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

It is precisely for these reasons that Luo Heng is unsure what kind of person the Emperor is in this real world of "Covering the Sky," and whether he will still be as brainless as in the original work.

It is precisely because of these uncertainties that Luo Heng does not intend to talk too much about the Emperor.

But then Luo Heng frowned slightly as he thought about this—because he suddenly realized another problem.

According to his previous deduction, the Chaos Body is essentially a "Celestial Body," which means there's a problem with the Emperor's situation.

As Elder Wu Qingfeng said, the path of cultivation is about opening the hidden doors to the divine treasures within the human body. Therefore, even ancient emperors could continue cultivating along this path and become stronger after attaining enlightenment.

However, this path is easy at the beginning, but becomes increasingly difficult as you go on.

It would be incredibly difficult for one person to accurately locate all 129,600 divine treasure doors within the human body.

This is infinitely more difficult than finding a needle in a haystack—and it's not just about finding one needle, but about precisely finding 129,600 specific needles.

Fortunately, this was not the work of one person or one lifetime. Throughout history, countless sages and great minds have explored together, recording the location and characteristics of each "needle" they found.

These precious records are the various cultivation methods that have been passed down to the world today.

In this way, although it is still extremely difficult, it is no longer impossible. Finding all the "needles" is still fraught with difficulties, but theoretically, it is possible to complete the task if given enough time.

But in this world that can cover the sky, what is most lacking is precisely time.

The chaotic entity, on the other hand, seems to be the "perfect reference answer" generated by the natural world.

Its body is naturally engraved with the precise location of all the "needles", and they are arranged in the most perfect and harmonious order.

This is why Ye Fan and the Ruthless Great Emperor both briefly transformed themselves into chaotic forms—they were not changing their paths, but rather stopping to take a look at the "standard answer" given directly by heaven and earth while climbing a mountain.

Of course, both of them eventually voluntarily shed their chaotic forms and returned to their mortal bodies.

Ye Fan even left behind the famous line, "The mortal body is the strongest."

This is precisely because Ye Fan was born with the Ancient Sacred Body, a physique that is perfectly suited to him, and his innate constraints were already very weak. Later, as his cultivation became increasingly profound, these constraints became almost non-existent.

However, as long as this connection is not completely severed, the constraint will always exist. Even if it is as thin as a strand of hair, this strand of hair will always entangle Ye Fan, preventing him from achieving true perfection.

To use an analogy: the compatibility between the Holy Body and Ye Fan's "Dao" is perhaps as high as 99%, to the point that he himself did not even notice the slight difference.

However, when he suddenly transforms into a chaotic body, the compatibility may drop to 95%, and the gap between this physique and the "Dao" fruit becomes immediately clear and perceptible.

For this reason, after severing his Chaos Body, he also severed his Ancient Sacred Body.

All of this is because, for these supreme beings who have long since forged their own paths, "the most perfect is not necessarily the most suitable."

We've digressed a bit; let's get back to the Emperor.

It should be noted that in the entire novel "Covering the Sky", there are only six people who can become immortals in the mortal world: Duan De, Emperor Zun, Undying Emperor, Ruthless Emperor, Wushi Emperor, and Ye Fan.

Among them, the Immortal Emperor and the Great Emperor Wushi not only had extraordinary physical constitutions, but also entered a strange world and became immortals in the mortal world, which can be considered as taking a "shortcut".

Duan De's path of reincarnation is unique, so we can leave it aside for now.

Of the remaining three, Ruthless Man and Ye Fan had both conducted in-depth research and even personally transformed into Chaos Body, so they could be considered to have seen the "reference answer".

Then... what about the Emperor?

A startling conjecture suddenly surfaced in Luo Heng's mind:

The first incarnation of the Emperor was most likely—the Boundless Heavenly Venerable.

The original text contains very little information about Wuliang Tianzun, only mentioning that he used the body left behind by the Chaos Body after its death to create the giant five-colored altar on the Big Dipper.

Although netizens generally believe that he is the Celestial Venerable who created the secret of the character "斗" (dou), this has not been explicitly confirmed in the book.

Therefore, Luo Heng leans more towards another possibility: when Wuliang Tianzun was refining the Chaos Body, he must have conducted extremely in-depth research on it and glimpsed some of the fundamental mysteries of the Chaos Body.

He then faked his death to escape, and with this enlightenment, he became a Chaos Body, thus living out his second life, which later became the Emperor who was renowned throughout the ages.

Only in this way can we explain why the Emperor's second incarnation was so powerful—single-handedly suppressing the nine heavens and ten earths, establishing the Heavenly Court, and dominating an entire era. If he was a Chaos Body, then all of this would make sense.

In addition, there is a seemingly insignificant but quite intriguing detail: Duan De's catchphrase that he always had on his lips was "Amitabha".

This may just be a coincidence, but Duan De is ultimately the reincarnation of the Heavenly Venerable of Tribulation Crossing. The title he repeatedly murmurs in his subconscious is very likely to point to someone who left a deep mark on his life.

Duan De's past life happened to be the Underworld Lord, who was both a teacher and friend of the Emperor.

Thoughts flashed through my mind like lightning.

However, on the surface, Luo Heng only paused slightly before continuing his story with a normal expression.

After all, while this conjecture is astonishing, it doesn't seem to have any practical use right now...

"What I'm about to talk about may be our greatest enemy in the future, the Immortal Emperor."

The Immortal Emperor was originally a phoenix from the Immortal Realm, but accidentally fell into this world through a spatial rift while traveling. His lifelong obsession is to return to the Immortal Realm.

He was born ten thousand years after sealing himself as an immortal being, and successfully attained enlightenment. His fame was unparalleled in the late mythological era.

From then on, he changed his former title of "Mythical Celestial Venerable" and adopted the title of "Emperor," thus ushering in the glorious ancient era.

Afterwards, the Immortal Emperor reigned supreme over the universe, looking down upon all the heavens, becoming the supreme god in the hearts of all ancient races, enjoying the devout worship of all living beings in the world. This grand occasion led later enlightened beings to follow suit, all taking "Emperor" as their title.

However, as mentioned before, the Great Dao of this world is not perfect and lacks the substances necessary for longevity. Therefore, even if the Undying Emperor attains the Dao and becomes an Emperor, he will only have a lifespan of a little over ten thousand years.

Therefore, in order to survive and wait for the path to immortality to open, the Immortal Emperor launched his sneak attack once again.

Throughout history, he has ambushed numerous emperors and sovereigns, attempting to rebirth by absorbing their life essence.

He once killed the aging Supreme Emperor and launched a sneak attack on the Fighting Saint Emperor, but failed; instead, the Fighting Saint Emperor destroyed his dojo.

At this point, Luo Heng felt a little thirsty, so he picked up a teacup from the coffee table next to him, took a small sip, and then continued.

"The Fighting Saint Emperor was the last emperor of the ancient era. He wanted to become a Fighting Immortal in this world in order to become an immortal, but he failed."

However, it was also because of his failure to transform into a battle immortal that the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth underwent a sudden change, the Primordial Era ended prematurely, and all the ancient clans sealed themselves off with divine origins.

This world has also entered the Ancient Era, a brand new era that almost exclusively belongs to the human race.