Chapter 336 The Truth of the First Level of the Human Race

The Holy Island of the Fallen, the central restricted area, is vast and contains countless opportunities.

Although there were hundreds of trial participants entering the central restricted area, it did not seem crowded.

All trial participants who enter the central restricted area are racing against time to find opportunities.

The time for the human trial field to be open is limited, and we cannot afford to waste it.

Come out from the Huadao Ancient Cave.

Li Zhi looked at the ancient cave again reluctantly. The fire of transformation in the cave devoured a lot of essence from his body and became more and more powerful.

"There are still too few places where people can be killed like this."

Li Zhi really hopes to encounter a similar place on the next ancient trial road.

Back then, the Immortal-Breaking Curse played a crucial role in Emperor Huang Tian's ability to forge the supreme foundation of Taoism, and it even tempered the foundation of Taoism to the point where it was unbreakable.

Now, Li Zhi also enjoyed a treatment similar to that of the Zhexian Curse. It must be said that this was an ultimate method of cultivation.

“Changshou, why has your breath become so much weaker?”

Not long after, the Saint Maiden of Yao Chi, who had already entered the central restricted area, met up with Li Zhi. Seeing that Li Zhi's aura had dropped significantly, the Saint Maiden of Yao Chi said with a worried look on her face.

"You have encountered a supreme opportunity, but unfortunately your cultivation is not enough, so you cannot use that opportunity to improve yourself." Li Zhi's brows were filled with joy.

"What opportunity?" Yao Chi Saint asked curiously. She had entered this central forbidden area for about six or seven days. Although she had gained some opportunities, she had not encountered anything that could be called a supreme opportunity.

"I encountered the Dao fire left behind by the ancient strong men after they became Daoists." Li Zhi briefly told the Saint Maiden of Yao Chi about his previous experience.

"Can the power of transformation be used for cultivation?" The Saint Maiden of Yao Chi felt that her three views were about to be overturned. That was the power of transformation that everyone feared. If she was not careful, she would be destroyed by the transformation.

"How much of your cultivation has been lost?" Yao Chi Saint Lady then asked.

"Just four small realms." Li Zhi said with a relaxed look.

At this time, Li Zhi's cultivation had regressed from the peak of the fourth level of sainthood to the early stage of the first level of sainthood.

This is almost equivalent to the previous twenty years of hard training being wasted.

You have to know that for saint-level cultivation, the improvement of each small realm is not a simple matter.

However, Li Zhi was very happy.

Although his cultivation had weakened, he felt that his foundation had become three points stronger.

All the flaws previously discovered using the Chaos Mirror have disappeared.

To a certain extent, Li Zhi's current foundation in the Dao, the potential of his physical body, and the potential of his chaotic body after becoming a saint can be equated.

"Time is running out. We must speed up and go to the real trial place of the first level." Facing the curiosity of the Saint Maiden of Yao Chi, Li Zhi said directly.

Afterwards, the two went to the core area of ​​the central forbidden area.

"It's actually him."

Shortly after the two left, a fire fairy covered in blood, as if she had experienced a brutal bloody battle, appeared near the ancient cave again.

"Zheng hum!"

Immediately afterwards, a terrifying sound of sword followed from a distance.

Then, the weak Xuan Jian appeared in front of the Fire Fairy and said, "Fellow Daoist Huo, you just successfully passed the blood pool training, right?"

Although Xuan Jian's aura was scattered, his fighting spirit was not weak at all, as if he wanted to fight with the Fire Fairy.

“So what if it is, so what if it’s not?”

The flame mark between the Fire Fairy's eyebrows seemed to be burning, not giving Xuan Jian any face at all.

"If it's you, then I will treat you as my rival. If it's not you, then I will never remember your name from now on."

Xuan Jian had been waiting near the blood pool for a whole day and met more than a dozen monks who had entered the bloody battlefield for the trial, but except for the Fire Fairy, no one came out of the battlefield.

"I look forward to fighting you."

In this level, the Fire Fairy completed the most important transformation, and then saw the power of this transformation on the bloody battlefield.

After the transformation, she can kill at least three of her former selves. She has infinite confidence in her ability to become the emperor.

Before the transformation of her innate divine fire, her aptitude was not enough to support her in her fight to become an emperor. However, after the transformation, not only her body but also her soul seemed to be sublimated.

Especially the secret technique taught by Li Zhi, which made her see the opportunity to continue to become stronger.

As long as she can bathe in the fires of heaven and earth, one day the "Suzaku Sky Fire" she practices will reach the great level.

By then, burning the sky and boiling the sea would be just a matter of thought for her.

Both of them were seriously injured at this moment. After a brief collision, they returned to the outer area to heal their wounds.

The central restricted area is still too dangerous. If a ferocious beast attacks at this time, they are likely to suffer more serious injuries.

If attacked by a sacred beast, there is a greater chance of death.

Just after Xuan Jian and the Fire Fairy left the central forbidden area, Li Zhi and the Saint Maiden of Yao Chi finally arrived at the place called the blood pool.

The so-called blood pool is a blood lake with an area of ​​ten miles in radius.

