Chapter 102: The Transformation of Heaven's Strike

Inside the Three Saints Temple, under an ancient tree, Li Zhi was comprehending the "Metamorphosis of the Divine Silkworm".

Suddenly, a golden line silently cut through the night sky and appeared above the big tree without alarming anyone in Daoyi Stone Archway.

A small golden figure hid behind the leaves, with a pair of big, bright eyes blinking and a hint of doubt appearing from time to time, as if it was not very sure about Li Zhi's identity.

After feeling the prying eyes from the tree, Li Zhi looked up at the treetops.

A creature that looked like a small golden dragon clenched its small fist and waved silently at Li Zhi, as if greeting him.

Li Zhi smiled slightly, took out a grape-sized divine source, and said to the golden creature, "This is for you, eat it."

After hesitating for a moment, the golden elf turned into a golden light and passed through Li Zhi's hand.

Li Zhi couldn't even see his specific movements before he swallowed up the divine source.

The golden elf returned to the tree, and seemed very satisfied with Li Zhi's way of greeting him. He jumped and waved his little paws at him.

Seeing this, Li Zhi took out another peanut-sized Xianyuan grain.

Before he could open his mouth, a golden elf instantly appeared in his palm, but this time he could not eat the fairy source grain no matter what.

It seemed that the area under Li's control was a place of the end of the law. Any magical powers would be ineffective, even flying was impossible.

This is the palm technique transformed from the magical talisman that Li Zhi obtained when he transformed in the Taoist temple of the Henren Emperor in the Yunduan Mountains. It is suspected to have some connection with the "Wanhua Shengjue" of the Henren Emperor. Li Zhi named it "Huatian Divine Palm".

Almost everything in his palm can be turned invisible, whether it is magical powers or the rules of the Tao.

Li Zhi only grasped the surface and was able to dissipate all the strength, making the golden little silkworm unable to exert force after entering his palm area, as if it was trapped in place.

Looking at the pitiful little golden creature, Li Zhi smiled and said, "I can give you this Immortal Source Particle, but you have to agree to one condition of mine."

The golden little silkworm seemed a little angry. It turned its head away and ignored Li Zhi, as if expressing its protest.

"Do you ever treat your friends like this?"

"In fact, I have a bigger immortal source block in my hand, little guy, it all depends on your performance from now on."

Li Zhi coaxed the little golden creature like a bad uncle, and at the same time, a fist-sized piece of fairy source suddenly appeared in his other hand.

The piece of immortal source was surrounded by a misty air, emitting amazing life essence, which made the little golden creature show an extremely eager look. It twisted on the spot with its claws and fangs bared, as if it really wanted to eat the piece of immortal source.

Although the immortal source in Li Zhi's hand was a second-hand immortal source that had sealed the remnant soul of the Holy Spirit, the quality of the life essence contained in it still far exceeded that of the divine source.

Seeing the little golden creature struggling hard, Li Zhi put away the large piece of immortal source, then withdrew his palm power, allowing the little silkworm to eat the peanut-sized immortal source grain.

After swallowing the Xianyuan grains in one gulp, the little divine silkworm immediately looked full, and even used his little paws to pat his little belly which showed no signs of bulging.

After waving at Li Zhi, the golden little creature suddenly turned into a golden light and left.

Li Zhi turned his head and looked towards the entrance of the Taoist temple.

Sure enough, two or three breaths later, two people came to the door.

Li Zhi thought to himself, this divine silkworm's spiritual perception is truly terrifyingly sharp.

After seeing who was coming, it turned out to be Ye Fan who used the magic of changing appearance to restore the appearance of the earth.

"Junior brother Changshou, this donor Ye is here to see you." The disciple from Daoyi Holy Land who brought Ye Fan here said to Li Zhi.

"Thank you, Senior Brother Wu." Li Zhi returned the gift to the disciple.

"Then I won't disturb you from reminiscing about the past with Mr. Ye." Then the disciple left.

Ye Fan looked at Li Zhi curiously, as if he was surprised by his status in Daoyi Stone Square, so he asked directly: "Li Zhi, have you really become a Taoist monk?"

Li Zhi waved his hand to open the soundproof and thought-blocking barrier in the Three Saints Temple, and invited Ye Fan to sit at the stone table under the big tree. He brewed a pot of spiritual tea by himself, and then said, "Although I became a Taoist priest, I didn't become a monk. Ye Fan, I haven't seen you for a long time. You don't look as cute as before."

