After the Skyfall

Chapter 423 Dao Court
Li Yi took Shan Yi and flew for another half a day.

A majestic and imposing city appeared before their eyes, with flowers blooming like brocade, crowds of people bustling about, dragons coming from all directions, and nine rivers intersecting. There was a thousand-story Tower of Babel, mountain-like statues of gods, a golden palace above Taihu Lake, and palaces stretching for hundreds of miles. At a glance, there was no end in sight.

This place is like the ancestral vein of a state, where the spiritual energy of heaven and earth converge.

"Dao Ting!"

Li Yi's silver eyes looked towards a mountain. The mountain was three thousand meters high, standing like a giant monument between heaven and earth. There were two large golden characters on it. Although Li Yi was not able to recognize the contents of those two characters with his cultural level, he didn't know why the word "Daoting" appeared in his mind at first glance.

This is not a magical power or spell, but a kind of artistic conception that allows people to comprehend the consciousness almost instantly.

Even in this Dharma-Ending Age, the Dao Court still reveals some of its former prosperity and heritage.

"That's it."

Li Yi immediately made up his mind to stay in this Taoist temple for a while, to learn the methods of cultivation here, and if possible, to master a few spells and find some good things.

In short, since you are here, you can't go back empty-handed.

If he doesn't improve in this world, he will be finished when he returns to the Golden Academy.

"Shan Yi, go around the city. Lan Ji, control the Thunder fighter to hover in the air and turn on the stealth mode. Scan it 24 hours a day and keep an eye on the whereabouts of that Jindan cultivator. That Taoist has crossed the border with me, so there is no way he will let me go. Without the cross-border device on me, he can't go back at all." Li Yi said.

"Okay, master." Lan Ji, the intelligent system in the Thunder fighter, received the order and immediately controlled the fighter to fly into the clouds and then turned on stealth.

And Shan Yi also flew to the ground at this moment.

After ten days and ten nights of non-stop flying, Shan Yi was still in high spirits. At this moment, he kept looking around, observing the world curiously.

As Li Yi descended from the sky riding on a strange beast, he immediately attracted a lot of people's attention.

There was a hint of weirdness in their expressions when they looked at Li Yi.

It’s not that he was shocked by the strange beast, but in this Dharma Ending Age, those who practice Taoism have a hard time feeding themselves, let alone raising such a big creature. Aren’t they afraid of being eaten into poverty?

Li Yi also paid a little attention to the people in this world at this moment.

very weak.

They are almost no different from ordinary people. There is no energy fluctuation on their bodies. The only thing that makes them stronger than ordinary people is that they still have strong vitality. Perhaps it is because their previous foundation of cultivation is still there, and their bodies are relatively strong, but that's all. In terms of physical fitness alone, they are far worse than the warriors from all over the world.

"They have been in the Dharma Ending Age for too long. Their bodies have degenerated and they probably even lost their realm." Li Yi thought to himself.

If energy is scarce in the four seas and eight continents, then here, the cosmic energy is almost extinct. It would be okay to stay here for a few days, but if he stayed for a few years, Li Yi's body would degenerate and his realm would drop, because even if you do nothing, the cosmic energy in your body will continue to overflow.

This overflow cannot be completely blocked. As long as you live, the energy in your body will continue to flow away.

The stronger a person is, the faster he loses energy, until finally, his body is left with no energy at all, and he becomes a mortal.

Li Yi also had a clear understanding within the past ten days.

However, he has the blood of gods, and has practiced martial arts and genetic evolution. Even if the cosmic energy in his body is lost, his strength will not decline much. This is his advantage.

“I don’t know how many years this world’s Dharma Ending Period has lasted.”

Li Yi wanted to find someone to gather some information, to thoroughly understand everything here, and then plan his own affairs.

Walking on the streets of Zuting.

The people here seem to have adapted to this Dharma Ending Age. The originally green jade is now covered with mud and dirt, and many of the originally magnificent buildings have shown many cracks. Without the nourishment of cosmic energy, the originally special materials have become fragile. There are no more exquisite reliefs on the walls, but instead bacon and salted fish are hung on the walls to dry in the sun.