The lake was filled with blood, which contained a terrifying sword energy and emitted a misty murderous intent that made people's souls tremble.

The blood clouds are surging, the mist is steaming, and you can feel the killing intent that penetrates eternity from a long distance away, as streaks of blood shoot up into the sky.

I don’t know what kind of powerful person left this blood, but after thousands of years, it still retains its murderous intent.

The Saint of Yao Chi looked at the blood lake in front of her with a serious face and asked, "Is this the final trial site of the first level of the human race?"

Li Zhi nodded and said, "Yes, here we can see our true selves. We can discover our strengths and weaknesses, and plan the right path for future practice."

Afterwards, Li Zhi and the Saint Maiden of Yao Chi walked around the Blood Lake and saw a line of words written in the ancient sacred script on a weathered stone tablet.

"The ten-zhang blood pool is the burial place of mankind's ancestors." Li Zhi read out the words on the broken stone tablet.

"A ten-foot blood pool? It's clearly ten miles in radius." said the Saint Maiden of Yao Chi.

“It is estimated that when this place was first created, the blood pool was only ten feet wide. However, as successive cultivators came here to train, the flesh and blood of the losers were all integrated into the blood pool. Over time, the amount of water in the lake became larger,” Li Zhi explained.

Through the Eye of Life and Death, Li Zhi had seen that there were a large number of life marks in the blood lake, and the murderous aura was obviously not left by a single strong person. There must be a constant stream of strong people filling in to ensure that the murderous aura in the blood pool would not dissipate.

At the same time, it also keeps the life energy rich in the blood pool at an extremely high level.

If we only rely on the blood left by the strong men from ancient times, even if it is the blood left by the emperor, there is no guarantee that the blood pool here can still have the magical effect it has today.

Time is the most terrifying knife in the world, which can decay your life without you even realizing it.

Even the murderous aura in the emperor's body will slowly dissipate over time.

There is no eternal murderous aura.

Judging from the current size of the Blood Lake, every time the trial site is opened, it will be filled with the blood of hundreds or thousands of powerful people, including many masters at the saint level.

Moreover, there is a spiritual imprint in the blood lake.

It tells a truth that apart from the enemies, the monks themselves are often their most powerful opponents.

"Defeat myself?" The Saint of Yao Chi said to herself after feeling the spiritual imprint.

"It's deeper than defeating ourselves. It allows us to get to know the real us. We can even observe our own strengths and weaknesses from the perspective of our opponents." Li Zhi explained.

The spiritual imprint also tells future generations that there is a bloody battlefield in the lake, which can provide later generations with the conditions to fight with itself.

It allows the trial-taker to understand himself more clearly and thus continuously complete the transformation.

“In this ancient battlefield, I can create myself in an instant. What a heaven-defying method is this?” Yao Chi Saint Girl exclaimed.

"I guess the ancestors of the human race got inspiration from Emperor Huang Tian." Li Zhi said casually.

"Did Emperor Huang Tian also practice here?" Yao Chi Saint asked curiously. "No, what I mean is that Emperor Huang Tian has a mysterious Void Immortal Gold Stele that can condense an identical self. In the past, Emperor Huang Tian was killed by the self condensed by the Immortal Gold Stele." Li Zhi explained hurriedly.

"Fellow Daoist Changshou, how do you know all this?" Seeing Li Zhi's solemn promise, the Saint Maiden of Yao Chi became even more curious.

"I read it in a book. The self that can be condensed by the Void Immortal Gold Stele in the hands of Emperor Huang Tian is far more powerful than the self that can be condensed here. You must be careful next time, because if you are not careful in this kind of trial, you will die." Li Zhi said.

"I will defeat myself." Yao Chi Saint said confidently.

Then, Li Zhi suddenly waved his hand and covered her and Yao Chi Saint Maiden with the Heaven-Deceiving Formation, saying, "I sealed a drop of White Tiger Immortal Elixir in the jade hairpin I gave you. If you can't hold on any longer, remember to swallow it."

"The elixir of the White Tiger's Immortality Elixir? You have actually encountered the White Tiger's Immortality Elixir." The Saint Maiden of the Yao Chi asked in shock.

"I got it from Kunlun, the immortal place in my hometown." Li Zhi said with a smile.

For a moment, the Saint Maiden of Yao Chi didn't know how to respond.

Then, Li Zhi said, "Time is running out, let's go in and practice."

The bloody battlefield is right in the blood lake. If you use your divine sense to search, you can find bloody cracks. Each crack corresponds to an area.

Then, Li Zhi and the Holy Maiden of Yao Chi jumped into the blood lake and each entered a bloody crack in it.

After entering the bloody rift, what comes into view is an ancient battlefield that seems to have been soaked in blood.

There are all kinds of battle traces, among which the most battle traces are not the original traces on the battlefield, but the battle traces left by later comers who enter once every ten thousand years.

The owners of some of these traces were extremely powerful, and the traces have not disappeared to this day.

Li Zhi looked at the vast land and for a moment he didn't know where he came from.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

Just as Li Zhi was observing the battlefield, a bloody figure appeared on the skyline.

