Chapter 167: Eastern Wasteland
Li Zhi's residence in Yao Chi is on a sacred mountain far away from the central fairy lake of Yao Chi.

The mountain is lined with pine and cypress trees, with wild herbs everywhere and a cool climate, creating a sense of tranquility far away from the mundane world.

In the small bluestone square in front of the cave, Hei Huang kept circling around Li Zhi, seeming unwilling to have only memorized less than one-tenth of the Dao map.

The little girl, who was originally sitting on the black dog's back, was also dizzy from being spun around by him. She grabbed the big black dog's ears and said, "Dog, stop now. I'm going to faint."

Seeing this, Ye Fan on the side immediately took little Nannan off the Black Emperor's back, then patted Nannan on the back and said, "Nannan, are you sleepy? If you are, go to sleep first."

Little Nannan nodded, laid directly on Ye Fan's shoulder, and soon fell asleep.

Seeing this, Li Zhi said, "Ye Fan, send Nannan to sleep in the cave. It's late at night and the weather is cold. Don't let her get cold."

Afterwards, Ye Fan put little Nannan on the bed in the room, and then went back to the outside of the cave.

He saw Hei Huang still circling around Li Zhi, and he kept muttering, "Little Taoist Priest, Taoist Priest Li, Taoist Master Li, let's do it again."

But Li Zhi seemed unmoved and said, "Black Emperor, this kind of thing can only be done once. You have seen that it only took one time to cause a heavenly calamity. The fairy egg was also frightened and became silent. If it happens again, it will probably cause heavenly punishment. I don't want to be found by the Chaos Divine Thunder. After this experience, the fairy egg will definitely be on guard. If it activates the countermeasures left by the Immortal Emperor, it will be very bad."

Li Zhi's intuition told him that this could only happen once. If he did it again, the Chaos Thunder would descend instantly.

He had personally experienced how terrifying the Chaos Divine Thunder was when he was planning to sacrifice the semi-saint level star beast in the Star Cave World. It was simply terrifying to the extreme.

Black Emperor said, "It's okay. I have the Heaven-Defying Mark, which can block the Heaven's senses. I will never let Heaven's punishment find you."

Although Li Zhi had not personally experienced how unreliable the Black Emperor's guarantees were, he had heard about it.

He didn't dare to take the risk. Li Zhi shook his head and said, "It's too dangerous. I won't do it."

Hei Huang finally stopped, stared at Li Zhi, and asked, "Little Taoist priest, what do you want in order to make another move? I don't believe you have memorized the entire Dao diagram. Don't you want to see what the complete Immortal Phoenix Mark looks like?"

Li Zhi shook his head again and said, "I remembered most of it, but I'm not greedy, and I don't want to be bothered by that old bastard, the Immortal Emperor. God knows what kind of tricks the Immortal Emperor left behind to protect his children. Using the same trick once is already the limit."

Black Emperor said: "The Immortal Emperor has been dead for millions of years, what are you afraid of him doing?"

Li Zhi asked back: "Are you sure that the Immortal Emperor is really dead? I am not sure. Maybe he is hiding in a corner and transforming quietly."

Black Emperor seemed to feel some pain, and said, "Really? Can't we do it again? If you can let me remember the Immortal Phoenix Mark completely, I will take you to Purple Mountain even if I have to waste a few Divine Sources. How about that?"

Li Zhi still shook his head and said, "Although I am interested in the things left by the Wu Shi Great Emperor, I also know that it is not suitable for me. And you have also seen my secret method, which is a secret method that harms the harmony of nature. If I do it too much, it will affect my fortune. I don't want to be addicted to bad luck and step on dog shit when I go out."

"Woof woof, are you mocking me?" The Black Emperor widened his eyes, bared his teeth and bared at Li Zhi.

Li Zhi didn't want to be bitten by a dog, so he quickly said, "Hei Huang, this is a misunderstanding. I'm not talking about you, I'm talking about the shit of other dogs."

