hotmtlnovel Chapter 4 The Great Accomplished Holy Body and Divine Thoughts, the Ancient Forbidden Land
Chapter 4 The Great Accomplished Holy Body and Divine Thoughts, the Ancient Forbidden Land
The emergence of cultivators did not reverse the situation; it merely prolonged it.
At some unknown time, a fierce Martian wind raged, the earth shook, and the ruins of the Great Thunder Temple completely collapsed.
A huge abyss split open in the reddish-brown earth.
Two red lanterns lit up in the darkness and slowly rose into the air—those were the eyes of the Crocodile Ancestor.
A demonic aura filled the sky, and dark clouds pressed down overhead.
A millstone-sized stone was lifted into the air and instantly turned into dust.
Everyone felt a tightness in their chest and couldn't breathe.
That is the absolute suppression of lower-level life forms by higher-level life forms.
This guy is a real big shot; we can't afford to mess with him.
"Quick! Everyone get in!"
Li Xian roared.
Ye Fan and Pang Bo acted decisively, covering the last few people as they entered the coffin, one on the left and one on the right.
Li Xian stood at the back, facing those giant, scarlet eyes, he raised his right hand and gave them the middle finger.
Regardless of whether Crocodile Ancestor understands or not, he cannot lose his momentum.
Then, he stepped into the giant bronze coffin.
At this moment, the remaining Buddhist artifacts in everyone's hands emitted a faint light of the laws.
The law does not expand outward, but contracts inward, activating the five-colored altar.
With a rumble, the coffin lid closed completely, cutting off the demonic energy from the outside world, and darkness once again enveloped everything.
Immediately afterwards, the nine enormous dragon corpses burst forth with light, the runes on the five-colored altar lit up, and a tremendous pulling force came, causing the giant coffin to shudder violently and rise into the air.
Nine dragons pull the coffin, marking a new beginning.
A violent feeling of weightlessness washed over them, and the people inside the coffin swayed from side to side, their cries and screams mingling together.
Li Xian leaned against the cold copper wall to steady himself.
He raised his hand to wipe away the crocodile blood that stained his chin, adjusted his breathing, and prepared to carefully sense the Sea of Bitterness.
suddenly!
A beam of flashlight swirled wildly in the darkness before finally settling on Li Xian's face.
The blinding light made Li Xian squint.
Behind the light source, Liu Yunzhi was breathing heavily, his face contorted. He stared intently at Li Xian, his voice hoarse and shrill:
"Li Xian! You clearly had the ability to kill those monsters just now, why didn't you save Chen Fang'er? You just watched her get bitten to death!"
Several students, who were in a state of shock, turned their heads away.
In this oppressive space, fear can easily turn into anger, and Liu Yunzhi accurately found an outlet for it.
"You have weapons, and you've eaten the flesh of those monsters, yet you've become so strong!"
Liu Yunzhi stepped forward, pointing at the broken ring knife in Li Xian's hand:
"A selfish person like you doesn't deserve to hold Buddhist implements!"
Lin Jia stood not far away, her brows furrowed, as if she was about to speak.
Li Xiaoman gripped her Buddhist prayer beads tightly, her eyes gleaming, as if she were about to kick someone when they were down.
Li Xian remained silent.
He raised his right hand to block the bright beam of the flashlight.
The next second, he sprang up and flashed across the three-meter distance.
"Snapped!"
A crisp sound echoed within the giant bronze coffin.
Liu Yunzhi was sent flying and crashed heavily into the bronze wall in the distance.
The flashlight slipped from his hand and rolled a few times on the ground, its beam sweeping across the stunned faces.
Li Xian withdrew her hand, walked to the flashlight, and stomped on it until it was crushed.
Darkness descended once more.
"I didn't receive any bodyguard fees, so I have no obligation to save people."
Li Xian's voice rang out in the darkness, flat and without any inflection:
"If you shine that light on me again, or say another word, I'll throw you out to feed the crocodiles."
Liu Yunzhi covered his swollen cheek, spat out a mouthful of blood mixed with his teeth, and trembled all over, but dared not utter another word.
"Alright." Ye Fan stepped forward and stood behind Li Xian, his gaze sweeping over the surroundings. "Save your energy. Survival is more important than anything else."
Pang Bo snorted coldly:
"While we were running, someone pushed their classmate aside and crawled into the coffin themselves, and now they're acting like a saint. The old man saved us all, who do you think you are?"
The crowd fell completely silent.
Li Xian returned to her original position and sat down again.
"The AI settings for these NPCs are really annoying; they have to resort to this kind of pointless social interaction to advance the plot."
He thought to himself that the challenge against the Speedrunning Emperor was time-sensitive, and he didn't have time to play mind games with these supporting characters.
The temperature around us began to drop.
At first it wasn't obvious, but soon the air inside the bronze coffin became chillingly cold.
Someone started sneezing, and their teeth clicked together.
White frost condensed on the copper wall.
Li Xian opened her eyes.
In the darkness, a heavy breathing sound was heard.
breathe--
That wasn't the breath of a living person; it carried a heavy, rotten smell and endless malice.
The Great Accomplished Holy Body and the Divine Thoughts.
In the original story, this thing was supposed to target Ye Fan.
But at this moment, the chilling aura suddenly stopped as it approached Ye Fan.
The dormant ancient sacred body origin within Ye Fan's body naturally repelled and deterred this evil thought of the same origin.
The deity hesitated and retreated.
Then, the wind changed direction.
