Chapter 285: Life and Death Grindstone
With the joining of Li Zhi, the strength of Ye Fan and his team increased greatly.

Heihuang and Duan De came to Li Zhi and asked him all kinds of questions, trying to find out if he had gotten anything good in the Yuhua Ancestral Temple.

Old Man Tian Xia also joined in and asked, "Friend Changshou, it was you who killed all the heavenly soldiers and generals in the 31st and 32nd floor temple worlds, right?"

Li Zhi nodded and said, "I killed him. It's rare to have a place where I can let go of my strength. If I don't kill him, it would be a shame to the arrangement of Yuhua Divine Dynasty."

Hei Huang's eyes lit up, and he quickly asked, "Did you get anything?"

In the 33rd-floor temple world, they not only saw the Immortal Tears Green Gold, but also obtained the Nine-Layered Coffin of the Gods, which made them realize what kind of treasures there were in this small world that was not taken care of in advance by the Four Immortal Divine Dynasties and the Yaoguang Holy Land.

They didn't believe that there were no treasures in those two worlds.

However, when they passed through those two small worlds, they did not kill their way through like Li Zhi did, so naturally they had no idea what was inside those two small worlds.

Li Zhi said: "Those two small worlds are not only the burial places of the heavenly soldiers and generals of the Yuhua Divine Dynasty, but also the places where the armor and weapons they used are stored. There are even legendary holy weapons buried under the earth."

"Have you obtained the legendary holy weapon?" Dongfang Ye also came to Li Zhi.

Although the others did not come to Li Zhi, they all pricked up their ears to listen to his story.

Li Zhi shook his head and said, "I got nothing. The holy weapons that were stored in the Yuhua Divine Dynasty have decayed. Someone must have killed the holy weapons with a palm. The magic array that once nourished the holy weapons has become a magic array that extracts the power of the holy weapons."

Originally, Li Zhi thought that there should be some treasures in the ancient cemeteries of the heavenly soldiers and generals, especially in the cemeteries of those heavenly generals at the king level.

Unfortunately, after he opened the tomb, he found nothing.

Someone has tampered with the original magic circle of the cemetery.

Under normal circumstances, the bodies of those heavenly soldiers and generals would be nourished by yin energy and ghost energy and would not decay. Instead, as time passed, they would evolve towards the direction of yin gods.

"That's such a pity." Everyone felt sorry when they heard this.

Then, Li Zhi asked, "Black Emperor, what did you get in the thirty-third heaven? Did you see the nine-layer coffin of the gods that the Yuhua Divine Dynasty got?"

"Did you know that the Yuhua Divine Dynasty possesses the Nine-Layered Coffin of the Gods?" Duan De looked at Li Zhi with surprise.

Li Zhi nodded and said, "I have also heard about this occasionally, but I don't know whether it is true or not."

"We have indeed obtained a nine-layer coffin of the gods. How much do you know about it, my friend Changshou?" asked the blind old man.

After thinking for a moment, Li Zhi said, "The Nine-Layered Coffin of the Gods is a kind of coffin used by powerful people at the level of the Great Emperor who are trying to take a special path to immortality."

"A special path to immortality?" Everyone was shocked.

"Fellow Daoist Changshou, can you tell me more specifically?" The Holy Prince also asked curiously.

"The bodies in the nine-layer coffins of the gods seem to be dead, with the vitality of the flesh extinguished and the soul dissipated. In fact, the true spirit has gone to an unknown space to break through the nine layers of death. When one day they break through the death, they will be reborn and their true spirit will evolve to a level of immortality. This is the so-called ultimate death is life, and the ultimate life is death. After being reborn, they will master the ultimate mystery of life and death, and thus obtain the qualification of eternal life. The Yin God that appeared in the ancestral temple is actually a defective product of this longevity road. Those who have truly successfully passed the death gate will not have death on their bodies, and they are no different from normal people. However, I have not heard of anyone who has walked through this longevity road. But I know that those who have walked through this longevity road are by no means ordinary people, and have the true qualifications of an emperor."

