Stealing the Secret from the Cover of Heaven

Chapter 581: A Scroll of Eternal Heavens
The long street is bustling with people and various kinds of music can be heard one after another.

Inside the antique jewelry store, Li Zhi leaned on the sofa, reading a book that was thicker than a dictionary.

The book seemed to contain such an enthralling story that even when the customers in the store called out to him several times, he did not respond.

"Boss, are you planning to take the civil service exam? You're studying so hard." A boy who was accompanying his girlfriend to choose jewelry glanced curiously at the large book in front of Li Zhi.

"All accessories have a fixed price. After you've made your selection, just scan the QR code and pay." Li Zhi said perfunctorily without even raising his head.

"Boss, can you give me a discount? My girlfriend has already picked out seven or eight pieces. Besides, the things here are not cheap. Isn't it inappropriate to just charge a fixed price?" The boy looked at his girlfriend who had picked out seven or eight pieces of jewelry and was unwilling to give up any of them, so he approached Li Zhi and discussed with a painful look on his face.

"The goods are sold to the right people, and the price is fixed." Li Zhi still did not turn his head to look at the couple, as if the story in the book was more interesting than making money.

"Boss, where do you get the accessories here customized? Why can't I find the same ones online? And major luxury brands haven't launched the same accessories either." After taking photos of all the accessories on the tray, the girl reluctantly hung them back in place.

The two were college sweethearts. Although they could earn some pocket money from part-time jobs, they still found it too much to bear the four- or five-digit prices of accessories.

The girl originally wanted to find the same model online, but unfortunately she couldn't find it no matter how hard she searched.

After the boy saw the girl put the jewelry back in place, he quickly asked, "Xiaohui, aren't you going to buy it?"

The girl rolled her eyes at the boy and whispered in his ear, "Do you think I'm stupid? Those things may look good, but the materials they're made of aren't precious metals for making jewelry. Many of them are made of copper. I won't pay the IQ tax. I'll go to the gold shop and buy some gold and then make them myself."

The boy suddenly started to giggle, and then said, "Why not buy one? Didn't your best friend buy a phoenix hairpin here last time? After she put it on, she looked so elegant."

"You little white boy, you mean I have a bad temperament." The girl stretched out her hand and twisted the boy's waist. Then she whispered, "I asked you to accompany me to visit this store today, not to buy things. I found the code of wealth. As long as we seize the opportunity, we can definitely achieve financial freedom."

The young couple were whispering about some business secrets, but soon excitement showed on their faces.

Then, the two of them came directly to Li Zhi, standing on his left and right, as if they had something to discuss with Li Zhi.

"Boss, you also like to read fantasy novels. What's the name of the book you are reading? Maybe we can be book friends?" The boy seemed to want to get close to Li Zhi.

The girl also tried to get close to him, "Boss, I'm a student majoring in jewelry design. Can you consign some of my works here? For every piece sold, I can give you 40% of the net profit."

At this moment, Li Zhi slammed shut the massive fantasy novel.

Then he asked the young couple: "I want to ask you a question. If you answer it to my satisfaction, you can take one piece of jewelry from the store for free."

"What's the problem?" The young couple instantly forgot their purpose.

"There is a painting. How can one make the person in the painting leave the painting on his own?" Li Zhi asked.

The girl pondered on the spot, but the boy said without hesitation: "It's easy. Put the painting into the release liquid, and the characters and scenery in the painting will naturally fall off the drawing paper."

Seeing the puzzled look on Li Zhi's face, the boy explained: "Boss, you should know about paint strippers. In fact, in addition to physical methods, there are more efficient chemical methods to remove the paint from the paper."

"Can you tell me in detail?" Li Zhi asked expectantly.

"How can I explain it to you?" The boy thought for a moment, his eyes lit up, and he took out his phone, clicked on a printing and dyeing video to show Li Zhi, and then said: "You see, they use the pigment in the water to map the helmet, which is actually using that principle."

Then, the boy explained a lot of chemical knowledge to Li Zhi.

The more Li Zhi listened, the brighter his eyes became, as if he had heard something incredible.

"You can take whatever you want from the store. I have something to do and I'll be leaving first."

After saying that, Li Zhi disappeared from the store with the bulky novel.

The young couple didn't react for a while, but when they did, they turned pale with fright, and then ran out of the store with weak legs.

"Ghost!"