Li Xian felt a tightness in his back, and an extremely dangerous chill rushed straight to the top of his head.
Having just devoured the flesh and blood of the divine crocodile and forcibly opened the sea of suffering, his vital energy was exceptionally active in his mortal body, making him the brightest beacon in the darkness.
A cold hand silently landed on Li Xian's left shoulder.
The biting cold instantly invaded the meridians, and the almost non-existent divine power within the body was nearly frozen.
"They've come looking for me?" Li Xian's eyes narrowed.
He remained calm, his three years of experience as a veteran player of the game "Covering the Sky" kept him extremely composed—he could not defeat the divine will of the Great Accomplished Holy Body at this stage, and could only expel it.
Li Xian sat cross-legged without moving, his hands forming a strange hand seal.
His lips moved, and he recited a passage of scripture in a peculiar rhythm.
"The path of humanity is insignificant, the path of immortals is boundless. The path of ghosts is joyful, right at the gate of life. The path of immortals values life, the path of ghosts values death..."
Earth's Taoist scriptures, the "Lingbao Wuliang Duren Shangpin Miaojing".
This is the origin of the "Scripture of Salvation" by Lingbao Tianzun in the world of "Covering the Sky".
Although Li Xian lacked cultivation to support him and could not exert his great power to save all living beings, the scripture itself contained the true words of the Great Dao, which had absolute restraint on evil spirits and malevolent thoughts.
The sound of the scriptures echoed within the giant bronze coffin, not loud, but clearly reaching the ears of everyone.
Ye Fan's expression shifted; he recognized the voice as that of a Taoist classic.
The hand resting on Li Xian's shoulder trembled violently.
"ah--!"
A heart-wrenching scream rang out in the darkness, making everyone's eardrums ache.
That chilling aura dissipated instantly, like snow melting under the blazing sun.
The deity retreated in panic, shrinking back to the small bronze coffin containing the true secret, and then fell silent.
The temperature inside the coffin slowly rose.
"Old Immortal, what was that sound just now?" Pang Bo swallowed hard and gripped the bronze plaque tightly.
A chilling wind.
Li Xian spoke calmly.
Ignoring the astonishment of the crowd, Li Xian reached into his backpack and pulled out a Bodhi Immortal Medicine branch that he had picked in front of the Great Thunder Temple on the ancient star Yinghuo.
The branches were withered, but the leaves still faintly showed a hint of green.
Li Xian plucked one of the leaves, stuffed it into her mouth, and chewed it vigorously.
The bitter juice spread in my mouth, and a cool stream of air went down my throat, through my limbs and bones, and finally into my mind.
The Bodhi tree, with its immortal medicinal leaves, contains fragments of the most fundamental Dao in the universe.
Li Xian closed his eyes. The player's absolute rationality and the Bodhi Leaf's enlightenment combined perfectly at this moment, and his consciousness sank into that newly opened sea of suffering, which was only the size of a sesame seed.
The mortal body is too weak.
There were no divine signs or signs, no sacred body or vital energy.
To quickly become a Great Emperor within five hundred years, one must break free from the shackles of the mortal body at the very beginning.
A cool current flowed through his sea of consciousness. Li Xian mobilized all the cultivation techniques and settings related to the Shrouding the Heavens system in his memory, and with the help of the Daoist charm of the Bodhi leaf, forced himself to comprehend the Dao.
Time passes little by little.
After an unknown amount of time, a scripture of only a few hundred words took shape in Li Xian's sea of consciousness.
Fragments of the "Mending the Heavenly Immortal Scripture".
This is not a method of attack, but a method of repairing the immortal realm. It also incorporates some scriptures of the Heaven-Mending Sect, using the human body as a furnace to plunder the creation of heaven and earth and replenish one's own origin.
Its grade reaches the True Immortal level, making it an absolute immortal scripture.
Li Xian immediately activated the several hundred-word fragment.
In the sea of suffering, the essence of the originally raging divine crocodile's flesh and blood was quickly tamed, transforming into wisps of pure life essence that nourished the fragile sea of samadhi.
The bones emitted a faint popping sound, and impurities from the body were expelled little by little through the sweat glands.
"Not enough, the resources are still too few." Li Xian opened his eyes and exhaled a breath of stale air.
Just then.
"boom!"
The giant bronze coffin emitted a deafening roar, the entire coffin tumbled violently, and everyone lost their balance, crashing heavily against the bronze walls.
The sounds of friction and the twisting of metal mingled together.
The vibration stopped after a few minutes.
"Bang."
The lid of the tilted coffin slid open, letting in blinding sunlight and filling the space with fresh air mixed with the fragrance of earth and grass.
"Light! It's sunlight!"
"We've arrived! We're saved!"
The surviving students wept with joy and struggled to crawl towards the crevice.
Li Xian stood up, dusted himself off, picked up his monk's knife, and slowly stepped out of the bronze coffin.
Before your eyes are nine majestic sacred mountains that reach into the clouds, connected to each other and encircling a huge abyss.
Towering ancient trees rise from the ground, and all kinds of exotic flowers and rare herbs are scattered throughout the mountains and fields, their life essence so rich that it is almost tangible.
Ancient and forbidden land.
We've arrived in the Big Dipper Star Region.
Li Xian stood on the edge of the cliff, looking down into the bottomless black abyss.
Deep within the abyss, a pair of cold eyes seemed to pierce through the ancient mist, silently gazing upwards.
"Ruthless Emperor," Li Xian murmured to himself, gripping his broken ring knife tightly. "The Speedrun Bureau officially begins."