Ancient Starry Road (Making Up Last Month's Owed Chapter)

The cold universe, the desolate ancient star.

Having abandoned the bustling Big Dipper, left the lively cultivation world, and bid farewell to his Daoist companion, Zhou Tong embarked alone on the path to the strongest, free from the clamor of the mortal world, now only solitude remains.

This was also the first time Zhou Tong had ever been so far away from the hustle and bustle.

Although she had previously traveled from Big Dipper to Ziwei Ancient Star, she had Ye Fan, Zi Xia, Pang Bo, and Xiao Nannan by her side. Now, however, she is truly traveling alone.

He has been traveling for half a year, from one ancient star to another, tirelessly repeating the same monotonous routine, and has yet to encounter a single living being.

The vast sky is dark and cold, and you just keep crossing it without end.

Facing the cold and lonely universe, Zhou Tong progressed while cultivating, comprehending the Dao, and studying the Dharma. Countless techniques emerged in his mind, and he gradually integrated and mastered them.

That Supreme Battle Intent seemed to be frozen by this cold universe, and began to gradually grow cold.

This is an incredibly lonely path, where cultivators search for themselves in solitude and grow stronger in loneliness. It is both a journey to the strongest and a pilgrimage of the heart.

Only in solitude can a person's worries and anxieties gradually dissipate, allowing them to slowly calm down. This allows them to see their own heart, recognize the rights and wrongs in their spiritual practice, better find and understand themselves, and progress more quickly.

All his previous cultivation had taken place within the cultivation world, where he had comparisons, pursuits, and competitions. But now, he was all alone, and everything depended on himself. He was alone, comprehending profound laws, with no one to communicate with, no one to compete with; everything was up to him.

The mind grows in solitude, and the spirit is sublimated in loneliness.

Ants huddle together for survival, while the strong keep company with the lonely starry sky.

During the past six months, Zhou Tong's daily schedule has been relatively fixed.

He spends half of each day comprehending his own Dao— the Unification Art of the Six Great Ten Evils Treasure Art.

Half of the rest of the time is spent studying the profound meanings of the scriptures, refining one's Five Great Secret Realms through different scriptures, in preparation for truly becoming a saint or even comprehending one's own scriptures.

The remaining time was used to comprehend the universe and to cultivate the Nine Secrets: Zu and Source Technique.

Spiritual practice is not simply about immersing oneself in the teachings and methods of predecessors; it also requires mutual verification with the external world to arrive at one's own understanding.

On the other hand, Zhou Tong valued both the Nine Secrets: Zu and the Source Technique highly. Among the Nine Secrets, the Nine Secrets: Zu was the one he cultivated the most deeply. This secret, combined with the Source Technique, was also related to the true power of his Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings.

Once he can truly establish the mountains and rivers inside the Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings, it will probably not be a problem for him to directly prove his Dao.

Every day was perfectly routine; in this lonely starry sky, Zhou Tong completely forgot about time...

"Kindness!?"

Suddenly, Zhou Tong saw a skeleton on his journey. He rushed over to take a look. The person had been dead for tens of thousands of years, but the skull was still very solid and had a luster.

There were inscriptions on his arm bone that said this was the Trial Gate, and that once he stepped out of it, the real trials would begin.

"Shall we begin here?" Zhou Tong muttered to himself.

The loneliness we experienced before was just the beginning. After eliminating some cultivators with poor character, the real trials of blood and fire are about to begin.

Zhou Tong didn't spend much time and quickly found a small Five-Colored Altar for one-way teleportation on the ancient star.

"Buzz!"

With a flash of light, he embarked on the true path of trial. Soon after, a heavy, oppressive aura swept over him, and Zhou Tong burst out of the star gate, arriving in a mysterious world.

"Bang!"

A bone knife came crashing down with immense force, powerful enough to shatter a mountain. Zhou Tong was attacked the instant he left the star gate.

"Finally encountered a living being?" Zhou Tong casually slapped the bone knife and its owner—a snow-white skeleton—to pieces.

"A world of death?" Only then did Zhou Tong have the mind to look at his surroundings.

