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

Absolute silence fell, even the raging vortex seemed to freeze for a moment.

The next moment!

"boom!!!"

The Wheel of Life, which incorporated hundreds of physical origins and was now imprinted with the nine Emperor characters, suddenly rippled with layers of boundless chaotic light!

This halo, like the waters of a bursting dam, instantly flooded the entire sea of ​​suffering, leaving behind endless, fine as dust yet dazzling eternal points of light in the void.

At this moment, the entire Sea of ​​Wheels Secret Realm seemed to transform into a boundless, nascent universe! Countless points of light flickered and shone, like newly born stars.

Even more substantial chaotic mist rose from the depths of the Sea of ​​Wheels, intertwining and entwining with starlight, creating a wondrous scene reminiscent of the creation of heaven and earth.

Upon closer inspection, each tiny speck of light, like a speck of dust, was autonomously and rhythmically absorbing and releasing the surrounding chaotic energy, as if it were a miniature, nascent world, breathing.

An unprecedented sense of power, as weighty as the earth, as vast as the starry sky, and as ancient as chaos, slowly awakened from the depths of Luo Heng's life wheel, permeating his limbs and bones, and even the deepest part of his soul.

Luo Heng looked inward and was shocked to find that the entire sea of ​​wheels had transformed into an endless starry sky.

Those points of light were actually "doors" swirling with chaotic energy. Behind each door seemed to lie a newly created universe. Ancient Dao patterns were imprinted on the "doors," emanating a heart-palpitating aura of the Great Dao.

Chaotic mist surged in the starry sky, sometimes transforming into a soaring dragon, sometimes condensing into a phoenix spreading its wings. Countless "gates" appeared and disappeared in the mist, like the rotation of stars in the heavens, demonstrating the ultimate principles of the universe.

At this moment, Luo Heng felt as if he were in the beginning of time, witnessing the birth of world after world. The flickering of each "door" resonated with the Great Dao, emitting a Dao sound that shook the soul.

Wu Qingfeng once said this in the original work.

"There is endless dust in the world, and each grain of dust is a world. Similarly, the human body is the same. We can't see anything, but it contains countless 'doors,' just like the dust in the world. The seemingly insignificant body contains countless 'doors.' Continuously opening these doors and discovering the 'true self' is cultivation."

When Luo Heng first heard this, he didn't understand it at all. But when he actually started cultivating, he just thought it was nothing more than "correct nonsense".

Just like "people need to eat to live" and "the sun rises in the east and sets in the west," the principles are correct, but they all sound like nonsense.

However, after he obtained the "Undying Heavenly Technique" and truly delved into its meaning, he suddenly realized that many things in this world that sound like "nonsense" are actually truths.

It's just that your level of understanding hasn't reached that point yet; standing at the foot of the mountain, you naturally can't see the scenery at the summit.

The core of the secret realm cultivation system in the world of Shrouding the Heavens is to open the "Gate of Divine Treasure" hidden within the human body.

These gates to divine treasures are like the meridians and acupoints in a martial arts system, the magical power in a cultivation novel, or the spiritual power in a magic system.

It is the source and foundation of all supernatural powers and strengths in the Secret Realm.

They are like batteries in a tram, continuously supplying cultivators with the divine power to drive their supernatural abilities and operate their Daoist techniques.

This is why there are instances in the original work where the order of the secret realms is not followed, and other secret realms are cultivated first instead of the Sea of ​​Wheels.

The book describes this as follows: "In ancient times, sages could become great saints by focusing on a single secret realm. The first secret realm they chose was not necessarily the Sea of ​​Wheels. Some recited the scriptures of the Dao Palace, some sat cross-legged on the Immortal Platform, and some traveled the world in asceticism, evolving the four poles of the human body."

This also shows that the so-called "Heaven-Covering Technique"—whether it's the Sea of ​​Wheels, the Dao Palace, the Four Extremes, the Dragon Transformation, or the Secret Realm of the Immortal Platform—is essentially about opening the "Gates of Divine Treasures" in different areas of the human body.