"Haha", Ye Fan suddenly laughed out loud after seeing this scene.

Li Zhi also came to his senses. What was the point of talking nonsense with Hei Huang? The other party was just a dog. It would be disgusting if he really pooped on his feet.

Then, he asked Ye Fan, "Ye Fan, how did you and Xiao Nannan find us? Didn't the Yao Chi disciples clear that area?"

Ye Fan said truthfully: "Nannan said that Black Emperor found something interesting, so she took me to look for Black Emperor, and then I saw you two exploring the stone king. Li Zhi, is that really the fairy egg left by the Immortal Emperor?"

Li Zhi nodded and said, "He is indeed the descendant of the Immortal Emperor. He has the blood of the Immortal Phoenix flowing in his body, and his blood power is beyond belief. Once he is born, he will catch up with the older generation of masters in a very short time. If everything goes well, it is estimated that he will only need thirty to fifty years of practice to become a saint."

Ye Fan said: "So scary?"

Li Zhi said, "It is so terrifying. His talent is one level higher than your Saint Body, but I don't know what his character is like. If he is the kind of person who has nothing else to give up except the Tao, I am afraid he will be able to achieve Taoism smoothly in the future and become an existence at the level of the Ancient Emperor."

Ye Fan said: "The ancient myriad races are about to revive. I really don't know how much change it will bring to the world."

Li Zhi said: "So Ye Fan, you have to work hard to practice. The human race's holy body is different from other physiques. Anyone who is a human race holy land is a person with a destiny. As long as you are willing to shoulder the destiny of the human race, there will be a mysterious human destiny blessing on you, which will make your practice like heaven's help. Now that you have broken the restrictions of heaven and earth, the time for great success in the future is just around the corner. Whether you can turn this golden age into a golden age dominated by the human race depends on your future achievements."

The more Ye Fan listened, the more he felt something was wrong. Then he suddenly realized that Li Zhi was fooling him, so he asked, "Why me? Can't you do it? Your talent is stronger than mine. You have reached the ninth level of Dragon Transformation so quickly, and you can even kill powerful people. I heard what those people said about you. They all compared you to a real dragon reborn."

Li Zhi shook his head and said, "My situation is different from yours. Besides, I have already killed myself. Now I am just a weakling of the same level. No one can beat me."

Ye Fan then asked, "Li Zhi, why did you want to cut yourself off? What did you do in the Ten Thousand Dragons' Nest? Why did that young man from the Ancient Clan worship you so much?"

Black Emperor showed curiosity and asked, "Young Taoist priest, have you found a great fortune in the Ten Thousand Dragons' Nest? The last time I saw you, you had only reached the Four Extremes Perfection. After not seeing you for such a long time, you have already reached the Dragon Perfection. This cultivation speed is unbelievably fast. How did you do it?"

Seeing that both of them were curious about his performance in the Ten Thousand Dragons' Nest, Li Zhi briefly told them how he sneaked into the Ten Thousand Dragons' Nest and how he used the dragon energy there to practice.

After hearing this, both of them showed strange expressions.

Li Zhi said, "Don't look at me like that. I am just using the traditional skills of a Taoist priest. If I can't convince others with my mouth, how can I deserve the title of a long-lived Taoist priest? I want to cultivate the great supernatural power of speaking and acting according to the law. Fighting and killing are not for me. Telling fortunes, divination, keeping healthy, and checking Feng Shui for others are what I should do as a Taoist priest."

Ye Fan and Hei Huang both showed looks of contempt, feeling that Li Zhi was a big liar.

Black Emperor looked at him warily and said, "You didn't use your big trick on us just now, did you?"

Li Zhi said: "We are all friends, how could I fool you?"

Ye Fan said, "Although it is the truth, I always feel that you are fooling me. I have heard that deceiving people with the truth is the highest level of deception."

