Stealing the Secret from the Cover of Heaven

Chapter 582: The Thief is Not Dead, the Secret is Not Endless

Celadon wine cup, small red clay stove, cold-mixed shredded vegetables, peanuts and pig ears.

Under the big tree in the yard, the father and daughter were both sitting on recliners, tasting the fine wine that had been brewing over time and gazing at the brilliant starry sky in the distance.

After getting tipsy, Li Xian'er suddenly asked, "Dad, are the myriad worlds really vast and boundless? Is there any place more vast than the myriad worlds?"

"The real universe." Li Zhi responded without hesitation.

"Where is the real universe? Is the universe in our eyes not real enough?" Li Xian'er, who was in a slightly intoxicated state, did not seem to notice the homesickness that flashed through Li Zhi's mind when he spoke.

"It's real, but the scale is too small." Li Zhi couldn't help but think of the universe in his previous life. The diameter of the observable universe alone reached 930 billion light years, and its age was as high as 138.2 billion years.

That is the real ancient and profound universe. The Jade Emperor in the myths and legends of the past lives can be more than 200 million years old.

However, this ancient history, starting from when the patient burned himself to death on the plateau, has not exceeded 100 million years.

Even the universe where the earth is located is frighteningly young.

There is a reason why the universe is a scroll of painting throughout eternity.

After all, the real age of the Earth is more than 4.5 billion years. Over such a long period of time, the history accumulated is a thick and boundless scroll.

During this period, the heaven and earth reopened countless times.

Just as Li Zhi gradually recalled the world of his previous life, Li Xian'er asked again: "Dad, do you think Uncle Ye and the others can live in peace forever?"

As if thinking of what he saw in Ye Fan's dojo, Li Xian'er felt that the three-way balance of power among Emperor Huang Tian, ​​Ye Fan and Chu Feng would probably not continue.

Especially since they have many friends and relatives in their respective dojos, and there are even more new and younger generations.

In the short term, perhaps the suppression of the three Heavenly Emperors will allow the disciples in each temple to coexist peacefully, but over time, can the peaceful scene be maintained?

You know, sentient beings will inevitably have many thoughts due to emotional fluctuations, thus accumulating countless contradictions in the process of dealing with things.

Once the conflicts reach a peak, do the three Heavenly Emperors really have the ability to resolve them?
In the interpretation of Fengshen, the conflict between the Jie and Chan sects was unable to be resolved by the saints Yuanshi Tianzun and Tongtian Jiaozhu. The conflict even accumulated to the point where the two leaders had to personally intervene in the battle.

Now, the strange clan left behind by the patient after his death has disappeared.

So can the three Heavenly Emperors who have lost their common opponent really coexist peacefully?
Li Xianer was not optimistic about their future anyway.

Perhaps just like the sick, they will eventually have to put an end to the people they resurrected with their own hands.

But if those loved ones were resurrected more times, could they still maintain their original intentions?

"No." Li Zhi gave a positive answer to Li Xianer's worries.

"Why?" Li Xian'er wanted to hear Li Zhi's explanation.

"Because they are too similar, and not a true three-way balance of power. If the three of them were in a state of hostility, they might be able to maintain it for a long time. But they..."

Li Zhi shared his views on the three Heavenly Emperors.

As long as they have faces similar to those of the patients, they will not be able to completely escape the patients' final fate.

One day in the future, there will definitely be a war between them, which will definitely lead to the destruction of all worlds.

This outcome is not subject to their will.

"What should we do if the three Heavenly Emperors start a war?" Li Xian'er seemed to sober up from his drunken state.

The strange clan back then was terrifying enough and was a huge disaster for all living things.

Now that the strange clan has disappeared, the three emperors outside the world have become three huge mountains weighing down on all living beings.

Even if they don't mean to do evil.

But whether or not something is evil is never defined by them.

In order to prevent himself from committing evil, the Corpse Immortal Emperor of that year not only cut off part of his pure soul and body, but also sealed up the body that was attacked, and only breathed in his essence regularly.

The Corpse Immortal Emperor had never done any evil, but he became the source of darkness.

If the source of the disease in the patient's body could create a strange race that would bring disaster to the world.

Then, couldn’t the emotions of the three Heavenly Emperors be the source of the disaster?

Could it be that the creatures under their respective command could not become a new generation of “weird” tribes?
Compared with the patients, Li Zhi is even more pessimistic about the future of Emperor Huang Tian, ​​Ye Fan and Chu Feng.

