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

The answer is actually quite simple.

The world reveals its own rules for living beings to comprehend and learn. Once living beings have reached a certain depth and breadth in their understanding and learning of the rules, such as reaching the realm of a sage.

When they die, the rules of heaven and earth that they comprehended will give back to the world.

After all, there are as many Hamlets as there are people. The same Dao can be understood differently by different people. When these different people understand the Dao, it returns to the universe, which is a way to make up for and enhance the world.

This is similar to the free AI on Earth in Luo Heng's previous life, one of the purposes of which was to feed the AI ​​model with a large amount of user data.

Luo Heng glanced at Gai Jiuyou and Wei Yi, but didn't seem particularly proud.

His discovery was not due to his superior intelligence, but simply because of his different perspective.

He was not from this world after all, while Gai Jiuyou and Wei Yi, who had lived in the cultivation world since childhood, may have already regarded the transformation of the Dao as a natural part of the rules of heaven and earth.

Moreover, even if some people in that vast ancient history had the same doubts, they could not verify it like Luo Heng, since they could not possess a truly independent little world.

In the ensuing silence, Luo Heng couldn't help but mutter under his breath, "Truly, Heaven and Earth are ruthless, treating all things like straw dogs!"

Gai Jiuyou and Wei Yi were taken aback.

Seeing their interest, Luo Heng simply recited the parts of the Tao Te Ching he still remembered.

After listening, both of them felt that the person who wrote this scripture must be a senior figure in the spiritual practice world. They both closed their eyes simultaneously, seemingly trying to comprehend the profound mysteries of the Tao Te Ching.

Luo Heng didn't disturb them, and excitedly took out several ancient corpses.

These were all casually taken down by these two big shots when they went to Zishan before.

He deliberately kept a few strong ones, originally intending to use them for research, but now he can use them to test the new functions of the Great Luo Heaven.

As he activated the power of the Great Luo Heaven, several balls of white Dao fire "whooshed" and enveloped the corpse on the ground.

In the blink of an eye, those corpses turned into a pile of glowing Dao patterns and dissipated into the air.

Luo Heng closed his eyes and concentrated, carefully observing the changes in the small world.

Sure enough, this place was a little bit stronger than before.

Although it was only a barely perceptible improvement, it was clear and obvious to him, the creator.

In his eyes, within that primordial void that only the world's ruler could glimpse, several new chains of divine Dao principles were quietly emerging.

Like tender shoots breaking through the soil, they slowly unfurl in the soft light, delicate yet resilient, gradually weaving into the network of laws that support heaven and earth.

He couldn't help but get excited. Although he didn't know if it was a good thing or a bad thing for the small world to treat cultivators as "food," it was definitely a shortcut for him.

This gives us another way to cultivate our own little world.

"The way of Heaven is to take from those who have more than enough and give to those who have less than enough; the way of man is to take from those who have less than enough and give to those who have more than enough. But what you, young friend Luo, have done is actually using the way of man to follow the way of Heaven."

Gai Jiuyou's voice came from behind, his tone solemn, "I have one more thing to say: I hope you, young friend, will guard your true heart and not stray into the demonic path."

Luo Heng was enjoying himself when he suddenly heard Gai Jiuyou whisper something behind him.

Turning my head, I noticed that the old man's eyes looked rather serious.

Luo Heng was taken aback at first, then nodded respectfully.

But an idea flashed through my mind uncontrollably—this scene seems familiar.

"Tomb of the Gods"...

Good heavens, could it be that I've actually cultivated myself into a self-aware Heavenly Dao?

……

Many years later, in a desolate world that had been shattered.

An ancient cemetery suddenly cracked open, sending dust flying.

Shi Hao crawled out of the grave with a blank expression, looking around – the primordial energy of heaven and earth was exhausted, the laws were broken, and there was only deathly silence.

"Gods are dead... Immortals have perished... Why am I still alive?"

He murmured to himself, yet countless familiar voices seemed to echo in his ears, transcending eternity, as clear as yesterday.

On the long river of time that runs through the ages, Luo Heng's figure is majestic and boundless, as if covering the entire surging torrent of history.

He sat atop the eternal sky, his gaze lowered, scrutinizing the beings below who were attempting to defy yin and yang and sever the path to heaven, like a cold, icy law of the Dao.

Its sound, though not rousing, seemed to resonate like a thousand voices, each word carrying an indifferent, heavenly authority, echoing in every inch of time:

"An ant... dares to defy the heavens?"

The response to him was a roar that resounded simultaneously from the past, present, and future—from all time and possibilities! That roar severed time, evaporated battle blood, and reverberated and boomed in every instant.

Because Luo Heng's body and Dao have long since transcended the past, present, and future, spanning all points in time. Therefore, this battle, too, erupted at the same instant on every ripple of the long river of time.

At this moment, billions of true immortals served as soldiers, and millions of immortal kings served as generals, coming from all the heavens and myriad realms, from ancient times to the present, to attack him simultaneously.

Furthermore, several supreme beings reversed the flow of time, shattered cause and effect, and with the overwhelming force of annihilation, unleashed a strike that severed an era in his path.

Ye Fan: "When Yin and Yang are in chaos, I will stain the heavens with my holy blood!"

Chu Feng: "Spanning heaven and earth, ending all enemies past, present, and future—I pave the way for posterity!"

The Azure Emperor declared, "A single lotus blooms under the eternal blue sky; I will recreate this heaven!"

The Holy Prince declared: "If the heavens oppress me, I will cleave them open; if the earth binds me, I will shatter it. We are born free; who dares to be high above us!"

The Great Emperor Wushi sighed softly, "At the end of the immortal path, who stands at the peak? A single glance at Luo Heng's Dao brings nothing but emptiness. Alas..."

Even those who should have been enemies have now become comrades.

An Lan: "At the pinnacle of immortality, I reign supreme over the world. With me, An Lan, there is no heaven!"

……

Amidst these resounding cries that resonated throughout the ages, countless peerless geniuses, who had astonished the entire era, rushed against the flow of time like moths to a flame, heading towards that figure who stood atop eternity.

A great battle broke out instantly.

They fought across the river of time, from the beginning of the world to the end of an era.

In the end, the galaxy vanished, and all paths became nothingness.

……

As he listened to the last words of his comrades before they vanished, Shi Hao's expression gradually twisted, and pain overwhelmed him like a tidal wave.

Until it seemed as if a woman's soft sigh echoed in my ears again:

"Alas... Brother, in the end... I still didn't get to see you."

Unable to endure it any longer, Shi Hao roared to the sky, his voice shattering the universe:

"Luo Heng!!"

……

"hiss--!"

In reality, Luo Heng suddenly shuddered; he was startled by the little drama unfolding in his mind.

But then, a strange sense of excitement surged up.

It seems... kind of exciting?

He stroked his chin, his eyes gradually brightening. He made up his mind; from now on, he would strive in this direction.

He was determined to climb to the top step by step! He wanted to become the Supreme Heavenly Way!