They could understand what Li Zhi said, but after thinking about it for a while, they felt confused.

Ji Ziyue asked curiously: "Master Li, are there many more ways to live forever?"

Li Zhi nodded and said, "We can't become immortals in this world, but that doesn't mean we can't live forever."

"Wait, my longevity friend, the more I listen, the more confused I am." The blind old man said, "If you can't become an immortal, how can you live forever?"

Seeing the doubts in everyone's eyes, Li Zhi said, "You may have misunderstood one thing, that is, the relationship between immortality and becoming an immortal. Becoming an immortal can lead to immortality, but immortality does not necessarily lead to immortality. The slaves in the ancient forbidden area are the best example. They have already obtained the qualification of immortality in the mortal world. Without the divine origin of sealing, they can live without the restriction of lifespan and live forever. How long they can live, no one knows."

Ye Fan also asked at this time: "Li Zhi, how many ways to immortality are there in the mortal world?"

Li Zhi said: "As far as I know, there are nine paths to immortality in the mortal world."

"What, nine? Boss Li, are you kidding? If there really are so many ways to immortality, how could all those ancient emperors die?" Pang Bo shouted in shock.

Li Zhi asked, "Who told you that the ancient emperors are all dead?"

"What, you mean the emperor is still alive?" Dongfang Ye said in surprise.

"You will naturally understand the specifics when you reach a certain level. Knowing too much now will do you more harm than good. You just need to remember that great emperors in ancient times rarely died of natural causes. Without exception, they were all exploring ways to achieve immortality," said Li Zhi.

“Even some of the ancient Heavenly Lords have gone to depths unimaginable for ordinary people on the path to immortality in the mortal world. Some have even reached the end, and obtained the fruit of immortality in the mortal world, without the passage of time. Although they are not immortals, they are more powerful than ordinary true immortals.” After Li Zhi finished speaking, he glanced at Duan De.

Relying on accumulation from life to life, Duan De has already accumulated four reincarnation seals.

This means that including his first life in the chaotic ancient times, he has lived five lives in this world.

Cao Yusheng, the Tribulation-Suppressing Heavenly Master in the mythological era, was probably not his real first life, but his second life after the seal of reincarnation was formed in his body.

At the end of the myth, the incarnation of Hades (also known as Hades Emperor or Source Emperor) was probably Duan De's third incarnation, and two reincarnation seals had already formed in his body.

In the ancient times, he successfully lived another life and formed the third reincarnation seal in his body.

Now in the post-ancient period, Duan De successfully passed the level again and was resurrected, with the fourth reincarnation seal formed in his body.

Duan De had actually lived to the fifth life. He had truly reached the late stage of forming the reincarnation seal in his body on the road to eternal life in the mortal world.

Every reincarnation seal in the body is the fruit of Duan De's accumulation in this lifetime.

Like Duan De, the Divine Emperor will die, but he will take another path to immortality.

The years that the Divine Emperor lived were so long that they made people despair.

His research on life must have reached a level that ordinary emperors cannot reach.

Precisely because he had studied the nature of "life" deeply enough, he naturally wanted to study the nature of "death".

This is why the body of the Divine Emperor is now lying in the nine-layer coffin of the gods.

How to study "death" is to really die.

Moreover, this path had been tried by people in the mythological era, but it did not work.

In the ancient times, a powerful royal family second only to the royal family was extinct because of a nine-layer coffin of a god.

The corpse lying in the nine-layer coffin of the gods is not dead in the ordinary sense. Once the true spirit is completely extinguished, the corpse will undergo a zombie transformation, indicating that there will be no chance of resurrection.

This is also why the nine-layer coffin of the gods is ominous.

After the death of an ordinary emperor, if the body is not decayed, there will be no risk of sudden corpse transformation. It will only slowly turn into a corpse under the erosion of time.

Either they are buried in a burial ground and eventually regain intelligence, their corpses becoming spiritual and resurrected, or they form a reincarnation mark in their bodies and live another life.

