Chapter 288: Stealing Heaven, Stealing Earth, Stealing the Universe

In the Yuhua Ancestral Temple, in the small underground dragon vein world of the first ancestral vein in Zhongzhou, dragon energy floats and turns into clouds, making the entire small world look brilliant.

Although there are no sun, moon or stars, the auspicious light and colorful clouds in the sky make the earth bright and clear.

Outside the ancient temple built of golden dragon wood, Li Zhi looked at the collapsed magic array and revealed a satisfied look.

As his Taoism grows, the power of the Luoyang shovel in his hands becomes stronger and stronger, with almost no upper limit in sight.

Now, even the emperor's Dao patterns outside the ancient palace can be dug through.

This is also because the emperor's Dao patterns guarding the ancient temple were not deliberately arranged and seemed to be done casually. As time passed, their power was no longer even a tenth of what it was in the past.

Li Zhi put away the Luoyang shovel, took out the feather fan that he had seized from the Taoist boy of Emperor Yuhua, and walked into the ancient palace like a prime minister.

The ancient temple is elegant yet covered with thick dust.

As Li Zhi pushed open the palace door, the brocade, curtains, tables and chairs, decorations and other items in the palace all weathered rapidly in an instant.

The originally elegant looking hall was instantly covered by a thick layer of ash.

Fortunately, the back of the hall has not been eroded by time and is still solid.

Li Zhi fanned the feather fan in his hand, blowing away all the ashes, leaving behind a lot of unweathered metal and jade fasteners in the hall.

After waving his hand to collect those things, Li Zhi began to carefully observe the things that were not rotten.

Although this ancient palace has no plaques hanging on it and no name, its layout shows that it is not a place for hiding treasures or storing scriptures. It seems to be just an ordinary bedroom for rest.

Inside the hall, there is a jade bed that exudes a hazy glow.

The bed was engraved with cloud patterns, and there was a faint fairy air flowing on the bed.

Li Zhi walked to the couch and lay down on it. He instantly felt a sense of relief. It seemed as if the murderous aura and evil spirit accumulated during the previous bloody battle had been purified.

Lying on the jade bed, I had a vague feeling of ascending to heaven.

Li Zhi understood instantly that this was the jade bed where Emperor Yuhua had slept.

Getting up from the couch, Li Zhi came to a place that looked like a tea table nearby.

A set of black stone tables and chairs rests there quietly.

There is also a white jade teapot and three teacups on the table.

The teapot and teacups are both utensils made of Nine Heavens White Jade. There are no Taoist patterns on them and they seem to be just ordinary tea sets. The material alone is priceless. What surprised Li Zhi even more is that they also contain a Taoist rhyme of ascension to heaven.

It seems to be something that Emperor Yuhua often uses.

After Li Zhi cleaned the teapot and teacup with clean water, he used them to brew a pot of Wudao tea.

Sure enough, the fragrance was refreshing and the taste was three times better than before.

"Boss Changshou, can you let me out?"

At this moment, Li Zhi heard the cry of the Qilin beast in the Hundred Herbs Picture, and then he released the Qilin beast.

Seeing the enlightenment tea on the coffee table, the little Qilin beast immediately picked up a cup and started drinking it, regardless of the fact that the tea was still hot.

Seeing two cups filled with tea in front of him, the little Qilin asked, "Boss Changshou, do you have any other guests besides me?"

Only then did Li Zhi realize that it was a bit strange to have a teapot with three teacups.

"Could it be that Emperor Yuhua also has the same feeling of raising his cup to invite the bright moon and forming a threesome with his shadow?"

"No, could it be that Emperor Yuhua has entertained guests here?"

"That's not right. Emperor Yuhua is a low-key emperor. How could he allow people to come to such a private resting place?"

Unable to figure out the reason behind this, Li Zhi and the little Qilin finished a pot of enlightenment tea and started looking for other valuable things.

Soon, the little Qilin beast called out to Li Zhi, "Boss Changshou, come and see. Here is a couplet."

Only then did Li Zhi discover that there was a couplet hanging in the corner of the hall.

Even the paper has turned yellow and has a faint smell of decay.

But when I walked in and took a look, I found that the paper was still tough.

"Ascend to heaven and live forever. Emperor Yuhua, you are so bold and courageous." The little Qilin read out the eight characters on the left side of the couplet.

Only then did Li Zhi discover that the text above was actually written using ancient divine patterns.

In addition to the eight big characters in the first couplet "ascend to heaven and live forever", there are also eight big characters in the second couplet "reverse yin and yang, fight to cross the red dust".

There should have been another set of calligraphy hanging between the two couplets.

But it was empty, probably because it had been closed down.

