rune magic techniques are just a way of manifesting the Great Dao.

Perhaps because of the influence of "The Original True Explanation" which explains the Great Dao from the perspective of the origin of runes, some Immortal Kings transformed their Great Dao into a Great Dao treasure rune and passed it down.

Others followed suit, and various magic rune systems came into being.

To a certain extent, the magic runes can describe the true meaning of the Tao more intuitively than using words to explain the Tao.

To verify my speculation.

Li Zhi used a drop of Immortal King's blood to create a living being, practiced the Shinto system from scratch, and began to overcome tribulations when he was at the Inscription Realm.

Then he made rapid progress all the way, and finally condensed the core of God in the Divine Fire Realm, and touched the authority of heaven and earth in the True God Realm.

Today, that incarnation is still continuing to survive the tribulation.

After continuously integrating his divine core into his physical body through transcending tribulations, the resulting divine patterns communicate and connect with all the ways of heaven and earth.

When the divine patterns in the body are in perfect harmony with the laws of heaven and earth, that is when the realm of true god reaches its peak.

When the divine pattern transforms and turns into a divine throne, that is the day when one achieves the fruit of becoming a divine being.

By then, you will be a real god.

The so-called gods are the gods of heaven. They can enhance their own Taoism by perceiving and sorting out the ways of heaven and earth. At the same time, they can also enrich the types of ways of heaven and earth through enlightenment, which is a process of mutual assistance between heaven and earth.

When all the divine thunders of punishment in the sky above the vast uninhabited area disappeared.

A true god who controlled the authority of heaven and earth appeared in front of Li Zhi.

But in the next second, he pointed his finger and shattered the god in heaven, at the same time shattering the god's karma in his body, severing the connection between him and the heaven and earth.

Then the god turned into a ball of essence and was absorbed by Li Zhi again.

The verification process of this world's law still has to rely on Tuoba Yaoyang.

If he follows his understanding, he will probably end up like the mini golden dragon and ignore many details that require careful understanding.

Just like before, Tuoba Yaoyang had been unable to successfully integrate the divine fire into his own origin.

But Li Zhi could do it easily, which made him ignore many things that he should have paid attention to.

Instead, it was Tuoba Yaoyang who was unable to do it that made him discover the key part missing in Shinto practice.

Heavenly calamity.

This thing, which seems to have no impact on the monks' practice, is actually crucial.

In the eyes of heaven and earth, cultivators who have experienced the test of heavenly tribulation and cultivators who have not experienced the test of heavenly tribulation can hardly be called the same species.

All living beings that have passed the test of heavenly calamity have already been branded with the mark of heaven and earth.

At the same time, their own imprints are also engraved in the heaven and earth.

And those cultivators who never transcend tribulation have essentially become abandoned children of heaven and earth.

The importance of heavenly tribulation is greatly underestimated for a cultivator who is still in the growth stage.

When Tuoba Yaoyang learned from the mini golden dragon the reason for his failed fusion, he was also greatly surprised.

"Teacher, do I still have a chance to make amends?" Tuoba Yaoyang was extremely anxious.

“Yes, now in the ancient world of immortals, there are many people who can transcend tribulation. You need to use the heavenly tribulation they summon when they transcend tribulation to increase your number of tribulation transcendence.” said the mini dragon.

“Why can’t I bring about the heavenly calamity myself?” Tuoba Yaoyang asked doubtfully.

“Because you have already passed the thunder tribulation in the Divine Fire Realm, you can no longer attract the real advanced thunder tribulation, so you need to rely on the thunder tribulation brought by others to make up for the thunder tribulation you have missed before.” The mini dragon explained.

“So in the future, every time my Taoism improves a little, do I have to actively invite a thunder calamity to come?” Tuoba Yaoyang said.

"That's the theory. But whether you can attract enough thunder depends on your accumulation." The mini dragon was not sure either.

Now that the heaven and earth are imperfect, the impact on spiritual practice is in all aspects.

Even the division of realms among monks is not so detailed.

Logically speaking, the five secret realms of human body cultivation method created by Emperor Huang Tian can be divided into far fewer realms than the modern methods and ancient immortal methods.

But later, after the efforts of countless generations of monks, the practice of the five secret realms of the human body was subdivided.

It is even subdivided to the extreme.

The number of thunder tribulations that one needs to endure is simply beyond imagination.

If you count carefully, from the Four Extremes Secret Realm to the pinnacle of humanity, the number of thunder tribulations that cultivators need to endure adds up to as many as seventy or eighty times.

If today’s cultivators knew the number of thunder tribulations that future generations would have to endure, they would probably be shocked.

In this day and age, there are very few living beings who are qualified to survive the tribulation.

Often, those amazing creatures only go through the tribulation once in each realm.

Even Emperor Huang Tian is no exception.

It is nothing like in later generations, where one who has reached a high level of cultivation can survive eight, nine, or ten thunder tribulations.

Fortunately, because of his creation of the law, Emperor Huang Tian was able to survive the tribulation for a full hundred years, which made up for the regret of not having survived the tribulation enough times.

However, other creatures do not receive such treatment.

(End of this chapter)