Chapter 114 Return to the Southern Region
When the domain gate opened, it was as if one had stepped into a dark corridor of time, with fleeting lights and shadows, and from time to time one could see endless reflections of mountains and rivers.

It was the first time that Li Zhi used this domain gate that could cross the endless void and reach the Southern Region directly, and he still felt a little bit novel.

Li Zhi tried hard to observe the surrounding scenery in the void passage, but did not find any blood-stained ancient ship in the void, or encounter any strange sights of flying fairies, which made him a little disappointed.

It seems that I still don’t have the halo of the protagonist, and I can’t see the wonders of crossing the void.

In the blink of an eye, Li Zhi crossed billions of miles of void and arrived at the other end of the domain gate.

Walking out of the hall and looking around, the sky is blue, the clouds are white, the breeze is full of the freshness of grass and trees, and the air seems to be full of infinite vitality.

Compared with the monotonous and dull land in the North that lacks vitality, the mountains and rivers before us are beautiful and picturesque, with pleasant sounds of insects and birds, and various animals can be seen roaming in the mountains from time to time.

This is the Southern Region of the Eastern Wilderness, a Southern Region that is completely different from the Northern Region.

A world full of vitality and vigor is pleasing to the eyes.

"Little brother Li Zhi, your Southern Region is still a good place to live." A sweet voice like the song of an oriole sounded in Li Zhi's ears.

"Sister Sun Yi, your Pure Land of Yaochi is much more beautiful than here. Why did you follow me to the Southern Region?" Li Zhi turned his head and said to a girl of about seventeen or eighteen years old.

Compared with a few years ago, although Sun Yi is over 20 years old, her appearance has not improved with age, as if she was frozen in her youth.

Sun Yi smiled like a foodie and said, "Little brother Li Zhi, you don't understand. Your Southern Region is rich in products and has much more delicious food than our Northern Region. This time, I came out of seclusion with Master's permission to go out and gain experience. I can't hang around in the lifeless Northern Region. I must enjoy myself in the Southern Region."

Li Zhi said curiously, "The Holy City gathers almost all the delicacies in the world, even those from Zhongzhou, Nanling, Beiyuan, and Ximo. You can enjoy them in the Holy City."

Sun Yi rolled her eyes at Li Zhi and said, "You think I am you, your sister. The Fairy Feast at Huan Shi Fu opens whenever you want. It is thanks to you that I am able to go to Huan Shi Fu for the first time to enjoy the Fairy Feast since I was a child."

Li Zhi said, "Isn't that what we agreed on before? It's nothing. When you have money in the future, you can often go to Huan Shi Fu to enjoy the fairy feast."

Sun Yi curled her lips and said, "When I have money, I don't know how many years it will be."

As they walked and talked, the two soon walked out of the mountain covered by the barrier and came to a small sect called "Baihua".

The two disciples guarding outside the barrier said immediately after seeing Sun Yi, "Fairy Sun, the master is already waiting for you in the Hundred Flowers Hall."

Obviously, they already knew that Sun Yi would come.

The two young disciples looked at Li Zhi, who was dressed in Taoist robes, with some curiosity, but did not dare to ask about his origins.

The Baihua Sect is an ordinary sect in the Southern Region that is affiliated with the Yao Chi Holy Land. Its main function is to provide a place for people from the Yao Chi Holy Land to stay when they come to the Southern Region.

It is also responsible for guarding the domain gate.

"Sister Sun, please go and do your business. I'll wait for you outside." Li Zhi didn't want to deal with the leader of the Baihua Sect, so he spoke.

Sun Yi nodded and said, "Then wait for me for a while, I will be out soon."

Seeing Sun Yi leaving, Li Zhi asked the Baihua Sect disciple beside him, "Fellow Daoist, which country is this place? How far is it from the Yan Kingdom where the ancient forbidden area is located?"

"This is in the territory of Wu State, 30,000 miles away from Yan State," said the disciple.

"Has any major event occurred in the Southern Region recently?" Li Zhi asked again.

"I haven't heard of any major event happening." The disciple said after thinking for a while.

The other party's cultivation is only at the Life Spring level, so it is impossible for him to know about the major events happening in other places in the Southern Region.

Li Zhi gave him a piece of pure source weighing almost two kilograms.