As the figure got closer, the facial contours gradually became clearer. When it finally stopped ten feet in front of Li Zhi, the figure became completely solid and almost exactly like Li Zhi.

But his aura is stronger than Li Zhi's.

"The peak of the fourth level of the saint?" Li Zhi was slightly stunned, and then whispered: "How could it be me who is at the peak of the fourth level of the saint?"

Soon, Li Zhi understood the reason behind it.

It was when he was comprehending the natural way in the outer area before that his various auras were captured by the nature of heaven and earth.

Then after entering this place, the Dao patterns engraved between heaven and earth condensed into one of yourself at that time.

Most cultivators who have completed the outer trials will not experience any noticeable fluctuations in their cultivation when they enter this place for the ultimate trial.

But Li Zhi was different. When he was practicing in the periphery, the aura captured by the heaven and earth on the Saintly Island was the aura of a peak fourth-level saint.

But afterwards, he burned himself with the fire of Huadao in the Huadao Ancient Cave, causing his own level of Taoism to drop significantly in a short period of time.

At the same time, the robes he wore activated the Heaven-Deceiving Array Pattern engraved inside, preventing the heaven and earth from capturing his aura of the Great Dao at this moment.

"I am at the peak of the fourth level of the Saint. Let me see what the difference is between me now and before."

After realizing the truth, a strong desire to fight burst out from Li Zhi's eyes.

In order to cultivate a more powerful foundation for the Great Dao, he did not hesitate to risk his own transformation and burned himself with the fire of transformation. Now that his true self has been burned out, what kind of transformation he has undergone needs to be verified.

"war!"

Almost at the same time, Li Zhi and Bloody Li Zhi performed the same moves.

Seven styles of free-hand fighting, two magical powers, nine transformations of the true dragon, and various secret techniques of attack. Li Zhi and Bloody Li Zhi fought to the point of madness.

The terrifying destructive power of the battle was beyond the limit of what a saint could achieve, and the closed little world was shaking.

The blood lake outside began to churn, as if it could not withstand the aftermath of the battle in the small world.

The earth-shaking showdown lasted for three full days.

Moreover, while fighting, Li Zhi realized his own shortcomings.

Sure enough, Bloody Li Zhi’s attacks on himself using those flaws no longer worked.

However, as the battle progressed, it seemed that his aura of the Great Dao was captured by the small world of the battlefield, and the defects on Bloody Li Zhi were disappearing.

Bloody Li Zhi becomes more and more courageous as the battle goes on, and is gradually evolving towards perfection.

Li Zhi vaguely saw that the fourth level of Saint was his strength.

“The Tao and I are one, the gods and I are one, heaven and earth are one, and I am the only one who is true.”

Finally, Li Zhi displayed the secret technique of protecting the Dao from the Dao Palace Volume of the "Dao Da Longevity Sutra" that he had realized during the battle.

Once this technique is used, it seems as if there is only one true God in the world.

Li Zhi seemed to have gathered all his own timelines and attributed the power of infinite time and space to himself.

Even the power of the Great Dao belonging to Li Zhi on the opposite side was taken away.

Afterwards, Bloody Li Zhikong had the cultivation level of a fourth-level saint, but he could only display various traces of battle that existed in the battlefield space.

Li Zhi instantly turned the battle situation around, and at the same time realized the mechanism of the formation of Bloody Li Zhi.

Soon, he comprehended a special mirror image pattern.

It seems to be similar to the way the heavenly tribulation imitates the great path of the cultivators.

The secret technique had just been created, and Li Zhi could not maintain it for long.

After just two hours, the secret technique of the only true body became ineffective.

The bloody Li Zhi on the opposite side regained Li Zhi's fighting style.

Unfortunately, Li Zhi had already studied him thoroughly.

After a few moves, he was defeated.

Afterwards, he felt a repulsive force from heaven and earth, which pushed him out of the bloody battlefield.

Although Li Zhi suffered some minor injuries, he was not seriously injured.

A divine light flashed on his body and he recovered.

Then he sat by the blood pool and waited for the Holy Maiden of Yao Chi to come out.

Two hours later, the Holy Maiden of Yao Chi, covered in blood, returned from the bloody battlefield, barely breathing.

But there was a look of joy on her face that came from the bottom of her heart.

She did not swallow the elixir of immortality, but killed herself with her own strength.

At the same time, it gave her a deeper understanding of the Yao Chi secret technique.

Li Zhi quickly took out a bottle of immortal liquid from Kunlun Immortality Land and poured it into the mouth of the Saint of Yao Chi.

Only then did the Saint Maiden of Yao Chi recover some of her energy.

"Thank you for your longevity."

With the elixir of the White Tiger's Immortality Elixir protecting her, in the bloody battlefield, the Saint Maiden of Yao Chi truly let go and engaged in a bloody battle with herself.

This war had a huge impact on the Saint Maiden of Yao Chi, making her see clearly her own shortcomings.

It laid a solid foundation for her future transformation.

"Let's go. This is not the place to recuperate."

Afterwards, Li Zhi left the central forbidden area with the Holy Maiden of Yao Chi.

(End of this chapter)