Li Zhi said: "It's OK if you don't believe me. Anyway, I didn't lie to you."

Then, Ye Fan asked: "Li Zhi, tell us the truth, what is the use of the mark snatched from the fairy egg?"

Li Zhi said: "It is useful, indeed, but it is useless. It can neither help us in our cultivation nor help us directly comprehend magical powers. But after we truly achieve enlightenment and can no longer find the direction to move forward in the world, the Immortal Phoenix Mark will be of great use. Perhaps it will allow us to see the grace of a higher level of the Dao."

At this time, the Black Emperor turned his head and looked at Ye Fan and asked, "Little Ye, how much of that Dao diagram have you remembered? Show it to me quickly."

Ye Fan said: "I don't remember much, probably less than half."

Then he looked at Li Zhi and said, "Li Zhi, how about we combine the Dao diagrams that we each remember? Maybe we can piece together a complete Dao diagram."

Li Zhi smiled and said, "Okay."

Afterwards, the two men and the dog showed what they had each remembered.

But the strange thing is that no matter how hard they try, they can't piece together what they remember, and there is always a feeling that it doesn't make sense.

"What's going on?" Ye Fan asked with a hint of doubt in his eyes.

Black Emperor calmed down completely at this time. After thinking for a moment, he said, "I think I understand the reason. The Dao diagram we see is not a Dao diagram formed by the laws of heaven and earth, but a mark of the original Dao. What we call how much we remember is actually how much we have transformed it into the corresponding laws of heaven and earth. Everyone has a different understanding of the Dao, so naturally they will not comprehend exactly the same laws of heaven and earth, so they can't be pieced together. Except for Xiao Nannan, it is estimated that the Dao diagrams that all of us have seen are different, and they are very different from the original Dao diagram. There is an essential difference between that Dao diagram and the Dao diagram that was sent down by heaven and earth when Ye Fan broke through the four extremes."

Li Zhi said: "Hei Huang is right."

As the sky gradually brightened and white light appeared in the eastern sky, Ye Fan asked, "Li Zhi, will you go to Zhongzhou Qishi Mansion to practice next?"

Li Zhi said: "Maybe I will go, maybe not. I just cut off the extra things on my body, and I plan to practice the Xiantian Changsheng Gong from the beginning to adapt to the changes in my body."

Ye Fan asked: "Will you stay in Yaochi Holy Land to practice?"

Li Zhi shook his head and said, "Although Yao Chi Holy Land treats me well, it is a place dominated by women after all. I will go to the South Region and return to Taixuan Sect to practice. My status as a core disciple of Taixuan Sect's Spiritual Medicine Peak has not been taken away by the sect. Moreover, I am a stranger to everyone in the world now, so I will not encounter any trouble no matter where I practice."

Ye Fan said: "Since you plan to return to Taixuanmen, you must be careful of Hua Yunfei."

Li Zhi said, "I will be careful of him."

In the next few days, the Yaochi Holy Land welcomed the arrival of the Purple Mountain Ancient Ancestor King, who took away the stone king that sealed the Heavenly Prince. The various heroes also left the Yaochi Holy Land, and this Peach Festival came to an end.

Li Zhi also bid farewell to the Queen Mother of the West, and quietly went to the Jiang family cemetery and put the guarding general back into the Jiang family cemetery.

Looking at the sleeping Great Accomplished God King in the purple jade crystal coffin, Li Zhi said: "Thank you for your protection along the way, which helped me get through the most difficult period of my weakness. If you can shed your Yin body and regain your Yang body in the future, I will personally guide you into the Tao."

Unlike the last time he came to the Jiang Family Cemetery, Li Zhi's cultivation level at this moment was far superior to the past. He easily passed through the various magic arrays in the Jiang Family Cemetery, and then saw Jiang Shuwen who was practicing hard in the God King Sacrifice Hall.

As if punishing himself, Jiang Shuwen used a very domineering training method.

The body is covered with hidden wounds.

