Covering the Sky: A Guide to Proving the Dao Without Cheats

Looking at the handsome man's corpse before him, Luo Heng sighed softly, "Alas, who told you to block my way?"

After saying this, he said no more and raised his hand to place it above the abdomen of the Holy Son of Yao Guang.

In an instant, a terrifying suction force surged from Luo Heng's hand, as if a black hole had been created in his palm.

Hundreds of streams of light burst forth from Yao Guang Sheng Zi's abdomen like fireworks, but without exception, all of these streams of light were swallowed up by the black hole in Luo Heng's hand.

After finishing the absorption, Luo Heng closed his eyes and felt the dense stream of light in the sea of ​​bitterness. He couldn't help but sigh, "As expected of someone nurtured by a holy land, there must be hundreds of types of physique origin power in here."

While most of them may be the origin of ordinary spirits, such a vast number is still truly astonishing.

With that thought in mind, Luo Heng directly activated the secret technique recorded in the Devouring Heaven Demon Art.

Suddenly, his vortex-shaped sea of ​​bitterness erupted with a terrifying suction force, instantly capturing a streak of light above it and swallowing it whole.

The stream of light spun rapidly downwards along the vortex's arm, eventually disappearing into his Wheel of Life.

In an instant, Luo Heng felt a strange power surge within his body. The strange energy flowed slowly, as if every inch of his flesh and blood was being re-baptized, gradually nourishing his physical body and continuously improving his constitution, making his body increasingly powerful.

After sighing for a moment, Luo Heng continued to devour the essence of other physical constitutions.

As each source was gradually refined, wave after wave of strange energy repeatedly washed over his body, forging his flesh, organs, and bones into something increasingly resilient, gradually approaching an unbelievable state.

Suddenly, Luo Heng's body trembled violently, his bones cracked repeatedly, his flesh quivered, and his internal organs resonated. A tearing pain swept through his entire body, as if he were being thrown into a furnace and reshaped.

"This is..." He gritted his teeth, trying to maintain his mental clarity amidst the torment of purgatory.

In an instant, he realized that this was a qualitative change caused by quantitative change.

The previous energy cleansing was merely a prelude to the transformation, not a true leap in life level. Only now does the metamorphosis truly begin.

His flesh and blood disintegrated and reassembled, his internal organs failed and were reborn, his bones shattered and then solidified... This was a complete regeneration of life.

……

More than ten days later.

After absorbing and refining all the essence of his body, and undergoing three complete transformations, Luo Heng finally slowly finished his cultivation.

Sensing the surging, revitalized power within his body, he couldn't help but take a deep breath, once again marveling at the strength and domineering nature of the Devouring Heaven Demon Art.

This so-called Devouring Heaven Demon Art actually uses the Wheel of Life in the Sea of ​​Bitterness as the "bottom of the bottle," the three great secret realms of Dao Palace, Four Extremes, and Dragon Transformation as the "bottle body" for continuous tempering and strengthening, and the Sendai Secret Realm as the "bottle cap" that ultimately governs everything.

Finally, he transformed himself into a humanoid "Great Dao Treasure Bottle" that devoured heaven and earth and forged all paths.

Luo Heng recalled that when he first read "The Devouring Heaven Demon Art", he was also shocked by the ruthless Great Emperor's amazing talent, and even wavered on whether he should directly use this method as the foundation.

However, when he truly comprehended the subsequent "Undying Heavenly Art", he did not hesitate to abandon this idea.

The reason is that the "Undying Heavenly Art" is far more powerful than the "Devouring Heaven Demon Art".

As Luo Heng gradually adapted to the flow of the new energy within his body, his expression calmed down once again.

He has already laid a foundation with the Devouring Heaven Demon Art, and next, he will truly switch to cultivating the Undying Heaven Art.

As the core secret technique of the Undying Heavenly Art slowly began to operate, the already rapidly spinning vortex of the Bitter Sea suddenly intensified, like a black hole that had been completely awakened in the depths of the universe, unleashing a terrifying suction force that swallowed all heavens and refined all paths, wantonly plundering all the brilliance and vitality around it.

Just as the vortex reached its maximum speed, threatening to engulf the entire Sea of ​​Wheels into a state of chaos and uncertainty, Luo Heng's mind became as still as an ancient well. Following the most profound chapters of the scriptures, he used his divine thoughts as a guide and his vast divine power as ink to begin sketching stroke by stroke in the air above the Sea of ​​Bitterness.

At first, Luo Heng's brushstrokes were quite skillful, but as the first character took shape, he suddenly felt an immense pressure descend upon him.