For a cultivator who has the seal of reincarnation in his body, whether it is a new soul or an old soul, he is actually the same person in essence.

The true spirit reincarnates within one's body.

Communicating with a corpse is a completely different kind of resurrection.

Everyone walked towards the 34th floor temple world, chatting all the way, but Li Zhi would suddenly shut up when it came to the crucial moment.

It made everyone feel like they were being scratched by a cat.

It seems that Li Zhi is very unhappy.

In fact, Li Zhi didn't want to say it, but he didn't dare to say it. Some things involve the secrets of heaven and cannot be said casually.

Finally, the big black dog asked Li Zhi, "I heard from them that you know where the Great Emperor Wu Shi went? Tell me where the Great Emperor went?"

Li Zhi said calmly: "He has ascended to heaven."

The big black dog was choked instantly.

Li Zhi said, "Isn't it obvious on the Wushi Daotai in Zishan? Why do you have doubts about it?"

"I……"

Although the big black dog firmly believed that the Wu Shi Emperor had ascended to heaven, he was even more afraid that the Wu Shi Emperor had already become a Taoist.

Li Zhi shook his head slightly and said, "You are still a dog following the Wu Shi Great Emperor, but you actually have doubts about the ability of the Wu Shi Great Emperor in your heart."

"Master Li, do you know whether my ancestor, Emperor Xukong, was alive or dead?" Ji Ziyue also joined in the fun and asked.

"He died in the battle, and took the Supreme Being in the Immortal Mountain with him to death." Li Zhi said.

No one had any objection to this. Everyone knew that Void Emperor had experienced the most and most difficult battles in his life, and dying in battle was the most acceptable outcome for him.

In this way, they followed the group of people who opened the way in front and entered the 34th-level temple world.

But as soon as they came in, everyone's face changed drastically.

This world is really too weird. There are ghosts everywhere in the mountains and fields, and the chirping of ghosts makes people's scalp tingle.

There were shadows and corpses everywhere, just like the grass and trees in ordinary mountains and forests, filling every inch of land. There were also black ghost hands dancing, as dense as the weeds on the grassland. The eerie atmosphere made people feel cold all over and couldn't help shivering.

This scene left everyone dumbfounded.

"Damn it, there are ghosts everywhere. There's a big one here, more than four meters long. Duan De, where have you been? Professionals, hurry up and use your special moves. I'm going to poke and catch the ghost." Heihuang yelled.

But Li Zhi came to Duan De and asked, "Uncle Duan, is there a top-grade ghost vein or even an original Yin vein here?"

Duan De, who was cursing at first, shut up instantly, then thought about it and said, "It's really possible."

Li Zhi's eyes lit up as he said, "Then we will get the original dead energy between heaven and earth. That is the best energy for cultivating the secret realm of Lunhai, comparable to immortal energy."

Duan De said, "You are just daydreaming. You should first fight back these corpse ghosts in front of you."

At this time, countless zombies were rushing towards them, like waves, seeming to drown them.

Li Zhi said, "Just wait and see. I will never let these corpse ghosts get close to me."

Then, Li Zhi shouted to the Holy Prince and others who were already fighting with the corpse ghosts: "Everyone come back to me, I have a way to deal with these ghosts."

Old Man Tianxia was the fastest. After hearing Li Zhi's shout, he came to his side in a flash. Next was Ye Fan who was protecting Ji Ziyue, then Heihuang, Pangbo, Dongfangye, Qi Luo, the Holy Prince and others came to Li Zhi one by one.

"The creation is infinite, yin and yang are reversed, the reincarnation channel is coming!"

"boom!"

With a loud bang, with Li Zhi as the center, all the ghosts within a radius of hundreds of meters were repelled. Then everyone saw a pillar of light that was a mixture of life and death, protecting them.

Above their heads, a Yin-Yang Tai Chi diagram enlarged to ten feet in size slowly began to rotate.

Then in the beam of light, they saw a huge mysterious millstone.