Their fate may be even more tragic than that of the patients.

At that time, the patient truly transcended ancient history, transcended any material and avenue, transcended existence and non-existence, and ultimately became the only one.

But they are not the only ones yet.

It has never been proven that they can go from nothing to something, and then back to nothing again without being affected.

"Dad, do we need to prepare some things to protect ourselves?" Li Xianer asked.

Ye Fan is nicknamed Ye Hei, Shi Hao eats all his enemies, and Chu Feng is a human trafficker. They are not truly good people.

However, in order to deal with the weird clan, their "evil" side was suppressed.

But now that the world has returned to peace, outsiders have no idea whether the "evil" side will gradually rise and affect the behavior of others.

Good and evil are always two sides of the same coin. No one is absolutely good or absolutely evil.

Li Zhi has a deep understanding of this.

This has been repeated countless times in history: after sharing adversity, when people were enjoying prosperity together, sharp internal contradictions and even bloody conflicts arose.

If this is the case for mortals, what about these powerful beings who possess extraordinary powers?
Without external enemies, they will become their own enemies.

That patient, after becoming the "only one", still suffered an internal mutation and became ill.

Can Huang, Ye and Chu escape this disaster?

In this regard, Li Zhi always remains vigilant.

They are so powerful that their every move and every breath can affect the operation of the universe and the direction of evolution of all living things.

Perhaps, to transcend without disappearing is the greatest evil.

However, these things will still take a long time to verify.

Many things in the world often reveal their true appearance only after years of sedimentation.

"You don't have to worry about those things. You should reach the Daozu realm as soon as possible."

Compared with Li Jizu and Long Zi, the cultivation level of Li Xian'er after his resurrection is undoubtedly the lowest.

She died in battle too early and didn't have enough time to practice.

And she recites the "Stealing Heaven's Secrets" scripture from time to time. Even if the heavens are destroyed, all the worlds return to nothingness, and the heaven and earth are reopened, her true spirit will not change.

As the saying goes, a thief will never die and the secrets of heaven will never stop.

As long as he can steal the secrets of heaven, he can ensure the eternity of his true spirit.

The eternity of the soul and the body is only a short-lived eternity. Only the eternity of the true spirit is the real eternity. A glass of wine under the moon, life slowly becomes sad.

From then on, Li Zhi fell into a deep sleep.

Only the scripture of "Stealing Heaven's Secrets" continued to circulate in his body.

I felt dazed and didn't know how many years had passed.

Suddenly, a roar came from outside.

"Chu Xiao, give me your life." The angry voice seemed to be filled with endless resentment.

"Ye Qing, don't push me too far." An angry voice followed.

"boom!"

In an instant, the great war outside the world caused great destruction in the heavens and all worlds. Countless worlds turned into ruins at this moment, all spirits were instantly annihilated, and the sea of ​​​​boundaries appeared in large pieces.

"That's enough, stop it all!"

Another voice came, seeming to resolve the battle.

"Mr. Shi, don't pretend to be a good person. If you dare to stop me again, I will kill you too!" The murderous Taoist voice traveled through time and space and manifested in every era.

On Earth, Li Xianer, who was working as a salesperson in a shop, suddenly looked up when she heard this.

The aura on his body suddenly changed, and his supreme majesty was as if a Taoist ancestor had revived. Then he stared at the outside world and observed it carefully.

"Has this day really arrived?" In her eyes, countless wronged souls drifted away from all realms, then were drawn by the power of reincarnation and disappeared.

"Woof, woof! Stop it, you little bastards! You are really rebelling." Soon, a burst of dog barking came from outside.

"Dog Emperor, stop them quickly. All the heavens and the worlds will be destroyed by their fighting." A girl's shout followed closely.

The battle did not pause because of the Black Emperor's joining. Instead, it seemed to ignite a long-brewing storm. In another place, a rope instantly flew towards the Dog Emperor, as if to lasso him away.

"How dare you use a lasso to lasso your grandfather, the Black Emperor." The Dog Emperor was furious.

"You beast, I have tolerated you for a long time. You chased me and bit me, and I had no way to go to heaven or to hell. Did you ever think that this would be the outcome today?" A victim of the Black Emperor spoke out and then joined the fight against him.

The battle escalated, all the heavens were devastated, and all the worlds entered the Dharma Ending Age almost at the same time.

Until one day, three giant palms covering the sky flew in from the outer world and suppressed all the living creatures in the fight.

