Stealing the Secret from the Cover of Heaven

Chapter 545: Zulong's Current Situation
As the saying goes, to correct a wrong one must go too far.

The Immortal Age came to an end, all the immortals died in battle, the heaven and earth were shattered, the World Tree was cut down, all the spirits were slaughtered, and even the Immortal Age practice system that directly pointed to the origin of the Great Dao became fraught with difficulties.

All this seems to herald the arrival of an era of great change.

However, all external conditions are in place, but what is missing is someone who can drive major changes and evolution.

Millions of years have passed, and still no system has emerged that can rival the ancient immortal methods.

In fact, the Ancient Immortal Law System is not a failed system of cultivation and evolution. Although the combat methods of the Ancient Immortal Law System are slightly rigid, it is very good in terms of enlightenment, and can make the Dao enlightened by the cultivators more in line with the origin of the Dao.

What is the origin of the Tao?

The origin of all things in heaven and earth is a tangible origin of the Tao.

Tao is invisible, formless and substanceless, yet it is everywhere.

The heaven and earth are the tangible carriers of Tao in the endless nothingness, and are a way of expressing the creation of Tao from nothingness.

Therefore, the closer the origin of the Tao perceived by acquired creatures is to the origin of all Tao in heaven and earth, the closer their Tao is to the true nature of Tao.

To practice the ancient immortal way of cultivation, a cultivator must first fuse a Dao seed. The more perfect the Dao seed is, the easier it is for the cultivator to comprehend the Dao and thus achieve the evolution of life.

But after the heaven and earth were shattered, the gestation of the Tao seed became extremely difficult, and the origin of the heaven and earth was flawed, which made the Tao also flawed.

However, these objectively existing harsh conditions cannot negate the superiority of the Xian Gu Fa system.

The reason why the ancient immortal method cannot be practiced normally is not because of the ancient immortal method system, but because the later generations did not know how to adapt and were unable to update and iterate the ancient immortal method to meet the needs of the times.

Just as Li Zhi once had a conversation with Tuoba Yuer, the essence of Wanling's cultivation was revealed.

At that time, Li Zhi asked: "Yu'er, do you know when mortals began to surpass beasts and stand at the top of the food chain?"

Tuoba Yuer fell into deep thought and was unable to answer Li Zhi's question.

Then Li Zhi said: "Since they mastered the making of tools, mortals have gradually departed from the way of life set for them by heaven and earth, and have directly moved towards the process of being shoulder to shoulder with heaven and earth, thus giving rise to the saying of the three talents of heaven, earth and man."

Tuoba Yu'er didn't understand what he meant, so Li Zhi asked, "Yu'er, who do you think is stronger, a mortal or a tiger?"

"The tiger is powerful." Tuoba Yuer said without hesitation.

"What if a mortal holds a spear made of fine iron in his hand?" Li Zhi asked.

"Mortals are powerful." Tuoba Yuer said after thinking for a moment.

"Why is a mortal holding a spear more powerful than a tiger? Do you know the reason behind this phenomenon?" Li Zhi asked.

"Please help me solve my doubts, teacher." Tuoba Yuer said.

"It took the tiger a long time to evolve and acquire sharp teeth and claws, becoming the top creature in the food chain. Humans, through their wisdom, realized that they could obtain the powerful racial talents that the tiger had evolved over a long period of time simply by sharpening a stick. Now you understand why humans can stand shoulder to shoulder with heaven and earth," said Li Zhi.

"Yuer understands. The reason why humans can stand shoulder to shoulder with heaven and earth does not lie in how powerful they are, but in their ability to obtain methods to leverage the power of heaven and earth through thinking. The most important quality of all intelligent life is not strength, but wisdom." Tuoba Yuer said.

"This boy is teachable." Li Zhi said with satisfaction.

The above dialogue reveals a fundamental principle of spiritual practice: the great road has an end, but the path is endless.

Those who practice Taoism are most afraid of gradually losing the ability to use their wisdom during the practice, and eventually turning themselves into powerful beasts.

The ancient immortal geniuses rescued from the dark cage by Li Zhi were all extremely intelligent people.

Once the mind is opened, the sparks of inspiration will flow like a torrent of water.

Since Dao seeds are essentially a medium that assists monks in their practice and attain enlightenment, is it possible to replace them with another medium for attaining enlightenment?

Is this the only thing that can match the origin of all things in heaven and earth?

Although heaven and earth do not give birth to Tao seeds, as long as heaven and earth do not perish, the matter that conforms to the origin of heaven and earth will not disappear.

So, is it also a path to spiritual practice to use various materials to refine magic weapons, and to analyze the fragments of the laws of heaven and earth contained in the materials through special means?

Once everyone's thoughts started to diverge, it was simply out of control.

When Li Zhi appeared in front of them again, they were all shocked by his imagination.

During their heated discussion, they even described the essence of the practice of the Pollen Road Evolution System.

With the help of special media, one can comprehend the great way that exists between heaven and earth.

Even according to their discussion, the practice of the ancient immortal law system will no longer be affected by changes in the environment of heaven and earth.