Ye Fan smiled and said, "You also know that in my current situation, it is not appropriate to show my true face to others."

Li Zhi said: "I'm afraid those who want to find you will never think that your current appearance is the real you."

Ye Fan smiled and said, "I haven't seen you for more than a year. Aren't you practicing in Taixuan Sect? Why did you come to the Northern Territory, and walk with the little nun from Daoyi Holy Land?"

Li Zhi said, "I came to the Northern Territory to make a living after a minor accident at Taixuan Sect. As for why I am here, it's because I got along well with the Taoist priests at Daoyi Holy Land, so they allowed me to stay here. On the contrary, you have made a name for yourself in the Northern Territory. Even the famous young geniuses like Yaoguang Saint Son and Golden Winged Little Peng King were suppressed by you. Even when I was practicing in the Holy City, I heard of your reputation."

Ye Fan was a little embarrassed by Li Zhi's praise, so he said: "It's all false reputation. I achieved it by chance. In terms of real combat power, I am still not as good as them. You also know that my holy body is like a gold-eating beast. I have to search for the source everywhere. I don't know how long I have to wait to reach their level."

Li Zhi looked at Ye Fan's modest expression and said, "The consumption of the Ancient Saint Body is indeed huge. But now that you are already a master of source technique, I don't think you will worry about the lack of source."

Ye Fan said: "Even a master of source technique can't do it. If a holy body wants to break through to the Four Extremes Secret Realm, it needs tens of millions of pounds of source to break through. I don't know how long it will take to accumulate it before it can succeed."

Then, Ye Fan asked curiously: "Li Zhi, how did you collect a million jins of source?"

Li Zhi smiled and said, "It's nothing. I just dug up the ancestral tombs of the Five Elements Palace, the Illusion Palace, and the Myriad Tribulations Sect, and then auctioned the items in their tombs at the Heavenly Demon Treasure Palace, earning a large sum of money."

"What, that mysterious person is actually you?" Obviously Ye Fan had also heard about this.

After the two chatted for a while, Li Zhi asked, "Ye Fan, did you get the Wheel Sea Scroll of the Dao Sutra from the Qing Emperor's Tomb?"

Ye Fan did not hide anything and nodded directly: "Do you need it?"

Li Zhi said: "You should have understood the shortcomings of the "Eternal Life Sutra". If you want to make up for the shortcomings of the sutra, you must comprehend a stronger sutra. The "Tao Sutra" Lunhai Volume is known as the strongest sutra for practicing the Lunhai Secret Realm, so I want to exchange a volume of the ancient sutra with you."

Ye Fan asked curiously: "What ancient scripture?"

Li Zhi said: "Maybe it's the 'Devil's Art of Devouring Heaven', or maybe it's the 'Immortal Heaven's Art', but I'm not sure which imperial scripture it came from."

"You dug up the tomb of the Henren Emperor?" Ye Fan looked at Li Zhi in shock. That was something that even the Black Emperor could not forget.

Li Zhi shook his head and said, "How is that possible? Don't say such nonsense. I just accidentally got an ancient scripture that seems to be from the "Devouring Heaven Magic Art" or the "Immortal Heaven Art."

Afterwards, the two exchanged scriptures from the Wheel Sea Scroll.

Ye Fan was horrified when he saw the scripture in his hand which seemed to be full of magic power.

This method of strengthening the source of life is indeed overbearing, and it seems that people can't help but want to practice it.

After slaying the delusions in his mind and putting away the ancient scroll, Ye Fan asked, "Have you practiced this scripture?"

Li Zhi shook his head and said, "How dare I practice this kind of magic skill? Practicing it will destroy my foundation. I think no one can truly practice this kind of magic skill except the ruthless emperor who created it. But it is still very valuable to use it as a reference. It can help us understand the true meaning of the origin of life more clearly."

Ye Fan nodded and said, "That's true."

The explanation of the origin of life in it also gave him great inspiration.

Then, Ye Fan asked, "Li Zhi, did you spend a million jin of energy to buy the rhizome of the ancient divine medicine in Tianyao Baoque in order to practice the companion immortal tree of the Changsheng Sutra?"

In fact, Ye Fan once tried to condense a companion fairy tree in the Taoist Palace, but his Taoist Palace was very magical. Not only did no Taoist Palace gods appear, but even the companion fairy tree could not be condensed.

