Chapter 266 Heavenly Tribulation Human Puppet
"What's happening here?"

"Did the Taoist priest Changshou transform into a corpse?"

……

"Could it be, could it be that this is the legendary Heavenly Tribulation Human Puppet? How could such an evil thing really exist in the human world?"

Seeing that the aura of heavenly calamity on Li Zhi was becoming stronger and stronger, as if it had turned into a tangible butcher knife that reaped all living things, everyone felt a great fear in their hearts.

"Fellow Daoist Huo, what is a Heavenly Tribulation Puppet?" someone asked in panic.

"There's no time to explain. Let's go. This thing is invincible. No one can stop it, unless the emperor is resurrected. As long as he doesn't see any living creatures within an hour, they will disperse on their own. Once he opens his eyes and sees a living creature with magic power in its body, he will start an indiscriminate massacre."

The mighty man explained to everyone while rushing out into the snowy wind.

Afterwards, Saint Tianxuan took action and directly swept away all the human cultivators.

The Red Scale Ancestral King did not hesitate, he gathered up the kings of the ancient tribe and flew away.

After leaving the area covered by wind and snow, they even set up a huge sky-covering formation on the edge of that uninhabited area.

Stop Li Zhi who is holding the butcher knife and rush out of the no-man's land.

After they were safe, those powerful human beings gathered around Huo Tianshu, who came from an ancient sect, and asked him about the situation of the Heavenly Tribulation Human Puppet.

Heavenly Tribulation Human Puppet, a strange heavenly tribulation that only appeared in ancient times.

According to legend, when a great genius is going through a catastrophe, he will occasionally encounter real living beings with flesh and blood during the catastrophe.

They will turn into puppets of the heavenly tribulation and kill all the monks with extraordinary talents.

Some people speculated that he was a cultivator who truly possessed extraordinary talent. After failing to survive the tribulation, his soul turned into ashes, and his body was captured by the tribulation, thus transforming into a humanoid combat puppet.

"Legend has it that in the later stages of the Saint Body lineage's practice, they would encounter humanoid lightning strikes every time they tried to overcome a tribulation. Could that also be a heavenly tribulation puppet?" Someone speculated based on Huo Tianshu's description.

Huo Tianshu shook his head and said, "The human-shaped lightning that the Holy Body encountered was essentially the incarnation of thunder that manifested from the laws of ancient strongmen copied by the Heavenly Tribulation. But the Heavenly Tribulation Human Puppet is completely different.

The ancestor of our lineage once dug up a piece of underworld from the chaotic ancient times, and found there a description of a strange heavenly calamity left by a supreme being from the chaotic ancient times.

According to legend, during the chaotic ancient times, when cultivators were going through the calamity of becoming immortals, they would often encounter truly bizarre creatures blocking their way. And those bizarre creatures were almost all ancient peerless geniuses who had transformed into human puppets of the calamity.”

After listening to Huo Tianshu's introduction, those powerful men looked at each other, and all felt that these words were nonsense.

After seeing everyone's reaction, Huo Tianshu shrugged and said, "If I hadn't seen the change in Taoist Changshou today, I wouldn't believe that the description left by the ancestor was true. After all, the Heavenly Tribulation Human Puppet is too outrageous. How could a cultivator be used by the Heavenly Tribulation for its own benefit?"

Everyone was dumbfounded.

Huo Tianshu said: "Don't panic. Although the Heavenly Tribulation Human Puppet is invincible at the same level, it does not exist for long. It will disappear soon if it has no target. You and I will never meet it again in this life. Only those who are truly gifted with extraordinary talents will encounter the Heavenly Tribulation Human Puppet blocking their way when they break through to a higher realm."

For a moment, everyone didn't know what to say.

“Tell me if there is any way to avoid being targeted by the Heavenly Tribulation Puppet when you are undergoing the tribulation.” Just as they were about to return to the Divine City, the Red Scale Ancestral King suddenly appeared in front of them with a group of kings from the Ancient Clan.

Then Tianxuan Saint Wei Yi also appeared and asked Huo Tianshu: "Friend Huo, is there any way to avoid this disaster?"

Just now, he, like the Red Scale Ancestor King, felt an irresistible mysterious power from Li Zhi.

It seemed that as long as they took action to suppress Li Zhi, Li Zhi's strength would soar to the same level as theirs. That feeling was both weird and powerful.

“It is recorded in the notes left by the ancestors that after encountering the Heavenly Tribulation Human Puppet, there is no way to deal with it. One can only rely on one’s own absolute strength to withstand it.” Huo Tianshu said.

These words immediately silenced the Red Scale Ancestor King and Tianxuan Wei Yi.

This change occurred just as the battle for the throne began, and it was undoubtedly a heavy blow to the geniuses of all races who were qualified to ascend the throne.

If Li Zhi were to confront them, he would tell them: “You think too much. Emperor Huang Tian has already solved the weirdness in this world. No one who transcends the tribulation in this world will end up like Meng Tianzheng again.”

