Humans are shrouded in mist, projecting their image across countless worlds.

Chapter 45 The Second Gate: Heavenly Stele Mystic Technique and Summoning the Dead City
The Eternal Dragon Island Stele is located in the central area of ​​Dragon Island, standing in the middle of a boundless sea of ​​bones. The tall stele stands there like an ancient divine mountain, and even from a distance, He Lang could feel a terrifying pressure.

Surrounding the Heavenly Stele was a strange black mist. As He Lang approached the Heavenly Stele, it manifested various strange phenomena, such as a giant dragon tens of meters long and a tall humanoid creature, as if the skeletons in this sea of ​​bones had come back to life.

He Lang knew that this was not a resurrection, but merely the lingering resentment of the creatures that had been killed by the powerful beings who had transformed themselves by walking the Stone Man Path in the Dead City and came to protect the Dead City.

Faced with this bizarre scene, He Lang simply spun the Heavenly Stele Mystic Technique quietly. Countless acupoints around his body lit up like stars, radiating a power that devoured the heavens and the earth, accepting everything that came and swallowing up all the black mist, refining it into divine energy as his foundation. Even the white bones in the boundless sea of ​​bones emitted streams of essence, leaving behind a trail of bone dust wherever they passed!
The simple and direct action dispelled the eerie mist, leaving behind a large vacuum.

With the Heavenly Stele he had condensed above his head, He Lang drove it to the Heavenly Stele of Eternal Dragon Island. He then activated his own Heavenly Stele, sending a divine diagram of the Great Dao into the Heavenly Stele of Eternal Dragon Island before him.

The celestial stele he conjured was not marked with the inscription of the Eternal Yellow River Celestial Stele Map, but rather with a dense network of lines connecting various living beings, villages, yellow mud platforms, and a stone tablet.

At this moment, the stone carving of the Eternal Yellow River Stele on the Heavenly Stele above his head was emitting boundless divine light. Scenes of world destruction, such as lightning flashing in the sky, mountains collapsing on the ground, and towering waves, appeared and transformed into a huge stone stele projection.

In an instant, the Dragon Island Heavenly Stele began to move. The tall stele emitted divine light and gradually became real. Images appeared on it, including a savage dragon roaring to the sky, blood rain falling, and a black dead city.

This stele is not the real stele that guards Yongzhenlong Island; it is merely an imprint left here by the real stele.

The stone tablet above He Lang's head grew to the same size as the Heavenly Stele, and the two overlapped. Slowly, another image condensed on the Heavenly Stele above his head, which was the Eternal Dragon Island Heavenly Stele. At the same time, the Qi Refining Diagram on the back of the Heavenly Stele was also imprinted.

"My true self, I need to activate the cheat code again."

After obtaining the second Heavenly Stele Qi Refining Diagram, He Lang from the Longevity Realm spoke to He Lang, who was currently integrating the Heavenly Stele Qi Refining Diagram into his own cultivation path.

He Lang: "..."

"Can't you figure it out for yourself? You really don't know the value of truth when you're not in charge!"

It was one thing at first, since it was all their own fault, but now that they've changed, they're still thinking about cheating.

"Don't be stingy. I need to break through to the peak as quickly as possible to compete for the strongest resources in this great world."

Don't forget that the Heavenly Stele Qi Refining Diagram, as a contingency plan left by the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, not only allows beings to achieve the transformation to the Sovereign realm upon reaching the Stone King realm, but it can also activate the sacred artifacts left behind by them.

The projection of the Eternal Realm immediately saw that He Lang's true self was feeling sorry for the real person and immediately began to explain.

As the architects of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, what they left behind is the greatest source of cause and effect in the Realm of Immortality, and the Heavenly Stele Mystic Law is the key that connects everything.

Whether it's the Forty-Nine Battle Sword that exists in the past, present, and future, or the Divine Diagram, they are all closely related to the Heavenly Stele Mystic Method.

"And there's the Nine-Part Stone Man. Once my cultivation is stronger, we can use the power of cause and effect to summon the Nine-Part Stone Man. It is a naturally born stone king, nurtured by the nine lamps of the ten ancestors of the Nine Provinces: the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, Nuwa, and Pangu. With a Stone King in hand, wouldn't we be able to take off even faster?"

However, when the Nine-Point Stone Man was mentioned, both the projection of the Eternal Realm and He Lang suddenly seemed to understand each other and revealed strange expressions.