There were many people setting up stalls on the roadside and doing business. Some were selling cloth, some were selling food, and some were selling antiques. Those antiques were not simple goods. They used to be incredible magical instruments, but now they could only be used as decorations.

"Take a look, this is a top-notch storage device."

Li Yi passed by a stall and took a few looks. A bald Taoist priest immediately started to sell his products enthusiastically.

"Your storage magic tool has not been maintained for a long time and has been broken." Li Yi took a few glances and saw that almost everything on the bald Taoist's stall had cracks.

Although these cracks were very small, they could not escape his eyes.

These instruments may have once been extraordinary, but they have been in the Dharma Ending Age for too long and have been completely decayed. As long as you apply the slightest force, they will shatter into pieces.

The bald Taoist priest was not angry when he saw that he was discovered. He just smiled awkwardly and said, "How can you find a magic weapon that is intact these days? It's already very good if it can keep a little spirituality. But I'm selling it at a low price."

As he spoke, his eyes rolled over Li Yi.

Then when he saw the storage magic weapon on Li Yi's wrist, his eyes lit up: "My fellow Daoist, your storage magic weapon has good craftsmanship, the style is very familiar, and it is well-maintained. It should have storage capacity. It's incredible that there are still people who can afford a magic weapon these days."

"Just based on what you're wearing, I understand. This is the treasure of our Daoqi Sect, the Qiankun Ding. This thing has the power to swallow up the heaven and earth and refine all things. Unfortunately, after following me, it's getting worse day by day. Not only has the fire in the furnace gone out, but even the spirit of the weapon abandoned me one night. If it continues like this, the Qiankun Ding will probably break sooner or later. If you want it today, I'll sell it to you for ten spirit stones."

The bald Taoist gritted his teeth and took out a small bronze tripod covered with dust from his arms with great heartache.

It is engraved with various inscriptions and patterns of the sun, moon and stars. Although it is not good-looking, it is full of a sense of antiquity.

Li Yi took a look with his silver eyes and found that this thing was somewhat similar to the broken knife coin in his hand. It was made of the same bronze material and had the same inscriptions engraved on it.

However, this item is different from other items on the stall. It has very few cracks and looks well preserved.

But why does this look more and more like a handicraft that costs ten yuan a piece on Earth?
"You won't lie to me, will you?" Li Yi asked suspiciously.

The bald Taoist suddenly became anxious: "I am the last elder of the Daoqi Sect, known as the handsome man, Tang Yi. If my family had not fallen into poverty, why would I be selling these magic weapons on the street? Don't think my things are not good, but my business is genuine and fair. If it were before the end of the law, the treasures of the Daoqi Sect would be worth a fortune."

"If you don't believe me, Elder Wu from the Baidao Sect and Sect Master Liu from the Sanhua Sect can serve as witnesses for me."

Then he pointed at a fat Taoist priest and a middle-aged woman.

"It's not that I don't believe it, I just haven't seen a handsome and elegant man with a bald head." Li Yi said.

The bald Taoist's face flushed immediately: "I can't help being bald. Besides, I don't want to lose my hair. I usually use ginger to wipe my scalp, but it's useless."

He chattered on and on about how people who practice Taoism shouldn't care too much about their appearance, and that being bald has its advantages, at least it keeps you cool when the weather is hot, and that it's enough if you were romantic in the past.

"Okay, okay, stop talking. I want to check the goods. I'll buy them if they're genuine. Okay?" Li Yi said.

"That's almost right." The bald Taoist stopped nagging and handed the Qiankun Ding to Li Yi.

Li Yi couldn't see any clues, so he directly used the guidance technique to try to pour the cosmic energy into the Qiankun Ding. If this thing was really useful, it would naturally show its magical properties. If it was completely rotten, it would not be able to withstand the cosmic energy at all and would directly...crack.

A crisp sound was heard, and the Qiankun Ding, which was said to be miraculous, cracked in Li Yi's hands.

It split directly into two halves, and one Qiankun Ding became two.

"." Li Yi looked at the bald Taoist priest, feeling a little embarrassed.

"Do not."