Ye Fan had the "Innate Longevity Art" Lunhai Scroll and Dao Palace Scroll in his hands, so Li Zhi nodded and said, "Legend has it that every great emperor has to keep an immortal medicine by his side to comprehend the longevity method, so I bought it at all costs. If I can keep it alive, maybe I can grow a real immortal tree in the Dao Palace, greatly increasing my chances of achieving enlightenment."

"Is it difficult to prove the truth? Before, I fought with the Golden-winged Little Peng King at the Green Dragon King's place. Some people said that it was a fight for the path to becoming the Great Emperor. Is that true?" Ye Fan knew that Li Zhi seemed to know many secrets of the world, and even seemed to know the origin of the mysterious Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin, so he asked this question.

Li Zhi smiled and said, "That's nothing but a child's play. When your holy body breaks through to the Four Extremes Secret Realm and you experience the baptism of heavenly tribulation, you will understand what kind of person is qualified to compete on the road to becoming an emperor. As for the real competition on the road to becoming an emperor, you will understand it when you are qualified to step into the starry sky."

From what Li Zhi said, it seemed that the holy body was not a waste body, so Ye Fan asked, "Li Zhi, do you know why the ancient holy body turned into an ancient waste body?"

Li Zhi said: "When has the holy body ever become a useless body? Could it be that your current cultivation is fake? It's just that the holy body will encounter a more difficult catastrophe when breaking through the Four Extremes Secret Realm. If you can't get through that catastrophe, your cultivation will stagnate. If you get through it, your cultivation will continue to improve. It's that simple.

Saying that the holy body becomes a useless body is just hearsay. A truly useless body cannot embark on the path of cultivation. Any body that can embark on the path of cultivation is not a useless body.

It’s just that the disaster that the Holy Body encountered made those people feel that it was an insurmountable chasm.

But are there really insurmountable chasms in the world? It’s just that we don’t have enough strength.

As for those people claiming that the holy body cannot be cultivated because of the lack of source, do you think that with the accumulation of those holy places and families, there is really a lack of source?
You should have seen the true strength of those major forces recently.

In their eyes, a million to eight hundred thousand catties of source is nothing. The difficulty encountered in the practice of the Holy Body has never been a lack of source, but the disaster is too terrible, so they feel that no one can survive it. That's why they claim that the Holy Body is useless. "

Ye Fan nodded slightly. His recent dealings with the descendants of those powerful forces had made Ye Fan realize that what he had thought before, that the holy body could not be successfully cultivated because of a lack of source, was actually nonsense. The powerful forces did not lack source at all.

It's just that ordinary disciples lack source.

Whether it is the prince of Daxia, the young master of Tianyao Palace, Jiang Yifei of the Jiang family, or An Miaoyi of Miaoyu Temple, they all seem to have no shortage of sources. If they really come across good things, hundreds of thousands of kilograms of sources seem to be easily mobilized.

Now after listening to Li Zhi's explanation, Ye Fan seemed to understand the real reason why the holy body was called a waste body.

But what kind of disaster could it be that caused all the major holy places and noble families to unanimously believe that the holy place was ruined?

Then, Ye Fan asked: "Li Zhi, what exactly is the calamity of the holy body?"

Li Zhi smiled and said, "You will know when the time comes. Knowing it in advance will not be good for your practice. If you are short of energy when you break through the Four Extremes Secret Realm, I can support you with 100 kilograms of divine energy."

"Do you really have the divine source in your hand?" Ye Fan thought that Li Zhi had bid the price in the Ji family's stone workshop before in order to help him build momentum.

Li Zhi said: "Of course there are some."

Then, Ye Fan's mind moved, and he asked: "Do you know the true origin of that little golden creature?"

Li Zhi nodded and said, "He should be a member of the ancient royal family, the Divine Silkworm Clan. This clan's natural power is extraordinary, known as the Ten Transformations Emperor, and is extremely mysterious and powerful."

Ye Fan stayed with Li Zhi for less than two hours before leaving. After resolving many doubts in his mind, he planned to break through.

However, Li Zhi did not leave the San Sheng Temple, but waited in the temple for the second arrival of the golden little divine silkworm.

He believed that the little divine silkworm, having eaten a piece of the immortal source grain, would not give up the other piece of immortal source in his hand.

But Li Zhi was a little surprised that the little silkworm didn't come to him after waiting for a long time. Could it be that it was imprisoned? Just when Li Zhi was thinking about when the little silkworm would come, the little silkworm appeared in front of Li Zhi with an anxious look and gestured at him.