"Thank you for the reward, Taoist priest." After taking the source, the disciple showed joy on his face and thanked Li Zhi respectfully.

Afterwards, the two chatted for a while. Sun Yi, looking relaxed, seemed to have completed the task assigned to her by the Queen Mother of the West.

"Little brother Li Zhi, let's go."

After leaving the Baihua Sect, the two flew directly towards the State of Yan.

On the way, Sun Yi suddenly asked, "Little brother Li Zhi, how did you get the Queen Mother to allow you to enter the Sutra Library? I am not even qualified to go to the Sutra Library to see the collection inside."

Li Zhi said with a painful look on his face: "In order to enter the Sutra Library of your Yaochi Holy Land, I paid the price of blood. Now thinking about it, I still feel a little bit wronged. There is no complete copy of the "Western Emperor Sutra" in your Sutra Library."

"You are not a disciple of our Yao Chi, so how can we teach you the "Western Emperor Sutra"? Just be content. Many of the scriptures there are better than the ones I am practicing now." Then Sun Yi continued to ask: "Little brother Li Zhi, what kind of blood price did you pay?"

Li Zhi thought for a moment before saying seriously, "This is a secret."

"How boring. You didn't even tell me, your sister. I even protected you before." Sun Yi's curiosity was aroused, and she seemed to want to know how Li Zhi impressed the Queen Mother.

The reason why Li Zhi was able to enter the Sutra Library in the sacred land of Yao Chi and read books there for a month was actually because he reached an agreement with the Queen Mother of Yao Chi.

He used the immortal blood in his body to nourish the nine orifices and eight holes of the holy spirit stone under the ancient peach tree for a month.

Li Zhi did not refuse this.

He also wanted to know what kind of Holy Spirit there was in the Yao Chi Holy Land, which was said to be able to be born in perfection in five thousand years.

Why did there be no news about him later? Was he killed, or did he choose to seal himself?

And does the Holy Spirit, which has been bathed in many special bloods, want to transform into a Holy Spirit of Chaos?
However, Li Zhi's Taoism was still too weak at the moment. Even after spending a month using the blood of immortality to nourish the strange stone, he was still unable to figure out the situation inside it.

During this period, Li Zhi also tried to find the strange stone that sealed the Emperor's Prince and given to Yao Chi by Master Yuan Tianshi near the fairy pool of Yao Chi.

Unfortunately, I still couldn't see it.

It seemed that the prince was sleeping during that time and was not restless.

Otherwise, Li Zhi would have wanted to try to dig out the ancient scripture of the Immortal Emperor from his body.

Or you could dig out from him the numerous cultivation resources left to him by the Immortal Emperor, which would be something extremely coveted.

Seeing that she couldn't dig out the secret of why the Queen Mother allowed him to go to the Sutra Library from Li Zhi, Sun Yi asked again: "Brother Li Zhi, why did you refuse when the Saint Sister invited you to explore the ruthless emperor's dojo in the Yunduan Mountains? I heard that most of the young geniuses of the Eastern Wasteland went there. With your strength, you should be no weaker than the saints and saints of those holy places."

After surviving the catastrophe of life and death and nirvana, Li Zhi's cultivation growth rate reached an extremely exaggerated level.

One month of practice is equivalent to several years of hard work for an ordinary cultivator.

His cultivation level also broke through from the fourth level of the Taoist Palace Secret Realm to the fifth level, and the last divine treasure of the heart was also opened.

The combat effectiveness has increased to an extremely exaggerated level.

Previously, when sparring with the disciples of Yao Chi, Sun Yi, who had already broken through to the first level of the Four Extremes Secret Realm, was no match for Li Zhi.

Among the younger generation of disciples, almost no one can confront Li Zhi head-on.

Except for the Holy Maiden of Yao Chi who could barely withstand Li Zhi's exaggerated strength, everyone else was simply crushed under Li Zhi's Seal of Mountains and Rivers.

In the Holy Land of Yao Chi, many elders of the Dragon Transformation Secret Realm agreed with the judgment of the Holy Maiden of Yao Chi after discussing with Li Zhi.

Li Zhi indeed has the potential to be an emperor.

They were simply unable to defeat that kind of overwhelming magic power and solid and immortal body.

Especially Li Zhi's fighting style of using force to overwhelm others, which made no sense at all and made the cultivators of the same level feel despair. How could a cultivator from the Taoist secret realm have such tremendous magic power in his body?

