Starting from Shrouding the Heavens: Stealing Heavenly Secrets - Section 644

However, creating such an art required an extremely profound understanding of his own Dao Seed, as well as deep insight into the myriad Daos of Heaven and Earth and the Path of Cultivation.

Li Zhi still had no clue how to create a true Cultivation Method that sought everything within oneself.

However, an art that could completely seal all the energies within his body was already close to completion.

After cultivating this Secret Art, one could greatly slow the dissipation of one's Lifespan and live many more years than other cultivators.

Of course, the prerequisite was not fighting anyone else.

Take the Old Patriarch of the God Race who had once paid his respects to the Green Emperor. He had never used Divine Source to seal himself away. He had merely transformed his fleshly body into a semi-stone Saint Spirit Stone Fetus, yet that alone had allowed him to live several thousand years longer than his peers.

This showed just how long a cultivator's Lifespan could be extended by cultivating an excellent Longevity Method.

Li Zhi named the Secret Art he was about to create the Fan Transformation Art.

Once the Fan Transformation Art was activated, a cultivator would appear no different from an ordinary mortal who had never set foot on the Path of Cultivation.

It was as if he had exiled himself, completely leaving the world of cultivation.

While Li Zhi was perfecting the Fan Transformation Art and pondering a cultivation method based on Using Oneself as Seed and the Five Great Secret Realms, the outside world was already seething with upheaval.

As the hundred-year deadline set by Ye Fan drew near, disturbances appeared in many places.

The first was the Netherworld. The vast Nether Soil was swallowed by a blanket of Black Mist, obscuring the outside world's