After observing for a long time, Li Zhi discovered that the couplet was written on paper specially used by the emperor, which is why it has not decayed after hundreds of thousands of years.

But what is strange is that the handwriting above seems to be written by an ordinary person, without any charm of the ancient emperors.

"Can you sense the special rhythm of Taoism from this couplet?" Li Zhi asked the little Qilin.

"No." The little Qilin shook his head directly, and then asked: "Boss Changshou, is this couplet a treasure? If you don't want it, I want to take it back and hang it in my cave."

Li Zhi said: "Let me try."

Li Zhi planned to use the word "Soldier" to secretly refine the couplet to see if it needed to be activated in order to display the aura of the ancient emperor.

However, no matter how much power he poured into the couplet, the aura of the ancient emperor did not escape.

Maybe he was overthinking it.

Although the powers of the ancient emperors were unfathomable, they were not so bored as to refine everything they came into contact with into secret treasures.

After failing to sense the rhythm of Tao, Li Zhi let the little Qilin beast put away the couplet.

Then the two of them left the ancient temple.

The jade bed and black stone coffee table were naturally taken away by Li Zhi.

After walking out of the hall, the little Qilin looked at the ancient and majestic palace and said to Li Zhi: "Boss Changshou, let's move this ancient palace back. There are too few buildings in our temple, and there are no signs of years of sedimentation. It seems that we don't have enough confidence."

Li Zhi laughed and said, "You are scraping the ground three feet deep."

Afterwards, Li Zhi dug up the ancient temple and the land within a ten-mile radius around it.

A large pit tens of meters deep was left on the ground.

"Boss, you are long-lived and mighty." The little Qilin flattered him loudly.

Li Zhi shook his head slightly and said to the Qilin Beast: "Let's go and take a look at another small world."

Looking at the slightly monotonous world without any biological activities, the little Qilin asked: "Master Changshou, why does this little world make me feel alive, but also dead?"

After the death of the ancient emperor, his body could remain incorruptible or transform into Taoism. At the same time, it could also fuse with cosmic dust and become the core of a life star.

The five secret realms within the body can naturally transform into a truly independent world.

The little Qilin’s doubts are also Li Zhi’s doubts.

Logically speaking, after the chaotic body is integrated into the ancient star of Beidou, his five secret realms will naturally evolve into five mysterious independent worlds under the influence of the power of heaven and earth.

However, Li Zhi could see from the nine interconnected small worlds located in the first ancestral vein of Zhongzhou that there seemed to be a force that interrupted this natural evolution process.

Li Zhi suddenly thought that since these nine interconnected small worlds located in the first ancestral vein of Zhongzhou were suspected to have evolved from the spine dragon of the chaotic body.

So is there still a chaotic avenue remaining in this world?
Li Zhi stopped instantly, and then began to build mysterious altars in the nine small worlds. The Qilin beast followed Li Zhi and saw that Li Zhi was constantly melting the altars that had been built into the nine small worlds. He asked curiously: "Boss Changshou, why do you carry so many altars with you?"

Li Zhi just smiled and didn't explain to the little Qilin.

As a person who embarked on the path of Taoism by offering sacrifices to heaven and earth to gain good fortune, how could Li Zhi forget his roots?

On weekdays, when he has nothing to do, he likes to refine some altars with different functions.

There are altars for worshiping the sky, altars for worshiping the earth, altars for worshiping gods, altars for worshiping the living, altars for worshiping ancestors, altars for worshiping the dead, altars for worshiping immortals, altars for worshiping weapons, and of course, altars for worshiping oneself.

In various ways, Li Zhi developed many altars with strange uses.

At this moment, the altar he set up in the nine small dragon vein worlds was the altar of the three thieves, stealing the sky, stealing the earth, and stealing the universe.

The power of sacrifice is used to temporarily obscure the instinctive will of heaven and earth, thereby exposing those things that are hidden in the secrets of heaven and earth.

This allows him to steal what is hidden behind everything.

Since developing these altars for strange purposes, Li Zhi has not yet tested their power.

Under the curious gaze of the little Qilin, Li Zhi began his performance.

As the nine altars were opened at the same time, some dragon marrow and divine source began to burn, and a very strange aura seemed to appear between heaven and earth.

It was as if a gap suddenly appeared in the originally seamless wall, allowing people to see the scene inside the house through the gap.

At this moment, Li Zhi's spiritual perception was opened to the maximum, following that strange energy, his spiritual thoughts constantly shuttled between heaven and earth.

He sensed a strange aura in many places, but Li Zhi did not act rashly.

Finally, he felt a special breath of the origin of the Great Dao.

"The Hand of Heaven Stealer."