Li Zhi said with a strange look on his face: "Are you here to ask me to help you break the formation?"

The golden little silkworm blinked its big eyes, then nodded, and then looked back at Li Zhi every few steps.

Seeing this, Li Zhi followed him directly.

After leaving the divine city, the little divine silkworm turned into a golden light, while Li Zhi turned into a purple light and followed the little divine silkworm to fly towards the vast uninhabited area.

At this moment, it is the season of heavy snow in the Northern Territory, and many mountains and rivers are covered in white.

After flying in the uninhabited area for two days, they came to a mountain range blocked by ice and snow. Spiritual energy continuously overflowed from the mountains, and faint divine light could be seen in the mountains.

It seems like a source of energy that is about to erupt.

Looking at the hundreds of formation flags planted around the mountain, Li Zhi knew that this was the place where Ye Fan chose to break through. Without disturbing Ye Fan in the formation, Li Zhi said to the little divine silkworm: "Do you want to absorb the source energy inside?"

The little divine silkworm nodded.

Li Zhi said: "Then you should wait until he finishes the breakthrough before coming. Now is not the right time."

Afterwards, Li Zhi took the little divine silkworm away.

At a place two hundred miles away from the mountains and rivers, Li Zhi said to the little divine silkworm: "Little guy, help me practice here. After the task is completed, I will give you two pieces of immortal source."

After hesitating for a moment, the little divine silkworm nodded and agreed to Li Zhi's proposal.

Afterwards, a mysterious fairy tree flew out from Li Zhi's wheel sea, took root directly in the ground, and turned into an ancient tree dozens of meters high with lush branches and leaves.

Li Zhi sat cross-legged under a big tree, while the little divine silkworm lay on his shoulder, curiously looking at the big tree that appeared alone in the Gobi Desert.

Afterwards, endless Tao rhyme emanated from the big tree, linking Li Zhi and the little divine silkworm together.

Afterwards, Li Zhi began to comprehend the "Metamorphosis of the Divine Silkworm" with the help of the special Taoist rhyme emanating from the little divine silkworm.

Originally, he was only able to gain a basic understanding of the "Metamorphosis of the Divine Silkworm", but with the help of the special Taoist charm emanating from the little divine silkworm, Li Zhi's understanding of it became deeper and deeper, and all the doubts that existed before were easily resolved.

The little divine silkworm, which has completed nirvana countless times, is simply the best auxiliary to comprehend the source of the Tao of "The Metamorphosis of the Divine Silkworm", and the auxiliary effect is extremely amazing.

In just one day, Li Zhi completed the final understanding of "The Divine Silkworm Metamorphosis Method".

Afterwards, Li Zhi took back the vision of the Wheel Sea Fairy Tree, and directly gave the little divine silkworm two fist-sized pieces of fairy source.

The little divine silkworm happily swallowed them into its stomach, as if storing them temporarily without refining them, and then flew directly towards the place where Ye Fan was breaking through.

Li Zhi did not disturb Ye Fan, but left directly.

He had to find a perfect place for transformation, not just any place to achieve nirvana.

A few days later, Li Zhi finally found a small oasis of only a few dozen acres in the depths of the no-man's land.

Inside the oasis, there is a half-acre lake. The lake water exudes a hint of spiritual energy. It is actually a natural spiritual lake.

The lake is full of vitality, providing a constant source of vitality for the growth of the oasis.

Perhaps thousands of years later, this oasis of only a few dozen acres will grow into a new source of life.

Of course, there is also the possibility of accidents, which may lead to the loss of life and degeneration into a desert Gobi again.

However, Li Zhi saw that there were abundant water veins under the oasis, and it seemed that there was really the possibility of it growing into a large oasis.

Li Zhi was quite satisfied with this place. This vibrant place was just right for Nirvana and rebirth.

Dozens of formation flags were placed around the oasis to seal the entire oasis. Then Li Zhi came to the spiritual lake and began to practice the "Divine Silkworm Metamorphosis Method" to absorb the essence of the immortal source to transform.

After the essence from the immortal source entered his body, the feeling was completely different from absorbing the essence from the divine source. Li Zhi's body and mind both gave rise to a sense of ascension.

It was as if it was absorbing real fairy spirit.

A piece of immortal energy the size of a millstone was quickly absorbed by Li Zhi.

Then, countless crystal clear silk threads condensed from magic power burst out from his body, as if they had life.

Those crystal white divine silks formed a huge cocoon outside Li Zhi's body, wrapping him completely inside.

