Chapter 242: Tempering the Body and the Dao

"Master, why do they call you the Ancient Prince?"

"Master, we all miss you."

"Master, why are you gone for more than half a year?"

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Inside the white deer chariot, the four maids chattered non-stop, not taking the danger they had just encountered seriously at all. It seemed that once Li Zhi came back, they would never be in danger again.

Along the way, they told him everything that had happened in Shencheng during the time Li Zhi was away.

Including but not limited to the movements of the major human forces, the revival of the ancient races, and a series of other things.

In the valley, watching the chariot pulled by the white deer go away, the ancient creatures who were kneeling on the ground and trembling stood up one after another as if they had been pardoned.

"Is he the ancient prince of the Ten Thousand Dragons? His supreme dragon power is like a real dragon in the world. I feel like my soul is about to break apart."

"Whether he is the ancient prince of the Ten Thousand Dragons or not, he is not someone we can afford to offend. Fortunately, we did not hurt his maid, otherwise her life would be in danger."

"The ancient prince has begun to travel the world, so we should keep a low profile when we operate in the City of Gods from now on."

Those ancient creatures had different thoughts. After chatting for a few words, they left.

He even ignored the two injured monsters.

Soon, the only two local monsters left in the valley were the injured Black Tiger Hu Liqiang and the Golden Sheep Yang Dali.

Seeing those ancient creatures leave, the two demons immediately breathed a sigh of relief and then reappeared their true forms.

Previously, they changed into human form in order not to lose face in front of those ancient creatures. Now that those ancient creatures have left, they have transformed back into their original forms.

Among the ancient biological groups, only the strong or those with extremely powerful bloodlines can transform into human form.

In most cases, the fewer racial traits those ancient creatures have, the more powerful they are.

After using the profound skills to recover from the external injuries on his body, Yang Dali, the Golden Sheep, said with emotion, "So Brother Bai's master has such a great background?"

"I don't know if we will have the chance to continue making friends with Brother Bai in the future." A hint of envy appeared in the eyes of the black tiger with shiny black fur.

"If I had known this would happen, I should have become sworn brothers with Brother Bai earlier." Yang Dali said with regret.

"Let's go to the Holy City in a few days to check out the situation. Maybe Brother Bai won't leave for the time being. That Taoist priest doesn't seem to be the kind of person who likes to be surrounded by people." Black Tiger Hu Liqiang said.

"No matter what, we brothers must seize this opportunity. My intuition tells me that whether I can be successful in the future depends on my relationship with Brother Bai." Yang Dali said.

"Fortunately, we did not abandon Brother Bai when he was in desperate situation before. This is a big advantage for both of us." A glimmer of wisdom flashed in Heihu's eyes.

Afterwards, they ran back to Baishou Ridge to recuperate.

In this way, the bloody conflict that was about to occur between the spirit beast and maidservant sat by Li Zhi and those ancient creatures came to an end.

Just because of Li Zhi's return, this conflict was eliminated without a trace.

This is the deterrent power of the strong.

Back then in the Huaxian Pond, the Green Emperor didn't have to do anything to destroy those spiritual jade figures, which is the influence of the strong on all things in the world.

As long as they show up, they can decide the direction of things.

As long as they are strong enough, they can even make the heaven and earth revolve around them.

Becoming a strong man, a truly strong man, is Li Zhi’s main purpose of returning to the City of Gods.

Li Zhi didn't care that Bai Lu was playful and left the city without permission, which caused trouble. Even when the four maids told him that the Saint of Yao Chi had come to the city to find him, Li Zhi didn't take it too seriously.

His primary task now is to practice, and everything else has to be put aside for the time being.

In today's world, the world is beginning to change rapidly, and the weak have no say at all.

When all the ancient kings who have been sleeping for millions of years are revived, the powerful ones who were once high and mighty will be reduced to minions who are not worthy of being on the stage.

Only after becoming a king will one have a certain say.

Only after becoming a saint will you be respected.

Therefore, after returning to the Divine City, Li Zhi ignored those powerful people who sent him visiting cards. Even the powerful people from the Yao Chi Holy Land and the Jiang Family who wanted to meet with him were rejected.

After resting in the divine city for three days, Li Zhi left alone again.

He still left the four maids in the divine city to practice.

After all, the Northern Divine City is one of the few relatively safe places, and they also need to strive to become the second-level immortals as soon as possible.

After leaving the Divine City, Li Zhi avoided everyone's eyes and ears, opened the domain gate, and came directly to the famous dangerous place in the Northern Territory, the Falling Eagle Cliff.