It was like a peerless genius about to step in front of everyone and show his prowess. Some elders of the Yaochi Holy Land even suggested to the Queen Mother that Li Zhi should stay in the Yaochi Pure Land to continue his cultivation and hide him until he became a Saint Lord-level strongman, and then release him.

When the Saint Maiden of Yao Chi told Li Zhi the news, she almost scared him.

Afterwards, he took the opportunity to go to the Holy City to entertain Sun Yi and Hu Qin to bid farewell to the Queen Mother of the Yaochi.

This time they opened the domain gate directly from the Holy City and crossed the void to return to the Southern Region.

The eighth transformation was much more dangerous than Li Zhi had expected.

If the Saint Maiden of Yao Chi had not bought him from Yao Yuekong and brought him back to Yao Chi to be nurtured, and if he had not been nourished by the essence of the Holy Spirit, he would probably not have woken up yet.

The Jiang family's "The Great Emperor's Ancestral Bloodline Transformation Method" is simply an incomplete method.

It seemed reasonable and all aspects were taken into consideration, but when the real transformation came, Li Zhi realized the dangers involved.

After the transformation began, his mind seemed to be pulled into an ocean of the Great Dao, and there were even signs of him being assimilated by the Great Dao, directly turning him into a puppet of the Great Dao.

That is, by chance, he used two different sources of the Tao at the same time. One was from the law fragments in the immortal medicine, and the other was from the law fragments in the innate Tao diagram. The conflict between the two prevented his mind from sinking directly.

Later, with the interference of the extreme power of the Western Emperor Tower, the chaotic power of laws in his blood began to be straightened out, and his mind broke free from the assimilation of the sea of ​​laws.

Finally, he completed the eighth and most dangerous life and death nirvana.

The original power of the Immortal Body of Longevity also increased dramatically, and was almost as strong as the Holy Body.

He needs to practice to the ninth level of Quasi-Emperor before he can achieve complete success.

Unlike other ordinary king bodies, cultivating to the king level is considered a great success.

In fact, Li Zhi was just foolish and bold, daring to practice without fully understanding how to practice that technique.

To practice this technique, one must use imperial weapons to suppress the mind in order to prevent the mind from being assimilated by the power of the Dao during the transformation process.

Li Zhi was lucky enough to succeed this time, and he owed a huge favor to the Holy Land of Yao Chi.

Facing Sun Yi's doubts, Li Zhi explained: "My cultivation is still too weak. How can I compete with those saints without reaching the Four Extreme Secret Realms? I don't want to fight against those saints of higher levels. That would not be a training for me, but a torture."

Sun Yi suddenly laughed and said, "If those people knew what you were thinking, they would probably be ashamed."

Li Zhi said seriously: "I am telling the truth. Fighting against opponents of higher levels may show my strength, but the aftereffects are still very serious. It will make those old monks shamelessly kill me. Fighting against opponents of the same level is good. Even if I win, the opponent will not think I am that powerful."

Sun Yi suddenly realized: "So you like to play the pig and eat the tiger. But if that's the case, won't you get the experience you deserve?"

Li Zhi said: "That depends on your understanding of experience. Sister Sun, what do you think experience is?"

Sun Yi said: "Of course it is to fight with other cultivators, otherwise how can we verify the gains from cultivation."

Li Zhi said: "That is not experience, it is just vanity. He wants to step on those who are weaker than him to get to the top and win everyone's praise."

Sun Yi asked: "Then what do you mean by experience?"

Li Zhi thought for a moment and said, "In my opinion, the so-called experience is to display the great way you have cultivated and put it to the test between heaven and earth."

Sun Yi showed a confused look on her face and asked, "How do I test this?"

Li Zhi pointed to the mountains and rivers below and said, "For example, if I cultivate my physical strength, do I need to fight with others to demonstrate my physical strength? In fact, I don't need to. I just need to see how big a mountain I can lift to know the strength of my physical strength."

Sun Yi said: "If you never fight with others, wouldn't you become the kind of cultivator who only has magical powers but is incapable of actual combat?"

