Chapter 378: Wall of Gods and Demons
"It seems that this fellow Taoist does not understand the true meaning of life."

In the empty ancient city of stars, Li Zhi and Saint Maiden Yao Chi stood in a mansion in the center of the ancient city, observing the cultivator in front of the ancient stele who was so angry that he was about to smash the ancient stele with a magic weapon.

"What are you going to do with him?" The Saint Maiden of Yao Chi understood that cultivators were often more selfish than mortals. For things they could not get, they would rather destroy them than leave them to others.

"Any trial site requires countless blood and bones to let those who come after understand its value. Perhaps only living lives can make people understand the true meaning of life."

As soon as Li Zhi finished speaking, the first ancient monument standing on the side of the road rose from the ground, and then a blue dragon formed by the immortal laws of the Tao flew out from the ancient monument.

The blue dragon carried boundless divine power and with a flick of its tail it knocked the cultivator, who was emitting demonic energy, into the base of the ancient stele. Then the ancient stele fell from the sky and suppressed him directly.

Chains of order emanated from the ancient stele and pierced into the body of the monk who was emitting demonic energy.

Although he struggled hard, there was a huge gap between his cultivation level and Li Zhi's, and he was completely unable to change the situation of being suppressed.

A moment later, this demon monk who had reached the third level of Saint King completely lost the ability to resist, and his body and soul became the source of energy to strengthen the ancient city.

"Huh, he actually practiced the incomplete Heaven-Devouring Demon Art." Li Zhi extracted the memories of the demon cultivator from his sea of ​​consciousness, and said with some curiosity.

"Has he practiced the Heaven-Devouring Demon Art? He doesn't look like it." said the Saint Maiden of Yao Chi.

A cultivator who practices the "Heaven-Devouring Demon Art" will not have any demonic energy on his body, but will instead emanate a sacred aura.

"It's not the real Heaven-Swallowing Demon Art, but a demonic art evolved from the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Art." Li Zhi copied the information he had grabbed from the cultivator's sea of ​​consciousness to the Saint Maiden of Yao Chi.

After reading it, Yao Chi Saintess took a deep breath and said, "How can there be such a perverted inheritance in the world? Are they all crazy?"

"No, I think they are willing to sacrifice themselves in pursuit of the evolution of life. They are martyrs in a sense." Li Zhi shook his head and said.

The demon monks come from a small world in the heavenly realm called Demon Peak.

In that small world of Fang Tianyu, all inheritances follow a practice philosophy, that is, each generation is stronger than the previous one.

Once the next generation defeats the previous generation, the previous generation will devote all its efforts to cultivating the next generation, even at the cost of its own life force.

The inheritance of this young demon named Eighth is even more extreme. The master has to devote all his efforts to train the next generation. Once the next generation's realm reaches the same level as the master, they will fight each other.

The loser will be devoured by the winner.

Then they continue to raise a whole new generation until they die.

Five years ago, the Eighth defeated the Seventh, his master. After devouring all of his master's life essence and the origin of the Great Dao, the Eighth successfully broke through to the Saint King level and left that small demonic world.

In order to hone a stronger foundation of Taoism and to prevent his essence from being devoured by the ninth generation successor in the future, he must improve his Taoism to the level of a great sage before accepting any disciples, in order to avoid the outbreak of the curse in his body.

Within a hundred years, he must find the ninth-generation successor recognized by the ancestral weapon and start training him, otherwise he will suffer the backlash of the ancestral weapon.

The information about the Wall of Gods and Demons left by their ancestor undoubtedly became his life-saving straw to escape the curse.

As long as he could break through to the quasi-emperor realm, the curse in his body would not erupt.

Unfortunately, he died at the hands of Li Zhi less than five years after his birth.

Let this demonic inheritance be cut off.

However, based on the information Li Zhi obtained from his mind, as long as the ancestral weapon full of demonic nature is not destroyed, their lineage will be reborn.

"What kind of martyrs are they? Such a dark inheritance can only breed one evil demon after another." The Saint Maiden of Yao Chi could not accept this kind of inheritance where masters and apprentices fought each other from generation to generation.

Li Zhi also felt that this demonic inheritance was a bit too fantastical.

Compared with this evil inheritance, the real "Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art" does not feel as evil.

However, Li Zhi was more interested in the news about the Wall of Gods and Demons in his memory. A section of the Wall of Gods and Demons was actually scattered in the starry sky.

Afterwards, Li Zhi and the Holy Maiden of Yao Chi began to search for the whereabouts of the Wall of Gods and Demons in the starry sky.

Unfortunately, the starry sky is too vast. Even though the two of them are already Saint Kings, the range they can search is very limited.

After searching aimlessly in the boundless starry sky for a month, they returned to the 99th City.

Meanwhile, Gulin was already waiting for them in the city.