This place was filled with the aura of death. There was no light source, but it wasn't very dark. The surroundings were gloomy, with ribbons of black mist swirling around, as if one had entered a land of death.

This is a black and white world, devoid of any dazzling brilliance, resembling only the darkest twilight. The white bones on the ground are piled up to an unknown depth, with bone dust everywhere.

Zhou Tong scanned the area with his divine sense and immediately located a relatively powerful creature nearby. It was a pitch-black skull with a dark flame inside its skull.

"A king-level being, a new life born from death?" Zhou Tong's eyes lit up, and he immediately took action, Annihilation the king-level skeleton and extracting the flames from its skull.

This flame, rather than being a flame, is more like countless Dao Pattern, chains of order, with strands of silk interwoven to form this flame.

"The profound meaning of life is that the extreme of death is life, and the extreme of life is death!" Zhou Tong stared at the Dao Pattern before him, his eyes filled with endless runic mysteries.

This is the transformation between life and death, and it is also the most fundamental thing in life.

Zhou Tong had never forgotten that when he first began cultivating the Sky Shrouding Method, he had once broken through countless Gate of Potential within the Sea of Wheels Realm in one go. From each gate, the opposing auras of life and death emanated.

"Life and death, this is the essence of the Sea of Wheels Realm!" Zhou Tong looked at the chain of order before him and silently pondered it.

This is the transformation of life and death that has evolved naturally from the heavens and earth. Compared with the transformation of life and death that Zhou Tong had comprehended before, it has an indescribable simplicity and naturalness.

The transformation between life and death—this is the essence of the Sea of Wheels Realm.

When Zhou Tong was watching the Desolate Heaven Emperor perform his magic, he noticed that the Desolate Heaven Emperor's Sea of Wheels Realm was extremely similar to Ye Fan's Wheel Sea as described in the original work; both were Yin-Yang Tai Chi Wheel Sea.

Their Wheel Sea are like a Taiji Diagram, where the extreme of life contains the power of death, and the extreme of death contains the Vitality.

In fact, the convergence of positive and negative forces in the Wheel Sea is the most essential mystery of the Wheel Sea.

The Cultivation System created by the Desolate Heaven Emperor states that the Wheel Sea is the origin of everything, and the Wheel Sea is the original place of all things in the human body.

It is precisely for this reason that there is an ancient saying, "Which is weaker, the moon or the sun? Taiyin Taiyang are in harmony, the world will be ruled by the emperor."

Those who practice the True Sun Scripture and the Taiyin True Scripture do indeed have the potential to attain enlightenment, because these two ancient scriptures inherently align with the most ancient and profound essence of the Sky Shrouding Method.

Once a cultivator of extraordinary talent integrates it, attaining enlightenment will not be difficult.

In fact, even in the original novel, when Ye Fan created his own scripture, the Taiyin Human Emperor and Sun Emperor were the true mysteries that permeated his Five Great Secret Realms.

"Life and death? Thunder Emperor Method? Kunpeng Method? Immortal Phoenix Treasure Art and Nine Netherworld Ferocious Beast Treasure Art?" Suddenly, Zhou Tong seemed to have thought of something, and his eyes lit up.

The Thunder Emperor Method is a technique for controlling Heavenly Tribulation, which involve both Heavenly Tribulation and death; it is a mixture of life and death. The Kunpeng Method is similar, except that it is a mixture of yin and yang.

Moreover, the Immortal Phoenix Treasure Art and the Nine Netherworld Ferocious Beast Treasure Art represent two extremes: life and death. The Immortal Phoenix is the most vigorous of the Ten Fiends, while the Nine Netherworld Howler Hound represents death and destruction.

"I'm starting to get a feel for it... Life and death, yin and yang, light and darkness..." Zhou Tong suddenly felt a surge of inspiration, as if he had grasped a spark of inspiration. He perfectly connected the four great treasures: Thunder Emperor Method, Kunpeng Method Immortal Phoenix Treasure Art, and Nine Netherworld Ferocious Beast Treasure Art. He even used these as a foundation to create his own unique scripture, the Sea of Wheels Scroll Scripture.