During the ancient times, there were wars all over the Northern Territory. Thousands of races fought each other, corpses piled up like mountains, blood flowed like rivers, and the earth was all red. In order to prevent the evil spirits emitted by the corpses from polluting the environment, the Falling Eagle Cliff was once used as a grave, and countless corpses were discarded in it.

Below the Falling Eagle Cliff was originally an ancient battlefield, but because too many corpses were thrown into it, it eventually became a mass grave. The evil aura under the cliff is extremely heavy, as if it were a ghost town. It is difficult for living creatures to survive after entering it. It is a truly dangerous place in the North, second only to the major life forbidden areas in terms of its evilness.

Normally, no monks would come here.

The area below the Falling Eagle Cliff is still a place where strange things are prone to happen.

Even if a powerful person comes here, he cannot be guaranteed to be safe. Even if a king goes in, there is a possibility that he will never come back.

The Falling Eagle Cliff is thousands of feet high, with steep walls. The valley it surrounds is like an abyss, and the specific situation inside cannot be seen clearly. The cliff is dark red, as if it has been stained with blood.

According to Li Zhi's investigation, this place was the core area of ​​the ancient battlefield. The war was so fierce that blood flowed like a river, and the mountains and rivers were dyed red by the blood of the strong. After the blood dried up, the cliffs had the current color, and the murderous aura was extremely strong.

Those who don't have enough cultivation can't even climb up this cliff.

Li Zhi stood on the Falling Eagle Cliff with a steady breath, not affected by the evil spirit on the cliff. After observing for a while, he jumped directly into the foggy abyss.

Within the abyss, cold winds were howling, murderous auras were biting, and dark clouds were rolling, obliterating divine consciousness and blocking divine eyes, as if one was about to fall into the underworld.

But the deeper you go, the wider the world becomes, as if the entire abyss was folded from one side of the world.

On the way down, Li Zhi was attacked by countless evil spirits, which hit his protective divine light and made crackling sounds.

Passing through several layers of evil black clouds, one can vaguely see the earth below, with undulating mountains and vast plains stretching as far as the eye can see.

Recalling the description of the Falling Eagle Cliff that he had heard from the Holy Prince, Li Zhi had already made comprehensive considerations in his mind.

Back then, this ancient battlefield was littered with corpses, murderous rage, ghosts were seen in broad daylight, the sky was gloomy, and ghosts were wailing. This vast area was almost turned into a purgatory on earth, and many strange things happened as a result.

Later, an unknown ancient emperor used his great magical powers to grab the entire battlefield from the earth, and refined it under the Falling Eagle Cliff, eventually evolving into its current appearance.

After landing, looking at the world that seemed like the underworld, Li Zhi did not encounter anything strange. There were no ghost soldiers passing through, nor did he encounter any foreign creatures searching for treasure here.

The space between heaven and earth was filled with the roaring wind and some ghostly creatures bred by the environment. Apart from that, there was nothing else.

Li Zhi opened his third eye and observed the entire world, and found that death was everywhere.

But there are also some places that are extremely full of vitality, as if something great is being nurtured.

However, after observing for a while, Li Zhi gave up exploring those things that seemed to be immortal treasures.

Although the treasure is tempting, he did not come here to look for treasure, but to go to the center of this ancient battlefield to find the ocean of immortal laws left behind by hundreds of ancient kings.

Then, Li Zhi used the Hundred Herbs Map to protect himself and the Luoyang Shovel to clear the way, and walked quickly on this gloomy ancient battlefield.

Under the observation of the Divine Eye of Life and Death, the path chosen by Li Zhi was relatively safe and he did not encounter much trouble.

Just half a day later, he arrived at the central area of ​​the ancient battlefield.

That area was extremely terrifying, with all kinds of ancient weapons and divine lights flying around. They were all the divine laws of the immortal heroic spirits left behind by the ancient kings who died in battle.

It is such a terrifying place that even a king would be instantly melted if he entered.

Without the protection of the Holy Soldiers, it would be difficult to survive in this place.

It is no wonder that since ancient times, few monks who fell into the Falling Eagle Cliff were able to get out alive.

However, when facing such a dangerous area, Li Zhi showed a rare smile on his face.

Observed from afar the area where laws and divine light were mixed.

Soon, Li Zhi saw a man with disheveled hair and tattered clothes sitting there in the sea of ​​laws. He was fighting against the laws and light of Tao that invaded his body. It seemed that he had entered the deepest level of enlightenment.

There was also a wolf-tooth club hanging above his head, emitting wisps of holy power, which opened up a safe area of ​​only ten feet in radius for him in the terrifying sea of ​​laws, thus preventing him from being refined by the chaotic sea of ​​laws.