Li Zhi didn't hesitate at all and directly used the Sky-stealing Hand to grab in that direction.

The mysterious rune hand, carrying a terrifying aura, directly pierced through the void and probed into the unknown dimension.

A mysterious little dragon only a foot long was caught.

The little dragon exudes the aura of the source of all things.

After being caught by the rune hand, he struggled violently.

It seemed as if he was somewhat rejecting Li Zhi.

"Boom, bang, bang..."

A burst of explosions was heard, and the nine altars set up by Li Zhi exploded one after another, and even the materials were turned directly into dust.

But Li Zhi did not give it any chance to escape.

The Void Immortal Golden Stele within the Xiantai Secret Realm appeared in front of him and directly suppressed the mysterious little dragon covered in golden color.

The Qilin beast opened its eyes wide and looked at the golden dragon, even observing its structure with its divine sense, and shouted in surprise: "Master Changshou, it's alive."

"The source of Tao is naturally alive." Li Zhi said happily to the little Qilin.

I never expected that I could find a complete source of Tao in this place.

It even represents the source of the great power.

"What is the source of Tao?" asked the little Qilin with a puzzled look.

"You will know in the future. Now I will take you to dig the real treasure." Li Zhi waved his hand and took the little Qilin beast to fly towards the small world of dragon vein in the deepest part.

Soon, they came to a mountain range with no grass at all.

Looking at the mountain range that seemed to be made of schist, the little Qilin beast asked in confusion: "Boss Changshou, is there any treasure here?"

Li Zhi smiled and said, "Of course there are treasures."

Li Zhi stretched out a claw and reached deep into the earth.

Soon, a green stone slightly larger than a basketball was pulled out from deep in the earth by Li Zhi.

The little Qilin came closer and looked carefully at the stone that seemed to have been dyed with paint. The stone was full of patterns similar to fossilized feathers.

"I recognize it. This is the raw ore of Feathered Lapis Lazuli." The little Qilin said in surprise.

Then he said to Li Zhi coquettishly: "Boss Changshou, look at my neck and see if it's empty. As your Qilin, shouldn't you give me a feathered green gold bell?"

The little Qilin stared at Li Zhi with longing, as it had long wanted a magical weapon of its own.

After Li Zhi sealed the raw ore, he said, "When we uncover the source stone, I will personally refine a bell for you. The bell will be made of feathered blue gold, and the bell will be made of dragon-patterned black gold. I will let you also have a tool to prove your Dao."

The little Qilin jumped onto Li Zhi's shoulder and kissed him on the cheek.

Li Zhi wiped the saliva left by the Qilin beast on his face and said seriously: "Don't get close to me in the future."

The little Qilin didn't care about Li Zhi's warning at all. Instead, it jumped happily around Li Zhi like an elf.

Afterwards, Li Zhi and the little Qilin continued to open other sealed ancient temples.

However, those ancient palaces were all empty and there were not many valuable things, which made Li Zhi quite strange.

But he soon understood.

Since Emperor Yuhua is not dead, he will naturally take away all the valuable things when he leaves Beidou.

After finding nothing in several ancient palaces, the little Qilin lost interest.

"Boss Changshou, this is the last ancient temple. After we open it, let's go home." The little Qilin couldn't wait to return to the temple.

Li Zhi nodded slightly and said, "Okay."

At this moment, the entire small world began to shake violently.

It seems that the war outside has affected the first ancestral vein of Zhongzhou deep in the earth.

Li Zhi thought: "It seems that we need to speed up. The five-color altar is about to be opened."

Afterwards, Li Zhi used all his strength to break the restriction outside the ancient temple, and finally saw what was inside the temple.

Unlike the empty halls before, this ancient hall was densely packed with thousands of stone tablets.

Each stone tablet is secretly engraved with words.

"Practice methods, enlightenment of the great way, notes on alchemy, minutes of weapon training, detailed explanation of weapon training, tips on formation training, building construction, thousands of methods of growing medicine, ..."

Wow, it’s like an encyclopedia of the founding of the Divine Dynasty, with records of every aspect.

Without saying a word, Li Zhi put the entire ancient palace and all the stone tablets into the small world of the Hundred Herbs Map.

Afterwards, he followed the ancestral vein and left the nine small worlds.

After going out, Li Zhi discovered that the first ancestral vein in Zhongzhou had the immortal Dao pattern of the Great Emperor.

The reason why he was able to enter smoothly before was because the Taoist boy of Emperor Yuhua lifted the ban.

Now, as he left, those Dao patterns began to flicker again, and soon completely sealed the nine dragon vein worlds.

　August update goal achieved, good night everyone.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)