Stealing Heavenly Secrets from Cover the Heavens

Ye Fan nodded and said, "I'm just guessing. Whether it's right or wrong, I'm not sure. Let's be careful tonight."

Soon, Zhou Yi and Wang Ziwen and the others also gathered around Ye Fan. Everyone had seen his strength firsthand.

They had only known him as a brute on the basketball court, but earlier, when the conflict over distributing the Saint Fruit erupted with Liu Yunzhi, they finally witnessed his terrifying power.

He could lift a thousand-jin boulder without any effort—he was practically inhuman.

After seeing Ye Fan's terrifying strength, Liu Yunzhi immediately shut his mouth and dared not voice any more objections.

Even Wang Yan, the female classmate who sided with Liu Yunzhi, started actively moving closer to Li Xiaoman after witnessing Ye Fan's power.

Back in school, Ye Fan and Li Xiaoman were like a perfect couple, and no one thought they would end up as strangers.

Especially after the foreigner Kai De said he wasn't Li Xiaoman's boyfriend, everyone was even more hopeful that the college sweethearts would get back together.

Li Xiaoman, who had originally felt that Ye Fan was no longer worthy of her, began to take the initiative to talk to him again.

The terrifying roars lasted for over two hours before finally fading.

Inside the forbidden zone, in the temporary shelter built from giant boulders, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief.

At the same time, they were filled with worry about their future fate.

This world was probably far less beautiful than they had imagined.

Meanwhile, In the Saber-Toothed Tiger's lair, after enduring two full hours of torment akin to the Eighteen Levels of Hell, Li Zhi finally passed through the suffering that every survivor of the Barren Ancient Forbidden Zone must undergo.

That burning of Life Force from deep within his origin was even more agonizing than Lingchi.

Because his consciousness remained fully awake, the burning sensation from the Life Essence ignited within his flesh and blood, radiating from his lower abdomen, was utterly unbearable.

It felt as if the Wheel of Life itself was being scorched by a sacred flame, constantly awakening his once-barren Bitter Sea.

Even a Bitter Sea forged from unyielding steel would melt under such heat.

If not for the Ginseng Fruit continuously replenishing the life essence consumed by the flames, Li Zhi would have felt his flesh and blood withering away.

Perhaps it was his conscious use of the Breathing Method to absorb the Ginseng Fruit's medicinal power that provided the fuel for that life-burning transformation.

It allowed his Wheel Sea to undergo the most extreme metamorphosis.

The Wheel of Life itself seemed to have been purified.

The originally thin Wheel of Life, after this forging, became thick and translucent.

It was as if the Wheel of Life had undergone a journey of additive casting. The Wheel of Life, which originally had thirty marks, lost more than half of them after this burning.

When the burning sensation faded, Li Zhi felt every cell in his body brimming with energy, each one radiating the youth and vitality of a young man.

Within his Wheel Sea, a vast cloud of Life Essence drifted above his Bitter Sea.

That was the remaining life essence from half a divine medicine. Sensing that his body could absorb no more, Li Zhi guided it all into his Wheel Sea.

At this moment, Li Zhi's blood flowed like mercury, and as it coursed through his body, it seemed to emit the roaring sound of a Great River. Even a faint silver light appeared within his blood.

His physique had undergone a startling transformation, directly evolving from a Mortal Physique into a special Dao Body.

Because half an Immortality Elixir had participated in this unique transformation, his Life Origin had received an ultimate baptism.

Inside the cave, when all movement finally ceased, Where Li Zhi had been sitting, there was now a foul-smelling statue wrapped in thick sludge.

The astonishing heat, guided by Li Zhi's conscious control, had burned out the deepest impurities from his body, fusing with his clothes to form a sludge armor.

As the transformation ended, Li Zhi's breathing resumed.

Cracks slowly appeared in the sludge armor.

A small hand, as crystalline as jade, was the first to break free from the sludge armor, emerging into the open air.

Then, with a series of cracking sounds, the sludge armor shattered completely.

A delicate little figure, radiating a jade-like luster, stepped out naked.

Looking at his shrunken hands and his hairless body, Li Zhi exclaimed in surprise, "Returning to youth?"

A cold wind blew, and Li Zhi suddenly felt a bit empty.

He hurried over to his backpack, only to find that its height now reached his chest.

This transformation had directly turned him from a man 1.8 meters tall into a child about 1.2 meters tall.

As for exactly how old he looked, Li Zhi couldn't tell without seeing his Wheel of Life.