"Dongfang Ye is actually here, what a luck." Li Zhi recognized the man's identity at a glance and couldn't help but think in his heart.

However, he did not disturb Dongfang Ye, nor did he plan to wake him up.

Although this place is dangerous, if we continue to resist, the rewards will be huge.

It’s just that Dongfang Ye was fighting against and understanding the laws that were invading him.

However, Li Zhi intends to use this sea of ​​laws to hone himself, and the process is even more dangerous than Dongfang Ye's situation.

After carefully walking around this area of ​​no more than 500 miles in radius, Li Zhi had a comprehensive consideration in his mind.

He first looked for a piece of stone in the area that had not been broken after being eroded by various laws, and then carved the stone into the shape of a stone tripod.

Then, Li Zhi sat directly into the stone tripod.

Afterwards, Li Zhi controlled the stone tripod and flew towards an area where the power of laws was relatively stable.

Although he is protected by the quasi-emperor's divine weapon and the holy laws left by the ancestral king here cannot hurt him, he needs to be extremely careful in tempering himself.

After arriving at that place, Li Zhi took action directly.

After using the power of the Hundred Herbs Map to attract some law fragments for limited refining, he placed those law fragments in the stone tripod and began to refine his body and soul, as well as the path to immortality that he had cultivated.

It is different from the way ordinary cultivators prepare to cut off their Dao.

Li Zhi planned to use these immortal heroic spirit laws to hone himself, and eventually hone out the path to immortality that he had been cultivating.

The law of the great Dao that cannot be broken even by this ocean of laws is the seed of the great Dao of immortality that Li Zhi is cultivating.

Li Zhi called this process "grinding path".

If the path to immortality he established cannot even withstand the fragments of laws left by these ancient heroes, then even if he succeeds in the future and cultivates a path to immortality, that path will definitely not be the path he wants most, nor will it be the most solid one.

The third immortal is going to cut out a true path to immortality and get rid of all the flaws in the practice accumulated by the second immortal.

Only in this way can one carve out the most solid and immortal avenue.

Li Zhi believed that the laws of the longevity he had realized could not be erased by the sea of ​​laws left behind by hundreds of ancestral kings. That was the real longevity path that could lead to immortality.

At that time, Emperor Huang Tian was plotted against by the Zhexian Curse, which tried again and again to destroy his cultivation and kill his invincible body, but in the end it honed him into an invincible body and avenue that could break through the five hundred years of the Supreme Limit.

Li Zhi did not have a teacher named Immortal King to guide him, so he could only use this sea of ​​laws that had existed since ancient times to hone himself and the great way.

In the following days, Li Zhi continued to wander around the area, from easy to difficult.

Wherever Li Zhi appeared, the laws and light of the place would riot and turn into the most powerful laws to sharpen him.

During this period, Li Zhi suffered inhuman torture.

The whole person is like being peeled off like an onion, with layer after layer of old skin peeled off.

Grinded away clumps of residue and waste.

Even the fragments of the various great principles that he had previously comprehended were dissolved.

In the end, after Li Zhi entered that area and practiced for a year, his blood and spirit power were less than half of what they were before.

Most of the great principles that I had previously comprehended were also worn away.

But Li Zhi did not feel any pain at all. Instead, he felt joy from the bottom of his heart.

After a year of hard training, his body exuded a mysterious golden glow filled with the aura of immortality, and his soul was as strong as a piece of divine iron that had been hammered a thousand times. The power of his divine consciousness was condensed several times, and he was even able to exist alone in that sea of ​​laws for a period of time.

The remaining fragments of the Dao laws that could not be dissolved have now condensed into a mysterious Dao seed in his body.

Even the great laws he created could persist for a period of time in the ocean of laws without collapsing.

If it weren't for the fact that he hadn't yet truly become a saint, and his laws didn't possess the immortal mysterious power of the laws of the holy way, I'm afraid that after the fragments of his laws fell in this place, they would also become immortal and indestructible.

This is an extremely remarkable achievement.

Although his skills are less than half of what they were when he first came.

But after he went out, the Dao seed in his body absorbed all the Daos of heaven and earth to take root and sprout, and the Dao that grew again was definitely a reborn existence.

Finally, after taking another look at Dongfang Ye who still hadn't woken up, Li Zhi left the area alone.

The tempering in the sea of ​​laws of the ancient battlefield ends here.

The next step is to simply go into seclusion, and then after your body, soul, and cultivation have recovered to their peak, you can directly start the Dao.

However, before that, Li Zhi planned to see what the life born in the death place was.

(End of this chapter)