Chapter 42: Grand Sacrifice Scene
Leave from the city near Lingxu Cave Heaven.

Li Zhi soon entered the vast primitive ruins.

In the ruins, there are flourishing vegetation, towering ancient trees, old vines everywhere, roaring wild beasts, and ferocious birds flying in the sky, creating a scene of primeval forest.

The ruins of the buildings have long been swallowed up by the forest, and there are no traces of their former prosperity.

Li Zhi, who tried his best to restrain his breath, soon arrived at the depths of the primitive ruins and stopped in front of a pile of rocks with sparse vegetation.

The rocky area was several dozen acres in size, with a small stream flowing by it.

The rubble scattered on the ground did not seem to be formed naturally, but rather a pile of rocks left behind after ferocious beasts once fought here and smashed a stone forest.

The pile of rocks seemed to be filled with a strong murderous aura.

Only a very small number of grasses with strong vitality that are not afraid of the erosion of evil spirits are growing with difficulty among the piles of rocks.

There were also few signs of wild animal activity nearby.

When Li Zhi saw this, his eyes lit up. This was an excellent place for sacrifice.

Then, he took out a five-colored altar the size of a washbasin from the wheel sea.

This is the altar he made by melting scraps he picked up from Mars.

The altar was very crude, and it was obvious at first glance that it was made by a monk who had no knowledge of refining tools, who had forcibly glued the five-colored jade stones together with bone glue. It did not have any sense of beauty of unity.

However, this rough five-colored altar was enough for Li Zhi.

On this rough altar, three hundred runes were densely written with animal blood.

Li Zhi first cleared an area with a diameter of ten meters among the rocks, and stopped only when the soil covered by the rocks was exposed.

Then he used rubble to build a cylindrical stone platform in the middle with a diameter of one meter and a height of one foot.

Afterwards, Li Zhi placed the washbasin-sized five-colored altar on the stone platform.

After taking a deep breath, Li Zhi took out three one-meter-long and thumb-thick fine incense sticks from his snakeskin bag.

He bought these long incense sticks in the city. According to the incense seller, this kind of long incense sticks is only used in the most grand sacrificial activities.

Afterwards, Li Zhi carefully placed two crystal-like teardrops the size of green beans on the five-colored altar.

Then light three long incense sticks, kneel directly in front of the altar and start chanting.

The sacrificial scriptures in "Stealing the Secrets of Heaven" kept coming out of Li Zhi's mouth.

The scriptures chanted with divine power seemed to possess infinite mysterious power at this moment and began to cause changes in the surrounding environment.

The originally clear sky was suddenly covered with dark clouds, lightning and thunder, and a huge vortex formed above Li Zhi's head.

As Li Zhi chanted, the two tears on the altar also emitted a bright white light.

The light became brighter and brighter, as if it was about to turn into fairy air and float away.

Moreover, among those fairy auras, a vast heavenly palace vaguely appeared.

As the Heavenly Palace appeared, Li Zhi could faintly hear the mysterious sound of chanting echoing in the void around him.

It was as if there really was an almighty emperor in heaven who was about to walk out of the mysterious heavenly palace.

When Li Zhi finished reciting the scriptures nine times, he saw the Emperor of Heaven in the immortal energy suddenly take action and shoot a bright light into the void.

Suddenly, a magical vision of flying fairies appeared in the sky above the five-colored altar.

The dragon and the phoenix sing in harmony, the unicorn brings good fortune, the immortals bestow blessings, and all kinds of strange phenomena come one after another.

It seemed as if the illusory fairyland was pierced through by the Emperor of Heaven with one blow, allowing the aura of the fairyland to shine in the mortal world.

Immediately afterwards, a thick milky white light fell from the thunderclouds in the sky, directly enveloping Li Zhi.

It was as if the Emperor of Heaven had written an edict, ordering the universe to bless Li Zhi.

The great fortune of the universe that was originally invisible to the naked eye was so rich at this moment that it had some texture.

Bathed in the great fortune of the universe, Li Zhi felt as if his soul was about to be sublimated.