Upon seeing this, Li Zhi left a bottle of golden holy spring water, weighing about ten kilograms, and a letter outside the temple.

Afterwards, he left the Northern Territory quietly.

A few days later, Jiang Caihong came to visit Jiang Shuwen and saw the magical spring water and letters outside the temple.

Then the two of them quietly returned to the tomb and saw again the purple jade crystal coffin where the ancestor of the God King was sleeping.

However, the two did not alarm any elders, but quietly burned the letter as if nothing had happened.

Jiang Shuwen seemed to have untied a knot in his heart. He stopped punishing himself with hard training and began to learn to be a qualified "inside person".

Li Zhi, who returned to the Southern Region, did not return directly to Taixuan Gate.

Instead, they came to the ancient forest outside the ancient forbidden area.

After arriving at the ancient star Beidou, his practice started from here.

It took Li Zhi half a month to complete the reconstruction of the Wheel Sea Secret Realm in the ancient forest. It can’t be considered a reconstruction, but more of an adaptation.

Based on the "Xiantian Changsheng Gong", the Lunhai Secret Realm was rebuilt using the Lunhai Volume of the "Taoist Scripture".

After completing the training, the Sea of ​​Bitterness, which had shrunk by half, returned to its original size before the self-cutting.

It seemed that the secret realm of the Wheel Sea had become clearer and purer, the black Sea of ​​Bitterness was lifeless, and the milky white Spring of Life was full of vitality.

The vital energy and the dead energy became extremely pure, without a trace of impurities, as if they could evolve the yin and yang of heaven and earth.

Moreover, his divine pupils of life and death seemed to be able to directly draw the power of life and death from the sea of ​​suffering and add to their power.

The divine bridge also became simple and majestic, like an eternal stone bridge, connecting the fairyland on the other side floating above the Sea of ​​Bitterness.

In the fairyland, the sky is clear and the earth is bright. A mysterious Taoist temple is located on a huge green mountain.

A three-meter-tall mysterious fairy tree with thousands of leaves stands on the top of a green mountain, exuding a mysterious Taoist charm, setting off the ancient atmosphere of the green mountain and the Taoist temple.

At the foot of the green hills, a three-story altar sits quietly there without emitting a trace of breath, but it gives people a feeling as if it can sacrifice all the spirits of heaven and earth, and even the vast universe, to an unknown existence.

Although Li Zhi has become a mortal body, his mortal body is definitely different from ordinary mortal bodies.

Green mountains, Taoist temples, fairy trees, altars, these things, let alone mortal bodies, even holy bodies, divine bodies, and chaotic bodies do not have them. It seems that they are related to the true spirit that he traveled through.

After the secret realm of Lunhai was restored, Li Zhi left Yan.

He began to travel around the countries in the Southern Region, looking for places with strong Five Elements power to practice.

It took more than a month for Li Zhi to complete the revision of the Taoist Palace volume of "Innate Longevity Art". He also used the Taoist Palace volume of "Western Emperor Sutra" to rebuild the Taoist Palace secret realm. The companion fairy tree that had originally turned into grass was able to grow again and grew into a foot tall again, and its shape was slightly different from before.

The five gods of the Taoist Palace transplanted all five companion fairy trees into the palace within the Taoist Palace.

Li Zhi felt that the Taoist Palace had become more complete and the space had returned to its previous state.

It seems that the previous practice of planting companion fairy trees outside the Taoist palace could not bring out the full power of the Taoist palace and its gods.

Moreover, after the reconstruction, all the gods in the Taoist Palace became what he is now, but the aura was different. Every god in the Taoist Palace was filled with a pure five elements divine power.

After completing the reconstruction of the Taoist Palace Secret Realm, Li Zhi returned to Taixuan Gate.

However, it did not cause any disturbance. The head of Taixuan Sect did not let Li Zhi appear in front of ordinary disciples and told him not to practice in the sect for the time being.