After leaving the store, the two of them started shouting loudly, causing passers-by to turn around.

The reason why the painting of the eternal universe cannot transcend ancient history is not because it is not strong enough, but because it lacks the medium to transcend ancient history.

The patient attempts to escape from this painting by transforming himself into nothingness.

Unfortunately, the writer did not agree to let him disappear, so he replicated three characters in his likeness and then performed three stories.

His appearance will be forever preserved in this ancient painting.

The nameless novel in Li Zhi's hand suddenly caught fire without any wind, and the touching story disappeared along with it.

From then on, there was no more life trajectory of the sick in the world.

"You are here."

In the quiet farmyard, Li Zhi suddenly raised his head and looked towards the sky.

"You really are living in seclusion on Earth."

Three figures walked out of nothingness and appeared directly in front of Li Zhi.

"Thank you for your hard work in finding me."

Looking at the group of people that appeared following the three people, Li Zhi suddenly showed a helpless expression on his face.

"Li Zhi, Jizu, Xian'er, and Longzi are all your children. Why didn't you resurrect them? With your current level of Taoism, it should not be difficult to resurrect them." Ye Fan asked.

"Since they are dead, how can they be resurrected? Are they really themselves after resurrection? They are just new individuals with their life experiences." Li Zhi shook his head slightly, as if he had reservations about the matter of resurrection.

"Dad, father..."

At this moment, Li Zhi's children all appeared in front of him, calling out to Li Zhi, trying to awaken the family affection in his heart.

"I'm sorry, but your father is dead. The man standing in front of you is not your father."

Looking at the three people who called him, Li Zhi shook his head and said.

"Impossible, my father will not die." Li Xian'er did not accept Li Zhi's statement. In her opinion, this was just an excuse for Li Zhi to escape.

"Since you don't believe it, let me show you what happened to your father." Li Zhi said.

Then, a picture scroll slowly unfolded before everyone's eyes.

Rising from the earth, ascending to the Immortal King in a foreign land, going to the fairyland to dream of perfection, and encountering weirdness when going to heaven.

He went to the sea to offer sacrifices and ascended to the Immortal Emperor, went to the plateau to plot against the ancestor, burned his true self to try to offer sacrifices, and died in battle with the strange.

The brief scene depicts Li Zhi's past.

Emperor Huang Tian suddenly realized and said, "When I killed the Weird Ancestor for the first time, it was you who sneaked up to the plateau, temporarily preventing him from resurrecting, and then suppressed the three ancestors?"

During the fierce battle, Emperor Huang Tian once sensed the number of ancestors on the plateau and always believed that there were only six ancestors on the plateau.

He also made arrangements with Ye Fan according to the number of the six ancestors.

But in the final battle, Gao Yuan suddenly revealed the ten ancestors, leaving him completely puzzled.

Now it seems that he was not wrong back then. There were indeed only six ancestors on the plateau at that time.

Later, the number of ancestors was restored to ten because of Li Zhi's death in battle. "You are still in the sacrificial realm. Logically, you cannot be resurrected after being killed by an ancestor. How did you do it?" Ye Fan asked.

If they had not entered that original land after death, it would have been impossible for them to be resurrected and set foot on the sacrificial path.

After resolving the ominous situation on the plateau, they wanted to re-enter that special place where there was no concept of time and space, no roads, and even no matter, but they could not find it.

After jointly exploring the patient's life trajectory, they vaguely felt that the place was actually related to the patient.

The reason why they were able to recover from extinction was not because they were strong enough, but because they had a special relationship with the patients.

The three of them are like three "real paintings" peeled off from the scroll of the patient's life trajectory.

As long as there are any traces of the patient in the world, they will not die.

Even if you die, you will be resurrected for various reasons.

"I was resurrected by that senior." Li Zhi said.

Then the scene in front of everyone changed again. In the vast sacrificial sea, a mysterious altar was floating in the sea, and creatures continued to go there to offer sacrifices.

Then, on the altar, Li Zhi's blurry figure was condensed again.

"Ten Immortal Emperors have offered themselves up for sacrifice. You are indeed extraordinary. No wonder you give me the feeling that you are even more powerful than when the ten weird ancestors united as one." Upon seeing this, Chu Feng looked Li Zhi up and down.

