Awakening Past Life Memories, the Dao Scripture Appears!

The illusion appeared.

However, Lu Li did not notice it.

At this moment, within the illusion, he had already surpassed Foundation Establishment, riding high on his success, encountering one miraculous opportunity after another until he promoted to Golden Core, rising to fame within the Demon Sect.

Just then, his deception of Ghost Demon True Person and the Scripture Protection Elder was exposed.

BOOM!

He was struck dead with a single palm!

He was dead.

As Lu Li's consciousness was about to plummet into death.

"Lu Li, wake up!"

Suddenly, a sharp shout came from the horizon, instantly jolting Lu Li awake.

It was the voice of Lady Red Furnace!

Lu Li snapped to his senses.

But before he could even open his eyes, the surrounding scenery shifted once more; countless fierce ghosts and Asura yakshas crawled out from hell, lunging toward him.

The ones charging at the front were none other than those he had killed with his own hands previously.

"Return my life..."

These vengeful souls and fierce ghosts let out shrill screams, pouncing upon him, ready to tear him limb from limb and devour him alive!

In this instant, Lu Li felt as if he had fallen into the Avici Hell, being consumed by evil spirits until not a scrap of flesh remained, never to be reincarnated for eternity!

"Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva..."

Having gained experience, Lu Li paid them no mind, merely closing his eyes to silently recite the Heart Sutra, holding fast to his mind and spirit.

Immediately, a wave of golden light radiated from his body, dispelling the evil spirits all around.

This layer of illusion dissipated.

But immediately following, the next layer of illusion arrived in succession.

The scene before Lu Li's eyes changed abruptly, as if he had fallen into a den of beauties.

Accompanied by the songs of orioles and the dancing of swallows, these charming and peerless beauties, draped only in translucent, revealing veils, drifted toward him, beckoning him to go and witness the clouds and rain of Wushan with them.

He took a steady look.

These beauties were unexpectedly those he was familiar with: Sister Ohashi, Sister Hoshimiya, Sister Aishi... over a hundred of them, all present.

Lu Li gave them a glance.

Then, he suppressed the temptation in his heart.

Suddenly, the surrounding illusions shifted again.

Lu Li sat upon the Dragon Throne, holding the armies of the world in his hands, his might shaking all directions, with ten thousand nations coming to pay tribute.

The illusions were ever-changing.

Lu Li continued to silently recite the Heart Sutra, guarding his mind and spirit.

His physical body began to shine with a sacred golden radiance.

Deep within his body, the Kunpeng Heaven-Swallowing Demon Art began to circulate automatically, madly absorbing the dense spirit energy in the surroundings.

Crack, crack, crack.

Mid-Grade Spirit Stones shattered one by one, turning into fine powder.

The pure spirit energy released began to swirl within the cultivation chamber, condensing into a massive vortex.

At the center of the vortex, a small blood-colored fish was gulping down the spirit energy in large mouthfuls.

Its body size was expanding rapidly!

Meanwhile, the entire Star Gazing Tower trembled slightly, its brilliance shining as all the magic arrays activated, frantically drawing spirit energy from the earth's spiritual veins.

In the blink of an eye, a colossal vortex of spirit energy, resembling a tornado, enveloped the entire Star Gazing Tower.

The force of the wind was so great it blew away flowers and leaves, stirring the clouds and mist.

Witnessing this strange spectacle, Lady Red Furnace was secretly startled and suspicious.

This was merely a breakthrough to Foundation Establishment; how could it cause such a massive commotion?

Just as she was thinking this, that Spirit-Devouring Fish dived forward, plunging into Lu Li's physical body.

The vast and immense spirit energy instantly washed through Lu Li's body, raging through his limbs and bones like a mountain flood.

Lu Li's body began to swell as if it were being inflated.

The most critical step had arrived!

As long as he compressed the spirit energy and condensed it into liquid mana, he would be able to lay the foundation for the Great Dao and step into the Xiantian realm!

However, at this very moment, Lu Li's brows were tightly furrowed, his eyes squeezed shut.

His expression seemed one of extreme agony.

"Hmm? What is happening? Could it be..."

Lady Red Furnace's elegant brows knitted together, her expression shifting.

When breaking through to Foundation Establishment, a vast surge of heaven and earth spiritual energy floods into the physical body, activating not only life potential but also memory.

Everything one has seen in the first half of their life—people, books, flowers, birds, fish, and insects—all information is recalled in an instant.

Even a person glimpsed briefly on the street will be remembered at this moment.

Average cultivators usually reach Foundation Establishment around the age of twenty or thirty, and having seen few people or things in their short lives, they find this stage effortless.

Yet, Lu Li's face was currently twisted in pain!

His temples throbbed rhythmically, his head feeling as if it were about to explode!

Seeing this, Lady Red Furnace was struck by shock and uncertainty.

Lu Li was clearly not even eighteen yet; how many books could he have read, how many people could he have met? How could he possess such a massive, overwhelming volume of memory?

"Ngh!"

Suddenly, Lu Li's brows twitched, and he let out a muffled groan.

A crimson stain appeared at the corner of his mouth.

Fresh blood surged out directly.

Yet, he remained completely unaware.

If this continued, before his head could explode, his physical body would be torn apart by the relentless influx of spiritual energy!

Lady Red Furnace's expression turned stern, and she prepared to intervene to save him, forcibly interrupting his breakthrough.

Even if interrupting the breakthrough would cause Lu Li's cultivation to regress and his foundation to be damaged, it was still better than him exploding and dying on the spot!

Just then, a sudden change occurred.

A single bead of blood emerged from the center of Lu Li's forehead.