I don’t know how much time passed, but suddenly Li Zhi sighed in his heart.

The milky white fortune of the universe disappeared in an instant, and the vast flying fairy vision also disappeared without a trace in an instant.

It was as if everything that just happened was just an illusion.

Coming out of that celestial joy, Li Zhi saw that the two tears on the five-colored altar had completely disappeared.

The three long incense sticks only burned less than an inch.

After failing to sense the good fortune of heaven and earth in his body, Li Zhi immediately used his divine power to speed up the burning of the three long incense sticks.

When the long incense burned out, Li Zhi immediately put away the five-colored altar.

Li Zhi looked around and breathed a sigh of relief when he didn't notice any living creature approaching.

But before he could leave, a curious voice came from not far away.

"Kid, was the strange vision just now caused by you?" After a moment, a fat Taoist priest with a ruddy face and who looked to be about thirty years old rode the divine rainbow and landed lightly beside Li Zhi, looking at him curiously.

"What kind of vision? I don't know." Li Zhi quickly denied.

"So you're still a little bald head. Hey, you don't have any Buddhist power. Tell me, who were you offering sacrifices to? You made such a big noise. I was attracted by the strange scene you created even though I was hundreds of miles away." The fat Taoist waved his hand and took off the hat on Li Zhi's head, then pointed at the incense ash and the stone platform on the ground and asked. "I don't know what you are talking about?" Li Zhi continued to shake his head and turned to leave.

The Taoist priest in front of him looked harmless, but Li Zhi felt that he was very dangerous, as if he could easily see through his disguise.

"Child, what's your name? I feel like we have a connection. If you tell me who you were offering sacrifices to just now, I might be so happy that I would teach you a few secret skills." The fat Taoist said to Li Zhi with a smile.

"What secret technique?" Li Zhi asked curiously.

"Of course it is the secret technique that can make you rich. How about you tell me who you were offering sacrifices to just now?" The fat Taoist seemed to be very sure that the strange phenomenon just now was caused by Li Zhi's sacrifice.

Li Zhi asked, "Excuse me, Master, what is your name?"

The fat Taoist priest made a seal with one hand, waved his whisk, and said, "Wulian Tianzun, I am Duan De, you can call me Taoist Duan."

"Are you the famous unscrupulous Taoist priest?" Li Zhi asked in surprise.

"Unscrupulous Taoist? Who are you talking about? Are you talking about me, the Taoist master? Who, who is ruining my reputation behind my back? I am a kind person. I never kill or hurt anyone on my own initiative. I am the most caring towards the old and the young." The fat Taoist seemed anxious and shouted in all directions.

Li Zhi's eyes flashed with anticipation, and he asked, "Master Duan, so you are a true Taoist master. I am Li Zhi, and I am honored to meet you. Master, what secret technique do you want to teach me? Is it the legendary scripture that Wuliang Tianzun practiced? If not, just teach me two of the Nine Secrets. I prefer the "Jie" Secret and the "Zhe" Secret. In fact, I would not refuse if you want to teach me the "Xing" Secret."

The fat Taoist priest stared at Li Zhi with his eyes wide open, his mouth open but no sound came out.

Seeing this, Li Zhi continued, "No? Then teach me the Yuantian Divine Art or Feng Shui and Burial Theory. I can accept it reluctantly. After learning it, I can also be like the Taoist priest in the future, checking Feng Shui for the living and finding graves for the dead, and I can live a comfortable life."

"Bang!" A crisp and loud sound rang out above the rocks.

The fat Taoist priest's face turned red, and he slapped Li Zhi's little bald head hard with his fat hand.

"Finally I feel comfortable. I used to think I was innocent enough, but I didn't expect that you, little guy, would be even more greedy than me. No, it's not greedy, it's wishful thinking." The fat Taoist rubbed Li Zhi's little bald head with his fat left hand, and whipped Li Zhi's butt with a whisk.

Li Zhi wanted to dodge, but the fat Taoist's hands seemed to have magical powers. No matter how he struggled, he could not break free from his hands.