He put on a short-sleeved shirt. The pants were unwearable, so he had to tear off the legs and wear them as a short skirt.

After dressing, Li Zhi was eager to test how strong his new body was.

For this transformation, he had used half an Immortality Elixir for Foundation Establishment.

Even if his physique had been ordinary before, it should be extraordinary now.

Leaving the Saber-Toothed Tiger's cave, he found a boulder weighing tens of thousands of jin nearby.

Li Zhi pushed with both hands. Though he couldn't lift the boulder, he still managed to shift that massive rock weighing tens of thousands of jin.

Running at full speed, his pace had more than doubled.

Picking a massive boulder weighing around ten thousand jin, Li Zhi lifted it over his head with ease.

Then switching to one hand, he held it for three seconds.

Ten thousand jin of divine strength in a single arm.

Li Zhi gained a brand-new understanding of his own power.

Returning to the Saber-Toothed Tiger's lair, he took the Scriptures forged from Eternal Blue Gold out of the Snakeskin Bag.

He couldn't wait to begin cultivating the "Primordial Longevity Art."

Only by opening the Bitter Sea and awakening the Life Spring could he gain some ability to protect himself in this vast, desolate land.

Sensing the surging Life Essence within his body, Li Zhi pressed forward in one go, beginning to circulate the Longevity Art he had already studied for two years.

As the opening chapter of the "Primordial Longevity Art," the Longevity Art was specifically used to help cultivators solidify their foundation and open the Bitter Sea—he knew it better than anything.

Sitting cross-legged in the tiger's den, Li Zhi activated the Mysterious Method and began channeling that torrent of Life Essence within him to assault the Bitter Sea.

When his mind perceived the thick cloud of Life Essence hanging over the Bitter Sea, Li Zhi could hardly believe his eyes.

Normally, when opening the Bitter Sea, a person only needed to condense a few strands of Life Essence above it to complete the process.

But Li Zhi had summoned a Sea of Clouds' worth of surging Life Essence to open his Bitter Sea—the difference in treatment was like heaven and earth.

While using the Mysterious Method of the Longevity Art to draw on that thick Sea of Clouds, he simultaneously sensed the pulse of the Wheel of Life.

Soon, Li Zhi felt a Divine Power Source from the Wheel of Life that seemed ready to burst forth.

Then, Li Zhi circulated the Mysterious Method, channeling a stream of essence from that thick Life Essence cloud to strike the spot where the Divine Power Source showed signs of eruption.

"Boom!"

When the Life Essence landed on that Divine Power Source, it was like splashing cold water into a blazing oil pan—the oil surface exploded instantly.

In that moment, Li Zhi felt a massive surge of divine power erupt from the Wheel of Life, and a silver radiance burst from his body, illuminating the entire tiger's den in silver-white light.

A Silver Ocean seemed to appear in the void, and a sky-reaching water dragon whirlpool formed above it.

Through the whirlpool, endless Life Essence poured into the Silver Ocean below, stirring up towering waves and even causing a Silver Giant Island to slowly rise from the sea surface.

Then, a fruit tree emitting wisps of immortal mist broke through the soil on the silver island, growing into a towering Big tree in an instant.

The thick essence cloud above the Silver Ocean seemed drawn by the sea below, suddenly raining down like a waterfall.

The surface of the Silver Ocean rose at a visible rate.

Towering waves carrying boundless divine power crashed toward the chaotic shoreline.

In an instant, Strong Winds howled across the sea, and rain poured in torrents. As if dissatisfied with the slow rain from the essence cloud above, three Essence Tornadoes formed on the sea surface.

Four Essence Tornadoes, like pumps, reversed the flow from the essence cloud above, injecting essence into the Silver Ocean.

Perhaps because the essence was being infused too fast and in too great a quantity, countless divine power vortexes of varying sizes appeared on the silver sea surface, eventually merging into one massive, highly corrosive Ocean Vortex.

With the vortex's boost, the divine power waves' erosion of the chaotic shoreline accelerated.

Patch after patch of chaotic region was transformed into the Silver Ocean.

As the essence cloud in the sky gradually thinned, the wind and waves on the sea slowly subsided.

When the last drop of essence rain fell into the Silver Ocean, the silver surface gradually calmed.

The Silver Giant Island in the sea, and the Immortal Tree on it, became even clearer.

Then, the Immortal Tree on the island emitted waves of immortal mist, concealing both the Silver Giant Island and the tree.

Only then did the vision projected into the tiger's den vanish.

In Li Zhi's Wheel Sea, a Silver Ocean the size of a football field had appeared.