The headmaster suspected that a mysterious force had already infested the Taixuan Sect. If that force was not eradicated, Li Zhi would be in danger.

Therefore, Li Zhi practiced in Taixuan Sect for less than a month and then left again.

Before leaving, he taught the headmaster the Phoenix Tribulation and the way of star cultivation that he had learned from the Star Cave, and also told the headmaster the true nature of the Star Cave's creation.

After leaving Taixuan Gate, Li Zhi came to the Central Region again.

Just outside the Immortal Mountain, he completed the reconstruction of the Four Extremes Volume of the "Innate Longevity Art", and at the same time practiced a scripture from the Four Extremes Volume of the "Xuanwu Sutra" that was suspected to have been left behind by the ancient emperor in the Immortal Mountain.

This was the method he found on a stone turtle that he accidentally took away when he was collecting soil from the medicinal fields in the Immortal Mountain.

Originally, he didn't know about this method. It was the god of the Hundred Herbs Map who told him that among the soil of the medicinal fields that he collected in the Immortal Mountain, there was a piece of stone used as the base of the medicinal field array. There was a turtle pattern engraved on the stone. It was suspected that it was the same as the Western Emperor's Legacy in the old site of the Yao Chi, and contained the true intention of the Great Dao.

When Li Zhi used the Wheel Sea Fairy Tree to activate the turtle pattern, he indeed saw a divine turtle that could suppress heaven and earth. Its four thighs were like pillars of heaven, stepping on the four poles of heaven and earth.

Li Zhi understood the scriptures of the Four Extreme Volumes of the "Xuanwu Sutra" from it.

When Li Zhi finished practicing the Four Extremes Volume of "Xuanwu Sutra", the sacred mountain, which had originally degenerated to the size of a brick, turned into four blue-black pillars of heaven, standing in the Four Extremes Secret Realm, directly supporting a vast piece of heaven and earth.

Li Zhi's Four Extremes Secret Realm no longer has the heavy feeling of lack of flexibility as before.

Instead, there is a feeling of being able to reach the four poles of heaven and earth, as if four levers were pressed on the body, which can easily pry open the even more powerful force of heaven and earth.

The divine power contained in the use of the laws of heaven and earth has become even more powerful, but its own consumption has been reduced by more than 30%.

This gave Li Zhi a completely new understanding of the Four Poles Secret Realm.

The Four Poles Secret Realm is not only the beginning of communicating with the laws of heaven and earth, but also the beginning of stirring up the laws of heaven and earth with one's own power. It is also the starting point for cultivators to truly possess the ability to shake the world.

After completing his training in the Four Extreme Secret Realms, Li Zhi left the vicinity of the Immortal Mountain.

But as soon as he arrived at Wangkong City, one of the ten ancient cities in the Central Region, he heard that Ye Fan had killed twelve young geniuses of the Saint Son level in a row in the Fire Demon Ridge, and at the same time killed a group of half-step great men with the heavenly tribulation, and two real second-level immortals also died under the heavenly tribulation.

The battle at Fire Demon Ridge made Ye Fan famous throughout the Eastern Wilds. Even though almost a month had passed since the incident, the discussion about him showed no signs of abating.

When Li Zhi learned about what happened, he thought to himself, "The Saint of Daoyi, Li Donglai, didn't actually participate in the battle to encircle and suppress Ye Fan. Could it be that he was influenced by me?"

However, Li Zhi did not continue to stay in the Central Region, but directly opened the domain gate to Zhongzhou.

After entering the domain gate, Li Zhi disappeared from the Eastern Wilderness.

Not long after he left the Central Region, the Holy Maiden of Daoyi Holy Land finally walked out of the holy land, came directly to the Tianxuan ruins, and visited Divine Doctor Wang.

No one knew what news she got from Divine Doctor Wang, but Saint Daoyi walked into the domain gate to Zhongzhou with a cold face.

(End of this chapter)