Moreover, the edges of the huge hole were extremely smooth. One could even see the marrow flowing out from the broken spinal bones, while the heart, missing half an atrium, continuously spilled blood.
A few seconds later, Miss Ke, like Yao Le, closed her eyes forever.
Five minutes later, Li Zhi finally sauntered out of the darkness and picked up the Luoyang Shovel.
With a slight flick, all the bloodstains on it were shaken clean.
Only then did he have the leisure to carefully observe that section of stone wall.
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Facing the morning mist in the mountains,
Li Zhi used the ropes installed by the bodyguards to climb to the spot on the cliff wall that seemed to be the entrance to a cave abode.
Then he swung the Luoyang Shovel in his hand and began excavating the rock.
"Clang, clang, clang, crash!"
Holding the sharp Luoyang Shovel, Li Zhi's efficiency at opening the mountain was almost on par with the advance speed of a hard-rock tunnel-boring machine.
Large chunks of rock were dug out of the cliff wall.
Two hours later, he had excavated an oval cave in the cliff wall, one point two meters deep and about one meter in diameter.
Then Li Zhi crouched inside the cave and continued digging.
The ancestral Luoyang Shovel displayed tremendous power at that moment. In his hands, its excavation speed was comparable to that of a pneumatic pick drilling into rock.
By noon, Li Zhi had opened a large hole three meters deep in the cliff wall.
It seemed that, in his hands, the solid cliff wall and yellow earth were no different.
The farther inward he dug, the more Li Zhi could feel a pleasant aura drifting out from the rocks.
It seemed to be the scent of spiritual energy.
Whenever he felt tired, he sat on the ground and circulated the Breathing Method to recover his strength.
Using the Breathing Method to absorb spiritual energy was far more efficient for recovery than eating.
By afternoon, when the sun was about to set, Li Zhi finally felt the Luoyang Shovel in his hands pierce into a hollow in the mountain.
Then, a dense wave of spiritual energy drifted out from the hollow.
Suddenly inhaling such dense spiritual energy made Li Zhi feel as if even his soul had been sublimated.
His exhausted body instantly recovered its vitality.
He had practically come back to life at full health.
After pausing briefly, Li Zhi finally dug through the mountain cave.
What appeared before his eyes was a huge natural cavern.
The entrance he had dug seemed to be more than three meters above the ground.
Li Zhi pulled open a burning flame light stick and threw it into the cavern.
He roughly saw the size of the cavern.
It was about twenty meters high, while the cavern floor was roughly one hundred meters long and wide.
The ground was uneven, and only a narrow path led directly to an area in the southeast.
It seemed that there had once been a fairly large pool at the bottom of the cavern.
Seeing that the air inside was fresh, without the slightest feeling of stuffiness, Li Zhi jumped straight in.
Then, every few meters, he pulled open another burning flame light stick, directly dispelling the darkness that had been sealed away for who knew how many tens of thousands of years.
When he reached a platform in the southeast corner, he saw several stone stools, a stone table, and a stone bed set against the cavern wall. It seemed to have been where the master of this place had slept.
Beside the stone bed was a bookshelf carved directly into the cavern wall.
Some scrolls woven from Jade Scrolls were placed on it, and the ropes binding the Jade Scrolls seemed to have rotted away.
In a pool to the southwest below the platform was a dark-red Elixir Furnace more than one person tall.
There were burn marks at the bottom of the pool. It seemed that this had once been an Underground Fire Pool.
Other than that, there was nothing else.
Li Zhi then took a high-powered LED lamp from his backpack, instantly illuminating the platform area.
Only then could he clearly see the Elixir Furnace's true appearance.
The Elixir Furnace had been cast from an unknown metal and was engraved with numerous beast patterns, seemingly indicating its function.
Unable to resist, Li Zhi reached out and stroked the Elixir Furnace.
The furnace instantly flared with a burst of bloody light before rapidly shrinking.
When it had become the size of a fist, the bloody light faded, and it slammed heavily into the ground.
In an instant, Li Zhi seemed to feel the earth shaking and the mountains swaying.
The entire cavern seemed about to collapse, frightening him into hurriedly taking cover.
After a moment, the shaking sensation disappeared.
Glancing at the distant entrance, Li Zhi seemed to feel that this cavern was not inside the mountain at all, but existed in another space.
The shaking just now seemed to have been caused by the space beginning to collapse after the Elixir Furnace slammed heavily into the ground.