The blood bead rose like a bubble surfacing from the depths, floating upward into the air.

As it floated, the blood bead writhed, shifted, and stretched, eventually transforming into a blood-colored character that hung steadily in the air.

Its shape was this:

North.

It was a script Lady Red Furnace had never seen before.

Immediately following, bead after bead of blood drifted out, transforming in mid-air into blood-colored characters, arranging themselves in a vertical column.

An astonishing aura began to permeate the air.

As vast as the celestial stars!

Lady Red Furnace's pupils contracted, her expression shaken, as she murmured, "This... could it be a supreme cultivation technique?"

At this moment, the speed at which the blood beads condensed began to accelerate.

Bead after bead of blood, like a string of pearls, flowed out from Lu Li's forehead, drifted into the air, and coalesced into blood-colored characters.

A majestic and boundless intent, encompassing the universe and the heavens, shrouded the surroundings, suppressing all things.

Soon, the blood beads ceased to emerge.

The supreme technique was fully presented before Lady Red Furnace.

Eight hundred and three characters in total!

Just as Lady Red Furnace attempted to comprehend it, the Spirit-Devouring Fish gave a sharp flick of its tail, darting over in a flash to snap up the blood-colored characters one by one.

Like a gluttonous serpent, in a few moments, it had devoured the entire technique.

In an instant, the technique that Lady Red Furnace had forcibly committed to memory vanished, impossible to recall ever again.

The opportunity was lost!

Her heart was filled with immense regret and pity.

Just then, the Spirit-Devouring Fish that had swallowed the technique erupted in a brilliant crimson light, shifting into the shape of a whale, though as small as a silkworm, and opened its mouth to inhale.

Whoosh.

All the spiritual energy within a radius of three li was completely sucked up by this tiny Spirit-Devouring Fish.

Afterward, the Spirit-Devouring Fish swam leisurely, diving into the center of Lu Li's forehead.

Lu Li's physical body immediately began to shrink as if leaking air.

The mana within his body began to solidify and compress.

A faint, ethereal aura of primordial Foundation Establishment began to emanate from him.

The moment the supreme cultivation technique condensed into form.

Central Province, Dao Alliance, Flying Heaven Temple.

Flying Heaven Temple was one of the three great temples in the world, occupying Flying Immortal Mountain, one of the nine immortal mountains of the Dao Alliance.

At the highest peak of Flying Immortal Mountain stood a small, yellow mud temple.

The temple was extremely crude, yet it enshrined the Dao Venerable revered by the nine thousand Daoist sects: Dao Ancestor Taiqing.

On the altar, there were only a few simple offerings of spiritual fruits.

A Red-Nosed Old Daoist, drunk with a face flushed crimson, lay on a bamboo bed in a deep slumber, his snoring sounding like thunder.

Seeing this, the two young acolytes guarding the temple entrance exchanged a look, feeling helpless.

Just then.

The statue of the Dao Ancestor silently... cracked!

A fissure as thin as a green hair appeared with absolute clarity right in the center of the Dao Ancestor statue's forehead.

The two acolytes thought they had seen wrong, but after rubbing their eyes and looking closely, their faces changed drastically. They rushed into the temple together, shaking the sleeping old Daoist and shouting:

"It's bad! Temple Master, wake up!"

"Wake up! Something huge has happened!"

Who could have known that the old Daoist would wave a hand, roll over, and mutter, "What is it? Isn't it just those Bald Monsters wanting to attack the Demon Sect? I'm not going! My Flying Heaven Temple isn't going! Let them fight if they want, don't disturb my cultivation and ascension!"

After saying this, he went back to sleep, snoring "hoo-hoo-hoo."

No matter how the two acolytes shook him, they could not wake him.

In their desperation, the two acolytes had no choice but to stand up and prepare to find the Vice Temple Master.

However, just as they stepped out the door.

Bang.

An explosive sound rang out.

Hearing the noise, the two acolytes turned back and were shocked to see... the statue of the Dao Ancestor had actually exploded!

"Holy—!"

At this moment, the sleeping old Daoist suddenly flipped up like a startled bird, his eyes bulging from their sockets as he stared in disbelief at the fragments of the Dao Ancestor statue scattered across the floor: "What happened? The Dao Ancestor actually exploded? Could it be that the Great Dao has perished?"

As he spoke, his right hand moved with lightning speed, his fingers dancing until they left afterimages.

He was divining the secrets of heaven.

Three breaths later.

The old Daoist shuddered violently, his face wearing an expression as if he had seen a ghost. He cried out in shock, "No way, the Dao Ancestor has reincarnated? And reincarnated in the Demon Sect? Did the Dao Ancestor take the wrong abortion pill? To actually reincarnate in the Demon Sect? Damn it! Someone come quickly, accompany me to see the Dao Alliance Leader, pass down the order, gather the troops, and prepare to attack Ten Thousand Demon Mountain with those Bald Donkeys to destroy the Demon Sect! Rescue the Dao Ancestor's reincarnation!"

Having said that, he struck out with his palm, shattering the void with a boom, and departed by tearing through the air.

A similar scene unfolded across the nine great Daoist sects.

Meanwhile, Ghost Peak Mountain, Star Gazing Tower.

In a secret cultivation chamber.

Lu Li slowly opened his eyes.

In his mind, two articles appeared with absolute clarity, flickering with supreme golden light.

The first article: In the Northern Darkness there is a fish, and its name is Kun...

The first line of the second article:

The Dao that can be spoken of is not the eternal Dao.

The name that can be named is not the eternal name.

It was none other than the Dao De Jing!