The bald Taoist suddenly collapsed to the ground in grief and despair, and then cried loudly: "Master, I am incompetent. The inheritance of the Daoqi Sect has been cut off by me. The Qiankun Ding is gone, and the Daoqi Sect is gone too. I originally wanted to find a good family for the Qiankun Ding so that at least the inheritance will continue in the future, but I never thought that in the end I would end up sending someone young to their grave."

Wait, you don’t have any hair at all, so how can the old send off the young?

"Think about me, Tang Yi. I started practicing Taoism at the age of three, opened the five energies in my chest at the age of seven, and achieved the Five Qis at the age of fifteen. I condensed the Three Flowers at the age of thirty-seven. At the very least, I would have achieved enlightenment in the future. But I never expected to experience the end of the law. Now I have fallen to this point. I can't even protect the Cauldron of Heaven and Earth. It's better for me to die."

He was devastated and, crying, he threw himself against the wall behind him.

"Elder Tang, calm down. The wall is very fragile. If you break it, you will have to pay for it."

"Go ahead and die. It's better to die. Last month, the leader of the Qingshan Sect starved to death on the street. Before he died, he was still holding on to the Qingting Record. There was not even anyone in his sect to collect his body."

"Alas, in this world, the sooner you die, the sooner you will be free."

Others who were setting up stalls nearby also expressed their feelings. None of them tried to stop Tang Yi from committing suicide. There were too many monks committing suicide these days, and it was not uncommon in the Dao Court.

"It's just a thing that's broken. You won't commit suicide." Li Yi hurriedly gathered his internal energy and grabbed Tang Yi from the air to restrain him.

"Let me go, let me go. I have made up my mind to give up today. Just let me go." The bald Taoist struggled hard, but it was of no avail. His body was weak and there was no way he could break free from Li Yi's restraining qi.

However, the silver aura appeared on the street. The people setting up stalls nearby were stunned at first, but then they discovered something.

"Wait, that silver aura isn't mana, and it doesn't show any signs of weakening."

"If it's not mana, then what is it?"

"I don't know. I have never seen it before, but I feel like it is a form of practice that has never been seen before."

"Could it be that someone has created a new Dharma in the Dharma Ending Age and is continuing the path forward?"

For a moment, the cultivators who were setting up stalls became excited. They had been in this Dharma Ending Age for many years, and the number of people who could cast spells had become fewer and fewer. Today, most of them have become mortals. During this period, some people had thought of finding another way and creating a new method.

But without exception, they all failed.

If someone really created a new method, then in this Dharma-Ending Age, it would be an epoch-making feat that could be recorded in the history of Taoism, and it would not even be an exaggeration to call him the ancestor of Taoism in this Dharma-Ending Age.

Many pairs of fiery eyes looked at Li Yi, and at the same time, a flame of hope burned again.

Li Yi finally managed to control the bald Taoist priest who wanted to commit suicide. He said, "Boss, your business is doing well, why do you want to commit suicide? If something is broken, I will compensate you, okay?"

"This is not a question of compensation. I have lost all desire to live." The bald Taoist priest was still crying loudly and wailing.

"Double, I will compensate you double and give you twenty spirit stones." Li Yi said.

"Are you sure you want to compensate me twenty spirit stones?" The bald Taoist's crying stopped immediately. He turned around and asked expectantly.

Li Yi said: "Sure, sure, let's talk it over nicely, don't commit suicide. You are an elder after all, how can you be so fragile?"

He now has some doubts as to whether he has been scammed.

The bald Taoist immediately knelt on the ground with a plop: "My benefactor, please accept my respect."

"Not really, not really." Li Yi hurriedly helped him up again.

Then he took out some spirit stones from the storage magic tool and placed them on his stall. These spirit stones were not his, but from Lin Caiyi's storage magic tool.

The world of cultivation in the Dharma Ending Age and the world of Xuanxian are similar to some extent, and the currency system of both is spirit stones.

But this is normal.

The essence of spirit stone is a stone full of spiritual energy, which has value in any world of cultivation.

"Wow, these are really spiritual stones, white spiritual stones. I can feel the fluctuation of spiritual energy here."

"Take a few more breaths. I haven't seen a spirit stone in many years. The last time I saw one was at an auction three years ago."

"The spiritual energy contained in that spirit stone is so rich. It has been so many years since the Dharma Ending Age. How is it possible that there are still spirit stones of this quality?"