As the Yin-Yang Tai Chi diagram began to rotate, the mysterious millstone was also moved forward, making a mysterious friction sound, which made everyone feel as if their souls were beginning to become unstable.

Then, countless corpses were drawn into the mysterious millstone by the Yin-Yang Tai Chi diagram.

It seems that the mysterious millstone has a natural ability to restrain the zombies. Once they are sucked into the millstone, the zombies lose the ability to resist.

Let the grinding disc grind them.

At the same time, a stream of pure soul power flowed out from one outlet of the millstone, and from the other outlet, pure death energy flowed out.

As for the other things, they turn into residue and waste liquid and flow out from the holes under the millstone.

"These dead air are beneficial for practicing in the Wheel Sea Secret Realm. Everyone, please feel free to collect some. These pure soul powers can be used to cleanse our souls. If necessary, you can also collect some." Li Zhi said kindly to others.

But apart from Duan De, no one dared to collect the pure death energy and soul power.

Duan De, with a smile on his face, praised: "Good boy, your method is beyond the control of even me, the Taoist. How did you do it?"

Li Zhi said: "I created an ancient scripture, and then I mastered this method."

After these words were spoken, everyone was speechless.

What are these words?

Created an ancient scripture?
Is this something a king can do?
Duan De looked Li Zhi up and down, then stroked his chubby chin and said, "No wonder I couldn't see through you. Your fighting ability is ridiculous. It turns out that you created your own ancient scripture."

After hearing the conversation between Li Zhi and Duan De, Hei Huang also said beside Ye Fan: "Young man Ye, if you want to solve the hidden dangers of practicing multiple ancient scriptures in the future, you must learn from Taoist Li and create your own ancient scriptures. Only in this way can you surpass your predecessors. Otherwise, the Great Saint Body is your limit."

As tens of thousands of corpses were attracted by Li Zhi and then ground by the millstone, the corpses rushing towards them seemed to have an instinctive fear.

Many people looked at them with more terrifying eyes than those of the zombies.

"boom!"

Not long after, a roar that shook the earth and sky rang out throughout the entire small world. The Taihuang Sword, Zhongzhou's number one offensive imperial weapon, was deployed again, and it directly transformed into an ancestral dragon. Its dragon head was the tip of the sword, its body was the blade, and its tail was the hilt, and it chopped down with force.

It directly split the black mountain in front that was constantly spewing out zombies into two halves, and then turned it into ashes.

A large number of corpses were also annihilated by the sword energy at the same time.

The power of the imperial army is so terrifying.

Li Zhi also put away the reincarnation channel and the Yin-Yang Tai Chi diagram in a timely manner, and dispersed the millstone that was transformed from the origin of the Wheel Sea Secret Realm.

Everyone rushed towards the mountain that was shattered by the Taihuang Sword.

Under the mountain, there is a huge black hole that leads directly to the earth veins.

There are groups of ancient buildings in the earth veins, and in the center of those buildings stands a temple, which is the passage to the small world of the 35th floor temple.

However, although the passage was right in front of them, no one dared to rush in.

Deep in the earth veins, there are endless corpses and ghosts, and the air is eerie. Countless dry bones are scattered around. There is also a mysterious ancient temple located on it, which is even connected to the former first ancestral vein in Zhongzhou. However, a person with great supernatural powers reversed the yin and yang and turned the dragon energy of the ancestral vein into endless ghost energy.

Li Zhi thought to himself, "There really is a ghost vein. If he can collect the sacred power of the first ancestral vein in Zhongzhou, and practice with the help of the life and death energy emitted by the same ancestral vein, his wheel sea secret realm will soon be complete."

Li Zhi directly sent a message to Duan De: "Uncle Duan, when everyone leaves the ancestral temple, please help me."

Cutting off the ancestral bloodline would definitely lead to a siege, and only the supreme imperial weapon in Duan De's hand could provide protection.

It can be imagined that when all the small worlds are opened, a shocking war will definitely take place here.

(End of this chapter)