Each stroke that followed felt like dragging a massive mountain, resisting a resistance originating from the very source of the Great Dao. Fine beads of sweat appeared on his forehead, his divine power surging and churning within him as he exerted all his strength to painstakingly complete the ancient character.

Then came the second, the third... Each ancient character was different. With each completed character, the pressure increased, as if we were not writing words, but rather creating miniature worlds on a sea of ​​suffering and defining entirely new rules.

When he finally finished outlining the ninth ancient character after exerting all his strength—

"Buzz—!"

The nine strange ancient characters floating above the Sea of ​​Bitterness suddenly trembled together, unleashing a chaotic light that engulfed the entire Sea of ​​Wheels! The light was not pure radiance; it seemed to contain the surging of earth, water, fire, and wind, the birth and death of stars, and the fleeting scenes of the cycle of eras.

A terrifying magical force, capable of changing the world and resetting order, swept out, instantly turning the entire Sea of ​​Bitterness into a hazy and chaotic mess, as if reversing time and returning to the primordial moment when the world was created and all things were yet to be separated.

These nine ancient characters are the supreme "Emperor Characters" that the Ruthless Great Emperor personally inscribed on the "Undying Heavenly Art" in the past—no, rather than Emperor Characters, Luo Heng felt they should be called "Immortal Script".

These ancient characters were the exclusive script used by ancient emperors to expound their own Dao and to bear the fruits of their life's cultivation. They are profound and boundless, and cannot be truly written or mastered by anyone who has not reached the pinnacle of Dao.

Each ancient character contains unimaginable power; it is the manifestation of the authority of the Great Dao and the condensation of the origin of the laws.

But why did the ancient emperors leave behind only nine at most? That's because the Dao attained and proved at the pinnacle of humanity can be fully described in nine characters.

To fully comprehend these ancient characters, one must at least be a True Immortal, or even reach the Immortal King realm.

Think back to the original story, Ye Fan only truly understood the scripture left in the bronze coffin by the Desolate Heaven Emperor after he stepped into the mortal realm, which is to say, after he became a Quasi-Immortal King.

This shows just how profound these words are.

The Immortal Realm Repair Scripture that Luo Heng had previously obtained was written entirely in this ancient script. This also indirectly confirms that even someone as powerful as the Desolate Heavenly Emperor Shi Hao still used the same script after ascending to the position of Immortal Emperor.

This demonstrates the high status of this script, which has touched upon the very source of all things in the universe.

As for the scripture left by the Desolate Emperor, it contains a total of over two hundred characters. Excluding the words left for old friends and relatives, at least a hundred characters are truly useful.

Most importantly, this passage is not expounding on some kind of great principle, but rather on a kind of "law".

The difference between the two is like heaven and earth.

Just like the difference between Einstein's mass-energy equivalence equation E=mc² and the blueprints for manufacturing a nuclear bomb:

The former may indeed reveal some fundamental laws of the universe, and its value is immeasurable;

The latter, however, is a specific method that can transform laws into destructive power.

Although the former is more supreme at the level of "Tao", the power and change that the latter can bring, which are immediately tangible, can be described as subversive.

Its value can be described as the number one ancient scripture and the number one creation in the world of "Covering the Sky".

However, what's missing now is a "key" that can fully unlock it. If Luo Heng can find that key in the future, the gains might even exceed those brought by the little girl.

In that instant, numerous thoughts flashed through Luo Heng's mind, but he immediately severed them all. He focused all his attention back on his own sea of ​​suffering—

At this moment, he received the Emperor's will with his mortal body and contained the immortal text with the realm of the Sea of ​​Wheels. The difficulties and dangers he faced were no different from an ant shaking the heavens or a fledgling carrying a divine mountain.

Having already reached the edge of his limit, Luo Heng knew that there was no way back at this moment, and he could not afford to hesitate even for a moment.

"Get down...!"

He let out a low roar in his heart, surging up the last of his divine soul power and the divine power around him, pushing the secret technique to an unprecedented extreme.

"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"

The nine ancient characters, radiant with light, seemed to be summoned by the origin of the Wheel of Life. They transformed into nine chaotic meteors and, one after another, followed the enormous vortex that devoured the heavens and the earth. With unstoppable force, they crashed down and imprinted themselves on the Wheel of Life, which was a fusion of hundreds of physical origins, at the center of the vortex!

"Thump—"

As the first ancient character was imprinted, the Wheel of Life trembled violently, emitting a sound like the beating of a heart from the primordial era.

"Thump! Thump! Thump...!"

Then eight sounds rang out in succession, each one louder and heavier than the last, like nine heavy hammers from the gods striking the very source of the sea of ​​wheels.

The moment the last ancient character completely merged with the Wheel of Life—

Time seemed to stand still throughout the entire Lun Hai.