Unfortunately, the piece of netherworld dug out by Huo Tianshu’s ancestor was a record left behind by the Supreme Being when this world was transformed into the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths. It was not the truth of the chaotic ancient era at all.

However, after Emperor Huang Tian ruled the world for eternity, how could future generations possibly understand the truth about the chaotic ancient times?

At the same time, Li Zhi in the pit finally opened his eyes.

There was a cold and merciless look in his eyes, as if he had a pair of true eyes of heaven, examining everything in the world with an absolutely fair perspective, without the slightest emotion of any living being.

After walking out of the big pit, he seemed like a human-shaped guillotine walking in the world.

Any living being that violates the order of heaven will be ruthlessly harvested.

Unfortunately, the uninhabited area where he was located was a real dead end for all living things.

Not only are there no humans, there isn't even a single spiritual insect that can give birth to magical powers.

After wandering in that area for an hour, Li Zhi did not kill any living creature.

After an hour, Li Zhi suddenly crashed like a robot that had lost all power.

Standing motionless in a desert.

It was as if the mysterious will that controlled his body had left his body.

Even the void beside him began to tremble strangely, but in the end the void did not really split open and take his body away.

Li Zhi, standing in the blizzard, was soon covered by snow.

Even the snow that came into contact with his body melted and then condensed into ice again under the influence of the wind and snow, freezing him directly into an ice sculpture.

But not long after, the fluctuations of the soul reappeared in Li Zhi's immortal platform.

Then the energy and blood in his body started to circulate again.

After a series of "crackling" sounds, the ice outside the body was shaken off by him.

"I'm alive."

When Li Zhi opened his eyes again, there was a look of relief in his eyes.

Then, his mind fell into the secret realm of dragon transformation.

The golden dragon's head and body were now separated.

And the mysterious power of laws emerged from the wound on the dragon head.

Li Zhi instantly summoned the White Bone Immortal Beheading Platform into the Dragon Transformation Secret Realm and absorbed the Immortal Beheading Law on the dragon's body and head.

Afterwards, the golden dragon's body and head grew together again.

However, only the flesh and blood grew together, and there was no trace of life on the golden dragon.

Encountering the Immortal-Slaying Guillotine again in the thunder tribulation, Li Zhi fought desperately but still could not escape the fate of having his head chopped off.

Fortunately, he mastered the Holy Spirit Life-Replacing Technique.

Last time, he exchanged his life for the mysterious ancient prince.

This time, it was the Golden Dragon who died for him.

At the moment when the Immortal-Slaying Guillotine fell, Li Zhi activated the four Heaven-Deceiving Patterns that he had engraved on his soul. At the same time, he left a pre-copied soul mark in his body. After that, he hid the real soul in the body of the golden dragon.

After the heavenly calamity dissipated, Li Zhi used his magic to replace the decapitation wound on his physical body with that of the golden dragon.

Li Zhi's human body survived, but the golden dragon with unlimited potential died for him.

Li Zhi, who came back to life, naturally felt the breath of Tianxuan Wei Yi and the ancient ancestor king.

Just as he was about to seek Wei Yi's protection, something strange happened again. His body was controlled by a mysterious will that came from the origin of heaven and earth.

His soul didn't even dare to return to the immortal platform, and he could only rely on the power of the Heaven-Deceiving Dao Pattern to temporarily hide in the Void Immortal Gold Stele in the immortal platform.

He watched helplessly as his body was controlled by the mysterious will of heaven and earth for an hour.

Fortunately, that will eventually left his body.

It seemed that the mysterious will wanted to take his body away, but that will seemed to lack sufficient power, and ultimately could only allow Li Zhi's body to remain in the world.

Recalling what had just happened, Li Zhi felt an inexplicable panic in his heart.

It seems that one day in the future, he will encounter the mysterious will of heaven and earth, and things will never end here.

Then, Li Zhi used the Divine Source Block to temporarily seal the body of the Golden Dragon.

Afterwards, Li Zhi did not leave immediately. Instead, he sat there and began to reflect on his previous gains and re-sort out his own path.

Especially after being controlled by that mysterious will, Li Zhi's body copied a trace of the instinct of heavenly tribulation.

It is the ability to intelligently adjust the intensity of the heavenly tribulation according to the cultivator's level of cultivation and the depth of his Taoism.

Almost every high-level cultivator will encounter a heavenly tribulation.

Of all the heavenly tribulations, what interested Li Zhi most was not the types of tribulations, but the ability of the tribulations to determine the cultivation states of different cultivators and to intelligently adjust their intensity.

It is clearly the same world, so why are the heavenly tribulations encountered by different cultivators so different?
What is the formation mechanism behind it?
Is it just about how much the cultivator has comprehended about the laws of the universe?
In Li Zhi's opinion, the amount and strength of the great laws that a cultivator has comprehended and the mechanism of the heaven and earth turning against each other are equally important factors.

If we can figure out the true mechanism of the formation of the heavenly calamity, controlling it will no longer be a dream.