Li Zhi asked, "Sister Sun, you may have misunderstood what I meant. What is actual combat? In my opinion, it is just a way to control the output of one's own strength. The strength of actual combat has never been measured by how many battles have been fought. It is measured by the level of control over the output of one's own strength. The higher the level, the stronger the actual combat ability, and the lower the level, the weaker the actual combat ability. For example, if I send out a palm strike and others can easily avoid it, it means that my control over the palm strike is too weak. If a palm strike does not cause any damage to the enemy, it only means that the control over the output of strength is too weak."

After listening to Li Zhi's long explanation, Sun Yi was confused and asked, "With your method, does that mean we cultivators don't need to fight?"

Li Zhi said: "Of course we need to fight. But we cannot learn how to improve our combat power from fighting, that would be irresponsible to our own lives. What we need to do is to simulate various extreme environments that we may encounter in our daily training, so as to carry out targeted training. Only in this way can we be at ease when fighting with anyone."

Sun Yi became even more confused and said, "This is impossible, right?"

Li Zhi said: "This involves the second aspect of improving combat effectiveness, which is to increase knowledge. Only by seeing all kinds of difficulties and dangers can we achieve targeted self-transcendence. We have never practiced to defeat others, but to constantly transcend ourselves and break the rules and regulations that limit our own strength. Only then can we truly have the opportunity to achieve enlightenment."

Sun Yi still couldn't understand the meaning of Li Zhi's words, but fortunately she didn't try to understand it.

“Perhaps this is the difference between a peerless genius and an ordinary person. One never regards anyone as an opponent but only himself as an opponent, an opponent who restricts himself from becoming better.” Sun Yi thought secretly in her heart, and looked at Li Zhi with a little more admiration in her eyes.

In my heart, I no longer consider him as the little brother who loves to eat.

Then, Sun Yi asked, "Brother Li Zhi, where do you plan to go after returning to Yan State?"

Li Zhi smiled and said, "After being away from home for several years, it is natural for me to go home and visit, and then practice in seclusion for a while. Sister Sun, what are you doing in Yan State?"

Sun Yi did not hide anything and said directly: "I heard that the injured Saint Body Ye Fan has returned to the Southern Region. They say that he will not live long, but the Queen Mother and the Saint Sister said that he will not die so easily. He should find a way to go to the Life Forbidden Zone to pick up the magic medicine to heal his wounds. After all, only in the Life Forbidden Zone are there the laws of heaven and earth from the ancient times. That Ye Fan has walked out of the Ancient Forbidden Zone alive twice. The Queen Mother thinks that if he wants to heal his wounds, he is likely to go to the Ancient Forbidden Zone again. The purpose of my trip, in addition to delivering the letter, is to go there to see if the Saint Body has gone to the Ancient Forbidden Zone to pick up the magic medicine to heal his wounds."

It turned out that she had accepted the mission of a spy. No wonder the Holy Land of Yao Chi allowed her to follow Li Zhi to the Southern Region.

Li Zhi also understood why those big forces could quickly know the movements of the great geniuses.

It turned out to be the result of a secret investigation.

The two flew very fast, and it took only two days to reach the territory of Yan State, covering a distance of 30,000 miles.

Near Yandu, Li Zhi and Sun Yi parted ways.

He was going to the dark pool in the original ruins to use the extremely cold terrain there to train warriors to protect the way, so he couldn't go with Sun Yi for the time being.

According to the information Li Zhi had obtained in the Holy City before, Ye Fan should be practicing in the ancient forbidden area at this moment.

Sun Yi probably couldn't find any trace of him.

After arriving at the original ruins, the originally vibrant original ruins became even more dilapidated.

When the Qing Emperor's tomb was unearthed, it led to countless wars.

The war, which lasted for several years, almost completely destroyed the original ruins.

Looking around, it was a scene of devastation, with traces of battle everywhere.

The closer you get to the area where the Nether Pond is located, the more you can feel a strong aura of evil.

Fortunately, Li Zhi is no longer the little kid who just came out of the ancient forest.

His cultivation in the Taoist Secret Realm was about to reach perfection, allowing him to be able to deal with all the remaining murderous intentions on the battlefield.

Perhaps it was because the desolate tower had disappeared under the vast earth that the restrictions within the Nether Pond were no longer complete.

Coupled with the continuous attacks from those big shots, the remaining restrictions were almost wiped out.

There is not much irresistible murderous intent left around the Dark Pond.

Li Zhi arrived there safely.

(End of this chapter)