"I didn't lie to you. Your father died in battle on the strange plateau a long time ago. The me of today is just a living being born from the copy of his past life trajectory into a ghost. You can say that I'm resurrected, or you can say that I'm just a clone of a long-lived Taoist priest." Li Zhi explained to his three children.

As soon as these words were spoken, Emperor Huang Tian, ​​Ye Fan, and Chu Feng frowned.

They have all helped to resurrect their deceased relatives, and now those people are living in their own paradise.

If we follow Li Zhi's statement, the relatives and friends they resurrected were not resurrected at all. They just forcibly depicted the imprint of the past in the paintings of later generations, creating a truth that they were resurrected.

It also reminded them of the sick.

That senior had resurrected his relatives and friends who died in battle countless times, but in the end he buried them again.

Even the sense of family affection has been lost in my heart.

At that time they thought that the senior was crazy, but now it seems that he was not crazy, but became insane because he discovered the unacceptable truth.

Then there was the crazy and suicidal journey of that senior.

It keeps cycling between existence and non-existence, and finally becomes the "only one".

In the future, will they be like the patient, constantly wandering between having and not having, and eventually make the same choice as the patient?

The senior's illness did not come from external forces, but from himself.

Will they become sick like the patient one day in the future?
The appearance of the three people seemed to be copied from the patient's appearance, which was enough to illustrate the gap between them and the patient.

Those who learn from me live, those who resemble me die.

They have been exposed to this principle since they embarked on the path of spiritual practice.

It seems that the path practiced by the patient is different from his.

However, since the beginning of the Taoism sacrifice, there has been no trace of Taoism.

Only the true self remains.

And since they look so much like that predecessor, how can they dare to say that they are unique?

On the contrary, Li Zhi's appearance has not evolved at all towards that of his predecessor.

Even after sacrificing everything he had, he did not enter that original place like them.

Huang, Ye, Chu, and the Empress all returned to that original place after their death.

But others can't.

Maybe it's because other people don't look like the sick person.

However, Li Zhi’s way of resurrection was completely different from theirs, but it was very similar to the ghost they sent away.

They only return from nothingness because they are constantly worshipped by later generations.

"Li Zhi, can you tell us what you talked about with that senior in the small courtyard on the plateau?" Ye Fan then asked.

"We talked about some family matters, some matters of life and death, and some truth about the painting of the universe throughout the ages." Li Zhi said.

Looking at the familiar yet unfamiliar relatives, looking at the three Heavenly Emperors on the sacrificial road, and then looking at the familiar farmyard.

Then, Li Zhi said, "I have told you everything I need to say. I will not keep you at home for dinner."

"Goodbye." Emperor Huang Tian, ​​Ye Fan, and Chu Feng nodded at Li Zhi, then left.

But Li Xian'er, Li Jizu, and Longzi stayed.

"You guys go too. Since you've been resurrected, live well. We don't know when all this world will return to nothingness. By then, everything will be gone and nothing will be left. Cherish the good times now." Li Zhi said calmly.

Li Jizu and Longzi looked at Li Zhi in silence. Finally, after looking at Li Zhi deeply, they left.

Only Li Xianer stayed.

"Xian'er, why don't you leave?" Li Zhi asked.

"This is my home, why should I leave?" Li Xian'er walked past Li Zhi very naturally, and then returned to the room.

When Li Xianer saw the layout of the room, which was not much different from when she lived alone, she knew that Li Zhi had lied.

When Li Zhi returned to the room, Li Xian'er asked quickly, "Dad, don't you have anything to say to me?"

"No." Li Zhi shook his head.

"I also practiced the Heaven Stealing Secrets that Grandpa left behind. I don't believe what you just said about being dead, Dad. I have experienced the feeling of death, but my true spirit has always remained the same. It's just that I can't leave traces in this ancient history again and then condense my true body. When Uncle Ye summoned me from the moment of death, I felt that my true spirit was like a painted color, and the whole person came into being from nothing, as if someone had erased it from a painting and then painted it again."

Li Xian'er looked at Li Zhi very seriously, as if telling him, "There is only one truth, and I know it even if you don't tell me."

Seeing Li Xianer’s confident look.

A smile suddenly appeared on Li Zhi's lips.

Then she said, "We haven't seen each other for a long time. Come and have a drink with Dad."

A jar of old wine that seemed to have traveled through eternity was dug out from the ground by Li Zhi.

There was also a seal on it that read "Full Moon Party for My Beloved Daughter".

(End of this chapter)