Why cultivators don’t encounter heavenly tribulations on their way to a smaller realm.

For individuals, heavenly tribulations do not seem to appear continuously, but for the strength of the laws of the Tao, almost all stages of the laws of the Tao can bring about heavenly tribulations.

In the past, Li Zhi was completely puzzled by this and didn’t even have any clue.

Now, after being possessed by that mysterious will for an hour, Li Zhi seemed to understand something.

Heavenly tribulation is not simply a form of thunder magic.

Li Zhi felt that as long as he continued to comprehend based on his current feelings, perhaps he would be able to understand some of the true meaning of the Thunder Emperor's Law.

The true meaning of the so-called Thunder Emperor's Law is to kill the enemy with the least amount of force.

The ability to kill an opponent by releasing only a little more power than the opponent, in Li Zhi's opinion, is the method of fighting against the enemy with heavenly tribulation.

After all, every time a heavenly tribulation tests a cultivator, it will never use too much power, and it is usually only slightly higher than the level of the person undergoing the tribulation.

No matter whether one is a powerful being with the potential to be an emperor or an ordinary powerful being, the heavenly tribulation will never discriminate.

He would never release a saint-level thunder tribulation to kill him just because he possessed the great power of an emperor.

This is the killing mechanism of the heavenly tribulation.

In Li Zhi's opinion, if he mastered this mechanism, he would be able to develop his own terrifying combat capabilities to the maximum extent.

And once he masters this secret method, Li Zhi feels that he will become the person with the most enduring fighting power in the world.

"Someone's here again."

Suddenly Li Zhi opened his eyes, and then a yellowish-brown light flashed on his body and he sank into the earth.

Afterwards, he summoned the Coffin of Life, lay down in it, and fled towards the direction of the Northern Territory Divine City.

Shortly after Li Zhi left.

Three great sage-level warriors came from the Taigu clan, as well as a group of ancient ancestor kings.

The three great saints are the Great Saint of Ten Thousand Dragons Nest, the Great Saint of Divine Silkworm Ridge, and the Great Saint of Blood Phoenix Mountain.

On the human side, God King Jiang Taixu, Tianxuan Wei Yi, and Gai Jiuyou also appeared in this area.

The Great Sage of the Ten Thousand Dragons' Nest purified all the evil and murderous aura in the world with a wave of his hand.

Then, they came to the big pit where Li Zhi's head and body were separated.

Afterwards, the Great Sage of Shencan Ridge used his magical power of retrospection to observe what had happened in this place.

However, all he saw was the scene where Li Zhi had his head chopped off by the White Bone Immortal Beheading Platform, and then his head flew back onto his neck, and finally he left holding the Immortal Beheading Sword.

Other than that, there is no more picture to speak of.

Except for the scene where the head was chopped off, Wei Yi had seen all the other scenes with his own eyes.

"Senior Gai, what do you think?" Wei Yi asked Gai Jiuyou.

Gai Jiuyou looked at Li Zhi's eyes in the picture, which seemed to be as ruthless as the law of nature, and frowned.

"That is not the will to live long."

After all, Gai Jiuyou was an individual who had once attempted to attain enlightenment, and his vision was definitely not comparable to those saints.

He noticed something unusual about Li Zhi at a glance.

However, although he noticed the abnormality, he didn't know why it was so, nor where that will came from.

Wei Yi had already told him about the Heavenly Tribulation Human Puppet on the way here.

But Gai Jiuyou knew almost nothing about this.

"Senior Gai, do you think Li Changshou is really dead?" Wei Yi asked.

Gai Jiuyou shook his head and said, "I don't know."

When he first came in, he used his supreme divine sense to search the surroundings, but did not find any trace of Li Zhi.

"Go to his dojo and you'll know whether he's dead or not. Based on my understanding of young friend Changshou, he won't die so easily. He has so many life-saving cards that even this old man is surprised." Gai Jiuyou, who had traveled with Li Zhi for a period of time, naturally knew Li Zhi's theory on "how to stay alive."

At one point, Gai Jiuyou thought that Li Zhi was a cowardly person who was afraid of death.

However, Li Zhi emphasized countless times that "only those who are truly afraid of death will try every means to avoid death."

Let Gai Jiuyou know that he is a rare flower on the road of cultivation, and there is an essential difference between him and those geniuses who are determined to compete for the throne of the emperor.

However, Wei Yi and Jiang Taixu had never dealt with Li Zhi and did not know his true character.

On the other side, the saints of the ancient clan were also looking for Li Zhi's whereabouts.

The people from Wanlongchao directly took out a double dragon pendant.

It records the dragon energy of a dragon girl and the dragon energy of a golden dragon.

Then the Great Sage of the Ten Thousand Dragons' Nest used his secret technique to hunt for the owner of the dragon energy of the golden dragon.

Soon, the Great Sage of Ten Thousand Dragons' Nest showed a shocked expression.

"Prince Jinlong is actually dead."

He couldn't believe that an ancient prince with a mysterious origin had died just like that.

(End of this chapter)