Stealing Heavenly Secrets Starting from Shrouding the Heavens - Section 686

But the more Li Zhi burned the corpse with Dao Fire, the more shocked he became.

After all, the Dao Fire he had released was Supreme Dao Fire. It could burn through anything—even an Emperor's corpse could be reduced to ashes.

Yet the corpse inside the Divine Coffin had merely had the gray-black hair covering its skin burned away. Its flesh remained completely unharmed.

At last, a perfect body covered in fine dragon scales was revealed.

His hands looked like works of art forged from Dragon Pattern Black Gold, while a terrifying aura of Annihilating Ten Thousand Daos faintly radiated from them.

At the base of his spine was a thick dragon tail. Mysterious and splendid Five-colored Luster flowed across its black scales.

Although Li Zhi could not sense any trace of life within him, his instincts told him that the corpse seemed not to be completely dead.

Seeing that his Supreme Dao Fire had not only failed to turn him to ash but had instead caused Five-colored Luster to rise from his body, Li Zhi abandoned his plan to continue eroding the corpse.

"Who exactly is this corpse? Could it be the corpse of an Other Domain Immortal left over from the Chaotic Ancient Era?"

The pure darkness concealed within him was completely different from that of the living beings in the Great Universe, leaving Li Zhi no choice but to question his identity.

"Return Heaven Reverse Sun! Trace the Roots and Search for the Source."

Li Zhi then directly employed a forbidden technique, intending to send his divine sense backward through the River of Time and investigate the corpse's true origins.

In an instant, the surrounding void seemed to tear apart. Shadowy figures resembling Gods and Demons emerged one after another, letting out the wails of ghosts and