For a moment, the monks nearby were shocked.

Moreover, there are so many spirit stones, more than twenty pieces. If they are divided, there are at least two hundred pieces. This is an astonishing wealth in the Taoist Court, especially in the Dharma Ending Age. Spirit stones have become more and more precious. After all, this thing will also lose spiritual energy and it is difficult to preserve it for a long time.

The bald Taoist was also shocked and looked at Li Yi with an incredible expression.

He felt that Li Yi didn't seem to be from this world at all, but seemed to have suddenly come here from some place with abundant spiritual energy.

Li Yi also noticed the strange looks from the people around him, but he didn't care too much because he could control the risks of this world. After all, this was the Dharma Ending Age. Even if these people were once masters, their realm had seriously declined and they posed no threat.

"It's now."

However, at this moment, suddenly a flying sword came from outside the city at an incredible speed and went straight to Li Yi's head.

Zhang Yihua, a Jindan cultivator who had been dormant for many days, now found the opportunity to take action and decided to use his sword to chop off Li Yi's head.

Li Yi instantly received a soul warning.

Flying sword?

The bald Taoist priest on the side reacted earlier than Li Yi. A crystal clear illusory flower bloomed above his head. The flower withered and died, leaving only a crumbling leaf. But even so, the illusory flower still shone.

moment.

The surrounding spirit stones immediately transformed into streams of pure energy and injected into the flower, restoring some vitality to the dying flower.

"Om."

The flying sword arrived in an instant, but was caught by the bald Taoist with his bare hands and was unable to break free at all.

Ok?
Li Yi's eyes widened instantly.

He recognized this flying sword as the flying sword of the Jindan cultivator.

I didn't expect that after so many days, the Jindan cultivator was still following me, wanting to kill me by sneak attack.

Zhang Yihua, his spiritual consciousness saw this scene and was so frightened that his face turned pale.

Catching a top-grade spiritual sword with bare hands? What the hell is this?

Wasn’t it agreed that this was the Dharma Ending Age? Why did such a powerful practitioner appear?
escape!
With almost no hesitation, Zhang Yihua turned into a beam of light and quickly escaped away.

"You have destroyed my foundation for enlightenment, so I will kill you." The bald Taoist's eyes were red at this moment, as if he had fallen into the devil's way in an instant. He opened his mouth and spit out a gust of wind, which blew out and was a hundred miles away in an instant.

The wind is not an ordinary wind, it is the foul air from a cultivator. It can blow through people's seven orifices, destroy their spirit, and consume their seven souls. It is the most brutal.

Ah!
Blown by the strong wind, Zhang Yihua let out a scream. The vitality in his body was destroyed, his golden elixir dimmed, and then shattered. In just an instant, his soul flew away, leaving only a useless body falling from the air.

A Jindan cultivator was blown to death by a bald Taoist priest in just one breath?

After the bald Taoist exhaled the foul air, the illusory flower on his head withered completely, but the whole person seemed to be rejuvenated. He was twenty years younger and no longer looked old. Instead, he looked like a young man in his early thirties, except that his head was still bald and his hair had not grown out.

"Twenty spirit stones is all I can do."

The bald Taoist then squatted on the ground dejectedly. Seeing the spirit stone that had turned into powder, he couldn't help wiping away his tears. Then he grabbed the powder and put it carefully into a cloth bag. Maybe he could take it out and lick it a few times to satisfy his craving when he was hungry in the future.

Li Yi looked at him, then looked at the Jindan cultivator who died outside the city, and many question marks popped up in his head.

No.

Did you suddenly start cheating just now?

How come he became so powerful immediately after getting the spirit stone? He could kill a Jindan cultivator with one breath and catch a top-grade flying sword with his bare hands.

Is this still the Dharma Ending Age?

"Go and bring back the body of the Jindan monk." Li Yi then woke up in shock and immediately ordered Shan Yi.

Although the Jindan cultivator was dead, all his treasures were still there and not damaged. It would have been a shame if they were picked up by someone else.

After receiving the order, Shanyi immediately flapped its wings and flew away.

Afterwards, Li Yi looked at the bald Taoist in front of him seriously and asked, "Boss, why did you save me just now?"

(End of this chapter)