Even in the Dharma-Ending Age, in the Age of No Spirituality, as long as matter still exists between heaven and earth, the path of spiritual practice will not be cut off.

Their discussion had a profound impact on Li Zhi, allowing him to vaguely see a path suitable for his practice.

"Meet the real person."

Seeing Li Zhi appear, the people who were discussing fiercely stopped their discussion instantly and saluted Li Zhi together.

However, their greeting also interrupted the fleeting inspiration in Li Zhi's mind, causing the cultivation system suitable for him that was originally vaguely emerging to be hidden again in the endless fog.

"Get up, everyone." Although Li Zhi felt extremely regretful, he did not blame them.

It can only be said that the time is not right, and the cultivation system suitable for him has not yet been born.

Then, Li Zhi said, "You can move freely from now on. You don't need to stay here any longer. The Nine Heavens and Ten Earths are quite vast. It's time for you to travel around."

When they heard that Li Zhi was going to dismiss them, although they had some doubts in their hearts, they did not show much reluctance like little girls.

After all, during this period of time, they were able to receive guidance from the Immortal King Li Zhi several times, which was already a great fortune.

After thanking Li Zhi again, those ancient immortal geniuses left.

Only Tuoba Yu'er was reluctant to leave.

Compared with those ancient immortal geniuses who have been trapped in dark cages for countless years, Tuoba Yuer's Tao heart still needs a lot of tempering.

However, her age of twenty-something meant that her mentality would not be as calm as those old antiques.

"Xiao Yu'er, the Immortal Ancient Secret Realm will soon be completely connected to the outside world, and your brother will be out soon. Next, you should return to the Jie Tian Sect to practice. The era belonging to you young people is about to come. Make good use of the golden years of practice ahead." Li Zhi instructed.

"Teacher, are you leaving?" Tuoba Yuer asked.

"That's right. I have important things to do and will leave this world soon." Li Zhi nodded.

Afterwards, Li Zhi melted the immortal tomb land that he had captured from the ancient immortal world into the golden Taoist palace that was built in the imitation of the ancient Jieying Palace.

"Carry this with you to protect yourself. Unless a powerful person at the level of Immortal King attacks you personally, it can protect you."

Afterwards, Li Zhi even erased the word "Jie Yin" on the plaque of the Golden Dao Palace and engraved his own Dao mark on it. "Changshou Xian Palace."

The four immortal characters seemed to contain the ultimate mystery of the evolution of all things in the universe, and instantly made Tuoba Yuer obsessed with them.

More than a month passed before Tuoba Yuer woke up from the state of enlightenment, and his Taoism soared to the level of great perfection in the True One Realm.

"Thank you teacher for the gift."

Tuoba Yuer has already seen that the Changshou Immortal Palace, which was transformed by Li Zhi, has been promoted to the level of an immortal weapon, and it is the best among immortal weapons.

The ancient bronze immortal artifact in the Immortal Palace is definitely no match for the Longevity Immortal Palace.

Although the Longevity Palace is not as powerful as the real Immortal King's magic weapon, it is much more powerful than the ordinary quasi-Immortal King's magic weapon.

"Since you have already walked your own path, the immortal seed I bestowed on you is of no use." After saying this, Li Zhi took back the immortal seed bestowed on Tuoba Yuer.

Although the essence of the soul in the immortal seed has turned into a Taoist fruit and taken root in the quasi-world tree, the immortal seed itself is condensed by the power of Li Zhi's immortal platform and possesses many magical properties.

Unfortunately, if it continues to stay in Tuoba Yuer's body, it will interfere with her practice.

After the immortal seed was taken away by Li Zhi, it meant that from now on Tuoba Yuer would have to rely on herself to overcome all obstacles.

The path taken by Tuoba Yuer is to cultivate the vision of the Immortal King Lin Jiutian as a world of Tao seeds.

When a true immortal spirit with the great path of the Immortal King is born in the Immortal King's world, it will be the time when Tuoba Yuer's immortal path is perfected, and it will also be the time for her to ascend to the realm of the Immortal King.

The world of strange phenomena in the Nine Heavens where the Immortal King comes is essentially the prototype of a perfect world.

The world's law framework can be filled by constantly plundering the external Tao.

If in the future she has the ability to melt a true Immortal King into this strange world, then her Taoism will increase dramatically and she will have the opportunity to break through to the realm of Immortal King giants.

Of course, that is all later story. Today, Tuoba Yuer is just a young cultivator who has just entered the entry level of immortal practice.

Within the vision of the Immortal King coming to the Ninth Heaven, there was also a complete mark of the Immortal King left by Li Zhi to help her suppress the backlash of the Immortal Dao laws.

"Teacher, now that I have reached the Great Perfection of True God, should I break through directly to the Heavenly God realm, or should I perform a holy sacrifice?"

Afterwards, Tuoba Yuer asked Li Zhi some questions about cultivation.

Although she had already gained various experiences about practicing ancient immortal methods from those ancient immortal geniuses, she still wanted to hear Li Zhi's advice.