Therefore, the order of cultivation is not absolute. As long as you can open and connect the "doors" of the corresponding areas, you can walk your own path.

Therefore, the most fundamental difference between cultivators and mortals in this world lies in whether or not a divine treasure gate has been activated within their body.

If all the gates are closed, then it is a mortal body that cannot sense Qi and cultivate.

However, as long as one door is activated by innate or acquired factors, one is qualified to cultivate.

The more portals that are activated, the stronger a person's cultivation talent will be.

As for special physiques such as divine body, royal body, and holy body, they are actually the result of having a large number of divine treasure gates activated innately. Moreover, the arrangement of these gates is in harmony with the way of heaven, echoing each other and forming a naturally formed innate "formation".

This is precisely the fundamental reason why different constitutions possess various supernatural abilities.

A special constitution is essentially a natural array that is innately carried within the human body.

This reminded Luo Heng of Cao Yusheng's idea of ​​"using one's own body as a battleground," and he felt that they were similar in principle.

Among them, the Divine Treasure Array of the Ancient Sacred Body focuses on the ultimate physical realm, the Divine Treasure Array of the Innate Dao Embryo emphasizes enlightenment and understanding the profound mysteries, and the Divine Treasure Array of the Primordial Spirit Body strengthens the control of the primordial energy of heaven and earth... Each of these physiques has its own profound mysteries, and all of them are unique abilities bestowed upon them by their innate array formations.

This is the secret behind the various special physical constitutions in the world of "Covering the Sky".

Even Luo Heng, who had read the original novel, did not expect that the clue to the answer to the mystery of the physique that even the ancient emperor could not fully comprehend was actually in the first cultivation lesson that Elder Wu Qingfeng taught him.

Of course, Wu Qingfeng was ultimately only a cultivator at the Sea of ​​Wheels realm, and his perspective was limited.

His statement that "the gates to the divine within the human body are as endless as cosmic dust" is incorrect.

In reality, even someone as amazing as the Desolate Heavenly Emperor Shi Hao could only truly enter the realm of the Immortal King by opening up a sixth secret realm, "There are gods three feet above your head," in addition to the five major secret realms of the human body.

Therefore, it can be seen that the potential limit of the human body is roughly limited to the realm of a true immortal. If one wants to go further, one must seek outwards and open up new horizons outside the established framework.

The reason Shi Hao chose to erase the inheritance of the sixth secret realm was precisely because the first five secret realms were close to the ultimate level of human cultivation. It was a foundation-building path that everyone had to go through, which could be called the "nine years of compulsory education" in the cultivation world.

However, starting from the sixth secret realm, the path becomes different for each person, and there is no longer a fixed pattern.

The concept of "Heaven is watching from above," created by Shi Hao, bears too much of his personal imprint. If it were passed down to future generations, only those with similar temperament and opportunities would likely be able to master it. This would, in turn, stifle other types of geniuses.

Even if someone manages to complete the task by chance, their path forward may be cut off.

Therefore, Shi Hao ultimately chose to erase it.

According to the "Undying Heavenly Technique", the seemingly infinite "doors" in the human body actually have a precise number - 129,600 doors, which is exactly the number of "one yuan".

If all 129,600 divine treasure gates can be activated, one can reach the ultimate form of physical evolution—the Chaotic Body.

Based on this, the Ruthless Emperor once speculated that the Chaotic Body might be the legendary "Immortal Body".

However, after she truly achieved the Chaos Body, she discovered that although she was powerful in battle, there was no fundamental difference in life essence between her and the ancient emperors, thus making her doubt her own conjecture.

Ultimately, it was recorded as a conjecture in the "Undying Heavenly Technique".

However, when Luo Heng saw this, he instantly realized that the Ruthless Great Emperor's guess was very likely correct, and the Chaotic Body might be the Immortal Body.