"Fellow Daoist Changshou, you are indeed different from others." Gu Lin said as soon as they met.

Building and maintaining the ancient starry sky city on the ancient trial road of the human race should have been the responsibility of the protectors who guarded the ancient road. Unfortunately, most of the protectors were only concerned with maintaining the status quo and had no intention of building each level more prosperous and more suitable for tempering the trial-takers.

Now seeing that Li Zhi had actually rebuilt the 99th level of the human race, Gu Lin didn't know how to praise Li Zhi for a moment.

Moreover, the various arrangements in the city cost a lot of money.

"Senior Gu, it is my honor to be able to contribute to the ancient trial road of the human race."

Afterwards, Li Zhi asked about the Wall of Gods and Demons.

Gu Lin said, "You have finally asked the right person about the Wall of Gods and Demons."

"Senior, do you know the whereabouts of the Wall of Gods and Demons?" Li Zhi asked hurriedly.

"The Wall of Gods and Demons has long been broken into pieces. Large pieces have long been lost on the battlefield, but my Gu family's ancestor picked up a piece of the Wall of Gods and Demons on the battlefield. There was a picture of and a half of gods and demons engraved on it." Gu Lin introduced.

"Can I have a try?" Li Zhi said.

"This..." Gu Lin hesitated.

The fragments of the Wall of Gods and Demons had long been transformed by the Gu family into the family's trial field, and outsiders were not allowed to use it.

After all, every time it is opened, the consumption is huge, and it requires the approval of the elders in a meeting before it can be opened.

"I was the one who spoke out of turn." Li Zhi immediately understood.

Afterwards, after chatting with Gu Lin for half a day, Li Zhi handed over the control of this ancient starry city to him.

It can be regarded as a new node city included in the ancient trial road of the human race.

After setting off with the Saintess of Yaochi, she asked, "Fellow Daoist Changshou, aren't you afraid that they will take that ancient city of stars for themselves?"

She finally realized that these ancient cities that had not been rebuilt were not for the purpose of training later generations.

Instead, the precious trial lands that once belonged to various city gates had already been divided up by these guardian families.

That's why they allowed the city walls to be destroyed and the ancient roads to collapse.

Although there was a war, I'm afraid that the reason why the city gate of the Ancient Trial Road could not be rebuilt was less than 30%.

These guardian families located on the ancient road of the human race are all abnormally powerful. Perhaps it is related to the fact that they have occupied the place of trial of good fortune that originally belonged to the ancient trial road.

The ancient trial road of the human race is only opened once every ten thousand years. During the eight or nine thousand years when the ancient road is closed, the damaged areas should be repaired at all costs.

Human greed is nothing more than that.

The reason why the trial grounds for the first few dozen levels were kept intact was probably because they were worried about causing public outrage.

Logically speaking, the further back you go on the ancient road, the higher the quality of the trial ground will be, and the better the fortunes that will be nurtured inside will be. Unfortunately, those places have disappeared without a trace due to the collapse of the ancient road and the destruction of the fortress.

If the layout of the ancient trial road is followed, most of the trial sites and the city passes will not be placed in the same star field, and their traces cannot be found without the help of the teleportation array.

Thinking of this, Li Zhi shook his head and replied: "That city can be regarded as our compensation for the ancient trial road. Since we have obtained the fortune of the ancient road, then giving something to repay the cause and effect will be beneficial to our future practice."

Skipping the discussion about the family of guardians of the ancient trial road embezzling the fortune of the ancient road, Li Zhi took the Saint Maiden of Yao Chi to the depths of the starry sky.

"This direction doesn't seem to be the direction to the last level." The Saint Maiden of Yao Chi suddenly spoke as she walked, fearing that she would get lost in the vast universe.

"I roughly know the whereabouts of the Wall of Gods and Demons. Let's go there to look for it." Li Zhi quickly explained the reason.

After talking with Gu Lin before, Li Zhi learned the place where his ancestor picked up the fragments of the Wall of Gods and Demons.

Then, Li Zhi calculated the possible scattering range of the fragments after the Wall of Gods and Demons was broken.

Combined with the information about the whereabouts of the Wall of Gods and Demons obtained from the Eighth Mind, Li Zhi vaguely felt that there should be some fragments left in the area shrouded in chaotic energy ahead.

A few days later, Li Zhi and the Saint Maiden of Yao Chi arrived at a desolate star field shrouded in chaos.

There is no starlight around, as if no living being has ever visited this starry sky for eternity.

"Is it right here?" asked the Saint Maiden of Yao Chi.

"My intuition tells me that the fragments of the Wall of Gods and Demons are here." Li Zhi opened his third eye and began to search in the chaos.

After searching for several months and their unremitting search, they finally saw a broken wall deep in the chaos.