Li Zhi hurriedly draped the Snakeskin Bag over his body, picked up the Small Flat Shovel, and went to dig the Elixir Furnace out of the pool.
Although the furnace was only the size of a fist, Li Zhi felt that it weighed at least four hundred pounds.
Fortunately, cultivating the Breathing Method had greatly increased Li Zhi's strength. Otherwise, he might not have been able to lift it.
After placing the fist-sized furnace into the Snakeskin Bag, Li Zhi carried it out of the pool.
After gently setting it on the ground, Li Zhi went to the bookshelf beside the stone bed.
He carefully opened the scrolls, then took out the Digital Camera and began photographing them one by one.
Only afterward did he tie up the scrolls and put them into the Snakeskin Bag.
There were twenty scrolls woven from jade pieces on the bookshelf.
Li Zhi photographed and packed all of them.
After finishing everything, Li Zhi immediately slung the Snakeskin Bag onto his back and left the cavern.
It was only because the ancestral Snakeskin Bag, sewn from the hide of an unknown demon beast, was sturdy enough that he could carry those things away.
When he returned to the Worship Terrace outside, Li Zhi felt that a gust of foul air had suddenly blown out from the cave in the cliff wall. He did not know whether it was merely his imagination.
He then climbed up again to inspect it, but there was no trace of the cavern at the bottom of the cave.
The Alternate Space had collapsed.
It seemed that Li Zhi's removal of the Elixir Furnace suppressing the space had caused that space to collapse.
It was already late outside, so Li Zhi could only spend the night there.
After entering the tent where Yao Le had previously stayed, Li Zhi opened the camera and began reading the contents recorded on the Jade Scrolls.
Sure enough, he found the continuation of the Longevity Sutra.
However, there were only three chapters: the Dao Palace Chapter, the Four Extremes Chapter, and the Dragon Transformation Chapter.
Apart from cultivation methods, the other Jade Scrolls also recorded some cultivation insights and strange anecdotes.
It was from those cultivation insights that Li Zhi learned the Longevity Sutra's true name: the Primordial Longevity Art.
According to the records on the Jade Scrolls, the Primordial Longevity Art was a Quasi-Emperor Scripture.
It was a cultivation method focused on cultivating the Wheel of Life, created by the Ancient Cultivator Longevity Daoist using one-third of the Wa Huang Scripture as its foundation and combining it with the Kunlun Qi Refining Art.
After mastering it, a cultivator's vitality would become extraordinarily vigorous, allowing them to possess nearly one-third more lifespan than cultivators of the same realm.
What shocked Li Zhi even more was that the Jade Scrolls recorded that the founder of their Dao Lineage, Longevity Daoist, had lived for fifteen thousand years with the cultivation of the Quasi-Emperor Triple Heaven. His lifespan was so long that it nearly rivaled the Lifetime of an ordinary Great Emperor.
At the same time, he also learned the origin of that Elixir Furnace.
It was called the Myriad Bath Furnace. It was a top-tier Great Saint Artifact left behind by Longevity Daoist and was almost on the verge of transforming into a Quasi-Emperor Divine Weapon.
It was a Divine Furnace cast from Phoenix Bone, Phoenix Blood Scarlet Gold, and Nine Heavens Breathing Earth. It collected the essence blood of myriad spirits, placed it inside the furnace for refinement, and then used it to bathe one's body and strengthen one's vitality.
It was said that Longevity Daoist had once dug up a secret concerning the Undying Heavenly Emperor from the ruins of the Ancient Heavenly Court, and had consequently forged this furnace.
For some unknown reason, Longevity Daoist had not nurtured this furnace into a Quasi-Emperor Divine Weapon.
Instead, he had forged another Quasi-Emperor Divine Weapon: the Hundred Herbs Diagram.
It was said that the Hundred Herbs Diagram sealed an Ancient Medicine Garden. Within it grew a Half-Divine Tree, the Longevity Fruit Tree, cultivated from the pit of a Ginseng Fruit Tree.
At the same time, Li Zhi also learned that the true original scripture of the Primordial Longevity Art had been recorded on a page of the Golden Book forged from Eternal Blue Gold.
That page of the Golden Book also recorded three Great Emperor Runes related to the Dao of Life.
Those three Great Emperor Runes originated from the fragmentary copy of the Wa Huang Scripture obtained by Longevity Daoist.
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