This great turmoil that affected the heavens was finally coming to an end.

The brutal battle was comparable to the time when Emperor Huang Tian and Ye Fan led their men to fight a decisive battle with the ancestors of the Plateau.

Those who fought were generally stronger than the Taoist Ancestor of the Weird Clan back then.

Moreover, there are quite a few powerful people at the level of Immortal Emperor.

The heavens were in ruins, and the people suffered from unexpected disasters, but no one knew the source.

But one day later, another roar was heard from outside the world.

"why?"

It was as if he was questioning someone in anger, causing his faith to collapse instantly, as if he had been fooled and deceived.

As for explanation, of course there is none.

As time passed, the creatures in the heavens and myriad worlds were replaced one after another, as if they had forgotten the war of that year.

But one day, the battle broke out again, and it was even more intense than the last time.

Even the universe where the earth was located was affected. In an instant, all living things in the world were annihilated. In the entire universe, everyone died except Li Zhi and his daughter.

"Xiao Wu, Shi Feng, Chu Nan, you have caused such a disaster, how can we explain it to Wan Ling?"

……

No one knows what the outcome of the second destruction of the heavens will be.

However, when a new era began for the heavens and earth, and when the heavens and the earth once again gave birth to intelligent life, disaster struck again.

However, this time it is no longer a war outside the world, but a great war led by a mastermind behind the scenes that swept across the heavens and all worlds, just to verify some method of transcendence.

I want to transcend the realm of sacrifice and ascend above it.

For this reason, 80% of the heavens and all the worlds were used as sacrifices.

Only a few worlds were not affected.

Suddenly one day, the shouts of three heavenly emperors were heard from outside the world.

"Whoever claims to be invincible, whoever dares to say he is undefeated, in the end, it is nothing but empty talk. He transformed himself, he transformed eternity, but in the end, he could not dissolve the hatred in this person's heart, and buried it all with his own hands."

"I am the Emperor of Heaven, I should slay all enemies. I should wipe out the darkness and see the light, but in the end I have become the darkness of others. It is better to go back, it is better to go back."

"I will rule the heavens, uphold the earth, and put an end to all enemies from the past, present, and future. I have opened a path for future generations to live, but they are walking a path of death. Forget it, forget it, let future generations walk their own path."

The heavens then became silent, the great way was shattered, eternal darkness descended, eternity returned to nothingness, and everything returned to chaos.

The three Heavenly Emperors stood outside of all worlds and looked back at their respective dojo.

Seeing the "mortals" living carefree lives there, they seemed to be saying goodbye to themselves, as if they were recalling the best years.

Three balls of fire were born from nothingness and then fell on the three Heavenly Emperors.

Their bodies began to fade, their spirits began to dissipate, and their true souls began to extinguish, just like the patients who burned themselves in the time furnace.

However, they are more thorough. In addition to having all the great ways sacrificed, they have completely returned to the mundane fairyland, Taoist land and secluded place.

They have nothing left of their own.

Both daily utensils and their respective weapons were turned into nothingness in the burning.

Inside the fairyland of Emperor Huang Tian, ​​the peerless Willow God looked at Shi Hao who was gradually becoming nothingness, and chose to make one final effort. He sacrificed everything he had, wanting to set foot on the path of sacrifice.

Inside Ye Tiandi's Taoist land, the Henren Emperor looked at the three self-immolating emperors in silence, but his brows began to glow, and then a little girl who looked exactly like Xiao Nannan fell to the ground and even let out a cry of pain.

Then the empress walked out of the Taoist land, waved her hand and completely destroyed the heavens, turning everything into nothingness.

Afterwards, the empress's body suddenly grew in size, and she began to create the world out of nothingness, eventually opening up a universe that was even more vast than the previous ones.

Then the empress's figure turned into a little bit of spiritual light and merged into the newly opened universe, as if she was offering herself as a sacrifice to this newly opened universe.

"Although I am the only one left, I will bring back your true spirits one by one." As the empress sighed, the vast universe seemed to be filled with a special spirituality.

At the moment when the three Heavenly Emperors completely turned into nothingness, two true spirits in the nothingness, with the blessing of the mysterious chanting, sank into the new universe opened up by the Empress.

Moreover, the mysterious sound of chanting, after rushing into the new universe, suddenly exploded and resounded throughout the entire universe.

It is as if a unique evolutionary path has been engraved in the universe.

(End of this chapter)