"You don't need the Holy Sacrifice. The Holy Sacrifice is an important node in the cultivation of the present-world law and the immortal ancient law system. You are not Shi Hao, who has enough spare energy to cultivate the present-world law and the immortal ancient law at the same time, and all of them have reached an extremely high level. You only need to concentrate on cultivating the immortal way. When practicing the immortal way, you need to remember one thing, and your future practice will be much easier."

"Teacher, what should I remember?" Tuoba Yuer asked curiously.

"The key to cultivating immortality is to train your Qi. In the Divine Fire Realm, you will cultivate three immortal Qis. In the True One Realm, you will use the immortal Qi to evolve the five Qis in your chest. The five Qis in your chest can communicate with the Qi of the five elements of heaven and earth, completing the initial transformation into an immortal. In the Heavenly God Realm, you will cultivate the three flowers on the top of your head. When you reach the realm of the three flowers gathering at the top of your head and the five Qis returning to the origin, you will be able to breed the supreme Dao fruit in the three flowers on the top of your head, thus forging the most solid foundation for the immortal path. As long as the foundation of the immortal path is solid enough, the three realms of Void Dao, Kill Me, and Escape One in the future will not be any obstacles for you."

Li Zhi's instructions were very detailed, and Tuoba Yu'er kept them firmly in mind.

Afterwards, Li Zhi quietly sent her back to the ancient secret realm of immortality.

After seeing off Tuoba Yuer, Li Zhi summoned a coffin made of the ultimate law of death and death energy with a wave of his hand.

The funeral coffin is the immortal curse for slaying evil created by the First Dragon, a death cage pulled by nine dragons summoned.

It is also a supreme method created in the hope of being able to sense the existence of the underworld.

However, people in later generations named this method the Immortal Curse to Kill Evil.

The original intention of this spell is to send the living beings in the world of the living, where vitality is dominant, into the underworld, where death is dominant, through sacrifice.

Unfortunately, although Zulong possesses all of Li Zhi’s memories and even part of his life essence, he is not the real Li Zhi.

There is no mysterious three-layer altar in the body, nor is there a mysterious immortal green mountain.

Zulong could not fully display the true power of the art of stealing the secrets of heaven and the art of sacrifice that Li Zhi was proficient in.

However, the power of the Ancestral Dragon summoned by the immortal spell, which can exile living beings to a mysterious world of death, does exist.

Zulong even used this curse to send an Immortal King directly into a mysterious world of death, and eventually destroyed him.

The World of Death is a mysterious world without any life that Zulong created in the past by imitating the Dark Cage.

Cast a spell to unlock the coffin formed by dead energy and the law of death.

The immortal creatures from foreign lands were released.

At this moment, he was firmly protected by two decrees written by the Immortal King himself, but his appearance looked extremely old, as if in a very short period of time, he had experienced the entire process from young to old, directly from a young man who looked to be in his early twenties to a white-haired old man who was about to decay.

In order to ensure that his own life source would not be completely wiped out by the funeral coffin, he even used a life-locking magical power to completely cut off all connections between himself and the outside world, and protected himself with the Immortal King's decree.

Unfortunately, all his actions were in vain.

If it was just Yu Tianlong casting the spell, he would still have a chance to escape under the protection of the Immortal King's decree.

However, now he is facing Li Zhi, and the outcome is already determined.

Then, the immortal creature from the foreign land was searched by Li Zhi while he was sealed.

Even the restrictions left by the Immortal King in his sea of ​​consciousness did not work, and Li Zhi saw a lot of secret information.

Of course, Li Zhi didn’t care about those news. He was only interested in news related to Zulong.

As for the fact that An Lan, Yu Tuo and other immortal kings were planning to cause trouble for him, Li Zhi didn't take it to heart at all.

Instead, it was the news about Zulong that gave Li Zhi a headache.

The dragon essence of the Ancestral Dragon was suppressed under the ancestral temple in a foreign land, while the dragon corpse was taken away by the master of the burial area.

Whether it is the ancestral temple in the foreign land or the master of the burial domain, they are not something that ordinary Immortal Kings can deal with, not even the giant Immortal Kings.

There is also the Yin-exploring shovel transformed from the Ancestral Dragon's claws, and the double-dragon mace transformed from the dragon's horns, whose whereabouts are still unknown.

This made Li Zhi not completely sure about reconstructing Zulong's true body.

After sacrificing the immortal creature from the foreign land and refining it into a puppet, he asked him to secretly protect the Tuoba brothers and sisters, and then Li Zhi left Sanqian Daozhou.

He was going to the Dam Realm and use the power of the thunder and lightning abyss there to completely purify the spirit of the Golden Dragon Armor so that he could truly unleash the power of the armor.

When the spirit of the weapon returns, putting on the golden dragon armor will be enough for Li Zhi to have the strength to fight head-on with the Immortal King giant.

By then, whether he was going to explore the sea boundary or travel to the fairyland, his safety would be greatly guaranteed.

(End of this chapter)