I could only helplessly endure the pain of being touched on the head again.

"Little Li Zhi, let's do this. I'll take you to broaden your horizons, and then you can tell me who you were worshipping just now, how about that?" The fat Taoist priest seemed to have satisfied his desire, so he let go of Li Zhi's bald head, looked at him and said with a smile.

Li Zhi felt that his scalp was about to be rubbed bald by this hateful fat Taoist priest. He stared at Duan De with his teeth bared and said, "You Taoist priest are so shameless that you actually bully a child."

The fat Taoist grinned and said, "If you were a normal child, I would send you home safely no matter what. But tell me, are you a normal child?"

Li Zhi was speechless and looked at Duan De with resentment.

"If you follow me, you will definitely get a lot of benefits. When I saw you, I felt that we got along well, as if we had known each other in our previous life." The fat Taoist touched Li Zhi's little bald head again and said.

"The ghost thinks you and he are father. Aren't you a monk? Is it possible that you have children? Taoist priest, do you also believe in past lives?" Li Zhi asked in surprise.

"Past life, present life, next life, why don't you believe it? I am different from those ordinary people. I believe in reincarnation in this world." The fat Taoist's expression suddenly changed, and he said in a mysterious way, as if he felt infinitely lonely because his idea was not recognized by the world.

The mood full of reincarnation almost made Li Zhi lose his mind and sink into depravity.

Fortunately, after the fat Taoist priest finished speaking, his temperament changed instantly. He winked at Li Zhi and said, "How about you follow me for a walk? Do you know where this land used to be?"

"The primitive ruins, the former capital of the demon clan, what else could it be?" Li Zhi, who had come to his senses, said unhappily.

"Aren't you curious about why the demon clan's capital has become a ruin?" The fat Taoist seemed to be guiding Li Zhi's thoughts towards the topic he wanted to talk about.

"It was smashed by an ancient monk." Li Zhi said easily, then pointed to the pile of rocks under his feet and said, "Isn't this pile of rocks the best example?"

The smile on the fat Taoist's face froze instantly, and then he nodded and said, "That makes sense. What you said makes a lot of sense."

Then, the fat Taoist once again looked Li Zhi up and down and said, "I never thought that you have such knowledge at such a young age."

Then, the fat Taoist priest continued, "Since you know that this place was destroyed by ancient monks, then you should know that fighting will kill people. Under this land, there are countless corpses of ancient masters buried."

"Master, are you going to take me to rob a tomb?" A hint of doubt flashed in Li Zhi's eyes.

"Tomb robbing? Who told you that I am here to rob tombs? I don't know how to rob tombs. I only know how to do archaeology. My job is to help those ancient civilizations buried underground to see the light of day again." The fat Taoist priest argued cunningly.

"It turns out that the Taoist priest is such a great person. I admire him." Li Zhi said to the fat Taoist priest with a fist salute.

But after saying this, he turned and left.

"You kid actually don't believe me. It just so happens that I just discovered a place where an ancient monk is sleeping. I'll let you open your eyes and understand how happy it is to find the truth of ancient civilization from clues."

After saying that, the fat Taoist grabbed Li Zhi’s shoulder, who had already walked several meters away, and flew towards the southeast with him.

at the same time,

Nangong Wentian, who had finally arrived at the outskirts of the original ruins, had a hint of murderous intent in his eyes.

I put a lot of effort into finding Li Zhi's whereabouts.

He even went so far as to enter the city and search for Li Zhi's whereabouts from the memories of those mortals.

After a lot of effort, he finally found Li Zhi's whereabouts.

Then, using this clumsy method all the way, he finally confirmed that Li Zhi had entered the primitive ruins in front of him.

Although the original ruins are huge, they are only huge compared to the cultivators in Lingxu Cave Heaven.

In Nangong Wentian's eyes, it was nothing more than that.

A huge amount of divine power was released directly, and a carpet search for Li Zhi's whereabouts began.

(End of this chapter)