The gray wall was less than a hundred feet long, but twenty-three complete carvings of gods and demons remained on it.

"The snake, the red bird, the Taowu, the Zhuyan, the heavenly dog, the horned dragon, the holy spirit..."

After seeing the Wall of Gods and Demons, Saint Yao Chi first counted the types of gods and demons on it, and then said, "Could it be that the Wall of Gods and Demons that stood in the Ninety-Nine Passes City back then was engraved with the names of the top 100 powerful races in the universe?"

"Maybe there is such a possibility." After observing the aura emanating from the Wall of Gods and Demons, Li Zhi also felt that what the Saint Maiden of Yao Chi said made sense.

Then, Li Zhi said, "Let me try to see if the Wall of Gods and Demons still has the same effect as it did in the past."

Walking to the gray wall, Li Zhi infused his magic power into the pictures of gods and demons carved on the wall, as if he was pushing open a stone door.

Then he came to a huge arena.

The entire arena was dark black, like the color of dried blood, giving the entire arena a heart-pounding atmosphere.

It was as if there were ancient gods and demons watching in secret.

Li Zhi, however, remained calm and waited for changes in the arena.

Soon, a chaotic energy surged above the ring, and a ten-foot-tall, white-haired, barefoot explosive ape appeared in front of him.

It was the mythical beast Zhuyan depicted on the wall carving.

"Ow..."

After a roar, Zhu Yan rushed towards Li Zhi, fierce and domineering, raising his fist to kill, with a violent aura and the laws of the Great Sage spreading, sweeping towards Li Zhi.

He seemed like a real ancient god or demon, with tremendous blood and energy, unparalleled fighting power, and his aura was not weaker than his at all.

Li Zhi did not dare to be negligent at all and immediately swung his fist to meet the attack.

The battle lasted for a full hour. It seemed that the time for Zhu Yan, who was condensed by the laws, to exist had come to an end, so the battle stopped.

After Zhu Yan disappeared, he directly turned into a group of special Dao runes.

Li Zhi immediately began to comprehend those runes and benefited greatly from them.

At the same time, Li Zhi also learned about Zhu Yan's existence.

The Wall of Gods and Demons absorbs the essence of heaven and earth, and then uses runes to evolve into war puppets of gods and demons with the same cultivation level as the person who steps onto the arena. As long as they can hold out in the arena for an hour, they are considered to have passed.

You can comprehend the original laws that originate from gods and demons.

After walking out of the arena, Li Zhi told the Saint Maiden of Yao Chi how to use the Wall of Gods and Demons.

The Wall of Gods and Demons has remained in this chaos for hundreds of thousands of years, and countless chaotic essences have already accumulated inside.

The Arena of Gods and Demons, which originally took several years to replenish the essence of heaven and earth after each consumption, can now be replenished in just a few days.

In the next six months, Li Zhi and the Saint Maiden of Yao Chi had to fight with a demon almost every day.

At the same time, they can comprehend the origin of gods and demons in their bodies.

Finally, Li Zhi was able to end the battle within ten moves and stopped this grinding.

The original gray color of the Wall of Gods and Demons seemed to have faded a lot, turning into a grayish-white stone wall.

"Unfortunately, there is only this part."

When the Wall of Gods and Demons could no longer temper him, Li Zhi couldn't help but sigh.

"Just be content. Fighting against gods and demons of equal strength is not an experience that everyone can have."

The Saint Maiden of Yao Chi seemed to have been reborn. Half a year of fighting had made her aura more rounded. Although her realm had not improved, her Taoism had become more and more profound.

Now she can at least defeat the three versions of herself from half a year ago.

As long as she is given some quiet time to practice in seclusion, it will be no problem for her to break through one or two small realms.

There was no longer any aura of a Saint King on Li Zhi's body. It seemed that the battle that had lasted for half a year had worn away all his edges.

His Taoism skills have been honed to be extremely solid, as if he has possessed the true power of a great sage.

Both the soul and the body have received a rare tempering.

Even his great laws showed signs of evolving into original runes.

The evolution of the Dao Laws into the Dao Runes is something that only a strong person at the level of the Great Emperor can do.

For strong people at the level of the Great Emperor, their avenues can eventually evolve into nine characters of the Emperor. That is, when their own Taoism reaches a certain level, they will evolve runes of the original avenue that are comparable to all the ways of heaven and earth.

That is, the text that other cultivators recognize as belonging exclusively to the Great Emperor.

Runes of that level would never be born in the body of an ordinary cultivator.

From this point of view, the construction of the Wall of Gods and Demons may have involved the participation of ancient emperors.

Ordinary great saints simply do not have the ability to carve that kind of runes of the original great way.

After Li Zhi's personal experience, he discovered that this wall of gods and demons was an imitation made by later generations, and was not the wall of gods and demons left over from the ancient times.

(End of this chapter)