Then, the cocoon began to float and sink in the spiritual lake.

Gradually, strands of high-quality life essence began to escape from the cocoon, causing the plants in the entire oasis to grow wildly.

The concentration of life essence contained in the water of Linghu Lake has increased tenfold.

Moreover, as time passed, more and more life essence leaked out from the cocoon, as if the magical silk was constantly extracting Li Zhi's life essence.

At this moment, Li Zhi, who was in the cocoon, felt a pain coming from the source of his life, as if countless scrapers were constantly trimming his life source.

Remove the vast majority of ordinary essence from his life source, leaving only the most essential life source.

Then, the most essential source of life will give birth to a new source of life with higher quality.

During this process, Li Zhi's body seemed to have dried up and looked no different from a corpse dried up in the desert.

I don't know how much time had passed, but the cocoons no longer emitted life essence, but began to absorb life essence from the outside world, and the magical silk began to slowly wither.

However, the large-scale replenishment of vital energy did not restore the luster of Li Zhi's dry body.

There wasn't even a hint of change.

It was not until fifteen days later that the sound of porcelain cracking suddenly came from inside the dried body.

Ping-pong-pong, after a series of cracking sounds, the dry flesh suddenly turned into pieces of clay and fell from Li Zhi's body.

Soon, a body as crystal clear as jade and full of vitality and blood appeared in the spiritual lake.

After nearly a month, Li Zhi finally completed his seventh transformation.

The whole person seemed to have shrunk because of this.

My height has also increased from 1.5 meters to about 1.3 meters.

His black hair was like a waterfall, his skin was like jade, and silver-red blood was flowing in his body, giving him powerful physical strength. There was almost no flaw on his body.

Just as Li Zhi was silently feeling his transformed body, suddenly a bolt of lightning fell from the sky and directly shattered the formation barrier he had set up on the oasis.

"Crack!"

A bolt of lightning struck Li Zhi's head directly.

In an instant, the fairy-like Li Zhi turned into a little beggar with exploded hair and charred body, as if he had just come out of a coal mine.

Before he could react, the second bolt of thunder came.

Li Zhi was not in a hurry and did not use any magic weapon to fight back. Instead, he directly activated the heavenly thunder tribulation in "Red Dust Tribulation" to deal with it.

During the last transformation, after being imprinted with the true meaning of the secret realm of the Wheel Sea left by the ruthless emperor, Li Zhi finally completed the heavenly thunder tribulation in "The Tribulation of the Red Dust", allowing it to have the effect of refining the power of thunder for his own use.

Li Zhi was like a human-shaped thunder pool, absorbing all the thunder and lightning from the sky into his body.

And under the influence of the mysterious method, wisps of thunder and lightning spiritual mist emitting special life rhythms gradually emerged.

Then the mist was absorbed by his body.

After withstanding thirty-six heavenly thunders, the calamity clouds in the sky finally dissipated.

Li Zhi, who was sitting in the lake, looked like a lightning tank that could explode at any time, with sparks coming out of his body.

He looked extremely dangerous, but his aura was getting stronger and stronger.

There was even some spiritual mist from the thunder tribulation that had no time to be refined and absorbed, which escaped from the body, causing the surrounding plants to grow wildly again and begin to expand outward.

The oasis, which was originally only a few dozen acres in size, soon became an oasis of several miles in radius.

Moreover, the growth of flowers, plants and trees in the oasis is even comparable to that of plants in large oases with a radius of hundreds of miles.

After the last bit of thunder power in his body was refined, Li Zhi finally breathed a sigh of relief and said in his heart: "The Dao of the ruthless emperor is indeed domineering."

Compared with the Wanjie Sect's methods of controlling thunder, it is many times more advanced.

Afterwards, Li Zhi took a good bath in the lake and left.

Shortly after he left.

Two monks passing by accidentally discovered the oasis.

"There seems to be the aura of thunder tribulation. Did someone just survive the tribulation here?"

"No, the spiritual energy here is not right. This oasis seems to have been transformed into its current state by a high-quality life essence."

"Could it be that a world-shaking treasure has been born?"

"Why is the color of the lake so strange? What is this thing?" A man fished out a piece of Li Zhi's old body fragment that looked like a piece of pottery and had not yet completely dissolved in the lake and said.

"Let's seal this place up first, and then we can go back and inform the master. Maybe there is something we are looking for here."

　Finally finished writing, so sleepy, good night everyone!

　　
　
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