They both thought of another figure closely associated with the Nine-Part Stone Man.

Heavenly Emperor! Another powerful being born from the Nine Lamps of the Nine Provinces, an existence at the level of a supreme ancestral god, or even possibly close to the Great Perfection level.

Originally, the combination of the Heavenly Stone King and the Heavenly Emperor would have enabled the emergence of an emperor in the Nine Provinces of the world of the Heavenly Emperors, who would then suppress all the myriad realms.

However, because the Heavenly Emperor was unwilling to merge with the naturally formed Stone King, he embarked on the path of cultivating the Stone King Body on his own, aiming to cultivate the Stone King Body within the flesh and blood of the Ancestral God and break through the Emperor Realm.

While he was cultivating, when the Natural Stone King led the powerful warriors of the Nine Provinces to invade the ancient capital of another world, he was killed by a contingency plan left by the Holy Ancestor of the other world on the ninety-nine steps, and nine parts of the Stone King's body were destroyed.

When the Heavenly Emperor emerged from seclusion, he was utterly doomed! Despite being born with nine parts of the Stone King body, his Stone Man King Body technique failed, and he ultimately died with regret.

From then on, the path to becoming an emperor was cut off, and the plans laid out by the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, Nuwa, Pangu, and other ancestors over countless years were rendered meaningless. If it weren't for the arrival of Xiao Chen, this passionate successor, the outcome would have been uncertain.

All I can say is that the Heavenly Emperor was too confident. He managed to turn three twos with a royal flush into a single play and was taken down by someone else's smooth little combo.

It's unknown how much of the Heavenly Emperor contributed to the countless heroic spirits and battle souls within the six-sided Heavenly Stele.

He Lang couldn't help but think of the Azure Emperor again. Compared to him, the Azure Emperor was quite humble; at least the Azure Emperor hadn't considered opening up the Boundary Sea! In He Lang's view, the difficulty of the two was about the same.

This also served as a reminder to He Lang that all plans are nonsense, as there are simply too many variables over the long years.

He Lang from the Immortal Realm said so much, but the core message was: hurry up and activate your cheat code!
He Lang wasn't too concerned about the 100 million real points; the main issue was that to perfect the Heavenly Stele Mystic Method, he needed to cultivate all the Qi Refining Diagrams on the six Heavenly Steles, which would cost a lot.

Don't think that 100 million real points is cheap to fully comprehend a royal cultivation technique. In reality, for cultivation techniques, whether it's an ancient scripture of the Great Emperor or a saint-level scripture, it costs 100 million real points to fully comprehend them through the system.

This is also why he rarely used this function to cultivate ancient scriptures in the past—he couldn't afford it!

However, complete enlightenment is indeed extraordinary. It allows one to transform all the wisdom and changes of a cultivation technique into one's own, without any omissions, thus forging a perfect foundation for the Great Dao, as if the Great Dao were naturally formed, as if one was born with it.

He wasn't the type to hesitate or look back. Without much deliberation, he immediately unleashed his power again, spending 100 million real points to fully comprehend the second Heavenly Stele Qi Refining Diagram. He then shared it with He Lang of the Longevity Realm.

After the Heavenly Stele Mystery was partially perfected again, He Lang's previously stagnant realm in the Longevity Realm loosened up once more. The mysteries of the Fish Leap, the Supreme Man, the Earth-Penetrating, and the Heaven-Reaching Realms were all thoroughly understood, and he began to break through them.

The countless acupoints within his body transformed into world after world, as if the myriad realms of the heavens and earth were floating within him, devouring the essence of Dragon Island. Similarly, golden essence in the forbidden sea surrounding Dragon Island transformed into a celestial river that poured back into Dragon Island, causing towering waves to rise in the forbidden sea.

The cultivators who had entered Dragon Island were terrified, not knowing what had happened, while the savage dragons on Dragon Island roared angrily to the sky.

"Come!"

With a loud shout, the projection of the Immortal Realm poured boundless magical power into the Heavenly Stele. Thick threads of cause and effect passed through the illusory image of the Heavenly Stele and connected with the real Heavenly Stele. Above the endless sea of ​​bones, a huge Heavenly Stele appeared, followed by a black demon city emerging from the void dimension.

Yellow rain began to fall from the sky, black lightning ripped through the void, and the enormous demon city began to descend towards Dragon Island.

(End of this chapter)